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* [PATCH 00/27] Permit filesystem local caching
@ 2008-01-23  0:43 David Howells
  2008-01-23  0:43 ` [PATCH 01/27] KEYS: Increase the payload size when instantiating a key David Howells
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From: David Howells @ 2008-01-23  0:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Trond.Myklebust
  Cc: nfsv4, linux-kernel, linux-fsdevel, selinux,
	linux-security-module, dhowells



These patches add local caching for network filesystems such as NFS.

The patches can roughly be broken down into a number of sets:

  (*) 01-keys-inc-payload.diff
  (*) 02-keys-search-keyring.diff
  (*) 03-keys-callout-blob.diff

      Three patches to the keyring code made to help the CIFS people.
      Included because of patches 05-08.

  (*) 04-keys-get-label.diff

      A patch to allow the security label of a key to be retrieved.
      Included because of patches 05-08.

  (*) 05-security-current-fsugid.diff
  (*) 06-security-separate-task-bits.diff
  (*) 07-security-subjective.diff
  (*) 08-security-secctx2secid.diff
  (*) 09-security-additional-classes.diff
  (*) 10-security-kernel_service-class.diff
  (*) 11-security-kernel-service.diff
  (*) 12-security-nfsd.diff

      Patches to permit the subjective security of a task to be overridden.
      All the security details in task_struct are decanted into a new struct
      that task_struct then has two pointers two: one that defines the
      objective security of that task (how other tasks may affect it) and one
      that defines the subjective security (how it may affect other objects).

      Note that I have dropped the idea of struct cred for the moment.  With
      the amount of stuff that was excluded from it, it wasn't actually any
      use to me.  However, it can be added later.

      Required for cachefiles.

  (*) 13-release-page.diff
  (*) 14-fscache-page-flags.diff
  (*) 15-add_wait_queue_tail.diff
  (*) 16-fscache.diff

      Patches to provide a local caching facility for network filesystems.

  (*) 17-cachefiles-ia64.diff
  (*) 18-cachefiles-ext3-f_mapping.diff
  (*) 19-cachefiles-write.diff
  (*) 20-cachefiles-monitor.diff
  (*) 21-cachefiles-export.diff
  (*) 22-cachefiles.diff

      Patches to provide a local cache in a directory of an already mounted
      filesystem.

  (*) 23-nfs-memleak.diff
  (*) 24-fscache-nfs.diff
  (*) 25-fscache-nfs-mount.diff
  (*) 26-fscache-nfs-display.diff
  (*) 27-fscache-nfs-persb.diff

      Patches to provide NFS with local caching.  The fifth of these patches
      makes caching configurable per superblock.


I've updated the patches to compile on as many arches I can get compilers for
and can get to compile.  However, for patch 06, the sparc and alpha arches need
some asm work as they access security information from asm code, using
asm-offsets to calculate the offset.


The SELinux base code will also need updating to have the security class, lest
the following error appear in dmesg:

	context_struct_compute_av:  unrecognized class 69


I've provided a patch to make NFSd use task_security and current->act_as to
change its security settings.


I've also renamed the accessors for the PG_fscache and PG_fscache_write bits in
page-flags.h, pagemap.h and filemap.c (they subclass PG_private_2 and
PG_owner_priv_2 so these are the accessors in the main headers).  I've then
wrapped them in fscache.h.

--
A tarball of the patches is available at:

	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/fscache/patches/nfs+fscache-27.tar.bz2


To use this version of CacheFiles, the cachefilesd-0.9 is also required.  It
is available as an SRPM:

	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/fscache/cachefilesd-0.9-1.fc7.src.rpm

Or as individual bits:

	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/fscache/cachefilesd-0.9.tar.bz2
	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/fscache/cachefilesd.fc
	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/fscache/cachefilesd.if
	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/fscache/cachefilesd.te
	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/fscache/cachefilesd.spec

The .fc, .if and .te files are for manipulating SELinux.

David

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2008-01-23  0:43 [PATCH 00/27] Permit filesystem local caching David Howells
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2008-01-23  0:43 ` [PATCH 02/27] KEYS: Check starting keyring as part of search David Howells
2008-01-23  0:44 ` [PATCH 03/27] KEYS: Allow the callout data to be passed as a blob rather than a string David Howells
2008-01-23  0:44 ` [PATCH 04/27] KEYS: Add keyctl function to get a security label David Howells
2008-01-23  0:44 ` [PATCH 05/27] Security: Change current->fs[ug]id to current_fs[ug]id() David Howells
2008-01-23  0:44 ` [PATCH 06/27] Security: Separate task security context from task_struct David Howells
2008-01-23  0:44 ` [PATCH 07/27] Security: De-embed task security record from task and use refcounting David Howells
2008-01-23  0:44 ` [PATCH 08/27] Add a secctx_to_secid() LSM hook to go along with the existing David Howells
2008-01-23  0:44 ` [PATCH 09/27] Security: Pre-add additional non-caching classes David Howells
2008-01-23  0:44 ` [PATCH 10/27] Security: Add a kernel_service object class to SELinux David Howells
2008-01-23  0:44 ` [PATCH 11/27] Security: Allow kernel services to override LSM settings for task actions David Howells
2008-01-23  0:44 ` [PATCH 12/27] Security: Make NFSD work with detached security David Howells
2008-01-23  0:44 ` [PATCH 13/27] FS-Cache: Release page->private after failed readahead David Howells
2008-01-23  0:45 ` [PATCH 14/27] FS-Cache: Recruit a couple of page flags for cache management David Howells
2008-01-23  0:45 ` [PATCH 15/27] FS-Cache: Provide an add_wait_queue_tail() function David Howells
2008-01-23  0:45 ` [PATCH 16/27] FS-Cache: Generic filesystem caching facility David Howells
2008-01-23  0:45 ` [PATCH 17/27] CacheFiles: Add missing copy_page export for ia64 David Howells
2008-01-23  0:45 ` [PATCH 18/27] CacheFiles: Be consistent about the use of mapping vs file->f_mapping in Ext3 David Howells
2008-01-23  0:45 ` [PATCH 19/27] CacheFiles: Add a hook to write a single page of data to an inode David Howells
2008-01-23  0:45 ` [PATCH 20/27] CacheFiles: Permit the page lock state to be monitored David Howells
2008-01-23  0:45 ` [PATCH 21/27] CacheFiles: Export things for CacheFiles David Howells
2008-01-23  0:45 ` [PATCH 22/27] CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem David Howells
2008-01-23  0:45 ` [PATCH 23/27] NFS: Fix memory leak David Howells
2008-01-23  0:45 ` [PATCH 24/27] NFS: Use local caching David Howells
2008-01-23  0:45 ` [PATCH 25/27] NFS: Configuration and mount option changes to enable local caching on NFS David Howells
2008-01-23  0:46 ` [PATCH 26/27] NFS: Display local caching state David Howells
2008-01-23  0:46 ` [PATCH 27/27] NFS: Separate caching by superblock, explicitly if necessary David Howells
2008-01-23 17:20 ` [PATCH 14/27] FS-Cache: Recruit a couple of page flags for cache management David Howells

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