litmus-rt.git/ipc, branch 2012.2

mm: don't access vm_flags as 'int'

2011-05-26T16:20:31+00:00

The type of vma->vm_flags is 'unsigned long'. Neither 'int' nor
'unsigned int'. This patch fixes such misuse.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
[ Changed to use a typedef - we'll extend it to cover more cases
  later, since there has been discussion about making it a 64-bit
  type..                      - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ns proc: Add support for the ipc namespace

2011-05-10T21:35:47+00:00

Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano 
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31T14:26:23+00:00

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi

ipc: fix util.c kernel-doc warnings

2011-03-28T02:30:19+00:00

Fix ipc/util.c kernel-doc warnings:

  Warning(ipc/util.c:336): No description found for parameter 'ns'
  Warning(ipc/util.c:620): No description found for parameter 'ns'
  Warning(ipc/util.c:790): No description found for parameter 'ns'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Reviewed-by: Jesper Juhl 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipcns: fix use after free in free_ipc_ns()

2011-03-26T00:45:16+00:00

commit b515498 ("userns: add a user namespace owner of ipc ns") added a
user namespace owner of ipc ns, but it also introduced a use after free in
free_ipc_ns().

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng 
Acked-by: "Serge E. Hallyn" 
Acked-by: David Howells 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Daniel Lezcano 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

userns: user namespaces: convert several capable() calls

2011-03-24T02:47:08+00:00

CAP_IPC_OWNER and CAP_IPC_LOCK can be checked against current_user_ns(),
because the resource comes from current's own ipc namespace.

setuid/setgid are to uids in own namespace, so again checks can be against
current_user_ns().

Changelog:
	Jan 11: Use task_ns_capable() in place of sched_capable().
	Jan 11: Use nsown_capable() as suggested by Bastian Blank.
	Jan 11: Clarify (hopefully) some logic in futex and sched.c
	Feb 15: use ns_capable for ipc, not nsown_capable
	Feb 23: let copy_ipcs handle setting ipc_ns->user_ns
	Feb 23: pass ns down rather than taking it from current

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn 
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano 
Acked-by: David Howells 
Cc: James Morris 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

userns: add a user namespace owner of ipc ns

2011-03-24T02:47:07+00:00

Changelog:
	Feb 15: Don't set new ipc->user_ns if we didn't create a new
		ipc_ns.
	Feb 23: Move extern declaration to ipc_namespace.h, and group
		fwd declarations at top.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn 
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano 
Acked-by: David Howells 
Cc: James Morris 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs: icache RCU free inodes

2011-01-07T06:50:26+00:00

RCU free the struct inode. This will allow:

- Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for
  permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must.
- sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want
  to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in
  the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking.
- Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code
- Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the
  page lock to follow page->mapping.

The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple
creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to
reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts
kicking over, this increases to about 20%.

In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated
during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is
not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller.

The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking,
so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in
real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I
doubt it will be a problem.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin

ipc: shm: fix information leak to userland

2010-10-30T15:25:51+00:00

The shmid_ds structure is copied to userland with shm_unused{,2,3}
fields unitialized.  It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack
memory.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov 
Acked-by: Al Viro 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

switch get_sb_ns() users

2010-10-29T08:17:03+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro