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* keyctl_session_to_parent(): use thread_group_empty() to check singlethreadnessOleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No functional changes. keyctl_session_to_parent() is the only user of signal->count which needs the correct value. Change it to use thread_group_empty() instead, this must be strictly equivalent under tasklist, and imho looks better. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* proc_sched_show_task(): use get_nr_threads()Oleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Trivial, use get_nr_threads() helper to read signal->count which we are going to change. Like other callers, proc_sched_show_task() doesn't need the exactly precise nr_threads. David said: : Note that get_nr_threads() isn't completely equivalent (it can return 0 : where proc_sched_show_task() will display a 1). But I don't think this : should be a problem. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* proc: get_nr_threads() doesn't need ->siglock any longerOleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that task->signal can't go away get_nr_threads() doesn't need ->siglock to read signal->count. Also, make it inline, move into sched.h, and convert 2 other proc users of signal->count to use this (now trivial) helper. Henceforth get_nr_threads() is the only valid user of signal->count, we are ready to turn it into "int nr_threads" or, perhaps, kill it. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* check_unshare_flags: kill the bogus CLONE_SIGHAND/sig->count checkOleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | check_unshare_flags(CLONE_SIGHAND) adds CLONE_THREAD to *flags_ptr if the task is multithreaded to ensure unshare_thread() will fail. Not only this is a bit strange way to return the error, this is absolutely meaningless. If signal->count > 1 then sighand->count must be also > 1, and unshare_sighand() will fail anyway. In fact, all CLONE_THREAD/SIGHAND/VM checks inside sys_unshare() do not look right. Fortunately this code doesn't really work anyway. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* exit: move taskstats_tgid_free() from __exit_signal() to free_signal_struct()Oleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move taskstats_tgid_free() from __exit_signal() to free_signal_struct(). This way signal->stats never points to nowhere and we can read ->stats lockless. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kill the obsolete thread_group_cputime_free() helperOleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Kill the empty thread_group_cputime_free() helper. It was needed to free the per-cpu data which we no longer have. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* exit: __exit_signal: use thread_group_leader() consistentlyOleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Cleanup: - Add the boolean, group_dead = thread_group_leader(), for clarity. - Do not test/set sig == NULL to detect the all-dead case, use this boolean. - Pass this boolen to __unhash_process() and use it instead of another thread_group_leader() call which needs ->group_leader. This can be considered as microoptimization, but hopefully this also allows us do do other cleanups later. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* signals: kill the awful task_rq_unlock_wait() hackOleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that task->signal can't go away we can revert the horrible hack added by ad474caca3e2a0550b7ce0706527ad5ab389a4d4 ("fix for account_group_exec_runtime(), make sure ->signal can't be freed under rq->lock"). And we can do more cleanups sched_stats.h/posix-cpu-timers.c later. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* signals: clear signal->tty when the last thread exitsOleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When the last thread exits signal->tty is freed, but the pointer is not cleared and points to nowhere. This is OK. Nobody should use signal->tty lockless, and it is no longer possible to take ->siglock. However this looks wrong even if correct, and the nice OOPS is better than subtle and hard to find bugs. Change __exit_signal() to clear signal->tty under ->siglock. Note: __exit_signal() needs more cleanups. It should not check "sig != NULL" to detect the all-dead case and we have the same issues with signal->stats. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* signals: make task_struct->signal immutable/refcountableOleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We have a lot of problems with accessing task_struct->signal, it can "disappear" at any moment. Even current can't use its ->signal safely after exit_notify(). ->siglock helps, but it is not convenient, not always possible, and sometimes it makes sense to use task->signal even after this task has already dead. This patch adds the reference counter, sigcnt, into signal_struct. This reference is owned by task_struct and it is dropped in __put_task_struct(). Perhaps it makes sense to export get/put_signal_struct() later, but currently I don't see the immediate reason. Rename __cleanup_signal() to free_signal_struct() and unexport it. With the previous changes it does nothing except kmem_cache_free(). Change __exit_signal() to not clear/free ->signal, it will be freed when the last reference to any thread in the thread group goes away. Note: - when the last thead exits signal->tty can point to nowhere, see the next patch. - with or without this patch signal_struct->count should go away, or at least it should be "int nr_threads" for fs/proc. This will be addressed later. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fork/exit: move tty_kref_put() outside of __cleanup_signal()Oleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | tty_kref_put() has two callsites in copy_process() paths, 1. if copy_process() suceeds it is called before we copy signal->tty from parent 2. otherwise it is called from __cleanup_signal() under bad_fork_cleanup_signal: label In both cases tty_kref_put() is not right and unneeded because we don't have the balancing tty_kref_get(). Fortunately, this is harmless because this can only happen without CLONE_THREAD, and in this case signal->tty must be NULL. Remove tty_kref_put() from copy_process() and __cleanup_signal(), and change another caller of __cleanup_signal(), __exit_signal(), to call tty_kref_put() by hand. I hope this change makes sense by itself, but it is also needed to make ->signal refcountable. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ia64: ptrace_attach_sync_user_rbs: avoid "task->signal != NULL" checksOleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Preparation to make task->signal immutable, no functional changes. It doesn't matter which pointer we check under tasklist to ensure the task was not released, ->signal or ->sighand. But we are going to make ->signal refcountable, change the code to use ->sighand. Note: this code doesn't need this check and tasklist_lock at all, it should be converted to use lock_task_sighand(). And, the code under SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED check looks wrong. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* posix-cpu-timers: avoid "task->signal != NULL" checksOleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Preparation to make task->signal immutable, no functional changes. posix-cpu-timers.c checks task->signal != NULL to ensure this task is alive and didn't pass __exit_signal(). This is correct but we are going to change the lifetime rules for ->signal and never reset this pointer. Change the code to check ->sighand instead, it doesn't matter which pointer we check under tasklist, they both are cleared simultaneously. As Roland pointed out, some of these changes are not strictly needed and probably it makes sense to revert them later, when ->signal will be pinned to task_struct. But this patch tries to ensure the subsequent changes in fork/exit can't make any visible impact on posix cpu timers. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* exit: avoid sig->count in __exit_signal() to detect the group-dead caseOleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change __exit_signal() to check thread_group_leader() instead of atomic_dec_and_test(&sig->count). This must be equivalent, the group leader must be released only after all other threads have exited and passed __exit_signal(). Henceforth sig->count is not actually used, except in fs/proc for get_nr_threads/etc. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* exit: avoid sig->count in de_thread/__exit_signal synchronizationOleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | de_thread() and __exit_signal() use signal_struct->count/notify_count for synchronization. We can simplify the code and use ->notify_count only. Instead of comparing these two counters, we can change de_thread() to set ->notify_count = nr_of_sub_threads, then change __exit_signal() to dec-and-test this counter and notify group_exit_task. Note that __exit_signal() checks "notify_count > 0" just for symmetry with exit_notify(), we could just check it is != 0. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* exit: change zap_other_threads() to count sub-threadsOleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change zap_other_threads() to return the number of other sub-threads found on ->thread_group list. Other changes are cosmetic: - change the code to use while_each_thread() helper - remove the obsolete comment about SIGKILL/SIGSTOP Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* exit: exit_notify() can trust signal->notify_count < 0Oleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | signal_struct->count in its current form must die. - it has no reasons to be atomic_t - it looks like a reference counter, but it is not - otoh, we really need to make task->signal refcountable, just look at the extremely ugly task_rq_unlock_wait() called from __exit_signals(). - we should change the lifetime rules for task->signal, it should be pinned to task_struct. We have a lot of code which can be simplified after that. - it is not needed! while the code is correct, any usage of this counter is artificial, except fs/proc uses it correctly to show the number of threads. This series removes the usage of sig->count from exit pathes. This patch: Now that Veaceslav changed copy_signal() to use zalloc(), exit_notify() can just check notify_count < 0 to ensure the execing sub-threads needs the notification from us. No need to do other checks, notify_count != 0 must always mean ->group_exit_task != NULL is waiting for us. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* coredump: shift down_write(mmap_sem) into coredump_wait()Oleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - move the cprm.mm_flags checks up, before we take mmap_sem - move down_write(mmap_sem) and ->core_state check from do_coredump() to coredump_wait() This simplifies the code and makes the locking symmetrical. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* coredump: factor out put_cred() callsOleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Given that do_coredump() calls put_cred() on exit path, it is a bit ugly to do put_cred() + "goto fail" twice, just add the new "fail_creds" label. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* coredump: cleanup "ispipe" codeOleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - kill "int dump_count", argv_split(argcp) accepts argcp == NULL. - move "int dump_count" under " if (ispipe)" branch, fail_dropcount can check ispipe. - move "char **helper_argv" as well, change the code to do argv_free() right after call_usermodehelper_fns(). - If call_usermodehelper_fns() fails goto close_fail label instead of closing the file by hand. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* coredump: factor out the not-ispipe file checksOleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | do_coredump() does a lot of file checks after it opens the file or calls usermode helper. But all of these checks are only needed in !ispipe case. Move this code into the "else" branch and kill the ugly repetitive ispipe checks. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* call_usermodehelper: UMH_WAIT_EXEC ignores kernel_thread() failureOleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | UMH_WAIT_EXEC should report the error if kernel_thread() fails, like UMH_WAIT_PROC does. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* call_usermodehelper: simplify/fix UMH_NO_WAIT caseOleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | __call_usermodehelper(UMH_NO_WAIT) has 2 problems: - if kernel_thread() fails, call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() is not called. - for unknown reason UMH_NO_WAIT has UMH_WAIT_PROC logic, we spawn yet another thread which waits until the user mode application exits. Change the UMH_NO_WAIT code to use ____call_usermodehelper() instead of wait_for_helper(), and do call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() unconditionally. We can rely on CLONE_VFORK, do_fork(CLONE_VFORK) until the child exits or execs. With or without this patch UMH_NO_WAIT does not report the error if kernel_thread() fails, this is correct since the caller doesn't wait for result. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* wait_for_helper: SIGCHLD from user-space can lead to use-after-freeOleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1. wait_for_helper() calls allow_signal(SIGCHLD) to ensure the child can't autoreap itself. However, this means that a spurious SIGCHILD from user-space can set TIF_SIGPENDING and: - kernel_thread() or sys_wait4() can fail due to signal_pending() - worse, wait4() can fail before ____call_usermodehelper() execs or exits. In this case the caller may kfree(subprocess_info) while the child still uses this memory. Change the code to use SIG_DFL instead of magic "(void __user *)2" set by allow_signal(). This means that SIGCHLD won't be delivered, yet the child won't autoreap itsefl. The problem is minor, only root can send a signal to this kthread. 2. If sys_wait4(&ret) fails it doesn't populate "ret", in this case wait_for_helper() reports a random value from uninitialized var. With this patch sys_wait4() should never fail, but still it makes sense to initialize ret = -ECHILD so that the caller can notice the problem. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* call_usermodehelper: no need to unblock signalsOleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | ____call_usermodehelper() correctly calls flush_signal_handlers() to set SIG_DFL, but sigemptyset(->blocked) and recalc_sigpending() are not needed. This kthread was forked by workqueue thread, all signals must be unblocked and ignored, no pending signal is possible. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* umh: creds: kill subprocess_info->cred logicOleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that nobody ever changes subprocess_info->cred we can kill this member and related code. ____call_usermodehelper() always runs in the context of freshly forked kernel thread, it has the proper ->cred copied from its parent kthread, keventd. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* umh: creds: convert call_usermodehelper_keys() to use subprocess_info->init()Oleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | call_usermodehelper_keys() uses call_usermodehelper_setkeys() to change subprocess_info->cred in advance. Now that we have info->init() we can change this code to set tgcred->session_keyring in context of execing kernel thread. Note: since currently call_usermodehelper_keys() is never called with UMH_NO_WAIT, call_usermodehelper_keys()->key_get() and umh_keys_cleanup() are not really needed, we could rely on install_session_keyring_to_cred() which does key_get() on success. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* exec: replace call_usermodehelper_pipe with use of umh init function and ↵Neil Horman2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | resolve limit The first patch in this series introduced an init function to the call_usermodehelper api so that processes could be customized by caller. This patch takes advantage of that fact, by customizing the helper in do_coredump to create the pipe and set its core limit to one (for our recusrsion check). This lets us clean up the previous uglyness in the usermodehelper internals and factor call_usermodehelper out entirely. While I'm at it, we can also modify the helper setup to look for a core limit value of 1 rather than zero for our recursion check Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kmod: add init function to usermodehelperNeil Horman2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | About 6 months ago, I made a set of changes to how the core-dump-to-a-pipe feature in the kernel works. We had reports of several races, including some reports of apps bypassing our recursion check so that a process that was forked as part of a core_pattern setup could infinitely crash and refork until the system crashed. We fixed those by improving our recursion checks. The new check basically refuses to fork a process if its core limit is zero, which works well. Unfortunately, I've been getting grief from maintainer of user space programs that are inserted as the forked process of core_pattern. They contend that in order for their programs (such as abrt and apport) to work, all the running processes in a system must have their core limits set to a non-zero value, to which I say 'yes'. I did this by design, and think thats the right way to do things. But I've been asked to ease this burden on user space enough times that I thought I would take a look at it. The first suggestion was to make the recursion check fail on a non-zero 'special' number, like one. That way the core collector process could set its core size ulimit to 1, and enable the kernel's recursion detection. This isn't a bad idea on the surface, but I don't like it since its opt-in, in that if a program like abrt or apport has a bug and fails to set such a core limit, we're left with a recursively crashing system again. So I've come up with this. What I've done is modify the call_usermodehelper api such that an extra parameter is added, a function pointer which will be called by the user helper task, after it forks, but before it exec's the required process. This will give the caller the opportunity to get a call back in the processes context, allowing it to do whatever it needs to to the process in the kernel prior to exec-ing the user space code. In the case of do_coredump, this callback is ues to set the core ulimit of the helper process to 1. This elimnates the opt-in problem that I had above, as it allows the ulimit for core sizes to be set to the value of 1, which is what the recursion check looks for in do_coredump. This patch: Create new function call_usermodehelper_fns() and allow it to assign both an init and cleanup function, as we'll as arbitrary data. The init function is called from the context of the forked process and allows for customization of the helper process prior to calling exec. Its return code gates the continuation of the process, or causes its exit. Also add an arbitrary data pointer to the subprocess_info struct allowing for data to be passed from the caller to the new process, and the subsequent cleanup process Also, use this patch to cleanup the cleanup function. It currently takes an argp and envp pointer for freeing, which is ugly. Lets instead just make the subprocess_info structure public, and pass that to the cleanup and init routines Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* signals: check_kill_permission(): don't check creds if same_thread_group()Oleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Andrew Tridgell reports that aio_read(SIGEV_SIGNAL) can fail if the notification from the helper thread races with setresuid(), see http://samba.org/~tridge/junkcode/aio_uid.c This happens because check_kill_permission() doesn't permit sending a signal to the task with the different cred->xids. But there is not any security reason to check ->cred's when the task sends a signal (private or group-wide) to its sub-thread. Whatever we do, any thread can bypass all security checks and send SIGKILL to all threads, or it can block a signal SIG and do kill(gettid(), SIG) to deliver this signal to another sub-thread. Not to mention that CLONE_THREAD implies CLONE_VM. Change check_kill_permission() to avoid the credentials check when the sender and the target are from the same thread group. Also, move "cred = current_cred()" down to avoid calling get_current() twice. Note: David Howells pointed out we could relax this even more, the CLONE_SIGHAND (without CLONE_THREAD) case probably does not need these checks too. Roland said: : The glibc (libpthread) that does set*id across threads has : been in use for a while (2.3.4?), probably in distro's using kernels as old : or older than any active -stable streams. In the race in question, this : kernel bug is breaking valid POSIX application expectations. Reported-by: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org> Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [all kernel versions] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ptrace: PTRACE_GETFDPIC: fix the unsafe usage of child->mmOleg Nesterov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that Mike Frysinger unified the FDPIC ptrace code, we can fix the unsafe usage of child->mm in ptrace_request(PTRACE_GETFDPIC). We have the reference to task_struct, and ptrace_check_attach() verified the tracee is stopped. But nothing can protect from SIGKILL after that, we must not assume child->mm != NULL. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ptrace: unify FDPIC implementationsMike Frysinger2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Blackfin/FRV/SuperH guys all have the same exact FDPIC ptrace code in their arch handlers (since they were probably copied & pasted). Since these ptrace interfaces are an arch independent aspect of the FDPIC code, unify them in the common ptrace code so new FDPIC ports don't need to copy and paste this fundamental stuff yet again. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* cpusets: randomize node rotor used in cpuset_mem_spread_node()Jack Steiner2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some workloads that create a large number of small files tend to assign too many pages to node 0 (multi-node systems). Part of the reason is that the rotor (in cpuset_mem_spread_node()) used to assign nodes starts at node 0 for newly created tasks. This patch changes the rotor to be initialized to a random node number of the cpuset. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix layout] [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Define stub numa_random() for !NUMA configuration] Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* cpusets: new round-robin rotor for SLAB allocationsJack Steiner2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We have observed several workloads running on multi-node systems where memory is assigned unevenly across the nodes in the system. There are numerous reasons for this but one is the round-robin rotor in cpuset_mem_spread_node(). For example, a simple test that writes a multi-page file will allocate pages on nodes 0 2 4 6 ... Odd nodes are skipped. (Sometimes it allocates on odd nodes & skips even nodes). An example is shown below. The program "lfile" writes a file consisting of 10 pages. The program then mmaps the file & uses get_mempolicy(..., MPOL_F_NODE) to determine the nodes where the file pages were allocated. The output is shown below: # ./lfile allocated on nodes: 2 4 6 0 1 2 6 0 2 There is a single rotor that is used for allocating both file pages & slab pages. Writing the file allocates both a data page & a slab page (buffer_head). This advances the RR rotor 2 nodes for each page allocated. A quick confirmation seems to confirm this is the cause of the uneven allocation: # echo 0 >/dev/cpuset/memory_spread_slab # ./lfile allocated on nodes: 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 This patch introduces a second rotor that is used for slab allocations. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: clean up memory thresholdsKirill A. Shutemov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce struct mem_cgroup_thresholds. It helps to reduce number of checks of thresholds type (memory or mem+swap). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: repair comment] Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* cgroups: make cftype.unregister_event() void-returningKirill A. Shutemov2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since we are unable to handle an error returned by cftype.unregister_event() properly, let's make the callback void-returning. mem_cgroup_unregister_event() has been rewritten to be a "never fail" function. On mem_cgroup_usage_register_event() we save old buffer for thresholds array and reuse it in mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event() to avoid allocation. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: fix mis-accounting of file mapped racy with migrationakpm@linux-foundation.org2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FILE_MAPPED per memcg of migrated file cache is not properly updated, because our hook in page_add_file_rmap() can't know to which memcg FILE_MAPPED should be counted. Basically, this patch is for fixing the bug but includes some big changes to fix up other messes. Now, at migrating mapped file, events happen in following sequence. 1. allocate a new page. 2. get memcg of an old page. 3. charge ageinst a new page before migration. But at this point, no changes to new page's page_cgroup, no commit for the charge. (IOW, PCG_USED bit is not set.) 4. page migration replaces radix-tree, old-page and new-page. 5. page migration remaps the new page if the old page was mapped. 6. Here, the new page is unlocked. 7. memcg commits the charge for newpage, Mark the new page's page_cgroup as PCG_USED. Because "commit" happens after page-remap, we can count FILE_MAPPED at "5", because we should avoid to trust page_cgroup->mem_cgroup. if PCG_USED bit is unset. (Note: memcg's LRU removal code does that but LRU-isolation logic is used for helping it. When we overwrite page_cgroup->mem_cgroup, page_cgroup is not on LRU or page_cgroup->mem_cgroup is NULL.) We can lose file_mapped accounting information at 5 because FILE_MAPPED is updated only when mapcount changes 0->1. So we should catch it. BTW, historically, above implemntation comes from migration-failure of anonymous page. Because we charge both of old page and new page with mapcount=0, we can't catch - the page is really freed before remap. - migration fails but it's freed before remap or .....corner cases. New migration sequence with memcg is: 1. allocate a new page. 2. mark PageCgroupMigration to the old page. 3. charge against a new page onto the old page's memcg. (here, new page's pc is marked as PageCgroupUsed.) 4. page migration replaces radix-tree, page table, etc... 5. At remapping, new page's page_cgroup is now makrked as "USED" We can catch 0->1 event and FILE_MAPPED will be properly updated. And we can catch SWAPOUT event after unlock this and freeing this page by unmap() can be caught. 7. Clear PageCgroupMigration of the old page. So, FILE_MAPPED will be correctly updated. Then, for what MIGRATION flag is ? Without it, at migration failure, we may have to charge old page again because it may be fully unmapped. "charge" means that we have to dive into memory reclaim or something complated. So, it's better to avoid charge it again. Before this patch, __commit_charge() was working for both of the old/new page and fixed up all. But this technique has some racy condtion around FILE_MAPPED and SWAPOUT etc... Now, the kernel use MIGRATION flag and don't uncharge old page until the end of migration. I hope this change will make memcg's page migration much simpler. This page migration has caused several troubles. Worth to add a flag for simplification. Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Tested-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Reported-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: memcontrol - uninitialised return valuePhil Carmody2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | Only an out of memory error will cause ret to be set. Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: remove unnecessary use of atomicPhil Carmody2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The bottom 4 hunks are atomically changing memory to which there are no aliases as it's freshly allocated, so there's no need to use atomic operations. The other hunks are just atomic_read and atomic_set, and do not involve any read-modify-write. The use of atomic_{read,set} doesn't prevent a read/write or write/write race, so if a race were possible (I'm not saying one is), then it would still be there even with atomic_set. See: http://digitalvampire.org/blog/index.php/2007/05/13/atomic-cargo-cults/ Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: make oom killer a no-op when no killable task can be foundDavid Rientjes2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's pointless to try to kill current if select_bad_process() did not find an eligible task to kill in mem_cgroup_out_of_memory() since it's guaranteed that current is a member of the memcg that is oom and it is, by definition, unkillable. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: update documentationKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | Some information are old, and I think current document doesn't work as "a guide for users". We need summary of all of our controls, at least. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: move charge of file pagesDaisuke Nishimura2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds support for moving charge of file pages, which include normal file, tmpfs file and swaps of tmpfs file. It's enabled by setting bit 1 of <target cgroup>/memory.move_charge_at_immigrate. Unlike the case of anonymous pages, file pages(and swaps) in the range mmapped by the task will be moved even if the task hasn't done page fault, i.e. they might not be the task's "RSS", but other task's "RSS" that maps the same file. And mapcount of the page is ignored(the page can be moved even if page_mapcount(page) > 1). So, conditions that the page/swap should be met to be moved is that it must be in the range mmapped by the target task and it must be charged to the old cgroup. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning] Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: clean up move chargeDaisuke Nishimura2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch cleans up move charge code by: - define functions to handle pte for each types, and make is_target_pte_for_mc() cleaner. - instead of checking the MOVE_CHARGE_TYPE_ANON bit, define a function that checks the bit. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: oom kill disable and oom statusKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a feature to disable oom-killer for memcg, if disabled, of course, tasks under memcg will stop. But now, we have oom-notifier for memcg. And the world around memcg is not under out-of-memory. memcg's out-of-memory just shows memcg hits limit. Then, administrator or management daemon can recover the situation by - kill some process - enlarge limit, add more swap. - migrate some tasks - remove file cache on tmps (difficult ?) Unlike oom-killer, you can take enough information before killing tasks. (by gcore, or, ps etc.) [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: oom notifierKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Considering containers or other resource management softwares in userland, event notification of OOM in memcg should be implemented. Now, memcg has "threshold" notifier which uses eventfd, we can make use of it for oom notification. This patch adds oom notification eventfd callback for memcg. The usage is very similar to threshold notifier, but control file is memory.oom_control and no arguments other than eventfd is required. % cgroup_event_notifier /cgroup/A/memory.oom_control dummy (About cgroup_event_notifier, see Documentation/cgroup/) Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: oom wakeup filterKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | memcg's oom waitqueue is a system-wide wait_queue (for handling hierarchy.) So, it's better to add custom wake function and do filtering in wake up path. This patch adds a filtering feature for waking up oom-waiters. Hierarchy is properly handled. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt: fix reference to "numtasks"Trevor Woerner2010-05-27
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Documentation: SubmittingDrivers: ResourcesArce, Abraham2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | - Add additional location (Git) for the kernel master tree - Add reference to Git Project Signed-off-by: Abraham Arce <x0066660@ti.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ufs: permit mounting of BorderWare filesystemsThomas Stewart2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I recently had to recover some files from an old broken machine that was running BorderWare Document Gateway. It's basically a drop in web server for sharing files. From the look of the init process and using strings on of a few files it seems to be based on FreeBSD 3.3. The process turned out to be more difficult than I imagined, but to cut a long story short BorderWare in their wisdom use a nonstandard magic number in their UFS (ufstype=44bsd) file systems. Thus Linux refuses to mount the file systems in order to recover the data. After a bit of hunting I was able to make a quick fix to fs/ufs/super.c in order to detect the new magic number. I assume that this number is the same for all installations. It's quite easy to find out from ufs_fs.h. The superblock sits 8k into the block device and the magic number its 1372 bytes into the superblock struct. # dd if=/dev/sda5 skip=$(( 8192 + 1372 )) bs=1 count=4 2> /dev/null | hd 00000000 97 26 24 0f |.&$.| # Signed-off-by: Thomas Stewart <thomas@stewarts.org.uk> Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* drivers/telephony/ixj.c: use memdup_userJulia Lawall2010-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use memdup_user when user data is immediately copied into the allocated region. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression from,to,size,flag; position p; identifier l1,l2; @@ - to = \(kmalloc@p\|kzalloc@p\)(size,flag); + to = memdup_user(from,size); if ( - to==NULL + IS_ERR(to) || ...) { <+... when != goto l1; - -ENOMEM + PTR_ERR(to) ...+> } - if (copy_from_user(to, from, size) != 0) { - <+... when != goto l2; - -EFAULT - ...+> - } // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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