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* Yama: higher restrictions should block PTRACE_TRACEMEKees Cook2012-08-10
| | | | | | | | | | | The higher ptrace restriction levels should be blocking even PTRACE_TRACEME requests. The comments in the LSM documentation are misleading about when the checks happen (the parent does not go through security_ptrace_access_check() on a PTRACE_TRACEME call). Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.5.x and later Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
* Documentation: fix the VM knobs descritpion WRT pdflushArtem Bityutskiy2012-08-04
| | | | | | | | | The pdflush thread is long gone, however we still mention it incorrectly in the kernel documentation. This patch fixes the situation. Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Documentation: get rid of write_superArtem Bityutskiy2012-08-03
| | | | | | | | | The '->write_super' superblock method is gone, and this patch removes all the references to 'write_super' from various pieces of the kernel documentation. Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Merge tag 'dt2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-socLinus Torvalds2012-08-02
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull arm-soc Marvell Orion device-tree updates from Olof Johansson: "This contains a set of device-tree conversions for Marvell Orion platforms that were staged early but took a few tries to get the branch into a format where it was suitable for us to pick up. Given that most people working on these platforms are hobbyists with limited time, we were a bit more flexible with merging it even though it came in late." * tag 'dt2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (21 commits) ARM: Kirkwood: Replace mrvl with marvell ARM: Kirkwood: Describe GoFlex Net LEDs and SATA in DT. ARM: Kirkwood: Describe Dreamplug LEDs in DT. ARM: Kirkwood: Describe iConnects LEDs in DT. ARM: Kirkwood: Describe iConnects temperature sensor in DT. ARM: Kirkwood: Describe IB62x0 LEDs in DT. ARM: Kirkwood: Describe IB62x0 gpio-keys in DT. ARM: Kirkwood: Describe DNS32? gpio-keys in DT. ARM: Kirkwood: Move common portions into a kirkwood-dnskw.dtsi ARM: Kirkwood: Replace DNS-320/DNS-325 leds with dt bindings ARM: Kirkwood: Describe DNS325 temperature sensor in DT. ARM: Kirkwood: Use DT to configure SATA device. ARM: kirkwood: use devicetree for SPI on dreamplug ARM: kirkwood: Add LS-XHL and LS-CHLv2 support ARM: Kirkwood: Initial DTS support for Kirkwood GoFlex Net ARM: Kirkwood: Add basic device tree support for QNAP TS219. ATA: sata_mv: Add device tree support ARM: Orion: DTify the watchdog timer. ARM: Orion: Add arch support needed for I2C via DT. ARM: kirkwood: use devicetree for orion-spi ... Conflicts: drivers/watchdog/orion_wdt.c
| * Merge branch 'marvell/dt' into late2/dtOlof Johansson2012-07-29
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * marvell/dt: (41 commits) ARM: Kirkwood: Replace mrvl with marvell ARM: Kirkwood: Describe GoFlex Net LEDs and SATA in DT. ARM: Kirkwood: Describe Dreamplug LEDs in DT. ARM: Kirkwood: Describe iConnects LEDs in DT. ARM: Kirkwood: Describe iConnects temperature sensor in DT. ARM: Kirkwood: Describe IB62x0 LEDs in DT. ARM: Kirkwood: Describe IB62x0 gpio-keys in DT. ARM: Kirkwood: Describe DNS32? gpio-keys in DT. ARM: Kirkwood: Move common portions into a kirkwood-dnskw.dtsi ARM: Kirkwood: Replace DNS-320/DNS-325 leds with dt bindings ARM: Kirkwood: Describe DNS325 temperature sensor in DT. ARM: Kirkwood: Use DT to configure SATA device. ARM: kirkwood: use devicetree for SPI on dreamplug ARM: kirkwood: Add LS-XHL and LS-CHLv2 support ARM: Kirkwood: Initial DTS support for Kirkwood GoFlex Net ARM: Kirkwood: Add basic device tree support for QNAP TS219. ATA: sata_mv: Add device tree support ARM: Orion: DTify the watchdog timer. ARM: Orion: Add arch support needed for I2C via DT. ARM: kirkwood: use devicetree for orion-spi ...
| | * ATA: sata_mv: Add device tree supportAndrew Lunn2012-07-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support for instantiating this driver from device tree, and add the necassary DT information to the kirkwood.dtsi file. This is based on previous work by Michael Walle and Jason Cooper. Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Tested-by: Josh Coombs <josh.coombs@gmail.com>
| | * ARM: Orion: DTify the watchdog timer.Andrew Lunn2012-07-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add device tree support to the Orion watchdog timer, and enable its use in the kirkwood devices using device tree. Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Acked-by: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@googlemail.com> Tested-by: Simon Baatz <gmbnomis@gmail.com>
| | * ARM: Orion: DT support for IRQ and GPIO ControllersAndrew Lunn2012-07-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Both IRQ and GPIO controllers can now be represented in DT. The IRQ controllers are setup first, and then the GPIO controllers. Interrupts for GPIO lines are placed directly after the main interrupts in the interrupt space. Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Acked-by: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@googlemail.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Tested-by: Josh Coombs <josh.coombs@gmail.com> Tested-by: Simon Baatz <gmbnomis@gmail.com>
| | * Merge branch 'v3.5-rc7-fixes' into v3.5-rc7-dt-v3Andrew Lunn2012-07-27
| | |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge in branch already pulled. Fulfils dependancies needed by this patchset.
| | * \ Merge tag 'spi-3.6' into v3.5-rc7-dt-v3Andrew Lunn2012-07-27
| | |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | spi: Updates for 3.6 Since Grant is even more specacularly busy than usual for the time being I've been collecting SPI patches for him for this release - probably things will revert back to Grant before the next release. There's nothing too exciting here, mostly it's simple driver specific stuff: - Add spi: to the modaliases of SPI devices to provide namespacing. - A driver for AD-FMCOMMS1-EBZ. - DT binding for Orion. - Fixes and cleanups for i.MX, PL0022, OMAP and bitbang drivers. There may be a few more fixes I've missed, people keep sending me new things.
* | | \ \ Merge branch 'dmaengine' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-armLinus Torvalds2012-08-01
|\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull ARM DMA engine updates from Russell King: "This looks scary at first glance, but what it is is: - a rework of the sa11x0 DMA engine driver merged during the previous cycle, to extract a common set of helper functions for DMA engine implementations. - conversion of amba-pl08x.c to use these helper functions. - addition of OMAP DMA engine driver (using these helper functions), and conversion of some of the OMAP DMA users to use DMA engine. Nothing in the helper functions is ARM specific, so I hope that other implementations can consolidate some of their code by making use of these helpers. This has been sitting in linux-next most of the merge cycle, and has been tested by several OMAP folk. I've tested it on sa11x0 platforms, and given it my best shot on my broken platforms which have the amba-pl08x controller. The last point is the addition to feature-removal-schedule.txt, which will have a merge conflict. Between myself and TI, we're planning to remove the old TI DMA implementation next year." Fix up trivial add/add conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt and drivers/dma/{Kconfig,Makefile} * 'dmaengine' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm: (53 commits) ARM: 7481/1: OMAP2+: omap2plus_defconfig: enable OMAP DMA engine ARM: 7464/1: mmc: omap_hsmmc: ensure probe returns error if DMA channel request fails Add feature removal of old OMAP private DMA implementation mtd: omap2: remove private DMA API implementation mtd: omap2: add DMA engine support spi: omap2-mcspi: remove private DMA API implementation spi: omap2-mcspi: add DMA engine support ARM: omap: remove mmc platform data dma_mask and initialization mmc: omap: remove private DMA API implementation mmc: omap: add DMA engine support mmc: omap_hsmmc: remove private DMA API implementation mmc: omap_hsmmc: add DMA engine support dmaengine: omap: add support for cyclic DMA dmaengine: omap: add support for setting fi dmaengine: omap: add support for returning residue in tx_state method dmaengine: add OMAP DMA engine driver dmaengine: sa11x0-dma: add cyclic DMA support dmaengine: sa11x0-dma: fix DMA residue support dmaengine: PL08x: ensure all descriptors are freed when channel is released dmaengine: PL08x: get rid of write only pool_ctr and free_txd locking ...
| * | | | | Add feature removal of old OMAP private DMA implementationRussell King2012-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* | | | | | Merge tag 'fbdev-updates-for-3.6' of git://github.com/schandinat/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2012-08-01
|\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull fbdev updates from Florian Tobias Schandinat: - large updates for OMAP - support for LCD3 overlay manager (omap5) - omapdss output cleanup - removal of passive matrix LCD support as there are no drivers for such panels for DSS or DSS2 and nobody complained (cleanup) - large updates for SH Mobile - overlay support - separating MERAM (cache) from framebuffer driver - some updates for Exynos and da8xx-fb - various other small patches * tag 'fbdev-updates-for-3.6' of git://github.com/schandinat/linux-2.6: (78 commits) da8xx-fb: fix compile issue due to missing include fbdev: Make pixel_to_pat() failure mode more friendly da8xx-fb: do not turn ON LCD backlight unless LCDC is enabled fbdev: sh_mobile_lcdc: Fix vertical panning step video: exynos mipi dsi: Fix mipi dsi regulators handling issue video: da8xx-fb: do clock reset of revision 2 LCDC before enabling arm: da850: configure LCDC fifo threshold video: da8xx-fb: configure FIFO threshold to reduce underflow errors video: da8xx-fb: fix flicker due to 1 frame delay in updated frame video: da8xx-fb rev2: fix disabling of palette completion interrupt da8xx-fb: add missing FB_BLANK operations video: exynos_dp: use usleep_range instead of delay video: exynos_dp: check the only INTERLANE_ALIGN_DONE bit during Link Training fb: epson1355fb: Fix section mismatch video: exynos_dp: fix wrong DPCD address during Link Training video/smscufx: fix line counting in fb_write aty128fb: Fix coding style issues fbdev: sh_mobile_lcdc: Fix pan offset computation in YUV mode fbdev: sh_mobile_lcdc: Fix overlay registers update during pan operation fbdev: sh_mobile_lcdc: Support horizontal panning ...
| * | | | | | fbdev: sh_mobile_lcdc: Implement overlays supportLaurent Pinchart2012-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
* | | | | | | Merge tag 'sound-3.6' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-08-01
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound Pull sound fixes from Takashi Iwai: "A collection of small fixes that have been found recently. Most of the commits are regression fixes in HD-audio and some other random drivers." * tag 'sound-3.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound: ALSA: snd-usb: fix clock source validity index ALSA: hda - Fix mute-LED GPIO initialization for IDT codecs ALSA: hda - Add descriptions for missing IDT 92HD83x models ALSA: hda - Fix polarity of mute LED on HP Mini 210 ALSA: es1688 - freeup resources on init failure ALSA: hda - Workaround for silent output on VAIO Z with ALC889 ALSA: hda - Fix WARNING from HDMI/DP parser ALSA: hda - Detach from converter at closing in patch_hdmi.c ALSA: hda - Fix mute-LED GPIO setup for HP Mini 210 ALSA: mpu401: Fix missing initialization of irq field ALSA: hda - Fix invalid D3 of headphone DAC on VT202x codecs
| * | | | | | | ALSA: hda - Add descriptions for missing IDT 92HD83x modelsTakashi Iwai2012-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
| * | | | | | | ALSA: hda - Workaround for silent output on VAIO Z with ALC889Takashi Iwai2012-07-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On recent kernels, Realtek codec parser tries to optimize the routing aggressively and take the headphone output as primary at first. This caused a regression on VAIO Z with ALC889, the silent output from the speaker. The problem seems that the speaker pin must be connected to the first DAC (0x02) on this machine by some reason although the codec itself advertises the flexible routing with any DACs. This patch adds a fix-up for choosing the speaker pin as the primary so that the right DAC is assigned on this device. Reported-and-tested-by: Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
* | | | | | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-08-01
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull second vfs pile from Al Viro: "The stuff in there: fsfreeze deadlock fixes by Jan (essentially, the deadlock reproduced by xfstests 068), symlink and hardlink restriction patches, plus assorted cleanups and fixes. Note that another fsfreeze deadlock (emergency thaw one) is *not* dealt with - the series by Fernando conflicts a lot with Jan's, breaks userland ABI (FIFREEZE semantics gets changed) and trades the deadlock for massive vfsmount leak; this is going to be handled next cycle. There probably will be another pull request, but that stuff won't be in it." Fix up trivial conflicts due to unrelated changes next to each other in drivers/{staging/gdm72xx/usb_boot.c, usb/gadget/storage_common.c} * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (54 commits) delousing target_core_file a bit Documentation: Correct s_umount state for freeze_fs/unfreeze_fs fs: Remove old freezing mechanism ext2: Implement freezing btrfs: Convert to new freezing mechanism nilfs2: Convert to new freezing mechanism ntfs: Convert to new freezing mechanism fuse: Convert to new freezing mechanism gfs2: Convert to new freezing mechanism ocfs2: Convert to new freezing mechanism xfs: Convert to new freezing code ext4: Convert to new freezing mechanism fs: Protect write paths by sb_start_write - sb_end_write fs: Skip atime update on frozen filesystem fs: Add freezing handling to mnt_want_write() / mnt_drop_write() fs: Improve filesystem freezing handling switch the protection of percpu_counter list to spinlock nfsd: Push mnt_want_write() outside of i_mutex btrfs: Push mnt_want_write() outside of i_mutex fat: Push mnt_want_write() outside of i_mutex ...
| * | | | | | | | Documentation: Correct s_umount state for freeze_fs/unfreeze_fsValerie Aurora2012-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | freeze_fs/unfreeze_fs ops are called with s_umount held for write, not read. Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora <val@vaaconsulting.com> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | | | | | | | fs: add link restrictionsKees Cook2012-07-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds symlink and hardlink restrictions to the Linux VFS. Symlinks: A long-standing class of security issues is the symlink-based time-of-check-time-of-use race, most commonly seen in world-writable directories like /tmp. The common method of exploitation of this flaw is to cross privilege boundaries when following a given symlink (i.e. a root process follows a symlink belonging to another user). For a likely incomplete list of hundreds of examples across the years, please see: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=/tmp The solution is to permit symlinks to only be followed when outside a sticky world-writable directory, or when the uid of the symlink and follower match, or when the directory owner matches the symlink's owner. Some pointers to the history of earlier discussion that I could find: 1996 Aug, Zygo Blaxell http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167419830&w=2 1996 Oct, Andrew Tridgell http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9610.2/0086.html 1997 Dec, Albert D Cahalan http://lkml.org/lkml/1997/12/16/4 2005 Feb, Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0502.0/1896.html 2010 May, Kees Cook https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/30/144 Past objections and rebuttals could be summarized as: - Violates POSIX. - POSIX didn't consider this situation and it's not useful to follow a broken specification at the cost of security. - Might break unknown applications that use this feature. - Applications that break because of the change are easy to spot and fix. Applications that are vulnerable to symlink ToCToU by not having the change aren't. Additionally, no applications have yet been found that rely on this behavior. - Applications should just use mkstemp() or O_CREATE|O_EXCL. - True, but applications are not perfect, and new software is written all the time that makes these mistakes; blocking this flaw at the kernel is a single solution to the entire class of vulnerability. - This should live in the core VFS. - This should live in an LSM. (https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/31/135) - This should live in an LSM. - This should live in the core VFS. (https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/2/188) Hardlinks: On systems that have user-writable directories on the same partition as system files, a long-standing class of security issues is the hardlink-based time-of-check-time-of-use race, most commonly seen in world-writable directories like /tmp. The common method of exploitation of this flaw is to cross privilege boundaries when following a given hardlink (i.e. a root process follows a hardlink created by another user). Additionally, an issue exists where users can "pin" a potentially vulnerable setuid/setgid file so that an administrator will not actually upgrade a system fully. The solution is to permit hardlinks to only be created when the user is already the existing file's owner, or if they already have read/write access to the existing file. Many Linux users are surprised when they learn they can link to files they have no access to, so this change appears to follow the doctrine of "least surprise". Additionally, this change does not violate POSIX, which states "the implementation may require that the calling process has permission to access the existing file"[1]. This change is known to break some implementations of the "at" daemon, though the version used by Fedora and Ubuntu has been fixed[2] for a while. Otherwise, the change has been undisruptive while in use in Ubuntu for the last 1.5 years. [1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/linkat.html [2] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/at.git;a=commitdiff;h=f4114656c3a6c6f6070e315ffdf940a49eda3279 This patch is based on the patches in Openwall and grsecurity, along with suggestions from Al Viro. I have added a sysctl to enable the protected behavior, and documentation. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'for-3.6/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds2012-08-01
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull core block IO bits from Jens Axboe: "The most complicated part if this is the request allocation rework by Tejun, which has been queued up for a long time and has been in for-next ditto as well. There are a few commits from yesterday and today, mostly trivial and obvious fixes. So I'm pretty confident that it is sound. It's also smaller than usual." * 'for-3.6/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: block: remove dead func declaration block: add partition resize function to blkpg ioctl block: uninitialized ioc->nr_tasks triggers WARN_ON block: do not artificially constrain max_sectors for stacking drivers blkcg: implement per-blkg request allocation block: prepare for multiple request_lists block: add q->nr_rqs[] and move q->rq.elvpriv to q->nr_rqs_elvpriv blkcg: inline bio_blkcg() and friends block: allocate io_context upfront block: refactor get_request[_wait]() block: drop custom queue draining used by scsi_transport_{iscsi|fc} mempool: add @gfp_mask to mempool_create_node() blkcg: make root blkcg allocation use %GFP_KERNEL blkcg: __blkg_lookup_create() doesn't need radix preload
| * | | | | | | | | blkcg: implement per-blkg request allocationTejun Heo2012-06-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, request_queue has one request_list to allocate requests from regardless of blkcg of the IO being issued. When the unified request pool is used up, cfq proportional IO limits become meaningless - whoever grabs the next request being freed wins the race regardless of the configured weights. This can be easily demonstrated by creating a blkio cgroup w/ very low weight, put a program which can issue a lot of random direct IOs there and running a sequential IO from a different cgroup. As soon as the request pool is used up, the sequential IO bandwidth crashes. This patch implements per-blkg request_list. Each blkg has its own request_list and any IO allocates its request from the matching blkg making blkcgs completely isolated in terms of request allocation. * Root blkcg uses the request_list embedded in each request_queue, which was renamed to @q->root_rl from @q->rq. While making blkcg rl handling a bit harier, this enables avoiding most overhead for root blkcg. * Queue fullness is properly per request_list but bdi isn't blkcg aware yet, so congestion state currently just follows the root blkcg. As writeback isn't aware of blkcg yet, this works okay for async congestion but readahead may get the wrong signals. It's better than blkcg completely collapsing with shared request_list but needs to be improved with future changes. * After this change, each block cgroup gets a full request pool making resource consumption of each cgroup higher. This makes allowing non-root users to create cgroups less desirable; however, note that allowing non-root users to directly manage cgroups is already severely broken regardless of this patch - each block cgroup consumes kernel memory and skews IO weight (IO weights are not hierarchical). v2: queue-sysfs.txt updated and patch description udpated as suggested by Vivek. v3: blk_get_rl() wasn't checking error return from blkg_lookup_create() and may cause oops on lookup failure. Fix it by falling back to root_rl on blkg lookup failures. This problem was spotted by Rakesh Iyer <rni@google.com>. v4: Updated to accomodate 458f27a982 "block: Avoid missed wakeup in request waitqueue". blk_drain_queue() now wakes up waiters on all blkg->rl on the target queue. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'for-next' of git://neil.brown.name/mdLinus Torvalds2012-08-01
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull md updates from NeilBrown. * 'for-next' of git://neil.brown.name/md: DM RAID: Add support for MD RAID10 md/RAID1: Add missing case for attempting to repair known bad blocks. md/raid5: For odirect-write performance, do not set STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE. md/raid1: don't abort a resync on the first badblock. md: remove duplicated test on ->openers when calling do_md_stop() raid5: Add R5_ReadNoMerge flag which prevent bio from merging at block layer md/raid1: prevent merging too large request md/raid1: read balance chooses idlest disk for SSD md/raid1: make sequential read detection per disk based MD RAID10: Export md_raid10_congested MD: Move macros from raid1*.h to raid1*.c MD RAID1: rename mirror_info structure MD RAID10: rename mirror_info structure MD RAID10: Fix compiler warning. raid5: add a per-stripe lock raid5: remove unnecessary bitmap write optimization raid5: lockless access raid5 overrided bi_phys_segments raid5: reduce chance release_stripe() taking device_lock
| * | | | | | | | | | DM RAID: Add support for MD RAID10Jonathan Brassow2012-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Support the MD RAID10 personality through dm-raid.c Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
* | | | | | | | | | | locks: remove unused lm_release_privateJ. Bruce Fields2012-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit 3b6e2723f32d ("locks: prevent side-effects of locks_release_private before file_lock is initialized") we removed the last user of lm_release_private without removing the field itself. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | | | | | | | Merge tag 'irqdomain-for-linus' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2012-07-31
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull irqdomain changes from Grant Likely: "Round of refactoring and enhancements to irq_domain infrastructure. This series starts the process of simplifying irqdomain. The ultimate goal is to merge LEGACY, LINEAR and TREE mappings into a single system, but had to back off from that after some last minute bugs. Instead it mainly reorganizes the code and ensures that the reverse map gets populated when the irq is mapped instead of the first time it is looked up. Merging of the irq_domain types is deferred to v3.7 In other news, this series adds helpers for creating static mappings on a linear or tree mapping." * tag 'irqdomain-for-linus' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6: irqdomain: Improve diagnostics when a domain mapping fails irqdomain: eliminate slow-path revmap lookups irqdomain: Fix irq_create_direct_mapping() to test irq_domain type. irqdomain: Eliminate dedicated radix lookup functions irqdomain: Support for static IRQ mapping and association. irqdomain: Always update revmap when setting up a virq irqdomain: Split disassociating code into separate function irq_domain: correct a minor wrong comment for linear revmap irq_domain: Standardise legacy/linear domain selection irqdomain: Make ops->map hook optional irqdomain: Remove unnecessary test for IRQ_DOMAIN_MAP_LEGACY irqdomain: Simple NUMA awareness. devicetree: add helper inline for retrieving a node's full name
| * \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin' into irqdomain/nextGrant Likely2012-07-25
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| * \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Merge tag 'v3.5-rc6' into irqdomain/nextGrant Likely2012-07-11
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| * | | | | | | | | | | | | irq_domain: Standardise legacy/linear domain selectionMark Brown2012-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A large proportion of interrupt controllers that support legacy mappings do so because non-DT systems need to use fixed IRQ numbers when registering devices via buses but can otherwise use a linear mapping. The interrupt controller itself typically is not affected by the mapping used and best practice is to use a linear mapping where possible so drivers frequently select at runtime depending on if a legacy range has been allocated to them. Standardise this behaviour by providing irq_domain_register_simple() which will allocate a linear mapping unless a positive first_irq is provided in which case it will fall back to a legacy mapping. This helps make best practice for irq_domain adoption clearer. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
* | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)Linus Torvalds2012-07-31
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge Andrew's second set of patches: - MM - a few random fixes - a couple of RTC leftovers * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (120 commits) rtc/rtc-88pm80x: remove unneed devm_kfree rtc/rtc-88pm80x: assign ret only when rtc_register_driver fails mm: hugetlbfs: close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables tmpfs: distribute interleave better across nodes mm: remove redundant initialization mm: warn if pg_data_t isn't initialized with zero mips: zero out pg_data_t when it's allocated memcg: gix memory accounting scalability in shrink_page_list mm/sparse: remove index_init_lock mm/sparse: more checks on mem_section number mm/sparse: optimize sparse_index_alloc memcg: add mem_cgroup_from_css() helper memcg: further prevent OOM with too many dirty pages memcg: prevent OOM with too many dirty pages mm: mmu_notifier: fix freed page still mapped in secondary MMU mm: memcg: only check anon swapin page charges for swap cache mm: memcg: only check swap cache pages for repeated charging mm: memcg: split swapin charge function into private and public part mm: memcg: remove needless !mm fixup to init_mm when charging mm: memcg: remove unneeded shmem charge type ...
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | mm: add support for a filesystem to activate swap files and use direct_IO ↵Mel Gorman2012-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | for writing swap pages Currently swapfiles are managed entirely by the core VM by using ->bmap to allocate space and write to the blocks directly. This effectively ensures that the underlying blocks are allocated and avoids the need for the swap subsystem to locate what physical blocks store offsets within a file. If the swap subsystem is to use the filesystem information to locate the blocks, it is critical that information such as block groups, block bitmaps and the block descriptor table that map the swap file were resident in memory. This patch adds address_space_operations that the VM can call when activating or deactivating swap backed by a file. int swap_activate(struct file *); int swap_deactivate(struct file *); The ->swap_activate() method is used to communicate to the file that the VM relies on it, and the address_space should take adequate measures such as reserving space in the underlying device, reserving memory for mempools and pinning information such as the block descriptor table in memory. The ->swap_deactivate() method is called on sys_swapoff() if ->swap_activate() returned success. After a successful swapfile ->swap_activate, the swapfile is marked SWP_FILE and swapper_space.a_ops will proxy to sis->swap_file->f_mappings->a_ops using ->direct_io to write swapcache pages and ->readpage to read. It is perfectly possible that direct_IO be used to read the swap pages but it is an unnecessary complication. Similarly, it is possible that ->writepage be used instead of direct_io to write the pages but filesystem developers have stated that calling writepage from the VM is undesirable for a variety of reasons and using direct_IO opens up the possibility of writing back batches of swap pages in the future. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Original patch] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | mm/memcg: complete documentation for tcp memcg filesWanpeng Li2012-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwp.linux@gmail.com> 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: rename config variablesAndrew Morton2012-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sanity: CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR -> CONFIG_MEMCG CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP -> CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED -> CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM -> CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM [mhocko@suse.cz: fix missed bits] Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | mm, oom: replace some information in tasklist dumpDavid Rientjes2012-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The number of ptes and swap entries are used in the oom killer's badness heuristic, so they should be shown in the tasklist dump. This patch adds those fields and replaces cpu and oom_adj values that are currently emitted. Cpu isn't interesting and oom_adj is deprecated and will be removed later this year, the same information is already displayed as oom_score_adj which is used internally. At the same time, make the documentation a little more clear to state this information is helpful to determine why the oom killer chose the task it did to kill. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | hugetlb/cgroup: add HugeTLB controller documentationAneesh Kumar K.V2012-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | mm: prepare for removal of obsolete /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threadsWanpeng Li2012-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since per-BDI flusher threads were introduced in 2.6, the pdflush mechanism is not used any more. But the old interface exported through /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads still exists and is obviously useless. For back-compatibility, printk warning information and return 2 to notify the users that the interface is removed. Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | documentation: update how page-cluster affects swap I/OChristian Ehrhardt2012-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix of the documentation of /proc/sys/vm/page-cluster to match the behavior of the code and add some comments about what the tunable will change in that behavior. Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge tag 'vfio-for-v3.6' of git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfioLinus Torvalds2012-07-31
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull VFIO core from Alex Williamson: "This series includes the VFIO userspace driver interface for the 3.6 kernel merge window. This driver is intended to provide a secure interface for device access using IOMMU protection for applications like assignment of physical devices to virtual machines. Qemu will be the first user of this interface, enabling assignment of PCI devices to Qemu guests. This interface is intended to eventually replace the x86-specific assignment mechanism currently available in KVM. This interface has the advantage of being more secure, by working with IOMMU groups to ensure device isolation and providing it's own filtered resource access mechanism, and also more flexible, in not being x86 or KVM specific (extensions to enable POWER are already working). This driver is originally the work of Tom Lyon, but has since been handed over to me and gone through a complete overhaul thanks to the input from David Gibson, Ben Herrenschmidt, Chris Wright, Joerg Roedel, and others. This driver has been available in linux-next for the last month." Paul Mackerras says: "I would be glad to see it go in since we want to use it with KVM on PowerPC. If possible we'd like the PowerPC bits for it to go in as well." * tag 'vfio-for-v3.6' of git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio: vfio: Add PCI device driver vfio: Type1 IOMMU implementation vfio: Add documentation vfio: VFIO core
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | | vfio: Add documentationAlex Williamson2012-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | | vfio: VFIO coreAlex Williamson2012-07-31
| |/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | VFIO is a secure user level driver for use with both virtual machines and user level drivers. VFIO makes use of IOMMU groups to ensure the isolation of devices in use, allowing unprivileged user access. It's intended that VFIO will replace KVM device assignment and UIO drivers (in cases where the target platform includes a sufficiently capable IOMMU). New in this version of VFIO is support for IOMMU groups managed through the IOMMU core as well as a rework of the API, removing the group merge interface. We now go back to a model more similar to original VFIO with UIOMMU support where the file descriptor obtained from /dev/vfio/vfio allows access to the IOMMU, but only after a group is added, avoiding the previous privilege issues with this type of model. IOMMU support is also now fully modular as IOMMUs have vastly different interface requirements on different platforms. VFIO users are able to query and initialize the IOMMU model of their choice. Please see the follow-on Documentation commit for further description and usage example. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
* | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge tag 'random_for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-07-31
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random Pull random subsystem patches from Ted Ts'o: "This patch series contains a major revamp of how we collect entropy from interrupts for /dev/random and /dev/urandom. The goal is to addresses weaknesses discussed in the paper "Mining your Ps and Qs: Detection of Widespread Weak Keys in Network Devices", by Nadia Heninger, Zakir Durumeric, Eric Wustrow, J. Alex Halderman, which will be published in the Proceedings of the 21st Usenix Security Symposium, August 2012. (See https://factorable.net for more information and an extended version of the paper.)" Fix up trivial conflicts due to nearby changes in drivers/{mfd/ab3100-core.c, usb/gadget/omap_udc.c} * tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random: (33 commits) random: mix in architectural randomness in extract_buf() dmi: Feed DMI table to /dev/random driver random: Add comment to random_initialize() random: final removal of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM um: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op sparc/ldc: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op [ARM] pxa: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op board-palmz71: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op isp1301_omap: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op pxa25x_udc: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op omap_udc: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op goku_udc: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which was commented out uartlite: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op drivers: hv: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op xen-blkfront: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op n2_crypto: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op pda_power: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op i2c-pmcmsp: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op input/serio/hp_sdc.c: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op mfd: remove IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM which is now a no-op ...
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | | random: final removal of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOMTheodore Ts'o2012-07-19
| | |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|/ / / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM flag is finally gone from the kernel tree, only three years late. :-) Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-07-31
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media Pull second set of media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab: - radio API: add support to work with radio frequency bands - new AM/FM radio drivers: radio-shark, radio-shark2 - new Remote Controller USB driver: iguanair - conversion of several drivers to the v4l2 core control framework - new board additions at existing drivers - the remaining (and vast majority of the patches) are due to drivers/DocBook fixes/cleanups. * 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (154 commits) [media] radio-tea5777: use library for 64bits div [media] tlg2300: Declare MODULE_FIRMWARE usage [media] lgs8gxx: Declare MODULE_FIRMWARE usage [media] xc5000: Add MODULE_FIRMWARE statements [media] s2255drv: Add MODULE_FIRMWARE statement [media] dib8000: move dereference after check for NULL [media] Documentation: Update cardlists [media] bttv: add support for Aposonic W-DVR [media] cx25821: Remove bad strcpy to read-only char* [media] pms.c: remove duplicated include [media] smiapp-core.c: remove duplicated include [media] via-camera: pass correct format settings to sensor [media] rtl2832.c: minor cleanup [media] Add support for the IguanaWorks USB IR Transceiver [media] Minor cleanups for MCE USB [media] drivers/media/dvb/siano/smscoreapi.c: use list_for_each_entry [media] Use a named union in struct v4l2_ioctl_info [media] mceusb: Add Twisted Melon USB IDs [media] staging/media/solo6x10: use module_pci_driver macro [media] staging/media/dt3155v4l: use module_pci_driver macro ... Conflicts: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [media] Documentation: Update cardlistsMauro Carvalho Chehab2012-07-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [media] bttv: add support for Aposonic W-DVRTony Gentile2012-07-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Forwarded-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@bytesex.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [media] Documentation: Add newline at end-of-file to files lacking oneJesper Juhl2012-07-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch simply adds a newline character at end-of-file to those files in Documentation/ that currently lack one. This is done for a few different reasons: A) It's rather annoying when you do "cat some_file.txt" that your prompt/cursor ends up at the end of the last line of output rather than on a new line. B) Some tools that process files line-by-line may get confused by the lack of a newline on the last line. C) The "\ No newline at end of file" line in diffs annoys me for some reason. So, let's just add the missing newline once and for all. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [media] v4l: DocBook: VIDIOC_CREATE_BUFS: add hyperlinkNicolas THERY2012-07-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Nicolas Thery <nicolas.thery@st.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [media] v4l2: Add rangelow and rangehigh fields to the v4l2_hw_freq_seek structHans de Goede2012-07-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To allow apps to limit a hw-freq-seek to a specific band, for further info see the documentation this patch adds for these new fields. Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [media] v4l2 spec: add VIDIOC_ENUM_FREQ_BANDS documentationHans Verkuil2012-07-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [media] v4l: DocBook: fix version number typoNicolas THERY2012-07-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Nicolas Thery <nicolas.thery@st.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>