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* Ensure that we export __fatal_signal_pending()Trond Myklebust2008-01-31
| | | | | | | | It may be used by the modules nfs.ko and sunrpc.ko Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> [ Made it a regular export rather than GPL-only - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'task_killable' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-01-31
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc * 'task_killable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc: (22 commits) Remove commented-out code copied from NFS NFS: Switch from intr mount option to TASK_KILLABLE Add wait_for_completion_killable Add wait_event_killable Add schedule_timeout_killable Use mutex_lock_killable in vfs_readdir Add mutex_lock_killable Use lock_page_killable Add lock_page_killable Add fatal_signal_pending Add TASK_WAKEKILL exit: Use task_is_* signal: Use task_is_* sched: Use task_contributes_to_load, TASK_ALL and TASK_NORMAL ptrace: Use task_is_* power: Use task_is_* wait: Use TASK_NORMAL proc/base.c: Use task_is_* proc/array.c: Use TASK_REPORT perfmon: Use task_is_* ... Fixed up conflicts in NFS/sunrpc manually..
| * Add fatal_signal_pendingMatthew Wilcox2007-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Like signal_pending, but it's only true for signals which are fatal to this process Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
| * Add TASK_WAKEKILLMatthew Wilcox2007-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Set TASK_WAKEKILL for TASK_STOPPED and TASK_TRACED, add TASK_KILLABLE and use TASK_WAKEKILL in signal_wake_up() Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
| * signal: Use task_is_*Matthew Wilcox2007-12-06
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
* | x86: rename the struct pt_regs members for 32/64-bit consistencyH. Peter Anvin2008-01-30
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We have a lot of code which differs only by the naming of specific members of structures that contain registers. In order to enable additional unifications, this patch drops the e- or r- size prefix from the register names in struct pt_regs, and drops the x- prefixes for segment registers on the 32-bit side. This patch also performs the equivalent renames in some additional places that might be candidates for unification in the future. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* sigwait eats blocked default-ignore signalsRoland McGrath2007-11-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While a signal is blocked, it must be posted even if its action is SIG_IGN or is SIG_DFL with the default action to ignore. This works right most of the time, but is broken when a sigwait (rt_sigtimedwait) is in progress. This changes the early-discard check to respect real_blocked. ~blocked is the set to check for "should wake up now", but ~(blocked|real_blocked) is the set for "blocked" semantics as defined by POSIX. This fixes bugzilla entry 9347, see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9347 Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Freezer: do not allow freezing processes to clear TIF_SIGPENDINGRafael J. Wysocki2007-10-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | Do not allow processes to clear their TIF_SIGPENDING if TIF_FREEZE is set, so that they will not race with the freezer (like mysqld does, for example). Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* x86 merge fallout: umlAl Viro2007-10-29
| | | | | | | | Don't undef __i386__/__x86_64__ in uml anymore, make sure that (few) places that required adjusting the ifdefs got those. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Use helpers to obtain task pid in printksPavel Emelyanov2007-10-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The task_struct->pid member is going to be deprecated, so start using the helpers (task_pid_nr/task_pid_vnr/task_pid_nr_ns) in the kernel. The first thing to start with is the pid, printed to dmesg - in this case we may safely use task_pid_nr(). Besides, printks produce more (much more) than a half of all the explicit pid usage. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: git-drm went and changed lots of stuff] Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Isolate some explicit usage of task->tgidPavel Emelyanov2007-10-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With pid namespaces this field is now dangerous to use explicitly, so hide it behind the helpers. Also the pid and pgrp fields o task_struct and signal_struct are to be deprecated. Unfortunately this patch cannot be sent right now as this leads to tons of warnings, so start isolating them, and deprecate later. Actually the p->tgid == pid has to be changed to has_group_leader_pid(), but Oleg pointed out that in case of posix cpu timers this is the same, and thread_group_leader() is more preferable. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Uninline find_task_by_xxx set of functionsPavel Emelyanov2007-10-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The find_task_by_something is a set of macros are used to find task by pid depending on what kind of pid is proposed - global or virtual one. All of them are wrappers above the most generic one - find_task_by_pid_type_ns() - and just substitute some args for it. It turned out, that dereferencing the current->nsproxy->pid_ns construction and pushing one more argument on the stack inline cause kernel text size to grow. This patch moves all this stuff out-of-line into kernel/pid.c. Together with the next patch it saves a bit less than 400 bytes from the .text section. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* pid namespaces: changes to show virtual ids to userPavel Emelyanov2007-10-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is the largest patch in the set. Make all (I hope) the places where the pid is shown to or get from user operate on the virtual pids. The idea is: - all in-kernel data structures must store either struct pid itself or the pid's global nr, obtained with pid_nr() call; - when seeking the task from kernel code with the stored id one should use find_task_by_pid() call that works with global pids; - when showing pid's numerical value to the user the virtual one should be used, but however when one shows task's pid outside this task's namespace the global one is to be used; - when getting the pid from userspace one need to consider this as the virtual one and use appropriate task/pid-searching functions. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuther build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: yet nuther build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded casts] Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* pid namespaces: allow signalling cgroup-initSukadev Bhattiprolu2007-10-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Only the global-init process must be special - any other cgroup-init process must be killable to prevent run-away processes in the system. TODO: Ideally we should allow killing the cgroup-init only from parent cgroup and prevent it being killed from within the cgroup. But that is a more complex change and will be addressed by a follow-on patch. For now allow the cgroup-init to be terminated by any process with sufficient privileges. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* pid namespaces: define is_global_init() and is_container_init()Serge E. Hallyn2007-10-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | is_init() is an ambiguous name for the pid==1 check. Split it into is_global_init() and is_container_init(). A cgroup init has it's tsk->pid == 1. A global init also has it's tsk->pid == 1 and it's active pid namespace is the init_pid_ns. But rather than check the active pid namespace, compare the task structure with 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper', which is initialized during boot to the /sbin/init process and never changes. Changelog: 2.6.22-rc4-mm2-pidns1: - Use 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper' to determine if a given task is the global init (/sbin/init) process. This would improve performance and remove dependence on the task_pid(). 2.6.21-mm2-pidns2: - [Sukadev Bhattiprolu] Changed is_container_init() calls in {powerpc, ppc,avr32}/traps.c for the _exception() call to is_global_init(). This way, we kill only the cgroup if the cgroup's init has a bug rather than force a kernel panic. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment] [sukadev@us.ibm.com: Use is_global_init() in arch/m32r/mm/fault.c] [bunk@stusta.de: kernel/pid.c: remove unused exports] [sukadev@us.ibm.com: Fix capability.c to work with threaded init] Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzel <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* pid namespaces: rename child_reaper() functionSukadev Bhattiprolu2007-10-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rename the child_reaper() function to task_child_reaper() to be similar to other task_* functions and to distinguish the function from 'struct pid_namspace.child_reaper'. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzel <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* pid namespaces: round up the APIPavel Emelianov2007-10-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The set of functions process_session, task_session, process_group and task_pgrp is confusing, as the names can be mixed with each other when looking at the code for a long time. The proposals are to * equip the functions that return the integer with _nr suffix to represent that fact, * and to make all functions work with task (not process) by making the common prefix of the same name. For monotony the routines signal_session() and set_signal_session() are replaced with task_session_nr() and set_task_session(), especially since they are only used with the explicit task->signal dereference. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* freezer: do not send signals to kernel threadsRafael J. Wysocki2007-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The freezer should not send signals to kernel threads, since that may lead to subtle problems. In particular, commit b74d0deb968e1f85942f17080eace015ce3c332c has changed recalc_sigpending_tsk() so that it doesn't clear TIF_SIGPENDING. For this reason, if the freezer continues to send fake signals to kernel threads and the freezing of kernel threads fails, some of them may be running with TIF_SIGPENDING set forever. Accordingly, recalc_sigpending_tsk() shouldn't set the task's TIF_SIGPENDING flag if TIF_FREEZE is set. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* do_sigaction: don't worry about signal_pending()Oleg Nesterov2007-10-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | do_sigaction() returns -ERESTARTNOINTR if signal_pending(). The comment says: * If there might be a fatal signal pending on multiple * threads, make sure we take it before changing the action. I think this is not needed. We should only worry about SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT case, bit it implies a pending SIGKILL which can't be cleared by do_sigaction. Kill this special case. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> 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>
* __group_complete_signal: eliminate unneeded wakeup of ->group_exit_taskOleg Nesterov2007-10-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Cleanup. __group_complete_signal() wakes up ->group_exit_task twice. The second wakeup's state includes TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, which is not very appropriate. Change the code to pass the "correct" argument to signal_wake_up() and kill now unneeded wake_up_process(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* zap_other_threads: don't optimize thread_group_empty() caseOleg Nesterov2007-10-17
| | | | | | | | | | | Nowadays thread_group_empty() and next_thread() are simple list operations, this optimization doesn't make sense: we are doing exactly same check one line below. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> 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>
* do_sigaction: remove now unneeded recalc_sigpending()Oleg Nesterov2007-10-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | With the recent changes, do_sigaction()->recalc_sigpending_and_wake() can never clear TIF_SIGPENDING. Instead, it can set this flag and wake up the thread without any reason. Harmless, but unneeded and wastes CPU. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fix bogus reporting of signals by auditAl Viro2007-10-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Async signals should not be reported as sent by current in audit log. As it is, we call audit_signal_info() too early in check_kill_permission(). Note that check_kill_permission() has that test already - it needs to know if it should apply current-based permission checks. So the solution is to move the call of audit_signal_info() between those. Bogosity in question is easily reproduced - add a rule watching for e.g. kill(2) from specific process (so that audit_signal_info() would not short-circuit to nothing), say load_policy, watch the bogus OBJ_PID entry in audit logs claiming that write(2) on selinuxfs file issued by load_policy(8) had somehow managed to send a signal to syslogd... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* signalfd simplificationDavide Libenzi2007-09-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This simplifies signalfd code, by avoiding it to remain attached to the sighand during its lifetime. In this way, the signalfd remain attached to the sighand only during poll(2) (and select and epoll) and read(2). This also allows to remove all the custom "tsk == current" checks in kernel/signal.c, since dequeue_signal() will only be called by "current". I think this is also what Ben was suggesting time ago. The external effect of this, is that a thread can extract only its own private signals and the group ones. I think this is an acceptable behaviour, in that those are the signals the thread would be able to fetch w/out signalfd. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sigqueue_free: fix the race with collect_signal()Oleg Nesterov2007-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Spotted by taoyue <yue.tao@windriver.com> and Jeremy Katz <jeremy.katz@windriver.com>. collect_signal: sigqueue_free: list_del_init(&first->list); if (!list_empty(&q->list)) { // not taken } q->flags &= ~SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC; __sigqueue_free(first); __sigqueue_free(q); Now, __sigqueue_free() is called twice on the same "struct sigqueue" with the obviously bad implications. In particular, this double free breaks the array_cache->avail logic, so the same sigqueue could be "allocated" twice, and the bug can manifest itself via the "impossible" BUG_ON(!SIGQUEUE_PREALLOC) in sigqueue_free/send_sigqueue. Hopefully this can explain these mysterious bug-reports, see http://marc.info/?t=118766926500003 http://marc.info/?t=118466273000005 Alexey Dobriyan reports this patch makes the difference for the testcase, but nobody has an access to the application which opened the problems originally. Also, this patch removes tasklist lock/unlock, ->siglock is enough. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: taoyue <yue.tao@windriver.com> Cc: Jeremy Katz <jeremy.katz@windriver.com> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* signalfd: fix interaction with posix-timersOleg Nesterov2007-08-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | dequeue_signal: if (__SI_TIMER) { spin_unlock(&tsk->sighand->siglock); do_schedule_next_timer(info); spin_lock(&tsk->sighand->siglock); } Unless tsk == curent, this is absolutely unsafe: nothing prevents tsk from exiting. If signalfd was passed to another process, do_schedule_next_timer() is just wrong. Add yet another "tsk == current" check into dequeue_signal(). This patch fixes an oopsable bug, but breaks the scheduling of posix timers if the shared __SI_TIMER signal was fetched via signalfd attached to another sub-thread. Mostly fixed by the next patch. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Kill some obsolete sub-thread-ptrace stuffOleg Nesterov2007-08-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is a couple of subtle checks which were needed to handle ptracing from the same thread group. This was deprecated a long ago, imho this code just complicates the understanding. And, the "->parent->signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT" check in exit_notify() is not right. SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT can mean exec(), not exit_group(). This means ptracer can lose a ptraced zombie on exec(). Minor problem, but still the bug. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* x86: i386-show-unhandled-signals-v3Masoud Asgharifard Sharbiani2007-07-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch makes the i386 behave the same way that x86_64 does when a segfault happens. A line gets printed to the kernel log so that tools that need to check for failures can behave more uniformly between debug.show_unhandled_signals sysctl variable to 0 (or by doing echo 0 > /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace) Also, all of the lines being printed are now using printk_ratelimit() to deny the ability of DoS from a local user with a program like the following: main() { while (1) if (!fork()) *(int *)0 = 0; } This new revision also includes the fix that Andrew did which got rid of new sysctl that was added to the system in earlier versions of this. Also, 'show-unhandled-signals' sysctl has been renamed back to the old 'exception-trace' to avoid breakage of people's scripts. AK: Enabling by default for i386 will be likely controversal, but let's see what happens AK: Really folks, before complaining just fix your segfaults AK: I bet this will find a lot of silent issues Signed-off-by: Masoud Sharbiani <masouds@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> [ Personally, I've found the complaints useful on x86-64, so I'm all for this. That said, I wonder if we could do it more prettily.. -Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* vdso: print fatal signalsIngo Molnar2007-07-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the print-fatal-signals=1 boot option and the /proc/sys/kernel/print-fatal-signals runtime switch. This feature prints some minimal information about userspace segfaults to the kernel console. This is useful to find early bootup bugs where userspace debugging is very hard. Defaults to off. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Don't add new sysctl numbers] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Fix signalfd interaction with thread-private signalsBenjamin Herrenschmidt2007-06-18
| | | | | | | | | | | Don't let signalfd dequeue private signals off other threads (in the case of things like SIGILL or SIGSEGV, trying to do so would result in undefined behaviour on who actually gets the signal, since they are force unblocked). Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Restrict clearing TIF_SIGPENDINGRoland McGrath2007-06-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch should get a few birds. It prevents sigaction calls from clearing TIF_SIGPENDING in other threads, which could leak -ERESTART*. And It fixes ptrace_stop not to clear it, which done at the syscall exit stop could leak -ERESTART*. It probably removes the harm from signalfd, at least assuming it never calls dequeue_signal on kernel threads that might have used block_all_signals. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* recalc_sigpending_tsk fixesRoland McGrath2007-05-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Steve Hawkes discovered a problem where recalc_sigpending_tsk was called in do_sigaction but no signal_wake_up call was made, preventing later signals from waking up blocked threads with TIF_SIGPENDING already set. In fact, the few other calls to recalc_sigpending_tsk outside the signals code are also subject to this problem in other race conditions. This change makes recalc_sigpending_tsk private to the signals code. It changes the outside calls, as well as do_sigaction, to use the new recalc_sigpending_and_wake instead. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: <Steve.Hawkes@motorola.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'audit.b38' of ↵Linus Torvalds2007-05-11
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current * 'audit.b38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current: [PATCH] Abnormal End of Processes [PATCH] match audit name data [PATCH] complete message queue auditing [PATCH] audit inode for all xattr syscalls [PATCH] initialize name osid [PATCH] audit signal recipients [PATCH] add SIGNAL syscall class (v3) [PATCH] auditing ptrace
| * [PATCH] audit signal recipientsAmy Griffis2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When auditing syscalls that send signals, log the pid and security context for each target process. Optimize the data collection by adding a counter for signal-related rules, and avoiding allocating an aux struct unless we have more than one target process. For process groups, collect pid/context data in blocks of 16. Move the audit_signal_info() hook up in check_kill_permission() so we audit attempts where permission is denied. Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | signal/timer/event: signalfd coreDavide Libenzi2007-05-11
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch series implements the new signalfd() system call. I took part of the original Linus code (and you know how badly it can be broken :), and I added even more breakage ;) Signals are fetched from the same signal queue used by the process, so signalfd will compete with standard kernel delivery in dequeue_signal(). If you want to reliably fetch signals on the signalfd file, you need to block them with sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK). This seems to be working fine on my Dual Opteron machine. I made a quick test program for it: http://www.xmailserver.org/signafd-test.c The signalfd() system call implements signal delivery into a file descriptor receiver. The signalfd file descriptor if created with the following API: int signalfd(int ufd, const sigset_t *mask, size_t masksize); The "ufd" parameter allows to change an existing signalfd sigmask, w/out going to close/create cycle (Linus idea). Use "ufd" == -1 if you want a brand new signalfd file. The "mask" allows to specify the signal mask of signals that we are interested in. The "masksize" parameter is the size of "mask". The signalfd fd supports the poll(2) and read(2) system calls. The poll(2) will return POLLIN when signals are available to be dequeued. As a direct consequence of supporting the Linux poll subsystem, the signalfd fd can use used together with epoll(2) too. The read(2) system call will return a "struct signalfd_siginfo" structure in the userspace supplied buffer. The return value is the number of bytes copied in the supplied buffer, or -1 in case of error. The read(2) call can also return 0, in case the sighand structure to which the signalfd was attached, has been orphaned. The O_NONBLOCK flag is also supported, and read(2) will return -EAGAIN in case no signal is available. If the size of the buffer passed to read(2) is lower than sizeof(struct signalfd_siginfo), -EINVAL is returned. A read from the signalfd can also return -ERESTARTSYS in case a signal hits the process. The format of the struct signalfd_siginfo is, and the valid fields depends of the (->code & __SI_MASK) value, in the same way a struct siginfo would: struct signalfd_siginfo { __u32 signo; /* si_signo */ __s32 err; /* si_errno */ __s32 code; /* si_code */ __u32 pid; /* si_pid */ __u32 uid; /* si_uid */ __s32 fd; /* si_fd */ __u32 tid; /* si_fd */ __u32 band; /* si_band */ __u32 overrun; /* si_overrun */ __u32 trapno; /* si_trapno */ __s32 status; /* si_status */ __s32 svint; /* si_int */ __u64 svptr; /* si_ptr */ __u64 utime; /* si_utime */ __u64 stime; /* si_stime */ __u64 addr; /* si_addr */ }; [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix signalfd_copyinfo() on i386] Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* change kernel threads to ignore signals instead of blocking themOleg Nesterov2007-05-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently kernel threads use sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK) to protect against signals. This doesn't prevent the signal delivery, this only blocks signal_wake_up(). Every "killall -33 kthreadd" means a "struct siginfo" leak. Change kthreadd_setup() to set all handlers to SIG_IGN instead of blocking them (make a new helper ignore_signals() for that). If the kernel thread needs some signal, it should use allow_signal() anyway, and in that case it should not use CLONE_SIGHAND. Note that we can't change daemonize() (should die!) in the same way, because it can be used along with CLONE_SIGHAND. This means that allow_signal() still should unblock the signal to work correctly with daemonize()ed threads. However, disallow_signal() doesn't block the signal any longer but ignores it. NOTE: with or without this patch the kernel threads are not protected from handle_stop_signal(), this seems harmless, but not good. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* zap_other_threads: remove unneeded ->exit_signal changeOleg Nesterov2007-05-09
| | | | | | | | | We already depend on fact that all sub-threads have ->exit_signal == -1, no need to set it in zap_other_threads(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Move sig_kernel_* et al macros to linux/signal.hRoland McGrath2007-05-09
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch moves the sig_kernel_* and related macros from kernel/signal.c to linux/signal.h, and cleans them up slightly. I need the sig_kernel_* macros for default signal behavior in the utrace code, and want to avoid duplication or overhead to share the knowledge. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not usedRandy Dunlap2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed. Suggested by Al Viro. Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc, sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs). Signed-off-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>
* KMEM_CACHE(): simplify slab cache creationChristoph Lameter2007-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch provides a new macro KMEM_CACHE(<struct>, <flags>) to simplify slab creation. KMEM_CACHE creates a slab with the name of the struct, with the size of the struct and with the alignment of the struct. Additional slab flags may be specified if necessary. Example struct test_slab { int a,b,c; struct list_head; } __cacheline_aligned_in_smp; test_slab_cache = KMEM_CACHE(test_slab, SLAB_PANIC) will create a new slab named "test_slab" of the size sizeof(struct test_slab) and aligned to the alignment of test slab. If it fails then we panic. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6Linus Torvalds2007-02-26
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6: (78 commits) [PARISC] Use symbolic last syscall in __NR_Linux_syscalls [PARISC] Add missing statfs64 and fstatfs64 syscalls Revert "[PARISC] Optimize TLB flush on SMP systems" [PARISC] Compat signal fixes for 64-bit parisc [PARISC] Reorder syscalls to match unistd.h Revert "[PATCH] make kernel/signal.c:kill_proc_info() static" [PARISC] fix sys_rt_sigqueueinfo [PARISC] fix section mismatch warnings in harmony sound driver [PARISC] do not export get_register/set_register [PARISC] add ENTRY()/ENDPROC() and simplify assembly of HP/UX emulation code [PARISC] convert to use CONFIG_64BIT instead of __LP64__ [PARISC] use CONFIG_64BIT instead of __LP64__ [PARISC] add ASM_EXCEPTIONTABLE_ENTRY() macro [PARISC] more ENTRY(), ENDPROC(), END() conversions [PARISC] fix ENTRY() and ENDPROC() for 64bit-parisc [PARISC] Fixes /proc/cpuinfo cache output on B160L [PARISC] implement standard ENTRY(), END() and ENDPROC() [PARISC] kill ENTRY_SYS_CPUS [PARISC] clean up debugging printks in smp.c [PARISC] factor syscall_restart code out of do_signal ... Fix conflict in include/linux/sched.h due to kill_proc_info() being made publicly available to PARISC again.
| * Revert "[PATCH] make kernel/signal.c:kill_proc_info() static"Matthew Wilcox2007-02-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit d3228a887cae75ef2b8b1211c31c539bef5a5698. DeBunk this code. We need it for compat_sys_rt_sigqueueinfo. Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
* | [PATCH] hrtimers: prevent possible itimer DoSThomas Gleixner2007-02-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix potential setitimer DoS with high-res timers by pushing itimer rearm processing to process context. [Fixes from: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] pid: remove the now unused kill_pg kill_pg_info and __kill_pg_infoEric W. Biederman2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that I have changed all of the in-tree users remove the old version of these functions. This should make it clear to any out of tree users that they should be using kill_pgrp kill_pgrp_info or __kill_pgrp_info instead. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] pid: replace is_orphaned_pgrp with is_current_pgrp_orphanedEric W. Biederman2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Every call to is_orphaned_pgrp passed in process_group(current) which is racy with respect to another thread changing our process group. It didn't bite us because we were dealing with integers and the worse we would get would be a stale answer. In switching the checks to use struct pid to be a little more efficient and prepare the way for pid namespaces this race became apparent. So I simplified the calls to the more specialized is_current_pgrp_orphaned so I didn't have to worry about making logic changes to avoid the race. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] signal: rewrite kill_something_info so it uses newer helpersEric W. Biederman2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The goal is to remove users of the old signal helper functions so they can be removed. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files.Robert P. J. Day2007-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A variety of (mostly) innocuous fixes to the embedded kernel-doc content in source files, including: * make multi-line initial descriptions single line * denote some function names, constants and structs as such * change erroneous opening '/*' to '/**' in a few places * reword some text for clarity Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] kill_pid_info: kill acquired_tasklist_lockOleg Nesterov2007-02-11
|/ | | | | | | | | Kill acquired_tasklist_lock, sig_needs_tasklist() is very cheap nowadays. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] PM: Fix freezing of stopped tasksRafael J. Wysocki2006-12-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, if a task is stopped (ie. it's in the TASK_STOPPED state), it is considered by the freezer as unfreezeable. However, there may be a race between the freezer and the delivery of the continuation signal to the task resulting in the task running after we have finished freezing the other tasks. This, in turn, may lead to undesirable effects up to and including data corruption. To prevent this from happening we first need to make the freezer consider stopped tasks as freezeable. For this purpose we need to make freezeable() stop returning 0 for these tasks and we need to force them to enter the refrigerator. However, if there's no continuation signal in the meantime, the stopped tasks should remain stopped after all processes have been thawed, so we need to send an additional SIGSTOP to each of them before waking it up. Also, a stopped task that has just been woken up should first check if there's a freezing request for it and go to the refrigerator if that's the case. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] add child reaper to pid_namespaceSukadev Bhattiprolu2006-12-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a per pid_namespace child-reaper. This is needed so processes are reaped within the same pid space and do not spill over to the parent pid space. Its also needed so containers preserve existing semantic that pid == 1 would reap orphaned children. This is based on Eric Biederman's patch: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/6/285 Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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