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* [PATCH] sys: remove unused variableDavid Rientjes2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | Remove unused 'new_ruid' variable. Reported by David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com>. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@cs.washington.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context dataDavid Howells2006-11-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pass the work_struct pointer to the work function rather than context data. The work function can use container_of() to work out the data. For the cases where the container of the work_struct may go away the moment the pending bit is cleared, it is made possible to defer the release of the structure by deferring the clearing of the pending bit. To make this work, an extra flag is introduced into the management side of the work_struct. This governs auto-release of the structure upon execution. Ordinarily, the work queue executor would release the work_struct for further scheduling or deallocation by clearing the pending bit prior to jumping to the work function. This means that, unless the driver makes some guarantee itself that the work_struct won't go away, the work function may not access anything else in the work_struct or its container lest they be deallocated.. This is a problem if the auxiliary data is taken away (as done by the last patch). However, if the pending bit is *not* cleared before jumping to the work function, then the work function *may* access the work_struct and its container with no problems. But then the work function must itself release the work_struct by calling work_release(). In most cases, automatic release is fine, so this is the default. Special initiators exist for the non-auto-release case (ending in _NAR). Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
* [PATCH] SRCU: report out-of-memory errorsAlan Stern2006-10-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the init_srcu_struct() routine has no way to report out-of-memory errors. This patch (as761) makes it return -ENOMEM when the per-cpu data allocation fails. The patch also makes srcu_init_notifier_head() report a BUG if a notifier head can't be initialized. Perhaps it should return -ENOMEM instead, but in the most likely cases where this might occur I don't think any recovery is possible. Notifier chains generally are not created dynamically. [akpm@osdl.org: avoid statement-with-side-effect in macro] Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Add SRCU-based notifier chainsAlan Stern2006-10-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch (as751) adds a new type of notifier chain, based on the SRCU (Sleepable Read-Copy Update) primitives recently added to the kernel. An SRCU notifier chain is much like a blocking notifier chain, in that it must be called in process context and its callout routines are allowed to sleep. The difference is that the chain's links are protected by the SRCU mechanism rather than by an rw-semaphore, so calling the chain has extremely low overhead: no memory barriers and no cache-line bouncing. On the other hand, unregistering from the chain is expensive and the chain head requires special runtime initialization (plus cleanup if it is to be deallocated). SRCU notifiers are appropriate for notifiers that will be called very frequently and for which unregistration occurs very seldom. The proposed "task notifier" scheme qualifies, as may some of the network notifiers. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] replace cad_pid by a struct pidCedric Le Goater2006-10-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are a few places in the kernel where the init task is signaled. The ctrl+alt+del sequence is one them. It kills a task, usually init, using a cached pid (cad_pid). This patch replaces the pid_t by a struct pid to avoid pid wrap around problem. The struct pid is initialized at boot time in init() and can be modified through systctl with /proc/sys/kernel/cad_pid [ I haven't found any distro using it ? ] It also introduces a small helper routine kill_cad_pid() which is used where it seemed ok to use cad_pid instead of pid 1. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, build fix] Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] namespaces: utsname: switch to using uts namespacesSerge E. Hallyn2006-10-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace references to system_utsname to the per-process uts namespace where appropriate. This includes things like uname. Changes: Per Eric Biederman's comments, use the per-process uts namespace for ELF_PLATFORM, sunrpc, and parts of net/ipv4/ipconfig.c [jdike@addtoit.com: UML fix] [clg@fr.ibm.com: cleanup] [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Andrey Savochkin <saw@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] disallow kprobes on notifier_call_chainbibo,mao2006-10-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | When kprobe is re-entered, the re-entered kprobe kernel path will will call atomic_notifier_call_chain function, if this function is kprobed that will incur numerous kprobe recursive fault. This patch disallows kprobes on atomic_notifier_call_chain function. Signed-off-by: bibo, mao <bibo.mao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] CodingStyle cleanup for kernel/sys.cCal Peake2006-10-01
| | | | | | | | | Fix up kernel/sys.c to be consistent with CodingStyle and the rest of the file. Signed-off-by: Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Define vsyscall cache as blob to make clearer that user space ↵Andi Kleen2006-09-29
| | | | | | shouldn't use it Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] kill extraneous printk in kernel_restart()Cal Peake2006-09-29
| | | | | | | | | Get rid of an extraneous printk in kernel_restart(). Signed-off-by: Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net> Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: Add portable getcpu callAndi Kleen2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For NUMA optimization and some other algorithms it is useful to have a fast to get the current CPU and node numbers in user space. x86-64 added a fast way to do this in a vsyscall. This adds a generic syscall for other architectures to make it a generic portable facility. I expect some of them will also implement it as a faster vsyscall. The cache is an optimization for the x86-64 vsyscall optimization. Since what the syscall returns is an approximation anyways and user space often wants very fast results it can be cached for some time. The norma methods to get this information in user space are relatively slow The vsyscall is in a better position to manage the cache because it has direct access to a fast time stamp (jiffies). For the generic syscall optimization it doesn't help much, but enforce a valid argument to keep programs portable I only added an i386 syscall entry for now. Other architectures can follow as needed. AK: Also added some cleanups from Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Fix prctl privilege escalation and suid_dumpable (CVE-2006-2451)Marcel Holtmann2006-07-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Based on a patch from Ernie Petrides During security research, Red Hat discovered a behavioral flaw in core dump handling. A local user could create a program that would cause a core file to be dumped into a directory they would not normally have permissions to write to. This could lead to a denial of service (disk consumption), or allow the local user to gain root privileges. The prctl() system call should never allow to set "dumpable" to the value 2. Especially not for non-privileged users. This can be split into three cases: 1) running as root -- then core dumps will already be done as root, and so prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE, 2) is not useful 2) running as non-root w/setuid-to-root -- this is the debatable case 3) running as non-root w/setuid-to-non-root -- then you definitely do NOT want "dumpable" to get set to 2 because you have the privilege escalation vulnerability With case #2, the only potential usefulness is for a program that has designed to run with higher privilege (than the user invoking it) that wants to be able to create root-owned root-validated core dumps. This might be useful as a debugging aid, but would only be safe if the program had done a chdir() to a safe directory. There is no benefit to a production setuid-to-root utility, because it shouldn't be dumping core in the first place. If this is true, then the same debugging aid could also be accomplished with the "suid_dumpable" sysctl. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel2006-06-30
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* [PATCH] kernel/sys.c: cleanupsAdrian Bunk2006-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | - proper prototypes for the following functions: - ctrl_alt_del() (in include/linux/reboot.h) - getrusage() (in include/linux/resource.h) - make the following needlessly global functions static: - kernel_restart_prepare() - kernel_kexec() [akpm@osdl.org: compile fix] Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Allow raw_notifier callouts to unregister themselvesAlan Stern2006-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | Since raw_notifier chains don't benefit from any centralized locking protections, they shouldn't suffer from the associated limitations. Under some circumstances it might make sense for a raw_notifier callout routine to unregister itself from the notifier chain. This patch (as678) changes the notifier core to allow for such things. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kernel/sys.c doesn't need init.hJes Sorensen2006-06-23
| | | | | | | | | kernel/sys.c doesn't have anything in it relying on linux/init.h - remove the include. Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpcLinus Torvalds2006-06-23
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (139 commits) [POWERPC] re-enable OProfile for iSeries, using timer interrupt [POWERPC] support ibm,extended-*-frequency properties [POWERPC] Extra sanity check in EEH code [POWERPC] Dont look for class-code in pci children [POWERPC] Fix mdelay badness on shared processor partitions [POWERPC] disable floating point exceptions for init [POWERPC] Unify ppc syscall tables [POWERPC] mpic: add support for serial mode interrupts [POWERPC] pseries: Print PCI slot location code on failure [POWERPC] spufs: one more fix for 64k pages [POWERPC] spufs: fail spu_create with invalid flags [POWERPC] spufs: clear class2 interrupt status before wakeup [POWERPC] spufs: fix Makefile for "make clean" [POWERPC] spufs: remove stop_code from struct spu [POWERPC] spufs: fix spu irq affinity setting [POWERPC] spufs: further abstract priv1 register access [POWERPC] spufs: split the Cell BE support into generic and platform dependant parts [POWERPC] spufs: dont try to access SPE channel 1 count [POWERPC] spufs: use kzalloc in create_spu [POWERPC] spufs: fix initial state of wbox file ... Manually resolved conflicts in: drivers/net/phy/Makefile include/asm-powerpc/spu.h
| * [PATCH] Add a prctl to change the endianness of a process.Anton Blanchard2006-06-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This new prctl is intended for changing the execution mode of the processor, on processors that support both a little-endian mode and a big-endian mode. It is intended for use by programs such as instruction set emulators (for example an x86 emulator on PowerPC), which may find it convenient to use the processor in an alternate endianness mode when executing translated instructions. Note that this does not imply the existence of a fully-fledged ABI for both endiannesses, or of compatibility code for converting system calls done in the non-native endianness mode. The program is expected to arrange for all of its system call arguments to be presented in the native endianness. Switching between big and little-endian mode will require some care in constructing the instruction sequence for the switch. Generally the instructions up to the instruction that invokes the prctl system call will have to be in the old endianness, and subsequent instructions will have to be in the new endianness. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [PATCH] avoid tasklist_lock at getrusage for multithreaded case tooRavikiran G Thirumalai2006-06-22
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | Avoid taking tasklist_lock for at getrusage for the multithreaded case too. We don't need to take the tasklist lock for thread traversal of a process since Oleg's do-__unhash_process-under-siglock.patch and related work. Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Make setsid() more robustEric W. Biederman2006-03-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The core problem: setsid fails if it is called by init. The effect in 2.6.16 and the earlier kernels that have this problem is that if you do a "ps -j 1 or ps -ej 1" you will see that init and several of it's children have process group and session == 0. Instead of process group == session == 1. Despite init calling setsid. The reason it fails is that daemonize calls set_special_pids(1,1) on kernel threads that are launched before /sbin/init is called. The only remaining effect in that current->signal->leader == 0 for init instead of 1. And the setsid call fails. No one has noticed because /sbin/init does not check the return value of setsid. In 2.4 where we don't have the pidhash table, and daemonize doesn't exist setsid actually works for init. I care a lot about pid == 1 not being a special case that we leave broken, because of the container/jail work that I am doing. - Carefully allow init (pid == 1) to call setsid despite the kernel using its session. - Use find_task_by_pid instead of find_pid because find_pid taking a pidtype is going away. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sys_times: don't take tasklist_lockOleg Nesterov2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | sys_times: don't take tasklist_lock Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] revert "Optimize sys_times for a single thread process"Oleg Nesterov2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | This patch reverts 'CONFIG_SMP && thread_group_empty()' optimization in sys_times(). The reason is that the next patch breaks memory ordering which is needed for that optimization. tasklist_lock in sys_times() will be eliminated completely by further patch. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changesAlan Stern2006-03-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe. There is no protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the chain is in use. The issues were discussed in this thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2 We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage classes: "Blocking" chains are always called from a process context and the callout routines are allowed to sleep; "Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and the callout routines are not allowed to sleep. We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API. Therefore this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is really just the old API under a new name). New kinds of data structures are used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for registration, unregistration, and calling a chain. The three APIs are explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in kernel/sys.c. With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by entries being added or removed. For raw chains the implementation provides no guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections. (The idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to handle these things in their own way.) There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with. For atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem. Also, a callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister entries on its own chain. (This did happen in a couple of places and the code had to be changed to avoid it.) Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use spinlocks for synchronization. Instead we use RCU. The overhead falls almost entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much less frequent that calling a chain. Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications. None of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder. ATOMIC CHAINS ------------- arch/i386/kernel/traps.c: i386die_chain arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c: ia64die_chain arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c: powerpc_die_chain arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c: sparc64die_chain arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c: die_chain drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c: xaction_notifier_list kernel/panic.c: panic_notifier_list kernel/profile.c: task_free_notifier net/bluetooth/hci_core.c: hci_notifier net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_chain net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_expect_chain net/ipv6/addrconf.c: inet6addr_chain net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_chain net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_expect_chain net/netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_chain BLOCKING CHAINS --------------- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c: pSeries_reconfig_chain arch/s390/kernel/process.c: idle_chain arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c idle_notifier drivers/base/memory.c: memory_chain drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_policy_notifier_list drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_transition_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/adb.c: adb_client_list drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c sleep_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c sleep_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c wf_client_list drivers/usb/core/notify.c usb_notifier_list drivers/video/fbmem.c fb_notifier_list kernel/cpu.c cpu_chain kernel/module.c module_notify_list kernel/profile.c munmap_notifier kernel/profile.c task_exit_notifier kernel/sys.c reboot_notifier_list net/core/dev.c netdev_chain net/decnet/dn_dev.c: dnaddr_chain net/ipv4/devinet.c: inetaddr_chain It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong. If they are, please let us know or submit a patch to fix them. Note that any chain that gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems. (However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be atomic.) The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew Morton. [jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros] Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Use unsigned int types for a faster bsearchEric Dumazet2006-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch avoids arithmetic on 'signed' types that are slower than 'unsigned'. This saves space and cpu cycles. size of kernel/sys.o before the patch (gcc-3.4.5) text data bss dec hex filename 10924 252 4 11180 2bac kernel/sys.o size of kernel/sys.o after the patch text data bss dec hex filename 10903 252 4 11159 2b97 kernel/sys.o I noticed that gcc-4.1.0 (from Fedora Core 5) even uses idiv instruction for (a+b)/2 if a and b are signed. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] No need to protect current->group_info in sys_getgroups(), ↵Eric Dumazet2006-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | in_group_p() and in_egroup_p() While doing some benchmarks of an Apache/PHP SMP server, I noticed high oprofile numbers in in_group_p() and _atomic_dec_and_lock(). rank percent 1 4.8911 % __link_path_walk 2 4.8503 % __d_lookup *3 4.2911 % _atomic_dec_and_lock 4 3.9307 % __copy_to_user_ll 5 4.9004 % sysenter_past_esp *6 3.3248 % in_group_p It appears that in_group_p() does an uncessary get_group_info(current->group_info); /* atomic_inc() */ ... /* access current->group_info */ put_group_info(current->group_info); /* _atomic_dec_and_lock */ It is not necessary to do this, because the current task holds a reference on its own group_info, and this reference cannot change during the lookup. This patch deletes the get_group_info()/put_group_info() pair from sys_getgroups(), in_group_p() and in_egroup_p() functions. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] refactor capable() to one implementation, add __capable() helperChris Wright2006-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | Move capable() to kernel/capability.c and eliminate duplicate implementations. Add __capable() function which can be used to check for capabiilty of any process. Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] RLIMIT_CPU: document wrong return valueAndrew Morton2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | Document the fact that setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU) doesn't return error codes when it should. I don't think we can fix this without a 2.7.x.. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com> Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] RLIMIT_CPU: fix handling of a zero limitAndrew Morton2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | At present the kernel doesn't honour an attempt to set RLIMIT_CPU to zero seconds. But the spec says it should, and that's what 2.4.x does. Fixing this for real would involve some complexity (such as adding a new it-has-been-set flag to the task_struct, and testing that everwhere, instead of overloading the value of it_prof_expires). Given that a 2.4 kernel won't actually send the signal until one second has expired anyway, let's just handle this case by treating the caller's zero-seconds as one second. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com> Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sys_setrlimit() cleanupAndrew Morton2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Whitespace cleanups - Make that expression comprehensible. There's a potential logic change here: we do the "is it_prof_expires equal to zero" test after converting it to seconds, rather than doing the comparison between raw cputime_t's. But given that it's in units of seconds anyway, that shouldn't change anything. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com> Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sem2mutex: ttyIngo Molnar2006-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Semaphore to mutex conversion. The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated automatically via a script as well. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Avoid taking global tasklist_lock for single threadedprocess at ↵Ravikiran G Thirumalai2006-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | getrusage() Avoid taking the global tasklist_lock when possible, if a process is single threaded during getrusage(). Any avoidance of tasklist_lock is good for NUMA boxes (and possibly for large SMPs). Thanks to Oleg Nesterov for review and suggestions. Signed-off-by: Nippun Goel <nippung@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kernel/sys.c NULL noise removalAl Viro2006-02-07
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
*---. [ACPI] merge 3549 4320 4485 4588 4980 5483 5651 acpica asus fops pnpacpi ↵Len Brown2006-01-24
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | branches into release Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| | * | [ACPI] fix reboot upon suspend-to-diskAlexey Starikovskiy2005-12-15
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4320 Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@intel.com> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* | | [PATCH] move capable() to capability.hRandy.Dunlap2006-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Move capable() from sched.h to capability.h; - Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used (in include/, block/, ipc/, kernel/, a few drivers/, mm/, security/, & sound/; many more drivers/ to go) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] uninline capable()Ingo Molnar2006-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Uninline capable(). Saves 2K of kernel text on a generic .config, and 1K on a tiny config. In addition it makes the use of capable more consistent between CONFIG_SECURITY and !CONFIG_SECURITY Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] simplify k_getrusage()Oleg Nesterov2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Factor out common code for different RUSAGE_xxx cases. Don't take ->sighand->siglock in RUSAGE_SELF case, suggested by Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] setpgid: should not accept ptraced childsOleg Nesterov2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sys_setpgid() allows to change ->pgrp of ptraced childs. 'man setpgid' does not tell anything about that, so I consider this behaviour is a bug. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] setpgid: should work for sub-threadsOren Laadan2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | setsid() does not work unless the calling process is a thread_group_leader(). 'man setpgid' does not tell anything about that, so I consider this behaviour is a bug. Signed-off-by: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] setpgid: should work for sub-threadsOleg Nesterov2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | setpgid(0, pgid) or setpgid(forked_child_pid, pgid) does not work unless the calling process is a thread_group_leader(). 'man setpgid' does not tell anything about that, so I consider this behaviour is a bug. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] Don't attempt to power off if power off is not implementedEric W. Biederman2006-01-08
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The problem. It is expected that /sbin/halt -p works exactly like /sbin/halt, when the kernel does not implement power off functionality. The kernel can do a lot of work in the reboot notifiers and in device_shutdown before we even get to machine_power_off. Some of that shutdown is not safe if you are leaving the power on, and it definitely gets in the way of using sysrq or pressing ctrl-alt-del. Since the shutdown happens in generic code there is no way to fix this in architecture specific code :( Some machines are kernel oopsing today because of this. The simple solution is to turn LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_POWER_OFF into LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_HALT if power_off functionality is not implemented. This has the unfortunate side effect of disabling the power off functionality on architectures that leave pm_power_off to null and still implement something in machine_power_off. And it will break the build on some architectures that don't have a pm_power_off variable at all. On both counts I say tough. For architectures like alpha that don't implement the pm_power_off variable pm_power_off is declared in linux/pm.h and it is a generic part of our power management code, and all architectures should implement it. For architectures like parisc that have a default power off method in machine_power_off if pm_power_off is not implemented or fails. It is easy enough to set the pm_power_off variable. And nothing bad happens there, the machines just stop powering off. The current semantics are impossible without a flag at the top level so we can avoid the problem code if a power off is not implemented. pm_power_off is as good a flag as any with the bonus that it works without modification on at least x86, x86_64, powerpc, and ppc today. Andrew can you pick this up and put this in the mm tree. Kernels that don't compile or don't power off seem saner than kernels that oops or panic. Until we get the arch specific patches for the problem architectures this probably isn't smart to push into the stable kernel. Unfortunately I don't have the time at the moment to walk through every architecture and make them work. And even if I did I couldn't test it :( From: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Add pm_power_off() for build fix of arch/m32r/kernel/process.c. From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> UML build fix Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Hayato Fujiwara <fujiwara@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* / [PATCH] kprobes: no probes on critical pathKeshavamurthy Anil S2005-12-12
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | For Kprobes critical path is the path from debug break exception handler till the control reaches kprobes exception code. No probes can be supported in this path as we will end up in recursion. This patch prevents this by moving the below function to safe __kprobes section onto which no probes can be inserted. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [SPARC64]: Re-export uts_sem for solaris compat module.David S. Miller2005-11-10
| | | | | | Revert: b26b9bc58263acda274f82a9dde8b6d96559878a Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] unexport uts_semAdrian Bunk2005-11-07
| | | | | | | | I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kernel-docs: fix kernel-doc format problemsRandy Dunlap2005-11-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Convert to proper kernel-doc format. Some have extra blank lines (not allowed immed. after the function name) or need blank lines (after all parameters). Function summary must be only one line. Colon (":") in a function description does weird things (causes kernel-doc to think that it's a new section head sadly). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] more kernel-doc cleanups, additionsRandy Dunlap2005-11-07
| | | | | | | | | | | Various core kernel-doc cleanups: - add missing function parameters in ipc, irq/manage, kernel/sys, kernel/sysctl, and mm/slab; - move description to just above function for kernel_restart() Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Process Events ConnectorMatt Helsley2005-11-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a connector that reports fork, exec, id change, and exit events for all processes to userspace. It replaces the fork_advisor patch that ELSA is currently using. Applications that may find these events useful include accounting/auditing (e.g. ELSA), system activity monitoring (e.g. top), security, and resource management (e.g. CKRM). Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] reboot: comment and factor the main reboot functionsEric W. Biederman2005-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the lead up to 2.6.13 I fixed a large number of reboot problems by making the calling conventions consistent. Despite checking and double checking my work it appears I missed an obvious one. This first patch simply refactors the reboot routines so all of the preparation for various kinds of reboots are in their own functions. Making it very hard to get the various kinds of reboot out of sync. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] PR_GET_DUMPABLE returns incorrect infoMichael Kerrisk2005-09-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2.6.13 incorporated Alan Cox's patch for /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable (one version of this patch can be found here http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109647550421014&w=2 ). This patch also made corresponding changes in kernel/sys.c to change the prctl() PR_SET_DUMPABLE operation so that the permitted range of 'arg2' was modified from 0..1 to 0..2. However, a corresponding change was not made for PR_GET_DUMPABLE: if the dumpable flag is non-zero, then PR_GET_DUMPABLE always returns 1, so that the caller can't determine the true setting of this flag. Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] remove a redundant variable in sys_prctl()Jesper Juhl2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The patch removes a redundant variable `sig' from sys_prctl(). For some reason, when sys_prctl is called with option == PR_SET_PDEATHSIG then the value of arg2 is assigned to an int variable named sig. Then sig is tested with valid_signal() and later used to set the value of current->pdeath_signal . There is no reason to use this intermediate variable since valid_signal() takes a unsigned long argument, so it can handle being passed arg2 directly, and if the call to valid_signal is OK, then we know the value of arg2 is in the range zero to _NSIG and thus it'll easily fit in a plain int and thus there's no problem assigning it later to current->pdeath_signal (which is an int). The patch gets rid of the pointless variable `sig'. This reduces the size of kernel/sys.o in 2.6.13-rc6-mm1 by 32 bytes on my system. Patch has been compile tested, boot tested, and just to make damn sure I didn't break anything I wrote a quick test app that calls prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG ...) with the entire range of values for a unsigned long, and it behaves as expected with and without the patch. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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