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* [PATCH] drop note_interrupt() for per-CPU for proper scalingJohn Hawkes2005-05-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The "unhandled interrupts" catcher, note_interrupt(), increments a global desc->irq_count and grossly damages scaling of very large systems, e.g., >192p ia64 Altix, because of this highly contented cacheline, especially for timer interrupts. 384p is severely crippled, and 512p is unuseable. All calls to note_interrupt() can be disabled by booting with "noirqdebug", but this disables the useful interrupt checking for all interrupts. I propose eliminating note_interrupt() for all per-CPU interrupts. This was the behavior of linux-2.6.10 and earlier, but in 2.6.11 a code restructuring added a call to note_interrupt() for per-CPU interrupts. Besides, note_interrupt() is a bit racy for concurrent CPU calls anyway, as the desc->irq_count++ increment isn't atomic (which, if done, would make scaling even worse). Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpuset exit NULL dereference fixPaul Jackson2005-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is a race in the kernel cpuset code, between the code to handle notify_on_release, and the code to remove a cpuset. The notify_on_release code can end up trying to access a cpuset that has been removed. In the most common case, this causes a NULL pointer dereference from the routine cpuset_path. However all manner of bad things are possible, in theory at least. The existing code decrements the cpuset use count, and if the count goes to zero, processes the notify_on_release request, if appropriate. However, once the count goes to zero, unless we are holding the global cpuset_sem semaphore, there is nothing to stop another task from immediately removing the cpuset entirely, and recycling its memory. The obvious fix would be to always hold the cpuset_sem semaphore while decrementing the use count and dealing with notify_on_release. However we don't want to force a global semaphore into the mainline task exit path, as that might create a scaling problem. The actual fix is almost as easy - since this is only an issue for cpusets using notify_on_release, which the top level big cpusets don't normally need to use, only take the cpuset_sem for cpusets using notify_on_release. This code has been run for hours without a hiccup, while running a cpuset create/destroy stress test that could crash the existing kernel in seconds. This patch applies to the current -linus git kernel. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by: Simon Derr <simon.derr@bull.net> Acked-by: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sigkill priority fixKirill Korotaev2005-05-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | If SIGKILL does not have priority, we cannot instantly kill task before it makes some unexpected job. It can be critical, but we were unable to reproduce this easily until Heiko Carstens <Heiko.Carstens@de.ibm.com> reported this problem on LKML. Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Signed-Off-By: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] spin_unlock_bh() and preempt_check_resched()Samuel Thibault2005-05-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In _spin_unlock_bh(lock): do { \ _raw_spin_unlock(lock); \ preempt_enable(); \ local_bh_enable(); \ __release(lock); \ } while (0) there is no reason for using preempt_enable() instead of a simple preempt_enable_no_resched() Since we know bottom halves are disabled, preempt_schedule() will always return at once (preempt_count!=0), and hence preempt_check_resched() is useless here... This fixes it by using "preempt_enable_no_resched()" instead of the "preempt_enable()", and thus avoids the useless preempt_check_resched() just before re-enabling bottom halves. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpusets+hotplug+preepmt brokenPaul Jackson2005-05-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes the entwining of cpusets and hotplug code in the "No more Mr. Nice Guy" case of sched.c move_task_off_dead_cpu(). Since the hotplug code is holding a spinlock at this point, we cannot take the cpuset semaphore, cpuset_sem, as would seem to be required either to update the tasks cpuset, or to scan up the nested cpuset chain, looking for the nearest cpuset ancestor that still has some CPUs that are online. So we just punt and blast the tasks cpus_allowed with all bits allowed. This reverts these lines of code to what they were before the cpuset patch. And it updates the cpuset Doc file, to match. The one known alternative to this that seems to work came from Dinakar Guniguntala, and required the hotplug code to take the cpuset_sem semaphore much earlier in its processing. So far as we know, the increased locking entanglement between cpusets and hot plug of this alternative approach is not worth doing in this case. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Acked-by: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Driver Core: pm diagnostics update, check for errorsDavid Brownell2005-05-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch includes various tweaks in the messaging that appears during system pm state transitions: * Warn about certain illegal calls in the device tree, like resuming child before parent or suspending parent before child. This could happen easily enough through sysfs, or in some cases when drivers use device_pm_set_parent(). * Be more consistent about dev_dbg() tracing ... do it for resume() and shutdown() too, and never if the driver doesn't have that method. * Say which type of system sleep state is being entered. Except for the warnings, these only affect debug messaging. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] profile.c: `schedule' parsing fixWilliam Lee Irwin III2005-05-17
| | | | | | | | | | profile=schedule parsing is not quite what it should be. First, str[7] is 'e', not ',', but then even if it did fall through, prof_on = SCHED_PROFILING would be clobbered inside if (get_option(...)) So a small amount of rearrangement is done in this patch to correct it. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] add_preferred_console() build fixMatt Mackall2005-05-17
| | | | | | | | | Move add_preferred_console out of CONFIG_PRINTK so serial console does the right thing. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] spurious interrupt fixZhang, Yanmin2005-05-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On my IA64 machine, after kernel 2.6.12-rc3 boots, an edge-triggered interrupt (IRQ 46) keeps triggered over and over again. There is no IRQ 46 interrupt action handler. It has lots of impact on performance. Kernel 2.6.10 and its prior versions have no the problem. Basically, kernel 2.6.10 will mask the spurious edge interrupt if the interrupt is triggered for the second time and its status includes IRQ_DISABLE|IRQ_PENDING. Originally, IA64 kernel has its own specific _irq_desc definitions in file arch/ia64/kernel/irq.c. The definition initiates _irq_desc[irq].status to IRQ_DISABLE. Since kernel 2.6.11, it was moved to architecture independent codes, i.e. kernel/irq/handle.c, but kernel/irq/handle.c initiates _irq_desc[irq].status to 0 instead of IRQ_DISABLE. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] correctly name the Shell sortDomen Puncer2005-05-05
| | | | | | | | | | As per http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/shellsort.html, this should be referred to as a Shell sort. Shell-Metzner is a misnomer. Signed-off-by: Daniel Dickman <didickman@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] setitimer timer expires too earlyPaulo Marques2005-05-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It seems that the code responsible for this is in kernel/itimer.c:126: p->signal->real_timer.expires = jiffies + interval; add_timer(&p->signal->real_timer); If you request an interval of, lets say 900 usecs, the interval given by timeval_to_jiffies will be 1. If you request this when we are half-way between two timer ticks, the interval will only give 400 usecs. If we want to guarantee that we never ever give intervals less than requested, the simple solution would be to change that to: p->signal->real_timer.expires = jiffies + interval + 1; This however will produce pathological cases, like having a idle system being requested 1 ms timeouts will give systematically 2 ms timeouts, whereas currently it simply gives a few usecs less than 1 ms. The complex (and more computationally expensive) solution would be to check the gettimeofday time, and compute the correct number of jiffies. This way, if we request a 300 usecs timer 200 usecs inside the timer tick, we can wait just one tick, but not if we are 800 usecs inside the tick. This would also mean that we would have to lock preemption during these computations to avoid races, etc. I've searched the archives but couldn't find this particular issue being discussed before. Attached is a patch to do the simple solution, in case anybody thinks that it should be used. Signed-Off-By: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kprobes: Allow multiple kprobes at the same addressAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli2005-05-05
| | | | | | | | | | Allow registration of multiple kprobes at an address in an architecture agnostic way. Corresponding handlers will be invoked in a sequence. But, a kprobe and a jprobe can't (yet) co-exist at the same address. Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <amavin@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Kprobes: Oops! in unregister_kprobe()Prasanna S Panchamukhi2005-05-05
| | | | | | | | | | kernel oops! when unregister_kprobe() is called on a non-registered kprobe. This patch fixes the above problem by checking if the probe exists before unregistering. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ppc64: remove hidden -fno-omit-frame-pointer for schedule.cAnton Blanchard2005-05-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While looking at code generated by gcc4.0 I noticed some functions still had frame pointers, even after we stopped ppc64 from defining CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER. It turns out kernel/Makefile hardwires -fno-omit-frame-pointer on when compiling schedule.c. Create CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER and define it on architectures that dont require frame pointers in sched.c code. (akpm: blame me for the name) Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ppc32: platform-specific functions missing from kallsyms.David Woodhouse2005-05-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The PPC32 kernel puts platform-specific functions into separate sections so that unneeded parts of it can be freed when we've booted and actually worked out what we're running on today. This makes kallsyms ignore those functions, because they're not between _[se]text or _[se]inittext. Rather than teaching kallsyms about the various pmac/chrp/etc sections, this patch adds '_[se]extratext' markers for kallsyms. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge with master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.gitDavid Woodhouse2005-05-05
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| * Automatic merge of ↵Linus Torvalds2005-05-04
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| | * [patch] MCA recovery module undefined symbol fixRuss Anderson2005-05-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The patch "MCA recovery improvements" added do_exit to mca_drv.c. That's fine when the mca recovery code is built in the kernel (CONFIG_IA64_MCA_RECOVERY=y) but breaks building the mca recovery code as a module (CONFIG_IA64_MCA_RECOVERY=m). Most users are currently building this as a module, as loading and unloading the module provides a very convenient way to turn on/off error recovery. This patch exports do_exit, so mca_drv.c can build as a module. Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson (rja@sgi.com) Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| * | [NETLINK]: Synchronous message processing.Herbert Xu2005-05-03
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Let's recap the problem. The current asynchronous netlink kernel message processing is vulnerable to these attacks: 1) Hit and run: Attacker sends one or more messages and then exits before they're processed. This may confuse/disable the next netlink user that gets the netlink address of the attacker since it may receive the responses to the attacker's messages. Proposed solutions: a) Synchronous processing. b) Stream mode socket. c) Restrict/prohibit binding. 2) Starvation: Because various netlink rcv functions were written to not return until all messages have been processed on a socket, it is possible for these functions to execute for an arbitrarily long period of time. If this is successfully exploited it could also be used to hold rtnl forever. Proposed solutions: a) Synchronous processing. b) Stream mode socket. Firstly let's cross off solution c). It only solves the first problem and it has user-visible impacts. In particular, it'll break user space applications that expect to bind or communicate with specific netlink addresses (pid's). So we're left with a choice of synchronous processing versus SOCK_STREAM for netlink. For the moment I'm sticking with the synchronous approach as suggested by Alexey since it's simpler and I'd rather spend my time working on other things. However, it does have a number of deficiencies compared to the stream mode solution: 1) User-space to user-space netlink communication is still vulnerable. 2) Inefficient use of resources. This is especially true for rtnetlink since the lock is shared with other users such as networking drivers. The latter could hold the rtnl while communicating with hardware which causes the rtnetlink user to wait when it could be doing other things. 3) It is still possible to DoS all netlink users by flooding the kernel netlink receive queue. The attacker simply fills the receive socket with a single netlink message that fills up the entire queue. The attacker then continues to call sendmsg with the same message in a loop. Point 3) can be countered by retransmissions in user-space code, however it is pretty messy. In light of these problems (in particular, point 3), we should implement stream mode netlink at some point. In the mean time, here is a patch that implements synchronous processing. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | [PATCH] add new audit data to last skbChris Wright2005-05-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When adding more formatted audit data to an skb for delivery to userspace, the kernel will attempt to reuse an skb that has spare room. However, if the audit message has already been fragmented to multiple skb's, the search for spare room in the skb uses the head of the list. This will corrupt the audit message with trailing bytes being placed midway through the stream. Fix is to look at the end of the list. Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | Merge with master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.gitDavid Woodhouse2005-05-03
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| * [PATCH] make lots of things staticAdrian Bunk2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Another large rollup of various patches from Adrian which make things static where they were needlessly exported. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] DocBook: fix some descriptionsMartin Waitz2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some KernelDoc descriptions are updated to match the current code. No code changes. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] DocBook: changes and extensions to the kernel documentationPavel Pisa2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I have recompiled Linux kernel 2.6.11.5 documentation for me and our university students again. The documentation could be extended for more sources which are equipped by structured comments for recent 2.6 kernels. I have tried to proceed with that task. I have done that more times from 2.6.0 time and it gets boring to do same changes again and again. Linux kernel compiles after changes for i386 and ARM targets. I have added references to some more files into kernel-api book, I have added some section names as well. So please, check that changes do not break something and that categories are not too much skewed. I have changed kernel-doc to accept "fastcall" and "asmlinkage" words reserved by kernel convention. Most of the other changes are modifications in the comments to make kernel-doc happy, accept some parameters description and do not bail out on errors. Changed <pid> to @pid in the description, moved some #ifdef before comments to correct function to comments bindings, etc. You can see result of the modified documentation build at http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~pisa/linux/lkdb-2.6.11.tar.gz Some more sources are ready to be included into kernel-doc generated documentation. Sources has been added into kernel-api for now. Some more section names added and probably some more chaos introduced as result of quick cleanup work. Signed-off-by: Pavel Pisa <pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] convert that currently tests _NSIG directly to use valid_signal()Jesper Juhl2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Convert most of the current code that uses _NSIG directly to instead use valid_signal(). This avoids gcc -W warnings and off-by-one errors. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] consolidate sys_shmatStephen Rothwell2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] Change synchronize_kernel to _rcu and _schedPaul E. McKenney2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch changes calls to synchronize_kernel(), deprecated in the earlier "Deprecate synchronize_kernel, GPL replacement" patch to instead call the new synchronize_rcu() and synchronize_sched() APIs. Signed-off-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] Deprecate synchronize_kernel, GPL replacementPaul E. McKenney2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The synchronize_kernel() primitive is used for quite a few different purposes: waiting for RCU readers, waiting for NMIs, waiting for interrupts, and so on. This makes RCU code harder to read, since synchronize_kernel() might or might not have matching rcu_read_lock()s. This patch creates a new synchronize_rcu() that is to be used for RCU readers and a new synchronize_sched() that is used for the rest. These two new primitives currently have the same implementation, but this is might well change with additional real-time support. Both new primitives are GPL-only, the old primitive is deprecated. Signed-off-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] kernel/rcupdate.c: make the exports EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPLPaul E. McKenney2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The gpl exports need to be put back. Moving them to GPL -- but in a measured manner, as I proposed on this list some months ago -- is fine. Changing these particular exports precipitously is most definitely -not- fine. Here is my earlier proposal: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110520930301813&w=2 See below for a patch that puts the exports back, along with an updated version of my earlier patch that starts the process of moving them to GPL. I will also be following this message with RFC patches that introduce two (EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL) interfaces to replace synchronize_kernel(), which then becomes deprecated. Signed-off-by: <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] clean up kernel messagesMatt Mackall2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Arrange for all kernel printks to be no-ops. Only available if CONFIG_EMBEDDED. This patch saves about 375k on my laptop config and nearly 100k on minimal configs. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] nice and rt-prio rlimitsMatt Mackall2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a pair of rlimits for allowing non-root tasks to raise nice and rt priorities. Defaults to traditional behavior. Originally written by Chris Wright. The patch implements a simple rlimit ceiling for the RT (and nice) priorities a task can set. The rlimit defaults to 0, meaning no change in behavior by default. A value of 50 means RT priority levels 1-50 are allowed. A value of 100 means all 99 privilege levels from 1 to 99 are allowed. CAP_SYS_NICE is blanket permission. (akpm: see http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0503.1/1921.html for tips on integrating this with PAM). Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.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] use smp_mb/wmb/rmb where possibleakpm@osdl.org2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace a number of memory barriers with smp_ variants. This means we won't take the unnecessary hit on UP machines. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * Remove bogus BUG() in kernel/exit.cLinus Torvalds2005-04-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's old sanity checking that may have been useful for debugging, but is just bogus these days. Noticed by Mattia Belletti.
* | [AUDIT] LOGIN message credentialsSteve Grubb2005-04-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Attached is a new patch that solves the issue of getting valid credentials into the LOGIN message. The current code was assuming that the audit context had already been copied. This is not always the case for LOGIN messages. To solve the problem, the patch passes the task struct to the function that emits the message where it can get valid credentials. Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | [AUDIT] Requeue messages at head of queue, up to audit_backlogChris Wright2005-04-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If netlink_unicast() fails, requeue the skb back at the head of the queue it just came from, instead of the tail. And do so unless we've exceeded the audit_backlog limit; not according to some other arbitrary limit. From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | Add audit uid to netlink credentialsSerge Hallyn2005-04-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Most audit control messages are sent over netlink.In order to properly log the identity of the sender of audit control messages, we would like to add the loginuid to the netlink_creds structure, as per the attached patch. Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | audit: update pointer to userspace tools, remove emacs mode tags2005-04-29
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* | [AUDIT] Avoid using %*.*s format strings.Peter Martuccelli2005-04-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | They don't seem to work correctly (investigation ongoing), but we don't actually need to do it anyway. Patch from Peter Martuccelli <peterm@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | [AUDIT] Fix signedness of 'serial' in various routines.Steve Grubb2005-04-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Attached is a patch that corrects a signed/unsigned warning. I also noticed that we needlessly init serial to 0. That only needs to occur if the kernel was compiled without the audit system. -Steve Grubb Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | [AUDIT] Don't allow ptrace to fool auditing, log arch of audited syscalls.2005-04-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We were calling ptrace_notify() after auditing the syscall and arguments, but the debugger could have _changed_ them before the syscall was actually invoked. Reorder the calls to fix that. While we're touching ever call to audit_syscall_entry(), we also make it take an extra argument: the architecture of the syscall which was made, because some architectures allow more than one type of syscall. Also add an explicit success/failure flag to audit_syscall_exit(), for the benefit of architectures which return that in a condition register rather than only returning a single register. Change type of syscall return value to 'long' not 'int'. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | audit_log_untrustedstring() warning fixAndrew Morton2005-04-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | kernel/audit.c: In function `audit_log_untrustedstring': kernel/audit.c:736: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | AUDIT: Avoid log pollution by untrusted strings.2005-04-29
|/ | | | | | | | | | We log strings from userspace, such as arguments to open(). These could be formatted to contain \n followed by fake audit log entries. Provide a function for logging such strings, which gives a hex dump when the string contains anything but basic printable ASCII characters. Use it for logging filenames. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* [PATCH] time interpolator: Fix settimeofday inaccuracyChristoph Lameter2005-04-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | settimeofday will set the time a little bit too early on systems using time interpolation since it subtracts the current interpolator offset from the time. This used to be necessary with the code in 2.6.9 and earlier but the new code resets the time interpolator after setting the time. Thus the time is set too early and gettimeofday will return a time slightly before the time specified with settimeofday if invoked immeditely after settimeofday. This removes the obsolete subtraction of the time interpolator offset and makes settimeofday set the time accurately. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [SPARC]: Stop-A printk cleanupTom 'spot' Callaway2005-04-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | This patch is incredibly trivial, but it does resolve some of the user confusion as to what "L1-A" actually is. Clarify printk message to refer to Stop-A (L1-A). Gentoo has a virtually identical patch in their kernel sources. Signed-off-by: Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] sched: fix signed comparisons of long longIngo Molnar2005-04-18
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] SELinux: fix deadlock on dcache lockStephen Smalley2005-04-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes a deadlock on the dcache lock detected during testing at IBM by moving the logging of the current executable information from the SELinux avc_audit function to audit_log_exit (via an audit_log_task_info helper) for processing upon syscall exit. For consistency, the patch also removes the logging of other task-related information from avc_audit, deferring handling to audit_log_exit instead. This allows simplification of the avc_audit code, allows the exe information to be obtained more reliably, always includes the comm information (useful for scripts), and avoids including bogus task information for checks performed from irq or softirq. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] reparent_to_init cleanupCoywolf Qi Hunt2005-04-16
| | | | | | | | | This patch hides reparent_to_init(). reparent_to_init() should only be called by daemonize(). Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@lovecn.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpuset: remove function attribute constBenoit Boissinot2005-04-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | gcc-4 warns with include/linux/cpuset.h:21: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type cpuset_cpus_allowed is declared with const extern const cpumask_t cpuset_cpus_allowed(const struct task_struct *p); First const should be __attribute__((const)), but the gcc manual explains that: "Note that a function that has pointer arguments and examines the data pointed to must not be declared const. Likewise, a function that calls a non-const function usually must not be const. It does not make sense for a const function to return void." The following patch remove const from the function declaration. Signed-off-by: Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] pci enumeration on ixp2000: overflow in kernel/resource.cLennert Buytenhek2005-04-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | IXP2000 (ARM-based) platforms use a separate 'struct resource' for PCI MEM space. Resource allocation for PCI BARs always fails because the 'root' resource (the IXP2000 PCI MEM resource) always has the entire address space (00000000-ffffffff) free, and find_resource() calculates the size of that range as ffffffff-00000000+1=0, so all allocations fail because it thinks there is no space. (akpm: pls. double-check) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kill #ifndef HAVE_ARCH_GET_SIGNAL_TO_DELIVER in signal.cChristoph Hellwig2005-04-16
| | | | | | | | Now that no architectures defines HAVE_ARCH_GET_SIGNAL_TO_DELIVER anymore this can go away. It was a transitional hack only. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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