From baf48f6577e581a9adb8fe849dc80e24b21d171d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mandeep Singh Baines Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:15:17 -0800 Subject: softlock: fix false panic which can occur if softlockup_thresh is reduced At run-time, if softlockup_thresh is changed to a much lower value, touch_timestamp is likely to be much older than the new softlock_thresh. This will cause a false softlockup to be detected. If softlockup_panic is enabled, the system will panic. The fix is to touch all watchdogs before changing softlockup_thresh. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sysctl.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c') diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 89d74436318c..596dc31a7116 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -800,7 +800,7 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = { .data = &softlockup_thresh, .maxlen = sizeof(int), .mode = 0644, - .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec_minmax, + .proc_handler = &proc_dosoftlockup_thresh, .strategy = &sysctl_intvec, .extra1 = &neg_one, .extra2 = &sixty, -- cgit v1.2.2 From 1e7bfb2134dfec37ce04fb3a4ca89299e892d10c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Heiko Carstens Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:14:29 +0100 Subject: [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 27 Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens --- kernel/sysctl.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c') diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 89d74436318c..3e38b74b6124 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -1688,7 +1688,7 @@ int do_sysctl(int __user *name, int nlen, void __user *oldval, size_t __user *ol return error; } -asmlinkage long sys_sysctl(struct __sysctl_args __user *args) +SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sysctl, struct __sysctl_args __user *, args) { struct __sysctl_args tmp; int error; @@ -2989,7 +2989,7 @@ int sysctl_ms_jiffies(struct ctl_table *table, #else /* CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL */ -asmlinkage long sys_sysctl(struct __sysctl_args __user *args) +SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sysctl, struct __sysctl_args __user *, args) { struct __sysctl_args tmp; int error; -- cgit v1.2.2 From 88fc241f54459ac3d86c5e13b449730199f66061 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Doug Chapman Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:38:56 -0800 Subject: [IA64] dump stack on kernel unaligned warnings Often the cause of kernel unaligned access warnings is not obvious from just the ip displayed in the warning. This adds the option via proc to dump the stack in addition to the warning. The default is off (just display the 1 line warning). To enable the stack to be shown: echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-dump-stack Signed-off-by: Doug Chapman Signed-off-by: Tony Luck --- kernel/sysctl.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c') diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 3e38b74b6124..368d1638ee78 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ extern int acct_parm[]; #ifdef CONFIG_IA64 extern int no_unaligned_warning; +extern int unaligned_dump_stack; #endif #ifdef CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES @@ -781,6 +782,14 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = { .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, }, + { + .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED, + .procname = "unaligned-dump-stack", + .data = &unaligned_dump_stack, + .maxlen = sizeof (int), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, + }, #endif #ifdef CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP { -- cgit v1.2.2 From fc3501d411d34823fb9be248a95a0c44f945866f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sven Wegener Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:04:23 -0800 Subject: mm: fix dirty_bytes/dirty_background_bytes sysctls on 64bit arches We need to pass an unsigned long as the minimum, because it gets casted to an unsigned long in the sysctl handler. If we pass an int, we'll access four more bytes on 64bit arches, resulting in a random minimum value. [rientjes@google.com: fix type of `old_bytes'] Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/sysctl.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c') diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 790f9d785663..c5ef44ff850f 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ static int two = 2; static int zero; static int one = 1; +static unsigned long one_ul = 1; static int one_hundred = 100; /* this is needed for the proc_dointvec_minmax for [fs_]overflow UID and GID */ @@ -974,7 +975,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = { .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = &dirty_background_bytes_handler, .strategy = &sysctl_intvec, - .extra1 = &one, + .extra1 = &one_ul, }, { .ctl_name = VM_DIRTY_RATIO, @@ -995,7 +996,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = { .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = &dirty_bytes_handler, .strategy = &sysctl_intvec, - .extra1 = &one, + .extra1 = &one_ul, }, { .procname = "dirty_writeback_centisecs", -- cgit v1.2.2