* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (94 commits)
genetlink: fix netns vs. netlink table locking (2)
3c59x: Get rid of "Trying to free already-free IRQ"
tunnel: eliminate recursion field
ems_pci: fix size of CAN controllers BAR mapping for CPC-PCI v2
net: fix htmldocs sunrpc, clnt.c
Phonet: error on broadcast sending (unimplemented)
Phonet: fix race for port number in concurrent bind()
pktgen: better scheduler friendliness
pktgen: T_TERMINATE flag is unused
ipv4: check optlen for IP_MULTICAST_IF option
ath9k: Initialize txgain and rxgain for newer AR9287 chipsets.
iwlagn: fix panic in iwl{5000,4965}_rx_reply_tx
ath9k: Fix RFKILL bugs
drivers/net/wireless: Use usb_endpoint_dir_out
cfg80211: don't overwrite privacy setting
wl12xx: fix kconfig/link errors
rt2x00: fix the definition of rt2x00crypto_rx_insert_iv
iwlwifi: reduce noise when skb allocation fails
iwlwifi: do not send sync command while holding spinlock
mac80211: fix DTIM setting
...
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://www.linux-m32r.org/git/takata/linux-2.6_dev
* 'for-linus' of git://www.linux-m32r.org/git/takata/linux-2.6_dev:
m32r: Cleanup linker script using new linker script macros.
m32r: Move the spi_stack_top and spu_stack_top into .init.data section.
m32r: Remove unused .altinstructions and .exit.* code from linker script.
m32r: Move GET_THREAD_INFO definition out of asm/thread_info.h.
m32r: Define THREAD_SIZE only once.
m32r: make PAGE_SIZE available to assembly.
Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
Fix build of cpm_uart due to core changes
powerpc/8xx: Fix regression introduced by cache coherency rewrite
powerpc/4xx: Fix erroneous xmon warning on PowerPC 4xx
powerpc/mm: Fix 40x and 8xx vs. _PAGE_SPECIAL
powerpc: Cleanup linker script using new linker script macros.
powerpc: Fix ibm,client-architecture-support printout
powerpc: Increase NODES_SHIFT on 64bit from 4 to 8
powerpc/perf_counter: Fix vdso detection
powerpc: Move 64bit heap above 1TB on machines with 1TB segments
powerpc: Change archdata dma_data to a union
powerpc: Rename get_dma_direct_offset get_dma_offset
powerpc/mm: Remove duplicated #include
powerpc/book3e-64: Remove duplicated #include
powerpc: Check for unsupported relocs when using CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
powerpc/pmc: Don't access lppaca on Book3E
powerpc: kmalloc failure ignored in vio_build_iommu_table()
hvc_console: Provide (un)locked version for hvc_resize()
David Howells [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:13:10 +0000 (15:13 +0100)]
NOMMU: Fix MAP_PRIVATE mmap() of objects where the data can be mapped directly
Fix MAP_PRIVATE mmap() of files and devices where the data in the backing store
might be mapped directly. Use the BDI_CAP_MAP_DIRECT capability flag to govern
whether or not we should be trying to map a file directly. This can be used to
determine whether or not a region has been filled in at the point where we call
do_mmap_shared() or do_mmap_private().
The BDI_CAP_MAP_DIRECT capability flag is cleared by validate_mmap_request() if
there's any reason we can't use it. It's also cleared in do_mmap_pgoff() if
f_op->get_unmapped_area() fails.
Without this fix, attempting to run a program from a RomFS image on a
non-mappable MTD partition results in a BUG as the kernel attempts XIP, and
this can be caught in gdb:
Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0xc005dce8 in add_nommu_region (region=<value optimized out>) at mm/nommu.c:547
(gdb) bt
#0 0xc005dce8 in add_nommu_region (region=<value optimized out>) at mm/nommu.c:547
#1 0xc005f168 in do_mmap_pgoff (file=0xc31a6620, addr=<value optimized out>, len=3808, prot=3, flags=6146, pgoff=0) at mm/nommu.c:1373
#2 0xc00a96b8 in elf_fdpic_map_file (params=0xc33fbbec, file=0xc31a6620, mm=0xc31bef60, what=0xc0213144 "executable") at mm.h:1145
#3 0xc00aa8b4 in load_elf_fdpic_binary (bprm=0xc316cb00, regs=<value optimized out>) at fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c:343
#4 0xc006b588 in search_binary_handler (bprm=0x6, regs=0xc33fbce0) at fs/exec.c:1234
#5 0xc006c648 in do_execve (filename=<value optimized out>, argv=0xc3ad14cc, envp=0xc3ad1460, regs=0xc33fbce0) at fs/exec.c:1356
#6 0xc0008cf0 in sys_execve (name=<value optimized out>, argv=0xc3ad14cc, envp=0xc3ad1460) at arch/frv/kernel/process.c:263
#7 0xc00075dc in __syscall_call () at arch/frv/kernel/entry.S:897
Note that this fix does the following commit differently:
commit a190887b58c32d19c2eee007c5eb8faa970a69ba
Author: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Date: Sat Sep 5 11:17:07 2009 -0700
nommu: fix error handling in do_mmap_pgoff()
Reported-by: Graff Yang <graff.yang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Geoffrey Thomas [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:36:26 +0000 (10:36 -0400)]
alpha: Clean up linker script using new linker script macros.
Note that .data.page_aligned and .data.cacheline_aligned are now after
_data; it was probably a bug that they were before it.
Also, some explicit ALIGN(8)'s between various initcall sections were
removed; this should be harmless as the implicit alignment of
initcall_t was already 8.
Signed-off-by: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@ksplice.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tim Abbott [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:36:25 +0000 (10:36 -0400)]
alpha: use .data.init_task instead of .data.init_thread.
alpha is the only architecture that uses the section name
.data.init_thread instead of .data.init_task. So convert alpha to use
.data.init_task like everything else.
.data.init_task does not need a separate output section; this change
also moves it into the .data output section.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tim Abbott [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:36:20 +0000 (10:36 -0400)]
um: Clean up linker script using standard macros.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tim Abbott [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:36:17 +0000 (10:36 -0400)]
parisc: Clean up linker script using new linker script macros.
This patch has the (likely harmless) side effect of moving
.data.init_task inside the _edata.
It also changes the alignment of .data.init_task from 16384 to
THREAD_SIZE, which can in some configurations be larger than 16384. I
believe that this change fixes a potential bug on those
configurations.
Tim Abbott [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:36:16 +0000 (10:36 -0400)]
Optimize the ordering of sections in RW_DATA_SECTION.
The old RW_DATA_SECTION had INIT_TASK_DATA (which was
more-than-PAGE_SIZE-aligned), followed by a bunch of small alignment
stuff, followed by more PAGE_SIZE-aligned stuff, so you wasted memory
in the middle of .data re-aligning back up to PAGE_SIZE.
This patch sorts the sections by alignment requirements, which should
pack them essentially optimally.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:47:45 +0000 (14:47 -0700)]
hugetlb_file_setup(): use C, not cpp
Why macros are always wrong:
mm/mmap.c: In function 'do_mmap_pgoff':
mm/mmap.c:953: warning: unused variable 'user'
also, move a couple of struct forward-decls outside `#ifdef
CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE' - it's pointless and frequently harmful to make these
conditional (eg, this patch needed `struct user_struct').
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://repo.or.cz/cris-mirror
* 'for-linus' of git://repo.or.cz/cris-mirror:
CRIS: Cleanup linker script using new linker script macros.
ARRAY_SIZE changes
CRIS: convert to asm-generic/hardirq.h
CRISv10: Don't autonegotiate if autonegotiation is off
CRIS: fix defconfig build failure
CRIS: add pgprot_noncached
Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (103 commits)
ARM: 5719/1: [AT91] Fix AC97 breakage
ARM: 5721/1: MMCI enable the use of a regulator
ARM: 5720/1: Move MMCI header to amba include dir
ARM: 5718/1: Sane busids for RealView board components
ARM: 5715/1: Make kprobes unregistration SMP safe
ARM: 5711/1: locomo.c: CodingStyle cleanups
ARM: 5710/1: at91: add AC97 support to at91sam9rl and at91sam9rlek board
ARM: 5709/1: at91: add AC97 support to at91sam9g45 series and at91sam9m10g45ek board
ARM: 5621/1: at91/dmaengine: integration of at_hdmac driver in at91sam9g45 series
ARM: 5620/1: at91/dmaengine: integration of at_hdmac driver in at91sam9rl
ARM: Add support for checking access permissions on prefetch aborts
ARM: Separate out access error checking
ARM: Ensure correct might_sleep() check in pagefault path
ARM: Update page fault handling for new OOM techniques
ARM: Provide definitions and helpers for decoding the FSR register
ARM: 5712/1: SA1100: initialise spinlock in DMA code
ARM: s3c: fix check of index into s3c_gpios[]
ARM: spitz: fix touchscreen max presure
ARM: STMP3xxx: deallocation with negative index of descriptors[]
Thumb-2: Correctly handle undefined instructions in the kernel
...
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
IPoIB: Don't turn on carrier for a non-active port
IB/mthca: Fix access to freed memory in catastrophic event handling
mlx4_core: Pass cache line size to device FW
RDMA/nes: Remove duplicate .ndo_set_mac_address field initialization
IB/mad: Fix lock-lock-timer deadlock in RMPP code
Johannes Berg [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:44:05 +0000 (15:44 -0700)]
genetlink: fix netns vs. netlink table locking (2)
Similar to commit d136f1bd366fdb7e747ca7e0218171e7a00a98a5,
there's a bug when unregistering a generic netlink family,
which is caught by the might_sleep() added in that commit:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at net/netlink/af_netlink.c:183
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1510, name: rmmod
2 locks held by rmmod/1510:
#0: (genl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8138283b>] genl_unregister_family+0x2b/0x130
#1: (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8138270c>] __genl_unregister_mc_group+0x1c/0x120
Pid: 1510, comm: rmmod Not tainted 2.6.31-wl #444
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81044ff9>] __might_sleep+0x119/0x150
[<ffffffff81380501>] netlink_table_grab+0x21/0x100
[<ffffffff813813a3>] netlink_clear_multicast_users+0x23/0x60
[<ffffffff81382761>] __genl_unregister_mc_group+0x71/0x120
[<ffffffff81382866>] genl_unregister_family+0x56/0x130
[<ffffffffa0007d85>] nl80211_exit+0x15/0x20 [cfg80211]
[<ffffffffa000005a>] cfg80211_exit+0x1a/0x40 [cfg80211]
Fix in the same way by grabbing the netlink table lock
before doing rcu_read_lock().
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is because the driver manages interrupts without checking for
netif_running().
Though, there are few other issues with suspend/resume in this driver.
The intention of calling free_irq() in suspend() was to avoid any
possible spurious interrupts (see commit 5b039e681b8c5f30aac9cc04385
"3c59x PM fixes"). But,
- On resume, the driver was requesting IRQ just after pci_set_master(),
but before vortex_up() (which actually resets 3c59x chips).
- Issuing free_irq() on a shared IRQ doesn't guarantee that a buggy
HW won't trigger spurious interrupts in another driver that
requested the same interrupt. So, if we want to protect from
unexpected interrupts, then on suspend we should issue disable_irq(),
not free_irq().
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Eric Dumazet [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:28:33 +0000 (10:28 +0000)]
tunnel: eliminate recursion field
It seems recursion field from "struct ip_tunnel" is not anymore needed.
recursion prevention is done at the upper level (in dev_queue_xmit()),
since we use HARD_TX_LOCK protection for tunnels.
This avoids a cache line ping pong on "struct ip_tunnel" : This structure
should be now mostly read on xmit and receive paths.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sebastian Haas [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:55:05 +0000 (03:55 +0000)]
ems_pci: fix size of CAN controllers BAR mapping for CPC-PCI v2
The driver mapped only 128 bytes of the CAN controller address space when a
CPC-PCI v2 was detected (incl. CPC-104P). This patch will fix it by always
mapping the whole address space (4096 bytes on all boards) of the
corresponding PCI BAR.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Haas <haas@ems-wuensche.com> Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
DOCPROC Documentation/DocBook/networking.xml
Warning(net/sunrpc/clnt.c:647): No description found for parameter 'req'
Warning(net/sunrpc/clnt.c:647): No description found for parameter 'tk_ops'
Warning(net/sunrpc/clnt.c:647): Excess function parameter 'ops' description in 'rpc_run_bc_task'
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Cc: Ricardo Labiaga <Ricardo.Labiaga@netapp.com> Cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> Cc: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Phonet: fix race for port number in concurrent bind()
Allocating a port number to a socket and hashing that socket shall be
an atomic operation with regards to other port allocation. Otherwise,
we could allocate a port that is already being allocated to another
socket.
Previous update did not resched in inner loop causing watchdogs.
Rewrite inner loop to:
* account for delays better with less clock calls
* more accurate timing of delay:
- only delay if packet was successfully sent
- if delay is 100ns and it takes 10ns to build packet then
account for that
* use wait_event_interruptible_timeout rather than open coding it.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Due to man page of setsockopt, if optlen is not valid, kernel should return
-EINVAL. But a simple testcase as following, errno is 0, which means setsockopt
is successful.
addr.s_addr = inet_addr("192.1.2.3");
setsockopt(s, IPPROTO_IP, IP_MULTICAST_IF, &addr, 1);
printf("errno is %d\n", errno);
Xiaotian Feng(dfeng@redhat.com) caught the bug. We fix it firstly checking
the availability of optlen and then dealing with the logic like other options.
Reported-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Moni Shoua [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:01:05 +0000 (12:01 -0700)]
IPoIB: Don't turn on carrier for a non-active port
Multicast joins can succeed even if the IB port is down. This happens
when the SM runs on the same port with the requesting port. However,
IPoIB calls netif_carrier_on() when the join of the broadcast group
succeeds, without caring about the state of the IB port. The result
is an IPoIB interface in RUNNING state but without an active IB port
to support it.
If a bonding interface uses this IPoIB interface as a slave it might
not detect that this slave is almost useless and failover
functionality will be damaged. The fix checks the state of the IB
port in the carrier_task before calling netif_carrier_on().
Adresses: https://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1726 Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis@voltaire.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Al Viro [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:58:42 +0000 (14:58 -0400)]
nfs[23] tcp breakage in mount with binary options
We forget to set nfs_server.protocol in tcp case when old-style binary
options are passed to mount. The thing remains zero and never validated
afterwards. As the result, we hit BUG in fs/nfs/client.c:588.
Breakage has been introduced in NFS: Add nfs_alloc_parsed_mount_data
merged yesterday...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
DOCPROC Documentation/DocBook/networking.xml
Warning(net/sunrpc/clnt.c:647): No description found for parameter 'req'
Warning(net/sunrpc/clnt.c:647): No description found for parameter 'tk_ops'
Warning(net/sunrpc/clnt.c:647): Excess function parameter 'ops' description in 'rpc_run_bc_task'
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Cc: Ricardo Labiaga <Ricardo.Labiaga@netapp.com> Cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> Cc: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Julia Lawall [Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:59:34 +0000 (10:59 -0700)]
RDMA/nes: Remove duplicate .ndo_set_mac_address field initialization
The definition of nes_netdev_ops has initializations of a local function
and eth_mac_addr for its ndo_set_mac_address field. This change uses only
the local function.
The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@r@
identifier I, s, fld;
position p0,p;
expression E;
@@
struct I s =@p0 { ... .fld@p = E, ...};
@s@
identifier I, s, r.fld;
position r.p0,p;
expression E;
@@
Merge branch 'drm-intel-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel
* 'drm-intel-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel: (57 commits)
drm/i915: Handle ERESTARTSYS during page fault
drm/i915: Warn before mmaping a purgeable buffer.
drm/i915: Track purged state.
drm/i915: Remove eviction debug spam
drm/i915: Immediately discard any backing storage for uneeded objects
drm/i915: Do not mis-classify clean objects as purgeable
drm/i915: Whitespace correction for madv
drm/i915: BUG_ON page refleak during unbind
drm/i915: Search harder for a reusable object
drm/i915: Clean up evict from list.
drm/i915: Add tracepoints
drm/i915: framebuffer compression for GM45+
drm/i915: split display functions by chip type
drm/i915: Skip the sanity checks if the current relocation is valid
drm/i915: Check that the relocation points to within the target
drm/i915: correct FBC update when pipe base update occurs
drm/i915: blacklist Acer AspireOne lid status
ACPI: make ACPI button funcs no-ops if not built in
drm/i915: prevent FIFO calculation overflows on 32 bits with high dotclocks
drm/i915: intel_display.c handle latency variable efficiently
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/{i915_dma.c|i915_drv.h}
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze
* 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze: (24 commits)
microblaze: Disable heartbeat/enable emaclite in defconfigs
microblaze: Support simpleImage.dts make target
microblaze: Fix _start symbol to physical address
microblaze: Use LOAD_OFFSET macro to get correct LMA for all sections
microblaze: Create the LOAD_OFFSET macro used to compute VMA vs LMA offsets
microblaze: Copy ppc asm-compat.h for clean handling of constants in asm and C
microblaze: Actually show KiB rather than pages in "Freeing initrd memory:"
microblaze: Support ptrace syscall tracing.
microblaze: Updated CPU version and FPGA family codes in PVR
microblaze: Generate correct signal and siginfo for integer div-by-zero
microblaze: Don't be noisy when userspace causes hardware exceptions
microblaze: Remove ipc.h file which points to non-existing asm-generic file
microblaze: Clear sticky FSR register after generating exception signals
microblaze: Ensure CPU usermode is set on new userspace processes
microblaze: Use correct kbuild variable KBUILD_CFLAGS
microblaze: Save and restore msr in hw exception
microblaze: Add architectural support for USB EHCI host controllers
microblaze: Implement include/asm/syscall.h.
microblaze: Improve checking mechanism for MSR instruction
microblaze: Add checking mechanism for MSR instruction
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
module: don't call percpu_modfree on NULL pointer.
module: fix memory leak when load fails after srcversion/version allocated
module: preferred way to use MODULE_AUTHOR
param: allow whitespace as kernel parameter separator
module: reduce string table for loaded modules (v2)
module: reduce symbol table for loaded modules (v2)
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (42 commits)
Btrfs: hash the btree inode during fill_super
Btrfs: relocate file extents in clusters
Btrfs: don't rename file into dummy directory
Btrfs: check size of inode backref before adding hardlink
Btrfs: fix releasepage to avoid unlocking extents we haven't locked
Btrfs: Fix test_range_bit for whole file extents
Btrfs: fix errors handling cached state in set/clear_extent_bit
Btrfs: fix early enospc during balancing
Btrfs: deal with NULL space info
Btrfs: account for space used by the super mirrors
Btrfs: fix extent entry threshold calculation
Btrfs: remove dead code
Btrfs: fix bitmap size tracking
Btrfs: don't keep retrying a block group if we fail to allocate a cluster
Btrfs: make balance code choose more wisely when relocating
Btrfs: fix arithmetic error in clone ioctl
Btrfs: add snapshot/subvolume destroy ioctl
Btrfs: change how subvolumes are organized
Btrfs: do not reuse objectid of deleted snapshot/subvol
Btrfs: speed up snapshot dropping
...
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
truncate: use new helpers
truncate: new helpers
fs: fix overflow in sys_mount() for in-kernel calls
fs: Make unload_nls() NULL pointer safe
freeze_bdev: grab active reference to frozen superblocks
freeze_bdev: kill bd_mount_sem
exofs: remove BKL from super operations
fs/romfs: correct error-handling code
vfs: seq_file: add helpers for data filling
vfs: remove redundant position check in do_sendfile
vfs: change sb->s_maxbytes to a loff_t
vfs: explicitly cast s_maxbytes in fiemap_check_ranges
libfs: return error code on failed attr set
seq_file: return a negative error code when seq_path_root() fails.
vfs: optimize touch_time() too
vfs: optimization for touch_atime()
vfs: split generic_forget_inode() so that hugetlbfs does not have to copy it
fs/inode.c: add dev-id and inode number for debugging in init_special_inode()
libfs: make simple_read_from_buffer conventional
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
lsm: Use a compressed IPv6 string format in audit events
Audit: send signal info if selinux is disabled
Audit: rearrange audit_context to save 16 bytes per struct
Audit: reorganize struct audit_watch to save 8 bytes
Rusty Russell [Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:32:59 +0000 (00:32 -0600)]
module: don't call percpu_modfree on NULL pointer.
The general one handles NULL, the static obsolescent
(CONFIG_HAVE_LEGACY_PER_CPU_AREA) one in module.c doesn't; Eric's
commit 720eba31 assumed it did, and various frobbings since then kept
that assumption.
All other callers in module.c all protect it with an if; this effectively
does the same as free_init is only goto if we fail percpu_modalloc().
Rusty Russell [Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:32:58 +0000 (00:32 -0600)]
module: fix memory leak when load fails after srcversion/version allocated
Normally the twisty paths of sysfs will free the attributes, but not if
we fail before we hook it into sysfs (which is the last thing we do in
load_module).
(This sysfs code is a turd, no doubt there are other issues lurking too).
param: allow whitespace as kernel parameter separator
Some boot mechanisms require that kernel parameters are stored in a
separate file which is loaded to memory without further processing
(e.g. the "Load from FTP" method on s390). When such a file contains
newline characters, the kernel parameter preceding the newline might
not be correctly parsed (due to the newline being stuck to the end of
the actual parameter value) which can lead to boot failures.
This patch improves kernel command line usability in such a situation
by allowing generic whitespace characters as separators between kernel
parameters.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Jan Beulich [Mon, 6 Jul 2009 13:51:44 +0000 (14:51 +0100)]
module: reduce string table for loaded modules (v2)
Also remove all parts of the string table (referenced by the symbol
table) that are not needed for kallsyms use (i.e. which were only
referenced by symbols discarded by the previous patch, or not
referenced at all for whatever reason).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (97 commits)
md: raid-1/10: fix RW bits manipulation
md: remove unnecessary memset from multipath.
md: report device as congested when suspended
md: Improve name of threads created by md_register_thread
md: remove sparse warnings about lock context.
md: remove sparse waring "symbol xxx shadows an earlier one"
async_tx/raid6: add missing dma_unmap calls to the async fail case
ioat3: fix uninitialized var warnings
drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v2.c: fix warnings
raid6test: fix stack overflow
ioat2: clarify ring size limits
md/raid6: cleanup ops_run_compute6_2
md/raid6: eliminate BUG_ON with side effect
dca: module load should not be an error message
ioat: driver version 4.0
dca: registering requesters in multiple dca domains
async_tx: remove HIGHMEM64G restriction
dmaengine: sh: Add Support SuperH DMA Engine driver
dmaengine: Move all map_sg/unmap_sg for slave channel to its client
fsldma: Add DMA_SLAVE support
...
Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6:
V4L/DVB (13039): dib0700: not building CONFIG_DVB_TUNER_DIB0070 breaks compilation
V4L/DVB (13038): dvbdev: Remove an anoying/uneeded warning
V4L/DVB (13037): go7007: Revert compatibility code added at the wrong place
media: video: Fix build in saa7164
Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6
* 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (21 commits)
HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page on btrfs
HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs
HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v4
HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page for NFS
HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systems
HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7
HWPOISON: Add PR_MCE_KILL prctl to control early kill behaviour per process
HWPOISON: shmem: call set_page_dirty() with locked page
HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation
HWPOISON: Add invalidate_inode_page
HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2
HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages v2
HWPOISON: Handle hardware poisoned pages in try_to_unmap
HWPOISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap behaviour
HWPOISON: x86: Add VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling to x86 page fault handler v2
HWPOISON: Add poison check to page fault handling
HWPOISON: Add basic support for poisoned pages in fault handler v3
HWPOISON: Add new SIGBUS error codes for hardware poison signals
HWPOISON: Add support for poison swap entries v2
HWPOISON: Export some rmap vma locking to outside world
...
task_struct cleanup: move binfmt field to mm_struct
Because the binfmt is not different between threads in the same process,
it can be moved from task_struct to mm_struct. And binfmt moudle is
handled per mm_struct instead of task_struct.
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> 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>
include/linux/unaligned/{l,b}e_byteshift.h: fix usage for compressed kernels
When unaligned accesses are required for uncompressing a kernel (such as
for LZO decompression on ARM in a patch that follows), including
<linux/kernel.h> causes issues as it brings in a lot of things that are
not available in the decompression environment.
linux/kernel.h brings at least:
extern int console_printk[];
extern const char hex_asc[];
which causes errors at link-time as they are not available when
compiling the pre-boot environement. There are also a few others:
arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o: In function `valid_user_regs':
arch/arm/include/asm/ptrace.h:158: undefined reference to `elf_hwcap'
arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o: In function `console_silent':
include/linux/kernel.h:292: undefined reference to `console_printk'
arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o: In function `console_verbose':
include/linux/kernel.h:297: undefined reference to `console_printk'
arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o: In function `pack_hex_byte':
include/linux/kernel.h:360: undefined reference to `hex_asc'
arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o: In function `hweight_long':
include/linux/bitops.h:45: undefined reference to `hweight32'
arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o: In function `__cmpxchg_local_generic':
include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h:21: undefined reference to `wrong_size_cmpxchg'
include/asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h:42: undefined reference to `wrong_size_cmpxchg'
arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o: In function `__xchg':
arch/arm/include/asm/system.h:309: undefined reference to `__bad_xchg'
However, those files apparently use nothing from <linux/kernel.h>, all
they need is the declaration of types such as u32 or u64, so
<linux/types.h> should be enough
Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lzma/gzip: fix potential oops when input data is truncated
If the lzma/gzip decompressors are called with insufficient input data
(len > 0 & fill = NULL), they will attempt to call the fill function to
obtain more data, leading to a kernel oops.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Julia Lawall [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:36 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
drivers/vlynq/vlynq.c: fix resource size off by 1 error
In this case, the calls to request_mem_region, ioremap, and
release_mem_region all have a consistent length argument, len, but since
in other files (res->end - res->start) + 1, equivalent to
resource_size(res), is used for a resource-typed structure res, one could
consider whether the same should be done here.
The problem was found using the following semantic patch:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
edac: core: remove completion-wait for complete with rcu_barrier
Module edac_core.ko uses call_rcu() callbacks in edac_device.c, edac_mc.c
and edac_pci.c.
They all use a wait_for_completion() scheme, but this scheme it not 100%
safe on multiple CPUs. See the _rcu_barrier() implementation which
explains why extra precausion is needed.
The patch adds a comment about rcu_barrier() and as a precausion calls
rcu_barrier(). A maintainer needs to look at removing the
wait_for_completion code.
Jason Uhlenkott [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:27 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
edac: i3200 memory controller driver
A driver for the Intel 3200 and 3210 memory controllers. It has only had
light testing so far, and currently makes no attempt to decode error
addresses at anything finer than csrow granularity.
Signed-off-by: Jason Uhlenkott <juhlenko@akamai.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ira W. Snyder [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:25 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
edac: mpc85xx add mpc83xx support
Add support for the Freescale MPC83xx memory controller to the existing
driver for the Freescale MPC85xx memory controller. The only difference
between the two processors are in the CS_BNDS register parsing code, which
has been changed so it will work on both processors.
The L2 cache controller does not exist on the MPC83xx, but the OF
subsystem will not use the driver if the device is not present in the OF
device tree.
I had to change the nr_pages calculation to make the math work out. I
checked it on my board and did the math by hand for a 64GB 85xx using 64K
pages. In both cases, nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE comes out to the correct
value.
Signed-off-by: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu> Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Yang Shi [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:24 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
edac: mpc85xx add P2020DS support
Based on Kumar's new compatible types patch, add P2020 into MPC85xx EDAC
compatible lists so that EDAC can recognize P2020 meomry controller and L2
cache controller and export the relevant fields to sysfs.
EDAC MPC85xx DDR3 support is needed if DDR3 memory stick is installed on a
P2020DS board so that EDAC core can recognize DDR3 memory type.
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@windriver.com> Acked-by: Dave Jiang <djiang@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CLONE_PARENT was used to implement an older threading model. For
consistency with the CLONE_THREAD check in copy_pid_ns(), disable
CLONE_PARENT with CLONE_NEWPID, at least until the required semantics of
pid namespaces are clear.
When global or container-init processes use CLONE_PARENT, they create a
multi-rooted process tree. Besides siblings of global init remain as
zombies on exit since they are not reaped by their parent (swapper). So
prevent global and container-inits from creating siblings.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Joe Perches [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:17 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
MAINTAINERS: add Matt Mackall and Herbert Xu to HARDWARE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mike Frysinger [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:16 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
bfin-otp: add writing support
The on-chip OTP may be written at runtime, so enable support for it in the
driver. However, since writing should really be done only on development
systems, don't bend over backwards to make sure the simple software lock
is per-fd -- per-device is OK.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Nils Carlson [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:13 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
hpet: hpet driver periodic timer setup bug fixes
The periodic interrupt from drivers/char/hpet.c does not work correctly,
both when using the periodic capability of the hardware and while
emulating the periodic interrupt (when hardware does not support periodic
mode).
With timers capable of periodic interrupts, the comparator field is first
set with the period value followed by set of hidden accumulator, which has
the side effect of overwriting the comparator value. This results in
wrong periodicity for the interrupts. For, periodic interrupts to work,
following steps are necessary, in that order.
* Set config with Tn_VAL_SET_CNF bit
* Write to hidden accumulator, the value written is the time when the
first interrupt should be generated
* Write compartor with period interval for subsequent interrupts
(http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf )
When emulating periodic timer with timers not capable of periodic
interrupt, driver is adding the period to counter value instead of
comparator value, which causes slow drift when using this emulation.
Also, driver seems to add hpetp->hp_delta both while setting up periodic
interrupt and while emulating periodic interrupts with timers not capable
of doing periodic interrupts. This hp_delta will result in slower than
expected interrupt rate and should not be used while setting the interval.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Nils Carlson <nils.carlson@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In register_chrdev there is a loop to change all '/' into '!' in the
kernel object name.
This code is useless as the same substitution is in kobject_set_name_vargs in
lib/kobject.c:
228 /* ewww... some of these buggers have '/' in the name ... */
229 while ((s = strchr(kobj->name, '/')))
230 s[0] = '!';
kobject_set_name_vargs is called by kobject_set_name.
kobject_set_name is called just above the useless loop.
[hidave.darkstar@gmail.com: fix warning, remove the unused char *s] Signed-off-by: Renzo Davoli <renzo@cs.unibo.it> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In read_zero, we check for access_ok() once for the count bytes. It is
unnecessarily checked again in clear_user. Use __clear_user, which does
not check for access_ok().
David Howells [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:06 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
fdpic: ignore the loader's PT_GNU_STACK when calculating the stack size
Ignore the loader's PT_GNU_STACK when calculating the stack size, and only
consider the executable's PT_GNU_STACK, assuming the executable has one.
Currently the behaviour is to take the largest stack size and use that,
but that means you can't reduce the stack size in the executable. The
loader's stack size should probably only be used when executing the loader
directly.
WARNING: This patch is slightly dangerous - it may render a system
inoperable if the loader's stack size is larger than that of important
executables, and the system relies unknowingly on this increasing the size
of the stack.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Roland McGrath [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:04 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
signals: inline __fatal_signal_pending
__fatal_signal_pending inlines to one instruction on x86, probably two
instructions on other machines. It takes two longer x86 instructions just
to call it and test its return value, not to mention the function itself.
On my random x86_64 config, this saved 70 bytes of text (59 of those being
__fatal_signal_pending itself).
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Peter Zijlstra [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:57:03 +0000 (15:57 -0700)]
fcntl: add F_[SG]ETOWN_EX
In order to direct the SIGIO signal to a particular thread of a
multi-threaded application we cannot, like suggested by the manpage, put a
TID into the regular fcntl(F_SETOWN) call. It will still be send to the
whole process of which that thread is part.
Since people do want to properly direct SIGIO we introduce F_SETOWN_EX.
The need to direct SIGIO comes from self-monitoring profiling such as with
perf-counters. Perf-counters uses SIGIO to notify that new sample data is
available. If the signal is delivered to the same task that generated the
new sample it can augment that data by inspecting the task's user-space
state right after it returns from the kernel. This is esp. convenient
for interpreted or virtual machine driven environments.
Both F_SETOWN_EX and F_GETOWN_EX take a pointer to a struct f_owner_ex
as argument:
struct f_owner_ex {
int type;
pid_t pid;
};
Where type is one of F_OWNER_TID, F_OWNER_PID or F_OWNER_GID.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Tested-by: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
signals: send_sigio: use do_send_sig_info() to avoid check_kill_permission()
group_send_sig_info()->check_kill_permission() assumes that current is the
sender and uses current_cred().
This is not true in send_sigio_to_task() case. From the security pov the
sender is not current, but the task which did fcntl(F_SETOWN), that is why
we have sigio_perm() which uses the right creds to check.
Fortunately, send_sigio() always sends either SEND_SIG_PRIV or
SI_FROMKERNEL() signal, so check_kill_permission() does nothing. But
still it would be tidier to avoid this bogus security check and save a
couple of cycles.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
exec: fix set_binfmt() vs sys_delete_module() race
sys_delete_module() can set MODULE_STATE_GOING after
search_binary_handler() does try_module_get(). In this case
set_binfmt()->try_module_get() fails but since none of the callers
check the returned error, the task will run with the wrong old
->binfmt.
The proper fix should change all ->load_binary() methods, but we can
rely on fact that the caller must hold a reference to binfmt->module
and use __module_get() which never fails.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Neil Horman [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:58 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
exec: allow do_coredump() to wait for user space pipe readers to complete
Allow core_pattern pipes to wait for user space to complete
One of the things that user space processes like to do is look at metadata
for a crashing process in their /proc/<pid> directory. this is racy
however, since do_coredump in the kernel doesn't wait for the user space
process to complete before it reaps the crashing process. This patch
corrects that. Allowing the kernel to wait for the user space process to
complete before cleaning up the crashing process. This is a bit tricky to
do for a few reasons:
1) The user space process isn't our child, so we can't sys_wait4 on it
2) We need to close the pipe before waiting for the user process to complete,
since the user process may rely on an EOF condition
I've discussed several solutions with Oleg Nesterov off-list about this,
and this is the one we've come up with. We add ourselves as a pipe reader
(to prevent premature cleanup of the pipe_inode_info), and remove
ourselves as a writer (to provide an EOF condition to the writer in user
space), then we iterate until the user space process exits (which we
detect by pipe->readers == 1, hence the > 1 check in the loop). When we
exit the loop, we restore the proper reader/writer values, then we return
and let filp_close in do_coredump clean up the pipe data properly.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Reported-by: Earl Chew <earl_chew@agilent.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Neil Horman [Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:56 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
exec: let do_coredump() limit the number of concurrent dumps to pipes
Introduce core pipe limiting sysctl.
Since we can dump cores to pipe, rather than directly to the filesystem,
we create a condition in which a user can create a very high load on the
system simply by running bad applications.
If the pipe reader specified in core_pattern is poorly written, we can
have lots of ourstandig resources and processes in the system.
This sysctl introduces an ability to limit that resource consumption.
core_pipe_limit defines how many in-flight dumps may be run in parallel,
dumps beyond this value are skipped and a note is made in the kernel log.
A special value of 0 in core_pipe_limit denotes unlimited core dumps may
be handled (this is the default value).
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