Jeff Garzik [Mon, 31 Oct 2005 04:31:48 +0000 (23:31 -0500)]
[libata] locking rewrite (== fix)
A lot of power packed into a little patch.
This change eliminates the sharing between our controller-wide spinlock
and the SCSI core's Scsi_Host lock. As the locking in libata was
already highly compartmentalized, always referencing our own lock, and
never scsi_host::host_lock.
As a side effect, this change eliminates a deadlock from calling
scsi_finish_command() while inside our spinlock.
Paul Mackerras [Mon, 31 Oct 2005 02:07:02 +0000 (13:07 +1100)]
powerpc: Fix bug arising from having multiple memory_limit variables
We had a static memory_limit in prom.c, and then another one defined
in setup_64.c and used in numa.c, which resulted in the kernel crashing
when mem=xxx was given on the command line. This puts the declaration
in system.h and the definition in mem.c. This also moves the
definition of tce_alloc_start/end out of setup_64.c.
This patch removes duplicate directory scanning code from fs/fat/dir.c. The
two functions that share identical code are fat_readdirx() and
fat_search_long(). This patch also renames fat_readdirx to __fat_readdir().
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tim Schmielau [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:03:48 +0000 (15:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] fix missing includes
I recently picked up my older work to remove unnecessary #includes of
sched.h, starting from a patch by Dave Jones to not include sched.h
from module.h. This reduces the number of indirect includes of sched.h
by ~300. Another ~400 pointless direct includes can be removed after
this disentangling (patch to follow later).
However, quite a few indirect includes need to be fixed up for this.
In order to feed the patches through -mm with as little disturbance as
possible, I've split out the fixes I accumulated up to now (complete for
i386 and x86_64, more archs to follow later) and post them before the real
patch. This way this large part of the patch is kept simple with only
adding #includes, and all hunks are independent of each other. So if any
hunk rejects or gets in the way of other patches, just drop it. My scripts
will pick it up again in the next round.
Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Randy Dunlap [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:03:44 +0000 (15:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] hpet: hpet driver cleanups
- Use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc + memset.
- Clean/fix some printk's.
- Use NULL for pointers instead of 0.
- Combine hpet busy searching locations into a function call.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy_d_dunlap@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Randy Dunlap [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:03:43 +0000 (15:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] hpet: use HPET physical addresses for dup. detection
- Use HPET physical address to detect duplicates, not logical addresses.
Using logical (mapped) addresses fails to detect duplicates
because ioremap() returns a new mapped address each time.
- iounmap() regions when duplicate/busy areas are found.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy_d_dunlap@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Randy Dunlap [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:03:42 +0000 (15:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] hpet: allow HPET FIXED_MEM32 resource type
Allow the ACPI HPET description table to use a resource type of FIXED_MEM32
for the HPET reource. Use the fixed resoure size of 1 KB for the HPET
resource as per the HPET spec.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy_d_dunlap@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Clemens Ladisch [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:03:41 +0000 (15:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] hpet: simplify initialization message
When booting, display the timer frequency in Hertz instead of as tick length
in nanoseconds. Apart from saving a local variable, this makes the message
more easily comprehensible.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Cc: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Clemens Ladisch [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:03:39 +0000 (15:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] hpet: fix uninitialized variable in hpet_register()
Clear the ht_opaque field in the hpet_register() function before searching for
a free timer to prevent the function from incorrectly assuming that the search
succeeded afterwards.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Cc: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Clemens Ladisch [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:03:37 +0000 (15:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] hpet: fix HPET_INFO calls from kernel space
Fix a wrong memory access in hpet_ioctl_common(). It was not possible to use
the HPET_INFO ioctl from kernel space because it always called copy_to_user().
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Cc: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Clemens Ladisch [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:03:36 +0000 (15:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] hpet-RTC: cache the comparator register
Reads from an HPET register require a round trip to the south bridge and are
almost as slow as PCI reads. By caching the last value we've written to the
comparator register, we can eliminate all HPET reads from the fast path in the
emulated RTC interrupt handler.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Make sure that the RTC timer is in non-periodic mode; some stupid BIOS might
have initialized it to periodic mode.
Furthermore, don't set the SETVAL bit in the config register. This wouldn't
have any effect unless the timer was in period mode (which it isn't), and then
the actual timer frequency would be half that of the desired one because
incrementing the comparator in the interrupt handler would be done after the
hardware has already incremented it itself.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Clemens Ladisch [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:03:35 +0000 (15:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] hpet-RTC: disable interrupt when no longer needed
When the emulated RTC interrupt is no longer needed, we better disable it;
otherwise, we get a spurious interrupt whenever the timer has rolled over and
reaches the same comparator value.
Having a superfluous interrupt every five minutes doesn't hurt much, but it's
bad style anyway. ;-)
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Acked-by: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Clemens Ladisch [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:03:34 +0000 (15:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] hpet: allow shared interrupts
This patch adds support for shared HPET interrupts.
The driver previously acknowledged interrupts for both edge and level
interrupts, but didn't actually allow a shared interrupt in the latter case.
We use a new per-timer flag to save whether the timer's interrupt might be
shared, and use it to do the processing required for level interrupts only if
necessary.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Acked-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Clemens Ladisch [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:03:33 +0000 (15:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] hpet: allow non-power-of-two frequencies
It was only the RTC hardware that restricted interrupt frequencies to a power
of two. There is no reason to take over this restriction into the HPET
driver, so remove the offending check.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Acked-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Clemens Ladisch [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:03:31 +0000 (15:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] HPET: make frequency calculations 32 bit safe
On 32-bit architectures, the multiplication in the argument for
hpet_time_div() often overflows. In the typical case of a 14.32 MHz timer,
this happens when the desired frequency exceeds 61 Hz.
To avoid this multiplication, we can precompute and store the hardware
timer frequency, instead of the period, in the device structure, which
leaves us with a simple division when computing the number of timer ticks.
As a side effect, this also removes a theoretical bug where the timer
interpolator's frequency would be computed as a 32-bit value even if the
HPET frequency is greater than 2^32 Hz (the HPET spec allows up to 10 GHz).
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Clemens Ladisch [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:03:29 +0000 (15:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] hpet: disallow zero interrupt frequency
Disallow setting an interrupt frequency of zero (which would result in a
division by zero), and disallow enabling the interrupt when the frequency
hasn't yet been set (which would use an interrupt period of zero).
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Convert most of the remaining "Using plain integer as NULL pointer" sparse
warnings to use NULL. (Not duplicating patches that are already in -mm,
-bird, or -kj.)
Convert isdn driver struct initializer to use C99 syntax.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Kylene Jo Hall [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:03:25 +0000 (15:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] tpm: change from pci_dev to dev power management functions
This patch is in support of moving away from the lpc bus pci_dev. The power
management prototypes used by platform drivers is different but the
functionality remains the same.
Signed-off-by: Kylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Kylene Jo Hall [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:03:24 +0000 (15:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] tpm: remove pci dependency
Since the tpm does not have it's own pci id we have been consuming the lpc
bus. This is not correct and causes problems to support non lpc bus chips.
This patch removes the dependency on pci_dev from tpm.c The subsequent patches
will stop the supported chips from registering as pci drivers.
Signed-off-by: Kylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Kylene Jo Hall [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:03:23 +0000 (15:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] tpm: add status function to allow non-lpc bus chips
This patch is in preparation of supporting chips that are not necessarily on
the lpc bus and thus are not accessed with inb's and outb's. The patch
replaces the call to get the chip's status in the tpm.c file with a vendor
specific status function. The patch also defines the function for each of the
current supported devices.
Signed-off-by: Kylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Yuri Vasilevski [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:03:20 +0000 (15:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] fix build on nls free systems
I made a patch that detects if libintl.h (needed for nls) is present on the
host system and if it's not, it nls support is disabled by providing
dummies for the used nls functions.
This way if there is nls support on the host system the *config targets
will build according to Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's i18n modifications, else
it just uses the original English messages.
I have also made a bug report at kernel's bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5501
And there is a discussion about this problem in Gentoo's bugzilla:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99810
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
A couple of (char *) casts removed in a previous cleanup patch in
lib/string.c:memmove() were actually useful, as they suppressed a couple of
warnings:
assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type
Fix by declaring the local variable const in the first place, so casts
aren't needed to strip the const qualifier.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:03:15 +0000 (15:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] __bread oops fix
If a filesystem passes an idiotic blocksize into bread(), __getblk_slow() will
warn and will return NULL. We have a report (from Hubert Tonneau
<hubert.tonneau@fullpliant.org>) of isofs_fill_super() doing this (passing in
a silly block size) against an unplugged CDROM drive.
But a couple of __getblk_slow() callers forgot to check for the NULL bh, hence
oops.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Roland McGrath [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:03:13 +0000 (15:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] posix-cpu-timers: fix overrun reporting
This change corrects an omission in posix_cpu_timer_schedule, so that it
correctly propagates the overrun calculation to where it will get reported
to the user.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul E. McKenney [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:03:12 +0000 (15:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] RCU torture-testing kernel module
This patch is a rewrite of the one submitted on October 1st, using modules
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112819093522998&w=2).
This rewrite adds a tristate CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST, which enables an
intense torture test of the RCU infratructure. This is needed due to the
continued changes to the RCU infrastructure to accommodate dynamic ticks,
CPU hotplug, realtime, and so on. Most of the code is in a separate file
that is compiled only if the CONFIG variable is set. Documentation on how
to run the test and interpret the output is also included.
This code has been tested on i386 and ppc64, and an earlier version of the
code has received extensive testing on a number of architectures as part of
the PREEMPT_RT patchset.
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>
Pozsar Balazs [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:03:06 +0000 (15:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] fix vgacon blanking
This patch fixes a long-standing vgacon bug: characters with the bright bit
set were left on the screen and not blacked out. All I did was that I
lookuped up some examples on the net about setting the vga palette, and
added the call missing from the linux kernel, but included in all other
ones. It works for me.
You can test this by writing something with the bright set to the
console, for example:
echo -e "\e[1;31mhello there\e[0m"
and then wait for the console to blank itself (by default, after 10 mins
of inactivity), maybe making it faster using
setterm -blank 1
so you only have to wait 1 minute.
Signed-off-by: Pozsar Balazs <pozsy@uhulinux.hu> Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds tests for the return value of sb_getblk() in the ext2/3
filesystems. In fs/buffer.c it is stated that the getblk() function never
fails. However, it does can return NULL in some situations due to I/O
errors, which may lead us to NULL pointer dereferences
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@br.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Are you sure the above diff is correct? It was added somewhere between
2.6.5 and 2.6.8. I think it's wrong.
The only way I can imagine the i_count to be zero in the above path, is
that I_WILL_FREE is set. And if I_WILL_FREE is set, then we must not
increase nr_unused. So I believe the above change is buggy and it will
definitely overstate the number of unused inodes and it should be backed
out.
Note that __writeback_single_inode before calling __sync_single_inode, can
drop the spinlock and we can have both the dirty and locked bitflags clear
here:
spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
__wait_on_inode(inode);
iput(inode);
XXXXXXX
spin_lock(&inode_lock);
}
use inode again here
a construct like the above makes zero sense from a reference counting
standpoint.
Either we don't ever use the inode again after the iput, or the
inode_lock should be taken _before_ executing the iput (i.e. a __iput
would be required). Taking the inode_lock after iput means the iget was
useless if we keep using the inode after the iput.
So the only chance the 2.6 was safe to call __writeback_single_inode
with the i_count == 0, is that I_WILL_FREE is set (I_WILL_FREE will
prevent the VM to free the inode in XXXXX).
Potentially calling the above iput with I_WILL_FREE was also wrong
because it would recurse in iput_final (the second mainline bug).
The below (untested) patch fixes the nr_unused accounting, avoids recursing
in iput when I_WILL_FREE is set and makes sure (with the BUG_ON) that we
don't corrupt memory and that all holders that don't set I_WILL_FREE, keeps
a reference on the inode!
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ben Dooks [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:02:56 +0000 (15:02 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3: sparse fixes
Fix warnings from sparse due to un-declared functions that should either
have a header file or have been declared static
fs/ext2/bitmap.c:14:15: warning: symbol 'ext2_count_free' was not declared. Should it be static?
fs/ext2/namei.c:92:15: warning: symbol 'ext2_get_parent' was not declared. Should it be static?
fs/ext3/bitmap.c:15:15: warning: symbol 'ext3_count_free' was not declared. Should it be static?
fs/ext3/namei.c:1013:15: warning: symbol 'ext3_get_parent' was not declared. Should it be static?
fs/ext3/xattr.c:214:1: warning: symbol 'ext3_xattr_block_get' was not declared. Should it be static?
fs/ext3/xattr.c:358:1: warning: symbol 'ext3_xattr_block_list' was not declared. Should it be static?
fs/ext3/xattr.c:630:1: warning: symbol 'ext3_xattr_block_find' was not declared. Should it be static?
fs/ext3/xattr.c:863:1: warning: symbol 'ext3_xattr_ibody_find' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:02:54 +0000 (15:02 -0800)]
[PATCH] fix de_thread() vs do_coredump() deadlock
de_thread() sends SIGKILL to all sub-threads and waits them to die in 'D'
state. It is possible that one of the threads already dequeued coredump
signal. When de_thread() unlocks ->sighand->lock that thread can enter
do_coredump()->coredump_wait() and cause a deadlock.
Signed-off-by: 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>
Carlos Sanchez [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:02:53 +0000 (15:02 -0800)]
[PATCH] Added a Receive_Abort to the Marvell serial driver
Added a Receive_Abort to the Marvell serial driver
Fix occasional input overrun errors on Marvell serial driver
- If the Marvell serial driver is repeatedly started and then stopped it
will occasionally report an input overrun error when started.
- Added a Receive_Abort to the Marvell serial driver to abort previously
received receive errors when re-starting the receive
Acked-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Carlos Sanchez <csanchez@mvista.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Roland McGrath [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:02:50 +0000 (15:02 -0800)]
[PATCH] wait4 PTRACE_ATTACH race fix
Back about a year ago when I last fiddled heavily with the do_wait code, I
was thinking too hard about the wrong thing and I now think I introduced a
bug whose inverse thought I was fixing.
Apparently noone was looking too hard over much shoulder, so as to cite my
bogus reasoning at the time. In the race condition when PTRACE_ATTACH is
about to steal a child and then the child hits a tracing event (what
my_ptrace_child checks for), the real parent does need to set its flag
noting it has some eligible live children. Otherwise a spurious ECHILD
error is possible, since the child in question is not yet on the
ptrace_children list.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Pat Gefre [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:02:49 +0000 (15:02 -0800)]
[PATCH] ioc4 serial support - mostly cleanup
Various small mods for the Altix ioc4 serial driver - mostly cleanup:
- remove UIF_INITIALIZED usage
- use the 'lock' from uart_port
- better multiple card support
Signed-off-by: Patrick Gefre <pfg@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I noticed some problems while running ext3 with the debug flag set on.
More precisely, I was unable to umount the filesystem. Some investigation
took me to the patch that follows.
At a first glance , the lock/unlock I've taken out seems really not
necessary, as the main code (outside debug) does not lock the super. The
only additional danger operations that debug code introduces seems to be
related to bitmap, but bitmap operations tends to be all atomic anyway.
I also took the opportunity to fix 2 spelling errors.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
David Howells [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:02:44 +0000 (15:02 -0800)]
[PATCH] Keys: Get rid of warning in kmod.c if keys disabled
The attached patch gets rid of a "statement without effect" warning when
CONFIG_KEYS is disabled by making use of the return value of key_get().
The compiler will optimise all of this away when keys are disabled.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
David Howells [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:02:44 +0000 (15:02 -0800)]
[PATCH] Keys: Add LSM hooks for key management [try #3]
The attached patch adds LSM hooks for key management facilities. The notable
changes are:
(1) The key struct now supports a security pointer for the use of security
modules. This will permit key labelling and restrictions on which
programs may access a key.
(2) Security modules get a chance to note (or abort) the allocation of a key.
(3) The key permission checking can now be enhanced by the security modules;
the permissions check consults LSM if all other checks bear out.
(4) The key permissions checking functions now return an error code rather
than a boolean value.
(5) An extra permission has been added to govern the modification of
attributes (UID, GID, permissions).
Note that there isn't an LSM hook specifically for each keyctl() operation,
but rather the permissions hook allows control of individual operations based
on the permission request bits.
Key management access control through LSM is enabled by automatically if both
CONFIG_KEYS and CONFIG_SECURITY are enabled.
This should be applied on top of the patch ensubjected:
[PATCH] Keys: Possessor permissions should be additive
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Export user-defined key operations so that those who wish to define their
own key type based on the user-defined key operations may do so (as has
been requested).
The header file created has been placed into include/keys/user-type.h, thus
creating a directory where other key types may also be placed. Any
objections to doing this?
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-Off-By: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch removes page_pte_prot and page_pte macros from all
architectures. Some architectures define both, some only page_pte (broken)
and others none. These macros are not used anywhere.
page_pte_prot(page, prot) is identical to mk_pte(page, prot) and
page_pte(page) is identical to page_pte_prot(page, __pgprot(0)).
* The following architectures define both page_pte_prot and page_pte
arm, arm26, ia64, sh64, sparc, sparc64
* The following architectures define only page_pte (broken)
Tejun Heo [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:02:40 +0000 (15:02 -0800)]
[PATCH] vm: remove redundant assignment from __pagevec_release_nonlru()
This patch removes redundant assignment from __pagevec_release_nonlru().
pages_to_free.cold is set to pvec->cold by pagevec_init() call right above
the assignment.
Tejun Heo [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:02:40 +0000 (15:02 -0800)]
[PATCH] fs: error case fix in __generic_file_aio_read
When __generic_file_aio_read() hits an error during reading, it reports the
error iff nothing has successfully been read yet. This is condition - when
an error occurs, if nothing has been read/written, report the error code;
otherwise, report the amount of bytes successfully transferred upto that
point.
This corner case can be exposed by performing readv(2) with the following
iov.
iov[0] = len0 @ ptr0
iov[1] = len1 @ NULL (or any other invalid pointer)
iov[2] = len2 @ ptr2
When file size is enough, performing above readv(2) results in
len0 bytes from file_pos @ ptr0
len2 bytes from file_pos + len0 @ ptr2
And the return value is len0 + len2. Test program is attached to this
mail.
This patch makes __generic_file_aio_read()'s error handling identical to
other functions.
Andrea Arcangeli [Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:02:38 +0000 (15:02 -0800)]
[PATCH] ptrace/coredump/exit_group deadlock
I could seldom reproduce a deadlock with a task not killable in T state
(TASK_STOPPED, not TASK_TRACED) by attaching a NPTL threaded program to
gdb, by segfaulting the task and triggering a core dump while some other
task is executing exit_group and while one task is in ptrace_attached
TASK_STOPPED state (not TASK_TRACED yet). This originated from a gdb
bugreport (the fact gdb was segfaulting the task wasn't a kernel bug), but
I just incidentally noticed the gdb bug triggered a real kernel bug as
well.
Most threads hangs in exit_mm because the core_dumping is still going, the
core dumping hangs because the stopped task doesn't exit, the stopped task
can't wakeup because it has SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT set, hence the deadlock.
To me it seems that the problem is that the force_sig_specific(SIGKILL) in
zap_threads is a noop if the task has PF_PTRACED set (like in this case
because gdb is attached). The __ptrace_unlink does nothing because the
signal->flags is set to SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT|SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED (verified).
The above info also shows that the stopped task hit a race and got the stop
signal (presumably by the ptrace_attach, only the attach, state is still
TASK_STOPPED and gdb hangs waiting the core before it can set it to
TASK_TRACED) after one of the thread invoked the core dump (it's the core
dump that sets signal->flags to SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT).
So beside the fact nobody would wakeup the task in __ptrace_unlink (the
state is _not_ TASK_TRACED), there's a secondary problem in the signal
handling code, where a task should ignore the ptrace-sigstops as long as
SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT is set (or the wakeup in __ptrace_unlink path wouldn't be
enough).
So I attempted to make this patch that seems to fix the problem. There
were various ways to fix it, perhaps you prefer a different one, I just
opted to the one that looked safer to me.
I also removed the clearing of the stopped bits from the zap_other_threads
(zap_other_threads was safe unlike zap_threads). I don't like useless
code, this whole NPTL signal/ptrace thing is already unreadable enough and
full of corner cases without confusing useless code into it to make it even
less readable. And if this code is really needed, then you may want to
explain why it's not being done in the other paths that sets
SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT at least.
Even after this patch I still wonder who serializes the read of
p->ptrace in zap_threads.
Patch is called ptrace-core_dump-exit_group-deadlock-1.
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