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* bsdacct: switch credentials for writing to the accounting fileMichal Schmidt2009-08-241-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When process accounting is enabled, every exiting process writes a log to the account file. In addition, every once in a while one of the exiting processes checks whether there's enough free space for the log. SELinux policy may or may not allow the exiting process to stat the fs. So unsuspecting processes start generating AVC denials just because someone enabled process accounting. For these filesystem operations, the exiting process's credentials should be temporarily switched to that of the process which enabled accounting, because it's really that process which wanted to have the accounting information logged. Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
* bsdacct: fix access to invalid filp in acct_on()Renaud Lottiaux2009-06-301-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The file opened in acct_on and freshly stored in the ns->bacct struct can be closed in acct_file_reopen by a concurrent call after we release acct_lock and before we call mntput(file->f_path.mnt). Record file->f_path.mnt in a local variable and use this variable only. Signed-off-by: Renaud Lottiaux <renaud.lottiaux@kerlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 04Heiko Carstens2009-01-141-1/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
* CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the core kernelDavid Howells2008-11-141-4/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds. Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id(). Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id(). In some places it makes more sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be addressed by later patches. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
* tty: Fix abusers of current->sighand->ttyAlan Cox2008-10-131-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Various people outside the tty layer still stick their noses in behind the scenes. We need to make sure they also obey the locking and referencing rules. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* bsdacct: fix and add comments around acct_process()Pavel Emelyanov2008-07-251-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | | Fix the one describing what this function is and add one more - about locking absence around pid namespaces loop. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* bsdacct: account dying tasks in all relevant namespacesPavel Emelyanov2008-07-251-7/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This just makes the acct_proces walk the pid namespaces from current up to the top and account a task in each with the accounting turned on. ns->parent access if safe lockless, since current it still alive and holds its namespace, which in turn holds its parent. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* bsdacct: turn acct off for all pidns-s on umount timePavel Emelyanov2008-07-251-12/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | All the bsd_acct_strcts with opened accounting are linked into a global list. So, the acct_auto_close(_mnt) walks one and drops the accounting for each. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* bsdacct: switch from global bsd_acct_struct instance to per-pidns onePavel Emelyanov2008-07-251-18/+66
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allocate the structure on the first call to sys_acct(). After this each namespace, that ordered the accounting, will live with this structure till its own death. Two notes - routines, that close the accounting on fs umount time use the init_pid_ns's acct by now; - accounting routine accounts to dying task's namespace (also by now). Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* bsdacct: make internal code work with passed bsd_acct_struct, not globalPavel Emelyanov2008-07-251-38/+39
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds the appropriate pointer to all the internal (i.e. static) functions that work with global acct instance. API calls pass a global instance to them (while we still have such). Mostly this is a s/acct_globals./acct->/ over the file. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* bsdacct: turn the acct_lock from on-the-struct to globalPavel Emelyanov2008-07-251-21/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Don't use per-bsd-acct-struct lock, but work with a global one. This lock is taken for short periods, so it doesn't seem it'll become a bottleneck, but it will allow us to easily avoid many locking difficulties in the future. So this is a mostly s/acct_globals.lock/acct_lock/ over the file. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* bsdacct: make check timer accept a bsd_acct_struct argumentPavel Emelyanov2008-07-251-4/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | We're going to have many bsd_acct_struct instances, not just one, so the timer (currently working with a global one) has to know which one to work with. Use a handy setup_timer macro for it (thanks to Oleg for one). Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* bsdacct: "truthify" a comment near acct_processPavel Emelyanov2008-07-251-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | The acct_process does not accept any arguments actually. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* bsdacct: rename acct_gbls to bsd_acct_structPavel Emelyanov2008-07-251-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After I fixed access to task->tgid in kernel/acct.c, Oleg pointed out some bad side effects with this accounting vs pid namespaces interaction. I.e. when some task in pid namespace sets this accounting up, this blocks all the others from doing the same. Restricting this to init namespace only could help, but didn't look a graceful solution. So here is the approach to make this accounting work with pid namespaces properly. The idea is simple - when a task dies it accounts itself in each namespace it is visible from and which set the accounting up. For example here are the commands run and the output of lastcomm from init and sub namespaces: init_ns# accton pacct sub_ns# accton pacct (this is a different file - sub ns is run in a chroot-ed environment) init_ns# cat /dev/null sub_ns# ls /dev/null init_ns# accton sub_ns# accton sub_ns# lastcomm -f pacct ls 0 [136,0] 0.00 secs Thu May 15 10:30 accton 0 [136,0] 0.00 secs Thu May 15 10:30 init_ns# lastcomm -f pacct accton root pts/0 0.00 secs Thu May 15 14:30 << got from sub cat root pts/1 0.00 secs Thu May 15 14:30 ls root pts/0 0.00 secs Thu May 15 14:30 << got from sub accton root pts/1 0.00 secs Thu May 15 14:30 That was the summary, the details are in patches. This patch: It will be visible in pid_namespace.h file, so fix its name to look better outside the acct.c file. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* bsd_acct: using task_struct->tgid is not right in pid-namespacesPavel Emelyanov2008-03-241-6/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In case we're accounting from a sub-namespace, the tgids reported will not refer to the right namespace. Save the pid_namespace we're accounting in on the acct_glbs and use it in do_acct_process. Two less :) places using the task_struct.tgid member. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* bsd_acct: plain current->real_parent access is not always safePavel Emelyanov2008-03-241-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is minor, but dereferencing even current real_parent is not safe on debug kernels, since the memory, this points to, can be unmapped - RCU protection is required. Besides, the tgid field is deprecated and is to be replaced with task_tgid_xxx call (the 2nd patch), so RCU will be required anyway. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* acct: real_parent ppidRoland McGrath2008-01-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | The ac_ppid field reported in process accounting records should match what getppid() would have returned to that process, regardless of whether a debugger is attached. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sched: fix kernel/acct.c commentIngo Molnar2007-11-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | fix kernel/acct.c comment. noticed by Lin Tan. Comment suggested by Olaf Kirch. also see: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8220 Reported-by: tammy000@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* whitespace fixes: process accountingDaniel Walker2007-10-181-33/+33
| | | | | | | | Lots of converting spaces to tabs. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Cleanup non-arch xtime uses, use get_seconds() or current_kernel_time().john stultz2007-07-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This avoids use of the kernel-internal "xtime" variable directly outside of the actual time-related functions. Instead, use the helper functions that we already have available to us. This doesn't actually change any behaviour, but this will allow us to fix the fact that "xtime" isn't updated very often with CONFIG_NO_HZ (because much of the realtime information is maintained as separate offsets to 'xtime'), which has caused interfaces that use xtime directly to get a time that is out of sync with the real-time clock by up to a third of a second or so. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] kernel: change uses of f_{dentry, vfsmnt} to use f_pathJosef "Jeff" Sipek2006-12-081-7/+7
| | | | | | | | | Change all the uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to f_path.{dentry,mnt} in linux/kernel/. Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] do_acct_process(): don't take tty_mutexOleg Nesterov2006-12-081-5/+2
| | | | | | | | | | No need to take the global tty_mutex, signal->tty->driver can't go away while we are holding ->siglock. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] tty: ->signal->tty lockingPeter Zijlstra2006-12-081-6/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix the locking of signal->tty. Use ->sighand->siglock to protect ->signal->tty; this lock is already used by most other members of ->signal/->sighand. And unless we are 'current' or the tasklist_lock is held we need ->siglock to access ->signal anyway. (NOTE: sys_unshare() is broken wrt ->sighand locking rules) Note that tty_mutex is held over tty destruction, so while holding tty_mutex any tty pointer remains valid. Otherwise the lifetime of ttys are governed by their open file handles. This leaves some holes for tty access from signal->tty (or any other non file related tty access). It solves the tty SLAB scribbles we were seeing. (NOTE: the change from group_send_sig_info to __group_send_sig_info needs to be examined by someone familiar with the security framework, I think it is safe given the SEND_SIG_PRIV from other __group_send_sig_info invocations) [schwidefsky@de.ibm.com: 3270 fix] [akpm@osdl.org: various post-viro fixes] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] lockdep: name some old style locksPeter Zijlstra2006-12-071-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | Name some of the remaning 'old_style_spin_init' locks Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] csa: convert CONFIG tag for extended accounting routinesJay Lan2006-10-011-30/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There were a few accounting data/macros that are used in CSA but are #ifdef'ed inside CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT. This patch is to change those ifdef's from CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT to CONFIG_TASK_XACCT. A few defines are moved from kernel/acct.c and include/linux/acct.h to kernel/tsacct.c and include/linux/tsacct_kern.h. Signed-off-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Cc: Chris Sturtivant <csturtiv@sgi.com> Cc: Tony Ernst <tee@sgi.com> Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] audit/accounting: tty lockingAlan Cox2006-09-291-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add tty locking around the audit and accounting code. The whole current->signal-> locking is all deeply strange but it's for someone else to sort out. Add rather than replace the lock for acct.c Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Fix sighand->siglock usage in kernel/acct.cOGAWA Hirofumi2006-07-141-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | IRQs must be disabled before taking ->siglock. Noticed by lockdep. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel2006-06-301-1/+0
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* [PATCH] fix kernel-doc in kernel/ dirRandy Dunlap2006-06-271-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix kernel-doc parameters in kernel/ Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g9//kernel/auditsc.c:1376): No description found for parameter 'u_abs_timeout' Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g9//kernel/auditsc.c:1420): No description found for parameter 'u_msg_prio' Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g9//kernel/auditsc.c:1420): No description found for parameter 'u_abs_timeout' Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g9//kernel/acct.c:526): No description found for parameter 'pacct' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kernel/acct: fix function definitionRandy Dunlap2006-06-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | kernel/acct.c:579:19: warning: non-ANSI function declaration of function 'acct_process' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] pacct: none-delayed process accounting accumulationKaiGai Kohei2006-06-251-13/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In current 2.6.17 implementation, signal_struct refered from task_struct is used for per-process data structure. The pacct facility also uses it as a per-process data structure to store stime, utime, minflt, majflt. But those members are saved in __exit_signal(). It's too late. For example, if some threads exits at same time, pacct facility has a possibility to drop accountings for a part of those threads. (see, the following 'The results of original 2.6.17 kernel') I think accounting information should be completely collected into the per-process data structure before writing out an accounting record. This patch fixes this matter. Accumulation of stime, utime, minflt and majflt are done before generating accounting record. [mingo@elte.hu: fix acct_collect() siglock bug found by lockdep] Signed-off-by: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] pacct: avoidance to refer the last thread as a representation of the ↵KaiGai Kohei2006-06-251-18/+24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | process When pacct facility generate an 'ac_flag' field in accounting record, it refers a task_struct of the thread which died last in the process. But any other task_structs are ignored. Therefore, pacct facility drops ASU flag even if root-privilege operations are used by any other threads except the last one. In addition, AFORK flag is always set when the thread of group-leader didn't die last, although this process has called execve() after fork(). We have a same matter in ac_exitcode. The recorded ac_exitcode is an exit code of the last thread in the process. There is a possibility this exitcode is not the group leader's one.
* [PATCH] pacct: add pacct_struct to fix some pacct bugs.KaiGai Kohei2006-06-251-15/+36
| | | | | | | | | | | The pacct facility need an i/o operation when an accounting record is generated. There is a possibility to wake OOM killer up. If OOM killer is activated, it kills some processes to make them release process memory regions. But acct_process() is called in the killed processes context before calling exit_mm(), so those processes cannot release own memory. In the results, any processes stop in this point and it finally cause a system stall.
* [PATCH] Remove unecessary NULL check in kernel/acct.cMatt Helsley2006-06-251-5/+3
| | | | | | | | | copy_process() appears to be the only caller of acct_clear_integrals() and does not pass in NULL task pointers. Remove the unecessary check. Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to perform statfs with a known root dentryDavid Howells2006-06-231-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Give the statfs superblock operation a dentry pointer rather than a superblock pointer. This complements the get_sb() patch. That reduced the significance of sb->s_root, allowing NFS to place a fake root there. However, NFS does require a dentry to use as a target for the statfs operation. This permits the root in the vfsmount to be used instead. linux/mount.h has been added where necessary to make allyesconfig build successfully. Interest has also been expressed for use with the FUSE and XFS filesystems. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Fix pacct bug in multithreading case.KaiGai Kohei2006-03-311-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I noticed a bug on the process accounting facility. In multi-threading process, some data would be recorded incorrectly when the group_leader dies earlier than one or more threads. The attached patch fixes this problem. See below. 'bugacct' is a test program that create a worker thread after 4 seconds sleeping, then the group_leader dies soon. The worker thread consume CPU/Memory for 6 seconds, then exit. We can estimate 10 seconds as etime and 6 seconds as stime + utime. This is a sample program which the group_leader dies earlier than other threads. The results of same binary execution on different kernel are below. -- accounted records -------------------- | btime | utime | stime | etime | minflt | majflt | comm | original | 13:16:40 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.10 | 171 | 0 | bugacct | patched | 13:20:21 | 5.83 | 0.18 | 10.03 | 32776 | 0 | bugacct | (*) bugacct allocates 128MB memory, thus 128MB / 4KB = 32768 of minflt is appropriate. -- Test results in original kernel ------ $ date; time -p ./bugacct Tue Mar 28 13:16:36 JST 2006 <- But pacct said btime is 13:16:40 real 10.11 <- But pacct said etime is 6.10 user 5.96 <- But pacct said utime is 0.00 sys 0.14 <- But pacct said stime is 0.00 $ -- Test results in patched kernel ------- $ date; time -p ./bugacct Tue Mar 28 13:20:21 JST 2006 real 10.04 user 5.83 sys 0.19 $ In the original 2.6.16 kernel, pacct records btime, utime, stime, etime and minflt incorrectly. In my opinion, this problem is caused by an assumption that group_leader dies last. The following section calculates process running time for etime and btime. But it means running time of the thread that dies last, not process. The start_time of the first thread in the process (group_leader) should be reduced from uptime to calculate etime and btime correctly. ---- do_acct_process() in kernel/acct.c: /* calculate run_time in nsec*/ do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime(&uptime); run_time = (u64)uptime.tv_sec*NSEC_PER_SEC + uptime.tv_nsec; run_time -= (u64)current->start_time.tv_sec*NSEC_PER_SEC + current->start_time.tv_nsec; ---- The following section calculates stime and utime of the process. But it might count the utime and stime of the group_leader duplicatly and ignore the utime and stime of the thread dies last, when one or more threads remain after group_leader dead. The ac_utime should be calculated as the sum of the signal->utime and utime of the thread dies last. The ac_stime should be done also. ---- do_acct_process() in kernel/acct.c: jiffies = cputime_to_jiffies(cputime_add(current->group_leader->utime, current->signal->utime)); ac.ac_utime = encode_comp_t(jiffies_to_AHZ(jiffies)); jiffies = cputime_to_jiffies(cputime_add(current->group_leader->stime, current->signal->stime)); ac.ac_stime = encode_comp_t(jiffies_to_AHZ(jiffies)); ---- The part of the minflt/majflt calculation has same problem. This patch solves those problems, I think. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] move capable() to capability.hRandy.Dunlap2006-01-111-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | - Move capable() from sched.h to capability.h; - Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used (in include/, block/, ipc/, kernel/, a few drivers/, mm/, security/, & sound/; many more drivers/ to go) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: cputime_t fixesMartin Schwidefsky2006-01-061-7/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | There are some more places where the use of cputime_t instead of an integer type and the associated macros is necessary for the virtual cputime accounting on s390. Affected are the s390 specific appldata code and BSD process accounting. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] saner handling of auto_acct_off() and DQUOT_OFF() in umountAl Viro2005-11-071-30/+62
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The way we currently deal with quota and process accounting that might keep vfsmount busy at umount time is inherently broken; we try to turn them off just in case (not quite correctly, at that) and a) pray umount doesn't fail (otherwise they'll stay turned off) b) pray nobody doesn anything funny just as we turn quota off Moreover, LSM provides hooks for doing the same sort of broken logics. The proper way to deal with that is to introduce the second kind of reference to vfsmount. Semantics: - when the last normal reference is dropped, all special ones are converted to normal ones and if there had been any, cleanup is done. - normal reference can be cloned into a special one - special reference can be converted to normal one; that's a no-op if we'd already passed the point of no return (i.e. mntput() had converted special references to normal and started cleanup). The way it works: e.g. starting process accounting converts the vfsmount reference pinned by the opened file into special one and turns it back to normal when it gets shut down; acct_auto_close() is done when no normal references are left. That way it does *not* obstruct umount(2) and it silently gets turned off when the last normal reference to vfsmount is gone. Which is exactly what we want... The same should be done by LSM module that holds some internal references to vfsmount and wants to shut them down on umount - it should make them special and security_sb_umount_close() will be called exactly when the last normal reference to vfsmount is gone. quota handling is even simpler - we don't use normal file IO anymore, so there's no need to hold vfsmounts at all. DQUOT_OFF() is done from deactivate_super(), where it really belongs. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: rss = file_rss + anon_rssHugh Dickins2005-10-291-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I was lazy when we added anon_rss, and chose to change as few places as possible. So currently each anonymous page has to be counted twice, in rss and in anon_rss. Which won't be so good if those are atomic counts in some configurations. Change that around: keep file_rss and anon_rss separately, and add them together (with get_mm_rss macro) when the total is needed - reading two atomics is much cheaper than updating two atomics. And update anon_rss upfront, typically in memory.c, not tucked away in page_add_anon_rmap. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kernel/acct: add kerneldocRandy Dunlap2005-09-101-16/+27
| | | | | | | | | | for kernel/acct.c: - fix typos - add kerneldoc for non-static functions Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] largefile support for accountingPeter Staubach2005-09-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is a problem in the accounting subsystem in the kernel can not correctly handle files larger than 2GB. The output file containing the process accounting data can grow very large if the system is large enough and active enough. If the 2GB limit is reached, then the system simply stops storing process accounting data. Another annoying problem is that once the system reaches this 2GB limit, then every process which exits will receive a signal, SIGXFSZ. This signal is generated because an attempt was made to write beyond the limit for the file descriptor. This signal makes it look like every process has exited due to a signal, when in fact, they have not. The solution is to add the O_LARGEFILE flag to the list of flags used to open the accounting file. The rest of the accounting support is already largefile safe. The changes were tested by constructing a large file (just short of 2GB), enabling accounting, and then running enough commands to cause the accounting data generated to increase the size of the file to 2GB. Without the changes, the file grows to 2GB and the last command run in the test script appears to exit due a signal when it has not. With the changes, things work as expected and quietly. There are some user level changes required so that it can deal with largefiles, but those are being handled separately. Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-161-0/+561
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
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