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* Merge branch 'irq/numa' of ↵David S. Miller2011-03-151-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
| * genirq: Fix affinity notifier falloutThomas Gleixner2011-01-311-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new code of commit cd7eab44e(genirq: Add IRQ affinity notifiers) references irq_desc.affinity which fails to compile with CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO_DEPRECATED=y. Use irq_desc.irq_data.affinity instead. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
* | Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2011-03-104-15/+27
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
| * \ Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-03-101-5/+9
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Fix sched rt group scheduling when hierachy is enabled
| | * | sched: Fix sched rt group scheduling when hierachy is enabledBalbir Singh2011-03-041-5/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current sched rt code is broken when it comes to hierarchical scheduling, this patch fixes two problems 1. It adds redundant enqueuing (harmless) when it finds a queue has tasks enqueued, but it has no run time and it is not throttled. 2. The most important change is in sched_rt_rq_enqueue/dequeue. The code just picks the rt_rq belonging to the current cpu on which the period timer runs, the patch fixes it, so that the correct rt_se is enqueued/dequeued. Tested with a simple hierarchy /c/d, c and d assigned similar runtimes of 50,000 and a while 1 loop runs within "d". Both c and d get throttled, without the patch, the task just stops running and never runs (depends on where the sched_rt b/w timer runs). With the patch, the task is throttled and runs as expected. [ bharata, suggestions on how to pick the rt_se belong to the rt_rq and correct cpu ] Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: stable@kernel.org LKML-Reference: <20110303113435.GA2868@balbir.in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-03-091-5/+10
| |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: nd->inode is not set on the second attempt in path_walk() unfuck proc_sysctl ->d_compare() minimal fix for do_filp_open() race
| | * | | unfuck proc_sysctl ->d_compare()Al Viro2011-03-081-5/+10
| | |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | a) struct inode is not going to be freed under ->d_compare(); however, the thing PROC_I(inode)->sysctl points to just might. Fortunately, it's enough to make freeing that sucker delayed, provided that we don't step on its ->unregistering, clear the pointer to it in PROC_I(inode) before dropping the reference and check if it's NULL in ->d_compare(). b) I'm not sure that we *can* walk into NULL inode here (we recheck dentry->seq between verifying that it's still hashed / fetching dentry->d_inode and passing it to ->d_compare() and there's no negative hashed dentries in /proc/sys/*), but if we can walk into that, we really should not have ->d_compare() return 0 on it! Said that, I really suspect that this check can be simply killed. Nick? Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | | cpuset: add a missing unlock in cpuset_write_resmask()Li Zefan2011-03-041-2/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Don't forget to release cgroup_mutex if alloc_trial_cpuset() fails. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: avoid multiple return points] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | Mark ptrace_{traceme,attach,detach} staticLinus Torvalds2011-03-041-3/+3
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | They are only used inside kernel/ptrace.c, and have been for a long time. We don't want to go back to the bad-old-days when architectures did things on their own, so make them static and private. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2011-03-039-24/+51
|\ \ \ | |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h
| * | blktrace: Remove blk_fill_rwbs_rq.Tao Ma2011-03-031-16/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If we enable trace events to trace block actions, We use blk_fill_rwbs_rq to analyze the corresponding actions in request's cmd_flags, but we only choose the minor 2 bits from it, so most of other flags(e.g, REQ_SYNC) are missing. For example, with a sync write we get: write_test-2409 [001] 160.013869: block_rq_insert: 3,64 W 0 () 258135 + = 8 [write_test] Since now we have integrated the flags of both bio and request, it is safe to pass rq->cmd_flags directly to blk_fill_rwbs and blk_fill_rwbs_rq isn't needed any more. With this patch, after a sync write we get: write_test-2417 [000] 226.603878: block_rq_insert: 3,64 WS 0 () 258135 += 8 [write_test] Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com> Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * | clockevents: Prevent oneshot mode when broadcast device is periodicThomas Gleixner2011-02-263-1/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When the per cpu timer is marked CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_C3STOP, then we only can switch into oneshot mode, when the backup broadcast device supports oneshot mode as well. Otherwise we would try to switch the broadcast device into an unsupported mode unconditionally. This went unnoticed so far as the current available broadcast devices support oneshot mode. Seth unearthed this problem while debugging and working around an hpet related BIOS wreckage. Add the necessary check to tick_is_oneshot_available(). Reported-and-tested-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1102252231200.2701@localhost6.localdomain6> Cc: stable@kernel.org # .21 ->
| * | Merge branch 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-02-224-3/+18
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: genirq: Disable the SHIRQ_DEBUG call in request_threaded_irq for now genirq: Prevent access beyond allocated_irqs bitmap
| | * | genirq: Disable the SHIRQ_DEBUG call in request_threaded_irq for nowThomas Gleixner2011-02-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With CONFIG_SHIRQ_DEBUG=y we call a newly installed interrupt handler in request_threaded_irq(). The original implementation (commit a304e1b8) called the handler _BEFORE_ it was installed, but that caused problems with handlers calling disable_irq_nosync(). See commit 377bf1e4. It's braindead in the first place to call disable_irq_nosync in shared handlers, but .... Moving this call after we installed the handler looks innocent, but it is very subtle broken on SMP. Interrupt handlers rely on the fact, that the irq core prevents reentrancy. Now this debug call violates that promise because we run the handler w/o the IRQ_INPROGRESS protection - which we cannot apply here because that would result in a possibly forever masked interrupt line. A concurrent real hardware interrupt on a different CPU results in handler reentrancy and can lead to complete wreckage, which was unfortunately observed in reality and took a fricking long time to debug. Leave the code here for now. We want this debug feature, but that's not easy to fix. We really should get rid of those disable_irq_nosync() abusers and remove that function completely. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org # .28 -> .37
| | * | genirq: Prevent access beyond allocated_irqs bitmapThomas Gleixner2011-02-193-2/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Lars-Peter Clausen pointed out: I stumbled upon this while looking through the existing archs using SPARSE_IRQ. Even with SPARSE_IRQ the NR_IRQS is still the upper limit for the number of IRQs. Both PXA and MMP set NR_IRQS to IRQ_BOARD_START, with IRQ_BOARD_START being the number of IRQs used by the core. In various machine files the nr_irqs field of the ARM machine defintion struct is then set to "IRQ_BOARD_START + NR_BOARD_IRQS". As a result "nr_irqs" will greater then NR_IRQS which then again causes the "allocated_irqs" bitmap in the core irq code to be accessed beyond its size overwriting unrelated data. The core code really misses a sanity check there. This went unnoticed so far as by chance the compiler/linker places data behind that bitmap which gets initialized later on those affected platforms. So the obvious fix would be to add a sanity check in early_irq_init() and break all affected platforms. Though that check wants to be backported to stable as well, which will require to fix all known problematic platforms and probably some more yet not known ones as well. Lots of churn. A way simpler solution is to allocate a slightly larger bitmap and avoid the whole churn w/o breaking anything. Add a few warnings when an arch returns utter crap. Reported-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org # .37 Cc: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@marvell.com> Cc: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
| * | | Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-02-221-4/+15
| |\ \ \ | | |/ / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf: Fix throttle logic perf, x86: P4 PMU: Fix spurious NMI messages
| | * | perf: Fix throttle logicPeter Zijlstra2011-02-161-4/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It was possible to call pmu::start() on an already running event. In particular this lead so some wreckage as the hrtimer events would re-initialize active timers. This was due to throttled events being activated again by scheduling. Scheduling in a context would add and force start events, resulting in running events with a possible throttle status. The next tick to hit that task will then try to unthrottle the event and call ->start() on an already running event. Reported-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | | netlink: kill loginuid/sessionid/sid members from struct netlink_skb_parmsPatrick McHardy2011-03-032-6/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Netlink message processing in the kernel is synchronous these days, the session information can be collected when needed. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | | Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2011-02-1923-186/+241
|\ \ \ \ | |/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
| * | | Merge branch 'fixes-2.6.38' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-02-183-17/+28
| |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq * 'fixes-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: make sure MAYDAY_INITIAL_TIMEOUT is at least 2 jiffies long workqueue, freezer: unify spelling of 'freeze' + 'able' to 'freezable' workqueue: wake up a worker when a rescuer is leaving a gcwq
| | * | | workqueue: make sure MAYDAY_INITIAL_TIMEOUT is at least 2 jiffies longTejun Heo2011-02-161-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | MAYDAY_INITIAL_TIMEOUT is defined as HZ / 100 and depending on configuration may end up 0 or 1. Even when it's 1, depending on when the mayday timer is added in the current jiffy interval, it may expire way before a jiffy has passed. Make sure MAYDAY_INITIAL_TIMEOUT is at least two to guarantee that at least a full jiffy has passed before calling rescuers. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org
| | * | | workqueue, freezer: unify spelling of 'freeze' + 'able' to 'freezable'Tejun Heo2011-02-163-16/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are two spellings in use for 'freeze' + 'able' - 'freezable' and 'freezeable'. The former is the more prominent one. The latter is mostly used by workqueue and in a few other odd places. Unify the spelling to 'freezable'. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
| | * | | workqueue: wake up a worker when a rescuer is leaving a gcwqTejun Heo2011-02-141-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After executing the matching works, a rescuer leaves the gcwq whether there are more pending works or not. This may decrease the concurrency level to zero and stall execution until a new work item is queued on the gcwq. Make rescuer wake up a regular worker when it leaves a gcwq if there are more works to execute, so that execution isn't stalled. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org
| * | | | PM / Hibernate: Return error code when alloc_image_page() failsStanislaw Gruszka2011-02-161-5/+2
| | |/ / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently we return 0 in swsusp_alloc() when alloc_image_page() fails. Fix that. Also remove unneeded "error" variable since the only useful value of error is -ENOMEM. [rjw: Fixed up the changelog and changed subject.] Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
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| *-. \ \ Merge branches 'core-fixes-for-linus' and 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-02-152-7/+5
| |\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: Revert "lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation" * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: timer debug: Hide kernel addresses via %pK in /proc/timer_list
| | | * | | timer debug: Hide kernel addresses via %pK in /proc/timer_listKees Cook2011-02-121-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the continuing effort to avoid kernel addresses leaking to unprivileged users, this patch switches to %pK for /proc/timer_list reporting. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com> Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20110212032125.GA23571@outflux.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | Revert "lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation"Peter Zijlstra2011-02-081-5/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Both attempts at trying to allow softirq usage for del_timer_sync() failed (produced bogus warnings), so revert the commit for this release: f266a5110d45: lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation and try again later. Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <1297174680.13327.107.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | | Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-02-151-2/+8
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | |_|_|/ / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Fix text_poke_smp_batch() deadlock perf tools: Fix thread_map event synthesizing in top and record watchdog, nmi: Lower the severity of error messages ARM: oprofile: Fix backtraces in timer mode oprofile: Fix usage of CONFIG_HW_PERF_EVENTS for oprofile_perf_init and friends
| | * | | | watchdog, nmi: Lower the severity of error messagesDon Zickus2011-02-101-2/+8
| | |/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | During boot if the hardlockup detector fails to initialize, it complains very loudly. Some failures should be expected under certain situations, ie no lapics, or resource in-use. Tone those error messages down a bit. Keep the rest at a high level. Reported-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Tested-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <1297278153-21111-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-02-111-1/+1
| |\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: pci: use security_capable() when checking capablities during config space read security: add cred argument to security_capable() tpm_tis: Use timeouts returned from TPM
| | * | | | security: add cred argument to security_capable()Chris Wright2011-02-111-1/+1
| | | |/ / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Expand security_capable() to include cred, so that it can be usable in a wider range of call sites. Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| * | | | ptrace: use safer wake up on ptrace_detach()Tejun Heo2011-02-111-1/+1
| |/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The wake_up_process() call in ptrace_detach() is spurious and not interlocked with the tracee state. IOW, the tracee could be running or sleeping in any place in the kernel by the time wake_up_process() is called. This can lead to the tracee waking up unexpectedly which can be dangerous. The wake_up is spurious and should be removed but for now reduce its toxicity by only waking up if the tracee is in TRACED or STOPPED state. This bug can possibly be used as an attack vector. I don't think it will take too much effort to come up with an attack which triggers oops somewhere. Most sleeps are wrapped in condition test loops and should be safe but we have quite a number of places where sleep and wakeup conditions are expected to be interlocked. Although the window of opportunity is tiny, ptrace can be used by non-privileged users and with some loading the window can definitely be extended and exploited. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | cap_syslog: accept CAP_SYS_ADMIN for nowLinus Torvalds2011-02-101-19/+35
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit ce6ada35bdf7 ("security: Define CAP_SYSLOG") Serge Hallyn introduced CAP_SYSLOG, but broke backwards compatibility by no longer accepting CAP_SYS_ADMIN as an override (it would cause a warning and then reject the operation). Re-instate CAP_SYS_ADMIN - but keeping the warning - as an acceptable capability until any legacy applications have been updated. There are apparently applications out there that drop all capabilities except for CAP_SYS_ADMIN in order to access the syslog. (This is a re-implementation of a patch by Serge, cleaning the logic up and making the code more readable) Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2011-02-091-0/+7
| |\ \ \ | | |/ / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: cdrom: support devices that have check_events but not media_changed cfq-iosched: Don't wait if queue already has requests. blkio-throttle: Avoid calling blkiocg_lookup_group() for root group cfq: rename a function to give it more appropriate name cciss: make cciss_revalidate not loop through CISS_MAX_LUNS volumes unnecessarily. drivers/block/aoe/Makefile: replace the use of <module>-objs with <module>-y loop: queue_lock NULL pointer derefence in blk_throtl_exit drivers/block/Makefile: replace the use of <module>-objs with <module>-y blktrace: Don't output messages if NOTIFY isn't set.
| | * | blktrace: Don't output messages if NOTIFY isn't set.Tao Ma2011-01-191-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now if we enable blktrace, cfq has too many messages output to the trace buffer. It is fine if we don't specify any action mask. But if I do like this: blktrace /dev/sdb -a issue -a complete -o - | blkparse -i - I only want to see 'D' and 'C', while with the following command dd if=/mnt/ocfs2/test of=/dev/null bs=4k count=1 iflag=direct I will get(with a 2.6.37 vanilla kernel): 8,16 0 0 0.000000000 0 m N cfq3805 alloced 8,16 0 0 0.000004126 0 m N cfq3805 insert_request 8,16 0 0 0.000004884 0 m N cfq3805 add_to_rr 8,16 0 0 0.000008417 0 m N cfq workload slice:300 8,16 0 0 0.000009557 0 m N cfq3805 set_active wl_prio:0 wl_type:2 8,16 0 0 0.000010640 0 m N cfq3805 fifo= (null) 8,16 0 0 0.000011193 0 m N cfq3805 dispatch_insert 8,16 0 0 0.000012221 0 m N cfq3805 dispatched a request 8,16 0 0 0.000012802 0 m N cfq3805 activate rq, drv=1 8,16 0 1 0.000013181 3805 D R 114759 + 8 [dd] 8,16 0 2 0.000164244 0 C R 114759 + 8 [0] 8,16 0 0 0.000167997 0 m N cfq3805 complete rqnoidle 0 8,16 0 0 0.000168782 0 m N cfq3805 set_slice=100 8,16 0 0 0.000169874 0 m N cfq3805 arm_idle: 8 group_idle: 0 8,16 0 0 0.000170189 0 m N cfq schedule dispatch 8,16 0 0 0.000397938 0 m N cfq3805 slice expired t=0 8,16 0 0 0.000399763 0 m N cfq3805 sl_used=1 disp=1 charge=1 iops=0 sect=8 8,16 0 0 0.000400227 0 m N cfq3805 del_from_rr 8,16 0 0 0.000400882 0 m N cfq3805 put_queue See, there are 19 lines while I only need 2. I don't think it is appropriate for a user. So this patch will disable any messages if the BLK_TC_NOTIFY isn't set. Now the output for the same command will look like: 8,16 0 1 0.000000000 4908 D R 114759 + 8 [dd] 8,16 0 2 0.000146827 0 C R 114759 + 8 [0] Yes, it is what I want to see. Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| * | | CRED: Fix memory and refcount leaks upon security_prepare_creds() failureTetsuo Handa2011-02-071-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In prepare_kernel_cred() since 2.6.29, put_cred(new) is called without assigning new->usage when security_prepare_creds() returned an error. As a result, memory for new and refcount for new->{user,group_info,tgcred} are leaked because put_cred(new) won't call __put_cred() unless old->usage == 1. Fix these leaks by assigning new->usage (and new->subscribers which was added in 2.6.32) before calling security_prepare_creds(). Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | CRED: Fix BUG() upon security_cred_alloc_blank() failureTetsuo Handa2011-02-071-4/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In cred_alloc_blank() since 2.6.32, abort_creds(new) is called with new->security == NULL and new->magic == 0 when security_cred_alloc_blank() returns an error. As a result, BUG() will be triggered if SELinux is enabled or CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS=y. If CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS=y, BUG() is called from __invalid_creds() because cred->magic == 0. Failing that, BUG() is called from selinux_cred_free() because selinux_cred_free() is not expecting cred->security == NULL. This does not affect smack_cred_free(), tomoyo_cred_free() or apparmor_cred_free(). Fix these bugs by (1) Set new->magic before calling security_cred_alloc_blank(). (2) Handle null cred->security in creds_are_invalid() and selinux_cred_free(). Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-02-061-1/+5
| |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotation RTC: Prevents a division by zero in kernel code.
| | * | | lockdep, timer: Fix del_timer_sync() annotationPeter Zijlstra2011-02-041-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Calling local_bh_enable() will want to actually start processing softirqs, which isn't a good idea since this can get called with IRQs disabled. Cure this by using _local_bh_enable() which doesn't start processing softirqs, and use raw_local_irq_save() to avoid any softirqs from happening without letting lockdep think IRQs are in fact disabled. Reported-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20110203141548.039540914@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | | | Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent-2' of ↵Ingo Molnar2011-02-045-41/+43
| |\ \ \ \ | | |/ / / | |/| | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/urgent
| | * | | tracing: Replace syscall_meta_data struct array with pointer arraySteven Rostedt2011-02-031-9/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the syscall_meta structures for the syscall tracepoints are placed in the __syscall_metadata section, and at link time, the linker makes one large array of all these syscall metadata structures. On boot up, this array is read (much like the initcall sections) and the syscall data is processed. The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they are suppose to be in an array. A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other architectures (sparc). Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses are now put into the __syscall_metadata section. As pointers are always the natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together (otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail). By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers off a little more. The __syscall_metadata section is also moved into the .init.data section as it is now only needed at boot up. Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| | * | | tracepoints: Fix section alignment using pointer arrayMathieu Desnoyers2011-02-032-23/+24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make the tracepoints more robust, making them solid enough to handle compiler changes by not relying on anything based on compiler-specific behavior with respect to structure alignment. Implement an approach proposed by David Miller: use an array of const pointers to refer to the individual structures, and export this pointer array through the linker script rather than the structures per se. It will consume 32 extra bytes per tracepoint (24 for structure padding and 8 for the pointers), but are less likely to break due to compiler changes. History: commit 7e066fb8 tracepoints: add DECLARE_TRACE() and DEFINE_TRACE() added the aligned(32) type and variable attribute to the tracepoint structures to deal with gcc happily aligning statically defined structures on 32-byte multiples. One attempt was to use a 8-byte alignment for tracepoint structures by applying both the variable and type attribute to tracepoint structures definitions and declarations. It worked fine with gcc 4.5.1, but broke with gcc 4.4.4 and 4.4.5. The reason is that the "aligned" attribute only specify the _minimum_ alignment for a structure, leaving both the compiler and the linker free to align on larger multiples. Because tracepoint.c expects the structures to be placed as an array within each section, up-alignment cause NULL-pointer exceptions due to the extra unexpected padding. (this patch applies on top of -tip) Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> LKML-Reference: <20110126222622.GA10794@Krystal> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| | * | | tracing: Replace trace_event struct array with pointer arraySteven Rostedt2011-02-022-9/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the trace_event structures are placed in the _ftrace_events section, and at link time, the linker makes one large array of all the trace_event structures. On boot up, this array is read (much like the initcall sections) and the events are processed. The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they are suppose to be in an array. A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other architectures (sparc). Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses are now put into the _ftrace_event section. As pointers are always the natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together (otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail). By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers off a little more. The _ftrace_event section is also moved into the .init.data section as it is now only needed at boot up. Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | | | Merge branch 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-02-031-3/+11
| |\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: genirq: Prevent irq storm on migration
| | * | | | genirq: Prevent irq storm on migrationThomas Gleixner2011-02-021-3/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | move_native_irq() masks and unmasks the interrupt line unconditionally, but the interrupt line might be masked due to a threaded oneshot handler in progress. Unmasking the line in that case can lead to interrupt storms. Observed on PREEMPT_RT. Originally-from: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org
| * | | | | Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-02-031-1/+1
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Fix update_curr_rt() sched, docs: Update schedstats documentation to version 15
| | * | | | | sched: Fix update_curr_rt()Peter Zijlstra2011-02-031-1/+1
| | |/ / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cpu_stopper_thread() migration_cpu_stop() __migrate_task() deactivate_task() dequeue_task() dequeue_task_rq() update_curr_rt() Will call update_curr_rt() on rq->curr, which at that time is rq->stop. The problem is that rq->stop.prio matches an RT prio and thus falsely assumes its a rt_sched_class task. Reported-Debuged-Tested-Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Cc: stable@kernel.org # .37 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | | Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-02-032-29/+24
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | |/ / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf: Fix reading in perf_event_read() watchdog: Don't change watchdog state on read of sysctl watchdog: Fix sysctl consistency watchdog: Fix broken nowatchdog logic perf: Fix Pentium4 raw event validation perf: Fix alloc_callchain_buffers()
| | * | | | perf: Fix reading in perf_event_read()Peter Zijlstra2011-02-031-3/+4
| | |/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is quite possible for the event to have been disabled between perf_event_read() sending the IPI and the CPU servicing the IPI and calling __perf_event_read(), hence revalidate the state. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | watchdog: Don't change watchdog state on read of sysctlMarcin Slusarz2011-01-311-4/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> [ add {}'s to fix a warning ] Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1296230433-6261-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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