* 'core-futexes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
arm: Remove bogus comment in futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
futex: Deobfuscate handle_futex_death()
plist: Add priority list test
plist: Shrink struct plist_head
futex,plist: Remove debug lock assignment from plist_node
futex,plist: Pass the real head of the priority list to plist_del()
futex: Sanitize futex ops argument types
futex: Sanitize cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API
futex: Remove redundant pagefault_disable in futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
futex: Avoid redudant evaluation of task_pid_vnr()
futex: Update futex_wait_setup comments about locking
* 'core-debugobjects-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
debugobjects: Add hint for better object identification
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (57 commits)
tidy the trailing symlinks traversal up
Turn resolution of trailing symlinks iterative everywhere
simplify link_path_walk() tail
Make trailing symlink resolution in path_lookupat() iterative
update nd->inode in __do_follow_link() instead of after do_follow_link()
pull handling of one pathname component into a helper
fs: allow AT_EMPTY_PATH in linkat(), limit that to CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH
Allow passing O_PATH descriptors via SCM_RIGHTS datagrams
readlinkat(), fchownat() and fstatat() with empty relative pathnames
Allow O_PATH for symlinks
New kind of open files - "location only".
ext4: Copy fs UUID to superblock
ext3: Copy fs UUID to superblock.
vfs: Export file system uuid via /proc/<pid>/mountinfo
unistd.h: Add new syscalls numbers to asm-generic
x86: Add new syscalls for x86_64
x86: Add new syscalls for x86_32
fs: Remove i_nlink check from file system link callback
fs: Don't allow to create hardlink for deleted file
vfs: Add open by file handle support
...
* 'stable/irq.rework' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
xen/irq: Cleanup up the pirq_to_irq for DomU PV PCI passthrough guests as well.
xen: Use IRQF_FORCE_RESUME
xen/timer: Missing IRQF_NO_SUSPEND in timer code broke suspend.
xen: Fix compile error introduced by "switch to new irq_chip functions"
xen: Switch to new irq_chip functions
xen: Remove stale irq_chip.end
xen: events: do not free legacy IRQs
xen: events: allocate GSIs and dynamic IRQs from separate IRQ ranges.
xen: events: add xen_allocate_irq_{dynamic, gsi} and xen_free_irq
xen:events: move find_unbound_irq inside CONFIG_PCI_MSI
xen: handled remapped IRQs when enabling a pcifront PCI device.
genirq: Add IRQF_FORCE_RESUME
* 'stable/pcifront-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
pci/xen: When free-ing MSI-X/MSI irq->desc also use generic code.
pci/xen: Cleanup: convert int** to int[]
pci/xen: Use xen_allocate_pirq_msi instead of xen_allocate_pirq
xen-pcifront: Sanity check the MSI/MSI-X values
xen-pcifront: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
The syscall also return mount id which can be used
to lookup file system specific information such as uuid
in /proc/<pid>/mountinfo
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
handle_futex_death() uses futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() without
disabling page faults. That's ok, but totally non obvious.
We don't hold locks so we actually can and want to fault here, because
the get_user() before futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() does not
guarantee a R/W mapping.
We could just add a big fat comment to explain this, but actually
changing the code so that the functionality is entirely clear is
better.
Use the helper function which disables page faults around the
futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() and handle a fault with a call to
fault_in_user_writeable() as all other places in the futex code do as
well.
Pointed-out-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1103141126590.2787@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
NFS: NFSROOT should default to "proto=udp"
nfs4: remove duplicated #include
NFSv4: nfs4_state_mark_reclaim_nograce() should be static
NFSv4: Fix the setlk error handler
NFSv4.1: Fix the handling of the SEQUENCE status bits
NFSv4/4.1: Fix nfs4_schedule_state_recovery abuses
NFSv4.1 reclaim complete must wait for completion
NFSv4: remove duplicate clientid in struct nfs_client
NFSv4.1: Retry CREATE_SESSION on NFS4ERR_DELAY
sunrpc: Propagate errors from xs_bind() through xs_create_sock()
(try3-resend) Fix nfs_compat_user_ino64 so it doesn't cause problems if bit 31 or 63 are set in fileid
nfs: fix compilation warning
nfs: add kmalloc return value check in decode_and_add_ds
SUNRPC: Remove resource leak in svc_rdma_send_error()
nfs: close NFSv4 COMMIT vs. CLOSE race
SUNRPC: Close a race in __rpc_wait_for_completion_task()
new function: file_open_root(dentry, mnt, name, flags) opens the file
vfs_path_lookup would arrive to.
Note that name can be empty; in that case the usual requirement that
dentry should be a directory is lifted.
open-coded equivalents switched to it, may_open() got down exactly
one caller and became static.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
all remaining callers pass LOOKUP_PARENT to it, so
flags argument can die; renamed to kern_path_parent()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
futex,plist: Pass the real head of the priority list to plist_del()
futex,plist: Remove debug lock assignment from plist_node
plist: Shrink struct plist_head
plist: Add priority list test
The original code uses &plist_node->plist as the fake head of
the priority list for plist_del(), these debug locks in
the fake head are needed for CONFIG_DEBUG_PI_LIST.
But now we always pass the real head to plist_del(), the debug locks
in plist_node will not be used, so we remove these assignments.
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D10797E.7040803@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Some plist_del()s in kernel/futex.c are passed a faked head of the
priority list.
It does not fail because the current code does not require the real head
in plist_del(). The current code of plist_del() just uses the head for checking,
so it will not cause a bad result even when we use a faked head.
But it is undocumented usage:
/**
* plist_del - Remove a @node from plist.
*
* @node: &struct plist_node pointer - entry to be removed
* @head: &struct plist_head pointer - list head
*/
The document says that the @head is the "list head" head of the priority list.
In futex code, several places use "plist_del(&q->list, &q->list.plist);",
they pass a fake head. We need to fix them all.
Thanks to Darren Hart for many suggestions.
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D11984A.5030203@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API was funny in that it returned either
the original, user-exposed futex value OR an error code such as -EFAULT.
This was confusing at best, and could be a source of livelocks in places
that retry the cmpxchg_futex_value_locked after trying to fix the issue
by running fault_in_user_writeable().
This change makes the cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API more similar to the
get_futex_value_locked one, returning an error code and updating the
original value through a reference argument.
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> [tile]
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> [ia64]
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> [microblaze]
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [frv]
Cc: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110311024851.GC26122@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The result is not going to change under us, so no need to reevaluate
this over and over. Seems to be a leftover from the mechanical mass
conversion of task->pid to task_pid_vnr(tsk).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* '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
Although they run as rpciod background tasks, under normal operation
(i.e. no SIGKILL), functions like nfs_sillyrename(), nfs4_proc_unlck()
and nfs4_do_close() want to be fully synchronous. This means that when we
exit, we want all references to the rpc_task to be gone, and we want
any dentry references etc. held by that task to be released.
For this reason these functions call __rpc_wait_for_completion_task(),
followed by rpc_put_task() in the expectation that the latter will be
releasing the last reference to the rpc_task, and thus ensuring that the
callback_ops->rpc_release() has been called synchronously.
This patch fixes a race which exists due to the fact that
rpciod calls rpc_complete_task() (in order to wake up the callers of
__rpc_wait_for_completion_task()) and then subsequently calls
rpc_put_task() without ensuring that these two steps are done atomically.
In order to avoid adding new spin locks, the patch uses the existing
waitqueue spin lock to order the rpc_task reference count releases between
the waiting process and rpciod.
The common case where nobody is waiting for completion is optimised for by
checking if the RPC_TASK_ASYNC flag is cleared and/or if the rpc_task
reference count is 1: in those cases we drop trying to grab the spin lock,
and immediately free up the rpc_task.
Those few processes that need to put the rpc_task from inside an
asynchronous context and that do not care about ordering are given a new
helper: rpc_put_task_async().
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Reviving a cleanup I had done about a year ago as part of a larger
futex_set_wait proposal. Over the years, the locking of the hashed
futex queue got improved, so that some of the "rare but normal" race
conditions described in comments can't actually happen anymore.
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110307020750.GA31188@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* '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
In complex subsystems like mac80211 structures can contain several
timers and work structs, so identifying a specific instance from the
call trace and object type output of debugobjects can be hard.
Allow the subsystems which support debugobjects to provide a hint
function. This function returns a pointer to a kernel address
(preferrably the objects callback function) which is printed along
with the debugobjects type.
Add hint methods for timer_list, work_struct and hrtimer.
[ tglx: Massaged changelog, made it compile ]
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110307085809.GA9334@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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 ->
We just leave the numbers assinged as commemoration and in case that
someone was crazy enough to reimplement the test stuff out of tree.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* '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
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
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>
* '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
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>
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
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>
Twice I had to explain the output about why lockdep gives an error with
locks in IRQ context and with del_timer_sync(). Might as well write it
up and place it in the comments above the code in del_timer_sync().
Perhaps the next time this lockdep dump triggers people will understand
the issues.
It is a ticky issue and very subtle, explaining it in detail in the code
may help others understand the issue when they stumble upon the bug
again.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1297186794.23343.19.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
* '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
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
* '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
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>
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>
In commit ce6ada35bd ("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>
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>
* '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.
