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Johannes Weiner
3ef0e5ba46 slab: introduce kzfree()
kzfree() is a wrapper for kfree() that additionally zeroes the underlying
memory before releasing it to the slab allocator.

Currently there is code which memset()s the memory region of an object
before releasing it back to the slab allocator to make sure
security-sensitive data are really zeroed out after use.

These callsites can then just use kzfree() which saves some code, makes
users greppable and allows for a stupid destructor that isn't necessarily
aware of the actual object size.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-20 17:57:48 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
ba95fd47d1 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  block: fix deadlock in blk_abort_queue() for drivers that readd to timeout list
  block: fix booting from partitioned md array
  block: revert part of 18ce3751cc
  cciss: PCI power management reset for kexec
  paride/pg.c: xs(): &&/|| confusion
  fs/bio: bio_alloc_bioset: pass right object ptr to mempool_free
  block: fix bad definition of BIO_RW_SYNC
  bsg: Fix sense buffer bug in SG_IO
2009-02-18 18:33:04 -08:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
cc2559bccc mm: fix memmap init for handling memory hole
Now, early_pfn_in_nid(PFN, NID) may returns false if PFN is a hole.
and memmap initialization was not done. This was a trouble for
sparc boot.

To fix this, the PFN should be initialized and marked as PG_reserved.
This patch changes early_pfn_in_nid() return true if PFN is a hole.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemlloft.net>
Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x, 2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-18 15:37:55 -08:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
f2dbcfa738 mm: clean up for early_pfn_to_nid()
What's happening is that the assertion in mm/page_alloc.c:move_freepages()
is triggering:

	BUG_ON(page_zone(start_page) != page_zone(end_page));

Once I knew this is what was happening, I added some annotations:

	if (unlikely(page_zone(start_page) != page_zone(end_page))) {
		printk(KERN_ERR "move_freepages: Bogus zones: "
		       "start_page[%p] end_page[%p] zone[%p]\n",
		       start_page, end_page, zone);
		printk(KERN_ERR "move_freepages: "
		       "start_zone[%p] end_zone[%p]\n",
		       page_zone(start_page), page_zone(end_page));
		printk(KERN_ERR "move_freepages: "
		       "start_pfn[0x%lx] end_pfn[0x%lx]\n",
		       page_to_pfn(start_page), page_to_pfn(end_page));
		printk(KERN_ERR "move_freepages: "
		       "start_nid[%d] end_nid[%d]\n",
		       page_to_nid(start_page), page_to_nid(end_page));
 ...

And here's what I got:

	move_freepages: Bogus zones: start_page[2207d0000] end_page[2207dffc0] zone[fffff8103effcb00]
	move_freepages: start_zone[fffff8103effcb00] end_zone[fffff8003fffeb00]
	move_freepages: start_pfn[0x81f600] end_pfn[0x81f7ff]
	move_freepages: start_nid[1] end_nid[0]

My memory layout on this box is:

[    0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[    0.000000]   Normal   0x00000000 -> 0x0081ff5d
[    0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
[    0.000000] early_node_map[8] active PFN ranges
[    0.000000]     0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00020000
[    0.000000]     1: 0x00800000 -> 0x0081f7ff
[    0.000000]     1: 0x0081f800 -> 0x0081fe50
[    0.000000]     1: 0x0081fed1 -> 0x0081fed8
[    0.000000]     1: 0x0081feda -> 0x0081fedb
[    0.000000]     1: 0x0081fedd -> 0x0081fee5
[    0.000000]     1: 0x0081fee7 -> 0x0081ff51
[    0.000000]     1: 0x0081ff59 -> 0x0081ff5d

So it's a block move in that 0x81f600-->0x81f7ff region which triggers
the problem.

This patch:

Declaration of early_pfn_to_nid() is scattered over per-arch include
files, and it seems it's complicated to know when the declaration is used.
 I think it makes fix-for-memmap-init not easy.

This patch moves all declaration to include/linux/mm.h

After this,
  if !CONFIG_NODES_POPULATES_NODE_MAP && !CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID
     -> Use static definition in include/linux/mm.h
  else if !CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID
     -> Use generic definition in mm/page_alloc.c
  else
     -> per-arch back end function will be called.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemlloft.net>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x, 2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-18 15:37:55 -08:00
Nick Piggin
1cf6e7d83b mm: task dirty accounting fix
YAMAMOTO-san noticed that task_dirty_inc doesn't seem to be called properly for
cases where set_page_dirty is not used to dirty a page (eg. mark_buffer_dirty).

Additionally, there is some inconsistency about when task_dirty_inc is
called.  It is used for dirty balancing, however it even gets called for
__set_page_dirty_no_writeback.

So rather than increment it in a set_page_dirty wrapper, move it down to
exactly where the dirty page accounting stats are incremented.

Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-18 15:37:54 -08:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
c296861291 vmalloc: add __get_vm_area_caller()
We have get_vm_area_caller() and __get_vm_area() but not
__get_vm_area_caller()

On powerpc, I use __get_vm_area() to separate the ranges of addresses
given to vmalloc vs.  ioremap (various good reasons for that) so in order
to be able to implement the new caller tracking in /proc/vmallocinfo, I
need a "_caller" variant of it.

(akpm: needed for ongoing powerpc development, so merge it early)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-18 15:37:53 -08:00
Jens Axboe
93dbb39350 block: fix bad definition of BIO_RW_SYNC
We can't OR shift values, so get rid of BIO_RW_SYNC and use BIO_RW_SYNCIO
and BIO_RW_UNPLUG explicitly. This brings back the behaviour from before
213d9417fe.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-02-18 10:32:00 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
35010334aa Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, vm86: fix preemption bug
  x86, olpc: fix model detection without OFW
  x86, hpet: fix for LS21 + HPET = boot hang
  x86: CPA avoid repeated lazy mmu flush
  x86: warn if arch_flush_lazy_mmu_cpu is called in preemptible context
  x86/paravirt: make arch_flush_lazy_mmu/cpu disable preemption
  x86, pat: fix warn_on_once() while mapping 0-1MB range with /dev/mem
  x86/cpa: make sure cpa is safe to call in lazy mmu mode
  x86, ptrace, mm: fix double-free on race
2009-02-17 14:27:39 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
071a0bc2ce Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  mm: Export symbol ksize()
2009-02-12 09:56:14 -08:00
Nick Piggin
3a4c6800f3 Fix page writeback thinko, causing Berkeley DB slowdown
A bug was introduced into write_cache_pages cyclic writeout by commit
31a12666d8 ("mm: write_cache_pages cyclic
fix").  The intention (and comments) is that we should cycle back and
look for more dirty pages at the beginning of the file if there is no
more work to be done.

But the !done condition was dropped from the test.  This means that any
time the page writeout loop breaks (eg.  due to nr_to_write == 0), we
will set index to 0, then goto again.  This will set done_index to
index, then find done is set, so will proceed to the end of the
function.  When updating mapping->writeback_index for cyclic writeout,
we now use done_index == 0, so we're always cycling back to 0.

This seemed to be causing random mmap writes (slapadd and iozone) to
start writing more pages from the LRU and writeout would slowdown, and
caused bugzilla entry

	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12604

about Berkeley DB slowing down dramatically.

With this patch, iozone random write performance is increased nearly
5x on my system (iozone -B -r 4k -s 64k -s 512m -s 1200m on ext2).

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Reported-and-tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-12 08:10:53 -08:00
Kirill A. Shutemov
b1aabecd55 mm: Export symbol ksize()
Commit 7b2cd92adc ("crypto: api - Fix
zeroing on free") added modular user of ksize(). Export that to fix
crypto.ko compilation.

Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-02-12 17:50:46 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
9480c53e9b mm: rearrange exit_mmap() to unlock before arch_exit_mmap
Christophe Saout reported [in precursor to:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123209902707347&w=4]:

> Note that I also some a different issue with CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU.
> Seems like Xen tears down current->mm early on process termination, so
> that __get_user_pages in exit_mmap causes nasty messages when the
> process had any mlocked pages.  (in fact, it somehow manages to get into
> the swapping code and produces a null pointer dereference trying to get
> a swap token)

Jeremy explained:

Yes.  In the normal case under Xen, an in-use pagetable is "pinned",
meaning that it is RO to the kernel, and all updates must go via hypercall
(or writes are trapped and emulated, which is much the same thing).  An
unpinned pagetable is not currently in use by any process, and can be
directly accessed as normal RW pages.

As an optimisation at process exit time, we unpin the pagetable as early
as possible (switching the process to init_mm), so that all the normal
pagetable teardown can happen with direct memory accesses.

This happens in exit_mmap() -> arch_exit_mmap().  The munlocking happens
a few lines below.  The obvious thing to do would be to move
arch_exit_mmap() to below the munlock code, but I think we'd want to
call it even if mm->mmap is NULL, just to be on the safe side.

Thus, this patch:

exit_mmap() needs to unlock any locked vmas before calling arch_exit_mmap,
as the latter may switch the current mm to init_mm, which would cause the
former to fail.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
Cc: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-11 14:25:37 -08:00
Federico Cuello
89e1219004 writeback: fix break condition
Commit dcf6a79dda ("write-back: fix
nr_to_write counter") fixed nr_to_write counter, but didn't set the break
condition properly.

If nr_to_write == 0 after being decremented it will loop one more time
before setting done = 1 and breaking the loop.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-11 14:25:37 -08:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2e9c237243 memcg: use __GFP_NOWARN in page cgroup allocation
page_cgroup's page allocation at init/memory hotplug uses kmalloc() and
vmalloc(). If kmalloc() failes, vmalloc() is used.

This is because vmalloc() is very limited resource on 32bit systems.
We want to use kmalloc() first.

But in this kind of call, __GFP_NOWARN should be specified.

Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-11 14:25:35 -08:00
MinChan Kim
508b9f8efd mm: fix mlocked page counter mismatch
When I tested following program, I found that the mlocked counter
is strange.  It cannot free some mlocked pages.

It is because try_to_unmap_file() doesn't check real
page mappings in vmas.

That is because the goal of an address_space for a file is to find all
processes into which the file's specific interval is mapped.  It is
related to the file's interval, not to pages.

Even if the page isn't really mapped by the vma, it returns SWAP_MLOCK
since the vma has VM_LOCKED, then calls try_to_mlock_page.  After this the
mlocked counter is increased again.

COWed anon page in a file-backed vma could be a such case.  This patch
resolves it.

-- my test program --

int main()
{
       mlockall(MCL_CURRENT);
       return 0;
}

-- before --

root@barrios-target-linux:~# cat /proc/meminfo | egrep 'Mlo|Unev'
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB

-- after --

root@barrios-target-linux:~# cat /proc/meminfo | egrep 'Mlo|Unev'
Unevictable:           8 kB
Mlocked:               8 kB

Signed-off-by: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-11 14:25:35 -08:00
Sven Wegener
fc3501d411 mm: fix dirty_bytes/dirty_background_bytes sysctls on 64bit arches
We need to pass an unsigned long as the minimum, because it gets casted
to an unsigned long in the sysctl handler. If we pass an int, we'll
access four more bytes on 64bit arches, resulting in a random minimum
value.

[rientjes@google.com: fix type of `old_bytes']
Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-11 14:25:35 -08:00
Daisuke Nishimura
1001c9fb87 migration: migrate_vmas should check "vma"
migrate_vmas() should check "vma" not "vma->vm_next" for for-loop condition.

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-11 14:25:34 -08:00
Mel Gorman
17c9d12e12 Do not account for hugetlbfs quota at mmap() time if mapping [SHM|MAP]_NORESERVE
Commit 5a6fe12595 brought hugetlbfs more
in line with the core VM by obeying VM_NORESERVE and not reserving
hugepages for both shared and private mappings when [SHM|MAP]_NORESERVE
are specified.  However, it is still taking filesystem quota
unconditionally.

At fault time, if there are no reserves and attempt is made to allocate
the page and account for filesystem quota.  If either fail, the fault
fails.  The impact is that quota is getting accounted for twice.  This
patch partially reverts 5a6fe12595.  To
help prevent this mistake happening again, it improves the documentation
of hugetlb_reserve_pages()

Reported-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-11 12:38:09 -08:00
Markus Metzger
9f339e7028 x86, ptrace, mm: fix double-free on race
Ptrace_detach() races with __ptrace_unlink() if the traced task is
reaped while detaching. This might cause a double-free of the BTS
buffer.

Change the ptrace_detach() path to only do the memory accounting in
ptrace_bts_detach() and leave the buffer free to ptrace_bts_untrace()
which will be called from __ptrace_unlink().

The fix follows a proposal from Oleg Nesterov.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11 15:44:20 +01:00
Mel Gorman
5a6fe12595 Do not account for the address space used by hugetlbfs using VM_ACCOUNT
When overcommit is disabled, the core VM accounts for pages used by anonymous
shared, private mappings and special mappings. It keeps track of VMAs that
should be accounted for with VM_ACCOUNT and VMAs that never had a reserve
with VM_NORESERVE.

Overcommit for hugetlbfs is much riskier than overcommit for base pages
due to contiguity requirements. It avoids overcommiting on both shared and
private mappings using reservation counters that are checked and updated
during mmap(). This ensures (within limits) that hugepages exist in the
future when faults occurs or it is too easy to applications to be SIGKILLed.

As hugetlbfs makes its own reservations of a different unit to the base page
size, VM_ACCOUNT should never be set. Even if the units were correct, we would
double account for the usage in the core VM and hugetlbfs. VM_NORESERVE may
be set because an application can request no reserves be made for hugetlbfs
at the risk of getting killed later.

With commit fc8744adc8, VM_NORESERVE and
VM_ACCOUNT are getting unconditionally set for hugetlbfs-backed mappings. This
breaks the accounting for both the core VM and hugetlbfs, can trigger an
OOM storm when hugepage pools are too small lockups and corrupted counters
otherwise are used. This patch brings hugetlbfs more in line with how the
core VM treats VM_NORESERVE but prevents VM_ACCOUNT being set.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-10 10:48:42 -08:00
Hugh Dickins
d5b562330e mm: fix error case in mlock downgrade reversion
Commit 27421e211a, Manually revert
"mlock: downgrade mmap sem while populating mlocked regions", has
introduced its own regression: __mlock_vma_pages_range() may report
an error (for example, -EFAULT from trying to lock down pages from
beyond EOF), but mlock_vma_pages_range() must hide that from its
callers as before.

Reported-by: Sami Farin <safari-kernel@safari.iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-08 13:53:28 -08:00
Carsten Otte
ab92661d5d do_wp_page: fix regression with execute in place
Fix do_wp_page for VM_MIXEDMAP mappings.

In the case where pfn_valid returns 0 for a pfn at the beginning of
do_wp_page and the mapping is not shared writable, the code branches to
label `gotten:' with old_page == NULL.

In case the vma is locked (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED), lock_page,
clear_page_mlock, and unlock_page try to access the old_page.

This patch checks whether old_page is valid before it is dereferenced.

The regression was introduced by "mlock: mlocked pages are unevictable"
(commit b291f00039).

Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 12:56:48 -08:00
Artem Bityutskiy
dcf6a79dda write-back: fix nr_to_write counter
Commit 05fe478dd0 introduced some
@wbc->nr_to_write breakage.

It made the following changes:
 1. Decrement wbc->nr_to_write instead of nr_to_write
 2. Decrement wbc->nr_to_write _only_ if wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE
 3. If synced nr_to_write pages, stop only if if wbc->sync_mode ==
    WB_SYNC_NONE, otherwise keep going.

However, according to the commit message, the intention was to only make
change 3.  Change 1 is a bug.  Change 2 does not seem to be necessary,
and it breaks UBIFS expectations, so if needed, it should be done
separately later.  And change 2 does not seem to be documented in the
commit message.

This patch does the following:
 1. Undo changes 1 and 2
 2. Add a comment explaining change 3 (it very useful to have comments
    in _code_, not only in the commit).

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-03 16:59:08 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
859281ff37 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  slub: fix per cpu kmem_cache_cpu array memory leak
  kmalloc: return NULL instead of link failure
2009-02-02 19:27:00 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
27421e211a Manually revert "mlock: downgrade mmap sem while populating mlocked regions"
This essentially reverts commit 8edb08caf6.

It downgraded our mmap semaphore to a read-lock while mlocking pages, in
order to allow other threads (and external accesses like "ps" et al) to
walk the vma lists and take page faults etc.  Which is a nice idea, but
the implementation does not work.

Because we cannot upgrade the lock back to a write lock without
releasing the mmap semaphore, the code had to release the lock entirely
and then re-take it as a writelock.  However, that meant that the caller
possibly lost the vma chain that it was following, since now another
thread could come in and mmap/munmap the range.

The code tried to work around that by just looking up the vma again and
erroring out if that happened, but quite frankly, that was just a buggy
hack that doesn't actually protect against anything (the other thread
could just have replaced the vma with another one instead of totally
unmapping it).

The only way to downgrade to a read map _reliably_ is to do it at the
end, which is likely the right thing to do: do all the 'vma' operations
with the write-lock held, then downgrade to a read after completing them
all, and then do the "populate the newly mlocked regions" while holding
just the read lock.  And then just drop the read-lock and return to user
space.

The (perhaps somewhat simpler) alternative is to just make all the
callers of mlock_vma_pages_range() know that the mmap lock got dropped,
and just re-grab the mmap semaphore if it needs to mlock more than one
vma region.

So we can do this "downgrade mmap sem while populating mlocked regions"
thing right, but the way it was done here was absolutely not correct.
Thus the revert, in the expectation that we will do it all correctly
some day.

Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-01 11:00:16 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
fc8744adc8 Stop playing silly games with the VM_ACCOUNT flag
The mmap_region() code would temporarily set the VM_ACCOUNT flag for
anonymous shared mappings just to inform shmem_zero_setup() that it
should enable accounting for the resulting shm object.  It would then
clear the flag after calling ->mmap (for the /dev/zero case) or doing
shmem_zero_setup() (for the MAP_ANON case).

This just resulted in vma merge issues, but also made for just
unnecessary confusion.  Use the already-existing VM_NORESERVE flag for
this instead, and let shmem_{zero|file}_setup() just figure it out from
that.

This also happens to make it obvious that the new DRI2 GEM layer uses a
non-reserving backing store for its object allocation - which is quite
possibly not intentional.  But since I didn't want to change semantics
in this patch, I left it alone, and just updated the caller to use the
new flag semantics.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-31 15:08:56 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
33bfad54b5 Allow opportunistic merging of VM_CAN_NONLINEAR areas
Commit de33c8db59 ("Fix OOPS in
mmap_region() when merging adjacent VM_LOCKED file segments") unified
the vma merging of anonymous and file maps to just one place, which
simplified the code and fixed a use-after-free bug that could cause an
oops.

But by doing the merge opportunistically before even having called
->mmap() on the file method, it now compares two different 'vm_flags'
values: the pre-mmap() value of the new not-yet-formed vma, and previous
mappings of the same file around it.

And in doing so, it refused to merge the common file case, which adds a
marker to say "I can be made non-linear".

This fixes it by just adding a set of flags that don't have to match,
because we know they are ok to merge.  Currently it's only that single
VM_CAN_NONLINEAR flag, but at least conceptually there could be others
in the future.

Reported-and-acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-30 11:37:22 -08:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
299b4eaa30 memcg: NULL pointer dereference at rmdir on some NUMA systems
N_POSSIBLE doesn't means there is memory...and force_empty can
visit invalid node which have no pgdat.

To visit all valid nodes, N_HIGH_MEMORY should be used.

Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-29 18:04:44 -08:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
85d9fc89fb memcg: fix refcnt handling at swapoff
Now, at swapoff, even while try_charge() fails, commit is executed.  This
is a bug which turns the refcnt of cgroup_subsys_state negative.

Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-29 18:04:43 -08:00
Daisuke Nishimura
7bcc1bb123 memcg: get/put parents at create/free
The lifetime of struct cgroup and struct mem_cgroup is different and
mem_cgroup has its own reference count for handling references from
swap_cgroup.

This causes strange problem that the parent mem_cgroup dies while child
mem_cgroup alive, and this problem causes a bug in case of
use_hierarchy==1 because res_counter_uncharge climbs up the tree.

This patch is for avoiding it by getting the parent at create, and putting
it at freeing.

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Reviewed-by; KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-29 18:04:43 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
de33c8db59 Fix OOPS in mmap_region() when merging adjacent VM_LOCKED file segments
As of commit ba470de431 ("map: handle
mlocked pages during map, remap, unmap") we now use the 'vma' variable
at the end of mmap_region() to handle the page-in of newly mapped
mlocked pages.

However, if we merged adjacent vma's together, the vma we're using may
be stale.  We historically consciously avoided using it after the merge
operation, but that got overlooked when redoing the locked page
handling.

This commit simplifies mmap_region() by doing any vma merges early,
avoiding the issue entirely, and 'vma' will always be valid.  As pointed
out by Hugh Dickins, this depends on any drivers that change the page
offset of flags to have set one of the VM_SPECIAL bits (so that they
cannot trigger the early merge logic), but that's true in general.

Reported-and-tested-by: Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin@gmail.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-29 17:46:42 -08:00
David Rientjes
3718909448 slub: fix per cpu kmem_cache_cpu array memory leak
The per cpu array of kmem_cache_cpu structures accomodates
NR_KMEM_CACHE_CPU such structs.

When this array overflows and a struct is allocated by kmalloc(), it may
have an address at the upper bound of this array.  If this happens, it
does not get freed and the per cpu kmem_cache_cpu_free pointer will be out
of bounds after kmem_cache_destroy() or cpu offlining.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-01-28 10:43:42 +02:00
Greg Ungerer
05ae6fa318 uclinux: add process name to allocation error message
This patch adds the name of the process to the bad allocation error
message on non-MMU systems.

Changed suggested by jsujjavanich@syntech-fuelmaster.com

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
2009-01-27 16:42:03 +10:00
Paul Mundt
eb6434d9e7 nommu: Stub in vm_map_ram()/vm_unmap_ram()/vm_unmap_aliases().
Presently we do not support these interfaces, so make them BUG() wrappers
as per the rest of the vmap interface on nommu. Fixes up the modular xfs
build.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-01-21 17:45:47 +09:00
Li Zefan
068b38c1fa memcg: fix a race when setting memory.swappiness
(suppose: memcg->use_hierarchy == 0 and memcg->swappiness == 60)

echo 10 > /memcg/0/swappiness   |
  mem_cgroup_swappiness_write() |
    ...                         | echo 1 > /memcg/0/use_hierarchy
                                | mkdir /mnt/0/1
                                |   sub_memcg->swappiness = 60;
    memcg->swappiness = 10;     |

In the above scenario, we end up having 2 different swappiness
values in a single hierarchy.

We should hold cgroup_lock() when cheking cgrp->children list.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-15 16:39:41 -08:00
Li Zefan
0eb253e223 memcg: fix section mismatch
At system boot when creating the top cgroup, mem_cgroup_create() calls
enable_swap_cgroup() which is marked as __init, so mark
mem_cgroup_create() as __ref to avoid false section mismatch warning.

Reported-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by; KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-15 16:39:41 -08:00
Andrew Morton
46666d8ac4 revert "mm: vmalloc use mutex for purge"
Revert commit e97a630eb0 ("mm: vmalloc use
mutex for purge")

Bryan Donlan reports:

: After testing 2.6.29-rc1 on xen-x86 with a btrfs root filesystem, I
: got the OOPS quoted below and a hard freeze shortly after boot.
: Boot messages and config are attached.
:
: ------------[ cut here ]------------
: Kernel BUG at c05ef80d [verbose debug info unavailable]
: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
: last sysfs file: /sys/block/xvdc/size
: Modules linked in:
:
: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.29-rc1 #6)
: EIP: 0061:[<c05ef80d>] EFLAGS: 00010087 CPU: 2
: EIP is at schedule+0x7cd/0x950
: EAX: d5aeca80 EBX: 00000002 ECX: 00000000 EDX: d4cb9a40
: ESI: c12f5600 EDI: d4cb9a40 EBP: d6033fa4 ESP: d6033ef4
:  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0069
: Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=d6032000 task=d6020b70 task.ti=d6032000)
: Stack:
:  000d85bc 00000000 000186a0 00000000 0dd11410 c0105417 c12efe00 0dc367c3
:  00000011 c0105d46 d5a5d310 deadbeef d4cb9a40 c07cc600 c05f1340 c12e0060
:  deadbeef d6020b70 d6020d08 00000002 c014377d 00000000 c12f5600 00002c22
: Call Trace:
:  [<c0105417>] xen_force_evtchn_callback+0x17/0x30
:  [<c0105d46>] check_events+0x8/0x12
:  [<c05f1340>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x20/0x40
:  [<c014377d>] hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x12d/0x2e0
:  [<c014c4f6>] tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick+0x146/0x160
:  [<c0107485>] cpu_idle+0xa5/0xc0

and bisected it to this commit.

Let's remove it now while we have a think about the problem.

Reported-by: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-15 16:39:40 -08:00
Daisuke Nishimura
4d1c627389 memcg: make oom less frequently
In previous implementation, mem_cgroup_try_charge checked the return
value of mem_cgroup_try_to_free_pages, and just retried if some pages
had been reclaimed.
But now, try_charge(and mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim called from it)
only checks whether the usage is less than the limit.

This patch tries to change the behavior as before to cause oom less
frequently.

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-15 16:39:39 -08:00
Daisuke Nishimura
c268e9946d memcg: fix hierarchical reclaim
If root_mem has no children, last_scaned_child is set to root_mem itself.
But after some children added to root_mem, mem_cgroup_get_next_node can
mem_cgroup_put the root_mem although root_mem has not been mem_cgroup_get.

This patch fixes this behavior by:

- Set last_scanned_child to NULL if root_mem has no children or DFS
  search has returned to root_mem itself(root_mem is not a "child" of
  root_mem).  Make mem_cgroup_get_first_node return root_mem in this case.
   There are no mem_cgroup_get/put for root_mem.

- Rename mem_cgroup_get_next_node to __mem_cgroup_get_next_node, and
  mem_cgroup_get_first_node to mem_cgroup_get_next_node.  Make
  mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim call only new mem_cgroup_get_next_node.

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-15 16:39:39 -08:00
Daisuke Nishimura
40d58138f8 memcg: fix error path of mem_cgroup_move_parent
There is a bug in error path of mem_cgroup_move_parent.

Extra refcnt got from try_charge should be dropped, and usages incremented
by try_charge should be decremented in both error paths:

    A: failure at get_page_unless_zero
    B: failure at isolate_lru_page

This bug makes this parent directory unremovable.

In case of A, rmdir doesn't return, because res.usage doesn't go down to 0
at mem_cgroup_force_empty even after all the pc in lru are removed.

In case of B, rmdir fails and returns -EBUSY, because it has extra ref
counts even after res.usage goes down to 0.

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-15 16:39:39 -08:00
Daisuke Nishimura
bd112db872 memcg: fix mem_cgroup_get_reclaim_stat_from_page
In case of swapin, a new page is added to lru before it is charged,
so page->pc->mem_cgroup points to NULL or last mem_cgroup the page
was charged before.

In the latter case, if the mem_cgroup has already freed by rmdir,
the area pointed to by page->pc->mem_cgroup may have invalid data.

Actually, I saw general protection fault.

    general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
    last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu15/cache/index1/shared_cpu_map
    CPU 4
    Modules linked in: ipt_REJECT xt_tcpudp iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables bridge stp ipv6 autofs4 hidp rfcomm l2cap bluetooth sunrpc dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_multipath dm_mod rfkill input_polldev sbs sbshc battery ac lp sg ide_cd_mod cdrom button serio_raw acpi_memhotplug parport_pc e1000 rtc_cmos parport rtc_core rtc_lib i2c_i801 i2c_core shpchp pcspkr ata_piix libata megaraid_mbox megaraid_mm sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd ehci_hcd ohci_hcd uhci_hcd [last unloaded: microcode]
    Pid: 26038, comm: page01 Tainted: G        W  2.6.28-rc9-mm1-mmotm-2008-12-22-16-14-f2ab3dea #1
    RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8028e710>]  [<ffffffff8028e710>] update_page_reclaim_stat+0x2f/0x42
    RSP: 0000:ffff8801ee457da8  EFLAGS: 00010002
    RAX: 32353438312021c8 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 32353438312021c8
    RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8800cb0b1000 RDI: ffff8801164d1d28
    RBP: ffff880110002cb8 R08: ffff88010f2eae23 R09: 0000000000000001
    R10: ffff8800bc514b00 R11: ffff880110002c00 R12: 0000000000000000
    R13: ffff88000f484100 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: 00000000001200d2
    FS:  00007f8a261726f0(0000) GS:ffff88010f2eaa80(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
    CR2: 00007f8a25d22000 CR3: 00000001ef18c000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
    DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
    DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
    Process page01 (pid: 26038, threadinfo ffff8801ee456000, task ffff8800b585b960)
    Stack:
     ffffe200071ee568 ffff880110001f00 0000000000000000 ffffffff8028ea17
     ffff88000f484100 0000000000000000 0000000000000020 00007f8a25d22000
     ffff8800bc514b00 ffffffff8028ec34 0000000000000000 0000000000016fd8
    Call Trace:
     [<ffffffff8028ea17>] ? ____pagevec_lru_add+0xc1/0x13c
     [<ffffffff8028ec34>] ? drain_cpu_pagevecs+0x36/0x89
     [<ffffffff802a4f8c>] ? swapin_readahead+0x78/0x98
     [<ffffffff8029a37a>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x3d9/0x741
     [<ffffffff804da654>] ? do_page_fault+0x3ce/0x78c
     [<ffffffff804d7a42>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0x3a/0x3c
     [<ffffffff804d860f>] ? page_fault+0x1f/0x30
    Code: cc 55 48 8d af b8 0d 00 00 48 89 f7 53 89 d3 e8 39 85 02 00 48 63 d3 48 ff 44 d5 10 45 85 e4 74 05 48 ff 44 d5 00 48 85 c0 74 0e <48> ff 44 d0 10 45 85 e4 74 04 48 ff 04 d0 5b 5d 41 5c c3 41 54
    RIP  [<ffffffff8028e710>] update_page_reclaim_stat+0x2f/0x42
     RSP <ffff8801ee457da8>

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-15 16:39:39 -08:00
Ivan Kokshaysky
822c18f2e3 alpha: fix vmalloc breakage
On alpha, we have to map some stuff in the VMALLOC space very early in the
boot process (to make SRM console callbacks work and so on, see
arch/alpha/mm/init.c).  For old VM allocator, we just manually placed a
vm_struct onto the global vmlist and this worked for ages.

Unfortunately, the new allocator isn't aware of this, so it constantly
tries to allocate the VM space which is already in use, making vmalloc on
alpha defunct.

This patch forces KVA to import vmlist entries on init.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded check (per Johannes)]
Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-15 16:39:35 -08:00
Heiko Carstens
938bb9f5e8 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 28
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:30 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
c4ea37c26a [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 26
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:29 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
3480b25743 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 14
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:24 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
6a6160a7b5 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 13
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:23 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
6673e0c3fb [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrapper special cases
System calls with an unsigned long long argument can't be converted with
the standard wrappers since that would include a cast to long, which in
turn means that we would lose the upper 32 bit on 32 bit architectures.
Also semctl can't use the standard wrapper since it has a 'union'
parameter.

So we handle them as special case and add some extra wrappers instead.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:18 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
2ed7c03ec1 [CVE-2009-0029] Convert all system calls to return a long
Convert all system calls to return a long. This should be a NOP since all
converted types should have the same size anyway.
With the exception of sys_exit_group which returned void. But that doesn't
matter since the system call doesn't return.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:14 +01:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
e4b866ed19 x86 PAT: change track_pfn_vma_new to take pgprot_t pointer param
Impact: cleanup

Change the protection parameter for track_pfn_vma_new() into a pgprot_t pointer.
Subsequent patch changes the x86 PAT handling to return a compatible
memtype in pgprot_t, if what was requested cannot be allowed due to conflicts.
No fuctionality change in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-13 19:13:01 +01:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
a367061311 x86 PAT: remove PFNMAP type on track_pfn_vma_new() error
Impact: fix (harmless) double-free of memtype entries and avoid warning

On track_pfn_vma_new() failure, reset the vm_flags so that there will be
no second cleanup happening when upper level routines call unmap_vmas().

This patch fixes part of the bug reported here:

  http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123108883716357&w=2

Specifically the error message:

  X:5010 freeing invalid memtype d0000000-d0101000

Is due to multiple frees on error path, will not happen with the patch below.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-13 19:12:59 +01:00