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Avi Kivity
e98c320291 Move PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS into an always-included Kconfig
Kconfig.preempt is not included on some archs (for example, m68k).  On those
archs, the Kconfig machinery complains that KVM selects an undefined symbol
PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS (which lives in Kconfig.preempt).

So move the offending symbol into a Kconfig file which is included by
everyone.

Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:55 -07:00
Alan Cox
328dfd0f78 tty.h: remove dead define
No longer used. TTY_FLIPBUF_SIZE will also go soon but needs a couple of
other cleanups first

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:55 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
42b2dd0a02 Shrink task_struct if CONFIG_FUTEX=n
robust_list, compat_robust_list, pi_state_list, pi_state_cache are
really used if futexes are on.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:55 -07:00
Ken'ichi Ohmichi
bcbba6c10e add-vmcore: add a prefix "VMCOREINFO_" to the vmcoreinfo macros
Add a prefix "VMCOREINFO_" to the vmcoreinfo macros.  Old vmcoreinfo macros
were defined as generic names SYMBOL/SIZE/OFFSET /LENGTH/CONFIG, and it is
impossible to grep for them.  So these names should be changed.  This
discussion is the following:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0709.1/0415.html

Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
Ken'ichi Ohmichi
00cab92f9e add-vmcore: use the existing ia64_tpa() instead of asm code
Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
Ken'ichi Ohmichi
6cfa062f01 add-vmcore: add nodemask_t's size and NR_FREE_PAGES's value to vmcoreinfo_data
[2/3] Add nodemask_t's size and NR_FREE_PAGES's value to vmcoreinfo_data.
  The dump filetering command 'makedumpfile'(v1.1.6 or before) had assumed
  the above values, and it was not good from the reliability viewpoint.
  So makedumpfile v1.2.0 came to need these values and I created the patch
  to let the kernel output them.
  makedumpfile site:
  https://sourceforge.net/projects/makedumpfile/

Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
Ken'ichi Ohmichi
d768281e97 add-vmcore: cleanup the coding style according to Andrew's comments
[1/3] Cleanup the coding style according to Andrew's comments:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2007-August/000522.html
- vmcoreinfo_append_str() should have suitable __attribute__s so that
  the compiler can check its use.
- vmcoreinfo_max_size should have size_t.
- Use get_seconds() instead of xtime.tv_sec.
- Use init_uts_ns.name.release instead of UTS_RELEASE.

Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
Ken'ichi Ohmichi
fd59d231f8 Add vmcoreinfo
This patch set frees the restriction that makedumpfile users should install a
vmlinux file (including the debugging information) into each system.

makedumpfile command is the dump filtering feature for kdump.  It creates a
small dumpfile by filtering unnecessary pages for the analysis.  To
distinguish unnecessary pages, it needs a vmlinux file including the debugging
information.  These days, the debugging package becomes a huge file, and it is
hard to install it into each system.

To solve the problem, kdump developers discussed it at lkml and kexec-ml.  As
the result, we reached the conclusion that necessary information for dump
filtering (called "vmcoreinfo") should be embedded into the first kernel file
and it should be accessed through /proc/vmcore during the second kernel.
(http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.0/1806.html)

Dan Aloni created the patch set for the above implementation.
(http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.1/1053.html)

And I updated it for multi architectures and memory models.
(http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2007-August/000479.html)

Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>
Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: 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>
2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
Andrew Morton
0e647c04f6 binfmt_flat: warning fixes
Fix this lot:

fs/binfmt_flat.c: In function `decompress_exec':
fs/binfmt_flat.c:293: warning: label `out' defined but not used
fs/binfmt_flat.c: In function `load_flat_file':
fs/binfmt_flat.c:462: warning: unsigned int format, long int arg (arg 3)
fs/binfmt_flat.c:462: warning: unsigned int format, long int arg (arg 4)
fs/binfmt_flat.c:518: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
fs/binfmt_flat.c:549: warning: passing arg 1 of `ksize' makes pointer from integer without a cast
fs/binfmt_flat.c:601: warning: passing arg 1 of `ksize' makes pointer from integer without a cast
fs/binfmt_flat.c: In function `load_flat_binary':
fs/binfmt_flat.c:116: warning: 'dummy' might be used uninitialized in this function

Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
Mike Frysinger
1e9535a591 Add stack checking for Blackfin
Simply fill out the bits in checkstack.pl for Blackfin.  I thought I already
sent this, but I don't see it in -mm anywhere ...

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
13fbcb7312 do_sigaction: don't worry about signal_pending()
do_sigaction() returns -ERESTARTNOINTR if signal_pending(). The comment says:

	* If there might be a fatal signal pending on multiple
	* threads, make sure we take it before changing the action.

I think this is not needed. We should only worry about SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT case,
bit it implies a pending SIGKILL which can't be cleared by do_sigaction.

Kill this special case.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
6db840fa78 exec: RT sub-thread can livelock and monopolize CPU on exec
de_thread() yields waiting for ->group_leader to be a zombie. This deadlocks
if an rt-prio execer shares the same cpu with ->group_leader. Change the code
to use ->group_exit_task/notify_count mechanics.

This patch certainly uglifies the code, perhaps someone can suggest something
better.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:54 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
356d6d5058 exec: consolidate 2 fast-paths
Now that we don't pre-allocate the new ->sighand, we can kill the first fast
path, it doesn't make sense any longer. At best, it can save one "list_empty()"
check but leads to the code duplication.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
b2c903b879 exec: simplify the new ->sighand allocation
de_thread() pre-allocates newsighand to make sure that exec() can't fail after
killing all sub-threads. Imho, this buys nothing, but complicates the code:

	- this is (mostly) needed to handle CLONE_SIGHAND without CLONE_THREAD
	  tasks, this is very unlikely (if ever used) case

	- unless we already have some serious problems, GFP_KERNEL allocation
	  should not fail

	- ENOMEM still can happen after de_thread(), ->sighand is not the last
	  object we have to allocate

Change the code to allocate the new ->sighand on demand.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
0840a90d94 exec: simplify ->sighand switching
There is no any reason to do recalc_sigpending() after changing ->sighand.
To begin with, recalc_sigpending() does not take ->sighand into account.

This means we don't need to take newsighand->siglock while changing sighands.
rcu_assign_pointer() provides a necessary barrier, and if another process
reads the new ->sighand it should either take tasklist_lock or it should use
lock_task_sighand() which has a corresponding smp_read_barrier_depends().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
2b47c3611d Fix f_version type: should be u64 instead of unsigned long
Fix f_version type: should be u64 instead of long

There is a type inconsistency between struct inode i_version and struct file
f_version.

fs.h:

struct inode
  u64                     i_version;

and

struct file
  unsigned long           f_version;

Users do:

fs/ext3/dir.c:

if (filp->f_version != inode->i_version) {

So why isn't f_version a u64 ? It becomes a problem if versions gets
higher than 2^32 and we are on an architecture where longs are 32 bits.

This patch changes the f_version type to u64, and updates the users accordingly.

It applies to 2.6.23-rc2-mm2.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
Jeff Moyer
41d10da371 aio: account I/O wait time properly
Some months back I proposed changing the schedule() call in
read_events to an io_schedule():
	http://osdir.com/ml/linux.kernel.aio.general/2006-10/msg00024.html
This was rejected as there are AIO operations that do not initiate
disk I/O.  I've had another look at the problem, and the only AIO
operation that will not initiate disk I/O is IOCB_CMD_NOOP.  However,
this command isn't even wired up!

Given that it doesn't work, and hasn't for *years*, I'm going to
suggest again that we do proper I/O accounting when using AIO.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
c17ac85504 Make rcutorture RNG use temporal entropy
Repost of http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/10/472 made available by request.

The locking used by get_random_bytes() can conflict with the
preempt_disable() and synchronize_sched() form of RCU.  This patch changes
rcutorture's RNG to gather entropy from the new cpu_clock() interface
(relying on interrupts, preemption, daemons, and rcutorture's reader
thread's rock-bottom scheduling priority to provide useful entropy), and
also adds and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() to make that interface available to GPLed
kernel modules such as rcutorture.

Passes several hours of rcutorture.

[ego@in.ibm.com: Use raw_smp_processor_id() in rcu_random()]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
john stultz
b2d9323d13 Use num_possible_cpus() instead of NR_CPUS for timer distribution
To avoid lock contention, we distribute the sched_timer calls across the
cpus so they do not trigger at the same instant.  However, I used NR_CPUS,
which can cause needless grouping on small smp systems depending on your
kernel config.  This patch converts to using num_possible_cpus() so we
spread it as evenly as possible on every machine.

Briefly tested w/ NR_CPUS=255 and verified reduced contention.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
Chris Wright
3075d9da0b Use ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK if poll() is interrupted by a signal
Lomesh reported poll returning EINTR during suspend/resume cycle.  This is
caused by the STOP/CONT cycle that the freezer uses, generating a pending
signal for what in effect is an ignored signal.  In general poll is a
little eager in returning EINTR, when it could try not bother userspace and
simply restart the syscall.  Both select and ppoll do use ERESTARTNOHAND to
restart the syscall.  Oleg points out that simply using ERESTARTNOHAND will
cause poll to restart with original timeout value.  which could ultimately
lead to process never returning to userspace.  Instead use
ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK, and restart poll with updated timeout value.
Inspired by Manfred's use ERESTARTNOHAND in poll patch.

[bunk@kernel.org: do_restart_poll() can become static]
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: "Agarwal, Lomesh" <lomesh.agarwal@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
7e341fa1f8 allow disabling DNOTIFY without EMBEDDED
Allow disabling DNOTIFY with CONFIG_EMBEDDED=n.

I'm currently running a kernel with dnotify disabled and I haven't run into
any problem.  Is there any popular application left that breaks without
dnotify support in the kernel?

Note that this patch does not remove dnotify support, it still defaults to
"y", and the help text recommends enabling it.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
4a239427f2 make fs/libfs.c:simple_commit_write() static
simple_commit_write() can now become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
ba2a631b14 kernel/time/timekeeping.c: cleanups
- remove the no longer required __attribute__((weak)) of xtime_lock
- remove the following no longer used EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
  - xtime
  - xtime_lock

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
Eric Sandeen
f44ec6f3f8 limit minixfs printks on corrupted dir i_size
This attempts to address CVE-2006-6058
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6058

first reported at http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-17-11-2006.html

Essentially a corrupted minix dir inode reporting a very large
i_size will loop for a very long time in minix_readdir, minix_find_entry,
etc, because on EIO they just move on to try the next page.  This is
under the BKL, printk-storming as well.  This can lock up the machine
for a very long time.  Simply ratelimiting the printks gets things back
under control.  Make the message a bit more informative while we're here.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
vignesh babu
d8ea6cf899 ext2/4: use is_power_of_2()
Replace n & (n - 1) with is_power_of_2(n)

Signed-off-by: vignesh babu <vignesh.babu@wipro.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
3befe7ceb8 Shrink struct task_struct::oomkilladj
oomkilladj is int, but values which can be assigned to it are -17, [-16,
15], thus fitting into s8.

While patch itself doesn't help in making task_struct smaller, because of
natural alignment of ->link_count, it will make picture clearer wrt futher
task_struct reduction patches.  My plan is to move ->fpu_counter and
->oomkilladj after ->ioprio filling hole on i386 and x86_64.  But that's
for later, because bloated distro configs need looking at as well.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
Olaf Hering
68a9bd0cd5 remove strict ansi check from __u64 in asm/types.h
Remove the __STRICT_ANSI__ check from the __u64/__s64 declaration on
32bit targets.

GCC can be made to warn about usage of long long types with ISO C90
(-ansi), but only with -pedantic.  You can write this in a way that even
then it doesn't cause warnings, namely by:

#ifdef __GNUC__
__extension__ typedef __signed__ long long __s64;
__extension__ typedef unsigned long long __u64;
#endif

The __extension__ keyword in front of this switches off any pedantic
warnings for this expression.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
Andi Drebes
ac8d35c565 cramfs: error message about endianess
The README file in the cramfs subdirectory says: "All data is currently in
host-endian format; neither mkcramfs nor the kernel ever do swabbing."

If somebody tries to mount a cramfs with the wrong endianess, cramfs only
complains about a wrong magic but doesn't inform the user that only the
endianess isn't right.

The following patch adds an error message to the cramfs sources.  If a user
tries to mount a cramfs with the wrong endianess using the patched sources,
cramfs will display the message "cramfs: wrong endianess".

Signed-off-by: Andi Drebes <lists-receive@programmierforen.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
Olaf Hering
7f44c3621a include linux/types.h in if_fddi.h
include/linux/if_fddi.h is an exported header.
It uses __be16. Include linux/types.h to get this prototype.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:52 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
85864e1038 clean out unused code in dentry pruning
It looks like in the end all pruners want parents removed.

So remove unused code and function arguments.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:52 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
1a159dd229 exec: remove unnecessary check for MNT_NOEXEC
vfs_permission(MAY_EXEC) checks if the filesystem is mounted with "noexec", so
there's no need to repeat this check in sys_uselib() and open_exec().

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:52 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
22590e41cb fix execute checking in permission()
permission() checks that MAY_EXEC is only allowed on regular files if at least
one execute bit is set in the file mode.

generic_permission() already ensures this, so the extra check in permission()
is superfluous.

If the filesystem defines it's own ->permission() the check may still be
needed.  In this case move it after ->permission().  This is needed because
filesystems such as FUSE may need to refresh the inode attributes before
checking permissions.

This check should be moved inside ->permission(), but that's another story.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:52 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
043f46f615 VFS: check nanoseconds in utimensat
utimensat() (and possibly other callers of do_utimes()) didn't check if the
nanosecond value was within the allowed range.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:52 -07:00
Subbaiah Venkata
995e4286a0 lib/sort.c optimization
Hello, I fixed and tested a small bug in lib/sort.c file, heap sort
function.

The fix avoids unnecessary swap of contents when i is 0 (saves few loads
and stores), which happens every time sort function is called.  I felt the
fix is worth bringing it to your attention given the importance and
frequent use of the sort function.

Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:52 -07:00
Olaf Hering
e30618cbd1 remove consolemap.h from header exports
Remove linux/consolemap.h from make headers_install

It contains no user interfaces.
The defines in this file are used only for kernel internal state.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:52 -07:00
Alan Cox
7ba4b927f5 jsm: Remove further unneeded crud
Remove some remaining vestiges of the old hacks jsm had to work around the old
tty buffering.  With the new tty buffering it simply doesn't matter any more.

[michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Scott Kilau <scottk@digi.com>
Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:52 -07:00
Alan Cox
7f748bbd7f mxser: Remove use of dead TTY_FLIPBUF_SIZE definition
We simply define it to the same value.  Nowdays the TTY flip value is
irrelevant but the value it used is as good as any so why risk breaking it

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:52 -07:00
Samuel Thibault
04c7197650 unicode diacritics support
There have been issues with non-latin1 diacritics and unicode.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7746

Git 759448f459 `Kernel utf-8 handling'
partly resolved it by adding conversion between diacritics and
unicode. The patch below goes further by just turning diacritics into
unicode, hence providing better future support. The kbd support can be
fetched from
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=12313

This was tested in all of latin1, latin9, latin2 and unicode with french
and czech dead keys.

Turn the kernel accent_table into unicode, and extend ioctls KDGKBDIACR
and KDSKBDIACR into their equivalents KDGKBDIACRUC and KDSKBDIACR.

New function int conv_uni_to_8bit(u32 uni) for converting unicode into 8bit
_input_.  No, we don't want to store the translation, as it is potentially
sparse and large.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:52 -07:00
Ed L. Cashin
abdbf94d7c aoe: remove unecessary wrapper function
We can just use skb_mac_header now, and we don't need a wrapper function to
perform the cast.  Instead of requiring the reader to check aoe.h to look
up what an aoe_hdr function does, I'd rather do without it.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:52 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
7c9e69faa2 ext2/ext3/ext4: add block bitmap validation
When a new block bitmap is read from disk in read_block_bitmap() there are
a few bits that should ALWAYS be set.  In particular, the blocks given by
ext4_blk_bitmap, ext4_inode_bitmap and ext4_inode_table.  Validate the
block bitmap against these blocks.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Acked-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:52 -07:00
Roland McGrath
82df39738b Add MMF_DUMP_ELF_HEADERS
This adds the MMF_DUMP_ELF_HEADERS option to /proc/pid/coredump_filter.
This dumps the first page (only) of a private file mapping if it appears to
be a mapping of an ELF file.  Including these pages in the core dump may
give sufficient identifying information to associate the original DSO and
executable file images and their debugging information with a core file in
a generic way just from its contents (e.g.  when those binaries were built
with ld --build-id).  I expect this to become the default behavior
eventually.  Existing versions of gdb can be confused by the core dumps it
creates, so it won't enabled by default for some time to come.  Soon many
people will have systems with a gdb that handle these dumps, so they can
arrange to set the bit at boot and have it inherited system-wide.

This also cleans up the checking of the MMF_DUMP_* flag bits, which did not
need to be using atomic macros.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:52 -07:00
Olaf Hering
e629a7ddc0 do not export /usr/include/scsi in make headers_install
/usr/include/scsi is provided by glibc.
Remove the scsi export from make headers_install target.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:52 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
715015e8da wait_task_stopped/continued: remove unneeded p->signal != NULL check
The child was found on ->children list under tasklist_lock, it must have a
valid ->signal. __exit_signal() both removes the task from parent->children
and clears ->signal "atomically" under write_lock(tasklist).

Remove unneeded checks.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:52 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
18442cf28a __group_complete_signal: eliminate unneeded wakeup of ->group_exit_task
Cleanup.  __group_complete_signal() wakes up ->group_exit_task twice.  The
second wakeup's state includes TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, which is not very
appropriate.

Change the code to pass the "correct" argument to signal_wake_up() and kill
now unneeded wake_up_process().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
442a10cf9e wait_task_zombie: don't fight with non-existing race with a dying ptracee
The "p->exit_signal == -1 && p->ptrace == 0" check and the comment are
bogus.  We already did exactly the same check in eligible_child(), we did
not drop tasklist_lock since then, and both variables need
write_lock(tasklist) to be changed.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
ebca4cda11 zap_other_threads: don't optimize thread_group_empty() case
Nowadays thread_group_empty() and next_thread() are simple list operations,
this optimization doesn't make sense: we are doing exactly same check one
line below.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
3ae4cbadf4 exit_notify: don't take tasklist for TIF_SIGPENDING re-targeting
->siglock provides enough protection to iterate over the thread group.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
2f4e6e2a81 wait_task_zombie: fix 2/3 races vs forget_original_parent()
Two threads, T1 and T2.  T2 ptraces P, and P is not a child of ptracer's
thread group.  P exits and goes to TASK_ZOMBIE.

T1 does wait_task_zombie(P):

	P->exit_state = TASK_DEAD;
	...
	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);

					T2 does exit(), takes tasklist,
					forget_original_parent() does
					__ptrace_unlink(P) but doesn't
					call do_notify_parent(P) because
					p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD.

Now, P is not visible to our process: __ptrace_unlink() removed it from
->children. We should send notification to P->parent and release P if and
only if SIGCHLD is ignored.

And we have 3 bugs:

1. P->parent does do_wait() and gets -ECHILD (P is on ->parent->children,
   but its state is TASK_DEAD).

2. // wait_task_zombie() continues

	if (put_user(...)) {
		// TODO: is this safe?
		p->exit_state = EXIT_ZOMBIE;
		return;
	}

   we return without notification/release, task_struct leaked.

   Solution: ignore -EFAULT and proceed. It is an application's bug if
   we can't fill infop/stat_addr (in case of VM_FAULT_OOM we have much
   more problems).

3. // wait_task_zombie() continues

	if (p->real_parent != p->parent) {
		// Not taken, it was untraced'ed
		...
	}

	release_task(p);

   we released the task which we shouldn't.

   Solution: check ->real_parent != ->parent before, under tasklist_lock,
   but use ptrace_unlink() instead of __ptrace_unlink() to check ->ptrace.

This patch hopefully solves 2 and 3, the 1st bug will be fixed later, we need
some cleanups in forget_original_parent/reparent_thread.

However, the first race is very unlikely and not critical, so I hope it makes
sense to fix 1 and 2 for now.

4. Small cleanup: don't "restore" EXIT_ZOMBIE unless we know we are not going
   to realease the child.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
407af46a96 wait_task_zombie: remove unneeded child->signal check
A zombie must have a valid ->signal, we are going to release it and
__exit_signal() starts with BUG_ON(!sig).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
a8b0ac0873 pnp: avoid a small unlikely memory leak in proc_read_escd()
There's a small and unlikely memory leak in
drivers/pnp/pnpbios/proc.c::proc_read_escd().  It's inside a sanity check,
so it probably won't trigger often (if at all), however it *is* a potential
leak and it's easy to avoid, so let's just fix it :)

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:51 -07:00