platform/kernel/linux-arm64.git
18 years ago[PATCH] backlight: LOCOMO Backlight Driver updates
Richard Purdie [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:26:27 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] backlight: LOCOMO Backlight Driver updates

Add backlight intensity control to the LOCOMO lcd/backlight driver using the
backlight class and add basic power management support.

This is a reimplementation and improvement of patches by John Lenz and Pavel
Machek

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] savagefb: Add state save and_restore hooks
Antonino A. Daplas [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:26:24 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] savagefb: Add state save and_restore hooks

Reported by: Rich (Bugzilla Bug 6417)

"if savage driver is used in x.org together with savagefb, it results in
seriously garbled and distorted screen - coupled with severe slowdowns."

This bug is the result of Xorg unable to handle savagefb altering the
hardware which results in X failing to start properly and/or failed console
switching.

Add savagefb_state_save and savagefb_state_restore. These hooks will only
save and restore the extended VGA registers.  Standard VGA registers will be
left alone.  This is enough to make savagefb play nicely with the latest
Xorg savage driver, and perhaps with savage DRI. (Transient screen artifacts
may appear before X loads and during console switches).

(Unfortunately, blanking the screen also leaves Xorg in a blanked state, so I
have to unblank the screen before Xorg loads.  So I doubt if the transient
screen artifacts will be completely invisible but hopefully it will only be
for a shorter duration (not much).)

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: <rich@hq.vsaa.lv>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] savagefb: Allocate space for current and saved register states
Antonino A. Daplas [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:26:23 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] savagefb: Allocate space for current and saved register states

Allocate space for 2 register states: 'current' for the current state of
the hardware, and 'saved', to be used for restoring the hardware to a sane
state.  This is in preparation for the addition of state save and restore
hooks to make savagefb work together with the latest Xorg savage driver.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Remove code that has long been commented out from pdc20265_old
Tobias Oed [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:26:19 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] Remove code that has long been commented out from pdc20265_old

Signed-off-by: Tobias Oed <tobiasoed@hotmail.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] pdc202xx_old depends on CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA
Tobias Oed [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:26:18 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] pdc202xx_old depends on CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA

The driver pdc202xx_old requires CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA, so it's always
defined

Signed-off-by: Tobias Oed <tobiasoed@hotmail.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] fix IDE deadlock in error reporting code
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:26:17 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] fix IDE deadlock in error reporting code

Michal Piotrowski reported the following validator assert:

 hdd: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
 hdd: set_drive_speed_status: error=0xb4 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x0b }

 ============================
 [ BUG: illegal lock usage! ]
 ----------------------------
 illegal {in-hardirq-W} -> {hardirq-on-W} usage.
 hdparm/1821 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
  (ide_lock){++..}, at: [<c0268388>] ide_dump_opcode+0x13/0x9b

 [...]

 stack backtrace:
  [<c0104513>] show_trace+0x1b/0x20
  [<c01045f1>] dump_stack+0x1f/0x24
  [<c013976c>] print_usage_bug+0x1a5/0x1b1
  [<c0139e90>] mark_lock+0x2ca/0x4f7
  [<c013aa96>] __lockdep_acquire+0x47e/0xaa4
  [<c013b536>] lockdep_acquire+0x67/0x7f
  [<c030552d>] _spin_lock+0x24/0x32
  [<c0268388>] ide_dump_opcode+0x13/0x9b
  [<c02688b6>] ide_dump_status+0x4a6/0x4cc
  [<c0267ae6>] ide_config_drive_speed+0x32a/0x33a
  [<c0262dc5>] piix_tune_chipset+0x2ed/0x2f8
  [<c0262e31>] piix_config_drive_xfer_rate+0x61/0xb5
  [<c0263a82>] set_using_dma+0x2f/0x60
  [<c0263bee>] ide_write_setting+0x4a/0xc3
  [<c02647ca>] generic_ide_ioctl+0x8a/0x47f
  [<f886003a>] idecd_ioctl+0xfd/0x133 [ide_cd]
  [<c01f1fff>] blkdev_driver_ioctl+0x4b/0x5f
  [<c01f2783>] blkdev_ioctl+0x770/0x7bd
  [<c017dc0d>] block_ioctl+0x1f/0x21
  [<c0189353>] do_ioctl+0x27/0x6e
  [<c0189604>] vfs_ioctl+0x26a/0x280
  [<c0189667>] sys_ioctl+0x4d/0x7e
  [<c0305ed2>] sysenter_past_esp+0x63/0xa1

in ide_dump_opcode() takes the ide_lock in an irq-unsafe manner, i.e.  this
function expects to be called with irqs disabled.  But
ide_dump_ata[pi]_status() doesnt do that - it enables interrupts specifically.
 That is a no-no - what guarantees that another IDE port couldnt generate an
IDE interrupt while we are dumping this error?  The fix is to turn the
irq-enabling in these functions into irq-disabling.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ide: pdc202xx_old: remove the obsolete busproc
Sergei Shtylyov [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:26:16 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] ide: pdc202xx_old: remove the obsolete busproc

Remove the busproc from pdc202xx_old.c because:

- it handles the obsolete HDIO_TRISTATE_HWIF ioctl instead of the modern
  HDIO_SET_BUSSTATE, so treats its argument wrong;

- I don't think that tristating both channels is good idea (probably can't
  be done otherwise since there seems to be only single bit controlling this).

Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ide: actually honor drive's minimum PIO/DMA cycle times
Sergei Shtylyov [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:26:15 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] ide: actually honor drive's minimum PIO/DMA cycle times

The function ide_timing_compute() fails to *actually* take drive's
specified minimum PIO/DMA cycle times into account -- when doing this, it
calls ide_timing_merge() on the 'struct ide_timing' argument which contains
garbage at the moment, and then ultimately destroys the read cycle time by
quantizing the ide_timing[] entry, instead of copying from that entry to
the argument structure, and only then doing a merge/quantize.

Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ide-io: increase timeout value to allow for slave wakeup
Al Boldi [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:26:13 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] ide-io: increase timeout value to allow for slave wakeup

During an STR resume cycle, the ide master disk times-out when there is
also a slave present (especially CD).  Increasing the timeout in ide-io
from 10,000 to 100,000 fixes this problem.

Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Fix IDE locking error
Alan Cox [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:26:12 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] Fix IDE locking error

This bit us a few kernels ago, and for some reason never made it's way
upstream.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=144743
Kernel panic - not syncing: drivers/ide/pci/piix.c:231:
spin_lock(drivers/ide/ide.c:c03cef28) already locked by driver/ide/ide-iops.c/1153.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ide: pdc202xx_old.c: remove unneeded tuneproc() call
Tobias Oed [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:26:11 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] ide: pdc202xx_old.c: remove unneeded tuneproc() call

Remove a call to hwif->tuneproc() on the error path of
config_chipset_for_dma(), as its single caller
(pdc202xx_config_drive_xfer_rate()) will do the call in that case.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Oed <tobiasoed@hotmail.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] coredump: copy_process: don't check SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT
Oleg Nesterov [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:26:10 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] coredump: copy_process: don't check SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT

After the previous patch SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT implies a pending SIGKILL, we
can remove this check from copy_process() because we already checked
!signal_pending().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] coredump: shutdown current process first
Oleg Nesterov [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:26:09 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] coredump: shutdown current process first

This patch optimizes zap_threads() for the case when there are no ->mm
users except the current's thread group.  In that case we can avoid
'for_each_process()' loop.

It also adds a useful invariant: SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT (if checked under
->siglock) always implies that all threads (except may be current) have
pending SIGKILL.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] coredump: some code relocations
Oleg Nesterov [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:26:08 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] coredump: some code relocations

This is a preparation for the next patch.  No functional changes.
Basically, this patch moves '->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT' check into
zap_threads(), and 'complete(vfork_done)' into coredump_wait outside of
->mmap_sem protected area.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] coredump: don't take tasklist_lock
Oleg Nesterov [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:26:08 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] coredump: don't take tasklist_lock

This patch removes tasklist_lock from zap_threads().
This is safe wrt:

do_exit:
The caller holds mm->mmap_sem. This means that task which
shares the same ->mm can't pass exit_mm(), so it can't be
unhashed from init_task.tasks or ->thread_group lists.

fork:
None of sub-threads can fork after zap_process(leader). All
processes which were created before this point should be
visible to zap_threads() because copy_process() adds the new
process to the tail of init_task.tasks list, and ->siglock
lock/unlock provides a memory barrier.

de_thread:
It does list_replace_rcu(&leader->tasks, &current->tasks).
So zap_threads() will see either old or new leader, it does
not matter. However, it can change p->sighand, so we should
use lock_task_sighand() in zap_process().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] coredump: kill ptrace related stuff
Oleg Nesterov [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:26:07 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] coredump: kill ptrace related stuff

With this patch zap_process() sets SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT while sending SIGKILL to
the thread group.  This means that a TASK_TRACED task

1. Will be awakened by signal_wake_up(1)

2. Can't sleep again via ptrace_notify()

3. Can't go to do_signal_stop() after return
   from ptrace_stop() in get_signal_to_deliver()

So we can remove all ptrace related stuff from coredump path.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] coredump: speedup SIGKILL sending
Oleg Nesterov [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:26:06 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] coredump: speedup SIGKILL sending

With this patch a thread group is killed atomically under ->siglock.  This is
faster because we can use sigaddset() instead of force_sig_info() and this is
used in further patches.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] coredump: optimize ->mm users traversal
Oleg Nesterov [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:26:05 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] coredump: optimize ->mm users traversal

zap_threads() iterates over all threads to find those ones which share
current->mm.  All threads in the thread group share the same ->mm, so we can
skip entire thread group if it has another ->mm.

This patch shifts the killing of thread group into the newly added
zap_process() function.  This looks as unnecessary complication, but it is
used in further patches.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] de_thread: fix lockless do_each_thread
Oleg Nesterov [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:26:04 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] de_thread: fix lockless do_each_thread

We should keep the value of old_leader->tasks.next in de_thread, otherwise
we can't do for_each_process/do_each_thread without tasklist_lock held.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] SELinux: Add sockcreate node to procattr API
Eric Paris [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:26:03 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] SELinux: Add sockcreate node to procattr API

Below is a patch to add a new /proc/self/attr/sockcreate A process may write a
context into this interface and all subsequent sockets created will be labeled
with that context.  This is the same idea as the fscreate interface where a
process can specify the label of a file about to be created.  At this time one
envisioned user of this will be xinetd.  It will be able to better label
sockets for the actual services.  At this time all sockets take the label of
the creating process, so all xinitd sockets would just be labeled the same.

I tested this by creating a tcp sender and listener.  The sender was able to
write to this new proc file and then create sockets with the specified label.
I am able to be sure the new label was used since the avc denial messages
kicked out by the kernel included both the new security permission
setsockcreate and all the socket denials were for the new label, not the label
of the running process.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cleanup next_tid()
Oleg Nesterov [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:26:02 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] cleanup next_tid()

Try to make next_tid() a bit more readable and deletes unnecessary
"pid_alive(pos)" check.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] simplify/fix first_tid()
Oleg Nesterov [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:26:01 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] simplify/fix first_tid()

first_tid:

/* If nr exceeds the number of threads there is nothing todo */
if (nr) {
if (nr >= get_nr_threads(leader))
goto done;
}

This is not reliable: sub-threads can exit after this check, so the
'for' loop below can overlap and proc_task_readdir() can return an
already filldir'ed dirents.

for (; pos && pid_alive(pos); pos = next_thread(pos)) {
if (--nr > 0)
continue;

Off-by-one error, will return 'leader' when nr == 1.

This patch tries to fix these problems and simplify the code.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] proc: Remove tasklist_lock from proc_task_readdir.
Eric W. Biederman [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:26:01 +0000 (00:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] proc: Remove tasklist_lock from proc_task_readdir.

This is just like my previous removal of tasklist_lock from first_tgid, and
next_tgid.  It simply had to wait until it was rcu safe to walk the thread
list.

This should be the last instance of the tasklist_lock in proc.  So user
processes should not be able to influence the tasklist lock hold times.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] proc: Cleanup proc_fd_access_allowed
Eric W. Biederman [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:59 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] proc: Cleanup proc_fd_access_allowed

In process of getting proc_fd_access_allowed to work it has developed a few
warts.  In particular the special case that always allows introspection and
the special case to allow inspection of kernel threads.

The special case for introspection is needed for /proc/self/mem.

The special case for kernel threads really should be overridable
by security modules.

So consolidate these checks into ptrace.c:may_attach().

The check to always allow introspection is trivial.

The check to allow access to kernel threads, and zombies is a little
trickier.  mem_read and mem_write already verify an mm exists so it isn't
needed twice.  proc_fd_access_allowed only doesn't want a check to verify
task->mm exits, s it prevents all access to kernel threads.  So just move
the task->mm check into ptrace_attach where it is needed for practical
reasons.

I did a quick audit and none of the security modules in the kernel seem to
care if they are passed a task without an mm into security_ptrace.  So the
above move should be safe and it allows security modules to come up with
more restrictive policy.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] proc: Use sane permission checks on the /proc/<pid>/fd/ symlinks
Eric W. Biederman [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:58 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] proc: Use sane permission checks on the /proc/<pid>/fd/ symlinks

Since 2.2 we have been doing a chroot check to see if it is appropriate to
return a read or follow one of these magic symlinks.  The chroot check was
asking a question about the visibility of files to the calling process and
it was actually checking the destination process, and not the files
themselves.  That test was clearly bogus.

In my first pass through I simply fixed the test to check the visibility of
the files themselves.  That naive approach to fixing the permissions was
too strict and resulted in cases where a task could not even see all of
it's file descriptors.

What has disturbed me about relaxing this check is that file descriptors
are per-process private things, and they are occasionaly used a user space
capability tokens.  Looking a little farther into the symlink path on /proc
I did find userid checks and a check for capability (CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE) so
there were permissions checking this.

But I was still concerned about privacy.  Besides /proc there is only one
other way to find out this kind of information, and that is ptrace.  ptrace
has been around for a long time and it has a well established security
model.

So after thinking about it I finally realized that the permission checks
that make sense are the permission checks applied to ptrace_attach.  The
checks are simple per process, and won't cause nasty surprises for people
coming from less capable unices.

Unfortunately there is one case that the current ptrace_attach test does
not cover: Zombies and kernel threads.  Single stepping those kinds of
processes is impossible.  Being able to see which file descriptors are open
on these tasks is important to lsof, fuser and friends.  So for these
special processes I made the rule you can't find out unless you have
CAP_SYS_PTRACE.

These proc permission checks should now conform to the principle of least
surprise.  As well as using much less code to implement :)

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] proc: optimize proc_check_dentry_visible
Eric W. Biederman [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:57 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] proc: optimize proc_check_dentry_visible

The code doesn't need to sleep to when making this check so I can just do the
comparison and not worry about the reference counts.

TODO: While looking at this I realized that my original cleanup did not push
the permission check far enough down into the stack.  The call of
proc_check_dentry_visible needs to move out of the generic proc
readlink/follow link code and into the individual get_link instances.
Otherwise the shared resources checks are not quite correct (shared
files_struct does not require a shared fs_struct), and there are races with
unshare.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] proc: Use struct pid not struct task_ref
Eric W. Biederman [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:56 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] proc: Use struct pid not struct task_ref

Incrementally update my proc-dont-lock-task_structs-indefinitely patches so
that they work with struct pid instead of struct task_ref.

Mostly this is a straight 1-1 substitution.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] proc: don't lock task_structs indefinitely
Eric W. Biederman [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:55 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] proc: don't lock task_structs indefinitely

Every inode in /proc holds a reference to a struct task_struct.  If a
directory or file is opened and remains open after the the task exits this
pinning continues.  With 8K stacks on a 32bit machine the amount pinned per
file descriptor is about 10K.

Normally I would figure a reasonable per user process limit is about 100
processes.  With 80 processes, with a 1000 file descriptors each I can trigger
the 00M killer on a 32bit kernel, because I have pinned about 800MB of useless
data.

This patch replaces the struct task_struct pointer with a pointer to a struct
task_ref which has a struct task_struct pointer.  The so the pinning of dead
tasks does not happen.

The code now has to contend with the fact that the task may now exit at any
time.  Which is a little but not muh more complicated.

With this change it takes about 1000 processes each opening up 1000 file
descriptors before I can trigger the OOM killer.  Much better.

[mlp@google.com: task_mmu small fixes]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Prasanna Meda <mlp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] proc: make PROC_NUMBUF the buffer size for holding integers as strings
Eric W. Biederman [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:54 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] proc: make PROC_NUMBUF the buffer size for holding integers as strings

Currently in /proc at several different places we define buffers to hold a
process id, or a file descriptor .  In most of them we use either a hard coded
number or a different define.  Modify them all to use PROC_NUMBUF, so the code
has a chance of being maintained.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] simply fix first_tgid
Eric W. Biederman [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:52 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] simply fix first_tgid

Like the bug Oleg spotted in first_tid there was also a small off by one
error in first_tgid, when a seek was done on the /proc directory.  This
fixes that and changes the code structure to make it a little more obvious
what is going on.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] proc: Remove tasklist_lock from proc_pid_lookup() and proc_task_lookup()
Eric W. Biederman [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:51 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] proc: Remove tasklist_lock from proc_pid_lookup() and proc_task_lookup()

Since we no longer need the tasklist_lock for get_task_struct the lookup
methods no longer need the tasklist_lock.

This just depends on my previous patch that makes get_task_struct() rcu
safe.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] proc: Remove tasklist_lock from proc_pid_readdir
Eric W. Biederman [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:51 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] proc: Remove tasklist_lock from proc_pid_readdir

We don't need the tasklist_lock to safely iterate through processes
anymore.

This depends on my previous to task patches that make get_task_struct rcu
safe, and that make next_task() rcu safe.  I haven't gotten
first_tid/next_tid yet only because next_thread is missing an
rcu_dereference.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] proc: refactor reading directories of tasks
Eric W. Biederman [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:50 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] proc: refactor reading directories of tasks

There are a couple of problems this patch addresses.
- /proc/<tgid>/task currently does not work correctly if you stop reading
  in the middle of a directory.

- /proc/ currently requires a full pass through the task list with
  the tasklist lock held, to determine there are no more processes to read.

- The hand rolled integer to string conversion does not properly running
  out of buffer space.

- We seem to be batching reading of pids from the tasklist without reason,
  and complicating the logic of the code.

This patch addresses that by changing how tasks are processed.  A
first_<task_type> function is built that handles restarts, and a
next_<task_type> function is built that just advances to the next task.

first_<task_type> when it detects a restart usually uses find_task_by_pid.  If
that doesn't work because there has been a seek on the directory, or we have
already given a complete directory listing, it first checks the number tasks
of that type, and only if we are under that count does it walk through all of
the tasks to find the one we are interested in.

The code that fills in the directory is simpler because there is only a single
for loop.

The hand rolled integer to string conversion is replaced by snprintf which
should handle the the out of buffer case correctly.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] proc: Close the race of a process dying durning lookup
Eric W. Biederman [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:49 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] proc: Close the race of a process dying durning lookup

proc_lookup and task exiting are not synchronized, although some of the
previous code may have suggested that.  Every time before we reuse a dentry
namei.c calls d_op->derevalidate which prevents us from reusing a stale dcache
entry.  Unfortunately it does not prevent us from returning a stale dcache
entry.  This race has been explicitly plugged in proc_pid_lookup but there is
nothing to confine it to just that proc lookup function.

So to prevent the race I call revalidate explictily in all of the proc lookup
functions after I call d_add, and report an error if the revalidate does not
succeed.

Years ago Al Viro did something similar but those changes got lost in the
churn.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] proc: Rewrite the proc dentry flush on exit optimization
Eric W. Biederman [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:48 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] proc: Rewrite the proc dentry flush on exit optimization

To keep the dcache from filling up with dead /proc entries we flush them on
process exit.  However over the years that code has gotten hairy with a
dentry_pointer and a lock in task_struct and misdocumented as a correctness
feature.

I have rewritten this code to look and see if we have a corresponding entry in
the dcache and if so flush it on process exit.  This removes the extra fields
in the task_struct and allows me to trivially handle the case of a
/proc/<tgid>/task/<pid> entry as well as the current /proc/<pid> entries.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] proc: Move proc_maps_operations into task_mmu.c
Eric W. Biederman [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:48 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] proc: Move proc_maps_operations into task_mmu.c

All of the functions for proc_maps_operations are already defined in
task_mmu.c so move the operations structure to keep the functionality
together.

Since task_nommu.c implements a dummy version of /proc/<pid>/maps give it a
simplified version of proc_maps_operations that it can modify to best suit its
needs.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] proc: Fix the link count for /proc/<pid>/task
Eric W. Biederman [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:47 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] proc: Fix the link count for /proc/<pid>/task

Use getattr to get an accurate link count when needed.  This is cheaper and
more accurate than trying to derive it by walking the thread list of a
process.

Especially as it happens when needed stat instead of at readdir time.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] proc: Properly filter out files that are not visible to a process
Eric W. Biederman [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:46 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] proc: Properly filter out files that are not visible to a process

Long ago and far away in 2.2 we started checking to ensure the files we
displayed in /proc were visible to the current process.  It was an
unsophisticated time and no one was worried about functions full of FIXMES in
a stable kernel.  As time passed the function became sacred and was enshrined
in the shrine of how things have always been.  The fixes came in but only to
keep the function working no one really remembering or documenting why we did
things that way.

The intent and the functionality make a lot of sense.  Don't let /proc be an
access point for files a process can see no other way.  The implementation
however is completely wrong.

We are currently checking the root directories of the two processes, we are
not checking the actual file descriptors themselves.

We are strangely checking with a permission method instead of just when we use
the data.

This patch fixes the logic to actually check the file descriptors and make a
note that implementing a permission method for this part of /proc almost
certainly indicates a bug in the reasoning.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] proc: Kill proc_mem_inode_operations
Eric W. Biederman [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:45 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] proc: Kill proc_mem_inode_operations

The inode operations only exist to support the proc_permission function.
Currently mem_read and mem_write have all the same permission checks as
ptrace.  The fs check makes no sense in this context, and we can trivially get
around it by calling ptrace.

So simply the code by killing the strange weird case.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] proc: Remove bogus proc_task_permission
Eric W. Biederman [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:45 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] proc: Remove bogus proc_task_permission

First we can access every /proc/<tgid>/task/<pid> directory as /proc/<pid> so
proc_task_permission is not usefully limiting visibility.

Second having related filesystems information should have nothing to do with
process visibility.  kill does not implement any checks like that.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] proc: Replace proc_inode.type with proc_inode.fd
Eric W. Biederman [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:44 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] proc: Replace proc_inode.type with proc_inode.fd

The sole renaming use of proc_inode.type is to discover the file descriptor
number, so just store the file descriptor number and don't wory about
processing this field.  This removes any /proc limits on the maximum number of
file descriptors, and clears the path to make the hard coded /proc inode
numbers go away.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] proc: Simplify the ownership rules for /proc
Eric W. Biederman [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:43 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] proc: Simplify the ownership rules for /proc

Currently in /proc if the task is dumpable all of files are owned by the tasks
effective users.  Otherwise the files are owned by root.  Unless it is the
/proc/<tgid>/ or /proc/<tgid>/task/<pid> directory in that case we always make
the directory owned by the effective user.

However the special case for directories is pointless except as a way to read
the effective user, because the permissions on both of those directories are
world readable, and executable.

/proc/<tgid>/status provides a much better way to read a processes effecitve
userid, so it is silly to try to provide that on the directory.

So this patch simplifies the code by removing a pointless special case and
gets us one step closer to being able to remove the hard coded /proc inode
numbers.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] proc: Remove unnecessary and misleading assignments from proc_pid_make_inode
Eric W. Biederman [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:42 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] proc: Remove unnecessary and misleading assignments from proc_pid_make_inode

The removed fields are already set by proc_alloc_inode.  Initializing them in
proc_alloc_inode implies they need it for proper cleanup.  At least ei->pde
was not set on all paths making it look like proc_alloc_inode was buggy.  So
just remove the redundant assignments.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] proc: Remove useless BKL in proc_pid_readlink
Eric W. Biederman [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:42 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] proc: Remove useless BKL in proc_pid_readlink

We already call everything except do_proc_readlink outside of the BKL in
proc_pid_followlink, and there appears to be nothing in do_proc_readlink that
needs any special protection.

So remove this leftover from one of the BKL cleanup efforts.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] proc: Fix the .. inode number on /proc/<pid>/fd
Eric W. Biederman [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:40 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] proc: Fix the .. inode number on /proc/<pid>/fd

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] nfsd kconfig: select things at the closest tristate instead of bool
Herbert Xu [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:39 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] nfsd kconfig: select things at the closest tristate instead of bool

I noticed recently that my CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5 turned into a y again instead
of m.  It turns out that CONFIG_NFSD_V4 is selecting it to be y even though
I've chosen to compile nfsd as a module.

In general when we have a bool sitting under a tristate it is better to
select things you need from the tristate rather than the bool since that
allows the things you select to be modules.

The following patch does it for nfsd.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] i4l: Gigaset drivers: add IOCTLs to compat_ioctl.h
Hansjoerg Lipp [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:35 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] i4l: Gigaset drivers: add IOCTLs to compat_ioctl.h

Add the IOCTLs of the Gigaset drivers to compat_ioctl.h in order to make
them available for 32 bit programs on 64 bit platforms.  Please merge.

Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>
Acked-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] isdn4linux: Gigaset driver cleanup
Tilman Schmidt [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:34 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] isdn4linux: Gigaset driver cleanup

The following patch to the common part of the Siemens Gigaset driver
prevents it from trying to send the +++ break sequence if the device has
been disconnected, and removes a couple of assignments which didn't have
any effect.

Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Acked-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] isdn4linux: Gigaset base driver: improve error recovery
Tilman Schmidt [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:33 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] isdn4linux: Gigaset base driver: improve error recovery

The following patch to the Siemens Gigaset base driver adds graceful
recovery for some frequently encountered error conditions, by retrying
failed control requests (eg.  stalled control pipe), and by closing and
reopening the AT command channel when it appears to be stuck.

Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Acked-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Fix typo in drivers/isdn/hisax/q931.c
Eric Sesterhenn [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:32 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Fix typo in drivers/isdn/hisax/q931.c

This fixes coverity bug #517.

Since IESIZE is greater than IESIZE_NI1 we might run past the end of
ielist_ni1.  This fixes it by using the proper IESIZE_NI1 define.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] CAPI crash / race condition
Michael Buesch [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:30 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] CAPI crash / race condition

I am getting more or less reproducible crashes from the CAPI subsystem
using the fcdsl driver:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000010
 printing eip:
c39bbca4
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
Modules linked in: netconsole capi capifs 3c59x mii fcdsl kernelcapi uhci_hcd usbcore ide_cd cdrom
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<c39bbca4>]    Tainted: P      VLI
EFLAGS: 00010202   (2.6.16.11 #3)
EIP is at handle_minor_send+0x17a/0x241 [capi]
eax: c24abbc0   ebx: c0b4c980   ecx: 00000010   edx: 00000010
esi: c1679140   edi: c2783016   ebp: 0000c28d   esp: c0327e24
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo=c0326000 task=c02e1300)
Stack: <0>000005b4 c1679180 00000000 c28d0000 c1ce04e0 c2f69654 c221604e c1679140
       c39bc19a 00000038 c20c0400 c075c560 c1f2f800 00000000 c01dc9b5 c1e96a40
       c075c560 c2ed64c0 c1e96a40 c01dcd3b c2fb94e8 c075c560 c0327f00 c1e96a40
Call Trace:
 [<c39bc19a>] capinc_tty_write+0xda/0xf3 [capi]
 [<c01dc9b5>] ppp_sync_push+0x52/0xfe
 [<c01dcd3b>] ppp_sync_send+0x1f5/0x204
 [<c01d9bc1>] ppp_push+0x3e/0x9c
 [<c01dacd4>] ppp_xmit_process+0x422/0x4cc
 [<c01daf3f>] ppp_start_xmit+0x1c1/0x1f6
 [<c0213ea5>] qdisc_restart+0xa7/0x135
 [<c020b112>] dev_queue_xmit+0xba/0x19e
 [<c0223f69>] ip_output+0x1eb/0x236
 [<c0220907>] ip_forward+0x1c1/0x21a
 [<c021fa6c>] ip_rcv+0x38e/0x3ea
 [<c020b4c2>] netif_receive_skb+0x166/0x195
 [<c020b55e>] process_backlog+0x6d/0xd2
 [<c020a30f>] net_rx_action+0x6a/0xff
 [<c0112909>] __do_softirq+0x35/0x7d
 [<c0112973>] do_softirq+0x22/0x26
 [<c0103a9d>] do_IRQ+0x1e/0x25
 [<c010255a>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
 [<c01013c5>] default_idle+0x2b/0x53
 [<c0101426>] cpu_idle+0x39/0x4e
 [<c0328386>] start_kernel+0x20b/0x20d
Code: c0 e8 b3 b6 77 fc 85 c0 75 10 68 d8 c8 9b c3 e8 82 3d 75 fc 8b 43 60 5a eb 50 8d 56 50 c7 00 00 00 00 00 66 89 68 04 eb 02 89
ca <8b> 0a 85 c9 75 f8 89 02 89 da ff 46 54 8b 46 10 e8 30 79 fd ff
 <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

That oops took me to the "ackqueue" implementation in capi.c.  The crash
occured in capincci_add_ack() (auto-inlined by the compiler).

I read the code a bit and finally decided to replace the custom linked list
implementation (struct capiminor->ackqueue) by a struct list_head.  That
did not solve the crash, but produced the following interresting oops:

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00200200
 printing eip:
c39bb1f5
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002 [#1]
Modules linked in: netconsole capi capifs 3c59x mii fcdsl kernelcapi uhci_hcd usbcore ide_cd cdrom
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<c39bb1f5>]    Tainted: P      VLI
EFLAGS: 00010246   (2.6.16.11 #3)
EIP is at capiminor_del_ack+0x18/0x49 [capi]
eax: 00200200   ebx: c18d41a0   ecx: c1385620   edx: 00100100
esi: 0000d147   edi: 00001103   ebp: 0000d147   esp: c1093f3c
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process events/0 (pid: 3, threadinfo=c1092000 task=c1089030)
Stack: <0>c2a17580 c18d41a0 c39bbd16 00000038 c18d41e0 00000000 d147c640 c29e0b68
       c29e0b90 00000212 c29e0b68 c39932b2 c29e0bb0 c10736a0 c0119ef0 c399326c
       c10736a8 c10736a0 c10736b0 c0119f93 c011a06e 00000001 00000000 00000000
Call Trace:
 [<c39bbd16>] handle_minor_send+0x1af/0x241 [capi]
 [<c39932b2>] recv_handler+0x46/0x5f [kernelcapi]
 [<c0119ef0>] run_workqueue+0x5e/0x8d
 [<c399326c>] recv_handler+0x0/0x5f [kernelcapi]
 [<c0119f93>] worker_thread+0x0/0x10b
 [<c011a06e>] worker_thread+0xdb/0x10b
 [<c010c998>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xc
 [<c011c399>] kthread+0x90/0xbc
 [<c011c309>] kthread+0x0/0xbc
 [<c0100a65>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb
Code: 7e 02 89 ee 89 f0 5a f7 d0 c1 f8 1f 5b 21 f0 5e 5f 5d c3 56 53 8b 48 50 89 d6 89 c3 8b 11 eb 2f 66 39 71 08 75 25 8b 41 04 8b 11 <89> 10 89 42 04 c7 01 00 01 10 00 89 c8 c7 41 04 00 02 20 00 e8

The interresting part of it is the "virtual address 00200200", which is
LIST_POISON2.  I thought about some race condition, but as this is an UP
system, it leads to questions on how it can happen.  If we look at EFLAGS:
00010202, we see that interrupts are enabled at the time of the crash
(eflags & 0x200).

Finally, I don't understand all the capi code, but I think that
handle_minor_send() is racing somehow against capi_recv_message(), which
call both capiminor_del_ack().  So if an IRQ occurs in the middle of
capiminor_del_ack() and another instance of it is invoked, it leads to
linked list corruption.

I came up with the following patch.  With this, I could not reproduce the
crash anymore.  Clearly, this is not the correct fix for the issue.  As this
seems to be some locking issue, there might be more locking issues in that
code.  For example, doesn't the whole struct capiminor have to be locked
somehow?

Cc: Carsten Paeth <calle@calle.de>
Cc: Kai Germaschewski <kai.germaschewski@gmx.de>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Notify page fault call chain
Anil S Keshavamurthy [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:29 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Notify page fault call chain

With this patch Kprobes now registers for page fault notifications only when
their is an active probe registered.  Once all the active probes are
unregistered their is no need to be notified of page faults and kprobes
unregisters itself from the page fault notifications.  Hence we will have ZERO
side effects when no probes are active.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Kprobes registers for notify page fault
Anil S Keshavamurthy [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:28 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Kprobes registers for notify page fault

Kprobes now registers for page fault notifications.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavmurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Notify page fault call chain for sparc64
Anil S Keshavamurthy [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:27 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Notify page fault call chain for sparc64

Overloading of page fault notification with the notify_die() has performance
issues(since the only interested components for page fault is kprobes and/or
kdb) and hence this patch introduces the new notifier call chain exclusively
for page fault notifications their by avoiding notifying unnecessary
components in the do_page_fault() code path.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Notify page fault call chain for powerpc
Anil S Keshavamurthy [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:27 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Notify page fault call chain for powerpc

Overloading of page fault notification with the notify_die() has performance
issues(since the only interested components for page fault is kprobes and/or
kdb) and hence this patch introduces the new notifier call chain exclusively
for page fault notifications their by avoiding notifying unnecessary
components in the do_page_fault() code path.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Notify page fault call chain for ia64
Anil S Keshavamurthy [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:26 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Notify page fault call chain for ia64

Overloading of page fault notification with the notify_die() has performance
issues(since the only interested components for page fault is kprobes and/or
kdb) and hence this patch introduces the new notifier call chain exclusively
for page fault notifications their by avoiding notifying unnecessary
components in the do_page_fault() code path.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Notify page fault call chain for i386
Anil S Keshavamurthy [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:25 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Notify page fault call chain for i386

Overloading of page fault notification with the notify_die() has performance
issues(since the only interested components for page fault is kprobes and/or
kdb) and hence this patch introduces the new notifier call chain exclusively
for page fault notifications their by avoiding notifying unnecessary
components in the do_page_fault() code path.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Notify page fault call chain for x86_64
Anil S Keshavamurthy [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:25 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Notify page fault call chain for x86_64

Currently in the do_page_fault() code path, we call notify_die(DIE_PAGE_FAULT,
...) to notify the page fault.  Since notify_die() is highly overloaded, this
page fault notification is currently being sent to all the components
registered with register_die_notification() which uses the same die_chain to
loop for all the registered components which is unnecessary.

In order to optimize the do_page_fault() code path, this critical page fault
notification is now moved to different call chain and the test results showed
great improvements.

And the kprobes which is interested in this notifications, now registers onto
this new call chain only when it need to, i.e Kprobes now registers for page
fault notification only when their are an active probes and unregisters from
this page fault notification when no probes are active.

I have incorporated all the feedback given by Ananth and Keith and everyone,
and thanks for all the review feedback.

This patch:

Overloading of page fault notification with the notify_die() has performance
issues(since the only interested components for page fault is kprobes and/or
kdb) and hence this patch introduces the new notifier call chain exclusively
for page fault notifications their by avoiding notifying unnecessary
components in the do_page_fault() code path.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Kprobe: multi kprobe posthandler for booster
mao, bibo [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:22 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Kprobe: multi kprobe posthandler for booster

If there are multi kprobes on the same probepoint, there will be one extra
aggr_kprobe on the head of kprobe list.  The aggr_kprobe has
aggr_post_handler/aggr_break_handler whether the other kprobe
post_hander/break_handler is NULL or not.  This patch modifies this, only
when there is one or more kprobe in the list whose post_handler is not
NULL, post_handler of aggr_kprobe will be set as aggr_post_handler.

[soshima@redhat.com: !CONFIG_PREEMPT fix]
Signed-off-by: bibo, mao <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Yumiko Sugita <sugita@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Satoshi Oshima <soshima@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kprobe: boost 2byte-opcodes on i386
Masami Hiramatsu [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:19 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] kprobe: boost 2byte-opcodes on i386

Previous kprobe-booster patch has not handled any 2byte opcodes and
prefixes.  I checked whole IA32 opcode map and classified it.

This patch enables kprobe to boost those 2byte opcodes and prefixes.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Yumiko Sugita <sugita@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Satoshi Oshima <soshima@redhat.com>
Cc: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] GTOD: add scx200 HRT clocksource
Jim Cromie [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:19 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] GTOD: add scx200 HRT clocksource

Add a GTOD clocksource driver based on the Geode SCx200's Hi-Res Timer.

Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] fix and optimize clock source update
Roman Zippel [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:18 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] fix and optimize clock source update

This fixes the clock source updates in update_wall_time() to correctly
track the time coming in via current_tick_length().  Optimize the fast
paths to be as short as possible to keep the overhead low.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] time: fix time going backward w/ clock=pit
john stultz [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:16 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] time: fix time going backward w/ clock=pit

Here is the PIT fix against the TOD patches that Tim pointed out.  Many
thanks to Tim for hunting this down.

Cc: Tim Mann <mann@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] generic-time: add macro to simplify/hide mask constants
Jim Cromie [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:15 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] generic-time: add macro to simplify/hide mask constants

Add a CLOCKSOURCE_MASK macro to simplify initializing the mask for a struct
clocksource, and use it to replace literal mask constants in the various
clocksource drivers.

Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] make pmtmr_ioport __read_mostly
Andreas Mohr [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:14 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] make pmtmr_ioport __read_mostly

- written on init only, accessed for every timer read --> __read_mostly
- fix broken sentence

Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] time: rename clocksource functions
john stultz [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:14 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] time: rename clocksource functions

As suggested by Roman Zippel, change clocksource functions to use
clocksource_xyz rather then xyz_clocksource to avoid polluting the
namespace.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Time: i386 Clocksource Drivers
john stultz [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:12 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Time: i386 Clocksource Drivers

Implement the time sources for i386 (acpi_pm, cyclone, hpet, pit, and tsc).
With this patch, the conversion of the i386 arch to the generic timekeeping
code should be complete.

The patch should be fairly straight forward, only adding the new clocksources.

[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: acpi_pm cleanup]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Time: i386 Conversion - part 4: Remove Old timer_opts Code
john stultz [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:12 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Time: i386 Conversion - part 4: Remove Old timer_opts Code

Remove the old timers/timer_opts infrastructure which has been disabled.  It
is a fairly straightforward set of deletions

Note that this does not provide any i386 clocksources, so you will only have
the jiffies clocksource.  To get full replacements for the code being removed
here, the timeofday-clocks-i386 patch will be needed.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Time: i386 Conversion - part 3: Enable Generic Timekeeping
john stultz [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:11 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Time: i386 Conversion - part 3: Enable Generic Timekeeping

This converts the i386 arch to use the generic timeofday subsystem.  It
enabled the GENERIC_TIME option, disables the timer_opts code and other arch
specific timekeeping code and reworks the delay code.

While this patch enables the generic timekeeping, please note that this patch
does not provide any i386 clocksource.  Thus only the jiffies clocksource will
be available.  To get full replacements for the code being disabled here, the
timeofday-clocks-i386 patch will needed.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Time: i386 Conversion - part 2: Rework TSC Support
john stultz [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:10 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Time: i386 Conversion - part 2: Rework TSC Support

As part of the i386 conversion to the generic timekeeping infrastructure, this
introduces a new tsc.c file.  The code in this file replaces the TSC
initialization, management and access code currently in timer_tsc.c (which
will be removed) that we want to preserve.

The code also introduces the following functionality:

o tsc_khz: like cpu_khz but stores the TSC frequency on systems that do not
  change TSC frequency w/ CPU frequency

o check/mark_tsc_unstable: accessor/modifier flag for TSC timekeeping
  usability

o minor cleanups to calibration math.

This patch also includes a one line __cpuinitdata fix from Zwane Mwaikambo.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Time: i386 Conversion - part 1: Move timer_pit.c to i8253.c
john stultz [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:09 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Time: i386 Conversion - part 1: Move timer_pit.c to i8253.c

A simple cleanup for the i386 arch in preparation of moving to the generic
timeofday infrastructure.  It simply moves the PIT initialization code, locks,
and other code we want to keep from some code from timer_pit.c (which will be
removed) to i8253.c.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] hangcheck: remove monotomic_clock on x86
Andrew Morton [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:09 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] hangcheck: remove monotomic_clock on x86

John's about to nuke x86's monotonic clock without grepping for it first.  The
patch lamely borrows the ppc64 code for x86.

hangcheck-timer shouldn't be doing it this way

a) HAVE_MONOTONIC should be CONFIG_MONOTONIC_CLOCK and it should be defined
   in arch/xxx/Kconfig.

b) That ifdef tangle shouldn't be in hangcheck-timer.c.  It should be using
   arch-provided helper functions, which CONFIG_MONOTONIC_CLOCK-enabling
   architectures implement in arch/something.c

Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Time: Introduce arch generic time accessors
john stultz [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:08 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Time: Introduce arch generic time accessors

Introduces clocksource switching code and the arch generic time accessor
functions that use the clocksource infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Time: Use clocksource abstraction for NTP adjustments
john stultz [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:07 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Time: Use clocksource abstraction for NTP adjustments

Instead of incrementing xtime by tick_nsec + ntp adjustments, use the
clocksource abstraction to increment and scale time.  Using the clocksource
abstraction allows other clocksources to be used consistently in the face of
late or lost ticks, while preserving the existing behavior via the jiffies
clocksource.

This removes the need to keep time_phase adjustments as we just use the
current_tick_length() function as the NTP interface and accumulate time using
shifted nanoseconds.

The basics of this design was by Roman Zippel, however it is my own
interpretation and implementation, so the credit should go to him and the
blame to me.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Time: Let user request precision from current_tick_length()
john stultz [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:07 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Time: Let user request precision from current_tick_length()

Change the current_tick_length() function so it takes an argument which
specifies how much precision to return in shifted nanoseconds.  This provides
a simple way to convert between NTPs internal nanoseconds shifted by
(SHIFT_SCALE - 10) to other shifted nanosecond units that are used by the
clocksource abstraction.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Time: Use clocksource infrastructure for update_wall_time
john stultz [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:06 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Time: Use clocksource infrastructure for update_wall_time

Modify the update_wall_time function so it increments time using the
clocksource abstraction instead of jiffies.  Since the only clocksource driver
currently provided is the jiffies clocksource, this should result in no
functional change.  Additionally, a timekeeping_init and timekeeping_resume
function has been added to initialize and maintain some of the new timekeping
state.

[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: fixlet]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Time: Clocksource Infrastructure
john stultz [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:05 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Time: Clocksource Infrastructure

This introduces the clocksource management infrastructure.  A clocksource is a
driver-like architecture generic abstraction of a free-running counter.  This
code defines the clocksource structure, and provides management code for
registering, selecting, accessing and scaling clocksources.

Additionally, this includes the trivial jiffies clocksource, a lowest common
denominator clocksource, provided mainly for use as an example.

[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: Don't enable IRQ too early]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ext3: Add "-o bh" option
Badari Pulavarty [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:04 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] ext3: Add "-o bh" option

This patch adds "-o bh" option to force use of buffer_heads.  This option
is needed when we make "nobh" as default - and if we run into problems.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Add bcm43xx HW RNG support
Michael Buesch [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:04 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Add bcm43xx HW RNG support

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Add TI OMAP CPU family HW RNG driver
Michael Buesch [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:03 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Add TI OMAP CPU family HW RNG driver

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Add ixp4xx HW RNG driver
Michael Buesch [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:02 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Add ixp4xx HW RNG driver

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Add VIA HW RNG driver
Michael Buesch [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:02 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Add VIA HW RNG driver

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Add Geode HW RNG driver
Michael Buesch [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:01 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Add Geode HW RNG driver

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Add AMD HW RNG driver
Michael Buesch [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:00 +0000 (00:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Add AMD HW RNG driver

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Add Intel HW RNG driver
Michael Buesch [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:24:59 +0000 (00:24 -0700)]
[PATCH] Add Intel HW RNG driver

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Add new generic HW RNG core
Michael Buesch [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:24:59 +0000 (00:24 -0700)]
[PATCH] Add new generic HW RNG core

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Remove old HW RNG support
Michael Buesch [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:24:58 +0000 (00:24 -0700)]
[PATCH] Remove old HW RNG support

This patch series replaces the old non-generic Hardware Random Number
Generator support by a fully generic RNG API.

This makes it possible to register additional RNGs from modules.  With this
patch series applied, Laptops with a bcm43xx chip (PowerBook) have a HW RNG
available now.

Additionally two new RNG drivers are added for the "ixp4xx" and "omap"
devices.  (Written by Deepak Saxena).  This patch series includes the old
patches by Deepak Saxena.

The old x86-rng driver has beed split.

The userspace RNG daemon can later be updated to select the RNG through
/sys/class/misc/hw_random/ for convenience.  For now it is sufficient to use
cat and echo -n on the sysfs attributes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] reiserfs: remove reiserfs_aio_write()
Alexey Dobriyan [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:24:57 +0000 (00:24 -0700)]
[PATCH] reiserfs: remove reiserfs_aio_write()

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] keys: add a way to store the appropriate context for newly-created keys
Michael LeMay [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:24:57 +0000 (00:24 -0700)]
[PATCH] keys: add a way to store the appropriate context for newly-created keys

Add a /proc/<pid>/attr/keycreate entry that stores the appropriate context for
newly-created keys.  Modify the selinux_key_alloc hook to make use of the new
entry.  Update the flask headers to include a new "setkeycreate" permission
for processes.  Update the flask headers to include a new "create" permission
for keys.  Use the create permission to restrict which SIDs each task can
assign to newly-created keys.  Add a new parameter to the security hook
"security_key_alloc" to indicate whether it is being invoked by the kernel, or
from userspace.  If it is being invoked by the kernel, the security hook
should never fail.  Update the documentation to reflect these changes.

Signed-off-by: Michael LeMay <mdlemay@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] keys: restrict contents of /proc/keys to Viewable keys
Michael LeMay [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:24:56 +0000 (00:24 -0700)]
[PATCH] keys: restrict contents of /proc/keys to Viewable keys

Restrict /proc/keys such that only those keys to which the current task is
granted View permission are presented.

The documentation is also updated to reflect these changes.

Signed-off-by: Michael LeMay <mdlemay@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] keys: allocate key serial numbers randomly
Michael LeMay [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:24:54 +0000 (00:24 -0700)]
[PATCH] keys: allocate key serial numbers randomly

Cause key_alloc_serial() to generate key serial numbers randomly rather than
in linear sequence.

Using an linear sequence permits a covert communication channel to be
established, in which one process can communicate with another by creating or
not creating new keys within a certain timeframe.  The second process can
probe for the expected next key serial number and judge its existence by the
error returned.

This is a problem as the serial number namespace is globally shared between
all tasks, regardless of their context.

For more information on this topic, this old TCSEC guide is recommended:

http://www.radium.ncsc.mil/tpep/library/rainbow/NCSC-TG-030.html

Signed-off-by: Michael LeMay <mdlemay@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] keys: let keyctl_chown() change a key's owner
Fredrik Tolf [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:24:51 +0000 (00:24 -0700)]
[PATCH] keys: let keyctl_chown() change a key's owner

Let keyctl_chown() change a key's owner, including attempting to transfer the
quota burden to the new user.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] keys: discard the contents of a key on revocation
David Howells [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:24:51 +0000 (00:24 -0700)]
[PATCH] keys: discard the contents of a key on revocation

Cause the keys linked to a keyring to be unlinked from it when revoked and it
causes the data attached to a user-defined key to be discarded when revoked.

This frees up most of the quota a key occupied at that point, rather than
waiting for the key to actually be destroyed.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] keys: sort out key quota system
David Howells [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:24:50 +0000 (00:24 -0700)]
[PATCH] keys: sort out key quota system

Add the ability for key creation to overrun the user's quota in some
circumstances - notably when a session keyring is created and assigned to a
process that didn't previously have one.

This means it's still possible to log in, should PAM require the creation of a
new session keyring, and fix an overburdened key quota.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] fs: use list_move()
Akinobu Mita [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:24:46 +0000 (00:24 -0700)]
[PATCH] fs: use list_move()

This patch converts the combination of list_del(A) and list_add(A, B) to
list_move(A, B) under fs/.

Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Hans Reiser <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Cc: Urban Widmark <urban@teststation.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] drivers: use list_move()
Akinobu Mita [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:24:41 +0000 (00:24 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers: use list_move()

This patch converts the combination of list_del(A) and list_add(A, B) to
list_move(A, B) under drivers/.

Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@mvista.com>
Cc: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Cc: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frank Pavlic <fpavlic@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Andrew Vasquez <linux-driver@qlogic.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] net/rxrpc: use list_move()
Akinobu Mita [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:24:40 +0000 (00:24 -0700)]
[PATCH] net/rxrpc: use list_move()

This patch converts the combination of list_del(A) and list_add(A, B) to
list_move(A, B) under net/rxrpc.

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] core: use list_move()
Akinobu Mita [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:24:40 +0000 (00:24 -0700)]
[PATCH] core: use list_move()

This patch converts the combination of list_del(A) and list_add(A, B) to
list_move(A, B).

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] arch: use list_move()
Akinobu Mita [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:24:39 +0000 (00:24 -0700)]
[PATCH] arch: use list_move()

This patch converts the combination of list_del(A) and list_add(A, B) to
list_move(A, B) under arch/.

Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] use list_add_tail() instead of list_add()
Akinobu Mita [Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:24:37 +0000 (00:24 -0700)]
[PATCH] use list_add_tail() instead of list_add()

This patch converts list_add(A, B.prev) to list_add_tail(A, &B) for
readability.

Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
AOLed-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>