- 09 Jan, 2006 40 commits
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Valentine Barshak authored
The patch makes posix_fadvise return ESPIPE on FIFO/pipe in order to be fully POSIX-compliant. Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Rob Landley authored
Based on questions people have asked me. Repeatedly. Signed-off-by:
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by:
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Srivatsa Vaddagiri authored
This patch forces RCU torture threads off various CPUs in the system allowing them to become idle and go tickless. Meant to test support for such tickless idle CPU in RCU. Signed-off-by:
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Dave Jones authored
Kernels that have had Windows drivers loaded into them are undebuggable. I've wasted a number of hours chasing bugs filed in Fedora bugzilla only to find out much later that the user had used such 'helpers', and their problems were unreproducable without them loaded. Acked-by:
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Eric Dumazet authored
I found that blkp field was not used in kernel tree. As most of the times NR_CPUS is a power of two and kmalloc() memory blocks too, this extra field basically doubles the memory space allocated in __alloc_percpu() to store the 'struct percpu_data' (for example, if NR_CPUS=8 on i386, kmalloc(4*8+4) returns a 64 bytes block instead of a 32 bytes block after this patch) Signed-off-by:
Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by:
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Pekka Enberg authored
This patch inlines the single user of struct super_block field s_old_blocksize and removes the field. Signed-off-by:
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by:
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Jesper Juhl authored
Minor update to Documentation/applying-patches.txt Signed-off-by:
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Nicolas Kaiser authored
linux/delay.h included twice Signed-off-by:
Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net> Signed-off-by:
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David Gibson authored
mmap() returns -EINVAL if given a zero length, and thus elf_map() in binfmt_elf.c does likewise if it attempts to map a (page-aligned) ELF segment with zero filesize. Such a situation never arises with the default linker scripts, but there's nothing inherently wrong with zero-filesize (but non-zero memsize) ELF segments. Custom linker scripts can generate them, and the kernel should be able to map them; this patch makes it so. Signed-off-by:
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by:
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David S. Miller authored
The parameter to put_cpu_var() is unreferenced by the implementation, and the compiler doesn't try to comprehend comments, so this wouldn't cause any problem, but if bugged me enough to post a fix :-) Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by:
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Eric Dumazet authored
Some long time ago, dentry struct was carefully tuned so that on 32 bits UP, sizeof(struct dentry) was exactly 128, ie a power of 2, and a multiple of memory cache lines. Then RCU was added and dentry struct enlarged by two pointers, with nice results for SMP, but not so good on UP, because breaking the above tuning (128 + 8 = 136 bytes) This patch reverts this unwanted side effect, by using an union (d_u), where d_rcu and d_child are placed so that these two fields can share their memory needs. At the time d_free() is called (and d_rcu is really used), d_child is known to be empty and not touched by the dentry freeing. Lockless lookups only access d_name, d_parent, d_lock, d_op, d_flags (so the previous content of d_child is not needed if said dentry was unhashed but still accessed by a CPU because of RCU constraints) As dentry cache easily contains millions of entries, a size reduction is worth the extra complexity of the ugly C union. Signed-off-by:
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Jorn Dreyer authored
It would be helpful if the kernel did not silently stop parsing nfs options, but instead warned about any he does not recognize. The attached patch adds one printk to do just that. It took me a couple of hours to find my configuration mistake. Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
The only user of send_sigio_to_task() already holds tasklist_lock, so it is better not to send the signal via send_group_sig_info() (which takes tasklist recursively) but use group_send_sig_info(). The same change in send_sigurg()->send_sigurg_to_task(). Signed-off-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
This patch removes unneeded sig->curr_target recalculation under 'if (atomic_dec_and_test(&sig->count))' in __exit_signal(). When sig->count == 0 the signal can't be sent to this task and next_thread(tsk) == tsk anyway. Signed-off-by:
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Nicolas Kaiser authored
uniq -d MAINTAINERS Signed-off-by:
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Glauber de Oliveira Costa authored
There are places in the resize code in which EXT3_SB() macro is used after an statement like sbi = EXT3_SB(sb) is done. Inside the same function, both sbi and EXT3_SB() are used to reference the super block Altough it is not wrong, keeping it coherent increases legibility, IMHO. Signed-off-by:
Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@br.ibm.com> Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> Signed-off-by:
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Glauber de Oliveira Costa authored
Remove the trailing newlines in calls to ext3_warning(). This function already adds a trailing newline to the end of messages. Signed-off-by:
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Eric Dumazet authored
Make oprofile alloc_cpu_buffers() function NUMA aware, allocating each CPU local buffer in its memory node if possible. Signed-off-by:
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Johann Lombardi authored
The patch below adds a new mount option to allow the external journal device to be specified. The syntax is as follows: # mount -t ext3 -o journal_dev=0x0820 ... where 0x0820 means major=8 and minor=32. Signed-off-by:
Johann Lombardi <johann.lombardi@bull.net> Signed-off-by:
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Miklos Szeredi authored
Small cleanups in shared mounts code. Signed-off-by:
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Neil Brown authored
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Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Ashok Raj authored
Thanks to Nathan Lynch for the review and comments. Thanks to Joel Schopp for the pointer to add user space scipts. Signed-off-by:
Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Nathan Lynch <nathanl@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Kylene Jo Hall authored
According to the TCG specifications measurements or hashes of the BIOS code and data are extended into TPM PCRS and a log is kept in an ACPI table of these extensions for later validation if desired. This patch exports the values in the ACPI table through a security-fs seq_file. Signed-off-by:
Seiji Munetoh <munetoh@jp.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Stefan Berger <stefanb@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Reiner Sailer <sailer@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Kylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
zap_other_threads() sets SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT at the very start, do_group_exit() doesn't need to do it. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
__group_complete_signal() sets ->group_stop_count in sig_kernel_coredump() path and marks the target thread as ->group_exit_task. So any thread except group_exit_task will go to handle_group_stop()->finish_stop(). However, when group_exit_task actually starts do_coredump(), it sets SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT, but does not reset ->group_stop_count while killing other threads. If we have not yet stopped threads in the same thread group, they all will spin in kernel mode until group_exit_task sends them SIGKILL, because ->group_stop_count > 0 means: recalc_sigpending_tsk() never clears TIF_SIGPENDING get_signal_to_deliver() goes to handle_group_stop() handle_group_stop() returns when SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT set syscall_exit/resume_userspace notice TIF_SIGPENDING, call get_signal_to_deliver() again. So we are wasting cpu cycles, and if one of these threads is rt_task() this may be a serious problem. NOTE: do_coredump() holds ->mmap_sem, so not stopped threads can't escape coredumping after clearing ->group_stop_count. See also this thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=112739139900002Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Use symbolic names instead of hardcoded constants. Signed-off-by:
Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
We've had two instances recently of overflows when doing 64_bit_value = (32_bit_value << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT) I did a tree-wide grep of `<<.*PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT' and this is the result. - afs_rxfs_fetch_descriptor.offset is of type off_t, which seems broken. - jfs and jffs are limited to 4GB anyway. - reiserfs map_block_for_writepage() takes an unsigned long for the block - it should take sector_t. (It'll fail for huge filesystems with blocksize<PAGE_CACHE_SIZE) - cramfs_read() needs to use sector_t (I think cramsfs is busted on large filesystems anyway) - affs is limited in file size anyway. - I generally didn't fix 32-bit overflows in directory operations. - arm's __flush_dcache_page() is peculiar. What if the page lies beyond 4G? - gss_wrap_req_priv() needs checking (snd_buf->page_base) Cc: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by:
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Ben Collins authored
__create_workqueue() not checking return of alloc_percpu() NULL dereference was possible. Signed-off-by:
Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by:
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taneli.vahakangas@netsonic.fi authored
<stuartm@connecttech.com> Sent by Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>, who needs to read Documentation/SubmittingPatches.. Signed-off-by: -
Christoph Hellwig authored
HDIO_GETGEO is implemented in most block drivers, and all of them have to duplicate the code to copy the structure to userspace, as well as getting the start sector. This patch moves that to common code [1] and adds a ->getgeo method to fill out the raw kernel hd_geometry structure. For many drivers this means ->ioctl can go away now. [1] the s390 block drivers are odd in this respect. xpram sets ->start to 4 always which seems more than odd, and the dasd driver shifts the start offset around, probably because of it's non-standard sector size. Signed-off-by:Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Cc: <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by:
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Xose Vazquez Perez authored
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George Anzinger authored
While rooting aroung in the signal code trying to understand how to fix the SIG_IGN ploy (set sig handler to SIG_IGN and flood system with high speed repeating timers) I came across what, I think, is a problem in sigaction() in that when processing a SIG_IGN request it flushes signals from 1 to SIGRTMIN and leaves the rest. Attempt to fix this. Signed-off-by:
George Anzinger <george@mvista.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
Make it possible for a running process (such as gssapid) to be able to instantiate a key, as was requested by Trond Myklebust for NFS4. The patch makes the following changes: (1) A new, optional key type method has been added. This permits a key type to intercept requests at the point /sbin/request-key is about to be spawned and do something else with them - passing them over the rpc_pipefs files or netlink sockets for instance. The uninstantiated key, the authorisation key and the intended operation name are passed to the method. (2) The callout_info is no longer passed as an argument to /sbin/request-key to prevent unauthorised viewing of this data using ps or by looking in /proc/pid/cmdline. This means that the old /sbin/request-key program will not work with the patched kernel as it will expect to see an extra argument that is no longer there. A revised keyutils package will be made available tomorrow. (3) The callout_info is now attached to the authorisation key. Reading this key will retrieve the information. (4) A new field has been added to the task_struct. This holds the authorisation key currently active for a thread. Searches now look here for the caller's set of keys rather than looking for an auth key in the lowest level of the session keyring. This permits a thread to be servicing multiple requests at once and to switch between them. Note that this is per-thread, not per-process, and so is usable in multithreaded programs. The setting of this field is inherited across fork and exec. (5) A new keyctl function (KEYCTL_ASSUME_AUTHORITY) has been added that permits a thread to assume the authority to deal with an uninstantiated key. Assumption is only permitted if the authorisation key associated with the uninstantiated key is somewhere in the thread's keyrings. This function can also clear the assumption. (6) A new magic key specifier has been added to refer to the currently assumed authorisation key (KEY_SPEC_REQKEY_AUTH_KEY). (7) Instantiation will only proceed if the appropriate authorisation key is assumed first. The assumed authorisation key is discarded if instantiation is successful. (8) key_validate() is moved from the file of request_key functions to the file of permissions functions. (9) The documentation is updated. From: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Build fix. Signed-off-by:David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Alexander Zangerl <az@bond.edu.au> Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
Cause any links within a keyring to keys that match a key to be linked into that keyring to be discarded as a link to the new key is added. The match is contingent on the type and description strings being the same. This permits requests, adds and searches to displace negative, expired, revoked and dead keys easily. After some discussion it was concluded that duplicate valid keys should probably be discarded also as they would otherwise hide the new key. Since request_key() is intended to be the primary method by which keys are added to a keyring, duplicate valid keys wouldn't be an issue there as that function would return an existing match in preference to creating a new key. Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
Add a new keyctl function that allows the expiry time to be set on a key or removed from a key, provided the caller has attribute modification access. Signed-off-by:
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Guillaume Chazarain authored
kmsg_write returns with printk, so some programs may be confused by a successful write() with a return value different than the buffer length. # /bin/echo something > /dev/kmsg /bin/echo: write error: Inappropriate ioctl for device The drawbacks is that the printk return value can no more be quickly checked from userspace. Signed-off-by:
Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@yahoo.fr> Signed-off-by:
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Guillaume Chazarain authored
What's the true meaning of the printk return value? Should it include the priority prefix length of 3? and what about the timing information? In both cases it was broken: strace -e write echo 1 > /dev/kmsg => write(1, "1\n", 2) = 5 strace -e write echo "<1>1" > /dev/kmsg => write(1, "<1>1\n", 5) = 8 The returned length was "length of input string + 3", I made it "length of string output to the log buffer". Note that I couldn't find any printk caller in the kernel interested by its return value besides kmsg_write. Signed-off-by:
Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by:
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NeilBrown authored
When making an fctl locking call through compat_sys_fcntl64 (i.e. a 32bit app on a 64bit kernel), the syscall can return a locking range that is in conflict with the queried lock. If some aspect of this range does not fit in the 32bit structure, something needs to be done. The current code is wrong in several respects: - It returns data to userspace even if no conflict was found i.e. it should check l_type for F_UNLCK - It returns -EOVERFLOW too agressively. A lock range covering the last possible byte of the file (start = COMPAT_OFF_T_MAX, len = 1) should be possible, but is rejected with the current test. - A extra-long 'len' should not be a problem. If only that part of the conflicting lock that would be visible to the 32bit app needs to be reported to the 32bit app anyway. This patch addresses those three issues and adds a comment to (hopefully) record it for posterity. Note: this patch mainly affects test-cases. Real applications rarely is ever see the problems. This patch has been tested (LSB test suite), and works. Signed-off-by:
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NeilBrown authored
SUS requires that when truncating a file to the size that it currently is: truncate and ftruncate should NOT modify ctime or mtime O_TRUNC SHOULD modify ctime and mtime. Currently mtime and ctime are always modified on most local filesystems (side effect of ->truncate) or never modified (on NFS). With this patch: ATTR_CTIME|ATTR_MTIME are sent with ATTR_SIZE precisely when an update of these times is required whether size changes or not (via a new argument to do_truncate). This allows NFS to do the right thing for O_TRUNC. inode_setattr nolonger forces ATTR_MTIME|ATTR_CTIME when the ATTR_SIZE sets the size to it's current value. This allows local filesystems to do the right thing for f?truncate. Also, the logic in inode_setattr is changed a bit so there are two return points. One returns the error from vmtruncate if it failed, the other returns 0 (there can be no other failure). Finally, if vmtruncate succeeds, and ATTR_SIZE is the only change requested, we now fall-through and mark_inode_dirty. If a filesystem did not have a ->truncate function, then vmtruncate will have changed i_size, without marking the inode as 'dirty', and I think this is wrong. Signed-off-by: -
David Howells authored
Make it possible to include linux/pagevec.h multiple times without incurring errors due to duplicate definitions. Signed-off-by:
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