Merge tag 'v3.7-rc5' into sched/core

Merge Linux 3.7-rc5, to pick up fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

5 files changed, 40 insertions, 48 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile
index 0dfeca4324ee..86e3285ae7e5 100644
--- a/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/kernel/Makefile
@@ -174,10 +174,8 @@ signing_key.priv signing_key.x509: x509.genkey
 	@echo "###"
 	@echo "### If this takes a long time, you might wish to run rngd in the"
 	@echo "### background to keep the supply of entropy topped up.  It"
-	@echo "### needs to be run as root, and should use a hardware random"
-	@echo "### number generator if one is available, eg:"
-	@echo "###"
-	@echo "###     rngd -r /dev/hwrandom"
+	@echo "### needs to be run as root, and uses a hardware random"
+	@echo "### number generator if one is available."
 	@echo "###"
 	openssl req -new -nodes -utf8 $(sign_key_with_hash) -days 36500 -batch \
 		-x509 -config x509.genkey \
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 13774b3b39aa..f24f724620dd 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -1962,9 +1962,8 @@ static void cgroup_task_migrate(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cgroup *oldcgrp,
 	 * trading it for newcg is protected by cgroup_mutex, we're safe to drop
 	 * it here; it will be freed under RCU.
 	 */
-	put_css_set(oldcg);
-
 	set_bit(CGRP_RELEASABLE, &oldcgrp->flags);
+	put_css_set(oldcg);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -4815,31 +4814,20 @@ static const struct file_operations proc_cgroupstats_operations = {
  *
  * A pointer to the shared css_set was automatically copied in
  * fork.c by dup_task_struct().  However, we ignore that copy, since
- * it was not made under the protection of RCU, cgroup_mutex or
- * threadgroup_change_begin(), so it might no longer be a valid
- * cgroup pointer.  cgroup_attach_task() might have already changed
- * current->cgroups, allowing the previously referenced cgroup
- * group to be removed and freed.
- *
- * Outside the pointer validity we also need to process the css_set
- * inheritance between threadgoup_change_begin() and
- * threadgoup_change_end(), this way there is no leak in any process
- * wide migration performed by cgroup_attach_proc() that could otherwise
- * miss a thread because it is too early or too late in the fork stage.
+ * it was not made under the protection of RCU or cgroup_mutex, so
+ * might no longer be a valid cgroup pointer.  cgroup_attach_task() might
+ * have already changed current->cgroups, allowing the previously
+ * referenced cgroup group to be removed and freed.
  *
  * At the point that cgroup_fork() is called, 'current' is the parent
  * task, and the passed argument 'child' points to the child task.
  */
 void cgroup_fork(struct task_struct *child)
 {
-	/*
-	 * We don't need to task_lock() current because current->cgroups
-	 * can't be changed concurrently here. The parent obviously hasn't
-	 * exited and called cgroup_exit(), and we are synchronized against
-	 * cgroup migration through threadgroup_change_begin().
-	 */
+	task_lock(current);
 	child->cgroups = current->cgroups;
 	get_css_set(child->cgroups);
+	task_unlock(current);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&child->cg_list);
 }
 
@@ -4895,19 +4883,10 @@ void cgroup_post_fork(struct task_struct *child)
 	 */
 	if (use_task_css_set_links) {
 		write_lock(&css_set_lock);
-		if (list_empty(&child->cg_list)) {
-			/*
-			 * It's safe to use child->cgroups without task_lock()
-			 * here because we are protected through
-			 * threadgroup_change_begin() against concurrent
-			 * css_set change in cgroup_task_migrate(). Also
-			 * the task can't exit at that point until
-			 * wake_up_new_task() is called, so we are protected
-			 * against cgroup_exit() setting child->cgroup to
-			 * init_css_set.
-			 */
+		task_lock(child);
+		if (list_empty(&child->cg_list))
 			list_add(&child->cg_list, &child->cgroups->tasks);
-		}
+		task_unlock(child);
 		write_unlock(&css_set_lock);
 	}
 }
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 6085f5ef88ea..6e48c3a43599 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -2293,12 +2293,17 @@ static void layout_symtab(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info)
 	src = (void *)info->hdr + symsect->sh_offset;
 	nsrc = symsect->sh_size / sizeof(*src);
 
+	/* strtab always starts with a nul, so offset 0 is the empty string. */
+	strtab_size = 1;
+
 	/* Compute total space required for the core symbols' strtab. */
-	for (ndst = i = strtab_size = 1; i < nsrc; ++i, ++src)
-		if (is_core_symbol(src, info->sechdrs, info->hdr->e_shnum)) {
-			strtab_size += strlen(&info->strtab[src->st_name]) + 1;
+	for (ndst = i = 0; i < nsrc; i++) {
+		if (i == 0 ||
+		    is_core_symbol(src+i, info->sechdrs, info->hdr->e_shnum)) {
+			strtab_size += strlen(&info->strtab[src[i].st_name])+1;
 			ndst++;
 		}
+	}
 
 	/* Append room for core symbols at end of core part. */
 	info->symoffs = ALIGN(mod->core_size, symsect->sh_addralign ?: 1);
@@ -2332,15 +2337,15 @@ static void add_kallsyms(struct module *mod, const struct load_info *info)
 	mod->core_symtab = dst = mod->module_core + info->symoffs;
 	mod->core_strtab = s = mod->module_core + info->stroffs;
 	src = mod->symtab;
-	*dst = *src;
 	*s++ = 0;
-	for (ndst = i = 1; i < mod->num_symtab; ++i, ++src) {
-		if (!is_core_symbol(src, info->sechdrs, info->hdr->e_shnum))
-			continue;
-
-		dst[ndst] = *src;
-		dst[ndst++].st_name = s - mod->core_strtab;
-		s += strlcpy(s, &mod->strtab[src->st_name], KSYM_NAME_LEN) + 1;
+	for (ndst = i = 0; i < mod->num_symtab; i++) {
+		if (i == 0 ||
+		    is_core_symbol(src+i, info->sechdrs, info->hdr->e_shnum)) {
+			dst[ndst] = src[i];
+			dst[ndst++].st_name = s - mod->core_strtab;
+			s += strlcpy(s, &mod->strtab[src[i].st_name],
+				     KSYM_NAME_LEN) + 1;
+		}
 	}
 	mod->core_num_syms = ndst;
 }
diff --git a/kernel/pid_namespace.c b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
index eb00be205811..7b07cc0dfb75 100644
--- a/kernel/pid_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
@@ -71,12 +71,22 @@ err_alloc:
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+/* MAX_PID_NS_LEVEL is needed for limiting size of 'struct pid' */
+#define MAX_PID_NS_LEVEL 32
+
 static struct pid_namespace *create_pid_namespace(struct pid_namespace *parent_pid_ns)
 {
 	struct pid_namespace *ns;
 	unsigned int level = parent_pid_ns->level + 1;
-	int i, err = -ENOMEM;
+	int i;
+	int err;
+
+	if (level > MAX_PID_NS_LEVEL) {
+		err = -EINVAL;
+		goto out;
+	}
 
+	err = -ENOMEM;
 	ns = kmem_cache_zalloc(pid_ns_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (ns == NULL)
 		goto out;
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index d951daa0ca9a..042d221d33cc 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -2982,7 +2982,7 @@ bool cancel_delayed_work(struct delayed_work *dwork)
 
 	set_work_cpu_and_clear_pending(&dwork->work, work_cpu(&dwork->work));
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
-	return true;
+	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cancel_delayed_work);