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2009-09-11Merge branch 'next' into for-linusJames Morris97-609/+2245
2009-09-10binfmt_elf: fix PT_INTERP bss handlingRoland McGrath1-14/+14
In fs/binfmt_elf.c, load_elf_interp() calls padzero() for .bss even if the PT_LOAD has no PROT_WRITE and no .bss. This generates EFAULT. Here is a small test case. (Yes, there are other, useful PT_INTERP which have only .text and no .data/.bss.) ----- ptinterp.S _start: .globl _start nop int3 ----- $ gcc -m32 -nostartfiles -nostdlib -o ptinterp ptinterp.S $ gcc -m32 -Wl,--dynamic-linker=ptinterp -o hello hello.c $ ./hello Segmentation fault # during execve() itself After applying the patch: $ ./hello Trace trap # user-mode execution after execve() finishes If the ELF headers are actually self-inconsistent, then dying is fine. But having no PROT_WRITE segment is perfectly normal and correct if there is no segment with p_memsz > p_filesz (i.e. bss). John Reiser suggested checking for PROT_WRITE in the bss logic. I think it makes most sense to simply apply the bss logic only when there is bss. This patch looks less trivial than it is due to some reindentation. It just moves the "if (last_bss > elf_bss) {" test up to include the partial-page bss logic as well as the more-pages bss logic. Reported-by: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com> Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-10TPM: Fixup boot probe timeout for tpm_tis driverJason Gunthorpe1-6/+6
When probing the device in tpm_tis_init the call request_locality uses timeout_a, which wasn't being initalized until after request_locality. This results in request_locality falsely timing out if the chip is still starting. Move the initialization to before request_locality. This probably only matters for embedded cases (ie mine), a BIOS likely gets the TPM into a state where this code path isn't necessary. Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> Acked-by: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-10sysfs: Add labeling support for sysfsDavid P. Quigley6-37/+118
This patch adds a setxattr handler to the file, directory, and symlink inode_operations structures for sysfs. The patch uses hooks introduced in the previous patch to handle the getting and setting of security information for the sysfs inodes. As was suggested by Eric Biederman the struct iattr in the sysfs_dirent structure has been replaced by a structure which contains the iattr, secdata and secdata length to allow the changes to persist in the event that the inode representing the sysfs_dirent is evicted. Because sysfs only stores this information when a change is made all the optional data is moved into one dynamically allocated field. This patch addresses an issue where SELinux was denying virtd access to the PCI configuration entries in sysfs. The lack of setxattr handlers for sysfs required that a single label be assigned to all entries in sysfs. Granting virtd access to every entry in sysfs is not an acceptable solution so fine grained labeling of sysfs is required such that individual entries can be labeled appropriately. [sds: Fixed compile-time warnings, coding style, and setting of inode security init flags.] Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: Stephen D. Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-10LSM/SELinux: inode_{get,set,notify}secctx hooks to access LSM security ↵David P. Quigley5-0/+143
context information. This patch introduces three new hooks. The inode_getsecctx hook is used to get all relevant information from an LSM about an inode. The inode_setsecctx is used to set both the in-core and on-disk state for the inode based on a context derived from inode_getsecctx.The final hook inode_notifysecctx will notify the LSM of a change for the in-core state of the inode in question. These hooks are for use in the labeled NFS code and addresses concerns of how to set security on an inode in a multi-xattr LSM. For historical reasons Stephen Smalley's explanation of the reason for these hooks is pasted below. Quote Stephen Smalley inode_setsecctx: Change the security context of an inode. Updates the in core security context managed by the security module and invokes the fs code as needed (via __vfs_setxattr_noperm) to update any backing xattrs that represent the context. Example usage: NFS server invokes this hook to change the security context in its incore inode and on the backing file system to a value provided by the client on a SETATTR operation. inode_notifysecctx: Notify the security module of what the security context of an inode should be. Initializes the incore security context managed by the security module for this inode. Example usage: NFS client invokes this hook to initialize the security context in its incore inode to the value provided by the server for the file when the server returned the file's attributes to the client. Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-10VFS: Factor out part of vfs_setxattr so it can be called from the SELinux ↵David P. Quigley2-13/+43
hook for inode_setsecctx. This factors out the part of the vfs_setxattr function that performs the setting of the xattr and its notification. This is needed so the SELinux implementation of inode_setsecctx can handle the setting of the xattr while maintaining the proper separation of layers. Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-09Linux 2.6.31v2.6.31Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
2009-09-09aoe: allocate unused request_queue for sysfsEd Cashin3-4/+11
Andy Whitcroft reported an oops in aoe triggered by use of an incorrectly initialised request_queue object: [ 2645.959090] kobject '<NULL>' (ffff880059ca22c0): tried to add an uninitialized object, something is seriously wrong. [ 2645.959104] Pid: 6, comm: events/0 Not tainted 2.6.31-5-generic #24-Ubuntu [ 2645.959107] Call Trace: [ 2645.959139] [<ffffffff8126ca2f>] kobject_add+0x5f/0x70 [ 2645.959151] [<ffffffff8125b4ab>] blk_register_queue+0x8b/0xf0 [ 2645.959155] [<ffffffff8126043f>] add_disk+0x8f/0x160 [ 2645.959161] [<ffffffffa01673c4>] aoeblk_gdalloc+0x164/0x1c0 [aoe] The request queue of an aoe device is not used but can be allocated in code that does not sleep. Bruno bisected this regression down to cd43e26f071524647e660706b784ebcbefbd2e44 block: Expose stacked device queues in sysfs "This seems to generate /sys/block/$device/queue and its contents for everyone who is using queues, not just for those queues that have a non-NULL queue->request_fn." Addresses http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410198 Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13942 Note that embedding a queue inside another object has always been an illegal construct, since the queues are reference counted and must persist until the last reference is dropped. So aoe was always buggy in this respect (Jens). Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Bruno Premont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org> Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-09KEYS: Add missing linux/tracehook.h #inclusionsDavid Howells8-0/+8
Add #inclusions of linux/tracehook.h to those arch files that had the tracehook call for TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME added when support for that flag was added to that arch. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-08i915: disable interrupts before tearing down GEM stateLinus Torvalds1-5/+1
Reinette Chatre reports a frozen system (with blinking keyboard LEDs) when switching from graphics mode to the text console, or when suspending (which does the same thing). With netconsole, the oops turned out to be BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000084 IP: [<ffffffffa03ecaab>] i915_driver_irq_handler+0x26b/0xd20 [i915] and it's due to the i915_gem.c code doing drm_irq_uninstall() after having done i915_gem_idle(). And the i915_gem_idle() path will do i915_gem_idle() -> i915_gem_cleanup_ringbuffer() -> i915_gem_cleanup_hws() -> dev_priv->hw_status_page = NULL; but if an i915 interrupt comes in after this stage, it may want to access that hw_status_page, and gets the above NULL pointer dereference. And since the NULL pointer dereference happens from within an interrupt, and with the screen still in graphics mode, the common end result is simply a silently hung machine. Fix it by simply uninstalling the irq handler before idling rather than after. Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13819 Reported-and-tested-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-08drm/i915: fix mask bits settingZhenyu Wang3-1/+3
eDP is exclusive connector too, and add missing crtc_mask setting for TV. This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14139 Signed-off-by: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com> Reported-and-tested-by: Carlos R. Mafra <crmafra2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-07Merge branch 'drm-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds5-69/+70
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6 * 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6: drm/radeon/kms: add LTE/GTE discard + rv515 two sided stencil register.
2009-09-07Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-8/+20
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: IMA: update ima_counts_put
2009-09-07Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: gianfar: Fix build.
2009-09-07Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/ide-2.6Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/ide-2.6: pcmcia: add CNF-CDROM-ID for ide
2009-09-07Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds3-6/+31
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel: agp/intel: support for new chip variant of IGDNG mobile drm/i915: Unref old_obj on get_fence_reg() error path drm/i915: increase default latency constant (v2 w/comment)
2009-09-07KEYS: Fix default security_session_to_parent()David Howells1-1/+4
Fix the default security_session_to_parent() in linux/security.h to have a body. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-07drm/radeon/kms: add LTE/GTE discard + rv515 two sided stencil register.Dave Airlie5-69/+70
This adds some rv350+ register for LTE/GTE discard, and enables the rv515 two sided stencil register. It also disables the DEPTHXY_OFFSET register which can be used to workaround the CS checker. Moves rs690 to proper place in rs600 and uses correct table on rs600. Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2009-09-07IMA: update ima_counts_putMimi Zohar2-8/+20
- As ima_counts_put() may be called after the inode has been freed, verify that the inode is not NULL, before dereferencing it. - Maintain the IMA file counters in may_open() properly, decrementing any counter increments on subsequent errors. Reported-by: Ciprian Docan <docan@eden.rutgers.edu> Reported-by: J.R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-07Security/SELinux: includecheck fix kernel/sysctl.cJaswinder Singh Rajput1-1/+0
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning: kernel/sysctl.c: linux/security.h is included more than once. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-07KEYS: security_cred_alloc_blank() should return int under all circumstancesDavid Howells1-2/+4
Make security_cred_alloc_blank() return int, not void, when CONFIG_SECURITY=n. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-06gianfar: Fix build.David S. Miller1-1/+1
Reported by Michael Guntsche <mike@it-loops.com> -------------------- Commit 38bddf04bcfe661fbdab94888c3b72c32f6873b3 gianfar: gfar_remove needs to call unregister_netdev() breaks the build of the gianfar driver because "dev" is undefined in this function. To quickly test rc9 I changed this to priv->ndev but I do not know if this is the correct one. -------------------- Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-05Linux 2.6.31-rc9v2.6.31-rc9Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
2009-09-05Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds3-6/+20
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6: firewire: sbp2: fix freeing of unallocated memory firewire: ohci: fix Ricoh R5C832, video reception firewire: ohci: fix Agere FW643 and multiple cameras firewire: core: fix crash in iso resource management
2009-09-05powerpc: Fix i8259 interrupt driver kernel crash on ML510Roderick Colenbrander1-1/+0
This patch fixes a null pointer exception caused by removal of 'ack()' for level interrupts in the Xilinx interrupt driver. A recent change to the xilinx interrupt controller removed the ack hook for level irqs. Signed-off-by: Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbird2k@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-05Merge git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/mtd-2.6.31Linus Torvalds3-7/+20
* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/mtd-2.6.31: JFFS2: add missing verify buffer allocation/deallocation mtd: nftl: fix offset alignments mtd: nftl: write support is broken mtd: m25p80: fix null pointer dereference bug
2009-09-05Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: block: Allow changing max_sectors_kb above the default 512
2009-09-05Merge branch 'fix/oxygen' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-0/+5
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 * 'fix/oxygen' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: sound: oxygen: handle cards with missing EEPROM sound: oxygen: fix MCLK rate for 192 kHz playback
2009-09-05Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds6-75/+89
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: tc: Fix unitialized kernel memory leak pkt_sched: Revert tasklet_hrtimer changes. net: sk_free() should be allowed right after sk_alloc() gianfar: gfar_remove needs to call unregister_netdev() ipw2200: firmware DMA loading rework
2009-09-05Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6Linus Torvalds3-4/+12
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: crypto: skcipher - Fix skcipher_dequeue_givcrypt NULL test
2009-09-05Merge branch 'fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-88/+7
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq * 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq: [CPUFREQ] Re-enable cpufreq suspend and resume code
2009-09-05Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-4/+8
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] fix csum_ipv6_magic() [IA64] Fix warning in dma-mapping.c
2009-09-05Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfsLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: xfs: actually enable the swapext compat handler
2009-09-05Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2: nilfs2: fix preempt count underflow in nilfs_btnode_prepare_change_key
2009-09-05Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+14
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: percpu: don't assume existence of cpu0
2009-09-05Merge branch 'slab/urgent' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-2/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 * 'slab/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6: slub: Fix kmem_cache_destroy() with SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU
2009-09-05Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dmLinus Torvalds13-81/+198
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm: dm snapshot: fix on disk chunk size validation dm exception store: split set_chunk_size dm snapshot: fix header corruption race on invalidation dm snapshot: refactor zero_disk_area to use chunk_io dm log: userspace add luid to distinguish between concurrent log instances dm raid1: do not allow log_failure variable to unset after being set dm log: remove incorrect field from userspace table output dm log: fix userspace status output dm stripe: expose correct io hints dm table: add more context to terse warning messages dm table: fix queue_limit checking device iterator dm snapshot: implement iterate devices dm multipath: fix oops when request based io fails when no paths
2009-09-05Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds4-6/+42
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: PCI SR-IOV: correct broken resource alignment calculations
2009-09-05Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds4-7/+6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: sparc64: Fix bootup with mcount in some configs. sparc64: Kill spurious NMI watchdog triggers by increasing limit to 30 seconds.
2009-09-05Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-4/+5
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf_counter/powerpc: Fix cache event codes for POWER7 perf_counter: Fix /0 bug in swcounters perf_counters: Increase paranoia level
2009-09-05Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-0/+43
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: Input: atkbd - add Compaq Presario R4000-series repeat quirk Input: i8042 - add Acer Aspire 5536 to the nomux list
2009-09-05ext2: fix unbalanced kmap()/kunmap()Nicolas Pitre1-0/+4
In ext2_rename(), dir_page is acquired through ext2_dotdot(). It is then released through ext2_set_link() but only if old_dir != new_dir. Failing that, the pkmap reference count is never decremented and the page remains pinned forever. Repeat that a couple times with highmem pages and all pkmap slots get exhausted, and every further kmap() calls end up stalling on the pkmap_map_wait queue at which point the whole system comes to a halt. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com> Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-05Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-2/+13
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2 * 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2: ocfs2: ocfs2_write_begin_nolock() should handle len=0 ocfs2: invalidate dentry if its dentry_lock isn't initialized.
2009-09-05pty: don't limit the writes to 'pty_space()' inside 'pty_write()'Linus Torvalds1-9/+1
The whole write-room thing is something that is up to the _caller_ to worry about, not the pty layer itself. The total buffer space will still be limited by the buffering routines themselves, so there is no advantage or need in having pty_write() artificially limit the size somehow. And what happened was that the caller (the n_tty line discipline, in this case) may have verified that there is room for 2 bytes to be written (for NL -> CRNL expansion), and it used to then do those writes as two single-byte writes. And if the first byte written (CR) then caused a new tty buffer to be allocated, pty_space() may have returned zero when trying to write the second byte (LF), and then incorrectly failed the write - leading to a lost newline character. This should finally fix http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14015 Reported-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-05n_tty: do O_ONLCR translation as a single writeLinus Torvalds1-2/+1
When translating CR to CRNL in the n_tty line discipline, we did it as two tty_put_char() calls. Which works, but is stupid, and has caused problems before too with bad interactions with the write_room() logic. The generic USB serial driver had that problem, for example. Now the pty layer had similar issues after being moved to the generic tty buffering code (in commit d945cb9cce20ac7143c2de8d88b187f62db99bdc: "pty: Rework the pty layer to use the normal buffering logic"). So stop doing the silly separate two writes, and do it as a single write instead. That's what the n_tty layer already does for the space expansion of tabs (XTABS), and it means that we'll now always have just a single write for the CRNL to match the single 'tty_write_room()' test, which hopefully means that the next time somebody screws up buffering, it won't cause weeks of debugging. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-05exec: do not sleep in TASK_TRACED under ->cred_guard_mutexOleg Nesterov3-38/+43
Tom Horsley reports that his debugger hangs when it tries to read /proc/pid_of_tracee/maps, this happens since "mm_for_maps: take ->cred_guard_mutex to fix the race with exec" 04b836cbf19e885f8366bccb2e4b0474346c02d commit in 2.6.31. But the root of the problem lies in the fact that do_execve() path calls tracehook_report_exec() which can stop if the tracer sets PT_TRACE_EXEC. The tracee must not sleep in TASK_TRACED holding this mutex. Even if we remove ->cred_guard_mutex from mm_for_maps() and proc_pid_attr_write(), another task doing PTRACE_ATTACH should not hang until it is killed or the tracee resumes. With this patch do_execve() does not use ->cred_guard_mutex directly and we do not hold it throughout, instead: - introduce prepare_bprm_creds() helper, it locks the mutex and calls prepare_exec_creds() to initialize bprm->cred. - install_exec_creds() drops the mutex after commit_creds(), and thus before tracehook_report_exec()->ptrace_stop(). or, if exec fails, free_bprm() drops this mutex when bprm->cred != NULL which indicates install_exec_creds() was not called. Reported-by: Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@att.net> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-05page-allocator: always change pageblock ownership when anti-fragmentation is ↵Mel Gorman1-2/+4
disabled On low-memory systems, anti-fragmentation gets disabled as fragmentation cannot be avoided on a sufficiently large boundary to be worthwhile. Once disabled, there is a period of time when all the pageblocks are marked MOVABLE and the expectation is that they get marked UNMOVABLE at each call to __rmqueue_fallback(). However, when MAX_ORDER is large the pageblocks do not change ownership because the normal criteria are not met. This has the effect of prematurely breaking up too many large contiguous blocks. This is most serious on NOMMU systems which depend on high-order allocations to boot. This patch causes pageblocks to change ownership on every fallback when anti-fragmentation is disabled. This prevents the large blocks being prematurely broken up. This is a fix to commit 49255c619fbd482d704289b5eb2795f8e3b7ff2e [page allocator: move check for disabled anti-fragmentation out of fastpath] and the problem affects 2.6.31-rc8. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Tested-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-05nommu: fix error handling in do_mmap_pgoff()David Howells1-2/+1
Fix the error handling in do_mmap_pgoff(). If do_mmap_shared_file() or do_mmap_private() fail, we jump to the error_put_region label at which point we cann __put_nommu_region() on the region - but we haven't yet added the region to the tree, and so __put_nommu_region() may BUG because the region tree is empty or it may corrupt the region tree. To get around this, we can afford to add the region to the region tree before calling do_mmap_shared_file() or do_mmap_private() as we keep nommu_region_sem write-locked, so no-one can race with us by seeing a transient region. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-05workqueues: introduce __cancel_delayed_work()Oleg Nesterov1-0/+15
cancel_delayed_work() has to use del_timer_sync() to guarantee the timer function is not running after return. But most users doesn't actually need this, and del_timer_sync() has problems: it is not useable from interrupt, and it depends on every lock which could be taken from irq. Introduce __cancel_delayed_work() which calls del_timer() instead. The immediate reason for this patch is http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13757 but hopefully this helper makes sense anyway. As for 13757 bug, actually we need requeue_delayed_work(), but its semantics are not yet clear. Merge this patch early to resolves cross-tree interdependencies between input and infiniband. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-05firewire: sbp2: fix freeing of unallocated memoryStefan Richter1-4/+4
If a target writes invalid status (typically status of a command that already timed out), firewire-sbp2 attempts to put away an ORB that doesn't exist. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519772 Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>