- 21 Oct, 2010 1 commit
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Arnd Bergmann authored
With all the patches we have queued in the BKL removal tree, only a few dozen modules are left that actually rely on the BKL, and even there are lots of low-hanging fruit. We need to decide what to do about them, this patch illustrates one of the options: Every user of the BKL is marked as 'depends on BKL' in Kconfig, and the CONFIG_BKL becomes a user-visible option. If it gets disabled, no BKL using module can be built any more and the BKL code itself is compiled out. The one exception is file locking, which is practically always enabled and does a 'select BKL' instead. This effectively forces CONFIG_BKL to be enabled until we have solved the fs/lockd mess and can apply the patch that removes the BKL from fs/locks.c. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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- 19 Oct, 2010 10 commits
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Arnd Bergmann authored
The dabusb device driver is sufficiently serialized using its own mutex, no need for the big kernel lock here in addition. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
The sunrpc cache_ioctl function does not need the big kernel lock because it uses its own queue_lock already. rpc_pipe_ioctl apparently should be using i_lock like the other operations on the pipe file descriptor do. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Namhyung Kim authored
According to commit 5e3d20a6 (init: Remove the BKL from startup code) these sparse notations should be removed also. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
According to Jens, this code does not need the BKL at all, it is sufficiently serialized by bd_mutex. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
The big kernel lock is going away, so make sure that if it is disabled by Kconfig, we do not try to validate it, which would result in compile errors. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
The dvb core only uses the big kernel lock in the open and ioctl functions, which means it can be replaced with a dvb specific mutex. Fortunately, all the ioctl functions go through dvb_usercopy, so we can move the serialization in there. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
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Arnd Bergmann authored
The bt8xx driver only uses the big kernel lock in its dst_ca_ioctl function and never to serialize against other code, so we can trivially replace it with a private mutex. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
This driver already has a global mutex, so let's just use that in the open function instead of the BKL. It may not even be needed there, but this patch should have the smallest impact. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Mark Gross <mark.gross@intel.com>
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Al Viro authored
RAW_SETBIND and RAW_GETBIND 32bit versions are fscked in interesting ways. 1) fs/compat_ioctl.c has COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(RAW_SETBIND) followed by HANDLE_IOCTL(RAW_SETBIND, raw_ioctl). The latter is ignored. 2) on amd64 (and itanic) the damn thing is broken - we have int + u64 + u64 and layouts on i386 and amd64 are _not_ the same. raw_ioctl() would work there, but it's never called due to (1). As it is, i386 /sbin/raw definitely doesn't work on amd64 boxen. 3) switching to raw_ioctl() as is would *not* work on e.g. sparc64 and ppc64, which would be rather sad, seeing that normal userland there is 32bit. The thing is, slapping __packed on the struct in question does not DTRT - it eliminates *all* padding. The real solution is to use compat_u64. 4) of course, all that stuff has no business being outside of raw.c in the first place - there should be ->compat_ioctl() for /dev/rawctl instead of messing with compat_ioctl.c. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [arnd@arndb.de: port to 2.6.36] Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
Three uml device drivers still use the big kernel lock, but all of them can be safely converted to using a per-driver mutex instead. Most likely this is not even necessary, so after further review these can and should be removed as well. The exec system call no longer requires the BKL either, so remove it from there, too. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
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- 16 Oct, 2010 1 commit
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Arnd Bergmann authored
The parisc version of the perf code is sufficiently protected by its own spinlock, no need to use the BKL. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
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- 26 Sep, 2010 4 commits
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Arnd Bergmann authored
All uses of the big kernel lock in the cris architecture are for ioctl and open functions of character device drivers, which can be trivially converted to a per-driver mutex. Most of these are probably unnecessary, so it may make sense to audit them and eventually remove the extra mutex introduced by this patch. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: linux-cris-kernel@axis.com
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Arnd Bergmann authored
All uses of the BKL on alpha are totally bogus, nothing is really protected by this. Remove the remaining users so we don't have to mark alpha as 'depends on BKL'. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
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Arnd Bergmann authored
Remove BKL use from isapnp_proc_bus_lseek(), like was done for proc_bus_pci_lseek() a long time ago and recently for Zorro by Geert Uytterhoeven. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
The dasd and dcssblk drivers gained the big kernel lock in the recent pushdown from the block layer, but they don't really need it, so remove the calls without a replacement. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
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- 15 Sep, 2010 1 commit
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Arnd Bergmann authored
hpet uses the big kernel lock in its ioctl and open functions. Replace this with a private mutex to be sure. Since we're already touching the ioctl function, add the compat_ioctl version as well -- all commands except HPET_INFO are compatible and that one is easy to add. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Cc: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
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- 12 Sep, 2010 1 commit
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- 11 Sep, 2010 13 commits
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Randy Dunlap authored
Fix docbook templates that reference files that do not contain the expected kernel-doc notation. Fixes these warnings: Warning(arch/x86/include/asm/unaligned.h): no structured comments found Warning(lib/vsprintf.c): no structured comments found These cause errors in the generated html output, like below, so drop these lines. Name arch/x86/include/asm/unaligned.h - Document generation inconsistency Oops Warning The template for this document tried to insert the structured comment from the file arch/x86/include/asm/unaligned.h at this point, but none was found. This dummy section is inserted to allow generation to continue. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Johannes Berg authored
When you don't use !E or !I but only !F, then it's very easy to miss including some functions, structs etc. in documentation. To help finding which ones were missed, allow printing out the unused ones as warnings. For example, using this on mac80211 yields a lot of warnings like this: Warning: didn't use docs for DOC: mac80211 workqueue Warning: didn't use docs for ieee80211_max_queues Warning: didn't use docs for ieee80211_bss_change Warning: didn't use docs for ieee80211_bss_conf when generating the documentation for it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Johannes Berg authored
There are valid attributes that could have upper case letters, but we still want to remove, like for example __attribute__((aligned(NETDEV_ALIGN))) as encountered in the wireless code. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6: PM / Hibernate: Avoid hitting OOM during preallocation of memory PM QoS: Correct pr_debug() misuse and improve parameter checks PM: Prevent waiting forever on asynchronous resume after failing suspend
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6: [SCSI] fix use-after-free in scsi_init_io() [SCSI] sd: fix medium-removal bug [SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.03.04-k0. [SCSI] qla2xxx: Check for empty slot in request queue before posting Command type 6 request. [SCSI] qla2xxx: Cover UNDERRUN case where SCSI status is set. [SCSI] qla2xxx: Correctly set fw hung and complete only waiting mbx. [SCSI] qla2xxx: Reset seconds_since_last_heartbeat correctly. [SCSI] qla2xxx: make rport deletions explicit during vport removal [SCSI] qla2xxx: Fix vport delete issues [SCSI] sd, sym53c8xx: Remove warnings after vsprintf %pV introducation. [SCSI] Fix warning: zero-length gnu_printf format string [SCSI] hpsa: disable doorbell reset on reset_devices [SCSI] be2iscsi: Fix for Login failure [SCSI] fix bio.bi_rw handling
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Rafael J. Wysocki authored
There is a problem in hibernate_preallocate_memory() that it calls preallocate_image_memory() with an argument that may be greater than the total number of available non-highmem memory pages. If that's the case, the OOM condition is guaranteed to trigger, which in turn can cause significant slowdown to occur during hibernation. To avoid that, make preallocate_image_memory() adjust its argument before calling preallocate_image_pages(), so that the total number of saveable non-highem pages left is not less than the minimum size of a hibernation image. Change hibernate_preallocate_memory() to try to allocate from highmem if the number of pages allocated by preallocate_image_memory() is too low. Modify free_unnecessary_pages() to take all possible memory allocation patterns into account. Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Tested-by: M. Vefa Bicakci <bicave@superonline.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (28 commits) ipheth: remove incorrect devtype to WWAN MAINTAINERS: Add CAIF sctp: fix test for end of loop KS8851: Correct RX packet allocation udp: add rehash on connect() net: blackhole route should always be recalculated ipv4: Suppress lockdep-RCU false positive in FIB trie (3) niu: Fix kernel buffer overflow for ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL ipvs: fix active FTP gro: Re-fix different skb headrooms via-velocity: Turn scatter-gather support back off. ipv4: Fix reverse path filtering with multipath routing. UNIX: Do not loop forever at unix_autobind(). PATCH: b44 Handle RX FIFO overflow better (simplified) irda: off by one 3c59x: Fix deadlock in vortex_error() netfilter: discard overlapping IPv6 fragment ipv6: discard overlapping fragment net: fix tx queue selection for bridged devices implementing select_queue bonding: Fix jiffies overflow problems (again) ... Fix up trivial conflicts due to the same cgroup API thinko fix going through both Andrew and the networking tree. However, there were small differences between the two, with Andrew's version generally being the nicer one, and the one I merged first. So pick that one. Conflicts in: include/linux/cgroup.h and kernel/cgroup.c
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: sparc: Kill all BKL usage.
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, tsc: Fix a preemption leak in restore_sched_clock_state() sched: Move sched_avg_update() to update_cpu_load()
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Doh, a real life genuine preemption leak.. This caused a suspend failure. Reported-bisected-and-tested-by-the-invaluable: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com> Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Nico Schottelius <nico-linux-20100709@schottelius.org> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Florian Pritz <flo@xssn.at> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # Greg, please apply after: cd7240c0 ("x86, tsc, sched: Recompute cyc2ns_offset's during resume from") sleep states LKML-Reference: <1284150773.402.122.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ickle/drm-intelLinus Torvalds authored
* 'drm-intel-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ickle/drm-intel: drm/i915: don't enable self-refresh on Ironlake drm/i915: Double check that the wait_request is not pending before warning Revert "drm/i915: Warn if we run out of FIFO space for a mode" Revert "drm/i915: Allow LVDS on pipe A on gen4+" Revert "drm/i915: Enable RC6 on Ironlake."
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git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfsLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: xfs: log IO completion workqueue is a high priority queue xfs: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
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Peter Zijlstra authored
A real life genuine preemption leak.. Reported-and-tested-by: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 10 Sep, 2010 9 commits
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mark gross authored
Correct some pr_debug() misuse and add a stronger parameter check to pm_qos_write() for the ASCII hex value case. Thanks to Dan Carpenter for pointing out the problem! Signed-off-by: mark gross <markgross@thegnar.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
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Dave Chinner authored
The workqueue implementation in 2.6.36-rcX has changed, resulting in the workqueues no longer having dedicated threads for work processing. This has caused severe livelocks under heavy parallel create workloads because the log IO completions have been getting held up behind metadata IO completions. Hence log commits would stall, memory allocation would stall because pages could not be cleaned, and lock contention on the AIL during inode IO completion processing was being seen to slow everything down even further. By making the log Io completion workqueue a high priority workqueue, they are queued ahead of all data/metadata IO completions and processed before the data/metadata completions. Hence the log never gets stalled, and operations needed to clean memory can continue as quickly as possible. This avoids the livelock conditions and allos the system to keep running under heavy load as per normal. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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Roland McGrath authored
An execve with a very large total of argument/environment strings can take a really long time in the execve system call. It runs uninterruptibly to count and copy all the strings. This change makes it abort the exec quickly if sent a SIGKILL. Note that this is the conservative change, to interrupt only for SIGKILL, by using fatal_signal_pending(). It would be perfectly correct semantics to let any signal interrupt the string-copying in execve, i.e. use signal_pending() instead of fatal_signal_pending(). We'll save that change for later, since it could have user-visible consequences, such as having a timer set too quickly make it so that an execve can never complete, though it always happened to work before. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Roland McGrath authored
This adds a preemption point during the copying of the argument and environment strings for execve, in copy_strings(). There is already a preemption point in the count() loop, so this doesn't add any new points in the abstract sense. When the total argument+environment strings are very large, the time spent copying them can be much more than a normal user time slice. So this change improves the interactivity of the rest of the system when one process is doing an execve with very large arguments. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Roland McGrath authored
The CONFIG_STACK_GROWSDOWN variant of setup_arg_pages() does not check the size of the argument/environment area on the stack. When it is unworkably large, shift_arg_pages() hits its BUG_ON. This is exploitable with a very large RLIMIT_STACK limit, to create a crash pretty easily. Check that the initial stack is not too large to make it possible to map in any executable. We're not checking that the actual executable (or intepreter, for binfmt_elf) will fit. So those mappings might clobber part of the initial stack mapping. But that is just userland lossage that userland made happen, not a kernel problem. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds authored
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: KVM: x86: Perform hardware_enable in CPU_STARTING callback KVM: i8259: fix migration KVM: fix i8259 oops when no vcpus are online KVM: x86 emulator: fix regression with cmpxchg8b on i386 hosts
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing: t_start: reset FTRACE_ITER_HASH in case of seek/pread perf symbols: Fix multiple initialization of symbol system perf: Fix CPU hotplug perf, trace: Fix module leak tracing/kprobe: Fix handling of C-unlike argument names tracing/kprobes: Fix handling of argument names perf probe: Fix handling of arguments names perf probe: Fix return probe support tracing/kprobe: Fix a memory leak in error case tracing: Do not allow llseek to set_ftrace_filter
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David Howells authored
Fix a bug in keyctl_session_to_parent() whereby it tries to check the ownership of the parent process's session keyring whether or not the parent has a session keyring [CVE-2010-2960]. This results in the following oops: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a0 IP: [<ffffffff811ae4dd>] keyctl_session_to_parent+0x251/0x443 ... Call Trace: [<ffffffff811ae2f3>] ? keyctl_session_to_parent+0x67/0x443 [<ffffffff8109d286>] ? __do_fault+0x24b/0x3d0 [<ffffffff811af98c>] sys_keyctl+0xb4/0xb8 [<ffffffff81001eab>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b if the parent process has no session keyring. If the system is using pam_keyinit then it mostly protected against this as all processes derived from a login will have inherited the session keyring created by pam_keyinit during the log in procedure. To test this, pam_keyinit calls need to be commented out in /etc/pam.d/. Reported-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@cmpxchg8b.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@cmpxchg8b.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Howells authored
There's an protected access to the parent process's credentials in the middle of keyctl_session_to_parent(). This results in the following RCU warning: =================================================== [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] --------------------------------------------------- security/keys/keyctl.c:1291 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! other info that might help us debug this: rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0 1 lock held by keyctl-session-/2137: #0: (tasklist_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff811ae2ec>] keyctl_session_to_parent+0x60/0x236 stack backtrace: Pid: 2137, comm: keyctl-session- Not tainted 2.6.36-rc2-cachefs+ #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8105606a>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xaa/0xb3 [<ffffffff811ae379>] keyctl_session_to_parent+0xed/0x236 [<ffffffff811af77e>] sys_keyctl+0xb4/0xb6 [<ffffffff81001eab>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b The code should take the RCU read lock to make sure the parents credentials don't go away, even though it's holding a spinlock and has IRQ disabled. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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