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Author SHA1 Message Date
Tony Battersby
a68e61e8ff shm: fix shmctl(SHM_INFO) lockup with !CONFIG_SHMEM
shm_get_stat() assumes that the inode is a "struct shmem_inode_info",
which is incorrect for !CONFIG_SHMEM (see fs/ramfs/inode.c:
ramfs_get_inode() vs.  mm/shmem.c: shmem_get_inode()).

This bad assumption can cause shmctl(SHM_INFO) to lockup when
shm_get_stat() tries to spin_lock(&info->lock).  Users of !CONFIG_SHMEM
may encounter this lockup simply by invoking the 'ipcs' command.

Reported by Jiri Olsa back in February 2008:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/29/74

Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.everything]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 12:56:47 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
fc8744adc8 Stop playing silly games with the VM_ACCOUNT flag
The mmap_region() code would temporarily set the VM_ACCOUNT flag for
anonymous shared mappings just to inform shmem_zero_setup() that it
should enable accounting for the resulting shm object.  It would then
clear the flag after calling ->mmap (for the /dev/zero case) or doing
shmem_zero_setup() (for the MAP_ANON case).

This just resulted in vma merge issues, but also made for just
unnecessary confusion.  Use the already-existing VM_NORESERVE flag for
this instead, and let shmem_{zero|file}_setup() just figure it out from
that.

This also happens to make it obvious that the new DRI2 GEM layer uses a
non-reserving backing store for its object allocation - which is quite
possibly not intentional.  But since I didn't want to change semantics
in this patch, I left it alone, and just updated the caller to use the
new flag semantics.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-31 15:08:56 -08:00
Heiko Carstens
c4ea37c26a [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 26
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:29 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
d5460c9974 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 25
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:28 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
e48fbb699f [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 24
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:28 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
6673e0c3fb [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrapper special cases
System calls with an unsigned long long argument can't be converted with
the standard wrappers since that would include a cast to long, which in
turn means that we would lose the upper 32 bit on 32 bit architectures.
Also semctl can't use the standard wrapper since it has a 'union'
parameter.

So we handle them as special case and add some extra wrappers instead.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:18 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
2ed7c03ec1 [CVE-2009-0029] Convert all system calls to return a long
Convert all system calls to return a long. This should be a NOP since all
converted types should have the same size anyway.
With the exception of sys_exit_group which returned void. But that doesn't
matter since the system call doesn't return.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:14 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
c40f6f8bbc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-nommu
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-nommu:
  NOMMU: Support XIP on initramfs
  NOMMU: Teach kobjsize() about VMA regions.
  FLAT: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocated
  FDPIC: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocated
  NOMMU: Improve procfs output using per-MM VMAs
  NOMMU: Make mmap allocation page trimming behaviour configurable.
  NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux
  NOMMU: Delete askedalloc and realalloc variables
  NOMMU: Rename ARM's struct vm_region
  NOMMU: Fix cleanup handling in ramfs_nommu_get_umapped_area()
2009-01-09 14:00:58 -08:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu
a6684999f7 mqueue: fix si_pid value in mqueue do_notify()
If a process registers for asynchronous notification on a POSIX message
queue, it gets a signal and a siginfo_t structure when a message arrives
on the message queue.  The si_pid in the siginfo_t structure is set to the
PID of the process that sent the message to the message queue.

The principle is the following:
. when mq_notify(SIGEV_SIGNAL) is called, the caller registers for
  notification when a msg arrives. The associated pid structure is stroed into
  inode_info->notify_owner. Let's call this process P1.
. when mq_send() is called by say P2, P2 sends a signal to P1 to notify
  him about msg arrival.

The way .si_pid is set today is not correct, since it doesn't take into account
the fact that the process that is sending the message might not be in the
same namespace as the notified one.

This patch proposes to set si_pid to the sender's pid into the notify_owner
namespace.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08 08:31:12 -08:00
David Howells
8feae13110 NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux
Make VMAs per mm_struct as for MMU-mode linux.  This solves two problems:

 (1) In SYSV SHM where nattch for a segment does not reflect the number of
     shmat's (and forks) done.

 (2) In mmap() where the VMA's vm_mm is set to point to the parent mm by an
     exec'ing process when VM_EXECUTABLE is specified, regardless of the fact
     that a VMA might be shared and already have its vm_mm assigned to another
     process or a dead process.

A new struct (vm_region) is introduced to track a mapped region and to remember
the circumstances under which it may be shared and the vm_list_struct structure
is discarded as it's no longer required.

This patch makes the following additional changes:

 (1) Regions are now allocated with alloc_pages() rather than kmalloc() and
     with no recourse to __GFP_COMP, so the pages are not composite.  Instead,
     each page has a reference on it held by the region.  Anything else that is
     interested in such a page will have to get a reference on it to retain it.
     When the pages are released due to unmapping, each page is passed to
     put_page() and will be freed when the page usage count reaches zero.

 (2) Excess pages are trimmed after an allocation as the allocation must be
     made as a power-of-2 quantity of pages.

 (3) VMAs are added to the parent MM's R/B tree and mmap lists.  As an MM may
     end up with overlapping VMAs within the tree, the VMA struct address is
     appended to the sort key.

 (4) Non-anonymous VMAs are now added to the backing inode's prio list.

 (5) Holes may be punched in anonymous VMAs with munmap(), releasing parts of
     the backing region.  The VMA and region structs will be split if
     necessary.

 (6) sys_shmdt() only releases one attachment to a SYSV IPC shared memory
     segment instead of all the attachments at that addresss.  Multiple
     shmat()'s return the same address under NOMMU-mode instead of different
     virtual addresses as under MMU-mode.

 (7) Core dumping for ELF-FDPIC requires fewer exceptions for NOMMU-mode.

 (8) /proc/maps is now the global list of mapped regions, and may list bits
     that aren't actually mapped anywhere.

 (9) /proc/meminfo gains a line (tagged "MmapCopy") that indicates the amount
     of RAM currently allocated by mmap to hold mappable regions that can't be
     mapped directly.  These are copies of the backing device or file if not
     anonymous.

These changes make NOMMU mode more similar to MMU mode.  The downside is that
NOMMU mode requires some extra memory to track things over NOMMU without this
patch (VMAs are no longer shared, and there are now region structs).

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-01-08 12:04:47 +00:00
akpm@linux-foundation.org
4c2c3b4aaf ipc/ipc_sysctl.c: move the definition of ipc_auto_callback()
proc_ipcauto_dointvec_minmax() is the only user of ipc_auto_callback(),
since the former function is protected by CONFIG_PROC_FS, so should be the
latter one.

Just move its definition down.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmision.com>
Cc: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:29 -08:00
Denis V. Lunev
e953ac2195 ipc: do not goto to the next line
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:29 -08:00
WANG Cong
e8148f7588 ipc: clean up ipc/shm.c
Use the macro shm_ids().

Remove useless check for a userspace pointer, because copy_to_user()
will check it.

Some style cleanups.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org>
Cc: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:29 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
520c853466 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  inotify: fix type errors in interfaces
  fix breakage in reiserfs_new_inode()
  fix the treatment of jfs special inodes
  vfs: remove duplicate code in get_fs_type()
  add a vfs_fsync helper
  sys_execve and sys_uselib do not call into fsnotify
  zero i_uid/i_gid on inode allocation
  inode->i_op is never NULL
  ntfs: don't NULL i_op
  isofs check for NULL ->i_op in root directory is dead code
  affs: do not zero ->i_op
  kill suid bit only for regular files
  vfs: lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR) race condition
2009-01-05 18:32:06 -08:00
Alan Cox
046c68842b mm: update my address
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-05 17:44:42 -08:00
Al Viro
56ff5efad9 zero i_uid/i_gid on inode allocation
... and don't bother in callers.  Don't bother with zeroing i_blocks,
while we are at it - it's already been zeroed.

i_mode is not worth the effort; it has no common default value.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-01-05 11:54:28 -05:00
Al Viro
564f6993ff sanitize audit_mq_open()
* don't bother with allocations
* don't do double copy_from_user()
* don't duplicate parts of check for audit_dummy_context()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-01-04 15:14:41 -05:00
Al Viro
c32c8af43b sanitize AUDIT_MQ_SENDRECV
* logging the original value of *msg_prio in mq_timedreceive(2)
  is insane - the argument is write-only (i.e. syscall always
  ignores the original value and only overwrites it).
* merge __audit_mq_timed{send,receive}
* don't do copy_from_user() twice
* don't mess with allocations in auditsc part
* ... and don't bother checking !audit_enabled and !context in there -
  we'd already checked for audit_dummy_context().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-01-04 15:14:40 -05:00
Al Viro
20114f71b2 sanitize audit_mq_notify()
* don't copy_from_user() twice
* don't bother with allocations
* don't duplicate parts of audit_dummy_context()
* make it return void

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-01-04 15:14:40 -05:00
Al Viro
7392906ea9 sanitize audit_mq_getsetattr()
* get rid of allocations
* make it return void
* don't duplicate parts of audit_dummy_context()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-01-04 15:14:40 -05:00
Al Viro
e816f370cb sanitize audit_ipc_set_perm()
* get rid of allocations
* make it return void
* simplify callers

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-01-04 15:14:40 -05:00
Al Viro
a33e675100 sanitize audit_ipc_obj()
* get rid of allocations
* make it return void
* simplify callers

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-01-04 15:14:39 -05:00
James Morris
ec98ce480a Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
	fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c

Manually fixed above to use new creds API functions, e.g.
nfs4_save_creds().

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-12-04 17:16:36 +11:00
Nadia Derbey
e00b4ff7eb sysvipc: fix the ipc structures initialization
A problem was found while reviewing the code after Bugzilla bug
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11796.

In ipc_addid(), the newly allocated ipc structure is inserted into the
ipcs tree (i.e made visible to readers) without locking it.  This is not
correct since its initialization continues after it has been inserted in
the tree.

This patch moves the ipc structure lock initialization + locking before
the actual insertion.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Reported-by: Clement Calmels <cboulte@gmail.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.27.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-19 18:49:57 -08:00
David Howells
745ca2475a CRED: Pass credentials through dentry_open()
Pass credentials through dentry_open() so that the COW creds patch can have
SELinux's flush_unauthorized_files() pass the appropriate creds back to itself
when it opens its null chardev.

The security_dentry_open() call also now takes a creds pointer, as does the
dentry_open hook in struct security_operations.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:22 +11:00
David Howells
86a264abe5 CRED: Wrap current->cred and a few other accessors
Wrap current->cred and a few other accessors to hide their actual
implementation.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:18 +11:00
David Howells
b6dff3ec5e CRED: Separate task security context from task_struct
Separate the task security context from task_struct.  At this point, the
security data is temporarily embedded in the task_struct with two pointers
pointing to it.

Note that the Alpha arch is altered as it refers to (E)UID and (E)GID in
entry.S via asm-offsets.

With comment fixes Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:16 +11:00
David Howells
414c0708d0 CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the SYSV IPC subsystem
Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.

Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id().

Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id().  In some places it makes more
sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be
addressed by later patches.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:06 +11:00
Al Viro
aeb5d72706 [PATCH] introduce fmode_t, do annotations
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-21 07:47:06 -04:00
Joe Korty
b231cca438 message queues: increase range limits
Increase the range of various posix message queue limits.

Posix gives the message queue user the ability to 'trade off' the maximum
size of messages with the number of possible messages that can be 'in
flight'.  Linux currently makes this trade off more restrictive than it
needs to be.

In particular, the maximum message size today can be made no smaller than
8192.  This greatly restricts those applications that would like to have
the ability to post large numbers of very small messages.

So this task lowers the limit that the maximum message size can be set to,
from 8192 to 128.  It also lowers the limit that the maximum #number of
messages in flight can be set to, from 10 to 1.

With these changes the message queue user can make better trade offs
between #messages and message size, in order to get everything to fit
within the setrlimit(RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE) limit for that particular user.

This patch also applies the values in

	/proc/sys/fs/mqueue/msg_max
	/proc/sys/fs/mqueue/msgsize_max

as the defaults for the max #messages allowed and the max message size
allowed, respectively, for those applications that do not supply these.
Previously, the defaults were hardwired to 10 and 8192, respectively.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:40 -07:00
Lee Schermerhorn
89e004ea55 SHM_LOCKED pages are unevictable
Shmem segments locked into memory via shmctl(SHM_LOCKED) should not be
kept on the normal LRU, since scanning them is a waste of time and might
throw off kswapd's balancing algorithms.  Place them on the unevictable
LRU list instead.

Use the AS_UNEVICTABLE flag to mark address_space of SHM_LOCKed shared
memory regions as unevictable.  Then these pages will be culled off the
normal LRU lists during vmscan.

Add new wrapper function to clear the mapping's unevictable state when/if
shared memory segment is munlocked.

Add 'scan_mapping_unevictable_page()' to mm/vmscan.c to scan all pages in
the shmem segment's mapping [struct address_space] for evictability now
that they're no longer locked.  If so, move them to the appropriate zone
lru list.

Changes depend on [CONFIG_]UNEVICTABLE_LRU.

[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: revert shm change]
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:50:26 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
6d97e2345a ipc/sem.c: make free_un() static
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:51 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
f221e726bf sysctl: simplify ->strategy
name and nlen parameters passed to ->strategy hook are unused, remove
them.  In general ->strategy hook should know what it's doing, and don't
do something tricky for which, say, pointer to original userspace array
may be needed (name).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [ networking bits ]
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:47 -07:00
Al Viro
f419a2e3b6 [PATCH] kill nameidata passing to permission(), rename to inode_permission()
Incidentally, the name that gives hundreds of false positives on grep
is not a good idea...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:31 -04:00
Alexey Dobriyan
51cc50685a SL*B: drop kmem cache argument from constructor
Kmem cache passed to constructor is only needed for constructors that are
themselves multiplexeres.  Nobody uses this "feature", nor does anybody uses
passed kmem cache in non-trivial way, so pass only pointer to object.

Non-trivial places are:
	arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
	arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c

This is flag day, yes.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/slab.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ubifs]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:07 -07:00
Nadia Derbey
9eefe520c8 ipc: do not use a negative value to re-enable msgmni automatic recomputing
This patch proposes an alternative to the "magical
positive-versus-negative number trick" Andrew complained about last week
in http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/24/418.

This had been introduced with the patches that scale msgmni to the amount
of lowmem.  With these patches, msgmni has a registered notification
routine that recomputes msgmni value upon memory add/remove or ipc
namespace creation/ removal.

When msgmni is changed from user space (i.e.  value written to the proc
file), that notification routine is unregistered, and the way to make it
registered back is to write a negative value into the proc file.  This is
the "magical positive-versus-negative number trick".

To fix this, a new proc file is introduced: /proc/sys/kernel/auto_msgmni.
This file acts as ON/OFF for msgmni automatic recomputing.

With this patch, the process is the following:
1) kernel boots in "automatic recomputing mode"
   /proc/sys/kernel/msgmni contains the value that has been computed (depends
                           on lowmem)
   /proc/sys/kernel/automatic_msgmni contains "1"

2) echo <val> > /proc/sys/kernel/msgmni
   . sets msg_ctlmni to <val>
   . de-activates automatic recomputing (i.e. if, say, some memory is added
     msgmni won't be recomputed anymore)
   . /proc/sys/kernel/automatic_msgmni now contains "0"

3) echo "0" > /proc/sys/kernel/automatic_msgmni
   . de-activates msgmni automatic recomputing
     this has the same effect as 2) except that msg_ctlmni's value stays
     blocked at its current value)

3) echo "1" > /proc/sys/kernel/automatic_msgmni
   . recomputes msgmni's value based on the current available memory size
     and number of ipc namespaces
   . re-activates automatic recomputing for msgmni.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Solofo Ramangalahy <Solofo.Ramangalahy@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
f1a43f93f0 ipc: use simple_read_from_buffer()
Also this patch kills unneccesary trailing NULL character.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
380af1b33b ipc/sem.c: rewrite undo list locking
The attached patch:
- reverses the locking order of ulp->lock and sem_lock:
  Previously, it was first ulp->lock, then inside sem_lock.
  Now it's the other way around.
- converts the undo structure to rcu.

Benefits:
- With the old locking order, IPC_RMID could not kfree the undo structures.
  The stale entries remained in the linked lists and were released later.
- The patch fixes a a race in semtimedop(): if both IPC_RMID and a semget() that
  recreates exactly the same id happen between find_alloc_undo() and sem_lock,
  then semtimedop() would access already kfree'd memory.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Reviewed-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
a1193f8ec0 ipc/sem.c: convert sem_array.sem_pending to struct list_head
sem_array.sem_pending is a double linked list, the attached patch converts
it to struct list_head.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Reviewed-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
2c0c29d414 ipc/sem.c: remove unused entries from struct sem_queue
sem_queue.sma and sem_queue.id were never used, the attached patch removes
them.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Reviewed-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
4daa28f6d8 ipc/sem.c: convert undo structures to struct list_head
The undo structures contain two linked lists, the attached patch replaces
them with generic struct list_head lists.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00
Nadia Derbey
00c2bf85d8 ipc: get rid of ipc_lock_down()
Remove the ipc_lock_down() routines: they used to call idr_find() locklessly
(given that the ipc ids lock was already held), so they are not needed
anymore.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00
Nadia Derbey
983bfb7db3 ipc: call idr_find() without locking in ipc_lock()
Call idr_find() locklessly from ipc_lock(), since the idr tree is now RCU
protected.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00
Andi Kleen
a551643895 hugetlb: modular state for hugetlb page size
The goal of this patchset is to support multiple hugetlb page sizes.  This
is achieved by introducing a new struct hstate structure, which
encapsulates the important hugetlb state and constants (eg.  huge page
size, number of huge pages currently allocated, etc).

The hstate structure is then passed around the code which requires these
fields, they will do the right thing regardless of the exact hstate they
are operating on.

This patch adds the hstate structure, with a single global instance of it
(default_hstate), and does the basic work of converting hugetlb to use the
hstate.

Future patches will add more hstate structures to allow for different
hugetlbfs mounts to have different page sizes.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
David S. Miller
4ae127d1b6 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/net/smc911x.c
2008-06-13 20:52:39 -07:00
Paul Menage
6c826818ff /proc/sysvipc/shm: fix 32-bit truncation of segment sizes
sysvipc_shm_proc_show() picks between format strings (based on the
expected maximum length of a SHM segment) in a way that prevents gcc from
performing format checks on the seq_printf() parameters.  This hid two
format errors - shp->shm_segsz and shp->shm_nattach are both unsigned
long, but were being printed as unsigned int and signed int respectively.
This leads to 32-bit truncation of SHM segment sizes reported in
/proc/sysvipc/shm.  (And for nattach, but that's less of a problem for
most users).

This patch makes the format string directly visible to gcc's format
specifier checker, and fixes the two broken format specifiers.

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-12 18:05:41 -07:00
Neil Horman
c592713b3e shm: Remove silly double assignment
Found a silly double assignment of err is do_shmat.  Silly, but good to
clean up the useless code.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-10 07:58:00 -07:00
Nadia Derbey
dfcceb26f8 ipc: only output msgmni value at boot time
When posting:
[PATCH 1/8] Scaling msgmni to the amount of lowmem
(see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/11/171), I have added a KERN_INFO message
that is output each time msgmni is recomputed.

In http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/29/575 Tony Luck complained that this
message references an ipc namespace address that is useless.

I first thought of using an audit_log instead of a printk, as suggested by
Serge Hallyn.  But unfortunately, we do not have any other information
than the namespace address to provide here too.  So I chose to move the
message and output it only at boot time, removing the reference to the
namespace.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-06 11:29:12 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev
9457afee85 netlink: Remove nonblock parameter from netlink_attachskb
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-06-05 11:23:39 -07:00
Ulrich Drepper
269f21344b tiny mq_open optimization
A very small cleanup for mq_open.

We do not have to call set_close_on_exit if we create the file
descriptor right away with the flag set.  We have a function for this
now.  The resulting code is smaller and a tiny bit faster.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-03 13:50:33 -07:00