The original justification for cap_task_kill() was as follows:
check_kill_permission() does appropriate uid equivalence checks.
However with file capabilities it becomes possible for an
unprivileged user to execute a file with file capabilities
resulting in a more privileged task with the same uid.
However now that cap_task_kill() always returns 0 (permission
granted) when p->uid==current->uid, the whole hook is worthless,
and only likely to create more subtle problems in the corner cases
where it might still be called but return -EPERM. Those cases
are basically when uids are different but euid/suid is equivalent
as per the check in check_kill_permission().
One example of a still-broken application is 'at' for non-root users.
This patch removes cap_task_kill().
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Earlier-version-tested-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is a bug correction for a macro that generated wrong results.
Nobody used it in official kernel tree, my driver did.
Signed-off-by: Davide Rizzo <davide@elpa.it>
Acked-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Until DSP MMU code is merged, dsp_request_mem() does not exist.
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Define AT91_USART0, 1, 2 so the selection of the UART for early kernel
messages works.
(See commit fa3218d8594869b38b1a170ea36d176ac455b897).
Replace AT91_SHDC with AT91_SHDWC to be consistent with other AT91 platforms.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <linux@maxim.org.za>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
MemoryStick storage cards, when in parallel mode, send several meaningful bits
of their "INT" register as part of command response. This data is stored by
host and can be used to spare invocation of "GET_INT" TPC on each data page
transferred between host and card.
Signed-off-by: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix kernel-doc notation warnings in fs/.
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/super.c:560): missing initial short description on line:
* mark_files_ro
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/locks.c:1277): missing initial short description on line:
* lease_get_mtime
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/locks.c:1277): missing initial short description on line:
* lease_get_mtime
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/namei.c:1368): missing initial short description on line:
* lookup_one_len: filesystem helper to lookup single pathname component
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/buffer.c:3221): missing initial short description on line:
* bh_uptodate_or_lock: Test whether the buffer is uptodate
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/buffer.c:3240): missing initial short description on line:
* bh_submit_read: Submit a locked buffer for reading
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/fs-writeback.c:30): missing initial short description on line:
* writeback_acquire: attempt to get exclusive writeback access to a device
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/fs-writeback.c:47): missing initial short description on line:
* writeback_in_progress: determine whether there is writeback in progress
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/fs-writeback.c:58): missing initial short description on line:
* writeback_release: relinquish exclusive writeback access against a device.
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//include/linux/jbd.h:351): contents before sections
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//include/linux/jbd.h:561): contents before sections
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/jbd/transaction.c:1935): missing initial short description on line:
* void journal_invalidatepage()
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In the process of writing up the mechanical proof of correctness for the
dynticks/preemptable-RCU interface, I noticed misplaced memory barriers in
rcu_enter_nohz() and rcu_exit_nohz().
This patch puts them in the right place and adds a comment. The key thing to
keep in mind is that rcu_enter_nohz() is -exiting- the mode that can legally
execute RCU read-side critical sections.
The memory barrier must be between any potential RCU read-side critical
sections and the increment of the per-CPU dynticks_progress_counter, and thus
must come -before- this increment. And vice versa for rcu_exit_nohz().
The locking in the scheduler is probably saving us for the moment.
Also, switch to smp_mb() - we don't need a barrier for uniprocessor kernels.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
4096 will not fit into the immediate field of a compare instruction,
in fact it will end up being -4096 causing the check to fail every
time and thus disabling backoff.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
WAKE_IDLE is too agressive on multi-core CPUs with the new
wake-affine code, keep it on for SMT/HT balancing alone
(where there's no cache affinity at all between logical CPUs).
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
improve affine wakeups. Maintain the 'overlap' metric based on CFS's
sum_exec_runtime - which means the amount of time a task executes
after it wakes up some other task.
Use the 'overlap' for the wakeup decisions: if the 'overlap' is short,
it means there's strong workload coupling between this task and the
woken up task. If the 'overlap' is large then the workload is decoupled
and the scheduler will move them to separate CPUs more easily.
( Also slightly move the preempt_check within try_to_wake_up() - this has
no effect on functionality but allows 'early wakeups' (for still-on-rq
tasks) to be correctly accounted as well.)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
Revert "unexport bio_{,un}map_user"
relay: fix subbuf_splice_actor() adding too many pages
The ps2esdi driver was marked as BROKEN more than two years ago due to being
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
ahci: Add Marvell 6121 SATA support
pata_ali: use atapi_cmd_type() to determine cmd type instead of transfer size
ahci: implement skip_host_reset parameter
ahci: request all PCI BARs
devres: implement pcim_iomap_regions_request_all()
libata-acpi: improve dock event handling
Some drivers need to reserve all PCI BARs to prevent other drivers
misusing unoccupied BARs. pcim_iomap_regions_request_all() requests
all BARs and iomap specified BARs.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
There is a race in virtio_net, dealing with disabling/enabling the callback.
I saw the following oops:
kernel BUG at /space/kvm/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c:218!
illegal operation: 0001 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in: sunrpc dm_mod
CPU: 2 Not tainted 2.6.25-rc1zlive-host-10623-gd358142-dirty #99
Process swapper (pid: 0, task: 000000000f85a610, ksp: 000000000f873c60)
Krnl PSW : 0404300180000000 00000000002b81a6 (vring_disable_cb+0x16/0x20)
R:0 T:1 IO:0 EX:0 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:3 PM:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000001 0000000000000001 0000000010005800 0000000000000001
000000000f3a0900 000000000f85a610 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0000000000000000 000000000f870000 0000000000000000 0000000000001237
000000000f3a0920 000000000010ff74 00000000002846f6 000000000fa0bcd8
Krnl Code: 00000000002b819a: a7110001 tmll %r1,1
00000000002b819e: a7840004 brc 8,2b81a6
00000000002b81a2: a7f40001 brc 15,2b81a4
>00000000002b81a6: a51b0001 oill %r1,1
00000000002b81aa: 40102000 sth %r1,0(%r2)
00000000002b81ae: 07fe bcr 15,%r14
00000000002b81b0: eb7ff0380024 stmg %r7,%r15,56(%r15)
00000000002b81b6: a7f13e00 tmll %r15,15872
Call Trace:
([<000000000fa0bcd0>] 0xfa0bcd0)
[<00000000002b8350>] vring_interrupt+0x5c/0x6c
[<000000000010ab08>] do_extint+0xb8/0xf0
[<0000000000110716>] ext_no_vtime+0x16/0x1a
[<0000000000107e72>] cpu_idle+0x1c2/0x1e0
The problem can be triggered with a high amount of host->guest traffic.
I think its the following race:
poll says netif_rx_complete
poll calls enable_cb
enable_cb opens the interrupt mask
a new packet comes, an interrupt is triggered----\
enable_cb sees that there is more work |
enable_cb disables the interrupt |
. V
. interrupt is delivered
. skb_recv_done does atomic napi test, ok
some waiting disable_cb is called->check fails->bang!
.
poll would do napi check
poll would do disable_cb
The fix is to let enable_cb not disable the interrupt again, but expect the
caller to do the cleanup if it returns false. In that case, the interrupt is
only disabled, if the napi test_set_bit was successful.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (cleaned up doco)
This patch introduces struct smc91x_platdata and modifies the driver so
bus width is checked during run time using SMC_nBIT() instead of
SMC_CAN_USE_nBIT.
V2 keeps static configuration lean using SMC_DYNAMIC_BUS_CONFIG.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
no longer working for some time.
A driver that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seems to be
unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future.
But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is still present in
the older kernel releases.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Commit a0c1e9073ef7428a14309cba010633a6cd6719ea added code to futex.c
to detect whether futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic was implemented at run
time:
+ curval = cmpxchg_futex_value_locked(NULL, 0, 0);
+ if (curval == -EFAULT)
+ futex_cmpxchg_enabled = 1;
This is bogus on parisc, since page zero in kernel virtual space is the
gateway page for syscall entry, and should not be read from the kernel.
(That, and we really don't like the kernel faulting on its own address
space...)
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Commit 721fdf34167580ff98263c74cead8871d76936e6 introduced a subtle bug
by accidently removing the "static" from iodc_dbuf. This resulted in, what
appeared to be, a trap without *current set to a task. Probably the result of
a trap in real mode while calling firmware.
Also do other misc clean ups. Since the only input from firmware is non
blocking, share iodc_dbuf between input and output, and spinlock the
only callers.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
The comments in the definition of struct export_operations don't match the
current members.
Add a comment for the 2 new functions and remove 2 comments for unused ones.
Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
posix_types.h and byteorder.h were sticking purely with the Kconfig
symbols, which doesn't work when we scrub the headers for user use.
Fixes a very unhelpful build error in current klibc.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
This adds support for reading/writing the SPROM invariants
for PCMCIA based devices.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Al Viro wrote:
>
> After that commit in asm-h8300/uaccess.h we have
>
> #define get_user(x, ptr) \
> ({ \
> int __gu_err = 0; \
> uint32_t __gu_val = 0; \
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> switch (sizeof(*(ptr))) { \
> case 1: \
> case 2: \
> case 4: \
> __gu_val = *(ptr); \
> break; \
> case 8: \
> memcpy(&__gu_val, ptr, sizeof (*(ptr))); \
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> which, of course, is FUBAR whenever we actually hit that case - memcpy of
> 8 bytes into uint32_t is obviously wrong. Why don't we simply do
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
PCI busses can be registered multiple times, so we need to detect if we
have registered our bus structure in sysfs already. If so, don't do it
again.
Thanks to Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> for reporting
the problem, and to Linus for poking me to get me to believe that it was
a real problem.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Comparing with kernel 2.6.24, tbench result has regression with
2.6.25-rc1.
1) On 2 quad-core processor stoakley: 4%.
2) On 4 quad-core processor tigerton: more than 30%.
bisect located below patch.
b4ce92775c2e7ff9cf79cca4e0a19c8c5fd6287b is first bad commit
commit b4ce92775c2e7ff9cf79cca4e0a19c8c5fd6287b
Author: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Tue Nov 13 21:33:32 2007 -0800
[IPV6]: Move nfheader_len into rt6_info
The dst member nfheader_len is only used by IPv6. It's also currently
creating a rather ugly alignment hole in struct dst. Therefore this patch
moves it from there into struct rt6_info.
Above patch changes the cache line alignment, especially member
__refcnt. I did a testing by adding 2 unsigned long pading before
lastuse, so the 3 members, lastuse/__refcnt/__use, are moved to next
cache line. The performance is recovered.
I created a patch to rearrange the members in struct dst_entry.
With Eric and Valdis Kletnieks's suggestion, I made finer arrangement.
1) Move tclassid under ops in case CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE=y. So
sizeof(dst_entry)=200 no matter if CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE=y/n. I
tested many patches on my 16-core tigerton by moving tclassid to
different place. It looks like tclassid could also have impact on
performance. If moving tclassid before metrics, or just don't move
tclassid, the performance isn't good. So I move it behind metrics.
2) Add comments before __refcnt.
On 16-core tigerton:
If CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE=y, the result with below patch is about 18%
better than the one without the patch;
If CONFIG_NET_CLS_ROUTE=n, the result with below patch is about 30%
better than the one without the patch.
With 32bit 2.6.25-rc1 on 8-core stoakley, the new patch doesn't
introduce regression.
Thank Eric, Valdis, and David!
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When building drivers/macintosh/mediabay.c if CONFIG_ADB_PMU isn't
defined we get:
drivers/built-in.o: In function `media_bay_step':
mediabay.c:(.text+0x92b84): undefined reference to `pmu_suspend'
mediabay.c:(.text+0x92c08): undefined reference to `pmu_resume'
Create empty place holders in that scenario.
Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
pmu_sys_suspended is declared extern when:
defined(CONFIG_PM_SLEEP) && defined(CONFIG_PPC32)
but only defined when:
defined(CONFIG_SUSPEND) && defined(CONFIG_PPC32)
which is wrong. Let's fix that.
Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (47 commits)
[SCTP]: Fix local_addr deletions during list traversals.
net: fix build with CONFIG_NET=n
[TCP]: Prevent sending past receiver window with TSO (at last skb)
rt2x00: Add new D-Link USB ID
rt2x00: never disable multicast because it disables broadcast too
libertas: fix the 'compare command with itself' properly
drivers/net/Kconfig: fix whitespace for GELIC_WIRELESS entry
[NETFILTER]: nf_queue: don't return error when unregistering a non-existant handler
[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink_queue: fix EPERM when binding/unbinding and instance 0 exists
[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink_log: fix EPERM when binding/unbinding and instance 0 exists
[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: replace horrible hack with ksize()
[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: add \n to "expectation table full" message
[NETFILTER]: xt_time: fix failure to match on Sundays
[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink_log: fix computation of netlink skb size
[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink_queue: fix computation of allocated size for netlink skb.
[NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: fix ifdef in nfnetlink_compat.h
[NET]: include <linux/types.h> into linux/ethtool.h for __u* typedef
[NET]: Make /proc/net a symlink on /proc/self/net (v3)
RxRPC: fix rxrpc_recvmsg()'s returning of msg_name
net/enc28j60: oops fix
...
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
[MIPS] Clocksource: Only install r4k counter as clocksource if present.
[MIPS] Lasat: fix LASAT_CASCADE_IRQ
[MIPS] Delete leftovers of old pcspeaker support.
[MIPS] BCM1480: Init pci controller io_map_base
[MIPS] Yosemite: Fix a few more section reference bugs.
[MIPS] Fix yosemite build error
[MIPS] Fix loads of section missmatches
[MIPS] IP27: Tighten up CPU description to fix warnings.
[MIPS] Fix plat_ioremap for JMR3927
[MIPS] Export __ucmpdi2 to modules.
[MIPS] Fix typo in comment
[MIPS] Use KBUILD_DEFCONFIG
[MIPS] Allow 48Hz to be selected if CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORTS_ARBIT_HZ is set.
[MIPS] Added missing cases for rdhwr emulation
[MIPS] Alchemy: Fix ids in Alchemy db dma device table
It was all wrapped in '#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK' anyway, so userspace was
getting nothing useful out of it. And the special #ifndef __KERNEL__
version of 'struct partition' makes me inclined to promote an attitude
of violence...
Stick some comments on some of the #endifs too, while we're at it.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Introduced in commit-id 9e2779fa281cfda13ac060753d674bbcaa23367e and
ifdef'ed out for nommu in 8ca3ed87db062201e1fa15b64a9214e193fc3a8a, both
approaches end up breaking the nommu build in different ways. An
impressive feat for a 2-liner.
Current is_vmalloc_addr() users fall in to two camps:
- Determining whether to use vfree()/kfree()
- Whether to do vmlist traversal (only /proc/kcore).
Since we don't support /proc/kcore on nommu, that leaves the
vfree()/kfree() determination use cases. nommu vfree() happens to be a
wrapper to kfree() anyways, so is_vmalloc_addr() can always return 0
and end up with the right behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
