oomkilladj is int, but values which can be assigned to it are -17, [-16,
15], thus fitting into s8.
While patch itself doesn't help in making task_struct smaller, because of
natural alignment of ->link_count, it will make picture clearer wrt futher
task_struct reduction patches. My plan is to move ->fpu_counter and
->oomkilladj after ->ioprio filling hole on i386 and x86_64. But that's
for later, because bloated distro configs need looking at as well.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the __STRICT_ANSI__ check from the __u64/__s64 declaration on
32bit targets.
GCC can be made to warn about usage of long long types with ISO C90
(-ansi), but only with -pedantic. You can write this in a way that even
then it doesn't cause warnings, namely by:
#ifdef __GNUC__
__extension__ typedef __signed__ long long __s64;
__extension__ typedef unsigned long long __u64;
#endif
The __extension__ keyword in front of this switches off any pedantic
warnings for this expression.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The README file in the cramfs subdirectory says: "All data is currently in
host-endian format; neither mkcramfs nor the kernel ever do swabbing."
If somebody tries to mount a cramfs with the wrong endianess, cramfs only
complains about a wrong magic but doesn't inform the user that only the
endianess isn't right.
The following patch adds an error message to the cramfs sources. If a user
tries to mount a cramfs with the wrong endianess using the patched sources,
cramfs will display the message "cramfs: wrong endianess".
Signed-off-by: Andi Drebes <lists-receive@programmierforen.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/if_fddi.h is an exported header.
It uses __be16. Include linux/types.h to get this prototype.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It looks like in the end all pruners want parents removed.
So remove unused code and function arguments.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
vfs_permission(MAY_EXEC) checks if the filesystem is mounted with "noexec", so
there's no need to repeat this check in sys_uselib() and open_exec().
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
permission() checks that MAY_EXEC is only allowed on regular files if at least
one execute bit is set in the file mode.
generic_permission() already ensures this, so the extra check in permission()
is superfluous.
If the filesystem defines it's own ->permission() the check may still be
needed. In this case move it after ->permission(). This is needed because
filesystems such as FUSE may need to refresh the inode attributes before
checking permissions.
This check should be moved inside ->permission(), but that's another story.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
utimensat() (and possibly other callers of do_utimes()) didn't check if the
nanosecond value was within the allowed range.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Hello, I fixed and tested a small bug in lib/sort.c file, heap sort
function.
The fix avoids unnecessary swap of contents when i is 0 (saves few loads
and stores), which happens every time sort function is called. I felt the
fix is worth bringing it to your attention given the importance and
frequent use of the sort function.
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove linux/consolemap.h from make headers_install
It contains no user interfaces.
The defines in this file are used only for kernel internal state.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove some remaining vestiges of the old hacks jsm had to work around the old
tty buffering. With the new tty buffering it simply doesn't matter any more.
[michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Scott Kilau <scottk@digi.com>
Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We simply define it to the same value. Nowdays the TTY flip value is
irrelevant but the value it used is as good as any so why risk breaking it
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There have been issues with non-latin1 diacritics and unicode.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7746
Git 759448f459 `Kernel utf-8 handling'
partly resolved it by adding conversion between diacritics and
unicode. The patch below goes further by just turning diacritics into
unicode, hence providing better future support. The kbd support can be
fetched from
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=12313
This was tested in all of latin1, latin9, latin2 and unicode with french
and czech dead keys.
Turn the kernel accent_table into unicode, and extend ioctls KDGKBDIACR
and KDSKBDIACR into their equivalents KDGKBDIACRUC and KDSKBDIACR.
New function int conv_uni_to_8bit(u32 uni) for converting unicode into 8bit
_input_. No, we don't want to store the translation, as it is potentially
sparse and large.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We can just use skb_mac_header now, and we don't need a wrapper function to
perform the cast. Instead of requiring the reader to check aoe.h to look
up what an aoe_hdr function does, I'd rather do without it.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When a new block bitmap is read from disk in read_block_bitmap() there are
a few bits that should ALWAYS be set. In particular, the blocks given by
ext4_blk_bitmap, ext4_inode_bitmap and ext4_inode_table. Validate the
block bitmap against these blocks.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Acked-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds the MMF_DUMP_ELF_HEADERS option to /proc/pid/coredump_filter.
This dumps the first page (only) of a private file mapping if it appears to
be a mapping of an ELF file. Including these pages in the core dump may
give sufficient identifying information to associate the original DSO and
executable file images and their debugging information with a core file in
a generic way just from its contents (e.g. when those binaries were built
with ld --build-id). I expect this to become the default behavior
eventually. Existing versions of gdb can be confused by the core dumps it
creates, so it won't enabled by default for some time to come. Soon many
people will have systems with a gdb that handle these dumps, so they can
arrange to set the bit at boot and have it inherited system-wide.
This also cleans up the checking of the MMF_DUMP_* flag bits, which did not
need to be using atomic macros.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/usr/include/scsi is provided by glibc.
Remove the scsi export from make headers_install target.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The child was found on ->children list under tasklist_lock, it must have a
valid ->signal. __exit_signal() both removes the task from parent->children
and clears ->signal "atomically" under write_lock(tasklist).
Remove unneeded checks.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cleanup. __group_complete_signal() wakes up ->group_exit_task twice. The
second wakeup's state includes TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, which is not very
appropriate.
Change the code to pass the "correct" argument to signal_wake_up() and kill
now unneeded wake_up_process().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The "p->exit_signal == -1 && p->ptrace == 0" check and the comment are
bogus. We already did exactly the same check in eligible_child(), we did
not drop tasklist_lock since then, and both variables need
write_lock(tasklist) to be changed.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Nowadays thread_group_empty() and next_thread() are simple list operations,
this optimization doesn't make sense: we are doing exactly same check one
line below.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Two threads, T1 and T2. T2 ptraces P, and P is not a child of ptracer's
thread group. P exits and goes to TASK_ZOMBIE.
T1 does wait_task_zombie(P):
P->exit_state = TASK_DEAD;
...
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
T2 does exit(), takes tasklist,
forget_original_parent() does
__ptrace_unlink(P) but doesn't
call do_notify_parent(P) because
p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD.
Now, P is not visible to our process: __ptrace_unlink() removed it from
->children. We should send notification to P->parent and release P if and
only if SIGCHLD is ignored.
And we have 3 bugs:
1. P->parent does do_wait() and gets -ECHILD (P is on ->parent->children,
but its state is TASK_DEAD).
2. // wait_task_zombie() continues
if (put_user(...)) {
// TODO: is this safe?
p->exit_state = EXIT_ZOMBIE;
return;
}
we return without notification/release, task_struct leaked.
Solution: ignore -EFAULT and proceed. It is an application's bug if
we can't fill infop/stat_addr (in case of VM_FAULT_OOM we have much
more problems).
3. // wait_task_zombie() continues
if (p->real_parent != p->parent) {
// Not taken, it was untraced'ed
...
}
release_task(p);
we released the task which we shouldn't.
Solution: check ->real_parent != ->parent before, under tasklist_lock,
but use ptrace_unlink() instead of __ptrace_unlink() to check ->ptrace.
This patch hopefully solves 2 and 3, the 1st bug will be fixed later, we need
some cleanups in forget_original_parent/reparent_thread.
However, the first race is very unlikely and not critical, so I hope it makes
sense to fix 1 and 2 for now.
4. Small cleanup: don't "restore" EXIT_ZOMBIE unless we know we are not going
to realease the child.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A zombie must have a valid ->signal, we are going to release it and
__exit_signal() starts with BUG_ON(!sig).
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There's a small and unlikely memory leak in
drivers/pnp/pnpbios/proc.c::proc_read_escd(). It's inside a sanity check,
so it probably won't trigger often (if at all), however it *is* a potential
leak and it's easy to avoid, so let's just fix it :)
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This makes powerpc64's compat code use the new linux/elfcore-compat.h,
reducing some hand-copied duplication.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds the linux/elfcore-compat.h header file, which is the CONFIG_COMPAT
analog of the linux/elfcore.h header. Each arch that needs to fake out
fs/binfmt_elf.c for its compat code can use this header to replace the
hand-copied definitions of the compat variants of struct elf_prstatus et al.
Only the pr_reg field varies by arch, so asm/{compat,elf}.h must define
compat_elf_gregset_t before linux/elfcore-compat.h can be used.
It's a clean-up that every arch with compat core dumping code can benefit
from. I only touched the ones I have handy to test at home. Doing the same
for each other arch should be straightforward, and I'm happy to offer tips.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The current code skips the check to verify whether the filesystem was
previously cleanly unmounted, if (flags & UFS_ST_MASK) == UFS_ST_44BSD or
UFS_ST_OLD. This looks like an inadvertent bug that slipped in due to
parantheses in the compound conditional to me, especially given that
ufs_get_fs_state() handles the UFS_ST_44BSD case perfectly well. So, let's
fix the compound condition appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move prototypes and in-core structures to fs/ufs/ similar to what most
other filesystems already do.
I made little modifications: move also ufs debug macros and
mount options constants into fs/ufs/ufs.h, this stuff
also private for ufs.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Driver does
proc_mkdir("ipmi", NULL);
but
remove_proc_entry(proc_ipmi_root->name, &proc_root);
This is OK and working if only slightly inconsistent. Also changing
proc_root to NULL will help OpenVZ which has multiple proc roots and, as we
now know, requires matching parents in such cases.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With or without this patch, multi-threaded init's are not fully supported,
but do_exit() is completely wrong. This becomes a real problem when we
support pid namespaces.
1. do_exit() panics when the main thread of /sbin/init exits. It should not
until the whole thread group exits. Move the code below, under the
"if (group_dead)" check.
Note: this means that forget_original_parent() can use an already dead
child_reaper()'s task_struct. This is OK for /sbin/init because
- do_wait() from alive sub-thread still can reap a zombie, we iterate
over all sub-thread's ->children lists
- do_notify_parent() will wakeup some alive sub-thread because it sends
the group-wide signal
However, we should remove choose_new_parent()->BUG_ON(reaper->exit_state)
for this.
2. We are playing games with ->nsproxy->pid_ns. This code is bogus today, and
it has to be changed anyway when we really support pid namespaces, just
remove it.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The Linux ELF loader is quite complicated and messy code (that could
probably need a rewrite, but that's a different chapter). One particular
messy part in it is the support for non ELF a.out ld.sos. This was
originally added to make transition from a.out to ELF easier because an
a.out ELF ld.so could be still build using an older a.out toolkit. But by
now that should be fully obsolete and removing it would clean up
binfmt_elf.c up a bit.
I propose to deprecate this support and remove for 2.6.25.
Drawback is that someone still runs their system with a.out ld.so
they would need to update the ld.so when updating to a new kernel.
This patch just adds an entry to the deprecation file and a printk
warning users.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: better warning message]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With the recent changes, do_sigaction()->recalc_sigpending_and_wake() can
never clear TIF_SIGPENDING. Instead, it can set this flag and wake up the
thread without any reason. Harmless, but unneeded and wastes CPU.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It is a bit annoying that do_exit() takes ->pi_lock to set PF_EXITING. All
we need is to synchronize with lookup_pi_state() which saw this task
without PF_EXITING under ->pi_lock.
Change do_exit() to use spin_unlock_wait().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If we discover the TIS TPM device via PNP, use the PNP IRQ information rather
than probing for an IRQ. If PNP shows no IRQ, run the TPM in polling mode.
Tested-by: <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Kylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <tpm@selhorst.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add two new functions for reading the kernel log buffer. The intention is for
them to be used by recovery/dump/debug code so the kernel log can be easily
retrieved/parsed in a crash scenario, but they are generic enough for other
people to dream up other fun uses.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: buncha fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch makes two needlessly global functions static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Every file should include the headers containing the prototypes for its global
functions (in this case ioremap_page_range()).
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make the following needlessly global functions static:
- rxrpc.c: afs_send_pages()
- vlocation.c: afs_vlocation_queue_for_updates()
- write.c: afs_writepages_region()
- make the following needlessly global variables static:
- mntpt.c: afs_mntpt_expiry_timeout
- proc.c: afs_vlocation_states[]
- server.c: afs_server_timeout
- vlocation.c: afs_vlocation_timeout
- vlocation.c: afs_vlocation_update_timeout
- #if 0 the following unused function:
- cell.c: afs_get_cell_maybe()
- #if 0 the following unused variables:
- callback.c: afs_vnode_update_timeout
- cmservice.c: struct afs_cm_workqueue
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch contains the following cleanups:
- make the needlessly global variable rt_trace_on static
- remove the unused global function deadlock_trace_off()
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds the /sys/module/<name>/notes/ magic directory, which has a
file for each allocated SHT_NOTE section that appears in <name>.ko. This
is the counterpart for each module of /sys/kernel/notes for vmlinux.
Reading this delivers the contents of the module's SHT_NOTE sections. This
lets userland easily glean any detailed information about that module's
build that was stored there at compile time (e.g. by ld --build-id).
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Remove stupid comments, like, at the beginning of every function that
function begins (twice per function) and at the end (once)
* Remove trailing or otherwise broken whitespace as per let c_space_errors=1
* Reformat comments to fit it into 80 columns and remove stupid ------------'s.
* Indent case labels on the same column where switch begins
* other minor CS tweaks not worth mentioning
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix do_coredump to detect a crash in the user mode helper process and abort
the attempt to recursively dump core to another copy of the helper process,
potentially ad-infinitum.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>
Cc: <wwoods@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A rewrite of my previous post for this enhancement. It uses jeremy's
split_argv/free_argv library functions to translate core_pattern into an argv
array to be passed to the user mode helper process. It also adds a
translation to format_corename such that the origional value of RLIMIT_CORE
can be passed to userspace as an argument.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>
Cc: <wwoods@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
For some time /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern has been able to set its output
destination as a pipe, allowing a user space helper to receive and
intellegently process a core. This infrastructure however has some
shortcommings which can be enhanced. Specifically:
1) The coredump code in the kernel should ignore RLIMIT_CORE limitation
when core_pattern is a pipe, since file system resources are not being
consumed in this case, unless the user application wishes to save the core,
at which point the app is restricted by usual file system limits and
restrictions.
2) The core_pattern code should be able to parse and pass options to the
user space helper as an argv array. The real core limit of the uid of the
crashing proces should also be passable to the user space helper (since it
is overridden to zero when called).
3) Some miscellaneous bugs need to be cleaned up (specifically the
recognition of a recursive core dump, should the user mode helper itself
crash. Also, the core dump code in the kernel should not wait for the user
mode helper to exit, since the same context is responsible for writing to
the pipe, and a read of the pipe by the user mode helper will result in a
deadlock.
This patch:
Remove the check of RLIMIT_CORE if core_pattern is a pipe. In the event that
core_pattern is a pipe, the entire core will be fed to the user mode helper.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>
Cc: <wwoods@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It would be nice if the argv_split library function could gracefully handle
a NULL pointer in the argcp parameter, so as to allow functions using it
that did not care about the value of argc to not have to declare a useless
variable. This patch accomplishes that. Tested by me, with successful
results.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
