Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds.
This means that it will be possible for the credentials of a task to be
replaced without another task (a) requiring a full lock to read them, and (b)
seeing deallocated memory.
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>
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>
Turned out some VMware userspace does pread(2) on /proc/uptime, but
seqfiles currently don't allow pread() resulting in -ESPIPE.
Seqfiles in theory can do pread(), but this can be a long story,
so revert to ->read_proc until then.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11856
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev: (66 commits)
[PATCH] kill the rest of struct file propagation in block ioctls
[PATCH] get rid of struct file use in blkdev_ioctl() BLKBSZSET
[PATCH] get rid of blkdev_locked_ioctl()
[PATCH] get rid of blkdev_driver_ioctl()
[PATCH] sanitize blkdev_get() and friends
[PATCH] remember mode of reiserfs journal
[PATCH] propagate mode through swsusp_close()
[PATCH] propagate mode through open_bdev_excl/close_bdev_excl
[PATCH] pass fmode_t to blkdev_put()
[PATCH] kill the unused bsize on the send side of /dev/loop
[PATCH] trim file propagation in block/compat_ioctl.c
[PATCH] end of methods switch: remove the old ones
[PATCH] switch sr
[PATCH] switch sd
[PATCH] switch ide-scsi
[PATCH] switch tape_block
[PATCH] switch dcssblk
[PATCH] switch dasd
[PATCH] switch mtd_blkdevs
[PATCH] switch mmc
...
Lose dummy ->write hook in case of SLUB, it's possible now.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Use WARN() rather than a printk() + backtrace();
this gives a more standard format message as well as complete
information (including line numbers etc) that will be collected
by kerneloops.org
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Commit 4752c36978 aka
"maps4: simplify interdependence of maps and smaps" broke /proc/pid/smaps,
causing it to display some vmas twice and other vmas not at all. For example:
grep .- /proc/1/smaps >/tmp/smaps; diff /proc/1/maps /tmp/smaps
1 25d24
2 < 7fd7e23aa000-7fd7e23ac000 rw-p 7fd7e23aa000 00:00 0
3 28a28
4 > ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall]
The bug has something to do with setting m->version before all the
seq_printf's have been performed. show_map was doing this correctly,
but show_smap was doing this in the middle of its seq_printf sequence.
This patch arranges things so that the setting of m->version in show_smap
is also done at the end of its seq_printf sequence.
Testing: in addition to the above grep test, for each process I summed
up the 'Rss' fields of /proc/pid/smaps and compared that to the 'VmRSS'
field of /proc/pid/status. All matched except for Xorg (which has a
/dev/mem mapping which Rss accounts for but VmRSS does not). This result
gives us some confidence that neither /proc/pid/maps nor /proc/pid/smaps
are any longer skipping or double-counting vmas.
Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
For execute permission on a regular files we need to check if file has
any execute bits at all, regardless of capabilites.
This check is normally performed by generic_permission() but was also
added to the case when the filesystem defines its own ->permission()
method. In the latter case the filesystem should be responsible for
performing this check.
Move the check from inode_permission() inside filesystems which are
not calling generic_permission().
Create a helper function execute_ok() that returns true if the inode
is a directory or if any execute bits are present in i_mode.
Also fix up the following code:
- coda control file is never executable
- sysctl files are never executable
- hfs_permission seems broken on MAY_EXEC, remove
- hfsplus_permission is eqivalent to generic_permission(), remove
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
With this patch all directory fops instances that have a readdir
that doesn't take the BKL are switched to generic_file_llseek.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
This merges branches irq/genirq, irq/sparseirq-v4, timers/hpet-percpu
and x86/uv.
The sparseirq branch is just preliminary groundwork: no sparse IRQs are
actually implemented by this tree anymore - just the new APIs are added
while keeping the old way intact as well (the new APIs map 1:1 to
irq_desc[]). The 'real' sparse IRQ support will then be a relatively
small patch ontop of this - with a v2.6.29 merge target.
* 'genirq-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (178 commits)
genirq: improve include files
intr_remapping: fix typo
io_apic: make irq_mis_count available on 64-bit too
genirq: fix name space collisions of nr_irqs in arch/*
genirq: fix name space collision of nr_irqs in autoprobe.c
genirq: use iterators for irq_desc loops
proc: fixup irq iterator
genirq: add reverse iterator for irq_desc
x86: move ack_bad_irq() to irq.c
x86: unify show_interrupts() and proc helpers
x86: cleanup show_interrupts
genirq: cleanup the sparseirq modifications
genirq: remove artifacts from sparseirq removal
genirq: revert dynarray
genirq: remove irq_to_desc_alloc
genirq: remove sparse irq code
genirq: use inline function for irq_to_desc
genirq: consolidate nr_irqs and for_each_irq_desc()
x86: remove sparse irq from Kconfig
genirq: define nr_irqs for architectures with GENERIC_HARDIRQS=n
...
* 'v28-timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (36 commits)
fix documentation of sysrq-q really
Fix documentation of sysrq-q
timer_list: add base address to clock base
timer_list: print cpu number of clockevents device
timer_list: print real timer address
NOHZ: restart tick device from irq_enter()
NOHZ: split tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick()
NOHZ: unify the nohz function calls in irq_enter()
timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, fix
timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, v3
ntp: improve adjtimex frequency rounding
timekeeping: fix rounding problem during clock update
ntp: let update_persistent_clock() sleep
hrtimer: reorder struct hrtimer to save 8 bytes on 64bit builds
posix-timers: lock_timer: make it readable
posix-timers: lock_timer: kill the bogus ->it_id check
posix-timers: kill ->it_sigev_signo and ->it_sigev_value
posix-timers: sys_timer_create: cleanup the error handling
posix-timers: move the initialization of timer->sigq from send to create path
posix-timers: sys_timer_create: simplify and s/tasklist/rcu/
...
Fix trivial conflicts due to sysrq-q description clahes in
Documentation/sysrq.txt and drivers/char/sysrq.c
The usage of elfcorehdr_addr has changed recently such that being set to
ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX is used by is_kdump_kernel() to indicate if the code is
executing in a kernel executed as a crash kernel.
However, arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c:reserve_elfcorehdr will rest
elfcorehdr_addr to ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX on error, which means any subsequent
calls to is_kdump_kernel() will return 0, even though they should return
1.
Ok, at this point in time there are no subsequent calls, but I think its
fair to say that there is ample scope for error or at the very least
confusion.
This patch add an extra state, ELFCORE_ADDR_ERR, which indicates that
elfcorehdr_addr was passed on the command line, and thus execution is
taking place in a crashdump kernel, but vmcore can't be used for some
reason. This is tested for using is_vmcore_usable() and set using
vmcore_unusable(). A subsequent patch makes use of this new code.
To summarise, the states that elfcorehdr_addr can now be in are as follows:
ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX: not a crashdump kernel
ELFCORE_ADDR_ERR: crashdump kernel but vmcore is unusable
any other value: crash dump kernel and vmcore is usable
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
