29 Nov, 2012

1 commit


13 Oct, 2012

2 commits

  • Pull third pile of kernel_execve() patches from Al Viro:
    "The last bits of infrastructure for kernel_thread() et.al., with
    alpha/arm/x86 use of those. Plus sanitizing the asm glue and
    do_notify_resume() on alpha, fixing the "disabled irq while running
    task_work stuff" breakage there.

    At that point the rest of kernel_thread/kernel_execve/sys_execve work
    can be done independently for different architectures. The only
    pending bits that do depend on having all architectures converted are
    restrictred to fs/* and kernel/* - that'll obviously have to wait for
    the next cycle.

    I thought we'd have to wait for all of them done before we start
    eliminating the longjump-style insanity in kernel_execve(), but it
    turned out there's a very simple way to do that without flagday-style
    changes."

    * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
    alpha: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics
    arm: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics
    x86, um: convert to saner kernel_execve() semantics
    infrastructure for saner ret_from_kernel_thread semantics
    make sure that kernel_thread() callbacks call do_exit() themselves
    make sure that we always have a return path from kernel_execve()
    ppc: eeh_event should just use kthread_run()
    don't bother with kernel_thread/kernel_execve for launching linuxrc
    alpha: get rid of switch_stack argument of do_work_pending()
    alpha: don't bother passing switch_stack separately from regs
    alpha: take SIGPENDING/NOTIFY_RESUME loop into signal.c
    alpha: simplify TIF_NEED_RESCHED handling

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Al Viro
     

10 Oct, 2012

2 commits

  • Pull generic execve() changes from Al Viro:
    "This introduces the generic kernel_thread() and kernel_execve()
    functions, and switches x86, arm, alpha, um and s390 over to them."

    * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (26 commits)
    s390: convert to generic kernel_execve()
    s390: switch to generic kernel_thread()
    s390: fold kernel_thread_helper() into ret_from_fork()
    s390: fold execve_tail() into start_thread(), convert to generic sys_execve()
    um: switch to generic kernel_thread()
    x86, um/x86: switch to generic sys_execve and kernel_execve
    x86: split ret_from_fork
    alpha: introduce ret_from_kernel_execve(), switch to generic kernel_execve()
    alpha: switch to generic kernel_thread()
    alpha: switch to generic sys_execve()
    arm: get rid of execve wrapper, switch to generic execve() implementation
    arm: optimized current_pt_regs()
    arm: introduce ret_from_kernel_execve(), switch to generic kernel_execve()
    arm: split ret_from_fork, simplify kernel_thread() [based on patch by rmk]
    generic sys_execve()
    generic kernel_execve()
    new helper: current_pt_regs()
    preparation for generic kernel_thread()
    um: kill thread->forking
    um: let signal_delivered() do SIGTRAP on singlestepping into handler
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • Signed-off-by: Al Viro
    Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

    Al Viro
     

01 Oct, 2012

1 commit


28 Sep, 2012

2 commits


20 Sep, 2012

2 commits


02 Nov, 2011

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26 Jul, 2011

1 commit


18 Nov, 2010

1 commit


23 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • * 'config' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl:
    BKL: introduce CONFIG_BKL.
    dabusb: remove the BKL
    sunrpc: remove the big kernel lock
    init/main.c: remove BKL notations
    blktrace: remove the big kernel lock
    rtmutex-tester: make it build without BKL
    dvb-core: kill the big kernel lock
    dvb/bt8xx: kill the big kernel lock
    tlclk: remove big kernel lock
    fix rawctl compat ioctls breakage on amd64 and itanic
    uml: kill big kernel lock
    parisc: remove big kernel lock
    cris: autoconvert trivial BKL users
    alpha: kill big kernel lock
    isapnp: BKL removal
    s390/block: kill the big kernel lock
    hpet: kill BKL, add compat_ioctl

    Linus Torvalds
     

19 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • 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
    Cc: Jeff Dike
    Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

    Arnd Bergmann
     

23 Sep, 2010

1 commit

  • This fixes:
    incompatible pointer type: => 89
    arch/um/kernel/exec.c: warning: passing argument 2 of 'execve1' from
    incompatible pointer type: => 69, 85
    arch/um/kernel/exec.c: warning: passing argument 3 of 'execve1' from
    incompatible pointer type: => 69, 85

    which was introduced by d7627467b7a8d ("Make do_execve() take a const
    filename pointer")

    Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger
    Cc: David Howells
    Cc: Jeff Dike
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Richard Weinberger
     

18 Aug, 2010

1 commit

  • Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles
    correctly on ARM:

    arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type

    This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for
    the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to. This is
    because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to
    copy_strings_kernel(). A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename
    pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel().

    do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv
    or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as
    const should be fine.

    Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match.

    This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Tested-by: Ralf Baechle
    Acked-by: Russell King
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    David Howells
     

14 Aug, 2010

1 commit

  • Mark arguments to certain system calls as being const where they should be but
    aren't. The list includes:

    (*) The filename arguments of various stat syscalls, execve(), various utimes
    syscalls and some mount syscalls.

    (*) The filename arguments of some syscall helpers relating to the above.

    (*) The buffer argument of various write syscalls.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: David S. Miller
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    David Howells
     

30 Mar, 2010

1 commit

  • …it slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

    percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
    included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
    in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
    universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

    percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
    this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
    headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
    needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
    used as the basis of conversion.

    http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

    The script does the followings.

    * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
    only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
    gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

    * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
    blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
    to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
    core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
    alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
    doesn't seem to be any matching order.

    * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
    because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
    an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
    file.

    The conversion was done in the following steps.

    1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
    over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
    and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
    files.

    2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
    some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
    embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
    inclusions to around 150 files.

    3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
    from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

    4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
    e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
    APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

    5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
    editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
    files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
    inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
    wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
    slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
    necessary.

    6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

    7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
    were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
    distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
    more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
    build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

    * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
    * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
    * s390 SMP allmodconfig
    * alpha SMP allmodconfig
    * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

    8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
    a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

    Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
    6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
    If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
    headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
    the specific arch.

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>

    Tejun Heo
     

23 Oct, 2008

1 commit


17 Oct, 2008

1 commit


09 Feb, 2008

1 commit

  • Calculate TASK_SIZE at run-time by figuring out the host's VMSPLIT - this is
    needed on i386 if UML is to run on hosts with varying VMSPLITs without
    recompilation.

    TASK_SIZE is now defined in terms of a variable, task_size. This gets rid of
    an include of pgtable.h from processor.h, which can cause include loops.

    On i386, task_size is calculated early in boot by probing the address space in
    a binary search to figure out where the boundary between usable and non-usable
    memory is. This tries to make sure that a page that is considered to be in
    userspace is, or can be made, read-write. I'm concerned about a system-global
    VDSO page in kernel memory being hit and considered to be a userspace page.

    On x86_64, task_size is just the old value of CONFIG_TOP_ADDR.

    A bunch of config variable are gone now. CONFIG_TOP_ADDR is directly replaced
    by TASK_SIZE. NEST_LEVEL is gone since the relocation of the stubs makes it
    irrelevant. All the HOST_VMSPLIT stuff is gone. All references to these in
    arch/um/Makefile are also gone.

    I noticed and fixed a missing extern in os.h when adding os_get_task_size.

    Note: This has been revised to fix the 32-bit UML on 64-bit host bug that
    Miklos ran into.

    Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
    Cc: Miklos Szeredi
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jeff Dike
     

06 Feb, 2008

2 commits

  • Give the stubs a VMA. This allows the removal of a truly nasty kludge to make
    sure that mm->nr_ptes was correct in exit_mmap. The underlying problem was
    always that the stubs, which have ptes, and thus allocated a page table,
    weren't covered by a VMA.

    This patch fixes that by using install_special_mapping in arch_dup_mmap and
    activate_context to create the VMA. The stubs have to be moved, since
    shift_arg_pages seems to assume that the stack is the only VMA present at that
    point during exec, and uses vma_adjust to fiddle its VMA. However, that
    extends the stub VMA by the amount removed from the stack VMA.

    To avoid this problem, the stubs were moved to a different fixed location at
    the start of the address space.

    The init_stub_pte calls were moved from init_new_context to arch_dup_mmap
    because I was occasionally seeing arch_dup_mmap not being called, causing
    exit_mmap to die. Rather than figure out what was really happening, I decided
    it was cleaner to just move the calls so that there's no doubt that both the
    pte and VMA creation happen, no matter what. arch_exit_mmap is used to clear
    the stub ptes at exit time.

    The STUB_* constants in as-layout.h no longer depend on UM_TASK_SIZE, that
    that definition is removed, along with the comments complaining about gcc.

    Because the stubs are no longer at the top of the address space, some care is
    needed while flushing TLBs. update_pte_range checks for addresses in the stub
    range and skips them. flush_thread now issues two unmaps, one for the range
    before STUB_START and one for the range after STUB_END.

    Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jeff Dike
     
  • Clean up the calculation and use of the usable address space size on the host.

    task_size is gone, replaced with TASK_SIZE, which is calculated from
    CONFIG_TOP_ADDR. get_kmem_end and set_task_sizes_skas are also gone.

    host_task_size, which refers to the entire address space usable by the UML
    kernel and which may be larger than the address space usable by a UML process,
    since that has to end on a pgdir boundary, is replaced by CONFIG_TOP_ADDR.

    STACK_TOP is now TASK_SIZE minus the two stub pages.

    Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jeff Dike
     

17 Oct, 2007

7 commits

  • The calculation of CONFIG_STUB_CODE and CONFIG_STUB_DATA didn't take into
    account anything but 3G/1G and 2G/2G, leaving the other vmsplits out in the
    cold.

    I'd rather not duplicate the four known host vmsplit cases for each of these
    symbols. I'd also like to calculate them based on the highest userspace
    address.

    The Kconfig language seems not to allow calculation of hex constants, so I
    moved this to as-layout.h. CONFIG_STUB_CODE, CONFIG_STUB_DATA, and
    CONFIG_STUB_START are now gone. In their place are STUB_CODE, STUB_DATA, and
    STUB_START in as-layout.h.

    i386 and x86_64 seem to differ as to whether an unadorned constant is an int
    or a long, so I cast them to unsigned long so they can be printed
    consistently. However, they are also used in stub.S, where C types don't work
    so well. So, there are ASM_ versions of these constants for use in stub.S. I
    also ifdef-ed the non-asm-friendly portion of as-layout.h.

    With this in place, most of the rest of this patch is changing CONFIG_STUB_*
    to STUB_*, except in stub.S, where they are changed to ASM_STUB_*.

    defconfig has the old symbols deleted.

    I also print these addresses out in case there is any problem mapping them on
    the host.

    The two stub.S files had some trailing whitespace, so that is cleaned up here.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jeff Dike
     
  • This patch folds mmu_context_skas into struct mm_context, changing all users
    of these structures as needed.

    Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jeff Dike
     
  • do_longjmp used to be needed when UML didn't have its own implementation of
    setjmp and longjmp. They came from libc, and couldn't be called directly from
    kernel code, as the libc jmp_buf couldn't be imported there. do_longjmp was a
    userspace function which served to provide longjmp access to kernel code.

    This is gone, and a number of void * pointers can now be jmp_buf *.

    Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jeff Dike
     
  • Formatting changes in the files which have been changed in the course
    of folding foo_skas functions into their callers. These include:
    copyright updates
    header file trimming
    style fixes
    adding severity to printks

    These changes should be entirely non-functional.

    Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jeff Dike
     
  • This patch makes a number of simplifications enabled by the removal of
    CHOOSE_MODE. There were lots of functions that looked like

    int foo(args){
    foo_skas(args);
    }

    The bodies of foo_skas are now folded into foo, and their declarations (and
    sometimes entire header files) are deleted.

    In addition, the union uml_pt_regs, which was a union between the tt and skas
    register formats, is now a struct, with the tt-mode arm of the union being
    removed.

    It turns out that usr2_handler was unused, so it is gone.

    Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jeff Dike
     
  • The next stage after removing code which depends on CONFIG_MODE_TT is removing
    the CHOOSE_MODE abstraction, which provided both compile-time and run-time
    branching to either tt-mode or skas-mode code.

    This patch removes choose-mode.h and all inclusions of it, and replaces all
    CHOOSE_MODE invocations with the skas branch. This leaves a number of trivial
    functions which will be dealt with in a later patch.

    There are some changes in the uaccess and tls support which go somewhat beyond
    this and eliminate some of the now-redundant functions.

    Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jeff Dike
     
  • This patchset throws out tt mode, which has been non-functional for a while.

    This is done in phases, interspersed with code cleanups on the affected files.

    The removal is done as follows:
    remove all code, config options, and files which depend on
    CONFIG_MODE_TT
    get rid of the CHOOSE_MODE macro, which decided whether to
    call tt-mode or skas-mode code, and replace invocations with their
    skas portions
    replace all now-trivial procedures with their skas equivalents

    There are now a bunch of now-redundant pieces of data structures, including
    mode-specific pieces of the thread structure, pt_regs, and mm_context. These
    are all replaced with their skas-specific contents.

    As part of the ongoing style compliance project, I made a style pass over all
    files that were changed. There are three such patches, one for each phase,
    covering the files affected by that phase but no later ones.

    I noticed that we weren't freeing the LDT state associated with a process when
    it exited, so that's fixed in one of the later patches.

    The last patch is a tidying patch which I've had for a while, but which caused
    inexplicable crashes under tt mode. Since that is no longer a problem, this
    can now go in.

    This patch:

    Start getting rid of tt mode support.

    This patch throws out CONFIG_MODE_TT and all config options, code, and files
    which depend on it.

    CONFIG_MODE_SKAS is gone and everything that depends on it is included
    unconditionally.

    The few changed lines are in re-written Kconfig help, lines which needed
    something skas-related removed from them, and a few more which weren't
    strictly deletions.

    Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jeff Dike
     

30 Jul, 2007

1 commit

  • Remove fs.h from mm.h. For this,
    1) Uninline vma_wants_writenotify(). It's pretty huge anyway.
    2) Add back fs.h or less bloated headers (err.h) to files that need it.

    As result, on x86_64 allyesconfig, fs.h dependencies cut down from 3929 files
    rebuilt down to 3444 (-12.3%).

    Cross-compile tested without regressions on my two usual configs and (sigh):

    alpha arm-mx1ads mips-bigsur powerpc-ebony
    alpha-allnoconfig arm-neponset mips-capcella powerpc-g5
    alpha-defconfig arm-netwinder mips-cobalt powerpc-holly
    alpha-up arm-netx mips-db1000 powerpc-iseries
    arm arm-ns9xxx mips-db1100 powerpc-linkstation
    arm-assabet arm-omap_h2_1610 mips-db1200 powerpc-lite5200
    arm-at91rm9200dk arm-onearm mips-db1500 powerpc-maple
    arm-at91rm9200ek arm-picotux200 mips-db1550 powerpc-mpc7448_hpc2
    arm-at91sam9260ek arm-pleb mips-ddb5477 powerpc-mpc8272_ads
    arm-at91sam9261ek arm-pnx4008 mips-decstation powerpc-mpc8313_rdb
    arm-at91sam9263ek arm-pxa255-idp mips-e55 powerpc-mpc832x_mds
    arm-at91sam9rlek arm-realview mips-emma2rh powerpc-mpc832x_rdb
    arm-ateb9200 arm-realview-smp mips-excite powerpc-mpc834x_itx
    arm-badge4 arm-rpc mips-fulong powerpc-mpc834x_itxgp
    arm-carmeva arm-s3c2410 mips-ip22 powerpc-mpc834x_mds
    arm-cerfcube arm-shannon mips-ip27 powerpc-mpc836x_mds
    arm-clps7500 arm-shark mips-ip32 powerpc-mpc8540_ads
    arm-collie arm-simpad mips-jazz powerpc-mpc8544_ds
    arm-corgi arm-spitz mips-jmr3927 powerpc-mpc8560_ads
    arm-csb337 arm-trizeps4 mips-malta powerpc-mpc8568mds
    arm-csb637 arm-versatile mips-mipssim powerpc-mpc85xx_cds
    arm-ebsa110 i386 mips-mpc30x powerpc-mpc8641_hpcn
    arm-edb7211 i386-allnoconfig mips-msp71xx powerpc-mpc866_ads
    arm-em_x270 i386-defconfig mips-ocelot powerpc-mpc885_ads
    arm-ep93xx i386-up mips-pb1100 powerpc-pasemi
    arm-footbridge ia64 mips-pb1500 powerpc-pmac32
    arm-fortunet ia64-allnoconfig mips-pb1550 powerpc-ppc64
    arm-h3600 ia64-bigsur mips-pnx8550-jbs powerpc-prpmc2800
    arm-h7201 ia64-defconfig mips-pnx8550-stb810 powerpc-ps3
    arm-h7202 ia64-gensparse mips-qemu powerpc-pseries
    arm-hackkit ia64-sim mips-rbhma4200 powerpc-up
    arm-integrator ia64-sn2 mips-rbhma4500 s390
    arm-iop13xx ia64-tiger mips-rm200 s390-allnoconfig
    arm-iop32x ia64-up mips-sb1250-swarm s390-defconfig
    arm-iop33x ia64-zx1 mips-sead s390-up
    arm-ixp2000 m68k mips-tb0219 sparc
    arm-ixp23xx m68k-amiga mips-tb0226 sparc-allnoconfig
    arm-ixp4xx m68k-apollo mips-tb0287 sparc-defconfig
    arm-jornada720 m68k-atari mips-workpad sparc-up
    arm-kafa m68k-bvme6000 mips-wrppmc sparc64
    arm-kb9202 m68k-hp300 mips-yosemite sparc64-allnoconfig
    arm-ks8695 m68k-mac parisc sparc64-defconfig
    arm-lart m68k-mvme147 parisc-allnoconfig sparc64-up
    arm-lpd270 m68k-mvme16x parisc-defconfig um-x86_64
    arm-lpd7a400 m68k-q40 parisc-up x86_64
    arm-lpd7a404 m68k-sun3 powerpc x86_64-allnoconfig
    arm-lubbock m68k-sun3x powerpc-cell x86_64-defconfig
    arm-lusl7200 mips powerpc-celleb x86_64-up
    arm-mainstone mips-atlas powerpc-chrp32

    Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Alexey Dobriyan
     

08 May, 2007

2 commits

  • user_util.h isn't needed any more, so delete it and remove all includes of it.

    Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
    Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jeff Dike
     
  • This patch moves all the the symbols defined in um_arch.c, which are mostly
    boundaries between different parts of the UML kernel address space, to a new
    header, as-layout.h. There are also a few things here which aren't really
    related to address space layout, but which don't really have a better place to
    go.

    Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
    Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jeff Dike
     

12 Feb, 2007

1 commit


09 Dec, 2006

1 commit

  • Fix the locking of signal->tty.

    Use ->sighand->siglock to protect ->signal->tty; this lock is already used
    by most other members of ->signal/->sighand. And unless we are 'current'
    or the tasklist_lock is held we need ->siglock to access ->signal anyway.

    (NOTE: sys_unshare() is broken wrt ->sighand locking rules)

    Note that tty_mutex is held over tty destruction, so while holding
    tty_mutex any tty pointer remains valid. Otherwise the lifetime of ttys
    are governed by their open file handles. This leaves some holes for tty
    access from signal->tty (or any other non file related tty access).

    It solves the tty SLAB scribbles we were seeing.

    (NOTE: the change from group_send_sig_info to __group_send_sig_info needs to
    be examined by someone familiar with the security framework, I think
    it is safe given the SEND_SIG_PRIV from other __group_send_sig_info
    invocations)

    [schwidefsky@de.ibm.com: 3270 fix]
    [akpm@osdl.org: various post-viro fixes]
    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Acked-by: Alan Cox
    Cc: Oleg Nesterov
    Cc: Prarit Bhargava
    Cc: Chris Wright
    Cc: Roland McGrath
    Cc: Stephen Smalley
    Cc: James Morris
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Cc: Jeff Dike
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: Jan Kara
    Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Peter Zijlstra
     

26 Sep, 2006

1 commit

  • Ensure current->signal->tty doesn't get freed during log_exec().

    Signed-off-by: Alan Cox
    Acked-by: Jeff Dike
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Alan Cox
     

11 Jul, 2006

1 commit

  • Move most *_kern.c files in arch/um/kernel to *.c. This makes UML somewhat
    more closely resemble the other arches.

    [akpm@osdl.org: use the new INTF_* flags]
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike
    Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jeff Dike