21 Dec, 2011
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binary_sysctl() calls sysctl_getname() which allocates from names_cache
slab usin __getname()The matching function to free the name is __putname(), and not putname()
which should be used only to match getname() allocations.This is because when auditing is enabled, putname() calls audit_putname
*instead* (not in addition) to __putname(). Then, if a syscall is in
progress, audit_putname does not release the name - instead, it expects
the name to get released when the syscall completes, but that will happen
only if audit_getname() was called previously, i.e. if the name was
allocated with getname() rather than the naked __getname(). So,
__getname() followed by putname() ends up leaking memory.Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse
Acked-by: Al Viro
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Eric Paris
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
04 Oct, 2011
1 commit
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removing obsoleted sysctl,
ip_rt_gc_interval variable no longer used since 2.6.38Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
13 Aug, 2011
1 commit
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Use the move from Linux 2.6 to Linux 3.x as an excuse to kill the
annoying subdirectories in the XFS source code. Besides the large
amount of file rename the only changes are to the Makefile, a few
files including headers with the subdirectory prefix, and the binary
sysctl compat code that includes a header under fs/xfs/ from
kernel/.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder
14 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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new function: file_open_root(dentry, mnt, name, flags) opens the file
vfs_path_lookup would arrive to.Note that name can be empty; in that case the usual requirement that
dentry should be a directory is lifted.open-coded equivalents switched to it, may_open() got down exactly
one caller and became static.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
14 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
Documentation/trace/events.txt: Remove obsolete sched_signal_send.
writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -> real-time
ppc: fix comment typo singal -> signal
drivers: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
m68k: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
wireless: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
media: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter
remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt
Fix spelling milisec -> ms in snd_ps3 module parameter description
Fix spelling mistakes in comments
Revert conflicting V4L changes
i7core_edac: fix typos in comments
mm/rmap.c: fix comment
sound, ca0106: Fix assignment to 'channel'.
hrtimer: fix a typo in comment
init/Kconfig: fix typo
anon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment
fix comment typos concerning "consistent"
poll: fix a typo in comment
...Fix up trivial conflicts in:
- drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c (moved to iwl-legacy.c)
- fs/ext4/ext4.hAlso fix missed 'diabled' typo in drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h while at it.
10 Dec, 2010
1 commit
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Originally adapted from Huang Ying's patch which moved the
unknown_nmi_panic to the traps.c file. Because the old nmi
watchdog was deleted before this change happened, the
unknown_nmi_panic sysctl was lost. This re-adds it.Also, the nmi_watchdog sysctl was re-implemented and its
documentation updated accordingly.Patch-inspired-by: Huang Ying
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
02 Nov, 2010
1 commit
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"gadget", "through", "command", "maintain", "maintain", "controller", "address",
"between", "initiali[zs]e", "instead", "function", "select", "already",
"equal", "access", "management", "hierarchy", "registration", "interest",
"relative", "memory", "offset", "already",Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
25 May, 2010
1 commit
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Remove own implementation of hex_to_bin().
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko
Cc: Eric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 May, 2010
1 commit
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A while back there was a discussion regarding the rt_secret_interval timer.
Given that we've had the ability to do emergency route cache rebuilds for awhile
now, based on a statistical analysis of the various hash chain lengths in the
cache, the use of the flush timer is somewhat redundant. This patch removes the
rt_secret_interval sysctl, allowing us to rely solely on the statistical
analysis mechanism to determine the need for route cache flushes.Signed-off-by: Neil Horman
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
30 Mar, 2010
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…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 allmodconfig8. 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>
04 Mar, 2010
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... instead of mixing FMODE_ and O_
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
24 Dec, 2009
1 commit
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When printing legacy sysctls print the warning message
for each of them only once. This way there is a guarantee
the syslog won't be flooded for any sane program.The original attempt at this made the tables non const and stored
the flag inline.Linus suggested using a separate hash table for this, this is based on a
code snippet from him.The hash implies this is not exact and can sometimes not print a
new sysctl due to a hash collision, but in practice this should not
be a problemI used a FNV32 hash over the binary string with a 32byte bitmap. This
gives relatively little collisions when all the predefined binary sysctls
are hashed:size 256
bucket
length number
0: [25]
1: [67]
2: [88]
3: [47]
4: [22]
5: [6]
6: [1]The worst case is a single collision of 6 hash values.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
17 Dec, 2009
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As predicted during code review, the sysctl(2) changes made systems with
old glibc nearly unusable. About every command gives a:warning: process `ls' used the deprecated sysctl system call with 1.4
warning in the log.
I see this on a SUSE 10.0 system with glibc 2.3.5.
Don't warn for this common case.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Nov, 2009
3 commits
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A malicious user could have passed in a ctl_name of 0 and triggered
the well know ctl_name to procname mapping code, instead of the wild
card matching code. This is a slight problem as wild card entries don't
have procnames, and because in some alternate universe a network device
might have ifindex 0. So test for and handle wild card entries first.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
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dev_get_by_index does not exist when the network stack is not
compiled in, so only include the code to follow wild card paths
when the network stack is present.I have shuffled the code around a little to make it clear
that dev_put is called after dev_get_by_index showing that
there is no leak.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
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Now that the glibc pthread implemenation no longers uses sysctl() users
of sysctl are as rare as hen's teeth. So remove the glibc exception
from the warning, and use the standard printk_ratelimit instead of
rolling our own.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
11 Nov, 2009
1 commit
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To simply maintenance and to be able to remove all of the binary
sysctl support from various subsystems I have rewritten the binary
sysctl code as a compatibility wrapper around proc/sys.The code is built around a hard coded table based on the table
in sysctl_check.c that lists all of our current binary sysctls
and provides enough information to convert from the sysctl
binary input into into ascii and back again. New in this
patch is the realization that the only dynamic entries
that need to be handled have ifname as the asscii string
and ifindex as their ctl_name.When a sys_sysctl is called the code now looks in the
translation table converting the binary name to the
path under /proc where the value is to be found. Opens
that file, and calls into a format conversion wrapper
that calls fop->read and then fop->write as appropriate.Since in practice the practically no one uses or tests
sys_sysctl rewritting the code to be beautiful is a little
silly. The redeeming merit of this work is it allows us to
rip out all of the binary sysctl syscall support from
everywhere else in the tree. Allowing us to remove
a lot of dead (after this patch) and barely maintained code.In addition it becomes much easier to optimize the sysctl
implementation for being the backing store of /proc/sys,
without having to worry about sys_sysctl.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
06 Nov, 2009
4 commits
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Now that all of the architectures use compat_sys_sysctl do_sysctl
can become static.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
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This uses compat_alloc_userspace to remove the various
hacks to allow do_sysctl to write to throuh oldlenp.The rest of our mature compat syscall helper facitilies
are used as well to ensure we have a nice clean maintainable
compat syscall that can be used on all architectures.The motiviation for a generic compat sysctl (besides the
obvious hack removal) is to reduce the number of compat
sysctl defintions out there so I can refactor the
binary sysctl implementation.ppc already used the name compat_sys_sysctl so I remove the
ppcs version here.Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
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Read in the binary sysctl path once, instead of reread it
from user space each time the code needs to access a path
element.The deprecated sysctl warning is moved to do_sysctl so
that the compat_sysctl entries syscalls will also warn.The return of -ENOSYS when !CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL is moved
to binary_sysctl. Always leaving a do_sysctl available
that handles !CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL and printing the
deprecated sysctl warning allows for a single defitition
of the sysctl syscall.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
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In preparation for more invasive cleanups separate the core
binary sysctl logic into it's own file.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman