06 May, 2013

1 commit

  • Pull mudule updates from Rusty Russell:
    "We get rid of the general module prefix confusion with a binary config
    option, fix a remove/insert race which Never Happens, and (my
    favorite) handle the case when we have too many modules for a single
    commandline. Seriously, the kernel is full, please go away!"

    * tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
    modpost: fix unwanted VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR expansion
    X.509: Support parse long form of length octets in Authority Key Identifier
    module: don't unlink the module until we've removed all exposure.
    kernel: kallsyms: memory override issue, need check destination buffer length
    MODSIGN: do not send garbage to stderr when enabling modules signature
    modpost: handle huge numbers of modules.
    modpost: add -T option to read module names from file/stdin.
    modpost: minor cleanup.
    genksyms: pass symbol-prefix instead of arch
    module: fix symbol versioning with symbol prefixes
    CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX: cleanup.

    Linus Torvalds
     

05 May, 2013

1 commit


02 May, 2013

2 commits

  • Pull VFS updates from Al Viro,

    Misc cleanups all over the place, mainly wrt /proc interfaces (switch
    create_proc_entry to proc_create(), get rid of the deprecated
    create_proc_read_entry() in favor of using proc_create_data() and
    seq_file etc).

    7kloc removed.

    * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (204 commits)
    don't bother with deferred freeing of fdtables
    proc: Move non-public stuff from linux/proc_fs.h to fs/proc/internal.h
    proc: Make the PROC_I() and PDE() macros internal to procfs
    proc: Supply a function to remove a proc entry by PDE
    take cgroup_open() and cpuset_open() to fs/proc/base.c
    ppc: Clean up scanlog
    ppc: Clean up rtas_flash driver somewhat
    hostap: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
    drm: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
    drm: proc: Use minor->index to label things, not PDE->name
    drm: Constify drm_proc_list[]
    zoran: Don't print proc_dir_entry data in debug
    reiserfs: Don't access the proc_dir_entry in r_open(), r_start() r_show()
    proc: Supply an accessor for getting the data from a PDE's parent
    airo: Use remove_proc_subtree()
    rtl8192u: Don't need to save device proc dir PDE
    rtl8187se: Use a dir under /proc/net/r8180/
    proc: Add proc_mkdir_data()
    proc: Move some bits from linux/proc_fs.h to linux/{of.h,signal.h,tty.h}
    proc: Move PDE_NET() to fs/proc/proc_net.c
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • Pull networking updates from David Miller:
    "Highlights (1721 non-merge commits, this has to be a record of some
    sort):

    1) Add 'random' mode to team driver, from Jiri Pirko and Eric
    Dumazet.

    2) Make it so that any driver that supports configuration of multiple
    MAC addresses can provide the forwarding database add and del
    calls by providing a default implementation and hooking that up if
    the driver doesn't have an explicit set of handlers. From Vlad
    Yasevich.

    3) Support GSO segmentation over tunnels and other encapsulating
    devices such as VXLAN, from Pravin B Shelar.

    4) Support L2 GRE tunnels in the flow dissector, from Michael Dalton.

    5) Implement Tail Loss Probe (TLP) detection in TCP, from Nandita
    Dukkipati.

    6) In the PHY layer, allow supporting wake-on-lan in situations where
    the PHY registers have to be written for it to be configured.

    Use it to support wake-on-lan in mv643xx_eth.

    From Michael Stapelberg.

    7) Significantly improve firewire IPV6 support, from YOSHIFUJI
    Hideaki.

    8) Allow multiple packets to be sent in a single transmission using
    network coding in batman-adv, from Martin Hundebøll.

    9) Add support for T5 cxgb4 chips, from Santosh Rastapur.

    10) Generalize the VXLAN forwarding tables so that there is more
    flexibility in configurating various aspects of the endpoints.
    From David Stevens.

    11) Support RSS and TSO in hardware over GRE tunnels in bxn2x driver,
    from Dmitry Kravkov.

    12) Zero copy support in nfnelink_queue, from Eric Dumazet and Pablo
    Neira Ayuso.

    13) Start adding networking selftests.

    14) In situations of overload on the same AF_PACKET fanout socket, or
    per-cpu packet receive queue, minimize drop by distributing the
    load to other cpus/fanouts. From Willem de Bruijn and Eric
    Dumazet.

    15) Add support for new payload offset BPF instruction, from Daniel
    Borkmann.

    16) Convert several drivers over to mdoule_platform_driver(), from
    Sachin Kamat.

    17) Provide a minimal BPF JIT image disassembler userspace tool, from
    Daniel Borkmann.

    18) Rewrite F-RTO implementation in TCP to match the final
    specification of it in RFC4138 and RFC5682. From Yuchung Cheng.

    19) Provide netlink socket diag of netlink sockets ("Yo dawg, I hear
    you like netlink, so I implemented netlink dumping of netlink
    sockets.") From Andrey Vagin.

    20) Remove ugly passing of rtnetlink attributes into rtnl_doit
    functions, from Thomas Graf.

    21) Allow userspace to be able to see if a configuration change occurs
    in the middle of an address or device list dump, from Nicolas
    Dichtel.

    22) Support RFC3168 ECN protection for ipv6 fragments, from Hannes
    Frederic Sowa.

    23) Increase accuracy of packet length used by packet scheduler, from
    Jason Wang.

    24) Beginning set of changes to make ipv4/ipv6 fragment handling more
    scalable and less susceptible to overload and locking contention,
    from Jesper Dangaard Brouer.

    25) Get rid of using non-type-safe NLMSG_* macros and use nlmsg_*()
    instead. From Hong Zhiguo.

    26) Optimize route usage in IPVS by avoiding reference counting where
    possible, from Julian Anastasov.

    27) Convert IPVS schedulers to RCU, also from Julian Anastasov.

    28) Support cpu fanouts in xt_NFQUEUE netfilter target, from Holger
    Eitzenberger.

    29) Network namespace support for nf_log, ebt_log, xt_LOG, ipt_ULOG,
    nfnetlink_log, and nfnetlink_queue. From Gao feng.

    30) Implement RFC3168 ECN protection, from Hannes Frederic Sowa.

    31) Support several new r8169 chips, from Hayes Wang.

    32) Support tokenized interface identifiers in ipv6, from Daniel
    Borkmann.

    33) Use usbnet_link_change() helper in USB net driver, from Ming Lei.

    34) Add 802.1ad vlan offload support, from Patrick McHardy.

    35) Support mmap() based netlink communication, also from Patrick
    McHardy.

    36) Support HW timestamping in mlx4 driver, from Amir Vadai.

    37) Rationalize AF_PACKET packet timestamping when transmitting, from
    Willem de Bruijn and Daniel Borkmann.

    38) Bring parity to what's provided by /proc/net/packet socket dumping
    and the info provided by netlink socket dumping of AF_PACKET
    sockets. From Nicolas Dichtel.

    39) Fix peeking beyond zero sized SKBs in AF_UNIX, from Benjamin
    Poirier"

    * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1722 commits)
    filter: fix va_list build error
    af_unix: fix a fatal race with bit fields
    bnx2x: Prevent memory leak when cnic is absent
    bnx2x: correct reading of speed capabilities
    net: sctp: attribute printl with __printf for gcc fmt checks
    netlink: kconfig: move mmap i/o into netlink kconfig
    netpoll: convert mutex into a semaphore
    netlink: Fix skb ref counting.
    net_sched: act_ipt forward compat with xtables
    mlx4_en: fix a build error on 32bit arches
    Revert "bnx2x: allow nvram test to run when device is down"
    bridge: avoid OOPS if root port not found
    drivers: net: cpsw: fix kernel warn on cpsw irq enable
    sh_eth: use random MAC address if no valid one supplied
    3c509.c: call SET_NETDEV_DEV for all device types (ISA/ISAPnP/EISA)
    tg3: fix to append hardware time stamping flags
    unix/stream: fix peeking with an offset larger than data in queue
    unix/dgram: fix peeking with an offset larger than data in queue
    unix/dgram: peek beyond 0-sized skbs
    openvswitch: Remove unneeded ovs_netdev_get_ifindex()
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

01 May, 2013

3 commits

  • Pull compat cleanup from Al Viro:
    "Mostly about syscall wrappers this time; there will be another pile
    with patches in the same general area from various people, but I'd
    rather push those after both that and vfs.git pile are in."

    * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
    syscalls.h: slightly reduce the jungles of macros
    get rid of union semop in sys_semctl(2) arguments
    make do_mremap() static
    sparc: no need to sign-extend in sync_file_range() wrapper
    ppc compat wrappers for add_key(2) and request_key(2) are pointless
    x86: trim sys_ia32.h
    x86: sys32_kill and sys32_mprotect are pointless
    get rid of compat_sys_semctl() and friends in case of ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
    merge compat sys_ipc instances
    consolidate compat lookup_dcookie()
    convert vmsplice to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
    switch getrusage() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
    switch epoll_pwait to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
    convert sendfile{,64} to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
    switch signalfd{,4}() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
    make SYSCALL_DEFINE-generated wrappers do asmlinkage_protect
    make HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS unconditional
    consolidate cond_syscall and SYSCALL_ALIAS declarations
    teach SYSCALL_DEFINE how to deal with long long/unsigned long long
    get rid of duplicate logics in __SC_....[1-6] definitions

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • show_regs() is inherently arch-dependent but it does make sense to print
    generic debug information and some archs already do albeit in slightly
    different forms. This patch introduces a generic function to print debug
    information from show_regs() so that different archs print out the same
    information and it's much easier to modify what's printed.

    show_regs_print_info() prints out the same debug info as dump_stack()
    does plus task and thread_info pointers.

    * Archs which didn't print debug info now do.

    alpha, arc, blackfin, c6x, cris, frv, h8300, hexagon, ia64, m32r,
    metag, microblaze, mn10300, openrisc, parisc, score, sh64, sparc,
    um, xtensa

    * Already prints debug info. Replaced with show_regs_print_info().
    The printed information is superset of what used to be there.

    arm, arm64, avr32, mips, powerpc, sh32, tile, unicore32, x86

    * s390 is special in that it used to print arch-specific information
    along with generic debug info. Heiko and Martin think that the
    arch-specific extra isn't worth keeping s390 specfic implementation.
    Converted to use the generic version.

    Note that now all archs print the debug info before actual register
    dumps.

    An example BUG() dump follows.

    kernel BUG at /work/os/work/kernel/workqueue.c:4841!
    invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
    Modules linked in:
    CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #7
    Hardware name: empty empty/S3992, BIOS 080011 10/26/2007
    task: ffff88007c85e040 ti: ffff88007c860000 task.ti: ffff88007c860000
    RIP: 0010:[] [] init_workqueues+0x4/0x6
    RSP: 0000:ffff88007c861ec8 EFLAGS: 00010246
    RAX: ffff88007c861fd8 RBX: ffffffff824466a8 RCX: 0000000000000001
    RDX: 0000000000000046 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffffffff8234a07a
    RBP: ffff88007c861ec8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
    R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff8234a07a
    R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
    FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88007dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
    CR2: ffff88015f7ff000 CR3: 00000000021f1000 CR4: 00000000000007f0
    DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
    DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
    Stack:
    ffff88007c861ef8 ffffffff81000312 ffffffff824466a8 ffff88007c85e650
    0000000000000003 0000000000000000 ffff88007c861f38 ffffffff82335e5d
    ffff88007c862080 ffffffff8223d8c0 ffff88007c862080 ffffffff81c47760
    Call Trace:
    [] do_one_initcall+0x122/0x170
    [] kernel_init_freeable+0x9b/0x1c8
    [] ? rest_init+0x140/0x140
    [] kernel_init+0xe/0xf0
    [] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
    [] ? rest_init+0x140/0x140
    ...

    v2: Typo fix in x86-32.

    v3: CPU number dropped from show_regs_print_info() as
    dump_stack_print_info() has been updated to print it. s390
    specific implementation dropped as requested by s390 maintainers.

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
    Acked-by: David S. Miller
    Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson
    Cc: Heiko Carstens
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: Bjorn Helgaas
    Cc: Fengguang Wu
    Cc: Mike Frysinger
    Cc: Vineet Gupta
    Cc: Sam Ravnborg
    Acked-by: Chris Metcalf [tile bits]
    Acked-by: Richard Kuo [hexagon bits]
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Tejun Heo
     
  • Both dump_stack() and show_stack() are currently implemented by each
    architecture. show_stack(NULL, NULL) dumps the backtrace for the
    current task as does dump_stack(). On some archs, dump_stack() prints
    extra information - pid, utsname and so on - in addition to the
    backtrace while the two are identical on other archs.

    The usages in arch-independent code of the two functions indicate
    show_stack(NULL, NULL) should print out bare backtrace while
    dump_stack() is used for debugging purposes when something went wrong,
    so it does make sense to print additional information on the task which
    triggered dump_stack().

    There's no reason to require archs to implement two separate but mostly
    identical functions. It leads to unnecessary subtle information.

    This patch expands the dummy fallback dump_stack() implementation in
    lib/dump_stack.c such that it prints out debug information (taken from
    x86) and invokes show_stack(NULL, NULL) and drops arch-specific
    dump_stack() implementations in all archs except blackfin. Blackfin's
    dump_stack() does something wonky that I don't understand.

    Debug information can be printed separately by calling
    dump_stack_print_info() so that arch-specific dump_stack()
    implementation can still emit the same debug information. This is used
    in blackfin.

    This patch brings the following behavior changes.

    * On some archs, an extra level in backtrace for show_stack() could be
    printed. This is because the top frame was determined in
    dump_stack() on those archs while generic dump_stack() can't do that
    reliably. It can be compensated by inlining dump_stack() but not
    sure whether that'd be necessary.

    * Most archs didn't use to print debug info on dump_stack(). They do
    now.

    An example WARN dump follows.

    WARNING: at kernel/workqueue.c:4841 init_workqueues+0x35/0x505()
    Hardware name: empty
    Modules linked in:
    CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #9
    0000000000000009 ffff88007c861e08 ffffffff81c614dc ffff88007c861e48
    ffffffff8108f50f ffffffff82228240 0000000000000040 ffffffff8234a03c
    0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88007c861e58
    Call Trace:
    [] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
    [] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
    [] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
    [] init_workqueues+0x35/0x505
    ...

    v2: CPU number added to the generic debug info as requested by s390
    folks and dropped the s390 specific dump_stack(). This loses %ksp
    from the debug message which the maintainers think isn't important
    enough to keep the s390-specific dump_stack() implementation.

    dump_stack_print_info() is moved to kernel/printk.c from
    lib/dump_stack.c. Because linkage is per objecct file,
    dump_stack_print_info() living in the same lib file as generic
    dump_stack() means that archs which implement custom dump_stack()
    - at this point, only blackfin - can't use dump_stack_print_info()
    as that will bring in the generic version of dump_stack() too. v1
    The v1 patch broke build on blackfin due to this issue. The build
    breakage was reported by Fengguang Wu.

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
    Acked-by: David S. Miller
    Acked-by: Vineet Gupta
    Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson
    Acked-by: Vineet Gupta
    Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky [s390 bits]
    Cc: Heiko Carstens
    Cc: Mike Frysinger
    Cc: Fengguang Wu
    Cc: Bjorn Helgaas
    Cc: Sam Ravnborg
    Acked-by: Richard Kuo [hexagon bits]
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Tejun Heo
     

30 Apr, 2013

3 commits

  • Pull SMP/hotplug changes from Ingo Molnar:
    "This is a pretty large, multi-arch series unifying and generalizing
    the various disjunct pieces of idle routines that architectures have
    historically copied from each other and have grown in random, wildly
    inconsistent and sometimes buggy directions:

    101 files changed, 455 insertions(+), 1328 deletions(-)

    this went through a number of review and test iterations before it was
    committed, it was tested on various architectures, was exposed to
    linux-next for quite some time - nevertheless it might cause problems
    on architectures that don't read the mailing lists and don't regularly
    test linux-next.

    This cat herding excercise was motivated by the -rt kernel, and was
    brought to you by Thomas "the Whip" Gleixner."

    * 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
    idle: Remove GENERIC_IDLE_LOOP config switch
    um: Use generic idle loop
    ia64: Make sure interrupts enabled when we "safe_halt()"
    sparc: Use generic idle loop
    idle: Remove unused ARCH_HAS_DEFAULT_IDLE
    bfin: Fix typo in arch_cpu_idle()
    xtensa: Use generic idle loop
    x86: Use generic idle loop
    unicore: Use generic idle loop
    tile: Use generic idle loop
    tile: Enter idle with preemption disabled
    sh: Use generic idle loop
    score: Use generic idle loop
    s390: Use generic idle loop
    powerpc: Use generic idle loop
    parisc: Use generic idle loop
    openrisc: Use generic idle loop
    mn10300: Use generic idle loop
    mips: Use generic idle loop
    microblaze: Use generic idle loop
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • Use common help functions to free reserved pages.

    Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jiang Liu
     
  • Don't use create_proc_read_entry() as that is deprecated, but rather use
    proc_create_data() and seq_file instead.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    cc: Yoshinori Sato
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    David Howells
     

17 Apr, 2013

1 commit


10 Apr, 2013

1 commit


08 Apr, 2013

1 commit

  • Use the core idle poll function instead of the private one

    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Linus Torvalds
    Cc: Rusty Russell
    Cc: Paul McKenney
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Reviewed-by: Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat
    Cc: Magnus Damm
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130321215234.277153345@linutronix.de
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

    Thomas Gleixner
     

01 Apr, 2013

1 commit

  • Currently, when a socket receives something on the error queue it only wakes up
    the socket on select if it is in the "read" list, that is the socket has
    something to read. It is useful also to wake the socket if it is in the error
    list, which would enable software to wait on error queue packets without waking
    up for regular data on the socket. The main use case is for receiving
    timestamped transmit packets which return the timestamp to the socket via the
    error queue. This enables an application to select on the socket for the error
    queue only instead of for the regular traffic.

    -v2-
    * Added the SO_SELECT_ERR_QUEUE socket option to every architechture specific file
    * Modified every socket poll function that checks error queue

    Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller
    Cc: Jeffrey Kirsher
    Cc: Richard Cochran
    Cc: Matthew Vick
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Keller, Jacob E
     

15 Mar, 2013

1 commit

  • We have CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX, which three archs define to the string
    "_". But Al Viro broke this in "consolidate cond_syscall and
    SYSCALL_ALIAS declarations" (in linux-next), and he's not the first to
    do so.

    Using CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is awkward, since we usually just want to
    prefix it so something. So various places define helpers which are
    defined to nothing if CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX isn't set:

    1) include/asm-generic/unistd.h defines __SYMBOL_PREFIX.
    2) include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h defines VMLINUX_SYMBOL(sym)
    3) include/linux/export.h defines MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX.
    4) include/linux/kernel.h defines SYMBOL_PREFIX (which differs from #7)
    5) kernel/modsign_certificate.S defines ASM_SYMBOL(sym)
    6) scripts/modpost.c defines MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
    7) scripts/Makefile.lib defines SYMBOL_PREFIX on the commandline if
    CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is set, so that we have a non-string version
    for pasting.

    (arch/h8300/include/asm/linkage.h defines SYMBOL_NAME(), too).

    Let's solve this properly:
    1) No more generic prefix, just CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX.
    2) Make linux/export.h usable from asm.
    3) Define VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR().
    4) Make everyone use them.

    Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
    Reviewed-by: James Hogan
    Tested-by: James Hogan (metag)

    Rusty Russell
     

13 Mar, 2013

1 commit

  • In commit 887cbce0adea ("arch Kconfig: centralise ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS")
    I introduced the config sybmol HAVE_VIRT_TO_BUS and selected that where
    needed. I am not sure what I was thinking. Instead, just directly
    select VIRT_TO_BUS where it is needed.

    Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Stephen Rothwell
     

04 Mar, 2013

1 commit


28 Feb, 2013

1 commit

  • Change it to CONFIG_HAVE_VIRT_TO_BUS and set it in all architecures
    that already provide virt_to_bus().

    Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell
    Reviewed-by: James Hogan
    Cc: Bjorn Helgaas
    Cc: H Hartley Sweeten
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Cc: Paul Mundt
    Cc: Vineet Gupta
    Cc: James Bottomley
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Stephen Rothwell
     

27 Feb, 2013

1 commit

  • Pull vfs pile (part one) from Al Viro:
    "Assorted stuff - cleaning namei.c up a bit, fixing ->d_name/->d_parent
    locking violations, etc.

    The most visible changes here are death of FS_REVAL_DOT (replaced with
    "has ->d_weak_revalidate()") and a new helper getting from struct file
    to inode. Some bits of preparation to xattr method interface changes.

    Misc patches by various people sent this cycle *and* ocfs2 fixes from
    several cycles ago that should've been upstream right then.

    PS: the next vfs pile will be xattr stuff."

    * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (46 commits)
    saner proc_get_inode() calling conventions
    proc: avoid extra pde_put() in proc_fill_super()
    fs: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM
    fs/exec.c: make bprm_mm_init() static
    ocfs2/dlm: use GFP_ATOMIC inside a spin_lock
    ocfs2: fix possible use-after-free with AIO
    ocfs2: Fix oops in ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage() code path
    get_empty_filp()/alloc_file() leave both ->f_pos and ->f_version zero
    target: writev() on single-element vector is pointless
    export kernel_write(), convert open-coded instances
    fs: encode_fh: return FILEID_INVALID if invalid fid_type
    kill f_vfsmnt
    vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op
    nfsd: handle vfs_getattr errors in acl protocol
    switch vfs_getattr() to struct path
    default SET_PERSONALITY() in linux/elf.h
    ceph: prepopulate inodes only when request is aborted
    d_hash_and_lookup(): export, switch open-coded instances
    9p: switch v9fs_set_create_acl() to inode+fid, do it before d_instantiate()
    9p: split dropping the acls from v9fs_set_create_acl()
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

26 Feb, 2013

1 commit


24 Feb, 2013

1 commit

  • Pull signal handling cleanups from Al Viro:
    "This is the first pile; another one will come a bit later and will
    contain SYSCALL_DEFINE-related patches.

    - a bunch of signal-related syscalls (both native and compat)
    unified.

    - a bunch of compat syscalls switched to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
    (fixing several potential problems with missing argument
    validation, while we are at it)

    - a lot of now-pointless wrappers killed

    - a couple of architectures (cris and hexagon) forgot to save
    altstack settings into sigframe, even though they used the
    (uninitialized) values in sigreturn; fixed.

    - microblaze fixes for delivery of multiple signals arriving at once

    - saner set of helpers for signal delivery introduced, several
    architectures switched to using those."

    * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (143 commits)
    x86: convert to ksignal
    sparc: convert to ksignal
    arm: switch to struct ksignal * passing
    alpha: pass k_sigaction and siginfo_t using ksignal pointer
    burying unused conditionals
    make do_sigaltstack() static
    arm64: switch to generic old sigaction() (compat-only)
    arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigaction()
    arm64: switch compat to generic old sigsuspend
    arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigqueueinfo()
    arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigpending()
    arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigprocmask()
    arm64: switch to generic sigaltstack
    sparc: switch to generic old sigsuspend
    sparc: COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE does all sign-extension as well as SYSCALL_DEFINE
    sparc: kill sign-extending wrappers for native syscalls
    kill sparc32_open()
    sparc: switch to use of generic old sigaction
    sparc: switch sys_compat_rt_sigaction() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
    mips: switch to generic sys_fork() and sys_clone()
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

22 Feb, 2013

1 commit

  • Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
    "Assorted tiny fixes queued in trivial tree"

    * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (22 commits)
    DocBook: update EXPORT_SYMBOL entry to point at export.h
    Documentation: update top level 00-INDEX file with new additions
    ARM: at91/ide: remove unsused at91-ide Kconfig entry
    percpu_counter.h: comment code for better readability
    x86, efi: fix comment typo in head_32.S
    IB: cxgb3: delay freeing mem untill entirely done with it
    net: mvneta: remove unneeded version.h include
    time: x86: report_lost_ticks doesn't exist any more
    pcmcia: avoid static analysis complaint about use-after-free
    fs/jfs: Fix typo in comment : 'how may' -> 'how many'
    of: add missing documentation for of_platform_populate()
    btrfs: remove unnecessary cur_trans set before goto loop in join_transaction
    sound: soc: Fix typo in sound/codecs
    treewide: Fix typo in various drivers
    btrfs: fix comment typos
    Update ibmvscsi module name in Kconfig.
    powerpc: fix typo (utilties -> utilities)
    of: fix spelling mistake in comment
    h8300: Fix home page URL in h8300/README
    xtensa: Fix home page URL in Kconfig
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

14 Feb, 2013

1 commit

  • __ARCH_WANT_SYS_RT_SIGACTION,
    __ARCH_WANT_SYS_RT_SIGSUSPEND,
    __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_RT_SIGSUSPEND,
    __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_SCHED_RR_GET_INTERVAL - not used anymore
    CONFIG_GENERIC_{SIGALTSTACK,COMPAT_RT_SIG{ACTION,QUEUEINFO,PENDING,PROCMASK}} -
    can be assumed always set.

    Al Viro
     

04 Feb, 2013

6 commits


29 Jan, 2013

1 commit


24 Jan, 2013

1 commit


17 Jan, 2013

1 commit

  • While a privileged program can open a raw socket, attach some
    restrictive filter and drop its privileges (or send the socket to an
    unprivileged program through some Unix socket), the filter can still
    be removed or modified by the unprivileged program. This commit adds a
    socket option to lock the filter (SO_LOCK_FILTER) preventing any
    modification of a socket filter program.

    This is similar to OpenBSD BIOCLOCK ioctl on bpf sockets, except even
    root is not allowed change/drop the filter.

    The state of the lock can be read with getsockopt(). No error is
    triggered if the state is not changed. -EPERM is returned when a user
    tries to remove the lock or to change/remove the filter while the lock
    is active. The check is done directly in sk_attach_filter() and
    sk_detach_filter() and does not affect only setsockopt() syscall.

    Signed-off-by: Vincent Bernat
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Vincent Bernat
     

04 Jan, 2013

1 commit


22 Dec, 2012

1 commit

  • Pull asm-generic cleanup from Arnd Bergmann:
    "These are a few cleanups for asm-generic:

    - a set of patches from Lars-Peter Clausen to generalize asm/mmu.h
    and use it in the architectures that don't need any special
    handling.
    - A patch from Will Deacon to remove the {read,write}s{b,w,l} as
    discussed during the arm64 review
    - A patch from James Hogan that helps with the meta architecture
    series."

    * tag 'asm-generic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
    xtensa: Use generic asm/mmu.h for nommu
    h8300: Use generic asm/mmu.h
    c6x: Use generic asm/mmu.h
    asm-generic/mmu.h: Add support for FDPIC
    asm-generic/mmu.h: Remove unused vmlist field from mm_context_t
    asm-generic: io: remove {read,write} string functions
    asm-generic/io.h: remove asm/cacheflush.h include

    Linus Torvalds
     

21 Dec, 2012

1 commit

  • Pull signal handling cleanups from Al Viro:
    "sigaltstack infrastructure + conversion for x86, alpha and um,
    COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE infrastructure.

    Note that there are several conflicts between "unify
    SS_ONSTACK/SS_DISABLE definitions" and UAPI patches in mainline;
    resolution is trivial - just remove definitions of SS_ONSTACK and
    SS_DISABLED from arch/*/uapi/asm/signal.h; they are all identical and
    include/uapi/linux/signal.h contains the unified variant."

    Fixed up conflicts as per Al.

    * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
    alpha: switch to generic sigaltstack
    new helpers: __save_altstack/__compat_save_altstack, switch x86 and um to those
    generic compat_sys_sigaltstack()
    introduce generic sys_sigaltstack(), switch x86 and um to it
    new helper: compat_user_stack_pointer()
    new helper: restore_altstack()
    unify SS_ONSTACK/SS_DISABLE definitions
    new helper: current_user_stack_pointer()
    missing user_stack_pointer() instances
    Bury the conditionals from kernel_thread/kernel_execve series
    COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE: infrastructure

    Linus Torvalds
     

20 Dec, 2012

4 commits


19 Dec, 2012

1 commit

  • Rationales from Eric:

    So I just looked a little deeper and it appears architectures that do
    not support atomic64_t are broken.

    The generic atomic64 support came in 2009 to support the perf subsystem
    with the expectation that all architectures would implement atomic64
    support.

    Furthermore upon inspection of the kernel atomic64_t is used in a fair
    number of places beyond the performance counters:

    block/blk-cgroup.c
    drivers/acpi/apei/
    drivers/block/rbd.c
    drivers/crypto/nx/nx.h
    drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.h
    drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/
    drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/
    drivers/staging/octeon/
    fs/xfs/
    include/linux/perf_event.h
    include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_acct.h
    kernel/events/
    kernel/trace/
    net/mac80211/key.h
    net/rds/

    The block control group, infiniband, xfs, crypto, 802.11, netfilter.
    Nothing quite so fundamental as fs/namespace.c but definitely in
    multiplatform-code that should work, and is already broken on those
    architecutres.

    Looking at the implementation of atomic64_add_return in lib/atomic64.c the
    code looks as efficient as these kinds of things get.

    Which leads me to the conclusion that we need atomic64 support on all
    architectures.

    Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu
    Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Fengguang Wu