20 Jul, 2007

1 commit

  • Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
    c59def9f222d44bb7e2f0a559f2906191a0862d7 change. They've been
    BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
    either.

    This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
    completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
    about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
    or the documentation references).

    Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt

    Paul Mundt
     

17 Jul, 2007

1 commit

  • Part two in the O_CLOEXEC saga: adding support for file descriptors received
    through Unix domain sockets.

    The patch is once again pretty minimal, it introduces a new flag for recvmsg
    and passes it just like the existing MSG_CMSG_COMPAT flag. I think this bit
    is not used otherwise but the networking people will know better.

    This new flag is not recognized by recvfrom and recv. These functions cannot
    be used for that purpose and the asymmetry this introduces is not worse than
    the already existing MSG_CMSG_COMPAT situations.

    The patch must be applied on the patch which introduced O_CLOEXEC. It has to
    remove static from the new get_unused_fd_flags function but since scm.c cannot
    live in a module the function still hasn't to be exported.

    Here's a test program to make sure the code works. It's so much longer than
    the actual patch...

    #include
    #include
    #include
    #include
    #include
    #include
    #include
    #include

    #ifndef O_CLOEXEC
    # define O_CLOEXEC 02000000
    #endif
    #ifndef MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC
    # define MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC 0x40000000
    #endif

    int
    main (int argc, char *argv[])
    {
    if (argc > 1)
    {
    int fd = atol (argv[1]);
    printf ("child: fd = %d\n", fd);
    if (fcntl (fd, F_GETFD) == 0 || errno != EBADF)
    {
    puts ("file descriptor valid in child");
    return 1;
    }
    return 0;

    }

    struct sockaddr_un sun;
    strcpy (sun.sun_path, "./testsocket");
    sun.sun_family = AF_UNIX;

    char databuf[] = "hello";
    struct iovec iov[1];
    iov[0].iov_base = databuf;
    iov[0].iov_len = sizeof (databuf);

    union
    {
    struct cmsghdr hdr;
    char bytes[CMSG_SPACE (sizeof (int))];
    } buf;
    struct msghdr msg = { .msg_iov = iov, .msg_iovlen = 1,
    .msg_control = buf.bytes,
    .msg_controllen = sizeof (buf) };
    struct cmsghdr *cmsg = CMSG_FIRSTHDR (&msg);

    cmsg->cmsg_level = SOL_SOCKET;
    cmsg->cmsg_type = SCM_RIGHTS;
    cmsg->cmsg_len = CMSG_LEN (sizeof (int));

    msg.msg_controllen = cmsg->cmsg_len;

    pid_t child = fork ();
    if (child == -1)
    error (1, errno, "fork");
    if (child == 0)
    {
    int sock = socket (PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
    if (sock < 0)
    error (1, errno, "socket");

    if (bind (sock, (struct sockaddr *) &sun, sizeof (sun)) < 0)
    error (1, errno, "bind");
    if (listen (sock, SOMAXCONN) < 0)
    error (1, errno, "listen");

    int conn = accept (sock, NULL, NULL);
    if (conn == -1)
    error (1, errno, "accept");

    *(int *) CMSG_DATA (cmsg) = sock;
    if (sendmsg (conn, &msg, MSG_NOSIGNAL) < 0)
    error (1, errno, "sendmsg");

    return 0;
    }

    /* For a test suite this should be more robust like a
    barrier in shared memory. */
    sleep (1);

    int sock = socket (PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
    if (sock < 0)
    error (1, errno, "socket");

    if (connect (sock, (struct sockaddr *) &sun, sizeof (sun)) < 0)
    error (1, errno, "connect");
    unlink (sun.sun_path);

    *(int *) CMSG_DATA (cmsg) = -1;

    if (recvmsg (sock, &msg, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC) < 0)
    error (1, errno, "recvmsg");

    int fd = *(int *) CMSG_DATA (cmsg);
    if (fd == -1)
    error (1, 0, "no descriptor received");

    char fdname[20];
    snprintf (fdname, sizeof (fdname), "%d", fd);
    execl ("/proc/self/exe", argv[0], fdname, NULL);
    puts ("execl failed");
    return 1;
    }

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Fix fastcall inconsistency noted by Michael Buesch]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
    Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Michael Buesch
    Cc: Michael Kerrisk
    Acked-by: David S. Miller
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Ulrich Drepper
     

17 May, 2007

1 commit

  • SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR is always specified. No point in checking it.

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
    Cc: David Howells
    Cc: Jens Axboe
    Cc: Steven French
    Cc: Michael Halcrow
    Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi
    Cc: Miklos Szeredi
    Cc: Steven Whitehouse
    Cc: Roman Zippel
    Cc: David Woodhouse
    Cc: Dave Kleikamp
    Cc: Trond Myklebust
    Cc: "J. Bruce Fields"
    Cc: Anton Altaparmakov
    Cc: Mark Fasheh
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig
    Cc: Jan Kara
    Cc: David Chinner
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Christoph Lameter
     

09 May, 2007

1 commit

  • 1) Introduces a new method in 'struct dentry_operations'. This method
    called d_dname() might be called from d_path() to build a pathname for
    special filesystems. It is called without locks.

    Future patches (if we succeed in having one common dentry for all
    pipes/sockets) may need to change prototype of this method, but we now
    use : char *d_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen);

    2) Adds a dynamic_dname() helper function that eases d_dname() implementations

    3) Defines d_dname method for sockets : No more sprintf() at socket
    creation. This is delayed up to the moment someone does an access to
    /proc/pid/fd/...

    4) Defines d_dname method for pipes : No more sprintf() at pipe
    creation. This is delayed up to the moment someone does an access to
    /proc/pid/fd/...

    A benchmark consisting of 1.000.000 calls to pipe()/close()/close() gives a
    *nice* speedup on my Pentium(M) 1.6 Ghz :

    3.090 s instead of 3.450 s

    Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet
    Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Acked-by: Linus Torvalds
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Eric Dumazet
     

08 May, 2007

1 commit

  • I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL. It is only supported by
    SLAB.

    I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed
    to verify that the state is the constructor state again? The callback is
    performed before each freeing of an object.

    I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually
    before the free. That also places the check near the code object
    manipulation of the object.

    Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was
    compiled with SLAB debugging on. If there would be code in a constructor
    handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on
    SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code. But there is no such code
    in the kernel. I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real
    use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the
    same effect (i.e. add debug code before kfree).

    There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be
    clear in fs inode caches. Remove the pointless checks (they would even be
    pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors.

    This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support. Remove the check for
    unimplemented flags from SLUB.

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Christoph Lameter
     

26 Apr, 2007

3 commits

  • Kernel: arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage is ready (#2)
    MODPOST 1816 modules
    WARNING: "__sock_recv_timestamp" [net/sctp/sctp.ko] undefined!
    WARNING: "__sock_recv_timestamp" [net/packet/af_packet.ko] undefined!
    WARNING: "__sock_recv_timestamp" [net/key/af_key.ko] undefined!
    WARNING: "__sock_recv_timestamp" [net/ipv6/ipv6.ko] undefined!
    WARNING: "__sock_recv_timestamp" [net/atm/atm.ko] undefined!
    make[2]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
    make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
    make: *** [_all] Error 2

    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
     
  • Now that network timestamps use ktime_t infrastructure, we can add a new
    SOL_SOCKET sockopt SO_TIMESTAMPNS.

    This command is similar to SO_TIMESTAMP, but permits transmission of
    a 'timespec struct' instead of a 'timeval struct' control message.
    (nanosecond resolution instead of microsecond)

    Control message is labelled SCM_TIMESTAMPNS instead of SCM_TIMESTAMP

    A socket cannot mix SO_TIMESTAMP and SO_TIMESTAMPNS : the two modes are
    mutually exclusive.

    sock_recv_timestamp() became too big to be fully inlined so I added a
    __sock_recv_timestamp() helper function.

    Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet
    CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Eric Dumazet
     
  • Fix whitespace around keywords. Fix indentation especially of switch
    statements.

    Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Stephen Hemminger
     

27 Mar, 2007

1 commit


18 Feb, 2007

1 commit

  • Provide an audit record of the descriptor pair returned by pipe() and
    socketpair(). Rewritten from the original posted to linux-audit by
    John D. Ramsdell

    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Al Viro
     

13 Feb, 2007

1 commit

  • Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const
    moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
    dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
    these shared resources.

    Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Arjan van de Ven
     

11 Feb, 2007

1 commit


09 Feb, 2007

2 commits

  • GCC (correctly) says:

    net/socket.c: In function ‘sys_sendto’:
    net/socket.c:1510: warning: ‘err’ may be used uninitialized in this function
    net/socket.c: In function ‘sys_recvfrom’:
    net/socket.c:1571: warning: ‘err’ may be used uninitialized in this function

    sock_from_file() either returns filp->private_data or it
    sets *err and returns NULL.

    Callers return "err" on NULL, but filp->private_data could
    be NULL.

    Some minor rearrangements of error handling in sys_sendto
    and sys_recvfrom solves the issue.

    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    David S. Miller
     
  • I believe dead code from sock_from_file() can be cleaned up.

    All sockets are now built using sock_attach_fd(), that puts the 'sock' pointer
    into file->private_data and &socket_file_ops into file->f_op

    I could not find a place where file->private_data could be set to NULL,
    keeping opened the file.

    So to get 'sock' from a 'file' pointer, either :

    - This is a socket file (f_op == &socket_file_ops), and we can directly get
    'sock' from private_data.
    - This is not a socket, we return -ENOTSOCK and dont even try to find a socket
    via dentry/inode :)

    Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Eric Dumazet
     

09 Dec, 2006

1 commit


08 Dec, 2006

3 commits

  • We currently insert socket dentries into the global dentry hashtable. This
    is suboptimal because there is currently no way these entries can be used
    for a lookup(). (/proc/xxx/fd/xxx uses a different mechanism). Inserting
    them in dentry hashtable slows dcache lookups.

    To let __dpath() still work correctly (ie not adding a " (deleted)") after
    dentry name, we do :

    - Right after d_alloc(), pretend they are hashed by clearing the
    DCACHE_UNHASHED bit.

    - Call d_instantiate() instead of d_add() : dentry is not inserted in
    hash table.

    __dpath() & friends work as intended during dentry lifetime.

    - At dismantle time, once dput() must clear the dentry, setting again
    DCACHE_UNHASHED bit inside the custom d_delete() function provided by
    socket code, so that dput() can just kill_it.

    Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet
    Cc: Al Viro
    Acked-by: "David S. Miller"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Eric Dumazet
     
  • Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.

    The patch was generated using the following script:

    #!/bin/sh
    #
    # Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
    #

    set -e

    for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
    quilt add $file
    sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
    mv /tmp/$$ $file
    quilt refresh
    done

    The script was run like this

    sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Christoph Lameter
     
  • SLAB_KERNEL is an alias of GFP_KERNEL.

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Christoph Lameter
     

03 Dec, 2006

1 commit


02 Oct, 2006

1 commit


01 Oct, 2006

2 commits


23 Sep, 2006

7 commits

  • Signed-off-by: Brian Haley
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Brian Haley
     
  • No need to set ei->socket.flags to zero twice.

    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    David S. Miller
     
  • The sock_register() doesn't change the family, so the protocols can
    define it read-only. No caller ever checks return value from
    sock_unregister()

    Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Stephen Hemminger
     
  • Replace the gross custom locking done in socket code for net_family[]
    with simple RCU usage. Some reordering necessary to avoid sleep issues
    with sock_alloc.

    Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Stephen Hemminger
     
  • Make socket.c conform to current style:
    * run through Lindent
    * get rid of unneeded casts
    * split assignment and comparsion where possible

    Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Stephen Hemminger
     
  • This patch implements wrapper functions that provide a convenient way
    to access the sockets API for in-kernel users like sunrpc, cifs &
    ocfs2 etc and any future users.

    Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala
    Acked-by: James Morris
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Sridhar Samudrala
     
  • Add NetLabel support to the SELinux LSM and modify the
    socket_post_create() LSM hook to return an error code. The most
    significant part of this patch is the addition of NetLabel hooks into
    the following SELinux LSM hooks:

    * selinux_file_permission()
    * selinux_socket_sendmsg()
    * selinux_socket_post_create()
    * selinux_socket_sock_rcv_skb()
    * selinux_socket_getpeersec_stream()
    * selinux_socket_getpeersec_dgram()
    * selinux_sock_graft()
    * selinux_inet_conn_request()

    The basic reasoning behind this patch is that outgoing packets are
    "NetLabel'd" by labeling their socket and the NetLabel security
    attributes are checked via the additional hook in
    selinux_socket_sock_rcv_skb(). NetLabel itself is only a labeling
    mechanism, similar to filesystem extended attributes, it is up to the
    SELinux enforcement mechanism to perform the actual access checks.

    In addition to the changes outlined above this patch also includes
    some changes to the extended bitmap (ebitmap) and multi-level security
    (mls) code to import and export SELinux TE/MLS attributes into and out
    of NetLabel.

    Signed-off-by: Paul Moore
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Venkat Yekkirala
     

01 Sep, 2006

1 commit


01 Jul, 2006

1 commit


23 Jun, 2006

1 commit

  • Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that
    permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint.

    The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry
    pointers. For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt()
    which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the
    superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour).

    The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the
    superblock pointer.

    This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount
    points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing. In
    such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root
    and mnt_sb would be set directly.

    The patch also makes the following changes:

    (*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount
    pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change
    very little.

    (*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should
    normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will
    always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb().

    (*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the
    dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon().

    This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that
    aren't actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The
    currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root,
    and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in
    dentries being left unculled.

    However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be
    implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is
    simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for '/' may well be
    inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries
    with child trees.

    [*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree.

    (*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of
    changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation.

    [akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff]
    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: Al Viro
    Cc: Nathan Scott
    Cc: Roland Dreier
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    David Howells
     

01 May, 2006

1 commit

  • On Thursday 23 March 2006 09:08, John D. Ramsdell wrote:
    > I noticed that a socketcall(bind) and socketcall(connect) event contain a
    > record of type=SOCKADDR, but I cannot see one for a system call event
    > associated with socketcall(accept). Recording the sockaddr of an accepted
    > socket is important for cross platform information flow analys

    Thanks for pointing this out. The following patch should address this.

    Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Steve Grubb
     

20 Apr, 2006

1 commit


11 Apr, 2006

3 commits

  • * 'splice' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
    [PATCH] vfs: add splice_write and splice_read to documentation
    [PATCH] Remove sys_ prefix of new syscalls from __NR_sys_*
    [PATCH] splice: warning fix
    [PATCH] another round of fs/pipe.c cleanups
    [PATCH] splice: comment styles
    [PATCH] splice: add Ingo as addition copyright holder
    [PATCH] splice: unlikely() optimizations
    [PATCH] splice: speedups and optimizations
    [PATCH] pipe.c/fifo.c code cleanups
    [PATCH] get rid of the PIPE_*() macros
    [PATCH] splice: speedup __generic_file_splice_read
    [PATCH] splice: add direct fd fd splicing support
    [PATCH] splice: add optional input and output offsets
    [PATCH] introduce a "kernel-internal pipe object" abstraction
    [PATCH] splice: be smarter about calling do_page_cache_readahead()
    [PATCH] splice: optimize the splice buffer mapping
    [PATCH] splice: cleanup __generic_file_splice_read()
    [PATCH] splice: only call wake_up_interruptible() when we really have to
    [PATCH] splice: potential !page dereference
    [PATCH] splice: mark the io page as accessed

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • for_each_cpu() actually iterates across all possible CPUs. We've had mistakes
    in the past where people were using for_each_cpu() where they should have been
    iterating across only online or present CPUs. This is inefficient and
    possibly buggy.

    We're renaming for_each_cpu() to for_each_possible_cpu() to avoid this in the
    future.

    This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu under /net

    Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
    Acked-by: "David S. Miller"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
     
  • From: Andrew Morton

    net/socket.c:148: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type

    extern declarations in .c files! Bad boy.

    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

    Andrew Morton
     

02 Apr, 2006

1 commit


01 Apr, 2006

1 commit

  • This regression was added by commit:
    39d8c1b6fbaeb8d6adec4a8c08365cc9eaca6ae4
    ("Do not lose accepted socket when -ENFILE/-EMFILE.")

    This is based upon a patch from Andi Kleen.

    Thanks to Adrian Bridgett for narrowing down a good test case, and to
    Andi Kleen and Andrew Morton for eyeballing this code.

    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    David S. Miller
     

31 Mar, 2006

1 commit

  • This adds support for the sys_splice system call. Using a pipe as a
    transport, it can connect to files or sockets (latter as output only).

    From the splice.c comments:

    "splice": joining two ropes together by interweaving their strands.

    This is the "extended pipe" functionality, where a pipe is used as
    an arbitrary in-memory buffer. Think of a pipe as a small kernel
    buffer that you can use to transfer data from one end to the other.

    The traditional unix read/write is extended with a "splice()" operation
    that transfers data buffers to or from a pipe buffer.

    Named by Larry McVoy, original implementation from Linus, extended by
    Jens to support splicing to files and fixing the initial implementation
    bugs.

    Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jens Axboe