31 Mar, 2011

1 commit


24 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • CAP_IPC_OWNER and CAP_IPC_LOCK can be checked against current_user_ns(),
    because the resource comes from current's own ipc namespace.

    setuid/setgid are to uids in own namespace, so again checks can be against
    current_user_ns().

    Changelog:
    Jan 11: Use task_ns_capable() in place of sched_capable().
    Jan 11: Use nsown_capable() as suggested by Bastian Blank.
    Jan 11: Clarify (hopefully) some logic in futex and sched.c
    Feb 15: use ns_capable for ipc, not nsown_capable
    Feb 23: let copy_ipcs handle setting ipc_ns->user_ns
    Feb 23: pass ns down rather than taking it from current

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
    Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn
    Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman"
    Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano
    Acked-by: David Howells
    Cc: James Morris
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Serge E. Hallyn
     

25 May, 2010

1 commit


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
     

16 Dec, 2009

1 commit

  • We have apparently had a memory leak since
    7ca7e564e049d8b350ec9d958ff25eaa24226352 "ipc: store ipcs into IDRs" in
    2007. The idr of which 3 exist for each ipc namespace is never freed.

    This patch simply frees them when the ipcns is freed. I don't believe any
    idr_remove() are done from rcu (and could therefore be delayed until after
    this idr_destroy()), so the patch should be safe. Some quick testing
    showed no harm, and the memory leak fixed.

    Caught by kmemleak.

    Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Serge E. Hallyn
     

04 Dec, 2009

1 commit

  • Commit a0d092f introduced the following warning:
    ipc/msg.c: In function ?msgctl_down?:
    ipc/msg.c:415: warning: ?msqid64? may be used uninitialized in this function

    The gcc warning in this case is actually bogus, as msqid64 is touched only
    iff cmd == IPC_SET, and in such case, copy_msqid_from_user() initializes
    it properly.

    Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras
    Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

    Felipe Contreras
     

14 Jan, 2009

1 commit


07 Jun, 2008

1 commit

  • When posting:
    [PATCH 1/8] Scaling msgmni to the amount of lowmem
    (see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/11/171), I have added a KERN_INFO message
    that is output each time msgmni is recomputed.

    In http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/29/575 Tony Luck complained that this
    message references an ipc namespace address that is useless.

    I first thought of using an audit_log instead of a printk, as suggested by
    Serge Hallyn. But unfortunately, we do not have any other information
    than the namespace address to provide here too. So I chose to move the
    message and output it only at boot time, removing the reference to the
    namespace.

    Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey
    Cc: Pierre Peiffer
    Cc: Manfred Spraul
    Acked-by: Tony Luck
    Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Nadia Derbey
     

29 Apr, 2008

9 commits

  • Add definitions of USHORT_MAX and others into kernel. ipc uses it and slub
    implementation might also use it.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
    Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin
    Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter
    Cc: Nadia Derbey
    Cc: "Pierre Peiffer"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Zhang, Yanmin
     
  • semctl_down(), msgctl_down() and shmctl_down() are used to handle the same set
    of commands for each kind of IPC. They all start to do the same job (they
    retrieve the ipc and do some permission checks) before handling the commands
    on their own.

    This patch proposes to consolidate this by moving these same pieces of code
    into one common function called ipcctl_pre_down().

    It simplifies a little these xxxctl_down() functions and increases a little
    the maintainability.

    Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer
    Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
    Cc: Nadia Derbey
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Pierre Peiffer
     
  • The IPC_SET command performs the same permission setting for all IPCs. This
    patch introduces a common ipc_update_perm() function to update these
    permissions and makes use of it for all IPCs.

    Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer
    Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
    Cc: Nadia Derbey
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Pierre Peiffer
     
  • All IPCs make use of an intermetiate *_setbuf structure to handle the IPC_SET
    command. This is not really needed and, moreover, it complicates a little bit
    the code.

    This patch gets rid of the use of it and uses directly the semid64_ds/
    msgid64_ds/shmid64_ds structure.

    In addition of removing one struture declaration, it also simplifies and
    improves a little bit the common 64-bits path.

    Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer
    Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
    Cc: Nadia Derbey
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Pierre Peiffer
     
  • Currently, sys_msgctl is not easy to read.

    This patch tries to improve that by introducing the msgctl_down function to
    handle all commands requiring the rwmutex to be taken in write mode (ie
    IPC_SET and IPC_RMID for now). It is the equivalent function of semctl_down
    for message queues.

    This greatly changes the readability of sys_msgctl and also harmonizes the way
    these commands are handled among all IPCs.

    Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer
    Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
    Cc: Nadia Derbey
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Pierre Peiffer
     
  • Introduce the registration of a callback routine that recomputes msg_ctlmni
    upon memory add / remove.

    A single notifier block is registered in the hotplug memory chain for all the
    ipc namespaces.

    Since the ipc namespaces are not linked together, they have their own
    notification chain: one notifier_block is defined per ipc namespace.

    Each time an ipc namespace is created (removed) it registers (unregisters) its
    notifier block in (from) the ipcns chain. The callback routine registered in
    the memory chain invokes the ipcns notifier chain with the IPCNS_LOWMEM event.
    Each callback routine registered in the ipcns namespace, in turn, recomputes
    msgmni for the owning namespace.

    Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey
    Cc: Yasunori Goto
    Cc: Matt Helsley
    Cc: Mingming Cao
    Cc: Pierre Peiffer
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Nadia Derbey
     
  • Since all the namespaces see the same amount of memory (the total one) this
    patch introduces a new variable that counts the ipc namespaces and divides
    msg_ctlmni by this counter.

    Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey
    Cc: Yasunori Goto
    Cc: Matt Helsley
    Cc: Mingming Cao
    Cc: Pierre Peiffer
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Nadia Derbey
     
  • On large systems we'd like to allow a larger number of message queues. In
    some cases up to 32K. However simply setting MSGMNI to a larger value may
    cause problems for smaller systems.

    The first patch of this series introduces a default maximum number of message
    queue ids that scales with the amount of lowmem.

    Since msgmni is per namespace and there is no amount of memory dedicated to
    each namespace so far, the second patch of this series scales msgmni to the
    number of ipc namespaces too.

    Since msgmni depends on the amount of memory, it becomes necessary to
    recompute it upon memory add/remove. In the 4th patch, memory hotplug
    management is added: a notifier block is registered into the memory hotplug
    notifier chain for the ipc subsystem. Since the ipc namespaces are not linked
    together, they have their own notification chain: one notifier_block is
    defined per ipc namespace. Each time an ipc namespace is created (removed) it
    registers (unregisters) its notifier block in (from) the ipcns chain. The
    callback routine registered in the memory chain invokes the ipcns notifier
    chain with the IPCNS_MEMCHANGE event. Each callback routine registered in the
    ipcns namespace, in turn, recomputes msgmni for the owning namespace.

    The 5th patch makes it possible to keep the memory hotplug notifier chain's
    lock for a lesser amount of time: instead of directly notifying the ipcns
    notifier chain upon memory add/remove, a work item is added to the global
    workqueue. When activated, this work item is the one who notifies the ipcns
    notifier chain.

    Since msgmni depends on the number of ipc namespaces, it becomes necessary to
    recompute it upon ipc namespace creation / removal. The 6th patch uses the
    ipc namespace notifier chain for that purpose: that chain is notified each
    time an ipc namespace is created or removed. This makes it possible to
    recompute msgmni for all the namespaces each time one of them is created or
    removed.

    When msgmni is explicitely set from userspace, we should avoid recomputing it
    upon memory add/remove or ipcns creation/removal. This is what the 7th patch
    does: it simply unregisters the ipcns callback routine as soon as msgmni has
    been changed from procfs or sysctl().

    Even if msgmni is set by hand, it should be possible to make it back
    automatically recomputed upon memory add/remove or ipcns creation/removal.
    This what is achieved in patch 8: if set to a negative value, msgmni is added
    back to the ipcns notifier chain, making it automatically recomputed again.

    This patch:

    Compute msg_ctlmni to make it scale with the amount of lowmem. msg_ctlmni is
    now set to make the message queues occupy 1/32 of the available lowmem.

    Some cleaning has also been done for the MSGPOOL constant: the msgctl man page
    says it's not used, but it also defines it as a size in bytes (the code
    expresses it in Kbytes).

    Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey
    Cc: Yasunori Goto
    Cc: Matt Helsley
    Cc: Mingming Cao
    Cc: Pierre Peiffer
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Nadia Derbey
     
  • By continuing to consolidate a little the IPC code, each id can be built
    directly in ipc_addid() instead of having it built from each callers of
    ipc_addid()

    And I also remove shm_addid() in order to have, as much as possible, the
    same code for shm/sem/msg.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
    Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer
    Cc: Nadia Derbey
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Pierre Peiffer
     

09 Feb, 2008

3 commits

  • sem_exit_ns(), msg_exit_ns() and shm_exit_ns() are all called when an
    ipc_namespace is released to free all ipcs of each type. But in fact, they
    do the same thing: they loop around all ipcs to free them individually by
    calling a specific routine.

    This patch proposes to consolidate this by introducing a common function,
    free_ipcs(), that do the job. The specific routine to call on each
    individual ipcs is passed as parameter. For this, these ipc-specific
    'free' routines are reworked to take a generic 'struct ipc_perm' as
    parameter.

    Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer
    Cc: Cedric Le Goater
    Cc: Pavel Emelyanov
    Cc: Nadia Derbey
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Pierre Peiffer
     
  • Each ipc_namespace contains a table of 3 pointers to struct ipc_ids (3 for
    msg, sem and shm, structure used to store all ipcs) These 'struct ipc_ids'
    are dynamically allocated for each icp_namespace as the ipc_namespace
    itself (for the init namespace, they are initialized with pointers to
    static variables instead)

    It is so for historical reason: in fact, before the use of idr to store the
    ipcs, the ipcs were stored in tables of variable length, depending of the
    maximum number of ipc allowed. Now, these 'struct ipc_ids' have a fixed
    size. As they are allocated in any cases for each new ipc_namespace, there
    is no gain of memory in having them allocated separately of the struct
    ipc_namespace.

    This patch proposes to make this table static in the struct ipc_namespace.
    Thus, we can allocate all in once and get rid of all the code needed to
    allocate and free these ipc_ids separately.

    Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer
    Acked-by: Cedric Le Goater
    Cc: Pavel Emelyanov
    Cc: Nadia Derbey
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Pierre Peiffer
     
  • Currently the IPC namespace management code is spread over the ipc/*.c files.
    I moved this code into ipc/namespace.c file which is compiled out when needed.

    The linux/ipc_namespace.h file is used to store the prototypes of the
    functions in namespace.c and the stubs for NAMESPACES=n case. This is done
    so, because the stub for copy_ipc_namespace requires the knowledge of the
    CLONE_NEWIPC flag, which is in sched.h. But the linux/ipc.h file itself in
    included into many many .c files via the sys.h->sem.h sequence so adding the
    sched.h into it will make all these .c depend on sched.h which is not that
    good. On the other hand the knowledge about the namespaces stuff is required
    in 4 .c files only.

    Besides, this patch compiles out some auxiliary functions from ipc/sem.c,
    msg.c and shm.c files. It turned out that moving these functions into
    namespaces.c is not that easy because they use many other calls and macros
    from the original file. Moving them would make this patch complicated. On
    the other hand all these functions can be consolidated, so I will send a
    separate patch doing this a bit later.

    Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov
    Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
    Cc: Cedric Le Goater
    Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
    Cc: Herbert Poetzl
    Cc: Kirill Korotaev
    Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Pavel Emelyanov
     

07 Feb, 2008

1 commit

  • In the new implementation of the [sem|shm|msg]_lock[_check]() routines, we
    use the return value of ipc_lock() in container_of() without any check.
    But ipc_lock may return a errcode. The use of this errcode in
    container_of() may alter this errcode, and we don't want this.

    And in xxx_exit_ns, the pointer return by idr_find is of type 'struct
    kern_ipc_per'...

    Today, the code will work as is because the member used in these
    container_of() is the first member of its container (offset == 0), the
    errcode isn't changed then. But in the general case, we can't count on
    this assumption and this may lead later to a real bug if we don't correct
    this.

    Again, the proposed solution is simple and correct. But, as pointed by
    Nadia, with this solution, the same check will be done several times (in
    all sub-callers...), what is not very funny/optimal...

    Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer
    Cc: Nadia Derbey
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Pierre Peiffer
     

20 Oct, 2007

10 commits

  • With the use of idr to store the ipc, the case where the idr cache is
    empty, when idr_get_new is called (this may happen even if we call
    idr_pre_get() before), is not well handled: it lets
    semget()/shmget()/msgget() return ENOSPC when this cache is empty, what 1.
    does not reflect the facts and 2. does not conform to the man(s).

    This patch fixes this by retrying the whole process of allocation in this case.

    Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer
    Cc: Nadia Derbey
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Pierre Peiffer
     
  • Virtualization of sysv msg queues is incomplete: msg_hdrs and msg_bytes
    variables visible from userspace are global. Let's make them
    per-namespace.

    Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov
    Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev
    Cc: Pierre Peiffer
    Cc: Nadia Derbey
    Cc: Serge Hallyn
    Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Kirill Korotaev
     
  • Remvoe the unneeded parameters from ipc_checkid() and ipc_buildid()
    interfaces.

    Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Nadia Derbey
     
  • This is a patch that fixes the way idr_find() used to be called in ipc_lock():
    in all the paths that don't imply an update of the ipcs idr, it was called
    without the idr tree being locked.

    The changes are:
    . in ipc_ids, the mutex has been changed into a reader/writer semaphore.
    . ipc_lock() now takes the mutex as a reader during the idr_find().
    . a new routine ipc_lock_down() has been defined: it doesn't take the
    mutex, assuming that it is being held by the caller. This is the routine
    that is now called in all the update paths.

    Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey
    Acked-by: Jarek Poplawski
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Nadia Derbey
     
  • This patch fixes the wrong / obsolete comments in the ipc code. Also adds
    a missing lock around ipc_get_maxid() in shm_get_stat().

    Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Nadia Derbey
     
  • This patch converts casts of struct kern_ipc_perm to
    . struct msg_queue
    . struct sem_array
    . struct shmid_kernel
    into the equivalent container_of() macro. It improves code maintenance
    because the code need not change if kern_ipc_perm is no longer at the
    beginning of the containing struct.

    Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Nadia Derbey
     
  • This patch introduces a new ipc_lock_check() routine interface:
    . each time ipc_checkid() is called, this is done after calling ipc_lock().
    ipc_checkid() is now called from inside ipc_lock_check().

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix RCU locking]
    Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Nadia Derbey
     
  • This patch introduces a change into the sys_msgget(), sys_semget() and
    sys_shmget() routines: they now share a common code, which is better for
    maintainability.

    Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Nadia Derbey
     
  • This patch introduces ipcs storage into IDRs. The main changes are:
    . This ipc_ids structure is changed: the entries array is changed into a
    root idr structure.
    . The grow_ary() routine is removed: it is not needed anymore when adding
    an ipc structure, since we are now using the IDR facility.
    . The ipc_rmid() routine interface is changed:
    . there is no need for this routine to return the pointer passed in as
    argument: it is now declared as a void
    . since the id is now part of the kern_ipc_perm structure, no need to
    have it as an argument to the routine

    Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Nadia Derbey
     
  • This is the largest patch in the set. Make all (I hope) the places where
    the pid is shown to or get from user operate on the virtual pids.

    The idea is:
    - all in-kernel data structures must store either struct pid itself
    or the pid's global nr, obtained with pid_nr() call;
    - when seeking the task from kernel code with the stored id one
    should use find_task_by_pid() call that works with global pids;
    - when showing pid's numerical value to the user the virtual one
    should be used, but however when one shows task's pid outside this
    task's namespace the global one is to be used;
    - when getting the pid from userspace one need to consider this as
    the virtual one and use appropriate task/pid-searching functions.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuther build fix]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: yet nuther build fix]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded casts]
    Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov
    Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
    Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
    Cc: Oleg Nesterov
    Cc: Paul Menage
    Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Pavel Emelyanov
     

18 Jul, 2007

1 commit


17 Jul, 2007

1 commit

  • CONFIG_UTS_NS and CONFIG_IPC_NS have very little value as they only
    deactivate the unshare of the uts and ipc namespaces and do not improve
    performance.

    Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater
    Acked-by: "Serge E. Hallyn"
    Cc: Eric W. Biederman
    Cc: Herbert Poetzl
    Cc: Pavel Emelianov
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Cedric Le Goater
     

08 Dec, 2006

1 commit

  • Currently we allocate 64k space on the user stack and use it the msgbuf for
    sys_{msgrcv,msgsnd} for compat and the results are later copied in user [
    by copy_in_user]. This patch introduces helper routines for
    sys_{msgrcv,msgsnd} as below:

    do_msgsnd() : Accepts the mtype and user space ptr to the buffer along with
    the msqid and msgflg.

    do_msgrcv() : Accepts a kernel space ptr to mtype and a userspace ptr to
    the buffer. The mtype has to be copied back the user space msgbuf by the
    caller.

    These changes avoid the need to allocate the msgsize on the userspace (
    thus removing the size limt ) and the overhead of an extra copy_in_user().

    Signed-off-by: Suzuki K P
    Cc: Arnd Bergmann
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    suzuki
     

05 Nov, 2006

1 commit

  • Commit 5a06a363ef48444186f18095ae1b932dddbbfa89 ("[PATCH] ipc/msg.c:
    clean up coding style") breaks fakeroot on Alpha (variously hangs or
    oopses), according to a report by Falk Hueffner.

    The fact that the code seems to rely on compiler access ordering through
    the use of "volatile" is a pretty certain sign that the code has locking
    problems, and we should fix those properly and then remove the whole
    "volatile" entirely.

    But in the meantime, the movement of "volatile" was unintentional, and
    should be reverted.

    Cc: Falk Hueffner
    Cc: Andrew Morton
    Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Linus Torvalds
     

04 Nov, 2006

1 commit

  • Fix two issuses related to ipc_ids->entries freeing.

    1. When freeing ipc namespace we need to free entries allocated
    with ipc_init_ids().

    2. When removing old entries in grow_ary() ipc_rcu_putref()
    may be called on entries set to &ids->nullentry earlier in
    ipc_init_ids().
    This is almost impossible without namespaces, but with
    them this situation becomes possible.

    Found during OpenVZ testing after obvious leaks in beancounters.

    Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov
    Cc: Kirill Korotaev
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Pavel Emelianov
     

02 Oct, 2006

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01 Aug, 2006

1 commit

  • Clean up ipc/msg.c to conform to Documentation/CodingStyle. (before it was
    an inconsistent hodepodge of various coding styles)

    Verified that the before/after .o's are identical.

    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Ingo Molnar
     

01 Jul, 2006

1 commit


20 Jun, 2006

1 commit

  • The following patch addresses most of the issues with the IPC_SET_PERM
    records as described in:
    https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2006-May/msg00010.html
    and addresses the comments I received on the record field names.

    To summarize, I made the following changes:

    1. Changed sys_msgctl() and semctl_down() so that an IPC_SET_PERM
    record is emitted in the failure case as well as the success case.
    This matches the behavior in sys_shmctl(). I could simplify the
    code in sys_msgctl() and semctl_down() slightly but it would mean
    that in some error cases we could get an IPC_SET_PERM record
    without an IPC record and that seemed odd.

    2. No change to the IPC record type, given no feedback on the backward
    compatibility question.

    3. Removed the qbytes field from the IPC record. It wasn't being
    set and when audit_ipc_obj() is called from ipcperms(), the
    information isn't available. If we want the information in the IPC
    record, more extensive changes will be necessary. Since it only
    applies to message queues and it isn't really permission related, it
    doesn't seem worth it.

    4. Removed the obj field from the IPC_SET_PERM record. This means that
    the kern_ipc_perm argument is no longer needed.

    5. Removed the spaces and renamed the IPC_SET_PERM field names. Replaced iuid and
    igid fields with ouid and ogid in the IPC record.

    I tested this with the lspp.22 kernel on an x86_64 box. I believe it
    applies cleanly on the latest kernel.

    -- ljk

    Signed-off-by: Linda Knippers
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Linda Knippers