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
     

10 Nov, 2010

1 commit

  • Since commit 1dcc41bb (futex: Change 3rd arg of fetch_robust_entry()
    to unsigned int*) some gcc versions decided to emit the following
    warning:

    kernel/futex.c: In function ‘exit_robust_list’:
    kernel/futex.c:2492: warning: ‘next_pi’ may be used uninitialized in this function

    The commit did not introduce the warning as gcc should have warned
    before that commit as well. It's just gcc being silly.

    The code path really can't result in next_pi being unitialized (or
    should not), but let's keep the build clean. Annotate next_pi as an
    uninitialized_var.

    [ tglx: Addressed the same issue in futex_compat.c and massaged the
    changelog ]

    Signed-off-by: Darren Hart
    Tested-by: Matt Fleming
    Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-König
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Eric Dumazet
    Cc: John Kacur
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

    Darren Hart
     

18 Sep, 2010

1 commit


09 Dec, 2009

1 commit


10 Aug, 2009

1 commit


14 Nov, 2008

3 commits

  • Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds.
    This means that it will be possible for the credentials of a task to be
    replaced without another task (a) requiring a full lock to read them, and (b)
    seeing deallocated memory.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: James Morris
    Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
    Signed-off-by: James Morris

    David Howells
     
  • Separate the task security context from task_struct. At this point, the
    security data is temporarily embedded in the task_struct with two pointers
    pointing to it.

    Note that the Alpha arch is altered as it refers to (E)UID and (E)GID in
    entry.S via asm-offsets.

    With comment fixes Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: James Morris
    Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
    Signed-off-by: James Morris

    David Howells
     
  • Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
    the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.

    Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id().

    Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id(). In some places it makes more
    sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be
    addressed by later patches.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Reviewed-by: James Morris
    Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
    Cc: Al Viro
    Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
    Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
    Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
    Signed-off-by: James Morris

    David Howells
     

31 Mar, 2008

1 commit


24 Feb, 2008

1 commit

  • Not all architectures implement futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(). The default
    implementation returns -ENOSYS, which is currently not handled inside of the
    futex guts.

    Futex PI calls and robust list exits with a held futex result in an endless
    loop in the futex code on architectures which have no support.

    Fixing up every place where futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() is called would
    add a fair amount of extra if/else constructs to the already complex code. It
    is also not possible to disable the robust feature before user space tries to
    register robust lists.

    Compile time disabling is not a good idea either, as there are already
    architectures with runtime detection of futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic support.

    Detect the functionality at runtime instead by calling
    cmpxchg_futex_value_locked() with a NULL pointer from the futex initialization
    code. This is guaranteed to fail, but the call of
    futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() happens with pagefaults disabled.

    On architectures, which use the asm-generic implementation or have a runtime
    CPU feature detection, a -ENOSYS return value disables the PI/robust features.

    On architectures with a working implementation the call returns -EFAULT and
    the PI/robust features are enabled.

    The relevant syscalls return -ENOSYS and the robust list exit code is blocked,
    when the detection fails.

    Fixes http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/11/149
    Originally reported by: Lennart Buytenhek

    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Lennert Buytenhek
    Cc: Riku Voipio
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Thomas Gleixner
     

15 Feb, 2008

1 commit

  • Various user space callers ask for relative timeouts. While we fixed
    that overflow issue in hrtimer_start(), the sites which convert
    relative user space values to absolute timeouts themself were uncovered.

    Instead of putting overflow checks into each place add a function
    which does the sanity checking and convert all affected callers to use
    it.

    Thanks to Frans Pop, who reported the problem and tested the fixes.

    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
    Tested-by: Frans Pop

    Thomas Gleixner
     

02 Feb, 2008

1 commit

  • To allow the implementation of optimized rw-locks in user space, glibc
    needs a possibility to select waiters for wakeup depending on a bitset
    mask.

    This requires two new futex OPs: FUTEX_WAIT_BITS and FUTEX_WAKE_BITS
    These OPs are basically the same as FUTEX_WAIT and FUTEX_WAKE plus an
    additional argument - a bitset. Further the FUTEX_WAIT_BITS OP is
    expecting an absolute timeout value instead of the relative one, which
    is used for the FUTEX_WAIT OP.

    FUTEX_WAIT_BITS calls into the kernel with a bitset. The bitset is
    stored in the futex_q structure, which is used to enqueue the waiter
    into the hashed futex waitqueue.

    FUTEX_WAKE_BITS also calls into the kernel with a bitset. The wakeup
    function logically ANDs the bitset with the bitset stored in each
    waiters futex_q structure. If the result is zero (i.e. none of the set
    bits in the bitsets is matching), then the waiter is not woken up. If
    the result is not zero (i.e. one of the set bits in the bitsets is
    matching), then the waiter is woken.

    The bitset provided by the caller must be non zero. In case the
    provided bitset is zero the kernel returns EINVAL.

    Internaly the new OPs are only extensions to the existing FUTEX_WAIT
    and FUTEX_WAKE functions. The existing OPs hand a bitset with all bits
    set into the futex_wait() and futex_wake() functions.

    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Thomas Gleixner
     

10 Nov, 2007

1 commit

  • compat_exit_robust_list() computes a pointer to the
    futex entry in userspace as follows:

    (void __user *)entry + futex_offset

    'entry' is a 'struct robust_list __user *', and
    'futex_offset' is a 'compat_long_t' (typically a 's32').

    Things explode if the 32-bit sign bit is set in futex_offset.

    Type promotion sign extends futex_offset to a 64-bit value before
    adding it to 'entry'.

    This triggered a problem on sparc64 running 32-bit applications which
    would lock up a cpu looping forever in the fault handling for the
    userspace load in handle_futex_death().

    Compat userspace runs with address masking (wherein the cpu zeros out
    the top 32-bits of every effective address given to a memory operation
    instruction) so the sparc64 fault handler accounts for this by
    zero'ing out the top 32-bits of the fault address too.

    Since the kernel properly uses the compat_uptr interfaces, kernel side
    accesses to compat userspace work too since they will only use
    addresses with the top 32-bit clear.

    Because of this compat futex layer bug we get into the following loop
    when executing the get_user() load near the top of handle_futex_death():

    1) load from address '0xfffffffff7f16bd8', FAULT
    2) fault handler clears upper 32-bits, processes fault
    for address '0xf7f16bd8' which succeeds
    3) goto #1

    I want to thank Bernd Zeimetz, Josip Rodin, and Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
    for their tireless efforts helping me track down this bug.

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

    David Miller
     

20 Oct, 2007

2 commits

  • The find_task_by_something is a set of macros are used to find task by pid
    depending on what kind of pid is proposed - global or virtual one. All of
    them are wrappers above the most generic one - find_task_by_pid_type_ns() -
    and just substitute some args for it.

    It turned out, that dereferencing the current->nsproxy->pid_ns construction
    and pushing one more argument on the stack inline cause kernel text size to
    grow.

    This patch moves all this stuff out-of-line into kernel/pid.c. Together
    with the next patch it saves a bit less than 400 bytes from the .text
    section.

    Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov
    Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
    Cc: Oleg Nesterov
    Cc: Paul Menage
    Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
    Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Pavel Emelyanov
     
  • 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
     

01 Oct, 2007

1 commit

  • Calling handle_futex_death in exit_robust_list for the different robust
    mutexes of a thread basically frees the mutex. Another thread might grab
    the lock immediately which updates the next pointer of the mutex.
    fetch_robust_entry over the next pointer might therefore branch into the
    robust mutex list of a different thread. This can cause two problems: 1)
    some mutexes held by the dead thread are not getting freed and 2) some
    mutexs held by a different thread are freed.

    The next point need to be read before calling handle_futex_death.

    Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
    Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
    Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Martin Schwidefsky
     

12 Sep, 2007

1 commit

  • The futex list traversal on the compat side appears to have
    a bug.

    It's loop termination condition compares:

    while (compat_ptr(uentry) != &head->list)

    But that can't be right because "uentry" has the special
    "pi" indicator bit still potentially set at bit 0. This
    is cleared by fetch_robust_entry() into the "entry"
    return value.

    What this seems to mean is that the list won't terminate
    when list iteration gets back to the the head. And we'll
    also process the list head like a normal entry, which could
    cause all kinds of problems.

    So we should check for equality with "entry". That pointer
    is of the non-compat type so we have to do a little casting
    to keep the compiler and sparse happy.

    The same problem can in theory occur with the 'pending'
    variable, although that has not been reported from users
    so far.

    Based on the original patch from David Miller.

    Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: David Miller
    Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Arnd Bergmann
     

19 Jun, 2007

1 commit

  • This reverts commit d0aa7a70bf03b9de9e995ab272293be1f7937822.

    It not only introduced user space visible changes to the futex syscall,
    it is also non-functional and there is no way to fix it proper before
    the 2.6.22 release.

    The breakage report ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/12/17 ) went
    unanswered, and unfortunately it turned out that the concept is not
    feasible at all. It violates the rtmutex semantics badly by introducing
    a virtual owner, which hacks around the coupling of the user-space
    pi_futex and the kernel internal rt_mutex representation.

    At the moment the only safe option is to remove it fully as it contains
    user-space visible changes to broken kernel code, which we do not want
    to expose in the 2.6.22 release.

    The patch reverts the original patch mostly 1:1, but contains a couple
    of trivial manual cleanups which were necessary due to patches, which
    touched the same area of code later.

    Verified against the glibc tests and my own PI futex tests.

    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
    Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper
    Cc: Pierre Peiffer
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Thomas Gleixner
     

01 Jun, 2007

1 commit

  • When the private futex support was added the compat code wasn't changed.
    The result is that code using compat code which fail, e.g., because the
    timeout values are not correctly passed. The following patch should fix
    that.

    Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper
    Cc: Eric Dumazet
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Ulrich Drepper
     

10 May, 2007

2 commits

  • This patch provides the futex_requeue_pi functionality, which allows some
    threads waiting on a normal futex to be requeued on the wait-queue of a
    PI-futex.

    This provides an optimization, already used for (normal) futexes, to be used
    with the PI-futexes.

    This optimization is currently used by the glibc in pthread_broadcast, when
    using "normal" mutexes. With futex_requeue_pi, it can be used with
    PRIO_INHERIT mutexes too.

    Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Ulrich Drepper
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Pierre Peiffer
     
  • This patch modifies futex_wait() to use an hrtimer + schedule() in place of
    schedule_timeout().

    schedule_timeout() is tick based, therefore the timeout granularity is the
    tick (1 ms, 4 ms or 10 ms depending on HZ). By using a high resolution timer
    for timeout wakeup, we can attain a much finer timeout granularity (in the
    microsecond range). This parallels what is already done for futex_lock_pi().

    The timeout passed to the syscall is no longer converted to jiffies and is
    therefore passed to do_futex() and futex_wait() as an absolute ktime_t
    therefore keeping nanosecond resolution.

    Also this removes the need to pass the nanoseconds timeout part to
    futex_lock_pi() in val2.

    In futex_wait(), if there is no timeout then a regular schedule() is
    performed. Otherwise, an hrtimer is fired before schedule() is called.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix `make headers_check']
    Signed-off-by: Sebastien Dugue
    Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Ulrich Drepper
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Pierre Peiffer
     

11 Oct, 2006

1 commit


06 Aug, 2006

1 commit


29 Jul, 2006

1 commit

  • Fix robust PI-futexes to be properly unlocked on unexpected exit.

    For this to work the kernel has to know whether a futex is a PI or a
    non-PI one, because the semantics are different. Since the space in
    relevant glibc data structures is extremely scarce, the best solution is
    to encode the 'PI' information in bit 0 of the robust list pointer.
    Existing (non-PI) glibc robust futexes have this bit always zero, so the
    ABI is kept. New glibc with PI-robust-futexes will set this bit.

    Further fixes from Thomas Gleixner

    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
    Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Ingo Molnar
     

28 Jun, 2006

2 commits

  • This adds the actual pi-futex implementation, based on rt-mutexes.

    [dino@in.ibm.com: fix an oops-causing race]
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
    Signed-off-by: Dinakar Guniguntala
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Ingo Molnar
     
  • We are pleased to announce "lightweight userspace priority inheritance" (PI)
    support for futexes. The following patchset and glibc patch implements it,
    ontop of the robust-futexes patchset which is included in 2.6.16-mm1.

    We are calling it lightweight for 3 reasons:

    - in the user-space fastpath a PI-enabled futex involves no kernel work
    (or any other PI complexity) at all. No registration, no extra kernel
    calls - just pure fast atomic ops in userspace.

    - in the slowpath (in the lock-contention case), the system call and
    scheduling pattern is in fact better than that of normal futexes, due to
    the 'integrated' nature of FUTEX_LOCK_PI. [more about that further down]

    - the in-kernel PI implementation is streamlined around the mutex
    abstraction, with strict rules that keep the implementation relatively
    simple: only a single owner may own a lock (i.e. no read-write lock
    support), only the owner may unlock a lock, no recursive locking, etc.

    Priority Inheritance - why, oh why???
    -------------------------------------

    Many of you heard the horror stories about the evil PI code circling Linux for
    years, which makes no real sense at all and is only used by buggy applications
    and which has horrible overhead. Some of you have dreaded this very moment,
    when someone actually submits working PI code ;-)

    So why would we like to see PI support for futexes?

    We'd like to see it done purely for technological reasons. We dont think it's
    a buggy concept, we think it's useful functionality to offer to applications,
    which functionality cannot be achieved in other ways. We also think it's the
    right thing to do, and we think we've got the right arguments and the right
    numbers to prove that. We also believe that we can address all the
    counter-arguments as well. For these reasons (and the reasons outlined below)
    we are submitting this patch-set for upstream kernel inclusion.

    What are the benefits of PI?

    The short reply:
    ----------------

    User-space PI helps achieving/improving determinism for user-space
    applications. In the best-case, it can help achieve determinism and
    well-bound latencies. Even in the worst-case, PI will improve the statistical
    distribution of locking related application delays.

    The longer reply:
    -----------------

    Firstly, sharing locks between multiple tasks is a common programming
    technique that often cannot be replaced with lockless algorithms. As we can
    see it in the kernel [which is a quite complex program in itself], lockless
    structures are rather the exception than the norm - the current ratio of
    lockless vs. locky code for shared data structures is somewhere between 1:10
    and 1:100. Lockless is hard, and the complexity of lockless algorithms often
    endangers to ability to do robust reviews of said code. I.e. critical RT
    apps often choose lock structures to protect critical data structures, instead
    of lockless algorithms. Furthermore, there are cases (like shared hardware,
    or other resource limits) where lockless access is mathematically impossible.

    Media players (such as Jack) are an example of reasonable application design
    with multiple tasks (with multiple priority levels) sharing short-held locks:
    for example, a highprio audio playback thread is combined with medium-prio
    construct-audio-data threads and low-prio display-colory-stuff threads. Add
    video and decoding to the mix and we've got even more priority levels.

    So once we accept that synchronization objects (locks) are an unavoidable fact
    of life, and once we accept that multi-task userspace apps have a very fair
    expectation of being able to use locks, we've got to think about how to offer
    the option of a deterministic locking implementation to user-space.

    Most of the technical counter-arguments against doing priority inheritance
    only apply to kernel-space locks. But user-space locks are different, there
    we cannot disable interrupts or make the task non-preemptible in a critical
    section, so the 'use spinlocks' argument does not apply (user-space spinlocks
    have the same priority inversion problems as other user-space locking
    constructs). Fact is, pretty much the only technique that currently enables
    good determinism for userspace locks (such as futex-based pthread mutexes) is
    priority inheritance:

    Currently (without PI), if a high-prio and a low-prio task shares a lock [this
    is a quite common scenario for most non-trivial RT applications], even if all
    critical sections are coded carefully to be deterministic (i.e. all critical
    sections are short in duration and only execute a limited number of
    instructions), the kernel cannot guarantee any deterministic execution of the
    high-prio task: any medium-priority task could preempt the low-prio task while
    it holds the shared lock and executes the critical section, and could delay it
    indefinitely.

    Implementation:
    ---------------

    As mentioned before, the userspace fastpath of PI-enabled pthread mutexes
    involves no kernel work at all - they behave quite similarly to normal
    futex-based locks: a 0 value means unlocked, and a value==TID means locked.
    (This is the same method as used by list-based robust futexes.) Userspace uses
    atomic ops to lock/unlock these mutexes without entering the kernel.

    To handle the slowpath, we have added two new futex ops:

    FUTEX_LOCK_PI
    FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI

    If the lock-acquire fastpath fails, [i.e. an atomic transition from 0 to TID
    fails], then FUTEX_LOCK_PI is called. The kernel does all the remaining work:
    if there is no futex-queue attached to the futex address yet then the code
    looks up the task that owns the futex [it has put its own TID into the futex
    value], and attaches a 'PI state' structure to the futex-queue. The pi_state
    includes an rt-mutex, which is a PI-aware, kernel-based synchronization
    object. The 'other' task is made the owner of the rt-mutex, and the
    FUTEX_WAITERS bit is atomically set in the futex value. Then this task tries
    to lock the rt-mutex, on which it blocks. Once it returns, it has the mutex
    acquired, and it sets the futex value to its own TID and returns. Userspace
    has no other work to perform - it now owns the lock, and futex value contains
    FUTEX_WAITERS|TID.

    If the unlock side fastpath succeeds, [i.e. userspace manages to do a TID ->
    0 atomic transition of the futex value], then no kernel work is triggered.

    If the unlock fastpath fails (because the FUTEX_WAITERS bit is set), then
    FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI is called, and the kernel unlocks the futex on the behalf of
    userspace - and it also unlocks the attached pi_state->rt_mutex and thus wakes
    up any potential waiters.

    Note that under this approach, contrary to other PI-futex approaches, there is
    no prior 'registration' of a PI-futex. [which is not quite possible anyway,
    due to existing ABI properties of pthread mutexes.]

    Also, under this scheme, 'robustness' and 'PI' are two orthogonal properties
    of futexes, and all four combinations are possible: futex, robust-futex,
    PI-futex, robust+PI-futex.

    glibc support:
    --------------

    Ulrich Drepper and Jakub Jelinek have written glibc support for PI-futexes
    (and robust futexes), enabling robust and PI (PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT) POSIX
    mutexes. (PTHREAD_PRIO_PROTECT support will be added later on too, no
    additional kernel changes are needed for that). [NOTE: The glibc patch is
    obviously inofficial and unsupported without matching upstream kernel
    functionality.]

    the patch-queue and the glibc patch can also be downloaded from:

    http://redhat.com/~mingo/PI-futex-patches/

    Many thanks go to the people who helped us create this kernel feature: Steven
    Rostedt, Esben Nielsen, Benedikt Spranger, Daniel Walker, John Cooper, Arjan
    van de Ven, Oleg Nesterov and others. Credits for related prior projects goes
    to Dirk Grambow, Inaky Perez-Gonzalez, Bill Huey and many others.

    Clean up the futex code, before adding more features to it:

    - use u32 as the futex field type - that's the ABI
    - use __user and pointers to u32 instead of unsigned long
    - code style / comment style cleanups
    - rename hash-bucket name from 'bh' to 'hb'.

    I checked the pre and post futex.o object files to make sure this
    patch has no code effects.

    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
    Cc: Ulrich Drepper
    Cc: Jakub Jelinek
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Ingo Molnar
     

01 Apr, 2006

1 commit

  • The futex timeval is not checked for correctness. The change does not
    break existing applications as the timeval is supplied by glibc (and glibc
    always passes a correct value), but the glibc-internal tests for this
    functionality fail.

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

    Thomas Gleixner
     

29 Mar, 2006

1 commit

  • kernel/futex_compat.c: In function `compat_sys_futex':
    kernel/futex_compat.c:140: warning: passing arg 1 of `do_futex' makes integer from pointer without a cast
    kernel/futex_compat.c:140: warning: passing arg 5 of `do_futex' makes integer from pointer without a cast

    Not sure what Ingo was thinking of here. Put the casts back in.

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

    Andrew Morton
     

28 Mar, 2006

2 commits

  • - fix: initialize the robust list(s) to NULL in copy_process.

    - doc update

    - cleanup: rename _inuser to _inatomic

    - __user cleanups and other small cleanups

    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Arjan van de Ven
    Cc: Ulrich Drepper
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Ingo Molnar
     
  • 32-bit syscall compatibility support. (This patch also moves all futex
    related compat functionality into kernel/futex_compat.c.)

    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
    Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Ingo Molnar