11 Jul, 2013
1 commit
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Since all architectures have been converted to use vm_unmapped_area(),
there is no remaining use for the free_area_cache.Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse
Acked-by: Rik van Riel
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley"
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Helge Deller
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
Cc: Matt Turner
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Richard Henderson
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
03 May, 2013
1 commit
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Pull powerpc update from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
"The main highlights this time around are:- A pile of addition POWER8 bits and nits, such as updated
performance counter support (Michael Ellerman), new branch history
buffer support (Anshuman Khandual), base support for the new PCI
host bridge when not using the hypervisor (Gavin Shan) and other
random related bits and fixes from various contributors.- Some rework of our page table format by Aneesh Kumar which fixes a
thing or two and paves the way for THP support. THP itself will
not make it this time around however.- More Freescale updates, including Altivec support on the new e6500
cores, new PCI controller support, and a pile of new boards support
and updates.- The usual batch of trivial cleanups & fixes"
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (156 commits)
powerpc: Fix build error for book3e
powerpc: Context switch the new EBB SPRs
powerpc: Turn on the EBB H/FSCR bits
powerpc: Replace CPU_FTR_BCTAR with CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S
powerpc: Setup BHRB instructions facility in HFSCR for POWER8
powerpc: Fix interrupt range check on debug exception
powerpc: Update tlbie/tlbiel as per ISA doc
powerpc: Print page size info during boot
powerpc: print both base and actual page size on hash failure
powerpc: Fix hpte_decode to use the correct decoding for page sizes
powerpc: Decode the pte-lp-encoding bits correctly.
powerpc: Use encode avpn where we need only avpn values
powerpc: Reduce PTE table memory wastage
powerpc: Move the pte free routines from common header
powerpc: Reduce the PTE_INDEX_SIZE
powerpc: Switch 16GB and 16MB explicit hugepages to a different page table format
powerpc: New hugepage directory format
powerpc: Don't truncate pgd_index wrongly
powerpc: Don't hard code the size of pte page
powerpc: Save DAR and DSISR in pt_regs on MCE
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01 May, 2013
2 commits
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Cleanup. Every linux_binfmt->core_dump() sets PF_DUMPCORE, move this into
zap_threads() called by do_coredump().Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov
Acked-by: Mandeep Singh Baines
Cc: Neil Horman
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki"
Cc: Tejun Heo
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The comment I originally added in commit a3defbe5c337 ("binfmt_elf: fix
PIE execution with randomization disabled") is not really 100% accurate
-- sysctl is not the only way how PF_RANDOMIZE could be forcibly unset
in runtime.Another option of course is direct modification of personality flags
(i.e. running through setarch wrapper).Make the comment more explicit and accurate.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Apr, 2013
1 commit
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We are currently out of free bits in AT_HWCAP. With POWER8, we have
several hardware features that we need to advertise.Tested on POWER and x86.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
18 Apr, 2013
1 commit
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Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt says about coredump_filter bitmask,
Note bit 0-4 doesn't effect any hugetlb memory. hugetlb memory are only
effected by bit 5-6.However current code can go into the subsequent flag checks of bit 0-4
for vma(VM_HUGETLB). So this patch inserts 'return' and makes it work
as written in the document.Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Reviewed-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Acked-by: David Rientjes
Cc: [3.7+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
04 Mar, 2013
1 commit
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Pull new ImgTec Meta architecture from James Hogan:
"This adds core architecture support for Imagination's Meta processor
cores, followed by some later miscellaneous arch/metag cleanups and
fixes which I kept separate to ease review:- Support for basic Meta 1 (ATP) and Meta 2 (HTP) core architecture
- A few fixes all over, particularly for symbol prefixes
- A few privilege protection fixes
- Several cleanups (setup.c includes, split out a lot of
metag_ksyms.c)
- Fix some missing exports
- Convert hugetlb to use vm_unmapped_area()
- Copy device tree to non-init memory
- Provide dma_get_sgtable()"* tag 'metag-v3.9-rc1-v4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag: (61 commits)
metag: Provide dma_get_sgtable()
metag: prom.h: remove declaration of metag_dt_memblock_reserve()
metag: copy devicetree to non-init memory
metag: cleanup metag_ksyms.c includes
metag: move mm/init.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move usercopy.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move setup.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move kick.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move traps.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move irq enable out of irqflags.h on SMP
genksyms: fix metag symbol prefix on crc symbols
metag: hugetlb: convert to vm_unmapped_area()
metag: export clear_page and copy_page
metag: export metag_code_cache_flush_all
metag: protect more non-MMU memory regions
metag: make TXPRIVEXT bits explicit
metag: kernel/setup.c: sort includes
perf: Enable building perf tools for Meta
metag: add boot time LNKGET/LNKSET check
metag: add __init to metag_cache_probe()
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03 Mar, 2013
1 commit
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The commit "binfmt_elf: cleanups"
(f670d0ecda73b7438eec9ed108680bc5f5362ad8) removed an ifndef elf_map but
this breaks compilation for metag which does define elf_map.This adds the ifndef back in as it was before, but does not affect the
other cleanups made by that patch.Signed-off-by: James Hogan
Cc: Alexander Viro
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Mikael Pettersson
27 Feb, 2013
1 commit
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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()
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23 Feb, 2013
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
22 Feb, 2013
1 commit
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In fill_elf_header(), elf->e_ident[EI_OSABI] is always set to ELF_OSABI,
so remove the unused argument 'osabi'.Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei
Cc: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
28 Jan, 2013
1 commit
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This is in preparation for the full dynticks feature. While
remotely reading the cputime of a task running in a full
dynticks CPU, we'll need to do some extra-computation. This
way we can account the time it spent tickless in userspace
since its last cputime snapshot.Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Li Zhong
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Paul Gortmaker
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
18 Dec, 2012
1 commit
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If elf_core_dump() is called and fill_note_info() fails in the kmalloc()
then it returns 0 but has not yet initialised all the needed fields. As a
result we do a kfree(randomness) after correctly skipping the thread data.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 Nov, 2012
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
10 Oct, 2012
1 commit
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Pull generic execve() changes from Al Viro:
"This introduces the generic kernel_thread() and kernel_execve()
functions, and switches x86, arm, alpha, um and s390 over to them."* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (26 commits)
s390: convert to generic kernel_execve()
s390: switch to generic kernel_thread()
s390: fold kernel_thread_helper() into ret_from_fork()
s390: fold execve_tail() into start_thread(), convert to generic sys_execve()
um: switch to generic kernel_thread()
x86, um/x86: switch to generic sys_execve and kernel_execve
x86: split ret_from_fork
alpha: introduce ret_from_kernel_execve(), switch to generic kernel_execve()
alpha: switch to generic kernel_thread()
alpha: switch to generic sys_execve()
arm: get rid of execve wrapper, switch to generic execve() implementation
arm: optimized current_pt_regs()
arm: introduce ret_from_kernel_execve(), switch to generic kernel_execve()
arm: split ret_from_fork, simplify kernel_thread() [based on patch by rmk]
generic sys_execve()
generic kernel_execve()
new helper: current_pt_regs()
preparation for generic kernel_thread()
um: kill thread->forking
um: let signal_delivered() do SIGTRAP on singlestepping into handler
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09 Oct, 2012
2 commits
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A long time ago, in v2.4, VM_RESERVED kept swapout process off VMA,
currently it lost original meaning but still has some effects:| effect | alternative flags
-+------------------------+---------------------------------------------
1| account as reserved_vm | VM_IO
2| skip in core dump | VM_IO, VM_DONTDUMP
3| do not merge or expand | VM_IO, VM_DONTEXPAND, VM_HUGETLB, VM_PFNMAP
4| do not mlock | VM_IO, VM_DONTEXPAND, VM_HUGETLB, VM_PFNMAPThis patch removes reserved_vm counter from mm_struct. Seems like nobody
cares about it, it does not exported into userspace directly, it only
reduces total_vm showed in proc.Thus VM_RESERVED can be replaced with VM_IO or pair VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP.
remap_pfn_range() and io_remap_pfn_range() set VM_IO|VM_DONTEXPAND|VM_DONTDUMP.
remap_vmalloc_range() set VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c fixup]
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov
Cc: Alexander Viro
Cc: Carsten Otte
Cc: Chris Metcalf
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov
Cc: Eric Paris
Cc: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: James Morris
Cc: Jason Baron
Cc: Kentaro Takeda
Cc: Matt Helsley
Cc: Nick Piggin
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Robert Richter
Cc: Suresh Siddha
Cc: Tetsuo Handa
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Rename VM_NODUMP into VM_DONTDUMP: this name matches other negative flags:
VM_DONTEXPAND, VM_DONTCOPY. Currently this flag used only for
sys_madvise. The next patch will use it for replacing the outdated flag
VM_RESERVED.Also forbid madvise(MADV_DODUMP) for special kernel mappings VM_SPECIAL
(VM_IO | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_RESERVED | VM_PFNMAP)Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov
Cc: Alexander Viro
Cc: Carsten Otte
Cc: Chris Metcalf
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov
Cc: Eric Paris
Cc: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: James Morris
Cc: Jason Baron
Cc: Kentaro Takeda
Cc: Matt Helsley
Cc: Nick Piggin
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Robert Richter
Cc: Suresh Siddha
Cc: Tetsuo Handa
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
06 Oct, 2012
4 commits
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This note has the following format:
long count -- how many files are mapped
long page_size -- units for file_ofs
array of [COUNT] elements of
long start
long end
long file_ofs
followed by COUNT filenames in ASCII: "FILE1" NUL "FILE2" NUL...Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Amerigo Wang
Cc: "Jonathan M. Foote"
Cc: Roland McGrath
Cc: Pedro Alves
Cc: Fengguang Wu
Cc: Stephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Existing PRSTATUS note contains only si_signo, si_code, si_errno fields
from the siginfo of the signal which caused core to be dumped.There are tools which try to analyze crashes for possible security
implications, and they want to use, among other data, si_addr field from
the SIGSEGV.This patch adds a new elf note, NT_SIGINFO, which contains the complete
siginfo_t of the signal which killed the process.Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Amerigo Wang
Cc: "Jonathan M. Foote"
Cc: Roland McGrath
Cc: Pedro Alves
Cc: Fengguang Wu
Cc: Stephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This is a preparatory patch for the introduction of NT_SIGINFO elf note.
With this patch we pass "siginfo_t *siginfo" instead of "int signr" to
do_coredump() and put it into coredump_params. It will be used by the
next patch. Most changes are simple s/signr/siginfo->si_signo/.Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Amerigo Wang
Cc: "Jonathan M. Foote"
Cc: Roland McGrath
Cc: Pedro Alves
Cc: Fengguang Wu
Cc: Stephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
load_elf_interp() has interp_map_addr carefully described as
"uninitialized_var" and marked so as to avoid a warning. However if you
trace the code it is passed into load_elf_interp and then this value is
checked against NULL.As this return value isn't used this is actually safe but it freaks
various analysis tools that see un-initialized memory addresses being read
before their value is ever defined.Set it to NULL as a matter of programming good taste if nothing else
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Sep, 2012
1 commit
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In !CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET case, if elf_note_info_init fails to allocate
memory for info->fields, it frees already allocated stuff and returns
error to its caller, fill_note_info. Which in turn returns error to its
caller, elf_core_dump. Which jumps to cleanup label and calls
free_note_info, which will happily try to free all info->fields again.
BOOM.This is the fix.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko
Cc: Venu Byravarasu
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
20 Sep, 2012
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
31 May, 2012
1 commit
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No reason to hold ->mmap_sem over the sequence
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
24 May, 2012
1 commit
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Pull user namespace enhancements from Eric Biederman:
"This is a course correction for the user namespace, so that we can
reach an inexpensive, maintainable, and reasonably complete
implementation.Highlights:
- Config guards make it impossible to enable the user namespace and
code that has not been converted to be user namespace safe.- Use of the new kuid_t type ensures the if you somehow get past the
config guards the kernel will encounter type errors if you enable
user namespaces and attempt to compile in code whose permission
checks have not been updated to be user namespace safe.- All uids from child user namespaces are mapped into the initial
user namespace before they are processed. Removing the need to add
an additional check to see if the user namespace of the compared
uids remains the same.- With the user namespaces compiled out the performance is as good or
better than it is today.- For most operations absolutely nothing changes performance or
operationally with the user namespace enabled.- The worst case performance I could come up with was timing 1
billion cache cold stat operations with the user namespace code
enabled. This went from 156s to 164s on my laptop (or 156ns to
164ns per stat operation).- (uid_t)-1 and (gid_t)-1 are reserved as an internal error value.
Most uid/gid setting system calls treat these value specially
anyway so attempting to use -1 as a uid would likely cause
entertaining failures in userspace.- If setuid is called with a uid that can not be mapped setuid fails.
I have looked at sendmail, login, ssh and every other program I
could think of that would call setuid and they all check for and
handle the case where setuid fails.- If stat or a similar system call is called from a context in which
we can not map a uid we lie and return overflowuid. The LFS
experience suggests not lying and returning an error code might be
better, but the historical precedent with uids is different and I
can not think of anything that would break by lying about a uid we
can't map.- Capabilities are localized to the current user namespace making it
safe to give the initial user in a user namespace all capabilities.My git tree covers all of the modifications needed to convert the core
kernel and enough changes to make a system bootable to runlevel 1."Fix up trivial conflicts due to nearby independent changes in fs/stat.c
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (46 commits)
userns: Silence silly gcc warning.
cred: use correct cred accessor with regards to rcu read lock
userns: Convert the move_pages, and migrate_pages permission checks to use uid_eq
userns: Convert cgroup permission checks to use uid_eq
userns: Convert tmpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert sysfs to use kgid/kuid where appropriate
userns: Convert sysctl permission checks to use kuid and kgids.
userns: Convert proc to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert ext4 to user kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert ext3 to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert ext2 to use kuid/kgid where appropriate.
userns: Convert devpts to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert binary formats to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Add negative depends on entries to avoid building code that is userns unsafe
userns: signal remove unnecessary map_cred_ns
userns: Teach inode_capable to understand inodes whose uids map to other namespaces.
userns: Fail exec for suid and sgid binaries with ids outside our user namespace.
userns: Convert stat to return values mapped from kuids and kgids
userns: Convert user specfied uids and gids in chown into kuids and kgid
userns: Use uid_eq gid_eq helpers when comparing kuids and kgids in the vfs
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16 May, 2012
1 commit
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Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
21 Apr, 2012
2 commits
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This continues the theme started with vm_brk() and vm_munmap():
vm_mmap() does the same thing as do_mmap(), but additionally does the
required VM locking.This uninlines (and rewrites it to be clearer) do_mmap(), which sadly
duplicates it in mm/mmap.c and mm/nommu.c. But that way we don't have
to export our internal do_mmap_pgoff() function.Some day we hopefully don't have to export do_mmap() either, if all
modular users can become the simpler vm_mmap() instead. We're actually
very close to that already, with the notable exception of the (broken)
use in i810, and a couple of stragglers in binfmt_elf.Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
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It does the same thing as "do_brk()", except it handles the VM locking
too.It turns out that all external callers want that anyway, so we can make
do_brk() static to just mm/mmap.c while at it.Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
30 Mar, 2012
1 commit
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Pull x32 support for x86-64 from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree introduces the X32 binary format and execution mode for x86:
32-bit data space binaries using 64-bit instructions and 64-bit kernel
syscalls.This allows applications whose working set fits into a 32 bits address
space to make use of 64-bit instructions while using a 32-bit address
space with shorter pointers, more compressed data structures, etc."Fix up trivial context conflicts in arch/x86/{Kconfig,vdso/vma.c}
* 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (71 commits)
x32: Fix alignment fail in struct compat_siginfo
x32: Fix stupid ia32/x32 inversion in the siginfo format
x32: Add ptrace for x32
x32: Switch to a 64-bit clock_t
x32: Provide separate is_ia32_task() and is_x32_task() predicates
x86, mtrr: Use explicit sizing and padding for the 64-bit ioctls
x86/x32: Fix the binutils auto-detect
x32: Warn and disable rather than error if binutils too old
x32: Only clear TIF_X32 flag once
x32: Make sure TS_COMPAT is cleared for x32 tasks
fs: Remove missed ->fds_bits from cessation use of fd_set structs internally
fs: Fix close_on_exec pointer in alloc_fdtable
x32: Drop non-__vdso weak symbols from the x32 VDSO
x32: Fix coding style violations in the x32 VDSO code
x32: Add x32 VDSO support
x32: Allow x32 to be configured
x32: If configured, add x32 system calls to system call tables
x32: Handle process creation
x32: Signal-related system calls
x86: Add #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT to
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29 Mar, 2012
2 commits
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…m/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system
Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells:
"Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of
separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion
dependencies.I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can
and made sure that they don't break.The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular
dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to
optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2().This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in
asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h.The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h. It holds a number of
low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg.
memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that
aren't used in many places (eg. switch_to()).These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces:
(1) asm/barrier.h
Move memory barriers here. This already done for MIPS and Alpha.
(2) asm/switch_to.h
Move switch_to() and related stuff here.
(3) asm/exec.h
Move arch_align_stack() here. Other process execution related bits
could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h.(4) asm/cmpxchg.h
Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and
frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg().(5) asm/bug.h
Move die() and related bits.
(6) asm/auxvec.h
Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here.
Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis."
Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code
around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat
weakened by that. We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it..* tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits)
Delete all instances of asm/system.h
Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h
Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h
Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC
Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h
Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h
Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
Create asm-generic/barrier.h
Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt]
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc
Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score
Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300
... -
asm/system.h is a cause of circular dependency problems because it contains
commonly used primitive stuff like barrier definitions and uncommonly used
stuff like switch_to() that might require MMU definitions.asm/system.h has been disintegrated by this point on all arches into the
following common segments:(1) asm/barrier.h
Moved memory barrier definitions here.
(2) asm/cmpxchg.h
Moved xchg() and cmpxchg() here. #included in asm/atomic.h.
(3) asm/bug.h
Moved die() and similar here.
(4) asm/exec.h
Moved arch_align_stack() here.
(5) asm/elf.h
Moved AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here.
(6) asm/switch_to.h
Moved switch_to() here.
Signed-off-by: David Howells
24 Mar, 2012
2 commits
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Since we no longer need the VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag, let's use the freed bit
for 'VM_NODUMP' flag. The idea is is to add a new madvise() flag:
MADV_DONTDUMP, which can be set by applications to specifically request
memory regions which should not dump core.The specific application I have in mind is qemu: we can add a flag there
that wouldn't dump all of guest memory when qemu dumps core. This flag
might also be useful for security sensitive apps that want to absolutely
make sure that parts of memory are not dumped. To clear the flag use:
MADV_DODUMP.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/MADV_NODUMP/MADV_DONTDUMP/, s/MADV_CLEAR_NODUMP/MADV_DODUMP/, per Roland]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up the architectures which broke]
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron
Acked-by: Roland McGrath
Cc: Chris Metcalf
Cc: Avi Kivity
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Richard Henderson
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
Cc: Matt Turner
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley"
Cc: Helge Deller
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The motivation for this patchset was that I was looking at a way for a
qemu-kvm process, to exclude the guest memory from its core dump, which
can be quite large. There are already a number of filter flags in
/proc//coredump_filter, however, these allow one to specify 'types'
of kernel memory, not specific address ranges (which is needed in this
case).Since there are no more vma flags available, the first patch eliminates
the need for the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag. The flag is used internally by
the kernel to mark vdso and vsyscall pages. However, it is simple
enough to check if a vma covers a vdso or vsyscall page without the need
for this flag.The second patch then replaces the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag with a new
'VM_NODUMP' flag, which can be set by userspace using new madvise flags:
'MADV_DONTDUMP', and unset via 'MADV_DODUMP'. The core dump filters
continue to work the same as before unless 'MADV_DONTDUMP' is set on the
region.The qemu code which implements this features is at:
http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/qemu-dump/qemu-dump.patch
In my testing the qemu core dump shrunk from 383MB -> 13MB with this
patch.I also believe that the 'MADV_DONTDUMP' flag might be useful for
security sensitive apps, which might want to select which areas are
dumped.This patch:
The VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag is currently used by the coredump code to
indicate that a vma is part of a vsyscall or vdso section. However, we
can determine if a vma is in one these sections by checking it against
the gate_vma and checking for a non-NULL return value from
arch_vma_name(). Thus, freeing a valuable vma bit.Signed-off-by: Jason Baron
Acked-by: Roland McGrath
Cc: Chris Metcalf
Cc: Avi Kivity
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
21 Mar, 2012
2 commits
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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Just don't pass NULL to it - nobody does, anyway.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
03 Mar, 2012
1 commit
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The regset common infrastructure assumed that regsets would always
have .get and .set methods, but not necessarily .active methods.
Unfortunately people have since written regsets without .set methods.Rather than putting in stub functions everywhere, handle regsets with
null .get or .set methods explicitly.Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov
Acked-by: Roland McGrath
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
21 Feb, 2012
1 commit
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Allow some core dump-related fields to be overridden. This allows
core dumps to work correctly for x32.Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Alexander Viro
Cc: Roland McGrath
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
11 Jan, 2012
1 commit
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Randomization of PIE load address is hard coded in binfmt_elf.c for X86
and ARM. Create a new Kconfig variable
(CONFIG_ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE) for this and use it instead. Thus
architecture specific policy is pushed out of the generic binfmt_elf.c and
into the architecture Kconfig files.X86 and ARM Kconfigs are modified to select the new variable so there is
no change in behavior. A follow on patch will select it for MIPS too.Signed-off-by: David Daney
Cc: Russell King
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Alexander Viro
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
03 Nov, 2011
1 commit
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The case of address space randomization being disabled in runtime through
randomize_va_space sysctl is not treated properly in load_elf_binary(),
resulting in SIGKILL coming at exec() time for certain PIE-linked binaries
in case the randomization has been disabled at runtime prior to calling
exec().Handle the randomize_va_space == 0 case the same way as if we were not
supporting .text randomization at all.Based on original patch by H.J. Lu and Josh Boyer.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Russell King
Cc: H.J. Lu
Cc:
Tested-by: Josh Boyer
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 Jul, 2011
1 commit
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new helper: would_dump(bprm, file). Checks if we are allowed to
read the file and if we are not - sets ENFORCE_NODUMP. Exported,
used in places that previously open-coded the same logics.Signed-off-by: Al Viro