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2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 17Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 09Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 08Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 07Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 06Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 05Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 04Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 03Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 02Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 01Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] Make sys_syslog a conditional system callHeiko Carstens
Remove the -ENOSYS implementation for !CONFIG_PRINTK and use the cond_syscall infrastructure instead. Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] Convert all system calls to return a longHeiko Carstens
Convert all system calls to return a long. This should be a NOP since all converted types should have the same size anyway. With the exception of sys_exit_group which returned void. But that doesn't matter since the system call doesn't return. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14softlock: fix false panic which can occur if softlockup_thresh is reducedMandeep Singh Baines
At run-time, if softlockup_thresh is changed to a much lower value, touch_timestamp is likely to be much older than the new softlock_thresh. This will cause a false softlockup to be detected. If softlockup_panic is enabled, the system will panic. The fix is to touch all watchdogs before changing softlockup_thresh. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-14rcu: add __cpuinit to rcu_init_percpu_data()Lai Jiangshan
Impact: reduce memory footprint add __cpuinit to rcu_init_percpu_data(), and this function's text will be discarded after boot when !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-13Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: smp_call_function_single(): be slightly less stupid, fix #2 lockdep, mm: fix might_fault() annotation
2009-01-12x86: arch_probe_nr_irqsYinghai Lu
Impact: save RAM with large NR_CPUS, get smaller nr_irqs Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
2009-01-12async: fix __lowest_in_progress()Arjan van de Ven
At 37000 feet somewhere near Greenland I woke up from a half-sleep with the realisation that __lowest_in_progress() is buggy. After landing I checked and there were indeed 2 problems with it; this patch fixes both: * The order of the list checks was wrong * The locking was not correct. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-12Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: kernel/sched.c: add missing forward declaration for 'double_rq_lock' sched: partly revert "sched debug: remove NULL checking in print_cfs_rt_rq()" cpumask: fix CONFIG_NUMA=y sched.c
2009-01-12smp_call_function_single(): be slightly less stupid, fix #2Ingo Molnar
fix m68k build failure: tip/kernel/up.c: In function 'smp_call_function_single': tip/kernel/up.c:16: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type make[2]: *** [kernel/up.o] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-12Revert "sched: improve preempt debugging"Ingo Molnar
This reverts commit 7317d7b87edb41a9135e30be1ec3f7ef817c53dd. This has been reported (and bisected) by Alexey Zaytsev and Kamalesh Babulal to produce annoying warnings during bootup on both x86 and powerpc. kernel_locked() is not a valid test in IRQ context (we update the BKL's ->lock_depth and the preempt count separately and non-atomicalyy), so we cannot put it into the generic preempt debugging checks which can run in IRQ contexts too. Reported-and-bisected-by: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com> Reported-and-bisected-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-11cpumask, irq: non-x86 build failuresMike Travis
Ingo Molnar wrote: > All non-x86 architectures fail to build: > > In file included from /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/random.h:11, > from /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/stackprotector.h:6, > from /home/mingo/tip/init/main.c:17: > /home/mingo/tip/include/linux/irqnr.h:26:63: error: asm/irq_vectors.h: No such file or directory Do not include asm/irq_vectors.h in generic code - it's not available on all architectures. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-11kstat: modify kstat_irqs_legacy to be variable sizedMike Travis
Impact: reduce memory usage. Allocate kstat_irqs_legacy based on nr_cpu_ids to deal with this memory usage bump when NR_CPUS bumped from 128 to 4096: 8192 +253952 262144 +3100% kstat_irqs_legacy(.bss) This is only when CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQS=y. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
2009-01-11irq: initialize nr_irqs based on nr_cpu_idsMike Travis
Impact: Reduce memory usage. This is the second half of the changes to make the irq_desc_ptrs be variable sized based on nr_cpu_ids. This is done by adding a new "max_nr_irqs" macro to irq_vectors.h (and a dummy in irqnr.h) to return a max NR_IRQS value based on NR_CPUS or nr_cpu_ids. This necessitated moving the define of MAX_IO_APICS to a separate file (asm/apicnum.h) so it could be included without the baggage of the other asm/apicdef.h declarations. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
2009-01-11irq: allocate irq_desc_ptrs array based on nr_irqsMike Travis
Impact: allocate irq_desc_ptrs in preparation for making it variable-sized. This addresses this memory usage bump when NR_CPUS bumped from 128 to 4096: 34816 +229376 264192 +658% irq_desc_ptrs(.data.read_mostly) The patch is split into two parts, the first simply allocates the irq_desc_ptrs array. Then next will deal with making it variable. This is only when CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQS=y. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
2009-01-11irq: use WARN() instead of WARN_ON().Mike Travis
Impact: cleanup WARN msg. Ingo requested: > While at it, could you please also convert this to a WARN() construct > instead? (in a separate commit) ... and it shall be done. ;-) Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
2009-01-11irq: change references from NR_IRQS to nr_irqsMike Travis
Impact: preparation, cleanup, add KERN_INFO printk Modify references from NR_IRQS to nr_irqs as the later will become variable-sized based on nr_cpu_ids when CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQS=y. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
2009-01-11cpumask: reduce stack usage in find_lowest_rqMike Travis
Impact: reduce stack usage, cleanup Use a cpumask_var_t in find_lowest_rq() and clean up other old cpumask_t calls. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
2009-01-11cpumask: fix bug in use cpumask_var_t in irq_descMike Travis
Impact: fix bug where new irq_desc uses old cpumask pointers which are freed. As Yinghai pointed out, init_copy_one_irq_desc() copies the old desc to the new desc overwriting the cpumask pointers. Since the old_desc and the cpumask pointers are freed, then memory corruption will occur if these old pointers are used. Move the allocation of these pointers to after the copy. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
2009-01-11cpumask: update irq_desc to use cpumask_var_tMike Travis
Impact: reduce memory usage, use new cpumask API. Replace the affinity and pending_masks with cpumask_var_t's. This adds to the significant size reduction done with the SPARSE_IRQS changes. The added functions (init_alloc_desc_masks & init_copy_desc_masks) are in the include file so they can be inlined (and optimized out for the !CONFIG_CPUMASKS_OFFSTACK case.) [Naming chosen to be consistent with the other init*irq functions, as well as the backwards arg declaration of "from, to" instead of the more common "to, from" standard.] Includes a slight change to the declaration of struct irq_desc to embed the pending_mask within ifdef(CONFIG_SMP) to be consistent with other references, and some small changes to Xen. Tested: sparse/non-sparse/cpumask_offstack/non-cpumask_offstack/nonuma/nosmp on x86_64 Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: virtualization@lists.osdl.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
2009-01-11kernel/fork.c: unused variable 'ret'Steven Noonan
Removed the unused variable. Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-11Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc1' into timers/urgentIngo Molnar
2009-01-11kernel/sched.c: add missing forward declaration for 'double_rq_lock'Steven Noonan
Impact: build fix on certain configs Added 'double_rq_lock' forward declaration, allowing double_rq_lock to be used in _double_lock_balance(). Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-11smp_call_function_single(): be slightly less stupid, fixIngo Molnar
Impact: build fix on Alpha kernel/up.c: In function 'smp_call_function_single': kernel/up.c:12: error: 'cpuid' undeclared (first use in this function) kernel/up.c:12: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once kernel/up.c:12: error: for each function it appears in.) The typo didnt show up on x86 because 'cpuid' happens to be a function address as well ... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-11smp_call_function_single(): be slightly less stupidAndrew Morton
If you do smp_call_function_single(expression-with-side-effects, ...) then expression-with-side-effects never gets evaluated on UP builds. As always, implementing it in C is the correct thing to do. While we're there, uninline it for size and possible header dependency reasons. And create a new kernel/up.c, as a place in which to put uniprocessor-specific code and storage. It should mirror kernel/smp.c. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-11Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc1' into core/urgentIngo Molnar
2009-01-11sched: partly revert "sched debug: remove NULL checking in print_cfs_rt_rq()"Li Zefan
Impact: avoid accessing NULL tg.css->cgroup In commit 0a0db8f5c9d4bbb9bbfcc2b6cb6bce2d0ef4d73d, I removed checking NULL tg.css->cgroup, but I realized I was wrong when I found reading /proc/sched_debug can race with cgroup_create(). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-11cpumask: fix CONFIG_NUMA=y sched.cRusty Russell
Impact: fix panic on ia64 with NR_CPUS=1024 struct sched_domain is now a dangling structure; where we really want static ones, we need to use static_sched_domain. (As the FIXME in this file says, cpumask_var_t would be better, but this code is hairy enough without trying to add initialization code to the right places). Reported-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-09Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-async-2Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-async-2: async: make async a command line option for now partial revert of asynchronous inode delete
2009-01-09Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-nommuLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-nommu: NOMMU: Support XIP on initramfs NOMMU: Teach kobjsize() about VMA regions. FLAT: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocated FDPIC: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocated NOMMU: Improve procfs output using per-MM VMAs NOMMU: Make mmap allocation page trimming behaviour configurable. NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux NOMMU: Delete askedalloc and realalloc variables NOMMU: Rename ARM's struct vm_region NOMMU: Fix cleanup handling in ramfs_nommu_get_umapped_area()
2009-01-09Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: CRED: Fix commit_creds() on a process that has no mm
2009-01-09async: make async a command line option for nowArjan van de Ven
... and have it default off. This does allow people to work with it for testing. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2009-01-09Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile: (31 commits) powerpc/oprofile: fix whitespaces in op_model_cell.c powerpc/oprofile: IBM CELL: add SPU event profiling support powerpc/oprofile: fix cell/pr_util.h powerpc/oprofile: IBM CELL: cleanup and restructuring oprofile: make new cpu buffer functions part of the api oprofile: remove #ifdef CONFIG_OPROFILE_IBS in non-ibs code ring_buffer: fix ring_buffer_event_length() oprofile: use new data sample format for ibs oprofile: add op_cpu_buffer_get_data() oprofile: add op_cpu_buffer_add_data() oprofile: rework implementation of cpu buffer events oprofile: modify op_cpu_buffer_read_entry() oprofile: add op_cpu_buffer_write_reserve() oprofile: rename variables in add_ibs_begin() oprofile: rename add_sample() in cpu_buffer.c oprofile: rename variable ibs_allowed to has_ibs in op_model_amd.c oprofile: making add_sample_entry() inline oprofile: remove backtrace code for ibs oprofile: remove unused ibs macro oprofile: remove unused components in struct oprofile_cpu_buffer ...
2009-01-09Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (94 commits) ACPICA: hide private headers ACPICA: create acpica/ directory ACPI: fix build warning ACPI : Use RSDT instead of XSDT by adding boot option of "acpi=rsdt" ACPI: Avoid array address overflow when _CST MWAIT hint bits are set fujitsu-laptop: Simplify SBLL/SBL2 backlight handling fujitsu-laptop: Add BL power, LED control and radio state information ACPICA: delete utcache.c ACPICA: delete acdisasm.h ACPICA: Update version to 20081204. ACPICA: FADT: Update error msgs for consistency ACPICA: FADT: set acpi_gbl_use_default_register_widths to TRUE by default ACPICA: FADT parsing changes and fixes ACPICA: Add ACPI_MUTEX_TYPE configuration option ACPICA: Fixes for various ACPI data tables ACPICA: Restructure includes into public/private ACPI: remove private acpica headers from driver files ACPI: reboot.c: use new acpi_reset interface ACPICA: New: acpi_reset interface - write to reset register ACPICA: Move all public H/W interfaces to new hwxface ...
2009-01-09CRED: Must initialise the new creds in prepare_kernel_cred()David Howells
The newly allocated creds in prepare_kernel_cred() must be initialised before get_uid() and get_group_info() can access them. They should be copied from the old credentials. Reported-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-09CRED: Missing put_cred() in prepare_kernel_cred()David Howells
Missing put_cred() in the error handling path of prepare_kernel_cred(). Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-09Merge branch 'linus' into releaseLen Brown
2009-01-09Merge branch 'suspend' into releaseLen Brown
2009-01-08async: make async_synchronize_full() more serializingArjan van de Ven
turns out that there are real problems with allowing async tasks that are scheduled from async tasks to run after the async_synchronize_full() returns. This patch makes the _full more strict and a complete synchronization. Later I might need to add back a lighter form of synchronization for other uses.. but not right now. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08generic swap(): sched: remove local swap() macroWu Fengguang
Use the new generic implementation. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08pid: generalize task_active_pid_nsEric W. Biederman
Currently task_active_pid_ns is not safe to call after a task becomes a zombie and exit_task_namespaces is called, as nsproxy becomes NULL. By reading the pid namespace from the pid of the task we can trivially solve this problem at the cost of one extra memory read in what should be the same cacheline as we read the namespace from. When moving things around I have made task_active_pid_ns out of line because keeping it in pid_namespace.h would require adding includes of pid.h and sched.h that I don't think we want. This change does make task_active_pid_ns unsafe to call during copy_process until we attach a pid on the task_struct which seems to be a reasonable trade off. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>