- 12 Feb, 2007 40 commits
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Michael Halcrow authored
This is the transport code for public key functionality in eCryptfs. It manages encryption/decryption request queues with a transport mechanism. Currently, netlink is the only implemented transport. Each inode has a unique File Encryption Key (FEK). Under passphrase, a File Encryption Key Encryption Key (FEKEK) is generated from a salt/passphrase combo on mount. This FEKEK encrypts each FEK and writes it into the header of each file using the packet format specified in RFC 2440. This is all symmetric key encryption, so it can all be done via the kernel crypto API. These new patches introduce public key encryption of the FEK. There is no asymmetric key encryption support in the kernel crypto API, so eCryptfs pushes the FEK encryption and decryption out to a userspace daemon. After considering our requirements and determining the complexity of using various transport mechanisms, we settled on netlink for this communication. eCryptfs stores authentication tokens into the kernel keyring. These tokens correlate with individual keys. For passphrase mode of operation, the authentication token contains the symmetric FEKEK. For public key, the authentication token contains a PKI type and an opaque data blob managed by individual PKI modules in userspace. Each user who opens a file under an eCryptfs partition mounted in public key mode must be running a daemon. That daemon has the user's credentials and has access to all of the keys to which the user should have access. The daemon, when started, initializes the pluggable PKI modules available on the system and registers itself with the eCryptfs kernel module. Userspace utilities register public key authentication tokens into the user session keyring. These authentication tokens correlate key signatures with PKI modules and PKI blobs. The PKI blobs contain PKI-specific information necessary for the PKI module to carry out asymmetric key encryption and decryption. When the eCryptfs module parses the header of an existing file and finds a Tag 1 (Public Key) packet (see RFC 2440), it reads in the public key identifier (signature). The asymmetrically encrypted FEK is in the Tag 1 packet; eCryptfs puts together a decrypt request packet containing the signature and the encrypted FEK, then it passes it to the daemon registered for the current->euid via a netlink unicast to the PID of the daemon, which was registered at the time the daemon was started by the user. The daemon actually just makes calls to libecryptfs, which implements request packet parsing and manages PKI modules. libecryptfs grabs the public key authentication token for the given signature from the user session keyring. This auth tok tells libecryptfs which PKI module should receive the request. libecryptfs then makes a decrypt() call to the PKI module, and it passes along the PKI block from the auth tok. The PKI uses the blob to figure out how it should decrypt the data passed to it; it performs the decryption and passes the decrypted data back to libecryptfs. libecryptfs then puts together a reply packet with the decrypted FEK and passes that back to the eCryptfs module. The eCryptfs module manages these request callouts to userspace code via message context structs. The module maintains an array of message context structs and places the elements of the array on two lists: a free and an allocated list. When eCryptfs wants to make a request, it moves a msg ctx from the free list to the allocated list, sets its state to pending, and fires off the message to the user's registered daemon. When eCryptfs receives a netlink message (via the callback), it correlates the msg ctx struct in the alloc list with the data in the message itself. The msg->index contains the offset of the array of msg ctx structs. It verifies that the registered daemon PID is the same as the PID of the process that sent the message. It also validates a sequence number between the received packet and the msg ctx. Then, it copies the contents of the message (the reply packet) into the msg ctx struct, sets the state in the msg ctx to done, and wakes up the process that was sleeping while waiting for the reply. The sleeping process was whatever was performing the sys_open(). This process originally called ecryptfs_send_message(); it is now in ecryptfs_wait_for_response(). When it wakes up and sees that the msg ctx state was set to done, it returns a pointer to the message contents (the reply packet) and returns. If all went well, this packet contains the decrypted FEK, which is then copied into the crypt_stat struct, and life continues as normal. The case for creation of a new file is very similar, only instead of a decrypt request, eCryptfs sends out an encrypt request. > - We have a great clod of key mangement code in-kernel. Why is that > not suitable (or growable) for public key management? eCryptfs uses Howells' keyring to store persistent key data and PKI state information. It defers public key cryptographic transformations to userspace code. The userspace data manipulation request really is orthogonal to key management in and of itself. What eCryptfs basically needs is a secure way to communicate with a particular daemon for a particular task doing a syscall, based on the UID. Nothing running under another UID should be able to access that channel of communication. > - Is it appropriate that new infrastructure for public key > management be private to a particular fs? The messaging.c file contains a lot of code that, perhaps, could be extracted into a separate kernel service. In essence, this would be a sort of request/reply mechanism that would involve a userspace daemon. I am not aware of anything that does quite what eCryptfs does, so I was not aware of any existing tools to do just what we wanted. > What happens if one of these daemons exits without sending a quit > message? There is a stale uid<->pid association in the hash table for that user. When the user registers a new daemon, eCryptfs cleans up the old association and generates a new one. See ecryptfs_process_helo(). > - _why_ does it use netlink? Netlink provides the transport mechanism that would minimize the complexity of the implementation, given that we can have multiple daemons (one per user). I explored the possibility of using relayfs, but that would involve having to introduce control channels and a protocol for creating and tearing down channels for the daemons. We do not have to worry about any of that with netlink. Signed-off-by:
Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Adrian Bunk authored
NFS_SUPER_MAGIC is already defined in include/linux/magic.h Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Chuck Lever authored
Replace existing svc_create_socket() API to allow callers to pass addresses larger than a sockaddr_in. Signed-off-by:
Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Aurelien Charbon <aurelien.charbon@ext.bull.net> Signed-off-by:
Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Chuck Lever authored
Add support for IPv6 addresses in the RPC server's UDP receive path. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by:
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akpm@linux-foundation.org authored
Modify svc_tcp_accept to support connecting on IPv6 sockets. Signed-off-by:
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Chuck Lever authored
The only reason svcsock.c looks at a sockaddr's port is to check whether the remote peer is connecting from a privileged port. Refactor this check to hide processing that is specific to address format. Signed-off-by:
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Chuck Lever authored
CMSG_DATA comes in different sizes, depending on address family. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded do/while (0)] Signed-off-by:
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Chuck Lever authored
The rq_daddr field must support larger addresses. Signed-off-by:
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Chuck Lever authored
Expand the rq_addr field to allow it to contain larger addresses. Specifically, we replace a 'sockaddr_in' with a 'sockaddr_storage', then everywhere the 'sockaddr_in' was referenced, we use instead an accessor function (svc_addr_in) which safely casts the _storage to _in. Signed-off-by:
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Chuck Lever authored
Sockaddr_storage will allow us to store arbitrary socket addresses in the svc_deferred_req struct. Signed-off-by:
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Chuck Lever authored
There are loads of places where the RPC server assumes that the rq_addr fields contains an IPv4 address. Top among these are error and debugging messages that display the server's IP address. Let's refactor the address printing into a separate function that's smart enough to figure out the difference between IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Signed-off-by:
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Chuck Lever authored
Clean-up: msg_name and msg_namelen are not used by sock_recvmsg, so don't bother to set them in svc_recvfrom. Signed-off-by:
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Chuck Lever authored
The remote peer's address won't change after the socket has been accepted. We don't need to call ->getname on every incoming request. Signed-off-by:
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NeilBrown authored
Rather than calling svc_sock_enqueue at the end of svc_setup_socket, we now call it (via svc_sock_recieved) after calling svc_setup_socket at each call site. We do this because a subsequent patch will insert some code between the two calls at one call site. Signed-off-by:
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Chuck Lever authored
Sometimes we need to create an RPC service but not register it with the local portmapper. NFSv4 delegation callback, for example. Change the svc_makesock() API to allow optionally creating temporary or permanent sockets, optionally registering with the local portmapper, and make it return the ephemeral port of the new socket. Signed-off-by:
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Chuck Lever authored
Currently in the RPC server, registering with the local portmapper and creating "permanent" sockets are tied together. Expand the internal APIs to allow these two socket characteristics to be separately specified. This will be externalized in the next patch. Signed-off-by:
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Ahmed S. Darwish authored
Use ARRAY_SIZE macro already defined in kernel.h Signed-off-by:
Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Michael Buesch authored
I think the following patch should go into the kernel, until the ISDN/CAPI guys create the real fix for this issue. The issue is a concurrency issue with some internal CAPI data structure which can crash the kernel. On my FritzCard DSL with the AVM driver it crashes about once a day without this workaround patch. With this workaround patch it's rock-stable (at least on UP, but I don't see why this shouldn't work on SMP as well. But maybe I'm missing something.) This workaround is kind of a sledgehammer which inserts a global lock to wrap around all the critical sections. Of course, this is a scalability issue, if you have many ISDN/CAPI cards. But it prevents a crash. So I vote for this fix to get merged, until people come up with a better solution. Better have a stable kernel that's less scalable, than a crashing and useless kernel. This bug is in the kernel since 2.6.15 (at least). Signed-off-by:
Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: Kai Germaschewski <kai.germaschewski@gmx.de> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Richard Knutsson authored
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Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> Acked-by:
Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Richard Knutsson authored
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Robert P. J. Day authored
Rename the macro CONFIG_HISAX_HFC4S8S_PCIMEM to simply HISAX_HFC4S8S_PCIMEM so that it no longer resembles a user-settable kernel config macro. Signed-off-by:
Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Acked-by:
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Robert P. J. Day authored
Based on advice from K. Keil, get rid of remaining traces of defunct test emulator for HISAX. Signed-off-by:
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Robert P. J. Day authored
Based on advice from K. Keil, rename the special debug option CONFIG_SERIAL_NOPAUSE_IO to ELSA_SERIAL_NOPAUSE_IO so it no longer resembles a user-selectable kernel config option. Signed-off-by:
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Robert P. J. Day authored
Rename some of the debugging macros for ISDN AVM so that they don't resemble kernel config settings, as they're primarily for author debugging instead. Signed-off-by:
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Robert P. J. Day authored
Replace misspelled CONFIG_HISAX_QUADRO with CONFIG_HISAX_SCT_QUADRO. Signed-off-by:
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Ahmed S. Darwish authored
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Adrian Bunk authored
Add proper prototypes in a header file for global code under drivers/isdn/sc/. Since the GNU C compiler is now able do tell us that caller and callee disagreed about the number of arguments of setup_buffers(), this patch also fixes this bug. Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
- add functions prototypes for some global functions to header files - remove unneeded "extern"s from some function prototypes You might note that this patch results in a new warning - that's due to the fact that with a proper prototype gcc is able to discover a broken work_struct conversion. Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
Add correct prototypes in header files for global functions and variables. Signed-off-by:
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Philipp Zabel authored
Arch-neutral GPIO calls for S3C24xx. Signed-off-by:
David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by:
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Philipp Zabel authored
Arch-neutral GPIO calls for SA-1100. Signed-off-by:
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Philipp Zabel authored
Arch-neutral GPIO calls for PXA. Signed-off-by:
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David Brownell authored
This is a first cut at making the AT91 code use the generic GPIO calls. Note that the original AT91 GPIO calls merged the "mux pin as GPIO" and "set GPIO direction" functionality into one API call, contrary to what's specified as a cross-platform portable model. So this involved a few non-inlinable functions. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by:
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David Brownell authored
This teaches OMAP how to implement the cross-platform GPIO interfaces. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by:
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David Brownell authored
This defines a simple and minimalist programming interface for GPIO APIs: - Documentation/gpio.txt ... describes things (read it) - include/asm-arm/gpio.h ... defines the ARM hook, which just punts to <asm/arch/gpio.h> for any implementation - include/asm-generic/gpio.h ... implement "can sleep" variants as calling the normal ones, for systems that don't handle i2c expanders. The immediate need for such a cross-architecture API convention is to support drivers that work the same on AT91 ARM and AVR32 AP7000 chips, which embed many of the same controllers but have different CPUs. However, several other users have been reported, including a driver for a hardware watchdog chip and some handhelds.org multi-CPU button drivers. Signed-off-by: -
eric wollesen authored
Eric Wollesen ported the Bluesmoke Memory Controller driver for the Intel 5000X/V/P (Blackford/Greencreek) chipset to the in kernel EDAC model. This patch incorporates those required changes to the edac_mc.c and edac_mc.h core files by added new Fully Buffered DIMM interface to the EDAC Core module. Signed-off-by:
eric wollesen <ericw@xmtp.net> Signed-off-by:
doug thompson <norsk5@xmission.com> Acked-by:
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Frithiof Jensen authored
This is an attempt of providing an interface for memory scrubbing control in EDAC. This patch modifies the EDAC Core to provide the Interface for memory controller modules to implment. The following things are still outstanding: - K8 is the first implemenation, The patch provide a method of configuring the K8 hardware memory scrubber via the 'mcX' sysfs directory. There should be some fallback to a generic scrubber implemented in software if the hardware does not support scrubbing. Or .. the scrubbing sysfs entry should not be visible at all. - Only works with SDRAM, not cache, The K8 can scrub cache and l2cache also - but I think this is not so useful as the cache is busy all the time (one hopes). One would also expect that cache scrubbing requires hardware support. - Error Handling, I would like that errors are returned to the user in "terms of file system". - Presentation, I chose Bandwidth in Bytes/Second as a representation of the scrubbing rate for the following reasons: I like that the sysfs entries are sort-of textual, related to something that makes sense instead of magical values that must be looked up. "My People" wants "% main memory scrubbed per hour" others prefer "% memory bandwidth used" as representation, "bandwith used" makes it easy to calculate both versions in one-liner scripts. If one later wants to scrub cache, the scaling becomes wierd for K8 changing from "blocks of 64 byte memory" to "blocks of 64 cache lines" to "blocks of 64 bit". Using "bandwidth used" makes sense in all three cases, (I.M.O. anyway ;-). - Discovery, There is no way to discover the possible settings and what they do without reading the code and the documentation. *I* do not know how to make that work in a practical way. - Bugs(??), other tools can set invalid values in the memory scrub control register, those will read back as '-1', requiring the user to reset the scrub rate. This is how *I* think it should be. - Afflicting other areas of code, I made changes to edac_mc.c and edac_mc.h which will show up globally - this is not nice, it would be better that the memory scrubbing fuctionality and interface could be entirely contained within the memory controller it applies to. Frithiof Jensen edac_mc.c and its .h file is a CORE helper module for EDAC driver modules. This provides the abstraction for device specific drivers. It is fine to modify this CORE to provide help for new features of the the drivers doug thompson Signed-off-by:
Frithiof Jensen <frithiof.jensen@ericson.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mike Chan authored
This fix/change returns the offset into the page for the ce/ue error, instead of just 0. The e752x dram controller reads 34:6 of the linear address with the error. Signed-off-by:
Mike Chan <mikechan@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Brian Pomerantz authored
The reading of the DRA registers should be a byte at a time (one register at a time) instead of 4 bytes at a time (four registers). Reading a dword at a time retrieves erroneous information from all but the first register. A change was made to read in each register in a loop prior to using the data in those registers. Signed-off-by:
Brian Pomerantz <bapper@mvista.com> Signed-off-by:
Dave Jiang <djiang@mvista.com> Signed-off-by:
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Brian Pomerantz authored
The fatal vs. non-fatal mask for the sysbus FERR status is incorrect according to the E7520 datasheet. This patch corrects the mask to correctly handle fatal and non-fatal errors. Signed-off-by:
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