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  1. 31 Jul, 2007 2 commits
  2. 19 Jul, 2007 2 commits
    • Nick Piggin's avatar
      mm: fault feedback #1 · d0217ac0
      Nick Piggin authored
      Change ->fault prototype.  We now return an int, which contains
      VM_FAULT_xxx code in the low byte, and FAULT_RET_xxx code in the next byte.
       FAULT_RET_ code tells the VM whether a page was found, whether it has been
      locked, and potentially other things.  This is not quite the way he wanted
      it yet, but that's changed in the next patch (which requires changes to
      arch code).
      
      This means we no longer set VM_CAN_INVALIDATE in the vma in order to say
      that a page is locked which requires filemap_nopage to go away (because we
      can no longer remain backward compatible without that flag), but we were
      going to do that anyway.
      
      struct fault_data is renamed to struct vm_fault as Linus asked. address
      is now a void __user * that we should firmly encourage drivers not to use
      without really good reason.
      
      The page is now returned via a page pointer in the vm_fault struct.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d0217ac0
    • Nick Piggin's avatar
      mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear) · 54cb8821
      Nick Piggin authored
      Nonlinear mappings are (AFAIKS) simply a virtual memory concept that encodes
      the virtual address -> file offset differently from linear mappings.
      
      ->populate is a layering violation because the filesystem/pagecache code
      should need to know anything about the virtual memory mapping.  The hitch here
      is that the ->nopage handler didn't pass down enough information (ie.  pgoff).
       But it is more logical to pass pgoff rather than have the ->nopage function
      calculate it itself anyway (because that's a similar layering violation).
      
      Having the populate handler install the pte itself is likewise a nasty thing
      to be doing.
      
      This patch introduces a new fault handler that replaces ->nopage and
      ->populate and (later) ->nopfn.  Most of the old mechanism is still in place
      so there is a lot of duplication and nice cleanups that can be removed if
      everyone switches over.
      
      The rationale for doing this in the first place is that nonlinear mappings are
      subject to the pagefault vs invalidate/truncate race too, and it seemed stupid
      to duplicate the synchronisation logic rather than just consolidate the two.
      
      After this patch, MAP_NONBLOCK no longer sets up ptes for pages present in
      pagecache.  Seems like a fringe functionality anyway.
      
      NOPAGE_REFAULT is removed.  This should be implemented with ->fault, and no
      users have hit mainline yet.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
      [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: doc. fixes for readahead]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
      Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      54cb8821
  3. 16 Jul, 2007 1 commit
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  5. 02 Mar, 2007 1 commit
    • Adam Litke's avatar
      [PATCH] Fix get_unmapped_area and fsync for hugetlb shm segments · 516dffdc
      Adam Litke authored
      This patch provides the following hugetlb-related fixes to the recent stacked
      shm files changes:
       - Update is_file_hugepages() so it will reconize hugetlb shm segments.
       - get_unmapped_area must be called with the nested file struct to handle
         the sfd->file->f_ops->get_unmapped_area == NULL case.
       - The fsync f_op must be wrapped since it is specified in the hugetlbfs
         f_ops.
      
      This is based on proposed fixes from Eric Biederman that were debugged and
      tested by me.  Without it, attempting to use hugetlb shared memory segments
      on powerpc (and likely ia64) will kill your box.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarWilliam Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      516dffdc
  6. 01 Mar, 2007 1 commit
  7. 21 Feb, 2007 1 commit
    • Eric W. Biederman's avatar
      [PATCH] shm: make sysv ipc shared memory use stacked files · bc56bba8
      Eric W. Biederman authored
      The current ipc shared memory code runs into several problems because it
      does not quite use files like the rest of the kernel.  With the option of
      backing ipc shared memory with either hugetlbfs or ordinary shared memory
      the problems got worse.  With the added support for ipc namespaces things
      behaved so unexpected that we now have several bad namespace reference
      counting bugs when using what appears at first glance to be a reasonable
      idiom.
      
      So to attack these problems and hopefully make the code more maintainable
      this patch simply uses the files provided by other parts of the kernel and
      builds it's own files out of them.  The shm files are allocated in do_shmat
      and freed when their reference count drops to zero with their last unmap.
      The file and vm operations that we don't want to implement or we don't
      implement completely we just delegate to the operations of our backing
      file.
      
      This means that we now get an accurate shm_nattch count for we have a
      hugetlbfs inode for backing store, and the shm accounting of last attach
      and last detach time work as well.
      
      This means that getting a reference to the ipc namespace when we create the
      file and dropping the referenece in the release method is now safe and
      correct.
      
      This means we no longer need a special case for clearing VM_MAYWRITE
      as our file descriptor now only has write permissions when we have
      requested write access when calling shmat.  Although VM_SHARED is now
      cleared as well which I believe is harmless and is mostly likely a
      minor bug fix.
      
      By using the same set of operations for both the hugetlb case and regular
      shared memory case shmdt is not simplified and made slightly more correct
      as now the test "vma->vm_ops == &shm_vm_ops" is 100% accurate in spotting
      all shared memory regions generated from sysvipc shared memory.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      bc56bba8
  8. 12 Feb, 2007 1 commit
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  11. 03 Nov, 2006 1 commit
    • Pavel Emelianov's avatar
      [PATCH] Fix ipc entries removal · c7e12b83
      Pavel Emelianov authored
      Fix two issuses related to ipc_ids->entries freeing.
      
      1. When freeing ipc namespace we need to free entries allocated
         with ipc_init_ids().
      
      2. When removing old entries in grow_ary() ipc_rcu_putref()
         may be called on entries set to &ids->nullentry earlier in
         ipc_init_ids().
         This is almost impossible without namespaces, but with
         them this situation becomes possible.
      
      Found during OpenVZ testing after obvious leaks in beancounters.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
      Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      c7e12b83
  12. 02 Oct, 2006 1 commit
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  15. 20 Jun, 2006 1 commit
    • Linda Knippers's avatar
      [PATCH] update of IPC audit record cleanup · ac03221a
      Linda Knippers authored
      The following patch addresses most of the issues with the IPC_SET_PERM
      records as described in:
      https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2006-May/msg00010.html
      and addresses the comments I received on the record field names.
      
      To summarize, I made the following changes:
      
      1. Changed sys_msgctl() and semctl_down() so that an IPC_SET_PERM
         record is emitted in the failure case as well as the success case.
         This matches the behavior in sys_shmctl().  I could simplify the
         code in sys_msgctl() and semctl_down() slightly but it would mean
         that in some error cases we could get an IPC_SET_PERM record
         without an IPC record and that seemed odd.
      
      2. No change to the IPC record type, given no feedback on the backward
         compatibility question.
      
      3. Removed the qbytes field from the IPC record.  It wasn't being
         set and when audit_ipc_obj() is called from ipcperms(), the
         information isn't available.  If we want the information in the IPC
         record, more extensive changes will be necessary.  Since it only
         applies to message queues and it isn't really permission related, it
         doesn't seem worth it.
      
      4. Removed the obj field from the IPC_SET_PERM record.  This means that
         the kern_ipc_perm argument is no longer needed.
      
      5. Removed the spaces and renamed the IPC_SET_PERM field names.  Replaced iuid and
         igid fields with ouid and ogid in the IPC record.
      
      I tested this with the lspp.22 kernel on an x86_64 box.  I believe it
      applies cleanly on the latest kernel.
      
      -- ljk
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinda Knippers <linda.knippers@hp.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      ac03221a
  16. 01 May, 2006 1 commit
    • Steve Grubb's avatar
      [PATCH] Rework of IPC auditing · 073115d6
      Steve Grubb authored
      1) The audit_ipc_perms() function has been split into two different
      functions:
              - audit_ipc_obj()
              - audit_ipc_set_perm()
      
      There's a key shift here...  The audit_ipc_obj() collects the uid, gid,
      mode, and SElinux context label of the current ipc object.  This
      audit_ipc_obj() hook is now found in several places.  Most notably, it
      is hooked in ipcperms(), which is called in various places around the
      ipc code permforming a MAC check.  Additionally there are several places
      where *checkid() is used to validate that an operation is being
      performed on a valid object while not necessarily having a nearby
      ipcperms() call.  In these locations, audit_ipc_obj() is called to
      ensure that the information is captured by the audit system.
      
      The audit_set_new_perm() function is called any time the permissions on
      the ipc object changes.  In this case, the NEW permissions are recorded
      (and note that an audit_ipc_obj() call exists just a few lines before
      each instance).
      
      2) Support for an AUDIT_IPC_SET_PERM audit message type.  This allows
      for separate auxiliary audit records for normal operations on an IPC
      object and permissions changes.  Note that the same struct
      audit_aux_data_ipcctl is used and populated, however there are separate
      audit_log_format statements based on the type of the message.  Finally,
      the AUDIT_IPC block of code in audit_free_aux() was extended to handle
      aux messages of this new type.  No more mem leaks I hope ;-)
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      073115d6
  17. 17 Apr, 2006 1 commit
    • Hugh Dickins's avatar
      [PATCH] shmat: stop mprotect from giving write permission to a readonly attachment (CVE-2006-1524) · b78b6af6
      Hugh Dickins authored
      I found that all of 2.4 and 2.6 have been letting mprotect give write
      permission to a readonly attachment of shared memory, whether or not IPC
      would give the caller that permission.
      
      SUS says "The behaviour of this function [mprotect] is unspecified if the
      mapping was not established by a call to mmap", but I don't think we can
      interpret that as allowing it to subvert IPC permissions.
      
      I haven't tried 2.2, but the 2.2.26 source looks like it gets it right; and
      the patch below reproduces that behaviour - mprotect cannot be used to add
      write permission to a shared memory segment attached readonly.
      
      This patch is simple, and I'm sure it's what we should have done in 2.4.0:
      if you want to go on to switch write permission on and off with mprotect,
      just don't attach the segment readonly in the first place.
      
      However, we could have accumulated apps which attach readonly (even though
      they would be permitted to attach read/write), and which subsequently use
      mprotect to switch write permission on and off: it's not unreasonable.
      
      I was going to add a second ipcperms check in do_shmat, to check for
      writable when readonly, and if not writable find_vma and clear VM_MAYWRITE.
       But security_ipc_permission might do auditing, and it seems wrong to
      report an attempt for write permission when there has been none.  Or we
      could flag the vma as SHM, note the shmid or shp in vm_private_data, and
      then get mprotect to check.
      
      But the patch below is a lot simpler: I'd rather stick with it, if we can
      convince ourselves somehow that it'll be safe.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      b78b6af6
  18. 02 Apr, 2006 1 commit
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  20. 24 Mar, 2006 1 commit
    • Hugh Dickins's avatar
      [PATCH] shmdt: check address alignment · df1e2fb5
      Hugh Dickins authored
      SUSv3 says the shmdt() function shall fail with EINVAL if the value of
      shmaddr is not the data segment start address of a shared memory segment:
      our sys_shmdt needs to reject a shmaddr which is not page-aligned.
      
      Does it have the potential to break existing apps?
      
      Hugh says
      
        "sys_shmdt() just does the wrong (unexpected) thing with a misaligned
        address: it'll fail on what you might expect it to succeed on, and only
        succeed on what it should definitely fail on.
      
        "That is, I think it behaves as if shmaddr gets rounded up, when the only
        understandable behaviour would be if it rounded it down.
      
        "Which does mean you'd have to be devious to see anything but EINVAL from
        a misaligned shmaddr there, so it's not terribly important."
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      df1e2fb5
  21. 20 Mar, 2006 1 commit
    • Dustin Kirkland's avatar
      [PATCH] Capture selinux subject/object context information. · 8c8570fb
      Dustin Kirkland authored
      This patch extends existing audit records with subject/object context
      information. Audit records associated with filesystem inodes, ipc, and
      tasks now contain SELinux label information in the field "subj" if the
      item is performing the action, or in "obj" if the item is the receiver
      of an action.
      
      These labels are collected via hooks in SELinux and appended to the
      appropriate record in the audit code.
      
      This additional information is required for Common Criteria Labeled
      Security Protection Profile (LSPP).
      
      [AV: fixed kmalloc flags use]
      [folded leak fixes]
      [folded cleanup from akpm (kfree(NULL)]
      [folded audit_inode_context() leak fix]
      [folded akpm's fix for audit_ipc_perm() definition in case of !CONFIG_AUDIT]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      8c8570fb
  22. 10 Feb, 2006 1 commit
  23. 12 Jan, 2006 1 commit
  24. 09 Jan, 2006 1 commit
  25. 06 Jan, 2006 1 commit
    • David Howells's avatar
      [PATCH] NOMMU: Make SYSV IPC SHM use ramfs facilities on NOMMU · b0e15190
      David Howells authored
      The attached patch makes the SYSV IPC shared memory facilities use the new
      ramfs facilities on a no-MMU kernel.
      
      The following changes are made:
      
       (1) There are now shmem_mmap() and shmem_get_unmapped_area() functions to
           allow the IPC SHM facilities to commune with the tiny-shmem and shmem
           code.
      
       (2) ramfs files now need resizing using do_truncate() rather than by modifying
           the inode size directly (see shmem_file_setup()). This causes ramfs to
           attempt to bind a block of pages of sufficient size to the inode.
      
       (3) CONFIG_SYSVIPC is no longer contingent on CONFIG_MMU.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      b0e15190
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4