- 04 Jan, 2005 40 commits
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Greg Banks authored
oprofile s390 arch updates, including some internal API changes. Signed-off-by:
John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> Signed-off-by:
Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Greg Banks authored
oprofile parisc arch updates, including some internal API changes. Signed-off-by:
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Greg Banks authored
oprofile ppc64 arch updates, including some internal API changes. Signed-off-by:
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Greg Banks authored
oprofile arm arch updates, including some internal API changes. Signed-off-by:
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Greg Banks authored
oprofile alpha arch updates, including some internal API changes. Signed-off-by:
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Greg Banks authored
oprofile ia64 arch updates, including some internal API changes and support for stack trace sampling. Signed-off-by:
Keith Owens <kaos@melbourne.sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Greg Banks authored
oprofile i386 arch updates, including some internal API changes and support for stack trace sampling. (akpm: I added a nasty hack to fix the x86_64 build. However the feature is untested on x86_64 and probably doesn't work yet). Signed-off-by:
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Greg Banks authored
Allow stack tracing to work when sampling on timer is forced using the timer=1 boot option. Reported by Akinobu Mita. Signed-off-by:
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Greg Banks authored
oprofile arch-independent updates, including some internal API changes and support for stack trace sampling. Signed-off-by:
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Greg Banks authored
Add check_user_page_readable() for kernel modules which need to follow user space addresses but can't use get_user(). Signed-off-by:
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Stephen D. Smalley authored
This patch rewrites the SELinux next_entry() function and all callers to copy entry data from the binary policy into properly aligned buffers, eliminating unaligned accesses. This patch is in response to a bug report from Prarit Bhargava for SELinux and ia64, and he has confirmed that this patch eliminates the unaligned access warnings. Signed-off-by:
Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil> Signed-off-by:
James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Stephen D. Smalley authored
This patch adds a member node to selinuxfs to export the security_member_sid interface to userspace for obtaining security polyinstantiation decisions. Signed-off-by:
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Stephen D. Smalley authored
This patch adds new permission checks to the SELinux mmap and mprotect hooks to enable control over the ability to make executable a mapping that can contain data not covered by the existing file-based permission checks. The task->self execmem permission controls the ability to create an executable anonymous mapping or a writable executable private file mapping. The task->file execmod permission controls the ability to make executable a previously written private file mapping, e.g. for text relocations. Thanks to Roland McGrath for input and feedback on earlier versions of this patch. Signed-off-by:
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Stephen D. Smalley authored
This patch for adds dynamic context transition support to SELinux via writes to the existing /proc/pid/attr/current interface. Previously, SELinux only supported exec-based context transitions. This functionality allows privileged applications to apply privilege bracketing without necessarily being refactored to an exec-based model (although such a model has advantages in least privilege and isolation). A process must have setcurrent permission to use this mechanism at all, and the dyntransition permission must be granted between the old and new security contexts. Multi-threaded processes are not allowed to use this operation, as it will yield an inconsistency among the security contexts of the threads sharing the same mm. Ptrace permission is revalidated against the new context if the process is being ptraced. Author: Darrel Goeddel <dgoeddel@trustedcs.com> Signed-off-by:
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Stephen D. Smalley authored
This patch ensures that the comm is included in the audit message if avc_audit is unable to determine the exe due to the mmap_sem being held. This is helpful in tracking down the causes of permission denials that occur in the mmap/mprotect hooks. Signed-off-by:
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Stephen D. Smalley authored
This patch updates the selinux_task_setscheduler hook function to use the standard helper for task permission checks since it is now safe to audit from this hook (due to the upstream change to setscheduler() to not hold the runqueue lock during the security hook call). Signed-off-by:
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Stephen D. Smalley authored
This patch regenerates the SELinux module headers to use a new format and updates their use by the AVC. Signed-off-by:
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James Morris authored
This patch adds an selinuxfs based API to the AVC, to allow monitoring of the cache, and tuning of the cache size. The latter is mediated via the new setsecparam permission. AVC statistics may be monitored via the avcstat utility: http://people.redhat.com/jmorris/selinux/perf/avcstat.cSigned-off-by:
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James Morris authored
Atomic underflow debugging in this kernel exposed a bug in the AVC RCU code, fix below. The effect of this bug would be delayed node reclamation. Signed-off-by:
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James Morris authored
The following patch improves the scalability of SELinux by replacing the global avc_lock with an RCU based scheme by Kaigai Kohei. The size of the cache is made tunable, to allow administrators to tune systems for different workloads, while statistics are exported via selinuxfs to allow AVC performance to be monitored at a low level. AVC nodes are also allocated now via a slab cache, and AVC references have been removed from the code. This code has been extensively tested and benchmarked (see benchmark results below). Baseline performance is not improved, although it is clear that dramatic scalability improvements are achieved. Baseline performance and networking scalability are areas where work is ongoing (in particular, we need to add caching of some network security objects so that we don't fallback to policy database lookups on each permission call). Benchmark results: =============================================================================================== System: 4 node 16-way IA64 NUMA - 'Stream' is based on http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/ , HPC memory bandwidth test, higher result is better. - Hackbench: scheduler scalability benchmark by Rusty, lower is better. Standard kernel: 2.6.9-1.648_EL SELINUX=0 : Stream 6159.987MB/s HackBench 53.144 2.6.9-1.648_EL SELINUX=1 : Stream 5872.529MB/s HackBench 1043.132 Kernel with RCU/AVC patches: 2.6.9-1.689_avcrcu.root SELINUX=0 : Stream 8829.647MB/s HackBench 53.976 2.6.9-1.689_avcrcu.root SELINUX=1 : Stream 8817.117MB/s HackBench 50.975 =============================================================================================== System: 8-way PIII 900Mhz Xeon with 9GB RAM Fileystem: ext2 for all testing. Notes: AVC was reset before tests, so avc was flushed. System was run in enforcing mode. Key: std-nolsm: standard kernel with LSM disabled std-lsmcap: standard kernel with LSM enabled, capabilities LSM std-sel-strict: standard kernel with SELinux enabled, capabilities secondary LSM rcu-sel-strict: as above with RCU & AVC stats patches
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James Morris authored
This patch from Kaigai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> adds irq and irqsave trylock spinlock variants for use by the SELinux AVC RCU patch. Signed-off-by:
Kaigai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
__exit_mm() is an inlined version of exit_mm(). This patch unifies them. Saves 356 byte in exit.o. Signed-off-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
I just did a quick audit of the use of exit_state and the EXIT_* bit macros. I guess I didn't really review these changes very closely when you did them originally. :-( I found several places that seem like lossy cases of query-replace without enough thought about the code. Linus has previously said the >= tests ought to be & tests instead. But for exit_state, it can only ever be 0, EXIT_DEAD, or EXIT_ZOMBIE--so a nonzero test is actually the same as testing & (EXIT_DEAD|EXIT_ZOMBIE), and maybe its code is a tiny bit better. The case like in choose_new_parent is just confusing, to have the always-false test for EXIT_* bits in ->state there too. The two cases in wants_signal and do_process_times are actual regressions that will give us back old bugs in race conditions. These places had s/TASK/EXIT/ but not s/state/exit_state/, and now there tests for exiting tasks are now wrong and never catching them. I take it back: there is no regression in wants_signal in practice I think, because of the PF_EXITING test that makes the EXIT_* state checks superfluous anyway. So that is just another cosmetic case of confusing code. But in do_process_times, there is that SIGXCPU-while-exiting race condition back again. Signed-off-by:
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
There is really no point in each task_struct having its own waitchld_exit. In the only use of it, the waitchld_exit of each thread in a group gets woken up at the same time. So, there might as well just be one wait queue for the whole thread group. This patch does that by moving the field from task_struct to signal_struct. It should have no effect on the behavior, but saves a little work and a little storage in the multithreaded case. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
There is a BUG_ON in ptrace_stop that hits if the thread is not ptraced. However, there is no synchronization between a thread deciding to do a ptrace stop and so going here, and its ptracer dying and so detaching from it and clearing its ->ptrace field. The RHEL3 2.4-based kernel has a backport of a slightly older version of the 2.6 signals code, which has a different but equivalent BUG_ON. This actually bit users in practice (when the debugger dies), but was exceedingly difficult to reproduce in contrived circumstances. We moved forward in RHEL3 just by removing the BUG_ON, and that fixed the real user problems even though I was never able to reproduce the scenario myself. So, to my knowledge this scenario has never actually been seen in practice under 2.6. But it's plain to see from the code that it is indeed possible. This patch removes that BUG_ON, but also goes further and tries to handle this case more gracefully than simply avoiding the crash. By removing the BUG_ON alone, it becomes possible for the real parent of a process to see spurious SIGCHLD notifications intended for the debugger that has just died, and have its child wind up stopped unexpectedly. This patch avoids that possibility by detecting the case when we are about to do the ptrace stop but our ptracer has gone away, and simply eliding that ptrace stop altogether as if we hadn't been ptraced when we hit the interesting event (signal or ptrace_notify call for syscall tracing or something like that). Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
After my last change, there are plenty of unused bits available in the new flags word in signal_struct. This patch moves the `group_exit' flag into one of those bits, saving a word in signal_struct. Signed-off-by:
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Roland McGrath authored
The `sig_avoid_stop_race' checks fail to catch a related race scenario that can happen. I don't think this has been seen in nature, but it could happen in the same sorts of situations where the observed problems come up that those checks work around. This patch takes a different approach to catching this race condition. The new approach plugs the hole, and I think is also cleaner. The issue is a race between one CPU processing a stop signal while another CPU processes a SIGCONT or SIGKILL. There is a window in stop-signal processing where the siglock must be released. If a SIGCONT or SIGKILL comes along here on another CPU, then the stop signal in the midst of being processed needs to be discarded rather than having the stop take place after the SIGCONT or SIGKILL has been generated. The existing workaround checks for this case explicitly by looking for a pending SIGCONT or SIGKILL after reacquiring the lock. However, there is another problem related to the same race issue. In the window where the processing of the stop signal has released the siglock, the stop signal is not represented in the pending set any more, but it is still "pending" and not "delivered" in POSIX terms. The SIGCONT coming in this window is required to clear all pending stop signals. But, if a stop signal has been dequeued but not yet processed, the SIGCONT generation will fail to clear it (in handle_stop_signal). Likewise, a SIGKILL coming here should prevent the stop processing and make the thread die immediately instead. The `sig_avoid_stop_race' code checks for this by examining the pending set to see if SIGCONT or SIGKILL is in it. But this fails to handle the case where another CPU running another thread in the same process has already dequeued the signal (so it no longer can be found in the pending set). We must catch this as well, so that the same problems do not arise when another thread on another CPU acted real fast. I've fixed this dumping the `sig_avoid_stop_race' kludge in favor of a little explicit bookkeeping. Now, dequeuing any stop signal sets a flag saying that a pending stop signal has been taken on by some CPU since the last time all pending stop signals were cleared due to SIGCONT/SIGKILL. The processing of stop signals checks the flag after the window where it released the lock, and abandons the signal the flag has been cleared. The code that clears pending stop signals on SIGCONT generation also clears this flag. The various places that are trying to ensure the process dies quickly (SIGKILL or other unhandled signals) also clear the flag. I've made this a general flags word in signal_struct, and replaced the stop_state field with flag bits in this word. Signed-off-by:
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Coywolf Qi Hunt authored
Peter Chubb recently split out a standalone sys_ni.c file for the not implemented syscalls. This patch removes the redundant sys_delete_module() in module.c. Signed-off-by:
Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
cpu_idle() is referenced from generic code (init/main.c). It is declared/defined in init/main.c: void cpu_idle(void) i386/kernel/process.c void cpu_idle(void) i386/kernel/smpboot.c: int cpu_idle(void) i386/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c: int cpu_idle(void) ppc/kernel/idle.c: int cpu_idle(void) ppc/kernel/smp.c: int cpu_idle(void *unused) ppc64/kernel/idle.c: int cpu_idle(void) ppc64/kernel/smp.c: int cpu_idle(void *unused) sparc/kernel/process.c: int cpu_idle(void) sparc64/kernel/process.c: int cpu_idle(void) sh/kernel/process.c: void cpu_idle(void *unused) sh/kernel/smp.c: int cpu_idle(void *unused) ia64/kernel/smpboot.c: int cpu_idle(void) ia64/kernel/process.c: void cpu_idle(void *unused) sh64/kernel/process.c: void cpu_idle(void *unused) s390/kernel/process.c: int cpu_idle(void) s390/kernel/smp.c: int cpu_idle(void * unused) m32r/kernel/process.c: void cpu_idle(void) m32r/kernel/smpboot.c int cpu_idle(void) Other arches beleive that cpu_idle is void(void). This patch puts 'void cpu_idle(void)' in include/linux/smp.h and fixes conflicting definitions. Also removes now unneeded declarations in x86_64, alpha, parisc. Only i386 part is tested. Signed-off-by:
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James Nelson authored
This patch addresses the following issues: - Fix log-spamming and cryptic error messages, and add KERN_ constants. - Convert some ints to unsigned ints. - Add checks for CAP_SYS_ADMIN for FLASH_Burn and FLASH_Erase ioctls. - Identify use of global variable. - Fix memory leak in FLASH_Burn ioctl. - Fix error return codes in lcd_ioctl(). - Move variable "index" in lcd_ioctl() to smaller scope to reduce memory usage. - Convert cli()/sti() to spin_lock_irqsave()/spin_unlock_irqrestore(). Fix legibility issues in FLASH_Burn ioctl. Signed-off-by:
James Nelson <james4765@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Werner Almesberger authored
Last but not least, move the general prio_tree code from mm/ to lib/. This patch also duplicates some macros, which are used in the VMA code for debugging purposes, so we can't properly separate them yet. Note that this patch conflicts with a patch in 2.6.10-rc3-mm1 (frv-better-mmap-support-in-uclinux.patch), which removes mm/prio_tree in systems without an MMU. Not making that other patch provide a dummy for prio_tree_init should resolve the conflict. (That's just from reading the patch - I haven't actually tried this.) Signed-off-by:
Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net> Signed-off-by:
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Werner Almesberger authored
Export prio_tree functions such that they can be used by other subsystems than only VMAs. Also adds a mode to prio_tree to use it with keys explicitly included in the prio_tree meta-data. The plan is to also consider converting VMAs to use explicit keys, so that the old "raw" mode can be removed. Signed-off-by:
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Werner Almesberger authored
Allow prio_tree_next to be used as the only function for tree traversal, similar to how vma_prio_tree_next works. This patch isn't needed for the generalization, but since it affects the API, it's better to include it first. Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
Pass the "we are doing synchronous writes" hint down from msync(). Signed-off-by:
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Zou Nanhai authored
- Merge sys32_rt_sigtimedwait function in X86_64, IA64, PPC64, MIPS, SPARC64, S390 32 bit layer into 1 compat_rt_sigtimedwait function. It will also fix a bug of copy wrong information to 32 bit userspace siginfo structure on X86_64, IA64 and SPARC64 when calling sigtimedwait on 32 bit layer. - Change all name the of siginfo_t32 structure in X86_64, IA64, MIPS, SPARC64 and S390 to the name compat_siginfo_t as used in PPC64. - Patch introduced a macro __COMPAT_ENDIAN_SWAP__ in include/asm-mips/compat.h when MIPS kernel is compiled in little-endian mode. This macro is used to do byte swapping in function sigset_from_compat. - This patch is only tested on X86_64 and IA_64. Signed-off-by:
Zou Nan hai <Nanhai.zou@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
ext3_put_inode has been removed a while ago. Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
UDF discards file preallocations on every ->put_inode which is totally bogus. It already discards them in ->release which makes sense for normal writes, so the only additional discard is in ->clear_inode so we make sure we don't leak any reservations for shared writeable mappings. This follows similar changes to ext2 and ext3. Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
udf_iget calls __udf_read_inode after the inode has been unlocked and other threads could access it. Switching to iget_locked() fixes this race and nicely simplifies the code. Signed-off-by:
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Zwane Mwaikambo authored
Introduce cpu_idle_wait() on architectures requiring modification of pm_idle from modules, this will ensure that all processors have updated their cached values of pm_idle upon exit. This patch is to address the bug report at http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1716 and replaces the current code fix which is in violation of normal RCU usage as pointed out by Stephen, Dipankar and Paul. Signed-off-by:
Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Chris Mason authored
When a block device is accessed via read/write, it is possible for some of the buffers on a page to be mapped and others not. __getblk and friends assume this can't happen, and can end up looping forever when pages have some unmapped buffers. Picture: lseek(/dev/xxx, 2048, SEEK_SET) write(/dev/xxx, 2048 bytes) Assuming the block size is 1k, page 0 has 4 buffers, two are mapped by __block_prepare_write and two are not. Next, another process triggers getblk(/dev/xxx, blocknr = 0); __getblk_slow will loop forever. __find_get_block fails because the buffer isn't mapped. grow_dev_page does nothing because there are buffers on the page with the correct size. madhav@veritas.com and others at Veritas tracked this down. The fix below has two parts. First, it changes __find_get_block to avoid the buffer_error warnings when it finds unmapped buffers on the page. Second, it changes grow_dev_page to map the buffers on the page by calling init_page_buffers. init_page_buffers is changed so we don't stomp on uptodate bits for the buffers. Signed-off-by:
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