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Thomas Gleixner
583323b9d2 x86: fix cpu hotplug on 32bit
commit 3e9704739d ("x86: boot secondary
cpus through initial_code") causes the kernel to crash when a CPU is
brought online after the read only sections have been write
protected. The write to initial_code in do_boot_cpu() fails.

Move inital_code to .cpuinit.data section.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-07-27 21:43:11 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
8be1a6d6c7 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
  mlx4: Update/add Mellanox Technologies copyright lines to mlx4 driver files
  mlx4_core: Add VLAN tag field to WQE control segment struct
  RDMA/nes: CM connection setup/teardown rework
  IPoIB: Correct help text for INFINIBAND_IPOIB_DEBUG
  IPoIB/cm: Connected mode is no longer EXPERIMENTAL
  RDMA/ucm: BKL is not needed for ib_ucm_open()
  RDMA/ucma: BKL is not needed for ucma_open()
2008-07-26 20:40:36 -07:00
Oliver Neukum
852fef69c0 fix for a memory leak in an error case introduced by fix for double free
The fix NULLed a pointer without freeing it.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Reported-by: Juha Motorsportcom <juha_motorsportcom@luukku.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 20:40:09 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9ee08c2df4 Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (57 commits)
  [MTD] [NAND] subpage read feature as a way to increase performance. 
  CPUFREQ: S3C24XX NAND driver frequency scaling support.
  [MTD][NAND] au1550nd: remove unused variable
  [MTD] jedec_probe: Fix SST 16-bit chip detection
  [MTD][MTDPART] Fix a division by zero bug
  [MTD][MTDPART] Cleanup and document the erase region handling
  [MTD][MTDPART] Handle most checkpatch findings
  [MTD][MTDPART] Seperate main loop from per-partition code in add_mtd_partition
  [MTD] physmap: resume already suspended chips on failure to suspend
  [MTD] physmap: Fix suspend/resume/shutdown bugs.
  [MTD] [NOR] Fix -ETIMEO errors in CFI driver
  [MTD] [NAND] fsl_elbc_nand: fix section mismatch with CONFIG_MTD_OF_PARTS=y
  [JFFS2] Use .unlocked_ioctl
  [MTD] Fix const assignment in the MTD command line partitioning driver
  [MTD] [NOR] gen_probe: No debug message when debugging is disabled
  [MTD] [NAND] remove __PPC__ hardcoded address from DiskOnChip drivers
  [MTD] [MAPS] Remove the bast-flash driver.
  [MTD] [NAND] fsl_elbc_nand: ecclayout cleanups
  [MTD] [NAND] fsl_elbc_nand: implement support for flash-based BBT
  [MTD] [NAND] fsl_elbc_nand: fix OOB workability for large page NAND chips
  ...
2008-07-26 20:30:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
eaf0ba5ef6 Merge branch 'tracehook' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-utrace
* 'tracehook' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-utrace:
  tracehook: comment fixes
2008-07-26 20:29:39 -07:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
732730d48d m68k: gs: use tty_port fixes
commit b5391e29f4 ("gs: use tty_port")
forgot to update the m68k gs serial drivers.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 20:29:03 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
bdee6ac7d1 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc:
  atmel-mci: debugfs support
  mmc: Add per-card debugfs support
  mmc: Export internal host state through debugfs
  imxmmc: fix crash when no platform data is provided
  imxmmc: fix platform resources
  imxmmc: remove DEBUG definition
  mmc_spi: put signals to low power off fix
2008-07-26 20:27:31 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4836e30078 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (39 commits)
  [PATCH] fix RLIM_NOFILE handling
  [PATCH] get rid of corner case in dup3() entirely
  [PATCH] remove remaining namei_{32,64}.h crap
  [PATCH] get rid of indirect users of namei.h
  [PATCH] get rid of __user_path_lookup_open
  [PATCH] f_count may wrap around
  [PATCH] dup3 fix
  [PATCH] don't pass nameidata to __ncp_lookup_validate()
  [PATCH] don't pass nameidata to gfs2_lookupi()
  [PATCH] new (local) helper: user_path_parent()
  [PATCH] sanitize __user_walk_fd() et.al.
  [PATCH] preparation to __user_walk_fd cleanup
  [PATCH] kill nameidata passing to permission(), rename to inode_permission()
  [PATCH] take noexec checks to very few callers that care
  Re: [PATCH 3/6] vfs: open_exec cleanup
  [patch 4/4] vfs: immutable inode checking cleanup
  [patch 3/4] fat: dont call notify_change
  [patch 2/4] vfs: utimes cleanup
  [patch 1/4] vfs: utimes: move owner check into inode_change_ok()
  [PATCH] vfs: use kstrdup() and check failing allocation
  ...
2008-07-26 20:23:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5c7c204aec Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kkeil/ISDN-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kkeil/ISDN-2.6:
  Add layer1 over IP support
  Add mISDN HFC multiport driver
  Add mISDN HFC PCI driver
  Add mISDN DSP
  Add mISDN core files
  Define AF_ISDN and PF_ISDN
  Add mISDN driver
2008-07-26 20:19:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2284284281 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  netns: fix ip_rt_frag_needed rt_is_expired
  netfilter: nf_conntrack_extend: avoid unnecessary "ct->ext" dereferences
  netfilter: fix double-free and use-after free
  netfilter: arptables in netns for real
  netfilter: ip{,6}tables_security: fix future section mismatch
  selinux: use nf_register_hooks()
  netfilter: ebtables: use nf_register_hooks()
  Revert "pkt_sched: sch_sfq: dump a real number of flows"
  qeth: use dev->ml_priv instead of dev->priv
  syncookies: Make sure ECN is disabled
  net: drop unused BUG_TRAP()
  net: convert BUG_TRAP to generic WARN_ON
  drivers/net: convert BUG_TRAP to generic WARN_ON
2008-07-26 20:17:56 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
78681ac08a firmware: fix memmap printk format warnings
Fix firmware/memmap printk format warnings:

  drivers/firmware/memmap.c:156: warning: format '%llx' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'resource_size_t'
  drivers/firmware/memmap.c:161: warning: format '%llx' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'resource_size_t'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 20:16:48 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
3b8f14b410 mm/util.c must #include <linux/sched.h>
mm/util.c: In function 'arch_pick_mmap_layout':
  mm/util.c:144: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
  mm/util.c:145: error: 'arch_get_unmapped_area' undeclared (first use in this function)
  mm/util.c:145: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
  mm/util.c:145: error: for each function it appears in.)
  mm/util.c:146: error: 'arch_unmap_area' undeclared (first use in this function)

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 20:16:47 -07:00
Andrea Righi
510a35d4a4 hugetlb: remove unused variable warning
Remove the following warning when CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is not set:

	ipc/shm.c: In function `shm_get_stat':
	ipc/shm.c:565: warning: unused variable `h'

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use tabs, not spaces]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 20:16:47 -07:00
Andrea Righi
b2d002dba5 task IO accounting: correctly account threads IO statistics
Oleg Nesterov points out that we should check that the task is still alive
before we iterate over the threads.  This patch includes a fixup for this.

Also simplify do_io_accounting() implementation.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 20:16:47 -07:00
Michael Buesch
6a9436d0c3 gpiolib: fix typo in comment
This fixes an off-by-one error in a comment.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 20:16:47 -07:00
Al Viro
4e1e018ecc [PATCH] fix RLIM_NOFILE handling
* dup2() should return -EBADF on exceeded sysctl_nr_open
* dup() should *not* return -EINVAL even if you have rlimit set to 0;
  it should get -EMFILE instead.

Check for orig_start exceeding rlimit taken to sys_fcntl().
Failing expand_files() in dup{2,3}() now gets -EMFILE remapped to -EBADF.
Consequently, remaining checks for rlimit are taken to expand_files().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:45 -04:00
Al Viro
6c5d0512a0 [PATCH] get rid of corner case in dup3() entirely
Since Ulrich is OK with getting rid of dup3(fd, fd, flags) completely,
to hell the damn thing goes.  Corner case for dup2() is handled in
sys_dup2() (complete with -EBADF if dup2(fd, fd) is called with fd
that is not open), the rest is done in dup3().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:44 -04:00
Al Viro
4cc38a1b38 [PATCH] remove remaining namei_{32,64}.h crap
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:43 -04:00
Al Viro
3f8206d496 [PATCH] get rid of indirect users of namei.h
fs.h needs path.h, not namei.h; nfs_fs.h doesn't need it at all.
Several places in the tree needed direct include.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:42 -04:00
Al Viro
964bd18362 [PATCH] get rid of __user_path_lookup_open
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:41 -04:00
Al Viro
516e0cc564 [PATCH] f_count may wrap around
make it atomic_long_t; while we are at it, get rid of useless checks in affs,
hfs and hpfs - ->open() always has it equal to 1, ->release() - to 0.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:40 -04:00
Ulrich Drepper
3c333937ee [PATCH] dup3 fix
Al Viro notice one cornercase that the new dup3() code.  The dup2()
function, as a special case, handles dup-ing to the same file
descriptor.  In this case the current dup3() code does nothing at
all.  I.e., it ingnores the flags parameter.  This shouldn't happen,
the close-on-exec flag should be set if requested.

In case the O_CLOEXEC bit in the flags parameter is not set the
dup3() function should behave in this respect identical to dup2().
This means dup3(fd, fd, 0) should not actively reset the c-o-e
flag.

The patch below implements this minor change.

[AV: credits to Artur Grabowski for bringing that up as potential subtle point
in dup2() behaviour]

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:39 -04:00
Al Viro
58ec42b061 [PATCH] don't pass nameidata to __ncp_lookup_validate()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:37 -04:00
Al Viro
a569c711f6 [PATCH] don't pass nameidata to gfs2_lookupi()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:36 -04:00
Al Viro
2ad94ae654 [PATCH] new (local) helper: user_path_parent()
Preparation to untangling intents mess: reduce the number of do_path_lookup()
callers.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:35 -04:00
Al Viro
2d8f30380a [PATCH] sanitize __user_walk_fd() et.al.
* do not pass nameidata; struct path is all the callers want.
* switch to new helpers:
	user_path_at(dfd, pathname, flags, &path)
	user_path(pathname, &path)
	user_lpath(pathname, &path)
	user_path_dir(pathname, &path)  (fail if not a directory)
  The last 3 are trivial macro wrappers for the first one.
* remove nameidata in callers.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:34 -04:00
Al Viro
256984a838 [PATCH] preparation to __user_walk_fd cleanup
Almost all users __user_walk_fd() and friends care only about struct path.
Get rid of the few that do not.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:32 -04:00
Al Viro
f419a2e3b6 [PATCH] kill nameidata passing to permission(), rename to inode_permission()
Incidentally, the name that gives hundreds of false positives on grep
is not a good idea...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:31 -04:00
Al Viro
30524472c2 [PATCH] take noexec checks to very few callers that care
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:30 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
e56b6a5dda Re: [PATCH 3/6] vfs: open_exec cleanup
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:01:49AM +0200, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> open_exec is needlessly indented, calls ERR_PTR with 0 argument
> (which is not valid errno) and jumps into middle of function
> just to return value.
> So clean it up a bit.

Still looks rather messy.  See below for a better version.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:29 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
beb29e058c [patch 4/4] vfs: immutable inode checking cleanup
Move the immutable and append-only checks from chmod, chown and utimes
into notify_change().  Checks for immutable and append-only files are
always performed by the VFS and not by the filesystem (see
permission() and may_...() in namei.c), so these belong in
notify_change(), and not in inode_change_ok().

This should be completely equivalent.

CC: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
CC: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:28 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
b1da47e29e [patch 3/4] fat: dont call notify_change
The FAT_IOCTL_SET_ATTRIBUTES ioctl() calls notify_change() to change
the file mode before changing the inode attributes.  Replace with
explicit calls to security_inode_setattr(), fat_setattr() and
fsnotify_change().

This is equivalent to the original.  The reason it is needed, is that
later in the series we move the immutable check into notify_change().
That would break the FAT_IOCTL_SET_ATTRIBUTES ioctl, as it needs to
perform the mode change regardless of the immutability of the file.

[Fix error if fat is built as a module.  Thanks to OGAWA Hirofumi for
noticing.]

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:27 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
e9b76fedc6 [patch 2/4] vfs: utimes cleanup
Untange the mess that is do_utimes().  Add kerneldoc comment to
do_utimes().

CC: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
CC: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:26 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
9767d74957 [patch 1/4] vfs: utimes: move owner check into inode_change_ok()
Add a new ia_valid flag: ATTR_TIMES_SET, to handle the
UTIMES_OMIT/UTIMES_NOW and UTIMES_NOW/UTIMES_OMIT cases.  In these
cases neither ATTR_MTIME_SET nor ATTR_ATIME_SET is in the flags, yet
the POSIX draft specifies that permission checking is performed the
same way as if one or both of the times was explicitly set to a
timestamp.

See the path "vfs: utimensat(): fix error checking for
{UTIME_NOW,UTIME_OMIT} case" by Michael Kerrisk for the patch
introducing this behavior.

This is a cleanup, as well as allowing filesystems (NFS/fuse/...) to
perform their own permission checking instead of the default.

CC: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
CC: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:25 -04:00
Li Zefan
88b387824f [PATCH] vfs: use kstrdup() and check failing allocation
- use kstrdup() instead of kmalloc() + memcpy()
- return NULL if allocating ->mnt_devname failed
- mnt_devname should be const

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:24 -04:00
Al Viro
672b16b2f6 [PATCH] more nameidata removal: exec_permission_lite() doesn't need it
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:23 -04:00
Al Viro
b77b0646ef [PATCH] pass MAY_OPEN to vfs_permission() explicitly
... and get rid of the last "let's deduce mask from nameidata->flags"
bit.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:22 -04:00
Al Viro
a110343f0d [PATCH] fix MAY_CHDIR/MAY_ACCESS/LOOKUP_ACCESS mess
* MAY_CHDIR is redundant - it's an equivalent of MAY_ACCESS
* MAY_ACCESS on fuse should affect only the last step of pathname resolution
* fchdir() and chroot() should pass MAY_ACCESS, for the same reason why
  chdir() needs that.
* now that we pass MAY_ACCESS explicitly in all cases, LOOKUP_ACCESS can be
  removed; it has no business being in nameidata.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:21 -04:00
Al Viro
7f2da1e7d0 [PATCH] kill altroot
long overdue...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:20 -04:00
Al Viro
8bb79224b8 [PATCH] permission checks for chdir need special treatment only on the last step
... so we ought to pass MAY_CHDIR to vfs_permission() instead of having
it triggered on every step of preceding pathname resolution.  LOOKUP_CHDIR
is killed by that.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:19 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
db2e747b14 [patch 5/5] vfs: remove mode parameter from vfs_symlink()
Remove the unused mode parameter from vfs_symlink and callers.

Thanks to Tetsuo Handa for noticing.

CC: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-07-26 20:53:18 -04:00
Tetsuo Handa
7e79eedb3b [patch 4/5] vfs: reuse local variable in vfs_link()
Why not reuse "inode" which is assigned as

  struct inode *inode = old_dentry->d_inode;

in the beginning of vfs_link() ?

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-07-26 20:53:17 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
2f1936b877 [patch 3/5] vfs: change remove_suid() to file_remove_suid()
All calls to remove_suid() are made with a file pointer, because
(similarly to file_update_time) it is called when the file is written.

Clean up callers by passing in a file instead of a dentry.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-07-26 20:53:16 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
c82e42da8a [patch 1/5] vfs: truncate: dont check immutable twice
vfs_permission(MAY_WRITE) already checked for the inode being
immutable, so no need to repeat it.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2008-07-26 20:53:15 -04:00
Al Viro
e6305c43ed [PATCH] sanitize ->permission() prototype
* kill nameidata * argument; map the 3 bits in ->flags anybody cares
  about to new MAY_... ones and pass with the mask.
* kill redundant gfs2_iop_permission()
* sanitize ecryptfs_permission()
* fix remaining places where ->permission() instances might barf on new
  MAY_... found in mask.

The obvious next target in that direction is permission(9)

folded fix for nfs_permission() breakage from Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:14 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
1bd5191d9f [patch 05/14] hpfs: dont call permission()
hpfs_unlink() calls permission() prior to truncating the file.  HPFS
doesn't define a .permission method, so replace with explicit call to
generic_permission().

This is equivalent, except that devcgroup_inode_permission() and
security_inode_permission() are not called.

The truncation is just an implementation detail of the unlink, so
these security checks are unnecessary.

I suspect that even calling generic_permission() is unnecessary, since
we shouldn't mind if the file isn't writable.  But I leave that to the
maintainer to decide.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
2008-07-26 20:53:13 -04:00
Al Viro
9043476f72 [PATCH] sanitize proc_sysctl
* keep references to ctl_table_head and ctl_table in /proc/sys inodes
* grab the former during operations, use the latter for access to
  entry if that succeeds
* have ->d_compare() check if table should be seen for one who does lookup;
  that allows us to avoid flipping inodes - if we have the same name resolve
  to different things, we'll just keep several dentries and ->d_compare()
  will reject the wrong ones.
* have ->lookup() and ->readdir() scan the table of our inode first, then
  walk all ctl_table_header and scan ->attached_by for those that are
  attached to our directory.
* implement ->getattr().
* get rid of insane amounts of tree-walking
* get rid of the need to know dentry in ->permission() and of the contortions
  induced by that.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:12 -04:00
Al Viro
ae7edecc9b [PATCH] sysctl: keep track of tree relationships
In a sense, that's the heart of the series.  It's based on the following
property of the trees we are actually asked to add: they can be split into
stem that is already covered by registered trees and crown that is entirely
new.  IOW, if a/b and a/c/d are introduced by our tree, then a/c is also
introduced by it.

That allows to associate tree and table entry with each node in the union;
while directory nodes might be covered by many trees, only one will cover
the node by its crown.  And that will allow much saner logics for /proc/sys
in the next patches.  This patch introduces the data structures needed to
keep track of that.

When adding a sysctl table, we find a "parent" one.  Which is to say,
find the deepest node on its stem that already is present in one of the
tables from our table set or its ancestor sets.  That table will be our
parent and that node in it - attachment point.  Add our table to list
anchored in parent, have it refer the parent and contents of attachment
point.  Also remember where its crown lives.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:11 -04:00
Al Viro
bd7b1533cd [PATCH] sysctl: make sure that /proc/sys/net/ipv4 appears before per-ns ones
Massage ipv4 initialization - make sure that net.ipv4 appears as
non-per-net-namespace before it shows up in per-net-namespace sysctls.
That's the only change outside of sysctl.c needed to get sane ordering
rules and data structures for sysctls (esp. for procfs side of that
mess).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:10 -04:00
Al Viro
f7e6ced406 [PATCH] allow delayed freeing of ctl_table_header
Refcount the sucker; instead of freeing it by the end of unregistration
just drop the refcount and free only when it hits zero.  Make sure that
we _always_ make ->unregistering non-NULL in start_unregistering().

That allows anybody to get a reference to such puppy, preventing its
freeing and reuse.  It does *not* block unregistration.  Anybody who
holds such a reference can
	* try to grab a "use" reference (ctl_head_grab()); that will
succeeds if and only if it hadn't entered unregistration yet.  If it
succeeds, we can use it in all normal ways until we release the "use"
reference (with ctl_head_finish()).  Note that this relies on having
->unregistering become non-NULL in all cases when one starts to unregister
the sucker.
	* keep pointers to ctl_table entries; they *can* be freed if
the entire thing is unregistered.  However, if ctl_head_grab() succeeds,
we know that unregistration had not happened (and will not happen until
ctl_head_finish()) and such pointers can be used safely.

IOW, now we can have inodes under /proc/sys keep references to ctl_table
entries, protecting them with references to ctl_table_header and
grabbing the latter for the duration of operations that require access
to ctl_table.  That won't cause deadlocks, since unregistration will not
be stopped by mere keeping a reference to ctl_table_header.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:09 -04:00