linux-toradex.git/fs/proc, branch v2.6.21

[PATCH] proc: fix linkage with CONFIG_SYSCTL=y, CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL=n

2007-04-02T17:06:08+00:00

We're using #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL, but we should be using CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL,
so we get

 fs/built-in.o: In function `proc_root_init':
 /usr/src/linux/fs/proc/root.c:83: undefined reference to `proc_sys_init'

Fix that up and remove an ifdef-in-C.

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Helge Hafting 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Fix kernel build with EMBEDDED & PROC_FS & !PROC_SYSCTL

2007-03-27T16:05:16+00:00

Without attached patch against current -git I get following with
!PROC_SYSCTL (with EMBEDDED and PROC_FS set):

    CC      init/version.o
    LD      init/built-in.o
    LD      vmlinux
  fs/built-in.o: In function `do_proc_sys_lookup':
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x26583): undefined reference to `sysctl_head_next'
  fs/built-in.o: In function `proc_sys_revalidate':
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x265bb): undefined reference to `sysctl_head_finish'
  fs/built-in.o: In function `proc_sys_readdir':
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x26720): undefined reference to `sysctl_head_next'
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x267d8): undefined reference to `sysctl_head_finish'
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x268e7): undefined reference to `sysctl_head_next'
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x26910): undefined reference to `sysctl_head_finish'
  fs/built-in.o: In function `proc_sys_write':
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x2695d): undefined reference to `sysctl_perm'
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x2699c): undefined reference to `sysctl_head_finish'
  fs/built-in.o: In function `proc_sys_read':
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x269e9): undefined reference to `sysctl_perm'
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x26a25): undefined reference to `sysctl_head_finish'
  fs/built-in.o: In function `proc_sys_permission':
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x26ad1): undefined reference to `sysctl_perm'
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x26adb): undefined reference to `sysctl_head_finish'
  fs/built-in.o: In function `proc_sys_lookup':
  proc_sysctl.c:(.text+0x26b39): undefined reference to `sysctl_head_finish'
  make: *** [vmlinux] Virhe 1

All those functions are in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c, which has no CONFIG_
#define's in it, so the patch makes the compilation of that file to depend
on CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL (the simplest choice).

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] sanitize security_getprocattr() API

2007-03-14T22:27:48+00:00

have it return the buffer it had allocated

Acked-by: Stephen Smalley 
Acked-by: James Morris 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Missing __user in pointer referenced within copy_from_user

2007-02-21T01:10:15+00:00

Pointers to user data should be marked with a __user hint.  This one is
missing.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] sysctl: hide the sysctl proc inodes from selinux

2007-02-14T16:10:00+00:00

Since the security checks are applied on each read and write of a sysctl file,
just like they are applied when calling sys_sysctl, they are redundant on the
standard VFS constructs.  Since it is difficult to compute the security labels
on the standard VFS constructs we just mark the sysctl inodes in proc private
so selinux won't even bother with them.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] sysctl: reimplement the sysctl proc support

2007-02-14T16:10:00+00:00

With this change the sysctl inodes can be cached and nothing needs to be done
when removing a sysctl table.

For a cost of 2K code we will save about 4K of static tables (when we remove
de from ctl_table) and 70K in proc_dir_entries that we will not allocate, or
about half that on a 32bit arch.

The speed feels about the same, even though we can now cache the sysctl
dentries :(

We get the core advantage that we don't need to have a 1 to 1 mapping between
ctl table entries and proc files.  Making it possible to have /proc/sys vary
depending on the namespace you are in.  The currently merged namespaces don't
have an issue here but the network namespace under /proc/sys/net needs to have
different directories depending on which network adapters are visible.  By
simply being a cache different directories being visible depending on who you
are is trivial to implement.

[akpm@osdl.org: fix uninitialised var]
[akpm@osdl.org: fix ARM build]
[bunk@stusta.de: make things static]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] sysctl: create sys/fs/binfmt_misc as an ordinary sysctl entry

2007-02-14T16:09:59+00:00

binfmt_misc has a mount point in the middle of the sysctl and that mount point
is created as a proc_generic directory.

Doing it that way gets in the way of cleaning up the sysctl proc support as it
continues the existence of a horrible hack.  So instead simply create the
directory as an ordinary sysctl directory.  At least that removes the magic
special case.

[akpm@osdl.org: warning fix]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Mark struct super_operations const

2007-02-12T17:48:47+00:00

This patch is inspired by Arjan's "Patch series to mark struct
file_operations and struct inode_operations const".

Compile tested with gcc & sparse.

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 3

2007-02-12T17:48:46+00:00

Many struct inode_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 6

2007-02-12T17:48:45+00:00

Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds