linux-toradex.git/fs/proc, branch v2.6.30.2

procfs: make errno values consistent when open pident vs exit(2) race occurs

2009-05-29T15:40:02+00:00

proc_pident_instantiate() has following call flow.

proc_pident_lookup()
  proc_pident_instantiate()
    proc_pid_make_inode()

And, proc_pident_lookup() has following error handling.

	const struct pid_entry *p, *last;
	error = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
	if (!task)
		goto out_no_task;

Then, proc_pident_instantiate should return ENOENT too when racing against
exit(2) occur.

EINAL has two bad reason.
  - it implies caller is wrong. bad the race isn't caller's mistake.
  - man 2 open don't explain EINVAL. user often don't handle it.

Note: Other proc_pid_make_inode() caller already use ENOENT properly.

Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Convert obvious places to deactivate_locked_super()

2009-05-09T14:49:40+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

proc: avoid information leaks to non-privileged processes

2009-05-04T22:14:23+00:00

By using the same test as is used for /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps,
only allow processes that can ptrace() a given process to see information
that might be used to bypass address space layout randomization (ASLR).
These include eip, esp, wchan, and start_stack in /proc/pid/stat as well
as the non-symbolic output from /proc/pid/wchan.

ASLR can be bypassed by sampling eip as shown by the proof-of-concept
code at http://code.google.com/p/fuzzyaslr/ As part of a presentation
(http://www.cr0.org/paper/to-jt-linux-alsr-leak.pdf) esp and wchan were
also noted as possibly usable information leaks as well.  The
start_stack address also leaks potentially useful information.

Cc: Stable Team 
Signed-off-by: Jake Edge 
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: fix Committed_AS underflow on large NR_CPUS environment

2009-05-02T22:36:10+00:00

The Committed_AS field can underflow in certain situations:

>         # while true; do cat /proc/meminfo  | grep _AS; sleep 1; done | uniq -c
>               1 Committed_AS: 18446744073709323392 kB
>              11 Committed_AS: 18446744073709455488 kB
>               6 Committed_AS:    35136 kB
>               5 Committed_AS: 18446744073709454400 kB
>               7 Committed_AS:    35904 kB
>               3 Committed_AS: 18446744073709453248 kB
>               2 Committed_AS:    34752 kB
>               9 Committed_AS: 18446744073709453248 kB
>               8 Committed_AS:    34752 kB
>               3 Committed_AS: 18446744073709320960 kB
>               7 Committed_AS: 18446744073709454080 kB
>               3 Committed_AS: 18446744073709320960 kB
>               5 Committed_AS: 18446744073709454080 kB
>               6 Committed_AS: 18446744073709320960 kB

Because NR_CPUS can be greater than 1000 and meminfo_proc_show() does
not check for underflow.

But NR_CPUS proportional isn't good calculation.  In general,
possibility of lock contention is proportional to the number of online
cpus, not theorical maximum cpus (NR_CPUS).

The current kernel has generic percpu-counter stuff.  using it is right
way.  it makes code simplify and percpu_counter_read_positive() don't
make underflow issue.

Reported-by: Dave Hansen 
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Eric B Munson 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: 		[All kernel versions]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

pagemap: require aligned-length, non-null reads of /proc/pid/pagemap

2009-05-02T22:36:09+00:00

The intention of commit aae8679b0ebcaa92f99c1c3cb0cd651594a43915
("pagemap: fix bug in add_to_pagemap, require aligned-length reads of
/proc/pid/pagemap") was to force reads of /proc/pid/pagemap to be a
multiple of 8 bytes, but now it allows to read 0 bytes, which actually
puts some data to user's buffer.  According to POSIX, if count is zero,
read() should return zero and has no other results.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Mayatskikh 
Cc: Thomas Tuttle 
Acked-by: Matt Mackall 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[S390] /proc/stat idle field for idle cpus

2009-04-23T11:58:17+00:00

The cpu idle field in the output of /proc/stat is too small for cpus
that have been idle for more than a tick. Add the architecture hook
arch_idle_time that allows to add the not accounted idle time of a
sleeping cpu without waking the cpu.

The s390 implementation of arch_idle_time uses the already existing
s390_idle_data per_cpu variable to find the sleep time of a neighboring
idle cpu.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

proc: mounts_poll() make consistent to mdstat_poll

2009-04-16T23:17:10+00:00

In recently sysfs_poll discussion, Neil Brown pointed out /proc/mounts
also should be fixed.

SUSv3 says "Regular files shall always poll TRUE for reading and
writing".  see
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/poll.html

Then, mounts_poll()'s default should be "POLLIN | POLLRDNORM".  it mean
always readable.

In addition, event trigger should use "POLLERR | POLLPRI" instead
POLLERR.  it makes consistent to mdstat_poll() and sysfs_poll(). and,
select(2) can handle POLLPRI easily.


Reported-by: Neil Brown 
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Ram Pai 
Cc: Miklos Szeredi 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

nommu: fix typo vma->pg_off to vma->vm_pgoff

2009-04-08T17:21:44+00:00

6260a4b0521a41189b2c2a8119096c1e21dbdf2c ("/proc/pid/maps: don't show
pgoff of pure ANON VMAs" had a typo.

fs/proc/task_nommu.c:138: error: 'struct vm_area_struct' has no member named 'pg_off'
distcc[21484] ERROR: compile fs/proc/task_nommu.c on sprygo/32 failed

Signed-off-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

/proc/pid/maps: don't show pgoff of pure ANON VMAs

2009-04-07T15:31:03+00:00

Recently, it's argued that what proc/pid/maps shows is ugly when a 32bit
binary runs on 64bit host.

/proc/pid/maps outputs vma's pgoff member but vma->pgoff is of no use
information is the vma is for ANON.  With this patch, /proc/pid/maps shows
just 0 if no file backing store.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Mike Waychison 
Reported-by: Ying Han 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2009-04-03T22:24:35+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (28 commits)
  trivial: Update my email address
  trivial: NULL noise: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_*test.c
  trivial: NULL noise: drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drx397xD_fw.h
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "Celsius".
  trivial: remove unused variable 'path' in alloc_file()
  trivial: fix a pdlfush -> pdflush typo in comment
  trivial: jbd header comment typo fix for JBD_PARANOID_IOFAIL
  trivial: wusb: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  trivial: drivers/char/bsr.c: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  trivial: h8300: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to
  trivial: Give the right path in Documentation example
  trivial: MTD: remove EOL from MODULE_DESCRIPTION
  trivial: Fix typo in bio_split()'s documentation
  trivial: PWM: fix of #endif comment
  trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts
  trivial: Fix misspelling of firmware
  trivial: cgroups: documentation typo and spelling corrections
  trivial: Update contact info for Jochen Hein
  trivial: fix typo "resgister" -> "register"
  ...