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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>proc: protect mm start_code/end_code in /proc/pid/stat</title>
<updated>2011-03-28T14:31:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees.cook@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-23T23:42:53+00:00</published>
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commit 5883f57ca0008ffc93e09cbb9847a1928e50c6f3 upstream.

While mm-&gt;start_stack was protected from cross-uid viewing (commit
f83ce3e6b02d5 ("proc: avoid information leaks to non-privileged
processes")), the start_code and end_code values were not.  This would
allow the text location of a PIE binary to leak, defeating ASLR.

Note that the value "1" is used instead of "0" for a protected value since
"ps", "killall", and likely other readers of /proc/pid/stat, take
start_code of "0" to mean a kernel thread and will misbehave.  Thanks to
Brad Spengler for pointing this out.

Addresses CVE-2011-0726

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees.cook@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eugene Teo &lt;eugeneteo@kernel.sg&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Brad Spengler &lt;spender@grsecurity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 5883f57ca0008ffc93e09cbb9847a1928e50c6f3 upstream.

While mm-&gt;start_stack was protected from cross-uid viewing (commit
f83ce3e6b02d5 ("proc: avoid information leaks to non-privileged
processes")), the start_code and end_code values were not.  This would
allow the text location of a PIE binary to leak, defeating ASLR.

Note that the value "1" is used instead of "0" for a protected value since
"ps", "killall", and likely other readers of /proc/pid/stat, take
start_code of "0" to mean a kernel thread and will misbehave.  Thanks to
Brad Spengler for pointing this out.

Addresses CVE-2011-0726

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees.cook@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eugene Teo &lt;eugeneteo@kernel.sg&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Brad Spengler &lt;spender@grsecurity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>procfs: fix /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps heap check</title>
<updated>2011-03-28T14:31:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aaro Koskinen</name>
<email>aaro.koskinen@nokia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-23T23:42:50+00:00</published>
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commit 0db0c01b53a1a421513f91573241aabafb87802a upstream.

The current code fails to print the "[heap]" marking if the heap is split
into multiple mappings.

Fix the check so that the marking is displayed in all possible cases:
	1. vma matches exactly the heap
	2. the heap vma is merged e.g. with bss
	3. the heap vma is splitted e.g. due to locked pages

Test cases. In all cases, the process should have mapping(s) with
[heap] marking:

	(1) vma matches exactly the heap

	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;

	int main (void)
	{
		if (sbrk(4096) != (void *)-1) {
			printf("check /proc/%d/maps\n", (int)getpid());
			while (1)
				sleep(1);
		}
		return 0;
	}

	# ./test1
	check /proc/553/maps
	[1] + Stopped                    ./test1
	# cat /proc/553/maps | head -4
	00008000-00009000 r-xp 00000000 01:00 3113640    /test1
	00010000-00011000 rw-p 00000000 01:00 3113640    /test1
	00011000-00012000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
	4006f000-40070000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0

	(2) the heap vma is merged

	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;

	char foo[4096] = "foo";
	char bar[4096];

	int main (void)
	{
		if (sbrk(4096) != (void *)-1) {
			printf("check /proc/%d/maps\n", (int)getpid());
			while (1)
				sleep(1);
		}
		return 0;
	}

	# ./test2
	check /proc/556/maps
	[2] + Stopped                    ./test2
	# cat /proc/556/maps | head -4
	00008000-00009000 r-xp 00000000 01:00 3116312    /test2
	00010000-00012000 rw-p 00000000 01:00 3116312    /test2
	00012000-00014000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
	4004a000-4004b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0

	(3) the heap vma is splitted (this fails without the patch)

	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;

	int main (void)
	{
		if ((sbrk(4096) != (void *)-1) &amp;&amp; !mlockall(MCL_FUTURE) &amp;&amp;
		    (sbrk(4096) != (void *)-1)) {
			printf("check /proc/%d/maps\n", (int)getpid());
			while (1)
				sleep(1);
		}
		return 0;
	}

	# ./test3
	check /proc/559/maps
	[1] + Stopped                    ./test3
	# cat /proc/559/maps|head -4
	00008000-00009000 r-xp 00000000 01:00 3119108    /test3
	00010000-00011000 rw-p 00000000 01:00 3119108    /test3
	00011000-00012000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
	00012000-00013000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]

It looks like the bug has been there forever, and since it only results in
some information missing from a procfile, it does not fulfil the -stable
"critical issue" criteria.

Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@nokia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 0db0c01b53a1a421513f91573241aabafb87802a upstream.

The current code fails to print the "[heap]" marking if the heap is split
into multiple mappings.

Fix the check so that the marking is displayed in all possible cases:
	1. vma matches exactly the heap
	2. the heap vma is merged e.g. with bss
	3. the heap vma is splitted e.g. due to locked pages

Test cases. In all cases, the process should have mapping(s) with
[heap] marking:

	(1) vma matches exactly the heap

	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;

	int main (void)
	{
		if (sbrk(4096) != (void *)-1) {
			printf("check /proc/%d/maps\n", (int)getpid());
			while (1)
				sleep(1);
		}
		return 0;
	}

	# ./test1
	check /proc/553/maps
	[1] + Stopped                    ./test1
	# cat /proc/553/maps | head -4
	00008000-00009000 r-xp 00000000 01:00 3113640    /test1
	00010000-00011000 rw-p 00000000 01:00 3113640    /test1
	00011000-00012000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
	4006f000-40070000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0

	(2) the heap vma is merged

	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;

	char foo[4096] = "foo";
	char bar[4096];

	int main (void)
	{
		if (sbrk(4096) != (void *)-1) {
			printf("check /proc/%d/maps\n", (int)getpid());
			while (1)
				sleep(1);
		}
		return 0;
	}

	# ./test2
	check /proc/556/maps
	[2] + Stopped                    ./test2
	# cat /proc/556/maps | head -4
	00008000-00009000 r-xp 00000000 01:00 3116312    /test2
	00010000-00012000 rw-p 00000000 01:00 3116312    /test2
	00012000-00014000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
	4004a000-4004b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0

	(3) the heap vma is splitted (this fails without the patch)

	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;

	int main (void)
	{
		if ((sbrk(4096) != (void *)-1) &amp;&amp; !mlockall(MCL_FUTURE) &amp;&amp;
		    (sbrk(4096) != (void *)-1)) {
			printf("check /proc/%d/maps\n", (int)getpid());
			while (1)
				sleep(1);
		}
		return 0;
	}

	# ./test3
	check /proc/559/maps
	[1] + Stopped                    ./test3
	# cat /proc/559/maps|head -4
	00008000-00009000 r-xp 00000000 01:00 3119108    /test3
	00010000-00011000 rw-p 00000000 01:00 3119108    /test3
	00011000-00012000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
	00012000-00013000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]

It looks like the bug has been there forever, and since it only results in
some information missing from a procfile, it does not fulfil the -stable
"critical issue" criteria.

Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@nokia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390: remove task_show_regs</title>
<updated>2011-03-21T19:45:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
<email>schwidefsky@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-15T08:43:32+00:00</published>
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commit 261cd298a8c363d7985e3482946edb4bfedacf98 upstream.

task_show_regs used to be a debugging aid in the early bringup days
of Linux on s390. /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/status is a world readable file, it
is not a good idea to show the registers of a process. The only
correct fix is to remove task_show_regs.

Reported-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 261cd298a8c363d7985e3482946edb4bfedacf98 upstream.

task_show_regs used to be a debugging aid in the early bringup days
of Linux on s390. /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/status is a world readable file, it
is not a good idea to show the registers of a process. The only
correct fix is to remove task_show_regs.

Reported-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>CRED: Fix get_task_cred() and task_state() to not resurrect dead credentials</title>
<updated>2011-03-21T19:45:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-29T11:45:49+00:00</published>
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commit de09a9771a5346029f4d11e4ac886be7f9bfdd75 upstream.

It's possible for get_task_cred() as it currently stands to 'corrupt' a set of
credentials by incrementing their usage count after their replacement by the
task being accessed.

What happens is that get_task_cred() can race with commit_creds():

	TASK_1			TASK_2			RCU_CLEANER
	--&gt;get_task_cred(TASK_2)
	rcu_read_lock()
	__cred = __task_cred(TASK_2)
				--&gt;commit_creds()
				old_cred = TASK_2-&gt;real_cred
				TASK_2-&gt;real_cred = ...
				put_cred(old_cred)
				  call_rcu(old_cred)
		[__cred-&gt;usage == 0]
	get_cred(__cred)
		[__cred-&gt;usage == 1]
	rcu_read_unlock()
							--&gt;put_cred_rcu()
							[__cred-&gt;usage == 1]
							panic()

However, since a tasks credentials are generally not changed very often, we can
reasonably make use of a loop involving reading the creds pointer and using
atomic_inc_not_zero() to attempt to increment it if it hasn't already hit zero.

If successful, we can safely return the credentials in the knowledge that, even
if the task we're accessing has released them, they haven't gone to the RCU
cleanup code.

We then change task_state() in procfs to use get_task_cred() rather than
calling get_cred() on the result of __task_cred(), as that suffers from the
same problem.

Without this change, a BUG_ON in __put_cred() or in put_cred_rcu() can be
tripped when it is noticed that the usage count is not zero as it ought to be,
for example:

kernel BUG at kernel/cred.c:168!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run
CPU 0
Pid: 2436, comm: master Not tainted 2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64 #1 0HR330/OptiPlex
745
RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff81069881&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff81069881&gt;] __put_cred+0xc/0x45
RSP: 0018:ffff88019e7e9eb8  EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff880161514480 RCX: 00000000ffffffff
RDX: 00000000ffffffff RSI: ffff880140c690c0 RDI: ffff880140c690c0
RBP: ffff88019e7e9eb8 R08: 00000000000000d0 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000040 R12: ffff880140c690c0
R13: ffff88019e77aea0 R14: 00007fff336b0a5c R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  00007f12f50d97c0(0000) GS:ffff880007400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f8f461bc000 CR3: 00000001b26ce000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process master (pid: 2436, threadinfo ffff88019e7e8000, task ffff88019e77aea0)
Stack:
 ffff88019e7e9ec8 ffffffff810698cd ffff88019e7e9ef8 ffffffff81069b45
&lt;0&gt; ffff880161514180 ffff880161514480 ffff880161514180 0000000000000000
&lt;0&gt; ffff88019e7e9f28 ffffffff8106aace 0000000000000001 0000000000000246
Call Trace:
 [&lt;ffffffff810698cd&gt;] put_cred+0x13/0x15
 [&lt;ffffffff81069b45&gt;] commit_creds+0x16b/0x175
 [&lt;ffffffff8106aace&gt;] set_current_groups+0x47/0x4e
 [&lt;ffffffff8106ac89&gt;] sys_setgroups+0xf6/0x105
 [&lt;ffffffff81009b02&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: 48 8d 71 ff e8 7e 4e 15 00 85 c0 78 0b 8b 75 ec 48 89 df e8 ef 4a 15 00
48 83 c4 18 5b c9 c3 55 8b 07 8b 07 48 89 e5 85 c0 74 04 &lt;0f&gt; 0b eb fe 65 48 8b
04 25 00 cc 00 00 48 3b b8 58 04 00 00 75
RIP  [&lt;ffffffff81069881&gt;] __put_cred+0xc/0x45
 RSP &lt;ffff88019e7e9eb8&gt;
---[ end trace df391256a100ebdd ]---

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit de09a9771a5346029f4d11e4ac886be7f9bfdd75 upstream.

It's possible for get_task_cred() as it currently stands to 'corrupt' a set of
credentials by incrementing their usage count after their replacement by the
task being accessed.

What happens is that get_task_cred() can race with commit_creds():

	TASK_1			TASK_2			RCU_CLEANER
	--&gt;get_task_cred(TASK_2)
	rcu_read_lock()
	__cred = __task_cred(TASK_2)
				--&gt;commit_creds()
				old_cred = TASK_2-&gt;real_cred
				TASK_2-&gt;real_cred = ...
				put_cred(old_cred)
				  call_rcu(old_cred)
		[__cred-&gt;usage == 0]
	get_cred(__cred)
		[__cred-&gt;usage == 1]
	rcu_read_unlock()
							--&gt;put_cred_rcu()
							[__cred-&gt;usage == 1]
							panic()

However, since a tasks credentials are generally not changed very often, we can
reasonably make use of a loop involving reading the creds pointer and using
atomic_inc_not_zero() to attempt to increment it if it hasn't already hit zero.

If successful, we can safely return the credentials in the knowledge that, even
if the task we're accessing has released them, they haven't gone to the RCU
cleanup code.

We then change task_state() in procfs to use get_task_cred() rather than
calling get_cred() on the result of __task_cred(), as that suffers from the
same problem.

Without this change, a BUG_ON in __put_cred() or in put_cred_rcu() can be
tripped when it is noticed that the usage count is not zero as it ought to be,
for example:

kernel BUG at kernel/cred.c:168!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run
CPU 0
Pid: 2436, comm: master Not tainted 2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64 #1 0HR330/OptiPlex
745
RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff81069881&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff81069881&gt;] __put_cred+0xc/0x45
RSP: 0018:ffff88019e7e9eb8  EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff880161514480 RCX: 00000000ffffffff
RDX: 00000000ffffffff RSI: ffff880140c690c0 RDI: ffff880140c690c0
RBP: ffff88019e7e9eb8 R08: 00000000000000d0 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000040 R12: ffff880140c690c0
R13: ffff88019e77aea0 R14: 00007fff336b0a5c R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  00007f12f50d97c0(0000) GS:ffff880007400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f8f461bc000 CR3: 00000001b26ce000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process master (pid: 2436, threadinfo ffff88019e7e8000, task ffff88019e77aea0)
Stack:
 ffff88019e7e9ec8 ffffffff810698cd ffff88019e7e9ef8 ffffffff81069b45
&lt;0&gt; ffff880161514180 ffff880161514480 ffff880161514180 0000000000000000
&lt;0&gt; ffff88019e7e9f28 ffffffff8106aace 0000000000000001 0000000000000246
Call Trace:
 [&lt;ffffffff810698cd&gt;] put_cred+0x13/0x15
 [&lt;ffffffff81069b45&gt;] commit_creds+0x16b/0x175
 [&lt;ffffffff8106aace&gt;] set_current_groups+0x47/0x4e
 [&lt;ffffffff8106ac89&gt;] sys_setgroups+0xf6/0x105
 [&lt;ffffffff81009b02&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: 48 8d 71 ff e8 7e 4e 15 00 85 c0 78 0b 8b 75 ec 48 89 df e8 ef 4a 15 00
48 83 c4 18 5b c9 c3 55 8b 07 8b 07 48 89 e5 85 c0 74 04 &lt;0f&gt; 0b eb fe 65 48 8b
04 25 00 cc 00 00 48 3b b8 58 04 00 00 75
RIP  [&lt;ffffffff81069881&gt;] __put_cred+0xc/0x45
 RSP &lt;ffff88019e7e9eb8&gt;
---[ end trace df391256a100ebdd ]---

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>mm: fix up some user-visible effects of the stack guard page</title>
<updated>2011-03-21T19:44:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-15T18:35:52+00:00</published>
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commit d7824370e26325c881b665350ce64fb0a4fde24a upstream.

This commit makes the stack guard page somewhat less visible to user
space. It does this by:

 - not showing the guard page in /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps

   It looks like lvm-tools will actually read /proc/self/maps to figure
   out where all its mappings are, and effectively do a specialized
   "mlockall()" in user space.  By not showing the guard page as part of
   the mapping (by just adding PAGE_SIZE to the start for grows-up
   pages), lvm-tools ends up not being aware of it.

 - by also teaching the _real_ mlock() functionality not to try to lock
   the guard page.

   That would just expand the mapping down to create a new guard page,
   so there really is no point in trying to lock it in place.

It would perhaps be nice to show the guard page specially in
/proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps (or at least mark grow-down segments some way), but
let's not open ourselves up to more breakage by user space from programs
that depends on the exact deails of the 'maps' file.

Special thanks to Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for diving into lvm-tools
source code to see what was going on with the whole new warning.

Reported-and-tested-by: François Valenduc &lt;francois.valenduc@tvcablenet.be
Reported-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit d7824370e26325c881b665350ce64fb0a4fde24a upstream.

This commit makes the stack guard page somewhat less visible to user
space. It does this by:

 - not showing the guard page in /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps

   It looks like lvm-tools will actually read /proc/self/maps to figure
   out where all its mappings are, and effectively do a specialized
   "mlockall()" in user space.  By not showing the guard page as part of
   the mapping (by just adding PAGE_SIZE to the start for grows-up
   pages), lvm-tools ends up not being aware of it.

 - by also teaching the _real_ mlock() functionality not to try to lock
   the guard page.

   That would just expand the mapping down to create a new guard page,
   so there really is no point in trying to lock it in place.

It would perhaps be nice to show the guard page specially in
/proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps (or at least mark grow-down segments some way), but
let's not open ourselves up to more breakage by user space from programs
that depends on the exact deails of the 'maps' file.

Special thanks to Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for diving into lvm-tools
source code to see what was going on with the whole new warning.

Reported-and-tested-by: François Valenduc &lt;francois.valenduc@tvcablenet.be
Reported-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads" and its fixup commits</title>
<updated>2010-05-26T21:32:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Robin Holt</name>
<email>holt@sgi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-11T21:06:46+00:00</published>
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commit 34441427aab4bdb3069a4ffcda69a99357abcb2e upstream.

Originally, commit d899bf7b ("procfs: provide stack information for
threads") attempted to introduce a new feature for showing where the
threadstack was located and how many pages are being utilized by the
stack.

Commit c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU") was
applied to fix the NO_MMU case.

Commit 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on
64-bit") was applied to fix a bug in ia32 executables being loaded.

Commit 9ebd4eba7 ("procfs: fix /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/stat stack pointer for kernel
threads") was applied to fix a bug which had kernel threads printing a
userland stack address.

Commit 1306d603f ('proc: partially revert "procfs: provide stack
information for threads"') was then applied to revert the stack pages
being used to solve a significant performance regression.

This patch nearly undoes the effect of all these patches.

The reason for reverting these is it provides an unusable value in
field 28.  For x86_64, a fork will result in the task-&gt;stack_start
value being updated to the current user top of stack and not the stack
start address.  This unpredictability of the stack_start value makes
it worthless.  That includes the intended use of showing how much stack
space a thread has.

Other architectures will get different values.  As an example, ia64
gets 0.  The do_fork() and copy_process() functions appear to treat the
stack_start and stack_size parameters as architecture specific.

I only partially reverted c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage
on NOMMU") .  If I had completely reverted it, I would have had to change
mm/Makefile only build pagewalk.o when CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR is
configured.  Since I could not test the builds without significant effort,
I decided to not change mm/Makefile.

I only partially reverted 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack
information for threads on 64-bit") .  I left the KSTK_ESP() change in
place as that seemed worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt &lt;holt@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Stefani Seibold &lt;stefani@seibold.net&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 34441427aab4bdb3069a4ffcda69a99357abcb2e upstream.

Originally, commit d899bf7b ("procfs: provide stack information for
threads") attempted to introduce a new feature for showing where the
threadstack was located and how many pages are being utilized by the
stack.

Commit c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU") was
applied to fix the NO_MMU case.

Commit 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on
64-bit") was applied to fix a bug in ia32 executables being loaded.

Commit 9ebd4eba7 ("procfs: fix /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/stat stack pointer for kernel
threads") was applied to fix a bug which had kernel threads printing a
userland stack address.

Commit 1306d603f ('proc: partially revert "procfs: provide stack
information for threads"') was then applied to revert the stack pages
being used to solve a significant performance regression.

This patch nearly undoes the effect of all these patches.

The reason for reverting these is it provides an unusable value in
field 28.  For x86_64, a fork will result in the task-&gt;stack_start
value being updated to the current user top of stack and not the stack
start address.  This unpredictability of the stack_start value makes
it worthless.  That includes the intended use of showing how much stack
space a thread has.

Other architectures will get different values.  As an example, ia64
gets 0.  The do_fork() and copy_process() functions appear to treat the
stack_start and stack_size parameters as architecture specific.

I only partially reverted c44972f1 ("procfs: disable per-task stack usage
on NOMMU") .  If I had completely reverted it, I would have had to change
mm/Makefile only build pagewalk.o when CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR is
configured.  Since I could not test the builds without significant effort,
I decided to not change mm/Makefile.

I only partially reverted 89240ba0 ("x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack
information for threads on 64-bit") .  I left the KSTK_ESP() change in
place as that seemed worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt &lt;holt@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Stefani Seibold &lt;stefani@seibold.net&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>procfs: fix tid fdinfo</title>
<updated>2010-05-12T22:02:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jerome Marchand</name>
<email>jmarchan@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-27T20:13:06+00:00</published>
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commit 3835541dd481091c4dbf5ef83c08aed12e50fd61 upstream.

Correct the file_operations struct in fdinfo entry of tid_base_stuff[].

Presently /proc/*/task/*/fdinfo contains symlinks to opened files like
/proc/*/fd/.

Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand &lt;jmarchan@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 3835541dd481091c4dbf5ef83c08aed12e50fd61 upstream.

Correct the file_operations struct in fdinfo entry of tid_base_stuff[].

Presently /proc/*/task/*/fdinfo contains symlinks to opened files like
/proc/*/fd/.

Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand &lt;jmarchan@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>oom: fix the unsafe usage of badness() in proc_oom_score()</title>
<updated>2010-04-26T14:47:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-01T13:13:57+00:00</published>
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commit b95c35e76b29ba812e5dabdd91592e25ec640e93 upstream.

proc_oom_score(task) has a reference to task_struct, but that is all.
If this task was already released before we take tasklist_lock

	- we can't use task-&gt;group_leader, it points to nowhere

	- it is not safe to call badness() even if this task is
	  -&gt;group_leader, has_intersects_mems_allowed() assumes
	  it is safe to iterate over -&gt;thread_group list.

	- even worse, badness() can hit -&gt;signal == NULL

Add the pid_alive() check to ensure __unhash_process() was not called.

Also, use "task" instead of task-&gt;group_leader. badness() should return
the same result for any sub-thread. Currently this is not true, but
this should be changed anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit b95c35e76b29ba812e5dabdd91592e25ec640e93 upstream.

proc_oom_score(task) has a reference to task_struct, but that is all.
If this task was already released before we take tasklist_lock

	- we can't use task-&gt;group_leader, it points to nowhere

	- it is not safe to call badness() even if this task is
	  -&gt;group_leader, has_intersects_mems_allowed() assumes
	  it is safe to iterate over -&gt;thread_group list.

	- even worse, badness() can hit -&gt;signal == NULL

Add the pid_alive() check to ensure __unhash_process() was not called.

Also, use "task" instead of task-&gt;group_leader. badness() should return
the same result for any sub-thread. Currently this is not true, but
this should be changed anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Switch proc/self to nd_set_link()</title>
<updated>2010-02-19T15:25:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-14T06:03:28+00:00</published>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fix autofs/afs/etc. magic mountpoint breakage</title>
<updated>2010-01-14T14:05:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-23T04:45:11+00:00</published>
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We end up trying to kfree() nd.last.name on open("/mnt/tmp", O_CREAT)
if /mnt/tmp is an autofs direct mount.  The reason is that nd.last_type
is bogus here; we want LAST_BIND for everything of that kind and we
get LAST_NORM left over from finding parent directory.

So make sure that it *is* set properly; set to LAST_BIND before
doing -&gt;follow_link() - for normal symlinks it will be changed
by __vfs_follow_link() and everything else needs it set that way.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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We end up trying to kfree() nd.last.name on open("/mnt/tmp", O_CREAT)
if /mnt/tmp is an autofs direct mount.  The reason is that nd.last_type
is bogus here; we want LAST_BIND for everything of that kind and we
get LAST_NORM left over from finding parent directory.

So make sure that it *is* set properly; set to LAST_BIND before
doing -&gt;follow_link() - for normal symlinks it will be changed
by __vfs_follow_link() and everything else needs it set that way.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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