linux-toradex.git/include, branch v2.6.33.14

ptrace: Prepare to fix racy accesses on task breakpoints

2011-05-23T18:22:56+00:00

commit bf26c018490c2fce7fe9b629083b96ce0e6ad019 upstream.

When a task is traced and is in a stopped state, the tracer
may execute a ptrace request to examine the tracee state and
get its task struct. Right after, the tracee can be killed
and thus its breakpoints released.
This can happen concurrently when the tracer is in the middle
of reading or modifying these breakpoints, leading to dereferencing
a freed pointer.

Hence, to prepare the fix, create a generic breakpoint reference
holding API. When a reference on the breakpoints of a task is
held, the breakpoints won't be released until the last reference
is dropped. After that, no more ptrace request on the task's
breakpoints can be serviced for the tracer.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Prasad 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302284067-7860-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

next_pidmap: fix overflow condition

2011-04-22T15:50:02+00:00

commit c78193e9c7bcbf25b8237ad0dec82f805c4ea69b upstream.

next_pidmap() just quietly accepted whatever 'last' pid that was passed
in, which is not all that safe when one of the users is /proc.

Admittedly the proc code should do some sanity checking on the range
(and that will be the next commit), but that doesn't mean that the
helper functions should just do that pidmap pointer arithmetic without
checking the range of its arguments.

So clamp 'last' to PID_MAX_LIMIT.  The fact that we then do "last+1"
doesn't really matter, the for-loop does check against the end of the
pidmap array properly (it's only the actual pointer arithmetic overflow
case we need to worry about, and going one bit beyond isn't going to
overflow).

[ Use PID_MAX_LIMIT rather than pid_max as per Eric Biederman ]

Reported-by: Tavis Ormandy 
Analyzed-by: Robert Święcki 
Cc: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

exec: copy-and-paste the fixes into compat_do_execve() paths

2011-04-14T23:53:15+00:00

commit 114279be2120a916e8a04feeb2ac976a10016f2f upstream.

Note: this patch targets 2.6.37 and tries to be as simple as possible.
That is why it adds more copy-and-paste horror into fs/compat.c and
uglifies fs/exec.c, this will be cleanuped later.

compat_copy_strings() plays with bprm->vma/mm directly and thus has
two problems: it lacks the RLIMIT_STACK check and argv/envp memory
is not visible to oom killer.

Export acct_arg_size() and get_arg_page(), change compat_copy_strings()
to use get_arg_page(), change compat_do_execve() to do acct_arg_size(0)
as do_execve() does.

Add the fatal_signal_pending/cond_resched checks into compat_count() and
compat_copy_strings(), this matches the code in fs/exec.c and certainly
makes sense.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Moritz Muehlenhoff 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

exec: make argv/envp memory visible to oom-killer

2011-04-14T23:53:15+00:00

commit 3c77f845722158206a7209c45ccddc264d19319c upstream.

Brad Spengler published a local memory-allocation DoS that
evades the OOM-killer (though not the virtual memory RLIMIT):
http://www.grsecurity.net/~spender/64bit_dos.c

execve()->copy_strings() can allocate a lot of memory, but
this is not visible to oom-killer, nobody can see the nascent
bprm->mm and take it into account.

With this patch get_arg_page() increments current's MM_ANONPAGES
counter every time we allocate the new page for argv/envp. When
do_execve() succeds or fails, we change this counter back.

Technically this is not 100% correct, we can't know if the new
page is swapped out and turn MM_ANONPAGES into MM_SWAPENTS, but
I don't think this really matters and everything becomes correct
once exec changes ->mm or fails.

Reported-by: Brad Spengler 
Reviewed-and-discussed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Moritz Muehlenhoff 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ASoC: Explicitly say registerless widgets have no register

2011-04-14T23:52:54+00:00

commit 0ca03cd7d0fa3bfbd56958136a10f19733c4ce12 upstream.

This stops code that handles widgets generically from attempting to access
registers for these widgets.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown 
Acked-by: Liam Girdwood 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ses: Avoid kernel panic when lun 0 is not mapped

2011-04-14T23:52:48+00:00

commit d1e12de804f9d8ad114786ca7c2ce593cba79891 upstream.

During device discovery, scsi mid layer sends INQUIRY command to LUN
0. If the LUN 0 is not mapped to host, it creates a temporary
scsi_device with LUN id 0 and sends REPORT_LUNS command to it. After
the REPORT_LUNS succeeds, it walks through the LUN table and adds each
LUN found to sysfs. At the end of REPORT_LUNS lun table scan, it will
delete the temporary scsi_device of LUN 0.

When scsi devices are added to sysfs, it calls add_dev function of all
the registered class interfaces. If ses driver has been registered,
ses_intf_add() of ses module will be called. This function calls
scsi_device_enclosure() to check the inquiry data for EncServ
bit. Since inquiry was not allocated for temporary LUN 0 scsi_device,
it will cause NULL pointer exception.

To fix the problem, sdev->inquiry is checked for NULL before reading it.

Signed-off-by: Somasundaram Krishnasamy 
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger 
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

USB: serial: handle Data Carrier Detect changes

2011-03-21T19:45:47+00:00

commit d14fc1a74e846d7851f24fc9519fe87dc12a1231 upstream.

Alan's commit 335f8514f200e63d689113d29cb7253a5c282967 introduced
.carrier_raised function in several drivers.  That also means
tty_port_block_til_ready can now suspend the process trying to open the serial
port when Carrier Detect is low and put it into tty_port.open_wait queue.  We
need to wake up the process when Carrier Detect goes high and trigger TTY
hangup when CD goes low.

Some of the devices do not report modem status line changes, or at least we
don't understand the status message, so for those we remove .carrier_raised
again.

Signed-off-by: Libor Pechacek 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: page allocator: calculate a better estimate of NR_FREE_PAGES when memory is low and kswapd is awake

2011-03-21T19:45:44+00:00

commit aa45484031ddee09b06350ab8528bfe5b2c76d1c upstream.

Ordinarily watermark checks are based on the vmstat NR_FREE_PAGES as it is
cheaper than scanning a number of lists.  To avoid synchronization
overhead, counter deltas are maintained on a per-cpu basis and drained
both periodically and when the delta is above a threshold.  On large CPU
systems, the difference between the estimated and real value of
NR_FREE_PAGES can be very high.  If NR_FREE_PAGES is much higher than
number of real free page in buddy, the VM can allocate pages below min
watermark, at worst reducing the real number of pages to zero.  Even if
the OOM killer kills some victim for freeing memory, it may not free
memory if the exit path requires a new page resulting in livelock.

This patch introduces a zone_page_state_snapshot() function (courtesy of
Christoph) that takes a slightly more accurate view of an arbitrary vmstat
counter.  It is used to read NR_FREE_PAGES while kswapd is awake to avoid
the watermark being accidentally broken.  The estimate is not perfect and
may result in cache line bounces but is expected to be lighter than the
IPI calls necessary to continually drain the per-cpu counters while kswapd
is awake.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ftrace: Fix memory leak with function graph and cpu hotplug

2011-03-21T19:45:37+00:00

commit 868baf07b1a259f5f3803c1dc2777b6c358f83cf upstream.

When the fuction graph tracer starts, it needs to make a special
stack for each task to save the real return values of the tasks.
All running tasks have this stack created, as well as any new
tasks.

On CPU hot plug, the new idle task will allocate a stack as well
when init_idle() is called. The problem is that cpu hotplug does
not create a new idle_task. Instead it uses the idle task that
existed when the cpu went down.

ftrace_graph_init_task() will add a new ret_stack to the task
that is given to it. Because a clone will make the task
have a stack of its parent it does not check if the task's
ret_stack is already NULL or not. When the CPU hotplug code
starts a CPU up again, it will allocate a new stack even
though one already existed for it.

The solution is to treat the idle_task specially. In fact, the
function_graph code already does, just not at init_idle().
Instead of using the ftrace_graph_init_task() for the idle task,
which that function expects the task to be a clone, have a
separate ftrace_graph_init_idle_task(). Also, we will create a
per_cpu ret_stack that is used by the idle task. When we call
ftrace_graph_init_idle_task() it will check if the idle task's
ret_stack is NULL, if it is, then it will assign it the per_cpu
ret_stack.

Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: don't allow CAP_NET_ADMIN to load non-netdev kernel modules

2011-03-21T19:45:36+00:00

commit 8909c9ad8ff03611c9c96c9a92656213e4bb495b upstream.

Since a8f80e8ff94ecba629542d9b4b5f5a8ee3eb565c any process with
CAP_NET_ADMIN may load any module from /lib/modules/.  This doesn't mean
that CAP_NET_ADMIN is a superset of CAP_SYS_MODULE as modules are
limited to /lib/modules/**.  However, CAP_NET_ADMIN capability shouldn't
allow anybody load any module not related to networking.

This patch restricts an ability of autoloading modules to netdev modules
with explicit aliases.  This fixes CVE-2011-1019.

Arnd Bergmann suggested to leave untouched the old pre-v2.6.32 behavior
of loading netdev modules by name (without any prefix) for processes
with CAP_SYS_MODULE to maintain the compatibility with network scripts
that use autoloading netdev modules by aliases like "eth0", "wlan0".

Currently there are only three users of the feature in the upstream
kernel: ipip, ip_gre and sit.

    root@albatros:~# capsh --drop=$(seq -s, 0 11),$(seq -s, 13 34) --
    root@albatros:~# grep Cap /proc/$$/status
    CapInh:	0000000000000000
    CapPrm:	fffffff800001000
    CapEff:	fffffff800001000
    CapBnd:	fffffff800001000
    root@albatros:~# modprobe xfs
    FATAL: Error inserting xfs
    (/lib/modules/2.6.38-rc6-00001-g2bf4ca3/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko): Operation not permitted
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep xfs
    root@albatros:~# ifconfig xfs
    xfs: error fetching interface information: Device not found
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep xfs
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep sit
    root@albatros:~# ifconfig sit
    sit: error fetching interface information: Device not found
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep sit
    root@albatros:~# ifconfig sit0
    sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
	      NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1

    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep sit
    sit                    10457  0
    tunnel4                 2957  1 sit

For CAP_SYS_MODULE module loading is still relaxed:

    root@albatros:~# grep Cap /proc/$$/status
    CapInh:	0000000000000000
    CapPrm:	ffffffffffffffff
    CapEff:	ffffffffffffffff
    CapBnd:	ffffffffffffffff
    root@albatros:~# ifconfig xfs
    xfs: error fetching interface information: Device not found
    root@albatros:~# lsmod | grep xfs
    xfs                   745319  0

Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/24/203

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov 
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: James Morris 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman