linux-toradex.git/ipc/msg.c, branch v2.6.35-rc5

kernel-wide: replace USHORT_MAX, SHORT_MAX and SHORT_MIN with USHRT_MAX, SHRT_MAX and SHRT_MIN

2010-05-25T15:07:02+00:00

- C99 knows about USHRT_MAX/SHRT_MAX/SHRT_MIN, not
  USHORT_MAX/SHORT_MAX/SHORT_MIN.

- Make SHRT_MIN of type s16, not int, for consistency.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/dma/timb_dma.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix security/keys/keyring.c]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Acked-by: WANG Cong 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

ipc ns: fix memory leak (idr)

2009-12-16T15:20:09+00:00

We have apparently had a memory leak since
7ca7e564e049d8b350ec9d958ff25eaa24226352 "ipc: store ipcs into IDRs" in
2007.  The idr of which 3 exist for each ipc namespace is never freed.

This patch simply frees them when the ipcns is freed.  I don't believe any
idr_remove() are done from rcu (and could therefore be delayed until after
this idr_destroy()), so the patch should be safe.  Some quick testing
showed no harm, and the memory leak fixed.

Caught by kmemleak.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc: fix unused variable warning

2009-12-04T14:39:49+00:00

Commit a0d092f introduced the following warning:
ipc/msg.c: In function ?msgctl_down?:
ipc/msg.c:415: warning: ?msqid64? may be used uninitialized in this function

The gcc warning in this case is actually bogus, as msqid64 is touched only
iff cmd == IPC_SET, and in such case, copy_msqid_from_user() initializes
it properly.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 24

2009-01-14T13:15:28+00:00

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

ipc: only output msgmni value at boot time

2008-06-06T18:29:12+00:00

When posting:
[PATCH 1/8] Scaling msgmni to the amount of lowmem
(see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/11/171), I have added a KERN_INFO message
that is output each time msgmni is recomputed.

In http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/29/575 Tony Luck complained that this
message references an ipc namespace address that is useless.

I first thought of using an audit_log instead of a printk, as suggested by
Serge Hallyn.  But unfortunately, we do not have any other information
than the namespace address to provide here too.  So I chose to move the
message and output it only at boot time, removing the reference to the
namespace.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey 
Cc: Pierre Peiffer 
Cc: Manfred Spraul 
Acked-by: Tony Luck 
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc: add definitions of USHORT_MAX and others

2008-04-29T15:06:14+00:00

Add definitions of USHORT_MAX and others into kernel.  ipc uses it and slub
implementation might also use it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Nadia Derbey 
Cc: "Pierre Peiffer" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

IPC: consolidate all xxxctl_down() functions

2008-04-29T15:06:14+00:00

semctl_down(), msgctl_down() and shmctl_down() are used to handle the same set
of commands for each kind of IPC.  They all start to do the same job (they
retrieve the ipc and do some permission checks) before handling the commands
on their own.

This patch proposes to consolidate this by moving these same pieces of code
into one common function called ipcctl_pre_down().

It simplifies a little these xxxctl_down() functions and increases a little
the maintainability.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer 
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn 
Cc: Nadia Derbey 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

IPC: introduce ipc_update_perm()

2008-04-29T15:06:13+00:00

The IPC_SET command performs the same permission setting for all IPCs.  This
patch introduces a common ipc_update_perm() function to update these
permissions and makes use of it for all IPCs.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer 
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn 
Cc: Nadia Derbey 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

IPC: get rid of the use *_setbuf structure.

2008-04-29T15:06:13+00:00

All IPCs make use of an intermetiate *_setbuf structure to handle the IPC_SET
command.  This is not really needed and, moreover, it complicates a little bit
the code.

This patch gets rid of the use of it and uses directly the semid64_ds/
msgid64_ds/shmid64_ds structure.

In addition of removing one struture declaration, it also simplifies and
improves a little bit the common 64-bits path.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer 
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn 
Cc: Nadia Derbey 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds