linux-toradex.git/ipc, branch v3.15-rc8

ipc: use device_initcall

2014-04-07T23:36:11+00:00

... since __initcall is now deprecated.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: Manfred Spraul 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc/compat.c: remove sc_semopm macro

2014-04-07T23:36:11+00:00

This macro appears to have been introduced back in the 2.5 era for
semtimedop32 backward compatibility on ia32:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2003/4/28/78

Nowadays, this syscall in compat just defaults back to the code found in
sem.c, so it is no longer used and can thus be removed:

long compat_sys_semtimedop(int semid, struct sembuf __user *tsems,
		unsigned nsops, const struct compat_timespec __user *timeout)
{
	struct timespec __user *ts64;
	if (compat_convert_timespec(&ts64, timeout))
		return -EFAULT;
	return sys_semtimedop(semid, tsems, nsops, ts64);
}

Furthermore, there are no users in compat.c.  After this change, kernel
builds just fine with both CONFIG_SYSVIPC_COMPAT and CONFIG_SYSVIPC.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: Manfred Spraul 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2014-04-02T19:51:41+00:00

Pull compat time conversion changes from Peter Anvin:
 "Despite the branch name this is really neither an x86 nor an
  x32-specific patchset, although it the implementation of the
  discussions that followed the x32 security hole a few months ago.

  This removes get/put_compat_timespec/val() and replaces them with
  compat_get/put_timespec/val() which are savvy as to the current status
  of COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME.

  It removes several unused and/or incorrect/misleading functions (like
  compat_put_timeval_convert which doesn't in fact do any conversion)
  and also replaces several open-coded implementations what is now
  called compat_convert_timespec() with that function"

* 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  compat: Fix sparse address space warnings
  compat: Get rid of (get|put)_compat_time(val|spec)

Merge branch 'compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux

2014-03-31T21:32:17+00:00

Pull s390 compat wrapper rework from Heiko Carstens:
 "S390 compat system call wrapper simplification work.

  The intention of this work is to get rid of all hand written assembly
  compat system call wrappers on s390, which perform proper sign or zero
  extension, or pointer conversion of compat system call parameters.
  Instead all of this should be done with C code eg by using Al's
  COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macro.

  Therefore all common code and s390 specific compat system calls have
  been converted to the COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macro.

  In order to generate correct code all compat system calls may only
  have eg compat_ulong_t parameters, but no unsigned long parameters.
  Those patches which change parameter types from unsigned long to
  compat_ulong_t parameters are separate in this series, but shouldn't
  cause any harm.

  The only compat system calls which intentionally have 64 bit
  parameters (preadv64 and pwritev64) in support of the x86/32 ABI
  haven't been changed, but are now only available if an architecture
  defines __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_PREADV64/PWRITEV64.

  System calls which do not have a compat variant but still need proper
  zero extension on s390, like eg "long sys_brk(unsigned long brk)" will
  get a proper wrapper function with the new s390 specific
  COMPAT_SYSCALL_WRAPx() macro:

     COMPAT_SYSCALL_WRAP1(brk, unsigned long, brk);

  which generates the following code (simplified):

     asmlinkage long sys_brk(unsigned long brk);
     asmlinkage long compat_sys_brk(long brk)
     {
         return sys_brk((u32)brk);
     }

  Given that the C file which contains all the COMPAT_SYSCALL_WRAP lines
  includes both linux/syscall.h and linux/compat.h, it will generate
  build errors, if the declaration of sys_brk() doesn't match, or if
  there exists a non-matching compat_sys_brk() declaration.

  In addition this will intentionally result in a link error if
  somewhere else a compat_sys_brk() function exists, which probably
  should have been used instead.  Two more BUILD_BUG_ONs make sure the
  size and type of each compat syscall parameter can be handled
  correctly with the s390 specific macros.

  I converted the compat system calls step by step to verify the
  generated code is correct and matches the previous code.  In fact it
  did not always match, however that was always a bug in the hand
  written asm code.

  In result we get less code, less bugs, and much more sanity checking"

* 'compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (44 commits)
  s390/compat: add copyright statement
  compat: include linux/unistd.h within linux/compat.h
  s390/compat: get rid of compat wrapper assembly code
  s390/compat: build error for large compat syscall args
  mm/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE with changing parameter types
  kexec/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE with changing parameter types
  net/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE with changing parameter types
  ipc/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE with changing parameter types
  fs/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE with changing parameter types
  ipc/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  fs/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  security/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  mm/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  net/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  kernel/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  fs/compat: optional preadv64/pwrite64 compat system calls
  ipc/compat_sys_msgrcv: change msgtyp type from long to compat_long_t
  s390/compat: partial parameter conversion within syscall wrappers
  s390/compat: automatic zero, sign and pointer conversion of syscalls
  s390/compat: add sync_file_range and fallocate compat syscalls
  ...

ipc: Fix 2 bugs in msgrcv() MSG_COPY implementation

2014-03-16T17:41:04+00:00

While testing and documenting the msgrcv() MSG_COPY flag that Stanislav
Kinsbursky added in commit 4a674f34ba04 ("ipc: introduce message queue
copy feature" => kernel 3.8), I discovered a couple of bugs in the
implementation.  The two bugs concern MSG_COPY interactions with other
msgrcv() flags, namely:

 (A) MSG_COPY + MSG_EXCEPT
 (B) MSG_COPY + !IPC_NOWAIT

The bugs are distinct (and the fix for the first one is obvious),
however my fix for both is a single-line patch, which is why I'm
combining them in a single mail, rather than writing two mails+patches.

 ===== (A) MSG_COPY + MSG_EXCEPT =====

With the addition of the MSG_COPY flag, there are now two msgrcv()
flags--MSG_COPY and MSG_EXCEPT--that modify the meaning of the 'msgtyp'
argument in unrelated ways.  Specifying both in the same call is a
logical error that is currently permitted, with the effect that MSG_COPY
has priority and MSG_EXCEPT is ignored.  The call should give an error
if both flags are specified.  The patch below implements that behavior.

 ===== (B) (B) MSG_COPY + !IPC_NOWAIT =====

The test code that was submitted in commit 3a665531a3b7 ("selftests: IPC
message queue copy feature test") shows MSG_COPY being used in
conjunction with IPC_NOWAIT.  In other words, if there is no message at
the position 'msgtyp'.  return immediately with the error in ENOMSG.

What was not (fully) tested is the behavior if MSG_COPY is specified
*without* IPC_NOWAIT, and there is an odd behavior.  If the queue
contains less than 'msgtyp' messages, then the call blocks until the
next message is written to the queue.  At that point, the msgrcv() call
returns a copy of the newly added message, regardless of whether that
message is at the ordinal position 'msgtyp'.  This is clearly bogus, and
problematic for applications that might want to make use of the MSG_COPY
flag.

I considered the following possible solutions to this problem:

 (1) Force the call to block until a message *does* appear at the
     position 'msgtyp'.

 (2) If the MSG_COPY flag is specified, the kernel should implicitly add
     IPC_NOWAIT, so that the call fails with ENOMSG for this case.

 (3) If the MSG_COPY flag is specified, but IPC_NOWAIT is not, generate
     an error (probably, EINVAL is the right one).

I do not know if any application would really want to have the
functionality of solution (1), especially since an application can
determine in advance the number of messages in the queue using msgctl()
IPC_STAT.  Obviously, this solution would be the most work to implement.

Solution (2) would have the effect of silently fixing any applications
that tried to employ broken behavior.  However, it would mean that if we
later decided to implement solution (1), then user-space could not
easily detect what the kernel supports (but, since I'm somewhat doubtful
that solution (1) is needed, I'm not sure that this is much of a
problem).

Solution (3) would have the effect of informing broken applications that
they are doing something broken.  The downside is that this would cause
a ABI breakage for any applications that are currently employing the
broken behavior.  However:

a) Those applications are almost certainly not getting the results they
   expect.
b) Possibly, those applications don't even exist, because MSG_COPY is
   currently hidden behind CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

The upside of solution (3) is that if we later decided to implement
solution (1), user-space could determine what the kernel supports, via
the error return.

In my view, solution (3) is mildly preferable to solution (2), and
solution (1) could still be done later if anyone really cares.  The
patch below implements solution (3).

PS.  For anyone out there still listening, it's the usual story:
documenting an API (and the thinking about, and the testing of the API,
that documentation entails) is the one of the single best ways of
finding bugs in the API, as I've learned from a lot of experience.  Best
to do that documentation before releasing the API.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk 
Acked-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky 
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Serge Hallyn 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE with changing parameter types

2014-03-06T15:30:45+00:00

In order to allow the COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE macro generate code that
performs proper zero and sign extension convert all 64 bit parameters
to their corresponding 32 bit compat counterparts.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

ipc/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE

2014-03-06T15:30:44+00:00

Convert all compat system call functions where all parameter types
have a size of four or less than four bytes, or are pointer types
to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE.
The implicit casts within COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE will perform proper
zero and sign extension to 64 bit of all parameters if needed.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

ipc/compat_sys_msgrcv: change msgtyp type from long to compat_long_t

2014-03-06T14:35:09+00:00

Change the type of compat_sys_msgrcv's msgtyp parameter from long
to compat_long_t, since compat user space passes only a 32 bit signed
value.
Let the compat wrapper do proper sign extension to 64 bit of this
parameter.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

ipc,mqueue: remove limits for the amount of system-wide queues

2014-02-25T23:25:45+00:00

Commit 93e6f119c0ce ("ipc/mqueue: cleanup definition names and
locations") added global hardcoded limits to the amount of message
queues that can be created.  While these limits are per-namespace,
reality is that it ends up breaking userspace applications.
Historically users have, at least in theory, been able to create up to
INT_MAX queues, and limiting it to just 1024 is way too low and dramatic
for some workloads and use cases.  For instance, Madars reports:

 "This update imposes bad limits on our multi-process application.  As
  our app uses approaches that each process opens its own set of queues
  (usually something about 3-5 queues per process).  In some scenarios
  we might run up to 3000 processes or more (which of-course for linux
  is not a problem).  Thus we might need up to 9000 queues or more.  All
  processes run under one user."

Other affected users can be found in launchpad bug #1155695:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/manpages/+bug/1155695

Instead of increasing this limit, revert it entirely and fallback to the
original way of dealing queue limits -- where once a user's resource
limit is reached, and all memory is used, new queues cannot be created.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso 
Reported-by: Madars Vitolins 
Acked-by: Doug Ledford 
Cc: Manfred Spraul 
Cc: 	[3.5+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

compat: Get rid of (get|put)_compat_time(val|spec)

2014-02-02T22:09:12+00:00

We have two APIs for compatiblity timespec/val, with confusingly
similar names.  compat_(get|put)_time(val|spec) *do* handle the case
where COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME is set, whereas
(get|put)_compat_time(val|spec) do not.  This is an accident waiting
to happen.

Clean it up by favoring the full-service version; the limited version
is replaced with double-underscore versions static to kernel/compat.c.

A common pattern is to convert a struct timespec to kernel format in
an allocation on the user stack.  Unfortunately it is open-coded in
several places.  Since this allocation isn't actually needed if
COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME is true (since user format == kernel format)
encapsulate that whole pattern into the function
compat_convert_timespec().  An equivalent function should be written
for struct timeval if it is needed in the future.

Finally, get rid of compat_(get|put)_timeval_convert(): each was only
used once, and the latter was not even doing what the function said
(no conversion actually was being done.)  Moving the conversion into
compat_sys_settimeofday() itself makes the code much more similar to
sys_settimeofday() itself.

v3: Remove unused compat_convert_timeval().

v2: Drop bogus "const" in the destination argument for
    compat_convert_time*().

Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Hans Verkuil 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Manfred Spraul 
Cc: Mateusz Guzik 
Cc: Rafael Aquini 
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
Cc: Dan Carpenter 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Tested-by: H.J. Lu 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin