linux-toradex.git/kernel, branch v3.9-rc3

Merge branch 'akpm' (fixes from Andrew)

2013-03-13T22:21:57+00:00

Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:

 - A bunch of fixes

 - Finish off the idr API conversions before someone starts to use the
   old interfaces again.

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton :
  idr: idr_alloc() shouldn't trigger lowmem warning when preloaded
  UAPI: fix endianness conditionals in M32R's asm/stat.h
  UAPI: fix endianness conditionals in linux/raid/md_p.h
  UAPI: fix endianness conditionals in linux/acct.h
  UAPI: fix endianness conditionals in linux/aio_abi.h
  decompressors: fix typo "POWERPC"
  mm/fremap.c: fix oops on error path
  idr: deprecate idr_pre_get() and idr_get_new[_above]()
  tidspbridge: convert to idr_alloc()
  zcache: convert to idr_alloc()
  mlx4: remove leftover idr_pre_get() call
  workqueue: convert to idr_alloc()
  nfsd: convert to idr_alloc()
  nfsd: remove unused get_new_stid()
  kernel/signal.c: use __ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER instead of SA_RESTORER
  signal: always clear sa_restorer on execve
  mm: remove_memory(): fix end_pfn setting
  include/linux/res_counter.h needs errno.h

workqueue: convert to idr_alloc()

2013-03-13T22:21:46+00:00

idr_get_new*() and friends are about to be deprecated.  Convert to the
new idr_alloc() interface.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/signal.c: use __ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER instead of SA_RESTORER

2013-03-13T22:21:45+00:00

__ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER is the preferred conditional for use in 3.9 and
later kernels, per Kees.

Cc: Emese Revfy 
Cc: Emese Revfy 
Cc: PaX Team 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Serge Hallyn 
Cc: Julien Tinnes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

signal: always clear sa_restorer on execve

2013-03-13T22:21:44+00:00

When the new signal handlers are set up, the location of sa_restorer is
not cleared, leaking a parent process's address space location to
children.  This allows for a potential bypass of the parent's ASLR by
examining the sa_restorer value returned when calling sigaction().

Based on what should be considered "secret" about addresses, it only
matters across the exec not the fork (since the VMAs haven't changed
until the exec).  But since exec sets SIG_DFL and keeps sa_restorer,
this is where it should be fixed.

Given the few uses of sa_restorer, a "set" function was not written
since this would be the only use.  Instead, we use
__ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER, as already done in other places.

Example of the leak before applying this patch:

  $ cat /proc/$$/maps
  ...
  7fb9f3083000-7fb9f3238000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 404469 .../libc-2.15.so
  ...
  $ ./leak
  ...
  7f278bc74000-7f278be29000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 404469 .../libc-2.15.so
  ...
  1 0 (nil) 0x7fb9f30b94a0
  2 4000000 (nil) 0x7f278bcaa4a0
  3 4000000 (nil) 0x7f278bcaa4a0
  4 0 (nil) 0x7fb9f30b94a0
  ...

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use SA_RESTORER for backportability]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Reported-by: Emese Revfy 
Cc: Emese Revfy 
Cc: PaX Team 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Serge Hallyn 
Cc: Julien Tinnes 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

userns: Don't allow CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_FS

2013-03-13T22:00:20+00:00

Don't allowing sharing the root directory with processes in a
different user namespace.  There doesn't seem to be any point, and to
allow it would require the overhead of putting a user namespace
reference in fs_struct (for permission checks) and incrementing that
reference count on practically every call to fork.

So just perform the inexpensive test of forbidding sharing fs_struct
acrosss processes in different user namespaces.  We already disallow
other forms of threading when unsharing a user namespace so this
should be no real burden in practice.

This updates setns, clone, and unshare to disallow multiple user
namespaces sharing an fs_struct.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

futex: fix kernel-doc notation and spello

2013-03-13T03:42:10+00:00

Fix kernel-doc warning in futex.c and convert 'Returns' to the new Return:
kernel-doc notation format.

  Warning(kernel/futex.c:2286): Excess function parameter 'clockrt' description in 'futex_wait_requeue_pi'

Fix one spello.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

signals: fix new kernel-doc warnings

2013-03-13T03:42:10+00:00

Fix new kernel-doc warnings in kernel/signal.c:

  Warning(kernel/signal.c:2689): No description found for parameter 'uset'
  Warning(kernel/signal.c:2689): Excess function parameter 'set' description in 'sys_rt_sigpending'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2013-03-11T14:54:29+00:00

Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc minor fixes mostly related to tracing"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  s390: Fix a header dependencies related build error
  tracing: update documentation of snapshot utility
  tracing: Do not return EINVAL in snapshot when not allocated
  tracing: Add help of snapshot feature when snapshot is empty
  ftrace: Update the kconfig for DYNAMIC_FTRACE

Revert parts of "hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators"

2013-03-08T23:05:34+00:00

Commit b67bfe0d42ca ("hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators")
did a lot of nice changes but also contains two small hunks that seem to
have slipped in accidentally and have no apparent connection to the
intent of the patch.

This reverts the two extraneous changes.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Peter Senna Tschudin 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Sasha Levin 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tracing: Do not return EINVAL in snapshot when not allocated

2013-03-07T15:31:38+00:00

To use the tracing snapshot feature, writing a '1' into the snapshot
file causes the snapshot buffer to be allocated if it has not already
been allocated and dose a 'swap' with the main buffer, so that the
snapshot now contains what was in the main buffer, and the main buffer
now writes to what was the snapshot buffer.

To free the snapshot buffer, a '0' is written into the snapshot file.

To clear the snapshot buffer, any number but a '0' or '1' is written
into the snapshot file. But if the file is not allocated it returns
-EINVAL error code. This is rather pointless. It is better just to
do nothing and return success.

Acked-by: Hiraku Toyooka 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt