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2008-11-14CRED: Inaugurate COW credentialsDavid Howells
Inaugurate copy-on-write credentials management. This uses RCU to manage the credentials pointer in the task_struct with respect to accesses by other tasks. A process may only modify its own credentials, and so does not need locking to access or modify its own credentials. A mutex (cred_replace_mutex) is added to the task_struct to control the effect of PTRACE_ATTACHED on credential calculations, particularly with respect to execve(). With this patch, the contents of an active credentials struct may not be changed directly; rather a new set of credentials must be prepared, modified and committed using something like the following sequence of events: struct cred *new = prepare_creds(); int ret = blah(new); if (ret < 0) { abort_creds(new); return ret; } return commit_creds(new); There are some exceptions to this rule: the keyrings pointed to by the active credentials may be instantiated - keyrings violate the COW rule as managing COW keyrings is tricky, given that it is possible for a task to directly alter the keys in a keyring in use by another task. To help enforce this, various pointers to sets of credentials, such as those in the task_struct, are declared const. The purpose of this is compile-time discouragement of altering credentials through those pointers. Once a set of credentials has been made public through one of these pointers, it may not be modified, except under special circumstances: (1) Its reference count may incremented and decremented. (2) The keyrings to which it points may be modified, but not replaced. The only safe way to modify anything else is to create a replacement and commit using the functions described in Documentation/credentials.txt (which will be added by a later patch). This patch and the preceding patches have been tested with the LTP SELinux testsuite. This patch makes several logical sets of alteration: (1) execve(). This now prepares and commits credentials in various places in the security code rather than altering the current creds directly. (2) Temporary credential overrides. do_coredump() and sys_faccessat() now prepare their own credentials and temporarily override the ones currently on the acting thread, whilst preventing interference from other threads by holding cred_replace_mutex on the thread being dumped. This will be replaced in a future patch by something that hands down the credentials directly to the functions being called, rather than altering the task's objective credentials. (3) LSM interface. A number of functions have been changed, added or removed: (*) security_capset_check(), ->capset_check() (*) security_capset_set(), ->capset_set() Removed in favour of security_capset(). (*) security_capset(), ->capset() New. This is passed a pointer to the new creds, a pointer to the old creds and the proposed capability sets. It should fill in the new creds or return an error. All pointers, barring the pointer to the new creds, are now const. (*) security_bprm_apply_creds(), ->bprm_apply_creds() Changed; now returns a value, which will cause the process to be killed if it's an error. (*) security_task_alloc(), ->task_alloc_security() Removed in favour of security_prepare_creds(). (*) security_cred_free(), ->cred_free() New. Free security data attached to cred->security. (*) security_prepare_creds(), ->cred_prepare() New. Duplicate any security data attached to cred->security. (*) security_commit_creds(), ->cred_commit() New. Apply any security effects for the upcoming installation of new security by commit_creds(). (*) security_task_post_setuid(), ->task_post_setuid() Removed in favour of security_task_fix_setuid(). (*) security_task_fix_setuid(), ->task_fix_setuid() Fix up the proposed new credentials for setuid(). This is used by cap_set_fix_setuid() to implicitly adjust capabilities in line with setuid() changes. Changes are made to the new credentials, rather than the task itself as in security_task_post_setuid(). (*) security_task_reparent_to_init(), ->task_reparent_to_init() Removed. Instead the task being reparented to init is referred directly to init's credentials. NOTE! This results in the loss of some state: SELinux's osid no longer records the sid of the thread that forked it. (*) security_key_alloc(), ->key_alloc() (*) security_key_permission(), ->key_permission() Changed. These now take cred pointers rather than task pointers to refer to the security context. (4) sys_capset(). This has been simplified and uses less locking. The LSM functions it calls have been merged. (5) reparent_to_kthreadd(). This gives the current thread the same credentials as init by simply using commit_thread() to point that way. (6) __sigqueue_alloc() and switch_uid() __sigqueue_alloc() can't stop the target task from changing its creds beneath it, so this function gets a reference to the currently applicable user_struct which it then passes into the sigqueue struct it returns if successful. switch_uid() is now called from commit_creds(), and possibly should be folded into that. commit_creds() should take care of protecting __sigqueue_alloc(). (7) [sg]et[ug]id() and co and [sg]et_current_groups. The set functions now all use prepare_creds(), commit_creds() and abort_creds() to build and check a new set of credentials before applying it. security_task_set[ug]id() is called inside the prepared section. This guarantees that nothing else will affect the creds until we've finished. The calling of set_dumpable() has been moved into commit_creds(). Much of the functionality of set_user() has been moved into commit_creds(). The get functions all simply access the data directly. (8) security_task_prctl() and cap_task_prctl(). security_task_prctl() has been modified to return -ENOSYS if it doesn't want to handle a function, or otherwise return the return value directly rather than through an argument. Additionally, cap_task_prctl() now prepares a new set of credentials, even if it doesn't end up using it. (9) Keyrings. A number of changes have been made to the keyrings code: (a) switch_uid_keyring(), copy_keys(), exit_keys() and suid_keys() have all been dropped and built in to the credentials functions directly. They may want separating out again later. (b) key_alloc() and search_process_keyrings() now take a cred pointer rather than a task pointer to specify the security context. (c) copy_creds() gives a new thread within the same thread group a new thread keyring if its parent had one, otherwise it discards the thread keyring. (d) The authorisation key now points directly to the credentials to extend the search into rather pointing to the task that carries them. (e) Installing thread, process or session keyrings causes a new set of credentials to be created, even though it's not strictly necessary for process or session keyrings (they're shared). (10) Usermode helper. The usermode helper code now carries a cred struct pointer in its subprocess_info struct instead of a new session keyring pointer. This set of credentials is derived from init_cred and installed on the new process after it has been cloned. call_usermodehelper_setup() allocates the new credentials and call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() discards them if they haven't been used. A special cred function (prepare_usermodeinfo_creds()) is provided specifically for call_usermodehelper_setup() to call. call_usermodehelper_setkeys() adjusts the credentials to sport the supplied keyring as the new session keyring. (11) SELinux. SELinux has a number of changes, in addition to those to support the LSM interface changes mentioned above: (a) selinux_setprocattr() no longer does its check for whether the current ptracer can access processes with the new SID inside the lock that covers getting the ptracer's SID. Whilst this lock ensures that the check is done with the ptracer pinned, the result is only valid until the lock is released, so there's no point doing it inside the lock. (12) is_single_threaded(). This function has been extracted from selinux_setprocattr() and put into a file of its own in the lib/ directory as join_session_keyring() now wants to use it too. The code in SELinux just checked to see whether a task shared mm_structs with other tasks (CLONE_VM), but that isn't good enough. We really want to know if they're part of the same thread group (CLONE_THREAD). (13) nfsd. The NFS server daemon now has to use the COW credentials to set the credentials it is going to use. It really needs to pass the credentials down to the functions it calls, but it can't do that until other patches in this series have been applied. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14CRED: Pass credentials through dentry_open()David Howells
Pass credentials through dentry_open() so that the COW creds patch can have SELinux's flush_unauthorized_files() pass the appropriate creds back to itself when it opens its null chardev. The security_dentry_open() call also now takes a creds pointer, as does the dentry_open hook in struct security_operations. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14CRED: Separate per-task-group keyrings from signal_structDavid Howells
Separate per-task-group keyrings from signal_struct and dangle their anchor from the cred struct rather than the signal_struct. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14CRED: Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own credsDavid Howells
Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds. This means that it will be possible for the credentials of a task to be replaced without another task (a) requiring a full lock to read them, and (b) seeing deallocated memory. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14CRED: Wrap current->cred and a few other accessorsDavid Howells
Wrap current->cred and a few other accessors to hide their actual implementation. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14CRED: Detach the credentials from task_structDavid Howells
Detach the credentials from task_struct, duplicating them in copy_process() and releasing them in __put_task_struct(). Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14CRED: Separate task security context from task_structDavid Howells
Separate the task security context from task_struct. At this point, the security data is temporarily embedded in the task_struct with two pointers pointing to it. Note that the Alpha arch is altered as it refers to (E)UID and (E)GID in entry.S via asm-offsets. With comment fixes Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14CRED: Constify the kernel_cap_t arguments to the capset LSM hooksDavid Howells
Constify the kernel_cap_t arguments to the capset LSM hooks. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14CRED: Neuter sys_capset()David Howells
Take away the ability for sys_capset() to affect processes other than current. This means that current will not need to lock its own credentials when reading them against interference by other processes. This has effectively been the case for a while anyway, since: (1) Without LSM enabled, sys_capset() is disallowed. (2) With file-based capabilities, sys_capset() is neutered. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14KEYS: Alter use of key instantiation link-to-keyring argumentDavid Howells
Alter the use of the key instantiation and negation functions' link-to-keyring arguments. Currently this specifies a keyring in the target process to link the key into, creating the keyring if it doesn't exist. This, however, can be a problem for copy-on-write credentials as it means that the instantiating process can alter the credentials of the requesting process. This patch alters the behaviour such that: (1) If keyctl_instantiate_key() or keyctl_negate_key() are given a specific keyring by ID (ringid >= 0), then that keyring will be used. (2) If keyctl_instantiate_key() or keyctl_negate_key() are given one of the special constants that refer to the requesting process's keyrings (KEY_SPEC_*_KEYRING, all <= 0), then: (a) If sys_request_key() was given a keyring to use (destringid) then the key will be attached to that keyring. (b) If sys_request_key() was given a NULL keyring, then the key being instantiated will be attached to the default keyring as set by keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring(). (3) No extra link will be made. Decision point (1) follows current behaviour, and allows those instantiators who've searched for a specifically named keyring in the requestor's keyring so as to partition the keys by type to still have their named keyrings. Decision point (2) allows the requestor to make sure that the key or keys that get produced by request_key() go where they want, whilst allowing the instantiator to request that the key is retained. This is mainly useful for situations where the instantiator makes a secondary request, the key for which should be retained by the initial requestor: +-----------+ +--------------+ +--------------+ | | | | | | | Requestor |------->| Instantiator |------->| Instantiator | | | | | | | +-----------+ +--------------+ +--------------+ request_key() request_key() This might be useful, for example, in Kerberos, where the requestor requests a ticket, and then the ticket instantiator requests the TGT, which someone else then has to go and fetch. The TGT, however, should be retained in the keyrings of the requestor, not the first instantiator. To make this explict an extra special keyring constant is also added. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14KEYS: Disperse linux/key_ui.hDavid Howells
Disperse the bits of linux/key_ui.h as the reason they were put here (keyfs) didn't get in. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the filesystem subsystemDavid Howells
Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds. Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id(). Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id(). In some places it makes more sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be addressed by later patches. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-12security: remove broken and useless declarationsJames Morris
Remove broken declarations for security_capable* functions, which were not needed anyway. Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11Add a new capable interface that will be used by systems that use audit toEric Paris
make an A or B type decision instead of a security decision. Currently this is the case at least for filesystems when deciding if a process can use the reserved 'root' blocks and for the case of things like the oom algorithm determining if processes are root processes and should be less likely to be killed. These types of security system requests should not be audited or logged since they are not really security decisions. It would be possible to solve this problem like the vm_enough_memory security check did by creating a new LSM interface and moving all of the policy into that interface but proves the needlessly bloat the LSM and provide complex indirection. This merely allows those decisions to be made where they belong and to not flood logs or printk with denials for thing that are not security decisions. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11When the capset syscall is used it is not possible for audit to record theEric Paris
actual capbilities being added/removed. This patch adds a new record type which emits the target pid and the eff, inh, and perm cap sets. example output if you audit capset syscalls would be: type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1225743140.465:76): arch=c000003e syscall=126 success=yes exit=0 a0=17f2014 a1=17f201c a2=80000000 a3=7fff2ab7f060 items=0 ppid=2160 pid=2223 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=pts0 ses=1 comm="setcap" exe="/usr/sbin/setcap" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null) type=UNKNOWN[1322] msg=audit(1225743140.465:76): pid=0 cap_pi=ffffffffffffffff cap_pp=ffffffffffffffff cap_pe=ffffffffffffffff Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11Any time fcaps or a setuid app under SECURE_NOROOT is used to result in aEric Paris
non-zero pE we will crate a new audit record which contains the entire set of known information about the executable in question, fP, fI, fE, fversion and includes the process's pE, pI, pP. Before and after the bprm capability are applied. This record type will only be emitted from execve syscalls. an example of making ping use fcaps instead of setuid: setcap "cat_net_raw+pe" /bin/ping type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): arch=c000003e syscall=59 success=yes exit=0 a0=1457f30 a1=14606b0 a2=1463940 a3=321b770a70 items=2 ppid=2929 pid=2963 auid=0 uid=500 gid=500 euid=500 suid=500 fsuid=500 egid=500 sgid=500 fsgid=500 tty=pts0 ses=3 comm="ping" exe="/bin/ping" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null) type=UNKNOWN[1321] msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): fver=2 fp=0000000000002000 fi=0000000000000000 fe=1 old_pp=0000000000000000 old_pi=0000000000000000 old_pe=0000000000000000 new_pp=0000000000002000 new_pi=0000000000000000 new_pe=0000000000002000 type=EXECVE msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): argc=2 a0="ping" a1="127.0.0.1" type=CWD msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): cwd="/home/test" type=PATH msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): item=0 name="/bin/ping" inode=49256 dev=fd:00 mode=0100755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:ping_exec_t:s0 cap_fp=0000000000002000 cap_fe=1 cap_fver=2 type=PATH msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): item=1 name=(null) inode=507915 dev=fd:00 mode=0100755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:ld_so_t:s0 Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11This patch will print cap_permitted and cap_inheritable data in the PATHEric Paris
records of any file that has file capabilities set. Files which do not have fcaps set will not have different PATH records. An example audit record if you run: setcap "cap_net_admin+pie" /bin/bash /bin/bash type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1225741937.363:230): arch=c000003e syscall=59 success=yes exit=0 a0=2119230 a1=210da30 a2=20ee290 a3=8 items=2 ppid=2149 pid=2923 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=pts0 ses=3 comm="ping" exe="/bin/ping" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null) type=EXECVE msg=audit(1225741937.363:230): argc=2 a0="ping" a1="www.google.com" type=CWD msg=audit(1225741937.363:230): cwd="/root" type=PATH msg=audit(1225741937.363:230): item=0 name="/bin/ping" inode=49256 dev=fd:00 mode=0104755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:ping_exec_t:s0 cap_fp=0000000000002000 cap_fi=0000000000002000 cap_fe=1 cap_fver=2 type=PATH msg=audit(1225741937.363:230): item=1 name=(null) inode=507915 dev=fd:00 mode=0100755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:ld_so_t:s0 Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11This patch add a generic cpu endian caps structure and externally availableEric Paris
functions which retrieve fcaps information from disk. This information is necessary so fcaps information can be collected and recorded by the audit system. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11Document the order of arguments for cap_issubset. It's not instantly clearEric Paris
which order the argument should be in. So give an example. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-06file capabilities: add no_file_caps switch (v4)Serge E. Hallyn
Add a no_file_caps boot option when file capabilities are compiled into the kernel (CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES=y). This allows distributions to ship a kernel with file capabilities compiled in, without forcing users to use (and understand and trust) them. When no_file_caps is specified at boot, then when a process executes a file, any file capabilities stored with that file will not be used in the calculation of the process' new capability sets. This means that booting with the no_file_caps boot option will not be the same as booting a kernel with file capabilities compiled out - in particular a task with CAP_SETPCAP will not have any chance of passing capabilities to another task (which isn't "really" possible anyway, and which may soon by killed altogether by David Howells in any case), and it will instead be able to put new capabilities in its pI. However since fI will always be empty and pI is masked with fI, it gains the task nothing. We also support the extra prctl options, setting securebits and dropping capabilities from the per-process bounding set. The other remaining difference is that killpriv, task_setscheduler, setioprio, and setnice will continue to be hooked. That will be noticable in the case where a root task changed its uid while keeping some caps, and another task owned by the new uid tries to change settings for the more privileged task. Changelog: Nov 05 2008: (v4) trivial port on top of always-start-\ with-clear-caps patch Sep 23 2008: nixed file_caps_enabled when file caps are not compiled in as it isn't used. Document no_file_caps in kernel-parameters.txt. Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-04libata: implement ATA_HORKAGE_ATAPI_MOD16_DMA and apply itTejun Heo
libata always uses PIO for ATAPI commands when the number of bytes to transfer isn't multiple of 16 but quantum DAT72 chokes on odd bytes PIO transfers. Implement a horkage to skip the mod16 check and apply it to the quantum device. This is reported by John Clark in the following thread. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/34748 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: John Clark <clarkjc@runbox.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-11-03Merge branch 'io-mappings-for-linus-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'io-mappings-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: io mapping: clean up #ifdefs io mapping: improve documentation i915: use io-mapping interfaces instead of a variety of mapping kludges resources: add io-mapping functions to dynamically map large device apertures x86: add iomap_atomic*()/iounmap_atomic() on 32-bit using fixmaps
2008-11-03io mapping: clean up #ifdefsKeith Packard
Impact: cleanup clean up ifdefs: change #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32/64 to CONFIG_HAVE_ATOMIC_IOMAP. flip around the #ifdef sections to clean up the structure. Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-02Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (33 commits) af_unix: netns: fix problem of return value IRDA: remove double inclusion of module.h udp: multicast packets need to check namespace net: add documentation for skb recycling key: fix setkey(8) policy set breakage bpa10x: free sk_buff with kfree_skb xfrm: do not leak ESRCH to user space net: Really remove all of LOOPBACK_TSO code. netfilter: nf_conntrack_proto_gre: switch to register_pernet_gen_subsys() netns: add register_pernet_gen_subsys/unregister_pernet_gen_subsys net: delete excess kernel-doc notation pppoe: Fix socket leak. gianfar: Don't reset TBI<->SerDes link if it's already up gianfar: Fix race in TBI/SerDes configuration at91_ether: request/free GPIO for PHY interrupt amd8111e: fix dma_free_coherent context atl1: fix vlan tag regression SMC91x: delete unused local variable "lp" myri10ge: fix stop/go mmio ordering bonding: fix panic when taking bond interface down before removing module ...
2008-11-02linux/string.h: fix comment typoJeff Garzik
s/user/used/ Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-31resources: add io-mapping functions to dynamically map large device aperturesKeith Packard
Impact: add new generic io_map_*() APIs Graphics devices have large PCI apertures which would consume a significant fraction of a 32-bit address space if mapped during driver initialization. Using ioremap at runtime is impractical as it is too slow. This new set of interfaces uses atomic mappings on 32-bit processors and a large static mapping on 64-bit processors to provide reasonable 32-bit performance and optimal 64-bit performance. The current implementation sits atop the io_map_atomic fixmap-based mechanism for 32-bit processors. This includes some editorial suggestions from Randy Dunlap for Documentation/io-mapping.txt Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-30net: delete excess kernel-doc notationRandy Dunlap
Remove excess kernel-doc function parameters from networking header & driver files: Warning(include/net/sock.h:946): Excess function parameter or struct member 'sk' description in 'sk_filter_release' Warning(include/linux/netdevice.h:1545): Excess function parameter or struct member 'cpu' description in 'netif_tx_lock' Warning(drivers/net/wan/z85230.c:712): Excess function parameter or struct member 'regs' description in 'z8530_interrupt' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-30Merge branch 'davem-fixes' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
2008-10-31libata: add whitelist for devices with known good pata-sata bridgesJens Axboe
libata currently imposes a UDMA5 max transfer rate and 200 sector max transfer size for SATA devices that sit behind a pata-sata bridge. Lots of devices have known good bridges that don't need this limit applied. The MTRON SSD disks are such devices. Transfer rates are increased by 20-30% with the restriction removed. So add a "blacklist" entry for the MTRON devices, with a flag indicating that the bridge is known good. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-10-31gianfar: Fix race in TBI/SerDes configurationTrent Piepho
The init_phy() function attaches to the PHY, then configures the SerDes<->TBI link (in SGMII mode). The TBI is on the MDIO bus with the PHY (sort of) and is accessed via the gianfar's MDIO registers, using the functions gfar_local_mdio_read/write(), which don't do any locking. The previously attached PHY will start a work-queue on a timer, and probably an irq handler as well, which will talk to the PHY and thus use the MDIO bus. This uses phy_read/write(), which have locking, but not against the gfar_local_mdio versions. The result is that PHY code will try to use the MDIO bus at the same time as the SerDes setup code, corrupting the transfers. Setting up the SerDes before attaching to the PHY will insure that there is no race between the SerDes code and *our* PHY, but doesn't fix everything. Typically the PHYs for all gianfar devices are on the same MDIO bus, which is associated with the first gianfar device. This means that the first gianfar's SerDes code could corrupt the MDIO transfers for a different gianfar's PHY. The lock used by phy_read/write() is contained in the mii_bus structure, which is pointed to by the PHY. This is difficult to access from the gianfar drivers, as there is no link between a gianfar device and the mii_bus which shares the same MDIO registers. As far as the device layer and drivers are concerned they are two unrelated devices (which happen to share registers). Generally all gianfar devices' PHYs will be on the bus associated with the first gianfar. But this might not be the case, so simply locking the gianfar's PHY's mii bus might not lock the mii bus that the SerDes setup code is going to use. We solve this by having the code that creates the gianfar platform device look in the device tree for an mdio device that shares the gianfar's registers. If one is found the ID of its platform device is saved in the gianfar's platform data. A new function in the gianfar mii code, gfar_get_miibus(), can use the bus ID to search through the platform devices for a gianfar_mdio device with the right ID. The platform device's driver data is the mii_bus structure, which the SerDes setup code can use to lock the current bus. Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@freescale.com> CC: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-10-30Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixesLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes: Fix incompatibility with versions of Perl less than 5.6.0 kbuild: do not include arch/<ARCH>/include/asm in find-sources twice. kbuild: tag with git revision when git describe is missing kbuild: prevent modpost from looking for a .cmd file for a static library linked into a module kbuild: fix KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS adjust init section definitions scripts/checksyscalls.sh: fix for non-gnu sed scripts/package: don't break if %{_smp_mflags} isn't set kbuild: setlocalversion: dont include svn change count kbuild: improve check-symlink kbuild: mkspec - fix build rpm
2008-10-30Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid: HID: add quirk entry for no-name keyboard (0x13ba/0x0017) HID: fix hid_device_id for cross compiling HID: sync on deleted io_retry timer in usbhid driver HID: fix oops during suspend of unbound HID devices
2008-10-30spi: fix compile errorFernando Luis Vazquez Cao
Fix compile error below: LD drivers/spi/built-in.o CC [M] drivers/spi/spi_gpio.o In file included from drivers/spi/spi_gpio.c:26: include/linux/spi/spi_bitbang.h:23: error: field `work' has incomplete type make[2]: *** [drivers/spi/spi_gpio.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [drivers/spi] Error 2 make: *** [drivers] Error 2 Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-30nfsd: fix vm overcommit crashAlan Cox
Junjiro R. Okajima reported a problem where knfsd crashes if you are using it to export shmemfs objects and run strict overcommit. In this situation the current->mm based modifier to the overcommit goes through a NULL pointer. We could simply check for NULL and skip the modifier but we've caught other real bugs in the past from mm being NULL here - cases where we did need a valid mm set up (eg the exec bug about a year ago). To preserve the checks and get the logic we want shuffle the checking around and add a new helper to the vm_ security wrappers Also fix a current->mm reference in nommu that should use the passed mm [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Reported-by: Junjiro R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-30kernel.h: fix might_sleep kernel-docRandy Dunlap
Put the kernel-doc for might_sleep() _immediately_ before the macro (no intervening lines). Otherwise kernel-doc complains like so: Warning(linux-2.6.27-rc3-git2//include/linux/kernel.h:129): No description found for parameter 'file' Warning(linux-2.6.27-rc3-git2//include/linux/kernel.h:129): No description found for parameter 'line' because kernel-doc is looking at the wrong function prototype (i.e., __might_sleep). [Yes, I have a todo note to myself to check/warn for that inconsistency in scripts/kernel-doc.] Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-30fs: remove prepare_write/commit_writeNick Piggin
Nothing uses prepare_write or commit_write. Remove them from the tree completely. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: schedule simple_prepare_write() for unexporting] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-30cgroups: tiny cleanupsLi Zefan
- remove 'private' field from struct subsys - remove cgroup_init_smp() Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-30freezer_cg: use thaw_process() in unfreeze_cgroup()Li Zefan
Don't duplicate the implementation of thaw_process(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make __thaw_process() static] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Acked-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-30mm: increase the default mlock limit from 32k to 64kKurt Garloff
By default, non-privileged tasks can only mlock() a small amount of memory to avoid a DoS attack by ordinary users. The Linux kernel defaulted to 32k (on a 4k page size system) to accommodate the needs of gpg. However, newer gpg2 needs 64k in various circumstances and otherwise fails miserably, see bnc#329675. Change the default to 64k, and make it more agnostic to PAGE_SIZE. Signed-off-by: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-29adjust init section definitionsJan Beulich
Add rodata equivalents for assembly use, and fix the section attributes used by __REFCONST. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-10-29HID: fix hid_device_id for cross compilingAndreas Schwab
struct hid_device_id contains hidden padding which is bad for cross compiling. Make the padding explicit and consistent across architectures. Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2008-10-28Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (31 commits) ftrace: fix current_tracer error return tracing: fix a build error on alpha ftrace: use a real variable for ftrace_nop in x86 tracing/ftrace: make boot tracer select the sched_switch tracer tracepoint: check if the probe has been registered asm-generic: define DIE_OOPS in asm-generic trace: fix printk warning for u64 ftrace: warning in kernel/trace/ftrace.c ftrace: fix build failure ftrace, powerpc, sparc64, x86: remove notrace from arch ftrace file ftrace: remove ftrace hash ftrace: remove mcount set ftrace: remove daemon ftrace: disable dynamic ftrace for all archs that use daemon ftrace: add ftrace warn on to disable ftrace ftrace: only have ftrace_kill atomic ftrace: use probe_kernel ftrace: comment arch ftrace code ftrace: return error on failed modified text. ftrace: dynamic ftrace process only text section ...
2008-10-28Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.28' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm * 'kvm-updates/2.6.28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm: KVM: ia64: Makefile fix for forcing to re-generate asm-offsets.h KVM: Future-proof device assignment ABI KVM: ia64: Fix halt emulation logic KVM: Fix guest shared interrupt with in-kernel irqchip KVM: MMU: sync root on paravirt TLB flush
2008-10-28Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: fix documentation reference for sched_min_granularity_ns sched: virtual time buddy preemption sched: re-instate vruntime based wakeup preemption sched: weaken sync hint sched: more accurate min_vruntime accounting sched: fix a find_busiest_group buglet sched: add CONFIG_SMP consistency
2008-10-28KVM: Future-proof device assignment ABIAvi Kivity
Reserve some space so we can add more data. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-28KVM: Fix guest shared interrupt with in-kernel irqchipSheng Yang
Every call of kvm_set_irq() should offer an irq_source_id, which is allocated by kvm_request_irq_source_id(). Based on irq_source_id, we identify the irq source and implement logical OR for shared level interrupts. The allocated irq_source_id can be freed by kvm_free_irq_source_id(). Currently, we support at most sizeof(unsigned long) different irq sources. [Amit: - rebase to kvm.git HEAD - move definition of KVM_USERSPACE_IRQ_SOURCE_ID to common file - move kvm_request_irq_source_id to the update_irq ioctl] [Xiantao: - Add kvm/ia64 stuff and make it work for kvm/ia64 guests] Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-10-27HID: fix oops during suspend of unbound HID devicesJiri Slaby
Usbhid structure is allocated on start invoked only from probe of some driver. When there is no driver, the structure is null and causes null-dereference oopses. Fix it by allocating the structure on probe and disconnect of the device itself. Also make sure we won't race between start and resume or stop and suspend respectively. References: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11827 Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2008-10-27Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc2' into tracing/urgentIngo Molnar
2008-10-26Phonet: do not reply to indication reset packetsRemi Denis-Courmont
This fixes a potential error packet loop. Signed-off-by: Remi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-26Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/mdLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: md: allow extended partitions on md devices. md: use sysfs_notify_dirent to notify changes to md/dev-xxx/state md: use sysfs_notify_dirent to notify changes to md/array_state