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Tejun Heo 774a1221e8 module, async: async_synchronize_full() on module init iff async is used
If the default iosched is built as module, the kernel may deadlock
while trying to load the iosched module on device probe if the probing
was running off async.  This is because async_synchronize_full() at
the end of module init ends up waiting for the async job which
initiated the module loading.

 async A				modprobe

 1. finds a device
 2. registers the block device
 3. request_module(default iosched)
					4. modprobe in userland
					5. load and init module
					6. async_synchronize_full()

Async A waits for modprobe to finish in request_module() and modprobe
waits for async A to finish in async_synchronize_full().

Because there's no easy to track dependency once control goes out to
userland, implementing properly nested flushing is difficult.  For
now, make module init perform async_synchronize_full() iff module init
has queued async jobs as suggested by Linus.

This avoids the described deadlock because iosched module doesn't use
async and thus wouldn't invoke async_synchronize_full().  This is
hacky and incomplete.  It will deadlock if async module loading nests;
however, this works around the known problem case and seems to be the
best of bad options.

For more details, please refer to the following thread.

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1420814

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-01-16 09:05:33 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 406089d015 The clean up patch commit 0fb9656d "tracing: Make tracing_enabled be equal
to tracing_on" caused two regressions.
 
 1) The irqs off latency tracer no longer starts if tracing_on is off
   when the tracer is set, and then tracing_on is enabled. The tracing_on
   file needs the hook that tracing_enabled had to enable tracers if they
   request it (call the tracer's start() method).
 
 2) That commit had a separate change that really should have been a
   separate patch, but it must have been added accidently with the -a
   option of git commit. But as the change is still related to the commit
   it wasn't noticed in review. That change, changed the way blocking is
   done by the trace_pipe file with respect to the tracing_on settings.
   I've been told that this change breaks current userspace, and this
   specific change is being reverted.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.8-rc3-regression-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing regression fixes from Steven Rostedt:
 "The clean up patch commit 0fb9656d95 "tracing: Make tracing_enabled
  be equal to tracing_on" caused two regressions.

   1) The irqs off latency tracer no longer starts if tracing_on is off
      when the tracer is set, and then tracing_on is enabled.  The
      tracing_on file needs the hook that tracing_enabled had to enable
      tracers if they request it (call the tracer's start() method).

   2) That commit had a separate change that really should have been a
      separate patch, but it must have been added accidently with the -a
      option of git commit.  But as the change is still related to the
      commit it wasn't noticed in review.  That change, changed the way
      blocking is done by the trace_pipe file with respect to the
      tracing_on settings.  I've been told that this change breaks
      current userspace, and this specific change is being reverted."

* tag 'trace-3.8-rc3-regression-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Fix regression of trace_pipe
  tracing: Fix regression with irqsoff tracer and tracing_on file
2013-01-14 20:22:16 -08:00
Liu Bo 250bfd3d8e tracing: Fix regression of trace_pipe
Commit 0fb9656d "tracing: Make tracing_enabled be equal to tracing_on"
changes the behaviour of trace_pipe, ie. it makes trace_pipe return if
we've read something and tracing is enabled, and this means that we have
to 'cat trace_pipe' again and again while running tests.

IMO the right way is if tracing is enabled, we always block and wait for
ring buffer, or we may lose what we want since ring buffer's size is limited.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358132051-5410-1-git-send-email-bo.li.liu@oracle.com

Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-14 13:13:32 -05:00
Andrew Morton 829199197a kernel/audit.c: avoid negative sleep durations
audit_log_start() performs the same jiffies comparison in two places.
If sufficient time has elapsed between the two comparisons, the second
one produces a negative sleep duration:

  schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value fffffffffffffff0
  Pid: 6606, comm: trinity-child1 Not tainted 3.8.0-rc1+ #43
  Call Trace:
    schedule_timeout+0x305/0x340
    audit_log_start+0x311/0x470
    audit_log_exit+0x4b/0xfb0
    __audit_syscall_exit+0x25f/0x2c0
    sysret_audit+0x17/0x21

Fix it by performing the comparison a single time.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-01-11 14:54:56 -08:00
Kees Cook 0644ec0cc8 audit: catch possible NULL audit buffers
It's possible for audit_log_start() to return NULL.  Handle it in the
various callers.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Julien Tinnes <jln@google.com>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@google.com>
Cc: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-01-11 14:54:55 -08:00
Kees Cook 7b9205bd77 audit: create explicit AUDIT_SECCOMP event type
The seccomp path was using AUDIT_ANOM_ABEND from when seccomp mode 1
could only kill a process.  While we still want to make sure an audit
record is forced on a kill, this should use a separate record type since
seccomp mode 2 introduces other behaviors.

In the case of "handled" behaviors (process wasn't killed), only emit a
record if the process is under inspection.  This change also fixes
userspace examination of seccomp audit events, since it was considered
malformed due to missing fields of the AUDIT_ANOM_ABEND event type.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Julien Tinnes <jln@google.com>
Acked-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-01-11 14:54:55 -08:00
Jiri Kosina 1b963c81b1 lockdep, rwsem: provide down_write_nest_lock()
down_write_nest_lock() provides a means to annotate locking scenario
where an outer lock is guaranteed to serialize the order nested locks
are being acquired.

This is analogoue to already existing mutex_lock_nest_lock() and
spin_lock_nest_lock().

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-01-11 14:54:55 -08:00
Steven Rostedt 2df8f8a6a8 tracing: Fix regression with irqsoff tracer and tracing_on file
Commit 02404baf1b "tracing: Remove deprecated tracing_enabled file"
removed the tracing_enabled file as it never worked properly and
the tracing_on file should be used instead. But the tracing_on file
didn't call into the tracers start/stop routines like the
tracing_enabled file did. This caused trace-cmd to break when it
enabled the irqsoff tracer.

If you just did "echo irqsoff > current_tracer" then it would work
properly. But the tool trace-cmd disables tracing first by writing
"0" into the tracing_on file. Then it writes "irqsoff" into
current_tracer and then writes "1" into tracing_on. Unfortunately,
the above commit changed the irqsoff tracer to check the tracing_on
status instead of the tracing_enabled status. If it's disabled then
it does not start the tracer internals.

The problem is that writing "1" into tracing_on does not call the
tracers "start" routine like writing "1" into tracing_enabled did.
This makes the irqsoff tracer not start when using the trace-cmd
tool, and is a regression for userspace.

Simple fix is to have the tracing_on file call the tracers start()
method when being enabled (and the stop() method when disabled).

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-11 16:14:10 -05:00
Randy Dunlap bfbbd96c51 audit: fix auditfilter.c kernel-doc warnings
Fix new kernel-doc warning in auditfilter.c:

  Warning(kernel/auditfilter.c:1157): Excess function parameter 'uid' description in 'audit_receive_filter'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com (subscribers-only)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-01-10 14:35:23 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 4ffd4ebf9d commit 7bcfaf54f5
"tracing: Add trace_options kernel command line parameter"
 
 in consolidating the code, it removed a necessary nul terminator.
 This causes writing to the trace_options file to break. Although,
 setting the options/<options> file to 1 or 0 still worked fine.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.8-rc2-regression-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing regression fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "A change that came in this merge window broke the writing to the
  trace_options file.  It causes garbage to be read during the compare
  of option names, and breaks setting options via the trace_options
  file, although options can still be set via the options/<option>
  files."

* tag 'trace-3.8-rc2-regression-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Fix regression of trace_options file setting
2013-01-10 09:03:16 -08:00
Steven Rostedt a8dd2176a8 tracing: Fix regression of trace_options file setting
The latest change to allow trace options to be set on the command
line also broke the trace_options file.

The zeroing of the last byte of the option name that is echoed into
the trace_option file was removed with the consolidation of some
of the code. The compare between the option and what was written to
the trace_options file fails because the string holding the data
written doesn't terminate with a null character.

A zero needs to be added to the end of the string copied from
user space.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-09 20:54:17 -05:00
Linus Torvalds d0631c6e09 Merge branch 'akpm' (fixes from Andrew)
Merge emailed fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "Bunch of fixes:

   - delayed IPC updates.  I held back on this because of some possible
     outstanding bug reports, but they appear to have been addressed in
     later versions

   - A bunch of MAINTAINERS updates

   - Yet Another RTC driver.  I'd held this back while a couple of
     little issues were being worked out.

  I'm expecting an intrusive-but-simple patchset from Joe Perches which
  splits up printk.c into kernel/printk/*.  That will be a pig to
  maintain for two months so if it passes testing I'd like to get it
  upstream after a week or so."

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (35 commits)
  printk: fix incorrect length from print_time() when seconds > 99999
  drivers/rtc/rtc-vt8500.c: fix handling of data passed in struct rtc_time
  drivers/rtc/rtc-vt8500.c: correct handling of CR_24H bitfield
  rtc: add RTC driver for TPS6586x
  MAINTAINERS: fix drivers/staging/sm7xx/
  MAINTAINERS: remove include/linux/of_pwm.h
  MAINTAINERS: remove arch/*/lib/perf_event*.c
  MAINTAINERS: remove drivers/mmc/host/imxmmc.*
  MAINTAINERS: fix Documentation/mei/
  MAINTAINERS: remove arch/x86/platform/mrst/pmu.*
  MAINTAINERS: remove firmware/isci/
  MAINTAINERS: fix drivers/ieee802154/
  MAINTAINERS: fix .../plat-mxc/include/mach/imxfb.h
  MAINTAINERS: remove drivers/video/epson1355fb.c
  MAINTAINERS: fix drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/cxusb*
  MAINTAINERS: adjust for UAPI
  MAINTAINERS: fix drivers/media/platform/atmel-isi.c
  MAINTAINERS: fix arch/arm/mach-at91/include/mach/at_hdmac.h
  MAINTAINERS: fix drivers/rtc/rtc-vt8500.c
  MAINTAINERS: remove arch/arm/plat-s5p/
  ...
2013-01-07 07:42:38 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 0c4a842349 signals: set_current_blocked() can use __set_current_blocked()
Cleanup.  And I think we need more cleanups, in particular
__set_current_blocked() and sigprocmask() should die.  Nobody should
ever block SIGKILL or SIGSTOP.

 - Change set_current_blocked() to use __set_current_blocked()

 - Change sys_sigprocmask() to use set_current_blocked(), this way it
   should not worry about SIGKILL/SIGSTOP.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-01-05 19:34:54 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 5ba53ff648 signals: sys_ssetmask() uses uninitialized newmask
Commit 77097ae503 ("most of set_current_blocked() callers want
SIGKILL/SIGSTOP removed from set") removed the initialization of newmask
by accident, causing ltp to complain like this:

  ssetmask01    1  TFAIL  :  sgetmask() failed: TEST_ERRNO=???(0): Success

Restore the proper initialization.

Reported-and-tested-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org	# v3.5+
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-01-05 19:34:54 -08:00
Roland Dreier 35dac27ced printk: fix incorrect length from print_time() when seconds > 99999
print_prefix() passes a NULL buf to print_time() to get the length of
the time prefix; when printk times are enabled, the current code just
returns the constant 15, which matches the format "[%5lu.%06lu] " used
to print the time value.  However, this is obviously incorrect when the
whole seconds part of the time gets beyond 5 digits (100000 seconds is a
bit more than a day of uptime).

The simple fix is to use snprintf(NULL, 0, ...) to calculate the actual
length of the time prefix.  This could be micro-optimized but it seems
better to have simpler, more readable code here.

The bug leads to the syslog system call miscomputing which messages fit
into the userspace buffer.  If there are enough messages to fill
log_buf_len and some have a timestamp >= 100000, dmesg may fail with:

    # dmesg
    klogctl: Bad address

When this happens, strace shows that the failure is indeed EFAULT due to
the kernel mistakenly accessing past the end of dmesg's buffer, since
dmesg asks the kernel how big a buffer it needs, allocates a bit more,
and then gets an error when it asks the kernel to fill it:

    syslog(0xa, 0, 0)                       = 1048576
    mmap(NULL, 1052672, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fa4d25d2000
    syslog(0x3, 0x7fa4d25d2010, 0x100008)   = -1 EFAULT (Bad address)

As far as I can see, the bug has been there as long as print_time(),
which comes from commit 084681d14e ("printk: flush continuation lines
immediately to console") in 3.5-rc5.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Sylvain Munaut <s.munaut@whatever-company.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-01-04 16:11:48 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman c876ad7682 pidns: Stop pid allocation when init dies
Oleg pointed out that in a pid namespace the sequence.
- pid 1 becomes a zombie
- setns(thepidns), fork,...
- reaping pid 1.
- The injected processes exiting.

Can lead to processes attempting access their child reaper and
instead following a stale pointer.

That waitpid for init can return before all of the processes in
the pid namespace have exited is also unfortunate.

Avoid these problems by disabling the allocation of new pids in a pid
namespace when init dies, instead of when the last process in a pid
namespace is reaped.

Pointed-out-by:  Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-12-25 16:10:05 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 8382fcac1b pidns: Outlaw thread creation after unshare(CLONE_NEWPID)
The sequence:
unshare(CLONE_NEWPID)
clone(CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_SIGHAND|CLONE_VM)

Creates a new process in the new pid namespace without setting
pid_ns->child_reaper.  After forking this results in a NULL
pointer dereference.

Avoid this and other nonsense scenarios that can show up after
creating a new pid namespace with unshare by adding a new
check in copy_prodcess.

Pointed-out-by:  Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by:  Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-12-24 22:53:14 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 96680d2b91 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify
Pull filesystem notification updates from Eric Paris:
 "This pull mostly is about locking changes in the fsnotify system.  By
  switching the group lock from a spin_lock() to a mutex() we can now
  hold the lock across things like iput().  This fixes a problem
  involving unmounting a fs and having inodes be busy, first pointed out
  by FAT, but reproducible with tmpfs.

  This also restores signal driven I/O for inotify, which has been
  broken since about 2.6.32."

Ugh.  I *hate* the timing of this.  It was rebased after the merge
window opened, and then left to sit with the pull request coming the day
before the merge window closes.  That's just crap.  But apparently the
patches themselves have been around for over a year, just gathering
dust, so now it's suddenly critical.

Fixed up semantic conflict in fs/notify/fdinfo.c as per Stephen
Rothwell's fixes from -next.

* 'for-next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify:
  inotify: automatically restart syscalls
  inotify: dont skip removal of watch descriptor if creation of ignored event failed
  fanotify: dont merge permission events
  fsnotify: make fasync generic for both inotify and fanotify
  fsnotify: change locking order
  fsnotify: dont put marks on temporary list when clearing marks by group
  fsnotify: introduce locked versions of fsnotify_add_mark() and fsnotify_remove_mark()
  fsnotify: pass group to fsnotify_destroy_mark()
  fsnotify: use a mutex instead of a spinlock to protect a groups mark list
  fanotify: add an extra flag to mark_remove_from_mask that indicates wheather a mark should be destroyed
  fsnotify: take groups mark_lock before mark lock
  fsnotify: use reference counting for groups
  fsnotify: introduce fsnotify_get_group()
  inotify, fanotify: replace fsnotify_put_group() with fsnotify_destroy_group()
2012-12-20 20:11:52 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 4c9a44aebe Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)
Merge the rest of Andrew's patches for -rc1:
 "A bunch of fixes and misc missed-out-on things.

  That'll do for -rc1.  I still have a batch of IPC patches which still
  have a possible bug report which I'm chasing down."

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (25 commits)
  keys: use keyring_alloc() to create module signing keyring
  keys: fix unreachable code
  sendfile: allows bypassing of notifier events
  SGI-XP: handle non-fatal traps
  fat: fix incorrect function comment
  Documentation: ABI: remove testing/sysfs-devices-node
  proc: fix inconsistent lock state
  linux/kernel.h: fix DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST with unsigned divisors
  memcg: don't register hotcpu notifier from ->css_alloc()
  checkpatch: warn on uapi #includes that #include <uapi/...
  revert "rtc: recycle id when unloading a rtc driver"
  mm: clean up transparent hugepage sysfs error messages
  hfsplus: add error message for the case of failure of sync fs in delayed_sync_fs() method
  hfsplus: rework processing of hfs_btree_write() returned error
  hfsplus: rework processing errors in hfsplus_free_extents()
  hfsplus: avoid crash on failed block map free
  kcmp: include linux/ptrace.h
  drivers/rtc/rtc-imxdi.c: must include <linux/spinlock.h>
  mm: cma: WARN if freed memory is still in use
  exec: do not leave bprm->interp on stack
  ...
2012-12-20 20:00:43 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 54d46ea993 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull signal handling cleanups from Al Viro:
 "sigaltstack infrastructure + conversion for x86, alpha and um,
  COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE infrastructure.

  Note that there are several conflicts between "unify
  SS_ONSTACK/SS_DISABLE definitions" and UAPI patches in mainline;
  resolution is trivial - just remove definitions of SS_ONSTACK and
  SS_DISABLED from arch/*/uapi/asm/signal.h; they are all identical and
  include/uapi/linux/signal.h contains the unified variant."

Fixed up conflicts as per Al.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  alpha: switch to generic sigaltstack
  new helpers: __save_altstack/__compat_save_altstack, switch x86 and um to those
  generic compat_sys_sigaltstack()
  introduce generic sys_sigaltstack(), switch x86 and um to it
  new helper: compat_user_stack_pointer()
  new helper: restore_altstack()
  unify SS_ONSTACK/SS_DISABLE definitions
  new helper: current_user_stack_pointer()
  missing user_stack_pointer() instances
  Bury the conditionals from kernel_thread/kernel_execve series
  COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE: infrastructure
2012-12-20 18:05:28 -08:00
David Howells cfde819088 keys: use keyring_alloc() to create module signing keyring
Use keyring_alloc() to create special keyrings now that it has
a permissions parameter rather than using key_alloc() +
key_instantiate_and_link().

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-20 17:40:21 -08:00
Cyrill Gorcunov 44fd07e989 kcmp: include linux/ptrace.h
This makes it compile on s390. After all the ptrace_may_access
(which we use this file) is declared exactly in linux/ptrace.h.

This is preparatory work to wire this syscall up on all archs.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Kartashov <alekskartashov@parallels.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-20 17:40:19 -08:00
Hugh Dickins 2832bc19f6 sched: numa: ksm: fix oops in task_numa_placment()
task_numa_placement() oopsed on NULL p->mm when task_numa_fault() got
called in the handling of break_ksm() for ksmd.  That might be a
peculiar case, which perhaps KSM could takes steps to avoid? but it's
more robust if task_numa_placement() allows for such a possibility.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-20 07:06:56 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 7005cd3970 A few /dev/random improvements for the v3.8 merge window.
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Merge tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random

Pull random updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "A few /dev/random improvements for the v3.8 merge window."

* tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random:
  random: Mix cputime from each thread that exits to the pool
  random: prime last_data value per fips requirements
  random: fix debug format strings
  random: make it possible to enable debugging without rebuild
2012-12-19 20:23:37 -08:00
Al Viro c40702c49f new helpers: __save_altstack/__compat_save_altstack, switch x86 and um to those
note that they are relying on access_ok() already checked by caller.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-12-19 18:07:41 -05:00
Al Viro 9026843952 generic compat_sys_sigaltstack()
Again, conditional on CONFIG_GENERIC_SIGALTSTACK

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-12-19 18:07:41 -05:00
Al Viro 6bf9adfc90 introduce generic sys_sigaltstack(), switch x86 and um to it
Conditional on CONFIG_GENERIC_SIGALTSTACK; architectures that do not
select it are completely unaffected

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-12-19 18:07:40 -05:00
Al Viro 5c49574ffd new helper: restore_altstack()
to be used by rt_sigreturn instances

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-12-19 18:07:40 -05:00
Al Viro ae903caae2 Bury the conditionals from kernel_thread/kernel_execve series
All architectures have
	CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD
	CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE
	__ARCH_WANT_SYS_EXECVE
None of them have __ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_EXECVE and there are only two callers
of kernel_execve() (which is a trivial wrapper for do_execve() now) left.
Kill the conditionals and make both callers use do_execve().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-12-19 18:07:38 -05:00
Bjørn Mork 3935e89505 watchdog: Fix disable/enable regression
Commit 8d4516904b ("watchdog: Fix CPU hotplug regression") causes an
oops or hard lockup when doing

 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
 echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog

and the kernel is booted with nmi_watchdog=1 (default)

Running laptop-mode-tools and disconnecting/connecting AC power will
cause this to trigger, making it a common failure scenario on laptops.

Instead of bailing out of watchdog_disable() when !watchdog_enabled we
can initialize the hrtimer regardless of watchdog_enabled status.  This
makes it safe to call watchdog_disable() in the nmi_watchdog=0 case,
without the negative effect on the enabled => disabled => enabled case.

All these tests pass with this patch:
- nmi_watchdog=1
  echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
  echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog

- nmi_watchdog=0
  echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online

- nmi_watchdog=0
  echo mem > /sys/power/state

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51661

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.7
Cc: Norbert Warmuth <nwarmuth@t-online.de>
Cc: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@canonical.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-19 12:10:33 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 7a684c452e Nothing all that exciting; a new module-from-fd syscall for those who want
to verify the source of the module (ChromeOS) and/or use standard IMA on it
 or other security hooks.
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Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux

Pull module update from Rusty Russell:
 "Nothing all that exciting; a new module-from-fd syscall for those who
  want to verify the source of the module (ChromeOS) and/or use standard
  IMA on it or other security hooks."

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  MODSIGN: Fix kbuild output when using default extra_certificates
  MODSIGN: Avoid using .incbin in C source
  modules: don't hand 0 to vmalloc.
  module: Remove a extra null character at the top of module->strtab.
  ASN.1: Use the ASN1_LONG_TAG and ASN1_INDEFINITE_LENGTH constants
  ASN.1: Define indefinite length marker constant
  moduleparam: use __UNIQUE_ID()
  __UNIQUE_ID()
  MODSIGN: Add modules_sign make target
  powerpc: add finit_module syscall.
  ima: support new kernel module syscall
  add finit_module syscall to asm-generic
  ARM: add finit_module syscall to ARM
  security: introduce kernel_module_from_file hook
  module: add flags arg to sys_finit_module()
  module: add syscall to load module from fd
2012-12-19 07:55:08 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 673ab8783b Merge branch 'akpm' (more patches from Andrew)
Merge patches from Andrew Morton:
 "Most of the rest of MM, plus a few dribs and drabs.

  I still have quite a few irritating patches left around: ones with
  dubious testing results, lack of review, ones which should have gone
  via maintainer trees but the maintainers are slack, etc.

  I need to be more activist in getting these things wrapped up outside
  the merge window, but they're such a PITA."

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (48 commits)
  mm/vmscan.c: avoid possible deadlock caused by too_many_isolated()
  vmscan: comment too_many_isolated()
  mm/kmemleak.c: remove obsolete simple_strtoul
  mm/memory_hotplug.c: improve comments
  mm/hugetlb: create hugetlb cgroup file in hugetlb_init
  mm/mprotect.c: coding-style cleanups
  Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/node/
  slub: drop mutex before deleting sysfs entry
  memcg: add comments clarifying aspects of cache attribute propagation
  kmem: add slab-specific documentation about the kmem controller
  slub: slub-specific propagation changes
  slab: propagate tunable values
  memcg: aggregate memcg cache values in slabinfo
  memcg/sl[au]b: shrink dead caches
  memcg/sl[au]b: track all the memcg children of a kmem_cache
  memcg: destroy memcg caches
  sl[au]b: allocate objects from memcg cache
  sl[au]b: always get the cache from its page in kmem_cache_free()
  memcg: skip memcg kmem allocations in specified code regions
  memcg: infrastructure to match an allocation to the right cache
  ...
2012-12-18 15:08:12 -08:00
Glauber Costa 2ad306b17c fork: protect architectures where THREAD_SIZE >= PAGE_SIZE against fork bombs
Because those architectures will draw their stacks directly from the page
allocator, rather than the slab cache, we can directly pass __GFP_KMEMCG
flag, and issue the corresponding free_pages.

This code path is taken when the architecture doesn't define
CONFIG_ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR (only ia64 seems to), and has
THREAD_SIZE >= PAGE_SIZE.  Luckily, most - if not all - of the remaining
architectures fall in this category.

This will guarantee that every stack page is accounted to the memcg the
process currently lives on, and will have the allocations to fail if they
go over limit.

For the time being, I am defining a new variant of THREADINFO_GFP, not to
mess with the other path.  Once the slab is also tracked by memcg, we can
get rid of that flag.

Tested to successfully protect against :(){ :|:& };:

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-18 15:02:13 -08:00
Glauber Costa 50bdd430c2 res_counter: return amount of charges after res_counter_uncharge()
It is useful to know how many charges are still left after a call to
res_counter_uncharge.  While it is possible to issue a res_counter_read
after uncharge, this can be racy.

If we need, for instance, to take some action when the counters drop down
to 0, only one of the callers should see it.  This is the same semantics
as the atomic variables in the kernel.

Since the current return value is void, we don't need to worry about
anything breaking due to this change: nobody relied on that, and only
users appearing from now on will be checking this value.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-18 15:02:12 -08:00
Alan Cox 19af395d7c irq: tsk->comm is an array
The array check is useless so remove it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove comment, per David]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-18 15:02:11 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 758338e960 Merge branch 'tip/perf/core-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull minor tracing updates and fixes from Steven Rostedt:
 "It seems that one of my old pull requests have slipped through.

  The changes are contained to just the files that I maintain, and are
  changes from others that I told I would get into this merge window.

  They have already been in linux-next for several weeks, and should be
  well tested."

* 'tip/perf/core-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Remove unnecessary WARN_ONCE's from tracing_buffers_splice_read
  tracing: Remove unneeded checks from the stack tracer
  tracing: Add a resize function to make one buffer equivalent to another buffer
2012-12-18 12:28:39 -08:00
Linus Torvalds a2faf2fc53 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
Pull (again) user namespace infrastructure changes from Eric Biederman:
 "Those bugs, those darn embarrasing bugs just want don't want to get
  fixed.

  Linus I just updated my mirror of your kernel.org tree and it appears
  you successfully pulled everything except the last 4 commits that fix
  those embarrasing bugs.

  When you get a chance can you please repull my branch"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  userns: Fix typo in description of the limitation of userns_install
  userns: Add a more complete capability subset test to commit_creds
  userns: Require CAP_SYS_ADMIN for most uses of setns.
  Fix cap_capable to only allow owners in the parent user namespace to have caps.
2012-12-18 10:55:28 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 848b81415c Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)
Merge misc patches from Andrew Morton:
 "Incoming:

   - lots of misc stuff

   - backlight tree updates

   - lib/ updates

   - Oleg's percpu-rwsem changes

   - checkpatch

   - rtc

   - aoe

   - more checkpoint/restart support

  I still have a pile of MM stuff pending - Pekka should be merging
  later today after which that is good to go.  A number of other things
  are twiddling thumbs awaiting maintainer merges."

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (180 commits)
  scatterlist: don't BUG when we can trivially return a proper error.
  docs: update documentation about /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> fanotify output
  fs, fanotify: add @mflags field to fanotify output
  docs: add documentation about /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> output
  fs, notify: add procfs fdinfo helper
  fs, exportfs: add exportfs_encode_inode_fh() helper
  fs, exportfs: escape nil dereference if no s_export_op present
  fs, epoll: add procfs fdinfo helper
  fs, eventfd: add procfs fdinfo helper
  procfs: add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers
  tools/testing/selftests/kcmp/kcmp_test.c: print reason for failure in kcmp_test
  breakpoint selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
  kcmp selftests: print fail status instead of cause make error
  kcmp selftests: make run_tests fix
  mem-hotplug selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
  cpu-hotplug selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
  mqueue selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
  vm selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
  ubifs: use prandom_bytes
  mtd: nandsim: use prandom_bytes
  ...
2012-12-17 20:58:12 -08:00
Gao feng a5ba911ec3 pidns: remove unused is_container_init()
Since commit 1cdcbec1a3 ("CRED: Neuter sys_capset()")
is_container_init() has no callers.

Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:23 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 992fb6e170 ptrace: introduce PTRACE_O_EXITKILL
Ptrace jailers want to be sure that the tracee can never escape
from the control. However if the tracer dies unexpectedly the
tracee continues to run in potentially unsafe mode.

Add the new ptrace option PTRACE_O_EXITKILL. If the tracer exits
it sends SIGKILL to every tracee which has this bit set.

Note that the new option is not equal to the last-option << 1.  Because
currently all options have an event, and the new one starts the eventless
group.  It uses the random 20 bit, so we have the room for 12 more events,
but we can also add the new eventless options below this one.

Suggested by Amnon Shiloh.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Amnon Shiloh <u3557@miso.sublimeip.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: Chris Evans <scarybeasts@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:22 -08:00
Catalin Marinas 0ad50c3896 compat: generic compat_sys_sched_rr_get_interval() implementation
This function is used by sparc, powerpc tile and arm64 for compat support.
 The patch adds a generic implementation with a wrapper for PowerPC to do
the u32->int sign extension.

The reason for a single patch covering powerpc, tile, sparc and arm64 is
to keep it bisectable, otherwise kernel building may fail with mismatched
function declarations.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>  [for tile]
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:18 -08:00
Andy Shevchenko b2e902f024 trace: use kbasename()
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:17 -08:00
Andrew Cooks 2fa72c8fa5 printk: boot_delay should only affect output
The boot_delay parameter affects all printk(), even if the log level
prevents visible output from the call.  It results in delays greater than
the user intended without purpose.

This patch changes the behaviour of boot_delay to only delay output.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooks <acooks@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:13 -08:00
Chuansheng Liu 0f34c40091 watchdog: store the watchdog sample period as a variable
Currently getting the sample period is always thru a complex
calculation: get_softlockup_thresh() * ((u64)NSEC_PER_SEC / 5).

We can store the sample period as a variable, and set it as __read_mostly
type.

Signed-off-by: liu chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:13 -08:00
Andrew Morton 965c8e59cf lseek: the "whence" argument is called "whence"
But the kernel decided to call it "origin" instead.  Fix most of the
sites.

Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:12 -08:00
Tao Ma 8ec7d50f1e kernel: remove reference to feature-removal-schedule.txt
In commit 9c0ece069b ("Get rid of Documentation/feature-removal.txt"),
Linus removed feature-removal-schedule.txt from Documentation, but there
is still some reference to this file.  So remove them.

Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:12 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 6a2b60b17b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
Pull user namespace changes from Eric Biederman:
 "While small this set of changes is very significant with respect to
  containers in general and user namespaces in particular.  The user
  space interface is now complete.

  This set of changes adds support for unprivileged users to create user
  namespaces and as a user namespace root to create other namespaces.
  The tyranny of supporting suid root preventing unprivileged users from
  using cool new kernel features is broken.

  This set of changes completes the work on setns, adding support for
  the pid, user, mount namespaces.

  This set of changes includes a bunch of basic pid namespace
  cleanups/simplifications.  Of particular significance is the rework of
  the pid namespace cleanup so it no longer requires sending out
  tendrils into all kinds of unexpected cleanup paths for operation.  At
  least one case of broken error handling is fixed by this cleanup.

  The files under /proc/<pid>/ns/ have been converted from regular files
  to magic symlinks which prevents incorrect caching by the VFS,
  ensuring the files always refer to the namespace the process is
  currently using and ensuring that the ptrace_mayaccess permission
  checks are always applied.

  The files under /proc/<pid>/ns/ have been given stable inode numbers
  so it is now possible to see if different processes share the same
  namespaces.

  Through the David Miller's net tree are changes to relax many of the
  permission checks in the networking stack to allowing the user
  namespace root to usefully use the networking stack.  Similar changes
  for the mount namespace and the pid namespace are coming through my
  tree.

  Two small changes to add user namespace support were commited here adn
  in David Miller's -net tree so that I could complete the work on the
  /proc/<pid>/ns/ files in this tree.

  Work remains to make it safe to build user namespaces and 9p, afs,
  ceph, cifs, coda, gfs2, ncpfs, nfs, nfsd, ocfs2, and xfs so the
  Kconfig guard remains in place preventing that user namespaces from
  being built when any of those filesystems are enabled.

  Future design work remains to allow root users outside of the initial
  user namespace to mount more than just /proc and /sys."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (38 commits)
  proc: Usable inode numbers for the namespace file descriptors.
  proc: Fix the namespace inode permission checks.
  proc: Generalize proc inode allocation
  userns: Allow unprivilged mounts of proc and sysfs
  userns: For /proc/self/{uid,gid}_map derive the lower userns from the struct file
  procfs: Print task uids and gids in the userns that opened the proc file
  userns: Implement unshare of the user namespace
  userns: Implent proc namespace operations
  userns: Kill task_user_ns
  userns: Make create_new_namespaces take a user_ns parameter
  userns: Allow unprivileged use of setns.
  userns: Allow unprivileged users to create new namespaces
  userns: Allow setting a userns mapping to your current uid.
  userns: Allow chown and setgid preservation
  userns: Allow unprivileged users to create user namespaces.
  userns: Ignore suid and sgid on binaries if the uid or gid can not be mapped
  userns: fix return value on mntns_install() failure
  vfs: Allow unprivileged manipulation of the mount namespace.
  vfs: Only support slave subtrees across different user namespaces
  vfs: Add a user namespace reference from struct mnt_namespace
  ...
2012-12-17 15:44:47 -08:00
Mel Gorman 221392c3ad sched: numa: Fix build error if CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING && !CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Michal Hocko reported that the following build error occurs if
CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING is set without THP support

  kernel/sched/fair.c: In function ‘task_numa_work’:
  kernel/sched/fair.c:932:55: error: call to ‘__build_bug_failed’ declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed

The problem is that HPAGE_PMD_SHIFT triggers a BUILD_BUG() on
!CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE. This patch addresses the problem.

Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 08:25:50 -08:00
Nick Kossifidis 6133705494 random: Mix cputime from each thread that exits to the pool
When a thread exits mix it's cputime (userspace + kernelspace) to the entropy pool.

We don't know how "random" this is, so we use add_device_randomness that doesn't mess
with entropy count.

Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2012-12-16 22:18:11 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 2a74dbb9a8 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security
Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
 "A quiet cycle for the security subsystem with just a few maintenance
  updates."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security:
  Smack: create a sysfs mount point for smackfs
  Smack: use select not depends in Kconfig
  Yama: remove locking from delete path
  Yama: add RCU to drop read locking
  drivers/char/tpm: remove tasklet and cleanup
  KEYS: Use keyring_alloc() to create special keyrings
  KEYS: Reduce initial permissions on keys
  KEYS: Make the session and process keyrings per-thread
  seccomp: Make syscall skipping and nr changes more consistent
  key: Fix resource leak
  keys: Fix unreachable code
  KEYS: Add payload preparsing opportunity prior to key instantiate or update
2012-12-16 15:40:50 -08:00