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Andy Grover 9de100d001 mm: document get_user_pages_fast()
While better than get_user_pages(), the usage of gupf(), especially the
return values and the fact that it can potentially only partially pin the
range, warranted some documentation.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13 15:04:32 -07:00
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu ca2b84cb3c kmemtrace: use tracepoints
kmemtrace now uses tracepoints instead of markers. We no longer need to
use format specifiers to pass arguments.

Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
[ folded: Use the new TP_PROTO and TP_ARGS to fix the build.     ]
[ folded: fix build when CONFIG_KMEMTRACE is disabled.           ]
[ folded: define tracepoints when CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS is enabled. ]
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
LKML-Reference: <ae61c0f37156db8ec8dc0d5778018edde60a92e3.1237813499.git.eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-03 12:23:06 +02:00
Li Zefan 610a77e04a memdup_user(): introduce
I notice there are many places doing copy_from_user() which follows
kmalloc():

        dst = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!dst)
                return -ENOMEM;
        if (copy_from_user(dst, src, len)) {
		kfree(dst);
		return -EFAULT
	}

memdup_user() is a wrapper of the above code.  With this new function, we
don't have to write 'len' twice, which can lead to typos/mistakes.  It
also produces smaller code and kernel text.

A quick grep shows 250+ places where memdup_user() *may* be used.  I'll
prepare a patchset to do this conversion.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01 08:59:13 -07:00
Johannes Weiner 3ef0e5ba46 slab: introduce kzfree()
kzfree() is a wrapper for kfree() that additionally zeroes the underlying
memory before releasing it to the slab allocator.

Currently there is code which memset()s the memory region of an object
before releasing it back to the slab allocator to make sure
security-sensitive data are really zeroed out after use.

These callsites can then just use kzfree() which saves some code, makes
users greppable and allows for a stupid destructor that isn't necessarily
aware of the actual object size.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-20 17:57:48 -08:00
Rusty Russell 912985dce4 mm: Make generic weak get_user_pages_fast and EXPORT_GPL it
Out of line get_user_pages_fast fallback implementation, make it a weak
symbol, get rid of CONFIG_HAVE_GET_USER_PAGES_FAST.

Export the symbol to modules so lguest can use it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-08-12 17:52:53 +10:00
Linus Torvalds 2284284281 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  netns: fix ip_rt_frag_needed rt_is_expired
  netfilter: nf_conntrack_extend: avoid unnecessary "ct->ext" dereferences
  netfilter: fix double-free and use-after free
  netfilter: arptables in netns for real
  netfilter: ip{,6}tables_security: fix future section mismatch
  selinux: use nf_register_hooks()
  netfilter: ebtables: use nf_register_hooks()
  Revert "pkt_sched: sch_sfq: dump a real number of flows"
  qeth: use dev->ml_priv instead of dev->priv
  syncookies: Make sure ECN is disabled
  net: drop unused BUG_TRAP()
  net: convert BUG_TRAP to generic WARN_ON
  drivers/net: convert BUG_TRAP to generic WARN_ON
2008-07-26 20:17:56 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 3b8f14b410 mm/util.c must #include <linux/sched.h>
mm/util.c: In function 'arch_pick_mmap_layout':
  mm/util.c:144: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
  mm/util.c:145: error: 'arch_get_unmapped_area' undeclared (first use in this function)
  mm/util.c:145: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
  mm/util.c:145: error: for each function it appears in.)
  mm/util.c:146: error: 'arch_unmap_area' undeclared (first use in this function)

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 20:16:47 -07:00
Pekka Enberg 93bc4e89c2 netfilter: fix double-free and use-after free
As suggested by Patrick McHardy, introduce a __krealloc() that doesn't
free the original buffer to fix a double-free and use-after-free bug
introduced by me in netfilter that uses RCU.

Reported-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Tested-by: Dieter Ries <clip2@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-26 17:49:33 -07:00
Andrew Morton 16d69265b9 uninline arch_pick_mmap_layout()
Fix this, on avr32:

  include/linux/utsname.h:35,
                   from init/main.c:20:
  include/linux/sched.h: In function 'arch_pick_mmap_layout':
  include/linux/sched.h:2149: error: implicit declaration of function 'PAGE_ALIGN'

Reported-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:01 -07:00
Adrian Bunk be21f0ab0d fix mm/util.c:krealloc()
Commit ef8b4520bd added one NULL check for
"p" in krealloc(), but that doesn't seem to be enough since there
doesn't seem to be any guarantee that memcpy(ret, NULL, 0) works
(spotted by the Coverity checker).

For making it clearer what happens this patch also removes the pointless
min().

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14 18:45:41 -08:00
Christoph Lameter ef8b4520bd Slab allocators: fail if ksize is called with a NULL parameter
A NULL pointer means that the object was not allocated.  One cannot
determine the size of an object that has not been allocated.  Currently we
return 0 but we really should BUG() on attempts to determine the size of
something nonexistent.

krealloc() interprets NULL to mean a zero sized object.  Handle that
separately in krealloc().

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:42:53 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 1e66df3ee3 add kstrndup
Add a kstrndup function, modelled on strndup.  Like strndup this
returns a string copied into its own allocated memory, but it copies
no more than the specified number of bytes from the source.

Remove private strndup() from irda code.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@issaris.org>
Cc: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
2007-07-18 08:47:39 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 81cda66261 Slab allocators: Cleanup zeroing allocations
It becomes now easy to support the zeroing allocs with generic inline
functions in slab.h.  Provide inline definitions to allow the continued use of
kzalloc, kmem_cache_zalloc etc but remove other definitions of zeroing
functions from the slab allocators and util.c.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:01 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 6cb8f91320 Slab allocators: consistent ZERO_SIZE_PTR support and NULL result semantics
Define ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR macro to be able to remove the checks from the
allocators.  Move ZERO_SIZE_PTR related stuff into slab.h.

Make ZERO_SIZE_PTR work for all slab allocators and get rid of the
WARN_ON_ONCE(size == 0) that is still remaining in SLAB.

Make slub return NULL like the other allocators if a too large memory segment
is requested via __kmalloc.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:01 -07:00
Christoph Lameter ef2ad80c7d Slab allocators: consolidate code for krealloc in mm/util.c
The size of a kmalloc object is readily available via ksize().  ksize is
provided by all allocators and thus we can implement krealloc in a generic
way.

Implement krealloc in mm/util.c and drop slab specific implementations of
krealloc.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:01 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 1d2c8eea69 [PATCH] slab: clean up leak tracking ifdefs a little bit
- rename ____kmalloc to kmalloc_track_caller so that people have a chance
  to guess what it does just from it's name.  Add a comment describing it
  for those who don't.  Also move it after kmalloc in slab.h so people get
  less confused when they are just looking for kmalloc - move things around
  in slab.c a little to reduce the ifdef mess.

[penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: Fix up reversed #ifdef]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-04 07:55:13 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 1a2f67b459 [PATCH] kmemdup: introduce
One of idiomatic ways to duplicate a region of memory is

	dst = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
	if (!dst)
		return -ENOMEM;
	memcpy(dst, src, len);

which is neat code except a programmer needs to write size twice.  Which
sometimes leads to mistakes.  If len passed to kmalloc is smaller that len
passed to memcpy, it's straight overwrite-beyond-end.  If len passed to
memcpy is smaller than len passed to kmalloc, it's either a) legit
behaviour ;-), or b) cloned buffer will contain garbage in second half.

Slight trolling of commit lists shows several duplications bugs
done exactly because of diverged lenghts:

	Linux:
		[CRYPTO]: Fix memcpy/memset args.
		[PATCH] memcpy/memset fixes
	OpenBSD:
		kerberosV/src/lib/asn1: der_copy.c:1.4

If programmer is given only one place to play with lengths, I believe, such
mistakes could be avoided.

With kmemdup, the snippet above will be rewritten as:

	dst = kmemdup(src, len, GFP_KERNEL);
	if (!dst)
		return -ENOMEM;

This also leads to smaller code (kzalloc effect). Quick grep shows
200+ places where kmemdup() can be used.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:19 -07:00
Pekka Enberg 40c07ae8da [PATCH] slab: optimize constant-size kzalloc calls
As suggested by Eric Dumazet, optimize kzalloc() calls that pass a
compile-time constant size.  Please note that the patch increases kernel
text slightly (~200 bytes for defconfig on x86).

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:49 -08:00
Al Viro 871751e25d [PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators
Implement /proc/slab_allocators.   It produces output like:

idr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e
buffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75
mm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42
mm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370
vm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370
vm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3
vm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e
vm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2
vm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142
vm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214
fs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133
fs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3
files_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf
signal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3
sighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3
sighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8
anon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3
size-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145
size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302
size-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302
size-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4

Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
DESC
slab-leaks3-locking-fix
EDESC
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

Update for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch

Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:49 -08:00
Davi Arnaut 96840aa00a [PATCH] strndup_user()
This patch series creates a strndup_user() function to easy copying C strings
from userspace.  Also we avoid common pitfalls like userspace modifying the
final \0 after the strlen_user().

Signed-off-by: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:31 -08:00
Matt Mackall 30992c97ae [PATCH] slob: introduce mm/util.c for shared functions
Add mm/util.c for functions common between SLAB and SLOB.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:41 -08:00