[PATCH] sysctl: hide the sysctl proc inodes from selinux
Since the security checks are applied on each read and write of a sysctl file,
just like they are applied when calling sys_sysctl, they are redundant on the
standard VFS constructs. Since it is difficult to compute the security labels
on the standard VFS constructs we just mark the sysctl inodes in proc private
so selinux won't even bother with them.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Stephen Smalley [Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:34:16 +0000 (00:34 -0800)]
[PATCH] selinux: enhance selinux to always ignore private inodes
Hmmm...turns out to not be quite enough, as the /proc/sys inodes aren't truly
private to the fs, so we can run into them in a variety of security hooks
beyond just the inode hooks, such as security_file_permission (when reading
and writing them via the vfs helpers), security_sb_mount (when mounting other
filesystems on directories in proc like binfmt_misc), and deeper within the
security module itself (as in flush_unauthorized_files upon inheritance across
execve). So I think we have to add an IS_PRIVATE() guard within SELinux, as
below. Note however that the use of the private flag here could be confusing,
as these inodes are _not_ private to the fs, are exposed to userspace, and
security modules must implement the sysctl hook to get any access control over
them.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I goofed and when reenabling the fine grained selinux labels for
sysctls and forgot to add the "/sys" prefix before consulting
the policy database. When computing the same path using
proc_dir_entries we got the "/sys" for free as it was part
of the tree, but it isn't true for clt_table trees.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: remove the proc_dir_entry member for the sysctl tables
It isn't needed anymore, all of the users are gone, and all of the ctl_table
initializers have been converted to use explicit names of the fields they are
initializing.
[akpm@osdl.org: NTFS fix] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: add a parent entry to ctl_table and set the parent entry
Add a parent entry into the ctl_table so you can walk the list of parents and
find the entire path to a ctl_table entry.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: reimplement the sysctl proc support
With this change the sysctl inodes can be cached and nothing needs to be done
when removing a sysctl table.
For a cost of 2K code we will save about 4K of static tables (when we remove
de from ctl_table) and 70K in proc_dir_entries that we will not allocate, or
about half that on a 32bit arch.
The speed feels about the same, even though we can now cache the sysctl
dentries :(
We get the core advantage that we don't need to have a 1 to 1 mapping between
ctl table entries and proc files. Making it possible to have /proc/sys vary
depending on the namespace you are in. The currently merged namespaces don't
have an issue here but the network namespace under /proc/sys/net needs to have
different directories depending on which network adapters are visible. By
simply being a cache different directories being visible depending on who you
are is trivial to implement.
[akpm@osdl.org: fix uninitialised var]
[akpm@osdl.org: fix ARM build]
[bunk@stusta.de: make things static] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: allow sysctl_perm to be called from outside of sysctl.c
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: factor out sysctl_head_next from do_sysctl
The current logic to walk through the list of sysctl table headers is slightly
painful and implement in a way it cannot be used by code outside sysctl.c
I am in the process of implementing a version of the sysctl proc support that
instead of using the proc generic non-caching monster, just uses the existing
sysctl data structure as backing store for building the dcache entries and for
doing directory reads. To use the existing data structures however I need a
way to get at them.
[akpm@osdl.org: warning fix] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl
The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name. Which is
pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented.
I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of
register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register
duplicate sysctl entries.
So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in
the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future
enhancments harder.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: remove support for directory strategy routines
parse_table has support for calling a strategy routine when descending into a
directory. To date no one has used this functionality and the /proc/sys
interface has no analog to it.
So no one is using this functionality kill it and make the binary sysctl code
easier to follow.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are currently no users in the kernel for CTL_ANY and it only has effect
on the binary interface which is practically unused.
So this complicates sysctl lookups for no good reason so just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: create sys/fs/binfmt_misc as an ordinary sysctl entry
binfmt_misc has a mount point in the middle of the sysctl and that mount point
is created as a proc_generic directory.
Doing it that way gets in the way of cleaning up the sysctl proc support as it
continues the existence of a horrible hack. So instead simply create the
directory as an ordinary sysctl directory. At least that removes the magic
special case.
[akpm@osdl.org: warning fix] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: move SYSV IPC sysctls to their own file
This is just a simple cleanup to keep kernel/sysctl.c from getting to crowded
with special cases, and by keeping all of the ipc logic to together it makes
the code a little more readable.
[gcoady.lk@gmail.com: build fix] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: move utsname sysctls to their own file
This is just a simple cleanup to keep kernel/sysctl.c from getting to crowded
with special cases, and by keeping all of the utsname logic to together it
makes the code a little more readable.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: move init_irq_proc into init/main where it belongs
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ocfs2 was did not have the binary number it uses under CTL_FS registered in
sysctl.h. Register it to avoid future conflicts, and change the name of the
definition to be in line with the rest of the sysctl numbers.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: C99 convert ctl_tables in NTFS and remove sys_sysctl support
Putting ntfs-debug under FS_NRINODE was not a kosher thing to do so don't give
it any binary number.
[akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: C99 convert coda ctl_tables and remove binary sysctls
Will converting the coda sysctl initializers I discovered that it is yet
another user of sysctl that was stomping CTL_KERN. So off with it's
sys_sysctl support since it wasn't done in a supportable way.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: C99 convert ctl_tables in drivers/parport/procfs.c
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: register the sysctl number used by the arlan driver
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: remove sys_sysctl support from drivers/char/rtc.c
The real time clock driver was using the binary number reserved for cdroms in
the sysctl binary number interface, which is a no-no. So since the sysctl
binary interface is wrong remove it.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: remove sys_sysctl support from the hpet timer driver
In the binary sysctl interface the hpet driver was claiming to be the cdrom
driver. This is a no-no so remove support for the binary interface.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: C99 convert ctl_tables in arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c
Basically everything was done but I removed all element initializers from the
trailing entries to make it clear the entire last entry should be zero filled.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: C99 convert arch/sh64/kernel/traps.c and remove ABI breakage
While doing the C99 conversion I notices that the top level sh64 directory was
using the binary number for CTL_KERN. That is a no-no so I removed the
support for the sysctl binary interface only leaving sysctl /proc support.
At least the sysctl tables were placed at the end of the list so user space
did not see this mistake.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: C99 convert ctl_tables entries in arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_htab.c
And make the mode of the kernel directory 0555 no one is allowed to write to
sysctl directories.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: C99 convert ctl_tables in arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c
This was partially done already and there was no ABI breakage what a relief.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: s390: remove unnecessary use of insert_at_head
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: s390: move sysctl definitions to sysctl.h
We need to have the the definition of all top level sysctl directories
registers in sysctl.h so we don't conflict by accident and cause abi problems.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: C99 convert arch/mips/lasat/sysctl.c and remove ABI breakage
While C99 converting the ctl_table initializers I realized that the binary
sysctl numbers were in conflict with the binary values under CTL_KERN.
Including CTL_KERN KERN_VERSION as used by glibc. So I just removed the
sysctl binary interface for these values, as it was unsupportable.
Luckily these sysctl were inserted at the end of the sysctl list so this bug
was not visible to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: C99 convert arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon and remove ABI breakage
This convters the sysctl ctl_tables to use C99 initializers. While I was
looking at it I discovered it was using a portion of the sysctl binary
addresses space under CTL_KERN KERN_OSTYPE which was completely inappropriate.
So I completely removed all of the sysctl binary names, to remove and avoid
the ABI conflict.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
By not using the enumeration in sysctl.h (or even understanding it) the SN
platform placed their arch specific xpc directory on top of CTL_KERN and only
because they didn't have 4 entries in their xpc directory got lucky and didn't
break glibc.
This is totally irresponsible. So this patch entirely removes sys_sysctl
support from their sysctl code. Hopefully they don't have ascii name
conflicts as well.
And now that they have no ABI numbers add them to the end instead of the
sysctl list instead of the head so nothing else will be overridden.
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: frv: remove unnecessary insert_at_head flag
Since the binary sysctl numbers are unique putting the registered sysctls at
the head of the sysctl list where they can override existing sysctls serves no
useful purpose.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: move CTL_FRV into sysctl.h where it belongs
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: frv: pm remove unnecessary insert_at_head flag
With unique binary numbers setting insert_at_head to insert yourself at the
head of sysctl list and thus override existing sysctl entries serves no point.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: move CTL_PM into sysctl.h where it belongs
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is no need for open files in /proc/sys/XXX to hold a reference count on
the module that provides the file to prevent module unload races. While there
is code active in the module p->used in the sysctl_table_header is
incremented, preventing the sysctl from being unregisted. Once the sysctl is
unregistered it cannot be found. Open files are also not a problem as they
revalidate the sysctl information and bump p->used before accessing module
code.
So setting de->owner is unnecessary, makes for a bad example and gets in my
way of removing ctl_table->de.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: cdrom: remove unnecessary insert_at_head flag
With unique binary sysctl numbers setting insert_at_head to override other
sysctl entries is pointless.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: md: remove unnecessary insert_at_head flag
The sysctls used by the md driver are have unique binary numbers so remove the
insert_at_head flag as it serves no useful purpose.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: scsi: remove unnecessary insert_at_head flag
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: atalk: remove unnecessary insert_at_head flag
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: dccp: remove unnecessary insert_at_head flag
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: decnet: remove unnecessary insert_at_head flag
The sysctl numbers used are unique so setting the insert_at_head flag does not
succeed in overriding any sysctls, and is just confusing because it doesn't.
Clear the flag.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Patrick Caulfield <patrick@tykepenguin.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: ipx: remove unnecessary insert_at_head flag
The sysctl numbers used are unique so setting the insert_at_head flag servers
no semantic purpose and is just confusing.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: llc: remove unnecessary insert_at_head flag
The sysctl numbers used are unique so setting the insert_at_head flag serves
no semantis purpose, and is just confusing.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: sunrpc: don't unnecessarily set ctl_table->de
We don't need this to prevent module unload races so remove the unnecessary
code.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: sunrpc: remove unnecessary insert_at_head flag
Because the sunrpc sysctls don't conflict with any other sysctls the setting
the insert at head flag to register_sysctl has no semantic meaning.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: move CTL_SUNRPC to sysctl.h where it belongs
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[PATCH] sysctl: x25: remove unnecessary insert_at_head from register_sysctl_table
There has not been much maintenance on sysctl in years, and as a result is
there is a lot to do to allow future interesting work to happen, and being
ambitious I'm trying to do it all at once :)
The patches in this series fall into several general categories.
- Removal of useless attempts to override the standard sysctls
- Registers of sysctl numbers in sysctl.h so someone else does not use
the magic number and conflict.
- C99 conversions so it becomes possible to change the layout of
struct ctl_table without breaking everything.
- Removal of useless claims of module ownership, in the proc dir entries
- Removal of sys_sysctl support where people had used conflicting sysctl
numbers. Trying to break glibc or other applications by changing the
ABI is not cool. 9 instances of this in the kernel seems a little
extreme.
- General enhancements when I got the junk I could see out.
This patch:
Since x25 uses unique binary numbers inserting yourself at the head of the
search list for sysctls so you can override already registered sysctls is
pointless.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Robert P. J. Day [Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:33:16 +0000 (00:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] OSS: replace kmalloc()+memset() combos with kzalloc()
Replace kmalloc() + memset() pairs with the appropriate kzalloc() calls.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tim Schmielau [Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:33:14 +0000 (00:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h
After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
anything defined in there. Presumably these includes were once needed for
macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
course of cleaning it up.
To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.
Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
configs in arch/arm/configs on arm. I also checked that no new warnings were
introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
by unnecessarily included header files).
Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
NeilBrown [Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:33:13 +0000 (00:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] knfsd: allow the server to provide a gid list when using AUTH_UNIX authentication
AUTH_UNIX authentication (the standard with NFS) has a limit of 16 groups ids.
This causes problems for people in more than 16 groups.
So allow the server to map a uid into a list of group ids based on local
knowledge rather depending on the (possibly truncated) list from the client.
If there is no process on the server responding to upcalls, the gidlist in the
request will still be used.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
NeilBrown [Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:33:12 +0000 (00:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] knfsd: add some new fsid types
Add support for using a filesystem UUID to identify and export point in the
filehandle.
For NFSv2, this UUID is xor-ed down to 4 or 8 bytes so that it doesn't take up
too much room. For NFSv3+, we use the full 16 bytes, and possibly also a
64bit inode number for exports beneath the root of a filesystem.
When generating an fsid to return in 'stat' information, use the UUID (hashed
down to size) if it is available and a small 'fsid' was not specifically
provided.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
NeilBrown [Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:33:11 +0000 (00:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] knfsd: tidy up choice of filesystem-identifier when creating a filehandle
If we are using the same version/fsid as a current filehandle, then there is
no need to verify the the numbers are valid for this export, and they must be
(we used them to find this export).
This allows us to simplify the fsid selection code.
Also change "ref_fh_version" and "ref_fh_fsid_type" to "version" and
"fsid_type", as the important thing isn't that they are the version/type of
the reference filehandle, but they are the chosen type for the new filehandle.
And tidy up some indenting.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
NeilBrown [Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:33:11 +0000 (00:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] knfsd: fix return value for writes to some files in 'nfsd' filesystem
Most files in the 'nfsd' filesystem are transactional. When you write, a
reply is generated that can be read back only on the same 'file'.
If the reply has zero length, the 'write' will incorrectly return a value of
'0' instead of the length that was written. This causes 'rpc.nfsd' to give an
annoying warning.
This patch fixes the test.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Driver for the Atmel on-chip SPI master controller.
Tested primarily on AVR32/AT32AP7000/ATSTK1000 using mtd_dataflash and the
jffs2 filesystem. Should also work fine on various AT91 ARM-based chips
like AT91SAM926x and AT91RM9200.
Hardware documentation can be found in the AT32AP7000 data sheet, or its
AT91 siblings, which can be downloaded from
George G. Davis [Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:33:06 +0000 (00:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] serial: make sure UART is powered up when dumping MCTRL status
Since serial devices are powered down when not in use and some of those
devices cannot be accessed when powered down, we need to enable power
around calls to get_mcrtl() when dumping port state via uart_line_info().
This resolves hangs observed on some machines while reading serial device
registers when a port is powered off.
Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <gdavis@mvista.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Bjorn Helgaas [Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:33:05 +0000 (00:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] serial: trivial code flow simplification
Return failure immediately, so we don't have to test it twice.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Alex Williamson [Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:33:04 +0000 (00:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] 8250 UART backup timer
The patch below works around a minor bug found in the UART of the remote
management card used in many HP ia64 and parisc servers (aka the Diva
UARTs). The problem is that the UART does not reassert the THRE interrupt
if it has been previously cleared and the IIR THRI bit is re-enabled. This
can produce a very annoying failure mode when used as a serial console,
allowing a boot/reboot to hang indefinitely until an RX interrupt kicks it
into working again (ie. an unattended reboot could stall).
To solve this problem, a backup timer is introduced that runs alongside the
standard interrupt driven mechanism. This timer wakes up periodically,
checks for a hang condition and gets characters moving again. This backup
mechanism is only enabled if the UART is detected as having this problem,
so systems without these UARTs will have no additional overhead.
This version of the patch incorporates previous comments from Pavel and
removes races in the bug detection code. The test is now done before the
irq linking to prevent races with interrupt handler clearing the THRE
interrupt. Short delays and syncs are also added to ensure the device is
able to update register state before the result is tested.
Aristeu says:
this was tested on the following HP machines and solved the problem:
rx2600, rx2620, rx1600 and rx1620s.
hpa says:
I have seen this same bug in soft UART IP from "a major vendor."
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho <aris@cathedrallabs.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch fixes showing empty config list items if "Option/Show All
Options" is turned on. For example empty items appears on list of 'Block
Layer' menu.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill V. Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mike Frysinger [Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:33:02 +0000 (00:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] new toplevel target: headers_check_all
Add new headers_check_all target for checking all arches in one go.
Useful for distros (and people with too much time on their hands) that support
a ton of architectures, headers_check_all is to headers_check as
headers_install_all is to headers_install
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Robert P. J. Day [Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:33:01 +0000 (00:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] Kbuild: Remove references to deprecated "prepare-all" target from Makefile
Remove references to the deprecated "make prepare-all" target from the
top-level Makefile; use just "make prepare" instead.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Acked-by: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Nicolas Pitre [Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:32:56 +0000 (00:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] add .mailmap for proper git-shortlog output
This list was built into the git-shortlog tool and has been removed in the
latest version. It should be maintained separately so this is what this
patch does.
A couple more entries were added to the original list as well.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Acked-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
s situert [Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:32:55 +0000 (00:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] Make mkcompile_h use LANG=C and LC_ALL=C for $CC -v
Fix a minor bug in mkcompile_h. As one can see, the current locale is used
while getting the version of gcc. This produces problems when a locale
other than C or en_US is used. As an example, my /proc/version contains
Turkish characters in iso-8859-9 encoding.
This patch fixes this issue by making sure that the C locale is used to get
gcc's version.
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mike Frysinger [Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:32:54 +0000 (00:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] search a little harder for mkimage
Check to see if `${CROSS_COMPILE}mkimage` exists and if not, fall back to
the standard `mkimage`
The Blackfin toolchain includes mkimage, but we dont want to namespace
collide with any of the user's system setup, so we prefix it with our
toolchain name.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Roland Dreier [Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:32:53 +0000 (00:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] ia64: fix noncoherent DMA API so devres builds
On ia64, drivers/base/dma-mapping.c doesn't build because it calls
dma_alloc_noncoherent() and dma_free_noncoherent(), which appear to be
terminally broken; the calls end up generating errors like
drivers/base/dma-mapping.c: In function 'dmam_noncoherent_release':
drivers/base/dma-mapping.c:32: error: 'struct ia64_machine_vector' has no member named 'platform_dma_free_coherent'
because the multiple levels of macro expansion in <asm/dma-mapping.h> and
<asm/machvec.h> end up turning a call to dma_free_noncoherent() into
ia64_mv.platform_dma_free_coherent (instead of the intended
ia64_mv.dma_free_coherent).
This patch fixes this by converting dma_{alloc,free}_noncoherent() into
inline functions that call the corresponding coherent functions, instead of
trying to do this with macros.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:16:39 +0000 (21:16 -0800)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
IB/mthca: Always fill MTTs from CPU
IB/mthca: Merge MR and FMR space on 64-bit systems
IB/mthca: Fix access to MTT and MPT tables on non-cache-coherent CPUs
IB/mthca: Give reserved MTTs a separate cache line
IB/mthca: Fix reserved MTTs calculation on mem-free HCAs
RDMA/cxgb3: Add driver for Chelsio T3 RNIC
IB: Remove redundant "_wq" from workqueue names
RDMA/cma: Increment port number after close to avoid re-use
IB/ehca: Fix memleak on module unloading
IB/mthca: Work around gcc bug on sparc64
IPoIB: Connected mode experimental support
IB/core: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro for mandatory_table
IB/mthca: Use correct structure size in call to memset()
Steve French [Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:42:51 +0000 (04:42 +0000)]
[CIFS] on reconnect to Samba - reset the unix capabilities
After temporary server or network failure and reconneciton, we were not
resending the unix capabilities via SetFSInfo - which confused Samba posix
byte range locking code.
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
[IPSEC]: Fix the address family to refer encap_family
[IPSEC]: changing API of xfrm6_tunnel_register
[IPSEC]: make sit use the xfrm4_tunnel_register
[IPSEC]: Changing API of xfrm4_tunnel_register.
[TCP]: Prevent pseudo garbage in SYN's advertized window
[NET_SCHED]: sch_hfsc: replace ASSERT macro by WARN_ON
[BRIDGE] br_if: Fix oops in port_carrier_check
[NETFILTER]: Clear GSO bits for TCP reset packet
[TG3]: Update copyright, version, and reldate.
[TG3]: Add some tx timeout debug messages.
[TG3]: Use constant for PHY register 0x1e.
[TG3]: Power down 5704 serdes transceiver when shutting down.
[TG3]: 5906 doesn't need to switch to slower clock.
[TG3]: 5722/5756 don't need PHY jitter workaround.
[TG3]: Use lower DMA watermark for 5703.
[TG3]: Save MSI state before suspend.
[XFRM]: Fix IPv4 tunnel mode decapsulation with IPV6=n
[IPV6] HASHTABLES: Use appropriate seed for caluculating ehash index.
David Gibson [Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:54:22 +0000 (15:54 +1100)]
[POWERPC] Use udbg_early_init() on ppc32
udbg_early_init() is a function used on 64 bit systems, which
initializes whichever early udbg backend is configured. This function
is not called on 32-bit, however if btext early debug is enabled it
does have an explicit, inline, #ifdef-ed assignment performing
analagous initialization.
This patch makes things more uniform by folding the btext
initialization as an option into udbg_early_init() and calling that
from the 32-bit setup path.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Arnd Bergmann [Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:35:38 +0000 (21:35 +0100)]
[POWERPC] Open Firmware serial port driver
This can be used for serial ports that are connected to an
OF platform bus but are not autodetected by the lecacy
serial support.
It will automatically take over devices that come from the
legacy serial detection, which usually is only one device.
In some cases, rtas may be set up to use the serial port
in the firmware, which allows easier debugging before probing
the serial ports. In this case, the "used-by-rtas" property
must be set by the firmware. This patch also adds code to the
legacy serial driver to check for this.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Move all the pseries kexec code into one file, platforms/pseries/kexec.c
Provide helpers for setting up ppc_md.kexec_cpu_down, so that we don't
have to have #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC in setup.c
Move the initialisation of the ppc_md kexec callbacks into an init routine.
This is well and truly early enough to cause no change in behaviour, we
can't kexec until userspace has given us a kernel to kexec into.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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