JANAK DESAI [Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:58:58 +0000 (12:58 -0800)]
[PATCH] unshare system call -v5: system call handler function
sys_unshare system call handler function accepts the same flags as clone
system call, checks constraints on each of the flags and invokes corresponding
unshare functions to disassociate respective process context if it was being
shared with another task.
Here is the link to a program for testing unshare system call.
Please note that because of a problem in rmdir associated with bind mounts and
clone with CLONE_NEWNS, the test fails while trying to remove temporary test
directory. You can remove that temporary directory by doing rmdir, twice,
from the command line. The first will fail with EBUSY, but the second will
succeed. I have reported the problem to Ram Pai and Al Viro with a small
program which reproduces the problem. Al told us yesterday that he will be
looking at the problem soon. I have tried multiple rmdirs from the
unshare_test program itself, but for some reason that is not working. Doing
two rmdirs from command line does seem to remove the directory.
Signed-off-by: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ingo Molnar [Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:58:54 +0000 (12:58 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fix spinlock debugging delays to not time out too early
The spinlock-debug wait-loop was using loops_per_jiffy to detect too long
spinlock waits - but on fast CPUs this led to a way too fast timeout and false
messages.
The fix is to include a __delay(1) call in the loop, to correctly approximate
the intended delay timeout of 1 second. The code assumes that every
architecture implements __delay(1) to last around 1/(loops_per_jiffy*HZ)
seconds.
Nick Piggin [Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:58:52 +0000 (12:58 -0800)]
[PATCH] mm: compound release fix
Compound pages on SMP systems can now often be freed from pagetables via
the release_pages path. This uses put_page_testzero which does not handle
compound pages at all. Releasing constituent pages from process mappings
decrements their count to a large negative number and leaks the reference
at the head page - net result is a memory leak.
The problem was hidden because the debug check in put_page_testzero itself
actually did take compound pages into consideration.
Fix the bug and the debug check.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Stephen Smalley [Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:58:51 +0000 (12:58 -0800)]
[PATCH] selinux: require AUDIT
Make SELinux depend on AUDIT as it requires the basic audit support to log
permission denials at all. Note that AUDITSYSCALL remains optional for
SELinux, although it can be useful in providing further information upon
denials.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Dave Jones [Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:58:48 +0000 (12:58 -0800)]
[PATCH] More informative message on umount failure
We had a user trigger this message on a box that had a lot of different
mounts, all with different options. It might help narrow down wtf happened
if we print out which device failed.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Kyle McMartin [Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:58:47 +0000 (12:58 -0800)]
[PATCH] sys_hpux: fix strlen_user() race
Userspace can alter the string after the kernel has run strlen_user().
Also: the strlen_user() return value includes the \0, so fix that.
Also: handle EFAULT from strlen_user().
It's unlikely anyone is using this code. Very, very unlikely. If I
remember correctly, CONFIG_HPUX turns this code on, but one would actually
need CONFIG_BINFMT_SOM to load a binary that could cause a problem, and
BINFMT_SOM has had an #error in it for quite some time.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Robert Love [Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:58:45 +0000 (12:58 -0800)]
[PATCH] inotify: fix one-shot support
Fix one-shot support in inotify. We currently drop the IN_ONESHOT flag
during watch addition. Fix is to not do that.
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jeff Dike [Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:58:44 +0000 (12:58 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: remove a dead file
A previous patch removed a file from the build without removing it from the
tree.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jeff Dike [Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:58:43 +0000 (12:58 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: initialize process FP registers properly
We weren't making sure that we initialized the FP registers of new processes
to sane values.
This patch also moves some defines in the affected area closer to where they
are used.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jeff Dike [Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:58:42 +0000 (12:58 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: block SIGWINCH in ptrace tester child
The process that UML uses to probe the host's ptrace capabilities can (rarely)
receive a SIGWINCH, confusing the parent. This fixes that by blocking
SIGWINCH.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jeff Dike [Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:58:42 +0000 (12:58 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: balance list_add and list_del in the network driver
The network driver added an interface to the "opened" list when it was
configured, not when it was brought up, and removed it when it was taken down.
A sequence of ifconfig up, ifconfig down, ... caused it to be removed
multiple times from the list without being added in between, resulting in a
crash. This patch moves the add to when the interface is brought up.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jeff Dike [Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:58:41 +0000 (12:58 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: close TUN/TAP file descriptors
When UML opens a TUN/TAP device, the file descriptor could be copied into
later, long-lived threads, holding the device open even after the interface is
taken down, preventing it from being brought up again. This patch makes these
descriptors close-on-exec so that they disappear from helper processes, and
adds CLONE_FILES to a UML helper thread so that the descriptors are closed in
the thread when they are closed elsewhere in UML.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jeff Dike [Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:58:40 +0000 (12:58 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: add debug switch for skas mode
It doesn't do anything but emit a warning, but there's a user population
that's used to adding 'debug' to the UML command line in order to gdb it.
With skas0 mode, that's not necessary, but these users need some indication
that 'debug' doesn't do what they want.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Steve Langasek [Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:58:35 +0000 (12:58 -0800)]
[PATCH] __cmpxchg() must really always be inlined on alpha
With the latest 2.6.15 kernel builds for alpha on Debian, we ran into a
problem with undefined references to __cmpxchg_called_with_bad_pointer() in
a couple of kernel modules (xfs.ko and drm.ko; see
http://bugs.debian.org/347556).
It looks like people have been trying to out-clever each other wrt the
definition of "inline" on this architecture :), with the result that
__cmpxchg(), which must be inlined so the compiler can see its argument is
const, is not guaranteed to be inlined. Indeed, it was not being inlined
when building with -Os.
The attached patch fixes the issue by adding an
__attribute__((always_inline)) explicitly to the definition of __cmpxchg()
instead of relying on redefines of "inline" elsewhere to make this happen.
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] ide: cast arguments to pr_debug() properly
This does not show up unless you #define DEBUG in the file, which most
people wouldn't do. On PPC405, at least, "sector_t" is unsigned long,
which doesn't match %llx/%llu. Since sector# may well be >32 bits, promote
the value to match the format.
Signed-off-by: Michael Richardson <mcr@xelerance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
J. Bruce Fields [Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:58:32 +0000 (12:58 -0800)]
[PATCH] knfsd: fix nfs4_open lock leak
I just noticed that my patch "don't create on open that fails due to
ERR_GRACE" (recently commited as fb553c0f17444e090db951b96df4d2d71b4f4b6b)
had an obvious problem that causes a deadlock on reboot recovery. Sending
in this now since it seems like a clear 2.6.16 candidate.--b.
We're returning with a lock held in some error cases.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
David Gibson [Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:58:25 +0000 (12:58 -0800)]
[PATCH] Hugepages need clear_user_highpage() not clear_highpage()
When hugepages are newly allocated to a file in mm/hugetlb.c, we clear them
with a call to clear_highpage() on each of the subpages. We should be
using clear_user_highpage(): on powerpc, at least, clear_highpage() doesn't
correctly mark the page as icache dirty so if the page is executed shortly
after it's possible to get strange results.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Acked-by: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] x86_64: Fix the node cpumask of a cpu going down
Currently, x86_64 and ia64 arches do not clear the corresponding bits in
the node's cpumask when a cpu goes down or cpu bring up is cancelled. This
is buggy since there are pieces of common code where the cpumask is checked
in the cpu down code path to decide on things (like in the slab down path).
PPC does the right thing, but x86_64 and ia64 don't (This was the reason
Sonny hit upon a slab bug during cpu offline on ppc and could not reproduce
on other arches). This patch fixes it for x86_64. I won't attempt ia64 as
I cannot test it.
Credit for spotting this should go to Alok.
(akpm: this was applied, then reverted. But it's OK now because we now use
for_each_cpu() in the right places).
[MIPS] TX49x7: Fix reporting of the CPU name and PCI clock
I've noticed that PCI clock was incorrectly reported as 66 MHz while being
mere 33 MHz on RBTX4937 board -- this was due to the different encoding of
the PCI divisor field in CCFG register between TX4927 and TX4937 chips...
Also, RBTX49x7 was printed out as a CPU name (e.g., "CPU is RBTX4937");
and some debug printk() were duplicating each other...
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Baydarov <kbaidarov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Atsushi Nemoto [Thu, 2 Feb 2006 16:34:01 +0000 (01:34 +0900)]
[MIPS] TX49 MFC0 bug workaround
If mfc0 $12 follows store and the mfc0 is last instruction of a
page and fetching the next instruction causes TLB miss, the result
of the mfc0 might wrongly contain EXL bit.
Ralf Baechle [Thu, 2 Feb 2006 14:31:16 +0000 (14:31 +0000)]
[MIPS] Fix linker script to work for non-4K page size.
Very much to my surprise Fuxin Zhang reports this is all it takes to get
the kernel to work for page sizes larger than 4kB. This also paves the
way for support for the R6000 and R8000 which don't support 4kB page size.
I'm pretty sure that the CKSEG0 bits are wrong, but I did need to
cover that region - because the SB-1 kernel links at 0xffffffff80100000
or so, disassembly and printing static variables don't work unless the
debugger can read that region.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Ralf Baechle [Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:48:27 +0000 (17:48 +0000)]
[MIPS] IP22: Fix serial console detection
From: Kaj-Michael Lang <milang@tal.org>
In ip22-setup.c the checks for serial/graphics console logic does
not check if ARCS console=g but the machine is using serial console, as
it does if no keyboard is attached.
This patch adds a check if ConsoleOut is serial. There might also be
support for other graphics than Newport soon...
Atsushi Nemoto [Mon, 2 Jan 2006 12:59:49 +0000 (21:59 +0900)]
[MIPS] ieee754[sd]p_neg workaround
It looks glibc's pow() assumes an unary '-' operation for any number
(including NaNs) always inverts its sign bit (though IEEE754 does not
specify the sign bit for NaNs). This patch make the kernel math-emu
emulates real MIPS neg.[ds] instruction.
Ralf Baechle [Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:07:39 +0000 (04:07 +0000)]
[MIPS] Remove commented out code to add -mmad for Nevada.
Adding -mmad is not usable since over half a decade in gcc and when
fixed the proper -march option values should enable the use of the
mad, madu and mul instructions of the R5500, RM5200, RM7000 and RM9000
families.
Sergei Shtylylov [Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:27:10 +0000 (21:27 +0300)]
[MIPS] Au1xx0: really set KSEG0 to uncached on reboot
Fix a really old buglet in AMD Au1xx0 restart code: instead of
modifying the whole CP0 Config.K0 field to 010b (meaning KSEG0 uncached)
before flushing the caches and resetting a board, it only sets bit 1 of that
reg. which is effectively a NOP since Config.K0 == 011b as the kernel sets it
up (which is also its default value for Au1xx0).
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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