user/sven/linux.git/fs/exec.c, branch v3.0

KEYS/DNS: Fix ____call_usermodehelper() to not lose the session keyring

2011-06-17T16:40:48Z

____call_usermodehelper() now erases any credentials set by the subprocess_inf::init() function. The problem is that commit 17f60a7da150 ("capabilites: allow the application of capability limits to usermode helpers") creates and commits new credentials with prepare_kernel_cred() after the call to the init() function. This wipes all keyrings after umh_keys_init() is called. The best way to deal with this is to put the init() call just prior to the commit_creds() call, and pass the cred pointer to init(). That means that umh_keys_init() and suchlike can modify the credentials _before_ they are published and potentially in use by the rest of the system. This prevents request_key() from working as it is prevented from passing the session keyring it set up with the authorisation token to /sbin/request-key, and so the latter can't assume the authority to instantiate the key. This causes the in-kernel DNS resolver to fail with ENOKEY unconditionally. Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Eric Paris Tested-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Revert "fs/exec.c: use BUILD_BUG_ON for VM_STACK_FLAGS & VM_STACK_INCOMPLETE_SETUP"

2011-06-16T04:53:52Z

This reverts commit 7f81c8890c15a10f5220bebae3b6dfae4961962a. It turns out that it's not actually a build-time check on x86-64 UML, which does some seriously crazy stuff with VM_STACK_FLAGS. The VM_STACK_FLAGS define depends on the arch-supplied VM_STACK_DEFAULT_FLAGS value, and on x86-64 UML we have arch/um/sys-x86_64/shared/sysdep/vm-flags.h: #define VM_STACK_DEFAULT_FLAGS \ (test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32) ? vm_stack_flags32 : vm_stack_flags) #define VM_STACK_DEFAULT_FLAGS vm_stack_flags (yes, seriously: two different #define's for that thing, with the first one being inside an "#ifdef TIF_IA32") It's possible that it is UML that should just be fixed in this area, but for now let's just undo the (very small) optimization. Reported-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Richard Weinberger Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs/exec.c: use BUILD_BUG_ON for VM_STACK_FLAGS & VM_STACK_INCOMPLETE_SETUP

2011-06-16T03:03:59Z

Commit a8bef8ff6ea1 ("mm: migration: avoid race between shift_arg_pages() and rmap_walk() during migration by not migrating temporary stacks") introduced a BUG_ON() to ensure that VM_STACK_FLAGS and VM_STACK_INCOMPLETE_SETUP do not overlap. The check is a compile time one, so BUILD_BUG_ON is more appropriate. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

exec: delay address limit change until point of no return

2011-06-09T19:50:05Z

Unconditionally changing the address limit to USER_DS and not restoring it to its old value in the error path is wrong because it prevents us using kernel memory on repeated calls to this function. This, in fact, breaks the fallback of hard coded paths to the init program from being ever successful if the first candidate fails to load. With this patch applied switching to USER_DS is delayed until the point of no return is reached which makes it possible to have a multi-arch rootfs with one arch specific init binary for each of the (hard coded) probed paths. Since the address limit is already set to USER_DS when start_thread() will be invoked, this redundancy can be safely removed. Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause Cc: Al Viro Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

coredump: add support for exe_file in core name

2011-05-27T00:12:36Z

Now, exe_file is not proc FS dependent, so we can use it to name core file. So we add %E pattern for core file name cration which extract path from mm_struct->exe_file. Then it converts slashes to exclamation marks and pastes the result to the core file name itself. This is useful for environments where binary names are longer than 16 character (the current->comm limitation). Also where there are binaries with same name but in a different path. Further in case the binery itself changes its current->comm after exec. So by doing (s/$/#/ -- # is treated as git comment): $ sysctl kernel.core_pattern='core.%p.%e.%E' $ ln /bin/cat cat45678901234567890 $ ./cat45678901234567890 ^Z $ rm cat45678901234567890 $ fg ^\Quit (core dumped) $ ls core* we now get: core.2434.cat456789012345.!root!cat45678901234567890 (deleted) Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Cc: Al Viro Cc: Alan Cox Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: extract exe_file handling from procfs

2011-05-27T00:12:36Z

Setup and cleanup of mm_struct->exe_file is currently done in fs/proc/. This was because exe_file was needed only for /proc//exe. Since we will need the exe_file functionality also for core dumps (so core name can contain full binary path), built this functionality always into the kernel. To achieve that move that out of proc FS to the kernel/ where in fact it should belong. By doing that we can make dup_mm_exe_file static. Also we can drop linux/proc_fs.h inclusion in fs/exec.c and kernel/fork.c. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Cc: Alexander Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: mmu_gather rework

2011-05-25T15:39:12Z

Rework the existing mmu_gather infrastructure. The direct purpose of these patches was to allow preemptible mmu_gather, but even without that I think these patches provide an improvement to the status quo. The first 9 patches rework the mmu_gather infrastructure. For review purpose I've split them into generic and per-arch patches with the last of those a generic cleanup. The next patch provides generic RCU page-table freeing, and the followup is a patch converting s390 to use this. I've also got 4 patches from DaveM lined up (not included in this series) that uses this to implement gup_fast() for sparc64. Then there is one patch that extends the generic mmu_gather batching. After that follow the mm preemptibility patches, these make part of the mm a lot more preemptible. It converts i_mmap_lock and anon_vma->lock to mutexes which together with the mmu_gather rework makes mmu_gather preemptible as well. Making i_mmap_lock a mutex also enables a clean-up of the truncate code. This also allows for preemptible mmu_notifiers, something that XPMEM I think wants. Furthermore, it removes the new and universially detested unmap_mutex. This patch: Remove the first obstacle towards a fully preemptible mmu_gather. The current scheme assumes mmu_gather is always done with preemption disabled and uses per-cpu storage for the page batches. Change this to try and allocate a page for batching and in case of failure, use a small on-stack array to make some progress. Preemptible mmu_gather is desired in general and usable once i_mmap_lock becomes a mutex. Doing it before the mutex conversion saves us from having to rework the code by moving the mmu_gather bits inside the pte_lock. Also avoid flushing the tlb batches from under the pte lock, this is useful even without the i_mmap_lock conversion as it significantly reduces pte lock hold times. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment tpyo] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: David Miller Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Russell King Cc: Paul Mundt Cc: Jeff Dike Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Tony Luck Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: make expand_downwards() symmetrical with expand_upwards()

2011-05-25T15:39:12Z

Currently we have expand_upwards exported while expand_downwards is accessible only via expand_stack or expand_stack_downwards. check_stack_guard_page is a nice example of the asymmetry. It uses expand_stack for VM_GROWSDOWN while expand_upwards is called for VM_GROWSUP case. Let's clean this up by exporting both functions and make those names consistent. Let's use expand_{upwards,downwards} because expanding doesn't always involve stack manipulation (an example is ia64_do_page_fault which uses expand_upwards for registers backing store expansion). expand_downwards has to be defined for both CONFIG_STACK_GROWS{UP,DOWN} because get_arg_page calls the downwards version in the early process initialization phase for growsup configuration. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: James Bottomley Cc: "Luck, Tony" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'tty-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6

2011-05-23T19:23:20Z

* 'tty-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6: (48 commits) serial: 8250_pci: add support for Cronyx Omega PCI multiserial board. tty/serial: Fix break handling for PORT_TEGRA tty/serial: Add explicit PORT_TEGRA type n_tracerouter and n_tracesink ldisc additions. Intel PTI implementaiton of MIPI 1149.7. Kernel documentation for the PTI feature. export kernel call get_task_comm(). tty: Remove to support serial for S5P6442 pch_phub: Support new device ML7223 8250_pci: Add support for the Digi/IBM PCIe 2-port Adapter ASoC: Update cx20442 for TTY API change pch_uart: Support new device ML7223 IOH parport: Use request_muxed_region for IT87 probe and lock tty/serial: add support for Xilinx PS UART n_gsm: Use print_hex_dump_bytes drivers/tty/moxa.c: Put correct tty value TTY: tty_io, annotate locking functions TTY: serial_core, remove superfluous set_task_state TTY: serial_core, remove invalid test Char: moxa, fix locking in moxa_write ... Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c and drivers/tty/serial/Makefile. I did the hci_ldisc thing as an evil merge, cleaning things up.

Merge branch 'exec_rm_compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc

2011-05-23T15:28:34Z

* 'exec_rm_compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc: exec: document acct_arg_size() exec: unify do_execve/compat_do_execve code exec: introduce struct user_arg_ptr exec: introduce get_user_arg_ptr() helper