user/sven/linux.git/kernel/sys.c, branch v3.12.33

userns: Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy

2013-08-31T06:44:11Z

nsown_capable is a special case of ns_capable essentially for just CAP_SETUID and CAP_SETGID. For the existing users it doesn't noticably simplify things and from the suggested patches I have seen it encourages people to do the wrong thing. So remove nsown_capable. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

reboot: move shutdown/reboot related functions to kernel/reboot.c

2013-07-09T17:33:29Z

This patch is preparatory. It moves reboot related syscall, etc functions from kernel/sys.c to kernel/reboot.c. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Russ Anderson Cc: Robin Holt Cc: Russell King Cc: Guan Xuetao Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

reboot: remove -stable friendly PF_THREAD_BOUND define

2013-07-09T17:33:29Z

Remove the prior patch's #define for easier backporting to the stable releases. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Russ Anderson Cc: Robin Holt Cc: Russell King Cc: Guan Xuetao Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

exit.c: unexport __set_special_pids()

2013-07-03T23:08:02Z

Move __set_special_pids() from exit.c to sys.c close to its single caller and make it static. And rename it to set_special_pids(), another helper with this name has gone away. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/sys.c:do_sysinfo(): use get_monotonic_boottime()

2013-07-03T23:07:42Z

Change do_sysinfo() to use get_monotonic_boottime() instead of do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime() + monotonic_to_bootbased(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Acked-by: John Stultz Cc: Tomas Janousek Cc: Tomas Smetana Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/sys.c: sys_reboot(): fix malformed panic message

2013-07-03T23:07:41Z

If LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_HALT for reboot failed, the message "cannot halt" will stay on the same line with the next message, so append a '\n'. Signed-off-by: liguang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

reboot: rigrate shutdown/reboot to boot cpu

2013-06-12T23:29:44Z

We recently noticed that reboot of a 1024 cpu machine takes approx 16 minutes of just stopping the cpus. The slowdown was tracked to commit f96972f2dc63 ("kernel/sys.c: call disable_nonboot_cpus() in kernel_restart()"). The current implementation does all the work of hot removing the cpus before halting the system. We are switching to just migrating to the boot cpu and then continuing with shutdown/reboot. This also has the effect of not breaking x86's command line parameter for specifying the reboot cpu. Note, this code was shamelessly copied from arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c with bits removed pertaining to the reboot_cpu command line parameter. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt Tested-by: Shawn Guo Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Russ Anderson Cc: Robin Holt Cc: Russell King Cc: Guan Xuetao Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal

2013-05-01T14:21:43Z

Pull compat cleanup from Al Viro: "Mostly about syscall wrappers this time; there will be another pile with patches in the same general area from various people, but I'd rather push those after both that and vfs.git pile are in." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: syscalls.h: slightly reduce the jungles of macros get rid of union semop in sys_semctl(2) arguments make do_mremap() static sparc: no need to sign-extend in sync_file_range() wrapper ppc compat wrappers for add_key(2) and request_key(2) are pointless x86: trim sys_ia32.h x86: sys32_kill and sys32_mprotect are pointless get rid of compat_sys_semctl() and friends in case of ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC merge compat sys_ipc instances consolidate compat lookup_dcookie() convert vmsplice to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE switch getrusage() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE switch epoll_pwait to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE convert sendfile{,64} to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE switch signalfd{,4}() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE make SYSCALL_DEFINE-generated wrappers do asmlinkage_protect make HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS unconditional consolidate cond_syscall and SYSCALL_ALIAS declarations teach SYSCALL_DEFINE how to deal with long long/unsigned long long get rid of duplicate logics in __SC_....[1-6] definitions

kernel/sys.c: make prctl(PR_SET_MM) generally available

2013-05-01T00:04:09Z

The purpose of this patch is to allow privileged processes to set their own per-memory memory-region fields: start_code, end_code, start_data, end_data, start_brk, brk, start_stack, arg_start, arg_end, env_start, env_end. This functionality is needed by any application or package that needs to reconstruct Linux processes, that is, to start them in any way other than by means of an "execve()" from an executable file. This includes: 1. Restoring processes from a checkpoint-file (by all potential user-level checkpointing packages, not only CRIU's). 2. Restarting processes on another node after process migration. 3. Starting duplicated copies of a running process (for reliability and high-availablity). 4. Starting a process from an executable format that is not supported by Linux, thus requiring a "manual execve" by a user-level utility. 5. Similarly, starting a process from a networked and/or crypted executable that, for confidentiality, licensing or other reasons, may not be written to the local file-systems. The code that does that was already included in the Linux kernel by the CRIU group, in the form of "prctl(PR_SET_MM)", but prior to this was enclosed within their private "#ifdef CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE", which is normally disabled. The patch removes those ifdefs. Signed-off-by: Amnon Shiloh Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/timer.c: move some non timer related syscalls to kernel/sys.c

2013-05-01T00:04:03Z

Andrew Morton noted: akpm3:/usr/src/25> grep SYSCALL kernel/timer.c SYSCALL_DEFINE1(alarm, unsigned int, seconds) SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getpid) SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getppid) SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getuid) SYSCALL_DEFINE0(geteuid) SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getgid) SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getegid) SYSCALL_DEFINE0(gettid) SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sysinfo, struct sysinfo __user *, info) COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sysinfo, struct compat_sysinfo __user *, info) Only one of those should be in kernel/timer.c. Who wrote this thing? [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Guenter Roeck Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds