user/sven/linux.git/kernel, branch v3.2.40

kmod: make __request_module() killable

2013-03-06T03:24:28Z

commit 1cc684ab75123efe7ff446eb821d44375ba8fa30 upstream. As Tetsuo Handa pointed out, request_module() can stress the system while the oom-killed caller sleeps in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE. The task T uses "almost all" memory, then it does something which triggers request_module(). Say, it can simply call sys_socket(). This in turn needs more memory and leads to OOM. oom-killer correctly chooses T and kills it, but this can't help because it sleeps in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE and after that oom-killer becomes "disabled" by the TIF_MEMDIE task T. Make __request_module() killable. The only necessary change is that call_modprobe() should kmalloc argv and module_name, they can't live in the stack if we use UMH_KILLABLE. This memory is freed via call_usermodehelper_freeinfo()->cleanup. Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

kmod: introduce call_modprobe() helper

2013-03-06T03:24:28Z

commit 3e63a93b987685f02421e18b2aa452d20553a88b upstream. No functional changes. Move the call_usermodehelper code from __request_module() into the new simple helper, call_modprobe(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

usermodehelper: ____call_usermodehelper() doesn't need do_exit()

2013-03-06T03:24:27Z

commit 5b9bd473e3b8a8c6c4ae99be475e6e9b27568555 upstream. Minor cleanup. ____call_usermodehelper() can simply return, no need to call do_exit() explicitely. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

usermodehelper: implement UMH_KILLABLE

2013-03-06T03:24:27Z

commit d0bd587a80960d7ba7e0c8396e154028c9045c54 upstream. Implement UMH_KILLABLE, should be used along with UMH_WAIT_EXEC/PROC. The caller must ensure that subprocess_info->path/etc can not go away until call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(). call_usermodehelper_exec(UMH_KILLABLE) does wait_for_completion_killable. If it fails, it uses xchg(&sub_info->complete, NULL) to serialize with umh_complete() which does the same xhcg() to access sub_info->complete. If call_usermodehelper_exec wins, it can safely return. umh_complete() should get NULL and call call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(). Otherwise we know that umh_complete() was already called, in this case call_usermodehelper_exec() falls back to wait_for_completion() which should succeed "very soon". Note: UMH_NO_WAIT == -1 but it obviously should not be used with UMH_KILLABLE. We delay the neccessary cleanup to simplify the back porting. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

usermodehelper: introduce umh_complete(sub_info)

2013-03-06T03:24:27Z

commit b3449922502f5a161ee2b5022a33aec8472fbf18 upstream. Preparation. Add the new trivial helper, umh_complete(). Currently it simply does complete(sub_info->complete). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

sysctl: fix null checking in bin_dn_node_address()

2013-03-06T03:24:17Z

commit df1778be1a33edffa51d094eeda87c858ded6560 upstream. The null check of `strchr() + 1' is broken, which is always non-null, leading to OOB read. Instead, check the result of strchr(). Signed-off-by: Xi Wang Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

posix-timer: Don't call idr_find() with out-of-range ID

2013-03-06T03:24:09Z

commit e182bb38d7db7494fa5dcd82da17fe0dedf60ecf upstream. When idr_find() was fed a negative ID, it used to look up the ID ignoring the sign bit before recent ("idr: remove MAX_IDR_MASK and move left MAX_IDR_* into idr.c") patch. Now a negative ID triggers a WARN_ON_ONCE(). __lock_timer() feeds timer_id from userland directly to idr_find() without sanitizing it which can trigger the above malfunctions. Add a range check on @timer_id before invoking idr_find() in __lock_timer(). While timer_t is defined as int by all archs at the moment, Andrew worries that it may be defined as a larger type later on. Make the test cover larger integers too so that it at least is guaranteed to not return the wrong timer. Note that WARN_ON_ONCE() in idr_find() on id < 0 is transitional precaution while moving away from ignoring MSB. Once it's gone we can remove the guard as long as timer_t isn't larger than int. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo nnn Reported-by: Sasha Levin Cc: Andrew Morton Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130220232412.GL3570@htj.dyndns.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

ftrace: Call ftrace cleanup module notifier after all other notifiers

2013-03-06T03:24:04Z

commit 8c189ea64eea01ca20d102ddb74d6936dd16c579 upstream. Commit: c1bf08ac "ftrace: Be first to run code modification on modules" changed ftrace module notifier's priority to INT_MAX in order to process the ftrace nops before anything else could touch them (namely kprobes). This was the correct thing to do. Unfortunately, the ftrace module notifier also contains the ftrace clean up code. As opposed to the set up code, this code should be run *after* all the module notifiers have run in case a module is doing correct clean-up and unregisters its ftrace hooks. Basically, ftrace needs to do clean up on module removal, as it needs to know about code being removed so that it doesn't try to modify that code. But after it removes the module from its records, if a ftrace user tries to remove a probe, that removal will fail due as the record of that code segment no longer exists. Nothing really bad happens if the probe removal is called after ftrace did the clean up, but the ftrace removal function will return an error. Correct code (such as kprobes) will produce a WARN_ON() if it fails to remove the probe. As people get annoyed by frivolous warnings, it's best to do the ftrace clean up after everything else. By splitting the ftrace_module_notifier into two notifiers, one that does the module load setup that is run at high priority, and the other that is called for module clean up that is run at low priority, the problem is solved. Reported-by: Frank Ch. Eigler Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

cpuset: fix cpuset_print_task_mems_allowed() vs rename() race

2013-03-06T03:24:02Z

commit 63f43f55c9bbc14f76b582644019b8a07dc8219a upstream. rename() will change dentry->d_name. The result of this race can be worse than seeing partially rewritten name, but we might access a stale pointer because rename() will re-allocate memory to hold a longer name. It's safe in the protection of dentry->d_lock. v2: check NULL dentry before acquiring dentry lock. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

cgroup: fix exit() vs rmdir() race

2013-03-06T03:24:02Z

commit 71b5707e119653039e6e95213f00479668c79b75 upstream. In cgroup_exit() put_css_set_taskexit() is called without any lock, which might lead to accessing a freed cgroup: thread1 thread2 --------------------------------------------- exit() cgroup_exit() put_css_set_taskexit() atomic_dec(cgrp->count); rmdir(); /* not safe !! */ check_for_release(cgrp); rcu_read_lock() can be used to make sure the cgroup is alive. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings