linux/fs/proc, branch v2.6.13

[PATCH] Fix up symlink function pointers

2005-08-20T01:08:21Z

This fixes up the symlink functions for the calling convention change: * afs, autofs4, befs, devfs, freevxfs, jffs2, jfs, ncpfs, procfs, smbfs, sysvfs, ufs, xfs - prototype change for ->follow_link() * befs, smbfs, xfs - same for ->put_link() Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] kdump: Parse elf32 headers and export through /proc/vmcore

2005-06-25T23:24:53Z

o Adds support for parsing core ELF32 headers. o I am expecting ELF32 support to go away down the line. This patch has been introduced for testing purposes as gdb can not parse ELF64 headers for i386. When a decent user space solution is available, ELF32 support can go away. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] kdump: Access dump file in elf format (/proc/vmcore)

2005-06-25T23:24:53Z

From: "Vivek Goyal" o Support for /proc/vmcore interface. This interface exports elf core image either in ELF32 or ELF64 format, depending on the format in which elf headers have been stored by crashed kernel. o Added support for CONFIG_VMCORE config option. o Removed the dependency on /proc/kcore. From: "Eric W. Biederman" This patch has been refactored to more closely match the prevailing style in the affected files. And to clearly indicate the dependency between /proc/kcore and proc/vmcore.c From: Hariprasad Nellitheertha This patch contains the code that provides an ELF format interface to the previous kernel's memory post kexec reboot. Signed off by Hariprasad Nellitheertha Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] setuid core dump

2005-06-23T16:45:26Z

Add a new `suid_dumpable' sysctl: This value can be used to query and set the core dump mode for setuid or otherwise protected/tainted binaries. The modes are 0 - (default) - traditional behaviour. Any process which has changed privilege levels or is execute only will not be dumped 1 - (debug) - all processes dump core when possible. The core dump is owned by the current user and no security is applied. This is intended for system debugging situations only. Ptrace is unchecked. 2 - (suidsafe) - any binary which normally would not be dumped is dumped readable by root only. This allows the end user to remove such a dump but not access it directly. For security reasons core dumps in this mode will not overwrite one another or other files. This mode is appropriate when adminstrators are attempting to debug problems in a normal environment. (akpm: > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(suid_dumpable); > > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL? No problem to me. > > if (current->euid == current->uid && current->egid == current->gid) > > current->mm->dumpable = 1; > > Should this be SUID_DUMP_USER? Actually the feedback I had from last time was that the SUID_ defines should go because its clearer to follow the numbers. They can go everywhere (and there are lots of places where dumpable is tested/used as a bool in untouched code) > Maybe this should be renamed to `dump_policy' or something. Doing that > would help us catch any code which isn't using the #defines, too. Fair comment. The patch was designed to be easy to maintain for Red Hat rather than for merging. Changing that field would create a gigantic diff because it is used all over the place. ) Signed-off-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] add check to /proc/devices read routines

2005-06-23T16:45:19Z

Patch to add check to get_chrdev_list and get_blkdev_list to prevent reads of /proc/devices from spilling over the provided page if more than 4096 bytes of string data are generated from all the registered character and block devices in a system Signed-off-by: Neil Horman Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mm: add /proc/zoneinfo

2005-06-22T01:46:14Z

Add /proc/zoneinfo file to display information about memory zones. Useful to analyze VM behaviour. Signed-off-by: Nikita Danilov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] ppc32/ppc64: cleanup /proc/device-tree

2005-06-01T14:54:14Z

This cleans up the /proc/device-tree representation of the Open Firmware device-tree on ppc and ppc64. It does the following things: - Workaround an issue in some Apple device-trees where a property may exist with the same name as a child node of the parent. We now simply "drop" the property instead of creating duplicate entries in /proc with random result... - Do not try to chop off the "@0" at the end of a node name whose unit address is 0. This is not useful, inconsistent, and the code was buggy and didn't always work anyway. - Do not create symlinks for the short name and unit address parts of a node. These were never really used, bloated the memory footprint of the device-tree with useless struct proc_dir_entry and their matching dentry and inode cache bloat. This results in smaller code, smaller memory footprint, and a more accurate view of the tree presented to userland. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] fix impossible VmallocChunk

2005-05-17T14:59:10Z

VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 266288 kB VmallocChunk: 18014366299193295 kB is unsettling - x86_64 and some other architectures keep a separate address range for modules in vmalloc's vmlist, which /proc/meminfo should pass over. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge with master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

2005-05-03T07:14:09Z

[PATCH] DocBook: fix some descriptions

2005-05-01T15:59:26Z

Some KernelDoc descriptions are updated to match the current code. No code changes. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds