linux/fs/proc, branch v2.6.26

Fix pagemap_read() use of struct mm_walk

2008-07-05T20:13:44Z

Fix some issues in pagemap_read noted by Alexey: - initialize pagemap_walk.mm to "mm" , so the code starts working as advertised - initialize ->private to "&pm" so it wouldn't immediately oops in pagemap_pte_hole() - unstatic struct pagemap_walk, so two threads won't fsckup each other (including those started by root, including flipping ->mm when you don't have permissions) - pagemap_read() contains two calls to ptrace_may_attach(), second one looks unneeded. - avoid possible kmalloc(0) and integer wraparound. Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [ Personally, I'd just remove the functionality entirely - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Fix clear_refs_write() use of struct mm_walk

2008-07-05T20:07:56Z

Don't use a static entry, so as to prevent races during concurrent use of this function. Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

pagemap: fix large pages in pagemap

2008-06-13T01:05:41Z

We were walking right into huge page areas in the pagemap walker, and calling the pmds pmd_bad() and clearing them. That leaked huge pages. Bad. This patch at least works around that for now. It ignores huge pages in the pagemap walker for the time being, and won't leak those pages. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

pagemap: pass mm into pagewalkers

2008-06-13T01:05:41Z

We need this at least for huge page detection for now, because powerpc needs the vm_area_struct to be able to determine whether a virtual address is referring to a huge page (its pmd_huge() doesn't work). It might also come in handy for some of the other users. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chrisw/lsm-2.6

2008-06-06T18:31:55Z

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chrisw/lsm-2.6: capabilities: remain source compatible with 32-bit raw legacy capability support. LSM: remove stale web site from MAINTAINERS

pagemap: return EINVAL, not EIO, for unaligned reads of kpagecount or kpageflags

2008-06-06T18:29:13Z

If the user tries to read from a position that is not a multiple of 8, or read a number of bytes that is not a multiple of 8, they have passed an invalid argument to read, for the purpose of reading these files. It's not an IO error because we didn't encounter any trouble finding the data they asked for. Signed-off-by: Thomas Tuttle Cc: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

pagemap: return map count, not reference count, in /proc/kpagecount

2008-06-06T18:29:13Z

Since pagemap is all about examining pages mapped into processes' memory spaces, it makes sense for kpagecount to return the map counts, not the reference counts. Signed-off-by: Thomas Tuttle Cc: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proc: calculate the correct /proc/ link count

2008-06-06T18:29:13Z

This patch: commit e9720acd728a46cb40daa52c99a979f7c4ff195c Author: Pavel Emelyanov Date: Fri Mar 7 11:08:40 2008 -0800 [NET]: Make /proc/net a symlink on /proc/self/net (v3) introduced a /proc/self/net directory without bumping the corresponding link count for /proc/self. This patch replaces the static link count initializations with a call that counts the number of directory entries in the given pid_entry table whenever it is instantiated, and thus relieves the burden of manually keeping the two in sync. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

pagemap: fix bug in add_to_pagemap, require aligned-length reads of /proc/pid/pagemap

2008-06-06T18:29:11Z

Fix a bug in add_to_pagemap. Previously, since pm->out was a char *, put_user was only copying 1 byte of every PFN, resulting in the top 7 bytes of each PFN not being copied. By requiring that reads be a multiple of 8 bytes, I can make pm->out and pm->end u64*s instead of char*s, which makes put_user work properly, and also simplifies the logic in add_to_pagemap a bit. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Thomas Tuttle Cc: Matt Mackall Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

capabilities: remain source compatible with 32-bit raw legacy capability support.

2008-05-31T23:36:16Z

Source code out there hard-codes a notion of what the _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION #define means in terms of the semantics of the raw capability system calls capget() and capset(). Its unfortunate, but true. Since the confusing header file has been in a released kernel, there is software that is erroneously using 64-bit capabilities with the semantics of 32-bit compatibilities. These recently compiled programs may suffer corruption of their memory when sys_getcap() overwrites more memory than they are coded to expect, and the raising of added capabilities when using sys_capset(). As such, this patch does a number of things to clean up the situation for all. It 1. forces the _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION define to always retain its legacy value. 2. adopts a new #define strategy for the kernel's internal implementation of the preferred magic. 3. deprecates v2 capability magic in favor of a new (v3) magic number. The functionality of v3 is entirely equivalent to v2, the only difference being that the v2 magic causes the kernel to log a "deprecated" warning so the admin can find applications that may be using v2 inappropriately. [User space code continues to be encouraged to use the libcap API which protects the application from details like this. libcap-2.10 is the first to support v3 capabilities.] Fixes issue reported in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447518. Thanks to Bojan Smojver for the report. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/depreciate/deprecate/g] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: be robust about put_user size] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan Cc: Serge E. Hallyn Cc: Bojan Smojver Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Chris Wright