linux/kernel/fork.c, branch v3.11

Rename nsproxy.pid_ns to nsproxy.pid_ns_for_children

2013-08-27T17:52:52Z

nsproxy.pid_ns is *not* the task's pid namespace. The name should clarify that. This makes it more obvious that setns on a pid namespace is weird -- it won't change the pid namespace shown in procfs. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

microblaze: fix clone syscall

2013-08-14T00:57:48Z

Fix inadvertent breakage in the clone syscall ABI for Microblaze that was introduced in commit f3268edbe6fe ("microblaze: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone"). The Microblaze syscall ABI for clone takes the parent tid address in the 4th argument; the third argument slot is used for the stack size. The incorrectly-used CLONE_BACKWARDS type assigned parent tid to the 3rd slot. This commit restores the original ABI so that existing userspace libc code will work correctly. All kernel versions from v3.8-rc1 were affected. Signed-off-by: Michal Simek Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files

2013-07-14T23:36:59Z

The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time") is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created with improper use of the various __init prefixes. After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone, we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h. This removes all the uses of the __cpuinit macros from C files in the core kernel directories (kernel, init, lib, mm, and include) that don't really have a specific maintainer. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589 Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

mm: remove free_area_cache

2013-07-11T01:11:34Z

Since all architectures have been converted to use vm_unmapped_area(), there is no remaining use for the free_area_cache. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: David Howells Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Richard Henderson Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/fork.c:copy_process(): consolidate the lockless CLONE_THREAD checks

2013-07-03T23:08:03Z

copy_process() does a lot of "chaotic" initializations and checks CLONE_THREAD twice before it takes tasklist. In particular it sets "p->group_leader = p" and then changes it again under tasklist if !thread_group_leader(p). This looks a bit confusing, lets create a single "if (CLONE_THREAD)" block which initializes ->exit_signal, ->group_leader, and ->tgid. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Sergey Dyasly Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/fork.c:copy_process(): don't add the uninitialized child to thread/task/pid lists

2013-07-03T23:08:03Z

copy_process() adds the new child to thread_group/init_task.tasks list and then does attach_pid(child, PIDTYPE_PID). This means that the lockless next_thread() or next_task() can see this thread with the wrong pid. Say, "ls /proc/pid/task" can list the same inode twice. We could move attach_pid(child, PIDTYPE_PID) up, but in this case find_task_by_vpid() can find the new thread before it was fully initialized. And this is already true for PIDTYPE_PGID/PIDTYPE_SID, With this patch copy_process() initializes child->pids[*].pid first, then calls attach_pid() to insert the task into the pid->tasks list. attach_pid() no longer need the "struct pid*" argument, it is always called after pid_link->pid was already set. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Sergey Dyasly Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/fork.c:copy_process(): unify CLONE_THREAD-or-thread_group_leader code

2013-07-03T23:08:03Z

Cleanup and preparation for the next changes. Move the "if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD)" code down under "if (likely(p->pid))" and turn it into into the "else" branch. This makes the process/thread initialization more symmetrical and removes one check. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Sergey Dyasly Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fork: reorder permissions when violating number of processes limits

2013-07-03T23:08:03Z

When a task is attempting to violate the RLIMIT_NPROC limit we have a check to see if the task is sufficiently priviledged. The check first looks at CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then CAP_SYS_RESOURCE, then if the task is uid=0. A result is that tasks which are allowed by the uid=0 check are first checked against the security subsystem. This results in the security subsystem auditting a denial for sys_admin and sys_resource and then the task passing the uid=0 check. This patch rearranges the code to first check uid=0, since if we pass that we shouldn't hit the security system at all. We then check sys_resource, since it is the smallest capability which will solve the problem. Lastly we check the fallback everything cap_sysadmin. We don't want to give this capability many places since it is so powerful. This will eliminate many of the false positive/needless denial messages we get when a root task tries to violate the nproc limit. (note that kthreads count against root, so on a sufficiently large machine we can actually get past the default limits before any userspace tasks are launched.) Signed-off-by: Eric Paris Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-3.10/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2013-05-08T18:51:05Z

Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe: "It might look big in volume, but when categorized, not a lot of drivers are touched. The pull request contains: - mtip32xx fixes from Micron. - A slew of drbd updates, this time in a nicer series. - bcache, a flash/ssd caching framework from Kent. - Fixes for cciss" * 'for-3.10/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (66 commits) bcache: Use bd_link_disk_holder() bcache: Allocator cleanup/fixes cciss: bug fix to prevent cciss from loading in kdump crash kernel cciss: add cciss_allow_hpsa module parameter drivers/block/mg_disk.c: add CONFIG_PM_SLEEP to suspend/resume functions mtip32xx: Workaround for unaligned writes bcache: Make sure blocksize isn't smaller than device blocksize bcache: Fix merge_bvec_fn usage for when it modifies the bvm bcache: Correctly check against BIO_MAX_PAGES bcache: Hack around stuff that clones up to bi_max_vecs bcache: Set ra_pages based on backing device's ra_pages bcache: Take data offset from the bdev superblock. mtip32xx: mtip32xx: Disable TRIM support mtip32xx: fix a smatch warning bcache: Disable broken btree fuzz tester bcache: Fix a format string overflow bcache: Fix a minor memory leak on device teardown bcache: Documentation updates bcache: Use WARN_ONCE() instead of __WARN() bcache: Add missing #include ...

aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h

2013-05-08T03:16:25Z

Faster kernel compiles by way of fewer unnecessary includes. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fallout] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Cc: Zach Brown Cc: Felipe Balbi Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Mark Fasheh Cc: Joel Becker Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Asai Thambi S P Cc: Selvan Mani Cc: Sam Bradshaw Cc: Jeff Moyer Cc: Al Viro Cc: Benjamin LaHaise Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds