linux-stable.git/fs/binfmt_elf.c, branch linux-4.7.y

coredump: fix dumping through pipes

2016-06-08T02:07:09+00:00

The offset in the core file used to be tracked with ->written field of
the coredump_params structure. The field was retired in favour of
file->f_pos.

However, ->f_pos is not maintained for pipes which leads to breakage.

Restore explicit tracking of the offset in coredump_params. Introduce
->pos field for this purpose since ->written was already reused.

Fixes: a00839395103 ("get rid of coredump_params->written").

Reported-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik 
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

mm: remove more IS_ERR_VALUE abuses

2016-05-27T22:57:31+00:00

The do_brk() and vm_brk() return value was "unsigned long" and returned
the starting address on success, and an error value on failure.  The
reasons are entirely historical, and go back to it basically behaving
like the mmap() interface does.

However, nobody actually wanted that interface, and it causes totally
pointless IS_ERR_VALUE() confusion.

What every single caller actually wants is just the simpler integer
return of zero for success and negative error number on failure.

So just convert to that much clearer and more common calling convention,
and get rid of all the IS_ERR_VALUE() uses wrt vm_brk().

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, elf: handle vm_brk error

2016-05-24T00:04:14+00:00

load_elf_library doesn't handle vm_brk failure although nothing really
indicates it cannot do that because the function is allowed to fail due
to vm_mmap failures already.  This might be not a problem now but later
patch will make vm_brk killable (resp.  mmap_sem for write waiting will
become killable) and so the failure will be more probable.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2016-05-18T18:51:59+00:00

Pull misc vfs cleanups from Al Viro:
 "Assorted cleanups and fixes all over the place"

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  coredump: only charge written data against RLIMIT_CORE
  coredump: get rid of coredump_params->written
  ecryptfs_lookup(): try either only encrypted or plaintext name
  ecryptfs: avoid multiple aliases for directories
  bpf: reject invalid names right in ->lookup()
  __d_alloc(): treat NULL name as QSTR("/", 1)
  mtd: switch ubi_open_volume_path() to vfs_stat()
  mtd: switch open_mtd_by_chdev() to use of vfs_stat()

coredump: get rid of coredump_params->written

2016-05-12T20:55:50+00:00

cprm->written is redundant with cprm->file->f_pos, so use that instead.

Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros

2016-04-04T17:41:08+00:00

PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time
ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page
cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.

This promise never materialized.  And unlikely will.

We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to
PAGE_SIZE.  And it's constant source of confusion on whether
PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case,
especially on the border between fs and mm.

Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much
breakage to be doable.

Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special.  They are
not.

The changes are pretty straight-forward:

 -  << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> ;

 -  >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> ;

 - PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -> PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN};

 - page_cache_get() -> get_page();

 - page_cache_release() -> put_page();

This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using
script below.  For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files.
I've called spatch for them manually.

The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to
PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later.

There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach.  I'll
fix them manually in a separate patch.  Comments and documentation also
will be addressed with the separate patch.

virtual patch

@@
expression E;
@@
- E << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
expression E;
@@
- E >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
+ PAGE_SHIFT

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
+ PAGE_SIZE

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_MASK
+ PAGE_MASK

@@
expression E;
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E)
+ PAGE_ALIGN(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_get(E)
+ get_page(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_release(E)
+ put_page(E)

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: ASLR: use get_random_long()

2016-02-27T18:28:52+00:00

Replace calls to get_random_int() followed by a cast to (unsigned long)
with calls to get_random_long().  Also address shifting bug which, in
case of x86 removed entropy mask for mmap_rnd_bits values > 31 bits.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Cashman 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Nick Kralevich 
Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep 
Cc: Mark Salyzyn 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ELF: Also pass any interpreter's file header to `arch_check_elf'

2016-01-19T23:39:20+00:00

Also pass any interpreter's file header to `arch_check_elf' so that any
architecture handler can have a look at it if needed.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki 
Acked-by: Andrew Morton 
Acked-by: Al Viro 
Cc: Matthew Fortune 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11478/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

Merge branch 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2015-11-11T17:45:24+00:00

Pull vfs update from Al Viro:

 - misc stable fixes

 - trivial kernel-doc and comment fixups

 - remove never-used block_page_mkwrite() wrapper function, and rename
   the function that is _actually_ used to not have double underscores.

* 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fs: 9p: cache.h: Add #define of include guard
  vfs: remove stale comment in inode_operations
  vfs: remove unused wrapper block_page_mkwrite()
  binfmt_elf: Correct `arch_check_elf's description
  fs: fix writeback.c kernel-doc warnings
  fs: fix inode.c kernel-doc warning
  fs/pipe.c: return error code rather than 0 in pipe_write()
  fs/pipe.c: preserve alloc_file() error code
  binfmt_elf: Don't clobber passed executable's file header
  FS-Cache: Handle a write to the page immediately beyond the EOF marker
  cachefiles: perform test on s_blocksize when opening cache file.
  FS-Cache: Don't override netfs's primary_index if registering failed
  FS-Cache: Increase reference of parent after registering, netfs success
  debugfs: fix refcount imbalance in start_creating

binfmt_elf: Correct `arch_check_elf's description

2015-11-11T07:19:21+00:00

Correct `arch_check_elf's description, mistakenly copied and pasted from
`arch_elf_pt_proc'.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro