linux-stable.git/fs/proc, branch linux-2.6.25.y

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

2008-06-09T18:27:06+00:00

upstream commit: ca05a99a54db1db5bca72eccb5866d2a86f8517f

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

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

2008-06-09T18:27:05+00:00

upstream commit: aae8679b0ebcaa92f99c1c3cb0cd651594a43915

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 
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright

proc: calculate the correct /proc/ link count

2008-06-09T18:27:05+00:00

upstream commit: aed5417593ad125283f35513573282139a8664b5

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 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright

Change pagemap output format to allow for future reporting of huge pages

2008-03-23T00:03:10+00:00

Change pagemap output format to allow for future reporting of huge pages.

(Format comment and minor cleanups: mpm@selenic.com)

Signed-off-by: Hans Rosenfeld 
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

2008-03-21T14:57:45+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (46 commits)
  [NET] ifb: set separate lockdep classes for queue locks
  [IPV6] KCONFIG: Fix description about IPV6_TUNNEL.
  [TCP]: Fix shrinking windows with window scaling
  netpoll: zap_completion_queue: adjust skb->users counter
  bridge: use time_before() in br_fdb_cleanup()
  [TG3]: Fix build warning on sparc32.
  MAINTAINERS: bluez-devel is subscribers-only
  audit: netlink socket can be auto-bound to pid other than current->pid (v2)
  [NET]: Fix permissions of /proc/net
  [SCTP]: Fix a race between module load and protosw access
  [NETFILTER]: ipt_recent: sanity check hit count
  [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_h323: logical-bitwise & confusion in process_setup()
  [RT2X00] drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c: remove dead code, fix warning
  [IPV4]: esp_output() misannotations
  [8021Q]: vlan_dev misannotations
  xfrm: ->eth_proto is __be16
  [IPV4]: ipv4_is_lbcast() misannotations
  [SUNRPC]: net/* NULL noise
  [SCTP]: fix misannotated __sctp_rcv_asconf_lookup()
  [PKT_SCHED]: annotate cls_u32
  ...

[NET]: Fix permissions of /proc/net

2008-03-20T22:27:28+00:00

commit e9720ac ([NET]: Make /proc/net a symlink on /proc/self/net (v3))
broke ganglia and probably other applications that read /proc/net/dev.

This is due to the change of permissions of /proc/net that was
introduced in that commit.

Before: dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Mar 19 11:30 /proc/net
After: dr-xr--r-- 5 root root 0 Mar 19 11:29 /proc/self/net

This patch restores the permissions to the old value which makes
ganglia happy again.

Pavel Emelyanov says:

	This also broke the postfix, as it was reported in bug #10286
	and described in detail by Benjamin.

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll 
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[PATCH] export sessionid alongside the loginuid in procfs

2008-03-18T14:51:22+00:00

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

pagemap: proper read error handling

2008-03-13T20:11:43+00:00

Fix pagemap_read() error handling by releasing acquired resources and checking
for get_user_pages() partial failure.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti 
Acked-by: Matt Mackall 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

2008-03-12T20:08:09+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (47 commits)
  [SCTP]: Fix local_addr deletions during list traversals.
  net: fix build with CONFIG_NET=n
  [TCP]: Prevent sending past receiver window with TSO (at last skb)
  rt2x00: Add new D-Link USB ID
  rt2x00: never disable multicast because it disables broadcast too
  libertas: fix the 'compare command with itself' properly
  drivers/net/Kconfig: fix whitespace for GELIC_WIRELESS entry
  [NETFILTER]: nf_queue: don't return error when unregistering a non-existant handler
  [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink_queue: fix EPERM when binding/unbinding and instance 0 exists
  [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink_log: fix EPERM when binding/unbinding and instance 0 exists
  [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: replace horrible hack with ksize()
  [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: add \n to "expectation table full" message
  [NETFILTER]: xt_time: fix failure to match on Sundays
  [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink_log: fix computation of netlink skb size
  [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink_queue: fix computation of allocated size for netlink skb.
  [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: fix ifdef in nfnetlink_compat.h
  [NET]: include  into linux/ethtool.h for __u* typedef
  [NET]: Make /proc/net a symlink on /proc/self/net (v3)
  RxRPC: fix rxrpc_recvmsg()'s returning of msg_name
  net/enc28j60: oops fix
  ...

net: fix build with CONFIG_NET=n

2008-03-12T01:03:35+00:00

fs/built-in.o:(.rodata+0x1134): undefined reference to `proc_net_inode_operations'
fs/built-in.o:(.rodata+0x1138): undefined reference to `proc_net_operations'

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller