linux.git/fs/proc/base.c, branch v2.6.28

KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN fixes

2008-12-10T16:01:54+00:00

Miles Lane tailing /sys files hit a BUG which Pekka Enberg has tracked
to my 966c8c12dc9e77f931e2281ba25d2f0244b06949 sprint_symbol(): use
less stack exposing a bug in slub's list_locations() -
kallsyms_lookup() writes a 0 to namebuf[KSYM_NAME_LEN-1], but that was
beyond the end of page provided.

The 100 slop which list_locations() allows at end of page looks roughly
enough for all the other stuff it might print after the symbol before
it checks again: break out KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN earlier than before.

Latencytop and ftrace and are using KSYM_NAME_LEN buffers where they
need KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN buffers, and vmallocinfo a 2*KSYM_NAME_LEN buffer
where it wants a KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN buffer: fix those before anyone copies
them.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: ftrace.h needs module.h]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc Miles Lane 
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg 
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt 
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] introduce fmode_t, do annotations

2008-10-21T11:47:06+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

proc: remove kernel.maps_protect

2008-10-10T00:24:51+00:00

After commit 831830b5a2b5d413407adf380ef62fe17d6fcbf2 aka
"restrict reading from /proc//maps to those who share ->mm or can ptrace"
sysctl stopped being relevant because commit moved security checks from ->show
time to ->start time (mm_for_maps()).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Acked-by: Kees Cook

[PATCH] proc: show personality via /proc/pid/personality

2008-10-10T00:18:57+00:00

Make process personality flags visible in /proc.  Since a process's
personality is potentially sensitive (e.g. READ_IMPLIES_EXEC), make this
file only readable by the process owner.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan

[PATCH] signal, procfs: some lock_task_sighand() users do not need rcu_read_lock()

2008-10-10T00:18:57+00:00

lock_task_sighand() make sure task->sighand is being protected,
so we do not need rcu_read_lock().
[ exec() will get task->sighand->siglock before change task->sighand! ]

But code using rcu_read_lock() _just_ to protect lock_task_sighand()
only appear in procfs. (and some code in procfs use lock_task_sighand()
without such redundant protection.)

Other subsystem may put lock_task_sighand() into rcu_read_lock()
critical region, but these rcu_read_lock() are used for protecting
"for_each_process()", "find_task_by_vpid()" etc. , not for protecting
lock_task_sighand().

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan 
[ok from Oleg]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan

proc: fix warnings

2008-08-05T21:33:50+00:00

proc: fix warnings

 fs/proc/base.c:2429: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'u64'
 fs/proc/base.c:2429: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'u64'
 fs/proc/base.c:2429: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'u64'
 fs/proc/base.c:2429: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 6 has type 'u64'
 fs/proc/base.c:2429: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 7 has type 'u64'
 fs/proc/base.c:2429: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 8 has type 'u64'
 fs/proc/base.c:2429: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 9 has type 'u64'

Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov 
Acked-by: Andrea Righi 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

task IO accounting: move all IO statistics in struct task_io_accounting

2008-07-27T23:12:28+00:00

Simplify the code of include/linux/task_io_accounting.h.

It is also more reasonable to have all the task i/o-related statistics in a
single struct (task_io_accounting).

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi 
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

task IO accounting: improve code readability

2008-07-27T16:58:20+00:00

Put all i/o statistics in struct proc_io_accounting and use inline functions to
initialize and increment statistics, removing a lot of single variable
assignments.

This also reduces the kernel size as following (with CONFIG_TASK_XACCT=y and
CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING=y).

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   11651       0       0   11651    2d83 kernel/exit.o.before
   11619       0       0   11619    2d63 kernel/exit.o.after
   10886     132     136   11154    2b92 kernel/fork.o.before
   10758     132     136   11026    2b12 kernel/fork.o.after

 3082029  807968 4818600 8708597  84e1f5 vmlinux.o.before
 3081869  807968 4818600 8708437  84e155 vmlinux.o.after

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi 
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2008-07-27T03:23:44+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (39 commits)
  [PATCH] fix RLIM_NOFILE handling
  [PATCH] get rid of corner case in dup3() entirely
  [PATCH] remove remaining namei_{32,64}.h crap
  [PATCH] get rid of indirect users of namei.h
  [PATCH] get rid of __user_path_lookup_open
  [PATCH] f_count may wrap around
  [PATCH] dup3 fix
  [PATCH] don't pass nameidata to __ncp_lookup_validate()
  [PATCH] don't pass nameidata to gfs2_lookupi()
  [PATCH] new (local) helper: user_path_parent()
  [PATCH] sanitize __user_walk_fd() et.al.
  [PATCH] preparation to __user_walk_fd cleanup
  [PATCH] kill nameidata passing to permission(), rename to inode_permission()
  [PATCH] take noexec checks to very few callers that care
  Re: [PATCH 3/6] vfs: open_exec cleanup
  [patch 4/4] vfs: immutable inode checking cleanup
  [patch 3/4] fat: dont call notify_change
  [patch 2/4] vfs: utimes cleanup
  [patch 1/4] vfs: utimes: move owner check into inode_change_ok()
  [PATCH] vfs: use kstrdup() and check failing allocation
  ...

task IO accounting: correctly account threads IO statistics

2008-07-27T03:16:47+00:00

Oleg Nesterov points out that we should check that the task is still alive
before we iterate over the threads.  This patch includes a fixup for this.

Also simplify do_io_accounting() implementation.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi 
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds