linux.git/fs/proc/base.c, branch v3.1

vfs: show O_CLOEXE bit properly in /proc//fdinfo/ files

2011-08-06T18:51:33+00:00

The CLOEXE bit is magical, and for performance (and semantic) reasons we
don't actually maintain it in the file descriptor itself, but in a
separate bit array.  Which means that when we show f_flags, the CLOEXE
status is shown incorrectly: we show the status not as it is now, but as
it was when the file was opened.

Fix that by looking up the bit properly in the 'fdt->close_on_exec' bit
array.

Uli needs this in order to re-implement the pfiles program:

  "For normal file descriptors (not sockets) this was the last piece of
   information which wasn't available.  This is all part of my 'give
   Solaris users no reason to not switch' effort.  I intend to offer the
   code to the util-linux-ng maintainers."

Requested-by: Ulrich Drepper 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

oom_ajd: don't use WARN_ONCE, just use printk_once

2011-08-06T18:43:08+00:00

WARN_ONCE() is very annoying, in that it shows the stack trace that we
don't care about at all, and also triggers various user-level "kernel
oopsed" logic that we really don't care about.  And it's not like the
user can do anything about the applications (sshd) in question, it's a
distro issue.

Requested-by: Andi Kleen  (and many others)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proc: fix a race in do_io_accounting()

2011-07-26T23:49:43+00:00

If an inode's mode permits opening /proc/PID/io and the resulting file
descriptor is kept across execve() of a setuid or similar binary, the
ptrace_may_access() check tries to prevent using this fd against the
task with escalated privileges.

Unfortunately, there is a race in the check against execve().  If
execve() is processed after the ptrace check, but before the actual io
information gathering, io statistics will be gathered from the
privileged process.  At least in theory this might lead to gathering
sensible information (like ssh/ftp password length) that wouldn't be
available otherwise.

Holding task->signal->cred_guard_mutex while gathering the io
information should protect against the race.

The order of locking is similar to the one inside of ptrace_attach():
first goes cred_guard_mutex, then lock_task_sighand().

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

oom: make deprecated use of oom_adj more verbose

2011-07-26T03:57:09+00:00

/proc/pid/oom_adj is deprecated and scheduled for removal in August 2012
according to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt.

This patch makes the warning more verbose by making it appear as a more
serious problem (the presence of a stack trace and being multiline should
attract more attention) so that applications still using the old interface
can get fixed.

Very popular users of the old interface have been converted since the oom
killer rewrite has been introduced.  udevd switched to the
/proc/pid/oom_score_adj interface for v162, kde switched in 4.6.1, and
opensshd switched in 5.7p1.

At the start of 2012, this should be changed into a WARN() to emit all
such incidents and then finally remove the tunable in August 2012 as
scheduled.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2011-07-23T02:02:39+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (107 commits)
  vfs: use ERR_CAST for err-ptr tossing in lookup_instantiate_filp
  isofs: Remove global fs lock
  jffs2: fix IN_DELETE_SELF on overwriting rename() killing a directory
  fix IN_DELETE_SELF on overwriting rename() on ramfs et.al.
  mm/truncate.c: fix build for CONFIG_BLOCK not enabled
  fs:update the NOTE of the file_operations structure
  Remove dead code in dget_parent()
  AFS: Fix silly characters in a comment
  switch d_add_ci() to d_splice_alias() in "found negative" case as well
  simplify gfs2_lookup()
  jfs_lookup(): don't bother with . or ..
  get rid of useless dget_parent() in btrfs rename() and link()
  get rid of useless dget_parent() in fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
  fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlers
  drivers: fix up various ->llseek() implementations
  fs: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA properly in all fs's that define their own llseek
  Ext4: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA generically
  Btrfs: implement our own ->llseek
  fs: add SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flags
  reiserfs: make reiserfs default to barrier=flush
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c due to the new
shrinker callout for the inode cache, that clashed with the xfs code to
start the periodic workers later.

Merge branch 'ptrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc

2011-07-22T22:06:50+00:00

* 'ptrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc: (39 commits)
  ptrace: do_wait(traced_leader_killed_by_mt_exec) can block forever
  ptrace: fix ptrace_signal() && STOP_DEQUEUED interaction
  connector: add an event for monitoring process tracers
  ptrace: dont send SIGSTOP on auto-attach if PT_SEIZED
  ptrace: mv send-SIGSTOP from do_fork() to ptrace_init_task()
  ptrace_init_task: initialize child->jobctl explicitly
  has_stopped_jobs: s/task_is_stopped/SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED/
  ptrace: make former thread ID available via PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG after PTRACE_EVENT_EXEC stop
  ptrace: wait_consider_task: s/same_thread_group/ptrace_reparented/
  ptrace: kill real_parent_is_ptracer() in in favor of ptrace_reparented()
  ptrace: ptrace_reparented() should check same_thread_group()
  redefine thread_group_leader() as exit_signal >= 0
  do not change dead_task->exit_signal
  kill task_detached()
  reparent_leader: check EXIT_DEAD instead of task_detached()
  make do_notify_parent() __must_check, update the callers
  __ptrace_detach: avoid task_detached(), check do_notify_parent()
  kill tracehook_notify_death()
  make do_notify_parent() return bool
  ptrace: s/tracehook_tracer_task()/ptrace_parent()/
  ...

fs: seq_file - add event counter to simplify poll() support

2011-07-21T00:47:50+00:00

Moving the event counter into the dynamically allocated 'struc seq_file'
allows poll() support without the need to allocate its own tracking
structure.

All current users are switched over to use the new counter.

Requested-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org
Acked-by: NeilBrown 
Tested-by: Lucas De Marchi lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

->permission() sanitizing: don't pass flags to ->permission()

2011-07-20T05:43:24+00:00

not used by the instances anymore.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

->permission() sanitizing: don't pass flags to generic_permission()

2011-07-20T05:43:22+00:00

redundant; all callers get it duplicated in mask & MAY_NOT_BLOCK and none of
them removes that bit.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

kill check_acl callback of generic_permission()

2011-07-20T05:43:16+00:00

its value depends only on inode and does not change; we might as
well store it in ->i_op->check_acl and be done with that.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro