linux.git/fs/sysfs, branch v2.6.32

sysfs: Don't leak secdata when a sysfs_dirent is freed.

2009-11-04T21:19:18+00:00

While refreshing my sysfs patches I noticed a leak in the secdata
implementation.  We don't free the secdata when we free the
sysfs dirent.

This is a bug in 2.6.32-rc5 that we really should close.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn 
Signed-off-by: James Morris

sysfs: Allow sysfs_notify_dirent to be called from interrupt context.

2009-10-14T22:16:25+00:00

sysfs_notify_dirent is a simple atomic operation that can be used to
alert user-space that new data can be read from a sysfs attribute.

Unfortunately it cannot currently be called from non-process context
because of its use of spin_lock which is sometimes taken with
interrupts enabled.

So change all lockers of sysfs_open_dirent_lock to disable interrupts,
thus making sysfs_notify_dirent safe to be called from non-process
context (as drivers/md does in md_safemode_timeout).

sysfs_get_open_dirent is (documented as being) only called from
process context, so it uses spin_lock_irq.  Other places
use spin_lock_irqsave.

The usage for sysfs_notify_dirent in md_safemode_timeout was
introduced in 2.6.28, so this patch is suitable for that and more
recent kernels.

Reported-by: Joel Andres Granados 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams 
Cc: stable 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs: Allow sysfs_move_dir(..., NULL) again.

2009-10-14T22:16:25+00:00

As device_move() and kobject_move() both handle a NULL destination,
sysfs_move_dir() should do this as well (again) and fall back to
sysfs_root in that case.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck 
Cc: Phil Carmody 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

const: mark struct vm_struct_operations

2009-09-27T18:39:25+00:00

* mark struct vm_area_struct::vm_ops as const
* mark vm_ops in AGP code

But leave TTM code alone, something is fishy there with global vm_ops
being used.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block

2009-09-11T16:17:05+00:00

* 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  writeback: check for registered bdi in flusher add and inode dirty
  writeback: add name to backing_dev_info
  writeback: add some debug inode list counters to bdi stats
  writeback: get rid of pdflush completely
  writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing data
  writeback: move dirty inodes from super_block to backing_dev_info
  writeback: get rid of generic_sync_sb_inodes() export

writeback: add name to backing_dev_info

2009-09-11T07:20:26+00:00

This enables us to track who does what and print info. Its main use
is catching dirty inodes on the default_backing_dev_info, so we can
fix that up.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

sysfs: Add labeling support for sysfs

2009-09-10T00:11:29+00:00

This patch adds a setxattr handler to the file, directory, and symlink
inode_operations structures for sysfs. The patch uses hooks introduced in the
previous patch to handle the getting and setting of security information for
the sysfs inodes. As was suggested by Eric Biederman the struct iattr in the
sysfs_dirent structure has been replaced by a structure which contains the
iattr, secdata and secdata length to allow the changes to persist in the event
that the inode representing the sysfs_dirent is evicted. Because sysfs only
stores this information when a change is made all the optional data is moved
into one dynamically allocated field.

This patch addresses an issue where SELinux was denying virtd access to the PCI
configuration entries in sysfs. The lack of setxattr handlers for sysfs
required that a single label be assigned to all entries in sysfs. Granting virtd
access to every entry in sysfs is not an acceptable solution so fine grained
labeling of sysfs is required such that individual entries can be labeled
appropriately.

[sds:  Fixed compile-time warnings, coding style, and setting of inode security init flags.]

Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley 
Signed-off-by: Stephen D. Smalley 
Signed-off-by: James Morris

sysfs: fix hardlink count on device_move

2009-07-28T20:45:21+00:00

Update directory hardlink count when moving kobjects to a new parent.
Fixes the following problem which occurs when several devices are
moved to the same parent and then unregistered:

> ls -laF /sys/devices/css0/defunct/
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 4294967295 root root    0 2009-07-14 17:02 ./
> drwxr-xr-x        114 root root    0 2009-07-14 17:02 ../
> drwxr-xr-x          2 root root    0 2009-07-14 17:01 power/
> -rw-r--r--          1 root root 4096 2009-07-14 17:01 uevent

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Cc: stable 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Free the memory allocated by memdup_user() in fs/sysfs/bin.c

2009-07-08T16:34:07+00:00

Commit 1c8542c7bb replaced kmalloc() with memdup_user() in the write()
function but also dropped the kfree(temp). The memdup_user() function
allocates memory which is never freed.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Parag Warudkar 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Sysfs: fix possible memleak in sysfs_follow_link

2009-06-16T04:30:23+00:00

There is the possiblity of a memory leak if a page is allocated and if
sysfs_getlink() fails in the sysfs_follow_link.

Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman