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<title>AppArmor: fix oops in apparmor_setprocattr</title>
<updated>2011-06-01T03:07:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees.cook@canonical.com</email>
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<published>2011-05-31T18:31:41+00:00</published>
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When invalid parameters are passed to apparmor_setprocattr a NULL deref
oops occurs when it tries to record an audit message. This is because
it is passing NULL for the profile parameter for aa_audit. But aa_audit
now requires that the profile passed is not NULL.

Fix this by passing the current profile on the task that is trying to
setprocattr.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@ubuntu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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When invalid parameters are passed to apparmor_setprocattr a NULL deref
oops occurs when it tries to record an audit message. This is because
it is passing NULL for the profile parameter for aa_audit. But aa_audit
now requires that the profile passed is not NULL.

Fix this by passing the current profile on the task that is trying to
setprocattr.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@ubuntu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'docs-move' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs</title>
<updated>2011-05-27T17:25:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-27T17:25:02+00:00</published>
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* 'docs-move' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs:
  Create Documentation/security/, move LSM-, credentials-, and keys-related files from Documentation/   to Documentation/security/, add Documentation/security/00-INDEX, and update all occurrences of Documentation/&lt;moved_file&gt;   to Documentation/security/&lt;moved_file&gt;.
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* 'docs-move' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs:
  Create Documentation/security/, move LSM-, credentials-, and keys-related files from Documentation/   to Documentation/security/, add Documentation/security/00-INDEX, and update all occurrences of Documentation/&lt;moved_file&gt;   to Documentation/security/&lt;moved_file&gt;.
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<entry>
<title>selinux: don't pass in NULL avd to avc_has_perm_noaudit</title>
<updated>2011-05-27T01:13:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-24T20:48:51+00:00</published>
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Right now security_get_user_sids() will pass in a NULL avd pointer to
avc_has_perm_noaudit(), which then forces that function to have a dummy
entry for that case and just generally test it.

Don't do it.  The normal callers all pass a real avd pointer, and this
helper function is incredibly hot.  So don't make avc_has_perm_noaudit()
do conditional stuff that isn't needed for the common case.

This also avoids some duplicated stack space.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Right now security_get_user_sids() will pass in a NULL avd pointer to
avc_has_perm_noaudit(), which then forces that function to have a dummy
entry for that case and just generally test it.

Don't do it.  The normal callers all pass a real avd pointer, and this
helper function is incredibly hot.  So don't make avc_has_perm_noaudit()
do conditional stuff that isn't needed for the common case.

This also avoids some duplicated stack space.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cgroups: add per-thread subsystem callbacks</title>
<updated>2011-05-27T00:12:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Blum</name>
<email>bblum@andrew.cmu.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-26T23:25:19+00:00</published>
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Add cgroup subsystem callbacks for per-thread attachment in atomic contexts

Add can_attach_task(), pre_attach(), and attach_task() as new callbacks
for cgroups's subsystem interface.  Unlike can_attach and attach, these
are for per-thread operations, to be called potentially many times when
attaching an entire threadgroup.

Also, the old "bool threadgroup" interface is removed, as replaced by
this.  All subsystems are modified for the new interface - of note is
cpuset, which requires from/to nodemasks for attach to be globally scoped
(though per-cpuset would work too) to persist from its pre_attach to
attach_task and attach.

This is a pre-patch for cgroup-procs-writable.patch.

Signed-off-by: Ben Blum &lt;bblum@andrew.cmu.edu&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Helsley &lt;matthltc@us.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage &lt;menage@google.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Miao Xie &lt;miaox@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Add cgroup subsystem callbacks for per-thread attachment in atomic contexts

Add can_attach_task(), pre_attach(), and attach_task() as new callbacks
for cgroups's subsystem interface.  Unlike can_attach and attach, these
are for per-thread operations, to be called potentially many times when
attaching an entire threadgroup.

Also, the old "bool threadgroup" interface is removed, as replaced by
this.  All subsystems are modified for the new interface - of note is
cpuset, which requires from/to nodemasks for attach to be globally scoped
(though per-cpuset would work too) to persist from its pre_attach to
attach_task and attach.

This is a pre-patch for cgroup-procs-writable.patch.

Signed-off-by: Ben Blum &lt;bblum@andrew.cmu.edu&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Helsley &lt;matthltc@us.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage &lt;menage@google.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Miao Xie &lt;miaox@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Set cred-&gt;user_ns in key_replace_session_keyring</title>
<updated>2011-05-26T20:49:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Serge E. Hallyn</name>
<email>serge@hallyn.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-26T20:25:05+00:00</published>
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Since this cred was not created with copy_creds(), it needs to get
initialized.  Otherwise use of syscall(__NR_keyctl, KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT);
can lead to a NULL deref.  Thanks to Robert for finding this.

But introduced by commit 47a150edc2a ("Cache user_ns in struct cred").

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
Reported-by: Robert Święcki &lt;robert@swiecki.net&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org (2.6.39)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Since this cred was not created with copy_creds(), it needs to get
initialized.  Otherwise use of syscall(__NR_keyctl, KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT);
can lead to a NULL deref.  Thanks to Robert for finding this.

But introduced by commit 47a150edc2a ("Cache user_ns in struct cred").

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
Reported-by: Robert Święcki &lt;robert@swiecki.net&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org (2.6.39)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/selinux into for-linus</title>
<updated>2011-05-24T13:20:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morris</name>
<email>jmorris@namei.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-24T13:20:19+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	lib/flex_array.c
	security/selinux/avc.c
	security/selinux/hooks.c
	security/selinux/ss/policydb.c
	security/smack/smack_lsm.c

Manually resolve conflicts.

Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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Conflicts:
	lib/flex_array.c
	security/selinux/avc.c
	security/selinux/hooks.c
	security/selinux/ss/policydb.c
	security/smack/smack_lsm.c

Manually resolve conflicts.

Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2011-05-24T12:55:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morris</name>
<email>jmorris@namei.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-24T12:55:24+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2011-05-23T16:12:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-23T16:12:26+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  b43: fix comment typo reqest -&gt; request
  Haavard Skinnemoen has left Atmel
  cris: typo in mach-fs Makefile
  Kconfig: fix copy/paste-ism for dell-wmi-aio driver
  doc: timers-howto: fix a typo ("unsgined")
  perf: Only include annotate.h once in tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/annotate.c
  md, raid5: Fix spelling error in comment ('Ofcourse' --&gt; 'Of course').
  treewide: fix a few typos in comments
  regulator: change debug statement be consistent with the style of the rest
  Revert "arm: mach-u300/gpio: Fix mem_region resource size miscalculations"
  audit: acquire creds selectively to reduce atomic op overhead
  rtlwifi: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal
  treewide: cleanup continuations and remove logging message whitespace
  ath9k_hw: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal
  include/linux/leds-regulator.h: fix syntax in example code
  tty: fix typo in descripton of tty_termios_encode_baud_rate
  xtensa: remove obsolete BKL kernel option from defconfig
  m68k: fix comment typo 'occcured'
  arch:Kconfig.locks Remove unused config option.
  treewide: remove extra semicolons
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  b43: fix comment typo reqest -&gt; request
  Haavard Skinnemoen has left Atmel
  cris: typo in mach-fs Makefile
  Kconfig: fix copy/paste-ism for dell-wmi-aio driver
  doc: timers-howto: fix a typo ("unsgined")
  perf: Only include annotate.h once in tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/annotate.c
  md, raid5: Fix spelling error in comment ('Ofcourse' --&gt; 'Of course').
  treewide: fix a few typos in comments
  regulator: change debug statement be consistent with the style of the rest
  Revert "arm: mach-u300/gpio: Fix mem_region resource size miscalculations"
  audit: acquire creds selectively to reduce atomic op overhead
  rtlwifi: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal
  treewide: cleanup continuations and remove logging message whitespace
  ath9k_hw: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal
  include/linux/leds-regulator.h: fix syntax in example code
  tty: fix typo in descripton of tty_termios_encode_baud_rate
  xtensa: remove obsolete BKL kernel option from defconfig
  m68k: fix comment typo 'occcured'
  arch:Kconfig.locks Remove unused config option.
  treewide: remove extra semicolons
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<entry>
<title>selinux: avoid unnecessary avc cache stat hit count</title>
<updated>2011-05-20T04:22:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-20T04:22:53+00:00</published>
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There is no point in counting hits - we can calculate it from the number
of lookups and misses.

This makes the avc statistics a bit smaller, and makes the code
generation better too.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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There is no point in counting hits - we can calculate it from the number
of lookups and misses.

This makes the avc statistics a bit smaller, and makes the code
generation better too.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>selinux: de-crapify avc cache stat code generation</title>
<updated>2011-05-20T01:59:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-20T01:59:47+00:00</published>
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You can turn off the avc cache stats, but distributions seem to not do
that (perhaps because several performance tuning how-to's talk about the
avc cache statistics).

Which is sad, because the code it generates is truly horrendous, with
the statistics update being sandwitched between get_cpu/put_cpu which in
turn causes preemption disables etc.  We're talking ten+ instructions
just to increment a per-cpu variable in some pretty hot code.

Fix the craziness by just using 'this_cpu_inc()' instead.  Suddenly we
only need a single 'inc' instruction to increment the statistics.  This
is quite noticeable in the incredibly hot avc_has_perm_noaudit()
function (which triggers all the statistics by virtue of doing an
avc_lookup() call).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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You can turn off the avc cache stats, but distributions seem to not do
that (perhaps because several performance tuning how-to's talk about the
avc cache statistics).

Which is sad, because the code it generates is truly horrendous, with
the statistics update being sandwitched between get_cpu/put_cpu which in
turn causes preemption disables etc.  We're talking ten+ instructions
just to increment a per-cpu variable in some pretty hot code.

Fix the craziness by just using 'this_cpu_inc()' instead.  Suddenly we
only need a single 'inc' instruction to increment the statistics.  This
is quite noticeable in the incredibly hot avc_has_perm_noaudit()
function (which triggers all the statistics by virtue of doing an
avc_lookup() call).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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