This commit makes the stack guard page somewhat less visible to user
space. It does this by:
- not showing the guard page in /proc/<pid>/maps
It looks like lvm-tools will actually read /proc/self/maps to figure
out where all its mappings are, and effectively do a specialized
"mlockall()" in user space. By not showing the guard page as part of
the mapping (by just adding PAGE_SIZE to the start for grows-up
pages), lvm-tools ends up not being aware of it.
- by also teaching the _real_ mlock() functionality not to try to lock
the guard page.
That would just expand the mapping down to create a new guard page,
so there really is no point in trying to lock it in place.
It would perhaps be nice to show the guard page specially in
/proc/<pid>/maps (or at least mark grow-down segments some way), but
let's not open ourselves up to more breakage by user space from programs
that depends on the exact deails of the 'maps' file.
Special thanks to Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for diving into lvm-tools
source code to see what was going on with the whole new warning.
Reported-and-tested-by: François Valenduc <francois.valenduc@tvcablenet.be
Reported-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mark arguments to certain system calls as being const where they should be but
aren't. The list includes:
(*) The filename arguments of various stat syscalls, execve(), various utimes
syscalls and some mount syscalls.
(*) The filename arguments of some syscall helpers relating to the above.
(*) The buffer argument of various write syscalls.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
logfs does not need the BKL, so use ->unlocked_ioctl instead
of ->ioctl in file operations.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
[ fixed trivial conflict ]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2:
O2net: Disallow o2net accept connection request from itself.
ocfs2/dlm: remove potential deadlock -V3
ocfs2/dlm: avoid incorrect bit set in refmap on recovery master
Fix the nested PR lock calling issue in ACL
ocfs2: Count more refcount records in file system fragmentation.
ocfs2 fix o2dlm dlm run purgelist (rev 3)
ocfs2/dlm: fix a dead lock
ocfs2: do not overwrite error codes in ocfs2_init_acl
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
[NFS] Set CONFIG_KEYS when CONFIG_NFS_USE_KERNEL_DNS is set
AFS: Implement an autocell mount capability [ver #2]
DNS: If the DNS server returns an error, allow that to be cached [ver #2]
NFS: Use kernel DNS resolver [ver #2]
cifs: update README to include details about 'fsc' option
9c867fbe "partitions: fix sometimes unreadable partition strings" coverted
one line within the ibm partition code incorrectly. Fix this to get rid of
a build error.
fs/partitions/ibm.c: In function 'ibm_partition':
[...]
fs/partitions/ibm.c:185: error: too many arguments to function 'strlcat'
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
This reverts commit 3bcf3860a4 (and the
accompanying commit c1e5c95402 "vfs/fsnotify: fsnotify_close can delay
the final work in fput" that was a horribly ugly hack to make it work at
all).
The 'struct file' approach not only causes that disgusting hack, it
somehow breaks pulseaudio, probably due to some other subtlety with
f_count handling.
Fix up various conflicts due to later fsnotify work.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Previous patch relied on DNS_RESOLVER setting CONFIG_KEYS
but needs to be selected in NFS config when using the new
DNS resolver
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
CC: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
* 'params' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: (22 commits)
param: don't deref arg in __same_type() checks
param: update drivers/acpi/debug.c to new scheme
param: use module_param in drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
ide: use module_param_named rather than module_param_call
param: update drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c to new scheme
param: lock if_sdio's lbs_helper_name and lbs_fw_name against sysfs changes.
param: lock myri10ge_fw_name against sysfs changes.
param: simple locking for sysfs-writable charp parameters
param: remove unnecessary writable charp
param: add kerneldoc to moduleparam.h
param: locking for kernel parameters
param: make param sections const.
param: use free hook for charp (fix leak of charp parameters)
param: add a free hook to kernel_param_ops.
param: silence .init.text references from param ops
Add param ops struct for hvc_iucv driver.
nfs: update for module_param_named API change
AppArmor: update for module_param_named API change
param: use ops in struct kernel_param, rather than get and set fns directly
param: move the EXPORT_SYMBOL to after the definitions.
...
Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printks through gcc
format checking, and also so that side-effect checking is maintained too.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 83ba7b071f ("writeback: simplify the write back thread queue")
broke writeback_in_progress() as in that commit we started to remove work
items from the list at the moment we start working on them and not at the
moment they are finished. Thus if the flusher thread was doing some work
but there was no other work queued, writeback_in_progress() returned
false. This could in particular cause unnecessary queueing of background
writeback from balance_dirty_pages() or writeout work from
writeback_sb_if_idle().
This patch fixes the problem by introducing a bit in the bdi state which
indicates that the flusher thread is processing some work and uses this
bit for writeback_in_progress() test.
NOTE: Both callsites of writeback_in_progress() (namely,
writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle() and balance_dirty_pages()) would actually
need a different information than what writeback_in_progress() provides.
They would need to know whether *the kind of writeback they are going to
submit* is already queued. But this information isn't that simple to
provide so let's fix writeback_in_progress() for the time being.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Unify the logic for kupdate and non-kupdate cases. There won't be
starvation because the inodes requeued into b_more_io will later be
spliced _after_ the remaining inodes in b_io, hence won't stand in the way
of other inodes in the next run.
It avoids unnecessary redirty_tail() calls, hence the update of
i_dirtied_when. The timestamp update is undesirable because it could
later delay the inode's periodic writeback, or may exclude the inode from
the data integrity sync operation (which checks timestamp to avoid extra
work and livelock).
===
How the redirty_tail() comes about:
It was a long story.. This redirty_tail() was introduced with
wbc.more_io. The initial patch for more_io actually does not have the
redirty_tail(), and when it's merged, several 100% iowait bug reports
arised:
reiserfs:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/23/93
jfs:
commit 29a424f283
JFS: clear PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY for no-write pages
ext2:
http://www.spinics.net/linux/lists/linux-ext4/msg04762.html
They are all old bugs hidden in various filesystems that become "visible"
with the more_io patch. At the time, the ext2 bug is thought to be
"trivial", so not fixed. Instead the following updated more_io patch with
redirty_tail() is merged:
http://www.spinics.net/linux/lists/linux-ext4/msg04507.html
This will in general prevent 100% on ext2 and possibly other unknown FS bugs.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Avoid delaying writeback for an expire inode with lots of dirty pages, but
no active dirtier at the moment. Previously we only do that for the
kupdate case.
Any filesystem that does delayed allocation or unwritten extent conversion
after IO completion will cause this - for example, XFS.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Implement the ability for the root directory of a mounted AFS filesystem to
accept lookups of arbitrary directory names, to interpet the names as the names
of cells, to look the cell names up in the DNS for AFSDB records and to mount
the root.cell volume of the nominated cell on the pseudo-directory created by
lookup.
This facility is requested by passing:
-o autocell
to the mountpoint for which this is desired, usually the /afs mount.
To use this facility, a DNS upcall program is required for AFSDB records. This
can be obtained from:
http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/afs/dns.afsdb.c
It should be compiled with -lresolv and -lkeyutils and installed as, say:
/usr/sbin/dns.afsdb
Then the following line needs to be added to /sbin/request-key.conf:
create dns_resolver afsdb:* * /usr/sbin/dns.afsdb %k
This can be tested by mounting AFS, say:
insmod dns_resolver.ko
insmod af-rxrpc.ko
insmod kafs.ko rootcell=grand.central.org
mount -t afs "#grand.central.org:root.cell." /afs -o autocell
and doing:
ls /afs/grand.central.org/
which should show:
archive/ cvs/ doc/ local/ project/ service/ software/ user/ www/
if it works.
Signed-off-by: Wang Lei <wang840925@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
If the DNS server returns an error, allow that to be cached in the DNS resolver
key in lieu of a value. Userspace passes the desired error number as an option
in the payload:
"#dnserror=<number>"
Userspace must map h_errno from the name resolution routines to an appropriate
Linux error before passing it up. Something like the following mapping is
recommended:
[HOST_NOT_FOUND] = ENODATA,
[TRY_AGAIN] = EAGAIN,
[NO_RECOVERY] = ECONNREFUSED,
[NO_DATA] = ENODATA,
in lieu of Linux errors specifically for representing name service errors. The
filesystem must map these errors appropropriately before passing them to
userspace. AFS is made to map ENODATA and EAGAIN to EDESTADDRREQ for the
return to userspace; ECONNREFUSED is allowed to stand as is.
The error can be seen in /proc/keys as a negative number after the description
of the key. Compare, for example, the following key entries:
2f97238c I--Q-- 1 53s 3f010000 0 0 dns_resol afsdb:grand.centrall.org: -61
338bfbbe I--Q-- 1 59m 3f010000 0 0 dns_resol afsdb:grand.central.org: 37
If the error option is supplied in the payload, the main part of the payload is
discarded. The key should have an expiry time set by userspace.
Signed-off-by: Wang Lei <wang840925@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Use the kernel DNS resolver to translate hostnames to IP addresses. Create a
new config option to choose between the legacy DNS resolver and the new
resolver.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
isofs: Fix lseek() to position beyond 4 GB
vfs: remove unused MNT_STRICTATIME
vfs: show unreachable paths in getcwd and proc
vfs: only add " (deleted)" where necessary
vfs: add prepend_path() helper
vfs: __d_path: dont prepend the name of the root dentry
ia64: perfmon: add d_dname method
vfs: add helpers to get root and pwd
cachefiles: use path_get instead of lone dget
fs/sysv/super.c: add support for non-PDP11 v7 filesystems
V7: Adjust sanity checks for some volumes
Add v7 alias
v9fs: fixup for inode_setattr being removed
Manual merge to take Al's version of the fs/sysv/super.c file: it merged
cleanly, but Al had removed an unnecessary header include, so his side
was better.
Linus Torvalds
Randy Dunlap
David Howells
Arnd Bergmann
Heiko Carstens
Steve French
Jan Kara
Wu Fengguang
wanglei
Bryan Schumaker
Suresh Jayaraman