Currently, messages are just output on the detection of stack
overflow, which is not sufficient for systems that need a
high reliability. This is because in general the overflow may
corrupt data, and the additional corruption may occur due to
reading them unless systems stop.
This patch adds the sysctl parameter
kernel.panic_on_stackoverflow and causes a panic when detecting
the overflows of kernel, IRQ and exception stacks except user
stack according to the parameter. It is disabled by default.
Signed-off-by: Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111129060836.11076.12323.stgit@ltc219.sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Quoth Andrew:
- Most of MM. Still waiting for the poweroc guys to get off their
butts and review some threaded hugepages patches.
- alpha
- vfs bits
- drivers/misc
- a few core kerenl tweaks
- printk() features
- MAINTAINERS updates
- backlight merge
- leds merge
- various lib/ updates
- checkpatch updates
* akpm: (127 commits)
epoll: fix spurious lockdep warnings
checkpatch: add a --strict check for utf-8 in commit logs
kernel.h/checkpatch: mark strict_strto<foo> and simple_strto<foo> as obsolete
llist-return-whether-list-is-empty-before-adding-in-llist_add-fix
wireless: at76c50x: follow rename pack_hex_byte to hex_byte_pack
fat: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
security: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
kgdb: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
lib: rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
lib/string.c: fix strim() semantics for strings that have only blanks
lib/idr.c: fix comment for ida_get_new_above()
lib/percpu_counter.c: enclose hotplug only variables in hotplug ifdef
lib/bitmap.c: quiet sparse noise about address space
lib/spinlock_debug.c: print owner on spinlock lockup
lib/kstrtox: common code between kstrto*() and simple_strto*() functions
drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c: check if reset is successful
leds: turn the blink_timer off before starting to blink
leds: save the delay values after a successful call to blink_set()
drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c: use gpio_get_value_cansleep() when initializing
drivers/leds/leds-lm3530.c: add __devexit_p where needed
...
Userspace needs to know the highest valid capability of the running
kernel, which right now cannot reliably be retrieved from the header files
only. The fact that this value cannot be determined properly right now
creates various problems for libraries compiled on newer header files
which are run on older kernels. They assume capabilities are available
which actually aren't. libcap-ng is one example. And we ran into the
same problem with systemd too.
Now the capability is exported in /proc/sys/kernel/cap_last_cap.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make cap_last_cap const, per Ulrich]
Signed-off-by: Dan Ballard <dan@mindstab.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@akkadia.org>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Account bandwidth usage on the cfs_rq level versus the task_groups to which
they belong. Whether we are tracking bandwidth on a given cfs_rq is maintained
under cfs_rq->runtime_enabled.
cfs_rq's which belong to a bandwidth constrained task_group have their runtime
accounted via the update_curr() path, which withdraws bandwidth from the global
pool as desired. Updates involving the global pool are currently protected
under cfs_bandwidth->lock, local runtime is protected by rq->lock.
This patch only assigns and tracks quota, no action is taken in the case that
cfs_rq->runtime_used exceeds cfs_rq->runtime_assigned.
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110721184757.179386821@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile: (26 commits)
arch/tile: prefer "tilepro" as the name of the 32-bit architecture
compat: include aio_abi.h for aio_context_t
arch/tile: cleanups for tilegx compat mode
arch/tile: allocate PCI IRQs later in boot
arch/tile: support signal "exception-trace" hook
arch/tile: use better definitions of xchg() and cmpxchg()
include/linux/compat.h: coding-style fixes
tile: add an RTC driver for the Tilera hypervisor
arch/tile: finish enabling support for TILE-Gx 64-bit chip
compat: fixes to allow working with tile arch
arch/tile: update defconfig file to something more useful
tile: do_hardwall_trap: do not play with task->sighand
tile: replace mm->cpu_vm_mask with mm_cpumask()
tile,mn10300: add device parameter to dma_cache_sync()
audit: support the "standard" <asm-generic/unistd.h>
arch/tile: clarify flush_buffer()/finv_buffer() function names
arch/tile: kernel-related cleanups from removing static page size
arch/tile: various header improvements for building drivers
arch/tile: disable GX prefetcher during cache flush
arch/tile: tolerate disabling CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
...
This change adds support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace to tile.
Like x86 and sparc, by default it is set to "1", generating a one-line
printk whenever a user process crashes. By setting it to "2", we get
a much more complete userspace diagnostic at crash time, including
a user-space backtrace, register dump, and memory dump around the
address of the crash.
Some vestiges of the Tilera-internal version of this support are
removed with this patch (the show_crashinfo variable and the
arch_coredump_signal function). We retain a "crashinfo" boot parameter
which allows you to set the boot-time value of exception-trace.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
There is no way to limit the capabilities of usermodehelpers. This problem
reared its head recently when someone complained that any user with
cap_net_admin was able to load arbitrary kernel modules, even though the user
didn't have cap_sys_module. The reason is because the actual load is done by
a usermode helper and those always have the full cap set. This patch addes new
sysctls which allow us to bound the permissions of usermode helpers.
/proc/sys/kernel/usermodehelper/bset
/proc/sys/kernel/usermodehelper/inheritable
You must have CAP_SYS_MODULE and CAP_SETPCAP to change these (changes are
&= ONLY). When the kernel launches a usermodehelper it will do so with these
as the bset and pI.
-v2: make globals static
create spinlock to protect globals
-v3: require both CAP_SETPCAP and CAP_SYS_MODULE
-v4: fix the typo s/CAP_SET_PCAP/CAP_SETPCAP/ because I didn't commit
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
No-objection-from: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
When dmesg_restrict is set to 1 CAP_SYS_ADMIN is needed to read the kernel
ring buffer. But a root user without CAP_SYS_ADMIN is able to reset
dmesg_restrict to 0.
This is an issue when e.g. LXC (Linux Containers) are used and complete
user space is running without CAP_SYS_ADMIN. A unprivileged and jailed
root user can bypass the dmesg_restrict protection.
With this patch writing to dmesg_restrict is only allowed when root has
CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Acked-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (33 commits)
AppArmor: kill unused macros in lsm.c
AppArmor: cleanup generated files correctly
KEYS: Add an iovec version of KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE
KEYS: Add a new keyctl op to reject a key with a specified error code
KEYS: Add a key type op to permit the key description to be vetted
KEYS: Add an RCU payload dereference macro
AppArmor: Cleanup make file to remove cruft and make it easier to read
SELinux: implement the new sb_remount LSM hook
LSM: Pass -o remount options to the LSM
SELinux: Compute SID for the newly created socket
SELinux: Socket retains creator role and MLS attribute
SELinux: Auto-generate security_is_socket_class
TOMOYO: Fix memory leak upon file open.
Revert "selinux: simplify ioctl checking"
selinux: drop unused packet flow permissions
selinux: Fix packet forwarding checks on postrouting
selinux: Fix wrong checks for selinux_policycap_netpeer
selinux: Fix check for xfrm selinux context algorithm
ima: remove unnecessary call to ima_must_measure
IMA: remove IMA imbalance checking
...
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (26 commits)
sched: Resched proper CPU on yield_to()
sched: Allow users with sufficient RLIMIT_NICE to change from SCHED_IDLE policy
sched: Allow SCHED_BATCH to preempt SCHED_IDLE tasks
sched: Clean up the IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING code
sched: Add #ifdef around irq time accounting functions
sched, autogroup: Stop claiming ownership of the root task group
sched, autogroup: Stop going ahead if autogroup is disabled
sched, autogroup, sysctl: Use proc_dointvec_minmax() instead
sched: Fix the group_imb logic
sched: Clean up some f_b_g() comments
sched: Clean up remnants of sd_idle
sched: Wholesale removal of sd_idle logic
sched: Add yield_to(task, preempt) functionality
sched: Use a buddy to implement yield_task_fair()
sched: Limit the scope of clear_buddies
sched: Check the right ->nr_running in yield_task_fair()
sched: Avoid expensive initial update_cfs_load(), on UP too
sched: Fix switch_from_fair()
sched: Simplify the idle scheduling class
softirqs: Account ksoftirqd time as cpustat softirq
...
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (184 commits)
perf probe: Clean up probe_point_lazy_walker() return value
tracing: Fix irqoff selftest expanding max buffer
tracing: Align 4 byte ints together in struct tracer
tracing: Export trace_set_clr_event()
tracing: Explain about unstable clock on resume with ring buffer warning
ftrace/graph: Trace function entry before updating index
ftrace: Add .ref.text as one of the safe areas to trace
tracing: Adjust conditional expression latency formatting.
tracing: Fix event alignment: skb:kfree_skb
tracing: Fix event alignment: mce:mce_record
tracing: Fix event alignment: kvm:kvm_hv_hypercall
tracing: Fix event alignment: module:module_request
tracing: Fix event alignment: ftrace:context_switch and ftrace:wakeup
tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry
perf header: Stop using 'self'
perf session: Use evlist/evsel for managing perf.data attributes
perf top: Don't let events to eat up whole header line
perf top: Fix events overflow in top command
ring-buffer: Remove unused #include <linux/trace_irq.h>
tracing: Add an 'overwrite' trace_option.
...
a) struct inode is not going to be freed under ->d_compare();
however, the thing PROC_I(inode)->sysctl points to just might.
Fortunately, it's enough to make freeing that sucker delayed,
provided that we don't step on its ->unregistering, clear
the pointer to it in PROC_I(inode) before dropping the reference
and check if it's NULL in ->d_compare().
b) I'm not sure that we *can* walk into NULL inode here (we recheck
dentry->seq between verifying that it's still hashed / fetching
dentry->d_inode and passing it to ->d_compare() and there's no
negative hashed dentries in /proc/sys/*), but if we can walk into
that, we really should not have ->d_compare() return 0 on it!
Said that, I really suspect that this check can be simply killed.
Nick?
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
By pre-computing the maximum number of samples per tick we can avoid a
multiplication and a conditional since MAX_INTERRUPTS >
max_samples_per_tick.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use the buddy mechanism to implement yield_task_fair. This
allows us to skip onto the next highest priority se at every
level in the CFS tree, unless doing so would introduce gross
unfairness in CPU time distribution.
We order the buddy selection in pick_next_entity to check
yield first, then last, then next. We need next to be able
to override yield, because it is possible for the "next" and
"yield" task to be different processen in the same sub-tree
of the CFS tree. When they are, we need to go into that
sub-tree regardless of the "yield" hint, and pick the correct
entity once we get to the right level.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110201095103.3a79e92a@annuminas.surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The only user for this hook was selinux. sysctl routes every call
through /proc/sys/. Selinux and other security modules use the file
system checks for sysctl too, so no need for this hook any more.
Signed-off-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
