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Jesper Juhl
c9b3febc5b Fix a use after free bug in kernel->userspace relay file support
Coverity spotted what looks like a real possible case of using a variable
after it has been freed.  The problem is in
kernel/relay.c::relay_open_buf()

If the code hits "goto free_buf;" it ends up in this code :

  free_buf:
    	relay_destroy_buf(buf);	<--- calls kfree() on 'buf'.
  free_name:
   	kfree(tmpname);
  end:
  	return buf;		<-- use after free of 'buf'.

I read through the callers and they all handle a NULL return from this
function as an error (and hitting the 'free_buf' label only happens on
failure to chan->cb->create_buf_file(), so that looks like a clear error to
me).

The patch simply sets 'buf' to NULL after the call to
relay_destroy_buf(buf); - as far as I can see that should take care of the
problem.

The patch also corrects a reference to a documentation file while
I was at it.

Note from Mathieu: the documentation reference change should have been
done in a separate patch, but I guess no one will really care.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "David J. Wilder" <wilder@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: "David J. Wilder" <wilder@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Karim Yaghmour <karim@opersys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:42 -07:00
Satyam Sharma
e804a4a4dd kthread: silence bogus section mismatch warning
WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x16910): Section mismatch:
reference to .init.text: (between 'kthreadd' and 'init_waitqueue_head')

comes because kernel/kthread.c:kthreadd() is not __init but calls
kthreadd_setup() which is __init. But this is ok, because kthreadd_setup()
is only ever called at init time, and then kthreadd() proceeds into its
"for (;;)" loop. We could mark kthreadd __init_refok, but kthreadd_setup()
with just one callsite and 4 lines in it (it's been that small since
10ab825bde) doesn't need to be a separate function at all -- so let's
just move those four lines at beginning of kthreadd() itself.

Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:42 -07:00
Andreas Schwab
f54f098612 futex: pass nr_wake2 to futex_wake_op
The fourth argument of sys_futex is ignored when op == FUTEX_WAKE_OP,
but futex_wake_op expects it as its nr_wake2 parameter.

The only user of this operation in glibc is always passing 1, so this
bug had no consequences so far.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:40 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
c0f3358621 Fix leak on /proc/lockdep_stats
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:40 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
5ea473a1df Fix leaks on /proc/{*/sched,sched_debug,timer_list,timer_stats}
On every open/close one struct seq_operations leaks.
Kudos to /proc/slab_allocators.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:40 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
421cee2935 sched: fix kernel-doc warnings
Fix kernel-doc warnings in sched.c:

Warning(linux-2623-rc1g4//kernel/sched.c:1685): No description found for parameter 'notifier'
Warning(linux-2623-rc1g4//kernel/sched.c:1696): No description found for parameter 'notifier'
Warning(linux-2623-rc1g4//kernel/sched.c:1750): No description found for parameter 'prev'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:38 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
74c5b597e9 modules: better error messages when modules fail to load due to a sysfs problem.
This helps people when debugging problems like the ones that were in the
recent -mm releases.


Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-30 14:25:23 -07:00
Len Brown
673d5b43da ACPI: restore CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP
Restore the 2.6.22 CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP build option, but now shadowing the
new CONFIG_PM_SLEEP option.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
[ Modified to work with the PM config setup changes. ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-29 16:53:59 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
296699de6b Introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND for suspend-to-Ram and standby
Introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND representing the ability to enter system sleep
states, such as the ACPI S3 state, and allow the user to choose SUSPEND
and HIBERNATION independently of each other.

Make HOTPLUG_CPU be selected automatically if SUSPEND or HIBERNATION has
been chosen and the kernel is intended for SMP systems.

Also, introduce CONFIG_PM_SLEEP which is automatically selected if
CONFIG_SUSPEND or CONFIG_HIBERNATION is set and use it to select the
code needed for both suspend and hibernation.

The top-level power management headers and the ACPI code related to
suspend and hibernation are modified to use the new definitions (the
changes in drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c are, mostly, moving code to reduce
the number of ifdefs).

There are many other files in which CONFIG_PM can be replaced with
CONFIG_PM_SLEEP or even with CONFIG_SUSPEND, but they can be updated in
the future.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-29 16:45:38 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
b0cb1a19d0 Replace CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND with CONFIG_HIBERNATION
Replace CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND with CONFIG_HIBERNATION to avoid
confusion (among other things, with CONFIG_SUSPEND introduced in the
next patch).

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-29 16:45:38 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
040b3a2df2 audit: fix two bugs in the new execve audit code
copy_from_user() returns the number of bytes not copied, hence 0 is the
expected output.

axi->mm might not be valid anymore when not equal to current->mm, do not
dereference before checking that - thanks to Al for spotting that.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-28 19:42:22 -07:00
Al Viro
0af3678f7c rip some includes from linux/interrupt.h
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-28 19:42:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
257f49251c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched:
  [PATCH] sched: debug feature - make the sched-domains tree runtime-tweakable
  [PATCH] sched: add above_background_load() function
  [PATCH] sched: update Documentation/sched-stats.txt
  [PATCH] sched: mark sysrq_sched_debug_show() static
  [PATCH] sched: make cpu_clock() not use the rq clock
  [PATCH] sched: remove unused rq->load_balance_class
  [PATCH] sched: arch preempt notifier mechanism
  [PATCH] sched: increase SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZ
2007-07-26 13:59:59 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
58b3b71dfa Fix ThinkPad T42 poweroff failure introduced by by "PM: Introduce pm_power_off_prepare"
Commit bd804eba1c ("PM: Introduce
pm_power_off_prepare") caused problems in the poweroff path, as reported by
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明.

Generally, sysdev_shutdown() should be called after the ACPI preparation for
powering the system off.  To make it happen, we can separate sysdev_shutdown()
from device_shutdown() and call it directly wherever necessary.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Tested-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-26 12:13:06 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
61df47c8da kernel-doc fix for kmod.c
Fix kmod.c:
Warning(linux-2.6.23-rc1//kernel/kmod.c:364): No description found for parameter 'envp'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-26 11:33:06 -07:00
Nick Piggin
e692ab5347 [PATCH] sched: debug feature - make the sched-domains tree runtime-tweakable
debugging feature: make the sched-domains tree runtime-tweakable.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ mingo@elte.hu: made it depend on CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG & small updates ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-26 13:40:43 +02:00
Josh Triplett
f337346193 [PATCH] sched: mark sysrq_sched_debug_show() static
Only sched.c uses sysrq_sched_debug_show, and sched.c includes sched_debug.c,
so all uses of sysrq_sched_debug_show occur in the same source file.

Eliminates a sparse warning:
warning: symbol 'sysrq_sched_debug_show' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-26 13:40:43 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
2cd4d0ea19 [PATCH] sched: make cpu_clock() not use the rq clock
it is enough to disable interrupts to get the precise rq-clock
of the local CPU.

this also solves an NMI watchdog regression: the NMI watchdog
calls touch_softlockup_watchdog(), which might deadlock on
rq->lock if the NMI hits an rq-locked critical section.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-26 13:40:43 +02:00
Satoru Takeuchi
018a221295 [PATCH] sched: remove unused rq->load_balance_class
Remove unused rq->load_balance_class.

Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-26 13:40:43 +02:00
Avi Kivity
e107be36ef [PATCH] sched: arch preempt notifier mechanism
This adds a general mechanism whereby a task can request the scheduler to
notify it whenever it is preempted or scheduled back in.  This allows the
task to swap any special-purpose registers like the fpu or Intel's VT
registers.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
[ mingo@elte.hu: fixes, cleanups ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-26 13:40:43 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
a4fb2122f1 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6:
  ACPI: Kconfig: remove CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP from source
  ACPI: quiet ACPI Exceptions due to no _PTC or _TSS
  ACPI: Remove references to ACPI_STATE_S2 from acpi_pm_enter
  ACPI: Kconfig: always enable CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP on X86
  ACPI: Kconfig: fold /proc/acpi/sleep under CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS
  ACPI: Kconfig: CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS now defaults to N
  ACPI: autoload modules - Create __mod_acpi_device_table symbol for all ACPI drivers
  ACPI: autoload modules - Create ACPI alias interface
  ACPI: autoload modules - ACPICA modifications
  ACPI: asus-laptop: Fix failure exits
  ACPI: fix oops due to typo in new throttling code
  ACPI: ignore _PSx method for hotplugable PCI devices
  ACPI: Use ACPI methods to select PCI device suspend state
  ACPI, PNP: hook ACPI D-state to PNP suspend/resume
  ACPI: Add acpi_pm_device_sleep_state helper routine
  ACPI: Implement the set_target() callback from pm_ops
2007-07-25 11:28:00 -07:00
john stultz
17c38b7490 Cache xtime every call to update_wall_time
This avoids xtime lag seen with dynticks, because while 'xtime' itself
is still not updated often, we keep a 'xtime_cache' variable around that
contains the approximate real-time that _is_ updated each time we do a
'update_wall_time()', and is thus never off by more than one tick.

IOW, this restores the original semantics for 'xtime' users, as long as
you use the proper abstraction functions (ie 'current_kernel_time()' or
'get_seconds()' depending on whether you want a timespec or just the
seconds field).

[ Updated Patch.  As penance for my sins I've also yanked another #ifdef
  that was added to avoid the xtime lag w/ hrtimers.  ]

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-25 10:17:44 -07:00
john stultz
2c6b47de17 Cleanup non-arch xtime uses, use get_seconds() or current_kernel_time().
This avoids use of the kernel-internal "xtime" variable directly outside
of the actual time-related functions.  Instead, use the helper functions
that we already have available to us.

This doesn't actually change any behaviour, but this will allow us to
fix the fact that "xtime" isn't updated very often with CONFIG_NO_HZ
(because much of the realtime information is maintained as separate
offsets to 'xtime'), which has caused interfaces that use xtime directly
to get a time that is out of sync with the real-time clock by up to a
third of a second or so.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-25 10:09:20 -07:00
Len Brown
e8b2fd0122 ACPI: Kconfig: remove CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP from source
As it was a synonym for (CONFIG_ACPI && CONFIG_X86),
the ifdefs for it were more clutter than they were worth.

For ia64, just add a few stubs in anticipation of future
S3 or S4 support.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-07-25 01:29:39 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
dd6ccfe64d Merge branch 'audit.b39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current
* 'audit.b39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
  [PATCH] get rid of AVC_PATH postponed treatment
  [PATCH] allow audit filtering on bit & operations
  [PATCH] audit: fix broken class-based syscall audit
  [PATCH] Make IPC mode consistent
2007-07-22 11:18:20 -07:00