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2012-07-30proc: do not allow negative offsets on /proc/<pid>/environDjalal Harouni
__mem_open() which is called by both /proc/<pid>/environ and /proc/<pid>/mem ->open() handlers will allow the use of negative offsets. /proc/<pid>/mem has negative offsets but not /proc/<pid>/environ. Clean this by moving the 'force FMODE_UNSIGNED_OFFSET flag' to mem_open() to allow negative offsets only on /proc/<pid>/mem. Signed-off-by: Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@opendz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-30proc: environ_read() make sure offset points to environment address rangeDjalal Harouni
Currently the following offset and environment address range check in environ_read() of /proc/<pid>/environ is buggy: int this_len = mm->env_end - (mm->env_start + src); if (this_len <= 0) break; Large or negative offsets on /proc/<pid>/environ converted to 'unsigned long' may pass this check since '(mm->env_start + src)' can overflow and 'this_len' will be positive. This can turn /proc/<pid>/environ to act like /proc/<pid>/mem since (mm->env_start + src) will point and read from another VMA. There are two fixes here plus some code cleaning: 1) Fix the overflow by checking if the offset that was converted to unsigned long will always point to the [mm->env_start, mm->env_end] address range. 2) Remove the truncation that was made to the result of the check, storing the result in 'int this_len' will alter its value and we can not depend on it. For kernels that have commit b409e578d ("proc: clean up /proc/<pid>/environ handling") which adds the appropriate ptrace check and saves the 'mm' at ->open() time, this is not a security issue. This patch is taken from the grsecurity patch since it was just made available. Signed-off-by: Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@opendz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-23Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc Pull powerpc updates from Benjamin Herrenschmidt: "Notable highlights: - iommu improvements from Anton removing the per-iommu global lock in favor of dividing the DMA space into pools, each with its own lock, and hashed on the CPU number. Along with making the locking more fine grained, this gives significant improvements in multiqueue networking scalability. - Still from Anton, we know provide a vdso based variant of getcpu which makes sched_getcpu with the appropriate glibc patch something like 18 times faster. - More anton goodness (he's been busy !) in other areas such as a faster __clear_user and copy_page on P7, various perf fixes to improve sampling quality, etc... - One more step toward removing legacy i2c interfaces by using new device-tree based probing of platform devices for the AOA audio drivers - A nice series of patches from Michael Neuling that helps avoiding confusion between register numbers and litterals in assembly code, trying to enforce the use of "%rN" register names in gas rather than plain numbers. - A pile of FSL updates - The usual bunch of small fixes, cleanups etc... You may spot a change to drivers/char/mem. The patch got no comment or ack from outside, it's a trivial patch to allow the architecture to skip creating /dev/port, which we use to disable it on ppc64 that don't have a legacy brige. On those, IO ports 0...64K are not mapped in kernel space at all, so accesses to /dev/port cause oopses (and yes, distros -still- ship userspace that bangs hard coded ports such as kbdrate)." * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (106 commits) powerpc/mpic: Create a revmap with enough entries for IPIs and timers Remove stale .rej file powerpc/iommu: Fix iommu pool initialization powerpc/eeh: Check handle_eeh_events() return value powerpc/85xx: Add phy nodes in SGMII mode for MPC8536/44/72DS & P2020DS powerpc/e500: add paravirt QEMU platform powerpc/mpc85xx_ds: convert to unified PCI init powerpc/fsl-pci: get PCI init out of board files powerpc/85xx: Update corenet64_smp_defconfig powerpc/85xx: Update corenet32_smp_defconfig powerpc/85xx: Rename P1021RDB-PC device trees to be consistent powerpc/watchdog: move booke watchdog param related code to setup-common.c sound/aoa: Adapt to new i2c probing scheme i2c/powermac: Improve detection of devices from device-tree powerpc: Disable /dev/port interface on systems without an ISA bridge of: Improve prom_update_property() function powerpc: Add "memory" attribute for mfmsr() powerpc/ftrace: Fix assembly trampoline register usage powerpc/hw_breakpoints: Fix incorrect pointer access powerpc: Put the gpr save/restore functions in their own section ...
2012-07-14VFS: Pass mount flags to sget()David Howells
Pass mount flags to sget() so that it can use them in initialising a new superblock before the set function is called. They could also be passed to the compare function. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14fs: add nd_jump_linkChristoph Hellwig
Add a helper that abstracts out the jump to an already parsed struct path from ->follow_link operation from procfs. Not only does this clean up the code by moving the two sides of this game into a single helper, but it also prepares for making struct nameidata private to namei.c Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14fs: move path_put on failure out of ->follow_linkChristoph Hellwig
Currently the non-nd_set_link based versions of ->follow_link are expected to do a path_put(&nd->path) on failure. This calling convention is unexpected, undocumented and doesn't match what the nd_set_link-based instances do. Move the path_put out of the only non-nd_set_link based ->follow_link instance into the caller. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14stop passing nameidata to ->lookup()Al Viro
Just the flags; only NFS cares even about that, but there are legitimate uses for such argument. And getting rid of that completely would require splitting ->lookup() into a couple of methods (at least), so let's leave that alone for now... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14stop passing nameidata * to ->d_revalidate()Al Viro
Just the lookup flags. Die, bastard, die... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-11of: Improve prom_update_property() functionDong Aisheng
prom_update_property() currently fails if the property doesn't actually exist yet which isn't what we want. Change to add-or-update instead of update-only, then we can remove a lot duplicated lines. Suggested-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Dong Aisheng <dong.aisheng@linaro.org> Acked-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-06-04vfs: Fix /proc/<tid>/fdinfo/<fd> file handlingLinus Torvalds
Cyrill Gorcunov reports that I broke the fdinfo files with commit 30a08bf2d31d ("proc: move fd symlink i_mode calculations into tid_fd_revalidate()"), and he's quite right. The tid_fd_revalidate() function is not just used for the <tid>/fd symlinks, it's also used for the <tid>/fdinfo/<fd> files, and the permission model for those are different. So do the dynamic symlink permission handling just for symlinks, making the fdinfo files once more appear as the proper regular files they are. Of course, Al Viro argued (probably correctly) that we shouldn't do the symlink permission games at all, and make the symlinks always just be the normal 'lrwxrwxrwx'. That would have avoided this issue too, but since somebody noticed that the permissions had changed (which was the reason for that original commit 30a08bf2d31d in the first place), people do apparently use this feature. [ Basically, you can use the symlink permission data as a cheap "fdinfo" replacement, since you see whether the file is open for reading and/or writing by just looking at st_mode of the symlink. So the feature does make sense, even if the pain it has caused means we probably shouldn't have done it to begin with. ] Reported-and-tested-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31c/r: procfs: add arg_start/end, env_start/end and exit_code members to ↵Cyrill Gorcunov
/proc/$pid/stat We would like to have an ability to restore command line arguments and program environment pointers but first we need to obtain them somehow. Thus we put these values into /proc/$pid/stat. The exit_code is needed to restore zombie tasks. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31fs, proc: introduce /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entryCyrill Gorcunov
When we do checkpoint of a task we need to know the list of children the task, has but there is no easy and fast way to generate reverse parent->children chain from arbitrary <pid> (while a parent pid is provided in "PPid" field of /proc/<pid>/status). So instead of walking over all pids in the system (creating one big process tree in memory, just to figure out which children a task has) -- we add explicit /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entry, because the kernel already has this kind of information but it is not yet exported. This is a first level children, not the whole process tree. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31proc/smaps: show amount of nonlinear ptes in vmaKonstantin Khlebnikov
Currently, nonlinear mappings can not be distinguished from ordinary mappings. This patch adds into /proc/pid/smaps line "Nonlinear: <size> kB", where size is amount of nonlinear ptes in vma, this line appears only if VM_NONLINEAR is set. This information may be useful not only for checkpoint/restore project. Requested by Pavel Emelyanov. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31proc/smaps: carefully handle migration entriesKonstantin Khlebnikov
Currently smaps reports migration entries as "swap", as result "swap" can appears in shared mapping. This patch converts migration entries into pages and handles them as usual. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31proc: report file/anon bit in /proc/pid/pagemapKonstantin Khlebnikov
This is an implementation of Andrew's proposal to extend the pagemap file bits to report what is missing about tasks' working set. The problem with the working set detection is multilateral. In the criu (checkpoint/restore) project we dump the tasks' memory into image files and to do it properly we need to detect which pages inside mappings are really in use. The mincore syscall I though could help with this did not. First, it doesn't report swapped pages, thus we cannot find out which parts of anonymous mappings to dump. Next, it does report pages from page cache as present even if they are not mapped, and it doesn't make that has not been cow-ed. Note, that issue with swap pages is critical -- we must dump swap pages to image file. But the issues with file pages are optimization -- we can take all file pages to image, this would be correct, but if we know that a page is not mapped or not cow-ed, we can remove them from dump file. The dump would still be self-consistent, though significantly smaller in size (up to 10 times smaller on real apps). Andrew noticed, that the proc pagemap file solved 2 of 3 above issues -- it reports whether a page is present or swapped and it doesn't report not mapped page cache pages. But, it doesn't distinguish cow-ed file pages from not cow-ed. I would like to make the last unused bit in this file to report whether the page mapped into respective pte is PageAnon or not. [comment stolen from Pavel Emelyanov's v1 patch] Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31procfs: use more apprioriate types when dumping /proc/N/statJan Engelhardt
- use int fpr priority and nice, since task_nice()/task_prio() return that - field 24: get_mm_rss() returns unsigned long Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31proc: pass "fd" by value in /proc/*/{fd,fdinfo} codeAlexey Dobriyan
Pass "fd" directly, not via pointer -- one less memory read. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31proc: don't do dummy rcu_read_lock/rcu_read_unlock on error pathAlexey Dobriyan
rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() is nop for TINY_RCU, but is not a nop for, say, PREEMPT_RCU. proc_fill_cache() is called without RCU lock, there is no need to lock/unlock on error path, simply jump out of the loop. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31proc: use mm_access() instead of ptrace_may_access()Cong Wang
mm_access() handles this much better, and avoids some race conditions. Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31proc: remove mm_for_maps()Cong Wang
mm_for_maps() is a simple wrapper for mm_access(), and the name is misleading, so just remove it and use mm_access() directly. Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31proc: clean up /proc/<pid>/environ handlingCong Wang
Similar to e268337dfe26 ("proc: clean up and fix /proc/<pid>/mem handling"), move the check of permission to open(), this will simplify read() code. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-29mm, oom: normalize oom scores to oom_score_adj scale only for userspaceDavid Rientjes
The oom_score_adj scale ranges from -1000 to 1000 and represents the proportion of memory available to the process at allocation time. This means an oom_score_adj value of 300, for example, will bias a process as though it was using an extra 30.0% of available memory and a value of -350 will discount 35.0% of available memory from its usage. The oom killer badness heuristic also uses this scale to report the oom score for each eligible process in determining the "best" process to kill. Thus, it can only differentiate each process's memory usage by 0.1% of system RAM. On large systems, this can end up being a large amount of memory: 256MB on 256GB systems, for example. This can be fixed by having the badness heuristic to use the actual memory usage in scoring threads and then normalizing it to the oom_score_adj scale for userspace. This results in better comparison between eligible threads for kill and no change from the userspace perspective. Suggested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-29mm: fix NULL ptr deref when walking hugepagesSasha Levin
A missing validation of the value returned by find_vma() could cause a NULL ptr dereference when walking the pagetable. This is triggerable from usermode by a simple user by trying to read a page info out of /proc/pid/pagemap which doesn't exist. Introduced by commit 025c5b2451e4 ("thp: optimize away unnecessary page table locking"). Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.4.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-28Merge tag 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull writeback tree from Wu Fengguang: "Mainly from Jan Kara to avoid iput() in the flusher threads." * tag 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux: writeback: Avoid iput() from flusher thread vfs: Rename end_writeback() to clear_inode() vfs: Move waiting for inode writeback from end_writeback() to evict_inode() writeback: Refactor writeback_single_inode() writeback: Remove wb->list_lock from writeback_single_inode() writeback: Separate inode requeueing after writeback writeback: Move I_DIRTY_PAGES handling writeback: Move requeueing when I_SYNC set to writeback_sb_inodes() writeback: Move clearing of I_SYNC into inode_sync_complete() writeback: initialize global_dirty_limit fs: remove 8 bytes of padding from struct writeback_control on 64 bit builds mm: page-writeback.c: local functions should not be exposed globally
2012-05-23Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace Pull user namespace enhancements from Eric Biederman: "This is a course correction for the user namespace, so that we can reach an inexpensive, maintainable, and reasonably complete implementation. Highlights: - Config guards make it impossible to enable the user namespace and code that has not been converted to be user namespace safe. - Use of the new kuid_t type ensures the if you somehow get past the config guards the kernel will encounter type errors if you enable user namespaces and attempt to compile in code whose permission checks have not been updated to be user namespace safe. - All uids from child user namespaces are mapped into the initial user namespace before they are processed. Removing the need to add an additional check to see if the user namespace of the compared uids remains the same. - With the user namespaces compiled out the performance is as good or better than it is today. - For most operations absolutely nothing changes performance or operationally with the user namespace enabled. - The worst case performance I could come up with was timing 1 billion cache cold stat operations with the user namespace code enabled. This went from 156s to 164s on my laptop (or 156ns to 164ns per stat operation). - (uid_t)-1 and (gid_t)-1 are reserved as an internal error value. Most uid/gid setting system calls treat these value specially anyway so attempting to use -1 as a uid would likely cause entertaining failures in userspace. - If setuid is called with a uid that can not be mapped setuid fails. I have looked at sendmail, login, ssh and every other program I could think of that would call setuid and they all check for and handle the case where setuid fails. - If stat or a similar system call is called from a context in which we can not map a uid we lie and return overflowuid. The LFS experience suggests not lying and returning an error code might be better, but the historical precedent with uids is different and I can not think of anything that would break by lying about a uid we can't map. - Capabilities are localized to the current user namespace making it safe to give the initial user in a user namespace all capabilities. My git tree covers all of the modifications needed to convert the core kernel and enough changes to make a system bootable to runlevel 1." Fix up trivial conflicts due to nearby independent changes in fs/stat.c * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (46 commits) userns: Silence silly gcc warning. cred: use correct cred accessor with regards to rcu read lock userns: Convert the move_pages, and migrate_pages permission checks to use uid_eq userns: Convert cgroup permission checks to use uid_eq userns: Convert tmpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate userns: Convert sysfs to use kgid/kuid where appropriate userns: Convert sysctl permission checks to use kuid and kgids. userns: Convert proc to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert ext4 to user kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert ext3 to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert ext2 to use kuid/kgid where appropriate. userns: Convert devpts to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert binary formats to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Add negative depends on entries to avoid building code that is userns unsafe userns: signal remove unnecessary map_cred_ns userns: Teach inode_capable to understand inodes whose uids map to other namespaces. userns: Fail exec for suid and sgid binaries with ids outside our user namespace. userns: Convert stat to return values mapped from kuids and kgids userns: Convert user specfied uids and gids in chown into kuids and kgid userns: Use uid_eq gid_eq helpers when comparing kuids and kgids in the vfs ...
2012-05-18Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)Linus Torvalds
Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton. * emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (4 patches) frv: delete incorrect task prototypes causing compile fail slub: missing test for partial pages flush work in flush_all() fs, proc: fix ABBA deadlock in case of execution attempt of map_files/ entries drivers/rtc/rtc-pl031.c: configure correct wday for 2000-01-01
2012-05-18proc: move fd symlink i_mode calculations into tid_fd_revalidate()Linus Torvalds
Instead of doing the i_mode calculations at proc_fd_instantiate() time, move them into tid_fd_revalidate(), which is where the other inode state (notably uid/gid information) is updated too. Otherwise we'll end up with stale i_mode information if an fd is re-used while the dentry still hangs around. Not that anything really *cares* (symlink permissions don't really matter), but Tetsuo Handa noticed that the owner read/write bits don't always match the state of the readability of the file descriptor, and we _used_ to get this right a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Besides, aside from fixing an ugly detail (that has apparently been this way since commit 61a28784028e: "proc: Remove the hard coded inode numbers" in 2006), this removes more lines of code than it adds. And it just makes sense to update i_mode in the same place we update i_uid/gid. Al Viro correctly points out that we could just do the inode fill in the inode iops ->getattr() function instead. However, that does require somewhat slightly more invasive changes, and adds yet *another* lookup of the file descriptor. We need to do the revalidate() for other reasons anyway, and have the file descriptor handy, so we might as well fill in the information at this point. Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-17fs, proc: fix ABBA deadlock in case of execution attempt of map_files/ entriesCyrill Gorcunov
map_files/ entries are never supposed to be executed, still curious minds might try to run them, which leads to the following deadlock ====================================================== [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 3.4.0-rc4-24406-g841e6a6 #121 Not tainted ------------------------------------------------------- bash/1556 is trying to acquire lock: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#8){+.+.+.}, at: do_lookup+0x267/0x2b1 but task is already holding lock: (&sig->cred_guard_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: prepare_bprm_creds+0x2d/0x69 which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #1 (&sig->cred_guard_mutex){+.+.+.}: validate_chain+0x444/0x4f4 __lock_acquire+0x387/0x3f8 lock_acquire+0x12b/0x158 __mutex_lock_common+0x56/0x3a9 mutex_lock_killable_nested+0x40/0x45 lock_trace+0x24/0x59 proc_map_files_lookup+0x5a/0x165 __lookup_hash+0x52/0x73 do_lookup+0x276/0x2b1 walk_component+0x3d/0x114 do_last+0xfc/0x540 path_openat+0xd3/0x306 do_filp_open+0x3d/0x89 do_sys_open+0x74/0x106 sys_open+0x21/0x23 tracesys+0xdd/0xe2 -> #0 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#8){+.+.+.}: check_prev_add+0x6a/0x1ef validate_chain+0x444/0x4f4 __lock_acquire+0x387/0x3f8 lock_acquire+0x12b/0x158 __mutex_lock_common+0x56/0x3a9 mutex_lock_nested+0x40/0x45 do_lookup+0x267/0x2b1 walk_component+0x3d/0x114 link_path_walk+0x1f9/0x48f path_openat+0xb6/0x306 do_filp_open+0x3d/0x89 open_exec+0x25/0xa0 do_execve_common+0xea/0x2f9 do_execve+0x43/0x45 sys_execve+0x43/0x5a stub_execve+0x6c/0xc0 This is because prepare_bprm_creds grabs task->signal->cred_guard_mutex and when do_lookup happens we try to grab task->signal->cred_guard_mutex again in lock_trace. Fix it using plain ptrace_may_access() helper in proc_map_files_lookup() and in proc_map_files_readdir() instead of lock_trace(), the caller must be CAP_SYS_ADMIN granted anyway. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-15userns: Convert sysctl permission checks to use kuid and kgids.Eric W. Biederman
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-05-15userns: Convert proc to use kuid/kgid where appropriateEric W. Biederman
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-05-10proc/pid/pagemap: correctly report non-present ptes and holes between vmasKonstantin Khlebnikov
Reset the current pagemap-entry if the current pte isn't present, or if current vma is over. Otherwise pagemap reports last entry again and again. Non-present pte reporting was broken in commit 092b50bacd1c ("pagemap: introduce data structure for pagemap entry") Reporting for holes was broken in commit 5aaabe831eb5 ("pagemap: avoid splitting thp when reading /proc/pid/pagemap") Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Reported-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-06vfs: Rename end_writeback() to clear_inode()Jan Kara
After we moved inode_sync_wait() from end_writeback() it doesn't make sense to call the function end_writeback() anymore. Rename it to clear_inode() which well says what the function really does - set I_CLEAR flag. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2012-05-03userns: Convert group_info values from gid_t to kgid_t.Eric W. Biederman
As a first step to converting struct cred to be all kuid_t and kgid_t values convert the group values stored in group_info to always be kgid_t values. Unless user namespaces are used this change should have no effect. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-04-26userns: Rework the user_namespace adding uid/gid mapping supportEric W. Biederman
- Convert the old uid mapping functions into compatibility wrappers - Add a uid/gid mapping layer from user space uid and gids to kernel internal uids and gids that is extent based for simplicty and speed. * Working with number space after mapping uids/gids into their kernel internal version adds only mapping complexity over what we have today, leaving the kernel code easy to understand and test. - Add proc files /proc/self/uid_map /proc/self/gid_map These files display the mapping and allow a mapping to be added if a mapping does not exist. - Allow entering the user namespace without a uid or gid mapping. Since we are starting with an existing user our uids and gids still have global mappings so are still valid and useful they just don't have local mappings. The requirement for things to work are global uid and gid so it is odd but perfectly fine not to have a local uid and gid mapping. Not requiring global uid and gid mappings greatly simplifies the logic of setting up the uid and gid mappings by allowing the mappings to be set after the namespace is created which makes the slight weirdness worth it. - Make the mappings in the initial user namespace to the global uid/gid space explicit. Today it is an identity mapping but in the future we may want to twist this for debugging, similar to what we do with jiffies. - Document the memory ordering requirements of setting the uid and gid mappings. We only allow the mappings to be set once and there are no pointers involved so the requirments are trivial but a little atypical. Performance: In this scheme for the permission checks the performance is expected to stay the same as the actuall machine instructions should remain the same. The worst case I could think of is ls -l on a large directory where all of the stat results need to be translated with from kuids and kgids to uids and gids. So I benchmarked that case on my laptop with a dual core hyperthread Intel i5-2520M cpu with 3M of cpu cache. My benchmark consisted of going to single user mode where nothing else was running. On an ext4 filesystem opening 1,000,000 files and looping through all of the files 1000 times and calling fstat on the individuals files. This was to ensure I was benchmarking stat times where the inodes were in the kernels cache, but the inode values were not in the processors cache. My results: v3.4-rc1: ~= 156ns (unmodified v3.4-rc1 with user namespace support disabled) v3.4-rc1-userns-: ~= 155ns (v3.4-rc1 with my user namespace patches and user namespace support disabled) v3.4-rc1-userns+: ~= 164ns (v3.4-rc1 with my user namespace patches and user namespace support enabled) All of the configurations ran in roughly 120ns when I performed tests that ran in the cpu cache. So in summary the performance impact is: 1ns improvement in the worst case with user namespace support compiled out. 8ns aka 5% slowdown in the worst case with user namespace support compiled in. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-04-25revert "proc: clear_refs: do not clear reserved pages"Will Deacon
Revert commit 85e72aa5384 ("proc: clear_refs: do not clear reserved pages"), which was a quick fix suitable for -stable until ARM had been moved over to the gate_vma mechanism: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/14/55 With commit f9d4861f ("ARM: 7294/1: vectors: use gate_vma for vectors user mapping"), ARM does now use the gate_vma, so the PageReserved check can be removed from the proc code. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-04-12Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "The itimer removal one is not strictly a fix, but I really wanted to avoid a rebase of the urgent ones." * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: Revert "clocksource: Load the ACPI PM clocksource asynchronously" clockevents: tTack broadcast device mode change in tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot() itimer: Use printk_once instead of WARN_ONCE nohz: Fix stale jiffies update in tick_nohz_restart() tick: Document TICK_ONESHOT config option proc: stats: Use arch_idle_time for idle and iowait times if available itimer: Schedule silent NULL pointer fixup in setitimer() for removal
2012-04-05Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)Linus Torvalds
Merge batch of fixes from Andrew Morton: "The simple_open() cleanup was held back while I wanted for laggards to merge things. I still need to send a few checkpoint/restore patches. I've been wobbly about merging them because I'm wobbly about the overall prospects for success of the project. But after speaking with Pavel at the LSF conference, it sounds like they're further toward completion than I feared - apparently davem is at the "has stopped complaining" stage regarding the net changes. So I need to go back and re-review those patchs and their (lengthy) discussion." * emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (16 patches) memcg swap: use mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap fix backlight: add driver for DA9052/53 PMIC v1 C6X: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask() MAINTAINERS: add entry for sparse checker MAINTAINERS: fix REMOTEPROC F: typo alpha: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask() simple_open: automatically convert to simple_open() scripts/coccinelle/api/simple_open.cocci: semantic patch for simple_open() libfs: add simple_open() hugetlbfs: remove unregister_filesystem() when initializing module drivers/rtc/rtc-88pm860x.c: fix rtc irq enable callback fs/xattr.c:setxattr(): improve handling of allocation failures fs/xattr.c:listxattr(): fall back to vmalloc() if kmalloc() failed fs/xattr.c: suppress page allocation failure warnings from sys_listxattr() sysrq: use SEND_SIG_FORCED instead of force_sig() proc: fix mount -t proc -o AAA
2012-04-05proc: fix mount -t proc -o AAAVasiliy Kulikov
The proc_parse_options() call from proc_mount() runs only once at boot time. So on any later mount attempt, any mount options are ignored because ->s_root is already initialized. As a consequence, "mount -o <options>" will ignore the options. The only way to change mount options is "mount -o remount,<options>". To fix this, parse the mount options unconditionally. Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Reported-by: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@gmail.com> Tested-by: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@gmail.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-30proc: stats: Use arch_idle_time for idle and iowait times if availableMartin Schwidefsky
Git commit a25cac5198d4ff28 "proc: Consider NO_HZ when printing idle and iowait times" changes the code for /proc/stat to use get_cpu_idle_time_us and get_cpu_iowait_time_us if the system is running with nohz enabled. For architectures which define arch_idle_time (currently s390 only) this is a change for the worse. The result of arch_idle_time is supposed to be the exact sleep time of the target cpu and should be used instead of the value kept by the scheduler. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120330122308.18720283@de.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-03-29Merge branch 'x86-x32-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x32 support for x86-64 from Ingo Molnar: "This tree introduces the X32 binary format and execution mode for x86: 32-bit data space binaries using 64-bit instructions and 64-bit kernel syscalls. This allows applications whose working set fits into a 32 bits address space to make use of 64-bit instructions while using a 32-bit address space with shorter pointers, more compressed data structures, etc." Fix up trivial context conflicts in arch/x86/{Kconfig,vdso/vma.c} * 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (71 commits) x32: Fix alignment fail in struct compat_siginfo x32: Fix stupid ia32/x32 inversion in the siginfo format x32: Add ptrace for x32 x32: Switch to a 64-bit clock_t x32: Provide separate is_ia32_task() and is_x32_task() predicates x86, mtrr: Use explicit sizing and padding for the 64-bit ioctls x86/x32: Fix the binutils auto-detect x32: Warn and disable rather than error if binutils too old x32: Only clear TIF_X32 flag once x32: Make sure TS_COMPAT is cleared for x32 tasks fs: Remove missed ->fds_bits from cessation use of fd_set structs internally fs: Fix close_on_exec pointer in alloc_fdtable x32: Drop non-__vdso weak symbols from the x32 VDSO x32: Fix coding style violations in the x32 VDSO code x32: Add x32 VDSO support x32: Allow x32 to be configured x32: If configured, add x32 system calls to system call tables x32: Handle process creation x32: Signal-related system calls x86: Add #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT to <asm/sys_ia32.h> ...
2012-03-29Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)Linus Torvalds
Single fix for a commit from the first batch of patches through Andrew. * emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: pagemap: remove remaining unneeded spin_lock()
2012-03-29pagemap: remove remaining unneeded spin_lock()Naoya Horiguchi
Commit 025c5b2451e4 ("thp: optimize away unnecessary page table locking") moves spin_lock() into pmd_trans_huge_lock() in order to avoid locking unless pmd is for thp. So this spin_lock() is a bug. Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-28Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)Linus Torvalds
Merge third batch of patches from Andrew Morton: - Some MM stragglers - core SMP library cleanups (on_each_cpu_mask) - Some IPI optimisations - kexec - kdump - IPMI - the radix-tree iterator work - various other misc bits. "That'll do for -rc1. I still have ~10 patches for 3.4, will send those along when they've baked a little more." * emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (35 commits) backlight: fix typo in tosa_lcd.c crc32: add help text for the algorithm select option mm: move hugepage test examples to tools/testing/selftests/vm mm: move slabinfo.c to tools/vm mm: move page-types.c from Documentation to tools/vm selftests/Makefile: make `run_tests' depend on `all' selftests: launch individual selftests from the main Makefile radix-tree: use iterators in find_get_pages* functions radix-tree: rewrite gang lookup using iterator radix-tree: introduce bit-optimized iterator fs/proc/namespaces.c: prevent crash when ns_entries[] is empty nbd: rename the nbd_device variable from lo to nbd pidns: add reboot_pid_ns() to handle the reboot syscall sysctl: use bitmap library functions ipmi: use locks on watchdog timeout set on reboot ipmi: simplify locking ipmi: fix message handling during panics ipmi: use a tasklet for handling received messages ipmi: increase KCS timeouts ipmi: decrease the IPMI message transaction time in interrupt mode ...
2012-03-28fs/proc/namespaces.c: prevent crash when ns_entries[] is emptyAndrew Morton
If CONFIG_NET_NS, CONFIG_UTS_NS and CONFIG_IPC_NS are disabled, ns_entries[] becomes empty and things like ns_entries[ARRAY_SIZE(ns_entries) - 1] will explode. Reported-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-28mm: thp: fix up pmd_trans_unstable() locationsAndrea Arcangeli
pmd_trans_unstable() should be called before pmd_offset_map() in the locations where the mmap_sem is held for reading. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-28procfs: fix /proc/statmKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
bda7bad62bc4 ("procfs: speed up /proc/pid/stat, statm") broke /proc/statm - 'text' is printed twice by mistake. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reported-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-28Merge tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells: "Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion dependencies. I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can and made sure that they don't break. The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2(). This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h. The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h. It holds a number of low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg. memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that aren't used in many places (eg. switch_to()). These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces: (1) asm/barrier.h Move memory barriers here. This already done for MIPS and Alpha. (2) asm/switch_to.h Move switch_to() and related stuff here. (3) asm/exec.h Move arch_align_stack() here. Other process execution related bits could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h. (4) asm/cmpxchg.h Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg(). (5) asm/bug.h Move die() and related bits. (6) asm/auxvec.h Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here. Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis." Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat weakened by that. We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it.. * tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits) Delete all instances of asm/system.h Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h Create asm-generic/barrier.h Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt] Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390 Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300 ...
2012-03-28Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.hDavid Howells
Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing it. Performed with the following command: perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>' *` Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2012-03-23Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctlLinus Torvalds
Pull sysctl updates from Eric Biederman: - Rewrite of sysctl for speed and clarity. Insert/remove/Lookup in sysctl are all now O(NlogN) operations, and are no longer bottlenecks in the process of adding and removing network devices. sysctl is now focused on being a filesystem instead of system call and the code can all be found in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c. Hopefully this means the code is now approachable. Much thanks is owed to Lucian Grinjincu for keeping at this until something was found that was usable. - The recent proc_sys_poll oops found by the fuzzer during hibernation is fixed. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl: (36 commits) sysctl: protect poll() in entries that may go away sysctl: Don't call sysctl_follow_link unless we are a link. sysctl: Comments to make the code clearer. sysctl: Correct error return from get_subdir sysctl: An easier to read version of find_subdir sysctl: fix memset parameters in setup_sysctl_set() sysctl: remove an unused variable sysctl: Add register_sysctl for normal sysctl users sysctl: Index sysctl directories with rbtrees. sysctl: Make the header lists per directory. sysctl: Move sysctl_check_dups into insert_header sysctl: Modify __register_sysctl_paths to take a set instead of a root and an nsproxy sysctl: Replace root_list with links between sysctl_table_sets. sysctl: Add sysctl_print_dir and use it in get_subdir sysctl: Stop requiring explicit management of sysctl directories sysctl: Add a root pointer to ctl_table_set sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_readdir in terms of first_entry and next_entry sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_lookup introducing find_entry and lookup_entry. sysctl: Normalize the root_table data structure. sysctl: Factor out insert_header and erase_header ...
2012-03-23proc-ns: use d_set_d_op() API to set dentry ops in proc_ns_instantiate().Pravin B Shelar
The namespace cleanup path leaks a dentry which holds a reference count on a network namespace. Keeping that network namespace from being freed when the last user goes away. Leaving things like vlan devices in the leaked network namespace. If you use ip netns add for much real work this problem becomes apparent pretty quickly. It light testing the problem hides because frequently you simply don't notice the leak. Use d_set_d_op() so that DCACHE_OP_* flags are set correctly. This issue exists back to 3.0. Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Reported-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>