kernel/linux.git/include/linux/sem.h, branch v6.19.11

copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree

2025-09-01T13:31:34+00:00

With the introduction of clone3 in commit 7f192e3cd316 ("fork: add clone3") the effective bit width of clone_flags on all architectures was increased from 32-bit to 64-bit, with a new type of u64 for the flags. However, for most consumers of clone_flags the interface was not changed from the previous type of unsigned long. While this works fine as long as none of the new 64-bit flag bits (CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND and CLONE_INTO_CGROUP) are evaluated, this is still undesirable in terms of the principle of least surprise. Thus, this commit fixes all relevant interfaces of callees to sys_clone3/copy_process (excluding the architecture-specific copy_thread) to consistently pass clone_flags as u64, so that no truncation to 32-bit integers occurs on 32-bit architectures. Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250901-nios2-implement-clone3-v2-2-53fcf5577d57@siemens-energy.com Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

sem: Split out sem_types.h

2023-12-21T00:26:32+00:00

More sched.h dependency pruning. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet

sem: Move struct sem and struct sem_array into ipc/sem.c

2018-03-23T02:30:56+00:00

All of the users are now in ipc/sem.c so make the definitions local to that file to make code maintenance easier. AKA to prevent rebuilding the entire kernel when one of these files is changed. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'work.ipc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2017-09-15T00:37:26+00:00

Pull ipc compat cleanup and 64-bit time_t from Al Viro: "IPC copyin/copyout sanitizing, including 64bit time_t work from Deepa Dinamani" * 'work.ipc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: utimes: Make utimes y2038 safe ipc: shm: Make shmid_kernel timestamps y2038 safe ipc: sem: Make sem_array timestamps y2038 safe ipc: msg: Make msg_queue timestamps y2038 safe ipc: mqueue: Replace timespec with timespec64 ipc: Make sys_semtimedop() y2038 safe get rid of SYSVIPC_COMPAT on ia64 semtimedop(): move compat to native shmat(2): move compat to native msgrcv(2), msgsnd(2): move compat to native ipc(2): move compat to native ipc: make use of compat ipc_perm helpers semctl(): move compat to native semctl(): separate all layout-dependent copyin/copyout msgctl(): move compat to native msgctl(): split the actual work from copyin/copyout ipc: move compat shmctl to native shmctl: split the work from copyin/copyout

ipc: sem: Make sem_array timestamps y2038 safe

2017-09-04T00:24:29+00:00

time_t is not y2038 safe. Replace all uses of time_t by y2038 safe time64_t. Similarly, replace the calls to get_seconds() with y2038 safe ktime_get_real_seconds(). Note that this preserves fast access on 64 bit systems, but 32 bit systems need sequence counters. The syscall interface themselves are not changed as part of the patch. They will be part of a different series. Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.13-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

2017-07-19T15:55:18+00:00

Pull structure randomization updates from Kees Cook: "Now that IPC and other changes have landed, enable manual markings for randstruct plugin, including the task_struct. This is the rest of what was staged in -next for the gcc-plugins, and comes in three patches, largest first: - mark "easy" structs with __randomize_layout - mark task_struct with an optional anonymous struct to isolate the __randomize_layout section - mark structs to opt _out_ of automated marking (which will come later) And, FWIW, this continues to pass allmodconfig (normal and patched to enable gcc-plugins) builds of x86_64, i386, arm64, arm, powerpc, and s390 for me" * tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.13-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: randstruct: opt-out externally exposed function pointer structs task_struct: Allow randomized layout randstruct: Mark various structs for randomization

include/linux/sem.h: correctly document sem_ctime

2017-07-12T23:26:01+00:00

sem_ctime is initialized to the semget() time and then updated at every semctl() that changes the array. Thus it does not represent the time of the last change. Especially, semop() calls are only stored in sem_otime, not in sem_ctime. This is already described in ipc/sem.c, I just overlooked that there is a comment in include/linux/sem.h and man semctl(2) as well. So: Correct wrong comments. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170515171912.6298-4-manfred@colorfullife.com Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul Cc: Kees Cook Cc: <1vier1@web.de> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Fabian Frederick Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc/sem.c: remove sem_base, embed struct sem

2017-07-12T23:26:01+00:00

sma->sem_base is initialized with sma->sem_base = (struct sem *) &sma[1]; The current code has four problems: - There is an unnecessary pointer dereference - sem_base is not needed. - Alignment for struct sem only works by chance. - The current code causes false positive for static code analysis. - This is a cast between different non-void types, which the future randstruct GCC plugin warns on. And, as bonus, the code size gets smaller: Before: 0 .text 00003770 After: 0 .text 0000374e [manfred@colorfullife.com: s/[0]/[]/, per hch] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170525185107.12869-2-manfred@colorfullife.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170515171912.6298-2-manfred@colorfullife.com Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul Acked-by: Kees Cook Cc: Kees Cook Cc: <1vier1@web.de> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Fabian Frederick Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

randstruct: Mark various structs for randomization

2017-06-30T19:00:51+00:00

This marks many critical kernel structures for randomization. These are structures that have been targeted in the past in security exploits, or contain functions pointers, pointers to function pointer tables, lists, workqueues, ref-counters, credentials, permissions, or are otherwise sensitive. This initial list was extracted from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my understanding of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are mine and don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code. Left out of this list is task_struct, which requires special handling and will be covered in a subsequent patch. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook