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2012-06-01Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-0/+7
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs changes from Al Viro. "A lot of misc stuff. The obvious groups: * Miklos' atomic_open series; kills the damn abuse of ->d_revalidate() by NFS, which was the major stumbling block for all work in that area. * ripping security_file_mmap() and dealing with deadlocks in the area; sanitizing the neighborhood of vm_mmap()/vm_munmap() in general. * ->encode_fh() switched to saner API; insane fake dentry in mm/cleancache.c gone. * assorted annotations in fs (endianness, __user) * parts of Artem's ->s_dirty work (jff2 and reiserfs parts) * ->update_time() work from Josef. * other bits and pieces all over the place. Normally it would've been in two or three pull requests, but signal.git stuff had eaten a lot of time during this cycle ;-/" Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt (the 'truncate_range' inode method was removed by the VM changes, the VFS update adds an 'update_time()' method), and in fs/btrfs/ulist.[ch] (due to sparse fix added twice, with other changes nearby). * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (95 commits) nfs: don't open in ->d_revalidate vfs: retry last component if opening stale dentry vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): don't throw away file on error vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): inline __dentry_open() vfs: do_dentry_open(): don't put filp vfs: split __dentry_open() vfs: do_last() common post lookup vfs: do_last(): add audit_inode before open vfs: do_last(): only return EISDIR for O_CREAT vfs: do_last(): check LOOKUP_DIRECTORY vfs: do_last(): make ENOENT exit RCU safe vfs: make follow_link check RCU safe vfs: do_last(): use inode variable vfs: do_last(): inline walk_component() vfs: do_last(): make exit RCU safe vfs: split do_lookup() Btrfs: move over to use ->update_time fs: introduce inode operation ->update_time reiserfs: get rid of resierfs_sync_super reiserfs: mark the superblock as dirty a bit later ...
2012-06-01fs: introduce inode operation ->update_timeJosef Bacik2-0/+7
Btrfs has to make sure we have space to allocate new blocks in order to modify the inode, so updating time can fail. We've gotten around this by having our own file_update_time but this is kind of a pain, and Christoph has indicated he would like to make xfs do something different with atime updates. So introduce ->update_time, where we will deal with i_version an a/m/c time updates and indicate which changes need to be made. The normal version just does what it has always done, updates the time and marks the inode dirty, and then filesystems can choose to do something different. I've gone through all of the users of file_update_time and made them check for errors with the exception of the fault code since it's complicated and I wasn't quite sure what to do there, also Jan is going to be pushing the file time updates into page_mkwrite for those who have it so that should satisfy btrfs and make it not a big deal to check the file_update_time() return code in the generic fault path. Thanks, Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
2012-06-01c/r: procfs: add arg_start/end, env_start/end and exit_code members to ↵Cyrill Gorcunov1-0/+5
/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>
2012-06-01fs, proc: introduce /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entryCyrill Gorcunov1-0/+18
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>
2012-05-30mm: document the meminfo and vmstat fields of relevance to transparent hugepagesMel Gorman1-0/+2
Update Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt and Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt with some information on monitoring transparent huge page usage and the associated overhead. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-30mm/fs: remove truncate_rangeHugh Dickins2-7/+8
Remove vmtruncate_range(), and remove the truncate_range method from struct inode_operations: only tmpfs ever supported it, and tmpfs has now converted over to using the fallocate method of file_operations. Update Documentation accordingly, adding (setlease and) fallocate lines. And while we're in mm.h, remove duplicate declarations of shmem_lock() and shmem_file_setup(): everyone is now using the ones in shmem_fs.h. Based-on-patch-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 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 Torvalds1-9/+7
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
2012-05-25Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-3/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs Pull ext2, ext3 and quota fixes from Jan Kara: "Interesting bits are: - removal of a special i_mutex locking subclass (I_MUTEX_QUOTA) since quota code does not need i_mutex anymore in any unusual way. - backport (from ext4) of a fix of a checkpointing bug (missing cache flush) that could lead to fs corruption on power failure The rest are just random small fixes & cleanups." * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: ext2: trivial fix to comment for ext2_free_blocks ext2: remove the redundant comment for ext2_export_ops ext3: return 32/64-bit dir name hash according to usage type quota: Get rid of nested I_MUTEX_QUOTA locking subclass quota: Use precomputed value of sb_dqopt in dquot_quota_sync ext2: Remove i_mutex use from ext2_quota_write() reiserfs: Remove i_mutex use from reiserfs_quota_write() ext4: Remove i_mutex use from ext4_quota_write() ext3: Remove i_mutex use from ext3_quota_write() quota: Fix double lock in add_dquot_ref() with CONFIG_QUOTA_DEBUG jbd: Write journal superblock with WRITE_FUA after checkpointing jbd: protect all log tail updates with j_checkpoint_mutex jbd: Split updating of journal superblock and marking journal empty ext2: do not register write_super within VFS ext2: Remove s_dirt handling ext2: write superblock only once on unmount ext3: update documentation with barrier=1 default ext3: remove max_debt in find_group_orlov() jbd: Refine commit writeout logic
2012-05-23Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-15/+15
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial updates from Jiri Kosina: "As usual, it's mostly typo fixes, redundant code elimination and some documentation updates." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (57 commits) edac, mips: don't change code that has been removed in edac/mips tree xtensa: Change mail addresses of Hannes Weiner and Oskar Schirmer lib: Change mail address of Oskar Schirmer net: Change mail address of Oskar Schirmer arm/m68k: Change mail address of Sebastian Hess i2c: Change mail address of Oskar Schirmer net: Fix tcp_build_and_update_options comment in struct tcp_sock atomic64_32.h: fix parameter naming mismatch Kconfig: replace "--- help ---" with "---help---" c2port: fix bogus Kconfig "default no" edac: Fix spelling errors. qla1280: Remove redundant NULL check before release_firmware() call remoteproc: remove redundant NULL check before release_firmware() qla2xxx: Remove redundant NULL check before release_firmware() call. aic94xx: Get rid of redundant NULL check before release_firmware() call tehuti: delete redundant NULL check before release_firmware() qlogic: get rid of a redundant test for NULL before call to release_firmware() bna: remove redundant NULL test before release_firmware() tg3: remove redundant NULL test before release_firmware() call typhoon: get rid of redundant conditional before all to release_firmware() ...
2012-05-22Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-nmwLinus Torvalds2-6/+122
Pull GFS2 changes from Steven Whitehouse. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-3.0-nmw: (24 commits) GFS2: Fix quota adjustment return code GFS2: Add rgrp information to block_alloc trace point GFS2: Eliminate unused "new" parameter to gfs2_meta_indirect_buffer GFS2: Update glock doc to add new stats info GFS2: Update main gfs2 doc GFS2: Remove redundant metadata block type check GFS2: Fix sgid propagation when using ACLs GFS2: eliminate log elements and simplify GFS2: Eliminate vestigial sd_log_le_rg GFS2: Eliminate needless parameter from function gfs2_setbit GFS2: Log code fixes GFS2: Remove unused argument from gfs2_internal_read GFS2: Remove bd_list_tr GFS2: Remove duplicate log code GFS2: Clean up log write code path GFS2: Use variable rather than qa to determine if unstuff necessary GFS2: Change variable blk to biblk GFS2: Fix function parameter comments in rgrp.c GFS2: Eliminate offset parameter to gfs2_setbit GFS2: Use slab for block reservation memory ...
2012-05-16tokenring: delete all remaining driver supportPaul Gortmaker1-1/+0
This represents the mass deletion of the of the tokenring support. It gets rid of: - the net/tr.c which the drivers depended on - the drivers/net component - the Kbuild infrastructure around it - any tokenring related CONFIG_ settings in any defconfigs - the tokenring headers in the include/linux dir - the firmware associated with the tokenring drivers. - any associated token ring documentation. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-05-10GFS2: Update glock doc to add new stats infoSteven Whitehouse1-1/+118
We recently added some glock statistics to GFS2, so this is a docs update to explain what they all mean. It is based upon the checkin comment of the patch in question. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-05-10GFS2: Update main gfs2 docSteven Whitehouse1-5/+4
Various items were a bit out of date, so this is a refresh to the latest info. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-05-06vfs: Rename end_writeback() to clear_inode()Jan Kara1-9/+7
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>
2012-04-16Documentation: Fix typo in multiple files in DocumentationMasanari Iida2-15/+15
Correct multiple spelling typo in Documentation. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Reported-by: Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-04-11ext3: update documentation with barrier=1 defaultStefan Hajnoczi1-3/+3
Commit 00eacd6 ("ext3: make ext3 mount default to barrier=1") changed the default barrier mount option for ext3. The documentation needs to be updated, so this patch does that. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2012-04-09typo fix in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txtAl Viro1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-30Merge branch 'x86-x32-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-2/+2
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> ...
2012-03-28Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-8/+0
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 Pull ext4 updates for 3.4 from Ted Ts'o: "Ext4 commits for 3.3 merge window; mostly cleanups and bug fixes The changes to export dirty_writeback_interval are from Artem's s_dirt cleanup patch series. The same is true of the change to remove the s_dirt helper functions which never got used by anyone in-tree. I've run these changes by Al Viro, and am carrying them so that Artem can more easily fix up the rest of the file systems during the next merge window. (Originally we had hopped to remove the use of s_dirt from ext4 during this merge window, but his patches had some bugs, so I ultimately ended dropping them from the ext4 tree.)" * tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (66 commits) vfs: remove unused superblock helpers mm: export dirty_writeback_interval ext4: remove useless s_dirt assignment ext4: write superblock only once on unmount ext4: do not mark superblock as dirty unnecessarily ext4: correct ext4_punch_hole return codes ext4: remove restrictive checks for EOFBLOCKS_FL ext4: always set then trimmed blocks count into len ext4: fix trimmed block count accunting ext4: fix start and len arguments handling in ext4_trim_fs() ext4: update s_free_{inodes,blocks}_count during online resize ext4: change some printk() calls to use ext4_msg() instead ext4: avoid output message interleaving in ext4_error_<foo>() ext4: remove trailing newlines from ext4_msg() and ext4_error() messages ext4: add no_printk argument validation, fix fallout ext4: remove redundant "EXT4-fs: " from uses of ext4_msg ext4: give more helpful error message in ext4_ext_rm_leaf() ext4: remove unused code from ext4_ext_map_blocks() ext4: rewrite punch hole to use ext4_ext_remove_space() jbd2: cleanup journal tail after transaction commit ...
2012-03-23Merge tag 'nfs-for-3.4-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfsLinus Torvalds2-6/+68
Pull NFS client updates for Linux 3.4 from Trond Myklebust: "New features include: - Add NFS client support for containers. This should enable most of the necessary functionality, including lockd support, and support for rpc.statd, NFSv4 idmapper and RPCSEC_GSS upcalls into the correct network namespace from which the mount system call was issued. - NFSv4 idmapper scalability improvements Base the idmapper cache on the keyring interface to allow concurrent access to idmapper entries. Start the process of migrating users from the single-threaded daemon-based approach to the multi-threaded request-key based approach. - NFSv4.1 implementation id. Allows the NFSv4.1 client and server to mutually identify each other for logging and debugging purposes. - Support the 'vers=4.1' mount option for mounting NFSv4.1 instead of having to use the more counterintuitive 'vers=4,minorversion=1'. - SUNRPC tracepoints. Start the process of adding tracepoints in order to improve debugging of the RPC layer. - pNFS object layout support for autologin. Important bugfixes include: - Fix a bug in rpc_wake_up/rpc_wake_up_status that caused them to fail to wake up all tasks when applied to priority waitqueues. - Ensure that we handle read delegations correctly, when we try to truncate a file. - A number of fixes for NFSv4 state manager loops (mostly to do with delegation recovery)." * tag 'nfs-for-3.4-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs: (224 commits) NFS: fix sb->s_id in nfs debug prints xprtrdma: Remove assumption that each segment is <= PAGE_SIZE xprtrdma: The transport should not bug-check when a dup reply is received pnfs-obj: autologin: Add support for protocol autologin NFS: Remove nfs4_setup_sequence from generic rename code NFS: Remove nfs4_setup_sequence from generic unlink code NFS: Remove nfs4_setup_sequence from generic read code NFS: Remove nfs4_setup_sequence from generic write code NFS: Fix more NFS debug related build warnings SUNRPC/LOCKD: Fix build warnings when CONFIG_SUNRPC_DEBUG is undefined nfs: non void functions must return a value SUNRPC: Kill compiler warning when RPC_DEBUG is unset SUNRPC/NFS: Add Kbuild dependencies for NFS_DEBUG/RPC_DEBUG NFS: Use cond_resched_lock() to reduce latencies in the commit scans NFSv4: It is not safe to dereference lsp->ls_state in release_lockowner NFS: ncommit count is being double decremented SUNRPC: We must not use list_for_each_entry_safe() in rpc_wake_up() Try using machine credentials for RENEW calls NFSv4.1: Fix a few issues in filelayout_commit_pagelist NFSv4.1: Clean ups and bugfixes for the pNFS read/writeback/commit code ...
2012-03-22Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)Linus Torvalds1-2/+30
Merge first batch of patches from Andrew Morton: "A few misc things and all the MM queue" * emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (92 commits) memcg: avoid THP split in task migration thp: add HPAGE_PMD_* definitions for !CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE memcg: clean up existing move charge code mm/memcontrol.c: remove unnecessary 'break' in mem_cgroup_read() mm/memcontrol.c: remove redundant BUG_ON() in mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event() mm/memcontrol.c: s/stealed/stolen/ memcg: fix performance of mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat() memcg: remove PCG_FILE_MAPPED memcg: use new logic for page stat accounting memcg: remove PCG_MOVE_LOCK flag from page_cgroup memcg: simplify move_account() check memcg: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(mem_cgroup_update_page_stat) memcg: kill dead prev_priority stubs memcg: remove PCG_CACHE page_cgroup flag memcg: let css_get_next() rely upon rcu_read_lock() cgroup: revert ss_id_lock to spinlock idr: make idr_get_next() good for rcu_read_lock() memcg: remove unnecessary thp check in page stat accounting memcg: remove redundant returns memcg: enum lru_list lru ...
2012-03-22procfs: mark thread stack correctly in proc/<pid>/mapsSiddhesh Poyarekar1-2/+30
Stack for a new thread is mapped by userspace code and passed via sys_clone. This memory is currently seen as anonymous in /proc/<pid>/maps, which makes it difficult to ascertain which mappings are being used for thread stacks. This patch uses the individual task stack pointers to determine which vmas are actually thread stacks. For a multithreaded program like the following: #include <pthread.h> void *thread_main(void *foo) { while(1); } int main() { pthread_t t; pthread_create(&t, NULL, thread_main, NULL); pthread_join(t, NULL); } proc/PID/maps looks like the following: 00400000-00401000 r-xp 00000000 fd:0a 3671804 /home/siddhesh/a.out 00600000-00601000 rw-p 00000000 fd:0a 3671804 /home/siddhesh/a.out 019ef000-01a10000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] 7f8a44491000-7f8a44492000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a44492000-7f8a44c92000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a44c92000-7f8a44e3d000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2097482 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so 7f8a44e3d000-7f8a4503d000 ---p 001ab000 fd:00 2097482 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so 7f8a4503d000-7f8a45041000 r--p 001ab000 fd:00 2097482 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so 7f8a45041000-7f8a45043000 rw-p 001af000 fd:00 2097482 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so 7f8a45043000-7f8a45048000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a45048000-7f8a4505f000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2099938 /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so 7f8a4505f000-7f8a4525e000 ---p 00017000 fd:00 2099938 /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so 7f8a4525e000-7f8a4525f000 r--p 00016000 fd:00 2099938 /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so 7f8a4525f000-7f8a45260000 rw-p 00017000 fd:00 2099938 /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so 7f8a45260000-7f8a45264000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a45264000-7f8a45286000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2097348 /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so 7f8a45457000-7f8a4545a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a45484000-7f8a45485000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a45485000-7f8a45486000 r--p 00021000 fd:00 2097348 /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so 7f8a45486000-7f8a45487000 rw-p 00022000 fd:00 2097348 /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so 7f8a45487000-7f8a45488000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fff6273b000-7fff6275c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] 7fff627ff000-7fff62800000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall] Here, one could guess that 7f8a44492000-7f8a44c92000 is a stack since the earlier vma that has no permissions (7f8a44e3d000-7f8a4503d000) but that is not always a reliable way to find out which vma is a thread stack. Also, /proc/PID/maps and /proc/PID/task/TID/maps has the same content. With this patch in place, /proc/PID/task/TID/maps are treated as 'maps as the task would see it' and hence, only the vma that that task uses as stack is marked as [stack]. All other 'stack' vmas are marked as anonymous memory. /proc/PID/maps acts as a thread group level view, where all thread stack vmas are marked as [stack:TID] where TID is the process ID of the task that uses that vma as stack, while the process stack is marked as [stack]. So /proc/PID/maps will look like this: 00400000-00401000 r-xp 00000000 fd:0a 3671804 /home/siddhesh/a.out 00600000-00601000 rw-p 00000000 fd:0a 3671804 /home/siddhesh/a.out 019ef000-01a10000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] 7f8a44491000-7f8a44492000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a44492000-7f8a44c92000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack:1442] 7f8a44c92000-7f8a44e3d000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2097482 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so 7f8a44e3d000-7f8a4503d000 ---p 001ab000 fd:00 2097482 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so 7f8a4503d000-7f8a45041000 r--p 001ab000 fd:00 2097482 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so 7f8a45041000-7f8a45043000 rw-p 001af000 fd:00 2097482 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so 7f8a45043000-7f8a45048000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a45048000-7f8a4505f000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2099938 /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so 7f8a4505f000-7f8a4525e000 ---p 00017000 fd:00 2099938 /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so 7f8a4525e000-7f8a4525f000 r--p 00016000 fd:00 2099938 /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so 7f8a4525f000-7f8a45260000 rw-p 00017000 fd:00 2099938 /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so 7f8a45260000-7f8a45264000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a45264000-7f8a45286000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2097348 /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so 7f8a45457000-7f8a4545a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a45484000-7f8a45485000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a45485000-7f8a45486000 r--p 00021000 fd:00 2097348 /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so 7f8a45486000-7f8a45487000 rw-p 00022000 fd:00 2097348 /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so 7f8a45487000-7f8a45488000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fff6273b000-7fff6275c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] 7fff627ff000-7fff62800000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall] Thus marking all vmas that are used as stacks by the threads in the thread group along with the process stack. The task level maps will however like this: 00400000-00401000 r-xp 00000000 fd:0a 3671804 /home/siddhesh/a.out 00600000-00601000 rw-p 00000000 fd:0a 3671804 /home/siddhesh/a.out 019ef000-01a10000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] 7f8a44491000-7f8a44492000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a44492000-7f8a44c92000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] 7f8a44c92000-7f8a44e3d000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2097482 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so 7f8a44e3d000-7f8a4503d000 ---p 001ab000 fd:00 2097482 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so 7f8a4503d000-7f8a45041000 r--p 001ab000 fd:00 2097482 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so 7f8a45041000-7f8a45043000 rw-p 001af000 fd:00 2097482 /lib64/libc-2.14.90.so 7f8a45043000-7f8a45048000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a45048000-7f8a4505f000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2099938 /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so 7f8a4505f000-7f8a4525e000 ---p 00017000 fd:00 2099938 /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so 7f8a4525e000-7f8a4525f000 r--p 00016000 fd:00 2099938 /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so 7f8a4525f000-7f8a45260000 rw-p 00017000 fd:00 2099938 /lib64/libpthread-2.14.90.so 7f8a45260000-7f8a45264000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a45264000-7f8a45286000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 2097348 /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so 7f8a45457000-7f8a4545a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a45484000-7f8a45485000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7f8a45485000-7f8a45486000 r--p 00021000 fd:00 2097348 /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so 7f8a45486000-7f8a45487000 rw-p 00022000 fd:00 2097348 /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so 7f8a45487000-7f8a45488000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fff6273b000-7fff6275c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fff627ff000-7fff62800000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall] where only the vma that is being used as a stack by *that* task is marked as [stack]. Analogous changes have been made to /proc/PID/smaps, /proc/PID/numa_maps, /proc/PID/task/TID/smaps and /proc/PID/task/TID/numa_maps. Relevant snippets from smaps and numa_maps: [siddhesh@localhost ~ ]$ pgrep a.out 1441 [siddhesh@localhost ~ ]$ cat /proc/1441/smaps | grep "\[stack" 7f8a44492000-7f8a44c92000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack:1442] 7fff6273b000-7fff6275c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] [siddhesh@localhost ~ ]$ cat /proc/1441/task/1442/smaps | grep "\[stack" 7f8a44492000-7f8a44c92000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] [siddhesh@localhost ~ ]$ cat /proc/1441/task/1441/smaps | grep "\[stack" 7fff6273b000-7fff6275c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] [siddhesh@localhost ~ ]$ cat /proc/1441/numa_maps | grep "stack" 7f8a44492000 default stack:1442 anon=2 dirty=2 N0=2 7fff6273a000 default stack anon=3 dirty=3 N0=3 [siddhesh@localhost ~ ]$ cat /proc/1441/task/1442/numa_maps | grep "stack" 7f8a44492000 default stack anon=2 dirty=2 N0=2 [siddhesh@localhost ~ ]$ cat /proc/1441/task/1441/numa_maps | grep "stack" 7fff6273a000 default stack anon=3 dirty=3 N0=3 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.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>
2012-03-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds3-1/+181
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs pile 1 from Al Viro: "This is _not_ all; in particular, Miklos' and Jan's stuff is not there yet." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (64 commits) ext4: initialization of ext4_li_mtx needs to be done earlier debugfs-related mode_t whack-a-mole hfsplus: add an ioctl to bless files hfsplus: change finder_info to u32 hfsplus: initialise userflags qnx4: new helper - try_extent() qnx4: get rid of qnx4_bread/qnx4_getblk take removal of PF_FORKNOEXEC to flush_old_exec() trim includes in inode.c um: uml_dup_mmap() relies on ->mmap_sem being held, but activate_mm() doesn't hold it um: embed ->stub_pages[] into mmu_context gadgetfs: list_for_each_safe() misuse ocfs2: fix leaks on failure exits in module_init ecryptfs: make register_filesystem() the last potential failure exit ntfs: forgets to unregister sysctls on register_filesystem() failure logfs: missing cleanup on register_filesystem() failure jfs: mising cleanup on register_filesystem() failure make configfs_pin_fs() return root dentry on success configfs: configfs_create_dir() has parent dentry in dentry->d_parent configfs: sanitize configfs_create() ...
2012-03-21pnfs-obj: autologin: Add support for protocol autologinSachin Bhamare1-0/+54
The pnfs-objects protocol mandates that we autologin into devices not present in the system, according to information specified in the get_device_info returned from the server. The Protocol specifies two login hints. 1. An IP address:port combination 2. A string URI which is constructed as a URL with a protocol prefix followed by :// and a string as address. For each protocol prefix the string-address format might be different. We only support the second option. The first option is just redundant to the second one. NOTE: The Kernel part of autologin does not parse the URI string. It just channels it to a user-mode script. So any new login protocols should only update the user-mode script which is a part of the nfs-utils package, but the Kernel need not change. We implement the autologin by using the call_usermodehelper() API. (Thanks to Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> for pointing it out) So there is no running daemon needed, and/or special setup. We Add the osd_login_prog Kernel module parameters which defaults to: /sbin/osd_login Kernel try's to upcall the program specified in osd_login_prog. If the file is not found or the execution fails Kernel will disable any farther upcalls, by zeroing out osd_login_prog, Until Admin re-enables it by setting the osd_login_prog parameter to a proper program. Also add text about the osd_login program command line API to: Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs.txt and documentation of the new osd_login_prog module parameter to: Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt TODO: Add timeout option in the case osd_login program gets stuck Signed-off-by: Sachin Bhamare <sbhamare@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-03-21Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds5-6/+6
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina: "It's indeed trivial -- mostly documentation updates and a bunch of typo fixes from Masanari. There are also several linux/version.h include removals from Jesper." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (101 commits) kcore: fix spelling in read_kcore() comment constify struct pci_dev * in obvious cases Revert "char: Fix typo in viotape.c" init: fix wording error in mm_init comment usb: gadget: Kconfig: fix typo for 'different' Revert "power, max8998: Include linux/module.h just once in drivers/power/max8998_charger.c" writeback: fix fn name in writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle() comment header writeback: fix typo in the writeback_control comment Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation tpm_tis: fix tis_lock with respect to RCU Revert "media: Fix typo in mixer_drv.c and hdmi_drv.c" Doc: Update numastat.txt qla4xxx: Add missing spaces to error messages compiler.h: Fix typo security: struct security_operations kerneldoc fix Documentation: broken URL in libata.tmpl Documentation: broken URL in filesystems.tmpl mtd: simplify return logic in do_map_probe() mm: fix comment typo of truncate_inode_pages_range power: bq27x00: Fix typos in comment ...
2012-03-21debugfs-related mode_t whack-a-moleAl Viro1-1/+1
all of those should be umode_t... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-21fs: initial qnx6fs additionKai Bankett1-0/+174
Adds support for qnx6fs readonly support to the linux kernel. * Mount option The option mmi_fs can be used to mount Harman Becker/Audi MMI 3G HDD qnx6fs filesystems. * Documentation A high level filesystem stucture description can be found in the Documentation/filesystems directory. (qnx6.txt) * Additional features - Active (stable) superblock selection - Superblock checksum check (enforced) - Supports mount of qnx6 filesystems with to host different endianess - Automatic endianess detection - Longfilename support (with non-enfocing crc check) - All blocksizes (512, 1024, 2048 and 4096 supported) Signed-off-by: Kai Bankett <chaosman@ontika.net> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-21vfs: d_alloc_root() goneAl Viro1-0/+6
all callers converted to d_make_root() by now Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-07Documentation: Fix multiple typo in DocumentationMasanari Iida4-5/+5
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-02-21Documentation: Fix Broken URL "freshmeat"Masanari Iida1-1/+1
Fix broken URL in documents "freshmeat" to "freecode" in Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt, Documentation/scsi/scsi-generic.txt Documentation/usb/mtouchusb.txt Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-02-21ext4: remove the resize mount optionEric Sandeen1-5/+0
The resize mount option seems to be of limited value, especially in the age of online resize2fs. Nuke it. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2012-02-21ext4: remove the journal=update mount optionEric Sandeen1-3/+0
The V2 journal format was introduced around ten years ago, for ext3. It seems highly unlikely that anyone will need this migration option for ext4. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2012-02-19Wrap accesses to the fd_sets in struct fdtableDavid Howells1-2/+2
Wrap accesses to the fd_sets in struct fdtable (for recording open files and close-on-exec flags) so that we can move away from using fd_sets since we abuse the fd_set structs by not allocating the full-sized structure under normal circumstances and by non-core code looking at the internals of the fd_sets. The first abuse means that use of FD_ZERO() on these fd_sets is not permitted, since that cannot be told about their abnormal lengths. This introduces six wrapper functions for setting, clearing and testing close-on-exec flags and fd-is-open flags: void __set_close_on_exec(int fd, struct fdtable *fdt); void __clear_close_on_exec(int fd, struct fdtable *fdt); bool close_on_exec(int fd, const struct fdtable *fdt); void __set_open_fd(int fd, struct fdtable *fdt); void __clear_open_fd(int fd, struct fdtable *fdt); bool fd_is_open(int fd, const struct fdtable *fdt); Note that I've prepended '__' to the names of the set/clear functions because they require the caller to hold a lock to use them. Note also that I haven't added wrappers for looking behind the scenes at the the array. Possibly that should exist too. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120216174942.23314.1364.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-02-07NFS: Update idmapper documentationBryan Schumaker1-6/+14
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-01-26debugfs: add mode, uid and gid optionsLudwig Nussel1-1/+4
Cautious admins may want to restrict access to debugfs. Currently a manual chown/chmod e.g. in an init script is needed to achieve that. Distributions that want to make the mount options configurable need to add extra config files. By allowing to set the root inode's uid, gid and mode via mount options no such hacks are needed anymore. Instead configuration becomes straight forward via fstab. Signed-off-by: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2012-01-15Merge branch 'for-3.3' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linuxLinus Torvalds2-0/+71
* 'for-3.3' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (31 commits) nfsd4: nfsd4_create_clid_dir return value is unused NFSD: Change name of extended attribute containing junction svcrpc: don't revert to SVC_POOL_DEFAULT on nfsd shutdown svcrpc: fix double-free on shutdown of nfsd after changing pool mode nfsd4: be forgiving in the absence of the recovery directory nfsd4: fix spurious 4.1 post-reboot failures NFSD: forget_delegations should use list_for_each_entry_safe NFSD: Only reinitilize the recall_lru list under the recall lock nfsd4: initialize special stateid's at compile time NFSd: use network-namespace-aware cache registering routines SUNRPC: create svc_xprt in proper network namespace svcrpc: update outdated BKL comment nfsd41: allow non-reclaim open-by-fh's in 4.1 svcrpc: avoid memory-corruption on pool shutdown svcrpc: destroy server sockets all at once svcrpc: make svc_delete_xprt static nfsd: Fix oops when parsing a 0 length export nfsd4: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation nfsd4: add a separate (lockowner, inode) lookup nfsd4: fix CONFIG_NFSD_FAULT_INJECTION compile error ...
2012-01-13Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-nextLinus Torvalds1-3/+3
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-next: Squashfs: fix i_blocks calculation with extended regular files Squashfs: fix mount time sanity check for corrupted superblock Squashfs: optimise squashfs_cache_get entry search Squashfs: Update documentation to include xattrs Squashfs: add missing block release on error condition
2012-01-13Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-5/+13
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client: ceph: ensure prealloc_blob is in place when removing xattr rbd: initialize snap_rwsem in rbd_add() ceph: enable/disable dentry complete flags via mount option vfs: export symbol d_find_any_alias() ceph: always initialize the dentry in open_root_dentry() libceph: remove useless return value for osd_client __send_request() ceph: avoid iput() while holding spinlock in ceph_dir_fsync ceph: avoid useless dget/dput in encode_fh ceph: dereference pointer after checking for NULL crush: fix force for non-root TAKE ceph: remove unnecessary d_fsdata conditional checks ceph: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation Fix up conflicts in fs/ceph/super.c (d_alloc_root() failure handling vs always initialize the dentry in open_root_dentry)
2012-01-13c/r: procfs: add start_data, end_data, start_brk members to /proc/$pid/stat v4Cyrill Gorcunov1-0/+3
The mm->start_code/end_code, mm->start_data/end_data, mm->start_brk are involved into calculation of program text/data segment sizes (which might be seen in /proc/<pid>/statm) and into brk() call final address. For restore we need to know all these values. While mm->start_code/end_code already present in /proc/$pid/stat, the rest members are not, so this patch brings them in. The restore procedure of these members is addressed in another patch using prctl(). Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: 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>
2012-01-12ceph: enable/disable dentry complete flags via mount optionSage Weil1-5/+13
Enable/disable use of the dentry dir 'complete' flag via a mount option. This lets the admin control whether ceph uses the dcache to satisfy negative lookups or readdir when it has the entire directory contents in its cache. This is purely a performance optimization; correctness is guaranteed whether it is enabled or not. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
2012-01-11Merge branch 'akpm' (aka "Andrew's patch-bomb")Linus Torvalds1-0/+39
Andrew elucidates: - First installmeant of MM. We have a HUGE number of MM patches this time. It's crazy. - MAINTAINERS updates - backlight updates - leds - checkpatch updates - misc ELF stuff - rtc updates - reiserfs - procfs - some misc other bits * akpm: (124 commits) user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces workqueue: make alloc_workqueue() take printf fmt and args for name procfs: add hidepid= and gid= mount options procfs: parse mount options procfs: introduce the /proc/<pid>/map_files/ directory procfs: make proc_get_link to use dentry instead of inode signal: add block_sigmask() for adding sigmask to current->blocked sparc: make SA_NOMASK a synonym of SA_NODEFER reiserfs: don't lock root inode searching reiserfs: don't lock journal_init() reiserfs: delay reiserfs lock until journal initialization reiserfs: delete comments referring to the BKL drivers/rtc/interface.c: fix alarm rollover when day or month is out-of-range drivers/rtc/rtc-twl.c: add DT support for RTC inside twl4030/twl6030 drivers/rtc/: remove redundant spi driver bus initialization drivers/rtc/rtc-jz4740.c: make jz4740_rtc_driver static drivers/rtc/rtc-mc13xxx.c: make mc13xxx_rtc_idtable static rtc: convert drivers/rtc/* to use module_platform_driver() drivers/rtc/rtc-wm831x.c: convert to devm_kzalloc() drivers/rtc/rtc-wm831x.c: remove unused period IRQ handler ...
2012-01-11procfs: add hidepid= and gid= mount optionsVasiliy Kulikov1-0/+39
Add support for mount options to restrict access to /proc/PID/ directories. The default backward-compatible "relaxed" behaviour is left untouched. The first mount option is called "hidepid" and its value defines how much info about processes we want to be available for non-owners: hidepid=0 (default) means the old behavior - anybody may read all world-readable /proc/PID/* files. hidepid=1 means users may not access any /proc/<pid>/ directories, but their own. Sensitive files like cmdline, sched*, status are now protected against other users. As permission checking done in proc_pid_permission() and files' permissions are left untouched, programs expecting specific files' modes are not confused. hidepid=2 means hidepid=1 plus all /proc/PID/ will be invisible to other users. It doesn't mean that it hides whether a process exists (it can be learned by other means, e.g. by kill -0 $PID), but it hides process' euid and egid. It compicates intruder's task of gathering info about running processes, whether some daemon runs with elevated privileges, whether another user runs some sensitive program, whether other users run any program at all, etc. gid=XXX defines a group that will be able to gather all processes' info (as in hidepid=0 mode). This group should be used instead of putting nonroot user in sudoers file or something. However, untrusted users (like daemons, etc.) which are not supposed to monitor the tasks in the whole system should not be added to the group. hidepid=1 or higher is designed to restrict access to procfs files, which might reveal some sensitive private information like precise keystrokes timings: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/05/3 hidepid=1/2 doesn't break monitoring userspace tools. ps, top, pgrep, and conky gracefully handle EPERM/ENOENT and behave as if the current user is the only user running processes. pstree shows the process subtree which contains "pstree" process. Note: the patch doesn't deal with setuid/setgid issues of keeping preopened descriptors of procfs files (like https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/7/368). We rely on that the leaked information like the scheduling counters of setuid apps doesn't threaten anybody's privacy - only the user started the setuid program may read the counters. Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.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>
2012-01-10Merge branch 'for_linus' into for_linus_mergedTheodore Ts'o1-0/+7
Conflicts: fs/ext4/ioctl.c
2012-01-09Merge branch 'for-linus2' of ↵Linus Torvalds5-22/+22
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs * 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (165 commits) reiserfs: Properly display mount options in /proc/mounts vfs: prevent remount read-only if pending removes vfs: count unlinked inodes vfs: protect remounting superblock read-only vfs: keep list of mounts for each superblock vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry * vfs: switch ->show_path() to struct dentry * vfs: switch ->show_devname() to struct dentry * vfs: switch ->show_stats to struct dentry * switch security_path_chmod() to struct path * vfs: prefer ->dentry->d_sb to ->mnt->mnt_sb vfs: trim includes a bit switch mnt_namespace ->root to struct mount vfs: take /proc/*/mounts and friends to fs/proc_namespace.c vfs: opencode mntget() mnt_set_mountpoint() vfs: spread struct mount - remaining argument of next_mnt() vfs: move fsnotify junk to struct mount vfs: move mnt_devname vfs: move mnt_list to struct mount vfs: switch pnode.h macros to struct mount * ...
2012-01-07vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry *Al Viro2-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-06Merge branch 'driver-core-next' into Linux 3.2Greg Kroah-Hartman1-1/+31
This resolves the conflict in the arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/s3c6400.c file, and it fixes the build error in the arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c file, that the merge did not catch. The microcode_core.c patch was provided by Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> who was invaluable in the merge issues involved with the large sysdev removal process in the driver-core tree. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2012-01-05ext4: add new online resize interfaceYongqiang Yang1-0/+7
This patch adds new online resize interface, whose input argument is a 64-bit integer indicating how many blocks there are in the resized fs. In new resize impelmentation, all work like allocating group tables are done by kernel side, so the new resize interface can support flex_bg feature and prepares ground for suppoting resize with features like bigalloc and exclude bitmap. Besides these, user-space tools just passes in the new number of blocks. We delay initializing the bitmaps and inode tables of added groups if possible and add multi groups (a flex groups) each time, so new resize is very fast like mkfs. Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2012-01-04sysfs: propagate umode_tAl Viro1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-04configfs: convert to umode_tAl Viro1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-04switch debugfs to umode_tAl Viro1-12/+12
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>