- 31 Oct, 2005 40 commits
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David Howells authored
The attached patch gets rid of a "statement without effect" warning when CONFIG_KEYS is disabled by making use of the return value of key_get(). The compiler will optimise all of this away when keys are disabled. Signed-Off-By:
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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David Howells authored
The attached patch adds LSM hooks for key management facilities. The notable changes are: (1) The key struct now supports a security pointer for the use of security modules. This will permit key labelling and restrictions on which programs may access a key. (2) Security modules get a chance to note (or abort) the allocation of a key. (3) The key permission checking can now be enhanced by the security modules; the permissions check consults LSM if all other checks bear out. (4) The key permissions checking functions now return an error code rather than a boolean value. (5) An extra permission has been added to govern the modification of attributes (UID, GID, permissions). Note that there isn't an LSM hook specifically for each keyctl() operation, but rather the permissions hook allows control of individual operations based on the permission request bits. Key management access control through LSM is enabled by automatically if both CONFIG_KEYS and CONFIG_SECURITY are enabled. This should be applied on top of the patch ensubjected: [PATCH] Keys: Possessor permissions should be additive Signed-Off-By:Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
Export user-defined key operations so that those who wish to define their own key type based on the user-defined key operations may do so (as has been requested). The header file created has been placed into include/keys/user-type.h, thus creating a directory where other key types may also be placed. Any objections to doing this? Signed-Off-By:
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
This patch removes page_pte_prot and page_pte macros from all architectures. Some architectures define both, some only page_pte (broken) and others none. These macros are not used anywhere. page_pte_prot(page, prot) is identical to mk_pte(page, prot) and page_pte(page) is identical to page_pte_prot(page, __pgprot(0)). * The following architectures define both page_pte_prot and page_pte arm, arm26, ia64, sh64, sparc, sparc64 * The following architectures define only page_pte (broken) frv, i386, m32r, mips, sh, x86-64 * All other architectures define neither Signed-off-by:
Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
This patch removes redundant assignment from __pagevec_release_nonlru(). pages_to_free.cold is set to pvec->cold by pagevec_init() call right above the assignment. Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
When __generic_file_aio_read() hits an error during reading, it reports the error iff nothing has successfully been read yet. This is condition - when an error occurs, if nothing has been read/written, report the error code; otherwise, report the amount of bytes successfully transferred upto that point. This corner case can be exposed by performing readv(2) with the following iov. iov[0] = len0 @ ptr0 iov[1] = len1 @ NULL (or any other invalid pointer) iov[2] = len2 @ ptr2 When file size is enough, performing above readv(2) results in len0 bytes from file_pos @ ptr0 len2 bytes from file_pos + len0 @ ptr2 And the return value is len0 + len2. Test program is attached to this mail. This patch makes __generic_file_aio_read()'s error handling identical to other functions. #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/uio.h> #include <errno.h> #include <string.h> int main(int argc, char **argv) { const char *path; struct stat stbuf; size_t len0, len1; void *buf0, *buf1; struct iovec iov[3]; int fd, i; ssize_t ret; if (argc < 2) { fprintf(stderr, "Usage: testreadv path (better be a " "small text file)\n"); return 1; } path = argv[1]; if (stat(path, &stbuf) < 0) { perror("stat"); return 1; } len0 = stbuf.st_size / 2; len1 = stbuf.st_size - len0; if (!len0 || !len1) { fprintf(stderr, "Dude, file is too small\n"); return 1; } if ((fd = open(path, O_RDONLY)) < 0) { perror("open"); return 1; } if (!(buf0 = malloc(len0)) || !(buf1 = malloc(len1))) { perror("malloc"); return 1; } memset(buf0, 0, len0); memset(buf1, 0, len1); iov[0].iov_base = buf0; iov[0].iov_len = len0; iov[1].iov_base = NULL; iov[1].iov_len = len1; iov[2].iov_base = buf1; iov[2].iov_len = len1; printf("vector "); for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) printf("%p:%zu ", iov[i].iov_base, iov[i].iov_len); printf("\n"); ret = readv(fd, iov, 3); if (ret < 0) perror("readv"); printf("readv returned %zd\nbuf0 = [%s]\nbuf1 = [%s]\n", ret, (char *)buf0, (char *)buf1); return 0; } Signed-off-by: -
Andrea Arcangeli authored
I could seldom reproduce a deadlock with a task not killable in T state (TASK_STOPPED, not TASK_TRACED) by attaching a NPTL threaded program to gdb, by segfaulting the task and triggering a core dump while some other task is executing exit_group and while one task is in ptrace_attached TASK_STOPPED state (not TASK_TRACED yet). This originated from a gdb bugreport (the fact gdb was segfaulting the task wasn't a kernel bug), but I just incidentally noticed the gdb bug triggered a real kernel bug as well. Most threads hangs in exit_mm because the core_dumping is still going, the core dumping hangs because the stopped task doesn't exit, the stopped task can't wakeup because it has SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT set, hence the deadlock. To me it seems that the problem is that the force_sig_specific(SIGKILL) in zap_threads is a noop if the task has PF_PTRACED set (like in this case because gdb is attached). The __ptrace_unlink does nothing because the signal->flags is set to SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT|SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED (verified). The above info also shows that the stopped task hit a race and got the stop signal (presumably by the ptrace_attach, only the attach, state is still TASK_STOPPED and gdb hangs waiting the core before it can set it to TASK_TRACED) after one of the thread invoked the core dump (it's the core dump that sets signal->flags to SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT). So beside the fact nobody would wakeup the task in __ptrace_unlink (the state is _not_ TASK_TRACED), there's a secondary problem in the signal handling code, where a task should ignore the ptrace-sigstops as long as SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT is set (or the wakeup in __ptrace_unlink path wouldn't be enough). So I attempted to make this patch that seems to fix the problem. There were various ways to fix it, perhaps you prefer a different one, I just opted to the one that looked safer to me. I also removed the clearing of the stopped bits from the zap_other_threads (zap_other_threads was safe unlike zap_threads). I don't like useless code, this whole NPTL signal/ptrace thing is already unreadable enough and full of corner cases without confusing useless code into it to make it even less readable. And if this code is really needed, then you may want to explain why it's not being done in the other paths that sets SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT at least. Even after this patch I still wonder who serializes the read of p->ptrace in zap_threads. Patch is called ptrace-core_dump-exit_group-deadlock-1. This was the trace I've got: test T ffff81003e8118c0 0 14305 1 14311 14309 (NOTLB) ffff810058ccdde8 0000000000000082 000001f4000037e1 ffff810000000013 00000000000000f8 ffff81003e811b00 ffff81003e8118c0 ffff810011362100 0000000000000012 ffff810017ca4180 Call Trace:<ffffffff801317ed>{try_to_wake_up+893} <ffffffff80141677>{finish_stop+87} <ffffffff8014367f>{get_signal_to_deliver+1359} <ffffffff8010d3ad>{do_signal+157} <ffffffff8013deee>{ptrace_check_attach+222} <ffffffff80111575>{sys_ptrace+2293} <ffffffff80131810>{default_wake_function+0} <ffffffff80196399>{sys_ioctl+73} <ffffffff8010dd27>{sysret_signal+28} <ffffffff8010e00f>{ptregscall_common+103} test D ffff810011362100 0 14309 1 14305 14312 (NOTLB) ffff810053c81cf8 0000000000000082 0000000000000286 0000000000000001 0000000000000195 ffff810011362340 ffff810011362100 ffff81002e338040 ffff810001e0ca80 0000000000000001 Call Trace:<ffffffff801317ed>{try_to_wake_up+893} <ffffffff8044677d>{wait_for_completion+173} <ffffffff80131810>{default_wake_function+0} <ffffffff80137435>{exit_mm+149} <ffffffff801381af>{do_exit+479} <ffffffff80138d0c>{do_group_exit+252} <ffffffff801436db>{get_signal_to_deliver+1451} <ffffffff8010d3ad>{do_signal+157} <ffffffff8013deee>{ptrace_check_attach+222} <ffffffff80140850>{specific_send_sig_info+2 <ffffffff8014208a>{force_sig_info+186} <ffffffff804479a0>{do_int3+112} <ffffffff8010e308>{retint_signal+61} test D ffff81002e338040 0 14311 1 14716 14305 (NOTLB) ffff81005ca8dcf8 0000000000000082 0000000000000286 0000000000000001 0000000000000120 ffff81002e338280 ffff81002e338040 ffff8100481cb740 ffff810001e0ca80 0000000000000001 Call Trace:<ffffffff801317ed>{try_to_wake_up+893} <ffffffff8044677d>{wait_for_completion+173} <ffffffff80131810>{default_wake_function+0} <ffffffff80137435>{exit_mm+149} <ffffffff801381af>{do_exit+479} <ffffffff80142d0e>{__dequeue_signal+558} <ffffffff80138d0c>{do_group_exit+252} <ffffffff801436db>{get_signal_to_deliver+1451} <ffffffff8010d3ad>{do_signal+157} <ffffffff8013deee>{ptrace_check_attach+222} <ffffffff80140850>{specific_send_sig_info+208} <ffffffff8014208a>{force_sig_info+186} <ffffffff804479a0>{do_int3+112} <ffffffff8010e308>{retint_signal+61} test D ffff810017ca4180 0 14312 1 14309 13882 (NOTLB) ffff81005d15fcb8 0000000000000082 ffff81005d15fc58 ffffffff80130816 0000000000000897 ffff810017ca43c0 ffff810017ca4180 ffff81003e8118c0 0000000000000082 ffffffff801317ed Call Trace:<ffffffff80130816>{activate_task+150} <ffffffff801317ed>{try_to_wake_up+893} <ffffffff8044677d>{wait_for_completion+173} <ffffffff80131810>{default_wake_function+0} <ffffffff8018cdc3>{do_coredump+819} <ffffffff80445f52>{thread_return+82} <ffffffff801436d4>{get_signal_to_deliver+1444} <ffffffff8010d3ad>{do_signal+157} <ffffffff8013deee>{ptrace_check_attach+222} <ffffffff80140850>{specific_send_sig_info+2 <ffffffff804472e5>{_spin_unlock_irqrestore+5} <ffffffff8014208a>{force_sig_info+186} <ffffffff804476ff>{do_general_protection+159} <ffffffff8010e308>{retint_signal+61} Signed-off-by:Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
This patch automatically updates a tasks NUMA mempolicy when its cpuset memory placement changes. It does so within the context of the task, without any need to support low level external mempolicy manipulation. If a system is not using cpusets, or if running on a system with just the root (all-encompassing) cpuset, then this remap is a no-op. Only when a task is moved between cpusets, or a cpusets memory placement is changed does the following apply. Otherwise, the main routine below, rebind_policy() is not even called. When mixing cpusets, scheduler affinity, and NUMA mempolicies, the essential role of cpusets is to place jobs (several related tasks) on a set of CPUs and Memory Nodes, the essential role of sched_setaffinity is to manage a jobs processor placement within its allowed cpuset, and the essential role of NUMA mempolicy (mbind, set_mempolicy) is to manage a jobs memory placement within its allowed cpuset. However, CPU affinity and NUMA memory placement are managed within the kernel using absolute system wide numbering, not cpuset relative numbering. This is ok until a job is migrated to a different cpuset, or what's the same, a jobs cpuset is moved to different CPUs and Memory Nodes. Then the CPU affinity and NUMA memory placement of the tasks in the job need to be updated, to preserve their cpuset-relative position. This can be done for CPU affinity using sched_setaffinity() from user code, as one task can modify anothers CPU affinity. This cannot be done from an external task for NUMA memory placement, as that can only be modified in the context of the task using it. However, it easy enough to remap a tasks NUMA mempolicy automatically when a task is migrated, using the existing cpuset mechanism to trigger a refresh of a tasks memory placement after its cpuset has changed. All that is needed is the old and new nodemask, and notice to the task that it needs to rebind its mempolicy. The tasks mems_allowed has the old mask, the tasks cpuset has the new mask, and the existing cpuset_update_current_mems_allowed() mechanism provides the notice. The bitmap/cpumask/nodemask remap operators provide the cpuset relative calculations. This patch leaves open a couple of issues: 1) Updating vma and shmfs/tmpfs/hugetlbfs memory policies: These mempolicies may reference nodes outside of those allowed to the current task by its cpuset. Tasks are migrated as part of jobs, which reside on what might be several cpusets in a subtree. When such a job is migrated, all NUMA memory policy references to nodes within that cpuset subtree should be translated, and references to any nodes outside that subtree should be left untouched. A future patch will provide the cpuset mechanism needed to mark such subtrees. With that patch, we will be able to correctly migrate these other memory policies across a job migration. 2) Updating cpuset, affinity and memory policies in user space: This is harder. Any placement state stored in user space using system-wide numbering will be invalidated across a migration. More work will be required to provide user code with a migration-safe means to manage its cpuset relative placement, while preserving the current API's that pass system wide numbers, not cpuset relative numbers across the kernel-user boundary. Signed-off-by:Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
In the forthcoming task migration support, a key calculation will be mapping cpu and node numbers from the old set to the new set while preserving cpuset-relative offset. For example, if a task and its pages on nodes 8-11 are being migrated to nodes 24-27, then pages on node 9 (the 2nd node in the old set) should be moved to node 25 (the 2nd node in the new set.) As with other bitmap operations, the proper way to code this is to provide the underlying calculation in lib/bitmap.c, and then to provide the usual cpumask and nodemask wrappers. This patch provides that. These operations are termed 'remap' operations. Both remapping a single bit and a set of bits is supported. Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
This patch keeps pdflush daemons on the same cpuset as their parent, the kthread daemon. Some large NUMA configurations put as much as they can of kernel threads and other classic Unix load in what's called a bootcpuset, keeping the rest of the system free for dedicated jobs. This effort is thwarted by pdflush, which dynamically destroys and recreates pdflush daemons depending on load. It's easy enough to force the originally created pdflush deamons into the bootcpuset, at system boottime. But the pdflush threads created later were allowed to run freely across the system, due to the necessary line in their startup kthread(): set_cpus_allowed(current, CPU_MASK_ALL); By simply coding pdflush to start its threads with the cpus_allowed restrictions of its cpuset (inherited from kthread, its parent) we can ensure that dynamically created pdflush threads are also kept in the bootcpuset. On systems w/o cpusets, or w/o a bootcpuset implementation, the following will have no affect, leaving pdflush to run on any CPU, as before. Signed-off-by: -
Paul Jackson authored
Add support for renaming cpusets. Only allow simple rename of cpuset directories in place. Don't allow moving cpusets elsewhere in hierarchy or renaming the special cpuset files in each cpuset directory. The usefulness of this simple rename became apparent when developing task migration facilities. It allows building a second cpuset hierarchy using new names and containing new CPUs and Memory Nodes, moving tasks from the old to the new cpusets, removing the old cpusets, and then renaming the new cpusets to be just like the old names, so that any knowledge that the tasks had of their cpuset names will still be valid. Leaf node cpusets can be migrated to other CPUs or Memory Nodes by just updating their 'cpus' and 'mems' files, but because no cpuset can contain CPUs or Nodes not in its parent cpuset, one cannot do this in a cpuset hierarchy without first expanding all the non-leaf cpusets to contain the union of both the old and new CPUs and Nodes, which would obfuscate the one-to-one migration of a task from one cpuset to another required to correctly migrate the physical page frames currently allocated to that task. Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
Overhaul cpuset locking. Replace single semaphore with two semaphores. The suggestion to use two locks was made by Roman Zippel. Both locks are global. Code that wants to modify cpusets must first acquire the exclusive manage_sem, which allows them read-only access to cpusets, and holds off other would-be modifiers. Before making actual changes, the second semaphore, callback_sem must be acquired as well. Code that needs only to query cpusets must acquire callback_sem, which is also a global exclusive lock. The earlier problems with double tripping are avoided, because it is allowed for holders of manage_sem to nest the second callback_sem lock, and only callback_sem is needed by code called from within __alloc_pages(), where the double tripping had been possible. This is not quite the same as a normal read/write semaphore, because obtaining read-only access with intent to change must hold off other such attempts, while allowing read-only access w/o such intention. Changing cpusets involves several related checks and changes, which must be done while allowing read-only queries (to avoid the double trip), but while ensuring nothing changes (holding off other would be modifiers.) This overhaul of cpuset locking also makes careful use of task_lock() to guard access to the task->cpuset pointer, closing a couple of race conditions noticed while reading this code (thanks, Roman). I've never seen these races fail in any use or test. See further the comments in the code. Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
Remove a rather hackish depth counter on cpuset locking. The depth counter was avoiding a possible double trip on the global cpuset_sem semaphore. It worked, but now an improved version of cpuset locking is available, to come in the next patch, using two global semaphores. This patch reverses "cpuset semaphore depth check deadlock fix" The kernel still works, even after this patch, except for some rare and difficult to reproduce race conditions when agressively creating and destroying cpusets marked with the notify_on_release option, on very large systems. Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
Remove one more useless line from cpuset_common_file_read(). Signed-off-by:
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Kirill Korotaev authored
This patch fixes incorrect error path in proc_get_inode(), when module can't be get due to being unloaded. When try_module_get() fails, this function puts de(!) and still returns inode with non-getted de. There are still unresolved known bugs in proc yet to be fixed: - proc_dir_entry tree is managed without any serialization - create_proc_entry() doesn't setup de->owner anyhow, so setting it later manually is inatomic. - looks like almost all modules do not care whether it's de->owner is set... Signed-Off-By:
Denis Lunev <den@sw.ru> Signed-Off-By:
Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Signed-off-by:
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Miklos Szeredi authored
Remove last remains of NFS exportability support. The code is actually buggy (as reported by Akshat Aranya), since 'alias' will be leaked if it's non-null and alias->d_flags has DCACHE_DISCONNECTED. This is not an active bug, since there will never be any disconnected dentries. But it's better to get rid of the unnecessary complexity anyway. Signed-off-by:
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
In the recent timer rework we lost the check for an add_timer() of an already-pending timer. That check was useful for networking, so put it back. Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by:
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Nate Diller authored
If the requested I/O scheduler is already in place, elevator_switch simply leaves the queue alone, and returns. However, it forgets to call elevator_put, so 'echo [current_sched] > /sys/block/[dev]/queue/scheduler' will leak a reference, causing the current_sched module to be permanently pinned in memory. Signed-off-by:
Nate Diller <nate@namesys.com> Acked-by:
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Jean Delvare authored
Typo fix: dots appearing after a newline in printk strings. Signed-off-by:
Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Make sure we always return, as all syscalls should. Also move the common prototype to <linux/syscalls.h> Signed-off-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Make the pid argument a long as on every other arcihtecture. Despite pid_t beeing a 32bit type even on 64bit parisc this is not an ABI change due to the parisc calling conventions. And even if it did it wouldn't matter too much because 64bit userspace on parisc is in an embrionic stage. Acked-by:
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
common_nsleep() reimplements schedule_timeout_interruptible() for unknown reason. Signed-off-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by:
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Jean Delvare authored
(akpm: I don't do typo patches, but one of these is in a printk string) Signed-off-by:
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Nate Diller authored
Add a kconfig submenu to select the default I/O scheduler, in case anticipatory is not compiled in or another default is preferred. Also, since no-op is always available, we should use it whenever the selected default is not. Signed-off-by:
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Vadim Lobanov authored
The majority of the sys_tkill() and sys_tgkill() function code is duplicated between the two of them. This patch pulls the duplication out into a separate function -- do_tkill() -- and lets sys_tkill() and sys_tgkill() be simple wrappers around it. This should make it easier to maintain in light of future changes. Signed-off-by:
Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
This lock is used in sigqueue_free(), but it is always equal to current->sighand->siglock, so we don't need to keep it in the struct sigqueue. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
de_thread() calls del_timer_sync(->real_timer) under ->sighand->siglock. This is deadlockable, it_real_fn sends a signal and needs this lock too. Also, delete unneeded ->real_timer.data assignment. Signed-off-by:
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Eric Dumazet authored
Now that RCU applied on 'struct file' seems stable, we can place f_rcuhead in a memory location that is not anymore used at call_rcu(&f->f_rcuhead, file_free_rcu) time, to reduce the size of this critical kernel object. The trick I used is to move f_rcuhead and f_list in an union called f_u The callers are changed so that f_rcuhead becomes f_u.fu_rcuhead and f_list becomes f_u.f_list Signed-off-by:
Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by:
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Randy Dunlap authored
Add explicit text about - where menuconfig '/' (search) searches for strings, - that substrings are allowed, and - that regular expressions are supported. Signed-off-by:
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by:
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Jesper Juhl authored
Cleanup trailing whitespace, blank lines, CodingStyle issues etc, for lib/idr.c Signed-off-by:
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jesper Juhl authored
The first two hunks of the patch really belongs in patch 1, but I missed them on the first pass and instead of redoing all 3 patches I stuck them in this one. Signed-off-by:
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Jesper Juhl authored
Removes a few pointless register keywords. register is merely a compiler hint that access to the variable should be optimized, but gcc (3.3.6 in my case) generates the exact same code with and without the keyword, and even if gcc did something different with register present I think it is doubtful we would want to optimize access to these variables - especially since this is generic library code and there are supposed to be optimized versions in asm/ for anything that really matters speed wise. (akpm: iirc, keyword register is a gcc no-op unless using -O0) Signed-off-by:
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Jesper Juhl authored
Removes some blank lines, removes some trailing whitespace, adds spaces after commas and a few similar changes. Signed-off-by:
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Amos Waterland authored
The only call to ide_cdrom_capacity is in code protected by CONFIG_PROC_FS, so when that is not enabled, the compiler complains: drivers/ide/ide-cd.c:3259: warning: `ide_cdrom_capacity' defined but not used Here is a patch that fixes that. It provides some space savings for embedded systems that are not using procfs, as well: text data bss dec hex filename - 33540 6504 1032 41076 a074 drivers/ide/ide-cd.o + 33468 6480 1032 40980 a014 drivers/ide/ide-cd.o Signed-off-by:Amos Waterland <apw@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl> Signed-off-by:
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Miklos Szeredi authored
lookup_flags() is only called from the non-create case, so it needn't check for O_CREAT|O_EXCL. Signed-off-by:
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Eric W. Biederman authored
task_struct is an internal structure to the kernel with a lot of good information, that is probably interesting in core dumps. However there is no way for user space to know what format that information is in making it useless. I grepped the GDB 6.3 source code and NT_TASKSTRUCT while defined is not used anywhere else. So I would be surprised if anyone notices it is missing. In addition exporting kernel pointers to all the interesting kernel data structures sounds like the very definition of an information leak. I haven't a clue what someone with evil intentions could do with that information, but in any attack against the kernel it looks like this is the perfect tool for aiming that attack. So since NT_TASKSTRUCT is useless as currently defined and is potentially dangerous, let's just not export it. (akpm: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> "would be amazed" if anything was using NT_TASKSTRUCT). Signed-off-by:
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
Remove timer_list.magic and associated debugging code. I originally added this when a spinlock was added to timer_list - this meant that an all-zeroes timer became illegal and init_timer() was required. That spinlock isn't even there any more, although timer.base must now be initialised. I'll keep this debugging code in -mm. Signed-off-by:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
This patch makes the workqueus use alloc_percpu instead of an array. The workqueues are placed on nodes local to each processor. The workqueue structure can grow to a significant size on a system with lots of processors if this patch is not applied. 64 bit architectures with all debugging features enabled and configured for 512 processors will not be able to boot without this patch. Signed-off-by:
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Garzik authored
Removed some more references to check_region(). I checked these changes into the 'checkreg' branch of rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git The only valid references remaining are in: drivers/scsi/advansys.c drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.c sound/oss/pss.c Remove last vestiges of ide_check_region() drivers/char/specialix: trim trailing whitespace drivers/char/specialix: eliminate use of check_region() Remove outdated and unused references to check_region() [sound oss] remove check_region() usage from cs4232, wavfront [netdrvr eepro] trim trailing whitespace [netdrvr eepro] remove check_region() usage Signed-off-by:
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Randy Dunlap authored
Try to make the INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT help text more readable and understandable. Signed-off-by:
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