The kernel syslog contains debugging information that is often useful
during exploitation of other vulnerabilities, such as kernel heap
addresses. Rather than futilely attempt to sanitize hundreds (or
thousands) of printk statements and simultaneously cripple useful
debugging functionality, it is far simpler to create an option that
prevents unprivileged users from reading the syslog.
This patch, loosely based on grsecurity's GRKERNSEC_DMESG, creates the
dmesg_restrict sysctl. When set to "0", the default, no restrictions are
enforced. When set to "1", only users with CAP_SYS_ADMIN can read the
kernel syslog via dmesg(8) or other mechanisms.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: explain the config option in kernel.txt]
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Per task latencytop accumulator prematurely terminates due to erroneous
placement of latency_record_count. It should be incremented whenever a
new record is allocated instead of increment on every latencytop event.
Also fix search iterator to only search known record events instead of
blindly searching all pre-allocated space.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
clean_sort_range() should return a number of nonempty elements of range
array, but if the array is full clean_sort_range() returns 0.
The problem is that the number of nonempty elements is evaluated by
finding the first empty element of the array. If there is no such element
it returns an initial value of local variable nr_range that is zero.
The fix is trivial: it changes initial value of nr_range to size of the
array.
The bug can lead to loss of information regarding all ranges, since
typically returned value of clean_sort_range() is considered as an actual
number of ranges in the array after a series of add/subtract operations.
Found by Analytical Verification project of Linux Verification Center
(linuxtesting.org), thanks to Alexander Kolosov.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit d9ca07a05c ("watchdog: Avoid kernel crash when disabling
watchdog") introduces a section mismatch.
Now that we reference no_watchdog from non-__init code it can no longer
be __initdata.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
posix-cpu-timers.c correctly assumes that the dying process does
posix_cpu_timers_exit_group() and removes all !CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD
timers from signal->cpu_timers list.
But, it also assumes that timer->it.cpu.task is always the group
leader, and thus the dead ->task means the dead thread group.
This is obviously not true after de_thread() changes the leader.
After that almost every posix_cpu_timer_ method has problems.
It is not simple to fix this bug correctly. First of all, I think
that timer->it.cpu should use struct pid instead of task_struct.
Also, the locking should be reworked completely. In particular,
tasklist_lock should not be used at all. This all needs a lot of
nontrivial and hard-to-test changes.
Change __exit_signal() to do posix_cpu_timers_exit_group() when
the old leader dies during exec. This is not the fix, just the
temporary hack to hide the problem for 2.6.37 and stable. IOW,
this is obviously wrong but this is what we currently have anyway:
cpu timers do not work after mt exec.
In theory this change adds another race. The exiting leader can
detach the timers which were attached to the new leader. However,
the window between de_thread() and release_task() is small, we
can pretend that sys_timer_create() was called before de_thread().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We can optimize kernel/relay.c::relay_alloc_page_array() slightly by
using vzalloc. The patch makes these changes:
- use vzalloc instead of vmalloc+memset.
- remove redundant local variable 'array'.
- declare local 'pa_size' as const.
Cuts down nicely on both source and object-code size.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Normal syscall audit doesn't catch 5th argument of syscall. It also
doesn't catch the contents of userland structures pointed to be
syscall argument, so for both old and new mmap(2) ABI it doesn't
record the descriptor we are mapping. For old one it also misses
flags.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Protect the task lookups in audit_receive_msg() with rcu_read_lock()
instead of tasklist_lock and use lock/unlock_sighand to protect
against the exit race.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
audit_receive_msg() sends uninitialized data for AUDIT_TTY_GET when
the task was not found.
Send reply only when task was found.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
While auditing all tasklist_lock read_lock sites I stumbled over the
following call chain:
audit_prepare_user_tty()
read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
tty_audit_push_task();
mutex_lock(&buf->mutex);
--> buf->mutex is locked with preemption disabled.
Solve this by acquiring a reference to the task struct under
rcu_read_lock and call tty_audit_push_task outside of the preempt
disabled region.
Move all code which needs to be protected by sighand lock into
tty_audit_push_task() and use lock/unlock_sighand as we do not hold
tasklist_lock.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
I was doing some namespace checks and found some simple stuff in
audit that could be cleaned up. Make some functions static, and
put const on make_reply payload arg.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add support for matching by security label (e.g. SELinux context) of
the sender of an user-space audit record.
The audit filter code already allows user space to configure such
filters, but they were ignored during evaluation. This patch implements
evaluation of these filters.
For example, after application of this patch, PAM authentication logs
caused by cron can be disabled using
auditctl -a user,never -F subj_type=crond_t
Signed-off-by: Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The kgdb_disable_hw_debug() was an architecture specific function for
disabling all hardware breakpoints on a per cpu basis when entering
the debug core.
This patch will remove the weak function kdbg_disable_hw_debug() and
change it into a call back which lives with the rest of hw breakpoint
call backs in struct kgdb_arch.
Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
The kdb_current legally be equal to NULL in the early boot of the x86
arch. The problem pcan be observed by booting with the kernel arguments:
earlyprintk=vga ekgdboc=kbd kgdbwait
The kdb shell will oops on entry and recursively fault because it
cannot get past the final stage of shell initialization.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Rusty pointed out that the per_cpu command uses up lots of space on
the stack and the cpu supress mask is probably not needed.
This patch removes the need for the supress mask as well as fixing up
the following problems with the kdb per_cpu command:
* The per_cpu command should allow an address as an argument
* When you have more data than can be displayed on one screen allow
the user to break out of the print loop.
Reported-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Some archs do not need to do anything special for jump labels on
startup (like MIPS). This patch adds a weak function stub for
arch_jump_label_text_poke_early();
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <1286218615-24011-2-git-send-email-ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101015201037.703989993@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Kprobes and jump label were having a race between mutexes that
was fixed by reordering the jump label. But this reordering
moved the jump label mutex into a preempt disable location.
This patch does a little fiddling to move the grabbing of
the jump label mutex from inside the preempt disable section
and still keep the order correct between the mutex and the
kprobes lock.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
register_kprobe() downs the 'text_mutex' and then calls
jump_label_text_reserved(), which downs the 'jump_label_mutex'.
However, the jump label code takes those mutexes in the reverse
order.
Fix by requiring the caller of jump_label_text_reserved() to do
the jump label locking via the newly added: jump_label_lock(),
jump_label_unlock(). Currently, kprobes is the only user
of jump_label_text_reserved().
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <759032c48d5e30c27f0bba003d09bffa8e9f28bb.1285965957.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Jump label uses is_module_text_address() to ensure that the module
__init sections are valid before updating them. However, between the
check for a valid module __init section and the subsequent jump
label update, the module's __init section could be freed out from under
us.
We fix this potential race by adding a notifier callback to the
MODULE_STATE_LIVE state. This notifier is called *after* the __init
section has been run but before it is going to be freed. In the
callback, the jump label code zeros the key value for any __init jump
code within the module, and we add a check for a non-zero key value when
we update jump labels. In this way we require no additional data
structures.
Thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers for pointing out this race condition.
Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <c6f037b7598777668025ceedd9294212fd95fa34.1285965957.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
[ Renamed remove_module_init() to remove_jump_label_module_init()
as suggested by Masami Hiramatsu. ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If the same resource is inserted to the resource tree (maybe not on
purpose), a dead loop will be created. In this situation, The kernel does
not report any warning or error :(
The command below will show a endless print.
#cat /proc/iomem
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add WARN_ON()]
Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The taskstats interface uses microsecond granularity for the user and
system time values. The conversion from cputime to the taskstats values
uses the cputime_to_msecs primitive which effectively limits the
granularity to milliseconds. Add the cputime_to_usecs primitive for
architectures that have better, more precise CPU time values. Remove
cputime_to_msecs primitive because there are no more users left.
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Luck Tony <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar1234@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Separate the finding of a task_struct by pid or tgid from filling the
taskstats data. This makes the code more readable.
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move each taskstats command into a single function. This makes the code
more readable and makes it easier to add new commands.
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
prepare_reply() sets up an skb for the response. The payload contains:
+--------------------------------+
| genlmsghdr - 4 bytes |
+--------------------------------+
| NLA header - 4 bytes | /* Aggregate header */
+-+------------------------------+
| | NLA header - 4 bytes | /* PID header */
| +------------------------------+
| | pid/tgid - 4 bytes |
| +------------------------------+
| | NLA header - 4 bytes | /* stats header */
| + -----------------------------+ <- oops. aligned on 4 byte boundary
| | struct taskstats - 328 bytes |
+-+------------------------------+
The start of the taskstats struct must be 8 byte aligned on IA64 (and
other systems with 8 byte alignment rules for 64-bit types) or runtime
alignment warnings will be issued.
This patch pads the pid/tgid field out to sizeof(long), which forces the
alignment of taskstats. The getdelays userspace code is ok with this
since it assumes 32-bit pid/tgid and then honors that header's length
field.
An array is used to avoid exposing kernel memory contents to userspace in
the response.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In /proc/stat, the number of per-IRQ event is shown by making a sum each
irq's events on all cpus. But we can make use of kstat_irqs().
kstat_irqs() do the same calculation, If !CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQ,
it's not a big cost. (Both of the number of cpus and irqs are small.)
If a system is very big and CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQ, it does
for_each_irq()
for_each_cpu()
- look up a radix tree
- read desc->irq_stat[cpu]
This seems not efficient. This patch adds kstat_irqs() for
CONFIG_GENRIC_HARDIRQ and change the calculation as
for_each_irq()
look up radix tree
for_each_cpu()
- read desc->irq_stat[cpu]
This reduces cost.
A test on (4096cpusp, 256 nodes, 4592 irqs) host (by Jack Steiner)
%time cat /proc/stat > /dev/null
Before Patch: 2.459 sec
After Patch : .561 sec
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: unexport kstat_irqs, coding-style tweaks]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix unused variable 'per_irq_sum']
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
find_new_reaper() releases and regrabs tasklist_lock but was missing
proper annotations. Add it. This remove following sparse warning:
warning: context imbalance in 'find_new_reaper' - unexpected unlock
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Oleg Nesterov pointed out we have to prevent multiple-threads-inside-exec
itself and we can reuse ->cred_guard_mutex for it. Yes, concurrent
execve() has no worth.
Let's move ->cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct. It
naturally prevent multiple-threads-inside-exec.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lock_task_sighand() grabs sighand->siglock in case of returning non-NULL
but unlock_task_sighand() releases it unconditionally. This leads sparse
to complain about the lock context imbalance. Rename and wrap
lock_task_sighand() using __cond_lock() macro to make sparse happy.
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use new 'datavp' and 'datalp' variables to remove unnecesary castings.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since userspace API of ptrace syscall defines @addr and @data as void
pointers, it would be more appropriate to define them as unsigned long in
kernel. Therefore related functions are changed also.
'unsigned long' is typically used in other places in kernel as an opaque
data type and that using this helps cleaning up a lot of warnings from
sparse.
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The ns_cgroup will be removed very soon. Let's warn, for this version,
ns_cgroup is deprecated.
Make ns_cgroup and clone_children exclusive. If the clone_children is set
and the ns_cgroup is mounted, let's fail with EINVAL when the ns_cgroup
subsys is created (a printk will help the user to understand why the
creation fails).
Update the feature remove schedule file with the deprecated ns_cgroup.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Function "strcpy" is used without check for maximum allowed source string
length and could cause destination string overflow. Check for string
length is added before using "strcpy". Function now is return error if
source string length is more than a maximum.
akpm: presently considered NotABug, but add the check for general
future-safeness and robustness.
Signed-off-by: Evgeny Kuznetsov <EXT-Eugeny.Kuznetsov@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Current behavior:
=================
(1) When we mount a cgroup, we can specify the 'all' option which
means to enable all the cgroup subsystems. This is the default option
when no option is specified.
(2) If we want to mount a cgroup with a subset of the supported cgroup
subsystems, we have to specify a subsystems name list for the mount
option.
(3) If we specify another option like 'noprefix' or 'release_agent',
the actual code wants the 'all' or a subsystem name option specified
also. Not critical but a bit not friendly as we should assume (1) in
this case.
(4) Logically, the 'all' option is mutually exclusive with a subsystem
name, but this is not detected.
In other words:
succeed : mount -t cgroup -o all,freezer cgroup /cgroup
=> is it 'all' or 'freezer' ?
fails : mount -t cgroup -o noprefix cgroup /cgroup
=> succeed if we do '-o noprefix,all'
The following patches consolidate a bit the mount options check.
New behavior:
=============
(1) untouched
(2) untouched
(3) the 'all' option will be by default when specifying other than
a subsystem name option
(4) raises an error
In other words:
fails : mount -t cgroup -o all,freezer cgroup /cgroup
succeed : mount -t cgroup -o noprefix cgroup /cgroup
For the sake of lisibility, the if ... then ... else ... if ...
indentation when parsing the options has been changed to:
if ... then
...
continue
fi
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The ns_cgroup is a control group interacting with the namespaces. When a
new namespace is created, a corresponding cgroup is automatically created
too. The cgroup name is the pid of the process who did 'unshare' or the
child of 'clone'.
This cgroup is tied with the namespace because it prevents a process to
escape the control group and use the post_clone callback, so the child
cgroup inherits the values of the parent cgroup.
Unfortunately, the more we use this cgroup and the more we are facing
problems with it:
(1) when a process unshares, the cgroup name may conflict with a
previous cgroup with the same pid, so unshare or clone return -EEXIST
(2) the cgroup creation is out of control because there may have an
application creating several namespaces where the system will
automatically create several cgroups in his back and let them on the
cgroupfs (eg. a vrf based on the network namespace).
(3) the mix of (1) and (2) force an administrator to regularly check
and clean these cgroups.
This patchset removes the ns_cgroup by adding a new flag to the cgroup and
the cgroupfs mount option. It enables the copy of the parent cgroup when
a child cgroup is created. We can then safely remove the ns_cgroup as
this flag brings a compatibility. We have now to manually create and add
the task to a cgroup, which is consistent with the cgroup framework.
This patch:
Sent as an answer to a previous thread around the ns_cgroup.
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2009-June/018627.html
It adds a control file 'clone_children' for a cgroup. This control file
is a boolean specifying if the child cgroup should be a clone of the
parent cgroup or not. The default value is 'false'.
This flag makes the child cgroup to call the post_clone callback of all
the subsystem, if it is available.
At present, the cpuset is the only one which had implemented the
post_clone callback.
The option can be set at mount time by specifying the 'clone_children'
mount option.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are 4 state transitions possible for a freezer. Only FREEZING ->
FROZEN transaction is done lazily. This patch allows update_freezer_state
only to perform this transaction and renames the function to
update_if_frozen.
Moreover is_task_frozen_enough function is removed and its every occurence
is replaced with frozen(). Therefore for a group to become FROZEN every
task must be frozen.
The previous version could trigger a following bug: When cgroup is in the
process of freezing (but none of its tasks are frozen yet),
update_freezer_state() (called from freezer_read or freezer_write) would
incorrectly report that a group is 'THAWED' (because nfrozen = 0),
allowing the transaction FREEZING -> THAWED without writing anything to
'freezer.state'. This is incorrect according to the documentation. This
could result in a 'THAWED' cgroup with frozen tasks inside.
A code to reproduce this bug is available here:
http://pentium.hopto.org/~thinred/repos/linux-misc/freezer_bug2.c
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Buchert <tomasz.buchert@inria.fr>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It is possible to move a task from its cgroup even if this group is
'FREEZING'. This results in a nasty bug - the moved task will become
frozen OUTSIDE its original cgroup and will remain in a permanent 'D'
state.
This patch allows to migrate the task only between THAWED cgroups.
This behavior was observed and easily reproduced on a single core laptop.
Notice that reproducibility depends highly on the machine used. Program
and instructions how to reproduce the bug can be fetched from:
http://pentium.hopto.org/~thinred/repos/linux-misc/freezer_bug.c
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Buchert <tomasz.buchert@inria.fr>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The root freezer_state is always CGROUP_THAWED so we can remove the
special case from the code. The test itself can be handy and is extracted
to static function.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Buchert <tomasz.buchert@inria.fr>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Typedef the pointer to the function to be called by smp_call_function() and
friends:
typedef void (*smp_call_func_t)(void *info);
as it is used in a fair number of places.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Building with CONFIG_KALLSYMS=n gives following warning:
/mnt/src/linux-git/kernel/module.c: In function ‘post_relocation’:
/mnt/src/linux-git/kernel/module.c:2534:2: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘add_kallsyms’ discards qualifiers from pointer target type
/mnt/src/linux-git/kernel/module.c:2038:13: note: expected ‘struct load_info *’ but argument is of type ‘const struct load_info *’
Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Add more wait, wake, and completion interfaces to the device-drivers
docbook.
Fix kernel-doc notation in the added files.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adding declaration of printk_ratelimit_state in ratelimit.h removes
potential build breakage and following sparse warning:
kernel/printk.c:1426:1: warning: symbol 'printk_ratelimit_state' was not declared. Should it be static?
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded ifdef]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
get_option() takes its 2nd arg as int * so passing boot_delay to it
caused following warnings from sparse:
kernel/printk.c:223:27: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
kernel/printk.c:223:27: expected int *pint
kernel/printk.c:223:27: got unsigned int static [toplevel] *<noident>
Since boot_delay can't grow more than 10,000 changing it to 'int *'
will not produce any problem.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In commit e6bde73b07 ("cpu-hotplug: return
better errno on cpu hotplug failure"), the cpu notifier can return an
encapsulated errno value.
This converts the cpu notifier to return an encapsulated errno value for
stop_machine().
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Dan Rosenberg