linux.git/fs/proc/base.c, branch v2.6.26-rc7

proc: calculate the correct /proc/ link count

2008-06-06T18:29:13+00:00

This patch:

  commit e9720acd728a46cb40daa52c99a979f7c4ff195c
  Author: Pavel Emelyanov 
  Date:   Fri Mar 7 11:08:40 2008 -0800

    [NET]: Make /proc/net a symlink on /proc/self/net (v3)

introduced a /proc/self/net directory without bumping the corresponding
link count for /proc/self.

This patch replaces the static link count initializations with a call that
counts the number of directory entries in the given pid_entry table
whenever it is instantiated, and thus relieves the burden of manually
keeping the two in sync.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov 
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] open sessionid permissions

2008-05-17T07:27:27+00:00

The current permissions on sessionid are a little too restrictive.

Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[PATCH] split linux/file.h

2008-05-01T17:08:16+00:00

Initial splitoff of the low-level stuff; taken to fdtable.h

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

procfs: mem permission cleanup

2008-04-29T15:06:17+00:00

This cleans up the permission checks done for /proc/PID/mem i/o calls.  It
puts all the logic in a new function, check_mem_permission().

The old code repeated the (!MAY_PTRACE(task) || !ptrace_may_attach(task))
magical expression multiple times.  The new function does all that work in one
place, with clear comments.

The old code called security_ptrace() twice on successful checks, once in
MAY_PTRACE() and once in __ptrace_may_attach().  Now it's only called once,
and only if all other checks have succeeded.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

procfs task exe symlink

2008-04-29T15:06:17+00:00

The kernel implements readlink of /proc/pid/exe by getting the file from
the first executable VMA.  Then the path to the file is reconstructed and
reported as the result.

Because of the VMA walk the code is slightly different on nommu systems.
This patch avoids separate /proc/pid/exe code on nommu systems.  Instead of
walking the VMAs to find the first executable file-backed VMA we store a
reference to the exec'd file in the mm_struct.

That reference would prevent the filesystem holding the executable file
from being unmounted even after unmapping the VMAs.  So we track the number
of VM_EXECUTABLE VMAs and drop the new reference when the last one is
unmapped.  This avoids pinning the mounted filesystem.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: improve comments]
[yamamoto@valinux.co.jp: fix dup_mmap]
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc:"Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: YAMAMOTO Takashi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[patch 6/7] vfs: mountinfo: add /proc//mountinfo

2008-04-23T04:05:03+00:00

[mszeredi@suse.cz] rewrite and split big patch into managable chunks

/proc/mounts in its current form lacks important information:

 - propagation state
 - root of mount for bind mounts
 - the st_dev value used within the filesystem
 - identifier for each mount and it's parent

It also suffers from the following problems:

 - not easily extendable
 - ambiguity of mountpoints within a chrooted environment
 - doesn't distinguish between filesystem dependent and independent options
 - doesn't distinguish between per mount and per super block options

This patch introduces /proc//mountinfo which attempts to address
all these deficiencies.

Code shared between /proc//mounts and /proc//mountinfo is
extracted into separate functions.

Thanks to Al Viro for the help in getting the design right.

Signed-off-by: Ram Pai 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[patch 5/7] vfs: mountinfo: allow using process root

2008-04-23T04:04:57+00:00

Allow /proc//mountinfo to use the root of  to calculate
mountpoints.

 - move definition of 'struct proc_mounts' to 
 - add the process's namespace and root to this structure
 - pass a pointer to 'struct proc_mounts' into seq_operations

In addition the following cleanups are made:

 - use a common open function for /proc//{mounts,mountstat}
 - surround namespace.c part of these proc files with #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
 - make the seq_operations structures const

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[PATCH] proc_readfd_common() race fix

2008-04-22T23:55:03+00:00

Since we drop the rcu_read_lock inside the loop, we can't assume
that files->fdt will remain unchanged (and not freed) between
iterations.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

2008-03-21T14:57:45+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (46 commits)
  [NET] ifb: set separate lockdep classes for queue locks
  [IPV6] KCONFIG: Fix description about IPV6_TUNNEL.
  [TCP]: Fix shrinking windows with window scaling
  netpoll: zap_completion_queue: adjust skb->users counter
  bridge: use time_before() in br_fdb_cleanup()
  [TG3]: Fix build warning on sparc32.
  MAINTAINERS: bluez-devel is subscribers-only
  audit: netlink socket can be auto-bound to pid other than current->pid (v2)
  [NET]: Fix permissions of /proc/net
  [SCTP]: Fix a race between module load and protosw access
  [NETFILTER]: ipt_recent: sanity check hit count
  [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_h323: logical-bitwise & confusion in process_setup()
  [RT2X00] drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c: remove dead code, fix warning
  [IPV4]: esp_output() misannotations
  [8021Q]: vlan_dev misannotations
  xfrm: ->eth_proto is __be16
  [IPV4]: ipv4_is_lbcast() misannotations
  [SUNRPC]: net/* NULL noise
  [SCTP]: fix misannotated __sctp_rcv_asconf_lookup()
  [PKT_SCHED]: annotate cls_u32
  ...

[NET]: Fix permissions of /proc/net

2008-03-20T22:27:28+00:00

commit e9720ac ([NET]: Make /proc/net a symlink on /proc/self/net (v3))
broke ganglia and probably other applications that read /proc/net/dev.

This is due to the change of permissions of /proc/net that was
introduced in that commit.

Before: dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Mar 19 11:30 /proc/net
After: dr-xr--r-- 5 root root 0 Mar 19 11:29 /proc/self/net

This patch restores the permissions to the old value which makes
ganglia happy again.

Pavel Emelyanov says:

	This also broke the postfix, as it was reported in bug #10286
	and described in detail by Benjamin.

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll 
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller