linux.git/kernel/fork.c, branch v3.10.25

pidns: fix vfork() after unshare(CLONE_NEWPID)

2013-09-27T00:18:28+00:00

commit e79f525e99b04390ca4d2366309545a836c03bf1 upstream.

Commit 8382fcac1b81 ("pidns: Outlaw thread creation after
unshare(CLONE_NEWPID)") nacks CLONE_VM if the forking process unshared
pid_ns, this obviously breaks vfork:

	int main(void)
	{
		assert(unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWPID) == 0);
		assert(vfork() >= 0);
		_exit(0);
		return 0;
	}

fails without this patch.

Change this check to use CLONE_SIGHAND instead.  This also forbids
CLONE_THREAD automatically, and this is what the comment implies.

We could probably even drop CLONE_SIGHAND and use CLONE_THREAD, but it
would be safer to not do this.  The current check denies CLONE_SIGHAND
implicitely and there is no reason to change this.

Eric said "CLONE_SIGHAND is fine.  CLONE_THREAD would be even better.
Having shared signal handling between two different pid namespaces is
the case that we are fundamentally guarding against."

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Reported-by: Colin Walters 
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

microblaze: fix clone syscall

2013-08-20T15:43:02+00:00

commit dfa9771a7c4784bafd0673bc7abcee3813088b77 upstream.

Fix inadvertent breakage in the clone syscall ABI for Microblaze that
was introduced in commit f3268edbe6fe ("microblaze: switch to generic
fork/vfork/clone").

The Microblaze syscall ABI for clone takes the parent tid address in the
4th argument; the third argument slot is used for the stack size.  The
incorrectly-used CLONE_BACKWARDS type assigned parent tid to the 3rd
slot.

This commit restores the original ABI so that existing userspace libc
code will work correctly.

All kernel versions from v3.8-rc1 were affected.

Signed-off-by: Michal Simek 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for-3.10/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2013-05-08T18:51:05+00:00

Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
 "It might look big in volume, but when categorized, not a lot of
  drivers are touched.  The pull request contains:

   - mtip32xx fixes from Micron.

   - A slew of drbd updates, this time in a nicer series.

   - bcache, a flash/ssd caching framework from Kent.

   - Fixes for cciss"

* 'for-3.10/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (66 commits)
  bcache: Use bd_link_disk_holder()
  bcache: Allocator cleanup/fixes
  cciss: bug fix to prevent cciss from loading in kdump crash kernel
  cciss: add cciss_allow_hpsa module parameter
  drivers/block/mg_disk.c: add CONFIG_PM_SLEEP to suspend/resume functions
  mtip32xx: Workaround for unaligned writes
  bcache: Make sure blocksize isn't smaller than device blocksize
  bcache: Fix merge_bvec_fn usage for when it modifies the bvm
  bcache: Correctly check against BIO_MAX_PAGES
  bcache: Hack around stuff that clones up to bi_max_vecs
  bcache: Set ra_pages based on backing device's ra_pages
  bcache: Take data offset from the bdev superblock.
  mtip32xx: mtip32xx: Disable TRIM support
  mtip32xx: fix a smatch warning
  bcache: Disable broken btree fuzz tester
  bcache: Fix a format string overflow
  bcache: Fix a minor memory leak on device teardown
  bcache: Documentation updates
  bcache: Use WARN_ONCE() instead of __WARN()
  bcache: Add missing #include 
  ...

aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h

2013-05-08T03:16:25+00:00

Faster kernel compiles by way of fewer unnecessary includes.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fallout]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
Cc: Zach Brown 
Cc: Felipe Balbi 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Asai Thambi S P 
Cc: Selvan Mani 
Cc: Sam Bradshaw 
Cc: Jeff Moyer 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise 
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal

2013-05-01T14:21:43+00:00

Pull compat cleanup from Al Viro:
 "Mostly about syscall wrappers this time; there will be another pile
  with patches in the same general area from various people, but I'd
  rather push those after both that and vfs.git pile are in."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  syscalls.h: slightly reduce the jungles of macros
  get rid of union semop in sys_semctl(2) arguments
  make do_mremap() static
  sparc: no need to sign-extend in sync_file_range() wrapper
  ppc compat wrappers for add_key(2) and request_key(2) are pointless
  x86: trim sys_ia32.h
  x86: sys32_kill and sys32_mprotect are pointless
  get rid of compat_sys_semctl() and friends in case of ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
  merge compat sys_ipc instances
  consolidate compat lookup_dcookie()
  convert vmsplice to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  switch getrusage() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  switch epoll_pwait to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  convert sendfile{,64} to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  switch signalfd{,4}() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  make SYSCALL_DEFINE-generated wrappers do asmlinkage_protect
  make HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS unconditional
  consolidate cond_syscall and SYSCALL_ALIAS declarations
  teach SYSCALL_DEFINE how to deal with long long/unsigned long long
  get rid of duplicate logics in __SC_....[1-6] definitions

Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2013-04-30T14:43:28+00:00

Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this development cycle were:

   - full dynticks preparatory work by Frederic Weisbecker

   - factor out the cpu time accounting code better, by Li Zefan

   - multi-CPU load balancer cleanups and improvements by Joonsoo Kim

   - various smaller fixes and cleanups"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
  sched: Fix init NOHZ_IDLE flag
  sched: Prevent to re-select dst-cpu in load_balance()
  sched: Rename load_balance_tmpmask to load_balance_mask
  sched: Move up affinity check to mitigate useless redoing overhead
  sched: Don't consider other cpus in our group in case of NEWLY_IDLE
  sched: Explicitly cpu_idle_type checking in rebalance_domains()
  sched: Change position of resched_cpu() in load_balance()
  sched: Fix wrong rq's runnable_avg update with rt tasks
  sched: Document task_struct::personality field
  sched/cpuacct/UML: Fix header file dependency bug on the UML build
  cgroup: Kill subsys.active flag
  sched/cpuacct: No need to check subsys active state
  sched/cpuacct: Initialize cpuacct subsystem earlier
  sched/cpuacct: Initialize root cpuacct earlier
  sched/cpuacct: Allocate per_cpu cpuusage for root cpuacct statically
  sched/cpuacct: Clean up cpuacct.h
  sched/cpuacct: Remove redundant NULL checks in cpuacct_acount_field()
  sched/cpuacct: Remove redundant NULL checks in cpuacct_charge()
  sched/cpuacct: Add cpuacct_acount_field()
  sched/cpuacct: Add cpuacct_init()
  ...

bcache: A block layer cache

2013-03-23T23:11:31+00:00

Does writethrough and writeback caching, handles unclean shutdown, and
has a bunch of other nifty features motivated by real world usage.

See the wiki at http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org for more.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet

userns: Don't allow CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_FS

2013-03-13T22:00:20+00:00

Don't allowing sharing the root directory with processes in a
different user namespace.  There doesn't seem to be any point, and to
allow it would require the overhead of putting a user namespace
reference in fs_struct (for permission checks) and incrementing that
reference count on practically every call to fork.

So just perform the inexpensive test of forbidding sharing fs_struct
acrosss processes in different user namespaces.  We already disallow
other forms of threading when unsharing a user namespace so this
should be no real burden in practice.

This updates setns, clone, and unshare to disallow multiple user
namespaces sharing an fs_struct.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

cputime: Dynamically scale cputime for full dynticks accounting

2013-03-07T16:10:32+00:00

The full dynticks cputime accounting is able to account either
using the tick or the context tracking subsystem. This way
the housekeeping CPU can keep the low overhead tick based
solution.

This latter mode has a low jiffies resolution granularity and
need to be scaled against CFS precise runtime accounting to
improve its result. We are doing this for CONFIG_TICK_CPU_ACCOUNTING,
now we also need to expand it to full dynticks accounting dynamic
off-case as well.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Li Zhong 
Cc: Kevin Hilman 
Cc: Mats Liljegren 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney

make SYSCALL_DEFINE-generated wrappers do asmlinkage_protect

2013-03-04T03:58:33+00:00

... and switch i386 to HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS, killing open-coded
uses of asmlinkage_protect() in a bunch of syscalls.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro