linux/fs/proc, branch v3.2.2

proc: clear_refs: do not clear reserved pages

2012-01-26T00:13:58Z

commit 85e72aa5384b1a614563ad63257ded0e91d1a620 upstream. /proc/pid/clear_refs is used to clear the Referenced and YOUNG bits for pages and corresponding page table entries of the task with PID pid, which includes any special mappings inserted into the page tables in order to provide things like vDSOs and user helper functions. On ARM this causes a problem because the vectors page is mapped as a global mapping and since ec706dab ("ARM: add a vma entry for the user accessible vector page"), a VMA is also inserted into each task for this page to aid unwinding through signals and syscall restarts. Since the vectors page is required for handling faults, clearing the YOUNG bit (and subsequently writing a faulting pte) means that we lose the vectors page *globally* and cannot fault it back in. This results in a system deadlock on the next exception. To see this problem in action, just run: $ echo 1 > /proc/self/clear_refs on an ARM platform (as any user) and watch your system hang. I think this has been the case since 2.6.37 This patch avoids clearing the aforementioned bits for reserved pages, therefore leaving the vectors page intact on ARM. Since reserved pages are not candidates for swap, this change should not have any impact on the usefulness of clear_refs. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Reported-by: Moussa Ba Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Russell King Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre Cc: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

proc: clean up and fix /proc//mem handling

2012-01-26T00:13:43Z

commit e268337dfe26dfc7efd422a804dbb27977a3cccc upstream. Jüri Aedla reported that the /proc//mem handling really isn't very robust, and it also doesn't match the permission checking of any of the other related files. This changes it to do the permission checks at open time, and instead of tracking the process, it tracks the VM at the time of the open. That simplifies the code a lot, but does mean that if you hold the file descriptor open over an execve(), you'll continue to read from the _old_ VM. That is different from our previous behavior, but much simpler. If somebody actually finds a load where this matters, we'll need to revert this commit. I suspect that nobody will ever notice - because the process mapping addresses will also have changed as part of the execve. So you cannot actually usefully access the fd across a VM change simply because all the offsets for IO would have changed too. Reported-by: Jüri Aedla Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fix cputime overflow in uptime_proc_show

2012-01-26T00:13:41Z

commit c3e0ef9a298e028a82ada28101ccd5cf64d209ee upstream. For 32-bit architectures using standard jiffies the idletime calculation in uptime_proc_show will quickly overflow. It takes (2^32 / HZ) seconds of idle-time, or e.g. 12.45 days with no load on a quad-core with HZ=1000. Switch to 64-bit calculations. Cc: Michael Abbott Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

procfs: do not confuse jiffies with cputime64_t

2011-12-30T00:31:57Z

Commit 2a95ea6c0d129b4 ("procfs: do not overflow get_{idle,iowait}_time for nohz") did not take into account that one some architectures jiffies and cputime use different units. This causes get_idle_time() to return numbers in the wrong units, making the idle time fields in /proc/stat wrong. Instead of converting the usec value returned by get_cpu_{idle,iowait}_time_us to units of jiffies, use the new function usecs_to_cputime64 to convert it to the correct unit of cputime64_t. Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: "Artem S. Tashkinov" Cc: Dave Jones Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Heiko Carstens 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/vfs

2011-12-15T02:22:55Z

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: fs/ncpfs: fix error paths and goto statements in ncp_fill_super() configfs: register_filesystem() called too early fuse: register_filesystem() called too early ubifs: too early register_filesystem() ... and the same kind of leak for mqueue procfs: fix a vfsmount longterm reference leak

procfs: do not overflow get_{idle,iowait}_time for nohz

2011-12-09T15:50:29Z

Since commit a25cac5198d4 ("proc: Consider NO_HZ when printing idle and iowait times") we are reporting idle/io_wait time also while a CPU is tickless. We rely on get_{idle,iowait}_time functions to retrieve proper data. These functions, however, use usecs_to_cputime to translate micro seconds time to cputime64_t. This is just an alias to usecs_to_jiffies which reduces the data type from u64 to unsigned int and also checks whether the given parameter overflows jiffies_to_usecs(MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET) and returns MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET in that case. When we overflow depends on CONFIG_HZ but especially for CONFIG_HZ_300 it is quite low (1431649781) so we are getting MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET for >3000s! until we overflow unsigned int. Just for reference CONFIG_HZ_100 has an overflow window around 20s, CONFIG_HZ_250 ~8s and CONFIG_HZ_1000 ~2s. This results in a bug when people saw [h]top going mad reporting 100% CPU usage even though there was basically no CPU load. The reason was simply that /proc/stat stopped reporting idle/io_wait changes (and reported MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET) and so the only change happening was for user system time. Let's use nsecs_to_jiffies64 instead which doesn't reduce the precision to 32b type and it is much more appropriate for cumulative time values (unlike usecs_to_jiffies which intended for timeout calculations). Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Tested-by: Artem S. Tashkinov Cc: Dave Jones Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs/proc/meminfo.c: fix compilation error

2011-12-09T15:50:28Z

Fix the error message "directives may not be used inside a macro argument" which appears when the kernel is compiled for the cris architecture. Signed-off-by: Claudio Scordino Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

procfs: fix a vfsmount longterm reference leak

2011-12-09T05:40:19Z

kern_mount() doesn't pair with plain mntput()... Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Revert "proc: fix races against execve() of /proc/PID/fd**"

2011-11-09T23:16:00Z

This reverts commit aa6afca5bcaba8101f3ea09d5c3e4100b2b9f0e5. It escalates of some of the google-chrome SELinux problems with ptrace ("Check failed: pid_ > 0. Did not find zygote process"), and Andrew says that it is also causing mystery lockdep reports. Reported-by: Alex Villacís Lasso Requested-by: James Morris Requested-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux

2011-11-07T03:44:47Z

* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits) Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h" irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules. bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h of_platform.h: delete needless include acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h device_cgroup.h: delete needless include net: sch_generic remove redundant use of net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need ... Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in - drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c - drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c} - drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c - include/linux/dmaengine.h