linux/ipc, branch v2.6.32.32

sys_semctl: fix kernel stack leakage

2010-12-09T21:26:44Z

commit 982f7c2b2e6a28f8f266e075d92e19c0dd4c6e56 upstream. The semctl syscall has several code paths that lead to the leakage of uninitialized kernel stack memory (namely the IPC_INFO, SEM_INFO, IPC_STAT, and SEM_STAT commands) during the use of the older, obsolete version of the semid_ds struct. The copy_semid_to_user() function declares a semid_ds struct on the stack and copies it back to the user without initializing or zeroing the "sem_base", "sem_pending", "sem_pending_last", and "undo" pointers, allowing the leakage of 16 bytes of kernel stack memory. The code is still reachable on 32-bit systems - when calling semctl() newer glibc's automatically OR the IPC command with the IPC_64 flag, but invoking the syscall directly allows users to use the older versions of the struct. Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg Cc: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ipc: shm: fix information leak to userland

2010-12-09T21:26:43Z

commit 3af54c9bd9e6f14f896aac1bb0e8405ae0bc7a44 upstream. The shmid_ds structure is copied to userland with shm_unused{,2,3} fields unitialized. It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack memory. Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov Acked-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ipc: initialize structure memory to zero for compat functions

2010-12-09T21:26:43Z

commit 03145beb455cf5c20a761e8451e30b8a74ba58d9 upstream. This takes care of leaking uninitialized kernel stack memory to userspace from non-zeroed fields in structs in compat ipc functions. Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg Cc: Manfred Spraul Cc: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mqueue: fix mq_open() file descriptor leak on user-space processes

2010-04-01T22:58:18Z

commit 4294a8eedb17bbc45e1e7447c2a4d05332943248 upstream. We leak fd on lookup_one_len() failure Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ipc ns: fix memory leak (idr)

2010-01-28T23:02:25Z

commit 7d6feeb287c61aafa88f06345387b1188edf4b86 upstream. We have apparently had a memory leak since 7ca7e564e049d8b350ec9d958ff25eaa24226352 "ipc: store ipcs into IDRs" in 2007. The idr of which 3 exist for each ipc namespace is never freed. This patch simply frees them when the ipcns is freed. I don't believe any idr_remove() are done from rcu (and could therefore be delayed until after this idr_destroy()), so the patch should be safe. Some quick testing showed no harm, and the memory leak fixed. Caught by kmemleak. Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Acked-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

untangle the do_mremap() mess

2010-01-18T18:19:11Z

This backports the following upstream commits all as one patch: 54f5de709984bae0d31d823ff03de755f9dcac54 ecc1a8993751de4e82eb18640d631dae1f626bd6 1a0ef85f84feb13f07b604fcf5b90ef7c2b5c82f f106af4e90eadd76cfc0b5325f659619e08fb762 097eed103862f9c6a97f2e415e21d1134017b135 935874141df839c706cd6cdc438e85eb69d1525e 0ec62d290912bb4b989be7563851bc364ec73b56 c4caa778157dbbf04116f0ac2111e389b5cd7a29 2ea1d13f64efdf49319e86c87d9ba38c30902782 570dcf2c15463842e384eb597a87c1e39bead99b 564b3bffc619dcbdd160de597b0547a7017ea010 0067bd8a55862ac9dd212bd1c4f6f5bff1ca1301 f8b7256096a20436f6d0926747e3ac3d64c81d24 8c7b49b3ecd48923eb64ff57e07a1cdb74782970 9206de95b1ea68357996ec02be5db0638a0de2c1 2c6a10161d0b5fc047b5bd81b03693b9af99fab5 05d72faa6d13c9d857478a5d35c85db9adada685 bb52d6694002b9d632bb355f64daa045c6293a4e e77414e0aad6a1b063ba5e5750c582c75327ea6a aa65607373a4daf2010e8c3867b6317619f3c1a3 Backport done by Greg Kroah-Hartman. Only minor tweaks were needed. Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Paul Mundt Cc: Russell King Cc: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

const: mark struct vm_struct_operations

2009-09-27T18:39:25Z

* mark struct vm_area_struct::vm_ops as const * mark vm_ops in AGP code But leave TTM code alone, something is fishy there with global vm_ops being used. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler

2009-09-24T14:21:04Z

It's unused. It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl shouldn't care about the rest. It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: David Howells Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Al Viro Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: James Morris Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

seq_file: constify seq_operations

2009-09-23T14:39:29Z

Make all seq_operations structs const, to help mitigate against revectoring user-triggerable function pointers. This is derived from the grsecurity patch, although generated from scratch because it's simpler than extracting the changes from there. Signed-off-by: James Morris Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Acked-by: Casey Schaufler Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

hugetlbfs: allow the creation of files suitable for MAP_PRIVATE on the vfs internal mount

2009-09-22T14:17:41Z

This patchset adds a flag to mmap that allows the user to request that an anonymous mapping be backed with huge pages. This mapping will borrow functionality from the huge page shm code to create a file on the kernel internal mount and use it to approximate an anonymous mapping. The MAP_HUGETLB flag is a modifier to MAP_ANONYMOUS and will not work without both flags being preset. A new flag is necessary because there is no other way to hook into huge pages without creating a file on a hugetlbfs mount which wouldn't be MAP_ANONYMOUS. To userspace, this mapping will behave just like an anonymous mapping because the file is not accessible outside of the kernel. This patchset is meant to simplify the programming model. Presently there is a large chunk of boiler platecode, contained in libhugetlbfs, required to create private, hugepage backed mappings. This patch set would allow use of hugepages without linking to libhugetlbfs or having hugetblfs mounted. Unification of the VM code would provide these same benefits, but it has been resisted each time that it has been suggested for several reasons: it would break PAGE_SIZE assumptions across the kernel, it makes page-table abstractions really expensive, and it does not provide any benefit on architectures that do not support huge pages, incurring fast path penalties without providing any benefit on these architectures. This patch: There are two means of creating mappings backed by huge pages: 1. mmap() a file created on hugetlbfs 2. Use shm which creates a file on an internal mount which essentially maps it MAP_SHARED The internal mount is only used for shared mappings but there is very little that stops it being used for private mappings. This patch extends hugetlbfs_file_setup() to deal with the creation of files that will be mapped MAP_PRIVATE on the internal hugetlbfs mount. This extended API is used in a subsequent patch to implement the MAP_HUGETLB mmap() flag. Signed-off-by: Eric Munson Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Adam Litke Cc: David Gibson Cc: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds