While testing our KVM code for s390 (starting and killall kvm in a loop)
I can reproduce the following oops:

  Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address 6b6b6b6b6b6b6000 Oops: 0038 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in: dm_multipath sunrpc qeth_l3 qeth_l2 dm_mod qeth
  ccwgroup CPU: 1 Not tainted 2.6.27-rc1 #54
  Process kuli (pid: 4409, task: 00000000b6aa5940, ksp: 00000000b7343e10)
  Krnl PSW : 0704e00180000000 00000000002e0b8c
  (disassociate_ctty+0x1c0/0x288) R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3
  CC:2 PM:0 EA:3 Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000000 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b
  0000000000000001 00000000000003a6 00000000002e0a46 00000000004b4160
  0000000000000001 00000000bbd79758 00000000b7343e58 00000000b8854148
  00000000bd34dea0 00000000b7343c20 0000000000000001 00000000004b6d08
  00000000002e0a46 00000000b7343c20 Krnl Code: 00000000002e0b7e:
  eb9fb0a00004	lmg	%r9,%r15,160(%r11) 00000000002e0b84:
  07f4		bcr	15,%r4 00000000002e0b86:
  e31090080004	lg	%r1,8(%r9) >00000000002e0b8c:
  d501109cd000	clc	156(2,%r1),0(%r13) 00000000002e0b92:
  a784ff5d		brc	8,2e0a4c 00000000002e0b96:
  b9040029		lgr	%r2,%r9 00000000002e0b9a:
  c0e5fffff9c3	brasl	%r14,2dff20 00000000002e0ba0:
  a7f4ff56		brc	15,2e0a4c Call Trace:
  ([<00000000002e0a46>] disassociate_ctty+0x7a/0x288)
   [<0000000000141fe6>] do_exit+0x212/0x8d4
   [<0000000000142708>] do_group_exit+0x60/0xcc
   [<0000000000150660>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x270/0x3ac
   [<000000000010bfd6>] do_signal+0x8e/0x8dc
   [<0000000000113772>] sysc_sigpending+0xe/0x22
   [<000001ff0000b134>] 0x1ff0000b134
  INFO: lockdep is turned off.
  Last Breaking-Event-Address:
   [<00000000002e0a48>] disassociate_ctty+0x7c/0x288
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception: panic_on_oops

It seems that tty was already free in disassocate_ctty when it tries
to dereference tty->driver.

After moving the lock_kernel before the mutex_unlock, I can no longer
reproduce the problem.

[ This is a temporary partial fix for the documented and long standing
  race in disassociate_tty.  This stops most problem cases for now.

  For the next release the -next tree has an initial implementation of
  kref counting for tty structures and this quickfix will be dropped.

                                                              - Alan ]
Signed-off-by: NChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by; Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

With the removal of the Solaris binary emulation the export of
proc_clear_tty became unused.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patch removes the no longer used is_tty().
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Louis Rilling noticed this.
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Some hardware needs to do break handling itself and may have partial
support only. Make break_ctl return an error code. Add a tty driver flag
so you can indicate driver hardware side break support.
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

device_create() is race-prone, so use the race-free
device_create_drvdata() instead as device_create() is going away.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Move more bits into the tty_port structure
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Reverse the order of one test and it gets much more readable
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Every tty driver has its own concept of a port structure and because
they all differ we cannot extract commonality.  Begin fixing this by
creating a structure drivers can elect to use so that over time we can
push fields into this and create commonality and then introduce common
methods.
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Move the line disciplines towards a conventional ->ops arrangement.  For
the moment the actual 'tty_ldisc' struct in the tty is kept as part of
the tty struct but this can then be changed if it turns out that when it
all settles down we want to refcount ldiscs separately to the tty.

Pull the ldisc code out of /proc and put it with our ldisc code.
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Not sure how this came to get inverted but it appears to have been my
mess up.
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

Parts of the serial code actually BUG() if we don't do this.

May 11 09:42:27 [kernel] [ 1104.496819] rarian-sk-get-c[5630]: segfault at 0 ip 7f478556caf0 sp 7fff8e3fe338 error 4 in libc-2.6.1.so[7f47854f9000+136000]
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165792]
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165794] =======================================================
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165801] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165805] 2.6.26-rc1-00007-g91b3a7a #217
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165807] -------------------------------------------------------
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165809] less/7053 is trying to acquire lock:
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165812]  (tasklist_lock){..??}, at: [<ffffffff80232e95>] is_current_pgrp_orphaned+0x15/0x50
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165821]
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165822] but task is already holding lock:
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165824]  (&tty->ctrl_lock){....}, at: [<ffffffff803d5f31>] tty_check_change+0x61/0x110
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165831]
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165832] which lock already depends on the new lock.
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165833]
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165835]
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165836] the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165838]
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165839] -> #2 (&tty->ctrl_lock){....}:
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165843]        [<ffffffff80253796>] __lock_acquire+0xf86/0x1080
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165851]        [<ffffffff80253922>] lock_acquire+0x92/0xc0
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165858]        [<ffffffff804deee0>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x40/0x60
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165866]        [<ffffffff803d31b5>] __proc_set_tty+0x35/0xe0
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165873]        [<ffffffff803d76d4>] tty_ioctl+0xbf4/0xfe0
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165880]        [<ffffffff802a05e1>] vfs_ioctl+0x31/0x90
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165888]        [<ffffffff802a06b3>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x73/0x2d0
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165895]        [<ffffffff802a095a>] sys_ioctl+0x4a/0x80
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165902]        [<ffffffff8020b5ab>] system_call_after_swapgs+0x7b/0x80
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165910]        [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165924]
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165925] -> #1 (&sighand->siglock){++..}:
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165929]        [<ffffffff80253796>] __lock_acquire+0xf86/0x1080
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165936]        [<ffffffff80253922>] lock_acquire+0x92/0xc0
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165943]        [<ffffffff804dec1f>] _spin_lock+0x2f/0x40
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165951]        [<ffffffff8022d5a3>] copy_process+0x973/0x1210
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165959]        [<ffffffff8022df12>] do_fork+0x82/0x2f0
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165967]        [<ffffffff8020bfe1>] kernel_thread+0x81/0xde
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165974]        [<ffffffff8020c048>] child_rip+0xa/0x12
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165981]        [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166038]
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166039] -> #0 (tasklist_lock){..??}:
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166043]        [<ffffffff802535ab>] __lock_acquire+0xd9b/0x1080
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166050]        [<ffffffff80253922>] lock_acquire+0x92/0xc0
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166057]        [<ffffffff804dede2>] _read_lock+0x32/0x50
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166063]        [<ffffffff80232e95>] is_current_pgrp_orphaned+0x15/0x50
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166071]        [<ffffffff803d5f80>] tty_check_change+0xb0/0x110
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166078]        [<ffffffff803dac5f>] set_termios+0x1f/0x4c0
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166085]        [<ffffffff803db379>] tty_mode_ioctl+0x279/0x3e0
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166092]        [<ffffffff803db51d>] n_tty_ioctl+0x3d/0x260
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166100]        [<ffffffff803d6c34>] tty_ioctl+0x154/0xfe0
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166107]        [<ffffffff802a05e1>] vfs_ioctl+0x31/0x90
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166114]        [<ffffffff802a06b3>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x73/0x2d0
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166121]        [<ffffffff802a095a>] sys_ioctl+0x4a/0x80
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166128]        [<ffffffff8020b5ab>] system_call_after_swapgs+0x7b/0x80
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166135]        [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166142]
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166143] other info that might help us debug this:
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166144]
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166146] 1 lock held by less/7053:
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166148]  #0:  (&tty->ctrl_lock){....}, at: [<ffffffff803d5f31>] tty_check_change+0x61/0x110
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166155]
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166156] stack backtrace:
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166159] Pid: 7053, comm: less Not tainted 2.6.26-rc1-00007-g91b3a7a #217
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166161]
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166162] Call Trace:
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166168]  [<ffffffff80251223>] print_circular_bug_tail+0x83/0x90
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166172]  [<ffffffff80250889>] ? print_circular_bug_entry+0x49/0x60
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166178]  [<ffffffff802535ab>] __lock_acquire+0xd9b/0x1080
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166184]  [<ffffffff80232e95>] ? is_current_pgrp_orphaned+0x15/0x50
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166189]  [<ffffffff80253922>] lock_acquire+0x92/0xc0
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166206]  [<ffffffff803d5f80>] tty_check_change+0xb0/0x110
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166211]  [<ffffffff803dac5f>] set_termios+0x1f/0x4c0
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166216]  [<ffffffff803d3423>] ? tty_ldisc_try+0x23/0x60
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166220]  [<ffffffff803d3444>] ? tty_ldisc_try+0x44/0x60
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166224]  [<ffffffff804df2c5>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x65/0x80
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166230]  [<ffffffff803db379>] tty_mode_ioctl+0x279/0x3e0
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166234]  [<ffffffff803d3444>] ? tty_ldisc_try+0x44/0x60
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166239]  [<ffffffff803db51d>] n_tty_ioctl+0x3d/0x260
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166244]  [<ffffffff803d6c34>] tty_ioctl+0x154/0xfe0
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166249]  [<ffffffff80252baa>] ? __lock_acquire+0x39a/0x1080
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166256]  [<ffffffff80252baa>] ? __lock_acquire+0x39a/0x1080
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166263]  [<ffffffff80252baa>] ? __lock_acquire+0x39a/0x1080
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166269]  [<ffffffff802a05e1>] vfs_ioctl+0x31/0x90
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166274]  [<ffffffff802a06b3>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x73/0x2d0
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166280]  [<ffffffff802a095a>] sys_ioctl+0x4a/0x80
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166286]  [<ffffffff8020b5ab>] system_call_after_swapgs+0x7b/0x80
May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.166292]
Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Reported-by: NMarcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Initial splitoff of the low-level stuff; taken to fdtable.h
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Factor out the code used to allocate/free a pts index into new interfaces,
devpts_new_index() and devpts_kill_index().  This localizes the external data
structures used in managing the pts indices.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: undo accidental mutex2sem conversion]
Signed-off-by: NSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NMatt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Have ptmx_open() propagate any error code returned by devpts_pty_new()
(which returns either 0 or -ENOMEM anyway).
Signed-off-by: NSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

At ptmx_open(), the 2nd parameter for check_tty_count() should
be "ptmx_open".
Signed-off-by: NHiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

- Operations are now a shared const function block as with most other Linux
  objects

- Introduce wrappers for some optional functions to get consistent behaviour

- Wrap put_char which used to be patched by the tty layer

- Document which functions are needed/optional

- Make put_char report success/fail

- Cache the driver->ops pointer in the tty as tty->ops

- Remove various surplus lock calls we no longer need

- Remove proc_write method as noted by Alexey Dobriyan

- Introduce some missing sanity checks where certain driver/ldisc
  combinations would oops as they didn't check needed methods were present

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/compat_ioctl.c build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix isicom]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/ia64/hp/sim/simserial.c build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kgdb]
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

- Stop drivers calling their own flush method indirectly, it obfuscates code
  and it will change soon anyway

- A few more lock_kernel paths temporarily needed in some driver internal
  waiting code

- Remove private put_char method that does a write call for one char - we
  have that anyway

- Most but not yet all of the termios copy under lock fixing (some has other
  dependencies to follow)

- Note a few locking bugs in drivers found in the process

- Kill remaining [ab]users of TIOCG/SSOFTCAR in the driver, these must go to
  fix the termios locking
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Now we have pushed the lock down we can stop wrapping the call with a lock in
the tty layer.
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This fixes the last couple of pid struct locking failures I know about.

[oleg@tv-sign.ru: clean up do_task_stat()]
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Historically tty->pgrp and friends were pid_t and the code "knew" they were
safe.  The change to pid structs opened up a few races and the removal of the
BKL in places made them quite hittable.  We put tty->pgrp under the ctrl_lock
for the tty.
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

- Push the BKL down into the line disciplines
- Switch the tty layer to unlocked_ioctl
- Introduce a new ctrl_lock spin lock for the control bits
- Eliminate much of the lock_kernel use in n_tty
- Prepare to (but don't yet) call the drivers with the lock dropped
  on the paths that historically held the lock

BKL now primarily protects open/close/ldisc change in the tty layer

[jirislaby@gmail.com: a couple of fixes]
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

drivers/atm/nicstar.c:418:25: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
drivers/char/drm/r128_cce.c:820:25: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
drivers/char/tty_io.c:1183:10: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
Signed-off-by: NHarvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Remove the code that automatically disables TTY input auditing in processes
that open TTYs when they have no other TTY open; this heuristic was
intended to automatically handle daemons, but it has false positives (e.g.
with sshd) that make it impossible to control TTY input auditing from a PAM
module.  With this patch, TTY input auditing is controlled from user-space
only.

On the other hand, not even for daemons does it make sense to audit "input"
from PTY masters; this data was produced by a program writing to the PTY
slave, and does not represent data entered by the user.
Signed-off-by: NMiloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

polled console handling support, to access a console in an irq-less
way while in debug or irq context.

absolutely zero impact as long as CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL is disabled.
(which is the default)

[ jan.kiszka@siemens.com: lots of cleanups ]
[ mingo@elte.hu: redesign, splitups, cleanups. ]
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Reviewed-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Convert the unix98 allocated_ptys_lock to a mutex.
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

I couldn't find any users, so removing it..
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add a proper prototype for vty_init() in include/linux/vt_kern.h
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fix the various misspellings of "system", controller", "interrupt" and
"[un]necessary".
Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>

The task_struct->pid member is going to be deprecated, so start
using the helpers (task_pid_nr/task_pid_vnr/task_pid_nr_ns) in
the kernel.

The first thing to start with is the pid, printed to dmesg - in
this case we may safely use task_pid_nr(). Besides, printks produce
more (much more) than a half of all the explicit pid usage.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: git-drm went and changed lots of stuff]
Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This is the largest patch in the set. Make all (I hope) the places where
the pid is shown to or get from user operate on the virtual pids.

The idea is:
 - all in-kernel data structures must store either struct pid itself
   or the pid's global nr, obtained with pid_nr() call;
 - when seeking the task from kernel code with the stored id one
   should use find_task_by_pid() call that works with global pids;
 - when showing pid's numerical value to the user the virtual one
   should be used, but however when one shows task's pid outside this
   task's namespace the global one is to be used;
 - when getting the pid from userspace one need to consider this as
   the virtual one and use appropriate task/pid-searching functions.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuther build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: yet nuther build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded casts]
Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The set of functions process_session, task_session, process_group and
task_pgrp is confusing, as the names can be mixed with each other when looking
at the code for a long time.

The proposals are to
* equip the functions that return the integer with _nr suffix to
  represent that fact,
* and to make all functions work with task (not process) by making
  the common prefix of the same name.

For monotony the routines signal_session() and set_signal_session() are
replaced with task_session_nr() and set_task_session(), especially since they
are only used with the explicit task->signal dereference.
Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: NSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

kmalloc() hands us a void pointer, we don't need to cast it.
Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Patch c5c34d48 (tty: flush flip buffer on
ldisc input queue flush) introduces a race condition which can lead to memory
leaks.

The problem can be triggered when tcflush() is called when data are being
pushed to the line discipline driver by flush_to_ldisc().

flush_to_ldisc() releases tty->buf.lock when calling the line discipline
receive_buf function. At that poing tty_buffer_flush() kicks in and sets both
tty->buf.head and tty->buf.tail to NULL. When flush_to_ldisc() finishes, it
restores tty->buf.head but doesn't touch tty->buf.tail. This corrups the
buffer queue, and the next call to tty_buffer_request_room() will allocate a
new buffer and overwrite tty->buf.head. The previous buffer is then lost
forever without being released.

(Thanks to Laurent for the above text, for finding, disgnosing and reporting
the bug)

- Use tty->flags bits for the flush status.

- Wait for the flag to clear again before returning

- Fix the doc error noted

- Fix flush of empty queue leaving stale flushpending

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NPaul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurentp@cse-semaphore.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add TTY input auditing, used to audit system administrator's actions.  This is
required by various security standards such as DCID 6/3 and PCI to provide
non-repudiation of administrator's actions and to allow a review of past
actions if the administrator seems to overstep their duties or if the system
becomes misconfigured for unknown reasons.  These requirements do not make it
necessary to audit TTY output as well.

Compared to an user-space keylogger, this approach records TTY input using the
audit subsystem, correlated with other audit events, and it is completely
transparent to the user-space application (e.g.  the console ioctls still
work).

TTY input auditing works on a higher level than auditing all system calls
within the session, which would produce an overwhelming amount of mostly
useless audit events.

Add an "audit_tty" attribute, inherited across fork ().  Data read from TTYs
by process with the attribute is sent to the audit subsystem by the kernel.
The audit netlink interface is extended to allow modifying the audit_tty
attribute, and to allow sending explanatory audit events from user-space (for
example, a shell might send an event containing the final command, after the
interactive command-line editing and history expansion is performed, which
might be difficult to decipher from the TTY input alone).

Because the "audit_tty" attribute is inherited across fork (), it would be set
e.g.  for sshd restarted within an audited session.  To prevent this, the
audit_tty attribute is cleared when a process with no open TTY file
descriptors (e.g.  after daemon startup) opens a TTY.

See https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2007-June/msg00000.html for a
more detailed rationale document for an older version of this patch.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: NMiloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Also remove needless casts.
Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>