- 11 3月, 2011 2 次提交
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由 Jeff Layton 提交于
I've been adding in more artificial delays in the NFSv4 commit and close codepaths to uncover races. The kernel I'm testing has the patch to close the race in __rpc_wait_for_completion_task that's in Trond's cthon2011 branch. The reproducer I've been using does this in a loop: mkdir("DIR"); fd = open("DIR/FILE", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0644); write(fd, "abcdefg", 7); close(fd); unlink("DIR/FILE"); rmdir("DIR"); The above reproducer shouldn't result in any silly-renaming. However, when I add a "msleep(100)" just after the nfs_commit_clear_lock call in nfs_commit_release, I can almost always force one to occur. If I can force it to occur with that, then it can happen without that delay given the right timing. nfs_commit_inode waits for the NFS_INO_COMMIT bit to clear when called with FLUSH_SYNC set. nfs_commit_rpcsetup on the other hand does not wait for the task to complete before putting its reference to it, so the last reference get put in rpc_release task and gets queued to a workqueue. In this situation, the last open context reference may be put by the COMMIT release instead of the close() syscall. The close() syscall returns too quickly and the unlink runs while the d_count is still high since the COMMIT release hasn't put its dentry reference yet. Fix this by having rpc_commit_rpcsetup wait for the RPC call to complete before putting the task reference when FLUSH_SYNC is set. With this, the last reference is put by the process that's initiating the FLUSH_SYNC commit and the race is closed. Signed-off-by: NJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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由 Trond Myklebust 提交于
Although they run as rpciod background tasks, under normal operation (i.e. no SIGKILL), functions like nfs_sillyrename(), nfs4_proc_unlck() and nfs4_do_close() want to be fully synchronous. This means that when we exit, we want all references to the rpc_task to be gone, and we want any dentry references etc. held by that task to be released. For this reason these functions call __rpc_wait_for_completion_task(), followed by rpc_put_task() in the expectation that the latter will be releasing the last reference to the rpc_task, and thus ensuring that the callback_ops->rpc_release() has been called synchronously. This patch fixes a race which exists due to the fact that rpciod calls rpc_complete_task() (in order to wake up the callers of __rpc_wait_for_completion_task()) and then subsequently calls rpc_put_task() without ensuring that these two steps are done atomically. In order to avoid adding new spin locks, the patch uses the existing waitqueue spin lock to order the rpc_task reference count releases between the waiting process and rpciod. The common case where nobody is waiting for completion is optimised for by checking if the RPC_TASK_ASYNC flag is cleared and/or if the rpc_task reference count is 1: in those cases we drop trying to grab the spin lock, and immediately free up the rpc_task. Those few processes that need to put the rpc_task from inside an asynchronous context and that do not care about ordering are given a new helper: rpc_put_task_async(). Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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- 08 3月, 2011 2 次提交
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Merge branch 'omap-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6 * 'omap-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6: omap: mailbox: resolve hang issue OMAP2+: PM: SmartReflex: fix memory leaks in Smartreflex driver arm: mach-omap2: smartreflex: fix another memory leak
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git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: [S390] tape: deadlock on system work queue [S390] keyboard: integer underflow bug [S390] xpram: remove __initdata attribute from module parameters
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- 07 3月, 2011 2 次提交
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: ALSA: hda - Don't set to D3 in Cirrus errata init verbs ALSA: hda - add new Fermi 5xx codec IDs to snd-hda ASoC: WM8994: Ensure late enable events are processed for the ADCs ASoC: WM8994: Don't disable the AIF[1|2]CLK_ENA unconditionaly ASoC: Fix WM9081 platform data initialisation ALSA: hda - Fix unable to record issue on ASUS N82JV ALSA: HDA: Realtek: Fixup jack detection to input subsystem
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由 Amit Shah 提交于
If a virtio-console device gets unplugged while a port is open, a subsequent close() call on the port accesses vqs to free up buffers. This can lead to a crash. The buffers are already freed up as a result of the call to unplug_ports() from virtcons_remove(). The fix is to simply not access vq information if port->portdev is NULL. Reported-by: Njuzhang <juzhang@redhat.com> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: NAmit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 06 3月, 2011 2 次提交
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由 Takashi Iwai 提交于
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client: ceph: no .snap inside of snapped namespace libceph: fix msgr standby handling libceph: fix msgr keepalive flag libceph: fix msgr backoff libceph: retry after authorization failure libceph: fix handling of short returns from get_user_pages ceph: do not clear I_COMPLETE from d_release ceph: do not set I_COMPLETE Revert "ceph: keep reference to parent inode on ceph_dentry"
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- 05 3月, 2011 22 次提交
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由 Andi Kleen 提交于
Pass down the correct node for a transparent hugepage allocation. Most callers continue to use the current node, however the hugepaged daemon now uses the previous node of the first to be collapsed page instead. This ensures that khugepaged does not mess up local memory for an existing process which uses local policy. The choice of node is somewhat primitive currently: it just uses the node of the first page in the pmd range. An alternative would be to look at multiple pages and use the most popular node. I used the simplest variant for now which should work well enough for the case of all pages being on the same node. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Acked-by: NAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Andi Kleen 提交于
This makes a difference for LOCAL policy, where the node cannot be determined from the policy itself, but has to be gotten from the original page. Acked-by: NAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Andi Kleen 提交于
Add a alloc_page_vma_node that allows passing the "local" node in. Used in a followon patch. Acked-by: NAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Andi Kleen 提交于
Currently alloc_pages_vma() always uses the local node as policy node for the LOCAL policy. Pass this node down as an argument instead. No behaviour change from this patch, but will be needed for followons. Acked-by: NAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Alexandre Bounine 提交于
Signed-off-by: NAlexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Axel Lin 提交于
Signed-off-by: NAxel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Kyungmin Park 提交于
Add maintainer of Samsung Mobile machine support. Currently, Aquila, Goni, Universal (C210), and Nuri board are supported. Signed-off-by: NKyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
This driver causes hard lockups, when the active clock soure is jiffies. The reason is that it loops with interrupts disabled waiting for a timestamp to be reached by polling getnstimeofday(). Though with a jiffies clocksource, when that code runs on the same CPU which is responsible for updating jiffies, then we loop in circles for ever simply because the timer interrupt cannot update jiffies. So both UP and SMP can be affected. There is no easy fix for that problem so make it depend on BROKEN for now. Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su> Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Axel Lin 提交于
The device table is required to load modules based on modaliases. Signed-off-by: NAxel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com> Cc: Shubhrajyoti D <shubhrajyoti@ti.com> Cc: Christoph Mair <christoph.mair@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Li Zefan 提交于
Don't forget to release cgroup_mutex if alloc_trial_cpuset() fails. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: avoid multiple return points] Signed-off-by: NLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Axel Lin 提交于
Fix s3c_rtc_setaie() prototype to eliminate the following compile warning: drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c:383: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type (akpm: the rtc_class_ops.alarm_irq_enable() handler is being passed two arguments where it expects just one, presumably with undesired effects) Signed-off-by: NAxel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vapier/blackfin由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vapier/blackfin: Blackfin: iflush: update anomaly 05000491 workaround Blackfin: outs[lwb]: make sure count is greater than 0
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Merge branch 'rmobile-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6 * 'rmobile-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: ARM: mach-shmobile: mackerel: modify LCDC clock divider value ARM: mach-shmobile: ap4evb: modify LCDC clock divider value ARM: mach-shmobile: mackerel: fixup memory initialize for zboot ARM: mach-shmobile: ap4evb: fixup memory initialize for zboot ARM: mach-shmobile: Add sh73a0 MIPI-CSI and CEU clocks ARM: mach-shmobile: AG5EVM MIPI-DSI LCD reset delay fix
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* 'sh-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: sh: Change __nosave_XXX symbols to long sh: Flush executable pages in copy_user_highpage sh: Ensure ST40-300 BogoMIPS value is consistent sh: sh7750: Fix incompatible pointer type sh: sh7750: move machtypes.h to include/generated
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6: drm/nouveau: allocate kernel's notifier object at end of block
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由 Neil Horman 提交于
The "bad_page()" page allocator sanity check was reported recently (call chain as follows): bad_page+0x69/0x91 free_hot_cold_page+0x81/0x144 skb_release_data+0x5f/0x98 __kfree_skb+0x11/0x1a tcp_ack+0x6a3/0x1868 tcp_rcv_established+0x7a6/0x8b9 tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x2a/0x2fa tcp_v4_rcv+0x9a2/0x9f6 do_timer+0x2df/0x52c ip_local_deliver+0x19d/0x263 ip_rcv+0x539/0x57c netif_receive_skb+0x470/0x49f :virtio_net:virtnet_poll+0x46b/0x5c5 net_rx_action+0xac/0x1b3 __do_softirq+0x89/0x133 call_softirq+0x1c/0x28 do_softirq+0x2c/0x7d do_IRQ+0xec/0xf5 default_idle+0x0/0x50 ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa default_idle+0x29/0x50 cpu_idle+0x95/0xb8 start_kernel+0x220/0x225 _sinittext+0x22f/0x236 It occurs because an skb with a fraglist was freed from the tcp retransmit queue when it was acked, but a page on that fraglist had PG_Slab set (indicating it was allocated from the Slab allocator (which means the free path above can't safely free it via put_page. We tracked this back to an nfsv4 setacl operation, in which the nfs code attempted to fill convert the passed in buffer to an array of pages in __nfs4_proc_set_acl, which gets used by the skb->frags list in xs_sendpages. __nfs4_proc_set_acl just converts each page in the buffer to a page struct via virt_to_page, but the vfs allocates the buffer via kmalloc, meaning the PG_slab bit is set. We can't create a buffer with kmalloc and free it later in the tcp ack path with put_page, so we need to either: 1) ensure that when we create the list of pages, no page struct has PG_Slab set or 2) not use a page list to send this data Given that these buffers can be multiple pages and arbitrarily sized, I think (1) is the right way to go. I've written the below patch to allocate a page from the buddy allocator directly and copy the data over to it. This ensures that we have a put_page free-able page for every entry that winds up on an skb frag list, so it can be safely freed when the frame is acked. We do a put page on each entry after the rpc_call_sync call so as to drop our own reference count to the page, leaving only the ref count taken by tcp_sendpages. This way the data will be properly freed when the ack comes in Successfully tested by myself to solve the above oops. Note, as this is the result of a setacl operation that exceeded a page of data, I think this amounts to a local DOS triggerable by an uprivlidged user, so I'm CCing security on this as well. Signed-off-by: NNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> CC: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> CC: security@kernel.org CC: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Sage Weil 提交于
Otherwise you can do things like # mkdir .snap/foo # cd .snap/foo/.snap # ls <badness> Signed-off-by: NSage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
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由 Sage Weil 提交于
The standby logic used to be pretty dependent on the work requeueing behavior that changed when we switched to WQ_NON_REENTRANT. It was also very fragile. Restructure things so that: - We clear WRITE_PENDING when we set STANDBY. This ensures we will requeue work when we wake up later. - con_work backs off if STANDBY is set. There is nothing to do if we are in standby. - clear_standby() helper is called by both con_send() and con_keepalive(), the two actions that can wake us up again. Move the connect_seq++ logic here. Signed-off-by: NSage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
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由 Sage Weil 提交于
There was some broken keepalive code using a dead variable. Shift to using the proper bit flag. Signed-off-by: NSage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
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由 Sage Weil 提交于
With commit f363e45f we replaced a bunch of hacky workqueue mutual exclusion logic with the WQ_NON_REENTRANT flag. One pieces of fallout is that the exponential backoff breaks in certain cases: * con_work attempts to connect. * we get an immediate failure, and the socket state change handler queues immediate work. * con_work calls con_fault, we decide to back off, but can't queue delayed work. In this case, we add a BACKOFF bit to make con_work reschedule delayed work next time it runs (which should be immediately). Signed-off-by: NSage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
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由 Dave Kleikamp 提交于
Signed-off-by: NDave Kleikamp <shaggy@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
They are only used inside kernel/ptrace.c, and have been for a long time. We don't want to go back to the bad-old-days when architectures did things on their own, so make them static and private. Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 04 3月, 2011 10 次提交
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由 Mike Frysinger 提交于
Recent feedback from design says we need three NOPs in the hardware loop. Signed-off-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
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由 Mike Frysinger 提交于
Some devices will use the outs* funcs with a length of zero, so make sure we do not write any data in that case. Reported-by: NGilbert Inho <gneny@edevice.com> Signed-off-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
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由 Kuninori Morimoto 提交于
mackerel WVGA LCDC panel expect 33.3MHz for dot-clock, but current dot-clock was 50.0MHz. This patch modify clock divider value. Signed-off-by: NMakoto Ueda <makoto.ueda.ub@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: NKuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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由 Kuninori Morimoto 提交于
ap4evb WVGA LCDC panel expect 33.3MHz for dot-clock, but current dot-clock was 50.0MHz. This patch modify clock divider value. Signed-off-by: NMakoto Ueda <makoto.ueda.ub@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: NKuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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由 Ben Skeggs 提交于
The nv30/nv40 3d driver is about to start using DMA_FENCE from the 3D object which, it turns out, doesn't like its DMA object to not be aligned to a 4KiB boundary. Signed-off-by: NBen Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: DNS: Fix a NULL pointer deref when trying to read an error key [CVE-2011-1076]
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (42 commits) MAINTAINERS: Add Andy Gospodarek as co-maintainer. r8169: disable ASPM RxRPC: Fix v1 keys AF_RXRPC: Handle receiving ACKALL packets cnic: Fix lost interrupt on bnx2x cnic: Prevent status block race conditions with hardware net: dcbnl: check correct ops in dcbnl_ieee_set() e1000e: disable broken PHY wakeup for ICH10 LOMs, use MAC wakeup instead igb: fix sparse warning e1000: fix sparse warning netfilter: nf_log: avoid oops in (un)bind with invalid nfproto values dccp: fix oops on Reset after close ipvs: fix dst_lock locking on dest update davinci_emac: Add Carrier Link OK check in Davinci RX Handler bnx2x: update driver version to 1.62.00-6 bnx2x: properly calculate lro_mss bnx2x: perform statistics "action" before state transition. bnx2x: properly configure coefficients for MinBW algorithm (NPAR mode). bnx2x: Fix ethtool -t link test for MF (non-pmf) devices. bnx2x: Fix nvram test for single port devices. ...
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git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: block: kill loop_mutex blktrace: Remove blk_fill_rwbs_rq. block: blk-flush shouldn't call directly into q->request_fn() __blk_run_queue() block: add @force_kblockd to __blk_run_queue() block: fix kernel-doc format for blkdev_issue_zeroout blk-throttle: Do not use kblockd workqueue for throtl work
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* 'i_nlink' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: hfs: fix rename() over non-empty directory udf: fix i_nlink limit fix reiserfs mkdir() breakage exofs: i_nlink races in rename() nilfs2: i_nlink races in rename() minix: i_nlink races in rename() ufs: i_nlink races in rename() sysv: i_nlink races in rename()
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由 David Howells 提交于
When a DNS resolver key is instantiated with an error indication, attempts to read that key will result in an oops because user_read() is expecting there to be a payload - and there isn't one [CVE-2011-1076]. Give the DNS resolver key its own read handler that returns the error cached in key->type_data.x[0] as an error rather than crashing. Also make the kenter() at the beginning of dns_resolver_instantiate() limit the amount of data it prints, since the data is not necessarily NUL-terminated. The buggy code was added in: commit 4a2d7892 Author: Wang Lei <wang840925@gmail.com> Date: Wed Aug 11 09:37:58 2010 +0100 Subject: DNS: If the DNS server returns an error, allow that to be cached [ver #2] This can trivially be reproduced by any user with the following program compiled with -lkeyutils: #include <stdlib.h> #include <keyutils.h> #include <err.h> static char payload[] = "#dnserror=6"; int main() { key_serial_t key; key = add_key("dns_resolver", "a", payload, sizeof(payload), KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING); if (key == -1) err(1, "add_key"); if (keyctl_read(key, NULL, 0) == -1) err(1, "read_key"); return 0; } What should happen is that keyctl_read() reports error 6 (ENXIO) to the user: dns-break: read_key: No such device or address but instead the kernel oopses. This cannot be reproduced with the 'keyutils add' or 'keyutils padd' commands as both of those cut the data down below the NUL termination that must be included in the data. Without this dns_resolver_instantiate() will return -EINVAL and the key will not be instantiated such that it can be read. The oops looks like: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010 IP: [<ffffffff811b99f7>] user_read+0x4f/0x8f PGD 3bdf8067 PUD 385b9067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:19.0/irq CPU 0 Modules linked in: Pid: 2150, comm: dns-break Not tainted 2.6.38-rc7-cachefs+ #468 /DG965RY RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff811b99f7>] [<ffffffff811b99f7>] user_read+0x4f/0x8f RSP: 0018:ffff88003bf47f08 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff88003b5ea378 RCX: ffffffff81972368 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88003b5ea378 RBP: ffff88003bf47f28 R08: ffff88003be56620 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000395 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffffffffffa1 FS: 00007feab5751700(0000) GS:ffff88003e000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 000000003de40000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process dns-break (pid: 2150, threadinfo ffff88003bf46000, task ffff88003be56090) Stack: ffff88003b5ea378 ffff88003b5ea3a0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88003bf47f68 ffffffff811b708e ffff88003c442bc8 0000000000000000 00000000004005a0 00007fffba368060 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 Call Trace: [<ffffffff811b708e>] keyctl_read_key+0xac/0xcf [<ffffffff811b7c07>] sys_keyctl+0x75/0xb6 [<ffffffff81001f7b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Code: 75 1f 48 83 7b 28 00 75 18 c6 05 58 2b fb 00 01 be bb 00 00 00 48 c7 c7 76 1c 75 81 e8 13 c2 e9 ff 4c 8b b3 e0 00 00 00 4d 85 ed <41> 0f b7 5e 10 74 2d 4d 85 e4 74 28 e8 98 79 ee ff 49 39 dd 48 RIP [<ffffffff811b99f7>] user_read+0x4f/0x8f RSP <ffff88003bf47f08> CR2: 0000000000000010 Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: NJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> cc: Wang Lei <wang840925@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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