[PATCH] sanitize proc_sysctl

* keep references to ctl_table_head and ctl_table in /proc/sys inodes
* grab the former during operations, use the latter for access to
entry if that succeeds
* have -

[PATCH] sanitize proc_sysctl

* keep references to ctl_table_head and ctl_table in /proc/sys inodes
* grab the former during operations, use the latter for access to
entry if that succeeds
* have ->d_compare() check if table should be seen for one who does lookup;
that allows us to avoid flipping inodes - if we have the same name resolve
to different things, we'll just keep several dentries and ->d_compare()
will reject the wrong ones.
* have ->lookup() and ->readdir() scan the table of our inode first, then
walk all ctl_table_header and scan ->attached_by for those that are
attached to our directory.
* implement ->getattr().
* get rid of insane amounts of tree-walking
* get rid of the need to know dentry in ->permission() and of the contortions
induced by that.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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SL*B: drop kmem cache argument from constructor

Kmem cache passed to constructor is only needed for constructors that are
themselves multiplexeres. Nobody uses this "feature", nor does anybody uses

SL*B: drop kmem cache argument from constructor

Kmem cache passed to constructor is only needed for constructors that are
themselves multiplexeres. Nobody uses this "feature", nor does anybody uses
passed kmem cache in non-trivial way, so pass only pointer to object.

Non-trivial places are:
arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c

This is flag day, yes.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/slab.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ubifs]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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proc: remove pathetic remount code

MS_RMT_MASK will unmask changes in do_remount_sb() anyway.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundatio

proc: remove pathetic remount code

MS_RMT_MASK will unmask changes in do_remount_sb() anyway.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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proc: always do ->release

Current two-stage scheme of removing PDE emphasizes one bug in proc:

open
rmmod
remove_proc_entry
close

->release won't be called because ->proc_fops were cle

proc: always do ->release

Current two-stage scheme of removing PDE emphasizes one bug in proc:

open
rmmod
remove_proc_entry
close

->release won't be called because ->proc_fops were cleared. In simple
cases it's small memory leak.

For every ->open, ->release has to be done. List of openers is introduced
which is traversed at remove_proc_entry() if neeeded.

Discussions with Al long ago (sigh).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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proc: proc_get_inode() should get module only once

Any file under /proc/net opened more than once leaked the refcounter
on the module it belongs to.

The problem is that module_get is called for eac

proc: proc_get_inode() should get module only once

Any file under /proc/net opened more than once leaked the refcounter
on the module it belongs to.

The problem is that module_get is called for each file opening while
module_put is called only when /proc inode is destroyed. So, lets put
module counter if we are dealing with already initialised inode.

Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10737

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Reported-by: Roland Kletzing <devzero@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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proc: drop several "PDE valid/invalid" checks

proc-misc code is noticeably full of "if (de)" checks when PDE passed is
always valid. Remove them.

Addition of such check in proc_lookup_de() is for

proc: drop several "PDE valid/invalid" checks

proc-misc code is noticeably full of "if (de)" checks when PDE passed is
always valid. Remove them.

Addition of such check in proc_lookup_de() is for failed lookup case.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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proc: remove MODULE_LICENSE

proc is not modular, so MODULE_LICENSE just expands to empty space. proc
without doubts remains GPLed.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: A

proc: remove MODULE_LICENSE

proc is not modular, so MODULE_LICENSE just expands to empty space. proc
without doubts remains GPLed.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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iget: stop PROCFS from using iget() and read_inode()

Stop the PROCFS filesystem from using iget() and read_inode(). Merge
procfs_read_inode() into procfs_get_inode(), and have that call iget_locked

iget: stop PROCFS from using iget() and read_inode()

Stop the PROCFS filesystem from using iget() and read_inode(). Merge
procfs_read_inode() into procfs_get_inode(), and have that call iget_locked()
instead of iget().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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proc: fix proc_dir_entry refcounting

Creating PDEs with refcount 0 and "deleted" flag has problems (see below).
Switch to usual scheme:
* PDE is created with refcount 1
* every de_get does +1
* ever

proc: fix proc_dir_entry refcounting

Creating PDEs with refcount 0 and "deleted" flag has problems (see below).
Switch to usual scheme:
* PDE is created with refcount 1
* every de_get does +1
* every de_put() and remove_proc_entry() do -1
* once refcount reaches 0, PDE is freed.

This elegantly fixes at least two following races (both observed) without
introducing new locks, without abusing old locks, without spreading
lock_kernel():

1) PDE leak

remove_proc_entry de_put
----------------- ------
[refcnt = 1]
if (atomic_read(&de->count) == 0)
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&de->count))
if (de->deleted)
/* also not taken! */
free_proc_entry(de);
else
de->deleted = 1;
[refcount=0, deleted=1]

2) use after free

remove_proc_entry de_put
----------------- ------
[refcnt = 1]

if (atomic_dec_and_test(&de->count))
if (atomic_read(&de->count) == 0)
free_proc_entry(de);
/* boom! */
if (de->deleted)
free_proc_entry(de);

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6b
printing eip: c10acdda *pdpt = 00000000338f8001 *pde = 0000000000000000
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in: af_packet ipv6 cpufreq_ondemand loop serio_raw psmouse k8temp hwmon sr_mod cdrom
Pid: 23161, comm: cat Not tainted (2.6.24-rc2-8c0863403f109a43d7000b4646da4818220d501f #4)
EIP: 0060:[<c10acdda>] EFLAGS: 00210097 CPU: 1
EIP is at strnlen+0x6/0x18
EAX: 6b6b6b6b EBX: 6b6b6b6b ECX: 6b6b6b6b EDX: fffffffe
ESI: c128fa3b EDI: f380bf34 EBP: ffffffff ESP: f380be44
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
Process cat (pid: 23161, ti=f380b000 task=f38f2570 task.ti=f380b000)
Stack: c10ac4f0 00000278 c12ce000 f43cd2a8 00000163 00000000 7da86067 00000400
c128fa20 00896b18 f38325a8 c128fe20 ffffffff 00000000 c11f291e 00000400
f75be300 c128fa20 f769c9a0 c10ac779 f380bf34 f7bfee70 c1018e6b f380bf34
Call Trace:
[<c10ac4f0>] vsnprintf+0x2ad/0x49b
[<c10ac779>] vscnprintf+0x14/0x1f
[<c1018e6b>] vprintk+0xc5/0x2f9
[<c10379f1>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x0/0xab
[<c1004f44>] do_IRQ+0x9f/0xb7
[<c117db3b>] preempt_schedule_irq+0x3f/0x5b
[<c100264e>] need_resched+0x1f/0x21
[<c10190ba>] printk+0x1b/0x1f
[<c107c8ad>] de_put+0x3d/0x50
[<c107c8f8>] proc_delete_inode+0x38/0x41
[<c107c8c0>] proc_delete_inode+0x0/0x41
[<c1066298>] generic_delete_inode+0x5e/0xc6
[<c1065aa9>] iput+0x60/0x62
[<c1063c8e>] d_kill+0x2d/0x46
[<c1063fa9>] dput+0xdc/0xe4
[<c10571a1>] __fput+0xb0/0xcd
[<c1054e49>] filp_close+0x48/0x4f
[<c1055ee9>] sys_close+0x67/0xa5
[<c10026b6>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x85
=======================
Code: c9 74 0c f2 ae 74 05 bf 01 00 00 00 4f 89 fa 5f 89 d0 c3 85 c9 57 89 c7 89 d0 74 05 f2 ae 75 01 4f 89 f8 5f c3 89 c1 89 c8 eb 06 <80> 38 00 74 07 40 4a 83 fa ff 75 f4 29 c8 c3 90 90 90 57 83 c9
EIP: [<c10acdda>] strnlen+0x6/0x18 SS:ESP 0068:f380be44

Also, remove broken usage of ->deleted from reiserfs: if sget() succeeds,
module is already pinned and remove_proc_entry() can't happen => nobody
can mark PDE deleted.

Dummy proc root in netns code is not marked with refcount 1. AFAICS, we
never get it, it's just for proper /proc/net removal. I double checked
CLONE_NETNS continues to work.

Patch survives many hours of modprobe/rmmod/cat loops without new bugs
which can be attributed to refcounting.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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pid namespaces: make proc have multiple superblocks - one for each namespace

Each pid namespace have to be visible through its own proc mount. Thus we
need to have per-namespace proc trees with the

pid namespaces: make proc have multiple superblocks - one for each namespace

Each pid namespace have to be visible through its own proc mount. Thus we
need to have per-namespace proc trees with their own superblocks.

We cannot easily show different pid namespace via one global proc tree, since
each pid refers to different tasks in different namespaces. E.g. pid 1
refers to the init task in the initial namespace and to some other task when
seeing from another namespace. Moreover - pid, exisintg in one namespace may
not exist in the other.

This approach has one move advantage is that the tasks from the init namespace
can see what tasks live in another namespace by reading entries from another
proc tree.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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SLAB_PANIC more (proc, posix-timers, shmem)

These aren't modular, so SLAB_PANIC is OK.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sign

SLAB_PANIC more (proc, posix-timers, shmem)

These aren't modular, so SLAB_PANIC is OK.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Slab API: remove useless ctor parameter and reorder parameters

Slab constructors currently have a flags parameter that is never used. And
the order of the arguments is opposite to other slab functi

Slab API: remove useless ctor parameter and reorder parameters

Slab constructors currently have a flags parameter that is never used. And
the order of the arguments is opposite to other slab functions. The object
pointer is placed before the kmem_cache pointer.

Convert

ctor(void *object, struct kmem_cache *s, unsigned long flags)

to

ctor(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)

throughout the kernel

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coupla fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Fix select on /proc files without ->poll

Taneli Vähäkangas <vahakang@cs.helsinki.fi> reported that commit
786d7e1612f0b0adb6046f19b906609e4fe8b1ba aka "Fix rmmod/read/write races
in /proc entries" b

Fix select on /proc files without ->poll

Taneli Vähäkangas <vahakang@cs.helsinki.fi> reported that commit
786d7e1612f0b0adb6046f19b906609e4fe8b1ba aka "Fix rmmod/read/write races
in /proc entries" broke SBCL + SLIME combo.

The old code in do_select() used DEFAULT_POLLMASK, if couldn't find
->poll handler. The new code makes ->poll always there and returns 0 by
default, which is not correct. Return DEFAULT_POLLMASK instead.

Steps to reproduce:

install emacs, SBCL, SLIME
emacs
M-x slime in *inferior-lisp* buffer
[watch it doing "Connecting to Swank on port X.."]

Please, apply before 2.6.23.

P.S.: why SBCL can't just read(2) /proc/cpuinfo is a mystery.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: T Taneli Vahakangas <vahakang@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Fix procfs compat_ioctl regression

It is important to only provide the compat_ioctl method
if the downstream de->proc_fops does too, otherwise this
utterly confuses the logic in fs/compat_ioctl.c an

Fix procfs compat_ioctl regression

It is important to only provide the compat_ioctl method
if the downstream de->proc_fops does too, otherwise this
utterly confuses the logic in fs/compat_ioctl.c and we
end up doing the wrong thing.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().

Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f222d44bb7e2f0a559f2906191a0862d7 change. They've been
BUGs for both slab and

mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().

Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f222d44bb7e2f0a559f2906191a0862d7 change. They've been
BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
either.

This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
or the documentation references).

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

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Fix rmmod/read/write races in /proc entries

Fix following races:
===========================================
1. Write via ->write_proc sleeps in copy_from_user(). Module disappears
meanwhile. Or,

Fix rmmod/read/write races in /proc entries

Fix following races:
===========================================
1. Write via ->write_proc sleeps in copy_from_user(). Module disappears
meanwhile. Or, more generically, system call done on /proc file, method
supplied by module is called, module dissapeares meanwhile.

pde = create_proc_entry()
if (!pde)
return -ENOMEM;
pde->write_proc = ...
open
write
copy_from_user
pde = create_proc_entry();
if (!pde) {
remove_proc_entry();
return -ENOMEM;
/* module unloaded */
}
*boom*
==========================================
2. bogo-revoke aka proc_kill_inodes()

remove_proc_entry vfs_read
proc_kill_inodes [check ->f_op validness]
[check ->f_op->read validness]
[verify_area, security permissions checks]
->f_op = NULL;
if (file->f_op->read)
/* ->f_op dereference, boom */

NOTE, NOTE, NOTE: file_operations are proxied for regular files only. Let's
see how this scheme behaves, then extend if needed for directories.
Directories creators in /proc only set ->owner for them, so proxying for
directories may be unneeded.

NOTE, NOTE, NOTE: methods being proxied are ->llseek, ->read, ->write,
->poll, ->unlocked_ioctl, ->ioctl, ->compat_ioctl, ->open, ->release.
If your in-tree module uses something else, yell on me. Full audit pending.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR

SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR is always specified. No point in checking it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens

Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR

SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR is always specified. No point in checking it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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proc: remove pathetic ->deleted WARN_ON

WARN_ON(de && de->deleted); is sooo unreliable. Why?

proc_lookup remove_proc_entry
=========== =================
lock_kernel();
spin_lock(&proc_subdir_

proc: remove pathetic ->deleted WARN_ON

WARN_ON(de && de->deleted); is sooo unreliable. Why?

proc_lookup remove_proc_entry
=========== =================
lock_kernel();
spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
[find proc entry]
spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
[find proc entry]

proc_get_inode
==============
WARN_ON(de && de->deleted); ...

if (!atomic_read(&de->count))
free_proc_entry(de);
else
de->deleted = 1;

So, if you have some strange oops [1], and doesn't see this WARN_ON it means
nothing.

[1] try_module_get() of module which doesn't exist, two lines below
should suffice, or not?

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Fix race between proc_get_inode() and remove_proc_entry()

proc_lookup remove_proc_entry
=========== =================

lock_kernel();
spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
[find PDE with refcount 0]
s

Fix race between proc_get_inode() and remove_proc_entry()

proc_lookup remove_proc_entry
=========== =================

lock_kernel();
spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
[find PDE with refcount 0]
spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
[find PDE with refcount 0]
[check refcount and free PDE]
spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
proc_get_inode:
de_get(de); /* boom */

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag

I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL. It is only supported by
SLAB.

I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been fre

slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag

I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL. It is only supported by
SLAB.

I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed
to verify that the state is the constructor state again? The callback is
performed before each freeing of an object.

I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually
before the free. That also places the check near the code object
manipulation of the object.

Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was
compiled with SLAB debugging on. If there would be code in a constructor
handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on
SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code. But there is no such code
in the kernel. I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real
use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the
same effect (i.e. add debug code before kfree).

There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be
clear in fs inode caches. Remove the pointless checks (they would even be
pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors.

This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support. Remove the check for
unimplemented flags from SLUB.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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[PATCH] sysctl: reimplement the sysctl proc support

With this change the sysctl inodes can be cached and nothing needs to be done
when removing a sysctl table.

For a cost of 2K code we will save ab

[PATCH] sysctl: reimplement the sysctl proc support

With this change the sysctl inodes can be cached and nothing needs to be done
when removing a sysctl table.

For a cost of 2K code we will save about 4K of static tables (when we remove
de from ctl_table) and 70K in proc_dir_entries that we will not allocate, or
about half that on a 32bit arch.

The speed feels about the same, even though we can now cache the sysctl
dentries :(

We get the core advantage that we don't need to have a 1 to 1 mapping between
ctl table entries and proc files. Making it possible to have /proc/sys vary
depending on the namespace you are in. The currently merged namespaces don't
have an issue here but the network namespace under /proc/sys/net needs to have
different directories depending on which network adapters are visible. By
simply being a cache different directories being visible depending on who you
are is trivial to implement.

[akpm@osdl.org: fix uninitialised var]
[akpm@osdl.org: fix ARM build]
[bunk@stusta.de: make things static]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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[PATCH] Mark struct super_operations const

This patch is inspired by Arjan's "Patch series to mark struct
file_operations and struct inode_operations const".

Compile tested with gcc & sparse.

Sign

[PATCH] Mark struct super_operations const

This patch is inspired by Arjan's "Patch series to mark struct
file_operations and struct inode_operations const".

Compile tested with gcc & sparse.

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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[PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t

Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.

The patch was generated using the following script:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Replace one string by another in all

[PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t

Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.

The patch was generated using the following script:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
#

set -e

for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
quilt add $file
sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
mv /tmp/$$ $file
quilt refresh
done

The script was run like this

sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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[PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_KERNEL

SLAB_KERNEL is an alias of GFP_KERNEL.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvald

[PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_KERNEL

SLAB_KERNEL is an alias of GFP_KERNEL.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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Mark /proc MS_NOSUID and MS_NOEXEC

Not that we really need this any more, but at the same time there's no
reason not to do this.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>