* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6:
[SCSI] bsg: fix oops on remove
[SCSI] fusion: default MSI to disabled for SPI and FC controllers
[SCSI] ipr: Fix HDIO_GET_IDENTITY oops for SATA devices
[SCSI] mptspi: fix oops in mptspi_dv_renegotiate_work()
[SCSI] erase invalid data returned by device
The current definition of wksidarr works fine on little endian arches
(since cpu_to_le32 is a no-op there), but on big-endian arches, it fails
to compile with this error:
error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function
The problem is that this static declaration has cpu_to_le32 embedded
within it, and that expands into a function macro. We need to use
__constant_cpu_to_le32() instead.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Try this:
mount a share with unix extensions
create a file on it
umount the share
You'll get the following message in the ring buffer:
VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of cifs. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a
nice day...
...the problem is that cifs_get_inode_info_unix is creating and hashing
a new inode even when it's going to return error anyway. The first
lookup when creating a file returns an error so we end up leaking this
inode before we do the actual create. This appears to be a regression
caused by commit 0e4bbde94f.
The following patch seems to fix it for me, and fixes a minor
formatting nit as well.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix FRV irqs_disabled() to return an int, not an unsigned long to avoid
this warning:
kernel/sched.c: In function '__might_sleep':
kernel/sched.c:8198: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'long unsigned int'
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Cc: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com>
Cc: Daniel Hansel <daniel.hansel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Yeh <jason.yeh@amd.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cortland Setlow pointed out a bug in ov7670.c where the result from
ov7670_read() was just being checked for !0, rather than <0. This made me
realize that ov7670_read's semantics were rather confusing; it both fills
in 'value' with the result, and returns it. This is goes against general
kernel convention; so rather than fixing callers, let's fix the function.
This makes ov7670_read return <0 in the case of an error, and 0 upon
success. Thus, code like:
res = ov7670_read(...);
if (!res)
goto error;
..will work properly.
Signed-off-by: Cortland Setlow <csetlow@tower-research.com>
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I had 8250.nr_uarts=16 in the boot line of a test kernel and I had a weird
mysterious crash in sysfs. After taking an in-depth look I realized that
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS was set to 4 and I was walking off the end of
the serial8250_ports array.
Ouch!!!
Don't let this happen to someone else.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch is a bugfix for how defio handles multiple processes manipulating
the same framebuffer.
Thanks to Bernard Blackham for identifying this bug.
It occurs when two applications mmap the same framebuffer and concurrently
write to the same page. Normally, this doesn't occur since only a single
process mmaps the framebuffer. The symptom of the bug is that the mapping
applications will hang. The cause is that defio incorrectly tries to add the
same page twice to the pagelist. The solution I have is to walk the pagelist
and check for a duplicate before adding. Since I needed to walk the pagelist,
I now also keep the pagelist in sorted order.
Signed-off-by: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Bernard Blackham <bernard@largestprime.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Coverity CID: 1356 RESOURCE_LEAK
I found a very old patch for this that was Acked but did not get applied
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/kernel-janitors/2006-September/016362.html
There looks to be a small leak in isdn_writebuf_stub() in isdn_common.c, when
copy_from_user() returns an un-copied data length (length != 0). The below
patch should be a minimally invasive fix.
Signed-off-by: Darren Jenkins <darrenrjenkins@gmailcom>
Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Coverity CID: 2172 RESOURCE_LEAK
When pool_allocate() tries to enlarge a packet, if it can not allocate enough
memory, it returns NULL without first freeing the old packet.
This patch just frees the packet first.
Signed-off-by: Darren Jenkins <darrenrjenkins@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If you do a modremove of any sas driver, you run into an oops on
shutdown when the host is removed (coming from the host bsg device).
The root cause seems to be that there's a use after free of the
bsg_class_device: In bsg_kref_release_function, this is used (to do a
put_device(bcg->parent) after bcg->release has been called. In sas (and
possibly many other things) bcd->release frees the queue which contains
the bsg_class_device, so we get a put_device on unreferenced memory.
Fix this by taking a copy of the pointer to the parent before releasing
bsg.
Acked-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
There's a fault on the FC controllers that makes them not respond
correctly to MSI. The SPI controllers are fine, but are likely to be
onboard on older motherboards which don't handle MSI correctly, so
default both these cases to disabled. Enable by setting the module
parameter mpt_msi_enable=1.
For the SAS case, enable MSI by default, but it can be disabled by
setting the module parameter mpt_msi_enable=0.
Cc: "Prakash, Sathya" <sathya.prakash@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Fix size of LDT entries. On x86-64, ldt_desc is a double-sized descriptor.
Signed-off-by: Michael Karcher <kernel@mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch corrects the handling of write operations to the IPMI watchdog
to work as intended by returning the number of characters actually
processed. Without this patch, an "echo V >/dev/watchdog" enables the
watchdog if IPMI is providing the watchdog function.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <MRustad@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Currently, ipr does not support HDIO_GET_IDENTITY to SATA devices.
An oops occurs if userspace attempts to send the command. Since hald
issues the command, ensure we fail the ioctl in ipr. This is a
temporary solution to the oops. Once the ipr libata EH conversion
is upstream, ipr will fully support HDIO_GET_IDENTITY.
Tested-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
libata-acpi: don't call sleeping function from invalid context
Added Targa Visionary 1000 IDE adapter to pata_sis.c
libata-acpi: filter out DIPM enable
When we release the iclog, we do an atomic_dec_and_lock to determine if
we are the last reference and need to trigger update of log headers and
writeout. However, in xlog_state_get_iclog_space() we also need to
check if we have the last reference count there. If we do, we release
the log buffer, otherwise we decrement the reference count.
But the compare and decrement in xlog_state_get_iclog_space() is not
atomic, so both places can see a reference count of 2 and neither will
release the iclog. That leads to a filesystem hang.
Close the race by replacing the atomic_read() and atomic_dec() pair with
atomic_add_unless() to ensure that they are executed atomically.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Tested-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The sched_clock code currently tries to keep all CPU clocks of all CPUS
somewhat in sync. At every clock tick it records the gtod clock and
uses that and jiffies and the TSC to calculate a CPU clock that tries to
stay in sync with all the other CPUs.
ftrace depends heavily on this timer and it detects when this timer
"jumps". One problem is that the TSC and the gtod also drift.
When the TSC is 0.1% faster or slower than the gtod it is very noticeable
in ftrace. To help compensate for this, I've added a multiplier that
tries to keep the CPU clock updating at the same rate as the gtod.
I've tried various ways to get it to be in sync and this ended up being
the most reliable. At every scheduler tick we calculate the new multiplier:
multi = delta_gtod / delta_TSC
This means we perform a 64 bit divide at the tick (once a HZ). A shift
is used to handle the accuracy.
Other methods that failed due to dynamic HZ are:
(not used) multi += (gtod - tsc) / delta_gtod
(not used) multi += (gtod - (last_tsc + delta_tsc)) / delta_gtod
as well as other variants.
This code still allows for a slight drift between TSC and gtod, but
it keeps the damage down to a minimum.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To read the gtod we need to grab the xtime lock for read. Reading the gtod
before the TSC can cause a bigger gab if the xtime lock is contended.
This patch simply reverses the order to read the TSC after the gtod.
The locking in the reading of the gtod handles any barriers one might
think is needed.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reading the CPU clock should try to stay accurate within the CPU.
By reading the CPU clock from another CPU and updating the deltas can
cause unneeded jumps when reading from the local CPU.
This patch changes the code to update the last read TSC only when read
from the local CPU.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The algorithm to calculate the 'now' of another CPU is not correct.
At each scheduler tick, each CPU records the last sched_clock and
gtod (tick_raw and tick_gtod respectively). If the TSC is somewhat the
same in speed between two clocks the algorithm would be:
tick_gtod1 + (now1 - tick_raw1) = tick_gtod2 + (now2 - tick_raw2)
To calculate now2 we would have:
now2 = (tick_gtod1 - tick_gtod2) + (tick_raw2 - tick_raw1) + now1
Currently the algorithm is:
now2 = (tick_gtod1 - tick_gtod2) + (tick_raw1 - tick_raw2) + now1
This solves most of the rest of the issues I've had with timestamps in
ftace.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Working with ftrace I would get large jumps of 11 millisecs or more with
the clock tracer. This killed the latencing timings of ftrace and also
caused the irqoff self tests to fail.
What was happening is with NO_HZ the idle would stop the jiffy counter and
before the jiffy counter was updated the sched_clock would have a bad
delta jiffies to compare with the gtod with the maximum.
The jiffies would stop and the last sched_tick would record the last gtod.
On wakeup, the sched clock update would compare the gtod + delta jiffies
(which would be zero) and compare it to the TSC. The TSC would have
correctly (with a stable TSC) moved forward several jiffies. But because the
jiffies has not been updated yet the clock would be prevented from moving
forward because it would appear that the TSC jumped too far ahead.
The clock would then virtually stop, until the jiffies are updated. Then
the next sched clock update would see that the clock was very much behind
since the delta jiffies is now correct. This would then jump the clock
forward by several jiffies.
This caused ftrace to report several milliseconds of interrupts off
latency at every resume from NO_HZ idle.
This patch adds hooks into the nohz code to disable the checking of the
maximum clock update when nohz is in effect. It resumes the max check
when nohz has updated the jiffies again.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
With keeping the max and min sched time within one jiffy of the gtod clock
was too tight. Just before a schedule tick the max could easily be hit, as
well as just after a schedule_tick the min could be hit. This caused the
clock to jump around by a jiffy.
This patch widens the minimum to
last gtod + (delta_jiffies ? delta_jiffies - 1 : 0) * TICK_NSECS
and the maximum to
last gtod + (2 + delta_jiffies) * TICK_NSECS
This keeps the minum to gtod or if one jiffy less than delta jiffies
and the maxim 2 jiffies ahead of gtod. This may cause unstable TSCs to be
a bit more sporadic, but it helps keep a clock with a stable TSC working well.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The sched_clock code tries to keep within the gtod time by one tick (jiffy).
The current code mistakenly keeps track of the delta jiffies between
updates of the clock, where the the delta is used to compare with the
number of jiffies that have past since an update of the gtod. The gtod is
updated at each schedule tick not each sched_clock update. After one
jiffy passes the clock is updated fine. But the delta is taken from the
last update so if the next update happens before the next tick the delta
jiffies used will be incorrect.
This patch changes the code to check the delta of jiffies between ticks
and not updates to match the comparison of the updates with the gtod.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The problem is introduced by commit
664d080c41.
acpi_evaluate_integer is a sleeping function,
and it should not be called with spin_lock_irqsave.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451399
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Some BIOSen enable DIPM via _GTF which causes command timeouts under
certain configuration. This didn't occur on 2.6.25 because 2.6.25
defaulted to SRST, so _GTF wasn't executed during boot probe, so ahci
host reset disabled DIPM and as _GTF wasn't executed after SRST, DIPM
wasn't enabled. On 2.6.26, hardreset is used during probe and after
probe _GTF is executed enabling DIPM and thus the failures.
This patch could theoretically disable DIPM on machines which used to
have it enabled on 2.6.25 but AFAIK ahci is currently the only driver
which uses SATA ACPI hierarchy (_SDD) and as the host reset would have
always disabled DIPM, this shouldn't happen.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
The IRQ rate reported back by the RTC is incorrect when HPET is enabled.
Newer hardware that has HPET to emulate the legacy RTC device gets this value
wrong since after it sets the rate, it returns before setting the variable
used to report the IRQ rate back to users of the device -- so the set rate and
the reported rate get out of sync.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (27 commits)
tun: Persistent devices can get stuck in xoff state
xfrm: Add a XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag to xfrm_usersa_info
ipv6: missed namespace context in ipv6_rthdr_rcv
netlabel: netlink_unicast calls kfree_skb on error path by itself
ipv4: fib_trie: Fix lookup error return
tcp: correct kcalloc usage
ip: sysctl documentation cleanup
Documentation: clarify tcp_{r,w}mem sysctl docs
netfilter: nf_nat_snmp_basic: fix a range check in NAT for SNMP
netfilter: nf_conntrack_tcp: fix endless loop
libertas: fix memory alignment problems on the blackfin
zd1211rw: stop beacons on remove_interface
rt2x00: Disable synchronization during initialization
rc80211_pid: Fix fast_start parameter handling
sctp: Add documentation for sctp sysctl variable
ipv6: fix race between ipv6_del_addr and DAD timer
irda: Fix netlink error path return value
irda: New device ID for nsc-ircc
irda: via-ircc proper dma freeing
sctp: Mark the tsn as received after all allocations finish
...
The scenario goes like this. App stops reading from tun/tap.
TX queue gets full and driver does netif_stop_queue().
App closes fd and TX queue gets flushed as part of the cleanup.
Next time the app opens tun/tap and starts reading from it but
the xoff state is not cleared. We're stuck.
Normally xoff state is cleared when netdev is brought up. But
in the case of persistent devices this happens only during
initial setup.
The fix is trivial. If device is already up when an app opens
it we clear xoff state and that gets things moving again.
Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add a XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag to handle the AF_UNSPEC behavior for
the selector family. Userspace applications can set this flag to leave
the selector family of the xfrm_state unspecified. This can be used
to to handle inter family tunnels if the selector is not set from
userspace.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
So, no need to kfree_skb here on the error path. In this case we can
simply return.
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In commit a07f5f508a "[IPV4] fib_trie: style
cleanup", the changes to check_leaf() and fn_trie_lookup() were wrong - where
fn_trie_lookup() would previously return a negative error value from
check_leaf(), it now returns 0.
Now fn_trie_lookup() doesn't appear to care about plen, so we can revert
check_leaf() to returning the error value.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Tested-by: William Boughton <bill@boughton.de>
Acked-by: Stephen Heminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
kcalloc is supposed to be called with the count as its first argument and
the element size as the second.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reduced version of the spelling cleanup patch.
Take out the confusing language in tcp_frto, and organize the
undocumented values.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix some of the defaults and attempt to clarify some language.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Vegard Nossum reported a crash in kmem_cache_alloc():
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at da87d000
IP: [<c01991c7>] kmem_cache_alloc+0xc7/0xe0
*pde = 28180163 *pte = 1a87d160
Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Pid: 3850, comm: grep Not tainted (2.6.26-rc9-00059-gb190333 #5)
EIP: 0060:[<c01991c7>] EFLAGS: 00210203 CPU: 0
EIP is at kmem_cache_alloc+0xc7/0xe0
EAX: 00000000 EBX: da87c100 ECX: 1adad71a EDX: 6b6b6b6b
ESI: 00200282 EDI: da87d000 EBP: f60bfe74 ESP: f60bfe54
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
and analyzed it:
"The register %ecx looks innocent but is very important here. The disassembly:
mov %edx,%ecx
shr $0x2,%ecx
rep stos %eax,%es:(%edi) <-- the fault
So %ecx has been loaded from %edx... which is 0x6b6b6b6b/POISON_FREE.
(0x6b6b6b6b >> 2 == 0x1adadada.)
%ecx is the counter for the memset, from here:
memset(object, 0, c->objsize);
i.e. %ecx was loaded from c->objsize, so "c" must have been freed.
Where did "c" come from? Uh-oh...
c = get_cpu_slab(s, smp_processor_id());
This looks like it has very much to do with CPU hotplug/unplug. Is
there a race between SLUB/hotplug since the CPU slab is used after it
has been freed?"
Good analysis.
Yeah, it's possible that a caller of kmem_cache_alloc() -> slab_alloc()
can be migrated on another CPU right after local_irq_restore() and
before memset(). The inital cpu can become offline in the mean time (or
a migration is a consequence of the CPU going offline) so its
'kmem_cache_cpu' structure gets freed ( slab_cpuup_callback).
At some point of time the caller continues on another CPU having an
obsolete pointer...
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Kernel Bugzilla #11063 points out that on some architectures (e.g. x86_32)
exec'ing an ELF without a PT_GNU_STACK program header should default to an
executable stack; but this got broken by the unlimited argv feature because
stack vma is now created before the right personality has been established:
so breaking old binaries using nested function trampolines.
Therefore re-evaluate VM_STACK_FLAGS in setup_arg_pages, where stack
vm_flags used to be set, before the mprotect_fixup. Checking through
our existing VM_flags, none would have changed since insert_vm_struct:
so this seems safer than finding a way through the personality labyrinth.
Reported-by: pageexec@freemail.hu
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
