I'm currently at the POSIX meeting and one thing covered was the
incompatibility of Linux's link() with the POSIX definition. The name.
Linux does not follow symlinks, POSIX requires it does.
Even if somebody thinks this is a good default behavior we cannot change this
because it would break the ABI. But the fact remains that some application
might want this behavior.
We have one chance to help implementing this without breaking the behavior.
For this we could use the new linkat interface which would need a new
flags parameter. If the new parameter is AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW the new
behavior could be invoked.
I do not want to introduce such a patch now. But we could add the
parameter now, just don't use it. The patch below would do this. Can we
get this late patch applied before the release more or less fixes the
syscall API?
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The last argument of div_long_long_rem() must be long.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
A recent patch introduced cpu topology in sysfs. When you run a kernel
with SMP and sysfs enabled, you now get an Oops on boot. The following
patch fixes that by adding topology_init to arch/mips/kernel/smp.c. The
code is copied from arch/s390/kernel/smp.c.
Signed-off-by: Rojhalat Ibrahim <imr@rtschenk.de>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Originally found through an oops in the Gentoo N32 userland build; patch
based on original patch by Daniel Jacobwitz.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
do_signal has been changed to return void since the "return value is
ignored everywhere". Convert do_signal32 accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Following the recent implementation of TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK in
arch/mips/kernel/signal.c, 64-bit kernels with 32-bit user-land
compatibility oops when starting init. signal32.c needs to be
converted to use TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK too.
Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Implement get_wchan() and frame_info_init() using kallsyms_lookup().
This fixes problem with static sched/lock functions and mfinfo[]
maintenance issue. If CONFIG_KALLSYMS was disabled, get_wchan() just
returns thread_saved_pc() value.
Also unwind stackframe based on "addiu sp,-imm" analysis instead of
frame pointer. This fixes problem with functions compiled without
-fomit-frame-pointer.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The reset state is undefined and some firmware doesn't clear this bit
possibly resulting in crashes on entry into userland.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Very much to my surprise Fuxin Zhang reports this is all it takes to get
the kernel to work for page sizes larger than 4kB. This also paves the
way for support for the R6000 and R8000 which don't support 4kB page size.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
arch: Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Now that all these entries in the arch ioctl32.c files are gone [1], we can
build fs/compat_ioctl.c as a normal object and kill tons of cruft. We need a
special do_ioctl32_pointer handler for s390 so the compat_ptr call is done.
This is not needed but harmless on all other architectures. Also remove some
superflous includes in fs/compat_ioctl.c
Tested on ppc64.
[1] parisc still had it's PPP handler left, which is not fully correct
for ppp and besides that ppp uses the generic SIOCPRIV ioctl so it'd
kick in for all netdevice users. We can introduce a proper handler
in one of the next patch series by adding a compat_ioctl method to
struct net_device but for now let's just kill it - parisc doesn't
compile in mainline anyway and I don't want this to block this
patchset.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
dump_regs() is used by a bunch of drivers for their internal stuff;
renamed mips instance (one that is seen in system-wide headers)
to elf_dump_regs()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
used_dsp was meant to be used like used_math - but since the FPU context
is small and lazy context switching is a stupid idea on multiprocessors
this idea only got halfway implemented and those bits are were now
breaking ptrace.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The ptrace_get_task_struct() helper that I added as part of the ptrace
consolidation is useful in variety of places that currently opencode it.
Switch them to the common helpers.
Add a ptrace_traceme() helper that needs to be explicitly called, and simplify
the ptrace_get_task_struct() interface. We don't need the request argument
now, and we return the task_struct directly, using ERR_PTR() for error
returns. It's a bit more code in the callers, but we have two sane routines
that do one thing well now.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
In particular, allow over-large read- or write-requests to be downgraded
to a more reasonable range, rather than considering them outright errors.
We want to protect lower layers from (the sadly all too common) overflow
conditions, but prefer to do so by chopping the requests up, rather than
just refusing them outright.
Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
