kernel/ipc, branch linux-2.6.26.y

/proc/sysvipc/shm: fix 32-bit truncation of segment sizes

2008-06-13T01:05:41Z

sysvipc_shm_proc_show() picks between format strings (based on the expected maximum length of a SHM segment) in a way that prevents gcc from performing format checks on the seq_printf() parameters. This hid two format errors - shp->shm_segsz and shp->shm_nattach are both unsigned long, but were being printed as unsigned int and signed int respectively. This leads to 32-bit truncation of SHM segment sizes reported in /proc/sysvipc/shm. (And for nattach, but that's less of a problem for most users). This patch makes the format string directly visible to gcc's format specifier checker, and fixes the two broken format specifiers. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage Cc: Nadia Derbey Cc: Manfred Spraul Cc: Pierre Peiffer Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

shm: Remove silly double assignment

2008-06-10T14:58:00Z

Found a silly double assignment of err is do_shmat. Silly, but good to clean up the useless code. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc: only output msgmni value at boot time

2008-06-06T18:29:12Z

When posting: [PATCH 1/8] Scaling msgmni to the amount of lowmem (see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/11/171), I have added a KERN_INFO message that is output each time msgmni is recomputed. In http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/29/575 Tony Luck complained that this message references an ipc namespace address that is useless. I first thought of using an audit_log instead of a printk, as suggested by Serge Hallyn. But unfortunately, we do not have any other information than the namespace address to provide here too. So I chose to move the message and output it only at boot time, removing the reference to the namespace. Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey Cc: Pierre Peiffer Cc: Manfred Spraul Acked-by: Tony Luck Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tiny mq_open optimization

2008-05-03T20:50:33Z

A very small cleanup for mq_open. We do not have to call set_close_on_exit if we create the file descriptor right away with the flag set. We have a function for this now. The resulting code is smaller and a tiny bit faster. Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sysvipc: use non-racy method for proc entries creation

2008-04-29T15:06:20Z

Use proc_create_data() to make sure that ->proc_fops and ->data be setup before gluing PDE to main tree. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Nadia Derbey Cc: Pierre Peiffer Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc: sysvsem: implement sys_unshare(CLONE_SYSVSEM)

2008-04-29T15:06:14Z

sys_unshare(CLONE_NEWIPC) doesn't handle the undo lists properly, this can cause a kernel memory corruption. CLONE_NEWIPC must detach from the existing undo lists. Fix, part 1: add support for sys_unshare(CLONE_SYSVSEM) The original reason to not support it was the potential (inevitable?) confusion due to the fact that sys_unshare(CLONE_SYSVSEM) has the inverse meaning of clone(CLONE_SYSVSEM). Our two most reasonable options then appear to be (1) fully support CLONE_SYSVSEM, or (2) continue to refuse explicit CLONE_SYSVSEM, but always do it anyway on unshare(CLONE_SYSVSEM). This patch does (1). Changelog: Apr 16: SEH: switch to Manfred's alternative patch which removes the unshare_semundo() function which always refused CLONE_SYSVSEM. Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Michael Kerrisk Cc: Pierre Peiffer Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc: add definitions of USHORT_MAX and others

2008-04-29T15:06:14Z

Add definitions of USHORT_MAX and others into kernel. ipc uses it and slub implementation might also use it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Nadia Derbey Cc: "Pierre Peiffer" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

IPC: consolidate all xxxctl_down() functions

2008-04-29T15:06:14Z

semctl_down(), msgctl_down() and shmctl_down() are used to handle the same set of commands for each kind of IPC. They all start to do the same job (they retrieve the ipc and do some permission checks) before handling the commands on their own. This patch proposes to consolidate this by moving these same pieces of code into one common function called ipcctl_pre_down(). It simplifies a little these xxxctl_down() functions and increases a little the maintainability. Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Cc: Nadia Derbey Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

IPC: introduce ipc_update_perm()

2008-04-29T15:06:13Z

The IPC_SET command performs the same permission setting for all IPCs. This patch introduces a common ipc_update_perm() function to update these permissions and makes use of it for all IPCs. Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Cc: Nadia Derbey Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

IPC: get rid of the use *_setbuf structure.

2008-04-29T15:06:13Z

All IPCs make use of an intermetiate *_setbuf structure to handle the IPC_SET command. This is not really needed and, moreover, it complicates a little bit the code. This patch gets rid of the use of it and uses directly the semid64_ds/ msgid64_ds/shmid64_ds structure. In addition of removing one struture declaration, it also simplifies and improves a little bit the common 64-bits path. Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Cc: Nadia Derbey Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds