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  1. Oct 26, 2012
    • Aristeu Rozanski's avatar
      device_cgroup: add proper checking when changing default behavior · 4cef7299
      Aristeu Rozanski authored 
      

Before changing a group's default behavior to ALLOW, we must check if
its parent's behavior is also ALLOW.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: default avatarSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      4cef7299
    • Aristeu Rozanski's avatar
      device_cgroup: stop using simple_strtoul() · 26fd8405
      Aristeu Rozanski authored 
      

Convert the code to use kstrtou32() instead of simple_strtoul() which is
deprecated.  The real size of the variables are u32, so use kstrtou32
instead of kstrtoul

Signed-off-by: default avatarAristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: default avatarSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      26fd8405
    • Aristeu Rozanski's avatar
      device_cgroup: rename deny_all to behavior · 5b7aa7d5
      Aristeu Rozanski authored 
      

This was done in a v2 patch but v1 ended up being committed.  The
variable name is less confusing and stores the default behavior when no
matching exception exists.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: default avatarSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5b7aa7d5
    • Jiri Slaby's avatar
      cgroup: fix invalid rcu dereference · 8c9506d1
      Jiri Slaby authored 
      

Commit ad676077 ("device_cgroup: convert device_cgroup internally to
policy + exceptions") removed rcu locks which are needed in
task_devcgroup called in this chain:

  devcgroup_inode_mknod OR __devcgroup_inode_permission ->
    __devcgroup_inode_permission ->
      task_devcgroup ->
        task_subsys_state ->
          task_subsys_state_check.

Change the code so that task_devcgroup is safely called with rcu read
lock held.

  ===============================
  [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
  3.6.0-rc5-next-20120913+ #42 Not tainted
  -------------------------------
  include/linux/cgroup.h:553 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!

  other info that might help us debug this:

  rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
  2 locks held by kdevtmpfs/23:
   #0:  (sb_writers){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff8116873f>]
  mnt_want_write+0x1f/0x50
   #1:  (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#3/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff811558af>]
  kern_path_create+0x7f/0x170

  stack backtrace:
  Pid: 23, comm: kdevtmpfs Not tainted 3.6.0-rc5-next-20120913+ #42
  Call Trace:
    lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xfd/0x130
    devcgroup_inode_mknod+0x19d/0x240
    vfs_mknod+0x71/0xf0
    handle_create.isra.2+0x72/0x200
    devtmpfsd+0x114/0x140
    ? handle_create.isra.2+0x200/0x200
    kthread+0xd6/0xe0
    kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10

Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: default avatarSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8c9506d1
    • Jan Kara's avatar
      mm: fix XFS oops due to dirty pages without buffers on s390 · ef5d437f
      Jan Kara authored 
      

On s390 any write to a page (even from kernel itself) sets architecture
specific page dirty bit.  Thus when a page is written to via buffered
write, HW dirty bit gets set and when we later map and unmap the page,
page_remove_rmap() finds the dirty bit and calls set_page_dirty().

Dirtying of a page which shouldn't be dirty can cause all sorts of
problems to filesystems.  The bug we observed in practice is that
buffers from the page get freed, so when the page gets later marked as
dirty and writeback writes it, XFS crashes due to an assertion
BUG_ON(!PagePrivate(page)) in page_buffers() called from
xfs_count_page_state().

Similar problem can also happen when zero_user_segment() call from
xfs_vm_writepage() (or block_write_full_page() for that matter) set the
hardware dirty bit during writeback, later buffers get freed, and then
page unmapped.

Fix the issue by ignoring s390 HW dirty bit for page cache pages of
mappings with mapping_cap_account_dirty().  This is safe because for
such mappings when a page gets marked as writeable in PTE it is also
marked dirty in do_wp_page() or do_page_fault().  When the dirty bit is
cleared by clear_page_dirty_for_io(), the page gets writeprotected in
page_mkclean().  So pagecache page is writeable if and only if it is
dirty.

Thanks to Hugh Dickins for pointing out mapping has to have
mapping_cap_account_dirty() for things to work and proposing a cleaned
up variant of the patch.

The patch has survived about two hours of running fsx-linux on tmpfs
while heavily swapping and several days of running on out build machines
where the original problem was triggered.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>		[3.0+]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ef5d437f
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