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* fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c: Fix a NULL pointer dereferenceYueHaibing2019-05-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit 89189557b47b35683a27c80ee78aef18248eefb4 upstream. Syzkaller report this: sysctl could not get directory: /net//bridge -12 kasan: CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE enabled kasan: GPF could be caused by NULL-ptr deref or user memory access general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI CPU: 1 PID: 7027 Comm: syz-executor.0 Tainted: G C 5.1.0-rc3+ #8 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:__write_once_size include/linux/compiler.h:220 [inline] RIP: 0010:__rb_change_child include/linux/rbtree_augmented.h:144 [inline] RIP: 0010:__rb_erase_augmented include/linux/rbtree_augmented.h:186 [inline] RIP: 0010:rb_erase+0x5f4/0x19f0 lib/rbtree.c:459 Code: 00 0f 85 60 13 00 00 48 89 1a 48 83 c4 18 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 48 89 f2 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 75 0c 00 00 4d 85 ed 4c 89 2e 74 ce 4c 89 ea 48 RSP: 0018:ffff8881bb507778 EFLAGS: 00010206 RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff8881f224b5b8 RCX: ffffffff818f3f6a RDX: 000000000000000a RSI: 0000000000000050 RDI: ffff8881f224b568 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffed10376a0ef4 R09: ffffed10376a0ef4 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffed10376a0ef4 R12: ffff8881f224b558 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00007f3e7ce13700(0000) GS:ffff8881f7300000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fd60fbe9398 CR3: 00000001cb55c001 CR4: 00000000007606e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: erase_entry fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:178 [inline] erase_header+0xe3/0x160 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:207 start_unregistering fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:331 [inline] drop_sysctl_table+0x558/0x880 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1631 get_subdir fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1022 [inline] __register_sysctl_table+0xd65/0x1090 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1335 br_netfilter_init+0x68/0x1000 [br_netfilter] do_one_initcall+0xbc/0x47d init/main.c:901 do_init_module+0x1b5/0x547 kernel/module.c:3456 load_module+0x6405/0x8c10 kernel/module.c:3804 __do_sys_finit_module+0x162/0x190 kernel/module.c:3898 do_syscall_64+0x9f/0x450 arch/x86/entry/common.c:290 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe Modules linked in: br_netfilter(+) backlight comedi(C) hid_sensor_hub max3100 ti_ads8688 udc_core fddi snd_mona leds_gpio rc_streamzap mtd pata_netcell nf_log_common rc_winfast udp_tunnel snd_usbmidi_lib snd_usb_toneport snd_usb_line6 snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd_hwdep videobuf2_v4l2 videobuf2_common videodev media videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops rc_gadmei_rm008z 8250_of smm665 hid_tmff hid_saitek hwmon_vid rc_ati_tv_wonder_hd_600 rc_core pata_pdc202xx_old dn_rtmsg as3722 ad714x_i2c ad714x snd_soc_cs4265 hid_kensington panel_ilitek_ili9322 drm drm_panel_orientation_quirks ipack cdc_phonet usbcore phonet hid_jabra hid extcon_arizona can_dev industrialio_triggered_buffer kfifo_buf industrialio adm1031 i2c_mux_ltc4306 i2c_mux ipmi_msghandler mlxsw_core snd_soc_cs35l34 snd_soc_core snd_pcm_dmaengine snd_pcm snd_timer ac97_bus snd_compress snd soundcore gpio_da9055 uio ecdh_generic mdio_thunder of_mdio fixed_phy libphy mdio_cavium iptable_security iptable_raw iptable_mangle iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 iptable_filter bpfilter ip6_vti ip_vti ip_gre ipip sit tunnel4 ip_tunnel hsr veth netdevsim vxcan batman_adv cfg80211 rfkill chnl_net caif nlmon dummy team bonding vcan bridge stp llc ip6_gre gre ip6_tunnel tunnel6 tun joydev mousedev ppdev tpm kvm_intel kvm irqbypass crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel ide_pci_generic piix aes_x86_64 crypto_simd cryptd ide_core glue_helper input_leds psmouse intel_agp intel_gtt serio_raw ata_generic i2c_piix4 agpgart pata_acpi parport_pc parport floppy rtc_cmos sch_fq_codel ip_tables x_tables sha1_ssse3 sha1_generic ipv6 [last unloaded: br_netfilter] Dumping ftrace buffer: (ftrace buffer empty) ---[ end trace 68741688d5fbfe85 ]--- commit 23da9588037e ("fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c: fix NULL pointer dereference in put_links") forgot to handle start_unregistering() case, while header->parent is NULL, it calls erase_header() and as seen in the above syzkaller call trace, accessing &header->parent->root will trigger a NULL pointer dereference. As that commit explained, there is also no need to call start_unregistering() if header->parent is NULL. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190409153622.28112-1-yuehaibing@huawei.com Fixes: 23da9588037e ("fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c: fix NULL pointer dereference in put_links") Fixes: 0e47c99d7fe25 ("sysctl: Replace root_list with links between sysctl_table_sets") Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c: fix NULL pointer dereference in put_linksYueHaibing2019-04-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit 23da9588037ecdd4901db76a5b79a42b529c4ec3 upstream. Syzkaller reports: kasan: GPF could be caused by NULL-ptr deref or user memory access general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI CPU: 1 PID: 5373 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 5.0.0-rc8+ #3 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:put_links+0x101/0x440 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1599 Code: 00 0f 85 3a 03 00 00 48 8b 43 38 48 89 44 24 20 48 83 c0 38 48 89 c2 48 89 44 24 28 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 fe 02 00 00 48 8b 74 24 20 48 c7 c7 60 2a 9d 91 RSP: 0018:ffff8881d828f238 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff8881e01b1140 RCX: ffffffff8ee98267 RDX: 0000000000000007 RSI: ffffc90001479000 RDI: ffff8881e01b1178 RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffffed103ee27259 R09: ffffed103ee27259 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffed103ee27258 R12: fffffffffffffff4 R13: 0000000000000006 R14: ffff8881f59838c0 R15: dffffc0000000000 FS: 00007f072254f700(0000) GS:ffff8881f7100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fff8b286668 CR3: 00000001f0542002 CR4: 00000000007606e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: drop_sysctl_table+0x152/0x9f0 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1629 get_subdir fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1022 [inline] __register_sysctl_table+0xd65/0x1090 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1335 br_netfilter_init+0xbc/0x1000 [br_netfilter] do_one_initcall+0xfa/0x5ca init/main.c:887 do_init_module+0x204/0x5f6 kernel/module.c:3460 load_module+0x66b2/0x8570 kernel/module.c:3808 __do_sys_finit_module+0x238/0x2a0 kernel/module.c:3902 do_syscall_64+0x147/0x600 arch/x86/entry/common.c:290 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe RIP: 0033:0x462e99 Code: f7 d8 64 89 02 b8 ff ff ff ff c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 bc ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007f072254ec58 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000139 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000073bf00 RCX: 0000000000462e99 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000020000280 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00007f072254ec70 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f072254f6bc R13: 00000000004bcefa R14: 00000000006f6fb0 R15: 0000000000000004 Modules linked in: br_netfilter(+) dvb_usb_dibusb_mc_common dib3000mc dibx000_common dvb_usb_dibusb_common dvb_usb_dw2102 dvb_usb classmate_laptop palmas_regulator cn videobuf2_v4l2 v4l2_common snd_soc_bd28623 mptbase snd_usb_usx2y snd_usbmidi_lib snd_rawmidi wmi libnvdimm lockd sunrpc grace rc_kworld_pc150u rc_core rtc_da9063 sha1_ssse3 i2c_cros_ec_tunnel adxl34x_spi adxl34x nfnetlink lib80211 i5500_temp dvb_as102 dvb_core videobuf2_common videodev media videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops udc_core lnbp22 leds_lp3952 hid_roccat_ryos s1d13xxxfb mtd vport_geneve openvswitch nf_conncount nf_nat_ipv6 nsh geneve udp_tunnel ip6_udp_tunnel snd_soc_mt6351 sis_agp phylink snd_soc_adau1761_spi snd_soc_adau1761 snd_soc_adau17x1 snd_soc_core snd_pcm_dmaengine ac97_bus snd_compress snd_soc_adau_utils snd_soc_sigmadsp_regmap snd_soc_sigmadsp raid_class hid_roccat_konepure hid_roccat_common hid_roccat c2port_duramar2150 core mdio_bcm_unimac iptable_security iptable_raw iptable_mangle iptable_nat nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 iptable_filter bpfilter ip6_vti ip_vti ip_gre ipip sit tunnel4 ip_tunnel hsr veth netdevsim devlink vxcan batman_adv cfg80211 rfkill chnl_net caif nlmon dummy team bonding vcan bridge stp llc ip6_gre gre ip6_tunnel tunnel6 tun crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel joydev mousedev ide_pci_generic piix aesni_intel aes_x86_64 ide_core crypto_simd atkbd cryptd glue_helper serio_raw ata_generic pata_acpi i2c_piix4 floppy sch_fq_codel ip_tables x_tables ipv6 [last unloaded: lm73] Dumping ftrace buffer: (ftrace buffer empty) ---[ end trace 770020de38961fd0 ]--- A new dir entry can be created in get_subdir and its 'header->parent' is set to NULL. Only after insert_header success, it will be set to 'dir', otherwise 'header->parent' is set to NULL and drop_sysctl_table is called. However in err handling path of get_subdir, drop_sysctl_table also be called on 'new->header' regardless its value of parent pointer. Then put_links is called, which triggers NULL-ptr deref when access member of header->parent. In fact we have multiple error paths which call drop_sysctl_table() there, upon failure on insert_links() we also call drop_sysctl_table().And even in the successful case on __register_sysctl_table() we still always call drop_sysctl_table().This patch fix it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190314085527.13244-1-yuehaibing@huawei.com Fixes: 0e47c99d7fe25 ("sysctl: Replace root_list with links between sysctl_table_sets") Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com> Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.4+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c: fix potential page fault while unregistering sysctl tableDanilo Krummrich2018-05-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [ Upstream commit a0b0d1c345d0317efe594df268feb5ccc99f651e ] proc_sys_link_fill_cache() does not take currently unregistering sysctl tables into account, which might result into a page fault in sysctl_follow_link() - add a check to fix it. This bug has been present since v3.4. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180228013506.4915-1-danilokrummrich@dk-develop.de Fixes: 0e47c99d7fe25 ("sysctl: Replace root_list with links between sysctl_table_sets") Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <danilokrummrich@dk-develop.de> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: "Luis R . Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* sysctl: Drop reference added by grab_header in proc_sys_readdirZhou Chengming2017-01-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit 93362fa47fe98b62e4a34ab408c4a418432e7939 upstream. Fixes CVE-2016-9191, proc_sys_readdir doesn't drop reference added by grab_header when return from !dir_emit_dots path. It can cause any path called unregister_sysctl_table will wait forever. The calltrace of CVE-2016-9191: [ 5535.960522] Call Trace: [ 5535.963265] [<ffffffff817cdaaf>] schedule+0x3f/0xa0 [ 5535.968817] [<ffffffff817d33fb>] schedule_timeout+0x3db/0x6f0 [ 5535.975346] [<ffffffff817cf055>] ? wait_for_completion+0x45/0x130 [ 5535.982256] [<ffffffff817cf0d3>] wait_for_completion+0xc3/0x130 [ 5535.988972] [<ffffffff810d1fd0>] ? wake_up_q+0x80/0x80 [ 5535.994804] [<ffffffff8130de64>] drop_sysctl_table+0xc4/0xe0 [ 5536.001227] [<ffffffff8130de17>] drop_sysctl_table+0x77/0xe0 [ 5536.007648] [<ffffffff8130decd>] unregister_sysctl_table+0x4d/0xa0 [ 5536.014654] [<ffffffff8130deff>] unregister_sysctl_table+0x7f/0xa0 [ 5536.021657] [<ffffffff810f57f5>] unregister_sched_domain_sysctl+0x15/0x40 [ 5536.029344] [<ffffffff810d7704>] partition_sched_domains+0x44/0x450 [ 5536.036447] [<ffffffff817d0761>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x111/0x1f0 [ 5536.043844] [<ffffffff81167684>] rebuild_sched_domains_locked+0x64/0xb0 [ 5536.051336] [<ffffffff8116789d>] update_flag+0x11d/0x210 [ 5536.057373] [<ffffffff817cf61f>] ? mutex_lock_nested+0x2df/0x450 [ 5536.064186] [<ffffffff81167acb>] ? cpuset_css_offline+0x1b/0x60 [ 5536.070899] [<ffffffff810fce3d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10 [ 5536.077420] [<ffffffff817cf61f>] ? mutex_lock_nested+0x2df/0x450 [ 5536.084234] [<ffffffff8115a9f5>] ? css_killed_work_fn+0x25/0x220 [ 5536.091049] [<ffffffff81167ae5>] cpuset_css_offline+0x35/0x60 [ 5536.097571] [<ffffffff8115aa2c>] css_killed_work_fn+0x5c/0x220 [ 5536.104207] [<ffffffff810bc83f>] process_one_work+0x1df/0x710 [ 5536.110736] [<ffffffff810bc7c0>] ? process_one_work+0x160/0x710 [ 5536.117461] [<ffffffff810bce9b>] worker_thread+0x12b/0x4a0 [ 5536.123697] [<ffffffff810bcd70>] ? process_one_work+0x710/0x710 [ 5536.130426] [<ffffffff810c3f7e>] kthread+0xfe/0x120 [ 5536.135991] [<ffffffff817d4baf>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40 [ 5536.142041] [<ffffffff810c3e80>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x230/0x230 One cgroup maintainer mentioned that "cgroup is trying to offline a cpuset css, which takes place under cgroup_mutex. The offlining ends up trying to drain active usages of a sysctl table which apprently is not happening." The real reason is that proc_sys_readdir doesn't drop reference added by grab_header when return from !dir_emit_dots path. So this cpuset offline path will wait here forever. See here for details: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/04/13 Fixes: f0c3b5093add ("[readdir] convert procfs") Reported-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com> Tested-by: Yang Shukui <yangshukui@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Zhou Chengming <zhouchengming1@huawei.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* fs: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)Viresh Kumar2015-09-29
| | | | | | | | | | | IS_ERR(_OR_NULL) already contain an 'unlikely' compiler flag and there is no need to do that again from its callers. Drop it. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net> Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* sysctl: Allow creating permanently empty directories that serve as mountpoints.Eric W. Biederman2015-07-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a magic sysctl table sysctl_mount_point that when used to create a directory forces that directory to be permanently empty. Update the code to use make_empty_dir_inode when accessing permanently empty directories. Update the code to not allow adding to permanently empty directories. Update /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc to be a permanently empty directory. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
* VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotationsDavid Howells2015-04-15
| | | | | | | that's the bulk of filesystem drivers dealing with inodes of their own Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* sysctl: remove typedef ctl_tableJoe Perches2014-08-08
| | | | | | | | Remove the final user, and the typedef itself. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Don't pass inode to ->d_hash() and ->d_compare()Linus Torvalds2013-06-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | Instances either don't look at it at all (the majority of cases) or only want it to find the superblock (which can be had as dentry->d_sb). A few cases that want more are actually safe with dentry->d_inode - the only precaution needed is the check that it hadn't been replaced with NULL by rmdir() or by overwriting rename(), which case should be simply treated as cache miss. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [readdir] convert procfsAl Viro2013-06-29
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* fs/proc: clean up printksAndrew Morton2013-02-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | - use pr_foo() throughout - remove a couple of duplicated KERN_WARNINGs, via WARN(KERN_WARNING "...") - nuke a few warnings which I've never seen happen, ever. Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* new helper: file_inode(file)Al Viro2013-02-22
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* procfs: drop vmtruncateMarco Stornelli2012-12-20
| | | | | | | Removed vmtruncate Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* sysctl: Pass useful parameters to sysctl permissionsEric W. Biederman2012-11-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Current is implicitly avaiable so passing current->nsproxy isn't useful. - The ctl_table_header is needed to find how the sysctl table is connected to the rest of sysctl. - ctl_table_root is avaiable in the ctl_table_header so no need to it. With these changes it becomes possible to write a version of net_sysctl_permission that takes into account the network namespace of the sysctl table, an important feature in extending the user namespace. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* rbtree: fix incorrect rbtree node insertion in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.cMichel Lespinasse2012-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The recently added code to use rbtrees in sysctl did not follow the proper rbtree interface on insertion - it was calling rb_link_node() which inserts a new node into the binary tree, but missed the call to rb_insert_color() which properly balances the rbtree and establishes all expected rbtree invariants. I found out about this only because faulty commit also used rb_init_node(), which I am removing within this patchset. But I think it's an easy mistake to make, and it makes me wonder if we should change the rbtree API so that insertions would be done with a single rb_insert() call (even if its implementation could still inline the rb_link_node() part and call a private __rb_insert_color function to do the rebalancing). Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 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>
* rbtree: empty nodes have no colorMichel Lespinasse2012-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Empty nodes have no color. We can make use of this property to simplify the code emitted by the RB_EMPTY_NODE and RB_CLEAR_NODE macros. Also, we can get rid of the rb_init_node function which had been introduced by commit 88d19cf37952 ("timers: Add rb_init_node() to allow for stack allocated rb nodes") to avoid some issue with the empty node's color not being initialized. I'm not sure what the RB_EMPTY_NODE checks in rb_prev() / rb_next() are doing there, though. axboe introduced them in commit 10fd48f2376d ("rbtree: fixed reversed RB_EMPTY_NODE and rb_next/prev"). The way I see it, the 'empty node' abstraction is only used by rbtree users to flag nodes that they haven't inserted in any rbtree, so asking the predecessor or successor of such nodes doesn't make any sense. One final rb_init_node() caller was recently added in sysctl code to implement faster sysctl name lookups. This code doesn't make use of RB_EMPTY_NODE at all, and from what I could see it only called rb_init_node() under the mistaken assumption that such initialization was required before node insertion. [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fix net/ceph/osd_client.c build] Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* proc_sysctl.c: use BUG_ON instead of BUGPrasad Joshi2012-10-06
| | | | | | | | | The use of if (!head) BUG(); can be replaced with the single line BUG_ON(!head). Signed-off-by: Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi.linux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fs/proc: fix potential unregister_sysctl_table hangFrancesco Ruggeri2012-09-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The unregister_sysctl_table() function hangs if all references to its ctl_table_header structure are not dropped. This can happen sometimes because of a leak in proc_sys_lookup(): proc_sys_lookup() gets a reference to the table via lookup_entry(), but it does not release it when a subsequent call to sysctl_follow_link() fails. This patch fixes this leak by making sure the reference is always dropped on return. See also commit 076c3eed2c31 ("sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_lookup introducing find_entry and lookup_entry") which reorganized this code in 3.4. Tested in Linux 3.4.4. Signed-off-by: Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@aristanetworks.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* stop passing nameidata to ->lookup()Al Viro2012-07-14
| | | | | | | | | Just the flags; only NFS cares even about that, but there are legitimate uses for such argument. And getting rid of that completely would require splitting ->lookup() into a couple of methods (at least), so let's leave that alone for now... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* stop passing nameidata * to ->d_revalidate()Al Viro2012-07-14
| | | | | | Just the lookup flags. Die, bastard, die... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* userns: Convert sysctl permission checks to use kuid and kgids.Eric W. Biederman2012-05-15
| | | | | Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctlLinus Torvalds2012-03-23
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull sysctl updates from Eric Biederman: - Rewrite of sysctl for speed and clarity. Insert/remove/Lookup in sysctl are all now O(NlogN) operations, and are no longer bottlenecks in the process of adding and removing network devices. sysctl is now focused on being a filesystem instead of system call and the code can all be found in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c. Hopefully this means the code is now approachable. Much thanks is owed to Lucian Grinjincu for keeping at this until something was found that was usable. - The recent proc_sys_poll oops found by the fuzzer during hibernation is fixed. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl: (36 commits) sysctl: protect poll() in entries that may go away sysctl: Don't call sysctl_follow_link unless we are a link. sysctl: Comments to make the code clearer. sysctl: Correct error return from get_subdir sysctl: An easier to read version of find_subdir sysctl: fix memset parameters in setup_sysctl_set() sysctl: remove an unused variable sysctl: Add register_sysctl for normal sysctl users sysctl: Index sysctl directories with rbtrees. sysctl: Make the header lists per directory. sysctl: Move sysctl_check_dups into insert_header sysctl: Modify __register_sysctl_paths to take a set instead of a root and an nsproxy sysctl: Replace root_list with links between sysctl_table_sets. sysctl: Add sysctl_print_dir and use it in get_subdir sysctl: Stop requiring explicit management of sysctl directories sysctl: Add a root pointer to ctl_table_set sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_readdir in terms of first_entry and next_entry sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_lookup introducing find_entry and lookup_entry. sysctl: Normalize the root_table data structure. sysctl: Factor out insert_header and erase_header ...
| * sysctl: protect poll() in entries that may go awayLucas De Marchi2012-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Protect code accessing ctl_table by grabbing the header with grab_header() and after releasing with sysctl_head_finish(). This is needed if poll() is called in entries created by modules: currently only hostname and domainname support poll(), but this bug may be triggered when/if modules use it and if user called poll() in a file that doesn't support it. Dave Jones reported the following when using a syscall fuzzer while hibernating/resuming: RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81233e3e>] [<ffffffff81233e3e>] proc_sys_poll+0x4e/0x90 RAX: 0000000000000145 RBX: ffff88020cab6940 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ffffffff81233df0 RSI: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b RDI: ffff88020cab6940 [ ... ] Code: 00 48 89 fb 48 89 f1 48 8b 40 30 4c 8b 60 e8 b8 45 01 00 00 49 83 7c 24 28 00 74 2e 49 8b 74 24 30 48 85 f6 74 24 48 85 c9 75 32 <8b> 16 b8 45 01 00 00 48 63 d2 49 39 d5 74 10 8b 06 48 98 48 89 If an entry goes away while we are polling() it, ctl_table may not exist anymore. Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: Don't call sysctl_follow_link unless we are a link.Eric W. Biederman2012-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are no functional changes. Just code motion to make it clear that we don't follow a link between sysctl roots unless the directory entry actually is a link. Suggested-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: Comments to make the code clearer.Eric W. Biederman2012-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document get_subdir and that find_subdir alwasy takes a reference. Suggested-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: Correct error return from get_subdirEric W. Biederman2012-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When insert_header fails ensure we return the proper error value from get_subdir. In practice nothing cares, but there is no need to be sloppy. Reported-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: An easier to read version of find_subdirEric W. Biederman2012-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | Suggested-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: fix memset parameters in setup_sysctl_set()Dan Carpenter2012-01-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current code is a nop. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: remove an unused variableDan Carpenter2012-01-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | "links" is never used, so we can remove it. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: Add register_sysctl for normal sysctl usersEric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The plan is to convert all callers of register_sysctl_table and register_sysctl_paths to register_sysctl. The interface to register_sysctl is enough nicer this should make the callers a bit more readable. Additionally after the conversion the 230 lines of backwards compatibility can be removed. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: Index sysctl directories with rbtrees.Eric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | One of the most important jobs of sysctl is to export network stack tunables. Several of those tunables are per network device. In several instances people are running with 1000+ network devices in there network stacks, which makes the simple per directory linked list in sysctl a scaling bottleneck. Replace O(N^2) sysctl insertion and lookup times with O(NlogN) by using an rbtree to index the sysctl directories. Benchmark before: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.32s rmmod dummy -> 0.12s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 1m17s rmmod dummy -> 17s Benchmark after: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.074s rmmod dummy -> 0.070s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 3.4s rmmod dummy -> 0.44s Benchmark after (without dev_snmp6): make-dummies 0 9999 -> 0.75s rmmod dummy -> 0.44s make-dummies 0 99999 -> 11s rmmod dummy -> 4.3s At 10,000 dummy devices the bottleneck becomes the time to add and remove the files under /proc/sys/net/dev_snmp6. I have commented out the code that adds and removes files under /proc/sys/net/dev_snmp6 and taken measurments of creating and destroying 100,000 dummies to verify the sysctl continues to scale. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: Make the header lists per directory.Eric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Slightly enhance efficiency and clarity of the code by making the header list per directory instead of per set. Benchmark before: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.63s rmmod dummy -> 0.12s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 2m35s rmmod dummy -> 18s Benchmark after: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.32s rmmod dummy -> 0.12s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 1m17s rmmod dummy -> 17s Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: Move sysctl_check_dups into insert_headerEric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Simplify the callers of insert_header by removing explicit calls to check for duplicates and instead have insert_header do the work. This makes the code slightly more maintainable by enabling changes to data structures where the insertion of new entries without duplicate suppression is not possible. There is not always a convenient path string where insert_header is called so modify sysctl_check_dups to use sysctl_print_dir when printing the full path when a duplicate is discovered. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: Modify __register_sysctl_paths to take a set instead of a root and ↵Eric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | an nsproxy An nsproxy argument here has always been awkard and now the nsproxy argument is completely unnecessary so remove it, replacing it with the set we want the registered tables to show up in. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: Replace root_list with links between sysctl_table_sets.Eric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Piecing together directories by looking first in one directory tree, than in another directory tree and finally in a third directory tree makes it hard to verify that some directory entries are not multiply defined and makes it hard to create efficient implementations the sysctl filesystem. Replace the sysctl wide list of roots with autogenerated links from the core sysctl directory tree to the other sysctl directory trees. This simplifies sysctl directory reading and lookups as now only entries in a single sysctl directory tree need to be considered. Benchmark before: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.44s rmmod dummy -> 0.065s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 1m36s rmmod dummy -> 0.4s Benchmark after: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.63s rmmod dummy -> 0.12s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 2m35s rmmod dummy -> 18s The slowdown is caused by the lookups used in insert_headers and put_links to see if we need to add links or remove links. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: Add sysctl_print_dir and use it in get_subdirEric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When there are errors it is very nice to know the full sysctl path. Add a simple function that computes the sysctl path and prints it out. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: Stop requiring explicit management of sysctl directoriesEric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Simplify the code and the sysctl semantics by autogenerating sysctl directories when a sysctl table is registered that needs the directories and autodeleting the directories when there are no more sysctl tables registered that need them. Autogenerating directories keeps sysctl tables from depending on each other, removing all of the arcane register/unregister ordering constraints and makes it impossible to get the order wrong when reigsering and unregistering sysctl tables. Autogenerating directories yields one unique entity that dentries can point to, retaining the current effective use of the dcache. Add struct ctl_dir as the type of these new autogenerated directories. The attached_by and attached_to fields in ctl_table_header are removed as they are no longer needed. The child field in ctl_table is no longer needed by the core of the sysctl code. ctl_table.child can be removed once all of the existing users have been updated. Benchmark before: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.7s rmmod dummy -> 0.07s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 1m10s rmmod dummy -> 0.4s Benchmark after: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.44s rmmod dummy -> 0.065s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 1m36s rmmod dummy -> 0.4s Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: Add a root pointer to ctl_table_setEric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a ctl_table_root pointer to ctl_table set so it is easy to go from a ctl_table_set to a ctl_table_root. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_readdir in terms of first_entry and next_entryEric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace sysctl_head_next with first_entry and next_entry. These new iterators operate at the level of sysctl table entries and filter out any sysctl tables that should not be shown. Utilizing two specialized functions instead of a single function removes conditionals for handling awkward special cases that only come up at the beginning of iteration, making the iterators easier to read and understand. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_lookup introducing find_entry and lookup_entry.Eric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace the helpers that proc_sys_lookup uses with helpers that work in terms of an entire sysctl directory. This is worse for sysctl_lock hold times but it is much better for code clarity and the code cleanups to come. find_in_table is no longer needed so it is removed. find_entry a general helper to find entries in a directory is added. lookup_entry is a simple wrapper around find_entry that takes the sysctl_lock increases the use count if an entry is found and drops the sysctl_lock. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: Normalize the root_table data structure.Eric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Every other directory has a .child member and we look at the .child for our entries. Do the same for the root_table. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: Factor out insert_header and erase_headerEric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: Factor out init_header from __register_sysctl_pathsEric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | Factor out a routing to initialize the sysctl_table_header. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: Initial support for auto-unregistering sysctl tables.Eric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add nreg to ctl_table_header. When nreg drops to 0 the ctl_table_header will be unregistered. Factor out drop_sysctl_table from unregister_sysctl_table, and add the logic for decrementing nreg. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: A more obvious version of grab_header.Eric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of relying on sysct_head_next(NULL) to magically return the right header for the root directory instead explicitly transform NULL into the root directories header. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: Remove the now unused ctl_table parent field.Eric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While useful at one time for selinux and the sysctl sanity checks those users no longer use the parent field and we can safely remove it. Inspired-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmil.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: Improve the sysctl sanity checksEric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Stop validating subdirectories now that we only register leaf tables - Cleanup and improve the duplicate filename check. * Run the duplicate filename check under the sysctl_lock to guarantee we never add duplicate names. * Reduce the duplicate filename check to nearly O(M*N) where M is the number of entries in tthe table we are registering and N is the number of entries in the directory before we got there. - Move the duplicate filename check into it's own function and call it directtly from __register_sysctl_table - Kill the config option as the sanity checks are now cheap enough the config option is unnecessary. The original reason for the config option was because we had a huge table used to verify the proc filename to binary sysctl mapping. That table has now evolved into the binary_sysctl translation layer and is no longer part of the sysctl_check code. - Tighten up the permission checks. Guarnateeing that files only have read or write permissions. - Removed redudant check for parents having a procname as now everything has a procname. - Generalize the backtrace logic so that we print a backtrace from any failure of __register_sysctl_table that was not caused by a memmory allocation failure. The backtrace allows us to track down who erroneously registered a sysctl table. Bechmark before (CONFIG_SYSCTL_CHECK=y): make-dummies 0 999 -> 12s rmmod dummy -> 0.08s Bechmark before (CONFIG_SYSCTL_CHECK=n): make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.7s rmmod dummy -> 0.06s make-dummies 0 99999 -> 1m13s rmmod dummy -> 0.38s Benchmark after: make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.65s rmmod dummy -> 0.055s make-dummies 0 9999 -> 1m10s rmmod dummy -> 0.39s The sysctl sanity checks now impose no measurable cost. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: register only tables of sysctl filesEric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Split the registration of a complex ctl_table array which may have arbitrary numbers of directories (->child != NULL) and tables of files into a series of simpler registrations that only register tables of files. Graphically: register('dir', { + file-a + file-b + subdir1 + file-c + subdir2 + file-d + file-e }) is transformed into: wrapper->subheaders[0] = register('dir', {file1-a, file1-b}) wrapper->subheaders[1] = register('dir/subdir1', {file-c}) wrapper->subheaders[2] = register('dir/subdir2', {file-d, file-e}) return wrapper This guarantees that __register_sysctl_table will only see a simple ctl_table array with all entries having (->child == NULL). Care was taken to pass the original simple ctl_table arrays to __register_sysctl_table whenever possible. This change is derived from a similar patch written by Lucrian Grijincu. Inspired-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: Add ctl_table chains into cstring pathsEric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For any component of table passed to __register_sysctl_paths that actually serves as a path, add that to the cstring path that is passed to __register_sysctl_table. The result is that for most calls to __register_sysctl_paths we only pass a table to __register_sysctl_table that contains no child directories. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
| * sysctl: Add support for register sysctl tables with a normal cstring path.Eric W. Biederman2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make __register_sysctl_table the core sysctl registration operation and make it take a char * string as path. Now that binary paths have been banished into the real of backwards compatibility in kernel/binary_sysctl.c where they can be safely ignored there is no longer a need to use struct ctl_path to represent path names when registering ctl_tables. Start the transition to using normal char * strings to represent pathnames when registering sysctl tables. Normal strings are easier to deal with both in the internal sysctl implementation and for programmers registering sysctl tables. __register_sysctl_paths is turned into a backwards compatibility wrapper that converts a ctl_path array into a normal char * string. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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