)]}' { "log": [ { "commit": "59cd0cbc75367b82f704f63b104117462275060d", "tree": "695c4f7af4cf840a7e22e7767e1b5705e0b6d8d1", "parents": [ "7695650a924a6859910c8c19dfa43b4d08224d66" ], "author": { "name": "Darrick J. Wong", "email": "djwong@us.ibm.com", "time": "Tue May 08 00:25:47 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue May 08 11:15:02 2007 -0700" }, "message": "Fix race between proc_readdir and remove_proc_entry\n\nFix the following race:\n\nproc_readdir\t\t\t\tremove_proc_entry\n\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\t\t\t\t\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\n\nspin_lock(\u0026proc_subdir_lock);\n[choose PDE to start filldir from]\nspin_unlock(\u0026proc_subdir_lock);\n\t\t\t\t\tspin_lock(\u0026proc_subdir_lock);\n\t\t\t\t\t[find PDE]\n\t\t\t\t\t[free PDE, refcount is 0]\n\t\t\t\t\tspin_unlock(\u0026proc_subdir_lock);\n\t\t /* boom */\nif (filldir(dirent, de-\u003ename, ...\n\n[de_put on error path --adobriyan]\nSigned-off-by: Darrick J. Wong \u003cdjwong@us.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan \u003cadobriyan@sw.ru\u003e\nCc: \"Eric W. Biederman\" \u003cebiederm@xmission.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "7695650a924a6859910c8c19dfa43b4d08224d66", "tree": "5947c3e1b24600b6440468c11b30feeef31eee2c", "parents": [ "79c0b2df79eb56fc71e54c75cd7fb3acf84370f9" ], "author": { "name": "Alexey Dobriyan", "email": "adobriyan@openvz.org", "time": "Tue May 08 00:25:45 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue May 08 11:15:01 2007 -0700" }, "message": "Fix race between proc_get_inode() and remove_proc_entry()\n\nproc_lookup\t\t\t\tremove_proc_entry\n\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\t\t\t\t\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\u003d\n\nlock_kernel();\nspin_lock(\u0026proc_subdir_lock);\n[find PDE with refcount 0]\nspin_unlock(\u0026proc_subdir_lock);\n\t\t\t\t\tspin_lock(\u0026proc_subdir_lock);\n\t\t\t\t\t[find PDE with refcount 0]\n\t\t\t\t\t[check refcount and free PDE]\n\t\t\t\t\tspin_unlock(\u0026proc_subdir_lock);\nproc_get_inode:\n\tde_get(de); /* boom */\n\nSigned-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan \u003cadobriyan@openvz.org\u003e\nCc: \"Eric W. Biederman\" \u003cebiederm@xmission.com\u003e\nCc: Oleg Nesterov \u003coleg@tv-sign.ru\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "77b14db502cb85a031fe8fde6c85d52f3e0acb63", "tree": "4201f6a4dfe1062d1dc00659c403d630401b87cc", "parents": [ "1ff007eb8e8c7c44e9a384a67d0fdd0fd06ba811" ], "author": { "name": "Eric W. Biederman", "email": "ebiederm@xmission.com", "time": "Wed Feb 14 00:34:12 2007 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Wed Feb 14 08:10:00 2007 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] sysctl: reimplement the sysctl proc support\n\nWith this change the sysctl inodes can be cached and nothing needs to be done\nwhen removing a sysctl table.\n\nFor a cost of 2K code we will save about 4K of static tables (when we remove\nde from ctl_table) and 70K in proc_dir_entries that we will not allocate, or\nabout half that on a 32bit arch.\n\nThe speed feels about the same, even though we can now cache the sysctl\ndentries :(\n\nWe get the core advantage that we don\u0027t need to have a 1 to 1 mapping between\nctl table entries and proc files. Making it possible to have /proc/sys vary\ndepending on the namespace you are in. The currently merged namespaces don\u0027t\nhave an issue here but the network namespace under /proc/sys/net needs to have\ndifferent directories depending on which network adapters are visible. By\nsimply being a cache different directories being visible depending on who you\nare is trivial to implement.\n\n[akpm@osdl.org: fix uninitialised var]\n[akpm@osdl.org: fix ARM build]\n[bunk@stusta.de: make things static]\nSigned-off-by: Eric W. Biederman \u003cebiederm@xmission.com\u003e\nCc: Russell King \u003crmk@arm.linux.org.uk\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "c5ef1c42c51b1b5b4a401a6517bdda30933ddbaf", "tree": "e1a9804a8af427f700aaba4b386cf8679b317e83", "parents": [ "92e1d5be91a0e3ffa5c4697eeb09b2aa22792122" ], "author": { "name": "Arjan van de Ven", "email": "arjan@linux.intel.com", "time": "Mon Feb 12 00:55:40 2007 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon Feb 12 09:48:46 2007 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 3\n\nMany struct inode_operations in the kernel can be \"const\". Marking them const\nmoves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential\ndirty data. In addition it\u0027ll catch accidental writes at compile time to\nthese shared resources.\n\nSigned-off-by: Arjan van de Ven \u003carjan@linux.intel.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "00977a59b951207d38380c75f03a36829950265c", "tree": "26933feafebffca95df02c19df03f5e56aada47e", "parents": [ "d54b1fdb1d9f82e375a299e22bd366aad52d4c34" ], "author": { "name": "Arjan van de Ven", "email": "arjan@linux.intel.com", "time": "Mon Feb 12 00:55:34 2007 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon Feb 12 09:48:45 2007 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 6\n\nMany struct file_operations in the kernel can be \"const\". Marking them const\nmoves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential\ndirty data. In addition it\u0027ll catch accidental writes at compile time to\nthese shared resources.\n\nSigned-off-by: Arjan van de Ven \u003carjan@linux.intel.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "2fddfeefeed703b7638af97aa3048f82a2d53b03", "tree": "a58e1f032b3754d4c55556578a96a32a6f1715ee", "parents": [ "f427f5d5d6b0eb729505a2d9c0a6cad22734a74c" ], "author": { "name": "Josef \"Jeff\" Sipek", "email": "jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu", "time": "Fri Dec 08 02:36:36 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Dec 08 08:28:41 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] proc: change uses of f_{dentry, vfsmnt} to use f_path\n\nChange all the uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to f_path.{dentry,mnt} in the proc\nfilesystem code.\n\nSigned-off-by: Josef \"Jeff\" Sipek \u003cjsipek@cs.sunysb.edu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "99ac48f54a91d02140c497edc31dc57d4bc5c85d", "tree": "68719391694a6914191bdf73d2071875f7653f6f", "parents": [ "ec1b9466cb4f6ae6d950bd67055d9410d1056d2a" ], "author": { "name": "Arjan van de Ven", "email": "arjan@infradead.org", "time": "Tue Mar 28 01:56:41 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Tue Mar 28 09:16:05 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] mark f_ops const in the inode\n\nMark the f_ops members of inodes as const, as well as fix the\nripple-through this causes by places that copy this f_ops and then \"do\nstuff\" with it.\n\nSigned-off-by: Arjan van de Ven \u003carjan@infradead.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan \u003cadobriyan@gmail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "64a07bd82ed526d813b64b0957543eef55bdf9c0", "tree": "451586526696bc4a80d8a9f4c50460ae2d4e92eb", "parents": [ "cd7b24bb1891a10ee25168a912ff2304a9571d23" ], "author": { "name": "Steven Rostedt", "email": "rostedt@goodmis.org", "time": "Sun Mar 26 01:36:55 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sun Mar 26 08:56:53 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] protect remove_proc_entry\n\nIt has been discovered that the remove_proc_entry has a race in the removing\nof entries in the proc file system that are siblings. There\u0027s no protection\naround the traversing and removing of elements that belong in the same\nsubdirectory.\n\nThis subdirectory list is protected in other areas by the BKL. So the BKL was\nat first used to protect this area too, but unfortunately, remove_proc_entry\nmay be called with spinlocks held. The BKL may schedule, so this was not a\nsolution.\n\nThe final solution was to add a new global spin lock to protect this list,\ncalled proc_subdir_lock. This lock now protects the list in\nremove_proc_entry, and I also went around looking for other areas that this\nlist is modified and added this protection there too. Care must be taken\nsince these locations call several functions that may also schedule.\n\nSince I don\u0027t see any location that these functions that modify the\nsubdirectory list are called by interrupts, the irqsave/restore versions of\nthe spin lock was _not_ used.\n\nSigned-off-by: Steven Rostedt \u003crostedt@goodmis.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "fee781e6c25772db862d3322b4745a896022a4f1", "tree": "ab1d3ea15594c684eb054bd333a8a38d2ab873a6", "parents": [ "80851ef2a5a404e6054211ca96ecd5ac4b06d297" ], "author": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@stusta.de", "time": "Sun Jan 08 01:04:16 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sun Jan 08 20:14:03 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] fs/proc/: function prototypes belong in header files\n\nFunction prototypes belong into header files.\n\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@stusta.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "8b90db0df7187a01fb7177f1f812123138f562cf", "tree": "8d7029403cc50d822bc22085202bfdbf6110203b", "parents": [ "40c37213a081990b1d3778f57630f97df75a7ec1" ], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Dec 30 08:39:10 2005 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Dec 30 08:39:10 2005 -0800" }, "message": "Insanity avoidance in /proc\n\nThe old /proc interfaces were never updated to use loff_t, and are just\ngenerally broken. Now, we should be using the seq_file interface for\nall of the proc files, but converting the legacy functions is more work\nthan most people care for and has little upside..\n\nBut at least we can make the non-LFS rules explicit, rather than just\ninsanely wrapping the offset or something.\n\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "2f51201662b28dbf8c15fb7eb972bc51c6cc3fa5", "tree": "96826df796058560bc5dd1f7d8d476c5a741d7bc", "parents": [ "503af334ecf23b9d65d2ff0cc759f3a0bf338290" ], "author": { "name": "Eric Dumazet", "email": "dada1@cosmosbay.com", "time": "Sun Oct 30 15:02:16 2005 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sun Oct 30 17:37:19 2005 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] reduce sizeof(struct file)\n\nNow that RCU applied on \u0027struct file\u0027 seems stable, we can place f_rcuhead\nin a memory location that is not anymore used at call_rcu(\u0026f-\u003ef_rcuhead,\nfile_free_rcu) time, to reduce the size of this critical kernel object.\n\nThe trick I used is to move f_rcuhead and f_list in an union called f_u\n\nThe callers are changed so that f_rcuhead becomes f_u.fu_rcuhead and f_list\nbecomes f_u.f_list\n\nSigned-off-by: Eric Dumazet \u003cdada1@cosmosbay.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "2b579beec255d6589fabe51b60933d723630bcd4", "tree": "06c0899b0071ec7cc9b3761c185452fa2c6f243b", "parents": [ "230649da7cb73914b8b2a1ffc802a2951e970454" ], "author": { "name": "Miklos Szeredi", "email": "miklos@szeredi.hu", "time": "Tue Sep 06 15:17:18 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Sep 07 16:57:28 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] proc: link count fix\n\nThis patch fixes bug titled \"sunrpc as module and bad proc/sys link count\"\nreported by Jiri Slaby.\n\nThe problem was, that only proc_dir_entry-\u003enlink was updated and the\ncorresponding inode-\u003ei_nlink was not. The fix is to implement the\ninode-\u003egetattr() method, and update i_nlink (if necessary).\n\nA quick audit of proc code shows that no other attribute changes after\ncreation.\n\nSigned-off-by: Miklos Szeredi \u003cmiklos@szeredi.hu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "008b150a3c4d971cd65d02d107b8fcc860bc959c", "tree": "8594c24dbb13dc253f41ef885a8ac899f0e434c1", "parents": [ "cc314eef0128a807e50fa03baf2d0abc0647952c" ], "author": { "name": "Al Viro", "email": "viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk", "time": "Sat Aug 20 00:17:39 2005 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Aug 19 18:08:21 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] Fix up symlink function pointers\n\nThis fixes up the symlink functions for the calling convention change:\n\n * afs, autofs4, befs, devfs, freevxfs, jffs2, jfs, ncpfs, procfs,\n smbfs, sysvfs, ufs, xfs - prototype change for -\u003efollow_link()\n * befs, smbfs, xfs - same for -\u003eput_link()\n\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2", "tree": "0bba044c4ce775e45a88a51686b5d9f90697ea9d", "parents": [], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700" }, "message": "Linux-2.6.12-rc2\n\nInitial git repository build. I\u0027m not bothering with the full history,\neven though we have it. We can create a separate \"historical\" git\narchive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it\u0027s about\n3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early\ngit days unnecessarily complicated, when we don\u0027t have a lot of good\ninfrastructure for it.\n\nLet it rip!\n" } ] }