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* kernel/printk: do not turn off bootconsole in printk_late_init() if keep_bootconNishanth Aravamudan2011-08-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It seems that 7bf693951a8e ("console: allow to retain boot console via boot option keep_bootcon") doesn't always achieve what it aims, as when printk_late_init() runs it unconditionally turns off all boot consoles. With this patch, I am able to see more messages on the boot console in KVM guests than I can without, when keep_bootcon is specified. I think it is appropriate for the relevant -stable trees. However, it's more of an annoyance than a serious bug (ideally you don't need to keep the boot console around as console handover should be working -- I was encountering a situation where the console handover wasn't working and not having the boot console available meant I couldn't see why). Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fdinitto@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.39.x, 3.0.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* cap_syslog: don't use WARN_ONCE for CAP_SYS_ADMIN deprecation warningJonathan Nieder2011-08-091-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | syslog-ng versions before 3.3.0beta1 (2011-05-12) assume that CAP_SYS_ADMIN is sufficient to access syslog, so ever since CAP_SYSLOG was introduced (2010-11-25) they have triggered a warning. Commit ee24aebffb75 ("cap_syslog: accept CAP_SYS_ADMIN for now") improved matters a little by making syslog-ng work again, just keeping the WARN_ONCE(). But still, this is a warning that writes a stack trace we don't care about to syslog, sets a taint flag, and alarms sysadmins when nothing worse has happened than use of an old userspace with a recent kernel. Convert the WARN_ONCE to a printk_once to avoid that while continuing to give userspace developers a hint that this is an unwanted backward-compatibility feature and won't be around forever. Reported-by: Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebrandt@charite.de> Reported-by: Niels <zorglub_olsen@hotmail.com> Reported-by: Paweł Sikora <pluto@agmk.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Liked-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* printk: Fix console_sem vs logbuf_lock unlock racePeter Zijlstra2011-06-221-2/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix up the fallout from commit 0b5e1c5255 ("printk: Release console_sem after logbuf_lock"). The reason for unlocking the console_sem under the logbuf_lock is that a concurrent printk() might fill up the buffer but fail to acquire the console sem, resulting in a missed write to the console until a subsequent console_sem acquire/release cycle. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: efault@gmx.de Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1308734409.1022.14.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* printk: Release console_sem after logbuf_lockPeter Zijlstra2011-06-071-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Release console_sem after unlocking the logbuf_lock so that we don't generate wakeups while holding logbuf_lock. This avoids some lock inversion troubles once we remove the lockdep_off bits between logbuf_lock and rq->lock (prints while holding rq->lock vs doing wakeups while holding logbuf_lock). There's of course still an actual deadlock where the printk()s under rq->lock will issue a wakeup from the up() call, but lockdep won't warn about that since semaphores are not tracked. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-j8swthl12u73h4znbvitljzd@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* printk: allocate kernel log buffer earlierMike Travis2011-05-251-29/+58
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On larger systems, because of the numerous ACPI, Bootmem and EFI messages, the static log buffer overflows before the larger one specified by the log_buf_len param is allocated. Minimize the overflow by allocating the new log buffer as soon as possible. On kernels without memblock, a later call to setup_log_buf from kernel/init.c is the fallback. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_PRINTK=n build] Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* printk: allow setting DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LEVEL via KconfigMandeep Singh Baines2011-03-221-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We've been burned by regressions/bugs which we later realized could have been triaged quicker if only we'd paid closer attention to dmesg. To make it easier to audit dmesg, we'd like to make DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LEVEL Kconfig-settable. That way we can set it to KERN_NOTICE and audit any messages <= KERN_WARNING. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Olof Johansson <olofj@chromium.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* console: prevent registered consoles from dumping old kernel message over againFeng Tang2011-03-221-0/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For a platform with many consoles like: "console=tty1 console=ttyMFD2 console=ttyS0 earlyprintk=mrst" Each time when the non "selected_console" (tty1 and ttyMFD2 here) get registered, the existing kernel message will be printed out on registered consoles again, the "mrst" early console will get some same message for 3 times, and "tty1" will get some for twice. As suggested by Andrew Morton, every time a new console is registered, it will be set as the "exclusive" console which will dump the already existing kernel messages. Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* console: allow to retain boot console via boot option keep_bootconFabio M. Di Nitto2011-03-221-1/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On some architectures, the boot process involves de-registering the boot console (early boot), initialize drivers and then re-register the console. This mechanism introduces a window in which no printk can happen on the console and messages are buffered and then printed once the new console is available. If a kernel crashes during this window, all it's left on the boot console is "console [foo] enabled, bootconsole disabled" making debug of the crash rather 'interesting'. By adding "keep_bootcon" option, do not unregister the boot console, that will allow to printk everything that is happening up to the crash. The option is clearly meant only for debugging purposes as it introduces lots of duplicated info printed on console, but will make bug report from users easier as it doesn't require a kernel build just to figure out where we crash. Signed-off-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'driver-core-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-03-161-34/+104
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6 * 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (50 commits) printk: do not mangle valid userspace syslog prefixes efivars: Add Documentation efivars: Expose efivars functionality to external drivers. efivars: Parameterize operations. efivars: Split out variable registration efivars: parameterize efivars efivars: Make efivars bin_attributes dynamic efivars: move efivars globals into struct efivars drivers:misc: ti-st: fix debugging code kref: Fix typo in kref documentation UIO: add PRUSS UIO driver support Fix spelling mistakes in Documentation/zh_CN/SubmittingPatches firmware: Fix unaligned memory accesses in dmi-sysfs firmware: Add documentation for /sys/firmware/dmi firmware: Expose DMI type 15 System Event Log firmware: Break out system_event_log in dmi-sysfs firmware: Basic dmi-sysfs support firmware: Add DMI entry types to the headers Driver core: convert platform_{get,set}_drvdata to static inline functions Translate linux-2.6/Documentation/magic-number.txt into Chinese ...
| * printk: do not mangle valid userspace syslog prefixesKay Sievers2011-03-141-34/+104
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | printk: do not mangle valid userspace syslog prefixes with /dev/kmsg Log messages passed to the kernel log by using /dev/kmsg or /dev/ttyprintk might contain a syslog prefix including the syslog facility value. This makes printk to recognize these headers properly, extract the real log level from it to use, and add the prefix as a proper prefix to the log buffer, instead of wrongly printing it as the log message text. Before: $ echo '<14>text' > /dev/kmsg $ dmesg -r <4>[135159.594810] <14>text After: $ echo '<14>text' > /dev/kmsg $ dmesg -r <14>[ 50.750654] text Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | cap_syslog: accept CAP_SYS_ADMIN for nowLinus Torvalds2011-02-101-19/+35
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit ce6ada35bdf7 ("security: Define CAP_SYSLOG") Serge Hallyn introduced CAP_SYSLOG, but broke backwards compatibility by no longer accepting CAP_SYS_ADMIN as an override (it would cause a warning and then reject the operation). Re-instate CAP_SYS_ADMIN - but keeping the warning - as an acceptable capability until any legacy applications have been updated. There are apparently applications out there that drop all capabilities except for CAP_SYS_ADMIN in order to access the syslog. (This is a re-implementation of a patch by Serge, cleaning the logic up and making the code more readable) Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* console: rename acquire/release_console_sem() to console_lock/unlock()Torben Hohn2011-01-261-46/+54
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The -rt patches change the console_semaphore to console_mutex. As a result, a quite large chunk of the patches changes all acquire/release_console_sem() to acquire/release_console_mutex() This commit makes things use more neutral function names which dont make implications about the underlying lock. The only real change is the return value of console_trylock which is inverted from try_acquire_console_sem() This patch also paves the way to switching console_sem from a semaphore to a mutex. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make console_trylock return 1 on success, per Geert] Signed-off-by: Torben Hohn <torbenh@gmx.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@tglx.de> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* printk: use RCU to prevent potential lock contention in kmsg_dumpHuang Ying2011-01-131-27/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | dump_list_lock is used to protect dump_list in kmsg_dumper implementation, kmsg_dump() uses it to traverse dump_list too. But if there is contention on the lock, kmsg_dump() will fail, and the valuable kernel message may be lost. This patch solves this issue with RCU. Because kmsg_dump() only read the list, no lock is needed in kmsg_dump(). So that kmsg_dump() will never fail because of lock contention. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kmsg_dump: add kmsg_dump() calls to the reboot, halt, poweroff and ↵Seiji Aguchi2011-01-131-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | emergency_restart paths We need to know the reason why system rebooted in support service. However, we can't inform our customers of the reason because final messages are lost on current Linux kernel. This patch improves the situation above because the final messages are saved by adding kmsg_dump() to reboot, halt, poweroff and emergency_restart path. Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris2011-01-101-10/+8
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: security/smack/smack_lsm.c Verified and added fix by Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Ok'd by Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| * Merge branch 'tty-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-01-071-6/+2
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6 * 'tty-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6: (36 commits) serial: apbuart: Fixup apbuart_console_init() TTY: Add tty ioctl to figure device node of the system console. tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console device drivers: serial: apbuart: Handle OF failures gracefully Serial: Avoid unbalanced IRQ wake disable during resume tty: fix typos/errors in tty_driver.h comments pch_uart : fix warnings for 64bit compile 8250: fix uninitialized FIFOs ip2: fix compiler warning on ip2main_pci_tbl specialix: fix compiler warning on specialix_pci_tbl rocket: fix compiler warning on rocket_pci_ids 8250: add a UPIO_DWAPB32 for 32 bit accesses 8250: use container_of() instead of casting serial: omap-serial: Add support for kernel debugger serial: fix pch_uart kconfig & build drivers: char: hvc: add arm JTAG DCC console support RS485 documentation: add 16C950 UART description serial: ifx6x60: fix memory leak serial: ifx6x60: free IRQ on error Serial: EG20T: add PCH_UART driver ... Fixed up conflicts in drivers/serial/apbuart.c with evil merge that makes the code look fairly sane (unlike either side).
| | * tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console deviceKay Sievers2010-12-161-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console device Userspace can query the actual virtual console, and the configured console devices behind /dev/tt0 and /dev/console. The last entry in the list of devices is the active device, analog to the console= kernel command line option. The attribute supports poll(), which is raised when the virtual console is changed or /dev/console is reconfigured. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> index 0000000..b138b66
| | * console: move for_each_console to linux/console.hJiri Slaby2010-11-161-6/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move it out of printk.c so that we can use it all over the code. There are some potential users which will be converted to that macro in next patches. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | printk: Use this_cpu_{read|write} api on printk_pendingEric Dumazet2010-12-081-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | __get_cpu_var() is a bit inefficient, lets use __this_cpu_read() and __this_cpu_write() to manipulate printk_pending. printk_needs_cpu(cpu) is called only for the current cpu : Use faster __this_cpu_read(). Remove the redundant unlikely on (cpu_is_offline(cpu)) test: # size kernel/printk.o* text data bss dec hex filename 9942 756 263488 274186 42f0a kernel/printk.o.new 9990 756 263488 274234 42f3a kernel/printk.o.old Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1290788536.2855.237.camel@edumazet-laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | nohz: Fix printk_needs_cpu() return value on offline cpusHeiko Carstens2010-11-261-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes a hang observed with 2.6.32 kernels where timers got enqueued on offline cpus. printk_needs_cpu() may return 1 if called on offline cpus. When a cpu gets offlined it schedules the idle process which, before killing its own cpu, will call tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(). That function in turn will call printk_needs_cpu() in order to check if the local tick can be disabled. On offline cpus this function should naturally return 0 since regardless if the tick gets disabled or not the cpu will be dead short after. That is besides the fact that __cpu_disable() should already have made sure that no interrupts on the offlined cpu will be delivered anyway. In this case it prevents tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() to call select_nohz_load_balancer(). No idea if that really is a problem. However what made me debug this is that on 2.6.32 the function get_nohz_load_balancer() is used within __mod_timer() to select a cpu on which a timer gets enqueued. If printk_needs_cpu() returns 1 then the nohz_load_balancer cpu doesn't get updated when a cpu gets offlined. It may contain the cpu number of an offline cpu. In turn timers get enqueued on an offline cpu and not very surprisingly they never expire and cause system hangs. This has been observed 2.6.32 kernels. On current kernels __mod_timer() uses get_nohz_timer_target() which doesn't have that problem. However there might be other problems because of the too early exit tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() in case a cpu goes offline. Easiest way to fix this is just to test if the current cpu is offline and call printk_tick() directly which clears the condition. Alternatively I tried a cpu hotplug notifier which would clear the condition, however between calling the notifier function and printk_needs_cpu() something could have called printk() again and the problem is back again. This seems to be the safest fix. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: stable@kernel.org LKML-Reference: <20101126120235.406766476@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | printk: Fix wake_up_klogd() vs cpu hotplugHeiko Carstens2010-11-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | wake_up_klogd() may get called from preemptible context but uses __raw_get_cpu_var() to write to a per cpu variable. If it gets preempted between getting the address and writing to it, the cpu in question could be offline if the process gets scheduled back and hence writes to the per cpu data of an offline cpu. This buggy behaviour was introduced with fa33507a "printk: robustify printk, fix #2" which was supposed to fix a "using smp_processor_id() in preemptible" warning. Let's use this_cpu_write() instead which disables preemption and makes sure that the outlined scenario cannot happen. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20101126124247.GC7023@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | syslog: check cap_syslog when dmesg_restrictSerge E. Hallyn2010-12-091-10/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Eric Paris pointed out that it doesn't make sense to require both CAP_SYS_ADMIN and CAP_SYSLOG for certain syslog actions. So require CAP_SYSLOG, not CAP_SYS_ADMIN, when dmesg_restrict is set. (I'm also consolidating the now common error path) Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
* | | security: Define CAP_SYSLOGSerge E. Hallyn2010-11-291-1/+7
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Privileged syslog operations currently require CAP_SYS_ADMIN. Split this off into a new CAP_SYSLOG privilege which we can sanely take away from a container through the capability bounding set. With this patch, an lxc container can be prevented from messing with the host's syslog (i.e. dmesg -c). Changelog: mar 12 2010: add selinux capability2:cap_syslog perm Changelog: nov 22 2010: . port to new kernel . add a WARN_ONCE if userspace isn't using CAP_SYSLOG Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Acked-By: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: "Christopher J. PeBenito" <cpebenito@tresys.com> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
* | capabilities/syslog: open code cap_syslog logic to fix build failureEric Paris2010-11-151-1/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The addition of CONFIG_SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT resulted in a build failure when CONFIG_PRINTK=n. This is because the capabilities code which used the new option was built even though the variable in question didn't exist. The patch here fixes this by moving the capabilities checks out of the LSM and into the caller. All (known) LSMs should have been calling the capabilities hook already so it actually makes the code organization better to eliminate the hook altogether. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Restrict unprivileged access to kernel syslogDan Rosenberg2010-11-121-0/+6
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The kernel syslog contains debugging information that is often useful during exploitation of other vulnerabilities, such as kernel heap addresses. Rather than futilely attempt to sanitize hundreds (or thousands) of printk statements and simultaneously cripple useful debugging functionality, it is far simpler to create an option that prevents unprivileged users from reading the syslog. This patch, loosely based on grsecurity's GRKERNSEC_DMESG, creates the dmesg_restrict sysctl. When set to "0", the default, no restrictions are enforced. When set to "1", only users with CAP_SYS_ADMIN can read the kernel syslog via dmesg(8) or other mechanisms. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: explain the config option in kernel.txt] Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* printk: change type of 'boot_delay' to int *Namhyung Kim2010-10-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | get_option() takes its 2nd arg as int * so passing boot_delay to it caused following warnings from sparse: kernel/printk.c:223:27: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness) kernel/printk.c:223:27: expected int *pint kernel/printk.c:223:27: got unsigned int static [toplevel] *<noident> Since boot_delay can't grow more than 10,000 changing it to 'int *' will not produce any problem. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* printk: add lock context annotationNamhyung Kim2010-10-261-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | acquire_console_semaphore_for_printk() releases logbuf_lock but was missing proper annotation. Add it. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* printk: fixup declaration of kmsg_reasonsNamhyung Kim2010-10-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Move redundant 'const' after '*' to make pointer itself const Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* printk: Make console_sem a semaphore not a pseudo mutexThomas Gleixner2010-10-121-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | It needs to be investigated whether it can be replaced by a real mutex, but that needs more thought. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20100907125057.179587334@linutronix.de>
* gcc-4.6: printk: use stable variable to dump kmsg bufferAndi Kleen2010-08-091-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | kmsg_dump takes care to sample the global variables inside a spinlock, but then goes on to use the same variables outside the spinlock region too. Use the correct variable. This will make the race window smaller. Found by gcc 4.6's new warnings. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* printk: fix delayed messages from CPU hotplug eventsKevin Cernekee2010-08-051-2/+31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a secondary CPU is being brought up, it is not uncommon for printk() to be invoked when cpu_online(smp_processor_id()) == 0. The case that I witnessed personally was on MIPS: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/30/4 If (can_use_console() == 0), printk() will spool its output to log_buf and it will be visible in "dmesg", but that output will NOT be echoed to the console until somebody calls release_console_sem() from a CPU that is online. Therefore, the boot time messages from the new CPU can get stuck in "limbo" for a long time, and might suddenly appear on the screen when a completely unrelated event (e.g. "eth0: link is down") occurs. This patch modifies the console code so that any pending messages are automatically flushed out to the console whenever a CPU hotplug operation completes successfully or aborts. The issue was seen on 2.6.34. Original patch by Kevin Cernekee with cleanups by akpm and additional fixes by Santosh Shilimkar. This patch superseeds https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1357/. Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com> To: <mingo@elte.hu> To: <akpm@linux-foundation.org> To: <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> To: <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> To: <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Cc: <linux-mips@linux-mips.org> Reviewed-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com> Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1534/ LKML-Reference: <ede63b5a20af951c755736f035d1e787772d7c28@localhost> LKML-Reference: <EAF47CD23C76F840A9E7FCE10091EFAB02C5DB6D1F@dbde02.ent.ti.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
* printk,kdb: capture printk() when in kdb shellJason Wessel2010-05-201-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | Certain calls from the kdb shell will call out to printk(), and any of these calls should get vectored back to the kdb_printf() so that the kdb pager and processing can be used, as well as to properly channel I/O to the polled I/O devices. CC: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* kdb: core for kgdb back end (2 of 2)Jason Wessel2010-05-201-0/+16
| | | | | | | | | | This patch contains the hooks and instrumentation into kernel which live outside the kernel/debug directory, which the kdb core will call to run commands like lsmod, dmesg, bt etc... CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
* printk: avoid warning when CONFIG_PRINTK is disabledGustavo F. Padovan2010-03-061-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | kernel/printk.c:72: warning: `saved_console_loglevel' defined but not used Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'next' into for-linusJames Morris2010-03-011-29/+23
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| * syslog: use defined constants instead of raw numbersKees Cook2010-02-041-26/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Right now the syslog "type" action are just raw numbers which makes the source difficult to follow. This patch replaces the raw numbers with defined constants for some level of sanity. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| * syslog: distinguish between /proc/kmsg and syscallsKees Cook2010-02-041-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This allows the LSM to distinguish between syslog functions originating from /proc/kmsg access and direct syscalls. By default, the commoncaps will now no longer require CAP_SYS_ADMIN to read an opened /proc/kmsg file descriptor. For example the kernel syslog reader can now drop privileges after opening /proc/kmsg, instead of staying privileged with CAP_SYS_ADMIN. MAC systems that implement security_syslog have unchanged behavior. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
* | Merge git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/mtd-2.6.33Linus Torvalds2010-01-241-0/+1
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | * git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/mtd-2.6.33: mtd: tests: fix read, speed and stress tests on NOR flash mtd: Really add ARM pismo support kmsg_dump: Dump on crash_kexec as well
| * kmsg_dump: Dump on crash_kexec as wellKOSAKI Motohiro2009-12-311-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | crash_kexec gets called before kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_OOPS) if panic_on_oops is set, so the kernel log buffer is not stored for this case. This patch adds a KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC dump type which gets called when crash_kexec() is invoked. To avoid getting double dumps, the old KMSG_DUMP_PANIC is moved below crash_kexec(). The mtdoops driver is modified to handle KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC in the same way as a panic. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
* | printk: fix new kernel-doc warningsRandy Dunlap2009-12-171-2/+2
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix kernel-doc warnings in printk.c: Warning(kernel/printk.c:1422): No description found for parameter 'dumper' Warning(kernel/printk.c:1422): Excess function parameter 'dump' description in 'kmsg_dump_register' Warning(kernel/printk.c:1451): No description found for parameter 'dumper' Warning(kernel/printk.c:1451): Excess function parameter 'dump' description in 'kmsg_dump_unregister' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-12-161-0/+119
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (90 commits) jffs2: Fix long-standing bug with symlink garbage collection. mtd: OneNAND: Fix test of unsigned in onenand_otp_walk() mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002, fix lock imbalance Revert "mtd: move mxcnd_remove to .exit.text" mtd: m25p80: add support for Macronix MX25L4005A kmsg_dump: fix build for CONFIG_PRINTK=n mtd: nandsim: add support for 4KiB pages mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper mtd: mtdoops: make record size configurable mtd: mtdoops: limit the maximum mtd partition size mtd: mtdoops: keep track of used/unused pages in an array mtd: mtdoops: several minor cleanups core: Add kernel message dumper to call on oopses and panics mtd: add ARM pismo support mtd: pxa3xx_nand: Fix PIO data transfer mtd: nand: fix multi-chip suspend problem mtd: add support for switching old SST chips into QRY mode mtd: fix M29W800D dev_id and uaddr mtd: don't use PF_MEMALLOC mtd: Add bad block table overrides to Davinci NAND driver ... Fixed up conflicts (mostly trivial) in drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c kernel/printk.c
| * kmsg_dump: fix build for CONFIG_PRINTK=nRandy Dunlap2009-12-021-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | kmsg_dump() fails to build when CONFIG_PRINTK=n; provide stubs for the kmsg_dump*() functions when CONFIG_PRINTK=n. kernel/printk.c: In function 'kmsg_dump': kernel/printk.c:1501: error: 'log_buf_len' undeclared (first use in this function) kernel/printk.c:1502: error: 'logged_chars' undeclared (first use in this function) kernel/printk.c:1506: error: 'log_buf' undeclared (first use in this function) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
| * core: Add kernel message dumper to call on oopses and panicsSimon Kagstrom2009-11-301-0/+119
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The core functionality is implemented as per Linus suggestion from http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2009-October/027620.html (with the kmsg_dump implementation by Linus). A struct kmsg_dumper has been added which contains a callback to dump the kernel log buffers on crashes. The kmsg_dump function gets called from oops_exit() and panic() and invokes this callbacks with the crash reason. [dwmw2: Fix log_end handling] Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Reviewed-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
* | Merge branch 'core-printk-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-12-051-3/+4
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-printk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: ratelimit: Make suppressed output messages more useful printk: Remove ratelimit.h from kernel.h ratelimit: Fix/allow use in atomic contexts ratelimit: Use per ratelimit context locking
| * ratelimit: Make suppressed output messages more usefulChristian Borntraeger2009-10-231-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Today I got: [39648.224782] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::TX [40676.545099] __ratelimit: 246 callbacks suppressed [40676.545103] abcdef[23675]: segfault at 0 ... as you can see the ratelimit message contains a function prefix. Since this is always __ratelimit, this wont help much. This patch changes __ratelimit and printk_ratelimit to print the function name that calls ratelimit. This will pinpoint the responsible function, as long as not several different places call ratelimit with the same ratelimit state at the same time. In that case we catch only one random function that calls ratelimit after the wait period. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <200910231458.11832.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * printk: Remove ratelimit.h from kernel.hIngo Molnar2009-09-221-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Decouple kernel.h from ratelimit.h: the global declaration of printk's ratelimit_state is not needed, and it leads to messy circular dependencies due to ratelimit.h's (new) adding of a spinlock_types.h include. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | printk: add printk_delay to make messages readable for some scenariosDave Young2009-09-231-0/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When syslog is not possible, at the same time there's no serial/net console available, it will be hard to read the printk messages. For example oops/panic/warning messages in shutdown phase. Add a printk delay feature, we can make each printk message delay some milliseconds. Setting the delay by proc/sysctl interface: /proc/sys/kernel/printk_delay The value range from 0 - 10000, default value is 0 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix a few things] Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | printk boot_delay: rename printk_delay_msec to loops_per_msecDave Young2009-09-231-7/+5
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | Rename `printk_delay_msec' to `loops_per_msec', because the patch "printk: add printk_delay to make messages readable for some scenarios" wishes to more appropriately use the `printk_delay_msec' identifier. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add a comment] Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* cleanup console_print()Anirban Sinha2009-09-141-6/+0
| | | | | | | | | console_print() is an old legacy interface mostly unused in the entire kernel tree. It's best to clean up its existing use and let developers use their own implementation of it as they feel fit. Signed-off-by: Anirban Sinha <asinha@zeugmasystems.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* printk: Fix "printk: Enable the use of more than one CON_BOOT (early console)"Sonic Zhang2009-08-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Don't return when we find the first bootconsole - it can leave other bootconsoles still installed, and they can be used and cause problems later (if they are in the init section, and eventually released), and cause problems. Make sure we remove all of them. Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <Sonic.Zhang@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <rgetz@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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