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Linus Torvalds fe64f3283f Merge branch 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted cleanups and fixes.

  In the "trivial API change" department - ->d_compare() losing 'parent'
  argument"

* 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  cachefiles: Fix race between inactivating and culling a cache object
  9p: use clone_fid()
  9p: fix braino introduced in "9p: new helper - v9fs_parent_fid()"
  vfs: make dentry_needs_remove_privs() internal
  vfs: remove file_needs_remove_privs()
  vfs: fix deadlock in file_remove_privs() on overlayfs
  get rid of 'parent' argument of ->d_compare()
  cifs, msdos, vfat, hfs+: don't bother with parent in ->d_compare()
  affs ->d_compare(): don't bother with ->d_inode
  fold _d_rehash() and __d_rehash() together
  fold dentry_rcuwalk_invalidate() into its only remaining caller
2016-08-07 10:01:14 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 835c92d43b Merge branch 'work.const-qstr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull qstr constification updates from Al Viro:
 "Fairly self-contained bunch - surprising lot of places passes struct
  qstr * as an argument when const struct qstr * would suffice; it
  complicates analysis for no good reason.

  I'd prefer to feed that separately from the assorted fixes (those are
  in #for-linus and with somewhat trickier topology)"

* 'work.const-qstr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  qstr: constify instances in adfs
  qstr: constify instances in lustre
  qstr: constify instances in f2fs
  qstr: constify instances in ext2
  qstr: constify instances in vfat
  qstr: constify instances in procfs
  qstr: constify instances in fuse
  qstr constify instances in fs/dcache.c
  qstr: constify instances in nfs
  qstr: constify instances in ocfs2
  qstr: constify instances in autofs4
  qstr: constify instances in hfs
  qstr: constify instances in hfsplus
  qstr: constify instances in logfs
  qstr: constify dentry_init_security
2016-08-06 09:49:02 -04:00
Al Viro 6fa67e7075 get rid of 'parent' argument of ->d_compare()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-07-31 16:37:25 -04:00
Al Viro dc12e90949 qstr: constify instances in procfs
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-07-30 12:25:46 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 8387ff2577 vfs: make the string hashes salt the hash
We always mixed in the parent pointer into the dentry name hash, but we
did it late at lookup time.  It turns out that we can simplify that
lookup-time action by salting the hash with the parent pointer early
instead of late.

A few other users of our string hashes also wanted to mix in their own
pointers into the hash, and those are updated to use the same mechanism.

Hash users that don't have any particular initial salt can just use the
NULL pointer as a no-salt.

Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Cc: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-06-10 20:21:46 -07:00
Al Viro f50752eaa0 switch all procfs directories ->iterate_shared()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-05-02 19:49:30 -04:00
Al Viro 76aab3ab61 proc_sys_fill_cache(): switch to d_alloc_parallel()
make it usable with directory locked shared

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-05-02 19:49:30 -04:00
Viresh Kumar a1c83681d5 fs: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
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>
2015-09-29 15:13:58 +02:00
Eric W. Biederman f9bd6733d3 sysctl: Allow creating permanently empty directories that serve as mountpoints.
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>
2015-07-01 10:36:39 -05:00
David Howells 2b0143b5c9 VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations
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>
2015-04-15 15:06:57 -04:00
Joe Perches e5eea0981a sysctl: remove typedef ctl_table
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>
2014-08-08 15:57:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds da53be12bb Don't pass inode to ->d_hash() and ->d_compare()
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>
2013-06-29 12:57:36 +04:00
Al Viro f0c3b5093a [readdir] convert procfs
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:56:32 +04:00
Andrew Morton 87ebdc00ee fs/proc: clean up printks
- 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>
2013-02-27 19:10:11 -08:00
Al Viro 496ad9aa8e new helper: file_inode(file)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
Marco Stornelli 46f6955710 procfs: drop vmtruncate
Removed vmtruncate

Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-12-20 14:00:01 -05:00
Eric W. Biederman 73f7ef4359 sysctl: Pass useful parameters to sysctl permissions
- 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>
2012-11-18 20:30:55 -05:00
Michel Lespinasse ea5272f5c9 rbtree: fix incorrect rbtree node insertion in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
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>
2012-10-09 16:22:32 +09:00
Michel Lespinasse 4c199a93a2 rbtree: empty nodes have no color
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 88d19cf379 ("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 10fd48f237
("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>
2012-10-09 16:22:32 +09:00
Prasad Joshi ab4a1f2470 proc_sysctl.c: use BUG_ON instead of BUG
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>
2012-10-06 03:05:18 +09:00
Francesco Ruggeri 6bf6104573 fs/proc: fix potential unregister_sysctl_table hang
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 076c3eed2c ("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>
2012-09-17 10:32:03 -07:00
Al Viro 00cd8dd3bf stop passing nameidata to ->lookup()
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>
2012-07-14 16:34:32 +04:00
Al Viro 0b728e1911 stop passing nameidata * to ->d_revalidate()
Just the lookup flags.  Die, bastard, die...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:34:14 +04:00
Eric W. Biederman 091bd3ea4e userns: Convert sysctl permission checks to use kuid and kgids.
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-05-15 14:59:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds f1d38e423a Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl
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
  ...
2012-03-23 18:08:58 -07:00
Lucas De Marchi 4e474a00d7 sysctl: protect poll() in entries that may go away
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>
2012-03-22 14:46:56 -07:00
Al Viro 4040153087 security: trim security.h
Trim security.h

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2012-02-14 10:45:42 +11:00
Eric W. Biederman 4e75732035 sysctl: Don't call sysctl_follow_link unless we are a link.
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>
2012-02-01 19:21:38 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 60f126d93b sysctl: Comments to make the code clearer.
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>
2012-02-01 19:20:57 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 0eb97f38d2 sysctl: Correct error return from get_subdir
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>
2012-02-01 19:20:40 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 51f72f4a0f sysctl: An easier to read version of find_subdir
Suggested-by:  Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-02-01 19:20:30 -08:00
Dan Carpenter 1347440db6 sysctl: fix memset parameters in setup_sysctl_set()
The current code is a nop.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-01-30 19:14:08 -08:00
Dan Carpenter 4798178709 sysctl: remove an unused variable
"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>
2012-01-30 19:13:46 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman fea478d410 sysctl: Add register_sysctl for normal sysctl users
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>
2012-01-24 16:40:30 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman ac13ac6f4c sysctl: Index sysctl directories with rbtrees.
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>
2012-01-24 16:40:30 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 9e3d47df35 sysctl: Make the header lists per directory.
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>
2012-01-24 16:40:30 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman e54012cede sysctl: Move sysctl_check_dups into insert_header
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>
2012-01-24 16:40:30 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 60a47a2e82 sysctl: Modify __register_sysctl_paths to take a set instead of a root and 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>
2012-01-24 16:40:30 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 0e47c99d7f sysctl: Replace root_list with links between sysctl_table_sets.
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>
2012-01-24 16:40:29 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 6980128fe1 sysctl: Add sysctl_print_dir and use it in get_subdir
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>
2012-01-24 16:40:29 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 7ec66d0636 sysctl: Stop requiring explicit management of sysctl directories
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>
2012-01-24 16:40:29 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 9eb47c26f0 sysctl: Add a root pointer to ctl_table_set
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>
2012-01-24 16:40:29 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 6a75ce167c sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_readdir in terms of first_entry and next_entry
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>
2012-01-24 16:40:29 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 076c3eed2c sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_lookup introducing find_entry and lookup_entry.
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>
2012-01-24 16:40:29 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman a194558e86 sysctl: Normalize the root_table data structure.
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>
2012-01-24 16:40:28 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 8425d6aaf0 sysctl: Factor out insert_header and erase_header
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-01-24 16:40:28 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman e0d045290a sysctl: Factor out init_header from __register_sysctl_paths
Factor out a routing to initialize the sysctl_table_header.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-01-24 16:40:28 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 938aaa4f92 sysctl: Initial support for auto-unregistering sysctl tables.
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>
2012-01-24 16:40:28 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 3cc3e04636 sysctl: A more obvious version of grab_header.
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>
2012-01-24 16:40:28 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 8d6ecfcc01 sysctl: Remove the now unused ctl_table parent field.
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>
2012-01-24 16:40:28 -08:00