This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tty: fix up atime/mtime mess, take three
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
tty-fix-up-atime-mtime-mess-take-three.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From b0b885657b6c8ef63a46bc9299b2a7715d19acde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 07:32:21 -0700
Subject: tty: fix up atime/mtime mess, take three
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit b0b885657b6c8ef63a46bc9299b2a7715d19acde upstream.
We first tried to avoid updating atime/mtime entirely (commit
b0de59b5733d: "TTY: do not update atime/mtime on read/write"), and then
limited it to only update it occasionally (commit 37b7f3c76595: "TTY:
fix atime/mtime regression"), but it turns out that this was both
insufficient and overkill.
It was insufficient because we let people attach to the shared ptmx node
to see activity without even reading atime/mtime, and it was overkill
because the "only once a minute" means that you can't really tell an
idle person from an active one with 'w'.
So this tries to fix the problem properly. It marks the shared ptmx
node as un-notifiable, and it lowers the "only once a minute" to a few
seconds instead - still long enough that you can't time individual
keystrokes, but short enough that you can tell whether somebody is
active or not.
Reported-by: Simon Kirby <sim@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/pty.c | 3 +++
drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/tty/pty.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/pty.c
@@ -607,6 +607,9 @@ static int ptmx_open(struct inode *inode
nonseekable_open(inode, filp);
+ /* We refuse fsnotify events on ptmx, since it's a shared resource */
+ filp->f_mode |= FMODE_NONOTIFY;
+
retval = tty_alloc_file(filp);
if (retval)
return retval;
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -938,10 +938,10 @@ void start_tty(struct tty_struct *tty)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(start_tty);
+/* We limit tty time update visibility to every 8 seconds or so. */
static void tty_update_time(struct timespec *time)
{
- unsigned long sec = get_seconds();
- sec -= sec % 60;
+ unsigned long sec = get_seconds() & ~7;
if ((long)(sec - time->tv_sec) > 0)
time->tv_sec = sec;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/arm-set-the-page-table-freeing-ceiling-to-task_size.patch
queue-3.4/tty-fix-up-atime-mtime-mess-take-three.patch
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