This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipc: drop ipcctl_pre_down
to the 3.11-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:
ipc-drop-ipcctl_pre_down.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 3b1c4ad37741e53804ffe0a30dd01e08b2ab6241 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:26:17 -0700
Subject: ipc: drop ipcctl_pre_down
From: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@xxxxxx>
commit 3b1c4ad37741e53804ffe0a30dd01e08b2ab6241 upstream.
Now that sem, msgque and shm, through *_down(), all use the lockless
variant of ipcctl_pre_down(), go ahead and delete it.
[akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: fix function name in kerneldoc, cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@xxxxxx>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
ipc/util.c | 24 ++++--------------------
ipc/util.h | 3 ---
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
--- a/ipc/util.c
+++ b/ipc/util.c
@@ -725,7 +725,7 @@ int ipc_update_perm(struct ipc64_perm *i
}
/**
- * ipcctl_pre_down - retrieve an ipc and check permissions for some IPC_XXX cmd
+ * ipcctl_pre_down_nolock - retrieve an ipc and check permissions for some IPC_XXX cmd
* @ns: the ipc namespace
* @ids: the table of ids where to look for the ipc
* @id: the id of the ipc to retrieve
@@ -738,29 +738,13 @@ int ipc_update_perm(struct ipc64_perm *i
* It must be called without any lock held and
* - retrieves the ipc with the given id in the given table.
* - performs some audit and permission check, depending on the given cmd
- * - returns the ipc with the ipc lock held in case of success
- * or an err-code without any lock held otherwise.
+ * - returns a pointer to the ipc object or otherwise, the corresponding error.
*
* Call holding the both the rw_mutex and the rcu read lock.
*/
-struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcctl_pre_down(struct ipc_namespace *ns,
- struct ipc_ids *ids, int id, int cmd,
- struct ipc64_perm *perm, int extra_perm)
-{
- struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcp;
-
- ipcp = ipcctl_pre_down_nolock(ns, ids, id, cmd, perm, extra_perm);
- if (IS_ERR(ipcp))
- goto out;
-
- spin_lock(&ipcp->lock);
-out:
- return ipcp;
-}
-
struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcctl_pre_down_nolock(struct ipc_namespace *ns,
- struct ipc_ids *ids, int id, int cmd,
- struct ipc64_perm *perm, int extra_perm)
+ struct ipc_ids *ids, int id, int cmd,
+ struct ipc64_perm *perm, int extra_perm)
{
kuid_t euid;
int err = -EPERM;
--- a/ipc/util.h
+++ b/ipc/util.h
@@ -139,9 +139,6 @@ int ipc_update_perm(struct ipc64_perm *i
struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcctl_pre_down_nolock(struct ipc_namespace *ns,
struct ipc_ids *ids, int id, int cmd,
struct ipc64_perm *perm, int extra_perm);
-struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcctl_pre_down(struct ipc_namespace *ns,
- struct ipc_ids *ids, int id, int cmd,
- struct ipc64_perm *perm, int extra_perm);
#ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
/* On IA-64, we always use the "64-bit version" of the IPC structures. */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from davidlohr.bueso@xxxxxx are
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-shorten-critical-region-in-shmctl_down.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-introduce-lockless-functions-to-obtain-the-ipc-object.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-shorten-critical-region-for-shmat.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-shorten-critical-region-for-shmctl.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-introduce-shmctl_nolock.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-drop-ipcctl_pre_down.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-cleanup-do_shmat-pasta.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-make-shmctl_nolock-lockless.patch
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