* lockstatus() and VOP_ISLOCKED() gets a new process argument and a new
return value: LK_EXCLOTHER, when the lock is held exclusively by another
process.
* The ASSERT_VOP_(UN)LOCKED family is extended to use what this gives them
* Extend the vnode_if.src format to allow more exact specification than
locked/unlocked.
This commit should not do any semantic changes unless you are using
DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS.
Discussed with: grog, mch, peter, phk
Reviewed by: peter
maps onto the upages. We used to use this extensively, particularly
for ps and gdb. Both of these have been "fixed". ps gets the p_stats
via eproc along with all the other stats, and gdb uses the regs, fpregs
etc files.
Once apon a time the UPAGES were mapped here, but that changed back
in January '96. This essentially kills my revisions 1.16 and 1.17.
The 2-page "hole" above the stack can be reclaimed now.
1. ntfs_read*attr*() functions now accept
uio structure to eliminate one data copying.
2. found and removed deadlock caused
by 6 concurent ls -lR.
3. started implementation of nromal
Unicode<->unix recodeing.
Obtained from: NetBSD
drops the counting in bwrite and puts it all in spec_strategy.
I did some tests and verified that the counts collected for writes
in spec_strategy is identical to the counts that we previously
collected in bwrite. We now also get read counts (async reads
come from requests for read-ahead blocks). Note that you need
to compile a new version of mount to get the read counts printed
out. The old mount binary is completely compatible, the only
reason to install a new mount is to get the read counts printed.
Submitted by: Craig A Soules <soules+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reviewed by: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
p_trespass(struct proc *p1, struct proc *p2)
which returns zero or an errno depending on the legality of p1 trespassing
on p2.
Replace kern_sig.c:CANSIGNAL() with call to p_trespass() and one
extra signal related check.
Replace procfs.h:CHECKIO() macros with calls to p_trespass().
Only show command lines to process which can trespass on the target
process.
Note: Previous commit to these files (except coda_vnops and devfs_vnops)
that claimed to remove WILLRELE from VOP_RENAME actually removed it from
VOP_MKNOD.
Correctly lock vnodes when calling VOP_OPEN() from filesystem mount code.
Unify spec_open() for bdev and cdev cases.
Remove the disabled bdev specific read/write code.
file object. Also explain some possible directions to re-implement it --
I'm not sure it should be, given the minimal application use. (Other
than having the debugger automatically access the symbols for a process,
the main use I'd found was with some minor accounting ability, but _that_
depends on it being in the filesystem space; an ioctl access method would
be useless in that case.)
This is a code-less change; only a comment has been added.
continue doing it despite objections by me (the principal author).
Note that this doesn't fix the real problem -- the real problem is generally
bad setup by ignorant users, and education is the right way to fix it.
So while this doesn't actually solve the prolem mentioned in the complaint
(since it's still possible to do it via other methods, although they mostly
involve a bit more complicity), and there are better methods to do this,
nobody was willing or able to provide me with a real world example that
couldn't be worked around using the existing permissions and group
mechanism. And therefore, security by removing features is the method of
the day.
I only had three applications that used it, in any event. One of them would
have made debugging easier, but I still haven't finished it, and won't
now, so it doesn't really matter.
Merge the contents (less some trivial bordering the silly comments)
of <vm/vm_prot.h> and <vm/vm_inherit.h> into <vm/vm.h>. This puts
the #defines for the vm_inherit_t and vm_prot_t types next to their
typedefs.
This paves the road for the commit to follow shortly: change
useracc() to use VM_PROT_{READ|WRITE} rather than B_{READ|WRITE}
as argument.
to remove 'b'lock devices. The agreement is, essentially, that
block devices will be collapsed into character devices as a first
step (though I don't particularly agree), and raw device names 'rxxx'
will become simply 'xxx' in devfs in the second step (i.e. no 'rxxx'
names will exist). The renaming will not effect the original /dev
and the expectation is that devfs will eventually (but not immediately)
become the standard way to access devices in the system.
If it is determined that a reimplementation of block device access
characteristics is beneficial, a number of alternatives will
be possible that do not involve resurrecting the 'b'lock device class.
For example, an ioctl() that might be made on an open character device
descriptor or a generic buffered overlay device.
This commit removes the blockdev disablement sysctl which does not
apply to the solution that was reached.
This means that access to block devices nodes will act the
same as char device nodes for disk-like devices.
If you encounter problems after this, where programs accessing
disks directly fail to operate, please use the following command
to revert to previous behaviour:
sysctl -w vfs.bdev_buffered=1
And verify that this was indeed the cause of your trouble.
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