linux/ipc
Manfred Spraul 9edff4ab1f ipc: sysvsem: implement sys_unshare(CLONE_SYSVSEM)
sys_unshare(CLONE_NEWIPC) doesn't handle the undo lists properly, this can
cause a kernel memory corruption.  CLONE_NEWIPC must detach from the existing
undo lists.

Fix, part 1: add support for sys_unshare(CLONE_SYSVSEM)

The original reason to not support it was the potential (inevitable?)
confusion due to the fact that sys_unshare(CLONE_SYSVSEM) has the
inverse meaning of clone(CLONE_SYSVSEM).

Our two most reasonable options then appear to be (1) fully support
CLONE_SYSVSEM, or (2) continue to refuse explicit CLONE_SYSVSEM,
but always do it anyway on unshare(CLONE_SYSVSEM).  This patch does
(1).

Changelog:
	Apr 16: SEH: switch to Manfred's alternative patch which
		removes the unshare_semundo() function which
		always refused CLONE_SYSVSEM.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:14 -07:00
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compat_mq.c
compat.c fix logic error in ipc compat semctl() 2007-07-06 10:23:43 -07:00
ipc_sysctl.c ipc: re-enable msgmni automatic recomputing msgmni if set to negative 2008-04-29 08:06:13 -07:00
ipcns_notifier.c ipc: re-enable msgmni automatic recomputing msgmni if set to negative 2008-04-29 08:06:13 -07:00
Makefile ipc: recompute msgmni on ipc namespace creation/removal 2008-04-29 08:06:12 -07:00
mqueue.c [PATCH] r/o bind mounts: elevate write count for open()s 2008-04-19 00:29:25 -04:00
msg.c ipc: add definitions of USHORT_MAX and others 2008-04-29 08:06:14 -07:00
msgutil.c
namespace.c ipc: recompute msgmni on ipc namespace creation/removal 2008-04-29 08:06:12 -07:00
sem.c ipc: sysvsem: implement sys_unshare(CLONE_SYSVSEM) 2008-04-29 08:06:14 -07:00
shm.c IPC: consolidate all xxxctl_down() functions 2008-04-29 08:06:14 -07:00
util.c ipc: add definitions of USHORT_MAX and others 2008-04-29 08:06:14 -07:00
util.h ipc: add definitions of USHORT_MAX and others 2008-04-29 08:06:14 -07:00