Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)

Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 - Some pidns/fork/exec tweaks
 - OCFS2 updates
 - Most of MM - there remain quite a few memcg parts which depend on
   pending core cgroups changes.  Which might have been already merged -
   I'll check tomorrow...
 - Various misc stuff all over the place
 - A few block bits which I never got around to sending to Jens -
   relatively minor things.
 - MAINTAINERS maintenance
 - A small number of lib/ updates
 - checkpatch updates
 - epoll
 - firmware/dmi-scan
 - Some kprobes work for S390
 - drivers/rtc updates
 - hfsplus feature work
 - vmcore feature work
 - rbtree upgrades
 - AOE updates
 - pktcdvd cleanups
 - PPS
 - memstick
 - w1
 - New "inittmpfs" feature, which does the obvious
 - More IPC work from Davidlohr.

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (303 commits)
  lz4: fix compression/decompression signedness mismatch
  ipc: drop ipc_lock_check
  ipc, shm: drop shm_lock_check
  ipc: drop ipc_lock_by_ptr
  ipc, shm: guard against non-existant vma in shmdt(2)
  ipc: document general ipc locking scheme
  ipc,msg: drop msg_unlock
  ipc: rename ids->rw_mutex
  ipc,shm: shorten critical region for shmat
  ipc,shm: cleanup do_shmat pasta
  ipc,shm: shorten critical region for shmctl
  ipc,shm: make shmctl_nolock lockless
  ipc,shm: introduce shmctl_nolock
  ipc: drop ipcctl_pre_down
  ipc,shm: shorten critical region in shmctl_down
  ipc,shm: introduce lockless functions to obtain the ipc object
  initmpfs: use initramfs if rootfstype= or root= specified
  initmpfs: make rootfs use tmpfs when CONFIG_TMPFS enabled
  initmpfs: move rootfs code from fs/ramfs/ to init/
  initmpfs: move bdi setup from init_rootfs to init_ramfs
  ...

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index c9eaf201300..81ccb4f010c 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -351,7 +351,6 @@ static int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
 	struct rb_node **rb_link, *rb_parent;
 	int retval;
 	unsigned long charge;
-	struct mempolicy *pol;
 
 	uprobe_start_dup_mmap();
 	down_write(&oldmm->mmap_sem);
@@ -400,11 +399,9 @@ static int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
 			goto fail_nomem;
 		*tmp = *mpnt;
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tmp->anon_vma_chain);
-		pol = mpol_dup(vma_policy(mpnt));
-		retval = PTR_ERR(pol);
-		if (IS_ERR(pol))
+		retval = vma_dup_policy(mpnt, tmp);
+		if (retval)
 			goto fail_nomem_policy;
-		vma_set_policy(tmp, pol);
 		tmp->vm_mm = mm;
 		if (anon_vma_fork(tmp, mpnt))
 			goto fail_nomem_anon_vma_fork;
@@ -472,7 +469,7 @@ out:
 	uprobe_end_dup_mmap();
 	return retval;
 fail_nomem_anon_vma_fork:
-	mpol_put(pol);
+	mpol_put(vma_policy(tmp));
 fail_nomem_policy:
 	kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, tmp);
 fail_nomem:
@@ -1173,13 +1170,16 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 
 	/*
-	 * If the new process will be in a different pid namespace
-	 * don't allow the creation of threads.
+	 * If the new process will be in a different pid or user namespace
+	 * do not allow it to share a thread group or signal handlers or
+	 * parent with the forking task.
 	 */
-	if ((clone_flags & (CLONE_VM|CLONE_NEWPID)) &&
-	    (task_active_pid_ns(current) !=
-	     current->nsproxy->pid_ns_for_children))
-		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+	if (clone_flags & (CLONE_SIGHAND | CLONE_PARENT)) {
+		if ((clone_flags & (CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWPID)) ||
+		    (task_active_pid_ns(current) !=
+				current->nsproxy->pid_ns_for_children))
+			return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+	}
 
 	retval = security_task_create(clone_flags);
 	if (retval)
@@ -1576,15 +1576,6 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
 	long nr;
 
 	/*
-	 * Do some preliminary argument and permissions checking before we
-	 * actually start allocating stuff
-	 */
-	if (clone_flags & (CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWPID)) {
-		if (clone_flags & (CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_PARENT))
-			return -EINVAL;
-	}
-
-	/*
 	 * Determine whether and which event to report to ptracer.  When
 	 * called from kernel_thread or CLONE_UNTRACED is explicitly
 	 * requested, no event is reported; otherwise, report if the event