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authorJaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>2010-01-08 09:26:34 +0100
committerJaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>2010-01-08 09:26:34 +0100
commit1cb4f624ea38361b6397966470f0a1bed5532483 (patch)
tree418b05ddc854b09d64f7d5ee0c78875e42b5f151 /kernel/sysctl_binary.c
parent444c1953d496d272208902ff7010dc70d1f887f0 (diff)
parent2c1f1895ef2aa8f0e5497893eff71304aef332e1 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into fixes
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl_binary.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl_binary.c38
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl_binary.c b/kernel/sysctl_binary.c
index b75dbf40f57..8f5d16e0707 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl_binary.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl_binary.c
@@ -1399,6 +1399,13 @@ static void deprecated_sysctl_warning(const int *name, int nlen)
{
int i;
+ /*
+ * CTL_KERN/KERN_VERSION is used by older glibc and cannot
+ * ever go away.
+ */
+ if (name[0] == CTL_KERN && name[1] == KERN_VERSION)
+ return;
+
if (printk_ratelimit()) {
printk(KERN_INFO
"warning: process `%s' used the deprecated sysctl "
@@ -1410,6 +1417,35 @@ static void deprecated_sysctl_warning(const int *name, int nlen)
return;
}
+#define WARN_ONCE_HASH_BITS 8
+#define WARN_ONCE_HASH_SIZE (1<<WARN_ONCE_HASH_BITS)
+
+static DECLARE_BITMAP(warn_once_bitmap, WARN_ONCE_HASH_SIZE);
+
+#define FNV32_OFFSET 2166136261U
+#define FNV32_PRIME 0x01000193
+
+/*
+ * Print each legacy sysctl (approximately) only once.
+ * To avoid making the tables non-const use a external
+ * hash-table instead.
+ * Worst case hash collision: 6, but very rarely.
+ * NOTE! We don't use the SMP-safe bit tests. We simply
+ * don't care enough.
+ */
+static void warn_on_bintable(const int *name, int nlen)
+{
+ int i;
+ u32 hash = FNV32_OFFSET;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < nlen; i++)
+ hash = (hash ^ name[i]) * FNV32_PRIME;
+ hash %= WARN_ONCE_HASH_SIZE;
+ if (__test_and_set_bit(hash, warn_once_bitmap))
+ return;
+ deprecated_sysctl_warning(name, nlen);
+}
+
static ssize_t do_sysctl(int __user *args_name, int nlen,
void __user *oldval, size_t oldlen, void __user *newval, size_t newlen)
{
@@ -1424,7 +1460,7 @@ static ssize_t do_sysctl(int __user *args_name, int nlen,
if (get_user(name[i], args_name + i))
return -EFAULT;
- deprecated_sysctl_warning(name, nlen);
+ warn_on_bintable(name, nlen);
return binary_sysctl(name, nlen, oldval, oldlen, newval, newlen);
}