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6 years agoReady for 4.16 man-pages-4.16
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:53:13 +0000 (17:53 +0200)] 
Ready for 4.16

6 years agoRemoved trailing white space at end of lines
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:53:01 +0000 (17:53 +0200)] 
Removed trailing white space at end of lines

6 years agoChanges: Expanded tabs
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:53:01 +0000 (17:53 +0200)] 
Changes: Expanded tabs

6 years agoChanges: tfix
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:42:24 +0000 (17:42 +0200)] 
Changes: tfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoexecve.2, fallocate.2, getrlimit.2, io_submit.2, membarrier.2, mmap.2, msgget.2,...
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:41:31 +0000 (17:41 +0200)] 
execve.2, fallocate.2, getrlimit.2, io_submit.2, membarrier.2, mmap.2, msgget.2, open.2, ptrace.2, readv.2, semget.2, shmget.2, shutdown.2, syscall.2, wait.2, wait4.2, crypt.3, encrypt.3, fseek.3, getcwd.3, makedev.3, pthread_create.3, puts.3, tsearch.3, elf.5, filesystems.5, group.5, passwd.5, sysfs.5, mount_namespaces.7, posixoptions.7, time.7, unix.7, vdso.7, xattr.7, ld.so.8: tstamp

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoChanges: Ready for 4.16
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:35:35 +0000 (17:35 +0200)] 
Changes: Ready for 4.16

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agosyscall.2: spfix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:44:52 +0000 (14:44 +0200)] 
syscall.2: spfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agokeyctl.2, sincos.3: spfix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:44:20 +0000 (14:44 +0200)] 
keyctl.2, sincos.3: spfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agobpf.2, sched_setattr.2, crypt.3, elf.5, proc.5, fanotify.7, feature_test_macros.7...
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:43:23 +0000 (14:43 +0200)] 
bpf.2, sched_setattr.2, crypt.3, elf.5, proc.5, fanotify.7, feature_test_macros.7, sched.7: spfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agokeyctl.2: tfix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:40:53 +0000 (14:40 +0200)] 
keyctl.2: tfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agofallocate.2, keyctl.2, bzero.3: spfix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:40:24 +0000 (14:40 +0200)] 
fallocate.2, keyctl.2, bzero.3: spfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agocopy_file_range.2: tfix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:38:59 +0000 (14:38 +0200)] 
copy_file_range.2: tfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agonamespaces.7: Mention that device ID should also be checked when comparing NS symlinks
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:10:32 +0000 (14:10 +0200)] 
namespaces.7: Mention that device ID should also be checked when comparing NS symlinks

When comparing two namespaces symlinks to see if they refer to
the same namespace, both the inode number and the device ID
should be compared. This point was already made clear in
ioctl_ns(2), but was missing from this page.

Reported-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoopen.2: Add missing argument for snprintf() in example code
Jakub Wilk [Thu, 26 Apr 2018 21:37:12 +0000 (23:37 +0200)] 
open.2: Add missing argument for snprintf() in example code

Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agounix.7: tfix
Jakub Wilk [Thu, 26 Apr 2018 21:28:17 +0000 (23:28 +0200)] 
unix.7: tfix

Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agocapabilities.7: tfix
Jakub Wilk [Thu, 26 Apr 2018 21:28:16 +0000 (23:28 +0200)] 
capabilities.7: tfix

Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agovdso.7: VDSO symbols (system calls) are not visible to seccomp(2) filters
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:25:44 +0000 (18:25 +0200)] 
vdso.7: VDSO symbols (system calls) are not visible to seccomp(2) filters

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoseteuid.2: grfix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 20 Apr 2018 11:20:33 +0000 (13:20 +0200)] 
seteuid.2: grfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agosetgid.2: wfix: Make wording consistent with setuid(2)
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 19 Apr 2018 18:07:23 +0000 (20:07 +0200)] 
setgid.2: wfix: Make wording consistent with setuid(2)

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agofseek.3: Improve EPIPE error text
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 19 Apr 2018 13:00:04 +0000 (15:00 +0200)] 
fseek.3: Improve EPIPE error text

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agofseek.3: ERRORS: EBADF should be ESPIPE
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:57:17 +0000 (14:57 +0200)] 
fseek.3: ERRORS: EBADF should be ESPIPE

Reported-by: Andy Owen <andrew.owen@dolby.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agocapabilities.7: tfix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 19 Apr 2018 09:18:31 +0000 (11:18 +0200)] 
capabilities.7: tfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agomsgget.2, semget.2, shmget.2: The purpose of "flags" == 0 is to obtain ID of an exist...
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 14 Apr 2018 20:35:53 +0000 (22:35 +0200)] 
msgget.2, semget.2, shmget.2: The purpose of "flags" == 0 is to obtain ID of an existing IPC object

This was implied in these pages, but the meaning of "flags" == 0
could be more explicit, as indicated by questions such as
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49833569/flag-value-of-semget-function

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agomsgget.2: ffix
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 14 Apr 2018 20:21:22 +0000 (22:21 +0200)] 
msgget.2: ffix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoshmget.2: ffix
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 14 Apr 2018 20:20:40 +0000 (22:20 +0200)] 
shmget.2: ffix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agocapabilities.7: srcfix: FIXME
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 19:13:59 +0000 (21:13 +0200)] 
capabilities.7: srcfix: FIXME

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agocapabilities.7: Rework file capability versioning and namespaced file caps text
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 19:04:29 +0000 (21:04 +0200)] 
capabilities.7: Rework file capability versioning and namespaced file caps text

There was some confused missing of concepts between the
two subsections, and some other details that needed fixing up.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agocapabilities.7: Explain when VFS_CAP_REVISION_3 file capabilities have effect
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 15:22:03 +0000 (17:22 +0200)] 
capabilities.7: Explain when VFS_CAP_REVISION_3 file capabilities have effect

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agocapabilities.7: Explain rules that determine version of security.capability xattr
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 13:41:10 +0000 (15:41 +0200)] 
capabilities.7: Explain rules that determine version of security.capability xattr

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agocapabilities.7: Explain term "namespace root user ID"
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 11:42:11 +0000 (13:42 +0200)] 
capabilities.7: Explain term "namespace root user ID"

Confirmed with Serge Hallyn that: "nsroot" means the UID 0
in the namespace as it would be mapped into the initial userns.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agocapabilities.7: Document namespaced-file capabilities
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 14 Jan 2018 20:39:15 +0000 (21:39 +0100)] 
capabilities.7: Document namespaced-file capabilities

Cowritten-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agocapabilities.7: Describe file capability versioning
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 13 Jan 2018 19:55:53 +0000 (20:55 +0100)] 
capabilities.7: Describe file capability versioning

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoencrypt.3: Replace text that is duplicated in crypt(3) with a cross reference
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 09:32:43 +0000 (11:32 +0200)] 
encrypt.3: Replace text that is duplicated in crypt(3) with a cross reference

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agocrypt.3: tfix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 19:22:52 +0000 (21:22 +0200)] 
crypt.3: tfix

Reported-by: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmavrogi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agocrypt.3: Tweaks to Carlos O'Donell's patch
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 09:30:39 +0000 (11:30 +0200)] 
crypt.3: Tweaks to Carlos O'Donell's patch

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoencrypt.3: srcfix: rewrap source lines
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 09:25:34 +0000 (11:25 +0200)] 
encrypt.3: srcfix: rewrap source lines

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agocrypt.3: srcfix: rewrap source lines
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 09:23:29 +0000 (11:23 +0200)] 
crypt.3: srcfix: rewrap source lines

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agocrypt.3, encrypt.3: Add notes about _XOPEN_CRYPT
Carlos O'Donell [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 19:05:40 +0000 (14:05 -0500)] 
crypt.3, encrypt.3: Add notes about _XOPEN_CRYPT

The distribution may choose not to support _XOPEN_CRYPT in the
case that the distribution has transitioned from glibc crypt to
libxcrypt.

Signed-off-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoposixoptions.7: tfix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 09:20:11 +0000 (11:20 +0200)] 
posixoptions.7: tfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoposixoptions.7: Use a more consistent, less cluttered layout for option lists
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 09:19:22 +0000 (11:19 +0200)] 
posixoptions.7: Use a more consistent, less cluttered layout for option lists

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoposixoptions.7: Make function lists more consistent and less cluttered
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 08:44:01 +0000 (10:44 +0200)] 
posixoptions.7: Make function lists more consistent and less cluttered

Use more consistent layout for lists of functions, and
remove punctuation from the lists to make them less cluttered.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoposixoptions.7: tfix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 08:23:19 +0000 (10:23 +0200)] 
posixoptions.7: tfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoposixoptions.7: wfix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 08:22:30 +0000 (10:22 +0200)] 
posixoptions.7: wfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoposixoptions.7: ffix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 07:47:25 +0000 (09:47 +0200)] 
posixoptions.7: ffix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoposixoptions.7: tfix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 07:42:39 +0000 (09:42 +0200)] 
posixoptions.7: tfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoposixoptions.7: ffix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 07:42:26 +0000 (09:42 +0200)] 
posixoptions.7: ffix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoposixoptions.7: Expand XSI Options groups
Carlos O'Donell [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 19:05:33 +0000 (14:05 -0500)] 
posixoptions.7: Expand XSI Options groups

We define in detail the X/Open System Interfaces i.e. _XOPEN_UNIX
and all of the X/Open System Interfaces (XSI) Options Groups.

The XSI options groups include encryption, realtime, advanced
realtime, realtime threads, advanced realtime threads, tracing,
streams, and legacy interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: Minor wording improvements to text on MAP_FIXED hazard
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 07:20:24 +0000 (09:20 +0200)] 
mmap.2: Minor wording improvements to text on MAP_FIXED hazard

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: Further tweaks to mention of MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE in MAP_FIXED notes
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 07:16:18 +0000 (09:16 +0200)] 
mmap.2: Further tweaks to mention of MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE in MAP_FIXED notes

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: Move the text on MAP_FIXED to NOTES
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 07:12:16 +0000 (09:12 +0200)] 
mmap.2: Move the text on MAP_FIXED to NOTES

This text has become rather long, making it it somewhat
unwieldy in the discussion of the mmap() flags. Therefore,
move it to NOTES, with a pointer in DESCRIPTION referring
the reader to NOTES.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: Further wording tweaks to the discussion of MAP_FIXED hazards
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 07:04:35 +0000 (09:04 +0200)] 
mmap.2: Further wording tweaks to the discussion of MAP_FIXED hazards

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: Minor wording fix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 06:53:06 +0000 (08:53 +0200)] 
mmap.2: Minor wording fix

Change "extremely hazardous" to "hazardous". The former phrasing
is a little overwrought; on its own "hazardous" is enough to
convey the sense of danger.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: Minor wording fixes to to text describing MAP_FIXED hazards
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 06:50:38 +0000 (08:50 +0200)] 
mmap.2: Minor wording fixes to to text describing MAP_FIXED hazards

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: Simplify mention of MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE in the discussion of MAP_FIXED
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 06:44:24 +0000 (08:44 +0200)] 
mmap.2: Simplify mention of MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE in the discussion of MAP_FIXED

After discussions with Jann Horn and John Hubbard.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: wfix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 06:38:50 +0000 (08:38 +0200)] 
mmap.2: wfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: wfix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 06:23:14 +0000 (08:23 +0200)] 
mmap.2: wfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: tfix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 06:21:32 +0000 (08:21 +0200)] 
mmap.2: tfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: ffix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Apr 2018 06:19:44 +0000 (08:19 +0200)] 
mmap.2: ffix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: MAP_FIXED is okay if the address range has been reserved
Jann Horn [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 15:39:41 +0000 (17:39 +0200)] 
mmap.2: MAP_FIXED is okay if the address range has been reserved

Clarify that MAP_FIXED is appropriate if the specified address
range has been reserved using an existing mapping, but shouldn't
be used otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: Clarify rationale of MAP_SYNC somewhat
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 18:12:50 +0000 (20:12 +0200)] 
mmap.2: Clarify rationale of MAP_SYNC somewhat

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: Minor tweaks to Jan Kara's patch
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 12:49:52 +0000 (14:49 +0200)] 
mmap.2: Minor tweaks to Jan Kara's patch

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: srcfix: rewrap source lines
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 12:38:24 +0000 (14:38 +0200)] 
mmap.2: srcfix: rewrap source lines

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: Add description of MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE and MAP_SYNC
Jan Kara [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 12:36:35 +0000 (14:36 +0200)] 
mmap.2: Add description of MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE and MAP_SYNC

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agogetcwd.3: Minor tweaks to Carlos O'Donell's patch
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 11:49:40 +0000 (13:49 +0200)] 
getcwd.3: Minor tweaks to Carlos O'Donell's patch

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agogetcwd.3: srcfix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 11:47:03 +0000 (13:47 +0200)] 
getcwd.3: srcfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agogetcwd.3: Mention that "(unreachable)" is no longer returned for glibc >= 2.27.
Carlos O'Donell [Mon, 5 Feb 2018 20:34:49 +0000 (12:34 -0800)] 
getcwd.3: Mention that "(unreachable)" is no longer returned for glibc >= 2.27.

With glibc fix 52a713fdd0a30e1bd79818e2e3c4ab44ddca1a94 for
CVE-2018-1000001 (Sourceware BZ #22679) the implementation in the
just released glibc 2.27 has been changed such that instead of
returning "(unreachable)" the implementation now returns ENOENT
as it would have if the current directory had been unlinked.

I see that in 2015 the quirk was documented in commit
a2ac97c78bf05a55f8f616fc39a4724372dcfa95, and this is no longer
true with glibc 2.27, but may continue to be true in other C libraries,
so I reference NOTES from the paragraph in the central text.

Signed-off-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agomembarrier.2: wfix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 11:37:28 +0000 (13:37 +0200)] 
membarrier.2: wfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agomembarrier.2: ffix code example
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 11:30:07 +0000 (13:30 +0200)] 
membarrier.2: ffix code example

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agomembarrier.2: ffix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 11:27:19 +0000 (13:27 +0200)] 
membarrier.2: ffix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agomembarrier.2: Some wording improvements
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 11:25:56 +0000 (13:25 +0200)] 
membarrier.2: Some wording improvements

I'll pass these to Mathieu Desnoyers for checking

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agomembarrier.2: Minor tweaks to Mathieu Desnoyers' patch
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 11:05:28 +0000 (13:05 +0200)] 
membarrier.2: Minor tweaks to Mathieu Desnoyers' patch

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agomembarrier.2: Add kernel version for MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY and MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 11:01:33 +0000 (13:01 +0200)] 
membarrier.2: Add kernel version for MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY and MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agomembarrier.2: Minor tweaks to MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED text
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 10:59:29 +0000 (12:59 +0200)] 
membarrier.2: Minor tweaks to MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED text

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agomembarrier.2: tfix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 10:44:38 +0000 (12:44 +0200)] 
membarrier.2: tfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agomembarrier.2: ffix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 10:27:51 +0000 (12:27 +0200)] 
membarrier.2: ffix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agomembarrier.2: srcfix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 10:28:17 +0000 (12:28 +0200)] 
membarrier.2: srcfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agomembarrier.2: Document new membarrier commands introduced in Linux 4.16
Mathieu Desnoyers [Mon, 12 Feb 2018 19:55:49 +0000 (14:55 -0500)] 
membarrier.2: Document new membarrier commands introduced in Linux 4.16

Document the following membarrier commands introduced in
Linux 4.16:

    MEMBARRIER_CMD_GLOBAL_EXPEDITED
        (the old enum label MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED is now an
        alias to preserve header backward compatibility)
    MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_GLOBAL_EXPEDITED
    MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE
    MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
CC: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoio_submit.2: Add kernel version numbers for various 'aio_rw_flags' flags
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 09:19:39 +0000 (11:19 +0200)] 
io_submit.2: Add kernel version numbers for various 'aio_rw_flags' flags

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoreadv.2: wfix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 09:10:41 +0000 (11:10 +0200)] 
readv.2: wfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoreadv.2: Remove redundant sentence
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 09:09:33 +0000 (11:09 +0200)] 
readv.2: Remove redundant sentence

The sentence is out of place, and probably doesn't really add to
the understanding already provided by the rest of the text

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoreadv.2: srcfix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 09:09:23 +0000 (11:09 +0200)] 
readv.2: srcfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoio_submit.2: Place 'aio_rw_flags' in alphabetical order
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 09:08:22 +0000 (11:08 +0200)] 
io_submit.2: Place 'aio_rw_flags' in alphabetical order

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoio_submit.2: srcfix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 09:06:12 +0000 (11:06 +0200)] 
io_submit.2: srcfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoreadv.2, io_submit.2: Document RWF_APPEND added in Linux 4.16
Jürg Billeter [Fri, 6 Apr 2018 13:51:06 +0000 (15:51 +0200)] 
readv.2, io_submit.2: Document RWF_APPEND added in Linux 4.16

Signed-off-by: Jürg Billeter <j@bitron.ch>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agounix.7: ERRORS: add EBADF for sending closed file descriptor with SCM_RIGHTS
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 08:53:21 +0000 (10:53 +0200)] 
unix.7: ERRORS: add EBADF for sending closed file descriptor with SCM_RIGHTS

As noted by Rusty Russell:

I was really surprised that sendmsg() returned EBADF on a valid fd;
turns out I was using sendmsg with SCM_RIGHTS to send a closed fd,
which gives EBADF (see test program below).

But this is only obliquely referenced in unix(7):

       SCM_RIGHTS
              Send or receive a set  of  open  file  descriptors
              from  another  process.  The data portion contains
              an integer array of  the  file  descriptors.   The
              passed file descriptors behave as though they have
              been created with dup(2).

EBADF is not mentioned in the unix(7) ERRORS (it's mentioned in
dup(2)).

int fdpass_send(int sockout, int fd)
{
/* From the cmsg(3) manpage: */
struct msghdr msg = { 0 };
struct cmsghdr *cmsg;
struct iovec iov;
char c = 0;
union {         /* Ancillary data buffer, wrapped in a union
   in order to ensure it is suitably aligned */
char buf[CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(fd))];
struct cmsghdr align;
} u;

msg.msg_control = u.buf;
msg.msg_controllen = sizeof(u.buf);
memset(&u, 0, sizeof(u));
cmsg = CMSG_FIRSTHDR(&msg);
cmsg->cmsg_level = SOL_SOCKET;
cmsg->cmsg_type = SCM_RIGHTS;
cmsg->cmsg_len = CMSG_LEN(sizeof(fd));
memcpy(CMSG_DATA(cmsg), &fd, sizeof(fd));

msg.msg_name = NULL;
msg.msg_namelen = 0;
msg.msg_iov = &iov;
msg.msg_iovlen = 1;
msg.msg_flags = 0;

/* Keith Packard reports that 0-length sends don't work, so we
 * always send 1 byte. */
iov.iov_base = &c;
iov.iov_len = 1;

return sendmsg(sockout, &msg, 0);
}

int fdpass_recv(int sockin)
{
/* From the cmsg(3) manpage: */
struct msghdr msg = { 0 };
struct cmsghdr *cmsg;
struct iovec iov;
int fd;
char c;
union {         /* Ancillary data buffer, wrapped in a union
   in order to ensure it is suitably aligned */
char buf[CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(fd))];
struct cmsghdr align;
} u;

msg.msg_control = u.buf;
msg.msg_controllen = sizeof(u.buf);

msg.msg_name = NULL;
msg.msg_namelen = 0;
msg.msg_iov = &iov;
msg.msg_iovlen = 1;
msg.msg_flags = 0;

iov.iov_base = &c;
iov.iov_len = 1;

if (recvmsg(sockin, &msg, 0) < 0)
return -1;

cmsg = CMSG_FIRSTHDR(&msg);
        if (!cmsg
    || cmsg->cmsg_len != CMSG_LEN(sizeof(fd))
    || cmsg->cmsg_level != SOL_SOCKET
    || cmsg->cmsg_type != SCM_RIGHTS) {
errno = -EINVAL;
return -1;
}

memcpy(&fd, CMSG_DATA(cmsg), sizeof(fd));
return fd;
}

static void child(int sockfd)
{
int newfd = fdpass_recv(sockfd);
assert(newfd < 0);
exit(0);
}

int main(void)
{
int sv[2];
int pid, ret;

assert(socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, sv) == 0);

pid = fork();
if (pid == 0) {
close(sv[1]);
child(sv[0]);
}

close(sv[0]);
ret = fdpass_send(sv[1], sv[0]);
printf("fdpass of bad fd return %i (%s)\n", ret, strerror(errno));
return 0;
}

Reported-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agounix.7: wfix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 08:42:34 +0000 (10:42 +0200)] 
unix.7: wfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoperf_event_open.2: Minor tweak to Song Liu's kprobe/uprobe patch: fix kernel version
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 08:23:41 +0000 (10:23 +0200)] 
perf_event_open.2: Minor tweak to Song Liu's kprobe/uprobe patch: fix kernel version

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoperf_event_open.2: Minor tweaks to Song Liu's patch
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 9 Jan 2018 23:27:53 +0000 (00:27 +0100)] 
perf_event_open.2: Minor tweaks to Song Liu's patch

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agoperf_event_open.2: Add type kprobe and uprobe
Song Liu [Tue, 9 Jan 2018 19:39:26 +0000 (11:39 -0800)] 
perf_event_open.2: Add type kprobe and uprobe

Two new types kprobe and uprobe are being added to
perf_event_open(), which allow creating kprobe or
uprobe with perf_event_open. This patch adds
information about these types.

Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: Explicitly mention MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE in EEXIST description
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 08:06:34 +0000 (10:06 +0200)] 
mmap.2: Explicitly mention MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE in EEXIST description

Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: Minor wording fix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 07:57:16 +0000 (09:57 +0200)] 
mmap.2: Minor wording fix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: Add a little historical detail on the obsolete MAP_DENYWRITE
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 07:54:26 +0000 (09:54 +0200)] 
mmap.2: Add a little historical detail on the obsolete MAP_DENYWRITE

In Linux 2..0, do_mmap() had the following check:

                if (flags & MAP_DENYWRITE) {
                        if (file->f_inode->i_writecount > 0)
                                return -ETXTBSY;
                }

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: Minor rewording of MAP_FIXED text
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 07:49:23 +0000 (09:49 +0200)] 
mmap.2: Minor rewording of MAP_FIXED text

The paragraph break-up of the existing text was
somewhat unnatural.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: ffix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 07:39:50 +0000 (09:39 +0200)] 
mmap.2: ffix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: Minor tweaks to Michal Hocko's patch
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 07:35:25 +0000 (09:35 +0200)] 
mmap.2: Minor tweaks to Michal Hocko's patch

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: tfix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 07:32:47 +0000 (09:32 +0200)] 
mmap.2: tfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: srcfix: rewrap source lines
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 07:31:30 +0000 (09:31 +0200)] 
mmap.2: srcfix: rewrap source lines

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: ffix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Apr 2018 07:28:30 +0000 (09:28 +0200)] 
mmap.2: ffix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agommap.2: Document new MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE flag
Michal Hocko [Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:04:52 +0000 (14:04 +0200)] 
mmap.2: Document new MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE flag

4.17+ kernels offer a new MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE flag which allows
the caller to atomically probe for a given address range.

[wording heavily updated by John Hubbard]

Cowritten-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
6 years agokeyring.7: wfix
Konstantin Grinemayer [Mon, 9 Apr 2018 14:54:11 +0000 (14:54 +0000)] 
keyring.7: wfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>