linux-hardened/ipc
Davidlohr Bueso 05603c44a7 ipc: document general ipc locking scheme
As suggested by Andrew, add a generic initial locking scheme used
throughout all sysv ipc mechanisms.  Documenting the ids rwsem, how rcu
can be enough to do the initial checks and when to actually acquire the
kern_ipc_perm.lock spinlock.

I found that adding it to util.c was generic enough.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-11 15:59:43 -07:00
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compat.c get rid of union semop in sys_semctl(2) arguments 2013-03-05 15:14:16 -05:00
compat_mq.c ipc: initialize structure memory to zero for compat functions 2010-10-27 18:03:13 -07:00
ipc_sysctl.c ipc: add sysctl to specify desired next object id 2013-01-04 16:11:45 -08:00
ipcns_notifier.c ipc: do not use a negative value to re-enable msgmni automatic recomputing 2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00
Makefile Add generic sys_ipc wrapper 2010-03-12 15:52:32 -08:00
mq_sysctl.c mqueue: separate mqueue default value from maximum value 2012-05-31 17:49:31 -07:00
mqueue.c audit: fix mq_open and mq_unlink to add the MQ root as a hidden parent audit_names record 2013-07-09 10:33:19 -07:00
msg.c ipc,msg: drop msg_unlock 2013-09-11 15:59:42 -07:00
msgutil.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-05-01 17:51:54 -07:00
namespace.c ipc: rename ids->rw_mutex 2013-09-11 15:59:42 -07:00
sem.c ipc: rename ids->rw_mutex 2013-09-11 15:59:42 -07:00
shm.c ipc: rename ids->rw_mutex 2013-09-11 15:59:42 -07:00
syscall.c get rid of union semop in sys_semctl(2) arguments 2013-03-05 15:14:16 -05:00
util.c ipc: document general ipc locking scheme 2013-09-11 15:59:43 -07:00
util.h ipc: rename ids->rw_mutex 2013-09-11 15:59:42 -07:00