3.6.11.4 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Linus Torvalds [ Upstream commit b0b885657b6c8ef63a46bc9299b2a7715d19acde ] We first tried to avoid updating atime/mtime entirely (commit b0de59b5733d: "TTY: do not update atime/mtime on read/write"), and then limited it to only update it occasionally (commit 37b7f3c76595: "TTY: fix atime/mtime regression"), but it turns out that this was both insufficient and overkill. It was insufficient because we let people attach to the shared ptmx node to see activity without even reading atime/mtime, and it was overkill because the "only once a minute" means that you can't really tell an idle person from an active one with 'w'. So this tries to fix the problem properly. It marks the shared ptmx node as un-notifiable, and it lowers the "only once a minute" to a few seconds instead - still long enough that you can't time individual keystrokes, but short enough that you can tell whether somebody is active or not. Reported-by: Simon Kirby Acked-by: Jiri Slaby Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- drivers/tty/pty.c | 3 +++ drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/pty.c b/drivers/tty/pty.c index 5505ffc..c2e6fd4 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/pty.c +++ b/drivers/tty/pty.c @@ -617,6 +617,9 @@ static int ptmx_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) nonseekable_open(inode, filp); + /* We refuse fsnotify events on ptmx, since it's a shared resource */ + filp->f_mode |= FMODE_NONOTIFY; + retval = tty_alloc_file(filp); if (retval) return retval; diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c index 95a37fa..67ea9cf 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c @@ -939,10 +939,10 @@ void start_tty(struct tty_struct *tty) EXPORT_SYMBOL(start_tty); +/* We limit tty time update visibility to every 8 seconds or so. */ static void tty_update_time(struct timespec *time) { - unsigned long sec = get_seconds(); - sec -= sec % 60; + unsigned long sec = get_seconds() & ~7; if ((long)(sec - time->tv_sec) > 0) time->tv_sec = sec; } -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/