linux/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c, branch v3.2.41

alpha: unbreak osf_setsysinfo(SSI_NVPAIRS, [SSIN_UACPROC, UAC_SIGBUS])

2011-08-25T23:25:33Z

The bug was accidentally found by the following program: #include #include #include static int setsysinfo(unsigned long op, void *buffer, unsigned long size, int *start, void *arg, unsigned long flag) { return syscall(__NR_osf_setsysinfo, op, buffer, size, start, arg, flag); } int main(int argc, char **argv) { short x[10]; unsigned int buf[2] = { SSIN_UACPROC, UAC_SIGBUS, }; setsysinfo(SSI_NVPAIRS, buf, 1, 0, 0, 0); int *y = (int*) (x+1); *y = 0; return 0; } The program shoud fail on SIGBUS, but didn't. The patch is a second part of userspace flag fix (commit 745dd2405e28 "Alpha: Rearrange thread info flags fixing two regressions"). Deleted outdated out-of-sync 'UAC_SHIFT' (the cause of bug) in favour of 'ALPHA_UAC_SHIFT'. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich Acked-by: Michael Cree Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Matt Turner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

alpha: fix several security issues

2011-06-16T03:04:02Z

Fix several security issues in Alpha-specific syscalls. Untested, but mostly trivial. 1. Signedness issue in osf_getdomainname allows copying out-of-bounds kernel memory to userland. 2. Signedness issue in osf_sysinfo allows copying large amounts of kernel memory to userland. 3. Typo (?) in osf_getsysinfo bounds minimum instead of maximum copy size, allowing copying large amounts of kernel memory to userland. 4. Usage of user pointer in osf_wait4 while under KERNEL_DS allows privilege escalation via writing return value of sys_wait4 to kernel memory. Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Matt Turner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

clean statfs-like syscalls up

2011-03-14T13:15:28Z

New helpers: user_statfs() and fd_statfs(), taking userland pathname and descriptor resp. and filling struct kstatfs. Syscalls of statfs family (native, compat and foreign - osf and hpux on alpha and parisc resp.) switched to those. Removes some boilerplate code, simplifies cleanup on errors... Signed-off-by: Al Viro

alpha/osf_sys: remove unused MAX_SELECT_SECONDS

2011-01-17T04:42:14Z

Remove the leftover from the commit 14e2acd86865 ("select: fix alpha OSF wrapper"). Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Matt Turner

alpha: kill big kernel lock

2010-09-19T03:06:18Z

All uses of the BKL on alpha are totally bogus, nothing is really protected by this. Remove the remaining users so we don't have to mark alpha as 'depends on BKL'. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Matt Turner

alpha: Use static const char * const where possible

2010-09-19T03:06:17Z

Acked-by: Richard Henderson Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Matt Turner

Alpha: Fix a missing comma in sys_osf_statfs()

2010-08-28T21:01:03Z

Fix a comma that got accidentally deleted from sys_osf_statfs() leading to the following warning: arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c: In function 'SYSC_osf_statfs': arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c:255: error: syntax error before 'buffer' Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Mark arguments to certain syscalls as being const

2010-08-13T23:53:13Z

Mark arguments to certain system calls as being const where they should be but aren't. The list includes: (*) The filename arguments of various stat syscalls, execve(), various utimes syscalls and some mount syscalls. (*) The filename arguments of some syscall helpers relating to the above. (*) The buffer argument of various write syscalls. Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

pass a struct path to vfs_statfs

2010-08-09T20:48:42Z

We'll need the path to implement the flags field for statvfs support. We do have it available in all callers except: - ecryptfs_statfs. This one doesn't actually need vfs_statfs but just needs to do a caller to the lower filesystem statfs method. - sys_ustat. Add a non-exported statfs_by_dentry helper for it which doesn't won't be able to fill out the flags field later on. In addition rename the helpers for statfs vs fstatfs to do_*statfs instead of the misleading vfs prefix. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Al Viro

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32Z

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Lee Schermerhorn