linux/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c, branch v3.4-rc2

Disintegrate asm/system.h for Alpha

2012-03-28T17:11:12Z

Disintegrate asm/system.h for Alpha. Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org

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 Deleted outdated out-of-sync 'UAC_SHIFT' (the cause of bug) in favour of 'ALPHA_UAC_SHIFT'.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