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2006-09-22kernel/kmod.c: fix a race condition in usermodehelper.Martin Schwidefsky
There is a race between call_usermodehelper_keys, __call_usermodehelper and wait_for_helper. It should only happen if preemption is enabled or on a virtualized system. If the cpu is preempted or put to sleep by the hypervisor in __call_usermodehelper between the creation of the wait_for_helper thread and the second check on sub_info->wait, the whole execution of wait_for_helper including the complete call and the continuation after the wait_for_completion in call_usermodehelper_keys can have happened before __call_usermodehelper checks sub_info->wait for the second time. Since sub_info can already have been clobbered, sub_info->wait could be zero and complete is called a second time with an invalid argument. This has happened on s390. It took me only three days to find out .. Thanks to Arnd Bergmann for his help to spot this bug. Kenneth Lee also sent the same patch independently. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2005-10-30[PATCH] Keys: Get rid of warning in kmod.c if keys disabledDavid Howells
The attached patch gets rid of a "statement without effect" warning when CONFIG_KEYS is disabled by making use of the return value of key_get(). The compiler will optimise all of this away when keys are disabled. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24[PATCH] Keys: Pass session keyring to call_usermodehelper()David Howells
The attached patch makes it possible to pass a session keyring through to the process spawned by call_usermodehelper(). This allows patch 3/3 to pass an authorisation key through to /sbin/request-key, thus permitting better access controls when doing just-in-time key creation. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!