- 10 Sep, 2015 40 commits
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yalin wang authored
Remove bi_reverse() and use generic bitrev32() instead - it should have better performance on some platforms. Signed-off-by:
yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fabio Estevam authored
Compare pointer-typed values to NULL rather than 0. The semantic patch that makes this change is available in scripts/coccinelle/null/badzero.cocci. Signed-off-by:
Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com> Signed-off-by:
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Yinghai Lu authored
When loading x86 64bit kernel above 4GiB with patched grub2, got kernel gunzip error. | early console in decompress_kernel | decompress_kernel: | input: [0x807f2143b4-0x807ff61aee] | output: [0x807cc00000-0x807f3ea29b] 0x027ea29c: output_len | boot via startup_64 | KASLR using RDTSC... | new output: [0x46fe000000-0x470138cfff] 0x0338d000: output_run_size | decompress: [0x46fe000000-0x47007ea29b] <=== [0x807f2143b4-0x807ff61aee] | | Decompressing Linux... gz... | | uncompression error | | -- System halted the new buffer is at 0x46fe000000ULL, decompressor_gzip is using 0xffffffb901ffffff as out_len. gunzip in lib/zlib_inflate/inflate.c cap that len to 0x01ffffff and decompress fails later. We could hit this problem with crashkernel booting that uses kexec loading kernel above 4GiB. We have decompress_* support: 1. inbuf[]/outbuf[] for kernel preboot. 2. inbuf[]/flush() for initramfs 3. fill()/flush() for initrd. This bug only affect kernel preboot path that use outbuf[]. Add __decompress and take real out_buf_len for gunzip instead of guessing wrong buf size. Fixes: 1431574a (lib/decompressors: fix "no limit" output buffer length) Signed-off-by:Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com> Cc: Jon Medhurst <tixy@linaro.org> Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Pranay Kr. Srivastava authored
This patch resolves https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16531. When logical blkdev size > 512 then sector numbers become larger than the device can support. Make affs start lookup based on the device's logical sector size instead of 512. Reported-by:
Mark <markk@clara.co.uk> Suggested-by:
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Ilya Dryomov authored
The following if (val < 0) *lvalp = (unsigned long)-val; is incorrect because the compiler is free to assume -val to be positive and use a sign-extend instruction for extending the bit pattern. This is a problem if val == INT_MIN: # echo -2147483648 >/proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging_level # cat /proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging_level -18446744071562067968 Cast to unsigned long before negation - that way we first sign-extend and then negate an unsigned, which is well defined. With this: # cat /proc/sys/dev/scsi/logging_level -2147483648 Signed-off-by:Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@twibright.com> Cc: Robert Xiao <nneonneo@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by:
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Baoquan He authored
In x86_64, since v2.6.26 the KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE is changed to 512M, and accordingly the MODULES_VADDR is changed to 0xffffffffa0000000. However, in v3.12 Kees Cook introduced kaslr to randomise the location of kernel. And the kernel text mapping addr space is enlarged from 512M to 1G. That means now KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE is variable, its value is 512M when kaslr support is not compiled in and 1G when kaslr support is compiled in. Accordingly the MODULES_VADDR is changed too to be: #define MODULES_VADDR (__START_KERNEL_map + KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE) So when kaslr is compiled in and enabled, the kernel text mapping addr space and modules vaddr space need be adjusted. Otherwise makedumpfile will collapse since the addr for some symbols is not correct. Hence KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE need be exported to vmcoreinfo and got in makedumpfile to help calculate MODULES_VADDR. Signed-off-by:Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by:
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Baoquan He authored
People reported that crash_notes in /proc/vmcore were corrupted and this cause crash kdump failure. With code debugging and log we got the root cause. This is because percpu variable crash_notes are allocated in 2 vmalloc pages. Currently percpu is based on vmalloc by default. Vmalloc can't guarantee 2 continuous vmalloc pages are also on 2 continuous physical pages. So when 1st kernel exports the starting address and size of crash_notes through sysfs like below: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpux/crash_notes /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpux/crash_notes_size kdump kernel use them to get the content of crash_notes. However the 2nd part may not be in the next neighbouring physical page as we expected if crash_notes are allocated accross 2 vmalloc pages. That's why nhdr_ptr->n_namesz or nhdr_ptr->n_descsz could be very huge in update_note_header_size_elf64() and cause note header merging failure or some warnings. In this patch change to call __alloc_percpu() to passed in the align value by rounding crash_notes_size up to the nearest power of two. This makes sure the crash_notes is allocated inside one physical page since sizeof(note_buf_t) in all ARCHS is smaller than PAGE_SIZE. Meanwhile add a BUILD_BUG_ON to break compile if size is bigger than PAGE_SIZE since crash_notes definitely will be in 2 pages. That need be avoided, and need be reported if it's unavoidable. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use correct comment layout] Signed-off-by:
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Minfei Huang authored
Transforming PFN(Page Frame Number) to struct page is never failure, so we can simplify the code logic to do the image->control_page assignment directly in the loop, and remove the unnecessary conditional judgement. Signed-off-by:
Minfei Huang <mnfhuang@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Acked-by:
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Dave Young authored
There are two kexec load syscalls, kexec_load another and kexec_file_load. kexec_file_load has been splited as kernel/kexec_file.c. In this patch I split kexec_load syscall code to kernel/kexec.c. And add a new kconfig option KEXEC_CORE, so we can disable kexec_load and use kexec_file_load only, or vice verse. The original requirement is from Ted Ts'o, he want kexec kernel signature being checked with CONFIG_KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG enabled. But kexec-tools use kexec_load syscall can bypass the checking. Vivek Goyal proposed to create a common kconfig option so user can compile in only one syscall for loading kexec kernel. KEXEC/KEXEC_FILE selects KEXEC_CORE so that old config files still work. Because there's general code need CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE, so I updated all the architecture Kconfig with a new option KEXEC_CORE, and let KEXEC selects KEXEC_CORE in arch Kconfig. Also updated general kernel code with to kexec_load syscall. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
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Dave Young authored
Split kexec_file syscall related code to another file kernel/kexec_file.c so that the #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE in kexec.c can be dropped. Sharing variables and functions are moved to kernel/kexec_internal.h per suggestion from Vivek and Petr. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix bisectability] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: declare the various arch_kexec functions] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Signed-off-by:
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Andy Shevchenko authored
Instead of custom approach let's use recently introduced seq_hex_dump() helper. Signed-off-by:
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Ingo Tuchscherer <ingo.tuchscherer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andy Shevchenko authored
Instead of custom approach let's use recently introduced seq_hex_dump() helper. Signed-off-by:
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andy Shevchenko authored
Instead of custom approach let's use recently introduced seq_hex_dump() helper. Signed-off-by:
Ingo Tuchscherer <ingo.tuchscherer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andy Shevchenko authored
Instead of custom approach let's use recently introduced seq_hex_dump() helper. In one case it changes the output from 1111111122222222333333334444444455555555666666667777777788888888 to 11111111 22222222 33333333 44444444 55555555 66666666 77777777 88888888 though it seems it prints same data (by meaning) in both cases. I decide to choose to use the space divided one. Signed-off-by:
Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Tuchscherer <ingo.tuchscherer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andy Shevchenko authored
Instead of custom approach let's use recently introduced seq_hex_dump() helper. Signed-off-by:
Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Ingo Tuchscherer <ingo.tuchscherer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andy Shevchenko authored
This introduces a new helper and switches current users to use it. All patches are compiled tested. kmemleak is tested via its own test suite. This patch (of 6): The new seq_hex_dump() is a complete analogue of print_hex_dump(). We have few users of this functionality already. It allows to reduce their codebase. Signed-off-by:
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Jann Horn authored
On a filesystem like vfat, all files are created with the same owner and mode independent of who created the file. When a vfat filesystem is mounted with root as owner of all files and read access for everyone, root's processes left world-readable coredumps on it (but other users' processes only left empty corefiles when given write access because of the uid mismatch). Given that the old behavior was inconsistent and insecure, I don't see a problem with changing it. Now, all processes refuse to dump core unless the resulting corefile will only be readable by their owner. Signed-off-by:
Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> Acked-by:
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Jann Horn authored
It was possible for an attacking user to trick root (or another user) into writing his coredumps into an attacker-readable, pre-existing file using rename() or link(), causing the disclosure of secret data from the victim process' virtual memory. Depending on the configuration, it was also possible to trick root into overwriting system files with coredumps. Fix that issue by never writing coredumps into existing files. Requirements for the attack: - The attack only applies if the victim's process has a nonzero RLIMIT_CORE and is dumpable. - The attacker can trick the victim into coredumping into an attacker-writable directory D, either because the core_pattern is relative and the victim's cwd is attacker-writable or because an absolute core_pattern pointing to a world-writable directory is used. - The attacker has one of these: A: on a system with protected_hardlinks=0: execute access to a folder containing a victim-owned, attacker-readable file on the same partition as D, and the victim-owned file will be deleted before the main part of the attack takes place. (In practice, there are lots of files that fulfill this condition, e.g. entries in Debian's /var/lib/dpkg/info/.) This does not apply to most Linux systems because most distros set protected_hardlinks=1. B: on a system with protected_hardlinks=1: execute access to a folder containing a victim-owned, attacker-readable and attacker-writable file on the same partition as D, and the victim-owned file will be deleted before the main part of the attack takes place. (This seems to be uncommon.) C: on any system, independent of protected_hardlinks: write access to a non-sticky folder containing a victim-owned, attacker-readable file on the same partition as D (This seems to be uncommon.) The basic idea is that the attacker moves the victim-owned file to where he expects the victim process to dump its core. The victim process dumps its core into the existing file, and the attacker reads the coredump from it. If the attacker can't move the file because he does not have write access to the containing directory, he can instead link the file to a directory he controls, then wait for the original link to the file to be deleted (because the kernel checks that the link count of the corefile is 1). A less reliable variant that requires D to be non-sticky works with link() and does not require deletion of the original link: link() the file into D, but then unlink() it directly before the kernel performs the link count check. On systems with protected_hardlinks=0, this variant allows an attacker to not only gain information from coredumps, but also clobber existing, victim-writable files with coredumps. (This could theoretically lead to a privilege escalation.) Signed-off-by: -
Frederic Weisbecker authored
The UMH_WAIT_PROC handler runs in its own thread in order to make sure that waiting for the exec kernel thread completion won't block other usermodehelper queued jobs. On older workqueue implementations, worklets couldn't sleep without blocking the rest of the queue. But now the workqueue subsystem handles that. Khelper still had the older limitation due to its singlethread properties but we replaced it to system unbound workqueues. Those are affine to the current node and can block up to some number of instances. They are a good candidate to handle UMH_WAIT_PROC assuming that we have enough system unbound workers to handle lots of parallel usermodehelper jobs. Signed-off-by:
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by:
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
We need to launch the usermodehelper kernel threads with the widest affinity and this is partly why we use khelper. This workqueue has unbound properties and thus a wide affinity inherited by all its children. Now khelper also has special properties that we aren't much interested in: ordered and singlethread. There is really no need about ordering as all we do is creating kernel threads. This can be done concurrently. And singlethread is a useless limitation as well. The workqueue engine already proposes generic unbound workqueues that don't share these useless properties and handle well parallel jobs. The only worrysome specific is their affinity to the node of the current CPU. It's fine for creating the usermodehelper kernel threads but those inherit this affinity for longer jobs such as requesting modules. This patch proposes to use these node affine unbound workqueues assuming that a node is sufficient to handle several parallel usermodehelper requests. Signed-off-by:
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
There seem to be quite some confusions on the comments, likely due to changes that came after them. Now since it's very non obvious why we have 3 levels of asynchronous code to implement usermodehelpers, it's important to comment in detail the reason of this layout. Signed-off-by:
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Khelper is affine to all CPUs. Now since it creates the call_usermodehelper_exec_[a]sync() kernel threads, those inherit the wide affinity. As such explicitly forcing a wide affinity from those kernel threads is like a no-op. Just remove it. It's needless and it breaks CPU isolation users who rely on workqueue affinity tuning. Signed-off-by:
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
This patchset does a bunch of cleanups and converts khelper to use system unbound workqueues. The 3 first patches should be uncontroversial. The last 2 patches are debatable. Kmod creates kernel threads that perform userspace jobs and we want those to have a large affinity in order not to contend busy CPUs. This is (partly) why we use khelper which has a wide affinity that the kernel threads it create can inherit from. Now khelper is a dedicated workqueue that has singlethread properties which we aren't interested in. Hence those two debatable changes: _ We would like to use generic workqueues. System unbound workqueues are a very good candidate but they are not wide affine, only node affine. Now probably a node is enough to perform many parallel kmod jobs. _ We would like to remove the wait_for_helper kernel thread (UMH_WAIT_PROC handler) to use the workqueue. It means that if the workqueue blocks, and no other worker can take pending kmod request, we can be screwed. Now if we have 512 threads, this should be enough. This patch (of 5): Underscores on function names aren't much verbose to explain the purpose of a function. And kmod has interesting such flavours. Lets rename the following functions: * __call_usermodehelper -> call_usermodehelper_exec_work * ____call_usermodehelper -> call_usermodehelper_exec_async * wait_for_helper -> call_usermodehelper_exec_sync Signed-off-by:
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NeilBrown authored
If request_module() successfully runs modprobe, but modprobe exits with a non-zero status, then the return value from request_module() will be that (positive) error status. So the return from request_module can be: negative errno zero for success positive exit code. Signed-off-by:
NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Cc: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by:
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Hin-Tak Leung authored
Fix B-tree corruption when a new record is inserted at position 0 in the node in hfs_brec_insert(). This is an identical change to the corresponding hfs b-tree code to Sergei Antonov's "hfsplus: fix B-tree corruption after insertion at position 0", to keep similar code paths in the hfs and hfsplus drivers in sync, where appropriate. Signed-off-by:
Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Sergei Antonov <saproj@gmail.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Reviewed-by:
Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com> Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <anton@tuxera.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Hin-Tak Leung authored
Pages looked up by __hfs_bnode_create() (called by hfs_bnode_create() and hfs_bnode_find() for finding or creating pages corresponding to an inode) are immediately kmap()'ed and used (both read and write) and kunmap()'ed, and should not be page_cache_release()'ed until hfs_bnode_free(). This patch fixes a problem I first saw in July 2012: merely running "du" on a large hfsplus-mounted directory a few times on a reasonably loaded system would get the hfsplus driver all confused and complaining about B-tree inconsistencies, and generates a "BUG: Bad page state". Most recently, I can generate this problem on up-to-date Fedora 22 with shipped kernel 4.0.5, by running "du /" (="/" + "/home" + "/mnt" + other smaller mounts) and "du /mnt" simultaneously on two windows, where /mnt is a lightly-used QEMU VM image of the full Mac OS X 10.9: $ df -i / /home /mnt Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/mapper/fedora-root 3276800 551665 2725135 17% / /dev/mapper/fedora-home 52879360 716221 52163139 2% /home /dev/nbd0p2 4294967295 1387818 4293579477 1% /mnt After applying the patch, I was able to run "du /" (60+ times) and "du /mnt" (150+ times) continuously and simultaneously for 6+ hours. There are many reports of the hfsplus driver getting confused under load and generating "BUG: Bad page state" or other similar issues over the years. [1] The unpatched code [2] has always been wrong since it entered the kernel tree. The only reason why it gets away with it is that the kmap/memcpy/kunmap follow very quickly after the page_cache_release() so the kernel has not had a chance to reuse the memory for something else, most of the time. The current RW driver appears to have followed the design and development of the earlier read-only hfsplus driver [3], where-by version 0.1 (Dec 2001) had a B-tree node-centric approach to read_cache_page()/page_cache_release() per bnode_get()/bnode_put(), migrating towards version 0.2 (June 2002) of caching and releasing pages per inode extents. When the current RW code first entered the kernel [2] in 2005, there was an REF_PAGES conditional (and "//" commented out code) to switch between B-node centric paging to inode-centric paging. There was a mistake with the direction of one of the REF_PAGES conditionals in __hfs_bnode_create(). In a subsequent "remove debug code" commit [4], the read_cache_page()/page_cache_release() per bnode_get()/bnode_put() were removed, but a page_cache_release() was mistakenly left in (propagating the "REF_PAGES <-> !REF_PAGE" mistake), and the commented-out page_cache_release() in bnode_release() (which should be spanned by !REF_PAGES) was never enabled. References: [1]: Michael Fox, Apr 2013 http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg63807.html ("hfsplus volume suddenly inaccessable after 'hfs: recoff %d too large'") Sasha Levin, Feb 2015 http://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/20/85 ("use after free") https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/740814 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1027887 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42342 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63841 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78761 [2]: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/\ fs/hfs/bnode.c?id=d1081202 commit d1081202 Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Date: Wed Feb 25 16:17:36 2004 -0800 [PATCH] HFS rewrite http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/\ fs/hfsplus/bnode.c?id=91556682 commit 91556682 Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Date: Wed Feb 25 16:17:48 2004 -0800 [PATCH] HFS+ support [3]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-hfsplus/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-hfsplus/files/Linux%202.4.x%20patch/hfsplus%200.1/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-hfsplus/files/Linux%202.4.x%20patch/hfsplus%200.2/ http://linux-hfsplus.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/linux-hfsplus/linux/\ fs/hfsplus/bnode.c?r1=1.4&r2=1.5 Date: Thu Jun 6 09:45:14 2002 +0000 Use buffer cache instead of page cache in bnode.c. Cache inode extents. [4]: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/\ stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a5e3985f commit a5e3985f Author: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Date: Tue Sep 6 15:18:47 2005 -0700 [PATCH] hfs: remove debug code Signed-off-by:
Sergei Antonov <saproj@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
Anton Altaparmakov <anton@tuxera.com> Reported-by:
Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Vyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com> Cc: Sougata Santra <sougata@tuxera.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Harkes authored
Dan Carpenter discovered a buffer overflow in the Coda file system readlink code. A userspace file system daemon can return a 4096 byte result which then triggers a one byte write past the allocated readlink result buffer. This does not trigger with an unmodified Coda implementation because Coda has a 1024 byte limit for symbolic links, however other userspace file systems using the Coda kernel module could be affected. Although this is an obvious overflow, I don't think this has to be handled as too sensitive from a security perspective because the overflow is on the Coda userspace daemon side which already needs root to open Coda's kernel device and to mount the file system before we get to the point that links can be read. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Reported-by:
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
"CONST <comparison> variable" checks like: if (NULL != foo) and while (0 < bar(...)) where a constant (or what appears to be a constant like an upper case identifier) is on the left of a comparison are generally preferred to be written using the constant on the right side like: if (foo != NULL) and while (bar(...) > 0) Add a test for this. Add a --fix option too, but only do it when the code is immediately surrounded by parentheses to avoid misfixing things like "(0 < bar() + constant)" Signed-off-by:Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Nicolas Morey Chaisemartin <nmorey@kalray.eu> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
commit 61031952 ("arch, x86: pmem api for ensuring durability of persistent memory updates") added a new __pmem annotation for sparse verification. Add __pmem to the $Sparse variable so checkpatch can appropriately ignore uses of this attribute too. Signed-off-by:
Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Acked-by:
Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Signed-off-by:
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Eddie Kovsky authored
Using checkpatch.pl with Perl 5.22.0 generates the following warning: Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; This patch fixes the warnings by escaping occurrences of the left brace inside the regular expression. Signed-off-by:Eddie Kovsky <ewk@edkovsky.org> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
Fixes: and Link: lines may exceed 75 chars in the commit log. So too can stack dump and dmesg lines and lines that seem like filenames. And Fixes: lines don't need to have a "commit" prefix before the commit id. Add exceptions for these types of lines. Signed-off-by:
Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
Using 0x%d is wrong. Emit a message when it happens. Miscellanea: Improve the %Lu warning to match formats like %16Lu. Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
Making --strict the default for staging may help some people submit patches without obvious defects. Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
Some of the block comment tests that are used only for networking are appropriate for all patches. For example, these styles are not encouraged: /* block comment without introductory * */ and /* * block comment with line terminating */ Remove the networking specific test and add comments. There are some infrequent false positives where code is lazily commented out using /* and */ rather than using #if 0/#endif blocks like: /* case foo: case bar: */ case baz: Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
commit 34d8815f ("checkpatch: add --showfile to allow input via pipe to show filenames") broke the --emacs with --file option. Fix it. Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
Sergey Senozhatsky has modified several destroy functions that can now be called with NULL values. - kmem_cache_destroy() - mempool_destroy() - dma_pool_destroy() Update checkpatch to warn when those functions are preceded by an if. Update checkpatch to --fix all the calls too only when the code style form is using leading tabs. from: if (foo) <func>(foo); to: <func>(foo); Signed-off-by:
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
Some really long declaration macros exist. For instance; DEFINE_DMA_BUF_EXPORT_INFO(exp_info); and DECLARE_DM_KCOPYD_THROTTLE_WITH_MODULE_PARM(name, description) Increase the limit from 2 words to 6 after DECLARE/DEFINE uses. Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
Many lines exist like if (foo) bar; where the tabbed indentation of the branch is not one more than the "if" line above it. checkpatch should emit a warning on those lines. Miscellenea: o Remove comments from branch blocks o Skip blank lines in block Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
Using BUG/BUG_ON crashes the kernel and is just unfriendly. Enable code that emits a warning on BUG/BUG_ON use. Make the code emit the message at WARNING level when scanning a patch and at CHECK level when scanning files so that script users don't feel an obligation to fix code that might be above their pay grade. Signed-off-by:
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Tested-by:
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Joe Perches authored
Commit IDs should have commit descriptions too. Warn when a 12 to 40 byte SHA-1 is used in commit logs. Signed-off-by:
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