linux-stable.git/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c, branch v3.18.129

sys: don't hold uts_sem while accessing userspace memory

2018-09-09T18:07:56+00:00

commit 42a0cc3478584d4d63f68f2f5af021ddbea771fa upstream.

Holding uts_sem as a writer while accessing userspace memory allows a
namespace admin to stall all processes that attempt to take uts_sem.
Instead, move data through stack buffers and don't access userspace memory
while uts_sem is held.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn 
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

osf_getdomainname(): use copy_to_user()

2018-09-09T18:07:56+00:00

commit 9ba3eb5103cf56f0daaf07de4507df76e7813ed7 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

osf_wait4(): fix infoleak

2017-05-25T12:18:02+00:00

commit a8c39544a6eb2093c04afd5005b6192bd0e880c6 upstream.

failing sys_wait4() won't fill struct rusage...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vfs: move getname() from callers to do_mount()

2014-10-09T06:39:16+00:00

It would make more sense to pass char __user * instead of
char * in callers of do_mount() and do getname() inside do_mount().

Suggested-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Seunghun Lee 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[readdir] constify ->actor

2013-06-29T08:57:05+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[readdir] introduce iterate_dir() and dir_context

2013-06-29T08:46:46+00:00

iterate_dir(): new helper, replacing vfs_readdir().

struct dir_context: contains the readdir callback (and will get more stuff
in it), embedded into whatever data that callback wants to deal with;
eventually, we'll be passing it to ->readdir() replacement instead of
(data,filldir) pair.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

mm: use vm_unmapped_area() on alpha architecture

2013-02-22T01:22:20+00:00

Update the alpha arch_get_unmapped_area function to make use of
vm_unmapped_area() instead of implementing a brute force search.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

cputime: Use accessors to read task cputime stats

2013-01-27T18:23:31+00:00

This is in preparation for the full dynticks feature. While
remotely reading the cputime of a task running in a full
dynticks CPU, we'll need to do some extra-computation. This
way we can account the time it spent tickless in userspace
since its last cputime snapshot.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Li Zhong 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Paul Gortmaker 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2012-11-18T19:13:48+00:00

Pull misc VFS fixes from Al Viro:
 "Remove a bogus BUG_ON() that can trigger spuriously + alpha bits of
  do_mount() constification I'd missed during the merge window."

This pull request came in a week ago, I missed it for some reason.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  kill bogus BUG_ON() in do_close_on_exec()
  missing const in alpha callers of do_mount()

alpha: separate thread-synchronous flags

2012-10-24T02:16:45+00:00

... and fix the race in updating unaligned control ones

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds