linux-stable.git/arch/alpha/kernel, branch linux-2.6.35.y

alpha: fix several security issues

2011-08-01T20:54:59+00:00

[ upstream commit 21c5977a836e399fc710ff2c5367845ed5c2527f ]

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.

Said to fix CVE-2011-2208 to CVE-2011-2211

Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen

alpha: Fix printk format errors

2010-09-27T00:18:43+00:00

commit 3e073367a57d41e506f20aebb98e308387ce3090 upstream.

When compiling alpha generic build get errors such as:
arch/alpha/kernel/err_marvel.c: In function ‘marvel_print_err_cyc’:
arch/alpha/kernel/err_marvel.c:119: error: format ‘%ld’ expects type ‘long int’, but argument 6 has type ‘u64’

Replaced a number of %ld format specifiers with %lld since u64
is unsigned long long.

Signed-off-by: Michael Cree 
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fix call to replaced SuperIO functions

2010-09-27T00:18:39+00:00

commit 59b25ed91400ace98d6cf0d59b1cb6928ad5cd37 upstream.

This patch fixes the failure to compile Alpha Generic because of
previously overlooked calls to ns87312_enable_ide(). The function has
been replaced by newer SuperIO code.

Tested-by: Michael Cree 
Signed-off-by: Morten H. Larsen 
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

alpha: Detect Super IO chip, no IDE on Avanti, enable EPP19

2010-06-15T18:19:08+00:00

This patch probes for the Super IO chip and reserves the IO range when
found. It avoids enabling the IDE interface on the Avanti family, since
none has IDE. It enables the Enhanced Parallel Port v1.9 feature.

Signed-off-by: Morten H. Larsen 
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner

alpha: fix pci_mmap_resource API breakage

2010-06-15T18:19:07+00:00

Caused by 2c3c8bea608866d8bd9dcf92657d57fdcac011c5 which was clearly not
even compile tested.

Signed-off-by: Matt Turner

Convert alpha to use clocksources instead of arch_gettimeoffset

2010-05-25T22:40:27+00:00

Alpha has a tsc like rpcc counter that it uses to manage time.
This can be converted to an actual clocksource instead of utilizing
the arch_gettimeoffset method that is really only there for legacy
systems with no continuous counter.

Further cleanups could be made if alpha converted to the clockevent
model.

CC: Thomas Gleixner 
CC: Richard Henderson 
Acked-by: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Tested-by: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner 
Signed-off-by: John Stultz

sysfs: add struct file* to bin_attr callbacks

2010-05-21T16:37:31+00:00

This allows bin_attr->read,write,mmap callbacks to check file specific data
(such as inode owner) as part of any privilege validation.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'timers-for-linus-cleanups' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2010-05-20T00:10:06+00:00

* 'timers-for-linus-cleanups' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  avr32: Fix typo in read_persistent_clock()
  sparc: Convert sparc to use read/update_persistent_clock
  cris: Convert cris to use read/update_persistent_clock
  m68k: Convert m68k to use read/update_persistent_clock
  m32r: Convert m32r to use read/update_peristent_clock
  blackfin: Convert blackfin to use read/update_persistent_clock
  ia64: Convert ia64 to use read/update_persistent_clock
  avr32: Convert avr32 to use read/update_persistent_clock
  h8300: Convert h8300 to use read/update_persistent_clock
  frv: Convert frv to use read/update_persistent_clock
  mn10300: Convert mn10300 to use read/update_persistent_clock
  alpha: Convert alpha to use read/update_persistent_clock
  xtensa: Fix unnecessary setting of xtime
  time: Clean up direct xtime usage in xen

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

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

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

alpha: remove trailing spaces in messages

2010-03-19T02:34:08+00:00

Signed-off-by: Frans Pop 
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner