linux-stable.git/arch/sh/kernel/process_64.c, branch v3.8

flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()

2012-11-29T04:43:42+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

sh: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone

2012-11-29T03:36:47+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

sh: convert to generic sys_execve()

2012-10-23T02:31:12+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

sh: switch to generic kernel_thread()/kernel_execve()

2012-10-23T02:31:01+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: define struct filename and have getname() return it

2012-10-13T00:14:55+00:00

getname() is intended to copy pathname strings from userspace into a
kernel buffer. The result is just a string in kernel space. It would
however be quite helpful to be able to attach some ancillary info to
the string.

For instance, we could attach some audit-related info to reduce the
amount of audit-related processing needed. When auditing is enabled,
we could also call getname() on the string more than once and not
need to recopy it from userspace.

This patchset converts the getname()/putname() interfaces to return
a struct instead of a string. For now, the struct just tracks the
string in kernel space and the original userland pointer for it.

Later, we'll add other information to the struct as it becomes
convenient.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

sh64: Fix up fallout from generic init_task conversion.

2012-05-24T06:07:47+00:00

In the generic init_task migration sh64 silently lost its
fake_swapper_regs definition, resulting in link errors.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt

Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH

2012-03-28T17:30:03+00:00

Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org

treewide: convert uses of ATTRIB_NORETURN to __noreturn

2012-01-13T04:13:03+00:00

Use the more commonly used __noreturn instead of ATTRIB_NORETURN.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen 
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer

2010-08-18T01:07:43+00:00

Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles
correctly on ARM:

arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type

This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for
the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to.  This is
because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to
copy_strings_kernel().  A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename
pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel().

do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv
or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as
const should be fine.

Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match.

This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Tested-by: Ralf Baechle 
Acked-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Mark arguments to certain syscalls as being const

2010-08-13T23:53:13+00:00

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