linux-stable.git/arch/um/kernel, branch linux-2.6.36.y

um: remove PAGE_SIZE alignment in linker script causing kernel segfault.

2010-12-09T21:32:31+00:00

commit 6915e04f8847bea16d0890f559694ad8eedd026c upstream.

The linker script cleanup that I did in commit 5d150a97f93 ("um: Clean up
linker script using standard macros.") (2.6.32) accidentally introduced an
ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE) when converting to use INIT_TEXT_SECTION; Richard
Weinberger reported that this causes the kernel to segfault with
CONFIG_STATIC_LINK=y.

I'm not certain why this extra alignment is a problem, but it seems likely
it is because previously

__init_begin = _stext = _text = _sinittext

and with the extra ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE), _sinittext becomes different from the
rest.  So there is likely a bug here where something is assuming that
_sinittext is the same as one of those other symbols.  But reverting the
accidental change fixes the regression, so it seems worth committing that
now.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott 
Reported-by: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Tested by: Antoine Martin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

uml: fix compile warning

2010-09-23T00:22:39+00:00

This fixes:
incompatible pointer type:  => 89
       arch/um/kernel/exec.c: warning: passing argument 2 of 'execve1' from
incompatible pointer type:  => 69, 85
       arch/um/kernel/exec.c: warning: passing argument 3 of 'execve1' from
incompatible pointer type:  => 69, 85

which was introduced by d7627467b7a8d ("Make do_execve() take a const
filename pointer")

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
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

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6

2010-08-10T18:26:52+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits)
  no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list
  Fix sget() race with failing mount
  vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call
  sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount
  sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount
  btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change
  BFS: clean up the superblock usage
  AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed
  AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage
  cifs: truncate fallout
  mbcache: fix shrinker function return value
  mbcache: Remove unused features
  add f_flags to struct statfs(64)
  pass a struct path to vfs_statfs
  update VFS documentation for method changes.
  All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly
  convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode()
  Make ->drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped
  fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone
  fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c

arch/um/kernel/ptrace.c: remove dead PROC_MM

2010-08-10T03:45:04+00:00

PROC_MM doesn't exist in Kconfig.  Looking around it looks like a
left-over from 2.6.0 or even 2.4 times, last mentioned in a fedora patch
for 2.6.10.  I believe it's time to get rid of that last tiny parts here
that are still around.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Deal with missing exports for hostfs

2010-08-09T20:47:25+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

um: Fix read_persistent_clock fallout

2010-08-03T18:36:07+00:00

commit 9f31f57(um: Convert to use read_persistent_clock) moved the
code, but not the variable.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

um: Convert to use read_persistent_clock

2010-07-27T10:40:55+00:00

This patch converts the um arch to use read_persistent_clock().
This allows it to avoid accessing xtime and wall_to_monotonic
directly.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
LKML-Reference: <1279068988-21864-8-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

arch/um: fix kunmap_atomic() call in skas/uaccess.c

2010-06-04T22:21:45+00:00

kunmap_atomic() takes a pointer to within the page, not the struct page.

Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds