linux-stable.git/drivers/char/mem.c, branch linux-3.17.y

/dev/mem: handle out-of-bounds read/write

2014-02-15T19:51:02+00:00

The loff_t type may be wider than phys_addr_t (e.g. on 32-bit systems).
Consequently, the file offset may be truncated in the assignment.
Currently, /dev/mem wraps around, which may cause applications to read
or write incorrect regions of memory by accident.

Let's follow POSIX file semantics here and return 0 when reading from
and -EFBIG when writing to an offset that cannot be represented by a
phys_addr_t.

Note that the conditional is optimized out by the compiler if loff_t
has the same size as phys_addr_t.

Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/memblock: remove unnecessary inclusions of bootmem.h

2014-01-22T00:19:46+00:00

Clean-up to remove depedency with bootmem headers.

Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko 
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar 
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Yinghai Lu 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Paul Walmsley 
Cc: Pavel Machek 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Tony Lindgren 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

/dev/oldmem: Remove the interface

2013-07-03T23:08:03+00:00

/dev/oldmem provides the interface for us to access the "old memory" in
the dump-capture kernel.  Unfortunately, no one actually uses this
interface.

And this interface could actually cause some real problems if used on ia64
where the cached/uncached accesses are mixed.  See the discussion from the
link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/12/386.

So Eric suggested that we should remove /dev/oldmem as an unused piece of
code.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: mention /dev/oldmem obsolescence in devices.txt]
Suggested-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei 
Cc: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Matt Fleming 
Cc: Michael Holzheu 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

drivers: char: mem: use IS_ERR_VALUE() in memory_lseek()

2013-06-06T19:54:08+00:00

Use IS_ERR_VALUE() instead of comparing the new offset to a hard-coded
value of -MAX_ERRNO (which is also off-by-one due to the use of ~
instead of -).

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h

2013-05-08T03:16:25+00:00

Faster kernel compiles by way of fewer unnecessary includes.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fallout]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
Cc: Zach Brown 
Cc: Felipe Balbi 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Asai Thambi S P 
Cc: Selvan Mani 
Cc: Sam Bradshaw 
Cc: Jeff Moyer 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise 
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

char: add aio_{read,write} to /dev/{null,zero}

2013-05-08T01:38:28+00:00

These are handy for measuring the cost of the aio infrastructure with
operations that do very little and complete immediately.

Signed-off-by: Zach Brown 
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
Cc: Felipe Balbi 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Asai Thambi S P 
Cc: Selvan Mani 
Cc: Sam Bradshaw 
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise 
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2013-02-27T04:16:07+00:00

Pull vfs pile (part one) from Al Viro:
 "Assorted stuff - cleaning namei.c up a bit, fixing ->d_name/->d_parent
  locking violations, etc.

  The most visible changes here are death of FS_REVAL_DOT (replaced with
  "has ->d_weak_revalidate()") and a new helper getting from struct file
  to inode.  Some bits of preparation to xattr method interface changes.

  Misc patches by various people sent this cycle *and* ocfs2 fixes from
  several cycles ago that should've been upstream right then.

  PS: the next vfs pile will be xattr stuff."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (46 commits)
  saner proc_get_inode() calling conventions
  proc: avoid extra pde_put() in proc_fill_super()
  fs: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM
  fs/exec.c: make bprm_mm_init() static
  ocfs2/dlm: use GFP_ATOMIC inside a spin_lock
  ocfs2: fix possible use-after-free with AIO
  ocfs2: Fix oops in ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage() code path
  get_empty_filp()/alloc_file() leave both ->f_pos and ->f_version zero
  target: writev() on single-element vector is pointless
  export kernel_write(), convert open-coded instances
  fs: encode_fh: return FILEID_INVALID if invalid fid_type
  kill f_vfsmnt
  vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op
  nfsd: handle vfs_getattr errors in acl protocol
  switch vfs_getattr() to struct path
  default SET_PERSONALITY() in linux/elf.h
  ceph: prepopulate inodes only when request is aborted
  d_hash_and_lookup(): export, switch open-coded instances
  9p: switch v9fs_set_create_acl() to inode+fid, do it before d_instantiate()
  9p: split dropping the acls from v9fs_set_create_acl()
  ...

new helper: file_inode(file)

2013-02-23T04:31:31+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

drivers/char/mem.c: fix small coding style issues

2013-02-06T19:21:51+00:00

This patch fixes four foo * bar errors, and one trailing whitespace
complaint from checkpatch.pl

Signed-off-by: Hans Grob 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

/dev/mem: use phys_addr_t for physical addresses

2012-10-24T22:32:50+00:00

This patch fixes the /dev/mem driver to use phys_addr_t for physical
addresses.  This is required on PAE systems, especially those that run
entirely out of >4G physical memory space.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Chemparathy 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman