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<title>[PATCH] random: fix bound check ordering (CVE-2007-3105)</title>
<updated>2007-08-25T15:24:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Mackall</name>
<email>mpm@selenic.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-16T00:10:14+00:00</published>
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If root raised the default wakeup threshold over the size of the
output pool, the pool transfer function could overflow the stack with
RNG bytes, causing a DoS or potential privilege escalation.

(Bug reported by the PaX Team &lt;pageexec@freemail.hu&gt;)

Cc: Theodore Tso &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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If root raised the default wakeup threshold over the size of the
output pool, the pool transfer function could overflow the stack with
RNG bytes, causing a DoS or potential privilege escalation.

(Bug reported by the PaX Team &lt;pageexec@freemail.hu&gt;)

Cc: Theodore Tso &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] random: fix seeding with zero entropy (CVE-2007-2453 2 of 2)</title>
<updated>2007-06-07T21:23:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Mackall</name>
<email>mpm@selenic.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-30T02:58:10+00:00</published>
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Add data from zero-entropy random_writes directly to output pools to
avoid accounting difficulties on machines without entropy sources.

Tested on lguest with all entropy sources disabled.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
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Add data from zero-entropy random_writes directly to output pools to
avoid accounting difficulties on machines without entropy sources.

Tested on lguest with all entropy sources disabled.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] random: fix error in entropy extraction (CVE-2007-2453 1 of 2)</title>
<updated>2007-06-07T21:23:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Mackall</name>
<email>mpm@selenic.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-30T02:54:27+00:00</published>
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Fix cast error in entropy extraction.
Add comments explaining the magic 16.
Remove extra confusing loop variable.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
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Fix cast error in entropy extraction.
Add comments explaining the magic 16.
Remove extra confusing loop variable.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] sysctl: remove unused "context" param</title>
<updated>2006-12-10T17:55:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-12-10T10:19:10+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] struct path: convert char-drivers</title>
<updated>2006-12-08T16:28:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josef Sipek</name>
<email>jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2006-12-08T10:36:55+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek &lt;jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek &lt;jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6</title>
<updated>2006-12-05T14:37:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-12-05T14:37:56+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:

	drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c
	drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c
	drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c
	drivers/usb/core/hub.h
	drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c
	net/core/netpoll.c

Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compilation failures.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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Conflicts:

	drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c
	drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c
	drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c
	drivers/usb/core/hub.h
	drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c
	net/core/netpoll.c

Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compilation failures.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[RANDOM]: Annotate random.h IP helpers.</title>
<updated>2006-12-03T05:22:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2006-11-15T04:52:19+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context data</title>
<updated>2006-11-22T14:55:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-11-22T14:55:48+00:00</published>
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Pass the work_struct pointer to the work function rather than context data.
The work function can use container_of() to work out the data.

For the cases where the container of the work_struct may go away the moment the
pending bit is cleared, it is made possible to defer the release of the
structure by deferring the clearing of the pending bit.

To make this work, an extra flag is introduced into the management side of the
work_struct.  This governs auto-release of the structure upon execution.

Ordinarily, the work queue executor would release the work_struct for further
scheduling or deallocation by clearing the pending bit prior to jumping to the
work function.  This means that, unless the driver makes some guarantee itself
that the work_struct won't go away, the work function may not access anything
else in the work_struct or its container lest they be deallocated..  This is a
problem if the auxiliary data is taken away (as done by the last patch).

However, if the pending bit is *not* cleared before jumping to the work
function, then the work function *may* access the work_struct and its container
with no problems.  But then the work function must itself release the
work_struct by calling work_release().

In most cases, automatic release is fine, so this is the default.  Special
initiators exist for the non-auto-release case (ending in _NAR).


Signed-Off-By: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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Pass the work_struct pointer to the work function rather than context data.
The work function can use container_of() to work out the data.

For the cases where the container of the work_struct may go away the moment the
pending bit is cleared, it is made possible to defer the release of the
structure by deferring the clearing of the pending bit.

To make this work, an extra flag is introduced into the management side of the
work_struct.  This governs auto-release of the structure upon execution.

Ordinarily, the work queue executor would release the work_struct for further
scheduling or deallocation by clearing the pending bit prior to jumping to the
work function.  This means that, unless the driver makes some guarantee itself
that the work_struct won't go away, the work function may not access anything
else in the work_struct or its container lest they be deallocated..  This is a
problem if the auxiliary data is taken away (as done by the last patch).

However, if the pending bit is *not* cleared before jumping to the work
function, then the work function *may* access the work_struct and its container
with no problems.  But then the work function must itself release the
work_struct by calling work_release().

In most cases, automatic release is fine, so this is the default.  Special
initiators exist for the non-auto-release case (ending in _NAR).


Signed-Off-By: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>WorkStruct: Separate delayable and non-delayable events.</title>
<updated>2006-11-22T14:54:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-11-22T14:54:01+00:00</published>
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Separate delayable work items from non-delayable work items be splitting them
into a separate structure (delayed_work), which incorporates a work_struct and
the timer_list removed from work_struct.

The work_struct struct is huge, and this limits it's usefulness.  On a 64-bit
architecture it's nearly 100 bytes in size.  This reduces that by half for the
non-delayable type of event.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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Separate delayable work items from non-delayable work items be splitting them
into a separate structure (delayed_work), which incorporates a work_struct and
the timer_list removed from work_struct.

The work_struct struct is huge, and this limits it's usefulness.  On a 64-bit
architecture it's nearly 100 bytes in size.  This reduces that by half for the
non-delayable type of event.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Input: add missing exports to fix modular build</title>
<updated>2006-10-11T05:43:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dtor@insightbb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-11T05:43:58+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dtor@mail.ru&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dtor@mail.ru&gt;
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