linux-stable.git/include/linux/syscalls.h, branch linux-2.6.29.y

syscall define: fix uml compile bug

2009-02-11T22:25:36+00:00

With the new system call defines we get this on uml:

arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table':
(.rodata+0x308): undefined reference to `sys_sigprocmask'

Reason for this is that uml passes the preprocessor option
-Dsigprocmask=kernel_sigprocmask to gcc when compiling the kernel.
This causes SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sigprocmask, ...) to be expanded to
SYSCALL_DEFINEx(3, kernel_sigprocmask, ...) and finally to a system
call named sys_kernel_sigprocmask.  However sys_sigprocmask is missing
because of this.

To avoid macro expansion for the system call name just concatenate the
name at first define instead of carrying it through severel levels.
This was pointed out by Al Viro.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Al Viro 
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

alpha: use syscall wrappers

2009-01-30T02:04:44+00:00

Convert OSF syscalls and add alpha specific SYSCALL_ALIAS() macro.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 33

2009-01-14T13:15:32+00:00

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 32

2009-01-14T13:15:31+00:00

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

[CVE-2009-0029] powerpc: Enable syscall wrappers for 64-bit

2009-01-14T13:15:17+00:00

This enables the use of syscall wrappers to do proper sign extension
for 64-bit programs.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrapper infrastructure

2009-01-14T13:15:16+00:00

From: Martin Schwidefsky 

By selecting HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS architectures can activate
system call wrappers in order to sign extend system call arguments.

All architectures where the ABI defines that the caller of a function
has to perform sign extension probably need this.

Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger 
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky 
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

[CVE-2009-0029] Rename old_readdir to sys_old_readdir

2009-01-14T13:15:15+00:00

This way it matches the generic system call name convention.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

[CVE-2009-0029] Convert all system calls to return a long

2009-01-14T13:15:14+00:00

Convert all system calls to return a long. This should be a NOP since all
converted types should have the same size anyway.
With the exception of sys_exit_group which returned void. But that doesn't
matter since the system call doesn't return.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

[CVE-2009-0029] Move compat system call declarations to compat header file

2009-01-14T13:15:14+00:00

Move declarations to correct header file.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

inotify: fix type errors in interfaces

2009-01-05T16:54:29+00:00

The problems lie in the types used for some inotify interfaces, both at the kernel level and at the glibc level. This mail addresses the kernel problem. I will follow up with some suggestions for glibc changes.

For the sys_inotify_rm_watch() interface, the type of the 'wd' argument is
currently 'u32', it should be '__s32' .  That is Robert's suggestion, and
is consistent with the other declarations of watch descriptors in the
kernel source, in particular, the inotify_event structure in
include/linux/inotify.h:

struct inotify_event {
        __s32           wd;             /* watch descriptor */
        __u32           mask;           /* watch mask */
        __u32           cookie;         /* cookie to synchronize two events */
        __u32           len;            /* length (including nulls) of name */
        char            name[0];        /* stub for possible name */
};

The patch makes the changes needed for inotify_rm_watch().

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk 
Cc: Robert Love 
Cc: Vegard Nossum 
Cc: Ulrich Drepper 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro