linux.git/drivers/char/hpet.c, branch v3.13

drivers/char/hpet.c: allow user controlled mmap for user processes

2013-11-13T03:09:11+00:00

The CONFIG_HPET_MMAP Kconfig option exposes the memory map of the HPET
registers to userspace.  The Kconfig help points out that in some cases
this can be a security risk as some systems may erroneously configure the
map such that additional data is exposed to userspace.

This is a problem for distributions -- some users want the MMAP
functionality but it comes with a significant security risk.  In an effort
to mitigate this risk, and due to the low number of users of the MMAP
functionality, I've introduced a kernel parameter, hpet_mmap_enable, that
is required in order to actually have the HPET MMAP exposed.

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava 
Acked-by: Matt Wilson 
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Tomas Winkler 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

hpet: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED

2013-10-16T19:36:09+00:00

This patch proposes to remove the use of the IRQF_DISABLED flag

It's a NOOP since 2.6.35 and it will be removed one day.

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

hpet: remove useless check if fixmem32 is NULL

2013-09-26T15:44:40+00:00

fixmem32 is assigned to address of res->data member
so the address is always valid

Actually since we are not checking for res != NULL
static analyzing is complaining about referencing the pointer
and consequent check for null.
The code snippet looks confusing also for human eyes.

Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

char: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table

2013-06-17T23:43:08+00:00

This typedef is unnecessary and should just be removed.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vm: convert HPET mmap to vm_iomap_memory() helper

2013-04-19T16:46:39+00:00

This is my example conversion of a few existing mmap users.  The HPET
case is simple, widely available, and easy to test (Clemens Ladisch sent
a trivial test-program for it).

Test-program-by: Clemens Ladisch 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ACPI: Remove useless type argument of driver .remove() operation

2013-01-25T23:37:24+00:00

The second argument of ACPI driver .remove() operation is only used
by the ACPI processor driver and the value passed to that driver
through it is always available from the given struct acpi_device
object's removal_type field.  For this reason, the second ACPI driver
.remove() argument is in fact useless, so drop it.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Reviewed-by: Jiang Liu 
Acked-by: Toshi Kani 
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu

drivers/char: for hpet, add count checking, and ~0UL instead of -1

2012-11-27T00:16:35+00:00

  use ~0UL for unsigned long variable initialization, instead of -1.

  add check for hdp->hd_nirqs within 32 (HPET_MAX_TIMERS).
    the type of irqp->interrupt_count is u8.
    the git diff not display the relative lines below.
      hdp->hd_irq[hdp->hd_nirqs] = irq;
      hdp->hd_nirqs++;
    please check source code to get more information.

Signed-off-by: Chen Gang 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

printk(): add KERN_CONT where needed in hpet and vt code

2012-04-09T17:30:39+00:00

A prototype for kmsg records instead of a byte-stream buffer revealed
a couple of missing printk(KERN_CONT ...) uses. Subsequent calls produce
one record per printk() call, while all should have ended up in a single
record.

Instead of:
  ACPI: (supports S0 S5)
  ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 5 *10 11)
  hpet0: at MMIO 0xfed00000, IRQs 2 , 8 , 0

It prints:
  ACPI: (supports S0
   S5
  )
  ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs
   5
   *10
   11
  )
  hpet0: at MMIO 0xfed00000, IRQs
   2
  , 8
  , 0

Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Len Brown 
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h

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

Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it.  Performed with the following command:

perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*' *`

Signed-off-by: David Howells

Merge branch 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2011-07-23T00:05:15+00:00

* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86-64, vdso: Do not allocate memory for the vDSO
  clocksource: Change __ARCH_HAS_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA to a CONFIG option
  x86, vdso: Drop now wrong comment
  Document the vDSO and add a reference parser
  ia64: Replace clocksource.fsys_mmio with generic arch data
  x86-64: Move vread_tsc and vread_hpet into the vDSO
  clocksource: Replace vread with generic arch data
  x86-64: Add --no-undefined to vDSO build
  x86-64: Allow alternative patching in the vDSO
  x86: Make alternative instruction pointers relative
  x86-64: Improve vsyscall emulation CS and RIP handling
  x86-64: Emulate legacy vsyscalls
  x86-64: Fill unused parts of the vsyscall page with 0xcc
  x86-64: Remove vsyscall number 3 (venosys)
  x86-64: Map the HPET NX
  x86-64: Remove kernel.vsyscall64 sysctl
  x86-64: Give vvars their own page
  x86-64: Document some of entry_64.S
  x86-64: Fix alignment of jiffies variable