14 Oct, 2008

1 commit

  • This is a much better version of a previous patch to make the parser
    tables constant. Rather than changing the typedef, we put the "const" in
    all the various places where its required, allowing the __initconst
    exception for nfsroot which was the cause of the previous trouble.

    This was posted for review some time ago and I believe its been in -mm
    since then.

    Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
    Cc: Alexander Viro
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Steven Whitehouse
     

15 May, 2008

1 commit

  • match_strcpy() is a somewhat creepy function: the caller needs to make sure
    that the destination buffer is big enough, and when he screws up or
    forgets, match_strcpy() happily overruns the buffer.

    There's exactly one customer: v9fs_parse_options(). I believe it currently
    can't overflow its buffer, but that's not exactly obvious.

    The source string is a substing of the mount options. The kernel silently
    truncates those to PAGE_SIZE bytes, including the terminating zero. See
    compat_sys_mount() and do_mount().

    The destination buffer is obtained from __getname(), which allocates from
    name_cachep, which is initialized by vfs_caches_init() for size PATH_MAX.

    We're safe as long as PATH_MAX
    Cc: Latchesar Ionkov
    Cc: Jim Meyering
    Cc: "Randy.Dunlap"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen

    Markus Armbruster
     

03 May, 2007

1 commit


17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
    even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
    archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
    3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
    git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
    infrastructure for it.

    Let it rip!

    Linus Torvalds