04 Jan, 2012
1 commit
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... and bury user_get_super()/statfs_by_dentry() - they are
purely internal now.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
14 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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New helpers: user_statfs() and fd_statfs(), taking userland pathname and
descriptor resp. and filling struct kstatfs. Syscalls of statfs family
(native, compat and foreign - osf and hpux on alpha and parisc resp.)
switched to those. Removes some boilerplate code, simplifies cleanup
on errors...Signed-off-by: Al Viro
18 Nov, 2010
1 commit
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The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point,
leaving only the #include.Remove this too as a cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
18 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles
correctly on ARM:arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for
the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to. This is
because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to
copy_strings_kernel(). A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename
pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel().do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv
or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as
const should be fine.Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match.
This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips.
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Tested-by: Ralf Baechle
Acked-by: Russell King
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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Mark arguments to certain system calls as being const where they should be but
aren't. The list includes:(*) The filename arguments of various stat syscalls, execve(), various utimes
syscalls and some mount syscalls.(*) The filename arguments of some syscall helpers relating to the above.
(*) The buffer argument of various write syscalls.
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
10 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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We'll need the path to implement the flags field for statvfs support.
We do have it available in all callers except:- ecryptfs_statfs. This one doesn't actually need vfs_statfs but just
needs to do a caller to the lower filesystem statfs method.
- sys_ustat. Add a non-exported statfs_by_dentry helper for it which
doesn't won't be able to fill out the flags field later on.In addition rename the helpers for statfs vs fstatfs to do_*statfs instead
of the misleading vfs prefix.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
30 Mar, 2010
1 commit
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…it slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
17 Dec, 2009
1 commit
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* hpux_pipe() - no need to take BKL
* sys32_pipe() in arch/x86/ia32 and xtensa_pipe() in arch/xtensa -
no need at all, since both functions are open-coded sys_pipe()Signed-off-by: Al Viro
19 Jun, 2009
1 commit
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avr32, mn10300, parisc, s390, sh, xtensa:
They never set PT_DTRACE, but clear it after do_execve().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: David Howells
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin
Cc: Grant Grundler
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Acked-by: Paul Mundt
Acked-by: Chris Zankel
Acked-by: Roland McGrath
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Mar, 2009
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Helge Deller
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
23 Oct, 2008
1 commit
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It's not the final state, but it allows moving ->readdir() instances
to passing filldir return value to caller of vfs_readdir().Signed-off-by: Al Viro
03 Sep, 2008
1 commit
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A parisc allmodconfig build produces this:
arch/parisc/hpux/fs.c:107: error: 'buffer' undeclared (first use in this function)
Introduced by commit da574983de9f9283ba35662c8723627096e160de ("[PATCH]
fix hpux_getdents()").Helge Dille also reported this in bugzilla 11461:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11461
and he posted an identical patch.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
25 Aug, 2008
1 commit
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Missing checks for -EFAULT, broken handling of overflow.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
27 Jul, 2008
1 commit
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* do not pass nameidata; struct path is all the callers want.
* switch to new helpers:
user_path_at(dfd, pathname, flags, &path)
user_path(pathname, &path)
user_lpath(pathname, &path)
user_path_dir(pathname, &path) (fail if not a directory)
The last 3 are trivial macro wrappers for the first one.
* remove nameidata in callers.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
25 Jul, 2008
1 commit
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This patch introduces the new syscall pipe2 which is like pipe but it also
takes an additional parameter which takes a flag value. This patch implements
the handling of O_CLOEXEC for the flag. I did not add support for the new
syscall for the architectures which have a special sys_pipe implementation. I
think the maintainers of those archs have the chance to go with the unified
implementation but that's up to them.The implementation introduces do_pipe_flags. I did that instead of changing
all callers of do_pipe because some of the callers are written in assembler.
I would probably screw up changing the assembly code. To avoid breaking code
do_pipe is now a small wrapper around do_pipe_flags. Once all callers are
changed over to do_pipe_flags the old do_pipe function can be removed.The following test must be adjusted for architectures other than x86 and
x86-64 and in case the syscall numbers changed.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#include
#include
#include
#include#ifndef __NR_pipe2
# ifdef __x86_64__
# define __NR_pipe2 293
# elif defined __i386__
# define __NR_pipe2 331
# else
# error "need __NR_pipe2"
# endif
#endifint
main (void)
{
int fd[2];
if (syscall (__NR_pipe2, fd, 0) != 0)
{
puts ("pipe2(0) failed");
return 1;
}
for (int i = 0; i < 2; ++i)
{
int coe = fcntl (fd[i], F_GETFD);
if (coe == -1)
{
puts ("fcntl failed");
return 1;
}
if (coe & FD_CLOEXEC)
{
printf ("pipe2(0) set close-on-exit for fd[%d]\n", i);
return 1;
}
}
close (fd[0]);
close (fd[1]);if (syscall (__NR_pipe2, fd, O_CLOEXEC) != 0)
{
puts ("pipe2(O_CLOEXEC) failed");
return 1;
}
for (int i = 0; i < 2; ++i)
{
int coe = fcntl (fd[i], F_GETFD);
if (coe == -1)
{
puts ("fcntl failed");
return 1;
}
if ((coe & FD_CLOEXEC) == 0)
{
printf ("pipe2(O_CLOEXEC) does not set close-on-exit for fd[%d]\n", i);
return 1;
}
}
close (fd[0]);
close (fd[1]);puts ("OK");
return 0;
}
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi
Cc: Michael Kerrisk
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Jun, 2008
1 commit
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This reverts commit bd3bb8c15b9a80dbddfb7905b237a4a11a4725b4.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
15 May, 2008
1 commit
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This trivial patch fixes the following section warnings on PARISC:
> WARNING: vmlinux.o (.text.1): unexpected section name.
>The (.[number]+) following section name are ld generated and not expected.
> Did you forget to use "ax"/"aw" in a .S file?
> Note that for example contains
> section definitions for use in .S files.Signed-off-by: Helge Deller
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
15 Feb, 2008
2 commits
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* Add path_put() functions for releasing a reference to the dentry and
vfsmount of a struct path in the right order* Switch from path_release(nd) to path_put(&nd->path)
* Rename dput_path() to path_put_conditional()
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig
Cc:
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: Steven French
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This is the central patch of a cleanup series. In most cases there is no good
reason why someone would want to use a dentry for itself. This series reflects
that fact and embeds a struct path into nameidata.Together with the other patches of this series
- it enforced the correct order of getting/releasing the reference count on
pairs
- it prepares the VFS for stacking support since it is essential to have a
struct path in every place where the stack can be traversed
- it reduces the overall code size:without patch series:
text data bss dec hex filename
5321639 858418 715768 6895825 6938d1 vmlinuxwith patch series:
text data bss dec hex filename
5320026 858418 715768 6894212 693284 vmlinuxThis patch:
Switch from nd->{dentry,mnt} to nd->path.{dentry,mnt} everywhere.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix smack]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: Casey Schaufler
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
18 Oct, 2007
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
30 Jul, 2007
1 commit
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Remove fs.h from mm.h. For this,
1) Uninline vma_wants_writenotify(). It's pretty huge anyway.
2) Add back fs.h or less bloated headers (err.h) to files that need it.As result, on x86_64 allyesconfig, fs.h dependencies cut down from 3929 files
rebuilt down to 3444 (-12.3%).Cross-compile tested without regressions on my two usual configs and (sigh):
alpha arm-mx1ads mips-bigsur powerpc-ebony
alpha-allnoconfig arm-neponset mips-capcella powerpc-g5
alpha-defconfig arm-netwinder mips-cobalt powerpc-holly
alpha-up arm-netx mips-db1000 powerpc-iseries
arm arm-ns9xxx mips-db1100 powerpc-linkstation
arm-assabet arm-omap_h2_1610 mips-db1200 powerpc-lite5200
arm-at91rm9200dk arm-onearm mips-db1500 powerpc-maple
arm-at91rm9200ek arm-picotux200 mips-db1550 powerpc-mpc7448_hpc2
arm-at91sam9260ek arm-pleb mips-ddb5477 powerpc-mpc8272_ads
arm-at91sam9261ek arm-pnx4008 mips-decstation powerpc-mpc8313_rdb
arm-at91sam9263ek arm-pxa255-idp mips-e55 powerpc-mpc832x_mds
arm-at91sam9rlek arm-realview mips-emma2rh powerpc-mpc832x_rdb
arm-ateb9200 arm-realview-smp mips-excite powerpc-mpc834x_itx
arm-badge4 arm-rpc mips-fulong powerpc-mpc834x_itxgp
arm-carmeva arm-s3c2410 mips-ip22 powerpc-mpc834x_mds
arm-cerfcube arm-shannon mips-ip27 powerpc-mpc836x_mds
arm-clps7500 arm-shark mips-ip32 powerpc-mpc8540_ads
arm-collie arm-simpad mips-jazz powerpc-mpc8544_ds
arm-corgi arm-spitz mips-jmr3927 powerpc-mpc8560_ads
arm-csb337 arm-trizeps4 mips-malta powerpc-mpc8568mds
arm-csb637 arm-versatile mips-mipssim powerpc-mpc85xx_cds
arm-ebsa110 i386 mips-mpc30x powerpc-mpc8641_hpcn
arm-edb7211 i386-allnoconfig mips-msp71xx powerpc-mpc866_ads
arm-em_x270 i386-defconfig mips-ocelot powerpc-mpc885_ads
arm-ep93xx i386-up mips-pb1100 powerpc-pasemi
arm-footbridge ia64 mips-pb1500 powerpc-pmac32
arm-fortunet ia64-allnoconfig mips-pb1550 powerpc-ppc64
arm-h3600 ia64-bigsur mips-pnx8550-jbs powerpc-prpmc2800
arm-h7201 ia64-defconfig mips-pnx8550-stb810 powerpc-ps3
arm-h7202 ia64-gensparse mips-qemu powerpc-pseries
arm-hackkit ia64-sim mips-rbhma4200 powerpc-up
arm-integrator ia64-sn2 mips-rbhma4500 s390
arm-iop13xx ia64-tiger mips-rm200 s390-allnoconfig
arm-iop32x ia64-up mips-sb1250-swarm s390-defconfig
arm-iop33x ia64-zx1 mips-sead s390-up
arm-ixp2000 m68k mips-tb0219 sparc
arm-ixp23xx m68k-amiga mips-tb0226 sparc-allnoconfig
arm-ixp4xx m68k-apollo mips-tb0287 sparc-defconfig
arm-jornada720 m68k-atari mips-workpad sparc-up
arm-kafa m68k-bvme6000 mips-wrppmc sparc64
arm-kb9202 m68k-hp300 mips-yosemite sparc64-allnoconfig
arm-ks8695 m68k-mac parisc sparc64-defconfig
arm-lart m68k-mvme147 parisc-allnoconfig sparc64-up
arm-lpd270 m68k-mvme16x parisc-defconfig um-x86_64
arm-lpd7a400 m68k-q40 parisc-up x86_64
arm-lpd7a404 m68k-sun3 powerpc x86_64-allnoconfig
arm-lubbock m68k-sun3x powerpc-cell x86_64-defconfig
arm-lusl7200 mips powerpc-celleb x86_64-up
arm-mainstone mips-atlas powerpc-chrp32Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
23 May, 2007
1 commit
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ROUND_UP macro cleanup, use ALIGN where ever appropriate
Signed-off-by: Milind Arun Choudhary
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
09 May, 2007
1 commit
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Remove includes of where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Feb, 2007
2 commits
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Signed-off-by: Helge Deller
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin -
Conflicts:
arch/parisc/hpux/sys_hpux.c
arch/parisc/mm/ioremap.c
14 Dec, 2006
1 commit
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Run this:
#!/bin/sh
for f in $(grep -Erl "\([^\)]*\) *k[cmz]alloc" *) ; do
echo "De-casting $f..."
perl -pi -e "s/ ?= ?\([^\)]*\) *(k[cmz]alloc) *\(/ = \1\(/" $f
doneAnd then go through and reinstate those cases where code is casting pointers
to non-pointers.And then drop a few hunks which conflicted with outstanding work.
Cc: Russell King , Ian Molton
Cc: Mikael Starvik
Cc: Yoshinori Sato
Cc: Roman Zippel
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Kyle McMartin
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Jeff Dike
Cc: Greg KH
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: Paul Fulghum
Cc: Alan Cox
Cc: Karsten Keil
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Cc: Jeff Garzik
Cc: James Bottomley
Cc: Ian Kent
Cc: Steven French
Cc: David Woodhouse
Cc: Neil Brown
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela
Cc: Takashi Iwai
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Dec, 2006
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Dec, 2006
1 commit
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0/NULL changes, __user annotations, __iomem annotations
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
05 Oct, 2006
1 commit
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filldir_t now takes a u64, not an ino_t.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox
04 Oct, 2006
1 commit
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GCC no longer allows a cast as lvalue; fix the same way fs/readdir.c was
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
03 Oct, 2006
1 commit
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These patches make the kernel pass 64-bit inode numbers internally when
communicating to userspace, even on a 32-bit system. They are required
because some filesystems have intrinsic 64-bit inode numbers: NFS3+ and XFS
for example. The 64-bit inode numbers are then propagated to userspace
automatically where the arch supports it.Problems have been seen with userspace (eg: ld.so) using the 64-bit inode
number returned by stat64() or getdents64() to differentiate files, and
failing because the 64-bit inode number space was compressed to 32-bits, and
so overlaps occur.This patch:
Make filldir_t take a 64-bit inode number and struct kstat carry a 64-bit
inode number so that 64-bit inode numbers can be passed back to userspace.The stat functions then returns the full 64-bit inode number where
available and where possible. If it is not possible to represent the inode
number supplied by the filesystem in the field provided by userspace, then
error EOVERFLOW will be issued.Similarly, the getdents/readdir functions now pass the full 64-bit inode
number to userspace where possible, returning EOVERFLOW instead when a
directory entry is encountered that can't be properly represented.Note that this means that some inodes will not be stat'able on a 32-bit
system with old libraries where they were before - but it does mean that
there will be no ambiguity over what a 32-bit inode number refers to.Note similarly that directory scans may be cut short with an error on a
32-bit system with old libraries where the scan would work before for the
same reasons.It is judged unlikely that this situation will occur because modern glibc
uses 64-bit capable versions of stat and getdents class functions
exclusively, and that older systems are unlikely to encounter
unrepresentable inode numbers anyway.[akpm: alpha build fix]
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Cc: Trond Myklebust
Cc: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
02 Oct, 2006
1 commit
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Replace references to system_utsname to the per-process uts namespace
where appropriate. This includes things like uname.Changes: Per Eric Biederman's comments, use the per-process uts namespace
for ELF_PLATFORM, sunrpc, and parts of net/ipv4/ipconfig.c[jdike@addtoit.com: UML fix]
[clg@fr.ibm.com: cleanup]
[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn
Cc: Kirill Korotaev
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Cc: Herbert Poetzl
Cc: Andrey Savochkin
Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater
Cc: Jeff Dike
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
23 Jun, 2006
1 commit
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Give the statfs superblock operation a dentry pointer rather than a superblock
pointer.This complements the get_sb() patch. That reduced the significance of
sb->s_root, allowing NFS to place a fake root there. However, NFS does
require a dentry to use as a target for the statfs operation. This permits
the root in the vfsmount to be used instead.linux/mount.h has been added where necessary to make allyesconfig build
successfully.Interest has also been expressed for use with the FUSE and XFS filesystems.
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Al Viro
Cc: Nathan Scott
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Feb, 2006
1 commit
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Userspace can alter the string after the kernel has run strlen_user().
Also: the strlen_user() return value includes the \0, so fix that.
Also: handle EFAULT from strlen_user().
It's unlikely anyone is using this code. Very, very unlikely. If I
remember correctly, CONFIG_HPUX turns this code on, but one would actually
need CONFIG_BINFMT_SOM to load a binary that could cause a problem, and
BINFMT_SOM has had an #error in it for quite some time.Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
23 Jan, 2006
1 commit
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Add the parisc version of the "mark rodata section read only" patches.
Based on code from and Signed-off-by Arjan van de Ven
, Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen ,
Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds .Signed-off-by: Helge Deller
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin
12 Jan, 2006
1 commit
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arch: Use where capable() is used.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
10 Sep, 2005
1 commit
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Delete obsoleted parts form arch makefiles and rename to asm-offsets.h
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
17 Apr, 2005
1 commit
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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!
