Coverity spotted what looks like a real possible case of using a variable
after it has been freed. The problem is in
kernel/relay.c::relay_open_buf()
If the code hits "goto free_buf;" it ends up in this code :
free_buf:
relay_destroy_buf(buf); <--- calls kfree() on 'buf'.
free_name:
kfree(tmpname);
end:
return buf; <-- use after free of 'buf'.
I read through the callers and they all handle a NULL return from this
function as an error (and hitting the 'free_buf' label only happens on
failure to chan->cb->create_buf_file(), so that looks like a clear error to
me).
The patch simply sets 'buf' to NULL after the call to
relay_destroy_buf(buf); - as far as I can see that should take care of the
problem.
The patch also corrects a reference to a documentation file while
I was at it.
Note from Mathieu: the documentation reference change should have been
done in a separate patch, but I guess no one will really care.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "David J. Wilder" <wilder@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: "David J. Wilder" <wilder@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Karim Yaghmour <karim@opersys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x16910): Section mismatch:
reference to .init.text: (between 'kthreadd' and 'init_waitqueue_head')
comes because kernel/kthread.c:kthreadd() is not __init but calls
kthreadd_setup() which is __init. But this is ok, because kthreadd_setup()
is only ever called at init time, and then kthreadd() proceeds into its
"for (;;)" loop. We could mark kthreadd __init_refok, but kthreadd_setup()
with just one callsite and 4 lines in it (it's been that small since
10ab825bde) doesn't need to be a separate function at all -- so let's
just move those four lines at beginning of kthreadd() itself.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When buf_check_overflow() returns != 0 we will hit kfree(ERR_PTR(err)) and
it will not be happy about it.
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It is possible that another process could acquire a new file lease right
after break_lease() is called during a truncate, but before lease-granting
is disabled by the subsequent get_write_access(). Merely switching the
order of the break_lease() and get_write_access() calls prevents this race.
Signed-off-by: David M. Richter <richterd@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use "__val" rather than "val" in the __get_unaligned macro in
asm-generic/unaligned.h. This way gcc wont warn if you happen to also name
something in the same scope "val".
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The specification link in hpet document is broken.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There doesn't seem to be a good reason for ANON_INODES being
an user visible option.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
On make install I get the this error:
...
sh /work/crazy/linux-git/linux-2.6/arch/i386/boot/install.sh
2.6.22-g4eb6bf6b arch/i386/boot/bzImage System.map "/boot"
/work/crazy/linux-git/linux-2.6/arch/i386/boot/install.sh: line 54:
/etc/lilo/install: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [install] Error 127
...
I don't use and don't have lilo installed on this system. The attached
patch fixes the problem for me.
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Craciunescu <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is only called at init time and only happens if the BIOS screws
something up, so the leak is slight and it is probably not worth sending to
2.6.22.x. The driver would not initialize the interface in the case, and I
have no reports of this happening. I have booted and run tests on a system
with this patch. Note that the original patch was munged by the mailer,
here's a new one.
If we ever hit the "default:" case in the switch in try_init_dmi(),
then we'll leak the storage allocated with kzalloc() and assigned
to 'info'.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix docbook warnings:
Warning(linux-2.6.22-git12//drivers/base/power/main.c): no structured comments found
Warning(linux-2.6.22-git12//include/linux/splice.h): no structured comments found
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add kernel-doc entry in <linux/irq.h> for:
Warning(linux-2.6.22-git12//include/linux/irq.h:177): No description found for parameter 'last_unhandled'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add kernel-doc notation in <linux/i2c.h> for:
Warning(linux-2.6.22-git12//include/linux/i2c.h:183): No description found for parameter 'driver'
Warning(linux-2.6.22-git12//include/linux/i2c.h:183): No description found for parameter 'usage_count'
Warning(linux-2.6.22-git12//include/linux/i2c.h:183): No description found for parameter 'list'
Warning(linux-2.6.22-git12//include/linux/i2c.h:183): No description found for parameter 'released'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix up mpsc.c to be aligned with Documentation/CodingStyle. Also fix up some
whitespace issues.
Signed-off-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the duplicate definition of SUPPORT_SYSRQ in mpsc driver.
Signed-off-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, the MPSC driver doesn't stop recieving characters when the CREAD
flag in termios->c_cflag is cleared. It should. Also, only start receiving
if its not already started.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Chazelas <stephane@artesyncp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The patch in commit ID f7232056bf stops (aborts)
the MPSC's receive engine just before restarting it. Unfortunately, it
doesn't wait for the abort to complete before restarting it which creates a
race between the abort and the restart. If the restart occurs first, the
in-progress abort stops it again and the rx engine remains stopped.
Instead, do the abort when the SDMA engine is being stopped. Make sure to
wait for the abort to complete before continuing.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Sanchez <carlos.sanchez@gecoinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It turned out that mounting a corrupted ISO image to a regular file may
succeed, e.g. if an image was prepared as follows:
$ dd if=correct.iso of=bad.iso bs=4k count=8
We then can mount it to a regular file:
# mount -o loop -t iso9660 bad.iso /tmp/file
But mounting it to a directory fails with -ENOTDIR, simply because
the root directory inode doesn't have S_IFDIR set and the condition
in graft_tree() is met:
if (S_ISDIR(nd->dentry->d_inode->i_mode) !=
S_ISDIR(mnt->mnt_root->d_inode->i_mode))
return -ENOTDIR
This is because the root directory inode was read from an incorrect
block. It's supposed to be read from sbi->s_firstdatazone, which is
an absolute value and gets messed up in the case of an incorrect image.
In order to somehow circumvent this we have to check that the root
directory inode is actually a directory after all.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Kuvaldin <kuvkir@epsmu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The serial console can select only SERIAL_VR41XX=y.
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
pure_initcall uses the same ID as core_initcall. I guess that's a typo and
it should use its own ID.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
One patch for two trivial typos of 'error' with three R's, appearing in message strings.
There's a bunch more of the same in comments, not dealt with here.
Signed-off-by: Eddy L O Jansson <eddy@klopper.net>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As reported by Gustavo de Nardin <gustavodn@mandriva.com.br>, while trying to
compile xosview (http://xosview.sourceforge.net/) with upstream kernel
headers being used you get the following errors:
serialmeter.cc:48:30: error: linux/serial_reg.h: No such file or directory
serialmeter.cc: In member function 'virtual void
SerialMeter::checkResources()':
serialmeter.cc:71: error: 'UART_LSR' was not declared in this scope
serialmeter.cc:71: error: 'UART_MSR' was not declared in this scope
...
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Cc: Gustavo de Nardin <gustavodn@mandriva.com.br>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The fourth argument of sys_futex is ignored when op == FUTEX_WAKE_OP,
but futex_wake_op expects it as its nr_wake2 parameter.
The only user of this operation in glibc is always passing 1, so this
bug had no consequences so far.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix file locking for AFS:
(*) Start the lock manager thread under a mutex to avoid a race.
(*) Made the locking non-fair: New readlocks will jump pending writelocks if
there's a readlock currently granted on a file. This makes the behaviour
similar to Linux's VFS locking.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The rcu_dereference() primitive needs to be applied to an l-value in order to
ensure that compiler writers don't get an opportunity to apply reordering
optimizations that could result in multiple fetches or in other misbehavior.
This patch pulls the rcu_dereference() calls in bpq_seq_next() up to the point
at which the fetched pointers are still l-values, rather than after
list_entry() has transformed them into r-values.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When user locks an ipc shmem segmant with SHM_LOCK ctl and the segment is
already locked the shmem_lock() function returns 0. After this the
subsequent code leaks the existing user struct:
== ipc/shm.c: sys_shmctl() ==
...
err = shmem_lock(shp->shm_file, 1, user);
if (!err) {
shp->shm_perm.mode |= SHM_LOCKED;
shp->mlock_user = user;
}
...
==
Other results of this are:
1. the new shp->mlock_user is not get-ed and will point to freed
memory when the task dies.
2. the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is screwed on both user structs.
The exploit looks like this:
==
id = shmget(...);
setresuid(uid, 0, 0);
shmctl(id, SHM_LOCK, NULL);
setresuid(uid + 1, 0, 0);
shmctl(id, SHM_LOCK, NULL);
==
My solution is to return 0 to the userspace and do not change the
segment's user.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is needed on MIPS where the same mechanism as get_user() is used to
intercept bus error exceptions for some hardware probes. Without this
patch modpost will throw spurious warnings:
LD vmlinux
SYSMAP System.map
SYSMAP .tmp_System.map
MODPOST vmlinux
WARNING: arch/mips/sgi-ip22/built-in.o(__dbe_table+0x0): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
alpha:
In file included from kernel/notifier.c:1:
include/linux/kdebug.h:14: warning: 'struct notifier_block' declared inside parameter list
include/linux/kdebug.h:14: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
include/linux/kdebug.h:15: warning: 'struct notifier_block' declared inside parameter list
kernel/notifier.c:529: error: conflicting types for 'register_die_notifier'
include/linux/kdebug.h:14: error: previous declaration of 'register_die_notifier' was here
kernel/notifier.c:533: error: conflicting types for 'register_die_notifier'
include/linux/kdebug.h:14: error: previous declaration of 'register_die_notifier' was here
kernel/notifier.c:536: error: conflicting types for 'unregister_die_notifier'
include/linux/kdebug.h:15: error: previous declaration of 'unregister_die_notifier' was here
kernel/notifier.c:539: error: conflicting types for 'unregister_die_notifier'
include/linux/kdebug.h:15: error: previous declaration of 'unregister_die_notifier' was here
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This exposes the hardware loopback mode to drivers, primarily for testing.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is a simple utility used to test SPI functionality. It could stand
growing options to support using other test data patterns; this initial
version only issues full duplex transfers, which rules out 3WIRE or
Microwire links.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The spidev driver doesn't currently expose all SPI communications modes to
userspace. This passes them all through to the driver.
Two of them are potentially troublesome, in the sense that they could cause
hardware conflicts on shared busses. It might be appropriate to add some
privilege checks for for those modes.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Loopback mode is supported by various controllers. This mode can be
useful for testing, especially in conjunction with spidev driver.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
spi_mpc83xx should use other shifts when running in QE+LSB mode.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This controller supports LSB-first transfers; let drivers use them.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation clearly states, that mode should not be changed till
SPMODE_ENABLE bit set. I've seen hangs w/o this patch.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The arm26 port has been in a state where it was far from even compiling
for quite some time.
Ian Molton agreed with the removal.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
commit eab03ac7bd aka
"[PATCH] Get rid of /proc/sys/proc" was good commit except strace(1) compile
breakage it introduced:
system.c:1581: error: 'CTL_PROC' undeclared here (not in a function)
So, add dummy enum back.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Is there a reason why the "online" file in the subdirectories for the CPUs
in /sys/devices/system isn't world-readable? I cannot imagine it to be
security relevant especially now that a getcpu() syscall can be used to
determine what CPUa thread runs on.
The file is useful to correctly implement the sysconf() function to return
the number of online CPUs. In the presence of hotplug we currently cannot
provide this information. The patch below should to it.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
