History log of /linux-master/fs/binfmt_flat.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 70578ff3 20-Apr-2022 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

binfmt_flat: Remove shared library support

In a recent discussion[1] it was reported that the binfmt_flat library
support was only ever used on m68k and even on m68k has not been used
in a very long time.

The structure of binfmt_flat is different from all of the other binfmt
implementations because of this shared library support and it made
life and code review more effort when I refactored the code in fs/exec.c.

Since in practice the code is dead remove the binfmt_flat shared library
support and make maintenance of the code easier.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/81788b56-5b15-7308-38c7-c7f2502c4e15@linux-m68k.org

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
Acked-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com> # ARM
Tested-by: Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard@foss.st.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87levzzts4.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org


# 8d005269 19-Apr-2022 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

binfmt_flat: Drop vestiges of coredump support

There is the briefest start of coredump support in binfmt_flat. It
is actually a pain to maintain as binfmt_flat is not built on most
architectures so it is easy to overlook.

Since the support does not do anything remove it.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Reviewed-by: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@wdc.com>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87mtgh17li.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org


# 6045ab5f 14-Apr-2022 Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@wdc.com>

binfmt_flat: do not stop relocating GOT entries prematurely on riscv

bFLT binaries are usually created using elf2flt.

The linker script used by elf2flt has defined the .data section like the
following for the last 19 years:

.data : {
_sdata = . ;
__data_start = . ;
data_start = . ;
*(.got.plt)
*(.got)
FILL(0) ;
. = ALIGN(0x20) ;
LONG(-1)
. = ALIGN(0x20) ;
...
}

It places the .got.plt input section before the .got input section.
The same is true for the default linker script (ld --verbose) on most
architectures except x86/x86-64.

The binfmt_flat loader should relocate all GOT entries until it encounters
a -1 (the LONG(-1) in the linker script).

The problem is that the .got.plt input section starts with a GOTPLT header
(which has size 16 bytes on elf64-riscv and 8 bytes on elf32-riscv), where
the first word is set to -1. See the binutils implementation for riscv [1].

This causes the binfmt_flat loader to stop relocating GOT entries
prematurely and thus causes the application to crash when running.

Fix this by skipping the whole GOTPLT header, since the whole GOTPLT header
is reserved for the dynamic linker.

The GOTPLT header will only be skipped for bFLT binaries with flag
FLAT_FLAG_GOTPIC set. This flag is unconditionally set by elf2flt if the
supplied ELF binary has the symbol _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ defined.
ELF binaries without a .got input section should thus remain unaffected.

Tested on RISC-V Canaan Kendryte K210 and RISC-V QEMU nommu_virt_defconfig.

[1] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob;f=bfd/elfnn-riscv.c;hb=binutils-2_38#l3275

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220414091018.896737-1-niklas.cassel@wdc.com
Fixed-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202204182333.OIUOotK8-lkp@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>


# f833116a 09-Mar-2022 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

coredump: Don't compile flat_core_dump when coredumps are disabled

Recently the kernel test robot reported:
> In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:29,
> from fs/binfmt_flat.c:21:
> fs/binfmt_flat.c: In function 'flat_core_dump':
> >> fs/binfmt_flat.c:121:50: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct coredump_params'
> 121 | current->comm, current->pid, cprm->siginfo->si_signo);
> | ^~
> include/linux/printk.h:418:33: note: in definition of macro 'printk_index_wrap'
> 418 | _p_func(_fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__); \
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~
> include/linux/printk.h:499:9: note: in expansion of macro 'printk'
> 499 | printk(KERN_WARNING pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
> | ^~~~~~
> fs/binfmt_flat.c:120:9: note: in expansion of macro 'pr_warn'
> 120 | pr_warn("Process %s:%d received signr %d and should have core dumped\n",
> | ^~~~~~~
> At top level:
> fs/binfmt_flat.c:118:12: warning: 'flat_core_dump' defined but not used [-Wunused-function]
> 118 | static int flat_core_dump(struct coredump_params *cprm)
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The little dinky do nothing function flat_core_dump has always been
compiled unconditionally. With my change to move coredump_params into
coredump.h coredump_params reasonably becomes unavailable when
coredump support is not compiled in. Fix this old issue by simply not
compiling flat_core_dump when coredump support is not supported.

Fixes: a99a3e2efaf1 ("coredump: Move definition of struct coredump_params into coredump.h")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>


# a99a3e2e 31-Jan-2022 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

coredump: Move definition of struct coredump_params into coredump.h

Move the definition of struct coredump_params into coredump.h where
it belongs.

Remove the slightly errorneous comment explaining why struct
coredump_params was declared in binfmts.h.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>


# d65bc29b 13-Feb-2022 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>

binfmt: move more stuff undef CONFIG_COREDUMP

struct linux_binfmt::core_dump and struct min_coredump::min_coredump
are used under CONFIG_COREDUMP only. Shrink those embedded configs
a bit.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YglbIFyN+OtwVyjW@localhost.localdomain


# a4eec6a3 28-Jun-2021 David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

binfmt: remove in-tree usage of MAP_EXECUTABLE

Ever since commit e9714acf8c43 ("mm: kill vma flag VM_EXECUTABLE and
mm->num_exe_file_vmas"), VM_EXECUTABLE is gone and MAP_EXECUTABLE is
essentially completely ignored. Let's remove all usage of MAP_EXECUTABLE.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix blooper in fs/binfmt_aout.c. per David]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210421093453.6904-3-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Brodsky <Kevin.Brodsky@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 04d82a6d 16-Apr-2021 Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>

binfmt_flat: allow not offsetting data start

Commit 2217b9826246 ("binfmt_flat: revert "binfmt_flat: don't offset
the data start"") restored offsetting the start of the data section by
a number of words defined by MAX_SHARED_LIBS. As a result, since
MAX_SHARED_LIBS is never 0, a gap between the text and data sections
always exists. For architectures which cannot support a such gap
between the text and data sections (e.g. riscv nommu), flat binary
programs cannot be executed.

To allow an architecture to request no data start offset to allow for
contiguous text and data sections for binaries flagged with
FLAT_FLAG_RAM, introduce the new config option
CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET. Using this new option, the
macro DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS is conditionally defined in binfmt_flat.c
to MAX_SHARED_LIBS for architectures tolerating or needing the data
start offset (CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET disabled case)
and to 0 when CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET is enabled.
DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS is used in load_flat_file() to calculate the
data section length and start position.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>


# 2217b982 08-Aug-2020 Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>

binfmt_flat: revert "binfmt_flat: don't offset the data start"

binfmt_flat loader uses the gap between text and data to store data
segment pointers for the libraries. Even in the absence of shared
libraries it stores at least one pointer to the executable's own data
segment. Text and data can go back to back in the flat binary image and
without offsetting data segment last few instructions in the text
segment may get corrupted by the data segment pointer.

Fix it by reverting commit a2357223c50a ("binfmt_flat: don't offset the
data start").

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a2357223c50a ("binfmt_flat: don't offset the data start")
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>


# 79ef1e1f 07-Jun-2020 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

binfmt_flat: use flush_icache_user_range

load_flat_file works on user addresses.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200515143646.3857579-28-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 8861fd57 19-Feb-2020 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

binfmt_flat: don't use __put_user()

... and check the return value

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 2388777a 03-May-2020 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

exec: Rename flush_old_exec begin_new_exec

There is and has been for a very long time been a lot more going on in
flush_old_exec than just flushing the old state. After the movement
of code from setup_new_exec there is a whole lot more going on than
just flushing the old executables state.

Rename flush_old_exec to begin_new_exec to more accurately reflect
what this function does.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>


# 96ecee29 03-May-2020 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

exec: Merge install_exec_creds into setup_new_exec

The two functions are now always called one right after the
other so merge them together to make future maintenance easier.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>


# e7f77854 12-Mar-2020 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

binfmt: Move install_exec_creds after setup_new_exec to match binfmt_elf

In 2016 Linus moved install_exec_creds immediately after
setup_new_exec, in binfmt_elf as a cleanup and as part of closing a
potential information leak.

Perform the same cleanup for the other binary formats.

Different binary formats doing the same things the same way makes exec
easier to reason about and easier to maintain.

Greg Ungerer reports:
> I tested the the whole series on non-MMU m68k and non-MMU arm
> (exercising binfmt_flat) and it all tested out with no problems,
> so for the binfmt_flat changes:
Tested-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>

Ref: 9f834ec18def ("binfmt_elf: switch to new creds when switching to new mm")
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>


# 1b113e04 16-Jul-2019 YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>

fs/binfmt_flat.c: remove set but not used variable 'inode'

Fixes gcc '-Wunused-but-set-variable' warning:

fs/binfmt_flat.c: In function load_flat_file:
fs/binfmt_flat.c:419:16: warning: variable inode set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]

It's never used and can be removed.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190525125341.9844-1-yuehaibing@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 867bfa4a 28-Jun-2019 Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>

fs/binfmt_flat.c: make load_flat_shared_library() work

load_flat_shared_library() is broken: It only calls load_flat_file() if
prepare_binprm() returns zero, but prepare_binprm() returns the number of
bytes read - so this only happens if the file is empty.

Instead, call into load_flat_file() if the number of bytes read is
non-negative. (Even if the number of bytes is zero - in that case,
load_flat_file() will see nullbytes and return a nice -ENOEXEC.)

In addition, remove the code related to bprm creds and stop using
prepare_binprm() - this code is loading a library, not a main executable,
and it only actually uses the members "buf", "file" and "filename" of the
linux_binprm struct. Instead, call kernel_read() directly.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190524201817.16509-1-jannh@google.com
Fixes: 287980e49ffc ("remove lots of IS_ERR_VALUE abuses")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# a2357223 13-Jun-2019 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

binfmt_flat: don't offset the data start

Ever since the initial commit of the binfmt_flat shared library
support back in the bitkeeper days we've offset the actual in-memory
.data start by one field per possible shared library, or 1 in case
shared library support isn't enabled. I can't find anything in the
loader that actually makes use of it, nor was it present before
shared library support it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>


# a445d988 13-Jun-2019 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

binfmt_flat: move the MAX_SHARED_LIBS definition to binfmt_flat.c

MAX_SHARED_LIBS is an implementation detail of the kernel loader,
and should be kept away from the file format definition.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>


# 6843d8aa 13-Jun-2019 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

binfmt_flat: remove the persistent argument from flat_get_addr_from_rp

The argument is never used.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>


# cf9a566c 13-Jun-2019 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

binfmt_flat: make support for old format binaries optional

No need to carry the extra code around, given that systems using flat
binaries are generally very resource constrained.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>


# 3b977718 13-Jun-2019 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

binfmt_flat: add endianess annotations

Most binfmt_flat on-disk fields are big endian. Use the proper __be32
type where applicable.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>


# 06d2bfed 13-Jun-2019 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

binfmt_flat: remove the uapi <linux/flat.h> header

The split between the two flat.h files is completely arbitrary, and the
uapi version even contains CONFIG_ ifdefs that can't work in userspace.
The only userspace program known to use the header is elf2flt, and it
ships with its own version of the combined header.

Use the chance to move the <asm/flat.h> inclusion out of this file, as it
is in no way needed for the format defintion, but just for the binfmt
implementation.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>


# bdd15a28 13-Jun-2019 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

binfmt_flat: replace flat_argvp_envp_on_stack with a Kconfig variable

This will eventually allow us to kill the need for an <asm/flat.h> for
many cases.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>


# 1d52dca1 13-Jun-2019 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

binfmt_flat: remove flat_old_ram_flag

Instead add a Kconfig variable that only h8300 selects.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>


# 02da2833 13-Jun-2019 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

binfmt_flat: provide a default version of flat_get_relocate_addr

This way only the two architectures that do masking need to provide
the helper.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>


# 2f3196d4 13-Jun-2019 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

binfmt_flat: remove flat_set_persistent

This helper is a no-op on all architectures, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>


# 9ee24b2a 13-Jun-2019 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

binfmt_flat: remove flat_reloc_valid

This helper is the same for all architectures, open code it in the only
caller.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>


# b8383831 10-Apr-2018 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

exec: introduce finalize_exec() before start_thread()

Provide a final callback into fs/exec.c before start_thread() takes
over, to handle any last-minute changes, like the coming restoration of
the stack limit.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518638796-20819-3-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 9367bb73 08-Sep-2017 Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>

binfmt_flat: delete two error messages for a failed memory allocation in decompress_exec()

Omit extra messages for a memory allocation failure in this function.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f92aac79-b05e-321a-1a19-d38c7159ee9c@users.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# bdd1d2d3 01-Sep-2017 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

fs: fix kernel_read prototype

Use proper ssize_t and size_t types for the return value and count
argument, move the offset last and make it an in/out argument like
all other read/write helpers, and make the buf argument a void pointer
to get rid of lots of casts in the callers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# ddb4a144 18-Jul-2017 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

exec: Rename bprm->cred_prepared to called_set_creds

The cred_prepared bprm flag has a misleading name. It has nothing to do
with the bprm_prepare_cred hook, and actually tracks if bprm_set_creds has
been called. Rename this flag and improve its comment.

Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>


# a8605423 16-Jul-2017 Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

binfmt_flat: Use %u to format u32

Several variables had their types changed from unsigned long to u32, but
the printk()-style format to print them wasn't updated, leading to:

fs/binfmt_flat.c: In function ‘load_flat_file’:
fs/binfmt_flat.c:577: warning: format ‘%ld’ expects type ‘long int’, but argument 3 has type ‘u32’

Fixes: 468138d78510688f ("binfmt_flat: flat_{get,put}_addr_from_rp() should be able to fail")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 468138d7 02-May-2017 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

binfmt_flat: flat_{get,put}_addr_from_rp() should be able to fail

on MMU targets EFAULT is possible here. Make both return 0 or error,
passing what used to be the return value of flat_get_addr_from_rp()
by reference.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 68db0cf1 08-Feb-2017 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task_stack.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/task_stack.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/task_stack.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 472f95f3 24-Jul-2016 Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>

binfmt_flat: allow compressed flat binary format to work on MMU systems

Let's take the simple and obvious approach by decompressing the binary
into a kernel buffer and then copying it to user space. Those who are
looking for top performance on an MMU system are unlikely to choose this
executable format anyway.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>


# 015feacf 24-Jul-2016 Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>

binfmt_flat: add MMU-specific support

Not much else to do at this point except for the different stack setups.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>


# af521f92 24-Jul-2016 Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>

binfmt_flat: update libraries' data segment pointer with userspace accessors

This is needed on systems with a MMU. This also gets rid of the
strangest C code I've seen lateli i.e. an integer indexed with a
pointer value within square brackets. That really looked backwards.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>


# 467aa146 24-Jul-2016 Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>

binfmt_flat: use clear_user() rather than memset() to clear .bss

This is needed on systems with a MMU.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>


# 1b2ce442 24-Jul-2016 Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>

binfmt_flat: use proper user space accessors with old relocs code

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>


# 6e572ffe 24-Jul-2016 Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>

binfmt_flat: use proper user space accessors with relocs processing code

Relocs are fixed up in place in user space memory. The appropriate
accessors are required for this code to work with an active MMU.

The architecture specific handlers flat_get_addr_from_rp() and
flat_put_addr_at_rp() for ARM and M68K are adjusted with separate
patches. SuperH and Xtensa are left out as they doesn't implement
__get_user_unaligned() and __put_user_unaligned() yet. The other
architectures that use BFLT don't have any MMU.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>


# a97d157d 24-Jul-2016 Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>

binfmt_flat: clean up create_flat_tables() and stack accesses

In addition to better code clarity, this brings proper usage of
user memory accessors everywhere the stack is touched. This is essential
for making this work on MMU systems.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>


# 687fd773 24-Jul-2016 Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>

binfmt_flat: use generic transfer_args_to_stack()

This gets rid of the rather ugly, open coded and suboptimal copy code.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>


# c995ee28 24-Jul-2016 Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>

binfmt_flat: prevent kernel dammage from corrupted executable headers

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>


# 4adbb6ac 24-Jul-2016 Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>

binfmt_flat: convert printk invocations to their modern form

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>


# 13c3f50c 24-Jul-2016 Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>

binfmt_flat: assorted cleanups

Remove excessive casts, do some code grouping, fix most important
checkpatch.pl complaints, etc.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>


# 287980e4 27-May-2016 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

remove lots of IS_ERR_VALUE abuses

Most users of IS_ERR_VALUE() in the kernel are wrong, as they
pass an 'int' into a function that takes an 'unsigned long'
argument. This happens to work because the type is sign-extended
on 64-bit architectures before it gets converted into an
unsigned type.

However, anything that passes an 'unsigned short' or 'unsigned int'
argument into IS_ERR_VALUE() is guaranteed to be broken, as are
8-bit integers and types that are wider than 'unsigned long'.

Andrzej Hajda has already fixed a lot of the worst abusers that
were causing actual bugs, but it would be nice to prevent any
users that are not passing 'unsigned long' arguments.

This patch changes all users of IS_ERR_VALUE() that I could find
on 32-bit ARM randconfig builds and x86 allmodconfig. For the
moment, this doesn't change the definition of IS_ERR_VALUE()
because there are probably still architecture specific users
elsewhere.

Almost all the warnings I got are for files that are better off
using 'if (err)' or 'if (err < 0)'.
The only legitimate user I could find that we get a warning for
is the (32-bit only) freescale fman driver, so I did not remove
the IS_ERR_VALUE() there but changed the type to 'unsigned long'.
For 9pfs, I just worked around one user whose calling conventions
are so obscure that I did not dare change the behavior.

I was using this definition for testing:

#define IS_ERR_VALUE(x) ((unsigned long*)NULL == (typeof (x)*)NULL && \
unlikely((unsigned long long)(x) >= (unsigned long long)(typeof(x))-MAX_ERRNO))

which ends up making all 16-bit or wider types work correctly with
the most plausible interpretation of what IS_ERR_VALUE() was supposed
to return according to its users, but also causes a compile-time
warning for any users that do not pass an 'unsigned long' argument.

I suggested this approach earlier this year, but back then we ended
up deciding to just fix the users that are obviously broken. After
the initial warning that caused me to get involved in the discussion
(fs/gfs2/dir.c) showed up again in the mainline kernel, Linus
asked me to send the whole thing again.

[ Updated the 9p parts as per Al Viro - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/7/363
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/27/486
Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> # For nvmem part
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 34303435 04-Jun-2014 Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>

fs/binfmt_flat.c: make old_reloc() static

old_reloc() is only used in this file, make it static.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 3dc20cb2 13-Apr-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

new helper: read_code()

switch binfmts that use ->read() to that (and to kernel_read()
in several cases in binfmt_flat - sure, it's nommu, but still,
doing ->read() into kmalloc'ed buffer...)

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 496ad9aa 23-Jan-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

new helper: file_inode(file)

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 71613c3b 20-Oct-2012 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

get rid of pt_regs argument of ->load_binary()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 5ab1c309 04-Oct-2012 Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

coredump: pass siginfo_t* to do_coredump() and below, not merely signr

This is a preparatory patch for the introduction of NT_SIGINFO elf note.

With this patch we pass "siginfo_t *siginfo" instead of "int signr" to
do_coredump() and put it into coredump_params. It will be used by the
next patch. Most changes are simple s/signr/siginfo->si_signo/.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: "Jonathan M. Foote" <jmfoote@cert.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 7696e0c3 29-May-2012 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

binfmt_flat: use vm_munmap, we are missing ->mmap_sem there

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 6be5ceb0 20-Apr-2012 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

VM: add "vm_mmap()" helper function

This continues the theme started with vm_brk() and vm_munmap():
vm_mmap() does the same thing as do_mmap(), but additionally does the
required VM locking.

This uninlines (and rewrites it to be clearer) do_mmap(), which sadly
duplicates it in mm/mmap.c and mm/nommu.c. But that way we don't have
to export our internal do_mmap_pgoff() function.

Some day we hopefully don't have to export do_mmap() either, if all
modular users can become the simpler vm_mmap() instead. We're actually
very close to that already, with the notable exception of the (broken)
use in i810, and a couple of stragglers in binfmt_elf.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 9ffc93f2 28-Mar-2012 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h

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*<asm/system[.]h>.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>' *`

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 19e5109f 23-Feb-2012 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

take removal of PF_FORKNOEXEC to flush_old_exec()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 8fc3dc5a 17-Mar-2012 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

__register_binfmt() made void

Just don't pass NULL to it - nobody does, anyway.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 630d9c47 16-Nov-2011 Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

fs: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible

For files only using THIS_MODULE and/or EXPORT_SYMBOL, map
them onto including export.h -- or if the file isn't even
using those, then just delete the include. Fix up any implicit
include dependencies that were being masked by module.h along
the way.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>


# 3a852d3b 28-Apr-2011 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

CRED: Fix load_flat_shared_library() to initialise bprm correctly

Fix binfmt_flag's load_flat_shared_library() to initialise bprm correctly.

Currently, prepare_binprm() is called with only .filename .file and .cred
fields set in bprm, but the .cred_prepared and .per_clear fields at least need
initialising.

Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>


# 25985edc 30-Mar-2011 Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>

Fix common misspellings

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>


# 2952095c 29-Jun-2010 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>

flat: tweak default stack alignment

The recent commit 1f0ce8b3dd667dca7 ("mm: Move ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN and
ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to <linux/slab_def.h>") which moved the
ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN default into the global header inadvertently broke FLAT
for a bunch of systems. Blackfin systems now fail on any FLAT exec with:
Unable to read code+data+bss, errno 14 When your /init is a FLAT binary,
obviously this can be annoying ;).

This stems from the alignment usage in the FLAT loader. The behavior
before was that FLAT would default to ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN only if it was
defined, and this was only defined by arches when they wanted a larger
alignment value. Otherwise it'd default to pointer alignment. Arguably,
this is kind of hokey that the FLAT is semi-abusing defines it shouldn't.

So let's merge the two alignment requirements so the floor is never 0.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: David McCullough <davidm@snapgear.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 1da083c9 04-Jun-2010 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>

flat: fix unmap len in load error path

The data chunk is mmaped with 'len' which remains unchanged, so use that
when unmapping in the error path rather than trying to recalculate (and
incorrectly so) the value used originally.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: David McCullough <davidm@snapgear.com>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 2e94de8a 04-Jun-2010 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>

fs/binfmt_flat.c: split the stack & data alignments

The stack and data have different alignment requirements, so don't force
them to wear the same shoe. Increase the data alignment to match that
which the elf2flt linker script has always been using: 0x20 bytes. Not
only does this bring the kernel loader in line with the toolchain, but it
also fixes a swath of gcc tests which try to force larger alignment values
but randomly fail when the FLAT loader fails to deliver.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: David McCullough <davidm@snapgear.com>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Jie Zhang <jie@codesourcery.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# d7dfee3f 31-Dec-2009 Jun Sun <jsun@junsun.net>

uclinux: error message when FLAT reloc symbol is invalid, v2

This patch fixes a cosmetic error in printk. Text segment and data/bss
segment are allocated from two different areas. It is not meaningful to
give the diff between them in the error reporting messages.

Signed-off-by: Jun Sun <jsun@junsun.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>


# d554ed89 05-Mar-2010 Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>

fs: use rlimit helpers

Make sure compiler won't do weird things with limits. E.g. fetching them
twice may return 2 different values after writable limits are implemented.

I.e. either use rlimit helpers added in commit 3e10e716abf3 ("resource:
add helpers for fetching rlimits") or ACCESS_ONCE if not applicable.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 221af7f8 28-Jan-2010 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Split 'flush_old_exec' into two functions

'flush_old_exec()' is the point of no return when doing an execve(), and
it is pretty badly misnamed. It doesn't just flush the old executable
environment, it also starts up the new one.

Which is very inconvenient for things like setting up the new
personality, because we want the new personality to affect the starting
of the new environment, but at the same time we do _not_ want the new
personality to take effect if flushing the old one fails.

As a result, the x86-64 '32-bit' personality is actually done using this
insane "I'm going to change the ABI, but I haven't done it yet" bit
(TIF_ABI_PENDING), with SET_PERSONALITY() not actually setting the
personality, but just the "pending" bit, so that "flush_thread()" can do
the actual personality magic.

This patch in no way changes any of that insanity, but it does split the
'flush_old_exec()' function up into a preparatory part that can fail
(still called flush_old_exec()), and a new part that will actually set
up the new exec environment (setup_new_exec()). All callers are changed
to trivially comply with the new world order.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# f6151dfe 17-Dec-2009 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>

mm: introduce coredump parameter structure

Introduce coredump parameter data structure (struct coredump_params) to
simplify binfmt->core_dump() arguments.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 0b8c78f2 23-Sep-2009 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>

flat: use IS_ERR_VALUE() helper macro

There is a common macro now for testing mixed pointer/errno values, so use
that rather than handling the casts ourself.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: David McCullough <david_mccullough@securecomputing.com>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 3440625d 06-Aug-2009 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

flat: fix uninitialized ptr with shared libs

The new credentials code broke load_flat_shared_library() as it now uses
an uninitialized cred pointer.

Reported-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de>
Tested-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# c3dc5bec 28-May-2009 Oskar Schirmer <os@emlix.com>

flat: fix data sections alignment

The flat loader uses an architecture's flat_stack_align() to align the
stack but assumes word-alignment is enough for the data sections.

However, on the Xtensa S6000 we have registers up to 128bit width
which can be used from userspace and therefor need userspace stack and
data-section alignment of at least this size.

This patch drops flat_stack_align() and uses the same alignment that
is required for slab caches, ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN, or wordsize if it's
not defined by the architecture.

It also fixes m32r which was obviously kaput, aligning an
uninitialized stack entry instead of the stack pointer.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Oskar Schirmer <os@emlix.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jw@emlix.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 0f3e442a 07-Jan-2009 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

FLAT: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocated

Stop the FLAT binfmt from attempting to expand the userspace stack and brk
segments to fill the space actually allocated for it. The space allocated may
be rounded up by mmap(), and may be wasted.

However, finding out how much space we actually obtained uses the contentious
kobjsize() function which we'd like to get rid of as it doesn't necessarily
work for all slab allocators.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>


# a6f76f23 13-Nov-2008 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

CRED: Make execve() take advantage of copy-on-write credentials

Make execve() take advantage of copy-on-write credentials, allowing it to set
up the credentials in advance, and then commit the whole lot after the point
of no return.

This patch and the preceding patches have been tested with the LTP SELinux
testsuite.

This patch makes several logical sets of alteration:

(1) execve().

The credential bits from struct linux_binprm are, for the most part,
replaced with a single credentials pointer (bprm->cred). This means that
all the creds can be calculated in advance and then applied at the point
of no return with no possibility of failure.

I would like to replace bprm->cap_effective with:

cap_isclear(bprm->cap_effective)

but this seems impossible due to special behaviour for processes of pid 1
(they always retain their parent's capability masks where normally they'd
be changed - see cap_bprm_set_creds()).

The following sequence of events now happens:

(a) At the start of do_execve, the current task's cred_exec_mutex is
locked to prevent PTRACE_ATTACH from obsoleting the calculation of
creds that we make.

(a) prepare_exec_creds() is then called to make a copy of the current
task's credentials and prepare it. This copy is then assigned to
bprm->cred.

This renders security_bprm_alloc() and security_bprm_free()
unnecessary, and so they've been removed.

(b) The determination of unsafe execution is now performed immediately
after (a) rather than later on in the code. The result is stored in
bprm->unsafe for future reference.

(c) prepare_binprm() is called, possibly multiple times.

(i) This applies the result of set[ug]id binaries to the new creds
attached to bprm->cred. Personality bit clearance is recorded,
but now deferred on the basis that the exec procedure may yet
fail.

(ii) This then calls the new security_bprm_set_creds(). This should
calculate the new LSM and capability credentials into *bprm->cred.

This folds together security_bprm_set() and parts of
security_bprm_apply_creds() (these two have been removed).
Anything that might fail must be done at this point.

(iii) bprm->cred_prepared is set to 1.

bprm->cred_prepared is 0 on the first pass of the security
calculations, and 1 on all subsequent passes. This allows SELinux
in (ii) to base its calculations only on the initial script and
not on the interpreter.

(d) flush_old_exec() is called to commit the task to execution. This
performs the following steps with regard to credentials:

(i) Clear pdeath_signal and set dumpable on certain circumstances that
may not be covered by commit_creds().

(ii) Clear any bits in current->personality that were deferred from
(c.i).

(e) install_exec_creds() [compute_creds() as was] is called to install the
new credentials. This performs the following steps with regard to
credentials:

(i) Calls security_bprm_committing_creds() to apply any security
requirements, such as flushing unauthorised files in SELinux, that
must be done before the credentials are changed.

This is made up of bits of security_bprm_apply_creds() and
security_bprm_post_apply_creds(), both of which have been removed.
This function is not allowed to fail; anything that might fail
must have been done in (c.ii).

(ii) Calls commit_creds() to apply the new credentials in a single
assignment (more or less). Possibly pdeath_signal and dumpable
should be part of struct creds.

(iii) Unlocks the task's cred_replace_mutex, thus allowing
PTRACE_ATTACH to take place.

(iv) Clears The bprm->cred pointer as the credentials it was holding
are now immutable.

(v) Calls security_bprm_committed_creds() to apply any security
alterations that must be done after the creds have been changed.
SELinux uses this to flush signals and signal handlers.

(f) If an error occurs before (d.i), bprm_free() will call abort_creds()
to destroy the proposed new credentials and will then unlock
cred_replace_mutex. No changes to the credentials will have been
made.

(2) LSM interface.

A number of functions have been changed, added or removed:

(*) security_bprm_alloc(), ->bprm_alloc_security()
(*) security_bprm_free(), ->bprm_free_security()

Removed in favour of preparing new credentials and modifying those.

(*) security_bprm_apply_creds(), ->bprm_apply_creds()
(*) security_bprm_post_apply_creds(), ->bprm_post_apply_creds()

Removed; split between security_bprm_set_creds(),
security_bprm_committing_creds() and security_bprm_committed_creds().

(*) security_bprm_set(), ->bprm_set_security()

Removed; folded into security_bprm_set_creds().

(*) security_bprm_set_creds(), ->bprm_set_creds()

New. The new credentials in bprm->creds should be checked and set up
as appropriate. bprm->cred_prepared is 0 on the first call, 1 on the
second and subsequent calls.

(*) security_bprm_committing_creds(), ->bprm_committing_creds()
(*) security_bprm_committed_creds(), ->bprm_committed_creds()

New. Apply the security effects of the new credentials. This
includes closing unauthorised files in SELinux. This function may not
fail. When the former is called, the creds haven't yet been applied
to the process; when the latter is called, they have.

The former may access bprm->cred, the latter may not.

(3) SELinux.

SELinux has a number of changes, in addition to those to support the LSM
interface changes mentioned above:

(a) The bprm_security_struct struct has been removed in favour of using
the credentials-under-construction approach.

(c) flush_unauthorized_files() now takes a cred pointer and passes it on
to inode_has_perm(), file_has_perm() and dentry_open().

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>


# f4cfb18d 15-Oct-2008 Volodymyr G. Lukiianyk <volodymyrgl@gmail.com>

uclinux: fix gzip header parsing in binfmt_flat.c

There are off-by-one errors in decompress_exec() when calculating the length of
optional "original file name" and "comment" fields: the "ret" index is not
incremented when terminating '\0' character is reached. The check of the buffer
overflow (after an "extra-field" length was taken into account) is also fixed.

I've encountered this off-by-one error when tried to reuse
gzip-header-parsing part of the decompress_exec() function. There was an
"original file name" field in the payload (with miscalculated length) and
zlib_inflate() returned Z_DATA_ERROR. But after the fix similar to this
one all worked fine.

Signed-off-by: Volodymyr G Lukiianyk <volodymyrgl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 74c27c43 11-Aug-2008 Takashi YOSHII <yoshii.takashi@renesas.com>

binfmt_flat: Stub in a FLAT_PLAT_INIT().

This provides a FLAT_PLAT_INIT() arch hook for platforms that need to set
up specific register state prior to calling in to the process, as per
ELF_PLAT_INIT().

Signed-off-by: Takashi YOSHII <yoshii.takashi@renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>


# 6341c393 25-Jul-2008 Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>

tracehook: exec

This moves all the ptrace hooks related to exec into tracehook.h inlines.

This also lifts the calls for tracing out of the binfmt load_binary hooks
into search_binary_handler() after it calls into the binfmt module. This
change has no effect, since all the binfmt modules' load_binary functions
did the call at the end on success, and now search_binary_handler() does
it immediately after return if successful. We consolidate the repeated
code, and binfmt modules no longer need to import ptrace_notify().

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# d100d148 05-Jun-2008 Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

nommu: fix ksize() abuse

The nommu binfmt code uses ksize() for pointers returned from do_mmap()
which is wrong. This converts the call-sites to use the nommu specific
kobjsize() function which works as expected.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 925d1c40 29-Apr-2008 Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>

procfs task exe symlink

The kernel implements readlink of /proc/pid/exe by getting the file from
the first executable VMA. Then the path to the file is reconstructed and
reported as the result.

Because of the VMA walk the code is slightly different on nommu systems.
This patch avoids separate /proc/pid/exe code on nommu systems. Instead of
walking the VMAs to find the first executable file-backed VMA we store a
reference to the exec'd file in the mm_struct.

That reference would prevent the filesystem holding the executable file
from being unmounted even after unmapping the VMAs. So we track the number
of VM_EXECUTABLE VMAs and drop the new reference when the last one is
unmapped. This avoids pinning the mounted filesystem.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: improve comments]
[yamamoto@valinux.co.jp: fix dup_mmap]
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc:"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 3202e181 29-Apr-2008 Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>

make BINFMT_FLAT a bool

I have not yet seen anyone saying he has a reasonable use case for using
BINFMT_FLAT modular on his embedded device.

Considering that fs/binfmt_flat.c even lacks a MODULE_LICENSE() I really doubt
there is any, and this patch therefore makes BINFMT_FLAT a bool.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# e2a366dc 14-Feb-2008 Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>

FLAT binaries: drop BINFMT_FLAT bad header magic warning

The warning issued by fs/binfmt_flat.c when the format handler is given a
non-FLAT and non-script executable is annoying to say the least when working
with FDPIC ELF objects. If you build a kernel that supports both FLAT and
FDPIC ELFs on no-mmu, every time you execute an FDPIC ELF, the kernel spits
out this message. While I understand a lot of newcomers to the no-mmu world
screw up generation of FLAT binaries, this warning is not usable for systems
that support more than just FLAT.

Signed-off-by: Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 1eb11411 08-Feb-2008 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

aout: remove unnecessary inclusions of {asm, linux}/a.out.h

Remove now unnecessary inclusions of {asm,linux}/a.out.h.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix alpha build]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 0e647c04 17-Oct-2007 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

binfmt_flat: warning fixes

Fix this lot:

fs/binfmt_flat.c: In function `decompress_exec':
fs/binfmt_flat.c:293: warning: label `out' defined but not used
fs/binfmt_flat.c: In function `load_flat_file':
fs/binfmt_flat.c:462: warning: unsigned int format, long int arg (arg 3)
fs/binfmt_flat.c:462: warning: unsigned int format, long int arg (arg 4)
fs/binfmt_flat.c:518: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
fs/binfmt_flat.c:549: warning: passing arg 1 of `ksize' makes pointer from integer without a cast
fs/binfmt_flat.c:601: warning: passing arg 1 of `ksize' makes pointer from integer without a cast
fs/binfmt_flat.c: In function `load_flat_binary':
fs/binfmt_flat.c:116: warning: 'dummy' might be used uninitialized in this function

Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 7dc0b22e 17-Oct-2007 Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>

core_pattern: ignore RLIMIT_CORE if core_pattern is a pipe

For some time /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern has been able to set its output
destination as a pipe, allowing a user space helper to receive and
intellegently process a core. This infrastructure however has some
shortcommings which can be enhanced. Specifically:

1) The coredump code in the kernel should ignore RLIMIT_CORE limitation
when core_pattern is a pipe, since file system resources are not being
consumed in this case, unless the user application wishes to save the core,
at which point the app is restricted by usual file system limits and
restrictions.

2) The core_pattern code should be able to parse and pass options to the
user space helper as an argv array. The real core limit of the uid of the
crashing proces should also be passable to the user space helper (since it
is overridden to zero when called).

3) Some miscellaneous bugs need to be cleaned up (specifically the
recognition of a recursive core dump, should the user mode helper itself
crash. Also, the core dump code in the kernel should not wait for the user
mode helper to exit, since the same context is responsible for writing to
the pipe, and a read of the pipe by the user mode helper will result in a
deadlock.

This patch:

Remove the check of RLIMIT_CORE if core_pattern is a pipe. In the event that
core_pattern is a pipe, the entire core will be fed to the user mode helper.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>
Cc: <wwoods@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 576bb9ce 03-Oct-2007 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

binfmt_flat: checkpatch fixing minimum support for the blackfin relocations

Cc: Bernd Schmidt <bernd.schmidt@analog.com>
Cc: David McCullough <davidm@snapgear.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>


# f9720205 03-Oct-2007 Bernd Schmidt <bernd.schmidt@analog.com>

Binfmt_flat: Add minimum support for the Blackfin relocations

Add minimum support for the Blackfin relocations, since we don't have
enough space in each reloc. The idea is to store a value with one
relocation so that subsequent ones can access it.

Actually, this patch is required for Blackfin. Currently if BINFMT_FLAT is
enabled, git-tree kernel will fail to compile.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernd.schmidt@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: David McCullough <davidm@snapgear.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>


# c287ef1f 08-Jun-2007 Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>

nommu: report correct errno in message

Report the correct errno for out of memory debug output in binfmt_flat.c

Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 72613e5f 06-Feb-2007 Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>

[PATCH] uclinux: correctly remap bin_fmtflat exe allocated mem regions

remap() the region we get from mmap() to mark the fact that we are
using all of the available slack space. Any slack space is used
to form a simple brk region, and potentially more stack space than
requested at load time.

Any searches of the vma chain may well fail looking for
stack (and especially arg) addresses if the remaping is not done.
The simplest example is /proc/<pid>/cmdline, since the args
are pretty much always at the top of the data/bss/stack region.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 0f7fc9e4 08-Dec-2006 Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>

[PATCH] VFS: change struct file to use struct path

This patch changes struct file to use struct path instead of having
independent pointers to struct dentry and struct vfsmount, and converts all
users of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} in fs/ to use f_path.{dentry,mnt}.

Additionally, it adds two #define's to make the transition easier for users of
the f_dentry and f_vfsmnt.

Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 6ab3d562 30-Jun-2006 Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>

Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>

Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>


# fcc18e83 25-Jun-2006 Malcolm Parsons <malcolm.parsons@gmail.com>

[PATCH] uclinux: use PER_LINUX_32BIT in binfmt_flat

binfmt_flat.c calls set_personality with PER_LINUX as the personality.
On the arm architecture this results in the program running in 26bit
usermode. PER_LINUX_32BIT should be used instead. This doesn't affect
other architectures that use binfmt_flat.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# df88912a 20-May-2006 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

[PATCH] binfmt_flat: don't check for EMFILE

Bernd Schmidt points out that binfmt_flat is now leaving the exec file open
while the application runs. This offsets all the application's fd numbers.
We should have closed the file within exec(), not at exit()-time.

But there doesn't seem to be a lot of point in doing all this just to avoid
going over RLIMIT_NOFILE by one fd for a few microseconds. So take the EMFILE
checking out again. This will cause binfmt_flat to again fail LTP's
exec-should-return-EMFILE-when-fdtable-is-full test. That test appears to be
wrong anyway - Open Group specs say nothing about exec() returning EMFILE.

Cc: Bernd Schmidt <bernd.schmidt@analog.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 1ad3dcc0 25-Mar-2006 Luke Yang <luke.adi@gmail.com>

[PATCH] flat binary loader doesn't check fd table full

In binfmt_flat.c, the flat binary loader should check file descriptor table
and install the fd on the file.

Convert the function to single-exit and fix this bug.

Signed-off-by: "Luke Yang" <luke.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 845884d3 09-Jan-2006 Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>

[PATCH] uclinux: delay binfmt_flat trace

Modify the initial trace output (which is based on flags in the binary
header) so that it is not done until after the magic number check. This
may well not be a flat format binary, so the flags could be invalid.
(Prime example, running a script).

Changes prompted by patches from Stuart Hughs.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# df2e71fb 09-Jan-2006 akpm@osdl.org <akpm@osdl.org>

[PATCH] dump_thread() cleanup


From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

- create one common dump_thread() prototype in kernel.h

- dump_thread() is only used in fs/binfmt_aout.c and can therefore be
removed on all architectures where CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT is not
available

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 404351e6 29-Oct-2005 Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>

[PATCH] mm: mm_init set_mm_counters

How is anon_rss initialized? In dup_mmap, and by mm_alloc's memset; but
that's not so good if an mm_counter_t is a special type. And how is rss
initialized? By set_mm_counter, all over the place. Come on, we just need to
initialize them both at once by set_mm_counter in mm_init (which follows the
memcpy when forking).

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 213b24c9 01-Sep-2005 Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>

[PATCH] uclinux: use MAP_PRIVATE when mmaping code regions in flat binary loader

Use MAP_PRIVATE when calling mmap to get memory for the code region.
The flat loader was using MAP_SHARED, but underlying changes to the
MMUless mmap means this is now wrong.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 8f5bb043 06-Jun-2005 Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>

[PATCH] binfmt_flat mmap flag fix

Make sure that binfmt_flat passes the correct flags into do_mmap(). nommu's
validate_mmap_request() will simple return -EINVAL if we try and pass it a
flags value of zero.

Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 1da177e4 16-Apr-2005 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

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!