user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/elf.h, branch v3.9

default SET_PERSONALITY() in linux/elf.h

2013-02-26T07:46:08Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux

2012-10-13T09:46:48Z

Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Dave Jones

coredump: extend core dump note section to contain file names of mapped files

2012-10-05T18:05:17Z

This note has the following format: long count -- how many files are mapped long page_size -- units for file_ofs array of [COUNT] elements of long start long end long file_ofs followed by COUNT filenames in ASCII: "FILE1" NUL "FILE2" NUL... Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Amerigo Wang Cc: "Jonathan M. Foote" Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Pedro Alves Cc: Fengguang Wu Cc: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

coredump: add a new elf note with siginfo of the signal

2012-10-05T18:05:16Z

Existing PRSTATUS note contains only si_signo, si_code, si_errno fields from the siginfo of the signal which caused core to be dumped. There are tools which try to analyze crashes for possible security implications, and they want to use, among other data, si_addr field from the SIGSEGV. This patch adds a new elf note, NT_SIGINFO, which contains the complete siginfo_t of the signal which killed the process. Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Amerigo Wang Cc: "Jonathan M. Foote" Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Pedro Alves Cc: Fengguang Wu Cc: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'arm64-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-aarch64

2012-10-01T18:51:57Z

Pull arm64 support from Catalin Marinas: "Linux support for the 64-bit ARM architecture (AArch64) Features currently supported: - 39-bit address space for user and kernel (each) - 4KB and 64KB page configurations - Compat (32-bit) user applications (ARMv7, EABI only) - Flattened Device Tree (mandated for all AArch64 platforms) - ARM generic timers" * tag 'arm64-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-aarch64: (35 commits) arm64: ptrace: remove obsolete ptrace request numbers from user headers arm64: Do not set the SMP/nAMP processor bit arm64: MAINTAINERS update arm64: Build infrastructure arm64: Miscellaneous header files arm64: Generic timers support arm64: Loadable modules arm64: Miscellaneous library functions arm64: Performance counters support arm64: Add support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace arm64: Debugging support arm64: Floating point and SIMD arm64: 32-bit (compat) applications support arm64: User access library functions arm64: Signal handling support arm64: VDSO support arm64: System calls handling arm64: ELF definitions arm64: SMP support arm64: DMA mapping API ...

s390: add support for transactional memory

2012-09-26T13:45:02Z

Allow user-space processes to use transactional execution (TX). If the TX facility is available user space programs can use transactions for fine-grained serialization based on the data objects that are referenced during a transaction. This is useful for lockless data structures and speculative compiler optimizations. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

arm64: Debugging support

2012-09-17T12:42:14Z

This patch adds ptrace, debug monitors and hardware breakpoints support. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Acked-by: Tony Lindgren Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre Acked-by: Olof Johansson Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann

UAPI: elf_read_implies_exec() is a kernel-only feature - so hide from userspace

2011-12-12T13:54:36Z

elf_read_implies_exec() is a kernel-only feature as the second parameter is a constant that isn't exported to userspace. Not only that, but the arch-specific overrides are not exported either. So hide the macro from userspace. Similarly, struct file should not be predeclared in userspace. Signed-off-by: David Howells

[S390] signal race with restarting system calls

2011-10-30T14:16:43Z

For a ERESTARTNOHAND/ERESTARTSYS/ERESTARTNOINTR restarting system call do_signal will prepare the restart of the system call with a rewind of the PSW before calling get_signal_to_deliver (where the debugger might take control). For A ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK restarting system call do_signal will set -EINTR as return code. There are two issues with this approach: 1) strace never sees ERESTARTNOHAND, ERESTARTSYS, ERESTARTNOINTR or ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK as the rewinding already took place or the return code has been changed to -EINTR 2) if get_signal_to_deliver does not return with a signal to deliver the restart via the repeat of the svc instruction is left in place. This opens a race if another signal is made pending before the system call instruction can be reexecuted. The original system call will be restarted even if the second signal would have ended the system call with -EINTR. These two issues can be solved by dropping the early rewind of the system call before get_signal_to_deliver has been called and by using the TIF_RESTART_SVC magic to do the restart if no signal has to be delivered. The only situation where the system call restart via the repeat of the svc instruction is appropriate is when a SA_RESTART signal is delivered to user space. Unfortunately this breaks inferior calls by the debugger again. The system call number and the length of the system call instruction is lost over the inferior call and user space will see ERESTARTNOHAND/ ERESTARTSYS/ERESTARTNOINTR/ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK. To correct this a new ptrace interface is added to save/restore the system call number and system call instruction length. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

ARM: 6882/1: ELF: Define new core note type for VFP registers

2011-05-14T20:36:55Z

The VFP registers are not currently included in coredumps, and there's no existing note type where they can sensibly be included, so this patch defines a dedicated note type for them. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin Acked-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Russell King