user/sven/linux.git/init, branch v3.17.8

param: fix crash on bad kernel arguments

2014-11-21T17:23:10Z

commit 3438cf549d2f3ee8e52c82acc8e2a9710ac21a5b upstream. Currently if the user passes an invalid value on the kernel command line then the kernel will crash during argument parsing. On most systems this is very hard to debug because the console hasn't been initialized yet. This is a regression due to commit 51e158c12aca ("param: hand arguments after -- straight to init") which, in response to the systemd debug controversy, made it possible to explicitly pass arguments to init. To achieve this parse_args() was extended from simply returning an error code to returning a pointer. Regretably the new init args logic does not perform a proper validity check on the pointer resulting in a crash. This patch fixes the validity check. Should the check fail then no arguments will be passed to init. This is reasonable and matches how the kernel treats its own arguments (i.e. no error recovery). Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'tiny/kconfig-for-3.17' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/josh/linux

2014-10-04T16:32:47Z

Pull kconfig fixes for tiny setups from Josh Triplett: "Two Kconfig bugfixes for 3.17 related to tinification. These fixes make the Kconfig "General Setup" menu much more usable" * tag 'tiny/kconfig-for-3.17' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/josh/linux: init/Kconfig: Fix HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG to not break up the EXPERT menu init/Kconfig: Hide printk log config if CONFIG_PRINTK=n

init/Kconfig: Fix HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG to not break up the EXPERT menu

2014-10-03T23:49:43Z

commit 03b8c7b623c80af264c4c8d6111e5c6289933666 ("futex: Allow architectures to skip futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() test") added the HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG symbol right below FUTEX. This placed it right in the middle of the options for the EXPERT menu. However, HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG does not depend on EXPERT or FUTEX, so Kconfig stops placing items in the EXPERT menu, and displays the remaining several EXPERT items (starting with EPOLL) directly in the General Setup menu. Since both users of HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG only select it "if FUTEX", make HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG itself depend on FUTEX. With this change, the subsequent items display as part of the EXPERT menu again; the EMBEDDED menu now appears as the next top-level item in the General Setup menu, which makes General Setup much shorter and more usable. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: stable

init/Kconfig: Hide printk log config if CONFIG_PRINTK=n

2014-10-03T23:49:38Z

The buffers sized by CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT and CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT do not exist if CONFIG_PRINTK=n, so don't ask about their size at all. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: stable

Revert "init: make rootdelay=N consistent with rootwait behaviour"

2014-09-17T15:02:07Z

This reverts commit 4dfe694f616e00e6fd83e5bbcd7a3c4d7113493d. In that, we did: Here we move the rootdelay code to be right beside the rootwait code, so that their behaviour is consistent. ...which is fine, but in hindsight, perhaps moving the rootwait to be beside the rootdelay would have been better. We also indicated: It should be noted that in doing so, the actions based on the saved_root_name[0] and initrd_load() were previously put on hold by rootdelay=N and now currently will not be delayed. However, I think consistent behaviour is more important than matching historical behaviour of delaying the above two operations. But Pavel reported an instance where an ARM target with root on MMC was failing to mount root, and Russell diagnosed it to the fact that the call to set ROOT_DEV within the saved_root_name[0] processing block mentioned above was no longer being delayed. Rather than moving both wait clauses to the original position of rootdelay and risking unearthing other possible corner case breakage at this point in time, we simply revert now and we can revisit trying the alternate/earlier location in another development cycle. Cc: Pavel Machek Cc: Russell King Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: fix CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH help text grammar

2014-08-14T16:56:15Z

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (second patchbomb from Andrew Morton)

2014-08-08T22:57:47Z

Merge more incoming from Andrew Morton: "Two new syscalls: memfd_create in "shm: add memfd_create() syscall" kexec_file_load in "kexec: implementation of new syscall kexec_file_load" And: - Most (all?) of the rest of MM - Lots of the usual misc bits - fs/autofs4 - drivers/rtc - fs/nilfs - procfs - fork.c, exec.c - more in lib/ - rapidio - Janitorial work in filesystems: fs/ufs, fs/reiserfs, fs/adfs, fs/cramfs, fs/romfs, fs/qnx6. - initrd/initramfs work - "file sealing" and the memfd_create() syscall, in tmpfs - add pci_zalloc_consistent, use it in lots of places - MAINTAINERS maintenance - kexec feature work" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton

kernel: build bin2c based on config option CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C

2014-08-08T22:57:32Z

currently bin2c builds only if CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y. But bin2c will now be used by kexec too. So make it compilation dependent on CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C and this config option can be selected by CONFIG_KEXEC and CONFIG_IKCONFIG. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Michael Kerrisk Cc: Yinghai Lu Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Matthew Garrett Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Dave Young Cc: WANG Chao Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

init/main.c: code clean-up

2014-08-08T22:57:27Z

Fixing some checkpatch warnings(remove global initialization, move __initdata, coalesce formats ...) Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

initramfs: add write error checks

2014-08-08T22:57:26Z

On a system with low memory extracting the initramfs may fail. If this happens the user gets "Failed to execute /init" instead of an initramfs error. Check return value of sys_write and call error() when the write was incomplete or failed. Signed-off-by: David Engraf Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds