user/sven/linux.git/kernel/sysctl_binary.c, branch v3.10.106

switch compat_sys_sysctl to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE

2013-05-09T18:53:20Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

sysctl: fix null checking in bin_dn_node_address()

2013-02-28T03:10:21Z

The null check of `strchr() + 1' is broken, which is always non-null, leading to OOB read. Instead, check the result of strchr(). Signed-off-by: Xi Wang Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2013-02-27T04:16:07Z

Pull vfs pile (part one) from Al Viro: "Assorted stuff - cleaning namei.c up a bit, fixing ->d_name/->d_parent locking violations, etc. The most visible changes here are death of FS_REVAL_DOT (replaced with "has ->d_weak_revalidate()") and a new helper getting from struct file to inode. Some bits of preparation to xattr method interface changes. Misc patches by various people sent this cycle *and* ocfs2 fixes from several cycles ago that should've been upstream right then. PS: the next vfs pile will be xattr stuff." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (46 commits) saner proc_get_inode() calling conventions proc: avoid extra pde_put() in proc_fill_super() fs: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM fs/exec.c: make bprm_mm_init() static ocfs2/dlm: use GFP_ATOMIC inside a spin_lock ocfs2: fix possible use-after-free with AIO ocfs2: Fix oops in ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage() code path get_empty_filp()/alloc_file() leave both ->f_pos and ->f_version zero target: writev() on single-element vector is pointless export kernel_write(), convert open-coded instances fs: encode_fh: return FILEID_INVALID if invalid fid_type kill f_vfsmnt vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op nfsd: handle vfs_getattr errors in acl protocol switch vfs_getattr() to struct path default SET_PERSONALITY() in linux/elf.h ceph: prepopulate inodes only when request is aborted d_hash_and_lookup(): export, switch open-coded instances 9p: switch v9fs_set_create_acl() to inode+fid, do it before d_instantiate() 9p: split dropping the acls from v9fs_set_create_acl() ...

export kernel_write(), convert open-coded instances

2013-02-26T07:46:11Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

tcp: remove Appropriate Byte Count support

2013-02-05T19:51:16Z

TCP Appropriate Byte Count was added by me, but later disabled. There is no point in maintaining it since it is a potential source of bugs and Linux already implements other better window protection heuristics. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

pidns: Use task_active_pid_ns where appropriate

2012-11-19T13:59:09Z

The expressions tsk->nsproxy->pid_ns and task_active_pid_ns aka ns_of_pid(task_pid(tsk)) should have the same number of cache line misses with the practical difference that ns_of_pid(task_pid(tsk)) is released later in a processes life. Furthermore by using task_active_pid_ns it becomes trivial to write an unshare implementation for the the pid namespace. So I have used task_active_pid_ns everywhere I can. In fork since the pid has not yet been attached to the process I use ns_of_pid, to achieve the same effect. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman

mm: prepare for removal of obsolete /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads

2012-08-01T01:42:40Z

Since per-BDI flusher threads were introduced in 2.6, the pdflush mechanism is not used any more. But the old interface exported through /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads still exists and is obviously useless. For back-compatibility, printk warning information and return 2 to notify the users that the interface is removed. Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li Cc: Wu Fengguang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

binary_sysctl(): fix memory leak

2011-12-20T18:25:04Z

binary_sysctl() calls sysctl_getname() which allocates from names_cache slab usin __getname() The matching function to free the name is __putname(), and not putname() which should be used only to match getname() allocations. This is because when auditing is enabled, putname() calls audit_putname *instead* (not in addition) to __putname(). Then, if a syscall is in progress, audit_putname does not release the name - instead, it expects the name to get released when the syscall completes, but that will happen only if audit_getname() was called previously, i.e. if the name was allocated with getname() rather than the naked __getname(). So, __getname() followed by putname() ends up leaking memory. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse Acked-by: Al Viro Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Eric Paris Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipv4: NET_IPV4_ROUTE_GC_INTERVAL removal

2011-10-03T18:13:01Z

removing obsoleted sysctl, ip_rt_gc_interval variable no longer used since 2.6.38 Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

xfs: remove subdirectories

2011-08-12T21:21:35Z

Use the move from Linux 2.6 to Linux 3.x as an excuse to kill the annoying subdirectories in the XFS source code. Besides the large amount of file rename the only changes are to the Makefile, a few files including headers with the subdirectory prefix, and the binary sysctl compat code that includes a header under fs/xfs/ from kernel/. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Alex Elder