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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>use clamp_t in UNAME26 fix</title>
<updated>2013-01-03T03:32:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-20T01:45:53+00:00</published>
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commit 31fd84b95eb211d5db460a1dda85e004800a7b52 upstream.

The min/max call needed to have explicit types on some architectures
(e.g. mn10300). Use clamp_t instead to avoid the warning:

  kernel/sys.c: In function 'override_release':
  kernel/sys.c:1287:10: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast [enabled by default]

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 31fd84b95eb211d5db460a1dda85e004800a7b52 upstream.

The min/max call needed to have explicit types on some architectures
(e.g. mn10300). Use clamp_t instead to avoid the warning:

  kernel/sys.c: In function 'override_release':
  kernel/sys.c:1287:10: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast [enabled by default]

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel/sys.c: fix stack memory content leak via UNAME26</title>
<updated>2012-10-30T23:26:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-19T20:56:51+00:00</published>
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commit 2702b1526c7278c4d65d78de209a465d4de2885e upstream.

Calling uname() with the UNAME26 personality set allows a leak of kernel
stack contents.  This fixes it by defensively calculating the length of
copy_to_user() call, making the len argument unsigned, and initializing
the stack buffer to zero (now technically unneeded, but hey, overkill).

CVE-2012-0957

Reported-by: PaX Team &lt;pageexec@freemail.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: PaX Team &lt;pageexec@freemail.hu&gt;
Cc: Brad Spengler &lt;spender@grsecurity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 2702b1526c7278c4d65d78de209a465d4de2885e upstream.

Calling uname() with the UNAME26 personality set allows a leak of kernel
stack contents.  This fixes it by defensively calculating the length of
copy_to_user() call, making the len argument unsigned, and initializing
the stack buffer to zero (now technically unneeded, but hey, overkill).

CVE-2012-0957

Reported-by: PaX Team &lt;pageexec@freemail.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: PaX Team &lt;pageexec@freemail.hu&gt;
Cc: Brad Spengler &lt;spender@grsecurity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel/sys.c: call disable_nonboot_cpus() in kernel_restart()</title>
<updated>2012-10-17T02:49:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shawn Guo</name>
<email>shawn.guo@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-05T00:12:23+00:00</published>
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commit f96972f2dc6365421cf2366ebd61ee4cf060c8d5 upstream.

As kernel_power_off() calls disable_nonboot_cpus(), we may also want to
have kernel_restart() call disable_nonboot_cpus().  Doing so can help
machines that require boot cpu be the last alive cpu during reboot to
survive with kernel restart.

This fixes one reboot issue seen on imx6q (Cortex-A9 Quad).  The machine
requires that the restart routine be run on the primary cpu rather than
secondary ones.  Otherwise, the secondary core running the restart
routine will fail to come to online after reboot.

Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo &lt;shawn.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit f96972f2dc6365421cf2366ebd61ee4cf060c8d5 upstream.

As kernel_power_off() calls disable_nonboot_cpus(), we may also want to
have kernel_restart() call disable_nonboot_cpus().  Doing so can help
machines that require boot cpu be the last alive cpu during reboot to
survive with kernel restart.

This fixes one reboot issue seen on imx6q (Cortex-A9 Quad).  The machine
requires that the restart routine be run on the primary cpu rather than
secondary ones.  Otherwise, the secondary core running the restart
routine will fail to come to online after reboot.

Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo &lt;shawn.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux</title>
<updated>2011-11-07T03:44:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-07T03:44:47+00:00</published>
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* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
  Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
  irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
  bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
  ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
  nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
  include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
  include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
  crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
  uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
  pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
  linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
  miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
  stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
  of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
  of_platform.h: delete needless include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
  miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
  device_cgroup.h: delete needless include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  net: sch_generic remove redundant use of &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and  removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
 - drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
 - drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
 - drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
 - include/linux/dmaengine.h
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* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
  Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
  irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
  bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
  ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
  nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
  include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
  include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
  crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
  uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
  pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
  linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
  miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
  stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
  of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
  of_platform.h: delete needless include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
  miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
  device_cgroup.h: delete needless include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  net: sch_generic remove redundant use of &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and  removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
 - drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
 - drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
 - drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
 - include/linux/dmaengine.h
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysctl: add support for poll()</title>
<updated>2011-11-02T23:07:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lucas De Marchi</name>
<email>lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-02T20:39:22+00:00</published>
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Adding support for poll() in sysctl fs allows userspace to receive
notifications of changes in sysctl entries.  This adds a infrastructure to
allow files in sysctl fs to be pollable and implements it for hostname and
domainname.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/declare/define/ for definitions]
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi &lt;lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Adding support for poll() in sysctl fs allows userspace to receive
notifications of changes in sysctl entries.  This adds a infrastructure to
allow files in sysctl fs to be pollable and implements it for hostname and
domainname.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/declare/define/ for definitions]
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi &lt;lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel: fix several implicit usasges of kmod.h</title>
<updated>2011-10-31T13:20:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-26T16:48:41+00:00</published>
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These files were implicitly relying on &lt;linux/kmod.h&gt; coming in via
module.h, as without it we get things like:

kernel/power/suspend.c:100: error: implicit declaration of function ‘usermodehelper_disable’
kernel/power/suspend.c:109: error: implicit declaration of function ‘usermodehelper_enable’
kernel/power/user.c:254: error: implicit declaration of function ‘usermodehelper_disable’
kernel/power/user.c:261: error: implicit declaration of function ‘usermodehelper_enable’

kernel/sys.c:317: error: implicit declaration of function ‘usermodehelper_disable’
kernel/sys.c:1816: error: implicit declaration of function ‘call_usermodehelper_setup’
kernel/sys.c:1822: error: implicit declaration of function ‘call_usermodehelper_setfns’
kernel/sys.c:1824: error: implicit declaration of function ‘call_usermodehelper_exec’

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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These files were implicitly relying on &lt;linux/kmod.h&gt; coming in via
module.h, as without it we get things like:

kernel/power/suspend.c:100: error: implicit declaration of function ‘usermodehelper_disable’
kernel/power/suspend.c:109: error: implicit declaration of function ‘usermodehelper_enable’
kernel/power/user.c:254: error: implicit declaration of function ‘usermodehelper_disable’
kernel/power/user.c:261: error: implicit declaration of function ‘usermodehelper_enable’

kernel/sys.c:317: error: implicit declaration of function ‘usermodehelper_disable’
kernel/sys.c:1816: error: implicit declaration of function ‘call_usermodehelper_setup’
kernel/sys.c:1822: error: implicit declaration of function ‘call_usermodehelper_setfns’
kernel/sys.c:1824: error: implicit declaration of function ‘call_usermodehelper_exec’

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h</title>
<updated>2011-10-31T13:20:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-23T18:51:41+00:00</published>
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The changed files were only including linux/module.h for the
EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure, and nothing else.  Revector them
onto the isolated export header for faster compile times.

Nothing to see here but a whole lot of instances of:

  -#include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  +#include &lt;linux/export.h&gt;

This commit is only changing the kernel dir; next targets
will probably be mm, fs, the arch dirs, etc.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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The changed files were only including linux/module.h for the
EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure, and nothing else.  Revector them
onto the isolated export header for faster compile times.

Nothing to see here but a whole lot of instances of:

  -#include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  +#include &lt;linux/export.h&gt;

This commit is only changing the kernel dir; next targets
will probably be mm, fs, the arch dirs, etc.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of ra.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2011-10-24T22:18:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-24T22:18:09+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>Avoid using variable-length arrays in kernel/sys.c</title>
<updated>2011-10-17T15:24:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-17T15:24:24+00:00</published>
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The size is always valid, but variable-length arrays generate worse code
for no good reason (unless the function happens to be inlined and the
compiler sees the length for the simple constant it is).

Also, there seems to be some code generation problem on POWER, where
Henrik Bakken reports that register r28 can get corrupted under some
subtle circumstances (interrupt happening at the wrong time?).  That all
indicates some seriously broken compiler issues, but since variable
length arrays are bad regardless, there's little point in trying to
chase it down.

"Just don't do that, then".

Reported-by: Henrik Grindal Bakken &lt;henribak@cisco.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The size is always valid, but variable-length arrays generate worse code
for no good reason (unless the function happens to be inlined and the
compiler sees the length for the simple constant it is).

Also, there seems to be some code generation problem on POWER, where
Henrik Bakken reports that register r28 can get corrupted under some
subtle circumstances (interrupt happening at the wrong time?).  That all
indicates some seriously broken compiler issues, but since variable
length arrays are bad regardless, there's little point in trying to
chase it down.

"Just don't do that, then".

Reported-by: Henrik Grindal Bakken &lt;henribak@cisco.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>connector: add comm change event report to proc connector</title>
<updated>2011-09-28T17:41:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Zapolskiy</name>
<email>vzapolskiy@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-21T09:26:44+00:00</published>
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Add an event to monitor comm value changes of tasks.  Such an event
becomes vital, if someone desires to control threads of a process in
different manner.

A natural characteristic of threads is its comm value, and helpfully
application developers have an opportunity to change it in runtime.
Reporting about such events via proc connector allows to fine-grain
monitoring and control potentials, for instance a process control daemon
listening to proc connector and following comm value policies can place
specific threads to assigned cgroup partitions.

It might be possible to achieve a pale partial one-shot likeness without
this update, if an application changes comm value of a thread generator
task beforehand, then a new thread is cloned, and after that proc
connector listener gets the fork event and reads new thread's comm value
from procfs stat file, but this change visibly simplifies and extends the
matter.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy &lt;vzapolskiy@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov &lt;zbr@ioremap.net&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Add an event to monitor comm value changes of tasks.  Such an event
becomes vital, if someone desires to control threads of a process in
different manner.

A natural characteristic of threads is its comm value, and helpfully
application developers have an opportunity to change it in runtime.
Reporting about such events via proc connector allows to fine-grain
monitoring and control potentials, for instance a process control daemon
listening to proc connector and following comm value policies can place
specific threads to assigned cgroup partitions.

It might be possible to achieve a pale partial one-shot likeness without
this update, if an application changes comm value of a thread generator
task beforehand, then a new thread is cloned, and after that proc
connector listener gets the fork event and reads new thread's comm value
from procfs stat file, but this change visibly simplifies and extends the
matter.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy &lt;vzapolskiy@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov &lt;zbr@ioremap.net&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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