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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>use clamp_t in UNAME26 fix</title>
<updated>2012-10-20T01:51:17+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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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;
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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;
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<entry>
<title>MODSIGN: Move the magic string to the end of a module and eliminate the search</title>
<updated>2012-10-20T00:30:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-20T00:19:29+00:00</published>
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Emit the magic string that indicates a module has a signature after the
signature data instead of before it.  This allows module_sig_check() to
be made simpler and faster by the elimination of the search for the
magic string.  Instead we just need to do a single memcmp().

This works because at the end of the signature data there is the
fixed-length signature information block.  This block then falls
immediately prior to the magic number.

From the contents of the information block, it is trivial to calculate
the size of the signature data and thus the size of the actual module
data.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Emit the magic string that indicates a module has a signature after the
signature data instead of before it.  This allows module_sig_check() to
be made simpler and faster by the elimination of the search for the
magic string.  Instead we just need to do a single memcmp().

This works because at the end of the signature data there is the
fixed-length signature information block.  This block then falls
immediately prior to the magic number.

From the contents of the information block, it is trivial to calculate
the size of the signature data and thus the size of the actual module
data.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>pidns: remove recursion from free_pid_ns()</title>
<updated>2012-10-19T21:07:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cyrill Gorcunov</name>
<email>gorcunov@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-19T20:56:53+00:00</published>
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free_pid_ns() operates in a recursive fashion:

free_pid_ns(parent)
  put_pid_ns(parent)
    kref_put(&amp;ns-&gt;kref, free_pid_ns);
      free_pid_ns

thus if there was a huge nesting of namespaces the userspace may trigger
avalanche calling of free_pid_ns leading to kernel stack exhausting and a
panic eventually.

This patch turns the recursion into an iterative loop.

Based on a patch by Andrew Vagin.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export put_pid_ns() to modules]
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Vagin &lt;avagin@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.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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free_pid_ns() operates in a recursive fashion:

free_pid_ns(parent)
  put_pid_ns(parent)
    kref_put(&amp;ns-&gt;kref, free_pid_ns);
      free_pid_ns

thus if there was a huge nesting of namespaces the userspace may trigger
avalanche calling of free_pid_ns leading to kernel stack exhausting and a
panic eventually.

This patch turns the recursion into an iterative loop.

Based on a patch by Andrew Vagin.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export put_pid_ns() to modules]
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Vagin &lt;avagin@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.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/sys.c: fix stack memory content leak via UNAME26</title>
<updated>2012-10-19T21:07:47+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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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;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&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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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;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&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>printk: Fix scheduling-while-atomic problem in console_cpu_notify()</title>
<updated>2012-10-17T01:17:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-16T04:35:59+00:00</published>
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The console_cpu_notify() function runs with interrupts disabled in the
CPU_DYING case.  It therefore cannot block, for example, as will happen
when it calls console_lock().  Therefore, remove the CPU_DYING leg of
the switch statement to avoid this problem.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The console_cpu_notify() function runs with interrupts disabled in the
CPU_DYING case.  It therefore cannot block, for example, as will happen
when it calls console_lock().  Therefore, remove the CPU_DYING leg of
the switch statement to avoid this problem.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux</title>
<updated>2012-10-14T20:39:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-14T20:39:34+00:00</published>
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Pull module signing support from Rusty Russell:
 "module signing is the highlight, but it's an all-over David Howells frenzy..."

Hmm "Magrathea: Glacier signing key". Somebody has been reading too much HHGTTG.

* 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (37 commits)
  X.509: Fix indefinite length element skip error handling
  X.509: Convert some printk calls to pr_devel
  asymmetric keys: fix printk format warning
  MODSIGN: Fix 32-bit overflow in X.509 certificate validity date checking
  MODSIGN: Make mrproper should remove generated files.
  MODSIGN: Use utf8 strings in signer's name in autogenerated X.509 certs
  MODSIGN: Use the same digest for the autogen key sig as for the module sig
  MODSIGN: Sign modules during the build process
  MODSIGN: Provide a script for generating a key ID from an X.509 cert
  MODSIGN: Implement module signature checking
  MODSIGN: Provide module signing public keys to the kernel
  MODSIGN: Automatically generate module signing keys if missing
  MODSIGN: Provide Kconfig options
  MODSIGN: Provide gitignore and make clean rules for extra files
  MODSIGN: Add FIPS policy
  module: signature checking hook
  X.509: Add a crypto key parser for binary (DER) X.509 certificates
  MPILIB: Provide a function to read raw data into an MPI
  X.509: Add an ASN.1 decoder
  X.509: Add simple ASN.1 grammar compiler
  ...
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Pull module signing support from Rusty Russell:
 "module signing is the highlight, but it's an all-over David Howells frenzy..."

Hmm "Magrathea: Glacier signing key". Somebody has been reading too much HHGTTG.

* 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (37 commits)
  X.509: Fix indefinite length element skip error handling
  X.509: Convert some printk calls to pr_devel
  asymmetric keys: fix printk format warning
  MODSIGN: Fix 32-bit overflow in X.509 certificate validity date checking
  MODSIGN: Make mrproper should remove generated files.
  MODSIGN: Use utf8 strings in signer's name in autogenerated X.509 certs
  MODSIGN: Use the same digest for the autogen key sig as for the module sig
  MODSIGN: Sign modules during the build process
  MODSIGN: Provide a script for generating a key ID from an X.509 cert
  MODSIGN: Implement module signature checking
  MODSIGN: Provide module signing public keys to the kernel
  MODSIGN: Automatically generate module signing keys if missing
  MODSIGN: Provide Kconfig options
  MODSIGN: Provide gitignore and make clean rules for extra files
  MODSIGN: Add FIPS policy
  module: signature checking hook
  X.509: Add a crypto key parser for binary (DER) X.509 certificates
  MPILIB: Provide a function to read raw data into an MPI
  X.509: Add an ASN.1 decoder
  X.509: Add simple ASN.1 grammar compiler
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for_linus-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb</title>
<updated>2012-10-13T02:16:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-13T02:16:58+00:00</published>
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Pull KGDB/KDB fixes and cleanups from Jason Wessel:
 "Cleanups
   - Clean up compile warnings in kgdboc.c and x86/kernel/kgdb.c
   - Add module event hooks for simplified debugging with gdb
 Fixes
   - Fix kdb to stop paging with 'q' on bta and dmesg
   - Fix for data that scrolls off the vga console due to line wrapping
     when using the kdb pager
 New
   - The debug core registers for kernel module events which allows a
     kernel aware gdb to automatically load symbols and break on entry
     to a kernel module
   - Allow kgdboc=kdb to setup kdb on the vga console"

* tag 'for_linus-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb:
  tty/console: fix warnings in drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c
  kdb,vt_console: Fix missed data due to pager overruns
  kdb: Fix dmesg/bta scroll to quit with 'q'
  kgdboc: Accept either kbd or kdb to activate the vga + keyboard kdb shell
  kgdb,x86: fix warning about unused variable
  mips,kgdb: fix recursive page fault with CONFIG_KPROBES
  kgdb: Add module event hooks
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Pull KGDB/KDB fixes and cleanups from Jason Wessel:
 "Cleanups
   - Clean up compile warnings in kgdboc.c and x86/kernel/kgdb.c
   - Add module event hooks for simplified debugging with gdb
 Fixes
   - Fix kdb to stop paging with 'q' on bta and dmesg
   - Fix for data that scrolls off the vga console due to line wrapping
     when using the kdb pager
 New
   - The debug core registers for kernel module events which allows a
     kernel aware gdb to automatically load symbols and break on entry
     to a kernel module
   - Allow kgdboc=kdb to setup kdb on the vga console"

* tag 'for_linus-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb:
  tty/console: fix warnings in drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c
  kdb,vt_console: Fix missed data due to pager overruns
  kdb: Fix dmesg/bta scroll to quit with 'q'
  kgdboc: Accept either kbd or kdb to activate the vga + keyboard kdb shell
  kgdb,x86: fix warning about unused variable
  mips,kgdb: fix recursive page fault with CONFIG_KPROBES
  kgdb: Add module event hooks
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-10-13T01:20:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-13T01:20:11+00:00</published>
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Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree includes some late late perf items that missed the first
  round:

  tools:

   - Bash auto completion improvements, now we can auto complete the
     tools long options, tracepoint event names, etc, from Namhyung Kim.

   - Look up thread using tid instead of pid in 'perf sched'.

   - Move global variables into a perf_kvm struct, from David Ahern.

   - Hists refactorings, preparatory for improved 'diff' command, from
     Jiri Olsa.

   - Hists refactorings, preparatory for event group viewieng work, from
     Namhyung Kim.

   - Remove double negation on optional feature macro definitions, from
     Namhyung Kim.

   - Remove several cases of needless global variables, on most
     builtins.

   - misc fixes

  kernel:

   - sysfs support for IBS on AMD CPUs, from Robert Richter.

   - Support for an upcoming Intel CPU, the Xeon-Phi / Knights Corner
     HPC blade PMU, from Vince Weaver.

   - misc fixes"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits)
  perf: Fix perf_cgroup_switch for sw-events
  perf: Clarify perf_cpu_context::active_pmu usage by renaming it to ::unique_pmu
  perf/AMD/IBS: Add sysfs support
  perf hists: Add more helpers for hist entry stat
  perf hists: Move he-&gt;stat.nr_events initialization to a template
  perf hists: Introduce struct he_stat
  perf diff: Removing the total_period argument from output code
  perf tool: Add hpp interface to enable/disable hpp column
  perf tools: Removing hists pair argument from output path
  perf hists: Separate overhead and baseline columns
  perf diff: Refactor diff displacement possition info
  perf hists: Add struct hists pointer to struct hist_entry
  perf tools: Complete tracepoint event names
  perf/x86: Add support for Intel Xeon-Phi Knights Corner PMU
  perf evlist: Remove some unused methods
  perf evlist: Introduce add_newtp method
  perf kvm: Move global variables into a perf_kvm struct
  perf tools: Convert to BACKTRACE_SUPPORT
  perf tools: Long option completion support for each subcommands
  perf tools: Complete long option names of perf command
  ...
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Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree includes some late late perf items that missed the first
  round:

  tools:

   - Bash auto completion improvements, now we can auto complete the
     tools long options, tracepoint event names, etc, from Namhyung Kim.

   - Look up thread using tid instead of pid in 'perf sched'.

   - Move global variables into a perf_kvm struct, from David Ahern.

   - Hists refactorings, preparatory for improved 'diff' command, from
     Jiri Olsa.

   - Hists refactorings, preparatory for event group viewieng work, from
     Namhyung Kim.

   - Remove double negation on optional feature macro definitions, from
     Namhyung Kim.

   - Remove several cases of needless global variables, on most
     builtins.

   - misc fixes

  kernel:

   - sysfs support for IBS on AMD CPUs, from Robert Richter.

   - Support for an upcoming Intel CPU, the Xeon-Phi / Knights Corner
     HPC blade PMU, from Vince Weaver.

   - misc fixes"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits)
  perf: Fix perf_cgroup_switch for sw-events
  perf: Clarify perf_cpu_context::active_pmu usage by renaming it to ::unique_pmu
  perf/AMD/IBS: Add sysfs support
  perf hists: Add more helpers for hist entry stat
  perf hists: Move he-&gt;stat.nr_events initialization to a template
  perf hists: Introduce struct he_stat
  perf diff: Removing the total_period argument from output code
  perf tool: Add hpp interface to enable/disable hpp column
  perf tools: Removing hists pair argument from output path
  perf hists: Separate overhead and baseline columns
  perf diff: Refactor diff displacement possition info
  perf hists: Add struct hists pointer to struct hist_entry
  perf tools: Complete tracepoint event names
  perf/x86: Add support for Intel Xeon-Phi Knights Corner PMU
  perf evlist: Remove some unused methods
  perf evlist: Introduce add_newtp method
  perf kvm: Move global variables into a perf_kvm struct
  perf tools: Convert to BACKTRACE_SUPPORT
  perf tools: Long option completion support for each subcommands
  perf tools: Complete long option names of perf command
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal</title>
<updated>2012-10-13T01:05:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-13T01:05:52+00:00</published>
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Pull third pile of kernel_execve() patches from Al Viro:
 "The last bits of infrastructure for kernel_thread() et.al., with
  alpha/arm/x86 use of those.  Plus sanitizing the asm glue and
  do_notify_resume() on alpha, fixing the "disabled irq while running
  task_work stuff" breakage there.

  At that point the rest of kernel_thread/kernel_execve/sys_execve work
  can be done independently for different architectures.  The only
  pending bits that do depend on having all architectures converted are
  restrictred to fs/* and kernel/* - that'll obviously have to wait for
  the next cycle.

  I thought we'd have to wait for all of them done before we start
  eliminating the longjump-style insanity in kernel_execve(), but it
  turned out there's a very simple way to do that without flagday-style
  changes."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  alpha: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics
  arm: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics
  x86, um: convert to saner kernel_execve() semantics
  infrastructure for saner ret_from_kernel_thread semantics
  make sure that kernel_thread() callbacks call do_exit() themselves
  make sure that we always have a return path from kernel_execve()
  ppc: eeh_event should just use kthread_run()
  don't bother with kernel_thread/kernel_execve for launching linuxrc
  alpha: get rid of switch_stack argument of do_work_pending()
  alpha: don't bother passing switch_stack separately from regs
  alpha: take SIGPENDING/NOTIFY_RESUME loop into signal.c
  alpha: simplify TIF_NEED_RESCHED handling
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Pull third pile of kernel_execve() patches from Al Viro:
 "The last bits of infrastructure for kernel_thread() et.al., with
  alpha/arm/x86 use of those.  Plus sanitizing the asm glue and
  do_notify_resume() on alpha, fixing the "disabled irq while running
  task_work stuff" breakage there.

  At that point the rest of kernel_thread/kernel_execve/sys_execve work
  can be done independently for different architectures.  The only
  pending bits that do depend on having all architectures converted are
  restrictred to fs/* and kernel/* - that'll obviously have to wait for
  the next cycle.

  I thought we'd have to wait for all of them done before we start
  eliminating the longjump-style insanity in kernel_execve(), but it
  turned out there's a very simple way to do that without flagday-style
  changes."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  alpha: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics
  arm: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics
  x86, um: convert to saner kernel_execve() semantics
  infrastructure for saner ret_from_kernel_thread semantics
  make sure that kernel_thread() callbacks call do_exit() themselves
  make sure that we always have a return path from kernel_execve()
  ppc: eeh_event should just use kthread_run()
  don't bother with kernel_thread/kernel_execve for launching linuxrc
  alpha: get rid of switch_stack argument of do_work_pending()
  alpha: don't bother passing switch_stack separately from regs
  alpha: take SIGPENDING/NOTIFY_RESUME loop into signal.c
  alpha: simplify TIF_NEED_RESCHED handling
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2012-10-13T01:04:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2012-10-13T01:04:42+00:00</published>
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Pull third pile of VFS updates from Al Viro:
 "Stuff from Jeff Layton, mostly.  Sanitizing interplay between audit
  and namei, removing a lot of insanity from audit_inode() mess and
  getting things ready for his ESTALE patchset."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  procfs: don't need a PATH_MAX allocation to hold a string representation of an int
  vfs: embed struct filename inside of names_cache allocation if possible
  audit: make audit_inode take struct filename
  vfs: make path_openat take a struct filename pointer
  vfs: turn do_path_lookup into wrapper around struct filename variant
  audit: allow audit code to satisfy getname requests from its names_list
  vfs: define struct filename and have getname() return it
  vfs: unexport getname and putname symbols
  acct: constify the name arg to acct_on
  vfs: allocate page instead of names_cache buffer in mount_block_root
  audit: overhaul __audit_inode_child to accomodate retrying
  audit: optimize audit_compare_dname_path
  audit: make audit_compare_dname_path use parent_len helper
  audit: remove dirlen argument to audit_compare_dname_path
  audit: set the name_len in audit_inode for parent lookups
  audit: add a new "type" field to audit_names struct
  audit: reverse arguments to audit_inode_child
  audit: no need to walk list in audit_inode if name is NULL
  audit: pass in dentry to audit_copy_inode wherever possible
  audit: remove unnecessary NULL ptr checks from do_path_lookup
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Pull third pile of VFS updates from Al Viro:
 "Stuff from Jeff Layton, mostly.  Sanitizing interplay between audit
  and namei, removing a lot of insanity from audit_inode() mess and
  getting things ready for his ESTALE patchset."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  procfs: don't need a PATH_MAX allocation to hold a string representation of an int
  vfs: embed struct filename inside of names_cache allocation if possible
  audit: make audit_inode take struct filename
  vfs: make path_openat take a struct filename pointer
  vfs: turn do_path_lookup into wrapper around struct filename variant
  audit: allow audit code to satisfy getname requests from its names_list
  vfs: define struct filename and have getname() return it
  vfs: unexport getname and putname symbols
  acct: constify the name arg to acct_on
  vfs: allocate page instead of names_cache buffer in mount_block_root
  audit: overhaul __audit_inode_child to accomodate retrying
  audit: optimize audit_compare_dname_path
  audit: make audit_compare_dname_path use parent_len helper
  audit: remove dirlen argument to audit_compare_dname_path
  audit: set the name_len in audit_inode for parent lookups
  audit: add a new "type" field to audit_names struct
  audit: reverse arguments to audit_inode_child
  audit: no need to walk list in audit_inode if name is NULL
  audit: pass in dentry to audit_copy_inode wherever possible
  audit: remove unnecessary NULL ptr checks from do_path_lookup
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