The recent change fix-crash-in-entrys-restore_all.patch
childregs->esp = esp;
p->thread.esp = (unsigned long) childregs;
- p->thread.esp0 = (unsigned long) (childregs+1);
+ p->thread.esp0 = (unsigned long) (childregs+1) - 8;
p->thread.eip = (unsigned long) ret_from_fork;
introduces an inconsistency between esp and esp0 before the task is run the
first time. esp0 is no longer the actual start of the stack, but 8 bytes
off.
This shows itself clearly in a scenario when a ptracer that is set to also
ptrace eventual children traces program1 which then clones thread1. Now
the ptracer wants to modify the registers of thread1. The x86 ptrace
implementation bases it's knowledge about saved user-space registers upon
p->thread.esp0. But this will be a few bytes off causing certain writes to
the kernel stack to overwrite a saved kernel function address making the
kernel when actually running thread1 jump out into user-space. Very
spectacular.
The testcase I've used is:
/* start with strace -f ./a.out */
#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdio.h>
void *do_thread(void *p)
{
for (;;);
}
int main()
{
pthread_t one;
pthread_create(&one, NULL, &do_thread, NULL);
for (;;);
return 0;
}
So, my solution is to instead of just adjusting esp0 that creates an
inconsitent state I adjust where the user-space registers are saved with -8
bytes. This gives us the wanted extra bytes on the start of the stack and
esp0 is now correct. This solves the issues I saw from the original
testcase from Mateusz Berezecki and has survived testing here. I think
this should go into -mm a round or two first however as there might be some
cruft around depending on pt_regs lying on the start of the stack. That
however would have broken with the first change too!
It's actually a 2-line diff but I had to move the comment of why the -8 bytes
are there a few lines up. Thanks to Zwane for helping me with this.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Patch from Nicolas Pitre
This better express things, and should cover RMK's weird SMP toys.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This patch adds i18n support for make *config, allowing users to have the
config process in their own language.
No printk was harmed in the process, don't worry, so all the bug reports,
kernel messages, etc, remain in english, just the user tools to configure
the kernel are internationalized.
Users not interested in translations can just unset the related LANG,
LC_ALL, etc env variables and have the config process in plain english,
something like:
LANG= make menuconfig
is enough for having the whole config process in english. Or just don't
install any translation file.
Translations for brazilian portuguese are being done by a team of
volunteers at:
http://www.visionflex.inf.br/kernel_ptbr/pmwiki.php/Principal/Traducoes
To start the translation process:
make update-po-config
This will generate the pot template named scripts/kconfig/linux.pot,
copy it to, say, ~/es.po, to start the translation for spanish.
To test your translation, as root issue this command:
msgfmt -o /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/linux.mo ~/es.po
Replace "es" with your language code.
Then execute, for instance:
make menuconfig
The current patch doesn't use any optimization to reduce the size of the
generated .mo file, it is possible to use the config option as a key, but
this doesn't prevent the current patch from being used or the translations
done under the current scheme to be in any way lost if we chose to do any
kind of keying.
Thanks to Fabricio Vaccari for starting the pt_BR (brazilian portuguese)
translation effort, Thiago Maciera for helping me with the gconf.cc (QT
frontent) i18n coding and to all the volunteers that are already working on
the first translation, to pt_BR.
I left the question on whether to ship the translations with the stock kernel
sources to be discussed here, please share your suggestions.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Currently sparc and sparc64's UP cpu_idle() checks current pid. This
is old time legacy. Now it's paranoia.
Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@lovecn.org>
Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
tg3_stop_block() errors can be safely ignored since tg3_chip_reset()
always follows tg3_stop_block() calls.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
this matches the API used by other link layer like ethernet or token
ring.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This causes sk->sk_prot to change, which makes the socket
release free the sock into the wrong SLAB cache. Fix this
by introducing sk_prot_creator so that we always remember
where the sock came from.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
handling for unwritten extents can be moved out of interrupt context.
SGI Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:22343a
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>
Rather than using a long "depends on..." and "default y" lines for
these options, use select instead.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Various places in the ARM kernel implicitly assumed that kernel
stacks are always 8K due to hard coded constants. Replace these
constants with definitions.
Correct the allowable range of kernel stack pointer values within
the allocation. Arrange for the entire kernel stack to be zeroed,
not just the upper 4K if CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE is set.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
With 2.6.11 and 2.6.12-rc2 (and perhaps a few versions before) usb
drivers for multi-interface devices, which do
usb_driver_release_interface() in their disconnect(), make rmmod hang.
It turns out to be due to a bug in drivers/base/bus.c:driver_detach(),
that iterates over the list of attached devices with
list_for_each_safe() under an assumption that device_release_driver()
only releases the current device, while it may also call
device_release_driver() for other devices on the same list.
The following patch fixes it. Please consider applying.
Signed-off-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Earlier in the same function dev->bus is checked before dereferenced,
make consistent although I honestly don't know if dev->bus could
ever be NULL
Found by the Coverity tool
Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@dsv.su.se>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Convert some sn SAL_CALLs to ia64_sal_oemcall calls so that they can be
called by kernel modules.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Remove the p_nodepda and p_subnodepda pointers from the pda_s structure.
And then define a new per-cpu pointer to the nodepda and export it so
that it can be accessed by kernel modules.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
[hv]sync[12] are __initdata, causing mplayer to oops with the previous i810fb fix.
My fault, this fixes it. Sorry.
Signed-off-by: Linux Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
annotated, a bunch of direct dereferencing replaced with readb().
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
New file - asm-generic/signal.h. Contains declarations of
__sighandler_t, __sigrestore_t, SIG_DFL, SIG_IGN, SIG_ERR and default
definitions of SIG_BLOCK, SIG_UNBLOCK and SIG_SETMASK.
asm-*/signal.h switched to including it. The only exception is
asm-parisc/signal.h that wants its own declaration of __sighandler_t;
that one is left as-is.
asm-ppc64/signal.h required one more thing - unlike everybody else it
used __sigrestorer_t instead of usual __sigrestore_t. PPC64 switched to
common spelling.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* net/irda/irda_device.c::irda_setup_dma() made conditional on
ISA_DMA_API (it uses helpers in question and irda is usable on
platforms that don't have them at all - think of USB IRDA, for
example).
* irda drivers that depend on ISA DMA marked as dependent on
ISA_DMA_API
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Drivers that expect ISA DMA API are marked as such in Kconfig.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Part of parport_pc that uses ISA DMA helpers made conditional on
CONFIG_ISA_DMA_API. As the result, driver got usable for boxen that do
not have ISA DMA stuff and have normal PCI parport card stuck into
them - these never use DMA anyway.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
A bunch of drivers use ISA DMA helpers or their equivalents for
platforms that have ISA with different DMA controller (a lot of ARM
boxen). Currently there is no way to put such dependency in Kconfig -
CONFIG_ISA is not it (e.g. it is not set on platforms that have no ISA
slots, but have on-board devices that pretend to be ISA ones).
New symbol added - ISA_DMA_API. Set when we have functional
enable_dma()/set_dma_mode()/etc. set of helpers. Next patches in the
series will add missing dependencies for drivers that need them.
I'm very carefully staying the hell out of the recurring flamefest on
what exactly CONFIG_ISA would mean in ideal world - added symbol has a
well-defined meaning and for now I really want to treat it as completely
independent from the mess around CONFIG_ISA.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
