1. 05 11月, 2006 1 次提交
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      Fix unlikely (but possible) race condition on task->user access · 45c18b0b
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      There's a possible race condition when doing a "switch_uid()" from one
      user to another, which could race with another thread doing a signal
      allocation and looking at the old thread ->user pointer as it is freed.
      
      This explains an oops reported by Lukasz Trabinski:
      	http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/462241
      
      We fix this by delaying the (reference-counted) freeing of the user
      structure until the thread signal handler lock has been released, so
      that we know that the signal allocation has either seen the new value or
      has properly incremented the reference count of the old one.
      
      Race identified by Oleg Nesterov.
      
      Cc: Lukasz Trabinski <lukasz@wsisiz.edu.pl>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      45c18b0b
  2. 23 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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  6. 13 7月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] inotify · 0eeca283
      Robert Love 提交于
      inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly
      its inability to scale and its terrible user interface:
      
              * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory
                that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many
                open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.
              * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to
                directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects
                the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of
                stat structures.
              * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful.  Signals?
      
      inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change
      notification:
      
              * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.
      	  You get a single fd, which is select()-able.
              * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item
                you were watching is on was unmounted."
              * inotify can watch directories or files.
      
      Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),
      Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.
      
      See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.
      Signed-off-by: NRobert Love <rml@novell.com>
      Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      0eeca283
  7. 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4