1. 05 6月, 2010 1 次提交
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      sys_personality: change sys_personality() to accept "unsigned int" instead of u_long · 485d5276
      Oleg Nesterov 提交于
      task_struct->pesonality is "unsigned int", but sys_personality() paths use
      "unsigned long pesonality".  This means that every assignment or
      comparison is not right.  In particular, if this argument does not fit
      into "unsigned int" __set_personality() changes the caller's personality
      and then sys_personality() returns -EINVAL.
      
      Turn this argument into "unsigned int" and avoid overflows.  Obviously,
      this is the user-visible change, we just ignore the upper bits.  But this
      can't break the sane application.
      
      There is another thing which can confuse the poorly written applications.
      User-space thinks that this syscall returns int, not long.  This means
      that the returned value can be negative and look like the error code.  But
      note that libc won't be confused and thus errno won't be set, and with
      this patch the user-space can never get -1 unless sys_personality() really
      fails.  And, most importantly, the negative RET != -1 is only possible if
      that app previously called personality(RET).
      Pointed-out-by: NWenming Zhang <wezhang@redhat.com>
      Suggested-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      485d5276
  2. 03 6月, 2010 1 次提交
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      perf: Fix crash in swevents · c6df8d5a
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      Frederic reported that because swevents handling doesn't disable IRQs
      anymore, we can get a recursion of perf_adjust_period(), once from
      overflow handling and once from the tick.
      
      If both call ->disable, we get a double hlist_del_rcu() and trigger
      a LIST_POISON2 dereference.
      
      Since we don't actually need to stop/start a swevent to re-programm
      the hardware (lack of hardware to program), simply nop out these
      callbacks for the swevent pmu.
      Reported-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      LKML-Reference: <1275557609.27810.35218.camel@twins>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      c6df8d5a
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