- 06 2月, 2008 40 次提交
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由 Julia Lawall 提交于
An extra error handling label is needed for the case where the ioremap has succeeded. The problem was detected using the following semantic match (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @@ type T,T1,T2; identifier E; statement S; expression x1,x2; constant C; int ret; @@ T E; ... * E = ioremap(...); if (E == NULL) S ... when != iounmap(E) when != if (E != NULL) { ... iounmap(E); ...} when != x1 = (T1)E if (...) { ... when != iounmap(E) when != if (E != NULL) { ... iounmap(E); ...} when != x2 = (T2)E ( * return; | * return C; | * return ret; ) } // </smpl> Signed-off-by: NJulia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jesper Nilsson 提交于
Improve including of architecture dependent Kconfig files. - Always include the architecture dependent Kconfig files. - Wrap architecture dependent Kconfig files inside an appropriate "if ETRAX_ARCH_Vxx" block. This makes it possible to run the configuration even without the arch links, which are created later in the build process. Signed-off-by: NJesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Acked-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Stanislav Brabec 提交于
It seems, that current kernel source code contains no traces of MAC_ADBKEYCODES and no reference to keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes any more. Remove them from configuration files. Signed-off-by: NStanislav Brabec <sbrabec@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Finn Thain 提交于
Add some new card definitions and fix a typo (from Eugen Paiuc). Signed-off-by: NFinn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Finn Thain 提交于
Signed-off-by: NFinn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Finn Thain 提交于
Corrects a mistake I made in a comment. Signed-off-by: NFinn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Adrian Bunk 提交于
EXPORT_SYMBOL's belong to the actual code. Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Adrian Bunk 提交于
EXPORT_SYMBOL's belong to the actual code. Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Adrian Bunk 提交于
EXPORT_SYMBOL's belong to the actual code. Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Adrian Bunk 提交于
It was empty. Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Adrian Bunk 提交于
EXPORT_SYMBOL's belong to the actual code. Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Adrian Bunk 提交于
nubus: kill drivers/nubus/nubus_syms.c EXPORT_SYMBOL's belong to the actual code. Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Roel Kluin 提交于
Signed-off-by: NRoel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Alejandro Martinez Ruiz 提交于
[Geert: eliminate NUMNAMES, as suggested by Richard Knutsson ] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-syle fixes] Signed-off-by: NAlejandro Martinez Ruiz <alex@flawedcode.org> Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Alejandro Martinez Ruiz 提交于
Signed-off-by: NAlejandro Martinez Ruiz <alex@flawedcode.org> Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Geert Uytterhoeven 提交于
The cc-cross-prefix is new and developed on request from Geert Uytterhoeven. With cc-cross-prefix it is now much easier to have a few default cross compile prefixes and defaulting to none - if none of them were present. ARCH maintainers are expected to pick up this feature soon. Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Rafael J. Wysocki 提交于
Modify the b43 driver to avoid deadlocking suspend and resume, which happens as a result of attempting to unregister device objects locked by the PM core during suspend/resume cycles. Also, make it use a suspend-safe method of unregistering device object in the resume error path. Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: NMichael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Rafael J. Wysocki 提交于
Make it possible to unregister a led classdev object in a safe way during a suspend/resume cycle. Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Rafael J. Wysocki 提交于
Make it possible to unregister a Hardware Random Number Generator device object in a safe way during a suspend/resume cycle. Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: NMichael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Rafael J. Wysocki 提交于
Make it possible to unregister a misc device object in a safe way during a suspend/resume cycle. Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Mark Gross 提交于
Replace latency.c use with pm_qos_params use. Signed-off-by: Nmark gross <mgross@linux.intel.com> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Mark Gross 提交于
The following patch is a generalization of the latency.c implementation done by Arjan last year. It provides infrastructure for more than one parameter, and exposes a user mode interface for processes to register pm_qos expectations of processes. This interface provides a kernel and user mode interface for registering performance expectations by drivers, subsystems and user space applications on one of the parameters. Currently we have {cpu_dma_latency, network_latency, network_throughput} as the initial set of pm_qos parameters. The infrastructure exposes multiple misc device nodes one per implemented parameter. The set of parameters implement is defined by pm_qos_power_init() and pm_qos_params.h. This is done because having the available parameters being runtime configurable or changeable from a driver was seen as too easy to abuse. For each parameter a list of performance requirements is maintained along with an aggregated target value. The aggregated target value is updated with changes to the requirement list or elements of the list. Typically the aggregated target value is simply the max or min of the requirement values held in the parameter list elements. >From kernel mode the use of this interface is simple: pm_qos_add_requirement(param_id, name, target_value): Will insert a named element in the list for that identified PM_QOS parameter with the target value. Upon change to this list the new target is recomputed and any registered notifiers are called only if the target value is now different. pm_qos_update_requirement(param_id, name, new_target_value): Will search the list identified by the param_id for the named list element and then update its target value, calling the notification tree if the aggregated target is changed. with that name is already registered. pm_qos_remove_requirement(param_id, name): Will search the identified list for the named element and remove it, after removal it will update the aggregate target and call the notification tree if the target was changed as a result of removing the named requirement. >From user mode: Only processes can register a pm_qos requirement. To provide for automatic cleanup for process the interface requires the process to register its parameter requirements in the following way: To register the default pm_qos target for the specific parameter, the process must open one of /dev/[cpu_dma_latency, network_latency, network_throughput] As long as the device node is held open that process has a registered requirement on the parameter. The name of the requirement is "process_<PID>" derived from the current->pid from within the open system call. To change the requested target value the process needs to write a s32 value to the open device node. This translates to a pm_qos_update_requirement call. To remove the user mode request for a target value simply close the device node. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build again] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Nmark gross <mgross@linux.intel.com> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Adrian Bunk 提交于
kernel_shutdown_prepare() can now become static. Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: NPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Adrian Bunk 提交于
resume_file[] and create_image() can become static. Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: NPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Andrew Morton 提交于
mm/vmalloc.c: In function 'unmap_kernel_range': mm/vmalloc.c:75: warning: unused variable 'start' Macros are so horrid. Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Nick Piggin 提交于
Convert AGP alpha driver from nopage to fault. NULL is NOPAGE_SIGBUS, so we aren't changing behaviour there. Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Samuel Thibault 提交于
Alpha doesn't use socketcall and doesn't provide __NR_socketcall. Signed-off-by: NSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@citrix.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 FUJITA Tomonori 提交于
pci-noop.c doesn't use DMA mappings. Signed-off-by: NFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Andrew Morton 提交于
Prevents stuff like drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.c:2443: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 4 has type 'long int' drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.c:2443: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 4 has type 'long int' (at least). Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Lucas Woods 提交于
Signed-off-by: NLucas Woods <woodzy@gmail.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Adrian Bunk 提交于
One EXPORT_SYMBOL should be enough for everyone. Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: NGreg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Paul Mundt 提交于
This builds on top of the earlier vmalloc_32_user() work introduced by b5073173, as we now have places in the nommu allmodconfig that hit up against these missing APIs. As vmalloc_32_user() is already implemented, this is moved over to vmalloc_user() and simply made a wrapper. As all current nommu platforms are 32-bit addressable, there's no special casing we have to do for ZONE_DMA and things of that nature as per GFP_VMALLOC32. remap_vmalloc_range() needs to check VM_USERMAP in order to figure out whether we permit the remap or not, which means that we also have to rework the vmalloc_user() code to grovel for the VMA and set the flag. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: NDavid McCullough <david_mccullough@securecomputing.com> Acked-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: NGreg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jiri Olsa 提交于
Removing config variable DUMPTOFLASH, since it is not used Signed-off-by: NJiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com> Acked-by: NGreg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jiri Olsa 提交于
remove dead config symbols from m68knommu code Signed-off-by: NJiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com> Acked-by: NGreg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Greg Ungerer 提交于
Use ARRAY_SIZE macroto get maximum ports in ColdFire serial driver. Signed-off-by: NGreg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Pavel Emelyanov 提交于
The function is question gets the pid from sysctl table, so this one is a virtual pid, i.e. the pid of a task as it is seen from inside a namespace. So the find_task_by_vpid() must be used here. Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jiri Olsa 提交于
Remove dead config symbol from FRV code. Signed-off-by: NJiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com> Acked-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Robert P. J. Day 提交于
To be consistent with other architectures, these two DMA macros should be defined in scatterlist.h as opposed to dma-mapping.h Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Acked-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 David Howells 提交于
Permit the memory to be located somewhere other than address 0xC0000000 in NOMMU mode. The configuration options are already present, it just requires wiring up in the linker script. Note that only a limited set of locations of runtime addresses are available because of the way the CPU protection registers work. Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Casey Schaufler 提交于
Smack is the Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel. Smack implements mandatory access control (MAC) using labels attached to tasks and data containers, including files, SVIPC, and other tasks. Smack is a kernel based scheme that requires an absolute minimum of application support and a very small amount of configuration data. Smack uses extended attributes and provides a set of general mount options, borrowing technics used elsewhere. Smack uses netlabel for CIPSO labeling. Smack provides a pseudo-filesystem smackfs that is used for manipulation of system Smack attributes. The patch, patches for ls and sshd, a README, a startup script, and x86 binaries for ls and sshd are also available on http://www.schaufler-ca.com Development has been done using Fedora Core 7 in a virtual machine environment and on an old Sony laptop. Smack provides mandatory access controls based on the label attached to a task and the label attached to the object it is attempting to access. Smack labels are deliberately short (1-23 characters) text strings. Single character labels using special characters are reserved for system use. The only operation applied to Smack labels is equality comparison. No wildcards or expressions, regular or otherwise, are used. Smack labels are composed of printable characters and may not include "/". A file always gets the Smack label of the task that created it. Smack defines and uses these labels: "*" - pronounced "star" "_" - pronounced "floor" "^" - pronounced "hat" "?" - pronounced "huh" The access rules enforced by Smack are, in order: 1. Any access requested by a task labeled "*" is denied. 2. A read or execute access requested by a task labeled "^" is permitted. 3. A read or execute access requested on an object labeled "_" is permitted. 4. Any access requested on an object labeled "*" is permitted. 5. Any access requested by a task on an object with the same label is permitted. 6. Any access requested that is explicitly defined in the loaded rule set is permitted. 7. Any other access is denied. Rules may be explicitly defined by writing subject,object,access triples to /smack/load. Smack rule sets can be easily defined that describe Bell&LaPadula sensitivity, Biba integrity, and a variety of interesting configurations. Smack rule sets can be modified on the fly to accommodate changes in the operating environment or even the time of day. Some practical use cases: Hierarchical levels. The less common of the two usual uses for MLS systems is to define hierarchical levels, often unclassified, confidential, secret, and so on. To set up smack to support this, these rules could be defined: C Unclass rx S C rx S Unclass rx TS S rx TS C rx TS Unclass rx A TS process can read S, C, and Unclass data, but cannot write it. An S process can read C and Unclass. Note that specifying that TS can read S and S can read C does not imply TS can read C, it has to be explicitly stated. Non-hierarchical categories. This is the more common of the usual uses for an MLS system. Since the default rule is that a subject cannot access an object with a different label no access rules are required to implement compartmentalization. A case that the Bell & LaPadula policy does not allow is demonstrated with this Smack access rule: A case that Bell&LaPadula does not allow that Smack does: ESPN ABC r ABC ESPN r On my portable video device I have two applications, one that shows ABC programming and the other ESPN programming. ESPN wants to show me sport stories that show up as news, and ABC will only provide minimal information about a sports story if ESPN is covering it. Each side can look at the other's info, neither can change the other. Neither can see what FOX is up to, which is just as well all things considered. Another case that I especially like: SatData Guard w Guard Publish w A program running with the Guard label opens a UDP socket and accepts messages sent by a program running with a SatData label. The Guard program inspects the message to ensure it is wholesome and if it is sends it to a program running with the Publish label. This program then puts the information passed in an appropriate place. Note that the Guard program cannot write to a Publish file system object because file system semanitic require read as well as write. The four cases (categories, levels, mutual read, guardbox) here are all quite real, and problems I've been asked to solve over the years. The first two are easy to do with traditonal MLS systems while the last two you can't without invoking privilege, at least for a while. Signed-off-by: NCasey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Cc: Joshua Brindle <method@manicmethod.com> Cc: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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