1. 03 Feb, 2008 1 commit
  2. 16 Jul, 2007 1 commit
    • Arnd Bergmann's avatar
      Introduce compat_u64 and compat_s64 types · 4b777587
      Arnd Bergmann authored
      
      One common problem with 32 bit system call and ioctl emulation is the
      different alignment rules between i386 and 64 bit machines.  A number of
      drivers work around this by marking the compat structures as
      'attribute((packed))', which is not the right solution because it breaks
      all the non-x86 architectures that want to use the same compat code.
      
      Hopefully, this patch improves the situation, it introduces two new types,
      compat_u64 and compat_s64.  These are defined on all architectures to have
      the same size and alignment as the 32 bit version of u64 and s64.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Acked-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@openvz.org>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      4b777587
  3. 05 Feb, 2007 1 commit
    • Gerald Schaefer's avatar
      [S390] noexec protection · c1821c2e
      Gerald Schaefer authored
      
      This provides a noexec protection on s390 hardware. Our hardware does
      not have any bits left in the pte for a hw noexec bit, so this is a
      different approach using shadow page tables and a special addressing
      mode that allows separate address spaces for code and data.
      
      As a special feature of our "secondary-space" addressing mode, separate
      page tables can be specified for the translation of data addresses
      (storage operands) and instruction addresses. The shadow page table is
      used for the instruction addresses and the standard page table for the
      data addresses.
      The shadow page table is linked to the standard page table by a pointer
      in page->lru.next of the struct page corresponding to the page that
      contains the standard page table (since page->private is not really
      private with the pte_lock and the page table pages are not in the LRU
      list).
      Depending on the software bits of a pte, it is either inserted into
      both page tables or just into the standard (data) page table. Pages of
      a vma that does not have the VM_EXEC bit set get mapped only in the
      data address space. Any try to execute code on such a page will cause a
      page translation exception. The standard reaction to this is a SIGSEGV
      with two exceptions: the two system call opcodes 0x0a77 (sys_sigreturn)
      and 0x0aad (sys_rt_sigreturn) are allowed. They are stored by the
      kernel to the signal stack frame. Unfortunately, the signal return
      mechanism cannot be modified to use an SA_RESTORER because the
      exception unwinding code depends on the system call opcode stored
      behind the signal stack frame.
      
      This feature requires that user space is executed in secondary-space
      mode and the kernel in home-space mode, which means that the addressing
      modes need to be switched and that the noexec protection only works
      for user space.
      After switching the addressing modes, we cannot use the mvcp/mvcs
      instructions anymore to copy between kernel and user space. A new
      mvcos instruction has been added to the z9 EC/BC hardware which allows
      to copy between arbitrary address spaces, but on older hardware the
      page tables need to be walked manually.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      c1821c2e
  4. 27 Mar, 2006 1 commit
  5. 07 Sep, 2005 1 commit
    • Stephen Rothwell's avatar
      [PATCH] compat: be more consistent about [ug]id_t · 202e5979
      Stephen Rothwell authored
      
      When I first wrote the compat layer patches, I was somewhat cavalier about
      the definition of compat_uid_t and compat_gid_t (or maybe I just
      misunderstood :-)).  This patch makes the compat types much more consistent
      with the types we are being compatible with and hopefully will fix a few
      bugs along the way.
      
      	compat type		type in compat arch
      	__compat_[ug]id_t	__kernel_[ug]id_t
      	__compat_[ug]id32_t	__kernel_[ug]id32_t
      	compat_[ug]id_t		[ug]id_t
      
      The difference is that compat_uid_t is always 32 bits (for the archs we
      care about) but __compat_uid_t may be 16 bits on some.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      202e5979
  6. 16 Apr, 2005 1 commit
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds authored
      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