1. 03 Jul, 2006 2 commits
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      [PATCH] lockdep: locking init debugging improvement · e4d91918
      Ingo Molnar authored
      
      Locking init improvement:
      
       - introduce and use __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED for array initializations,
         to pass in the name string of locks, used by debugging
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      e4d91918
    • Chuck Ebbert's avatar
      [PATCH] binfmt_elf: fix checks for bad address · ce51059b
      Chuck Ebbert authored
      
      Fix check for bad address; use macro instead of open-coding two checks.
      
      Taken from RHEL4 kernel update.
      
      From: Ernie Petrides <petrides@redhat.com>
      
        For background, the BAD_ADDR() macro should return TRUE if the address is
        TASK_SIZE, because that's the lowest address that is *not* valid for
        user-space mappings.  The macro was correct in binfmt_aout.c but was wrong
        for the "equal to" case in binfmt_elf.c.  There were two in-line validations
        of user-space addresses in binfmt_elf.c, which have been appropriately
        converted to use the corrected BAD_ADDR() macro in the patch you posted
        yesterday.  Note that the size checks against TASK_SIZE are okay as coded.
      
        The additional changes that I propose are below.  These are in the error
        paths for bad ELF entry addresses once load_elf_binary() has already
        committed to exec'ing the new image (following the tearing down of the
        task's original address space).
      
        The 1st hunk deals with the interp-side of the outer "if".  There were two
        problems here.  The printk() should be removed because this path can be
        triggered at will by a bogus interpreter image created and used by a
        malicious user.  Further, the error code should not be ENOEXEC, because that
        causes the loop in search_binary_handler() to continue trying other exec
        handlers (twice, in fact).  But it's too late for this to work correctly,
        because the user address space has already been torn down, and an exec()
        failure cannot be returned to the user code because the code no longer
        exists.  The only recovery is to force a SIGSEGV, but it's best to terminate
        the search loop immediately.  I somewhat arbitrarily chose EINVAL as a
        fallback error code, but any error returned by load_elf_interp() will
        override that (but this value will never be seen by user-space).
      
        The 2nd hunk deals with the non-interp-side of the outer "if".  There were
        two problems here as well.  The SIGSEGV needs to be forced, because a prior
        sigaction() syscall might have set the associated disposition to SIG_IGN.
        And the ENOEXEC should be changed to EINVAL as described above.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarErnie Petrides <petrides@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      ce51059b
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