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Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Marshall 75ec7fa33f kernel: Only expose su when daemon is running
Note: this is for the 3.4 kernel

It has been claimed that the PG implementation of 'su' has security
vulnerabilities even when disabled.  Unfortunately, the people that
find these vulnerabilities often like to keep them private so they
can profit from exploits while leaving users exposed to malicious
hackers.

In order to reduce the attack surface for vulnerabilites, it is
therefore necessary to make 'su' completely inaccessible when it
is not in use (except by the root and system users).

Change-Id: Ia7d50ba46c3d932c2b0ca5fc8e9ec69ec9045f85
2017-05-19 18:41:25 -06:00
Paul Gortmaker 630d9c4727 fs: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible
For files only using THIS_MODULE and/or EXPORT_SYMBOL, map
them onto including export.h -- or if the file isn't even
using those, then just delete the include.  Fix up any implicit
include dependencies that were being masked by module.h along
the way.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-02-28 19:31:58 -05:00
Kevin Winchester 85c9fe8fca vfs: fix warning: 'dirent' is used uninitialized in this function
Using:

	gcc (GCC) 4.5.0 20100610 (prerelease)

The following warnings appear:

	fs/readdir.c: In function `filldir64':
	fs/readdir.c:240:15: warning: `dirent' is used uninitialized in this function
	fs/readdir.c: In function `filldir':
	fs/readdir.c:155:15: warning: `dirent' is used uninitialized in this function
	fs/compat.c: In function `compat_filldir64':
	fs/compat.c:1071:11: warning: `dirent' is used uninitialized in this function
	fs/compat.c: In function `compat_filldir':
	fs/compat.c:984:15: warning: `dirent' is used uninitialized in this function

The warnings are related to the use of the NAME_OFFSET() macro.  Luckily,
it appears as though the standard offsetof() macro is what is being
implemented by NAME_OFFSET(), thus we can fix the warning and use a more
standard code construct at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09 20:45:05 -07:00
Heiko Carstens d4e82042c4 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 32
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:31 +01:00
Heiko Carstens 20f37034fb [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 21
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:26 +01:00
Heiko Carstens e55380edf6 [CVE-2009-0029] Rename old_readdir to sys_old_readdir
This way it matches the generic system call name convention.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:15 +01:00
Al Viro 53c9c5c0e3 [PATCH] prepare vfs_readdir() callers to returning filldir result
It's not the final state, but it allows moving ->readdir() instances
to passing filldir return value to caller of vfs_readdir().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:13:10 -04:00
Al Viro 8f3f655da7 [PATCH] fix regular readdir() and friends
Handling of -EOVERFLOW.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-25 01:18:08 -04:00
Liam R. Howlett da78451190 Use mutex_lock_killable in vfs_readdir
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <howlett@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2007-12-06 17:39:54 -05:00
Milind Arun Choudhary 022a169244 ROUND_UP macro cleanup in fs/(select|compat|readdir).c
ROUND_UP macro cleanup use,ALIGN or DIV_ROUND_UP where ever appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Milind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:09 -07:00
Randy Dunlap e63340ae6b header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used
Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.

Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
Josef "Jeff" Sipek 0f7fc9e4d0 [PATCH] VFS: change struct file to use struct path
This patch changes struct file to use struct path instead of having
independent pointers to struct dentry and struct vfsmount, and converts all
users of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} in fs/ to use f_path.{dentry,mnt}.

Additionally, it adds two #define's to make the transition easier for users of
the f_dentry and f_vfsmnt.

Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:41 -08:00
David Howells afefdbb28a [PATCH] VFS: Make filldir_t and struct kstat deal in 64-bit inode numbers
These patches make the kernel pass 64-bit inode numbers internally when
communicating to userspace, even on a 32-bit system.  They are required
because some filesystems have intrinsic 64-bit inode numbers: NFS3+ and XFS
for example.  The 64-bit inode numbers are then propagated to userspace
automatically where the arch supports it.

Problems have been seen with userspace (eg: ld.so) using the 64-bit inode
number returned by stat64() or getdents64() to differentiate files, and
failing because the 64-bit inode number space was compressed to 32-bits, and
so overlaps occur.

This patch:

Make filldir_t take a 64-bit inode number and struct kstat carry a 64-bit
inode number so that 64-bit inode numbers can be passed back to userspace.

The stat functions then returns the full 64-bit inode number where
available and where possible.  If it is not possible to represent the inode
number supplied by the filesystem in the field provided by userspace, then
error EOVERFLOW will be issued.

Similarly, the getdents/readdir functions now pass the full 64-bit inode
number to userspace where possible, returning EOVERFLOW instead when a
directory entry is encountered that can't be properly represented.

Note that this means that some inodes will not be stat'able on a 32-bit
system with old libraries where they were before - but it does mean that
there will be no ambiguity over what a 32-bit inode number refers to.

Note similarly that directory scans may be cut short with an error on a
32-bit system with old libraries where the scan would work before for the
same reasons.

It is judged unlikely that this situation will occur because modern glibc
uses 64-bit capable versions of stat and getdents class functions
exclusively, and that older systems are unlikely to encounter
unrepresentable inode numbers anyway.

[akpm: alpha build fix]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03 08:03:40 -07:00
Jes Sorensen 1b1dcc1b57 [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem
This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on
XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your
luck with it might be different.

Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

(finished the conversion)

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
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!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00