)]}' { "log": [ { "commit": "28f300d23674fa01ae747c66ce861d4ee6aebe8c", "tree": "52ea69a57a89760d7060597690cb289d049eb4d0", "parents": [ "735de2230f09741077a645a913de0a04b10208bf" ], "author": { "name": "Pavel Emelyanov", "email": "xemul@openvz.org", "time": "Tue Sep 18 22:46:45 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Wed Sep 19 11:24:18 2007 -0700" }, "message": "Fix user namespace exiting OOPs\n\nIt turned out, that the user namespace is released during the do_exit() in\nexit_task_namespaces(), but the struct user_struct is released only during the\nput_task_struct(), i.e. MUCH later.\n\nOn debug kernels with poisoned slabs this will cause the oops in\nuid_hash_remove() because the head of the chain, which resides inside the\nstruct user_namespace, will be already freed and poisoned.\n\nSince the uid hash itself is required only when someone can search it, i.e.\nwhen the namespace is alive, we can safely unhash all the user_struct-s from\nit during the namespace exiting. The subsequent free_uid() will complete the\nuser_struct destruction.\n\nFor example simple program\n\n #include \u003csched.h\u003e\n\n char stack[2 * 1024 * 1024];\n\n int f(void *foo)\n {\n \treturn 0;\n }\n\n int main(void)\n {\n \tclone(f, stack + 1 * 1024 * 1024, 0x10000000, 0);\n \treturn 0;\n }\n\nrun on kernel with CONFIG_USER_NS turned on will oops the\nkernel immediately.\n\nThis was spotted during OpenVZ kernel testing.\n\nSigned-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov \u003cxemul@openvz.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan \u003cadobriyan@openvz.org\u003e\nAcked-by: \"Serge E. Hallyn\" \u003cserue@us.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "735de2230f09741077a645a913de0a04b10208bf", "tree": "b408a671c9c07bec41a9ca8056fa7a6710982f3b", "parents": [ "d8a4821dca693867a7953104c1e3cc830eb9191f" ], "author": { "name": "Pavel Emelyanov", "email": "xemul@openvz.org", "time": "Tue Sep 18 22:46:44 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Wed Sep 19 11:24:18 2007 -0700" }, "message": "Convert uid hash to hlist\n\nSurprisingly, but (spotted by Alexey Dobriyan) the uid hash still uses\nlist_heads, thus occupying twice as much place as it could. Convert it to\nhlist_heads.\n\nSigned-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov \u003cxemul@openvz.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan \u003cadobriyan@openvz.org\u003e\nAcked-by: Serge Hallyn \u003cserue@us.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "d8a4821dca693867a7953104c1e3cc830eb9191f", "tree": "6329a8668b15d890101dd96155308e2ec3372259", "parents": [ "ef2b02d3e617cb0400eedf2668f86215e1b0e6af" ], "author": { "name": "Matthias Kaehlcke", "email": "matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com", "time": "Tue Sep 18 22:46:43 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Wed Sep 19 11:24:18 2007 -0700" }, "message": "kernel/user.c: Use list_for_each_entry instead of list_for_each\n\nkernel/user.c: Convert list_for_each to list_for_each_entry in\nuid_hash_find()\n\nSigned-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke \u003cmatthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "20c2df83d25c6a95affe6157a4c9cac4cf5ffaac", "tree": "415c4453d2b17a50abe7a3e515177e1fa337bd67", "parents": [ "64fb98fc40738ae1a98bcea9ca3145b89fb71524" ], "author": { "name": "Paul Mundt", "email": "lethal@linux-sh.org", "time": "Fri Jul 20 10:11:58 2007 +0900" }, "committer": { "name": "Paul Mundt", "email": "lethal@linux-sh.org", "time": "Fri Jul 20 10:11:58 2007 +0900" }, "message": "mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().\n\nSlab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph\u0027s\nc59def9f222d44bb7e2f0a559f2906191a0862d7 change. They\u0027ve been\nBUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them\neither.\n\nThis rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()\ncompletely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were\nabout 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,\nor the documentation references).\n\nSigned-off-by: Paul Mundt \u003clethal@linux-sh.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "acce292c82d4d82d35553b928df2b0597c3a9c78", "tree": "464288f40db9c254da214c400d0880ee50dc37f3", "parents": [ "7d69a1f4a72b18876c99c697692b78339d491568" ], "author": { "name": "Cedric Le Goater", "email": "clg@fr.ibm.com", "time": "Sun Jul 15 23:40:59 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon Jul 16 09:05:47 2007 -0700" }, "message": "user namespace: add the framework\n\nBasically, it will allow a process to unshare its user_struct table,\nresetting at the same time its own user_struct and all the associated\naccounting.\n\nA new root user (uid \u003d\u003d 0) is added to the user namespace upon creation.\nSuch root users have full privileges and it seems that theses privileges\nshould be controlled through some means (process capabilities ?)\n\nThe unshare is not included in this patch.\n\nChanges since [try #4]:\n\t- Updated get_user_ns and put_user_ns to accept NULL, and\n\t get_user_ns to return the namespace.\n\nChanges since [try #3]:\n\t- moved struct user_namespace to files user_namespace.{c,h}\n\nChanges since [try #2]:\n\t- removed struct user_namespace* argument from find_user()\n\nChanges since [try #1]:\n\t- removed struct user_namespace* argument from find_user()\n\t- added a root_user per user namespace\n\nSigned-off-by: Cedric Le Goater \u003cclg@fr.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn \u003cserue@us.ibm.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Pavel Emelianov \u003cxemul@openvz.org\u003e\nCc: Herbert Poetzl \u003cherbert@13thfloor.at\u003e\nCc: Kirill Korotaev \u003cdev@sw.ru\u003e\nCc: Eric W. Biederman \u003cebiederm@xmission.com\u003e\nCc: Chris Wright \u003cchrisw@sous-sol.org\u003e\nCc: Stephen Smalley \u003csds@tycho.nsa.gov\u003e\nCc: James Morris \u003cjmorris@namei.org\u003e\nCc: Andrew Morgan \u003cagm@google.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "e18b890bb0881bbab6f4f1a6cd20d9c60d66b003", "tree": "4828be07e1c24781c264b42c5a75bcd968223c3f", "parents": [ "441e143e95f5aa1e04026cb0aa71c801ba53982f" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Lameter", "email": "clameter@sgi.com", "time": "Wed Dec 06 20:33:20 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.osdl.org", "time": "Thu Dec 07 08:39:25 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t\n\nReplace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.\n\nThe patch was generated using the following script:\n\n\t#!/bin/sh\n\t#\n\t# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.\n\t#\n\n\tset -e\n\n\tfor file in `find * -name \"*.c\" -o -name \"*.h\"|xargs grep -l $1`; do\n\t\tquilt add $file\n\t\tsed -e \"1,\\$s/$1/$2/g\" $file \u003e/tmp/$$\n\t\tmv /tmp/$$ $file\n\t\tquilt refresh\n\tdone\n\nThe script was run like this\n\n\tsh replace kmem_cache_t \"struct kmem_cache\"\n\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@sgi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "e94b1766097d53e6f3ccfb36c8baa562ffeda3fc", "tree": "93fa0a8ab84976d4e89c50768ca8b8878d642a0d", "parents": [ "54e6ecb23951b195d02433a741c7f7cb0b796c78" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Lameter", "email": "clameter@sgi.com", "time": "Wed Dec 06 20:33:17 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.osdl.org", "time": "Thu Dec 07 08:39:24 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_KERNEL\n\nSLAB_KERNEL is an alias of GFP_KERNEL.\n\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@sgi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "45c18b0bb579b5c1b89f8c99f1b6ffa4c586ba08", "tree": "2dbd334c763232ce2de46739908054639e5629c8", "parents": [ "80491eb90c750fcd7d13830062f27ae9b7cc5f75" ], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Nov 04 10:06:02 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Nov 04 10:06:02 2006 -0800" }, "message": "Fix unlikely (but possible) race condition on task-\u003euser access\n\nThere\u0027s a possible race condition when doing a \"switch_uid()\" from one\nuser to another, which could race with another thread doing a signal\nallocation and looking at the old thread -\u003euser pointer as it is freed.\n\nThis explains an oops reported by Lukasz Trabinski:\n\thttp://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/462241\n\nWe fix this by delaying the (reference-counted) freeing of the user\nstructure until the thread signal handler lock has been released, so\nthat we know that the signal allocation has either seen the new value or\nhas properly incremented the reference count of the old one.\n\nRace identified by Oleg Nesterov.\n\nCc: Lukasz Trabinski \u003clukasz@wsisiz.edu.pl\u003e\nCc: Oleg Nesterov \u003coleg@tv-sign.ru\u003e\nCc: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nCc: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "d720024e94de4e8b7f10ee83c532926f3ad5d708", "tree": "8f21613c29a26bfbeb334cb0104b8b998b09fbdc", "parents": [ "f893afbe1262e27e91234506f72e17716190dd2f" ], "author": { "name": "Michael LeMay", "email": "mdlemay@epoch.ncsc.mil", "time": "Thu Jun 22 14:47:17 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Thu Jun 22 15:05:55 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] selinux: add hooks for key subsystem\n\nIntroduce SELinux hooks to support the access key retention subsystem\nwithin the kernel. Incorporate new flask headers from a modified version\nof the SELinux reference policy, with support for the new security class\nrepresenting retained keys. Extend the \"key_alloc\" security hook with a\ntask parameter representing the intended ownership context for the key\nbeing allocated. Attach security information to root\u0027s default keyrings\nwithin the SELinux initialization routine.\n\nHas passed David\u0027s testsuite.\n\nSigned-off-by: Michael LeMay \u003cmdlemay@epoch.ncsc.mil\u003e\nSigned-off-by: David Howells \u003cdhowells@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: James Morris \u003cjmorris@namei.org\u003e\nAcked-by: Chris Wright \u003cchrisw@sous-sol.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "2d9048e201bfb67ba21f05e647b1286b8a4a5667", "tree": "1df2ca6780d403f3209cf445f8b0b27f45098434", "parents": [ "90204e0b7b51e9f2a6905adca12dc331128602c7" ], "author": { "name": "Amy Griffis", "email": "amy.griffis@hp.com", "time": "Thu Jun 01 13:10:59 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Al Viro", "email": "viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk", "time": "Tue Jun 20 05:25:17 2006 -0400" }, "message": "[PATCH] inotify (1/5): split kernel API from userspace support\n\nThe following series of patches introduces a kernel API for inotify,\nmaking it possible for kernel modules to benefit from inotify\u0027s\nmechanism for watching inodes. With these patches, inotify will\nmaintain for each caller a list of watches (via an embedded struct\ninotify_watch), where each inotify_watch is associated with a\ncorresponding struct inode. The caller registers an event handler and\nspecifies for which filesystem events their event handler should be\ncalled per inotify_watch.\n\nSigned-off-by: Amy Griffis \u003camy.griffis@hp.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Robert Love \u003crml@novell.com\u003e\nAcked-by: John McCutchan \u003cjohn@johnmccutchan.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Al Viro \u003cviro@zeniv.linux.org.uk\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "36f574135e36b86bb6ae794bf1d0fce3efa5601f", "tree": "9dd55b2244d2ac9f7e05098e7236aa8cf6cd6d60", "parents": [ "3cf64b933c90ba701cfdc7188431104c646d7c9e" ], "author": { "name": "Andrew Morton", "email": "akpm@osdl.org", "time": "Fri Mar 24 03:15:47 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Mar 24 07:33:20 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] free_uid() locking improvement\n\nReduce lock hold times in free_uid().\n\nCc: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nCc: \"Paul E. McKenney\" \u003cpaulmck@us.ibm.com\u003e\nCc: David Howells \u003cdhowells@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "3fa97c9db4f6f93f41f7a40d08872dbfd8dc907e", "tree": "6a71aea65a6854f6ab16dc2f8cadf885f01b927e", "parents": [ "b8c475be7bf9b79e6417c08d7a921b2e8cb04258" ], "author": { "name": "Andrew Morton", "email": "akpm@osdl.org", "time": "Tue Jan 31 16:34:26 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Tue Jan 31 16:49:43 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] \"Fix uidhash_lock \u003c-\u003e RXU deadlock\" fix\n\nI get storms of warnings from local_bh_enable(). Better-tested patches,\nplease.\n\nCc: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nCc: \"Paul E. McKenney\" \u003cpaulmck@us.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "4021cb279a532728c3208a16b9b09b0ca8016850", "tree": "1103bc655772ea388eb1fb2b259797bc9c703926", "parents": [ "d5bee775137c56ed993f1b3c9d66c268b3525d7d" ], "author": { "name": "Ingo Molnar", "email": "mingo@elte.hu", "time": "Wed Jan 25 15:23:07 2006 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Tue Jan 31 11:30:18 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] fix uidhash_lock \u003c-\u003e RCU deadlock\n\nRCU task-struct freeing can call free_uid(), which is taking\nuidhash_lock - while other users of uidhash_lock are softirq-unsafe.\n\nThe fix is to always take the uidhash_spinlock in a softirq-safe manner.\n\nSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nAcked-by: Paul E. McKenney \u003cpaulmck@us.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "0eeca28300df110bd6ed54b31193c83b87921443", "tree": "7db42d8a18d80eca538f5b7d25e0532b8fa38b85", "parents": [ "bd4c625c061c2a38568d0add3478f59172455159" ], "author": { "name": "Robert Love", "email": "rml@novell.com", "time": "Tue Jul 12 17:06:03 2005 -0400" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Tue Jul 12 20:38:38 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] inotify\n\ninotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly\nits inability to scale and its terrible user interface:\n\n * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory\n that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many\n open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.\n * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to\n directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects\n the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of\n stat structures.\n * dnotify\u0027s interface to user-space is awful. Signals?\n\ninotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change\nnotification:\n\n * inotify\u0027s interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.\n\t You get a single fd, which is select()-able.\n * inotify has an event that says \"the filesystem that the item\n you were watching is on was unmounted.\"\n * inotify can watch directories or files.\n\nInotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),\nGamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.\n\nSee Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.\n\nSigned-off-by: Robert Love \u003crml@novell.com\u003e\nCc: John McCutchan \u003cttb@tentacle.dhs.org\u003e\nCc: Christoph Hellwig \u003chch@lst.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2", "tree": "0bba044c4ce775e45a88a51686b5d9f90697ea9d", "parents": [], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700" }, "message": "Linux-2.6.12-rc2\n\nInitial git repository build. I\u0027m not bothering with the full history,\neven though we have it. We can create a separate \"historical\" git\narchive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it\u0027s about\n3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early\ngit days unnecessarily complicated, when we don\u0027t have a lot of good\ninfrastructure for it.\n\nLet it rip!\n" } ] }