)]}' { "log": [ { "commit": "72658e9d5004fc0dd807bea9eda49e6a52e40103", "tree": "e5abcecc18a02144c9e0413f9ff3f6601aa795c7", "parents": [ "666bfddbe8b8fd4fd44617d6c55193d5ac7edb29" ], "author": { "name": "Vivek Goyal", "email": "vgoyal@in.ibm.com", "time": "Sat Jun 25 14:58:22 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Jun 25 16:24:53 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] kdump: Parse elf32 headers and export through /proc/vmcore\n\no Adds support for parsing core ELF32 headers.\no I am expecting ELF32 support to go away down the line. This patch has been\n introduced for testing purposes as gdb can not parse ELF64 headers for\n i386. When a decent user space solution is available, ELF32 support\n can go away.\n\nSigned-off-by: Vivek Goyal \u003cvgoyal@in.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "666bfddbe8b8fd4fd44617d6c55193d5ac7edb29", "tree": "74b03732131c51dbfd79a06f97d5ccec8894f9f3", "parents": [ "2030eae52b416a9a9f0ffda74c982b7f1e19496d" ], "author": { "name": "Vivek Goyal", "email": "vgoyal@in.ibm.com", "time": "Sat Jun 25 14:58:21 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Jun 25 16:24:53 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] kdump: Access dump file in elf format (/proc/vmcore)\n\nFrom: \"Vivek Goyal\" \u003cvgoyal@in.ibm.com\u003e\n\no Support for /proc/vmcore interface. This interface exports elf core image\n either in ELF32 or ELF64 format, depending on the format in which elf headers\n have been stored by crashed kernel.\no Added support for CONFIG_VMCORE config option.\no Removed the dependency on /proc/kcore.\n\nFrom: \"Eric W. Biederman\" \u003cebiederm@xmission.com\u003e\n\nThis patch has been refactored to more closely match the prevailing style in\nthe affected files. And to clearly indicate the dependency between\n/proc/kcore and proc/vmcore.c\n\nFrom: Hariprasad Nellitheertha \u003chari@in.ibm.com\u003e\n\nThis patch contains the code that provides an ELF format interface to the\nprevious kernel\u0027s memory post kexec reboot.\n\nSigned off by Hariprasad Nellitheertha \u003chari@in.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Eric Biederman \u003cebiederm@xmission.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Vivek Goyal \u003cvgoyal@in.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "d6e711448137ca3301512cec41a2c2ce852b3d0a", "tree": "f0765ebd90fdbdf270c05fcd7f3d32b24ba56681", "parents": [ "8b0914ea7475615c7c8965c1ac8fe4069270f25c" ], "author": { "name": "Alan Cox", "email": "alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk", "time": "Thu Jun 23 00:09:43 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Thu Jun 23 09:45:26 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] setuid core dump\n\nAdd a new `suid_dumpable\u0027 sysctl:\n\nThis value can be used to query and set the core dump mode for setuid\nor otherwise protected/tainted binaries. The modes are\n\n0 - (default) - traditional behaviour. Any process which has changed\n privilege levels or is execute only will not be dumped\n\n1 - (debug) - all processes dump core when possible. The core dump is\n owned by the current user and no security is applied. This is intended\n for system debugging situations only. Ptrace is unchecked.\n\n2 - (suidsafe) - any binary which normally would not be dumped is dumped\n readable by root only. This allows the end user to remove such a dump but\n not access it directly. For security reasons core dumps in this mode will\n not overwrite one another or other files. This mode is appropriate when\n adminstrators are attempting to debug problems in a normal environment.\n\n(akpm:\n\n\u003e \u003e +EXPORT_SYMBOL(suid_dumpable);\n\u003e\n\u003e EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL?\n\nNo problem to me.\n\n\u003e \u003e \tif (current-\u003eeuid \u003d\u003d current-\u003euid \u0026\u0026 current-\u003eegid \u003d\u003d current-\u003egid)\n\u003e \u003e \t\tcurrent-\u003emm-\u003edumpable \u003d 1;\n\u003e\n\u003e Should this be SUID_DUMP_USER?\n\nActually the feedback I had from last time was that the SUID_ defines\nshould go because its clearer to follow the numbers. They can go\neverywhere (and there are lots of places where dumpable is tested/used\nas a bool in untouched code)\n\n\u003e Maybe this should be renamed to `dump_policy\u0027 or something. Doing that\n\u003e would help us catch any code which isn\u0027t using the #defines, too.\n\nFair comment. The patch was designed to be easy to maintain for Red Hat\nrather than for merging. Changing that field would create a gigantic\ndiff because it is used all over the place.\n\n)\n\nSigned-off-by: Alan Cox \u003calan@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "ac20427ef6aa63da663bdc88b71d16f7394f5e23", "tree": "49ba4f88c5cea42d59b386c508174f585efc8a01", "parents": [ "3bc1ee3e8f1c05c0f64a479c6d56eb34a6190599" ], "author": { "name": "Neil Horman", "email": "nhorman@redhat.com", "time": "Thu Jun 23 00:09:11 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Thu Jun 23 09:45:19 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] add check to /proc/devices read routines\n\nPatch to add check to get_chrdev_list and get_blkdev_list to prevent reads\nof /proc/devices from spilling over the provided page if more than 4096\nbytes of string data are generated from all the registered character and\nblock devices in a system\n\nSigned-off-by: Neil Horman \u003cnhorman@redhat.com\u003e\nCc: Christoph Hellwig \u003chch@lst.de\u003e\nCc: \u003cviro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "295ab93497ec703f7d6eaf0787dd9768b83035fe", "tree": "e3dce05d4cab0d7d3907a7357d37932c99ffd76d", "parents": [ "05b7438475ddbac47e75506913d44550f0e75938" ], "author": { "name": "Nikita Danilov", "email": "nikita@clusterfs.com", "time": "Tue Jun 21 17:14:38 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Tue Jun 21 18:46:14 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] mm: add /proc/zoneinfo\n\nAdd /proc/zoneinfo file to display information about memory zones. Useful\nto analyze VM behaviour.\n\nSigned-off-by: Nikita Danilov \u003cnikita@clusterfs.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "5f64f73957f6cae3222f97f2599199ee562f7f3f", "tree": "115e11766270637d3c9b2e9e0366b127af7a1fd6", "parents": [ "f93ea2349832c040bdf66dc7495aa87bfe3394b8" ], "author": { "name": "Benjamin Herrenschmidt", "email": "benh@kernel.crashing.org", "time": "Wed Jun 01 17:07:27 2005 +1000" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Jun 01 07:54:14 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] ppc32/ppc64: cleanup /proc/device-tree\n\nThis cleans up the /proc/device-tree representation of the Open Firmware\ndevice-tree on ppc and ppc64. It does the following things:\n\n - Workaround an issue in some Apple device-trees where a property may\n exist with the same name as a child node of the parent. We now\n simply \"drop\" the property instead of creating duplicate entries in\n /proc with random result...\n\n - Do not try to chop off the \"@0\" at the end of a node name whose unit\n address is 0. This is not useful, inconsistent, and the code was\n buggy and didn\u0027t always work anyway.\n\n - Do not create symlinks for the short name and unit address parts of a\n node. These were never really used, bloated the memory footprint of\n the device-tree with useless struct proc_dir_entry and their matching\n dentry and inode cache bloat.\n\nThis results in smaller code, smaller memory footprint, and a more\naccurate view of the tree presented to userland.\n\nSigned-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt \u003cbenh@kernel.crashing.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "64d13c00cf1f7c3d2c1ff449e2a0500ab568d319", "tree": "864ac985be04cc9434ffc63a7357043c2b46b8a6", "parents": [ "baae956100334ffbd101eea5eeea9a5ac9cf3abd" ], "author": { "name": "Hugh Dickins", "email": "hugh@veritas.com", "time": "Mon May 16 21:53:09 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Tue May 17 07:59:10 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] fix impossible VmallocChunk\n\nVmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB\nVmallocUsed: 266288 kB\nVmallocChunk: 18014366299193295 kB\nis unsettling - x86_64 and some other architectures keep a separate address\nrange for modules in vmalloc\u0027s vmlist, which /proc/meminfo should pass over.\n\nSigned-off-by: Hugh Dickins \u003chugh@veritas.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "27b030d58c8e72fc7a95187a791bd9406e350f02", "tree": "ab3bab7f39a5ce5bab65578a7e08fa4dfdeb198c", "parents": [ "79d20b14a0d651f15b0ef9a22b6cf12d284a6d38", "6628465e33ca694bd8fd5c3cf4eb7ff9177bc694" ], "author": { "name": "David Woodhouse", "email": "dwmw2@shinybook.infradead.org", "time": "Tue May 03 08:14:09 2005 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "David Woodhouse", "email": "dwmw2@shinybook.infradead.org", "time": "Tue May 03 08:14:09 2005 +0100" }, "message": "Merge with master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git\n\n" }, { "commit": "67be2dd1bace0ec7ce2dbc1bba3f8df3d7be597e", "tree": "317d114a0288d3b19ef9902f94b536a5a8731dbd", "parents": [ "6013d5445f9a6d0b28090027868f455c5012d1cc" ], "author": { "name": "Martin Waitz", "email": "tali@admingilde.org", "time": "Sun May 01 08:59:26 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sun May 01 08:59:26 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] DocBook: fix some descriptions\n\nSome KernelDoc descriptions are updated to match the current code.\nNo code changes.\n\nSigned-off-by: Martin Waitz \u003ctali@admingilde.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "4dc3b16ba18c0f967ad100c52fa65b01a4f76ff0", "tree": "fa038ad8969980eec6cef5b737872fda9feb4c6a", "parents": [ "333f981720d619e2038b980a55ad01b10580eb9f" ], "author": { "name": "Pavel Pisa", "email": "pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz", "time": "Sun May 01 08:59:25 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sun May 01 08:59:25 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] DocBook: changes and extensions to the kernel documentation\n\nI have recompiled Linux kernel 2.6.11.5 documentation for me and our\nuniversity students again. The documentation could be extended for more\nsources which are equipped by structured comments for recent 2.6 kernels. I\nhave tried to proceed with that task. I have done that more times from 2.6.0\ntime and it gets boring to do same changes again and again. Linux kernel\ncompiles after changes for i386 and ARM targets. I have added references to\nsome more files into kernel-api book, I have added some section names as well.\n So please, check that changes do not break something and that categories are\nnot too much skewed.\n\nI have changed kernel-doc to accept \"fastcall\" and \"asmlinkage\" words reserved\nby kernel convention. Most of the other changes are modifications in the\ncomments to make kernel-doc happy, accept some parameters description and do\nnot bail out on errors. Changed \u003cpid\u003e to @pid in the description, moved some\n#ifdef before comments to correct function to comments bindings, etc.\n\nYou can see result of the modified documentation build at\n http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~pisa/linux/lkdb-2.6.11.tar.gz\n\nSome more sources are ready to be included into kernel-doc generated\ndocumentation. Sources has been added into kernel-api for now. Some more\nsection names added and probably some more chaos introduced as result of quick\ncleanup work.\n\nSigned-off-by: Pavel Pisa \u003cpisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Martin Waitz \u003ctali@admingilde.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "f246315e1ab96c40978777d1e159820ecca45aa8", "tree": "32ed8f99da48313838d5aa863f5d3e7ed984213f", "parents": [ "bcf88e1163623e8e8ef2ba7feface9c826a890c9" ], "author": { "name": "Daniel Drake", "email": "dsd@gentoo.org", "time": "Sun May 01 08:59:03 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sun May 01 08:59:03 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] procfs: Fix hardlink counts for /proc/\u003cPID\u003e/task\n\nThe current logic assumes that a /proc/\u003cPID\u003e/task directory should have a\nhardlink count of 3, probably counting \".\", \"..\", and a directory for a\nsingle child task.\n\nIt\u0027s fairly obvious that this doesn\u0027t work out correctly when a PID has\nmore than one child task, which is quite often the case.\n\nSigned-off-by: Daniel Drake \u003cdsd@gentoo.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "bcf88e1163623e8e8ef2ba7feface9c826a890c9", "tree": "b385deef7d18d781d8f9e02af40c7bce3f43885d", "parents": [ "7f261b5f0dccd53ed3a9a95b55c36e24a698a92a" ], "author": { "name": "Daniel Drake", "email": "dsd@gentoo.org", "time": "Sun May 01 08:59:03 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sun May 01 08:59:03 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] procfs: Fix hardlink counts\n\nThe pid directories in /proc/ currently return the wrong hardlink count - 3,\nwhen there are actually 4 : \".\", \"..\", \"fd\", and \"task\".\n\nThis is easy to notice using find(1):\n\tcd /proc/\u003cpid\u003e\n\tfind\n\nIn the output, you\u0027ll see a message similar to:\n\nfind: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for .: this may be a bug in your\nfilesystem driver. Automatically turning on find\u0027s -noleaf option.\nEarlier results may have failed to include directories that should have\nbeen searched.\n\nhttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id\u003d86031\n\nI also noticed that CONFIG_SECURITY can add a 5th: attr, and performed a\nsimilar fix on the task directories too.\n\nSigned-off-by: Daniel Drake \u003cdsd@gentoo.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "456be6cd90dbbb9b0ea01d56932d56d110d51cf7", "tree": "27f0d001610f686d11ff460cb6c848a599c8ca4f", "parents": [ "37509e749dc2072e667db806ef24b9e897f61b8a" ], "author": { "name": "Steve Grubb", "email": "sgrubb@redhat.com", "time": "Fri Apr 29 17:30:07 2005 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "", "email": "dwmw2@shinybook.infradead.org", "time": "Fri Apr 29 17:30:07 2005 +0100" }, "message": "[AUDIT] LOGIN message credentials\n\nAttached is a new patch that solves the issue of getting valid credentials \ninto the LOGIN message. The current code was assuming that the audit context \nhad already been copied. This is not always the case for LOGIN messages.\n\nTo solve the problem, the patch passes the task struct to the function that \nemits the message where it can get valid credentials.\n\nSigned-off-by: Steve Grubb \u003csgrubb@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: David Woodhouse \u003cdwmw2@infradead.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "4c4c402d6caba5d938ffbbb49961659ecac709d4", "tree": "98c85314a6c8d753e27163e729a0dbc493018ce1", "parents": [ "76c3073a888ae7f4790a146784bb5c34fc24b9d2" ], "author": { "name": "Martin Hicks", "email": "mort@sgi.com", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:24:08 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:24:08 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] meminfo: add Cached underflow check\n\nWorking on some code lately I\u0027ve been getting huge values for \"Cached\".\nThe cause is that get_page_cache_size() is an approximate value, and for a\nsufficiently small returned value of get_page_cache_size() the value\nunderflows.\n\nSigned-off-by: Martin Hicks \u003cmort@sgi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "79befd0c08c4766f8fa27e37ac2a70e40840a56a", "tree": "d0600c289b1a54902e3b78eec0729dc7011569a3", "parents": [ "d345734267dbec642f4e34a9d392d2fd85b5fa9b" ], "author": { "name": "Andrea Arcangeli", "email": "andrea@suse.de", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:24:05 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:24:05 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] oom-killer disable for iscsi/lvm2/multipath userland critical sections\n\niscsi/lvm2/multipath needs guaranteed protection from the oom-killer, so\nmake the magical value of -17 in /proc/\u003cpid\u003e/oom_adj defeat the oom-killer\naltogether.\n\n(akpm: we still need to document oom_adj and friends in\nDocumentation/filesystems/proc.txt!)\n\nSigned-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli \u003candrea@suse.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" } ] }