)]}' { "log": [ { "commit": "be21f0ab0d8f10c90265066603a8d95b6037a6fa", "tree": "5aeb6f2a2e62e36a8410ef725ac76fa69ab6a182", "parents": [ "d5cd97872dca9b79c31224ca014bcea7ca01f5f1" ], "author": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@kernel.org", "time": "Wed Nov 14 17:00:01 2007 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Wed Nov 14 18:45:41 2007 -0800" }, "message": "fix mm/util.c:krealloc()\n\nCommit ef8b4520bd9f8294ffce9abd6158085bde5dc902 added one NULL check for\n\"p\" in krealloc(), but that doesn\u0027t seem to be enough since there\ndoesn\u0027t seem to be any guarantee that memcpy(ret, NULL, 0) works\n(spotted by the Coverity checker).\n\nFor making it clearer what happens this patch also removes the pointless\nmin().\n\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@kernel.org\u003e\nAcked-by: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@sgi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "ef8b4520bd9f8294ffce9abd6158085bde5dc902", "tree": "c099a16691ac06208f4d3d65b71e7adaf7361fcd", "parents": [ "0da7e01f5f37f441cccd7c8c0586e06db0981907" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Lameter", "email": "clameter@sgi.com", "time": "Tue Oct 16 01:24:46 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue Oct 16 09:42:53 2007 -0700" }, "message": "Slab allocators: fail if ksize is called with a NULL parameter\n\nA NULL pointer means that the object was not allocated. One cannot\ndetermine the size of an object that has not been allocated. Currently we\nreturn 0 but we really should BUG() on attempts to determine the size of\nsomething nonexistent.\n\nkrealloc() interprets NULL to mean a zero sized object. Handle that\nseparately in krealloc().\n\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@sgi.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Pekka Enberg \u003cpenberg@cs.helsinki.fi\u003e\nCc: Matt Mackall \u003cmpm@selenic.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1e66df3ee301209f4a38df097d7cc5cb9b367a3f", "tree": "55beb2a342dbe08c0404f749e02808e3f09023ac", "parents": [ "8b4a40809e5330c9da5d20107d693d92d73b31dc" ], "author": { "name": "Jeremy Fitzhardinge", "email": "jeremy@xensource.com", "time": "Tue Jul 17 18:37:02 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Jeremy Fitzhardinge", "email": "jeremy@goop.org", "time": "Wed Jul 18 08:47:39 2007 -0700" }, "message": "add kstrndup\n\nAdd a kstrndup function, modelled on strndup. Like strndup this\nreturns a string copied into its own allocated memory, but it copies\nno more than the specified number of bytes from the source.\n\nRemove private strndup() from irda code.\n\nSigned-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge \u003cjeremy@xensource.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Chris Wright \u003cchrisw@sous-sol.org\u003e\nCc: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nCc: Randy Dunlap \u003crandy.dunlap@oracle.com\u003e\nCc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki \u003cyoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org\u003e\nCc: Akinobu Mita \u003cakinobu.mita@gmail.com\u003e\nCc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo \u003cacme@mandriva.com\u003e\nCc: Al Viro \u003cviro@ftp.linux.org.uk\u003e\nCc: Panagiotis Issaris \u003ctakis@issaris.org\u003e\nCc: Rene Scharfe \u003crene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "81cda6626178cd55297831296ba8ecedbfd8b52d", "tree": "fa35a6a04db63080bbeb42f33f4b4a891b7fc96c", "parents": [ "ce15fea8274acca06daa1674322d37a7d3f0036b" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Lameter", "email": "clameter@sgi.com", "time": "Tue Jul 17 04:03:29 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue Jul 17 10:23:01 2007 -0700" }, "message": "Slab allocators: Cleanup zeroing allocations\n\nIt becomes now easy to support the zeroing allocs with generic inline\nfunctions in slab.h. Provide inline definitions to allow the continued use of\nkzalloc, kmem_cache_zalloc etc but remove other definitions of zeroing\nfunctions from the slab allocators and util.c.\n\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@sgi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "6cb8f91320d3e720351c21741da795fed580b21b", "tree": "c9f73c8b82cd0f6c534939b8b9f36e8615b0ab2d", "parents": [ "ef2ad80c7d255ed0449eda947c2d700635b7e0f5" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Lameter", "email": "clameter@sgi.com", "time": "Tue Jul 17 04:03:22 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue Jul 17 10:23:01 2007 -0700" }, "message": "Slab allocators: consistent ZERO_SIZE_PTR support and NULL result semantics\n\nDefine ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR macro to be able to remove the checks from the\nallocators. Move ZERO_SIZE_PTR related stuff into slab.h.\n\nMake ZERO_SIZE_PTR work for all slab allocators and get rid of the\nWARN_ON_ONCE(size \u003d\u003d 0) that is still remaining in SLAB.\n\nMake slub return NULL like the other allocators if a too large memory segment\nis requested via __kmalloc.\n\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@sgi.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Pekka Enberg \u003cpenberg@cs.helsinki.fi\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "ef2ad80c7d255ed0449eda947c2d700635b7e0f5", "tree": "bc44916bdb25de29c8211566a4b5a1c041fa8ab6", "parents": [ "d45f39cb06610ea456e1d689149b9becacda8b40" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Lameter", "email": "clameter@sgi.com", "time": "Tue Jul 17 04:03:21 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue Jul 17 10:23:01 2007 -0700" }, "message": "Slab allocators: consolidate code for krealloc in mm/util.c\n\nThe size of a kmalloc object is readily available via ksize(). ksize is\nprovided by all allocators and thus we can implement krealloc in a generic\nway.\n\nImplement krealloc in mm/util.c and drop slab specific implementations of\nkrealloc.\n\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@sgi.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Pekka Enberg \u003cpenberg@cs.helsinki.fi\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1d2c8eea698514cfaa53fc991b960791d09508e1", "tree": "e6e2b2d491e7e7256862fcc493b81815cc966312", "parents": [ "88ca3b94e82e763ef90c8e57cacd51a3c143ea62" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Hellwig", "email": "hch@lst.de", "time": "Wed Oct 04 02:15:25 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Oct 04 07:55:13 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] slab: clean up leak tracking ifdefs a little bit\n\n- rename ____kmalloc to kmalloc_track_caller so that people have a chance\n to guess what it does just from it\u0027s name. Add a comment describing it\n for those who don\u0027t. Also move it after kmalloc in slab.h so people get\n less confused when they are just looking for kmalloc - move things around\n in slab.c a little to reduce the ifdef mess.\n\n[penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: Fix up reversed #ifdef]\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Hellwig \u003chch@lst.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Pekka Enberg \u003cpenberg@cs.helsinki.fi\u003e\nCc: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@engr.sgi.com\u003e\nCc: Al Viro \u003cviro@zeniv.linux.org.uk\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1a2f67b459bb7846d4a15924face63eb2683acc2", "tree": "4c010d4c4220c9523342fb0daac90a433f36b53e", "parents": [ "9442e691e4aec85eba43ac60a3e77c77fd2e73a4" ], "author": { "name": "Alexey Dobriyan", "email": "adobriyan@gmail.com", "time": "Sat Sep 30 23:27:20 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sun Oct 01 00:39:19 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] kmemdup: introduce\n\nOne of idiomatic ways to duplicate a region of memory is\n\n\tdst \u003d kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);\n\tif (!dst)\n\t\treturn -ENOMEM;\n\tmemcpy(dst, src, len);\n\nwhich is neat code except a programmer needs to write size twice. Which\nsometimes leads to mistakes. If len passed to kmalloc is smaller that len\npassed to memcpy, it\u0027s straight overwrite-beyond-end. If len passed to\nmemcpy is smaller than len passed to kmalloc, it\u0027s either a) legit\nbehaviour ;-), or b) cloned buffer will contain garbage in second half.\n\nSlight trolling of commit lists shows several duplications bugs\ndone exactly because of diverged lenghts:\n\n\tLinux:\n\t\t[CRYPTO]: Fix memcpy/memset args.\n\t\t[PATCH] memcpy/memset fixes\n\tOpenBSD:\n\t\tkerberosV/src/lib/asn1: der_copy.c:1.4\n\nIf programmer is given only one place to play with lengths, I believe, such\nmistakes could be avoided.\n\nWith kmemdup, the snippet above will be rewritten as:\n\n\tdst \u003d kmemdup(src, len, GFP_KERNEL);\n\tif (!dst)\n\t\treturn -ENOMEM;\n\nThis also leads to smaller code (kzalloc effect). Quick grep shows\n200+ places where kmemdup() can be used.\n\nSigned-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan \u003cadobriyan@gmail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "40c07ae8daa659b8feb149c84731629386873c16", "tree": "77d9e7572135de30f184103cc6dd36f9c0f8dfbf", "parents": [ "a8c0f9a41f88da703ade33f9c1626a55c786e8bb" ], "author": { "name": "Pekka Enberg", "email": "penberg@cs.helsinki.fi", "time": "Sat Mar 25 03:06:43 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Mar 25 08:22:49 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] slab: optimize constant-size kzalloc calls\n\nAs suggested by Eric Dumazet, optimize kzalloc() calls that pass a\ncompile-time constant size. Please note that the patch increases kernel\ntext slightly (~200 bytes for defconfig on x86).\n\nSigned-off-by: Pekka Enberg \u003cpenberg@cs.helsinki.fi\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "871751e25d956ad24f129ca972b7851feaa61d53", "tree": "c3213a17481f601339ce0c81a22eebca0946c2c7", "parents": [ "f52ac8fec8a13e207f675b0c16e0d5f800c1c204" ], "author": { "name": "Al Viro", "email": "viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk", "time": "Sat Mar 25 03:06:39 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Mar 25 08:22:49 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] slab: implement /proc/slab_allocators\n\nImplement /proc/slab_allocators. It produces output like:\n\nidr_layer_cache: 80 idr_pre_get+0x33/0x4e\nbuffer_head: 2555 alloc_buffer_head+0x20/0x75\nmm_struct: 9 mm_alloc+0x1e/0x42\nmm_struct: 20 dup_mm+0x36/0x370\nvm_area_struct: 384 dup_mm+0x18f/0x370\nvm_area_struct: 151 do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e0/0x7c3\nvm_area_struct: 1 split_vma+0x5a/0x10e\nvm_area_struct: 11 do_brk+0x206/0x2e2\nvm_area_struct: 2 copy_vma+0xda/0x142\nvm_area_struct: 9 setup_arg_pages+0x99/0x214\nfs_cache: 8 copy_fs_struct+0x21/0x133\nfs_cache: 29 copy_process+0xf38/0x10e3\nfiles_cache: 30 alloc_files+0x1b/0xcf\nsignal_cache: 81 copy_process+0xbaa/0x10e3\nsighand_cache: 77 copy_process+0xe65/0x10e3\nsighand_cache: 1 de_thread+0x4d/0x5f8\nanon_vma: 241 anon_vma_prepare+0xd9/0xf3\nsize-2048: 1 add_sect_attrs+0x5f/0x145\nsize-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x99/0x302\nsize-2048: 2 journal_init_revoke+0x137/0x302\nsize-2048: 2 journal_init_inode+0xf9/0x1c4\n\nCc: Manfred Spraul \u003cmanfred@colorfullife.com\u003e\nCc: Alexander Nyberg \u003calexn@telia.com\u003e\nCc: Pekka Enberg \u003cpenberg@cs.helsinki.fi\u003e\nCc: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@engr.sgi.com\u003e\nCc: Ravikiran Thirumalai \u003ckiran@scalex86.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Al Viro \u003cviro@zeniv.linux.org.uk\u003e\nDESC\nslab-leaks3-locking-fix\nEDESC\nFrom: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\n\nUpdate for slab-remove-cachep-spinlock.patch\n\nCc: Al Viro \u003cviro@ftp.linux.org.uk\u003e\nCc: Manfred Spraul \u003cmanfred@colorfullife.com\u003e\nCc: Alexander Nyberg \u003calexn@telia.com\u003e\nCc: Pekka Enberg \u003cpenberg@cs.helsinki.fi\u003e\nCc: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@engr.sgi.com\u003e\nCc: Ravikiran Thirumalai \u003ckiran@scalex86.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "96840aa00a031069a136ec4c55d0bdd09ac6d3a7", "tree": "f93592ca47f2412aa0cce3ce4c116d1678a42239", "parents": [ "6687a97d4041f996f725902d2990e5de6ef5cbe5" ], "author": { "name": "Davi Arnaut", "email": "davi.arnaut@gmail.com", "time": "Fri Mar 24 03:18:42 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Mar 24 07:33:31 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] strndup_user()\n\nThis patch series creates a strndup_user() function to easy copying C strings\nfrom userspace. Also we avoid common pitfalls like userspace modifying the\nfinal \\0 after the strlen_user().\n\nSigned-off-by: Davi Arnaut \u003cdavi.arnaut@gmail.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": "30992c97ae9d01b17374fbfab76a869fb4bba500", "tree": "b1ea66bec56fabd80571696d0b081423dcab2340", "parents": [ "50dd26ba0947aa653f0e42897aad7a4adce4e620" ], "author": { "name": "Matt Mackall", "email": "mpm@selenic.com", "time": "Sun Jan 08 01:01:43 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sun Jan 08 20:13:41 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] slob: introduce mm/util.c for shared functions\n\nAdd mm/util.c for functions common between SLAB and SLOB.\n\nSigned-off-by: Matt Mackall \u003cmpm@selenic.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" } ] }