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authorJody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com>2006-01-04 11:43:17 -0500
committerJody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com>2006-01-04 11:43:17 -0500
commit34b8c399dc04c8e51f014b73458e654570698597 (patch)
tree7027eda7a780e9d945ef271f8c2ea5aaede5dd25 /kernel
parenteaceec7f6cc5223d0f146086884d67746b8aa81d (diff)
parent88026842b0a760145aa71d69e74fbc9ec118ca44 (diff)
Merge with http://kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/futex.c6
-rw-r--r--kernel/params.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c29
3 files changed, 23 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 5872e3507f3..5e71a6bf6f6 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -270,7 +270,13 @@ static void wake_futex(struct futex_q *q)
/*
* The waiting task can free the futex_q as soon as this is written,
* without taking any locks. This must come last.
+ *
+ * A memory barrier is required here to prevent the following store
+ * to lock_ptr from getting ahead of the wakeup. Clearing the lock
+ * at the end of wake_up_all() does not prevent this store from
+ * moving.
*/
+ wmb();
q->lock_ptr = NULL;
}
diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index 47ba6954794..c76ad25e6a2 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ static void __init param_sysfs_builtin(void)
/* module-related sysfs stuff */
-#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
#define to_module_attr(n) container_of(n, struct module_attribute, attr);
#define to_module_kobject(n) container_of(n, struct module_kobject, kobj);
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 9990e10192e..b53115b882e 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -2192,29 +2192,32 @@ int sysctl_string(ctl_table *table, int __user *name, int nlen,
void __user *oldval, size_t __user *oldlenp,
void __user *newval, size_t newlen, void **context)
{
- size_t l, len;
-
if (!table->data || !table->maxlen)
return -ENOTDIR;
if (oldval && oldlenp) {
- if (get_user(len, oldlenp))
+ size_t bufsize;
+ if (get_user(bufsize, oldlenp))
return -EFAULT;
- if (len) {
- l = strlen(table->data);
- if (len > l) len = l;
- if (len >= table->maxlen)
+ if (bufsize) {
+ size_t len = strlen(table->data), copied;
+
+ /* This shouldn't trigger for a well-formed sysctl */
+ if (len > table->maxlen)
len = table->maxlen;
- if(copy_to_user(oldval, table->data, len))
- return -EFAULT;
- if(put_user(0, ((char __user *) oldval) + len))
+
+ /* Copy up to a max of bufsize-1 bytes of the string */
+ copied = (len >= bufsize) ? bufsize - 1 : len;
+
+ if (copy_to_user(oldval, table->data, copied) ||
+ put_user(0, (char __user *)(oldval + copied)))
return -EFAULT;
- if(put_user(len, oldlenp))
+ if (put_user(len, oldlenp))
return -EFAULT;
}
}
if (newval && newlen) {
- len = newlen;
+ size_t len = newlen;
if (len > table->maxlen)
len = table->maxlen;
if(copy_from_user(table->data, newval, len))
@@ -2223,7 +2226,7 @@ int sysctl_string(ctl_table *table, int __user *name, int nlen,
len--;
((char *) table->data)[len] = 0;
}
- return 0;
+ return 1;
}
/*