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-rw-r--r--kernel/.gitignore5
-rw-r--r--kernel/configs.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/futex.c6
-rw-r--r--kernel/ksysfs.c30
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c37
5 files changed, 57 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/.gitignore b/kernel/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f2ab70073bd4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kernel/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#
+# Generated files
+#
+config_data.h
+config_data.gz
diff --git a/kernel/configs.c b/kernel/configs.c
index 986f7af31e0a..009e1ebdcb88 100644
--- a/kernel/configs.c
+++ b/kernel/configs.c
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
* Echo the kernel .config file used to build the kernel
*
* Copyright (C) 2002 Khalid Aziz <khalid_aziz@hp.com>
- * Copyright (C) 2002 Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>
+ * Copyright (C) 2002 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
* Copyright (C) 2002 Al Stone <ahs3@fc.hp.com>
* Copyright (C) 2002 Hewlett-Packard Company
*
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 5872e3507f35..5e71a6bf6f6b 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/ksysfs.c b/kernel/ksysfs.c
index 015fb69ad94d..99af8b05eeaa 100644
--- a/kernel/ksysfs.c
+++ b/kernel/ksysfs.c
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
+u64 uevent_seqnum;
+char uevent_helper[UEVENT_HELPER_PATH_LEN] = "/sbin/hotplug";
+
#define KERNEL_ATTR_RO(_name) \
static struct subsys_attribute _name##_attr = __ATTR_RO(_name)
@@ -23,11 +26,29 @@ static struct subsys_attribute _name##_attr = \
__ATTR(_name, 0644, _name##_show, _name##_store)
#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG
-static ssize_t hotplug_seqnum_show(struct subsystem *subsys, char *page)
+/* current uevent sequence number */
+static ssize_t uevent_seqnum_show(struct subsystem *subsys, char *page)
+{
+ return sprintf(page, "%llu\n", (unsigned long long)uevent_seqnum);
+}
+KERNEL_ATTR_RO(uevent_seqnum);
+
+/* uevent helper program, used during early boo */
+static ssize_t uevent_helper_show(struct subsystem *subsys, char *page)
+{
+ return sprintf(page, "%s\n", uevent_helper);
+}
+static ssize_t uevent_helper_store(struct subsystem *subsys, const char *page, size_t count)
{
- return sprintf(page, "%llu\n", (unsigned long long)hotplug_seqnum);
+ if (count+1 > UEVENT_HELPER_PATH_LEN)
+ return -ENOENT;
+ memcpy(uevent_helper, page, count);
+ uevent_helper[count] = '\0';
+ if (count && uevent_helper[count-1] == '\n')
+ uevent_helper[count-1] = '\0';
+ return count;
}
-KERNEL_ATTR_RO(hotplug_seqnum);
+KERNEL_ATTR_RW(uevent_helper);
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
@@ -45,7 +66,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kernel_subsys);
static struct attribute * kernel_attrs[] = {
#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG
- &hotplug_seqnum_attr.attr,
+ &uevent_seqnum_attr.attr,
+ &uevent_helper_attr.attr,
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
&crash_notes_attr.attr,
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 9990e10192e8..345f4a1d533f 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/kobject.h>
#include <linux/net.h>
#include <linux/sysrq.h>
#include <linux/highuid.h>
@@ -83,9 +84,6 @@ static int ngroups_max = NGROUPS_MAX;
#ifdef CONFIG_KMOD
extern char modprobe_path[];
#endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG
-extern char hotplug_path[];
-#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG
extern int sg_big_buff;
#endif
@@ -397,8 +395,8 @@ static ctl_table kern_table[] = {
{
.ctl_name = KERN_HOTPLUG,
.procname = "hotplug",
- .data = &hotplug_path,
- .maxlen = HOTPLUG_PATH_LEN,
+ .data = &uevent_helper,
+ .maxlen = UEVENT_HELPER_PATH_LEN,
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = &proc_dostring,
.strategy = &sysctl_string,
@@ -2192,29 +2190,32 @@ 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 +2224,7 @@ int sysctl_string(ctl_table *table, int __user *name, int nlen,
len--;
((char *) table->data)[len] = 0;
}
- return 0;
+ return 1;
}
/*