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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-19 14:07:55 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-19 14:07:55 -0700
commit4a1f2b0fba89cdb3b2b1be99a7411bfd24d61be5 (patch)
treee14158bdaf2a4723f98fc2411fb65416edb9f90b /kernel
parentremap_file_pages: correctly handle the case of a NULL vm_ops pointer (diff)
parentlib/dma-debug.c: fix __hash_bucket_find() (diff)
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Merge branch 'akpm' (Fixes from Andrew)
Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton: "Seven fixes" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (7 patches) lib/dma-debug.c: fix __hash_bucket_find() mm: compaction: correct the nr_strict va isolated check for CMA firmware/memmap: avoid type conflicts with the generic memmap_init() pidns: remove recursion from free_pid_ns() drivers/video/backlight/lm3639_bl.c: return proper error in lm3639_bled_mode_store() error paths kernel/sys.c: fix stack memory content leak via UNAME26 linux/coredump.h needs asm/siginfo.h
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/pid_namespace.c21
-rw-r--r--kernel/sys.c12
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/pid_namespace.c b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
index 478bad2745e3..eb00be205811 100644
--- a/kernel/pid_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
@@ -133,19 +133,26 @@ struct pid_namespace *copy_pid_ns(unsigned long flags, struct pid_namespace *old
return create_pid_namespace(old_ns);
}
-void free_pid_ns(struct kref *kref)
+static void free_pid_ns(struct kref *kref)
{
- struct pid_namespace *ns, *parent;
+ struct pid_namespace *ns;
ns = container_of(kref, struct pid_namespace, kref);
-
- parent = ns->parent;
destroy_pid_namespace(ns);
+}
- if (parent != NULL)
- put_pid_ns(parent);
+void put_pid_ns(struct pid_namespace *ns)
+{
+ struct pid_namespace *parent;
+
+ while (ns != &init_pid_ns) {
+ parent = ns->parent;
+ if (!kref_put(&ns->kref, free_pid_ns))
+ break;
+ ns = parent;
+ }
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(free_pid_ns);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(put_pid_ns);
void zap_pid_ns_processes(struct pid_namespace *pid_ns)
{
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index c5cb5b99cb81..01865c6fb6a0 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1265,15 +1265,16 @@ DECLARE_RWSEM(uts_sem);
* Work around broken programs that cannot handle "Linux 3.0".
* Instead we map 3.x to 2.6.40+x, so e.g. 3.0 would be 2.6.40
*/
-static int override_release(char __user *release, int len)
+static int override_release(char __user *release, size_t len)
{
int ret = 0;
- char buf[65];
if (current->personality & UNAME26) {
- char *rest = UTS_RELEASE;
+ const char *rest = UTS_RELEASE;
+ char buf[65] = { 0 };
int ndots = 0;
unsigned v;
+ size_t copy;
while (*rest) {
if (*rest == '.' && ++ndots >= 3)
@@ -1283,8 +1284,9 @@ static int override_release(char __user *release, int len)
rest++;
}
v = ((LINUX_VERSION_CODE >> 8) & 0xff) + 40;
- snprintf(buf, len, "2.6.%u%s", v, rest);
- ret = copy_to_user(release, buf, len);
+ copy = min(sizeof(buf), max_t(size_t, 1, len));
+ copy = scnprintf(buf, copy, "2.6.%u%s", v, rest);
+ ret = copy_to_user(release, buf, copy + 1);
}
return ret;
}