linux-dev - Linux kernel development work

Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author	Files	Lines
2017-04-20	Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/misc/	David Howells	1	-1/+1
	When the kernel is running in secure boot mode, we lock down the kernel to prevent userspace from modifying the running kernel image. Whilst this includes prohibiting access to things like /dev/mem, it must also prevent access by means of configuring driver modules in such a way as to cause a device to access or modify the kernel image. To this end, annotate module_param* statements that refer to hardware configuration and indicate for future reference what type of parameter they specify. The parameter parser in the core sees this information and can skip such parameters with an error message if the kernel is locked down. The module initialisation then runs as normal, but just sees whatever the default values for those parameters is. Note that we do still need to do the module initialisation because some drivers have viable defaults set in case parameters aren't specified and some drivers support automatic configuration (e.g. PNP or PCI) in addition to manually coded parameters. This patch annotates drivers in drivers/misc/. Suggested-by: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2014-07-09	Add MODULE_DESCRIPTION to dummy-irq.c and lkdtm.c in drivers/misc	Terry Chia	1	-0/+1
	This starts to address https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10770 Signed-off-by: Terry Chia <terrycwk1994@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-05-28	treewide: Fix typo in printk	Masanari Iida	1	-1/+1
	Correct spelling typo in various part of drivers Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-05-16	dummy-irq: require the user to specify an IRQ number	Jonathan Corbet	1	-1/+5
	Make sure that we let the user know that without specifying IRQ#, dummy-irq driver is useless. Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-03-25	dummy-irq: introduce a dummy IRQ handler driver	Jiri Kosina	1	-0/+59
	This module accepts a single 'irq' parameter, which it should register for. Its sole purpose is to help with debugging of IRQ sharing problems, by force-enabling IRQ that would otherwise be disabled. Suggested-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>