Kernel

Question about binfmt_elf.c
Could somebody please update this comment to explain why fiddling with strangely protected bss is _not_ an easy way to leak arbitrary amounts of uninitalized kernel memory (with whatever previous contents they have) to userspace? nbyte = ELF_PAGEOFFSET(elf_bss); if (nbyte) { nbyte = ELF_M... 21 Jul 2010 22:24

edac: mpc85xx: Add support for new MPCxxx/Pxxxx EDAC controllers
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:25:07 +0400 Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov(a)mvista.com> wrote: Simply add proper IDs into the device table. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov(a)mvista.com> --- It appears that the driver has two device ID tables. :-) So, my previous attempt enabled only half of the fu... 21 Jul 2010 20:13

Drivers: net: 8139cp: Improved conformance to the Linux coding style guidelines.
From: Joseph Kogut <joseph.kogut(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:19:51 -0700 Please fix the clock on your computer, I don't think it's 6am in the -0700 timezone right now :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org ... 16 Jul 2010 16:34

Kconfig: Enable Kconfig fragments to be used for defconfig
On Friday 16 July 2010 19:57:55 Grant Likely wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas(a)arm.com> wrote: On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 00:04 +0100, Grant Likely wrote: sfr and I were talking about your patch the other day. Just warning on incomplete dependencies is enough to ... 16 Jul 2010 19:52

vhost-net fixes
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst(a)redhat.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:25:30 +0300 David, please pull the following fixes for 2.6.35. Thanks! The following changes since commit 91a72a70594e5212c97705ca6a694bd307f7a26b: net/core: neighbour update Oops (2010-07-14 18:02:16 -0700) are availa... 16 Jul 2010 16:34

perf fixlet
* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec(a)gmail.com> wrote: Ingo, Please pull the perf/urgent branch that can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing.git perf/urgent Thanks, Frederic --- Frederic Weisbecker (1): perf: Fix various di... 16 Jul 2010 15:28

pci: echoaudio: check kmalloc() result
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:15:43 +0400 Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon(a)gmail.com> wrote: If kmalloc() fails exit with -ENOMEM. Signed-off-by: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon(a)gmail.com> --- sound/pci/echoaudio/echoaudio.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/sound/pci/echo... 19 Jul 2010 12:27

x86/pci/mrst: add extra check in fixed bar detection
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:58:26 -0700 Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan(a)linux.intel.com> wrote: Fixed bar capability structure is searched in PCI extended configuration space. We need to make sure there is a valid capability id to begin with otherwise, the search code may stuck in a infinite loop which results in bo... 20 Jul 2010 15:46

[PATCH] x86/pci/mrst: add extra check in fixed bar detection
Fixed bar capability structure is searched in PCI extended configuration space. We need to make sure there is a valid capability id to begin with otherwise, the search code may stuck in a infinite loop which results in boot hang. This patch adds additional check for cap ID 0, which is also invalid. Suggested-by:... 16 Jul 2010 15:28

Off for vacation (July 16 - August 2 2010)
Hello! A little message to tell everyone about my 2 weeks vacation starting today. I won't have access to the Internet for the most part (rudimentary camping is planned), so hopefully waiting 2 weeks for answers won't cause too much trouble to anyone. Thanks! Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers Operating Sys... 16 Jul 2010 15:27