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* Relax the rw_verify_area() error checking.Linus Torvalds2006-01-051-9/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In particular, allow over-large read- or write-requests to be downgraded to a more reasonable range, rather than considering them outright errors. We want to protect lower layers from (the sadly all too common) overflow conditions, but prefer to do so by chopping the requests up, rather than just refusing them outright. Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] readv/writev syscalls are not checked by lsmKostik Belousov2005-09-301-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | it seems that readv(2)/writev(2) syscalls do not call file_permission callback. Looks like this is overlook. I have filled the issue into redhat bugzilla as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169433 and got the recommendation to post this on lsm mailing list. The following trivial patch solves the problem. Signed-off-by: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] remove file.f_maxcountEric Dumazet2005-09-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | struct file cleanup: f_maxcount has an unique value (INT_MAX). Just use the hard-wired value. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] inotifyRobert Love2005-07-131-6/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly its inability to scale and its terrible user interface: * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount. * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of stat structures. * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful. Signals? inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change notification: * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO. You get a single fd, which is select()-able. * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item you were watching is on was unmounted." * inotify can watch directories or files. Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure), Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects. See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] aio: fix do_sync_(read|write) to properly handle aio retriesBenjamin LaHaise2005-06-231-2/+18
| | | | | | | | | | When do_sync_(read|write) encounters an aio method that makes use of the retry mechanism, they fail to correctly retry the operation. This fixes that by adding the appropriate sleep and retry mechanism. Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <benjamin.c.lahaise@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] undo do_readv_writev() behavior changeDave Hansen2005-04-171-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | Bugme bug 4326: http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4326 reports: executing the systemcall readv with Bad argument ->len == -1) it gives out error EFAULT instead of EINVAL Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-171-0/+730
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!