[PATCH 10/10] x86/entry/32: Add and check a stack canary for the SYSENTER stack
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> --- arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 3 ++- arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 3 +++ arch/x86/ker
View Article[GIT PULL] extcon next for 4.6
Dear Greg, This is extcon-next pull request for v4.6. I add detailed description of this pull request on below. Please pull extcon with following upd
View Article[PATCH] phy: Fix armada375 compile test build on UM
The phy-armada375-usb2 driver uses IOMEM functions so COMPILE_TEST && OF build failed with: drivers/built-in.o: In function `armada375_usb_phy_probe'
View Article[PATCH v4 22/22] sound/usb: Use Media Controller API to share media resources
Change ALSA driver to use Media Controller API to share media resources with DVB and V4L2 drivers on a AU0828 media device. Media Controller specific
View Articlelinux-next: manual merge of the target-merge tree with the net-next tree
Hi Nicholas, Today's linux-next merge of the target-merge tree got a conflict in: drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4fw_api.h between commit:
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View Article[RFC] PCI: PTM Driver
Hello LKML, This is a preliminary implementation of the PTM[1] support driver, the code is obviously hacked together and in need of refactoring. This
View Article[PATCH] PCI: PTM preliminary implementation
Simplified Precision Time Measurement driver, activates PTM feature if a PCIe PTM requester (as per PCI Express 3.1 Base Specification section 7.32)is
View Article[PATCH v18 00/22] Richacls (Core and Ext4)
Al, could you please make sure you are happy with the current version of the richacl patch queue for the next merge window? Changes since the last p
View Article[PATCH v18 01/22] vfs: Add IS_ACL() and IS_RICHACL() tests
The vfs does not apply the umask for file systems that support acls. The test used for this used to be called IS_POSIXACL(). Switch to a new IS_ACL()
View Article[PATCH v18 02/22] vfs: Add MAY_CREATE_FILE and MAY_CREATE_DIR permission flags
Richacls distinguish between creating non-directories and directories. To support that, add an isdir parameter to may_create(). When checking inode_pe
View Article[PATCH v18 03/22] vfs: Add MAY_DELETE_SELF and MAY_DELETE_CHILD permission flags
Normally, deleting a file requires MAY_WRITE access to the parent directory. With richacls, a file may be deleted with MAY_DELETE_CHILD access to the
View Article[PATCH v18 04/22] vfs: Make the inode passed to inode_change_ok non-const
We will need to call iop->permission and iop->get_acl from inode_change_ok() for additional permission checks, and both take a non-const inode. Signe
View Article[PATCH v18 05/22] vfs: Add permission flags for setting file attributes
Richacls support permissions that allow to take ownership of a file, change the file permissions, and set the file timestamps. Support that by introd
View Article[PATCH v18 06/22] richacl: In-memory representation and helper functions
A richacl consists of an NFSv4 acl and an owner, group, and other mask. These three masks correspond to the owner, group, and other file permission bi
View Article[PATCH v18 07/22] richacl: Permission mapping functions
We need to map from POSIX permissions to NFSv4 permissions when a chmod() is done, from NFSv4 permissions to POSIX permissions when an acl is set (whi
View Article[PATCH v18 08/22] richacl: Compute maximum file masks from an acl
Compute upper bound owner, group, and other file masks with as few permissions as possible without denying any permissions that the NFSv4 acl in a ric
View Article[PATCH v18 09/22] richacl: Permission check algorithm
A richacl roughly grants a requested access if the NFSv4 acl in the richacl grants the requested permissions according to the NFSv4 permission check a
View Article[PATCH v18 10/22] posix_acl: Unexport acl_by_type and make it static
acl_by_type(inode, type) returns a pointer to either inode->i_acl or inode->i_default_acl depending on type. This is useful in fs/posix_acl.c, but sh
View Article[PATCH v18 11/22] vfs: Cache base_acl objects in inodes
POSIX ACLs and richacls are both objects allocated by kmalloc() with a reference count which are freed by kfree_rcu(). An inode can either cache an a
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