Summary of changes from v2.6.11.8 to v2.6.11.9
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<gregkh@suse.de>
Cset exclude: khali@linux-fr.org[gregkh]|ChangeSet|20050430010004|65088
Revert the msdos.c patch as it causes more problems than it helps right now.
(it got munged together with the i2c patch also, stupid scripts...)
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
<khali@linux-fr.org>
[PATCH] I2C: Fix incorrect sysfs file permissions in it87 and via686a drivers
The it87 and via686a hardware monitoring drivers each create a sysfs
file named "alarms" in R/W mode, while they should really create it in
read-only mode. Since we don't provide a store function for these files,
write attempts to these files will do something undefined (I guess) and
bad (I am sure). My own try resulted in a locked terminal (where I
attempted the write) and a 100% CPU load until next reboot.
As a side note, wouldn't it make sense to check, when creating sysfs
files, that readable files have a non-NULL show method, and writable
files have a non-NULL store method? I know drivers are not supposed to
do stupid things, but there is already a BUG_ON for several conditions
in sysfs_create_file, so maybe we could add two more?
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
<chrisw@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Security contact info
Add security contact info and relevant documentation.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
<akpm@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Remove bogus BUG() in kernel/exit.c
Remove bogus BUG() in kernel/exit.c
It's old sanity checking that may have been useful for debugging, but
is just bogus these days.
Noticed by Mattia Belletti.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
<gregkh@suse.de>
[PATCH] fix Linux kernel ELF core dump privilege elevation
As reported by Paul Starzetz <ihaquer@isec.pl>
Reference: CAN-2005-1263
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
<gregkh@suse.de>
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