[PATCHv2 1/2] ARM: msm: Remove irqs-*.h files for DT based targets (no replies)
From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> We don't want or need the irqs.h files from the DT based MSM targets. Remove these header files and select sparse irq so that we don't try to include...
View Article[PATCH] dmadevices: dma_sync_wait and dma_find_channel undefined (1 reply)
dma_sync_wait and dma_find_channel are declared regardless of whether CONFIG_DMA_ENGINE is enabled, but calling the function without CONFIG_DMA_ENGINE enabled results "undefined reference" errors. To...
View Article[PATCH 2/2] ARM: msm: trout: fix uninit var warning (no replies)
Fix the following warning when !CONFIG_MMC: arch/arm/mach-msm/board-trout.c: In function 'trout_init': arch/arm/mach-msm/board-trout.c:67:6: warning: unused variable 'rc' [-Wunused-variable] int rc; ^...
View Article[PATCH 1/2] ARM: msm: trout: fix 'pointer from integer' warnings (no replies)
Fix several errors, all in the following form: arch/arm/mach-msm/board-trout-gpio.c: In function 'trout_gpio_irq_ack': arch/arm/mach-msm/board-trout-gpio.c:120:2: warning: passing argument 2 of...
View Article[PATCH] mm/hotplug: Remove stop_machine() from try_offline_node() (1 reply)
lock_device_hotplug() serializes hotplug & online/offline operations. The lock is held in common sysfs online/offline interfaces and ACPI hotplug code paths. try_offline_node() off-lines a node if...
View Article[PATCH] cpu/mem hotplug: Add try_online_node() for cpu_up() (no replies)
cpu_up() has #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG code blocks, which call mem_online_node() to put its node online if offlined and then call build_all_zonelists() to initialize the zone list. These steps are...
View ArticleRe: [Bug 60555] New: Some amount of ifconfig cause load average increase and...
[+cc Thomas, e1000e driver folks, linux-pci, lkml] On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 2:31 AM, <bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org> wrote: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60555 > >...
View ArticleNamaste (no replies)
Hello , Namaste to you and your loved ones. Kindly forgive my intrusion ,my email must have come as a surprise to you seeing that we hardly know eachother ,I am a native of India ,female and 26yrs of...
View Article[PATCH 02/16] integrity: Add a function to determine digital signature length...
Currently if security.ima has digital signature, there is only one structure in there. Either version 1 or version 2 of digital signature. So all the functions assume that whole of the security.ima...
View Article[PATCH 10/16] keyctl: Introduce a new operation KEYCTL_VERIFY_SIGNATURE (no...
This is based on a patch david howells sent me. I have modified that patch to meet my needs. Extend kecytl() to add an option to verify signature of a user buffer. One needs to pass in the signature...
View Article[PATCH 06/16] ima: export new IMA functions for signature verification (no...
Export IMA functions so that other subsystems can use IMA for file signature verification. Why introduce these functions and not use security hooks? Now callers have new requirements which are not...
View Article[PATCH 09/16] ima: define functions to appraise memory buffer contents (no...
I need to provide user space with facility that it can call into kernel for signature verification of a file. Trying to rely on file based appraisal has the downside that somebody might write to file...
View Article[PATCH 08/16] binfmt_elf: Elf executable signature verification (no replies)
Do elf executable signature verification (if one is present). If signature is present, it should be valid. Validly signed executables are locked in memory and a flag cred->proc_signed gets set to...
View Article[PATCH 11/16] ptrace: Do not allow ptrace() from unsigned process to signed...
Do not allow unsigned processes to ptrace() signed ones otherwise they can modify the address space of signed processes and whole purpose of signature verification is defeated. Signed-off-by: Vivek...
View Article[PATCH 16/16] mount: Add a flag to not follow symlink at the end of mount...
I have a requirement where I want to make sure that mount() fails if mount point is a symlink. Hence introducing a new mount flag MS_NOSYMLINK. Following is little more info on what I am trying to do....
View Article[PATCH 13/16] kexec: Allow only signed processes to call sys_kexec() in...
Modify sys_kexec() so that it allows only signed processes to execute sys_kexec() when secureboot is enabled. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> --- kernel/kexec.c | 29...
View Article[PATCH 12/16] binfmt_elf: Do not mark process signed if binary has elf...
Currently one can write to shared libraries while these are mapped. That means shared library code can not be trusted as after signature verification, one can overwrite the code. Till we find a way to...
View Article[PATCH 15/16] bootparam: Pass acpi_rsdp pointer in bootparam (1 reply)
Currently kexec does not enables EFI and its tables in second kernel. Hence acpi rsdp root pointer is passed on command line. But secureboot does not trust acpi_rsdp on command line as kernel can...
View Article[PATCH 03/16] ima: Allow adding more memory locking metadata after digital...
Now user space tools should be able to append more metadata after digital signature in security.ima attribute. I intend to add an structure which tells whether to memory lock a file or not during...
View Article[PATCH 07/16] mm: Define a task flag MMF_VM_LOCKED for memlocked tasks and...
Define a flag to mark tasks which are running locked in memory. And use it to deny munlock/munlockall operation. We want to lock down a task in memory so that it is not swapped out. Otherwise it is...
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