Re: Sky, comma, falling. (Was Re: [uml-devel] Xen going to be in Kernel 2.6 soon?)

2005-02-07 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Sven Köhler wrote: > With the integration of UML into the Linux-Kernel i thought, that it would > speed up development of UML and make it more stable. Intead, the people still > break the UML-stuff regularly and Jeff and Blaisorblade must provide patches > again :-( That's true

Re: Sky, comma, falling. (Was Re: [uml-devel] Xen going to be in Kernel 2.6 soon?)

2005-02-07 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 07 February 2005 04:56 am, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Sven Köhler wrote: > > With the integration of UML into the Linux-Kernel i thought, that it > > would speed up development of UML and make it more stable. Intead, the > > people still break the UML-stuff regularly

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] correct gid in hostfs_kern.c

2005-02-07 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 19:20, Hannes Schulz wrote: > I was reading hostfs_* because I wanted hostfs as rootfs (when > launched by root). > --- uml-2.4.22um5-orig/arch/um/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c 2003-09-23 > 15:21:33.0 +0200 > +++ uml-2.4.22um5-hwh1/arch/um/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c 200

Re: [uml-devel] Fix compilation of UML after the stack-randomization patches

2005-02-07 Thread Blaisorblade
On Friday 04 February 2005 20:38, Frank Sorenson wrote: > The stack randomization patches that went into 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 broke > compilation of ARCH=um. This patch fixes compiling by adding > arch_align_stack back in. > > Signed-off-by: Frank Sorenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Acked-By: Jeff Dike <[EMA

[uml-devel] [patch 0/2] uml: other important patches to merge before 2.6.11

2005-02-07 Thread Blaisorblade
Andrew Morton, this is another couple of fixes for UML to go in before 2.6.11 release. The first is *really* trivial, the second is very important since it fixes a security problem (described in the changelog). For the previous ones, I've seen they were merged quickly. Thanks and regards -- Pao

[uml-devel] [patch 1/2] uml - kbuild: add further cleaning [before 2.6.11]

2005-02-07 Thread blaisorblade
From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Descend into arch/um/kernel/skas/util during make clean. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.11-paolo/arch/um/kernel/skas/Makefile |2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN arch/um

[uml-devel] [patch 2/2] uml - hostfs: (security) fix chmod +s permission check [before 2.6.11]

2005-02-07 Thread blaisorblade
From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Frank 'xraz' Fricke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Frank Fricke reported that hostfs does not verify that a chmod +s, for instance, is done by a sufficiently privileged user, as long as the UML kernel itself can

Re: [uml-devel] Fix compilation of UML after the stack-randomization patches

2005-02-07 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I've the doubt that the addition would better go under sys-i386 or > some other subarch-dependent directories (in a file compiled against > kernelspace headers, i.e. not listed in USER_OBJS in the directory > it's contained inside), and it'd be nice to add also the x86_