linux.git/include/uapi/linux/binfmts.h, branch v6.6.132

binfmt_misc: pass binfmt_misc flags to the interpreter

2021-02-15T17:28:30+00:00

It can be useful to the interpreter to know which flags are in use.

For instance, knowing if the preserve-argv[0] is in use would
allow to skip the pathname argument.

This patch uses an unused auxiliary vector, AT_FLAGS, to add a
flag to inform interpreter if the preserve-argv[0] is enabled.

Note by Helge Deller:
The real-world user of this patch is qemu-user, which needs to know
if it has to preserve the argv[0]. See Debian bug #970460.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier 
Reviewed-by: YunQiang Su 
URL: http://bugs.debian.org/970460
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

exec: increase BINPRM_BUF_SIZE to 256

2019-03-08T02:32:01+00:00

Large enterprise clients often run applications out of networked file
systems where the IT mandated layout of project volumes can end up
leading to paths that are longer than 128 characters.  Bumping this up
to the next order of two solves this problem in all but the most
egregious case while still fitting into a 512b slab.

[oleg@redhat.com: update comment, per Kees]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181112160956.GA28472@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Reported-by: Ben Woodard 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license

2017-11-02T10:19:54+00:00

Many user space API headers are missing licensing information, which
makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default are files without license information under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPLV2.  Marking them GPLV2 would exclude
them from being included in non GPLV2 code, which is obviously not
intended. The user space API headers fall under the syscall exception
which is in the kernels COPYING file:

   NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
   services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
   of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".

otherwise syscall usage would not be possible.

Update the files which contain no license information with an SPDX
license identifier.  The chosen identifier is 'GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note' which is the officially assigned identifier for the
Linux syscall exception.  SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.  See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart 
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux

2012-10-13T09:46:48+00:00

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk 
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Acked-by: Dave Jones