3.0 patches

diff --git a/queue-3.0/add-a-personality-to-report-2.6.x-version-numbers.patch b/queue-3.0/add-a-personality-to-report-2.6.x-version-numbers.patch
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..6fde034
--- /dev/null
+++ b/queue-3.0/add-a-personality-to-report-2.6.x-version-numbers.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,153 @@
+From be27425dcc516fd08245b047ea57f83b8f6f0903 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
+Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:15:10 -0700
+Subject: Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers
+
+From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
+
+commit be27425dcc516fd08245b047ea57f83b8f6f0903 upstream.
+
+I ran into a couple of programs which broke with the new Linux 3.0
+version.  Some of those were binary only.  I tried to use LD_PRELOAD to
+work around it, but it was quite difficult and in one case impossible
+because of a mix of 32bit and 64bit executables.
+
+For example, all kind of management software from HP doesnt work, unless
+we pretend to run a 2.6 kernel.
+
+  $ uname -a
+  Linux svivoipvnx001 3.0.0-08107-g97cd98f #1062 SMP Fri Aug 12 18:11:45 CEST 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
+
+  $ hpacucli ctrl all show
+
+  Error: No controllers detected.
+
+  $ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/hpacucli
+  hpacucli-8.75-12.0
+
+Another notable case is that Python now reports "linux3" from
+sys.platform(); which in turn can break things that were checking
+sys.platform() == "linux2":
+
+  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664564
+
+It seems pretty clear to me though it's a bug in the apps that are using
+'==' instead of .startswith(), but this allows us to unbreak broken
+programs.
+
+This patch adds a UNAME26 personality that makes the kernel report a
+2.6.40+x version number instead.  The x is the x in 3.x.
+
+I know this is somewhat ugly, but I didn't find a better workaround, and
+compatibility to existing programs is important.
+
+Some programs also read /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease.  This can be worked
+around in user space with mount --bind (and a mount namespace)
+
+To use:
+
+  wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ak/uname26/uname26.c
+  gcc -o uname26 uname26.c
+  ./uname26 program
+
+Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
+Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
+Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
+
+---
+ include/linux/personality.h |    1 +
+ kernel/sys.c                |   38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+)
+
+--- a/include/linux/personality.h
++++ b/include/linux/personality.h
+@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ extern int           __set_personality(unsigned i
+  * These occupy the top three bytes.
+  */
+ enum {
++      UNAME26 =               0x0020000,
+       ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE =     0x0040000,      /* disable randomization of VA space */
+       FDPIC_FUNCPTRS =        0x0080000,      /* userspace function ptrs point to descriptors
+                                                * (signal handling)
+--- a/kernel/sys.c
++++ b/kernel/sys.c
+@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@
+ #include <linux/fs_struct.h>
+ #include <linux/gfp.h>
+ #include <linux/syscore_ops.h>
++#include <linux/version.h>
++#include <linux/ctype.h>
+ 
+ #include <linux/compat.h>
+ #include <linux/syscalls.h>
+@@ -45,6 +47,8 @@
+ #include <linux/user_namespace.h>
+ 
+ #include <linux/kmsg_dump.h>
++/* Move somewhere else to avoid recompiling? */
++#include <generated/utsrelease.h>
+ 
+ #include <asm/uaccess.h>
+ #include <asm/io.h>
+@@ -1124,6 +1128,34 @@ DECLARE_RWSEM(uts_sem);
+ #define override_architecture(name)   0
+ #endif
+ 
++/*
++ * Work around broken programs that cannot handle "Linux 3.0".
++ * Instead we map 3.x to 2.6.40+x, so e.g. 3.0 would be 2.6.40
++ */
++static int override_release(char __user *release, int len)
++{
++      int ret = 0;
++      char buf[len];
++
++      if (current->personality & UNAME26) {
++              char *rest = UTS_RELEASE;
++              int ndots = 0;
++              unsigned v;
++
++              while (*rest) {
++                      if (*rest == '.' && ++ndots >= 3)
++                              break;
++                      if (!isdigit(*rest) && *rest != '.')
++                              break;
++                      rest++;
++              }
++              v = ((LINUX_VERSION_CODE >> 8) & 0xff) + 40;
++              snprintf(buf, len, "2.6.%u%s", v, rest);
++              ret = copy_to_user(release, buf, len);
++      }
++      return ret;
++}
++
+ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(newuname, struct new_utsname __user *, name)
+ {
+       int errno = 0;
+@@ -1133,6 +1165,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(newuname, struct new_uts
+               errno = -EFAULT;
+       up_read(&uts_sem);
+ 
++      if (!errno && override_release(name->release, sizeof(name->release)))
++              errno = -EFAULT;
+       if (!errno && override_architecture(name))
+               errno = -EFAULT;
+       return errno;
+@@ -1154,6 +1188,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(uname, struct old_utsnam
+               error = -EFAULT;
+       up_read(&uts_sem);
+ 
++      if (!error && override_release(name->release, sizeof(name->release)))
++              error = -EFAULT;
+       if (!error && override_architecture(name))
+               error = -EFAULT;
+       return error;
+@@ -1188,6 +1224,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(olduname, struct oldold_
+ 
+       if (!error && override_architecture(name))
+               error = -EFAULT;
++      if (!error && override_release(name->release, sizeof(name->release)))
++              error = -EFAULT;
+       return error ? -EFAULT : 0;
+ }
+ #endif

diff --git a/queue-3.0/series b/queue-3.0/series
index 1723390b4620c4dff05e33cf9b3b400a11fc00cc..b88d3d1cb96663fadbee777211e28d6dcd610dba 100644 (file)
--- a/queue-3.0/series
+++ b/queue-3.0/series
@@ -32,3 +32,4 @@ fuse-check-size-of-fuse_notify_inval_entry-message.patch
 rt2x00-fix-order-of-entry-flags-modification.patch
 mmc-sdhci-fix-retuning-timer-wrongly-deleted-in.patch
 igb-fix-lack-of-flush-after-register-write-and-before-delay.patch
+add-a-personality-to-report-2.6.x-version-numbers.patch