kernel/scripts, branch linux-2.6.16.y

[PATCH] kbuild: fix buffer overflow in modpost

2006-03-17T15:51:25Z

Jiri Benc reported that modpost would stop with SIGABRT if used with long filepaths. The error looked like: > Building modules, stage 2. > MODPOST > *** glibc detected *** scripts/mod/modpost: realloc(): invalid next size: +0x0809f588 *** > [...] Fix this by allocating at least the required memory + SZ bytes each time. Before we sometimes ended up allocating too little memory resuting in the glibc detected bug above. Based on patch originally submitted by: Jiri Benc Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] s390: fix match in ccw modalias

2006-03-07T02:40:45Z

Fix matching of devmodel in modaliases. It breaks automatic loading of any dasd module. Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Acked-by: Cornelia Huck Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Revert "[PATCH] kconfig: detect if -lintl is needed when linking conf,mconf"

2006-02-09T16:00:14Z

This reverts commit 5e375bc7d586e0df971734a5a5f1f080ffd89b68. Kyle McMartin steps on his soap-box: "Sigh. Can everyone please stop assuming gcc can output to /dev/null? On several platforms, ld tries to lseek in the output file, and fails if it can't." Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-bugfix

2006-02-07T18:01:43Z

[PATCH] kconfig: detect if -lintl is needed when linking conf,mconf

2006-02-05T19:06:54Z

On a system where libintl.h is present, but the NLS functionality is supplied by a separate library instead of the system C library, an attempt to "make config" or "make menuconfig" will fail with link errors, ex: scripts/kconfig/mconf.o:mconf.c:(.text+0xf63): undefined reference to `_libintl_gettext' This patch attempts to correct the problem by detecting whether or not NLS support requires linking with libintl. Signed-off-by: Samuel J Robb Cc: Roman Zippel Cc: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] kernel-doc: clean up the script (whitespace)

2006-02-01T16:53:27Z

Remove lots of trailing whitespace. Nothing else. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Doc/kernel-doc: add more usage info

2006-02-01T16:53:27Z

- Add info that structs, unions, enums, and typedefs are supported. - Add doc about "private:" and "public:" tags for struct fields. - Fix some typos. - Remove some trailing whitespace. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] DocBook: allow even longer return types

2006-02-01T16:53:27Z

kernel-doc errored out because it could not understand the new __copy_to_user definition. Now we allow return types with four words. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kconfig: fix /dev/null breakage

2006-01-21T11:03:09Z

While running "make menuconfig" and "make mrproper" some people experienced that /dev/null suddenly changed permissions or suddenly became a regular file. The main reason was that /dev/null was used as output to gcc in the check-lxdialog.sh script and gcc did some strange things with the output file; in this case /dev/null when it errorred out. Following patch implements a suggestion from Bryan O'Sullivan to use gcc -print-file-name=libxxx.so. Also the Makefile is adjusted to not resolve value of HOST_EXTRACFLAGS and HOST_LOADLIBES until they are actually used. This prevents us from calling gcc when running make *clean/mrproper Thanks to Eyal Lebedinsky and Jean Delvare for the first error reports. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg ---

kbuild: create .kernelrelease at *config step

2006-01-16T11:12:12Z

To enable 'make kernelrelease' earlier now create .kernelrelease when one of the *config targets are used. Also introduce KERNELVERSION - only user is kconfig. KERNELVERSION was needed to display kernel version in menuconfig - KERNELRELEASE is not valid until configuration has completed. kconfig files modified to use KERNELVERSION. Bug reported by: Rene Rebe Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg