kernel/linux.git/drivers/char/random.c, branch linux-2.6.16.y

random: fix bound check ordering (CVE-2007-3105)

2007-10-06T22:27:53+00:00

If root raised the default wakeup threshold over the size of the output pool, the pool transfer function could overflow the stack with RNG bytes, causing a DoS or potential privilege escalation. (Bug reported by the PaX Team ) Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

random: fix seeding with zero entropy (CVE-2007-2453 2 of 2)

2007-10-06T22:24:49+00:00

Add data from zero-entropy random_writes directly to output pools to avoid accounting difficulties on machines without entropy sources. Tested on lguest with all entropy sources disabled. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

random: fix error in entropy extraction (CVE-2007-2453 1 of 2)

2007-10-06T22:19:10+00:00

Fix cast error in entropy extraction. Add comments explaining the magic 16. Remove extra confusing loop variable. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

[PATCH] random: get rid of sparse warning

2006-01-12T02:42:11+00:00

Get rid of bogus extern attribute that causes sparse warning. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Acked-by: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[INET6]: Generalise tcp_v6_hash_connect

2006-01-03T21:10:56+00:00

Renaming it to inet6_hash_connect, making it possible to ditch dccp_v6_hash_connect and share the same code with TCP instead. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[INET]: Generalise tcp_v4_hash_connect

2006-01-03T21:10:55+00:00

Renaming it to inet_hash_connect, making it possible to ditch dccp_v4_hash_connect and share the same code with TCP instead. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[RANDOM]: Introduce secure_dccp_sequence_number

2005-08-29T22:49:40+00:00

Code contributed by Stephen Hemminger. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[PATCH] mostly_read data section

2005-07-08T01:23:46+00:00

Add a new section called ".data.read_mostly" for data items that are read frequently and rarely written to like cpumaps etc. If these maps are placed in the .data section then these frequenly read items may end up in cachelines with data is is frequently updated. In that case all processors in an SMP system must needlessly reload the cachelines again and again containing elements of those frequently used variables. The ability to share these cachelines will allow each cpu in an SMP system to keep local copies of those shared cachelines thereby optimizing performance. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] update maintainer for /dev/random

2005-04-16T22:25:56+00:00

Ted has agreed to let me take over as maintainer of /dev/random and friends. I've gone ahead and added a line to his entry in CREDITS. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-16T22:20:36+00:00

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!