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authorAli Ahmet Memis <ali@iusegentoo.com>2026-08-21 01:45:27 +0000
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sys_or1k_atomic() (syscall 244 in the "or1k" ABI) takes two user pointers, v1 and v2, and swaps the words they point to in hand-written assembly. l.lwz r29,0(r4) l.lwz r27,0(r5) l.sw 0(r4),r27 l.sw 0(r5),r29 The pointers are not checked with access_ok(). The four memory accesses also have no exception table entries. A caller passes a kernel address as either pointer, and the syscall reads from and writes to it directly. This gives an unprivileged process a kernel read/write primitive. It overwrites kernel data such as the sys_call_table, gaining code execution in kernel context. Check both pointers before entering the critical section. Add fixups for the four memory accesses so faults on valid but unmapped user addresses return -EFAULT. [shorne@gmail.com: fix comment style] Fixes: 9d02a4283e9c ("OpenRISC: Boot code") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ali Ahmet Memis <ali@iusegentoo.com> Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
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+=============================
+Linux Filesystems API summary
+=============================
+
+This section contains API-level documentation, mostly taken from the source
+code itself.
+
+The Linux VFS
+=============
+
+The Filesystem types
+--------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/fs.h
+ :internal:
+
+The Directory Cache
+-------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/dcache.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/dcache.h
+ :internal:
+
+Inode Handling
+--------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/inode.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/bad_inode.c
+ :export:
+
+Registration and Superblocks
+----------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/super.c
+ :export:
+
+File Locks
+----------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/locks.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/locks.c
+ :internal:
+
+Other Functions
+---------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/mpage.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/namei.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/open.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: block/bio.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/seq_file.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/filesystems.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/fs-writeback.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/anon_inodes.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/attr.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/d_path.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/dax.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/libfs.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/posix_acl.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/stat.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/sync.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/xattr.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/namespace.c
+ :export:
+
+The proc filesystem
+===================
+
+sysctl interface
+----------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: kernel/sysctl.c
+ :export:
+
+proc filesystem interface
+-------------------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/proc/base.c
+ :internal:
+
+Events based on file descriptors
+================================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/eventfd.c
+ :export:
+
+eventpoll (epoll) interfaces
+============================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/eventpoll.c
+ :internal:
+
+The Filesystem for Exporting Kernel Objects
+===========================================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/sysfs/file.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/sysfs/symlink.c
+ :export:
+
+The debugfs filesystem
+======================
+
+debugfs interface
+-----------------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/debugfs/inode.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/debugfs/file.c
+ :export: