linux-stable/security
Linus Torvalds 736706bee3 get rid of legacy 'get_ds()' function
Every in-kernel use of this function defined it to KERNEL_DS (either as
an actual define, or as an inline function).  It's an entirely
historical artifact, and long long long ago used to actually read the
segment selector valueof '%ds' on x86.

Which in the kernel is always KERNEL_DS.

Inspired by a patch from Jann Horn that just did this for a very small
subset of users (the ones in fs/), along with Al who suggested a script.
I then just took it to the logical extreme and removed all the remaining
gunk.

Roughly scripted with

   git grep -l '(get_ds())' -- :^tools/ | xargs sed -i 's/(get_ds())/(KERNEL_DS)/'
   git grep -lw 'get_ds' -- :^tools/ | xargs sed -i '/^#define get_ds()/d'

plus manual fixups to remove a few unusual usage patterns, the couple of
inline function cases and to fix up a comment that had become stale.

The 'get_ds()' function remains in an x86 kvm selftest, since in user
space it actually does something relevant.

Inspired-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Inspired-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-04 10:50:14 -08:00
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apparmor apparmor: Fix aa_label_build() error handling for failed merges 2019-02-01 08:01:39 -08:00
integrity get rid of legacy 'get_ds()' function 2019-03-04 10:50:14 -08:00
keys KEYS: always initialize keyring_index_key::desc_len 2019-02-22 10:11:34 -08:00
loadpin LoadPin: Rename boot param "enabled" to "enforce" 2018-10-18 15:29:44 -07:00
selinux selinux/stable-5.0 PR 20190115 2019-01-16 17:06:39 +12:00
smack Merge branch 'mount.part1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-01-05 13:25:58 -08:00
tomoyo Merge branch 'mount.part1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-01-05 13:25:58 -08:00
yama Yama: Check for pid death before checking ancestry 2019-01-16 12:00:56 -08:00
commoncap.c security: audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h 2018-12-12 14:58:51 -08:00
device_cgroup.c docs: fix broken references with multiple hints 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
inode.c security: fs: make inode explicitly non-modular 2018-12-12 14:58:51 -08:00
Kconfig treewide: surround Kconfig file paths with double quotes 2018-12-22 00:25:54 +09:00
lsm_audit.c missing barriers in some of unix_sock ->addr and ->path accesses 2019-02-20 20:06:28 -08:00
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
min_addr.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
security.c LSM: Check for NULL cred-security on free 2019-01-16 15:41:11 -08:00