Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge updates from Andrew Morton:

 - various misc bits

 - most of MM (quite a lot of MM material is awaiting the merge of
   linux-next dependencies)

 - kasan

 - printk updates

 - procfs updates

 - MAINTAINERS

 - /lib updates

 - checkpatch updates

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (123 commits)
  init: reduce rootwait polling interval time to 5ms
  binfmt_elf: use vmalloc() for allocation of vma_filesz
  checkpatch: don't emit unified-diff error for rename-only patches
  checkpatch: don't check c99 types like uint8_t under tools
  checkpatch: avoid multiple line dereferences
  checkpatch: don't check .pl files, improve absolute path commit log test
  scripts/checkpatch.pl: fix spelling
  checkpatch: don't try to get maintained status when --no-tree is given
  lib/ida: document locking requirements a bit better
  lib/rbtree.c: fix typo in comment of ____rb_erase_color
  lib/Kconfig.debug: make CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM depend on CONFIG_DEVMEM
  MAINTAINERS: add drm and drm/i915 irc channels
  MAINTAINERS: add "C:" for URI for chat where developers hang out
  MAINTAINERS: add drm and drm/i915 bug filing info
  MAINTAINERS: add "B:" for URI where to file bugs
  get_maintainer: look for arbitrary letter prefixes in sections
  printk: add Kconfig option to set default console loglevel
  printk/sound: handle more message headers
  printk/btrfs: handle more message headers
  printk/kdb: handle more message headers
  ...
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Linus Torvalds
2016-12-12 20:50:02 -08:00
113 changed files with 1554 additions and 1045 deletions

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@@ -1697,16 +1697,6 @@ static int prctl_set_mm_exe_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned int fd)
fput(exe_file);
}
/*
* The symlink can be changed only once, just to disallow arbitrary
* transitions malicious software might bring in. This means one
* could make a snapshot over all processes running and monitor
* /proc/pid/exe changes to notice unusual activity if needed.
*/
err = -EPERM;
if (test_and_set_bit(MMF_EXE_FILE_CHANGED, &mm->flags))
goto exit;
err = 0;
/* set the new file, lockless */
get_file(exe.file);