The util-linux release v2.29-rc1 is available at http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.29/ Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed. Karel Util-linux 2.29 Release Notes ============================= Security issues --------------- CVE-2016-2779 -- fixed by workaround based on libseccomp, the workaround disables TIOCSTI ioctl in su/runuser session. Stable maintenance releases between v2.28 and v2.29 --------------------------------------------------- util-linux 2.28.2 [Sep 7 2016] * ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.28/v2.28.2-ReleaseNotes ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.28/v2.28.2-ChangeLog util-linux 2.28.1 [Aug 11 2016] * ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.28/v2.28.1-ReleaseNotes ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.28/v2.28.1-ChangeLog Changes between v2.28 and v2.29 ------------------------------- agetty: - call uname() only when necessary [Karel Zak] - don't modify argv[] when parse speeds [Karel Zak] - fix \S usage [Karel Zak] - move unreachable code to pre-processor #else segment [oclint] [Sami Kerola] blkdev: - guard against missing DIOCGDINFO on FreeBSD 11 [Franco Fichtner] blkdiscard: - Improve man page [Allon Mureinik] build-sys: - add --disable-plymouth-support [Karel Zak] - add --disable-widechar [Karel Zak] - add --enable-libuuid-force-uuidd [Ruediger Meier] - add UL_REQUIRES_COMPILE macro [Karel Zak] - add missing include/plymouth-ctrl.h [Karel Zak] - add non-action for ncurses pkg-cong test [Karel Zak] - add parisc to define ARCH_ [Karel Zak] - add tools/Makemodule.am [Karel Zak] - clean up relation between ncurses[w] and wide-char support [Karel Zak] - cleanup --with-ncurses [Karel Zak] - fix comments in ul.m4 [Karel Zak] - fix uClibc-ng scanf check [Waldemar Brodkorb] - remove dead libsmartcols sample [Karel Zak] - remove global dependence between widechar and ncursesw [Karel Zak] - remove obsolete [cs]fdisk LDADDs [Karel Zak] - remove obsolete comment [Karel Zak] - test functions does not return void [Sami Kerola] - use UL_DEFAULT_ENABLE() only for programs [Karel Zak] - workaround for autoconf "present but cannot be compiled" [Karel Zak] cal: - allow to specify month by name [Karel Zak] - cleanup non-ncurses build [Karel Zak] - support timestamps [Karel Zak] - use %04d for year [Karel Zak] cfdisk: - use libsmartcols ASCII for non-widechar environment [Karel Zak] cfisk: - add /dev/vda as another default disk [Karel Zak] chfn: - chsh use selinux_check_passwd_access() [Karel Zak] chrt: - add fallback to be usable on kernels without sched_{get,set}attr [Karel Zak] - validate priority before trying to use it [Sami Kerola] colcrt: - avoid the command getting hung [afl] [Sami Kerola] debug: - use const void * for ul_debugobj() [Igor Gnatenko] deprecated.txt: - Add sfdisk --show-pt-geometry [Stanislav Brabec] dmesg: - --notime should not suppress --show-delta [Sami Kerola] - drop core at impossible case in read_buffer() [oclint] [Sami Kerola] - fix indention [Karel Zak] - use strtimeval_iso() [Karel Zak] docs: - Fix various typos [Sebastian Rasmussen] - add file format note to utmpdump manual page [Sami Kerola] - optinal option arguments should be long-only [Sami Kerola] - some random fixes [Karel Zak] - update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak] fdisk: - Add support for altering GPT size [Sassan Panahinejad] - Fix typo RequiredPartiton -> RequiredPartition [Sebastian Rasmussen] - add --wipe-partitions=auto|never|default [Karel Zak] - make -l <dev ...> behaves like fdisk -l [Thierry Vignaud] - use PAGER for 'l' command. [Karel Zak] findmnt: - (verify) add docs [Karel Zak] - (verify) add options verification [Karel Zak] - (verify) add source verification [Karel Zak] - (verify) add swaparea verification [Karel Zak] - (verify) check filesystem type [Karel Zak] - (verify) minor changes in strings [Karel Zak] - add --verify and --verbose [Karel Zak] - remove duplicate include [Karel Zak] flock: - Introduce no-fork option. [Terry Burton] fsck: - fix racing between unlock/unlink and open [Yuriy M. Kaminskiy] - remove fs-specific options from man page [Karel Zak] fsck.minix: - Verify more fields in super-block. [Tobias Stoeckmann] - fix endless loop and out of stack [Karel Zak] getops: - improve getopt-parse.bash example [Sami Kerola] getopt: - fix memory leaks and integer overflows [ASAN & valgrind] [Sami Kerola] - keep pointer to 'name' in control struct [Karel Zak] hwclock: - use strtimeval_iso() [Karel Zak] include/closestream: - define exit codes [Karel Zak] include/env: - minor fixes and clean ups [Karel Zak] include/timeutils: - rewrite iso formatting functions [Karel Zak] - use pointer for time_t [Karel Zak] include/widechar: - add fallback for WEOF [Karel Zak] - add missing fallbacks [Karel Zak] ionice: - clarify description of --classdata [Daniel Shahaf] kill: - remove pid command-name to option alias [Sami Kerola] last: - cleanup time formatting code [Karel Zak] - fix logout time [Karel Zak] lib: - avoid double free in loopdev.c [Sami Kerola] - try to find tty in get_terminal_name() [Sami Kerola] lib/loopdev: - Set errno in is_loopdev on error [Tobias Stoeckmann] - cleanup sizelimit check [Karel Zak] lib/mbsalign: - fix for non-widechar [Karel Zak] lib/pager: - cleanup and extend API [Karel Zak] - fix test [Karel Zak] - restore signals setting by pager_close() [Karel Zak] lib/randutils: - add xsrand() and rand_get_number() [Karel Zak] lib/strutils: - make left and right trims more robust [Sami Kerola] lib/sysfs: - be more smart for non-scsi devices [Karel Zak] lib/timeutils: - add strtime_short() [Karel Zak] - add strxxx_iso() functions [Karel Zak] lib/ttyutils: - use stdout for get_terminal_width() [Karel Zak] libblkid: - Add metadata signature check for IMSM on 4Kn drives [Alexey Obitotskiy] - Avoid OOB access on illegal ZFS superblocks [Tobias Stoeckmann] - Check that cluster size is nonzero when probing exFAT [Rostislav Skudnov] - [exfat] Limit maximum number of iterations in find_label [Rostislav Skudnov] - avoid non-empty recursion in EBR [Karel Zak] - don't check nonnull attributes for NULL [-Wnonnull-compare] [Karel Zak] - fix debugging macro [oclint] [Sami Kerola] - fix mistake in debug message [Karel Zak] - ignore empty MBR on LVM device [Karel Zak] - ignore extended partition at zero offset [Karel Zak] - improve debug messages [Karel Zak] - make I/O errors on CDROMs non-fatal [Karel Zak] - make blkid_do_wipe() work with probes with offset [Petr Uzel] - reduce probing area for crazy CDROMs [Karel Zak] - remove unused function [Karel Zak] - simplify if clause [oclint] [Sami Kerola] - store only canonical devnames to the cache [Karel Zak] libcommon: - add ISO_8601_GMTIME that will print UTC-0 timestamps [Sami Kerola] libfdisk: - (docs) add missing version notes [Karel Zak] - (gpt) be more careful with 64bit constants [Karel Zak] - Add support for altering GPT size [Sassan Panahinejad] - Distinguish between first LBA sector and partition [Tobias Stoeckmann] - Fix assert error in free space handling [Tobias Stoeckmann] - add API for work with labelitems [Karel Zak] - add fdisk_wipe_partition() [Karel Zak] - cleanup fdisk_gpt_set_npartitions() [Karel Zak] - don't offer zero length freespace [Karel Zak] - fix range checking for fdisk_set_last_lba [Sassan Panahinejad] - make table-length usage more robust [Karel Zak] - move fdisk_field_...() functions to field.c [Karel Zak] - use fdisk_add_partition() for unused partno [Karel Zak] - use table-length in dump for non-standard PT [Karel Zak] liblkid: - Add length check in probe_nilfs2 before crc32 [Torsten Hilbrich] - fix probe_nilfs2 I/O error backup [Karel Zak] libmount: - Fix possible crash in mnt_context_setup_loopdev() [Stanislav Brabec] - Introduce new error MNT_ERR_LOOPOVERLAP [Stanislav Brabec] - Preserve empty string value in optstr parsing [Filipe Brandenburger] - Re-organize is_mounted_same_loopfile() [Stanislav Brabec] - don't check nonnull attributes for NULL [-Wnonnull-compare] [Karel Zak] - don't support /etc/mtab by default [Karel Zak] - fix memory leak [Sami Kerola] - fix mnt_table_parse_mtab() logic [Karel Zak] - fix mnt_table_parse_stream() logic [Karel Zak] - fix mount -a for cifs [Aurelien Aptel] - ignore redundant slashes [Karel Zak] - make kernel_fs_postparse() more robust [Karel Zak] - one iteration to detect overlap and reuse loopdev [Karel Zak] - paranoid change in mnt_table_is_fs_mounted() [Karel Zak] - remove duplicate code [Karel Zak] - reuse existing loop device [Stanislav Brabec] - try absolute target before canonicalize [Karel Zak] libmount, look: - remove dead code [oclint] [Sami Kerola] libmout: - Reuse loop device safely [Stanislav Brabec] libsmartcols: - (docs) add missing functions [Karel Zak] - (docs) add missing version notes [Karel Zak] - Corrected JSON escaping [Karel Zak, Bryan Elliott] - add JSON support to sample application [Karel Zak] - add application to test library features [Karel Zak] - add fallback for symbols [Karel Zak] - add functions to control terminal usage [Karel Zak] - add maxout sample [Karel Zak] - add scols_column_add_width() [Karel Zak] - add scols_table_get_name() [Igor Gnatenko] - add scols_table_is_nolinesep() [Igor Gnatenko] - add scols_table_is_nowrap() [Igor Gnatenko] - add support for trees to the sample application [Karel Zak] - allow to change cell padding char [Karel Zak] - be consistent, use 'sy' for symbols [Igor Gnatenko] - be more strict about empty tables [Karel Zak] - cleanup get functions [Karel Zak] - cleanup line separator usage [Karel Zak] - cleanup scols_table_set_symbols() API [Karel Zak] - commit missing file [Karel Zak] - custom wrap fixes [Karel Zak] - don't print title color is colors disabled [Karel Zak] - extend wrapnl sample [Karel Zak] - fix WRAPNL crashes [Karel Zak] - fix WRAPNL on strings without \n [Karel Zak] - fix comment [Karel Zak] - fix hidden file usage [Karel Zak] - fix minimal column width calculation [Karel Zak] - fix non-tty output for 'maxout' columns [Karel Zak] - fix padding for non-maxout output [Karel Zak] - fix scols_table_enable_colors() usage in samples [Karel Zak] - fix title output on non-tty [Karel Zak] - fix tree padding [Karel Zak] - fix typos in docs [Igor Gnatenko] - fixes in doc generation [Igor Gnatenko] - improve JSON [Karel Zak] - keep scols_table_get_termwidth() read-only [Karel Zak] - make get_line/column_separator() return const [Igor Gnatenko] - remove debuging code from sample [Karel Zak] - support LIBSMARTCOLS_DEBUG_PADDING=on [Karel Zak] - support custom wrap and remove SCOLS_FL_WRAPNL [Karel Zak] - support multi-line cells based on line breaks [Karel Zak] - use SCOLS_FL_RIGHT in sample [Karel Zak] - use const qualifier for scols_table_get_termwidth [Igor Gnatenko] - use const qualifier where it's possible [Igor Gnatenko] logger: - add man page note about the default --tag [Karel Zak] - be more precise about --port description [Karel Zak] - remove trailing spaces when outputing to journal [Sami Kerola] - simplify if clause [oclint] [Sami Kerola] loopdev: - Implememt loopcxt_set_status() [Stanislav Brabec] losetup: - Prevent AUTOCLEAR detach race [Stanislav Brabec] - add --nooverlap options [Karel Zak, Stanislav Brabec] - allow to use --nooverlap when device specified [Karel Zak] - fix outdated comment ["Yuriy M. Kaminskiy"] lsblk: - improve support for nvme [Karel Zak] - use ID_WWN_WITH_EXTENSION is possible [Karel Zak] lscpu: - add --physical option [Heiko Carstens] - add drawer support [Heiko Carstens] - add parsable testcase with the --physical option [Heiko Carstens] - add s390 drawer testcase [Heiko Carstens] - fix MMHZ column entry within man page [Heiko Carstens] - fix typo in summary output [Heiko Carstens] - make lookup_cache() more robust [Karel Zak] - only try to read sysfs attributes of present CPUs [Heiko Carstens] - print correct number of threads per core if possible [Heiko Carstens] - show additional caches (s390) [Heiko Carstens] - show machine type (s390) [Heiko Carstens] - show static and dynamic MHz (s390) [Heiko Carstens] - update s390-lpar-drawer testcase [Heiko Carstens] lsipc: - use strtime_short() [Karel Zak] - use strtm_iso() [Karel Zak] lslocks: - add --noinaccessible [Karel Zak] lslogins: - simplify if clause and move definition and comments [oclint] [Sami Kerola] - use strtime_short() [Karel Zak] - use strtm_iso() [Karel Zak] lsns: - check for OOM [Karel Zak] - missing ns/<name> is not error [Karel Zak] - support cgroup namespaces [Michał Bartoszkiewicz] lspcu: - minor manpage improvement [Heiko Carstens] man pages: - fix spacing between man page name & section number [Mike Frysinger] misc: - Fix various typos [Sebastian Rasmussen] - always check setenv(3) return value [Sami Kerola] - cleanup non-widechar compilation [Karel Zak] - fix declarations shadowing variables in the global scope [oclint] [Sami Kerola] - simplify if clauses [oclint] [Sami Kerola] mkswap: - tolerate ENOTSUP when failing to relabel [Lubomir Rintel] more: - don't include ncurses.h, fix for non-widechar [Karel Zak] mount: - Handle EROFS before calling mount() syscall [Stanislav Brabec] - Handle MNT_ERR_LOOPOVERLAP [Stanislav Brabec] - add note about another flags for "remount,bind" [Karel Zak] - add note about loopdev reuse to mount.8 [Karel Zak] - add note about paths verification to mount.8 [Karel Zak] - mount.8 Update loop device documentation [Stanislav Brabec] - small change to mount.8 loopdev section [Karel Zak] - try to tell what mount was doing when it failed [Sami Kerola] nsenter: - enter namespaces in two passes [James Bottomley] pathnames: - guard clashing definitions on FreeBSD [Franco Fichtner] pg: - stop building the command by default [Sami Kerola] po: - merge changes [Karel Zak] - update cs.po (from translationproject.org) [Petr Písař] - update de.po (from translationproject.org) [Philipp Thomas] - update es.po (from translationproject.org) [Antonio Ceballos Roa] - update ja.po (from translationproject.org) [Takeshi Hamasaki] - update nl.po (from translationproject.org) [Benno Schulenberg] - update pl.po (from translationproject.org) [Jakub Bogusz] - update sv.po (from translationproject.org) [Sebastian Rasmussen] pylibmount: - include c.h [Karel Zak] ramctl: - add support for zram-control [Karel Zak] script: - avoid trying fclose(NULL) [Sami Kerola] - check status of writes when closing outputs [Sami Kerola] - close file descriptors on exec [Sami Kerola] - improve coding style and the "done" message [Karel Zak] - use empty-slave heuristic more carefully [Karel Zak] scriptreplay: - avoid re-implementing strtod_or_err() [Sami Kerola] - improve error message [Sami Kerola] setpwnam: - fix memory leak [Sami Kerola] setterm: - de-duplicate color option string parsing [Karel Zak] - fix declarations shadowing variables in the global scope [oclint] [Sami Kerola] - remove unnecessary translation string [Sami Kerola] sfdisk: - Add --show-pt-geometry compatibility code [Stanislav Brabec] - Add support for altering GPT size [Sassan Panahinejad] - add --no-tell-kernel [Karel Zak] - add --wipe-partitions=auto|never|default [Karel Zak] - add show-pt-geometry to usage() and sfdisk.8 [Karel Zak] - exit with error if rereading partition table fails [Victor Dodon] - make non-interactive output more readable [Karel Zak] smartcols/symbols: - free cell_padding in unref() [Igor Gnatenko] su, runuser, setpriv: - create links between man pages [Karel Zak] su,runuser: - add libseccomp based workaround for TIOCSTI ioctl [Karel Zak] sulogin: - agetty use the plymouth local protocol instead the plymouth binary [Werner Fink] - make fopen O_CLOEXEC specifier usage portable [Sami Kerola] - remove __nonnull__ function attribute [Sami Kerola] swapon: - fix discard option parsing [Karel Zak] switch_root: - simplify code and reduce indentation [oclint] [Sami Kerola] syspriv: - flip inverted logic [oclint] [Sami Kerola] tailf: - Fix previously adjusted segfault patch [Tobias Stoeckmann] - Fix segmentation fault in tailf on 32 bit [Tobias Stoeckmann] taskset: - clarify that masks are always hex in man page [Chris Metcalf] tests: - Add helper for TIOCSTI exploit [Stanislav Brabec] - Add loop-overlay test [Stanislav Brabec] - Add losetup-loop test suite [Stanislav Brabec] - Allow running a single test case from tests/run.sh [Filipe Brandenburger] - Fix fdisk/id and fdisk/mbr-nondos-mode on Sparc [James Clarke] - Use proper word splitting when executing tests [Filipe Brandenburger] - add another libsmartcols tests [Karel Zak] - add chrt test [Karel Zak] - add columns separator to libsmartcols test [Karel Zak] - add export and raw to libsmartcols test [Karel Zak] - add libsmartcols JSON test [Karel Zak] - add libsmartcols title test [Karel Zak] - add libsmartcols wrap and wrapnl tree tests [Karel Zak] - add missing expected/ dir stuff [Karel Zak] - add tree libsmartcols test files [Karel Zak] - challenge utmpdump localization go-around [Sami Kerola] - check for mount(8) in minix test [Karel Zak] - don't depend on GNU md5sum [Ruediger Meier] - fix for non-ncurses version [Karel Zak] - fix libmount loop-overlay test [Karel Zak] - fix loop-overlay test [Karel Zak] - fix losetup tests for --nooverlap [Karel Zak] - fix ttyutils test [Karel Zak] - fix utmpdump timestamps to be in iso format [Sami Kerola] - implement ts_skip_subtest [Karel Zak] - improve libsmartcols test [Karel Zak] - keep 'hppa' in fdisk/bsd test too [Karel Zak] - make chrt test more debug-able [Karel Zak] - make tests more portable due to mtab [Karel Zak] - mark build-in paths test as optional [Karel Zak] - mark chrt as TS_KNOWN_FAIL [Karel Zak] - mark chrt tests as root-only [Karel Zak] - move getopt to separate directory [Karel Zak] - really fix fdisk/bsd for hppa [Helge Deller] - refresh cal(1) test [Karel Zak] - remove USE_LIBMOUNT_FORCE_MOUNTINFO [Karel Zak] - remove unnecessary file [Sami Kerola] - test_md5 prints md5sum only [Ruediger Meier] - update build-sys tests [Karel Zak] - update sfdisk output strings [Karel Zak] - utmpdump add subsecond accuracy test [Sami Kerola] tools: - add script to load .po from translationproject.org [Karel Zak] travis: - fix OSX, glibtoolize could not find sed [Ruediger Meier] trivial: - s/automatical/automatic/g [Igor Gnatenko] - use tabs consistently [Igor Gnatenko] ul: - Fix buffer overflow [Tobias Stoeckmann] umount: - add note about FS names differences to the man page [Karel Zak] - cleanup umount.8 about mtab [Karel Zak] - fix obsolete info about loop= in umount.8 [Karel Zak] utmpdump: - use always UTC-0 timezone in textual output [Sami Kerola] - use iso-8601 timestamp format with subsecond accuracy [Sami Kerola] uuidd: - remove unnecessary pidpile path variable [Sami Kerola] wipefs: - force GPT detection [Karel Zak] write: - add control structure to clarify what is going on [Sami Kerola] - don't use strftime() [Karel Zak] - fix setuid related regression [Wayne Pollock] - get rid of function prototypes [Sami Kerola] - improve coding style [Sami Kerola] - improve function and variable names [Sami Kerola] - make timestamp to be obviously just a clock time [Sami Kerola] - remove PUTC macro [Sami Kerola] - remove pointless fileno(3) calls [Sami Kerola] - remove unnecessary utmp variables [Sami Kerola] - remove unused variable [Sami Kerola] - run atexit() checks at the end of execution [Sami Kerola] - set atime value in term_chk() only when needed [Sami Kerola] - stop removing and adding /dev/ in front of tty string [Sami Kerola] - tell when effective gid and tty path group mismatch [Sami Kerola] - use xstrncpy() from strutils.h [Sami Kerola] - add control structure to clarify what is going on [Sami Kerola] - don't use strftime() [Karel Zak] - fix setuid related regression [Wayne Pollock] - get rid of function prototypes [Sami Kerola] - improve coding style [Sami Kerola] - improve function and variable names [Sami Kerola] - make timestamp to be obviously just a clock time [Sami Kerola] - remove PUTC macro [Sami Kerola] - remove pointless fileno(3) calls [Sami Kerola] - remove unnecessary utmp variables [Sami Kerola] - remove unused variable [Sami Kerola] - run atexit() checks at the end of execution [Sami Kerola] - set atime value in term_chk() only when needed [Sami Kerola] - stop removing and adding /dev/ in front of tty string [Sami Kerola] - tell when effective gid and tty path group mismatch [Sami Kerola] - use xstrncpy() from strutils.h [Sami Kerola] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
