Em Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:23:13AM -0400, Jeff Layton escreveu: > getname() is intended to copy pathname strings from userspace into a > kernel buffer. The result is just a string in kernel space. It would > however be quite helpful to be able to attach some ancillary info to > the string. Tried with: [acme@mica linux]$ git remote add viro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal.git [acme@mica linux]$ git checkout -b getname-signal-git viro/experimental-kernel_thread [acme@mica linux]$ grep Subject /wb/getname/4.patch Subject: [PATCH v2 04/10] vfs: define getname_info struct and have getname() [acme@mica linux]$ [acme@mica linux]$ grep Subject /wb/getname/[1-3].patch /wb/getname/1.patch:Subject: [PATCH v2 01/10] vfs: allocate page instead of names_cache buffer in /wb/getname/2.patch:Subject: [PATCH v2 02/10] vfs: make dir_name arg to do_mount a const char * /wb/getname/3.patch:Subject: [PATCH v2 03/10] acct: constify the name arg to acct_on [acme@mica linux]$ git log --oneline | head -3 9e7ab47 acct: constify the name arg to acct_on 2c1cd21 vfs: make dir_name arg to do_mount a const char * 99080c0 vfs: allocate page instead of names_cache buffer in mount_block_root [acme@mica linux]$ git am works for the first 3, then fails for the fourth, using patch I get: [acme@mica linux]$ patch -p1 < /wb/getname/4.patch <SNIP successfull part> patching file fs/namei.c Hunk #3 succeeded at 2124 (offset 4 lines). Hunk #4 succeeded at 2144 (offset 4 lines). Hunk #5 succeeded at 3070 (offset 4 lines). Hunk #6 succeeded at 3279 (offset 4 lines). Hunk #7 succeeded at 3374 (offset 4 lines). Hunk #8 succeeded at 3465 (offset 4 lines). Hunk #9 succeeded at 3478 (offset 4 lines). Hunk #10 succeeded at 3760 (offset 4 lines). Hunk #11 succeeded at 3998 (offset 4 lines). patching file fs/namespace.c patching file fs/open.c patching file fs/quota/quota.c patching file include/linux/audit.h Hunk #1 succeeded at 451 with fuzz 2 (offset -8 lines). Hunk #2 FAILED at 469. Hunk #3 succeeded at 495 (offset -10 lines). 1 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file include/linux/audit.h.rej patching file include/linux/fs.h patching file ipc/mqueue.c Hunk #3 FAILED at 805. Hunk #4 FAILED at 825. 2 out of 6 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file ipc/mqueue.c.rej patching file kernel/acct.c patching file kernel/auditsc.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 103. Hunk #2 succeeded at 1006 (offset 2 lines). Hunk #3 succeeded at 1019 (offset 2 lines). Hunk #4 succeeded at 1531 (offset 2 lines). Hunk #5 succeeded at 1546 (offset 2 lines). Hunk #7 FAILED at 2048. Hunk #11 FAILED at 2166. Hunk #12 FAILED at 2189. Hunk #13 FAILED at 2230. Hunk #14 FAILED at 2243. Hunk #15 FAILED at 2277. 7 out of 15 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file kernel/auditsc.c.rej patching file mm/swapfile.c [acme@mica linux]$ -- 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