Fix BZ #15305.
On kernel versions earlier than 2.6.29, the Linux kernel exported a
sysctl called restrict_chown for xfs, which could be used to allow
chown to users other than the owner. 2.6.29 removed this support,
causing the open_not_cancel_2 to fail and thus modify errno. The fix
is to save and restore errno so that the caller sees it as unmodified.
Additionally, since the code to check the sysctl is not useful on
newer kernels, we add an ifdef so that in future the code block gets
rmeoved completely.
Fixes BZ #15304.
The *initgroups_dyn functions are called with a group argument. This
group gid is usually skipped while populating the grouplist since the
caller adds that group id in advance.
The hesiod initgroups_dyn implementation however adds the group gid to
the list if it does not already exist. While it works fine for the
usual initgroups, it breaks nscd since it calls initgroups_dyn with -1
as the gid (to have all groups included).
The patch increase the high value to check if expl overflows. Current
high mark value is not really correct, the algorithm accepts high values.
It also adds a correct wrapper function to check for overflow and underflow.
Due to a typo repeated several times, this bug hasn't been fixed yet,
despite being marked as resolved in glibc 2.12.
* sysdeps/x86_64/strcmp.S: Replace all occurrences of NOT_IN_lib
with NOT_IN_libc.
BZ#11261 was fixed in the 2.16 release even if we only found out
that it was fixed in the 2.18 release. Testing shows it is fixed
in the 2.16 release so we add it to that NEWS section.
Fixes BZ #12723
The variable pipe buffer size does nothing to the value of PIPE_BUF,
since the number of bytes that are atomically written is still
PIPE_BUF on Linux.
This reverts the change that allows the POSIX Thread default stack size
to be changed by the environment variable
GLIBC_PTHREAD_DEFAULT_STACKSIZE. It has been requested that more
discussion happen before this change goes into 2.18.
That convention requires the instruction immediately preceding SYSCALL
to initialize $v0 with the syscall number. Then if a restart triggers,
$v0 will have been clobbered by the syscall interrupted, and needs to be
reinititalized. The kernel will decrement the PC by 4 before switching
back to the user mode so that $v0 has been reloaded before SYSCALL is
executed again. This implies the place $v0 is loaded from must be
preserved across a syscall, e.g. an immediate, static register, stack
slot, etc.
The restriction was lifted with Linux 2.6.36 kernel release and no
special requirements are placed around the SYSCALL instruction anymore,
however we still support older kernel binaries.
