From 66872edda51cbc29eaa361d7d61b19118f0863a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karel Zak Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 11:22:39 +0200 Subject: docs: update v2.29-ReleaseNotes Signed-off-by: Karel Zak --- Documentation/releases/v2.29-ReleaseNotes | 485 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 485 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/releases/v2.29-ReleaseNotes (limited to 'Documentation/releases') diff --git a/Documentation/releases/v2.29-ReleaseNotes b/Documentation/releases/v2.29-ReleaseNotes new file mode 100644 index 000000000..656a6a9d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/releases/v2.29-ReleaseNotes @@ -0,0 +1,485 @@ +Util-linux 2.29 Release Notes +============================= + +Security issues +--------------- + +CVE-2016-2779 -- fixed by workeround 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 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/ 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] -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522