Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:58:37 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Cc: Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
       Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
       "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
       Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>,
       Chris Wedgwood <reviews@ml.cw.f00f.org>,
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       torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>,
       Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Subject: [patch 37/94] [PATCH 06/44] [CVE-2009-0029] Make sys_syslog a
	conditional system call
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2.6.28-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>

commit f627a741d24f12955fa2d9f8831c3b12860635bd upstream.

Remove the -ENOSYS implementation for !CONFIG_PRINTK and use
the cond_syscall infrastructure instead.

Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
 kernel/printk.c |    5 -----
 kernel/sys_ni.c |    1 +
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -742,11 +742,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vprintk);
 
 #else
 
-asmlinkage long sys_syslog(int type, char __user *buf, int len)
-{
-	return -ENOSYS;
-}
-
 static void call_console_drivers(unsigned start, unsigned end)
 {
 }
--- a/kernel/sys_ni.c
+++ b/kernel/sys_ni.c
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ cond_syscall(sys_io_destroy);
 cond_syscall(sys_io_submit);
 cond_syscall(sys_io_cancel);
 cond_syscall(sys_io_getevents);
+cond_syscall(sys_syslog);
 
 /* arch-specific weak syscall entries */
 cond_syscall(sys_pciconfig_read);

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