util-linux-2.42.1

[Bruce Dubbs]

util-linux v2.42.1 Release Notes

agetty:

• Always call chdir after chroot (by Tobias Stoeckmann)

autotools:

• Fix setpriv build with econf (by Tobias Stoeckmann)

bits:

• use getline() to avoid stdin input truncation (by WanBingjiang)
• prevent unsigned integer underflow and long-lived loop (by Christian Goeschel Ndjomouo)

build:

• (copyfilerange) include syscall header check for fallback (by Christian Goeschel Ndjomouo)
• Fix --disable-copyfilerange (by Tobias Stoeckmann)

build-sys:

• drop libcommon_shells from binaries that only need ul_default_shell (by Karel Zak)

cfdisk:

• fix memory leak of original_layout table (by Karel Zak)

chrt:

• Fix confusing error messages when priority argument is required (by Rong Zhang)
• Only show current scheduling policy when pid is given (by Rong Zhang)
• pass correct integer types to printf (by Thomas Weißschuh)
• (man) explain which kernel config options are needed for SCHED_EXT (by Christian Goeschel Ndjomouo)

ci:

• use GCC 15 (by Thomas Weißschuh)
• run 'make checkusage' only for autotools build (by Thomas Weißschuh)

CI:

• replace ntp with ntpsec (by Karel Zak)

column:

• fix missing out-of-bounds check in table reordering (by Christian Goeschel Ndjomouo)

copyfilerange:

• (man) fix swapped offsets in command example (by Štěpán Němec)

dmesg:

• fix out-of-bounds read when parsing malformed kmsg file (by WanBingjiang)

docs:

• clarify wipefs --force description for partition-table signatures (by AndyLau-SOC)

eject:

• tolerate ILLEGAL REQUEST on ALLOW_MEDIUM_REMOVAL (by Alessandro Ratti)

fallocate:

• (man) mention supported file systems for --insert-range (by Christian Goeschel Ndjomouo)

fdisk:

• fix trailing whitespace in user reply from readline completion (by Leonid Znamenok)

fincore:

• (tests) fix tmpfs detection for out-of-tree builds (by Leonid Znamenok)

flock:

• re-enable the initial shell selection logic (by Christian Goeschel Ndjomouo)

fsck.minix(man):

• Fix asciidoctor table (by Tobias Stoeckmann)

hardlink:

• avoid format string error for dev_t (by Thomas Weißschuh)

include:

• (fileutils.h) add fallback for the copy_file_range syscall (by Christian Goeschel Ndjomouo)

ipcutils:

• use memset explicitly to fill bpf_attr with zero (by Masatake YAMATO)

irqtop:

• add vw_printw() fallback for slang builds (by Karel Zak)

irqtop/lsirq:

• Handle EOF in get_irqinfo

last:

• fix phantom detection for unset loginuid and X11 sessions

lib:

• split ul_default_shell() from shells.c into default_shell.
• (cpuset.c) dont calculate allocation size for 0 ncpus

libblkid:

• Fix typo in probe_zfs (by Tobias Stoeckmann)
• Fix type access in zfs_extract_guid_name (by Tobias Stoeckmann)
• Fix debug OOB read in zfs_process_value (by Tobias Stoeckmann)
• Fix parse_dev debug output (by Tobias Stoeckmann)
• Ignore secondary LUKS2 header in blkid_do_safeprobe() (by silentcreek)
• reiserfs add block size validation for reiser4 (by Karel Zak)
• erofs validate blkszbits before checksum calculation (by Karel Zak)
• exfs avoid 32-bit overflow in rextsize validation (by Karel Zak)
• solaris use 64-bit for partition offset calculations (by Karel Zak)
• bsd use 64-bit for partition offset calculations (by Karel Zak)
• mac use 64-bit for partition offset calculations (by Karel Zak)
• dos use 64-bit for partition offset calculations (by Karel Zak)
• udf avoid 32-bit overflow in offset calculations (by Karel Zak)
• vfat avoid 32-bit overflow in offset calculations (by Karel Zak)
• ubi fix probe return values (by Karel Zak)
• f2fs tighten log_blocksize validation (by Karel Zak)
• nilfs fix byte order and block size validation (by Karel Zak)
• gpt fix wiper offset to use sector size (by Karel Zak)
• udf cap descriptor sequence iteration count (by Karel Zak)
• bcache add missing NULL check (by Karel Zak)
• bsd read enough data to cover disklabel struct (by Karel Zak)
• befs improve bounds checking in B+ tree search (by Karel Zak)
• ntfs improve integer overflow checks (by Karel Zak)
• introduce sysfs_devno_is_dm_hidden() for pre-open check (by Zdenek Kabelac)

libcommon:

• move pidfd-utils.c to Linux-only sources (by Karel Zak)

liblastlog2:

• (tests) avoid log spam (by Thomas Weißschuh)
• wait on busy SQLite connections (by WanBingjiang)

libmount:

• return btrfs rootfs from get_btrfs_fs_root() (by Karel Zak)
• use match_source for mountinfo comparison (by Karel Zak)

lib/pidutils, lib/pidfd-utils:

• use _() instead of N_() in err() calls (by Karel Zak)

lib/pwdutils:

• fix compiler warning [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] (by Karel Zak)

libsmartcols:

• drop superfluous call yo yylex_init() (by Thomas Weißschuh)
• (tests) fix failure reporting in filter test (by Thomas Weißschuh)
• (tests) fix filter test name (by Thomas Weißschuh)
• Ignore -Wsign-compare in filter-scanner.l (by Thomas Weißschuh)

libuser:

• fix misleading error message (by Christian Goeschel Ndjomouo)

login:

• Clean up PAM resources on error path (by Tobias Stoeckmann)

login-utils/auth:

• Drop pam_setcred (by Tobias Stoeckmann)

lsblk(man):

• Add COLORS section (by Tobias Stoeckmann)

lsclocks:

• add missing newline character in option description (by Christian Goeschel Ndjomouo)

lscpu(man):

• Move options into correct section (by Tobias Stoeckmann)

lsfd:

• use memset explicitly to fill bpf_attr with zero (by Masatake YAMATO)

meson:

• check slang headers only when slang library is found (by Karel Zak)
• rename logindefs_c to lib_common_logindefs (by Karel Zak)
• split shells.c out of lib_common into lib_common_shells (by Karel Zak)
• respect build-dmesg for test_dmesg (by Thomas Weißschuh)
• test for statx::stx_mnt_id in sys/stat.h (by Thomas Weißschuh)

mkfs.cramfs:

• Consider -i only once (by Tobias Stoeckmann)
• Add -p padding only once (by Tobias Stoeckmann)
• Improve file size check (by Tobias Stoeckmann)

mkswap:

• Fix --file chmod(2) check when file exists (by Johannes Wüller)

more:

• align MORE_SHELL_LINES semantics with less(1) (by Karel Zak, Christian Goeschel Ndjomouo)

newgrp:

• Correctly handle getline error (by Tobias Stoeckmann)

nsenter:

• Fix AT_HANDLE_FID on musl (by Aleksi Hannula)

pidfd-utils:

• Fix pidfd_get_inode declaration (by Tobias Stoeckmann)

po:

• merge changes (by Karel Zak)
• update ro.po (from translationproject.org) (by Remus-Gabriel Chelu)
• update pt.po (from translationproject.org) (by Pedro Albuquerque)
• update pl.po (from translationproject.org) (by Jakub Bogusz)
• update ja.po (from translationproject.org) (by YOSHIDA Hideki)
• update et.po (from translationproject.org) (by Toomas Soome)
• update cs.po (from translationproject.org) (by Petr Písař)

po-man:

• merge changes (by Karel Zak)
• update ro.po (from translationproject.org) (by Remus-Gabriel Chelu)

po-man/po4a:

• Add missing manual pages (by Tobias Stoeckmann)

readprofile:

• (man) clarify not designed for privilege-elevation use (by Karel Zak)

script:

• fix "--" separator when used as option argument (by Karel Zak)
• fix command and command_norm memory leaks (by Karel Zak)
• fix backward compatibility for options after non-option args (by Karel Zak)

scriptreplay(man):

• Add right arrow documentation (by koraynilay)

strutils:

• fix printf formats (by Thomas Weißschuh)

su:

• Clean up PAM resources on all error paths (by Tobias Stoeckmann)
• fix grammar on man page (by Christian Goeschel Ndjomouo)

su-common:

• revert "su pass arguments after <user> to shell" (by Christian Goeschel Ndjomouo)

terminal-colors.d:

• (man) re-apply improvements lost in merge (by Benno Schulenberg)

tests:

• (lsfd/mkfds-udp*) make UDPLite related test cases skippable (by Masatake YAMATO)
• (lsfd/option-inet{,-udp}) make UDPLite related test case skippable (by Masatake YAMATO)
• (lsfd) add a function checking the availability of UDPLite socket (by Masatake YAMATO)
• (lsfd::mkfds-udp) fix confusion between UDP and UDPLite (by Masatake YAMATO)
• (test_mkfds) use memset explicitly to fill bpf_attr with zero (by Masatake YAMATO)
• (ipcs/limits) skip when /proc/sys/kernel is read-only (by Karel Zak)
• (bits) add --width tests for invalid values (by Christian Goeschel Ndjomouo)
• add btrfs RAID is-mounted test for libmount (by Karel Zak)

tests/functions.sh:

• consider '+' for metadata in kernel version parsing (by Christian Goeschel Ndjomouo)

tools:

• (compare-buildsys) suppress common lines in diff output (by Karel Zak)

tools/git-tp-sync:

• update po4a.cfg language list on sync (by Karel Zak)

write:

• cleanup indentation and whitespace (by Karel Zak)
• use mem2strcpy() for utmp strings (by Karel Zak)
• always use utmp as fallback (by Karel Zak)

write, mesg:

• add S_ISCHR() check for terminal device paths (by Karel Zak)

Misc:

• Remove obsolete comment since 2015 (by Julien Nabet)
• Link against libcommon_logindefs.la and libcommon_shells.la (by Stanislav Brabec)
• Fix build with libeconf (by Stanislav Brabec)
• [po-man] Add missing languages to po4a.cfg (by Mario Blättermann)