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2006-08-29[IPV6]: ipv6_add_addr should install dstentry earlierKeir Fraser
ipv6_add_addr allocates a struct inet6_ifaddr and a dstentry, but it doesn't install the dstentry in ifa->rt until after it releases the addrconf_hash_lock. This means other CPUs will be able to see the new address while it hasn't been initialized completely yet. One possible fix would be to grab the ifp->lock spinlock when creating the address struct; a simpler fix is to just move the assignment. Acked-by: jbeulich@novell.com Acked-by: okir@suse.de Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-29[NETLINK]: Call panic if nl_table allocation failsAkinobu Mita
This patch makes crash happen if initialization of nl_table fails in initcalls. It is better than getting use after free crash later. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-29[TCP]: Two RFC3465 Appropriate Byte Count fixes.Daikichi Osuga
1) fix slow start after retransmit timeout 2) fix case of L=2*SMSS acked bytes comparison Signed-off-by: Daikichi Osuga <osugad@s1.nttdocomo.co.jp> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-29[IPV6]: SNMPv2 "ipv6IfStatsInAddrErrors" counter errorLv Liangying
When I tested Linux kernel 2.6.17.7 about statistics "ipv6IfStatsInAddrErrors", found that this counter couldn't increase correctly. The criteria is RFC2465: ipv6IfStatsInAddrErrors OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Counter32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of input datagrams discarded because the IPv6 address in their IPv6 header's destination field was not a valid address to be received at this entity. This count includes invalid addresses (e.g., ::0) and unsupported addresses (e.g., addresses with unallocated prefixes). For entities which are not IPv6 routers and therefore do not forward datagrams, this counter includes datagrams discarded because the destination address was not a local address." ::= { ipv6IfStatsEntry 5 } When I send packet to host with destination that is ether invalid address(::0) or unsupported addresses(1::1), the Linux kernel just discard the packet, and the counter doesn't increase(in the function ip6_pkt_discard). Signed-off-by: Lv Liangying <lvly@nanjing-fnst.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-29[E100]: Add module option to ignore bad EEPROM checksums.David S. Miller
Several people run into the situation where the E100 EEPROM contents are fine, but the checksum hasn't been set properly. This renders the device useless for them even though it would function correctly. The default is off, which retains the current behavior. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-29[SCTP]: Fix sctp_primitive_ABORT() call in sctp_close().Sridhar Samudrala
With the recent fix, the callers of sctp_primitive_ABORT() need to create an ABORT chunk and pass it as an argument rather than msghdr that was passed earlier. Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-29Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6: [CIFS] Do not send Query All EAs SMB when mount option nouser_xattr [CIFS] endian errors in lanman protocol support [CIFS] Fix oops in cifs_close due to unitialized lock sem and list in [CIFS] Fix oops when negotiating lanman and no password specified [CIFS] [CIFS] Allow cifsd to suspend if connection is lost [CIFS] Make midState usage more consistent [CIFS] spinlock protect read of last srv response time in timeout path [CIFS] Do not time out posix brl requests when using new posix setfileinfo
2006-08-28Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serialLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial: [SERIAL] Support for Intashield 2 port PCI serial card
2006-08-28Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] 3761/1: fix armv4t breakage after adding thumb interworking to userspace helpers [ARM] Add Integrator support for glibc outb() and friends [ARM] Move prototype for register_isa_ports to asm/io.h [ARM] Arrange for isa.c to use named initialisers [ARM] 3741/1: remove sa1111.c build warning on non-sa1100 systems [ARM] 3760/1: This patch adds timeouts while working with SSP registers. Such timeouts were en [ARM] 3758/1: Preserve signalling NaNs in conversion [ARM] 3749/3: Correct VFP single/double conversion emulation [ARM] 3748/3: Correct error check in vfp_raise_exceptions
2006-08-28[ARM] 3761/1: fix armv4t breakage after adding thumb interworking to ↵Lennert Buytenhek
userspace helpers Patch from Lennert Buytenhek On armv4t systems, we have always compiled the kernel with -march=armv4 instead of -march=armv4t, which means that any use of bx will bomb out. Commit ba9b5d76372dc290b6ca04dad93927a22c2ac49a introduced the use of bx in the kernel, which means we need to compile with -march=armv4t on armv4t systems now. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-08-28[ARM] Add Integrator support for glibc outb() and friendsRussell King
Add the necessary call to register_isa_ports() so that glibc knows where these are found on Integrator platforms. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-08-28[ARM] Move prototype for register_isa_ports to asm/io.hRussell King
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-08-28[ARM] Arrange for isa.c to use named initialisersRussell King
Convert isa.c (the glibc interface for emulating ISA IO) to use named initialisers. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-08-27Linux v2.6.18-rc5Linus Torvalds
2006-08-27[PATCH] Fix tty layer DoS and comment relevant codeAlan Cox
Unlike the other tty comment patch this one has code changes. Specifically it limits the queue size for a tty to 64K characters (128Kbytes) worst case even if the tty is ignoring tty->throttle. This is because certain drivers don't honour the throttle value correctly, although it is a useful safeguard anyway. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] tty layer comment the locking assumptions and functions somewhatAlan Cox
Doesn't fix them but does show up some interesting areas that need review and fixing. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] cdrom/gdsc: fix printk format warningRandy Dunlap
Fix printk format warning: drivers/cdrom/gscd.c:269: warning: format ‘%lu’ expects type ‘long unsigned int’, but argument 2 has type ‘unsigned int’ Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] x86: NUMAQ Kconfig fixKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
When we select NUMA with i386, the system is only X86_NUMAQ or using ACPI. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] /proc/meminfo: don't put spaces in namesAndrew Morton
None of the other /proc/meminfo lines have a space in the identifier. This post-2.6.17 addition has the potential to break existing parsers, so use an underscore instead (like Committed_AS). Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] fix up lockdep trace in fs/exec.cDave Jones
This fixes the locking error noticed by lockdep: ============================================= [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] --------------------------------------------- init/1 is trying to acquire lock: (&sighand->siglock){....}, at: [<c047a78a>] flush_old_exec+0x3ae/0x859 but task is already holding lock: (&sighand->siglock){....}, at: [<c047a77a>] flush_old_exec+0x39e/0x859 other info that might help us debug this: 2 locks held by init/1: #0: (tasklist_lock){..--}, at: [<c047a76a>] flush_old_exec+0x38e/0x859 #1: (&sighand->siglock){....}, at: [<c047a77a>] flush_old_exec+0x39e/0x859 stack backtrace: [<c04051e1>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x54/0xfd [<c040579d>] show_trace+0xd/0x10 [<c04058b6>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [<c043b33a>] __lock_acquire+0x773/0x997 [<c043bacf>] lock_acquire+0x4b/0x6c [<c060630b>] _spin_lock+0x19/0x28 [<c047a78a>] flush_old_exec+0x3ae/0x859 [<c0498053>] load_elf_binary+0x4aa/0x1628 [<c0479cab>] search_binary_handler+0xa7/0x24e [<c047b577>] do_execve+0x15b/0x1f9 [<c04022b4>] sys_execve+0x29/0x4d [<c0403faf>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] lockdep: annotate reiserfsIngo Molnar
reiserfs seems to have another locking level layer for the i_mutex due to the xattrs-are-a-directory thing. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] lockdep: annotate idescsi_pc_intr()Ingo Molnar
idescsi_pc_intr() uses local_irq_enable() in IRQ context: annotate it. (this has no effect on kernels with lockdep disabled. On kernels with lockdep enabled this means that we wont actually disable interrupts, and the warning message will go away as well.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] CONFIG_ACPI_SRAT NUMA build fixKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
In file included from include/asm/mmzone.h:18, from include/linux/mmzone.h:439, <snip> include/asm/srat.h:31:2: error: #error CONFIG_ACPI_SRAT not defined, and srat.h header has been included make[1]: *** [arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1 This can happen with CONFIG_NUMA && !CONFIG_ACPI && !CONFIG_X86_NUMAQ Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] cpuset: oom panic fixNick Piggin
cpuset_excl_nodes_overlap always returns 0 if current is exiting. This caused customer's systems to panic in the OOM killer when processes were having trouble getting memory for the final put_user in mm_release. Even though there were lots of processes to kill. Change to returning 1 in this case. This achieves parity with !CONFIG_CPUSETS case, and was observed to fix the problem. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] register_one_node() compile fixKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
register_one_node()'s should be defined under CONFIG_NUMA=n. fixes following bug. CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o LD .tmp_vmlinux1 mm/built-in.o: In function `add_memory': undefined reference to `register_one_node' Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] Manage jbd allocations from its own slabsBadari Pulavarty
JBD currently allocates commit and frozen buffers from slabs. With CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG, its possible for an allocation to cross the page boundary causing IO problems. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200127 So, instead of allocating these from regular slabs - manage allocation from its own slabs and disable slab debug for these slabs. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] cpuset: top_cpuset tracks hotplug changes to cpu_online_mapPaul Jackson
Change the list of cpus allowed to tasks in the top (root) cpuset to dynamically track what cpus are online, using a CPU hotplug notifier. Make this top cpus file read-only. On systems that have cpusets configured in their kernel, but that aren't actively using cpusets (for some distros, this covers the majority of systems) all tasks end up in the top cpuset. If that system does support CPU hotplug, then these tasks cannot make use of CPUs that are added after system boot, because the CPUs are not allowed in the top cpuset. This is a surprising regression over earlier kernels that didn't have cpusets enabled. In order to keep the behaviour of cpusets consistent between systems actively making use of them and systems not using them, this patch changes the behaviour of the 'cpus' file in the top (root) cpuset, making it read only, and making it automatically track the value of cpu_online_map. Thus tasks in the top cpuset will have automatic use of hot plugged CPUs allowed by their cpuset. Thanks to Anton Blanchard and Nathan Lynch for reporting this problem, driving the fix, and earlier versions of this patch. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] md: fix recent breakage of md/raid1 array checkingNeilBrown
A recent patch broke the ability to do a user-request check of a raid1. This patch fixes the breakage and also moves a comment that was dislocated by the same patch. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] md: avoid backward event updates in md superblock when degraded.NeilBrown
If we - shut down a clean array, - restart with one (or more) drive(s) missing - make some changes - pause, so that they array gets marked 'clean', the event count on the superblock of included drives will be the same as that of the removed drives. So adding the removed drive back in will cause it to be included with no resync. To avoid this, we only update the eventcount backwards when the array is not degraded. In this case there can (should) be no non-connected drives that we can get confused with, and this is the particular case where updating-backwards is valuable. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] eventpoll.c compile fixMasoud Asgharifard Sharbiani
Fix two compile failures in eventpoll.c code which would happen if DEBUG_EPOLL is bigger than zero. Signed-off-by: Masoud Sharbiani <masouds@google.com> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] Documentation update for relay interfaceTom Zanussi
Here's updated documentation for the relay interface, rewritten to match the relayfs->relay changes. It also moves relayfs.txt to relay.txt in the process. It includes the changes to relayfs.txt previously posted by Randy Dunlap, thanks for those. The relay-apps examples have also been updated to match, and can be found on the sourceforge relayfs website. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] Remove redundant up() in stop_machine()Yingchao Zhou
An up() is called in kernel/stop_machine.c on failure, and also in the caller (unconditionally). Signed-off-by: Zhou Yingchao <yingchao.zhou@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] ufs: truncate correctionEvgeniy Dushistov
1) When we allocated last fragment in ufs_truncate, we read page, check if block mapped to address, and if not trying to allocate it. This is wrong behaviour, fragment may be NOT allocated, but mapped, this happened because of "block map" function not checked allocated fragment or not, it just take address of the first fragment in the block, add offset of fragment and return result, this is correct behaviour in almost all situation except call from ufs_truncate. 2) Almost all implementation of UFS, which I can investigate have such "defect": if you have full disk, and try truncate file, for example 3GB to 2MB, and have hole in this region, truncate return -ENOSPC. I tried evade from this problem, but "block allocation" algorithm is tied to right value of i_lastfrag, and fix of this corner case may slow down of ordinaries scenarios, so this patch makes behavior of "truncate" operations similar to what other UFS implementations do. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] ufs: write to hole in big fileEvgeniy Dushistov
On UFS, this scenario: open(O_TRUNC) lseek(1024 * 1024 * 80) write("A") lseek(1024 * 2) write("A") may cause access to invalid address. This happened because of "goal" is calculated in wrong way in block allocation path, as I see this problem exists also in 2.4. We use construction like this i_data[lastfrag], i_data array of pointers to direct blocks, indirect and so on, it has ceratain size ~20 elements, and lastfrag may have value for example 40000. Also this patch fixes related to handling such scenario issues, wrong zeroing metadata, in case of block(not fragment) allocation, and wrong goal calculation, when we allocate block Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] ext3 filesystem bogus ENOSPC with reservation fixMingming Cao
To handle the earlier bogus ENOSPC error caused by filesystem full of block reservation, current code falls back to non block reservation, starts to allocate block(s) from the goal allocation block group as if there is no block reservation. Current code needs to re-load the corresponding block group descriptor for the initial goal block group in this case. The patch fixes this. Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] ext2: prevent div-by-zero on corrupted fsAndries Brouwer
Mounting an ext2 filesystem with zero s_inodes_per_group will cause a divide error. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] Fix for minix crashAndries Brouwer
Mounting a (corrupt) minix filesystem with zero s_zmap_blocks gives a spectacular crash on my 2.6.17.8 system, no doubt because minix/inode.c does an unconditional minix_set_bit(0,sbi->s_zmap[0]->b_data); [akpm@osdl.org: make labels conistent while we're there] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] MTD NAND: Fix ams-delta after core conversionJonathan McDowell
The recent hwctrl core conversion for MTD NAND devices broke the Amstrad Delta driver. This fixes it up and uses the existing control line defines rather than unclear magic numbers. Signed-off-by: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] futex_find_get_task(): remove an obscure EXIT_ZOMBIE checkOleg Nesterov
futex_find_get_task: if (p->state == EXIT_ZOMBIE || p->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE) return NULL; I can't understand this. First, p->state can't be EXIT_ZOMBIE. The ->exit_state check looks strange too. Sub-threads or tasks whose ->parent ignores SIGCHLD go directly to EXIT_DEAD state (I am ignoring a ptrace case). Why EXIT_DEAD tasks should be ok? Yes, EXIT_ZOMBIE is more important (a task may stay zombie for a long time), but this doesn't mean we should explicitely ignore other EXIT_XXX states. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] vcsa attribute bits -> ioctl(VT_GETHIFONTMASK)Samuel Thibault
When reading /dev/vcsa while a font with more than 256 characters is loaded, one of the attribute bits records the 9th bit of the character. But depending on the console driver (vgacon or fbcon for instance), that's bit 3 or bit 0. And there is no way for userland to know that, thus no way for userland to safely grab the screen content. So here is a (tested) patch: Add a VT_GETHIFONTMASK ioctl for knowing which bit is the 9th bit for VC text (vc_hi_font_mask field of the vc_data structure). Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] matroxfb: fix jittery display on non-ppc systemsPaul A. Clarke
I wish I was happier about this patch. It'll serve as a placeholder for the moment. I'm still trying to get a G550 working in order to even reproduce the problem this patch introduces. I find that the G450 has jitter even without this patch, so it won't show me what the patch changed. At this point, I'll continue trying to get the G550 to work, and in parallel work with the G450 to work out the kinks. The patch is below. Set XDVICLKCTRL only on PPC, as doing this apparently introduces jitter on the G550, at least on x86 architectures. Signed-off-by: Paul A. Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] char/moxa.c: fix endianess and multiple-card issuesDirk Eibach
While testing Moxa C218T/PCI on PowerPC 405EP I found that loading firmware using the linux kernel driver fails because calculation of the checksum is not endianess independent in the original code. After I fixed this I found that uploading firmware in a system with multiple cards causes a kernel oops. I had a look in the recent moxa sources and found that they do some kind of locking there. Applying this lock fixed the problem. Alan sayeth: Checksum changes are clearly correct. Other changes is an improvement but not I think enough to handle malicious firmware attacks. That said such an attacker has CAP_SYS_RAWIO anyway so that part is irrelevant except for neatness. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Dirk Eibach <eibach@gdsys.de> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] cpufreq: acpi-cpufreq: Ignore failure from acpi_cpufreq_early_init_acpiDave Jones
Ignore the return value of early_init_acpi(), as it can give false error messages. If there is something really wrong, then register_driver will fail cleanly with EINVAL later. [ background: modprobe acpi-cpufreq on systems not capable of speed-scaling started failing with 'invalid argument', where previously it would only ever -ENODEV I'm not 100% happy with the solution. It'd be better to handle failure properly, but this is a low-impact change for 2.6.18 We can always revisit doing this better in .19 --davej.] Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] revert "Drop tasklist lock in do_sched_setscheduler"Oleg Nesterov
sched_setscheduler() looks at ->signal->rlim[]. It is unsafe do dereference ->signal unless tasklist_lock or ->siglock is held (or p == current). We pin the task structure, but this can't prevent from release_task()->__exit_signal() which sets ->signal = NULL. Restore tasklist_lock across the setscheduler call. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] x86: Fix dmi detection of MacBookPro and iMacThomas Meyer
Commit b64ef8afa58f397e1eaba2bd9ecaa6812064d464 ("[PATCH] add imacfb documentation and detection") contained a wrong DMI_MATCH. Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] mtd corruption fixRichard Purdie
Read the return value before we release the nand device otherwise the value can become corrupted by another user of chip->ops, ultimately resulting in filesystem corruption. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] lockdep: fix blkdev_open() warningPeter Zijlstra
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 07:57 +0200, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > ============================================= > [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] > --------------------------------------------- > parted/7929 is trying to acquire lock: > (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [<c105eb8d>] __blkdev_put+0x1e/0x13c > > but task is already holding lock: > (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [<c105eec6>] do_open+0x72/0x3a8 > > other info that might help us debug this: > 1 lock held by parted/7929: > #0: (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [<c105eec6>] do_open+0x72/0x3a8 > stack backtrace: > [<c1003aad>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x58/0x15b > [<c100495f>] show_trace+0xd/0x10 > [<c1004979>] dump_stack+0x17/0x1a > [<c102dee5>] __lock_acquire+0x753/0x99c > [<c102e3b0>] lock_acquire+0x4a/0x6a > [<c1204501>] mutex_lock_nested+0xc8/0x20c > [<c105eb8d>] __blkdev_put+0x1e/0x13c > [<c105ecc4>] blkdev_put+0xa/0xc > [<c105f18a>] do_open+0x336/0x3a8 > [<c105f21b>] blkdev_open+0x1f/0x4c > [<c1057b40>] __dentry_open+0xc7/0x1aa > [<c1057c91>] nameidata_to_filp+0x1c/0x2e > [<c1057cd1>] do_filp_open+0x2e/0x35 > [<c1057dd7>] do_sys_open+0x38/0x68 > [<c1057e33>] sys_open+0x16/0x18 > [<c1002845>] sysenter_past_esp+0x56/0x8d OK, I'm having a look here; its all new to me so bear with me. blkdev_open() calls do_open(bdev, ...,BD_MUTEX_NORMAL) and takes mutex_lock_nested(&bdev->bd_mutex, BD_MUTEX_NORMAL) then something fails, and we're thrown to: out_first: where if (bdev != bdev->bd_contains) blkdev_put(bdev->bd_contains) which is __blkdev_put(bdev->bd_contains, BD_MUTEX_NORMAL) which does mutex_lock_nested(&bdev->bd_contains->bd_mutex, BD_MUTEX_NORMAL) <--- lockdep trigger When going to out_first, dbev->bd_contains is either bdev or whole, and since we take the branch it must be whole. So it seems to me the following patch would be the right one: [akpm@osdl.org: compile fix] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] 1394: fix for recently added firewire patch that breaks things on ppcDanny Tholen
Recently a patch was added for preliminary suspend/resume handling on !PPC_PMAC. However, this broke both suspend and firewire on powerpc because it saves the pci state after the device has already been disabled. This moves the save state to before the pmac specific code. Signed-off-by: Danny Tholen <obiwan@mailmij.org> Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com> Cc: Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] Fix docs for fs.suid_dumpableAlexey Dobriyan
Sergey Vlasov noticed that there is not kernel.suid_dumpable, but fs.suid_dumpable. How KERN_SETUID_DUMPABLE ended up in fs_table[]? Hell knows... Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] tty: remove bogus call to cdev_del()Rolf Eike Beer
When cdev_add() failed there is no reason to call cdev_del(). Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>