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2006-08-02[IPV6]: SNMPv2 "ipv6IfStatsOutFragCreates" counter errorWei Dong
When I tested linux kernel 2.6.71.7 about statistics "ipv6IfStatsOutFragCreates", and found that it couldn't increase correctly. The criteria is RFC 2465: ipv6IfStatsOutFragCreates OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Counter32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of output datagram fragments that have been generated as a result of fragmentation at this output interface." ::= { ipv6IfStatsEntry 15 } I think there are two issues in Linux kernel. 1st: RFC2465 specifies the counter is "The number of output datagram fragments...". I think increasing this counter after output a fragment successfully is better. And it should not be increased even though a fragment is created but failed to output. 2nd: If we send a big ICMP/ICMPv6 echo request to a host, and receive ICMP/ICMPv6 echo reply consisted of some fragments. As we know that in Linux kernel first fragmentation occurs in ICMP layer(maybe saying transport layer is better), but this is not the "real" fragmentation,just do some "pre-fragment" -- allocate space for date, and form a frag_list, etc. The "real" fragmentation happens in IP layer -- set offset and MF flag and so on. So I think in "fast path" for ip_fragment/ip6_fragment, if we send a fragment which "pre-fragment" by upper layer we should also increase "ipv6IfStatsOutFragCreates". Signed-off-by: Wei Dong <weid@nanjing-fnst.com> Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-02[IPV6]: SNMPv2 "ipv6IfStatsInHdrErrors" counter errorWei Dong
When I tested Linux kernel 2.6.17.7 about statistics "ipv6IfStatsInHdrErrors", found that this counter couldn't increase correctly. The criteria is RFC2465: ipv6IfStatsInHdrErrors OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Counter3 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of input datagrams discarded due to errors in their IPv6 headers, including version number mismatch, other format errors, hop count exceeded, errors discovered in processing their IPv6 options, etc." ::= { ipv6IfStatsEntry 2 } When I send TTL=0 and TTL=1 a packet to a router which need to be forwarded, router just sends an ICMPv6 message to tell the sender that TIME_EXCEED and HOPLIMITS, but no increments for this counter(in the function ip6_forward). Signed-off-by: Wei Dong <weid@nanjing-fnst.com> Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-02[NET]: Kill the WARN_ON() calls for checksum fixups.David S. Miller
We have a more complete solution in the works, involving the seperation of CHECKSUM_HW on input vs. output, and having netfilter properly do incremental checksums. But that is a very involved patch and is thus 2.6.19 material. What we have now is infinitely better than the past, wherein all TSO packets were dropped due to corrupt checksums as soon at the NAT module was loaded. At least now, the checksums do get fixed up, it just isn't the cleanest nor most optimal solution. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-02[NETFILTER]: xt_hashlimit/xt_string: missing string validationPatrick McHardy
The hashlimit table name and the textsearch algorithm need to be terminated, the textsearch pattern length must not exceed the maximum size. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-02[NETFILTER]: SIP helper: expect RTP streams in both directionsPatrick McHardy
Since we don't know in which direction the first packet will arrive, we need to create one expectation for each direction, which is currently prevented by max_expected beeing set to 1. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-02[E1000]: Convert to netdev_alloc_skbDavid S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-02[TG3]: Convert to netdev_alloc_skbDavid S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-02[NET]: Add netdev_alloc_skb().Christoph Hellwig
Add a dev_alloc_skb variant that takes a struct net_device * paramater. For now that paramater is unused, but I'll use it to allocate the skb from node-local memory in a follow-up patch. Also there have been some other plans mentioned on the list that can use it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-02[TCP]: Process linger2 timeout consistently.David S. Miller
Based upon guidance from Alexey Kuznetsov. When linger2 is active, we check to see if the fin_wait2 timeout is longer than the timewait. If it is, we schedule the keepalive timer for the difference between the timewait timeout and the fin_wait2 timeout. When this orphan socket is seen by tcp_keepalive_timer() it will try to transform this fin_wait2 socket into a fin_wait2 mini-socket, again if linger2 is active. Not all paths were setting this initial keepalive timer correctly. The tcp input path was doing it correctly, but tcp_close() wasn't, potentially making the socket linger longer than it really needs to. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-02[SECURITY] secmark: nul-terminate secdataJames Morris
The patch below fixes a problem in the iptables SECMARK target, where the user-supplied 'selctx' string may not be nul-terminated. From initial analysis, it seems that the strlen() called from selinux_string_to_sid() could run until it arbitrarily finds a zero, and possibly cause a kernel oops before then. The impact of this appears limited because the operation requires CAP_NET_ADMIN, which is essentially always root. Also, the module is not yet in wide use. Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-02[NET] infiniband: Cleanup ib_addr module to use the neteventsTom Tucker
Signed-off-by: Tom Tucker <tom@opengridcomputing.com> Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-02[NET]: Core net changes to generate neteventsTom Tucker
Generate netevents for: - neighbour changes - routing redirects - pmtu changes Signed-off-by: Tom Tucker <tom@opengridcomputing.com> Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-02[NET]: Network Event Notifier Mechanism.Tom Tucker
This patch uses notifier blocks to implement a network event notifier mechanism. Clients register their callback function by calling register_netevent_notifier() like this: static struct notifier_block nb = { .notifier_call = my_callback_func }; ... register_netevent_notifier(&nb); Signed-off-by: Tom Tucker <tom@opengridcomputing.com> Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-02[TCP]: SNMPv2 tcpAttemptFails counter errorWei Yongjun
Refer to RFC2012, tcpAttemptFails is defined as following: tcpAttemptFails OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX Counter32 MAX-ACCESS read-only STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The number of times TCP connections have made a direct transition to the CLOSED state from either the SYN-SENT state or the SYN-RCVD state, plus the number of times TCP connections have made a direct transition to the LISTEN state from the SYN-RCVD state." ::= { tcp 7 } When I lookup into RFC793, I found that the state change should occured under following condition: 1. SYN-SENT -> CLOSED a) Received ACK,RST segment when SYN-SENT state. 2. SYN-RCVD -> CLOSED b) Received SYN segment when SYN-RCVD state(came from LISTEN). c) Received RST segment when SYN-RCVD state(came from SYN-SENT). d) Received SYN segment when SYN-RCVD state(came from SYN-SENT). 3. SYN-RCVD -> LISTEN e) Received RST segment when SYN-RCVD state(came from LISTEN). In my test, those direct state transition can not be counted to tcpAttemptFails. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@nanjing-fnst.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-02[TCP]: fix memory leak in net/ipv4/tcp_probe.c::tcpprobe_read()James Morris
Based upon a patch by Jesper Juhl. Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Acked-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-02[ATALK]: Make CONFIG_DEV_APPLETALK a tristate.David S. Miller
Otherwise we allow building appletalk drivers in-kernel when CONFIG_ATALK is modular. That doesn't work because these drivers use symbols such as "alloc_talkdev" which is exported from code built by CONFIG_ATALK. Noticed by Toralf Förster. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-02[NET]: Fix ___pskb_trim when entire frag_list needs droppingHerbert Xu
When the trim point is within the head and there is no paged data, ___pskb_trim fails to drop the first element in the frag_list. This patch fixes this by moving the len <= offset case out of the page data loop. This patch also adds a missing kfree_skb on the frag that we just cloned. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-02[NETFILTER]: include/linux/netfilter_bridge.h: header cleanupAlexey Dobriyan
Header doesn't use anything from atomic.h. It fixes headers_check warning: include/linux/netfilter_bridge.h requires asm/atomic.h, which does not exist Compile tested on alpha arm i386-up sparc sparc64-up x86_64 alpha-up i386 sparc64 sparc-up x86_64-up Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-02[IPV6]: Audit all ip6_dst_lookup/ip6_dst_store callsHerbert Xu
The current users of ip6_dst_lookup can be divided into two classes: 1) The caller holds no locks and is in user-context (UDP). 2) The caller does not want to lookup the dst cache at all. The second class covers everyone except UDP because most people do the cache lookup directly before calling ip6_dst_lookup. This patch adds ip6_sk_dst_lookup for the first class. Similarly ip6_dst_store users can be divded into those that need to take the socket dst lock and those that don't. This patch adds __ip6_dst_store for those (everyone except UDP/datagram) that don't need an extra lock. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-02[XFRM]: Fix protocol field value for outgoing IPv6 GSO packetsPatrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-02[IPV6] ADDRCONF: NLM_F_REPLACE support for RTM_NEWADDRNoriaki TAKAMIYA
Based on MIPL2 kernel patch. Signed-off-by: Noriaki YAKAMIYA <takamiya@po.ntts.co.jp> Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2006-08-02[IPV6] ADDRCONF: Support get operation of single addressNoriaki TAKAMIYA
Based on MIPL2 kernel patch. Signed-off-by: Noriaki TAKAMIYA <takamiya@po.ntts.co.jp> Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2006-08-02[IPV6] ADDRCONF: Do not verify an address with infinity lifetimeYOSHIFUJI Hideaki
We also do not try regenarating new temporary address corresponding to an address with infinite preferred lifetime. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2006-08-02[IPV6] ADDRCONF: Allow user-space to specify address lifetimeNoriaki TAKAMIYA
Based on MIPL2 kernel patch. Signed-off-by: Noriaki TAKAMIYA <takamiya@po.ntts.co.jp> Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2006-08-02[IPV6] ADDRCONF: Check payload length for IFA_LOCAL attribute in ↵YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
RTM_{ADD,DEL}MSG message Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2006-08-02Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvbLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (26 commits) V4L/DVB (4380): Bttv: Revert VBI_OFFSET to previous value, it works better V4L/DVB (4379): Videodev: Check return value of class_device_register() correctly V4L/DVB (4373): Correctly handle sysfs error leg file removal in pvrusb2 V4L/DVB (4368): Bttv: use class_device_create_file and handle errors V4L/DVB (4367): Videodev: Handle class_device related errors V4L/DVB (4365): OVERLAY flag were enabled by mistake V4L/DVB (4344): Fix broken dependencies on media Kconfig V4L/DVB (4343): Fix for compilation without V4L1 or V4L1_COMPAT V4L/DVB (4342): Fix ext_controls align on 64 bit architectures V4L/DVB (4341): VIDIOCSMICROCODE were missing on compat_ioctl32 V4L/DVB (4322): Fix dvb-pll autoprobing V4L/DVB (4311): Fix possible dvb-pll oops V4L/DVB (4337): Refine dead code elimination in pvrusb2 V4L/DVB (4323): [budget/budget-av/budget-ci/budget-patch drivers] fixed DMA start/stop code V4L/DVB (4316): Check __must_check warnings V4L/DVB (4314): Set the Auxiliary Byte when tuning LG H06xF in analog mode V4L/DVB (4313): Bugfix for keycode calculation on NPG remotes V4L/DVB (4310): Saa7134: rename dmasound_{init, exit} V4L/DVB (4306): Support non interlaced capture by default for saa713x V4L/DVB (4298): Check all __must_check warnings in bttv. ...
2006-08-02[ARM] 3743/1: ARM: OMAP: Fix compile for OMAPTony Lindgren
Patch from Tony Lindgren "clocks" is only needed only for CONFIG_OMAP_RESET_CLOCKS, which turns of all unused clocks in with late_initcall. This is to kill clocks that may have been left on by the bootloader. Having static and non-static declaration of clocks makes omap_h2_1610_defconfig build fail. Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-08-01[ARM] 3739/1: genirq updates: irq_chip, add and use irq_chip.nameDavid Brownell
Patch from David Brownell ARM genirq cleanups/updates: - Start switching platforms to newer APIs * use "irq_chip" name, not "irqchip" * providing irq_chip.name - Show irq_chip.name in /proc/interrupts, like on x86. This update a bit more than half of the ARM code. The irq_chip.name values were chosen to match docs (if I have them) or be otherwise obvious ("FPGA", "CPLD", or matching the code). Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-08-01gitignore: gitignore quilt's filesQi Yong
gitignore: ignore quilt's files. Signed-off-by: Qi Yong <qiyong@fc-cn.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-08-01kbuild: always use $(CC) for $(call cc-version)Sam Ravnborg
The possibility to specify an optional parameter did not work out as expected and it was not used - so remove the possibility. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-08-01kconfig: correct oldconfig for unset choice optionsRoman Zippel
oldconfig currently ignores unset choice options and doesn't ask for them. Correct the SYMBOL_DEF_USER flag of the choice symbol to be only set if it's set for all values. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-08-01kbuild: -fno-stack-protector is not goodSam Ravnborg
Ubuntu gcc has hardcoded -fstack-protector - but does not understand -fno-stack-protector-all. So only try -fno-stack-protector. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-08-01kbuild: fix typo in modpostDave Jones
Reported by a Fedora user when they tried to build some out of tree module.. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-08-01kbuild: improve error from file2aliasSam Ravnborg
The original errormessage was just plain unreadable. Sample error message after this update (not for real - I provoked it): FATAL: drivers/net/s2io: sizeof(struct pci_device_id)=33 is not a modulo of the size of section __mod_pci_device_table=160. Fix definition of struct pci_device_id in mod_devicetable.h Before a warning was generated - this is now a fatal error. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-08-01kbuild: .gitignore utsrelease.hSam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-08-01kbuild: version.h and new headers_* targets does not require a kernel configSam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-08-01kbuild: hardcode value of YACC&LEX for aic7-triple-xSam Ravnborg
When we introduced -rR then aic7xxx no loger could pick up definition of YACC&LEX from make - so do it explicit now. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-07-31Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: [POWERPC] Minor comment fix for misc_64.S [POWERPC] Use H_CEDE on non-SMT [POWERPC] force 64bit mode in fwnmi handlers to workaround firmware bugs [POWERPC] PMAC_APM_EMU should depend on ADB_PMU [POWERPC] Fix new interrupt code (MPIC detection) [POWERPC] Fix new interrupt code (MPIC endianness) [POWERPC] Add cpufreq support for Xserve G5 [POWERPC] Xserve G5 thermal control fixes [POWERPC] Fix mem= handling when the memory limit is > RMO size [POWERPC] More offb/bootx fixes [POWERPC] Fix legacy_serial.c error handling on 32 bits [POWERPC] Fix default clock for udbg_16550 [POWERPC] Fix non-MPIC CHRPs with CONFIG_SMP set [POWERPC] Fix 32 bits warning in prom_init.c [POWERPC] Workaround Pegasos incorrect ISA "ranges" [POWERPC] fix up front-LED Kconfig
2006-07-31[PATCH] rivafb/nvidiafb: race between register_framebuffer and *_bl_initGuido Guenther
Since we now use the generic backlight infrastructure, I think we need to call rivafb_bl_init before calling register_framebuffer since otherwise rivafb_bl_init might race with the framebuffer layer already opening the device and setting up the video mode. In this case we might end up with a not yet fully intialized backlight (info->bl_dev still NULL) when calling riva_bl_set_power via rivafb_set_par/rivafb_load_video_mode and the kernel dies without any further notice during boot. This fixes booting current git on a PB 6,1. In this case radeonfb/atyfb would be affected too - I can fix that too but don't have any hardware to test this on. Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31[PATCH] nvidiafb: remove redundant CONFIG_PCI checkArthur Othieno
CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA already depends on CONFIG_PCI in drivers/video/Kconfig. Driver does an extra ``sanity check'' which is then redundant. Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <apgo@patchbomb.org> Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31[PATCH] powermac: More powermac backlight fixesMichael Hanselmann
This patch fixes several problems: - The legacy backlight value might be set at interrupt time. Introduced a worker to prevent it from directly calling the backlight code. - via-pmu allows the backlight to be grabbed, in which case we need to prevent other kernel code from changing the brightness. - Don't send PMU requests in via-pmu-backlight when the machine is about to sleep or waking up. - More Kconfig fixes. Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <linux-kernel@hansmi.ch> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31[PATCH] radeonfb sleep fixesVolker Braun
Many IBM Thinkpad T4* models and some R* and X* with radeon video cards draw too much power when suspended to RAM, reducing drastically the battery lifetime. The solution is to enable suspend-to-D2 on these machines. They are whitelisted through their subsystem vendor/device ID. This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3022 The patch introduces a framework to alter the pm_mode and reinit_func fields of the radeonfb_info structure based on a whitelist. This should facilitate future hardware-dependent workarounds. The workaround for the Samsung P35 that is already in the radeonfb code has been rewritten using this framework. The behavior can be overridden with module options: i) video=radeonfb:force_sleep=1 enable suspend-to-D2 also on non-whitelisted machines (useful for testing new notebook models), ii) video=radeonfb:ignore_devlist=1 Disable checking the whitelist and do not apply any workarounds. Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31[PATCH] fbdev: statically link the framebuffer notification functionsAntonino A. Daplas
The backlight and lcd subsystems can be notified by the framebuffer layer of blanking events. However, these subsystems, as a whole, can function independently from the framebuffer layer. But in order to enable to the lcd and backlight subsystems, the framebuffer has to be compiled also, effectively sucking in a huge amount of unneeded code. To prevent dependency problems, separate out the framebuffer notification mechanism from the framebuffer layer and permanently link it to the kernel. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31[PATCH] 9p: fix fid behavior on failed removeEric Van Hensbergen
Based on a bug report from Russ Ross <russruss@gmail.com> According to the spec: "The remove request asks the file server both to remove the file represented by fid and to clunk the fid, even if the remove fails." but the Linux client seems to expect the fid to be valid after a failed remove attempt. Specifically, I'm getting this behavior when attempting to remove a non-empty directory. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31[PATCH] update KJ detailsRandy Dunlap
Use preferred email address. Remove sf.net project reference. It is no longer used. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31[PATCH] 9p: fix marshalling bug in tcreate with empty extension fieldRuss Ross
Signed-off-by: Russ Ross <russross@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31[PATCH] ext3 -nobh option causes oopsBadari Pulavarty
For files other than IFREG, nobh option doesn't make sense. Modifications to them are journalled and needs buffer heads to do that. Without this patch, we get kernel oops in page_buffers(). Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31[PATCH] timer: Fix tvec_bases initializerJosh Triplett
kernel/timer.c defines a (per-cpu) pointer to tvec_base_t, but initializes it using { &a_tvec_base_t }, which sparse warns about; change this to just &a_tvec_base_t. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31[PATCH] freevxfs: Add missing lock_kernel() to vxfs_readdirJosh Triplett
Commit 7b2fd697427e73c81d5fa659efd91bd07d303b0e in the historical GIT tree stopped calling the readdir member of a file_operations struct with the big kernel lock held, and fixed up all the readdir functions to do their own locking. However, that change added calls to unlock_kernel() in vxfs_readdir, but no call to lock_kernel(). Fix this by adding a call to lock_kernel(). Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31[PATCH] documentation: Documentation/initrd.txtThomas Horsley
I spent a long time the other day trying to examine an initrd image on a fedora core 5 system because the initrd.txt file is apparently obsolete. Here is a patch which I hope will reduce future confusion for others. Signed-off-by: Thomas Horsley <tom.horsley@ccur.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>