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2008-11-14KEYS: Alter use of key instantiation link-to-keyring argumentDavid Howells
Alter the use of the key instantiation and negation functions' link-to-keyring arguments. Currently this specifies a keyring in the target process to link the key into, creating the keyring if it doesn't exist. This, however, can be a problem for copy-on-write credentials as it means that the instantiating process can alter the credentials of the requesting process. This patch alters the behaviour such that: (1) If keyctl_instantiate_key() or keyctl_negate_key() are given a specific keyring by ID (ringid >= 0), then that keyring will be used. (2) If keyctl_instantiate_key() or keyctl_negate_key() are given one of the special constants that refer to the requesting process's keyrings (KEY_SPEC_*_KEYRING, all <= 0), then: (a) If sys_request_key() was given a keyring to use (destringid) then the key will be attached to that keyring. (b) If sys_request_key() was given a NULL keyring, then the key being instantiated will be attached to the default keyring as set by keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring(). (3) No extra link will be made. Decision point (1) follows current behaviour, and allows those instantiators who've searched for a specifically named keyring in the requestor's keyring so as to partition the keys by type to still have their named keyrings. Decision point (2) allows the requestor to make sure that the key or keys that get produced by request_key() go where they want, whilst allowing the instantiator to request that the key is retained. This is mainly useful for situations where the instantiator makes a secondary request, the key for which should be retained by the initial requestor: +-----------+ +--------------+ +--------------+ | | | | | | | Requestor |------->| Instantiator |------->| Instantiator | | | | | | | +-----------+ +--------------+ +--------------+ request_key() request_key() This might be useful, for example, in Kerberos, where the requestor requests a ticket, and then the ticket instantiator requests the TGT, which someone else then has to go and fetch. The TGT, however, should be retained in the keyrings of the requestor, not the first instantiator. To make this explict an extra special keyring constant is also added. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14KEYS: Disperse linux/key_ui.hDavid Howells
Disperse the bits of linux/key_ui.h as the reason they were put here (keyfs) didn't get in. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the filesystem subsystemDavid Howells
Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds. Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id(). Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id(). In some places it makes more sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be addressed by later patches. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-13USB: don't register endpoints for interfaces that are going awayAlan Stern
This patch (as1155) fixes a bug in usbcore. When interfaces are deleted, either because the device was disconnected or because of a configuration change, the extra attribute files and child endpoint devices may get left behind. This is because the core removes them before calling device_del(). But during device_del(), after the driver is unbound the core will reinstall altsetting 0 and recreate those extra attributes and children. The patch prevents this by adding a flag to record when the interface is in the midst of being unregistered. When the flag is set, the attribute files and child devices will not be created. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.27, 2.6.26, 2.6.25] Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-11-13slab: document SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCUPeter Zijlstra
Explain this SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU thing... [hugh@veritas.com: add a pointer to comment in mm/slab.c] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-11-13HID: map macbook keys for "Expose" and "Dashboard"Henrik Rydberg
On macbooks there are specific keys for the user-space functions Expose and Dashboard, which currently has no counterpart in input.h. This patch adds KEY_SCALE and KEY_DASHBOARD, and maps the keyboard accordingly. Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2008-11-12Add c2 port supportRodolfo Giometti
C2port implements a two wire serial communication protocol (bit banging) designed to enable in-system programming, debugging, and boundary-scan testing on low pin-count Silicon Labs devices. Currently this code supports only flash programming through sysfs interface but extensions shoud be easy to add. Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-12rtc: rtc-wm8350: add support for WM8350 RTCMark Brown
This adds support for the RTC provided by the Wolfson Microelectronics WM8350. This driver was originally written by Graeme Gregory and Liam Girdwood, though it has been modified since then to update it to current mainline coding standards and for API completeness. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/schedule_timeout_interruptible/schedule_timeout_uninterruptible/ to prevent bogus timeout when signal_pending()] Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: Liam Girdwood <linux@wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-12remove ratelimt()Andrew Morton
It mistakenly assumes that a static local in an inlined function is a kernel-wide singleton. It also has no callers, so let's remove it. Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-12Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: hrtimer: clean up unused callback modes
2008-11-12Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (47 commits) ACPI: pci_link: remove acpi_irq_balance_set() interface fujitsu-laptop: Add DMI callback for Lifebook S6420 ACPI: EC: Don't do transaction from GPE handler in poll mode. ACPI: EC: lower interrupt storm treshold ACPICA: Use spinlock for acpi_{en|dis}able_gpe ACPI: EC: restart failed command ACPI: EC: wait for last write gpe ACPI: EC: make kernel messages more useful when GPE storm is detected ACPI: EC: revert msleep patch thinkpad_acpi: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality sony-laptop: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality msi-laptop: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality fujitsu-laptop: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality eeepc-laptop: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality compal: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality asus-acpi: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality Acer-WMI: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality ACPI video: if no ACPI backlight support, use vendor drivers ACPI: video: Ignore devices that aren't present in hardware Delete an unwanted return statement at evgpe.c ...
2008-11-12security: remove broken and useless declarationsJames Morris
Remove broken declarations for security_capable* functions, which were not needed anyway. Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-12hrtimer: clean up unused callback modesPeter Zijlstra
Impact: cleanup git grep HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE revealed half the callback modes are actually unused. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12serial: sh-sci: fix cannot work SH7723 SCIFAYoshihiro Shimoda
SH7723 has SCIFA. This module is similer SCI register map, but it has FIFO. So this patch adds new type(PORT_SCIFA) and change some type checking. Signed-off-by: Yoshihiro Shimoda <shimoda.yoshihiro@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2008-11-11Merge branch 'video' into releaseLen Brown
Conflicts: Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-11Merge branch 'misc' into releaseLen Brown
2008-11-11Merge branch 'devel' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/urgent
2008-11-11ring-buffer: buffer record on/off switchSteven Rostedt
Impact: enable/disable ring buffer recording API added Several kernel developers have requested that there be a way to stop recording into the ring buffers with a simple switch that can also be enabled from userspace. This patch addes a new kernel API to the ring buffers called: tracing_on() tracing_off() When tracing_off() is called, all ring buffers will not be able to record into their buffers. tracing_on() will enable the ring buffers again. These two act like an on/off switch. That is, there is no counting of the number of times tracing_off or tracing_on has been called. A new file is added to the debugfs/tracing directory called tracing_on This allows for userspace applications to also flip the switch. echo 0 > debugfs/tracing/tracing_on disables the tracing. echo 1 > /debugfs/tracing/tracing_on enables it. Note, this does not disable or enable any tracers. It only sets or clears a flag that needs to be set in order for the ring buffers to write to their buffers. It is a global flag, and affects all ring buffers. The buffers start out with tracing_on enabled. There are now three flags that control recording into the buffers: tracing_on: which affects all ring buffer tracers. buffer->record_disabled: which affects an allocated buffer, which may be set if an anomaly is detected, and tracing is disabled. cpu_buffer->record_disabled: which is set by tracing_stop() or if an anomaly is detected. tracing_start can not reenable this if an anomaly occurred. The userspace debugfs/tracing/tracing_enabled is implemented with tracing_stop() but the user space code can not enable it if the kernel called tracing_stop(). Userspace can enable the tracing_on even if the kernel disabled it. It is just a switch used to stop tracing if a condition was hit. tracing_on is not for protecting critical areas in the kernel nor is it for stopping tracing if an anomaly occurred. This is because userspace can reenable it at any time. Side effect: With this patch, I discovered a dead variable in ftrace.c called tracing_on. This patch removes it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2008-11-11Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: release buddies on yield fix for account_group_exec_runtime(), make sure ->signal can't be freed under rq->lock sched: clean up debug info
2008-11-11telephony: trivial: fix up email addressAlan Cox
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-11Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: dsa: fix master interface allmulti/promisc handling dsa: fix skb->pkt_type when mac address of slave interface differs net: fix setting of skb->tail in skb_recycle_check() net: fix /proc/net/snmp as memory corruptor mac80211: fix a buffer overrun in station debug code netfilter: payload_len is be16, add size of struct rather than size of pointer ipv6: fix ip6_mr_init error path [4/4] dca: fixup initialization dependency [3/4] I/OAT: fix async_tx.callback checking [2/4] I/OAT: fix dma_pin_iovec_pages() error handling [1/4] I/OAT: fix channel resources free for not allocated channels ssb: Fix DMA-API compilation for non-PCI systems SSB: hide empty sub menu vlan: Fix typos in proc output string [netdrvr] usb/hso: Cleanup rfkill error handling sfc: Correct address of gPXE boot configuration in EEPROM el3_common_init() should be __devinit, not __init hso: rfkill type should be WWAN mlx4_en: Start port error flow bug fix af_key: mark policy as dead before destroying
2008-11-11Add a new capable interface that will be used by systems that use audit toEric Paris
make an A or B type decision instead of a security decision. Currently this is the case at least for filesystems when deciding if a process can use the reserved 'root' blocks and for the case of things like the oom algorithm determining if processes are root processes and should be less likely to be killed. These types of security system requests should not be audited or logged since they are not really security decisions. It would be possible to solve this problem like the vm_enough_memory security check did by creating a new LSM interface and moving all of the policy into that interface but proves the needlessly bloat the LSM and provide complex indirection. This merely allows those decisions to be made where they belong and to not flood logs or printk with denials for thing that are not security decisions. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11When the capset syscall is used it is not possible for audit to record theEric Paris
actual capbilities being added/removed. This patch adds a new record type which emits the target pid and the eff, inh, and perm cap sets. example output if you audit capset syscalls would be: type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1225743140.465:76): arch=c000003e syscall=126 success=yes exit=0 a0=17f2014 a1=17f201c a2=80000000 a3=7fff2ab7f060 items=0 ppid=2160 pid=2223 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=pts0 ses=1 comm="setcap" exe="/usr/sbin/setcap" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null) type=UNKNOWN[1322] msg=audit(1225743140.465:76): pid=0 cap_pi=ffffffffffffffff cap_pp=ffffffffffffffff cap_pe=ffffffffffffffff Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11Any time fcaps or a setuid app under SECURE_NOROOT is used to result in aEric Paris
non-zero pE we will crate a new audit record which contains the entire set of known information about the executable in question, fP, fI, fE, fversion and includes the process's pE, pI, pP. Before and after the bprm capability are applied. This record type will only be emitted from execve syscalls. an example of making ping use fcaps instead of setuid: setcap "cat_net_raw+pe" /bin/ping type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): arch=c000003e syscall=59 success=yes exit=0 a0=1457f30 a1=14606b0 a2=1463940 a3=321b770a70 items=2 ppid=2929 pid=2963 auid=0 uid=500 gid=500 euid=500 suid=500 fsuid=500 egid=500 sgid=500 fsgid=500 tty=pts0 ses=3 comm="ping" exe="/bin/ping" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null) type=UNKNOWN[1321] msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): fver=2 fp=0000000000002000 fi=0000000000000000 fe=1 old_pp=0000000000000000 old_pi=0000000000000000 old_pe=0000000000000000 new_pp=0000000000002000 new_pi=0000000000000000 new_pe=0000000000002000 type=EXECVE msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): argc=2 a0="ping" a1="127.0.0.1" type=CWD msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): cwd="/home/test" type=PATH msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): item=0 name="/bin/ping" inode=49256 dev=fd:00 mode=0100755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:ping_exec_t:s0 cap_fp=0000000000002000 cap_fe=1 cap_fver=2 type=PATH msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): item=1 name=(null) inode=507915 dev=fd:00 mode=0100755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:ld_so_t:s0 Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11This patch will print cap_permitted and cap_inheritable data in the PATHEric Paris
records of any file that has file capabilities set. Files which do not have fcaps set will not have different PATH records. An example audit record if you run: setcap "cap_net_admin+pie" /bin/bash /bin/bash type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1225741937.363:230): arch=c000003e syscall=59 success=yes exit=0 a0=2119230 a1=210da30 a2=20ee290 a3=8 items=2 ppid=2149 pid=2923 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=pts0 ses=3 comm="ping" exe="/bin/ping" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null) type=EXECVE msg=audit(1225741937.363:230): argc=2 a0="ping" a1="www.google.com" type=CWD msg=audit(1225741937.363:230): cwd="/root" type=PATH msg=audit(1225741937.363:230): item=0 name="/bin/ping" inode=49256 dev=fd:00 mode=0104755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:ping_exec_t:s0 cap_fp=0000000000002000 cap_fi=0000000000002000 cap_fe=1 cap_fver=2 type=PATH msg=audit(1225741937.363:230): item=1 name=(null) inode=507915 dev=fd:00 mode=0100755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:ld_so_t:s0 Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11This patch add a generic cpu endian caps structure and externally availableEric Paris
functions which retrieve fcaps information from disk. This information is necessary so fcaps information can be collected and recorded by the audit system. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11Document the order of arguments for cap_issubset. It's not instantly clearEric Paris
which order the argument should be in. So give an example. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11fix for account_group_exec_runtime(), make sure ->signal can't be freed ↵Oleg Nesterov
under rq->lock Impact: fix hang/crash on ia64 under high load This is ugly, but the simplest patch by far. Unlike other similar routines, account_group_exec_runtime() could be called "implicitly" from within scheduler after exit_notify(). This means we can race with the parent doing release_task(), we can't just check ->signal != NULL. Change __exit_signal() to do spin_unlock_wait(&task_rq(tsk)->lock) before __cleanup_signal() to make sure ->signal can't be freed under task_rq(tsk)->lock. Note that task_rq_unlock_wait() doesn't care about the case when tsk changes cpu/rq under us, this should be OK. Thanks to Ingo who nacked my previous buggy patch. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Reported-by: Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com>
2008-11-10ssb: Fix DMA-API compilation for non-PCI systemsMichael Buesch
This fixes compilation of the SSB DMA-API code on non-PCI platforms. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-10libata: revert convert-to-block-tagging patchesTejun Heo
This patch reverts the following three commits which convert libata to use block layer tagging. 43a49cbdf31e812c0d8f553d433b09b421f5d52c e013e13bf605b9e6b702adffbe2853cfc60e7806 2fca5ccf97d2c28bcfce44f5b07d85e74e3cd18e Although using block layer tagging is the right direction, due to the tight coupling among tag number, data structure allocation and hardware command slot allocation, libata doesn't work correctly with the current conversion. The biggest problem is guaranteeing that tag 0 is always used for non-NCQ commands. Due to the way blk-tag is implemented and how SCSI starts and finishes requests, such guarantee can't be made. I'm not sure whether this would actually break any low level driver but it doesn't look like a good idea to break such assumption given the frailty of ATA controllers. So, for the time being, keep using the old dumb in-libata qc allocation. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axobe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-09genirq: keep affinities set from userspace across free/request_irq()Thomas Gleixner
Impact: preserve user-modified affinities on interrupts Kumar Galak noticed that commit 18404756765c713a0be4eb1082920c04822ce588 (genirq: Expose default irq affinity mask (take 3)) overrides an already set affinity setting across a free / request_irq(). Happens e.g. with ifdown/ifup of a network device. Change the logic to mark the affinities as set and keep them intact. This also fixes the unlocked access to irq_desc in irq_select_affinity() when called from irq_affinity_proc_write() Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-09Merge branch 'cpus4096' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'cpus4096' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything, v3 cpumask: new API, v2 cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything
2008-11-09cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything, v3Rusty Russell
Impact: cleanup Clean up based on feedback from Andrew Morton and others: - change to inline functions instead of macros - add __init to bootmem method - add a missing debug check Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-09clarify usage expectations for cnt32_to_63()Nicolas Pitre
Currently, all existing users of cnt32_to_63() are fine since the CPU architectures where it is used don't do read access reordering, and user mode preemption is disabled already. It is nevertheless a good idea to better elaborate usage requirements wrt preemption, and use an explicit memory barrier on SMP to avoid different CPUs accessing the counter value in the wrong order. On UP a simple compiler barrier is sufficient. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-08mmc: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()Kay Sievers
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-Off-By: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
2008-11-07ACPI video: if no ACPI backlight support, use vendor driversThomas Renninger
If an ACPI graphics device supports backlight brightness functions (cmp. with latest ACPI spec Appendix B), let the ACPI video driver control backlight and switch backlight control off in vendor specific ACPI drivers (asus_acpi, thinkpad_acpi, eeepc, fujitsu_laptop, msi_laptop, sony_laptop, acer-wmi). Currently it is possible to load above drivers and let both poke on the brightness HW registers, the video and vendor specific ACPI drivers -> bad. This patch provides the basic support to check for BIOS capabilities before driver loading time. Driver specific modifications are in separate follow up patches. "acpi_backlight=vendor" Prever vendor driver over ACPI driver for backlight. "acpi_backlight=video" (default) Prever ACPI driver over vendor driver for backlight. Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-07Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: PCI: fix range check on mmapped sysfs resource files PCI: remove excess kernel-doc notation PCI: annotate return value of pci_ioremap_bar with __iomem PCI: fix VPD limit quirk for Broadcom 5708S
2008-11-07sched: fine-tune SD_SIBLING_INITIngo Molnar
fine-tune the HT sched-domains parameters as well. On a HT capable box, this increases lat_ctx performance from 23.87 usecs to 1.49 usecs: # before $ ./lat_ctx -s 0 2 "size=0k ovr=1.89 2 23.87 # after $ ./lat_ctx -s 0 2 "size=0k ovr=1.84 2 1.49 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-07sched: fine-tune SD_MC_INITMike Galbraith
Tune SD_MC_INIT the same way as SD_CPU_INIT: unset SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE, and set SD_WAKE_BALANCE. This improves vmark by 5%: vmark 132102 125968 125497 messages/sec avg 127855.66 .984 vmark 139404 131719 131272 messages/sec avg 134131.66 1.033 Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> # *DOCUMENTATION*
2008-11-07cpumask: new API, v2Rusty Russell
- add cpumask_of() - add free_bootmem_cpumask_var() Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: net: Fix recursive descent in __scm_destroy(). iwl3945: fix deadlock on suspend iwl3945: do not send scan command if channel count zero iwl3945: clear scanning bits upon failure ath5k: correct handling of rx status fields zd1211rw: Add 2 device IDs Fix logic error in rfkill_check_duplicity iwlagn: avoid sleep in softirq context iwlwifi: clear scanning bits upon failure Revert "ath5k: honor FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC in STA mode" tcp: Fix recvmsg MSG_PEEK influence of blocking behavior. netfilter: netns ct: walk netns list under RTNL ipv6: fix run pending DAD when interface becomes ready net/9p: fix printk format warnings net: fix packet socket delivery in rx irq handler xfrm: Have af-specific init_tempsel() initialize family field of temporary selector
2008-11-06Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: Block: use round_jiffies_up() Add round_jiffies_up and related routines block: fix __blkdev_get() for removable devices generic-ipi: fix the smp_mb() placement blk: move blk_delete_timer call in end_that_request_last block: add timer on blkdev_dequeue_request() not elv_next_request() bio: define __BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE block: remove unused ll_new_mergeable()
2008-11-06Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: re-tune balancing sched: fix buddies for group scheduling sched: backward looking buddy sched: fix fair preempt check sched: cleanup fair task selection
2008-11-06net: Fix recursive descent in __scm_destroy().David S. Miller
__scm_destroy() walks the list of file descriptors in the scm_fp_list pointed to by the scm_cookie argument. Those, in turn, can close sockets and invoke __scm_destroy() again. There is nothing which limits how deeply this can occur. The idea for how to fix this is from Linus. Basically, we do all of the fput()s at the top level by collecting all of the scm_fp_list objects hit by an fput(). Inside of the initial __scm_destroy() we keep running the list until it is empty. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-06Fix accidental implicit cast in HR-timer conversionDavid Howells
Fix the hrtimer_add_expires_ns() function. It should take a 'u64 ns' argument, but rather takes an 'unsigned long ns' argument - which might only be 32-bits. On FRV, this results in the kernel locking up because hrtimer_forward() passes the result of a 64-bit multiplication to this function, for which the compiler discards the top 32-bits - something that didn't happen when ktime_add_ns() was called directly. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: [JFFS2] fix race condition in jffs2_lzo_compress() [MTD] [NOR] Fix cfi_send_gen_cmd handling of x16 devices in x8 mode (v4) [JFFS2] Fix lack of locking in thread_should_wake() [JFFS2] Fix build failure with !CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER [MTD] [NAND] OMAP2: remove duplicated #include
2008-11-06fat: Cleanup FAT attribute stuffOGAWA Hirofumi
This adds three helpers: fat_make_attrs() - makes FAT attributes from inode. fat_make_mode() - makes mode_t from FAT attributes. fat_save_attrs() - saves FAT attributes to inode. Then this replaces: MSDOS_MKMODE() by fat_make_mode(), fat_attr() by fat_make_attrs(), ->i_attrs = attr & ATTR_UNUSED by fat_save_attrs(). And for root inode, those is used with ATTR_DIR instead of bogus ATTR_NONE. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06fat: split include/msdos_fs.hOGAWA Hirofumi
This splits __KERNEL__ stuff in include/msdos_fs.h into fs/fat/fat.h. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06net: Fix recursive descent in __scm_destroy().David Miller
__scm_destroy() walks the list of file descriptors in the scm_fp_list pointed to by the scm_cookie argument. Those, in turn, can close sockets and invoke __scm_destroy() again. There is nothing which limits how deeply this can occur. The idea for how to fix this is from Linus. Basically, we do all of the fput()s at the top level by collecting all of the scm_fp_list objects hit by an fput(). Inside of the initial __scm_destroy() we keep running the list until it is empty. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06ACPI: remove CONFIG_ACPI_ECBjorn Helgaas
Remove CONFIG_ACPI_EC. It was always set the same as CONFIG_ACPI, and it had no menu label, so there was no way to set it to anything other than "y". Per section 6.5.4 of the ACPI 3.0b specification, OSPM must make Embedded Controller operation regions, accessed via the Embedded Controllers described in ECDT, available before executing any control method. The ECDT table is optional, but if it is present, the above text means that the EC it describes is a required part of the ACPI subsystem, so CONFIG_ACPI_EC=n wouldn't make sense. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Acked-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>