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-rw-r--r--Documentation/SubmittingPatches46
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig.debug20
-rw-r--r--drivers/ata/libata-sff.c2
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/brd.c1
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/maps/omap_nor.c2
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c2
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/onenand/generic.c2
-rw-r--r--drivers/pnp/system.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/asn1.c14
-rw-r--r--include/asm-frv/checksum.h2
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c14
11 files changed, 93 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 9c93a03ea33..118ca6e9404 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -327,6 +327,52 @@ Some people also put extra tags at the end. They'll just be ignored for
now, but you can do this to mark internal company procedures or just
point out some special detail about the sign-off.
+If you are a subsystem or branch maintainer, sometimes you need to slightly
+modify patches you receive in order to merge them, because the code is not
+exactly the same in your tree and the submitters'. If you stick strictly to
+rule (c), you should ask the submitter to rediff, but this is a totally
+counter-productive waste of time and energy. Rule (b) allows you to adjust
+the code, but then it is very impolite to change one submitter's code and
+make him endorse your bugs. To solve this problem, it is recommended that
+you add a line between the last Signed-off-by header and yours, indicating
+the nature of your changes. While there is nothing mandatory about this, it
+seems like prepending the description with your mail and/or name, all
+enclosed in square brackets, is noticeable enough to make it obvious that
+you are responsible for last-minute changes. Example :
+
+ Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.example.org>
+ [lucky@maintainer.example.org: struct foo moved from foo.c to foo.h]
+ Signed-off-by: Lucky K Maintainer <lucky@maintainer.example.org>
+
+This practise is particularly helpful if you maintain a stable branch and
+want at the same time to credit the author, track changes, merge the fix,
+and protect the submitter from complaints. Note that under no circumstances
+can you change the author's identity (the From header), as it is the one
+which appears in the changelog.
+
+Special note to back-porters: It seems to be a common and useful practise
+to insert an indication of the origin of a patch at the top of the commit
+message (just after the subject line) to facilitate tracking. For instance,
+here's what we see in 2.6-stable :
+
+ Date: Tue May 13 19:10:30 2008 +0000
+
+ SCSI: libiscsi regression in 2.6.25: fix nop timer handling
+
+ commit 4cf1043593db6a337f10e006c23c69e5fc93e722 upstream
+
+And here's what appears in 2.4 :
+
+ Date: Tue May 13 22:12:27 2008 +0200
+
+ wireless, airo: waitbusy() won't delay
+
+ [backport of 2.6 commit b7acbdfbd1f277c1eb23f344f899cfa4cd0bf36a]
+
+Whatever the format, this information provides a valuable help to people
+tracking your trees, and to people trying to trouble-shoot bugs in your
+tree.
+
13) When to use Acked-by: and Cc:
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
index ac1e31ba479..18363374d51 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
@@ -6,15 +6,19 @@ config TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
source "lib/Kconfig.debug"
config NONPROMISC_DEVMEM
- bool "Disable promiscuous /dev/mem"
+ bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
help
- The /dev/mem file by default only allows userspace access to PCI
- space and the BIOS code and data regions. This is sufficient for
- dosemu and X and all common users of /dev/mem. With this config
- option, you allow userspace access to all of memory, including
- kernel and userspace memory. Accidental access to this is
- obviously disasterous, but specific access can be used by people
- debugging the kernel.
+ If this option is left off, you allow userspace access to all
+ of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental
+ access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can
+ be used by people debugging the kernel.
+
+ If this option is switched on, the /dev/mem file only allows
+ userspace access to PCI space and the BIOS code and data regions.
+ This is sufficient for dosemu and X and all common users of
+ /dev/mem.
+
+ If in doubt, say Y.
config EARLY_PRINTK
bool "Early printk" if EMBEDDED
diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c b/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c
index 90d20c615ef..215d18672a5 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ static u8 ata_sff_irq_status(struct ata_port *ap)
return status;
}
/* Clear INTRQ latch */
- status = ata_sff_check_status(ap);
+ status = ap->ops->sff_check_status(ap);
return status;
}
diff --git a/drivers/block/brd.c b/drivers/block/brd.c
index 680cdfc00b9..24b97b0bef9 100644
--- a/drivers/block/brd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/brd.c
@@ -397,6 +397,7 @@ module_param(max_part, int, 0);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_part, "Maximum number of partitions per RAM disk");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_ALIAS_BLOCKDEV_MAJOR(RAMDISK_MAJOR);
+MODULE_ALIAS("rd");
#ifndef MODULE
/* Legacy boot options - nonmodular */
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/maps/omap_nor.c b/drivers/mtd/maps/omap_nor.c
index 240b0e2d095..c12d8056beb 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/maps/omap_nor.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/maps/omap_nor.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ static int __init omapflash_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
err = parse_mtd_partitions(info->mtd, part_probes, &info->parts, 0);
if (err > 0)
add_mtd_partitions(info->mtd, info->parts, err);
- else if (err < 0 && pdata->parts)
+ else if (err <= 0 && pdata->parts)
add_mtd_partitions(info->mtd, pdata->parts, pdata->nr_parts);
else
#endif
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c
index fceb468ccde..fe2bc7e4211 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/pxa3xx_nand.c
@@ -1216,7 +1216,7 @@ static int pxa3xx_nand_resume(struct platform_device *pdev)
clk_enable(info->clk);
- return pxa3xx_nand_config_flash(info);
+ return pxa3xx_nand_config_flash(info, info->flash_info);
}
#else
#define pxa3xx_nand_suspend NULL
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/onenand/generic.c b/drivers/mtd/onenand/generic.c
index 3d44d040a47..ad81ab8e95e 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/onenand/generic.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/onenand/generic.c
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static int __devinit generic_onenand_probe(struct device *dev)
err = parse_mtd_partitions(&info->mtd, part_probes, &info->parts, 0);
if (err > 0)
add_mtd_partitions(&info->mtd, info->parts, err);
- else if (err < 0 && pdata->parts)
+ else if (err <= 0 && pdata->parts)
add_mtd_partitions(&info->mtd, pdata->parts, pdata->nr_parts);
else
#endif
diff --git a/drivers/pnp/system.c b/drivers/pnp/system.c
index 8f0a570509c..cf4e07b01d4 100644
--- a/drivers/pnp/system.c
+++ b/drivers/pnp/system.c
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ static void reserve_resources_of_dev(struct pnp_dev *dev)
}
for (i = 0; (res = pnp_get_resource(dev, IORESOURCE_MEM, i)); i++) {
- if (res->flags & IORESOURCE_DISABLED)
+ if (res->flags & (IORESOURCE_UNSET | IORESOURCE_DISABLED))
continue;
reserve_range(dev, res->start, res->end, 0);
diff --git a/fs/cifs/asn1.c b/fs/cifs/asn1.c
index cb52cbbe45f..f58e41d3ba4 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/asn1.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/asn1.c
@@ -186,6 +186,11 @@ asn1_length_decode(struct asn1_ctx *ctx, unsigned int *def, unsigned int *len)
}
}
}
+
+ /* don't trust len bigger than ctx buffer */
+ if (*len > ctx->end - ctx->pointer)
+ return 0;
+
return 1;
}
@@ -203,6 +208,10 @@ asn1_header_decode(struct asn1_ctx *ctx,
if (!asn1_length_decode(ctx, &def, &len))
return 0;
+ /* primitive shall be definite, indefinite shall be constructed */
+ if (*con == ASN1_PRI && !def)
+ return 0;
+
if (def)
*eoc = ctx->pointer + len;
else
@@ -389,6 +398,11 @@ asn1_oid_decode(struct asn1_ctx *ctx,
unsigned long *optr;
size = eoc - ctx->pointer + 1;
+
+ /* first subid actually encodes first two subids */
+ if (size < 2 || size > ULONG_MAX/sizeof(unsigned long))
+ return 0;
+
*oid = kmalloc(size * sizeof(unsigned long), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (*oid == NULL)
return 0;
diff --git a/include/asm-frv/checksum.h b/include/asm-frv/checksum.h
index 9b168985018..269da09ff63 100644
--- a/include/asm-frv/checksum.h
+++ b/include/asm-frv/checksum.h
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ __sum16 ip_fast_csum(const void *iph, unsigned int ihl)
: "=r" (sum), "=r" (iph), "=r" (ihl), "=r" (inc), "=&r"(tmp)
: "0" (sum), "1" (iph), "2" (ihl), "3" (4),
"m"(*(volatile struct { int _[100]; } *)iph)
- : "icc0", "icc1"
+ : "icc0", "icc1", "memory"
);
return (__force __sum16)~sum;
diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c
index 5daefad3d19..7750c97fde7 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c
@@ -232,6 +232,11 @@ static unsigned char asn1_length_decode(struct asn1_ctx *ctx,
}
}
}
+
+ /* don't trust len bigger than ctx buffer */
+ if (*len > ctx->end - ctx->pointer)
+ return 0;
+
return 1;
}
@@ -250,6 +255,10 @@ static unsigned char asn1_header_decode(struct asn1_ctx *ctx,
if (!asn1_length_decode(ctx, &def, &len))
return 0;
+ /* primitive shall be definite, indefinite shall be constructed */
+ if (*con == ASN1_PRI && !def)
+ return 0;
+
if (def)
*eoc = ctx->pointer + len;
else
@@ -434,6 +443,11 @@ static unsigned char asn1_oid_decode(struct asn1_ctx *ctx,
unsigned long *optr;
size = eoc - ctx->pointer + 1;
+
+ /* first subid actually encodes first two subids */
+ if (size < 2 || size > ULONG_MAX/sizeof(unsigned long))
+ return 0;
+
*oid = kmalloc(size * sizeof(unsigned long), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (*oid == NULL) {
if (net_ratelimit())