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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (37 commits)
Btrfs: Make sure dir is non-null before doing S_ISGID checks
Btrfs: Fix memory leak in cache_drop_leaf_ref
Btrfs: don't return congestion in write_cache_pages as often
Btrfs: Only prep for btree deletion balances when nodes are mostly empty
Btrfs: fix btrfs_unlock_up_safe to walk the entire path
Btrfs: change btrfs_del_leaf to drop locks earlier
Btrfs: Change btrfs_truncate_inode_items to stop when it hits the inode
Btrfs: Don't try to compress pages past i_size
Btrfs: join the transaction in __btrfs_setxattr
Btrfs: Handle SGID bit when creating inodes
Btrfs: Make btrfs_drop_snapshot work in larger and more efficient chunks
Btrfs: Change btree locking to use explicit blocking points
Btrfs: hash_lock is no longer needed
Btrfs: disable leak debugging checks in extent_io.c
Btrfs: sort references by byte number during btrfs_inc_ref
Btrfs: async threads should try harder to find work
Btrfs: selinux support
Btrfs: make btrfs acls selectable
Btrfs: Catch missed bios in the async bio submission thread
Btrfs: fix readdir on 32 bit machines
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The addition of filename encryption caused a regression in unencrypted
filename symlink support. ecryptfs_copy_filename() is used when dealing
with unencrypted filenames and it reported that the new, copied filename
was a character longer than it should have been.
This caused the return value of readlink() to count the NULL byte of the
symlink target. Most applications don't care about the extra NULL byte,
but a version control system (bzr) helped in discovering the bug.
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-roland
* 'x86/fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-roland:
x86-64: fix int $0x80 -ENOSYS return
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One of my past fixes to this code introduced a different new bug.
When using 32-bit "int $0x80" entry for a bogus syscall number,
the return value is not correctly set to -ENOSYS. This only happens
when neither syscall-audit nor syscall tracing is enabled (i.e., never
seen if auditd ever started). Test program:
/* gcc -o int80-badsys -m32 -g int80-badsys.c
Run on x86-64 kernel.
Note to reproduce the bug you need auditd never to have started. */
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int
main (void)
{
long res;
asm ("int $0x80" : "=a" (res) : "0" (99999));
printf ("bad syscall returns %ld\n", res);
return res != -ENOSYS;
}
The fix makes the int $0x80 path match the sysenter and syscall paths.
Reported-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-roland
* 'to-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-roland:
elf core dump: fix get_user use
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The elf_core_dump() code does its work with set_fs(KERNEL_DS) in force,
so vma_dump_size() needs to switch back with set_fs(USER_DS) to safely
use get_user() for a normal user-space address.
Checking for VM_READ optimizes out the case where get_user() would fail
anyway. The vm_file check here was already superfluous given the control
flow earlier in the function, so that is a cleanup/optimization unrelated
to other changes but an obvious and trivial one.
Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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This is a modification of a patch by Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
nobh_write_end() could call attach_nobh_buffers() with head == NULL.
This would result in a trap when attach_nobh_buffers() attempted to
access bh->b_this_page.
This can be illustrated by running the writev01 testcase from LTP on jfs.
This error was introduced by commit 5b41e74a "vfs: fix data leak in
nobh_write_end()". That patch did not take into account that if
PageMappedToDisk() is true upon entry to nobh_write_begin(), then no
buffers will be allocated for the page. In that case, we won't have to
worry about a failed write leaving unitialized data in the page.
Of course, head != NULL implies !page_has_buffers(page), so no need to
test both.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
Cc: Dmitri Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
ALSA: hda - Add missing COEF initialization for ALC887
ALSA: hda - Add missing initialization for ALC272
sound: usb-audio: handle wMaxPacketSize for FIXED_ENDPOINT devices
ALSA: hda - Fix misc workqueue issues
ALSA: hda - Add quirk for FSC Amilo Xi2550
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
ieee1394: dv1394: move deprecation message from module init to file open
firewire: core: Remove card from list of cards when enable fails
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This fixes the shortlog attribution e.g. for 106757b38fff
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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I created commit 7971db5a4b4176ad5df590fce07a962c643a2740 on a machine
where I forgot to set user.name and user.email before. The default
values were not optimal.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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I happened to forked lots of processes, and hit NULL pointer dereference.
It is because in copy_process() after checking max_threads, 0 is returned
but not -EAGAIN.
The bug is introduced by "CRED: Detach the credentials from task_struct"
(commit f1752eec6145c97163dbce62d17cf5d928e28a27).
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The S_ISGID check in btrfs_new_inode caused an oops during subvol creation
because sometimes the dir is null.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
md: Ensure an md array never has too many devices.
md: Fix a bug in linear.c causing which_dev() to return the wrong device.
md: Allow read error in a single drive raid1 to be passed up.
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On many Linux installations, the dv1394 driver will be auto-loaded
whenever an AV/C device (e.g. camcorder or audio device) is plugged in.
An irritating message would then appear in the kernel log.
Defer this message to until a dv1394 character device file is actually
used by a program. Also include the program name in the message and
update the message slightly.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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ALC272 needs EAPD for speaker outputs as well as other similar ALC
codecs.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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For audio devices that do not have proper audio descriptors (e.g.,
Edirol UA-20), we use hardcoded parameters from our quirks list.
However, we must still read the maximum packet size from the standard
endpoint descriptor; otherwise, we might use packets that are too big
and therefore rejected by the USB core.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Each different metadata format supported by md supports a
different maximum number of devices.
We really should be enforcing this maximum in the kernel, but
we aren't quite doing that properly.
We currently only enforce it at the 'hot_add' point, which is an
older interface which is not used by current userspace.
We need to also enforce it at 'add_new_disk' time for active arrays
and at 'do_md_run' time when starting a new array.
So move the test from 'hot_add' into 'bind_rdev_to_array' which is
called from both 'hot_add' and 'add_new_disk, and add a new
test in 'analyse_sbs' which is called from 'do_md_run'.
This bug (or missing feature) has been around "forever" and so
the patch is suitable for any -stable that is currently maintained.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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ab5bd5cbc8d4b868378d062eed3d4240930fbb86 introduced the following
bug in linear software raid for large arrays on 32 bit machines:
which_dev() computes the device holding a given sector by shifting
down the sector number to a 32 bit range, dividing by the array
spacing and looking up the resulting index in the hash table of
the array.
Because the computed index might be slightly too small, a loop at
the end of which_dev() increases the index until the given sector
actually falls into the range of the device associated with that index.
The changes of the above mentioned commit caused this loop to check
whether the _index_ rather than the sector number is small enough,
effectively bypassing the loop and thus possibly returning the wrong
device.
As reported by Simon Kirby, this leads to errors such as
linear_make_request: Sector 2340486136 out of bounds on dev sdi: 156301312 sectors, offset 2109870464
Fix this bug by introducing a local variable for the index so that
the variable containing the passed sector is left unchanged.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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If a raid1 only has a single working device and gets a read error,
we choose to simply return that error up to the filesystem (or whatever)
rather than failing the whole array.
However the codes doesn't quite do that. We attempt a readbalance
which allocates the same drive, so we retry the read - indefinitely.
Instead: If read_balance in the error case chooses the same drive that just
failed, treat it as a failure and don't retry.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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Prevent kprobes from catching spurious faults which will cause infinite
recursive page-fault and memory corruption by stack overflow.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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... and yes, gcc is insane enough to eat that without complaint.
We probably want sparse to scream on those...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2:
Revert "configfs: Silence lockdep on mkdir(), rmdir() and configfs_depend_item()"
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* 'sh/for-2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6:
sh: Fix up T-bit error handling in SH-4A mutex fastpath.
sh: Fix up spurious syscall restarting.
sh: fcnvds fix with denormalized numbers on SH-4 FPU.
sh: Only reserve memory under CONFIG_ZERO_PAGE_OFFSET when it != 0.
sh: Handle calling csum_partial with misaligned data
sh: ap325rxa: Enable ov772x in defconfig.
sh: ap325rxa: Add ov772x support.
sh: ap325rxa: control camera power toggling.
sh: mach-migor: Enable ov772x and tw9910 in defconfig.
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
Revert "tcp: Always set urgent pointer if it's beyond snd_nxt"
ipv6: Copy cork options in ip6_append_data
udp: Fix UDP short packet false positive
gianfar: Fix potential soft reset race
gianfar: Fix BD_LENGTH_MASK definition
cxgb3: Fix lro switch
iwlwifi: save PCI state before suspend, restore after resume
iwlwifi: clean key table in iwl_clear_stations_table
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This reverts commit 64ff3b938ec6782e6585a83d5459b98b0c3f6eb8.
Jeff Chua reports that it breaks rlogin for him.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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As the options passed to ip6_append_data may be ephemeral, we need
to duplicate it for corking. This patch applies the simplest fix
which is to memdup all the relevant bits.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
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The UDP header pointer assignment must happen after calling
pskb_may_pull(). As pskb_may_pull() can potentially alter the SKB
buffer.
This was exposted by running multicast traffic through the NIU driver,
as it won't prepull the protocol headers into the linear area on
receive.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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lseek() further than length of the file will leave stale ->index
(second-to-last during iteration). Next seq_read() will not notice
that ->f_pos is big enough to return 0, but will print last item
as if ->f_pos is pointing to it.
Introduced in commit cb510b8172602a66467f3551b4be1911f5a7c8c2
aka "seq_file: more atomicity in traverse()".
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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In 2.6.25 some /proc files were converted to use the seq_file
infrastructure. But seq_files do not correctly support pread(), which
broke some usersapce applications.
To handle pread correctly we can't assume that f_pos is where we left it
in seq_read. So move traverse() so that we can eventually use it in
seq_read and do thus some day support pread().
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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A missing type cast results in writing way beyond the end of a kzalloc()'d
memory segment resulting in slab corruption. But it seems like the better
solution is to define ->recv_msg_slots as a 'void *' rather than a
'struct xpc_notify_mq_msg_uv *' and add the type cast.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Do usual do {} while (0) dance, otherwise
fs/gfs2/util.c:99: error: expected expression before 'else'
drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c:363: error: expected expression before 'else'
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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If we return directly with -EPERM then lock_kernel() is still held.
This was found with a code checker (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git/).
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix another such path - missed func_exit()]
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix namespace violations by changing non-kconfig CONFIG_ names to CNFG_*.
Fixes breakage in staging/, which adds a real CONFIG_PANEL.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1390.c:125: warning: unused variable 'rtc'
Signed-off-by: Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Currently both da903x backlight and voltage reulator drivers have the
same name. Rename the backlight driver to allow use of both drivers as
modules.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il>
Acked-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The ssc pointer is not valid when the id is not found in the list.
Convert the message from a debug one into an error message and avoid
dereferencing the bad pointer.
Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix do_wp_page for VM_MIXEDMAP mappings.
In the case where pfn_valid returns 0 for a pfn at the beginning of
do_wp_page and the mapping is not shared writable, the code branches to
label `gotten:' with old_page == NULL.
In case the vma is locked (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED), lock_page,
clear_page_mlock, and unlock_page try to access the old_page.
This patch checks whether old_page is valid before it is dereferenced.
The regression was introduced by "mlock: mlocked pages are unevictable"
(commit b291f000393f5a0b679012b39d79fbc85c018233).
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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With exclusive waiters, every process woken up through the wait queue must
ensure that the next waiter down the line is woken when it has finished.
Interruptible waiters don't do that when aborting due to a signal. And if
an aborting waiter is concurrently woken up through the waitqueue, noone
will ever wake up the next waiter.
This has been observed with __wait_on_bit_lock() used by
lock_page_killable(): the first contender on the queue was aborting when
the actual lock holder woke it up concurrently. The aborted contender
didn't acquire the lock and therefor never did an unlock followed by
waking up the next waiter.
Add abort_exclusive_wait() which removes the process' wait descriptor from
the waitqueue, iff still queued, or wakes up the next waiter otherwise.
It does so under the waitqueue lock. Racing with a wake up means the
aborting process is either already woken (removed from the queue) and will
wake up the next waiter, or it will remove itself from the queue and the
concurrent wake up will apply to the next waiter after it.
Use abort_exclusive_wait() in __wait_event_interruptible_exclusive() and
__wait_on_bit_lock() when they were interrupted by other means than a wake
up through the queue.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Reported-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Mentored-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> ["after some testing"]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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I got the "list is moderated message," so add it here.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add support for the HP laptops of model 6710x for having correctly setup
axes.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kebert <gkmarty@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add support for the HP laptops of model 6730x for having correctly setup
axes.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Herrmann <morpheus.ibis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add support for the HP laptops of model 6530x for having correctly setup
axes.
Reported-by: Jerome Poulin <jeromepoulin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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According to dmesg my laptop model HP 6510b is not being recognized by this
driver. After I have modified "lis3lv02d.c" axes in Neverball are OK.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Tersel <tersel@mail.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The error-path code can call rfkill_unregister() with a pointer which does
not contain the result of a call to rfkill_register(). It goes BUG().
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12560.
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Testted-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Revert commit 0c2d64fb6cae9aae480f6a46cfe79f8d7d48b59f because it causes
(arguably poorly designed) existing userspace to spend interminable
periods closing billions of not-open file descriptors.
We could bring this back, with some sort of opt-in tunable in /proc, which
defaults to "off".
Peter's alanysis follows:
: I spent several hours trying to get to the bottom of a serious
: performance issue that appeared on one of our servers after upgrading to
: 2.6.28. In the end it's what could be considered a userspace bug that
: was triggered by a change in 2.6.28. Since this might also affect other
: people I figured I'd at least document what I found here, and maybe we
: can even do something about it:
:
:
: So, I upgraded some of debian.org's machines to 2.6.28.1 and immediately
: the team maintaining our ftp archive complained that one of their
: scripts that previously ran in a few minutes still hadn't even come
: close to being done after an hour or so. Downgrading to 2.6.27 fixed
: that.
:
: Turns out that script is forking a lot and something in it or python or
: whereever closes all the file descriptors it doesn't want to pass on.
: That is, it starts at zero and goes up to ulimit -n/RLIMIT_NOFILE and
: closes them all with a few exceptions.
:
: Turns out that takes a long time when your limit -n is now 2^20 (1048576).
:
: With 2.6.27.* the ulimit -n was the standard 1024, but with 2.6.28 it is
: now a thousand times that.
:
: 2.6.28 included a patch titled "rlimit: permit setting RLIMIT_NOFILE to
: RLIM_INFINITY" (0c2d64fb6cae9aae480f6a46cfe79f8d7d48b59f)[1] that
: allows, as the title implies, to set the limit for number of files to
: infinity.
:
: Closer investigation showed that the broken default ulimit did not apply
: to "system" processes (like stuff started from init). In the end I
: could establish that all processes that passed through pam_limit at one
: point had the bad resource limit.
:
: Apparently the pam library in Debian etch (4.0) initializes the limits
: to some default values when it doesn't have any settings in limit.conf
: to override them. Turns out that for nofiles this is RLIM_INFINITY.
: Commenting out "case RLIMIT_NOFILE" in pam_limit.c:267 of our pam
: package version 0.79-5 fixes that - tho I'm not sure what side effects
: that has.
:
: Debian lenny (the upcoming 5.0 version) doesn't have this issue as it
: uses a different pam (version).
Reported-by: Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>
Cc: Adam Tkac <vonsch@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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