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2008-07-13devcgroup: fix permission check when adding entry to child cgroupLi Zefan
# cat devices.list c 1:3 r # echo 'c 1:3 w' > sub/devices.allow # cat sub/devices.list c 1:3 w As illustrated, the parent group has no write permission to /dev/null, so it's child should not be allowed to add this write permission. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-13devcgroup: always show positive major/minor numLi Zefan
# echo "b $((0x7fffffff)):$((0x80000000)) rwm" > devices.allow # cat devices.list b 214748364:-21474836 rwm though a major/minor number of 0x800000000 is meaningless, we should not cast it to a negative value. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-13Documentation/HOWTO: correct wrong kernel bugzilla FAQ URLJiri Pirko
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-13Merge 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: cpusets, hotplug, scheduler: fix scheduler domain breakage
2008-07-13cpusets, hotplug, scheduler: fix scheduler domain breakageDmitry Adamushko
Commit f18f982ab ("sched: CPU hotplug events must not destroy scheduler domains created by the cpusets") introduced a hotplug-related problem as described below: Upon CPU_DOWN_PREPARE, update_sched_domains() -> detach_destroy_domains(&cpu_online_map) does the following: /* * Force a reinitialization of the sched domains hierarchy. The domains * and groups cannot be updated in place without racing with the balancing * code, so we temporarily attach all running cpus to the NULL domain * which will prevent rebalancing while the sched domains are recalculated. */ The sched-domains should be rebuilt when a CPU_DOWN ops. has been completed, effectively either upon CPU_DEAD{_FROZEN} (upon success) or CPU_DOWN_FAILED{_FROZEN} (upon failure -- restore the things to their initial state). That's what update_sched_domains() also does but only for !CPUSETS case. With f18f982ab, sched-domains' reinitialization is delegated to CPUSETS code: cpuset_handle_cpuhp() -> common_cpu_mem_hotplug_unplug() -> rebuild_sched_domains() Being called for CPU_UP_PREPARE and if its callback is called after update_sched_domains()), it just negates all the work done by update_sched_domains() -- i.e. a soon-to-be-offline cpu is included in the sched-domains and that makes it visible for the load-balancer while the CPU_DOWN ops. is in progress. __migrate_live_tasks() moves the tasks off a 'dead' cpu (it's already "offline" when this function is called). try_to_wake_up() is called for one of these tasks from another CPU -> the load-balancer (wake_idle()) picks up a "dead" CPU and places the task on it. Then e.g. BUG_ON(rq->nr_running) detects this a bit later -> oops. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Tested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: miaox@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-12Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: fix ldt limit for 64 bit
2008-07-12Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6: [SCSI] bsg: fix oops on remove [SCSI] fusion: default MSI to disabled for SPI and FC controllers [SCSI] ipr: Fix HDIO_GET_IDENTITY oops for SATA devices [SCSI] mptspi: fix oops in mptspi_dv_renegotiate_work() [SCSI] erase invalid data returned by device
2008-07-12cifs: fix wksidarr declaration to be big-endian friendlyJeff Layton
The current definition of wksidarr works fine on little endian arches (since cpu_to_le32 is a no-op there), but on big-endian arches, it fails to compile with this error: error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function The problem is that this static declaration has cpu_to_le32 embedded within it, and that expands into a function macro. We need to use __constant_cpu_to_le32() instead. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-12cifs: fix inode leak in cifs_get_inode_info_unixJeff Layton
Try this: mount a share with unix extensions create a file on it umount the share You'll get the following message in the ring buffer: VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of cifs. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day... ...the problem is that cifs_get_inode_info_unix is creating and hashing a new inode even when it's going to return error anyway. The first lookup when creating a file returns an error so we end up leaking this inode before we do the actual create. This appears to be a regression caused by commit 0e4bbde94fdc33f5b3d793166b21bf768ca3e098. The following patch seems to fix it for me, and fixes a minor formatting nit as well. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-12frv: fix irqs_disabled() to return an int, not an unsigned longDavid Howells
Fix FRV irqs_disabled() to return an int, not an unsigned long to avoid this warning: kernel/sched.c: In function '__might_sleep': kernel/sched.c:8198: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'long unsigned int' Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-12OProfile kernel maintainership changesRobert Richter
Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr> Cc: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> Cc: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Cc: Daniel Hansel <daniel.hansel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jason Yeh <jason.yeh@amd.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-12rtc-pcf8563: add chip idJon Smirl
Add the rtc8564 chip entry Signed-off-by: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-12rtc-fm3130: fix chip namingAlessandro Zummo
Fix chip naming from fm3031-rtc to fm3031 Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: Sergey Lapin <slapin@ossfans.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-12ov7670: clean up ov7670_read semanticsAndres Salomon
Cortland Setlow pointed out a bug in ov7670.c where the result from ov7670_read() was just being checked for !0, rather than <0. This made me realize that ov7670_read's semantics were rather confusing; it both fills in 'value' with the result, and returns it. This is goes against general kernel convention; so rather than fixing callers, let's fix the function. This makes ov7670_read return <0 in the case of an error, and 0 upon success. Thus, code like: res = ov7670_read(...); if (!res) goto error; ..will work properly. Signed-off-by: Cortland Setlow <csetlow@tower-research.com> Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-12serial8250: sanity check nr_uarts on all paths.Eric W. Biederman
I had 8250.nr_uarts=16 in the boot line of a test kernel and I had a weird mysterious crash in sysfs. After taking an in-depth look I realized that CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS was set to 4 and I was walking off the end of the serial8250_ports array. Ouch!!! Don't let this happen to someone else. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-12fbdev: bugfix for multiprocess defioJaya Kumar
This patch is a bugfix for how defio handles multiple processes manipulating the same framebuffer. Thanks to Bernard Blackham for identifying this bug. It occurs when two applications mmap the same framebuffer and concurrently write to the same page. Normally, this doesn't occur since only a single process mmaps the framebuffer. The symptom of the bug is that the mapping applications will hang. The cause is that defio incorrectly tries to add the same page twice to the pagelist. The solution I have is to walk the pagelist and check for a duplicate before adding. Since I needed to walk the pagelist, I now also keep the pagelist in sorted order. Signed-off-by: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com> Cc: Bernard Blackham <bernard@largestprime.net> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-12drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_common.c fix small resource leakDarren Jenkins
Coverity CID: 1356 RESOURCE_LEAK I found a very old patch for this that was Acked but did not get applied https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/kernel-janitors/2006-September/016362.html There looks to be a small leak in isdn_writebuf_stub() in isdn_common.c, when copy_from_user() returns an un-copied data length (length != 0). The below patch should be a minimally invasive fix. Signed-off-by: Darren Jenkins <darrenrjenkins@gmailcom> Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-12drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/hardware.c fix resource leakDarren Jenkins
Coverity CID: 2172 RESOURCE_LEAK When pool_allocate() tries to enlarge a packet, if it can not allocate enough memory, it returns NULL without first freeing the old packet. This patch just frees the packet first. Signed-off-by: Darren Jenkins <darrenrjenkins@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-12[SCSI] bsg: fix oops on removeJames Bottomley
If you do a modremove of any sas driver, you run into an oops on shutdown when the host is removed (coming from the host bsg device). The root cause seems to be that there's a use after free of the bsg_class_device: In bsg_kref_release_function, this is used (to do a put_device(bcg->parent) after bcg->release has been called. In sas (and possibly many other things) bcd->release frees the queue which contains the bsg_class_device, so we get a put_device on unreferenced memory. Fix this by taking a copy of the pointer to the parent before releasing bsg. Acked-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-07-12[SCSI] fusion: default MSI to disabled for SPI and FC controllersJames Bottomley
There's a fault on the FC controllers that makes them not respond correctly to MSI. The SPI controllers are fine, but are likely to be onboard on older motherboards which don't handle MSI correctly, so default both these cases to disabled. Enable by setting the module parameter mpt_msi_enable=1. For the SAS case, enable MSI by default, but it can be disabled by setting the module parameter mpt_msi_enable=0. Cc: "Prakash, Sathya" <sathya.prakash@lsi.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-07-12x86: fix ldt limit for 64 bitMichael Karcher
Fix size of LDT entries. On x86-64, ldt_desc is a double-sized descriptor. Signed-off-by: Michael Karcher <kernel@mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-11Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdogLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog: [PATCH] IPMI: return correct value from ipmi_write
2008-07-11[PATCH] IPMI: return correct value from ipmi_writeMark Rustad
This patch corrects the handling of write operations to the IPMI watchdog to work as intended by returning the number of characters actually processed. Without this patch, an "echo V >/dev/watchdog" enables the watchdog if IPMI is providing the watchdog function. Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <MRustad@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2008-07-11[SCSI] ipr: Fix HDIO_GET_IDENTITY oops for SATA devicesBrian King
Currently, ipr does not support HDIO_GET_IDENTITY to SATA devices. An oops occurs if userspace attempts to send the command. Since hald issues the command, ensure we fail the ioctl in ipr. This is a temporary solution to the oops. Once the ipr libata EH conversion is upstream, ipr will fully support HDIO_GET_IDENTITY. Tested-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-07-11Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev * 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: libata-acpi: don't call sleeping function from invalid context Added Targa Visionary 1000 IDE adapter to pata_sis.c libata-acpi: filter out DIPM enable
2008-07-11Fix reference counting race on log buffersDave Chinner
When we release the iclog, we do an atomic_dec_and_lock to determine if we are the last reference and need to trigger update of log headers and writeout. However, in xlog_state_get_iclog_space() we also need to check if we have the last reference count there. If we do, we release the log buffer, otherwise we decrement the reference count. But the compare and decrement in xlog_state_get_iclog_space() is not atomic, so both places can see a reference count of 2 and neither will release the iclog. That leads to a filesystem hang. Close the race by replacing the atomic_read() and atomic_dec() pair with atomic_add_unless() to ensure that they are executed atomically. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Reviewed-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> Tested-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-11libata-acpi: don't call sleeping function from invalid contextZhang Rui
The problem is introduced by commit 664d080c41463570b95717b5ad86e79dc1be0877. acpi_evaluate_integer is a sleeping function, and it should not be called with spin_lock_irqsave. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451399 Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-07-11Added Targa Visionary 1000 IDE adapter to pata_sis.cKai Krakow
This enables short 40-wire detection for my laptop thus enabling UDMA/100. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-07-11libata-acpi: filter out DIPM enableTejun Heo
Some BIOSen enable DIPM via _GTF which causes command timeouts under certain configuration. This didn't occur on 2.6.25 because 2.6.25 defaulted to SRST, so _GTF wasn't executed during boot probe, so ahci host reset disabled DIPM and as _GTF wasn't executed after SRST, DIPM wasn't enabled. On 2.6.26, hardreset is used during probe and after probe _GTF is executed enabling DIPM and thus the failures. This patch could theoretically disable DIPM on machines which used to have it enabled on 2.6.25 but AFAIK ahci is currently the only driver which uses SATA ACPI hierarchy (_SDD) and as the host reset would have always disabled DIPM, this shouldn't happen. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-07-10rtc: fix reported IRQ rate for when HPET is enabledPaul Gortmaker
The IRQ rate reported back by the RTC is incorrect when HPET is enabled. Newer hardware that has HPET to emulate the legacy RTC device gets this value wrong since after it sets the rate, it returns before setting the variable used to report the IRQ rate back to users of the device -- so the set rate and the reported rate get out of sync. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-10Fix name of Russell King in various commentsUwe Kleine-König
This patch was created by git grep -E -l 'Rus(el|s?e)l King' | xargs -r -t perl -p -i -e 's/Rus(el|s?e)l King/Russell King/g' Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com> Most-Definitely-Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-10rapidio: fix device reference countingEugene Surovegin
Fix RapidIO device reference counting. Signed-of-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-10tpm: add Intel TPM TIS device HIDMarcin Obara
This patch adds Intel TPM TIS device HID: ICO0102 Signed-off-by: Marcin Obara <marcin_obara@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Marcel Selhorst <tpm@selhorst.net> Acked-by: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-10Merge 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: (27 commits) tun: Persistent devices can get stuck in xoff state xfrm: Add a XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag to xfrm_usersa_info ipv6: missed namespace context in ipv6_rthdr_rcv netlabel: netlink_unicast calls kfree_skb on error path by itself ipv4: fib_trie: Fix lookup error return tcp: correct kcalloc usage ip: sysctl documentation cleanup Documentation: clarify tcp_{r,w}mem sysctl docs netfilter: nf_nat_snmp_basic: fix a range check in NAT for SNMP netfilter: nf_conntrack_tcp: fix endless loop libertas: fix memory alignment problems on the blackfin zd1211rw: stop beacons on remove_interface rt2x00: Disable synchronization during initialization rc80211_pid: Fix fast_start parameter handling sctp: Add documentation for sctp sysctl variable ipv6: fix race between ipv6_del_addr and DAD timer irda: Fix netlink error path return value irda: New device ID for nsc-ircc irda: via-ircc proper dma freeing sctp: Mark the tsn as received after all allocations finish ...
2008-07-10tun: Persistent devices can get stuck in xoff stateMax Krasnyansky
The scenario goes like this. App stops reading from tun/tap. TX queue gets full and driver does netif_stop_queue(). App closes fd and TX queue gets flushed as part of the cleanup. Next time the app opens tun/tap and starts reading from it but the xoff state is not cleared. We're stuck. Normally xoff state is cleared when netdev is brought up. But in the case of persistent devices this happens only during initial setup. The fix is trivial. If device is already up when an app opens it we clear xoff state and that gets things moving again. Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-10xfrm: Add a XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag to xfrm_usersa_infoSteffen Klassert
Add a XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag to handle the AF_UNSPEC behavior for the selector family. Userspace applications can set this flag to leave the selector family of the xfrm_state unspecified. This can be used to to handle inter family tunnels if the selector is not set from userspace. Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-10ipv6: missed namespace context in ipv6_rthdr_rcvDenis V. Lunev
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-10netlabel: netlink_unicast calls kfree_skb on error path by itselfDenis V. Lunev
So, no need to kfree_skb here on the error path. In this case we can simply return. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-10ipv4: fib_trie: Fix lookup error returnBen Hutchings
In commit a07f5f508a4d9728c8e57d7f66294bf5b254ff7f "[IPV4] fib_trie: style cleanup", the changes to check_leaf() and fn_trie_lookup() were wrong - where fn_trie_lookup() would previously return a negative error value from check_leaf(), it now returns 0. Now fn_trie_lookup() doesn't appear to care about plen, so we can revert check_leaf() to returning the error value. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Tested-by: William Boughton <bill@boughton.de> Acked-by: Stephen Heminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-10tcp: correct kcalloc usageMilton Miller
kcalloc is supposed to be called with the count as its first argument and the element size as the second. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-10ip: sysctl documentation cleanupStephen Hemminger
Reduced version of the spelling cleanup patch. Take out the confusing language in tcp_frto, and organize the undocumented values. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-10Documentation: clarify tcp_{r,w}mem sysctl docsJ. Bruce Fields
Fix some of the defaults and attempt to clarify some language. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-10slub: Fix use-after-preempt of per-CPU data structureDmitry Adamushko
Vegard Nossum reported a crash in kmem_cache_alloc(): BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at da87d000 IP: [<c01991c7>] kmem_cache_alloc+0xc7/0xe0 *pde = 28180163 *pte = 1a87d160 Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Pid: 3850, comm: grep Not tainted (2.6.26-rc9-00059-gb190333 #5) EIP: 0060:[<c01991c7>] EFLAGS: 00210203 CPU: 0 EIP is at kmem_cache_alloc+0xc7/0xe0 EAX: 00000000 EBX: da87c100 ECX: 1adad71a EDX: 6b6b6b6b ESI: 00200282 EDI: da87d000 EBP: f60bfe74 ESP: f60bfe54 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 and analyzed it: "The register %ecx looks innocent but is very important here. The disassembly: mov %edx,%ecx shr $0x2,%ecx rep stos %eax,%es:(%edi) <-- the fault So %ecx has been loaded from %edx... which is 0x6b6b6b6b/POISON_FREE. (0x6b6b6b6b >> 2 == 0x1adadada.) %ecx is the counter for the memset, from here: memset(object, 0, c->objsize); i.e. %ecx was loaded from c->objsize, so "c" must have been freed. Where did "c" come from? Uh-oh... c = get_cpu_slab(s, smp_processor_id()); This looks like it has very much to do with CPU hotplug/unplug. Is there a race between SLUB/hotplug since the CPU slab is used after it has been freed?" Good analysis. Yeah, it's possible that a caller of kmem_cache_alloc() -> slab_alloc() can be migrated on another CPU right after local_irq_restore() and before memset(). The inital cpu can become offline in the mean time (or a migration is a consequence of the CPU going offline) so its 'kmem_cache_cpu' structure gets freed ( slab_cpuup_callback). At some point of time the caller continues on another CPU having an obsolete pointer... Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-10exec: fix stack excutability without PT_GNU_STACKHugh Dickins
Kernel Bugzilla #11063 points out that on some architectures (e.g. x86_32) exec'ing an ELF without a PT_GNU_STACK program header should default to an executable stack; but this got broken by the unlimited argv feature because stack vma is now created before the right personality has been established: so breaking old binaries using nested function trampolines. Therefore re-evaluate VM_STACK_FLAGS in setup_arg_pages, where stack vm_flags used to be set, before the mprotect_fixup. Checking through our existing VM_flags, none would have changed since insert_vm_struct: so this seems safer than finding a way through the personality labyrinth. Reported-by: pageexec@freemail.hu Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-10Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: ocfs2: Fix flags in ocfs2_file_lock
2008-07-10Merge 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: fix cpu hotplug, cleanup sched: fix cpu hotplug
2008-07-10sched: fix cpu hotplug, cleanupLinus Torvalds
Clean up __migrate_task(): to just have separate "done" and "fail" cases, instead of that "out" case with random error behavior. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-10Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: fix /dev/mem compatibility under PAT
2008-07-10Fix PREEMPT_RCU without HOTPLUG_CPUNick Piggin
PREEMPT_RCU without HOTPLUG_CPU is broken. The rcu_online_cpu is called to initially populate rcu_cpu_online_map with all online CPUs when the hotplug event handler is installed, and also to populate the map with CPUs as they come online. The former case is meant to happen with and without HOTPLUG_CPU, but without HOTPLUG_CPU, the rcu_offline_cpu function is no-oped -- while it still gets called, it does not set the rcu CPU map. With a blank RCU CPU map, grace periods get to tick by completely oblivious to active RCU read side critical sections. This results in free-before-grace bugs. Fix is obvious once the problem is known. (Also, change __devinit to __cpuinit so the function gets thrown away on !HOTPLUG_CPU kernels). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Reported-and-tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ Nick is my personal hero of the day - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-10ftrace: DocumentationSteven Rostedt
This is the long awaited ftrace.txt. It explains in quite detail how to use ftrace and the various tracers. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>