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2005-11-25Merge branch 'drm-linus' of ā†µLinus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6
2005-11-25SUNRPC: Funny looking code in __rpc_purge_upcallTrond Myklebust
In __rpc_purge_upcall (net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c), the newer code to clean up the in_upcall list has a typo. Thanks to Vince Busam <vbusam@google.com> for spotting this! Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-11-25NFS: Fix a spinlock recursion inside nfs_update_inode()Trond Myklebust
In cases where the server has gone insane, nfs_update_inode() may end up calling nfs_invalidate_inode(), which again calls stuff that takes the inode->i_lock that we're already holding. In addition, given the sort of things we have in NFS these days that need to be cleaned up on inode release, I'm not sure we should ever be calling make_bad_inode(). Fix up spinlock recursion, and limit nfs_invalidate_inode() to clearing the caches, and marking the inode as being stale. Thanks to Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com> for spotting this. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-11-25NFSv4: Fix typo in lock cachingTrond Myklebust
When caching locks due to holding a file delegation, we must always check against local locks before sending anything to the server. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-11-25NFSv4: Fix buggy nfs_wait_on_sequence()Trond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-11-25Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-mergeLinus Torvalds
2005-11-25Merge git://oss.sgi.com:8090/oss/git/xfs-2.6Linus Torvalds
2005-11-25[PATCH] powerpc: More hugepage boundary case fixesDavid Gibson
Blah. The patch [0] I recently sent fixing errors with in_hugepage_area() and prepare_hugepage_range() for powerpc itself has an off-by-one bug. Furthermore, the related functions touches_hugepage_*_range() and within_hugepage_*_range() are also buggy. Some of the bugs, like those addressed in [0] originated with commit 7d24f0b8a53261709938ffabe3e00f88f6498df9 where we tweaked the semantics of where hugepages are allowed. Other bugs have been there essentially forever, and are due to the undefined behaviour of '<<' with shift counts greater than the type width (LOW_ESID_MASK could return non-zero for high ranges with the right congruences). The good news is that I now have a testsuite which should pick up things like this if they creep in again. [0] "powerpc-fix-for-hugepage-areas-straddling-4gb-boundary" Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-25Merge ../linux-2.6Paul Mackerras
2005-11-25[PATCH] powerpc: remove arch/powerpc/include hack for 64 bitStephen Rothwell
With the removal of include/asm-powerpc, we no longer need arch/powerpc/include/asm for the 64 bit build. We also do not need -Iarch/powerpc for the 64 bit build either. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-25[XFS] Resolve the xlog_grant_log_space hang, revert inline to macro.Nathan Scott
SGI-PV: 946205 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:24567a Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-25[XFS] Fix a case where attr2 format was being used unconditionally.Nathan Scott
SGI-PV: 941645 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:24566a Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-25[XFS] Tight loop in xfs_finish_reclaim_all prevented the xfslogd to runFelix Blyakher
its queue of IO completion callbacks, thus creating the deadlock between umount and xfslogd. Breaking the loop solves the problem. SGI-PV: 943821 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:202363a Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-25[XFS] Fix a 32 bit value wraparound when providing a mapping for a largeNathan Scott
direct write. SGI-PV: 944820 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:24351a Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-25[XFS] handle error returns from freeze_bdevChristoph Hellwig
SGI-PV: 945483 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:201884a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-25[XFS] Fix potential overflow in xfs_iomap_t delta for very large extentsEric Sandeen
SGI-PV: 945311 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:201708a Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-24Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds
2005-11-24[PATCH] fbcon: fix obvious bug in fbcon logo rotation codeJasper Spaans
This code fixes a tiny problem with the recent fbcon rotation changes: fb_prepare_logo doesn't check the return value of fb_find_logo and that causes a crash for my while booting. Obvious & working & tested fix is here. Signed-off-by: Jasper Spaans <jasper@vs19.net> Acked-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-24drm: fix quiescent lockingDave Airlie
A fix for a locking bug which is triggered when a client tries to lock with flag DMA_QUIESCENT (typically the X server), but gets interrupted by a signal. The locking IOCTL should then return an error, but if DMA_QUIESCENT succeeds it returns 0, and the client falsely thinks it has the lock. In addition The client waits for DMA_QUISCENT and possibly DMA_READY without having the lock. From: Thomas Hellstrom Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
2005-11-23Merge branch 'drm-linus' of ā†µLinus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6
2005-11-23[PATCH] usb serial: remove redundant includeNicolas Kaiser
remove redundant include Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] USB: kernel-doc for linux/usb.hRandy Dunlap
Fix kernel-doc warning in linux/usb.h. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] USB: fix USB key generates ioctl_internal_command errors issueDavid Härdeman
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 06:34:24PM -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote: >On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:52:32 +0100, David Härdeman <david@2gen.com> wrote: >> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning >> Vendor: I0MEGA Model: UMni1GB*IOM2K4 Rev: 1.01 >> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 >> SCSI device sda: 2048000 512-byte hdwr sectors (1049 MB) >> sda: Write Protect is off >> sda: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00 >> sda: assuming drive cache: write through >> ioctl_internal_command: <8 0 0 0> return code = 8000002 >> : Current: sense key=0x0 >> ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 >> SCSI device sda: 2048000 512-byte hdwr sectors (1049 MB) > >I think it's harmless. I saw things like that, and initially I plugged >them with workarounds like this: Thanks for the pointer, and yes, it is harmless, but it floods the console with the messages which hides other (potentially important) messages...following your example I've made a patch which fixes the problem. Signed-off-by: David Härdeman <david@2gen.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] USB: ohci, move ppc asic tweaks nearer pciDavid Brownell
This should fix a suspend/resume issues that appear with OHCI on some PPC hardware. The PCI layer should doesn't have the hooks needed for such ASIC-specific hooks (in this case, software clock gating), so this moves the code to do that into hcd-pci.c ... where it can be done after the relevant PCI PM state transition (to/from D3). Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] USB: EHCI updates split init/reinit logic for resumeDavid Brownell
Moving the PCI-specific parts of the EHCI driver into their own file created a few issues ... notably on resume paths which (like swsusp) require re-initializing the controller. This patch: - Splits the EHCI startup code into run-once HCD setup code and separate "init the hardware" reinit code. (That reinit code is a superset of the "early usb handoff" code.) - Then it makes the PCI init code run both, and the resume code only run the reinit code. - It also removes needless pci wrappers around EHCI start/stop methods. - Removes a byteswap issue that would be seen on big-endian hardware. The HCD glue still doesn't actually provide a good way to do all this run-one init stuff in one place though. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] USB: EHCI updates mostly whitespace cleanupsDavid Brownell
This cleans up the recent updates to EHCI PCI support: - Gets rid of checks for "is this a PCI device", they're no longer needed since this is now all PCI-only code. - Reduce log spamming: MWI is only interesting in the atypical case that it can actually be used. - Whitespace cleanup, as appropriate for a new file with no other pending patches. So other than that minor logging change, no functional updates. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] USB: EHCI updatesDavid Brownell
This fixes some bugs in EHCI suspend/resume that joined us over the past few releases (as usbcore, PCI, pmcore, and other components evolved): - Removes suspend and resume recursion from the EHCI driver, getting rid of the USB_SUSPEND special casing. - Updates the wakeup mechanism to work again; there's a newish usbcore call it needs to use. - Provide simpler tests for "do we need to restart from scratch", to address another case where PCI Vaux was lost. (In this case it was restoring a swsusp snapshot, but there could be others.) Un-exports a symbol that was temporarily exported. A notable change from previous version is that this doesn't move the spinlock init, so there's still a resume/reinit path bug. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] USB: ftdi_sio: new IDs for KOBIL devicesIan Abbott
This patch adds two new devices to the ftdi_sio driver's device ID table. The device IDs were supplied by Stefan Nies of KOBIL Systems for two of their devices using the FTDI chip. Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] USB: SN9C10x driver - bad page state fixDamian Wrobel
This patch solves the following problem I've already discovered on the latest 2.6.15-rc1-git1 kernel: Nov 13 07:37:28 wrobel kernel: Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'motion', page c164e020) Nov 13 07:37:28 wrobel kernel: flags:0x40000400 mapping:00000000 mapcount:0 count:0 Nov 13 07:37:28 wrobel kernel: Backtrace: Nov 13 07:37:28 wrobel kernel: [<c0146d86>] bad_page+0x85/0xbe Nov 13 07:37:28 wrobel kernel: [<c0147629>] free_hot_cold_page+0x54/0x129 Nov 13 07:37:28 wrobel kernel: [<c01598c6>] __vunmap+0xa9/0xfe Nov 13 07:37:28 wrobel kernel: [<c0154114>] vmalloc_to_page+0x34/0x55 Nov 13 07:37:28 wrobel kernel: [<c0159942>] vfree+0x27/0x35 Nov 13 07:37:28 wrobel kernel: [<f8a20292>] sn9c102_release_buffers+0x30/0x3f [sn9c102] Nov 13 07:37:28 wrobel kernel: [<f8a231c2>] sn9c102_release+0x37/0xeb [sn9c102] Nov 13 07:37:28 wrobel kernel: [<c0163e74>] __fput+0xa9/0x1aa Nov 13 07:37:28 wrobel kernel: [<c01624f7>] filp_close+0x49/0x6d Nov 13 07:37:30 wrobel kernel: [<c016258f>] sys_close+0x74/0x95 Nov 13 07:37:30 wrobel kernel: [<c0102ef9>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Nov 13 07:37:31 wrobel kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Signed-off-by: Damian Wrobel <dwrobel@ertel.com.pl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] PCI: direct.c: DBGDaniel Marjamäki
The DBG() call where updated with the appropriate KERN_* symbol. Signed-off-by: Daniel Marjamäki <daniel.marjamaki@comhem.se> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] PCI: kernel-doc fix for pci-acpi.cRandy Dunlap
Fix kernel-doc warning in pci/pci-acpi.c. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] PCI: remove bogus resource collision errorRajesh Shah
When attempting to hotadd a PCI card with a bridge on it, I saw the kernel reporting resource collision errors even when there were really no collisions. The problem is that the code doesn't skip over "invalid" resources with their resource type flag not set. Others have reported similar problems at boot time and for non-bridge PCI card hotplug too, where the code flags a resource collision for disabled ROMs. This patch fixes both problems. Signed-off-by: Rajesh Shah <rajesh.shah@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] PCI Express Hotplug: clear sticky power-fault bitRajesh Shah
Per the PCI Express spec, the power-fault-detected bit in the slot status register can be set anytime hardware detects a power fault, regardless of whether the slot has a device populated in it or not. This bit is sticky and must be explicitly cleared. This patch is needed to allow hot-add after such a power fault has been detected. Signed-off-by: Rajesh Shah <rajesh.shah@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] PCI: trivial printk updates in common.cDaniel Marjamäkia
Modified common.c so it's using the appropriate KERN_* in printk() calls. Signed-off-by: Daniel Marjamäkia <daniel.marjamaki@comhem.se> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] hwmon: hdaps missing an axisEugeniy Meshcheryakov
Trivial patch to report both hdaps axises to the joystick device, not just the X axis. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] hwmon: Fix missing it87 fan div initJean Delvare
Fix a bug where setting the low fan speed limits will not work if no data was ever read through the sysfs interface and the fan clock dividers have not been explicitely set yet either. The reason is that data->fan_div[nr] may currently be used before it is initialized from the chip register values. The fix is to explicitely initialize data->fan_div[nr] before using it. Bug reported, and fix tested, by Nicolas Mailhot. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] hwmon: Fix lm78 VID conversionJean Delvare
Fix the lm78 VID reading, which I accidentally broke while making this driver use the common vid_from_reg function rather than reimplementing its own in 2.6.14-rc1. I'm not proud of it, trust me. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] hwmon: Fix missing boundary check when setting W83627THF in0 limitsYuan Mu
Add SENSORS_LIMIT in store VCore limit functions. This fixes a potential u8 overflow on out-of-range user input. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] Add more SCM trees to MAINTAINERSJosh Boyer
Greg requested a patch to update MAINTAINERS with more SCM entries. The patch below is what I've found so far. Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] Clarify T: field in MAINTAINERSJody McIntyre
Pavel Machek points out that for git repos, what we include is not actually a URL. It is undesirable to use a URL since git repos can be accessed in many different ways. Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@steamballoon.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] MTD git tree location added to MAINTAINERSJosh Boyer
Here's the MTD one. More later as I find them. Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] Small fixes to driver coreAlan Stern
This patch (as603) makes a few small fixes to the driver core: Change spin_lock_irq for a klist lock to spin_lock; Fix reference count leaks; Minor spelling and formatting changes. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[BRIDGE]: recompute features when adding a new deviceOlaf Rempel
We must recompute bridge features everytime the list of underlying devices changes, or we might end up with features that are not supported by all devices (eg. NETIF_F_TSO) This patch adds the missing recompute when adding a device to the bridge. Signed-off-by: Olaf Rempel <razzor@kopf-tisch.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-23[NETFILTER]: ip_conntrack_netlink.c needs linux/interrupt.hBenoit Boissinot
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_netlink.c: In function 'ctnetlink_dump_table': net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_netlink.c:409: warning: implicit declaration of function 'local_bh_disable' net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_netlink.c:427: warning: implicit declaration of function 'local_bh_enable' Signed-off-by: Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-23[PATCH] 32bit integer overflow in invalidate_inode_pages2()Oleg Drokin
Fix a 32 bit integer overflow in invalidate_inode_pages2_range. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] jffs2 debug gcc-2.9x fixAndrew Morton
Work around gcc-2.95.x macro expansion bug. Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] powerpc: fix for hugepage areas straddling 4GB boundaryDavid Gibson
Commit 7d24f0b8a53261709938ffabe3e00f88f6498df9 fixed bugs in the ppc64 SLB miss handler with respect to hugepage handling, and in the process tweaked the semantics of the hugepage address masks in mm_context_t. Unfortunately, it left out a couple of necessary changes to go with that change. First, the in_hugepage_area() macro was not updated to match, second prepare_hugepage_range() was not updated to correctly handle hugepages regions which straddled the 4GB point. The latter appears only to cause process-hangs when attempting to map such a region, but the former can cause oopses if a get_user_pages() is triggered at the wrong point. This patch addresses both bugs. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] Fix crash in unregister_console()Benjamin Herrenschmidt
If unregister_console() is inadvertently called while no consoles are registered, it will crash trying to dereference NULL pointer. It is necessary to fix that because register_console() provides no indication that it actually registered the console passed in. In fact, it may well decide not to register it based on various things... (akpm: It'd be better to make register_console() return something and fix the callers. All 106 of them...) Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] fix do_wait() vs exec() raceOleg Nesterov
When non-leader thread does exec, de_thread adds old leader to the init's ->children list in EXIT_ZOMBIE state and drops tasklist_lock. This means that release_task(leader) in de_thread() is racy vs do_wait() from init task. I think de_thread() should set old leader's state to EXIT_DEAD instead. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: george anzinger <george@mvista.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] kprobes: Fix return probes on sys_execveJim Keniston
Fix a bug in kprobes that can cause an Oops or even a crash when a return probe is installed on one of the following functions: sys_execve, do_execve, load_*_binary, flush_old_exec, or flush_thread. The fix is to remove the call to kprobe_flush_task() in flush_thread(). This fix has been tested on all architectures for which the return-probes feature has been implemented (i386, x86_64, ppc64, ia64). Please apply. BACKGROUND Up to now, we have called kprobe_flush_task() under two situations: when a task exits, and when it execs. Flushing kretprobe_instances on exit is correct because (a) do_exit() doesn't return, and (b) one or more return-probed functions may be active when a task calls do_exit(). Neither is the case for sys_execve() and its callees. Initially, the mistaken call to kprobe_flush_task() on exec was harmless because we put the "real" return address of each active probed function back in the stack, just to be safe, when we recycled its kretprobe_instance. When support for ppc64 and ia64 was added, this safety measure couldn't be employed, and was eventually dropped even for i386 and x86_64. sys_execve() and its callees were informally blacklisted for return probes until this fix was developed. Acked-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>