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2008-04-14revert "sched: fix fair sleepers"Ingo Molnar
revert "sched: fix fair sleepers" (e22ecef1d2658ba54ed7d3fdb5d60829fb434c23), because it is causing audio skipping, see: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10428 the patch is correct and the real cause of the skipping is not understood (tracing makes it go away), but time has run out so we'll revert it and re-try in 2.6.26. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-11Linux 2.6.25-rc9Linus Torvalds
2008-04-11Merge branch 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: Add additional examples in Documentation/spinlocks.txt Move sched-rt-group.txt to scheduler/ Documentation: move rpc-cache.txt to filesystems/ Documentation: move nfsroot.txt to filesystems/ Spell out behavior of atomic_dec_and_lock() in kerneldoc Fix a typo in highres.txt Fixes to the seq_file document Fill out information on patch tags in SubmittingPatches Add the seq_file documentation
2008-04-11Add additional examples in Documentation/spinlocks.txtMark Fasheh
Checkpatch will throw an error if code doesn't use the correct initializers for static spinlocks: ERROR: Use of SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED is deprecated: see Documentation/spinlocks.txt This is fine, but Documentation/spinlocks.txt isn't very clear on how to _use_ the new initializers for static variables. To save people time in the future, I added two small examples of how to fix old-style static initializers to be more lockdep friendly. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-11Move sched-rt-group.txt to scheduler/J. Bruce Fields
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-11Documentation: move rpc-cache.txt to filesystems/J. Bruce Fields
This file is nfs-related. (Maybe Documentation/filesystems/ would benefit from a separate nfs/ directory at some point.) Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-11Documentation: move nfsroot.txt to filesystems/J. Bruce Fields
Documentation/ is a little large, and filesystems/ seems an obvious place for this file. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-11Spell out behavior of atomic_dec_and_lock() in kerneldocJ. Bruce Fields
A little more detail here wouldn't hurt. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-11Fix "$(AS) -traditional" compile breakage caused by asmlinkage_protectHeiko Carstens
git commit 54a015104136974262afa4b8ddd943ea70dec8a2 ("asmlinkage_protect replaces prevent_tail_call") causes this build failure on s390: AS arch/s390/kernel/entry64.o In file included from arch/s390/kernel/entry64.S:14: include/linux/linkage.h:34: error: syntax error in macro parameter list make[1]: *** [arch/s390/kernel/entry64.o] Error 1 make: *** [arch/s390/kernel] Error 2 and some other architectures. The reason is that some architectures add the "-traditional" flag to the invocation of $(AS), which disables variadic macro argument support. So just surround the new define with an #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ to prevent any side effects on asm code. Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-11Merge branch 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6: i2c-tiny-usb: New VID/PID pair i2c-davinci: Fix lost interrupt i2c-ibm_iic: Fast mode parm desc fixup
2008-04-11Merge 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: [NETNS][IPV6] tcp - assign the netns for timewait sockets [IPV4]: Fix byte value boundary check in do_ip_getsockopt(). BNX2X: Correct bringing chip out of reset [NETFILTER]: nf_nat: autoload IPv4 connection tracking [NETFILTER]: xt_hashlimit: fix mask calculation [XFRM]: xfrm_user: fix selector family initialization rt61pci: rt61pci_beacon_update do not free skb twice ssb-mipscore: Fix interrupt vectors ssb-pcicore: Fix IRQ TPS flag handling mac80211: use short_preamble mode from capability if ERP IE not present [NET]: Undo code bloat in hot paths due to print_mac(). [TCP]: Don't allow FRTO to take place while MTU is being probed [TCP]: tcp_simple_retransmit can cause S+L [TCP]: Fix NewReno's fast rexmit/recovery problems with GSOed skb [TCP]: Restore 2.6.24 mark_head_lost behavior for newreno/fack nl80211: fix STA AID bug b43legacy: fix bcm4303 crash iwlwifi: fix n-band association problem ipw2200: set MAC address on radiotap interface libertas: fix mode initialization problem
2008-04-11Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: [SPARC]: Fix several regset and ptrace bugs.
2008-04-11signalfd: fix for incorrect SI_QUEUE user data reportingDavide Libenzi
Michael Kerrisk found out that signalfd was not reporting back user data pushed using sigqueue: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/msg/9397cab8551e3123 The following patch makes signalfd report back the ssi_ptr and ssi_int members of the signalfd_siginfo structure. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-11pnp: increase number of devices supported per protocolBjorn Helgaas
Increase the PNP "number of devices" limit. We currently use an unsigned char, which limits us to 256 devices per protocol. This patch changes that to an unsigned int. Not all backends can take advantage of this: we limit ISAPNP to 10 devices in isapnp_cfg_begin(), and PNPBIOS is limited to 256 devices because the BIOS interfaces use a one-byte device node number. But there is no limit on the number of PNPACPI devices we may have. Large HP Integrity machines have more than 256, which causes the current "unsigned char number" to wrap around. This causes errors like this: pnp: PnP ACPI init kobject_add failed for 00:00 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory. Call Trace: [<a000000100010720>] show_stack+0x40/0xa0 [<a0000001000107b0>] dump_stack+0x30/0x60 [<a0000001001dbdf0>] kobject_add+0x290/0x2c0 [<a0000001002bfd40>] device_add+0x160/0x860 [<a0000001002c0470>] device_register+0x30/0x60 [<a00000010026ba70>] __pnp_add_device+0x130/0x180 [<a00000010026bb70>] pnp_add_device+0xb0/0xe0 [<a0000001007f2730>] pnpacpi_add_device+0x510/0x5a0 [<a0000001007f2810>] pnpacpi_add_device_handler+0x50/0x80 This patch increases the limit to fix this PNPACPI problem. It should not have any adverse effect on ISAPNP or PNPBIOS because their limits are still enforced in the backends. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-11md: close a livelock window in handle_parity_checks5Dan Williams
If a failure is detected after a parity check operation has been initiated, but before it completes handle_parity_checks5 will never quiesce operations on the stripe. Explicitly handle this case by "canceling" the parity check, i.e. clear the STRIPE_OP_CHECK flags and queue the stripe on the handle list again to refresh any non-uptodate blocks. Kernel versions >= 2.6.23 are susceptible. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-11cciss: error: implicit declaration of function 'sg_init_table'Mike Pagano
This patch adds the missing include directive <linux/scatterlist.h> to the cciss.c source file.   This was discovered by our release team when building the kernel for the Alpha architecture. Errors were found as references to functions 'sg_init_table' and 'sg_page' do not exist without the include for Alpha. Signed-off-by: Mike Pagano <mpagano@gentoo.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-11rtc: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplugKay Sievers
Since 43cc71eed1250755986da4c0f9898f9a635cb3bf, the platform modalias is prefixed with "platform:". Add MODULE_ALIAS() to the hotpluggable RTC platform drivers, to re-enable module auto loading. [dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net: more drivers, minor fix] Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-11watchdog: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplugKay Sievers
Since 43cc71eed1250755986da4c0f9898f9a635cb3bf, the platform modalias is prefixed with "platform:". Add MODULE_ALIAS() to the hotpluggable watchdog drivers, to re-enable auto loading. [dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net: more drivers; registration fixes] Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-11usb host: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplugKay Sievers
Since 43cc71eed1250755986da4c0f9898f9a635cb3bf, the platform modalias is prefixed with "platform:". Add MODULE_ALIAS() to the hotpluggable USB HCDs, to allow re-enable auto loading. [dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net: more drivers; registration fixes] Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-11usb gadget: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplugKay Sievers
Since 43cc71eed1250755986da4c0f9898f9a635cb3bf, the platform modalias is prefixed with "platform:". Add MODULE_ALIAS() to the hotpluggable usb peripheral drivers, to re-eable module auto loading. [dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net: registration fixes] Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-11spi: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplugKay Sievers
Since 43cc71eed1250755986da4c0f9898f9a635cb3bf, the platform modalias is prefixed with "platform:". Add MODULE_ALIAS() to the hotpluggable SPI platform drivers, to allow module auto loading. [dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net: more drivers: registration fixes] Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-11eventfd/kaio integration fixDavide Libenzi
Jeff Roberson discovered a race when using kaio eventfd based notifications. When it occurs it can lead tomissed wakeups and hung userspace. This patch fixes the race by moving the notification inside the spinlocked section of kaio. The operation is safe since eventfd spinlock and kaio one are unrelated. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-11rtc: rtc-s35390a.c needs the bitreverse libraryRandy Dunlap
rtc-s35390a uses BITREVERSE functions so it needs to select that config symbol to ensure that the functions are built. drivers/built-in.o: In function `s35390a_set_datetime': linux-2.6.25-rc8-git7/drivers/rtc/rtc-s35390a.c:144: undefined reference to `byte_rev_table' drivers/built-in.o: In function `s35390a_get_datetime': linux-2.6.25-rc8-git7/drivers/rtc/rtc-s35390a.c:163: undefined reference to `byte_rev_table' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-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>
2008-04-11cgroups: include hierarchy ids in /proc/<pid>/cgroupPaul Menage
Extend the /proc/<pid>/cgroup file to include the appropriate hierarchy ID on each line. Currently this ID isn't really needed since a hierarchy can be completely identified by the set of subsystems bound to it, but this is likely to change in the near future in order to support stateless subsystems and merging/rebinding of subsystems. Getting this change into 2.6.25 reduces the need for an API change later. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-11i2c-tiny-usb: New VID/PID pairTill Harbaum
I have recently bought some USB PIDs from EZPrototypes for my USB projects and one will be for the i2c-tiny-usb. I have not yet started to use the new one in the official i2c-tiny-usb firmware since i think it makes sense to get the change into the kernel before releasing a modified firmware. This patch adds support for the EZPrototypes USB vid/pid pair used in later i2c-tiny-usb firmware versions (avrusb v1.06 and up, usbtiny v2.06 and up). Signed-off-by: Till Harbaum <Till@Harbaum.org> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-04-11i2c-davinci: Fix lost interruptTroy Kisky
DAVINCI_I2C_STR_REG is a write 1 to clear register, so don't use a read/modify/write cycle. Signed-off-by: Troy Kisky <troy.kisky@boundarydevices.com> Acked-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-04-11i2c-ibm_iic: Fast mode parm desc fixupPaul Mundt
Noticed this when grepping for fast mode module params, the i2c-ibm_iic driver was using a non-existent variable for MODULE_PARM_DESC. Fix it up to reflect what it's actually supposed to be describing. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-04-10[NETNS][IPV6] tcp - assign the netns for timewait socketsDaniel Lezcano
Copy the network namespace from the socket to the timewait socket. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Acked-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-10Add commentary about the new "asmlinkage_protect()" macroLinus Torvalds
It's really a pretty ugly thing to need, and some day it will hopefully be obviated by teaching gcc about the magic calling conventions for the low-level system call code, but in the meantime we can at least add big honking comments about why we need these insane and strange macros. I took my comments from my version of the macro, but I ended up deciding to just pick Roland's version of the actual code instead (with his prettier syntax that uses vararg macros). Thus the previous two commits that actually implement it. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-10asmlinkage_protect sys_io_geteventsRoland McGrath
Use asmlinkage_protect in sys_io_getevents, because GCC for i386 with CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=n can decide to clobber an argument word on the stack, i.e. the user struct pt_regs. Here the problem is not a tail call, but just the compiler's use of the stack when it inlines and optimizes the body of the called function. This seems to avoid it. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-10asmlinkage_protect replaces prevent_tail_callRoland McGrath
The prevent_tail_call() macro works around the problem of the compiler clobbering argument words on the stack, which for asmlinkage functions is the caller's (user's) struct pt_regs. The tail/sibling-call optimization is not the only way that the compiler can decide to use stack argument words as scratch space, which we have to prevent. Other optimizations can do it too. Until we have new compiler support to make "asmlinkage" binding on the compiler's own use of the stack argument frame, we have work around all the manifestations of this issue that crop up. More cases seem to be prevented by also keeping the incoming argument variables live at the end of the function. This makes their original stack slots attractive places to leave those variables, so the compiler tends not clobber them for something else. It's still no guarantee, but it handles some observed cases that prevent_tail_call() did not. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-10x86: Simplify cpu_idle_waitVenki Pallipadi
This patch also resolves hangs on boot: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/23/263 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10093 The bug was causing once-in-few-reboots 10-15 sec wait during boot on certain laptops. Earlier commit 40d6a146629b98d8e322b6f9332b182c7cbff3df added smp_call_function in cpu_idle_wait() to kick cpus that are in tickless idle. Looking at cpu_idle_wait code at that time, code seemed to be over-engineered for a case which is rarely used (while changing idle handler). Below is a simplified version of cpu_idle_wait, which just makes a dummy smp_call_function to all cpus, to make them come out of old idle handler and start using the new idle handler. It eliminates code in the idle loop to handle cpu_idle_wait. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-10lzo: fix typo in decompressorHarvey Harrison
Shift of a LE value seems strange, probably meant to shift the cpu-order variable as in the prvious section of the switch statement. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-10FRV: Don't make smp_{r, w, }mb() interpolate MEMBAR when CONFIG_SMP=n [try #2]David Howells
Don't make smp_{r,w,}mb() interpolate a MEMBAR instruction when CONFIG_SMP=n as SMP memory barries on UP systems should interpolate a compiler barrier only. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-10FRV: Make NOMMU-mode work with base addresses other than 0xC0000000 [try #2]David Howells
Make NOMMU-mode work with base addresses other than 0xC0000000 by: (1) Giving the code that sets up the protection registers the right address in __sdram_base. Rather than being hard coded to 0xC0000000, the value of __page_offset is obtained from the linker script. (2) Eliminate the check in __switch_to() that verifies the current thread info is in the 0xCxxxxxxx region. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-10FRV: Add support for emulation of userspace atomic ops [try #2]David Howells
Use traps 120-126 to emulate atomic cmpxchg32, xchg32, and XOR-, OR-, AND-, SUB- and ADD-to-memory operations for userspace. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-10FRV: Move STACK_TOP_MAX up [try #2]David Howells
Move STACK_TOP_MAX up so that we don't try moving the stack above it as that causes setup_arg_pages() to malfunction. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-10FRV: Handle update_mmu_cache() being called when current->mm is NULL [try #2]David Howells
Handle update_mmu_cache() being called when current->mm is NULL. We cache static TLB mappings for the current page table in DAMPR4 and DAMPR5 on the theory that the next data lookup is likely to be in the same general region, and thus is likely to be mapped by the same page table. However, we can't get this information if we can't access the appropriate mm_struct. If current->mm is NULL, we just clear the cache in the knowledge that the TLB miss handlers will load it. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-10Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6: [XFS] Ensure "both" features2 slots are consistent [XFS] Fix superblock features2 field alignment problem [XFS] remove shouting-indirection macros from xfs_sb.h
2008-04-10Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: cfq-iosched: do not leak ioc_data across iosched switches splice: fix infinite loop in generic_file_splice_read()
2008-04-10HFS+: fix unlink of linksRoman Zippel
Some time ago while attempting to handle invalid link counts, I botched the unlink of links itself, so this patch fixes this now correctly, so that only the link count of nodes that don't point to links is ignored. Thanks to Vlado Plaga <rechner@vlado-do.de> to notify me of this problem. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-10[IPV4]: Fix byte value boundary check in do_ip_getsockopt().David S. Miller
This fixes kernel bugzilla 10371. As reported by M.Piechaczek@osmosys.tv, if we try to grab a char sized socket option value, as in: unsigned char ttl = 255; socklen_t len = sizeof(ttl); setsockopt(socket, IPPROTO_IP, IP_MULTICAST_TTL, &ttl, &len); getsockopt(socket, IPPROTO_IP, IP_MULTICAST_TTL, &ttl, &len); The ttl returned will be wrong on big-endian, and on both little- endian and big-endian the next three bytes in userspace are written with garbage. It's because of this test in do_ip_getsockopt(): if (len < sizeof(int) && len > 0 && val>=0 && val<255) { It should allow a 'val' of 255 to pass here, but it doesn't so it copies a full 'int' back to userspace. On little-endian that will write the correct value into the location but it spams on the next three bytes in userspace. On big endian it writes the wrong value into the location and spams the next three bytes. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-10cfq-iosched: do not leak ioc_data across iosched switchesFabio Checconi
When switching scheduler from cfq, cfq_exit_queue() does not clear ioc->ioc_data, leaving a dangling pointer that can deceive the following lookups when the iosched is switched back to cfq. The pattern that can trigger that is the following: - elevator switch from cfq to something else; - module unloading, with elv_unregister() that calls cfq_free_io_context() on ioc freeing the cic (via the .trim op); - module gets reloaded and the elevator switches back to cfq; - reallocation of a cic at the same address as before (with a valid key). To fix it just assign NULL to ioc_data in __cfq_exit_single_io_context(), that is called from the regular exit path and from the elevator switching code. The only path that frees a cic and is not covered is the error handling one, but cic's freed in this way are never cached in ioc_data. Signed-off-by: Fabio Checconi <fabio@gandalf.sssup.it> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-10[XFS] Ensure "both" features2 slots are consistentEric Sandeen
Since older kernels may look in the sb_bad_features2 slot for flags, rather than zeroing it out on fixup, we should make it equal to the sb_features2 value. Also, if the ATTR2 flag was not found prior to features2 fixup, it was not set in the mount flags, so re-check after the fixup so that the current session will use the feature. Also fix up the comments to reflect these changes. SGI-PV: 980085 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30778a Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-10[XFS] Fix superblock features2 field alignment problemDavid Chinner
Due to the xfs_dsb_t structure not being 64 bit aligned, the last field of the on-disk superblock can vary in location This causes problems when the filesystem gets moved to a different platform, or there is a 32 bit userspace and 64 bit kernel. This patch detects the defect at mount time, logs a warning such as: XFS: correcting sb_features alignment problem in dmesg and corrects the problem so that everything is OK. it also blacklists the bad field in the superblock so it does not get used for something else later on. SGI-PV: 977636 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30539a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-10[XFS] remove shouting-indirection macros from xfs_sb.hEric Sandeen
Remove macro-to-small-function indirection from xfs_sb.h, and remove some which are completely unused. SGI-PV: 976035 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30528a Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-10splice: fix infinite loop in generic_file_splice_read()Jens Axboe
There's a quirky loop in generic_file_splice_read() that could go on indefinitely, if the file splice returns 0 permanently (and not just as a temporary condition). Get rid of the loop and pass back -EAGAIN correctly from __generic_file_splice_read(), so we handle that condition properly as well. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-04-09[SPARC]: Fix several regset and ptrace bugs.David S. Miller
1) ptrace should pass 'current' to task_user_regset_view() 2) When fetching general registers using a 64-bit view, and the target is 32-bit, we have to convert. 3) Skip the whole register window get/set code block if the user isn't asking to access anything in there. Otherwise we have problems if the user doesn't have an address space setup. Fetching ptrace register is still valid at such a time, and ptrace does not try to access the register window area of the regset. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-09pop previous section in alternative.cSteven Rostedt
gcc expects all toplevel assembly to return to the original section type. The code in alteranative.c does not do this. This caused some strange bugs in sched-devel where code would end up in the .rodata section and when the kernel sets the NX bit on all .rodata, the kernel would crash when executing this code. This patch adds a .previous marker to return the code back to the original section. Credit goes to Andrew Pinski for telling me it wasn't a gcc bug but a bug in the toplevel asm code in the kernel. ;-) Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-09Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6: SELinux: don't BUG if fs reuses a superblock