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2006-03-20[PATCH] sem2mutex: audit_netlink_semIngo Molnar
Semaphore to mutex conversion. The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated automatically via a script as well. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-20[PATCH] simplify audit_free() lockingIngo Molnar
Simplify audit_free()'s locking: no need to lock a task that we are tearing down. [the extra locking also caused false positives in the lock validator] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-20[PATCH] Fix audit operatorsDustin Kirkland
Darrel Goeddel initiated a discussion on IRC regarding the possibility of audit_comparator() returning -EINVAL signaling an invalid operator. It is possible when creating the rule to assure that the operator is one of the 6 sane values. Here's a snip from include/linux/audit.h Note that 0 (nonsense) and 7 (all operators) are not valid values for an operator. ... /* These are the supported operators. * 4 2 1 * = > < * ------- * 0 0 0 0 nonsense * 0 0 1 1 < * 0 1 0 2 > * 0 1 1 3 != * 1 0 0 4 = * 1 0 1 5 <= * 1 1 0 6 >= * 1 1 1 7 all operators */ ... Furthermore, prior to adding these extended operators, flagging the AUDIT_NEGATE bit implied !=, and otherwise == was assumed. The following code forces the operator to be != if the AUDIT_NEGATE bit was flipped on. And if no operator was specified, == is assumed. The only invalid condition is if the AUDIT_NEGATE bit is off and all of the AUDIT_EQUAL, AUDIT_LESS_THAN, and AUDIT_GREATER_THAN bits are on--clearly a nonsensical operator. Now that this is handled at rule insertion time, the default -EINVAL return of audit_comparator() is eliminated such that the function can only return 1 or 0. If this is acceptable, let's get this applied to the current tree. :-Dustin -- Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> (cherry picked from 9bf0a8e137040f87d1b563336d4194e38fb2ba1a commit)
2006-03-20[PATCH] promiscuous modeSteve Grubb
Hi, When a network interface goes into promiscuous mode, its an important security issue. The attached patch is intended to capture that action and send an event to the audit system. The patch carves out a new block of numbers for kernel detected anomalies. These are events that may indicate suspicious activity. Other examples of potential kernel anomalies would be: exceeding disk quota, rlimit violations, changes to syscall entry table. Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-20[PATCH] Add tty to syscall audit recordsSteve Grubb
Hi, >From the RBAC specs: FAU_SAR.1.1 The TSF shall provide the set of authorized RBAC administrators with the capability to read the following audit information from the audit records: <snip> (e) The User Session Identifier or Terminal Type A patch adding the tty for all syscalls is included in this email. Please apply. Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-20[PATCH] add/remove rule updateSteve Grubb
Hi, The following patch adds a little more information to the add/remove rule message emitted by the kernel. Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-20[PATCH] audit string fields interface + consumerAmy Griffis
Updated patch to dynamically allocate audit rule fields in kernel's internal representation. Added unlikely() calls for testing memory allocation result. Amy Griffis wrote: [Wed Jan 11 2006, 02:02:31PM EST] > Modify audit's kernel-userspace interface to allow the specification > of string fields in audit rules. > > Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> (cherry picked from 5ffc4a863f92351b720fe3e9c5cd647accff9e03 commit)
2006-03-20[PATCH] SE Linux audit eventsSteve Grubb
Attached is a patch that hardwires important SE Linux events to the audit system. Please Apply. Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-03-20[PATCH] Minor cosmetic cleanups to the code moved into auditfilter.cDavid Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-03-20[PATCH] Fix audit record filtering with !CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALLDavid Woodhouse
This fixes the per-user and per-message-type filtering when syscall auditing isn't enabled. [AV: folded followup fix from the same author] Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-20[PATCH] Fix IA64 success/failure indication in syscall auditing.David Woodhouse
Original 2.6.9 patch and explanation from somewhere within HP via bugzilla... ia64 stores a success/failure code in r10, and the return value (normal return, or *positive* errno) in r8. The patch also sets the exit code to negative errno if it's a failure result for consistency with other architectures. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-03-20[PATCH] Miscellaneous bug and warning fixesDustin Kirkland
This patch fixes a couple of bugs revealed in new features recently added to -mm1: * fixes warnings due to inconsistent use of const struct inode *inode * fixes bug that prevent a kernel from booting with audit on, and SELinux off due to a missing function in security/dummy.c * fixes a bug that throws spurious audit_panic() messages due to a missing return just before an error_path label * some reasonable house cleaning in audit_ipc_context(), audit_inode_context(), and audit_log_task_context() Signed-off-by: Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-03-20[PATCH] Capture selinux subject/object context information.Dustin Kirkland
This patch extends existing audit records with subject/object context information. Audit records associated with filesystem inodes, ipc, and tasks now contain SELinux label information in the field "subj" if the item is performing the action, or in "obj" if the item is the receiver of an action. These labels are collected via hooks in SELinux and appended to the appropriate record in the audit code. This additional information is required for Common Criteria Labeled Security Protection Profile (LSPP). [AV: fixed kmalloc flags use] [folded leak fixes] [folded cleanup from akpm (kfree(NULL)] [folded audit_inode_context() leak fix] [folded akpm's fix for audit_ipc_perm() definition in case of !CONFIG_AUDIT] Signed-off-by: Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-20[PATCH] Exclude messages by message typeDustin Kirkland
- Add a new, 5th filter called "exclude". - And add a new field AUDIT_MSGTYPE. - Define a new function audit_filter_exclude() that takes a message type as input and examines all rules in the filter. It returns '1' if the message is to be excluded, and '0' otherwise. - Call the audit_filter_exclude() function near the top of audit_log_start() just after asserting audit_initialized. If the message type is not to be audited, return NULL very early, before doing a lot of work. [combined with followup fix for bug in original patch, Nov 4, same author] [combined with later renaming AUDIT_FILTER_EXCLUDE->AUDIT_FILTER_TYPE and audit_filter_exclude() -> audit_filter_type()] Signed-off-by: Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-20[PATCH] Collect more inode information during syscall processing.Amy Griffis
This patch augments the collection of inode info during syscall processing. It represents part of the functionality that was provided by the auditfs patch included in RHEL4. Specifically, it: - Collects information for target inodes created or removed during syscalls. Previous code only collects information for the target inode's parent. - Adds the audit_inode() hook to syscalls that operate on a file descriptor (e.g. fchown), enabling audit to do inode filtering for these calls. - Modifies filtering code to check audit context for either an inode # or a parent inode # matching a given rule. - Modifies logging to provide inode # for both parent and child. - Protect debug info from NULL audit_names.name. [AV: folded a later typo fix from the same author] Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-20[PATCH] Pass dentry, not just name, in fsnotify creation hooks.Amy Griffis
The audit hooks (to be added shortly) will want to see dentry->d_inode too, not just the name. Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-03-20[PATCH] Define new range of userspace messages.Steve Grubb
The attached patch updates various items for the new user space messages. Please apply. Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-03-20[PATCH] Filter rule comparatorsDustin Kirkland
Currently, audit only supports the "=" and "!=" operators in the -F filter rules. This patch reworks the support for "=" and "!=", and adds support for ">", ">=", "<", and "<=". This turned out to be a pretty clean, and simply process. I ended up using the high order bits of the "field", as suggested by Steve and Amy. This allowed for no changes whatsoever to the netlink communications. See the documentation within the patch in the include/linux/audit.h area, where there is a table that explains the reasoning of the bitmask assignments clearly. The patch adds a new function, audit_comparator(left, op, right). This function will perform the specified comparison (op, which defaults to "==" for backward compatibility) between two values (left and right). If the negate bit is on, it will negate whatever that result was. This value is returned. Signed-off-by: Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-03-20[PATCH] AUDIT: kerneldoc for kernel/audit*.cRandy Dunlap
- add kerneldoc for non-static functions; - don't init static data to 0; - limit lines to < 80 columns; - fix long-format style; - delete whitespace at end of some lines; (chrisw: resend and update to current audit-2.6 tree) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-03-20[PATCH] make vm86 call audit_syscall_exitJason Baron
hi, The motivation behind the patch below was to address messages in /var/log/messages such as: Jan 31 10:54:15 mets kernel: audit(:0): major=252 name_count=0: freeing multiple contexts (1) Jan 31 10:54:15 mets kernel: audit(:0): major=113 name_count=0: freeing multiple contexts (2) I can reproduce by running 'get-edid' from: http://john.fremlin.de/programs/linux/read-edid/. These messages come about in the log b/c the vm86 calls do not exit via the normal system call exit paths and thus do not call 'audit_syscall_exit'. The next system call will then free the context for itself and for the vm86 context, thus generating the above messages. This patch addresses the issue by simply adding a call to 'audit_syscall_exit' from the vm86 code. Besides fixing the above error messages the patch also now allows vm86 system calls to become auditable. This is useful since strace does not appear to properly record the return values from sys_vm86. I think this patch is also a step in the right direction in terms of cleaning up some core auditing code. If we can correct any other paths that do not properly call the audit exit and entries points, then we can also eliminate the notion of context chaining. I've tested this patch by verifying that the log messages no longer appear, and that the audit records for sys_vm86 appear to be correct. Also, 'read_edid' produces itentical output. thanks, -Jason Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-19Linux 2.6.16Linus Torvalds
2006-03-19[PATCH] Remove obsolete CREDITS addressAndrea Arcangeli
This address is going to be obsolete, so I should update it.
2006-03-19Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: [MIPS] SB1: Check for -mno-sched-prolog if building corelis debug kernel. [MIPS] Sibyte: Fix race in sb1250_gettimeoffset(). [MIPS] Sibyte: Fix interrupt timer off by one bug. [MIPS] Sibyte: Fix M_SCD_TIMER_INIT and M_SCD_TIMER_CNT wrong field width. [MIPS] Protect more of timer_interrupt() by xtime_lock. [MIPS] Work around bad code generation for <asm/io.h>. [MIPS] Simple patch to power off DBAU1200 [MIPS] Fix DBAu1550 software power off. [MIPS] local_r4k_flush_cache_page fix [MIPS] SB1: Fix interrupt disable hazard. [MIPS] Get rid of the IP22-specific code in arclib. Update MAINTAINERS entry for MIPS.
2006-03-19[TG3]: 40-bit DMA workaround part 2Michael Chan
The 40-bit DMA workaround recently implemented for 5714, 5715, and 5780 needs to be expanded because there may be other tg3 devices behind the EPB Express to PCIX bridge in the 5780 class device. For example, some 4-port card or mother board designs have 5704 behind the 5714. All devices behind the EPB require the 40-bit DMA workaround. Thanks to Chris Elmquist again for reporting the problem and testing the patch. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-19[AX.25]: Fix potencial memory hole.Ralf Baechle DL5RB
If the AX.25 dialect chosen by the sysadmin is set to DAMA master / 3 (or DAMA slave / 2, if CONFIG_AX25_DAMA_SLAVE=n) ax25_kick() will fall through the switch statement without calling ax25_send_iframe() or any other function that would eventually free skbn thus leaking the packet. Fix by restricting the sysctl inferface to allow only actually supported AX.25 dialects. The system administration mistake needed for this to happen is rather unlikely, so this is an uncritical hole. Coverity #651. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-18[PATCH] Kconfig: swap VIDEO_CX88_ALSA and VIDEO_CX88_DVBMichael Krufky
VIDEO_CX88_ALSA should not be between VIDEO_CX88_DVB and VIDEO_CX88_DVB_ALL_FRONTENDS When cx88-alsa was added to cx88/Kconfig, it was added in between VIDEO_CX88_DVB and VIDEO_CX88_DVB_ALL_FRONTENDS. This caused undesireable effects to the appearance of the menu options in menuconfig. This fix reorders cx88-alsa and cx88-dvb in Kconfig, to match saa7134, and restore the correct menuconfig appearance. Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-18[PATCH] Fixed em28xx based system lockupMarkus Rechberger
Fixed em28xx based system lockup, device needs to be initialized before starting the isoc transfer otherwise the system will completly lock up. Signed-off-by: Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-18[PATCH] disable unshare(CLONE_VM) for nowOleg Nesterov
sys_unshare() does mmput(new_mm). This is not enough if we have mm->core_waiters. This patch is a temporary fix for soon to be released 2.6.16. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> [ Checked with Uli: "I'm not planning to use unshare(CLONE_VM). It's not needed for any functionality planned so far. What we (as in Red Hat) need unshare() for now is the filesystem side." ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] SB1: Check for -mno-sched-prolog if building corelis debug kernel.Ralf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] Sibyte: Fix race in sb1250_gettimeoffset().Ralf Baechle
From Dave Johnson <djohnson+linuxmips@sw.starentnetworks.com>: sb1250_gettimeoffset() simply reads the current cpu 0 timer remaining value, however once this counter reaches 0 and the interrupt is raised, it immediately resets and begins to count down again. If sb1250_gettimeoffset() is called on cpu 1 via do_gettimeofday() after the timer has reset but prior to cpu 0 processing the interrupt and taking write_seqlock() in timer_interrupt() it will return a full value (or close to it) causing time to jump backwards 1ms. Once cpu 0 handles the interrupt and timer_interrupt() gets far enough along it will jump forward 1ms. Fix this problem by implementing mips_hpt_*() on sb1250 using a spare timer unrelated to the existing periodic interrupt timers. It runs at 1Mhz with a full 23bit counter. This eliminated the custom do_gettimeoffset() for sb1250 and allowed use of the generic fixed_rate_gettimeoffset() using mips_hpt_*() and timerhi/timerlo. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] Sibyte: Fix interrupt timer off by one bug.Ralf Baechle
From Dave Johnson <djohnson+linuxmips@sw.starentnetworks.com>: The timers need to be loaded with 1 less than the desired interval not the interval itself. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] Sibyte: Fix M_SCD_TIMER_INIT and M_SCD_TIMER_CNT wrong field width.Ralf Baechle
From Dave Johnson <djohnson+linuxmips@sw.starentnetworks.com>: Field width should be 23 bits not 20 bits. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] Protect more of timer_interrupt() by xtime_lock.Ralf Baechle
From Dave Johnson <djohnson+linuxmips@sw.starentnetworks.com>: * do_timer() expects the arch-specific handler to take the lock as it modifies jiffies[_64] and xtime. * writing timerhi/lo in timer_interrupt() will mess up fixed_rate_gettimeoffset() which reads timerhi/lo. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] Work around bad code generation for <asm/io.h>.Ralf Baechle
If a call to set_io_port_base() was being followed by usage of mips_io_port_base in the same function gcc was possibly using the old value due to some clever abuse of const. Adding a barrier will keep the optimization and result in correct code with latest gcc. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] Simple patch to power off DBAU1200Matej Kupljen
Signed-off-by: Matej Kupljen <matej.kupljen@ultra.si> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] Fix DBAu1550 software power off.Sergei Shtylylov
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] local_r4k_flush_cache_page fixAtsushi Nemoto
If dcache_size != icache_size or dcache_size != scache_size, or set-associative cache, icache/scache does not flushed properly. Make blast_?cache_page_indexed() masks its index value correctly. Also, use physical address for physically indexed pcache/scache. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] SB1: Fix interrupt disable hazard.Ralf Baechle
The SB1 core has a three cycle interrupt disable hazard but we were wrongly treating it as fully interlocked. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] Get rid of the IP22-specific code in arclib.Ralf Baechle
This breaks the kernel build if sgiwd93 was configured as a module. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18Update MAINTAINERS entry for MIPS.Ralf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-17[NET]: Fix race condition in sk_wait_event().Alexey Kuznetsov
It is broken, the condition is checked out of socket lock. It is wonderful the bug survived for so long time. [ This fixes bugzilla #6233: race condition in tcp_sendmsg when connection became established ] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-17[PATCH] fix free swap cache latencyHugh Dickins
Lee Revell reported 28ms latency when process with lots of swapped memory exits. 2.6.15 introduced a latency regression when unmapping: in accounting the zap_work latency breaker, pte_none counted 1, pte_present PAGE_SIZE, but a swap entry counted nothing at all. We think of pages present as the slow case, but Lee's trace shows that free_swap_and_cache's radix tree lookup can make a lot of work - and we could have been doing it many thousands of times without a latency break. Move the zap_work update up to account swap entries like pages present. This does account non-linear pte_file entries, and unmap_mapping_range skipping over swap entries, by the same amount even though they're quick: but neither of those cases deserves complicating the code (and they're treated no worse than they were in 2.6.14). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-17[PATCH] kbuild: fix buffer overflow in modpostSam Ravnborg
Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> reported that modpost would stop with SIGABRT if used with long filepaths. The error looked like: > Building modules, stage 2. > MODPOST > *** glibc detected *** scripts/mod/modpost: realloc(): invalid next size: +0x0809f588 *** > [...] Fix this by allocating at least the required memory + SZ bytes each time. Before we sometimes ended up allocating too little memory resuting in the glibc detected bug above. Based on patch originally submitted by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-17[PATCH] nfsservctl(): remove user-triggerable printkPeter Staubach
A user can use nfsservctl() to spam the logs. This can happen because the arguments to the nfsservctl() system call are versioned. This is a good thing. However, when a bad version is detected, the kernel prints a message and then returns an error. Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-17[PATCH] fix race in pagevec_strip?Christoph Lameter
We can call try_to_release_page() with PagePrivate off and a valid page->mapping This may cause all sorts of trouble for the filesystem *_releasepage() handlers. XFS bombs out in that case. Lock the page before checking for page private. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-17[PATCH] dm stripe: Fix boundsKevin Corry
The dm-stripe target currently does not enforce that the size of a stripe device be a multiple of the chunk-size. Under certain conditions, this can lead to I/O requests going off the end of an underlying device. This test-case shows one example. echo "0 100 linear /dev/hdb1 0" | dmsetup create linear0 echo "0 100 linear /dev/hdb1 100" | dmsetup create linear1 echo "0 200 striped 2 32 /dev/mapper/linear0 0 /dev/mapper/linear1 0" | \ dmsetup create stripe0 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/stripe0 bs=1k This will produce the output: dd: writing '/dev/mapper/stripe0': Input/output error 97+0 records in 96+0 records out And in the kernel log will be: attempt to access beyond end of device dm-0: rw=0, want=104, limit=100 The patch will check that the table size is a multiple of the stripe chunk-size when the table is created, which will prevent the above striped device from being created. This should not affect tools like LVM or EVMS, since in all the cases I can think of, striped devices are always created with the sizes being a multiple of the chunk-size. The size of a stripe device must be a multiple of its chunk-size. (akpm: that typecast is quite gratuitous) Signed-off-by: Kevin Corry <kevcorry@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-17[PATCH] x86: check for online cpus before bringing them upSrivatsa Vaddagiri
Bryce reported a bug wherein offlining CPU0 (on x86 box) and then subsequently onlining it resulted in a lockup. On x86, CPU0 is never offlined. The subsequent attempt to online CPU0 doesn't take that into account. It actually tries to bootup the already booted CPU. Following patch fixes the problem (as acknowledged by Bryce). Please consider for inclusion in 2.6.16. Check if cpu is already online. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-17[PATCH] v9fs: fix overzealous dropping of dentry which breaks dcacheEric Van Hensbergen
There is a d_drop in dir_release which caused problems as it invalidates dcache entries too soon. This was likely a part of the wierd cwd behavior folks were seeing. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-17[PATCH] posix-timers: fix requeue accounting when signal is ignoredRoman Zippel
When the posix-timer signal is ignored then the timer is rearmed by the callback function. The requeue pending accounting has to be fixed up else the state might be wrong. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-17[PATCH] time_interpolator: add __read_mostlyChristoph Lameter
The pointer to the current time interpolator and the current list of time interpolators are typically only changed during bootup. Adding __read_mostly takes them away from possibly hot cachelines. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>