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2007-07-14[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: make l3proto->prepare() generic and renames itYasuyuki Kozakai
The icmp[v6] l4proto modules parse headers in ICMP[v6] error to get tuple. But they have to find the offset to transport protocol header before that. Their processings are almost same as prepare() of l3proto modules. This makes prepare() more generic to simplify icmp[v6] l4proto module later. Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: Increment error count on parsing IPv4 headerYasuyuki Kozakai
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14[NET]: Add ethtool support for NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM devices.Michael Chan
Add ethtool utility function to set or clear IPV6_CSUM feature flag. Modify tg3.c and bnx2.c to use this function when doing ethtool -K to change tx checksum. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14[AF_IUCV]: Add lock when updating accept_qUrsula Braun
The accept_queue of an af_iucv socket will be corrupted, if adding and deleting of entries in this queue occurs at the same time (connect request from one client, while accept call is processed for another client). Solution: add locking when updating accept_q Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Frank Pavlic <fpavlic@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14[AF_IUCV]: Avoid deadlock between iucv_path_connect and tasklet.Ursula Braun
An iucv deadlock may occur, where one CPU is spinning on the iucv_table_lock for iucv_tasklet_fn(), while another CPU is holding the iucv_table_lock for an iucv_path_connect() and is waiting for the first CPU in an smp_call_function. Solution: replace spin_lock in iucv_tasklet_fn by spin_trylock and reschedule tasklet in case of non-granted lock. Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Frank Pavlic <fpavlic@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14[AF_IUCV]: Improve description of IUCV and AFIUCV configuration options.Jennifer Hunt
Signed-off-by: Jennifer Hunt <jenhunt@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun >braunu@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Frank Pavlic <fpavlic@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14[INET_SOCK]: make net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c:__inet_twsk_kill() staticAdrian Bunk
This patch makes the needlessly global __inet_twsk_kill() static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14Merge branch 'upstream-davem' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
2007-07-14[TCP]: tcp probe add back ssthresh fieldStephen Hemminger
Sangtae noticed the ssthresh got missed. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14[VLAN]: Fix memset lengthPatrick McHardy
Fix sizeof(ETH_ALEN) Introduced by my rtnl_link patches. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14[NET]: Add macvlan driverPatrick McHardy
Add macvlan driver, which allows to create virtual ethernet devices based on MAC address. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14[VLAN]: Use multicast list synchronization helpersPatrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14[VLAN]: Fix promiscous/allmulti synchronization racesPatrick McHardy
The set_multicast_list function may be called without holding the rtnl mutex, resulting in races when changing the underlying device's promiscous and allmulti state. Use the change_rx_mode hook, which is always invoked under the rtnl. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14[NET]: dev_mcast: add multicast list synchronization helpersPatrick McHardy
The method drivers currently use to synchronize multicast lists is not very pretty: - walk the multicast list - search each entry on a copy of the previous list - if new add to lower device - walk the copy of the previous list - search each entry on the current list - if removed delete from lower device - copy entire list This patch adds a new field to struct dev_addr_list to store the synchronization state and adds two helper functions for synchronization and cleanup. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14[NET]: Add net_device change_rx_mode callbackPatrick McHardy
Currently the set_multicast_list (and set_rx_mode) callbacks are responsible for configuring the device according to the IFF_PROMISC, IFF_MULTICAST and IFF_ALLMULTI flags and the mc_list (and uc_list in case of set_rx_mode). These callbacks can be invoked from BH context without the rtnl_mutex by dev_mc_add/dev_mc_delete, which makes reading the device flags and promiscous/allmulti count racy. For real hardware drivers that just commit all changes to the hardware this is not a real problem since the stack guarantees to call them for every change, so at least the final call will not race and commit the correct configuration to the hardware. For software devices that want to synchronize promiscous and multicast state to an underlying device however this can cause corruption of the underlying device's flags or promisc/allmulti counts. When the software device is concurrently put in promiscous or allmulti mode while set_multicast_list is invoked from bottem half context, the device might synchronize the change to the underlying device without holding the rtnl_mutex, which races with concurrent changes to the underlying device. Add a dev->change_rx_flags hook that is invoked when any of the flags that affect rx filtering change (under the rtnl_mutex), which allows drivers to perform synchronization immediately and only synchronize the address lists in set_multicast_list/set_rx_mode. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-14[RFKILL]: fix net/rfkill/rfkill-input.c bug on 64-bit systemsIngo Molnar
Subject: [patch] net/input: fix net/rfkill/rfkill-input.c bug on 64-bit systems this recent commit: commit cf4328cd949c2086091c62c5685f1580fe9b55e4 Author: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Date: Mon May 7 00:34:20 2007 -0700 [NET]: rfkill: add support for input key to control wireless radio added this 64-bit bug: .... unsigned int flags; spin_lock_irqsave(&task->lock, flags); .... irq 'flags' must be unsigned long, not unsigned int. The -rt tree has strict checks about this on 64-bit so this triggered a build failure. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-13Merge git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6: (122 commits) sunrpc: drop BKL around wrap and unwrap NFSv4: Make sure unlock is really an unlock when cancelling a lock NLM: fix source address of callback to client SUNRPC client: add interface for binding to a local address SUNRPC server: record the destination address of a request SUNRPC: cleanup transport creation argument passing NFSv4: Make the NFS state model work with the nosharedcache mount option NFS: Error when mounting the same filesystem with different options NFS: Add the mount option "nosharecache" NFS: Add support for mounting NFSv4 file systems with string options NFS: Add final pieces to support in-kernel mount option parsing NFS: Introduce generic mount client API NFS: Add enums and match tables for mount option parsing NFS: Improve debugging output in NFS in-kernel mount client NFS: Clean up in-kernel NFS mount NFS: Remake nfsroot_mount as a permanent part of NFS client SUNRPC: Add a convenient default for the hostname when calling rpc_create() SUNRPC: Rename rpcb_getport to be consistent with new rpcb_getport_sync name SUNRPC: Rename rpcb_getport_external routine SUNRPC: Allow rpcbind requests to be interrupted by a signal. ...
2007-07-13Merge branch 'ioat-md-accel-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop * 'ioat-md-accel-for-linus' of git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop: (28 commits) ioatdma: add the unisys "i/oat" pci vendor/device id ARM: Add drivers/dma to arch/arm/Kconfig iop3xx: surface the iop3xx DMA and AAU units to the iop-adma driver iop13xx: surface the iop13xx adma units to the iop-adma driver dmaengine: driver for the iop32x, iop33x, and iop13xx raid engines md: remove raid5 compute_block and compute_parity5 md: handle_stripe5 - request io processing in raid5_run_ops md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async expand ops md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async read ops md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async check ops md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async compute ops md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async write ops md: common infrastructure for running operations with raid5_run_ops md: raid5_run_ops - run stripe operations outside sh->lock raid5: replace custom debug PRINTKs with standard pr_debug raid5: refactor handle_stripe5 and handle_stripe6 (v3) async_tx: add the async_tx api xor: make 'xor_blocks' a library routine for use with async_tx dmaengine: make clients responsible for managing channels dmaengine: refactor dmaengine around dma_async_tx_descriptor ...
2007-07-13dmaengine: make clients responsible for managing channelsDan Williams
The current implementation assumes that a channel will only be used by one client at a time. In order to enable channel sharing the dmaengine core is changed to a model where clients subscribe to channel-available-events. Instead of tracking how many channels a client wants and how many it has received the core just broadcasts the available channels and lets the clients optionally take a reference. The core learns about the clients' needs at dma_event_callback time. In support of multiple operation types, clients can specify a capability mask to only be notified of channels that satisfy a certain set of capabilities. Changelog: * removed DMA_TX_ARRAY_INIT, no longer needed * dma_client_chan_free -> dma_chan_release: switch to global reference counting only at device unregistration time, before it was also happening at client unregistration time * clients now return dma_state_client to dmaengine (ack, dup, nak) * checkpatch.pl fixes * fixup merge with git-ioat Cc: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-12Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (61 commits) sysfs: add parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in .read/.write methods for sysfs binary attributes sysfs: make directory dentries and inodes reclaimable sysfs: implement sysfs_get_dentry() sysfs: move sysfs_drop_dentry() to dir.c and make it static sysfs: restructure add/remove paths and fix inode update sysfs: use sysfs_mutex to protect the sysfs_dirent tree sysfs: consolidate sysfs spinlocks sysfs: make kobj point to sysfs_dirent instead of dentry sysfs: implement sysfs_find_dirent() and sysfs_get_dirent() sysfs: implement SYSFS_FLAG_REMOVED flag sysfs: rename sysfs_dirent->s_type to s_flags and make room for flags sysfs: make sysfs_drop_dentry() access inodes using ilookup() sysfs: Fix oops in sysfs_drop_dentry on x86_64 sysfs: use singly-linked list for sysfs_dirent tree sysfs: slim down sysfs_dirent->s_active sysfs: move s_active functions to fs/sysfs/dir.c sysfs: fix root sysfs_dirent -> root dentry association sysfs: use iget_locked() instead of new_inode() sysfs: reorganize sysfs_new_indoe() and sysfs_create() sysfs: fix parent refcounting during rename and move ...
2007-07-12[PATCH] mac80211: improved 802.11g CTS protectionDaniel Drake
Currently, CTS protection is partially implemented twice: 1. via prism2 ioctls, only used by hostapd 2. via STA beacon parsing, recorded in sta.use_protection but never used (other than printed in debugfs) Protection control should be implemented on a per-subif basis. For example, a single physical device may be running a soft AP on one channel, and a STA on another. The AP interface should use protection based on what hostapd told it, and the STA interface should use protection based on beacon parsing. These should operate independantly: one subif using protection should not influence the other. To implement this, I moved the use_protection flag into ieee80211_sub_if_data and removed the device-global cts_protect_erp_frames flag. I also made the PRISM2_PARAM_CTS_PROTECT_ERP_FRAMES write operation only available for AP interfaces, to avoid any possibility of the user messing with the behaviour of a STA. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-07-12[PATCH] mac80211: ERP IE handling improvementsDaniel Drake
The "protection needed" flag is currently parsed out of the ERP IE in beacons. This patch allows the ERP IE to be available at assocation time and causes the appropriate actions to be performed earlier. It is slightly complicated by the fact that most APs don't include the ERP IE in association responses. To work around this, we store ERP values in the ieee80211_sta_bss structure. Also added some WLAN_ERP defines for use by upcoming patches. Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-07-12[PATCH] mac80211: Implementation of SIOCSIWRATELarry Finger
The WEXT ioctl SIOCSIWRATE is not implemented in mac80211. This patch adds the missing routine. It supports the 'auto' keyword, fixed rates, and the combination of 'auto' and a fixed rate to select an upper bound. Based on the patch from Mohamed Abbas <mabbas@linux.intel.com>. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-07-12[PATCH] mac80211: clarify some mac80211 thingsJohannes Berg
The semantics of not having an add_interface callback are not well defined, this callback is required because otherwise you cannot obtain the requested MAC address of the device. Change the documentation to reflect this, add a note about having no MAC address at all, add a warning that mac_addr in struct ieee80211_if_init_conf can be NULL and finally verify that a few callbacks are assigned by way of BUG_ON() Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-07-12[PATCH] mac80211: conserve stack space due to paddingJohannes Berg
This patch reorders some fields in struct ieee802_11_elems to save 17*7 or 17*3 bytes (on 64/32-bit machines respectively) stack space in a few functions. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-07-12[PATCH] mac80211: kill PRISM2_PARAM_CLEAR_KEYSJohannes Berg
Not used anywhere, hence dead code. wpa_supplicant has its own clear_keys routine. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-07-12[PATCH] mac80211: remove PRISM2_PARAM_DROP_UNENCRYPTED ioctlJohannes Berg
Interestingly, wpa_supplicant doesn't use it, but uses the currently unsupported IW_AUTH_DROP_UNENCRYPTED. So I guess it doesn't matter anyway. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-07-12[PATCH] mac80211: kill antenna select ioctlsJohannes Berg
Not used anywhere. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-07-12[PATCH] mac80211: kill rate control ioctlsJohannes Berg
These aren't used anywhere (hostapd, wpa_supplicant) and until we have a proper interface to the rate control algorithms they don't make much sense either since e.g. rc80211_lowest won't honour them. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-07-12[PATCH] mac80211: separate monitor/subif_start_xmitJohannes Berg
This patch separates the monitor interface start_xmit from the subif start xmit (those other devices have 802.3 framing, monitor interfaces have radiotap framing) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-07-12[PATCH] mac80211: add support for iwlist channelHong Liu
Add supported channels info in SIOCGIWRANGE implementation. Signed-off-by: Hong Liu <hong.liu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-07-12[PATCH] mac80211: remove ieee80211_set_aid_for_staJohannes Berg
Remove ieee80211_set_aid_for_sta and associated code. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-07-12[PATCH] mac80211: remove ieee80211_msg_passive_scanJohannes Berg
This constant is unused. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-07-12[PATCH] mac80211: show transmitted frames on monitor interfacesJohannes Berg
This patch makes mac80211 show transmitted frames on monitor interfaces, including radiotap headers that indicate some transmission parameters. The shown parameters will need to be expanded, but this should work as a basis to work from. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-07-12[PATCH] mac80211: Monitor mode radiotap-based packet injectionAndy Green
Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-07-12[PATCH] cfg80211: Radiotap parserAndy Green
Generic code to walk through the fields in a radiotap header, accounting for nasties like extended "field present" bitfields and alignment rules Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-07-11[NET_SCHED]: ematch: module autoloadingPatrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-11[TCP]: tcp probe wraparound handling and other changesStephen Hemminger
Switch from formatting messages in probe routine and copying with kfifo, to using a small circular queue of information and formatting on read. This avoids wraparound issues with kfifo, and saves one copy. Also make sure to state correct license, rather than copying off some other driver I started with. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-11[RTNETLINK]: rtnl_link: allow specifying initial device addressPatrick McHardy
Drivers need to validate the initial addresses in their netlink attribute validation function or manually reject them if they can't support this. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-11[RTNETLINK]: rtnl_link API simplificationPatrick McHardy
All drivers need to unregister their devices in the module unload function. While doing so they must hold the rtnl and atomically unregister the rtnl_link ops as well. This makes the rtnl_link_unregister function that takes the rtnl itself completely useless. Provide default newlink/dellink functions, make __rtnl_link_unregister and rtnl_link_unregister unregister all devices with matching rtnl_link_ops and change the existing users to take advantage of that. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-11[VLAN]: Fix MAC address handlingPatrick McHardy
The VLAN MAC address handling is broken in multiple ways. When the address differs when setting it, the real device is put in promiscous mode twice, but never taken out again. Additionally it doesn't resync when the real device's address is changed and needlessly puts it in promiscous mode when the vlan device is still down. Fix by moving address handling to vlan_dev_open/vlan_dev_stop and properly deal with address changes in the device notifier. Also switch to dev_unicast_add (which needs the exact same handling). Since the set_mac_address handler is identical to the generic ethernet one with these changes, kill it and use ether_setup(). Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-11[ETH]: Validate address in eth_mac_addrPatrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-11Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/holtmann/bluetooth-2.6David S. Miller
2007-07-11[NET]: Fix races in net_rx_action vs netpoll.Olaf Kirch
Keep netpoll/poll_napi from messing with the poll_list. Only net_rx_action is allowed to manipulate the list. Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch <olaf.kirch@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-11I/OAT: warning fixAndrew Morton
net/ipv4/tcp.c: In function 'tcp_recvmsg': net/ipv4/tcp.c:1111: warning: unused variable 'available' Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com>
2007-07-11I/OAT: Only offload copies for TCP when there will be a context switchChris Leech
The performance wins come with having the DMA copy engine doing the copies in parallel with the context switch. If there is enough data ready on the socket at recv time just use a regular copy. Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com>
2007-07-11sysfs: add parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in .read/.write methods for ↵Zhang Rui
sysfs binary attributes Well, first of all, I don't want to change so many files either. What I do: Adding a new parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in the .read/.write methods for the sysfs binary attributes. In fact, only the four lines change in fs/sysfs/bin.c and include/linux/sysfs.h do the real work. But I have to update all the files that use binary attributes to make them compatible with the new .read and .write methods. I'm not sure if I missed any. :( Why I do this: For a sysfs attribute, we can get a pointer pointing to the struct attribute in the .show/.store method, while we can't do this for the binary attributes. I don't know why this is different, but this does make it not so handy to use the binary attributes as the regular ones. So I think this patch is reasonable. :) Who benefits from it: The patch that exposes ACPI tables in sysfs requires such an improvement. All the table binary attributes share the same .read method. Parameter "struct bin_attribute *" is used to get the table signature and instance number which are used to distinguish different ACPI table binary attributes. Without this parameter, we need to offer different .read methods for different ACPI table binary attributes. This is impossible as there are various ACPI tables on different platforms, and we don't know what they are until they are loaded. Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->ownerTejun Heo
sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game. After deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper, so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners. Note that often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to accessing removed modules. This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner. Note that with this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the backing module from being unloaded. For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the following message. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293 (tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to merge things properly.) Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11[AF_UNIX]: Rewrite garbage collector, fixes race.Miklos Szeredi
Throw out the old mark & sweep garbage collector and put in a refcounting cycle detecting one. The old one had a race with recvmsg, that resulted in false positives and hence data loss. The old algorithm operated on all unix sockets in the system, so any additional locking would have meant performance problems for all users of these. The new algorithm instead only operates on "in flight" sockets, which are very rare, and the additional locking for these doesn't negatively impact the vast majority of users. In fact it's probable, that there weren't *any* heavy senders of sockets over sockets, otherwise the above race would have been discovered long ago. The patch works OK with the app that exposed the race with the old code. The garbage collection has also been verified to work in a few simple cases. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10[NETFILTER]: {ip, nf}_conntrack_sctp: fix remotely triggerable NULL ptr ↵Patrick McHardy
dereference (CVE-2007-2876) When creating a new connection by sending an unknown chunk type, we don't transition to a valid state, causing a NULL pointer dereference in sctp_packet when accessing sctp_timeouts[SCTP_CONNTRACK_NONE]. Fix by don't creating new conntrack entry if initial state is invalid. Noticed by Vilmos Nebehaj <vilmos.nebehaj@ramsys.hu> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>