Found in 2.4 by Yixin Pan <yxpan@hotmail.com>.

> When I read fib_semantics.c of Linux-2.4.32, write_lock(&fib_info_lock) =
> is used in fib_release_info() instead of write_lock_bh(&fib_info_lock).  =
> Is the following case possible: a BH interrupts fib_release_info() while =
> holding the write lock, and calls ip_check_fib_default() which calls =
> read_lock(&fib_info_lock), and spin forever.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This fixes source filter leakage when a device is removed and a
process leaves the group thereafter.

This also includes corresponding fixes for IPv6 multicast source
filters on device removal.
Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

It causes way too much trouble and confusion in userspace.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The PPP code contains two kmalloc()s followed by memset()s without
handling a possible memory allocation failure.  (Suggested by Joe
Perches).

And furthermore, conversions from kmalloc+memset to kzalloc.

[akpm@osdl.org: fix error-path leak]
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
[paulus@samba.org: don't add useless printk and cardmap_destroy calls]
Signed-off-by: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@issaris.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

atm_proc_exit() is declared as __exit, and thus in .exit.text.  On
some architectures (ARM) .exit.text is discarded at compile time, and
since atm_proc_exit() is called by some other __init functions, it
results in a link error.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Convert dev_alloc_skb() to netdev_alloc_skb() and increase default
rx ring size to 255. The old ring size of 100 was too small.

Update version to 1.4.44.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Fix a subtle race condition between bnx2_start_xmit() and bnx2_tx_int()
similar to the one in tg3 discovered by Herbert Xu:

CPU0					CPU1
bnx2_start_xmit()
	if (tx_ring_full) {
		tx_lock
					bnx2_tx()
						if (!netif_queue_stopped)
		netif_stop_queue()
		if (!tx_ring_full)
						update_tx_ring
			netif_wake_queue()
		tx_unlock
	}

Even though tx_ring is updated before the if statement in bnx2_tx_int() in
program order, it can be re-ordered by the CPU as shown above.  This
scenario can cause the tx queue to be stopped forever if bnx2_tx_int() has
just freed up the entire tx_ring.  The possibility of this happening
should be very rare though.

The following changes are made, very much identical to the tg3 fix:

1. Add memory barrier to fix the above race condition.

2. Eliminate the private tx_lock altogether and rely solely on
netif_tx_lock.  This eliminates one spinlock in bnx2_start_xmit()
when the ring is full.

3. Because of 2, use netif_tx_lock in bnx2_tx_int() before calling
netif_wake_queue().

4. Add memory barrier to bnx2_tx_avail().

5. Add bp->tx_wake_thresh which is set to half the tx ring size.

6. Check for the full wake queue condition before getting
netif_tx_lock in tg3_tx().  This reduces the number of unnecessary
spinlocks when the tx ring is full in a steady-state condition.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

this minor patch fixes the description of net.ipv4.tcp_mem sysctl
in ip-sysctl.txt - the headline names the values "min, pressure, max",
while the description uses the "low, pressure, high" values.
Both tcp_rmem and tcp_wmem descriptions use the "min, pressure, max"
values, so I have changed the tcp_mem to match this and not vice versa.
Signed-off-by: Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <kas@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

There is a leak of a socket's multicast source filter list structure
on closing a socket with a multicast source filter set on an interface
that does not exist any more.
Signed-off-by: Michal Ruzicka <michal.ruzicka@comstar.cz>
Acked-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Split off __icmpv6_socket's sk->sk_dst_lock class, because it gets
used from softirqs, which is safe for __icmpv6_sockets (because they
never get directly used via userspace syscalls), but unsafe for normal
sockets.

Has no effect on non-lockdep kernels.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

It needs netfilter_bridge.h for brnf_deferred_hooks
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

On High end systems (1024 or so cpus) this can potentially cause stack
overflow.  Fix the stack usage.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Since __vlan_hwaccel_rx() is essentially bypassing the
netif_receive_skb() call that would have occurred if we did the VLAN
decapsulation in software, we are missing the skb_bond() call and the
assosciated checks it does.

Export those checks via an inline function, skb_bond_should_drop(),
and use this in __vlan_hwaccel_rx().
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Some architectures change $CC in arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile
mips is one example.

That have impact on what options are supported by gcc so move all
$(call cc-option, ...) after include of arch specific Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Don't waste DMA capable pages for identity mapping page tables.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

In some situations PAV alias devices on LPAR are not accessible.
The initialization procedure required to enable access to PAV alias
devices has to be performed per storage server subsystem and not
only once per storage server.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

The dasd_page_cache should return page addresses and therefore the
cache must be created with an alignment of PAGE_SIZE.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

There is a small but annoying bug in scripts/mod/file2alias.c which causes
it to generate invalid aliases for input devices on 64 bit archs. This causes
joydev.ko to not be automaticly loaded when inserting a joystick, resulting in
a non working joystick (for the average user).

In scripts/mod/file2alias.c is the following code for generating the input
aliases:
static void do_input(char *alias,
                     kernel_ulong_t *arr, unsigned int min, unsigned int max)
{
        unsigned int i;

        for (i = min; i < max; i++)
                if (arr[i / BITS_PER_LONG] & (1 << (i%BITS_PER_LONG)))
                        sprintf(alias + strlen(alias), "%X,*", i);
}

On 32 bits systems, this correctly generates "0,*" for the first alias, "8,*"
for the second etc.

However on 64 bits it generates: "0,*20,*" resp "8,*28,*" Notice how it adds 20
+ first entry (hex) ! to the list of hex codes, which is 32 more then the first
entry, thus is because the bit test above wraps at 32 bits instead of 64.

scripts/mod/file2alias.c, line 379 reads:
                if (arr[i / BITS_PER_LONG] & (1 << (i%BITS_PER_LONG)))
That should be:
                if (arr[i / BITS_PER_LONG] & (1L << (i%BITS_PER_LONG)))

Notice the added 'L' after the 1, otherwise that is an 32 bit int instead of a
64 bit long, and when that int gets shifted >= 32 times, appearantly the number
by which to shift is wrapped at 5 bits ( % 32) causing it to test a bit 32 bits
too low.

The patch below makes the nescesarry 1 char change :)
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Three typos in drivers/char/watchdog/Kconfig...
Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>

fcntl(F_SETSIG) no longer works on leases because
lease_release_private_callback() gets called as the lease is copied in
order to initialise it.

The problem is that lease_alloc() performs an unnecessary initialisation,
which sets the lease_manager_ops.  Avoid the problem by allocating the
target lease structure using locks_alloc_lock().
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Don't let fuse_readpages leave the @pages list not empty when exiting
on error.

[akpm@osdl.org: kernel-doc fixes]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Zarochentsev <zam@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Use a private lock instead.  It protects all per-cpu data structures in
workqueue.c, including the workqueues list.

Fix a bug in schedule_on_each_cpu(): it was forgetting to lock down the
per-cpu resources.

Unfixed long-standing bug: if someone unplugs the CPU identified by
`singlethread_cpu' the kernel will get very sick.

Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

linux/backlight.h pulls in header files (eg.  ioport.h) that break
compilation of userspace programs.  To solve the problem, only include
backlight.h in fb.h if compiling kernel stuff.
Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

We found this issue last week w/ the -RT kernel, but it seems the same
issue is in mainline as well.

Basically it is possible for futex_unlock_pi to return without actually
freeing the lock.  This is due to buggy logic in the use of
futex_handle_fault() and its attempt argument in a failure case.

Looking at futex.c the logic is as follows:

1) In futex_unlock_pi() we start w/ ret=0 and we go down to the first
   futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(), where we find uval==-EFAULT.  We then
   jump to the pi_faulted label.

2) From pi_faulted: We increment attempt, unlock the sem and hit the
   retry label.

3) From the retry label, with ret still zero, we again hit EFAULT on the
   first futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(), and again goto the pi_faulted
   label.

4) Again from pi_faulted: we increment attempt and enter the
   conditional, where we call futex_handle_fault.

5) futex_handle_fault fails, and we goto the out_unlock_release_sem
   label.

6) From out_unlock_release_sem we return, and since ret is still zero,
   we return without error, while never actually unlocking the lock.

Issue #1: at the first futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() we should probably
be setting ret=-EFAULT before jumping to pi_faulted: However in our case
this doesn't really affect anything, as the glibc we're using ignores the
error value from futex_unlock_pi().

Issue #2: Look at futex_handle_fault(), its first conditional will return
-EFAULT if attempt is >= 2.  However, from the "if(attempt++)
futex_handle_fault(attempt)" logic above, we'll *never* call
futex_handle_fault when attempt is less then two.  So we never get a chance
to even try to fault the page in.

The following patch addresses these two issues by 1) Always setting ret to
-EFAULT if futex_handle_fault fails, and 2) Removing the = in
futex_handle_fault's (attempt >= 2) check.

I'm really not sure this is the right fix, but wanted to bring it up so
folks knew the issue is alive and well in the current -git tree.  From
looking at the git logs the logic was first introduced (then later copied
to other places) in the following commit almost a year ago:

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=4732efbeb997189d9f9b04708dc26bf8613ed721;hp=5b039e681b8c5f30aac9cc04385cc94be45d0823

Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

sys_getppid() optimization can access a freed memory.  On kernels with
DEBUG_SLAB turned ON, this results in Oops.  As Dave Hansen noted, this
optimization is also unsafe for memory hotplug.

So this patch always takes the lock to be safe.

[oleg@tv-sign.ru: simplifications]
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Previously the message was "Fatal exception: panic_on_oops", as introduced
in a recent patch whith removed a somewhat dangerous call to ssleep() in
the panic_on_oops path.  However, Paul Mackerras suggested that this was
somewhat confusing, leadind people to believe that it was panic_on_oops
that was the root cause of the fatal exception.  On his suggestion, this
patch changes the message to simply "Fatal exception".  A suitable oops
message should already have been displayed.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Fix BUG I tripped on while testing failover and multipathing.

BUG shows up on error path in multipath_ctr() when parse_priority_group()
fails after returning at least once without error.  The fix is to
initialize m->ti early - just after alloc()ing it.

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
 printing eip:
c027c3d2
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#3]
Modules linked in: qla2xxx ext3 jbd mbcache sg ide_cd cdrom floppy
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<c027c3d2>]    Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010202   (2.6.17.3 #1)
EIP is at dm_put_device+0xf/0x3b
eax: 00000001   ebx: ee4fcac0   ecx: 00000000   edx: ee4fcac0
esi: ee4fc4e0   edi: ee4fc4e0   ebp: 00000000   esp: c5db3e78
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process multipathd (pid: 15912, threadinfo=c5db2000 task=ef485a90)
Stack: ec4eda40 c02816bd ee4fc4c0 00000000 f7e89498 f883e0bc c02816f6 f7e89480
       f7e8948c c0281801 ffffffea f7e89480 f883e080 c0281ffe 00000001 00000000
       00000004 dfe9cab8 f7a693c0 f883e080 f883e0c0 ca4b99c0 c027c6ee 01400000
Call Trace:
 <c02816bd> free_pgpaths+0x31/0x45  <c02816f6> free_priority_group+0x25/0x2e
 <c0281801> free_multipath+0x35/0x67  <c0281ffe> multipath_ctr+0x123/0x12d
 <c027c6ee> dm_table_add_target+0x11e/0x18b  <c027e5b4> populate_table+0x8a/0xaf
 <c027e62b> table_load+0x52/0xf9  <c027ec23> ctl_ioctl+0xca/0xfc
 <c027e5d9> table_load+0x0/0xf9  <c0152146> do_ioctl+0x3e/0x43
 <c0152360> vfs_ioctl+0x16c/0x178  <c01523b4> sys_ioctl+0x48/0x60
 <c01029b3> syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Code: 97 f0 00 00 00 89 c1 83 c9 01 80 e2 01 0f 44 c1 88 43 14 8b 04 24 59 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 53 89 c1 89 d3 ff 4a 08 0f 94 c0 84 c0 74 2a <8b> 01 8b 10 89 d8 e8 f6 fb ff ff 8b 03 8b 53 04 89 50 04 89 02
EIP: [<c027c3d2>] dm_put_device+0xf/0x3b SS:ESP 0068:c5db3e78
Signed-off-by: Michal Miroslaw <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

kernel/panic.c: In function 'add_taint':
kernel/panic.c:176: warning: implicit declaration of function 'debug_locks_off'

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The percpu variable is used incorrectly in switch_hrtimer_base().
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Eric says:

> I saw an oops down this path when trying to create a new file on a UDF
> filesystem which was internally marked as readonly, but mounted rw:
>
> udf_create
>         udf_new_inode
>                 new_inode
>                         alloc_inode
>                         	udf_alloc_inode
>                 udf_new_block
>                         returns EIO due to readonlyness
>                 iput (on error)

I ran into the same issue today, but when listing a directory with
invalid/corrupt entries:

udf_lookup
        udf_iget
                get_new_inode_fast
                        alloc_inode
                                udf_alloc_inode
                __udf_read_inode
                        fails for any reason
                iput (on error)
                        ...

The following patch to udf_alloc_inode() should take care of both (and
other similar) cases, but I've only tested it with udf_lookup().
Signed-off-by: Dan Bastone <dan@pwienterprises.com>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Don't use NULL as a printf control string.  Fixes bug #6889.

Cc: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Add basic Machine detection to imacfb and some Ducumentation bits for
imacfb.
Signed-off-by: Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The IPv4/IPv6 datagram output path was using skb_trim to trim paged
packets because they know that the packet has not been cloned yet
(since the packet hasn't been given to anything else in the system).

This broke because skb_trim no longer allows paged packets to be
trimmed.  Paged packets must be given to one of the pskb_trim functions
instead.

This patch adds a new pskb_trim_unique function to cover the IPv4/IPv6
datagram output path scenario and replaces the corresponding skb_trim
calls with it.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Fix kernel panic on various SMP machines. The culprit is a null
ub->skb in ulog_send(). If ulog_timer() has already been scheduled on
one CPU and is spinning on the lock, and ipt_ulog_packet() flushes the
queue on another CPU by calling ulog_send() right before it exits,
there will be no skbuff when ulog_timer() acquires the lock and calls
ulog_send(). Cancelling the timer in ulog_send() doesn't help because
it has already been scheduled and is running on the first CPU.

Similar problem exists in ebt_ulog.c and nfnetlink_log.c.
Signed-off-by: Mark Huang <mlhuang@cs.princeton.edu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Neither of {arp,ip,ip6}_tables cleans up behind itself when something goes
wrong during initialization.

Noticed by Rennie deGraaf <degraaf@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>