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  1. 02 Mar, 2007 24 commits
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    • Trond Myklebust's avatar
      [PATCH] VM: invalidate_inode_pages2_range() should not exit early · 7b965e08
      Trond Myklebust authored 
      Fix invalidate_inode_pages2_range() so that it does not immediately exit
just because a single page in the specified range could not be removed.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      7b965e08
    • Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho's avatar
      [PATCH] tty_io: fix race in master pty close/slave pty close path · 5a39e8c6
      Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho authored 
      This patch fixes a possible race that leads to double freeing an idr index.
 When the master begin to close, release_dev() is called and then
pty_close() is called:

        if (tty->driver->close)
                tty->driver->close(tty, filp);

This is done without helding any locks other than BKL.  Inside pty_close(),
being a master close, the devpts entry will be removed:

#ifdef CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS
                if (tty->driver == ptm_driver)
                        devpts_pty_kill(tty->index);
#endif

But devpts_pty_kill() will call get_node() that may sleep while waiting for
&devpts_root->d_inode->i_sem.  When this happens and the slave is being
opened, tty_open() just found the driver and index:

        driver = get_tty_driver(device, &index);
        if (!driver) {
                mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
                return -ENODEV;
        }

This part of the code is already protected under tty_mute.  The problem is
that the slave close already got an index.  Then init_dev() is called and
blocks waiting for the same &devpts_root->d_inode->i_sem.

When the master close resumes, it removes the devpts entry, and the
relation between idr index and the tty is gone.  The master then sleeps
waiting for the tty_mutex on release_dev().

Slave open resumes and found no tty for that index.  As result, a NULL tty
is returned and init_dev() doesn't flow to fast_track:

        /* check whether we're reopening an existing tty */
        if (driver->flags & TTY_DRIVER_DEVPTS_MEM) {
                tty = devpts_get_tty(idx);
                if (tty && driver->subtype == PTY_TYPE_MASTER)
                        tty = tty->link;
        } else {
                tty = driver->ttys[idx];
        }
        if (tty) goto fast_track;

The result of this, is that a new tty will be created and init_dev() returns
sucessfull. After returning, tty_mutex is dropped and master close may resume.

Master close finds it's the only use and both sides are closing, then releases
the tty and the index. At this point, the idr index is free, but slave still
has it.

Slave open then calls pty_open() and finds that tty->link->count is 0,
because there's no master and returns error.  Then tty_open() calls
release_dev() which executes without any warning, as it was a case of last
slave close when the master is already closed (master->count == 0,
slave->count == 1).  The tty is then released with the already released idr
index.

This normally would only issue a warning on idr_remove() but in case of a
customer's critical application, it's never too simple:

thread1: opens master, gets index X
thread1: begin closing master
thread2: begin opening slave with index X
thread1: finishes closing master, index X released
thread3: opens master, gets index X, just released
thread2: fails opening slave, releases index X         <----
thread4: opens master, gets index X, init_dev() then find an already in use
	 and healthy tty and fails

If no more indexes are released, ptmx_open() will keep failing, as the
first free index available is X, and it will make init_dev() fail because
you're trying to "reopen a master" which isn't valid.

The patch notices when this race happens and make init_dev() fail
imediately.  The init_dev() function is called with tty_mutex held, so it's
safe to continue with tty till the end of function because release_dev()
won't make any further changes without grabbing the tty_mutex.

Without the patch, on some machines it's possible get easily idr warnings
like this one:

idr_remove called for id=15 which is not allocated.
 [<c02555b9>] idr_remove+0x139/0x170
 [<c02a1b62>] release_mem+0x182/0x230
 [<c02a28e7>] release_dev+0x4b7/0x700
 [<c02a0ea7>] tty_ldisc_enable+0x27/0x30
 [<c02a1e64>] init_dev+0x254/0x580
 [<c02a0d64>] check_tty_count+0x14/0xb0
 [<c02a4f05>] tty_open+0x1c5/0x340
 [<c02a4d40>] tty_open+0x0/0x340
 [<c017388f>] chrdev_open+0xaf/0x180
 [<c017c2ac>] open_namei+0x8c/0x760
 [<c01737e0>] chrdev_open+0x0/0x180
 [<c0167bc9>] __dentry_open+0xc9/0x210
 [<c0167e2c>] do_filp_open+0x5c/0x70
 [<c0167a91>] get_unused_fd+0x61/0xd0
 [<c0167e93>] do_sys_open+0x53/0x100
 [<c0167f97>] sys_open+0x27/0x30
 [<c010303b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

using this test application available on:
 http://www.ruivo.org/~aris/pty_sodomizer.cSigned-off-by: default avatarAristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho <aris@ruivo.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5a39e8c6
    • Yoichi Yuasa's avatar
      [PATCH] fix memory leak in dma_declare_coherent_memory() · 3a0ee2ce
      Yoichi Yuasa authored 
      When it goes to free1_out, dev->dma_mem has not been freed.
Signed-off-by: default avatarYoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3a0ee2ce
    • Karsten Keil's avatar
      [PATCH] Fix buffer overflow and races in capi debug functions · 17f0cd2f
      Karsten Keil authored 
      The CAPI trace debug functions were using a fixed size buffer, which can be
overflowed if wrong formatted CAPI messages were sent to the kernel capi
layer.  The code was also not protected against multiple callers.  This fix
bug 8028.

Additionally the patch make the CAPI trace functions optional.
Signed-off-by: default avatarKarsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      17f0cd2f
    • Oleg Nesterov's avatar
      [PATCH] adapt page_lock_anon_vma() to PREEMPT_RCU · 34bbd704
      Oleg Nesterov authored 
      page_lock_anon_vma() uses spin_lock() to block RCU.  This doesn't work with
PREEMPT_RCU, we have to do rcu_read_lock() explicitely.  Otherwise, it is
theoretically possible that slab returns anon_vma's memory to the system
before we do spin_unlock(&anon_vma->lock).

[ Hugh points out that this only matters for PREEMPT_RCU, which isn't merged
  yet, and may never be.  Regardless, this patch is conceptually the
  right thing to do, even if it doesn't matter at this point.  - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Acked-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      34bbd704
    • Vassili Karpov's avatar
      [PATCH] Documentation: CPU load calculation description · 48dba8ab
      Vassili Karpov authored 
      Describes how/when the information exported to `/proc/stat' is calculated,
and possible problems with this approach.
Signed-off-by: default avatarVassili Karpov <av1474@comtv.ru>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      48dba8ab
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      [PATCH] sched: fix SMT scheduler bug · 7355690e
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      The SMT scheduler incorrectly skips kernel threads even if they are
runnable (but they are preempted by a higher-prio user-space task which got
SMT-delayed by an even higher-priority task running on a sibling CPU).

Fix this for now by only doing the SMT-nice optimization if the
to-be-delayed task is the only runnable task.  (This should cover most of
the real-life cases anyway.)

This bug has been in the SMT scheduler since 2.6.17 or so, but has only
been noticed now by the active check in the dynticks code.
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      7355690e
    • Geert Uytterhoeven's avatar
      [PATCH] ps3: introduce CONFIG_PS3_ADVANCED · 3f555c70
      Geert Uytterhoeven authored 
      ps3: Introduce CONFIG_PS3_ADVANCED, as suggested by Roman Zippel, and use
it to control questions about PS3 subsystems that may not be obvious for
the casual user.

This gets rid of the following warning on non-powerpc platforms: |
drivers/video/Kconfig:1604:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'FB_PS3'
refer to undefined symbol 'PS3_PS3AV'
Signed-off-by: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Acked-by: default avatarGeoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3f555c70
    • Mingming Cao's avatar
      [PATCH] ext[34]: EA block reference count racing fix · 8a2bfdcb
      Mingming Cao authored 
      There are race issues around ext[34] xattr block release code.

ext[34]_xattr_release_block() checks the reference count of xattr block
(h_refcount) and frees that xattr block if it is the last one reference it.
 Unlike ext2, the check of this counter is unprotected by any lock.
ext[34]_xattr_release_block() will free the mb_cache entry before freeing
that xattr block.  There is a small window between the check for the re
h_refcount ==1 and the call to mb_cache_entry_free().  During this small
window another inode might find this xattr block from the mbcache and reuse
it, racing a refcount updates.  The xattr block will later be freed by the
first inode without notice other inode is still use it.  Later if that
block is reallocated as a datablock for other file, then more serious
problem might happen.

We need put a lock around places checking the refount as well to avoid
racing issue.  Another place need this kind of protection is in
ext3_xattr_block_set(), where it will modify the xattr block content in-
the-fly if the refcount is 1 (means it's the only inode reference it).

This will also fix another issue: the xattr block may not get freed at all
if no lock is to protect the refcount check at the release time.  It is
possible that the last two inodes could release the shared xattr block at
the same time.  But both of them think they are not the last one so only
decreased the h_refcount without freeing xattr block at all.

We need to call lock_buffer() after ext3_journal_get_write_access() to
avoid deadlock (because the later will call lock_buffer()/unlock_buffer
() as well).
Signed-off-by: default avatarMingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8a2bfdcb
    • Jeff Dike's avatar
      [PATCH] uml: pte_mkread fix · 1463fdbc
      Jeff Dike authored 
      Fix the fact that pte_mkread set _PAGE_RW instead of _PAGE_USER (the logic is
copied from i386 in most place, so it is really as bad as you're thinking).

Thus currently page tables are more permissive than they should.

Such a change may trigger other latent bugs, so be careful with this.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      1463fdbc
    • Jeff Dike's avatar
      [PATCH] uml: host VDSO fix · 14251809
      Jeff Dike authored 
      This fixes a problem seen by a number of people running UML on newer host
kernels.  init would hang with an infinite segfault loop.

It turns out that the host kernel was providing a AT_SYSINFO_EHDR of
0xffffe000, which faked UML into believing that the host VDSO page could be
reused.  However, AT_SYSINFO pointed into the middle of the address space, and
was unmapped as a result.  Because UML was providing AT_SYSINFO_EHDR and
AT_SYSINFO to its own processes, these would branch to nowhere when trying to
use the VDSO.

The fix is to also check the location of AT_SYSINFO when deciding whether to
use the host's VDSO.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      14251809
    • Allan Graves's avatar
      [PATCH] uml: enable RAW · cf2775f1
      Allan Graves authored 
      Add the RAW device driver options to the UML Kconfig.char file so that you may
use them in UML.

Signed-off-by: Allan Graves<allan.graves@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      cf2775f1
    • David Howells's avatar
      [PATCH] FRV: Missing error defs · 77904fd6
      David Howells authored 
      linux/irq.h uses EINVAL but does not #include linux/errno.h.  This results in
the compiler spitting out errors on some files.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      77904fd6
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] throttle_vm_writeout(): don't loop on GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO allocations · 232ea4d6
      Andrew Morton authored 
      throttle_vm_writeout() is designed to wait for the dirty levels to subside.
But if the caller holds IO or FS locks, we might be holding up that writeout.

So change it to take a single nap to give other devices a chance to clean some
memory, then return.

Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      232ea4d6
    • Kristen Carlson Accardi's avatar
      [PATCH] ACPI: make bay depend on dock · b1a316f6
      Kristen Carlson Accardi authored 
      Since the bay driver depends on the dock driver for proper notification,
make this driver depend on the dock driver.
Signed-off-by: default avatarKristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarLen Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b1a316f6
    • David Miller's avatar
      [PATCH] Bug in MM_RB debugging · d1af65d1
      David Miller authored 
      The code is seemingly trying to make sure that rb_next() brings us to
successive increasing vma entries.

But the two variables, prev and pend, used to perform these checks, are
never advanced.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d1af65d1