- 01 May, 2008 25 commits
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David Woodhouse authored
Add Paul and myself, and the linux-embedded list, to MAINTAINERS. Signed-off-by:
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Miklos Szeredi authored
If utimensat() is called with both times set to UTIME_NOW or one of them to UTIME_NOW and the other to UTIME_OMIT, then it will update the file time without any permission checking. I don't think this can be used for anything other than a local DoS, but could be quite bewildering at that (e.g. "Why was that large source tree rebuilt when I didn't modify anything???") This affects all kernels from 2.6.22, when the utimensat() syscall was introduced. Fix by doing the same permission checking as for the "times == NULL" case. Thanks to Michael Kerrisk, whose utimensat-non-conformances-and-fixes.patch in -mm also fixes this (and breaks other stuff), only he didn't realize the security implications of this bug. Signed-off-by:
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Randy Dunlap authored
scsi_transport_spi uses sysfs_update_group() when CONFIG_SYSFS=n, so provide a stub for it. next-20080423/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.c:1467: error: implicit declaration of function 'sysfs_update_group' make[3]: *** [drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.o] Error 1 Signed-off-by:
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by:
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David Brownell authored
Add a new sysfs_streq() string comparison function, which ignores the trailing newlines found in sysfs inputs. By example: sysfs_streq("a", "b") ==> false sysfs_streq("a", "a") ==> true sysfs_streq("a", "a\n") ==> true sysfs_streq("a\n", "a") ==> true This is intended to simplify parsing of sysfs inputs, letting them avoid the need to manually strip off newlines from inputs. Signed-off-by:David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by:
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by:
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Roman Zippel authored
Remove the leap second handling from second_overflow(), which doesn't have to check for it every second anymore. With CONFIG_NO_HZ this also makes sure the leap second is handled close to the full second. Additionally this makes it possible to abort a leap second properly by resetting the STA_INS/STA_DEL status bits. Signed-off-by:
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
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Roman Zippel authored
current_tick_length used to do a little more, but now it just returns tick_length, which we can also access directly at the few places, where it's needed. Signed-off-by:
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Roman Zippel authored
As TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT is used for more than just the tick length, the name isn't quite approriate anymore, so this renames it to NTP_SCALE_SHIFT. Signed-off-by:
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Roman Zippel authored
This adds support for setting the TAI value (International Atomic Time). The value is reported back to userspace via timex (as we don't have a ntp_gettime() syscall). Signed-off-by:
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Roman Zippel authored
time_offset is already a 64bit value but its resolution barely used, so this makes better use of it by replacing SHIFT_UPDATE with TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT. Side note: the SHIFT_HZ in SHIFT_UPDATE was incorrect for CONFIG_NO_HZ and the primary reason for changing time_offset to 64bit to avoid the overflow. Signed-off-by:
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Roman Zippel authored
This changes time_freq to a 64bit value and makes it static (the only outside user had no real need to modify it). Intermediate values were already 64bit, so the change isn't that big, but it saves a little in shifts by replacing SHIFT_NSEC with TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT. PPM_SCALE is then used to convert between user space and kernel space representation. Signed-off-by:
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Roman Zippel authored
This adds a few more things from the ntp nanokernel related to user space. It's now possible to select the resolution used of some values via STA_NANO and the kernel reports in which mode it works (pll/fll). If some values for adjtimex() are outside the acceptable range, they are now simply normalized instead of letting the syscall fail. I removed MOD_CLKA/MOD_CLKB as the mapping didn't really makes any sense, the kernel doesn't support setting the clock. Signed-off-by:
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Roman Zippel authored
This is mostly a style cleanup of ntp.c and extracts part of do_adjtimex as ntp_update_offset(). Otherwise the functionality is still the same as before. Signed-off-by:
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Roman Zippel authored
x86 is the only arch right now, which provides an optimized for div_long_long_rem and it has the downside that one has to be very careful that the divide doesn't overflow. The API is a little akward, as the arguments for the unsigned divide are signed. The signed version also doesn't handle a negative divisor and produces worse code on 64bit archs. There is little incentive to keep this API alive, so this converts the few users to the new API. Signed-off-by:
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Roman Zippel authored
Rename div64_64 to div64_u64 to make it consistent with the other divide functions, so it clearly includes the type of the divide. Move its definition to math64.h as currently no architecture overrides the generic implementation. They can still override it of course, but the duplicated declarations are avoided. Signed-off-by:
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Roman Zippel authored
This converts a few users of do_div to div_[su]64 and this demonstrates nicely how it can reduce some expressions to one-liners. Signed-off-by:
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Roman Zippel authored
The current do_div doesn't explicitly say that it's unsigned and the signed counterpart is missing, which is e.g. needed when dealing with time values. This introduces 64bit signed/unsigned divide functions which also attempts to cleanup the somewhat awkward calling API, which often requires the use of temporary variables for the dividend. To avoid the need for temporary variables everywhere for the remainder, each divide variant also provides a version which doesn't return the remainder. Each architecture can now provide optimized versions of these function, otherwise generic fallback implementations will be used. As an example I provided an alternative for the current x86 divide, which avoids the asm casts and using an union allows gcc to generate better code. It also avoids the upper divde in a few more cases, where the result is known (i.e. upper quotient is zero). Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
Fix a reference in a arch/frv/mm/Makefile to unaligned.c which has now been deleted. Also revert the change to the guard macro name in include/asm-frv/unaligned.h. Signed-off-by:
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Christian Borntraeger authored
currently cpu hotplug (unplug) seems broken on s390 and likely others. On cpu unplug the system starts to behave very strange and hangs. I bisected the problem to the following commit: commit 48f20a9a Author: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Date: Tue Mar 4 15:23:25 2008 -0800 tasklets: execute tasklets in the same order they were queued Reverting this patch seems to fix the problem. I looked into takeover_tasklet and it seems that there is a way to corrupt the tail pointer of the current cpu. If the tasklet list of the frozen cpu is empty, the tail pointer of the current cpu points to the address of the head pointer of the stopped cpu and not to the next pointer of a tasklet_struct. This patch avoids the list splice of the list is empty and cpu hotplug seems to work as the tail pointer is not corrupted. Olof, can you look into that patch and ACK/NACK it so Andrew can push this to Linus, if appropriate? Please note that some lines are longer than 80 chars, but line-wrapping looked worse that this version. Signed-off-by:
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Acked-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
Update CPUSETS MAINTAINERS to reflect the more active role of Paul Menage (secondary to his work on cgroups) and the retirement of the original author of cpusets, Simon Derr. Thanks, Simon! Best of luck to you. Signed-off-by:
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by:
Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by:
Simon Derr <simon.derr@bull.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Theodore Ts'o authored
(which is autogenerated by kbuild) Signed-off-by:
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by:
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: ipv6: Compilation fix for compat MCAST_MSFILTER sockopts.
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Al Viro authored
We have a race between fcntl() and close() that can lead to dnotify_struct inserted into inode's list *after* the last descriptor had been gone from current->files. Since that's the only point where dnotify_struct gets evicted, we are screwed - it will stick around indefinitely. Even after struct file in question is gone and freed. Worse, we can trigger send_sigio() on it at any later point, which allows to send an arbitrary signal to arbitrary process if we manage to apply enough memory pressure to get the page that used to host that struct file and fill it with the right pattern... Signed-off-by:
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Linus Torvalds authored
So Ingo finally did figure out why UML broke with this option: UML passes gcc the -fno-unit-at-a-time flag, and apparently that wreaks havoc with gcc's inlining. We could turn off -fno-unit-at-a-time for UML for gcc4+ (which is what x86 does), but there's bad blood about this whole option, and it does show that the thing is just fragile as heck. So let tempers cool, and disable the thing, and we can revisit the decision later. Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by:
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86-fixes3Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86-fixes3: (21 commits) x86: numaq fix x86: 8K stacks by default x86: ioremap ram check fix x86: fix HT cpu booting on 32-bit x86: optimize inlining off x86: CONFIG_X86_ELAN fix x86: Kconfig fix x86 PAT: fix performance drop for glx, use UC minus for ioremap(), ioremap_nocache() and pci_mmap_page_range() x86: use defconfigs from x86/configs/* toshiba: use ioremap_cached revert: "x86: ioremap(), extend check to all RAM pages" x86: don't bother printing compat vdso address fix: x86: support for new UV apic x86: fix early-BUG message x86: iommu_sac_force can become static x86: add proper header for reboot_force x86 VISWS: build fix x86, voyager: fix ioremap_nocache() hpet: fix x86: unexport kmap_atomic_to_page ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: klist: fix coding style errors in klist.h and klist.c driver core: remove no longer used "struct class_device" pcmcia: remove pccard_sysfs_interface warnings devres: support addresses greater than an unsigned long via dev_ioremap kobject: do not copy vargs, just pass them around sysfs: sysfs_update_group stub for CONFIG_SYSFS=n DEBUGFS: Correct location of debugfs API documentation. driver core: warn about duplicate driver names on the same bus klist: implement klist_add_{after|before}() klist: implement KLIST_INIT() and DEFINE_KLIST() sysfs: Disallow truncation of files in sysfs
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- 30 Apr, 2008 15 commits
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
Finally clean up the odd spacing in these files. Signed-off-by:Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Kay Sievers authored
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Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by:
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David Brownell authored
Make the PCMCIA core stop using class_interface to hide socket attribute registration. This removes the associated section mismatch warnings, and helps get to the point where that mechanism can finally be removed. Simplify that attribute registration by using an attribute_group. This is a net shrink in object size. Signed-off-by:
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Kumar Gala authored
Use a resource_size_t instead of unsigned long since some arch's are capable of having ioremap deal with addresses greater than the size of a unsigned long. Signed-off-by:
Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by:
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Kay Sievers authored
This prevents a few unneeded copies. Signed-off-by:
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Randy Dunlap authored
scsi_transport_spi uses sysfs_update_group() when CONFIG_SYSFS=n, so provide a stub for it. next-20080423/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.c:1467: error: implicit declaration of function 'sysfs_update_group' make[3]: *** [drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.o] Error 1 Signed-off-by:
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Robert P. J. Day authored
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Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by:
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Stas Sergeev authored
Currently an attempt to register multiple drivers with the same name causes the stack trace with some cryptic error message. The attached patch adds the necessary check and the clear error message. Signed-off-by:
Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru> Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
Add klist_add_after() and klist_add_before() which puts a new node after and before an existing node, respectively. This is useful for callers which need to keep klist ordered. Note that synchronizing between simultaneous additions for ordering is the caller's responsibility. Signed-off-by:
Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
klist is missing static initializers and definition helper. Add them. Signed-off-by:
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Ben Hutchings authored
sysfs allows attribute files to be truncated, e.g. using ftruncate(), with the expected effect on their inode. For most attributes, this doesn't change the "real" size of the file i.e. how much can be read from it. However, the parameter validation for reading and writing binary attribute files is based on the inode size and not the size specified in the file's bin_attribute, so it can be broken by this. For example, if we try using dd to write to such a file: # pwd /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:08:00.0 # ls -l config -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Feb 1 17:35 config # dd if=/dev/zero of=config bs=4 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out # ls -l config -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 1 17:50 config # dd if=/dev/zero of=config bs=4 count=1 seek=128 dd: writing `config': No space left on device 1+0 records in 0+0 records out Also, after truncation to 0, parameter validation for read and write is disabled. Most bin_attribute read and write methods also validate the size and offset, but for some this will allow out-of-range access. This may be a security issue, though access to such files is often limited to root. In any case, the validation should remain for safety's sake!) This was previously reported in Bugzilla as bug 9867. sysfs should ignore size changes or else refuse them (by returning -EINVAL). This patch makes it ignore them. Signed-off-by:
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
acpi_device_dir() is NULL until all files are createst, so everyting is created in straight in /proc/ and creation code warns. Signed-off-by:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Pavel Emelyanov authored
The last hunk from the commit dae50295 (ipv4/ipv6 compat: Fix SSM applications on 64bit kernels.) escaped from the compat_ipv6_setsockopt to the ipv6_getsockopt (I guess due to patch smartness wrt searching for context) thus breaking 32-bit and 64-bit-without-compat compilation. Signed-off-by:
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by:
David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Ingo Molnar authored
do not override the existing pci-y rule when adding visws or numaq rules. Signed-off-by: -
Ingo Molnar authored
Switch back to 8K stacks as the safer default. Out-of-memory situations are less problematic than silent and hard to debug stack corruption. Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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