- 14 Dec, 2007 4 commits
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Christian Borntraeger authored
commit 5d0360ee upstream. We have seen ramdisk based install systems, where some pages of mapped libraries and programs were suddendly zeroed under memory pressure. This should not happen, as the ramdisk avoids freeing its pages by keeping them dirty all the time. It turns out that there is a case, where the VM makes a ramdisk page clean, without telling the ramdisk driver. On memory pressure shrink_zone runs and it starts to run shrink_active_list. There is a check for buffer_heads_over_limit, and if true, pagevec_strip is called. pagevec_strip calls try_to_release_page. If the mapping has no releasepage callback, try_to_free_buffers is called. try_to_free_buffers has now a special logic for some file systems to make a dirty page clean, if all buffers are clean. Thats what happened in our test case. The simplest solution is to provide a noop-releasepage callback for the ramdisk driver. This avoids try_to_free_buffers for ramdisk pages. Signed-off-by:
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by:
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Evgeniy Polyakov authored
[NETFILTER]: Fix NULL pointer dereference in nf_nat_move_storage() [ Upstream commit: 77996525 ] Reported by Chuck Ebbert as: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=259501#c14 This routine is called each time hash should be replaced, nf_conn has extension list which contains pointers to connection tracking users (like nat, which is right now the only such user), so when replace takes place it should copy own extensions. Loop above checks for own extension, but tries to move higer-layer one, which can lead to above oops. Signed-off-by:
Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by:
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Eric Dumazet authored
[NET] random : secure_tcp_sequence_number should not assume CONFIG_KTIME_SCALAR [ Upstream commit: 6dd10a62 ] All 32 bits machines but i386 dont have CONFIG_KTIME_SCALAR. On these machines, ktime.tv64 is more than 4 times the (correct) result given by ktime_to_ns() Again on these machines, using ktime_get_real().tv64 >> 6 give a 32bits rollover every 64 seconds, which is not wanted (less than the 120 s MSL) Using ktime_to_ns() is the portable way to get nsecs from a ktime, and have correct code. Signed-off-by:
Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by:
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Marcelo Tosatti authored
patch 29f5f2a1 in mainline. Properly account for queue commands, this fixes a problem reported by Holger Schurig when using the debugfs interface. Signed-off-by:
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 26 Nov, 2007 30 commits
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
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Dan Williams authored
patch 0b531676 in mainline. ipw2200 makes extensive use of background scanning when unassociated or down. Unfortunately, the firmware sends scan completed events many times per second, which the driver pushes directly up to userspace. This needlessly wakes up processes listening for wireless events many times per second. Batch together scan completed events for non-user-requested scans and send them up to userspace every 4 seconds. Scan completed events resulting from an SIOCSIWSCAN call are pushed up without delay. Signed-off-by:
Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Ortwin Glück authored
patch d466a919 in mainline. Not surprisingly the Nikon D40X DSC needs the same quirks as the D40, but it has a separate ID. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191431 From: Ortwin Glück <odi@odi.ch> Cc: Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@gmx.de> Signed-off-by:
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Phil Dibowitz authored
patch 16eb345f in mainline. Upgrade the unusual_devs.h file to support the Nikon D200 Signed-off-by:
Mike Pagano <mpagano-kernel@mpagano.com> Signed-off-by:
Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com> Cc: Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@gmx.de> Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
patch a3b13c23 in mainline. sched_clock() is not a reliable time-source, use cpu_clock() instead. Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
This is a merge of commits a5f2ce3c and 43581a10 in mainline to fix a warning in the 2.6.23.3 kernel release. softlockup watchdog: style cleanups kernel/softirq.c grew a few style uncleanlinesses in the past few months, clean that up. No functional changes: text data bss dec hex filename 1126 76 4 1206 4b6 softlockup.o.before 1129 76 4 1209 4b9 softlockup.o.after ( the 3 bytes .text increase is due to the "<1>" appended to one of the printk messages. ) Signed-off-by:
Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
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David P. Reed authored
patch c399da0d in mainline. x86: fix freeze in x86_64 RTC update code in time_64.c Fix hard freeze on x86_64 when the ntpd service calls update_persistent_clock() A repeatable but randomly timed freeze has been happening in Fedora 6 and 7 for the last year, whenever I run the ntpd service on my AMD64x2 HP Pavilion dv9000z laptop. This freeze is due to the use of spin_lock(&rtc_lock) under the assumption (per a bad comment) that set_rtc_mmss is called only with interrupts disabled. The call from ntp.c to update_persistent_clock is made with interrupts enabled. [ tglx@linutronix.de: ported to 2.6.23.stable ] Signed-off-by:
David P. Reed <dpreed@reed.com> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
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David P. Reed authored
patch fa6a1a55 in mainline. ntp: fix typo that makes sync_cmos_clock erratic Fix a typo in ntp.c that has caused updating of the persistent (RTC) clock when synced to NTP to behave erratically. When debugging a freeze that arises on my AMD64 machines when I run the ntpd service, I added a number of printk's to monitor the sync_cmos_clock procedure. I discovered that it was not syncing to cmos RTC every 11 minutes as documented, but instead would keep trying every second for hours at a time. The reason turned out to be a typo in sync_cmos_clock, where it attempts to ensure that update_persistent_clock is called very close to 500 msec. after a 1 second boundary (required by the PC RTC's spec). That typo referred to "xtime" in one spot, rather than "now", which is derived from "xtime" but not equal to it. This makes the test erratic, creating a "coin-flip" that decides when update_persistent_clock is called - when it is called, which is rarely, it may be at any time during the one second period, rather than close to 500 msec, so the value written is needlessly incorrect, too. Signed-off-by:
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Andrey Mirkin authored
patch 1c5b5cfd in mainline. x86: return correct error code from child_rip in x86_64 entry.S Right now register edi is just cleared before calling do_exit. That is wrong because correct return value will be ignored. Value from rax should be copied to rdi instead of clearing edi. AK: changed to 32bit move because it's strictly an int [ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ] Signed-off-by:
Andrey Mirkin <major@openvz.org> Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Huang, Ying authored
patch 84e0fdb1 in mainline. x86: NX bit handling in change_page_attr() This patch fixes a bug of change_page_attr/change_page_attr_addr on Intel x86_64 CPUs. After changing page attribute to be executable with these functions, the page remains un-executable on Intel x86_64 CPU. Because on Intel x86_64 CPU, only if the "NX" bits of all four level page tables are cleared, the corresponding page is executable (refer to section 4.13.2 of Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual). So, the bug is fixed through clearing the "NX" bit of PMD when splitting the huge PMD. Signed-off-by:
Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Kirill Korotaev authored
patch c1217a75 in mainline. x86: mark read_crX() asm code as volatile Some gcc versions (I checked at least 4.1.1 from RHEL5 & 4.1.2 from gentoo) can generate incorrect code with read_crX()/write_crX() functions mix up, due to cached results of read_crX(). The small app for x8664 below compiled with -O2 demonstrates this (i686 does the same thing): Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Hastings authored
patch 801916c1 in mainline. x86: fix off-by-one in find_next_zero_string Fix an off-by-one error in find_next_zero_string which prevents allocating the last bit. [ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ] Signed-off-by:
Andrew Hastings <abh@cray.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Beulich authored
patch aa506dc7 in mainline. i386: avoid temporarily inconsistent pte-s One more of these issues (which were considered fixed a few releases back): other than on x86-64, i386 allows set_fixmap() to replace already present mappings. Consequently, on PAE, care must be taken to not update the high half of a pte while the low half is still holding the old value. [tglx: arch/x86 adaptation] Signed-off-by:
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by:
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Herbert Xu authored
It's upstream changeset ef19454b. [LIB] crc32c: Keep intermediate crc state in cpu order crypto/crc32.c:chksum_final() is computing the digest as *(__le32 *)out = ~cpu_to_le32(mctx->crc); so the low-level crc32c_le routines should just keep the crc in cpu order, otherwise it is getting swabbed one too many times on big-endian machines. Signed-off-by:
Benny Halevy <bhalevy@fs1.bhalevy.com> Signed-off-by:
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by:
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Sebastian Siewior authored
patch 2e21630d in mainline. Currently the Geode AES module fails to encrypt or decrypt if the coherent bits are not set what is currently the case if the encryption does not occur inplace. However, the encryption works on my Geode machine _only_ if the coherent bits are always set. Signed-off-by:
Sebastian Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Acked-by:
Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com> Signed-off-by:
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Chuck Ebbert authored
No patch in mainline as this logic has been removed from 2.6.24 so it is not necessary. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=340161 The problem code has been removed in 2.6.24. The below patch disables SCHED_FEAT_PRECISE_CPU_LOAD which causes the offending code to be skipped but does not prevent the user from enabling it. The divide-by-zero is here in kernel/sched.c: static void update_cpu_load(struct rq *this_rq) { u64 fair_delta64, exec_delta64, idle_delta64, sample_interval64, tmp64; unsigned long total_load = this_rq->ls.load.weight; unsigned long this_load = total_load; struct load_stat *ls = &this_rq->ls; int i, scale; this_rq->nr_load_updates++; if (unlikely(!(sysctl_sched_features & SCHED_FEAT_PRECISE_CPU_LOAD))) goto do_avg; /* Update delta_fair/delta_exec fields first */ update_curr_load(this_rq); fair_delta64 = ls->delta_fair + 1; ls->delta_fair = 0; exec_delta64 = ls->delta_exec + 1; ls->delta_exec = 0; sample_interval64 = this_rq->clock - ls->load_update_last; ls->load_update_last = this_rq->clock; if ((s64)sample_interval64 < (s64)TICK_NSEC) sample_interval64 = TICK_NSEC; if (exec_delta64 > sample_interval64) exec_delta64 = sample_interval64; idle_delta64 = sample_interval64 - exec_delta64; ======> tmp64 = div64_64(SCHED_LOAD_SCALE * exec_delta64, fair_delta64); tmp64 = div64_64(tmp64 * exec_delta64, sample_interval64); this_load = (unsigned long)tmp64; do_avg: /* Update our load: */ for (i = 0, scale = 1; i < CPU_LOAD_IDX_MAX; i++, scale += scale) { unsigned long old_load, new_load; /* scale is effectively 1 << i now, and >> i divides by scale */ old_load = this_rq->cpu_load[i]; new_load = this_load; this_rq->cpu_load[i] = (old_load*(scale-1) + new_load) >> i; } } For stable only; the code has been removed in 2.6.24. Signed-off-by:
Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Acked-by:
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Alexey Starikovskiy authored
patch 63f0edfc in mainline. ACPI: VIDEO: Adjust current level to closest available one. Signed-off-by:
Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@gmx.de> Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Garzik authored
patch 96af1547 in mainline. [libata] sata_sis: use correct S/G table size sata_sis has the same restrictions as other SFF controllers, and so must use LIBATA_MAX_PRD to denote that SCSI may only fill ATA_MAX_PRD/2 entries, due to our need to handle IOMMU merging. Signed-off-by:
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Cc: Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@gmx.de> Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
patch aaa092a1 in mainline. sata_sis: fix SCR read breakage SCR read for controllers which uses PCI configuration space for SCR access got broken while adding @val argument to SCR accessors. Fix it. Signed-off-by:
Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@gmx.de> Signed-off-by:
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Fengguang Wu authored
patch c06a018f in mainline. This is not a new problem in 2.6.23-git17. 2.6.22/2.6.23 is buggy in the same way. Reiserfs could accumulate dirty sub-page-size files until umount time. They cannot be synced to disk by pdflush routines or explicit `sync' commands. Only `umount' can do the trick. The direct cause is: the dirty page's PG_dirty is wrongly _cleared_. Call trace: [<ffffffff8027e920>] cancel_dirty_page+0xd0/0xf0 [<ffffffff8816d470>] :reiserfs:reiserfs_cut_from_item+0x660/0x710 [<ffffffff8816d791>] :reiserfs:reiserfs_do_truncate+0x271/0x530 [<ffffffff8815872d>] :reiserfs:reiserfs_truncate_file+0xfd/0x3b0 [<ffffffff8815d3d0>] :reiserfs:reiserfs_file_release+0x1e0/0x340 [<ffffffff802a187c>] __fput+0xcc/0x1b0 [<ffffffff802a1ba6>] fput+0x16/0x20 [<ffffffff8029e676>] filp_close+0x56/0x90 [<ffffffff8029fe0d>] sys_close+0xad/0x110 [<ffffffff8020c41e>] system_call+0x7e/0x83 Fix the bug by removing the cancel_dirty_page() call. Tests show that it causes no bad behaviors on various write sizes. === for the patient === Here are more detailed demonstrations of the problem. 1) the page has both PG_dirty(D)/PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY(d) after being written to; and then only PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY(d) remains after the file is closed. ------------------------------ screen 0 ------------------------------ [T0] root /home/wfg# cat > /test/tiny [T1] hi [T2] root /home/wfg# ------------------------------ screen 1 ------------------------------ [T1] root /home/wfg# echo /test/tiny > /proc/filecache [T1] root /home/wfg# cat /proc/filecache # file /test/tiny # flags R:referenced A:active M:mmap U:uptodate D:dirty W:writeback O:owner B:buffer d:dirty w:writeback # idx len state refcnt 0 1 ___UD__Bd_ 2 [T2] root /home/wfg# cat /proc/filecache # file /test/tiny # flags R:referenced A:active M:mmap U:uptodate D:dirty W:writeback O:owner B:buffer d:dirty w:writeback # idx len state refcnt 0 1 ___U___Bd_ 2 2) note the non-zero 'cancelled_write_bytes' after /tmp/hi is copied. ------------------------------ screen 0 ------------------------------ [T0] root /home/wfg# echo hi > /tmp/hi [T1] root /home/wfg# cp /tmp/hi /dev/stdin /test [T2] hi [T3] root /home/wfg# ------------------------------ screen 1 ------------------------------ [T1] root /proc/4397# cd /proc/`pidof cp` [T1] root /proc/4713# cat io rchar: 8396 wchar: 3 syscr: 20 syscw: 1 read_bytes: 0 write_bytes: 20480 cancelled_write_bytes: 4096 [T2] root /proc/4713# cat io rchar: 8399 wchar: 6 syscr: 21 syscw: 2 read_bytes: 0 write_bytes: 24576 cancelled_write_bytes: 4096 //Question: the 'write_bytes' is a bit more than expected ;-) Tested-by:
Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by:
Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Reviewed-by:
Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
patch 35d5d08a in mainline. Marin Mitov points out that delay_tsc() can misbehave if it is preempted and rescheduled on a different CPU which has a skewed TSC. Fix it by disabling preemption. (I assume that the worst-case behaviour here is a stall of 2^32 cycles) Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Marin Mitov <mitov@issp.bas.bg> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Haavard Skinnemoen authored
patch 348badf1 in mainline. When a DMA device is unregistered, its reference count is decremented twice for each channel: Once dma_class_dev_release() and once in dma_chan_cleanup(). This may result in the DMA device driver's remove() function completing before all channels have been cleaned up, causing lots of use-after-free fun. Fix it by incrementing the device's reference count twice for each channel during registration. [dan.j.williams@intel.com: kill unnecessary client refcounting] Signed-off-by:
Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by:
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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J. Bruce Fields authored
patch 6fa02839 in mainline. As with 7fc90ec9... "call nfsd_setuser() on fh_compose()..." this is a case where we need to redo a security check in fh_verify() even though the filehandle already has an associated dentry--if the filehandle was created by fh_compose() in an earlier operation of the nfsv4 compound, then we may not have done these checks yet. Without this fix it is possible, for example, to traverse from an export without the secure ports requirement to one with it in a single compound, and bypass the secure port check on the new export. While we're here, fix up some minor style problems and change a printk() to a dprintk(), to make it harder for random unprivileged users to spam the logs. Signed-off-by:
J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Reviewed-By:
NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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J. Bruce Fields authored
patch ac8587dc in mainline. The v2/v3 acl code in nfsd is translating any return from fh_verify() to nfserr_inval. This is particularly unfortunate in the case of an nfserr_dropit return, which is an internal error meant to indicate to callers that this request has been deferred and should just be dropped pending the results of an upcall to mountd. Thanks to Roland <devzero@web.de> for bug report and data collection. Cc: Roland <devzero@web.de> Acked-by:
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Dan Williams authored
patch 6c55be8b in mainline. <debug output from Joel's system> handling stripe 7629696, state=0x14 cnt=1, pd_idx=2 ops=0:0:0 check 5: state 0x6 toread 0000000000000000 read 0000000000000000 write fffff800ffcffcc0 written 0000000000000000 check 4: state 0x6 toread 0000000000000000 read 0000000000000000 write fffff800fdd4e360 written 0000000000000000 check 3: state 0x1 toread 0000000000000000 read 0000000000000000 write 0000000000000000 written 0000000000000000 check 2: state 0x1 toread 0000000000000000 read 0000000000000000 write 0000000000000000 written 0000000000000000 check 1: state 0x6 toread 0000000000000000 read 0000000000000000 write fffff800ff517e40 written 0000000000000000 check 0: state 0x6 toread 0000000000000000 read 0000000000000000 write fffff800fd4cae60 written 0000000000000000 locked=4 uptodate=2 to_read=0 to_write=4 failed=0 failed_num=0 for sector 7629696, rmw=0 rcw=0 </debug> These blocks were prepared to be written out, but were never handled in ops_run_biodrain(), so they remain locked forever. The operations flags are all clear which means handle_stripe() thinks nothing else needs to be done. This state suggests that the STRIPE_OP_PREXOR bit was sampled 'set' when it should not have been. This patch cleans up cases where the code looks at sh->ops.pending when it should be looking at the consistent stack-based snapshot of the operations flags. Report from Joel: Resync done. Patch fix this bug. Signed-off-by:
Joel Bertrand <joel.bertrand@systella.fr> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Philippe Elie authored
patch df9d177a in mainline. Instruction pointer returned by profile_pc() can be a random value. This break the assumption than we can safely set struct op_sample.eip field to a magic value to signal to the per-cpu buffer reader side special event like task switch ending up in a segfault in get_task_mm() when profile_pc() return ~0UL. Fixed by sanitizing the sampled eip and reject/log invalid eip. Problem reported by Sami Farin, patch tested by him. Signed-off-by:
Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr> Tested-by:
Sami Farin <safari-kernel@safari.iki.fi> Signed-off-by:
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Li Zefan authored
patch 3cc2c177 in mainline. The size passing to memset is wrong. Signed-off-by Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by:
Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jean Delvare authored
patch 0f2cbd38 in mainline. The sysfs interface to DMI data takes care to not make the system serial number and UUID world-readable, presumably due to privacy concerns. For consistency, we should not let the eeprom driver export these same strings to the world on Sony Vaio laptops. Instead, only make them readable by root, as we already do for BIOS passwords. Signed-off-by:
Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by:
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Jean Delvare authored
patch 8b925a3d in mainline. Recent (i.e. 2005 and later) Sony Vaio laptops have names beginning with VGN rather than PCG. Update the eeprom driver so that it recognizes these. Why this matters: the eeprom driver hides private data from the EEPROMs it recognizes as Vaio EEPROMs (passwords, serial number...) so if the driver fails to recognize a Vaio EEPROM as such, the private data is exposed to the world. Signed-off-by:
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Jean Delvare authored
patch be8a1f7c in mainline. Turns out we don't actually check the status to see if there was a device out there to talk to, just if we had a timeout when doing so. Add the proper check, so we don't falsly think there are devices on the bus that are not there, etc. Signed-off-by:
Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by:
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- 16 Nov, 2007 6 commits
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
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Roland McGrath authored
patch a3474224 in mainline The original meaning of the old test (p->state > TASK_STOPPED) was "not dead", since it was before TASK_TRACED existed and before the state/exit_state split. It was a wrong correction in commit 14bf01bb to make this test for TASK_TRACED instead. It should have been changed when TASK_TRACED was introducted and again when exit_state was introduced. Signed-off-by:
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com> Acked-by:
Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Ilpo Järvinen authored
patch 96a2d41a in mainline. NULL ptr can be returned from tcp_write_queue_head to cached_skb and then assigned to skb if packets_out was zero. Without this, system is vulnerable to a carefully crafted ACKs which obviously is remotely triggerable. Besides, there's very little that needs to be done in sacktag if there weren't any packets outstanding, just skipping the rest doesn't hurt. Signed-off-by:
Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by:
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
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Trond Myklebust authored
patch 61e930a9 in mainline This patch fixes a regression that was introduced by commit 44dd151d We cannot zero the user page in nfs_mark_uptodate() any more, since a) We'd be modifying the page without holding the page lock b) We can race with other updates of the page, most notably because of the call to nfs_wb_page() in nfs_writepage_setup(). Instead, we do the zeroing in nfs_update_request() if we see that we're creating a request that might potentially be marked as up to date. Thanks to Olivier Paquet for reporting the bug and providing a test-case. Signed-off-by:
Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mark Fasheh authored
patch 4e9563fd in mainline. ocfs2: fix write() performance regression On file systems which don't support sparse files, Ocfs2_map_page_blocks() was reading blocks on appending writes. This caused write performance to suffer dramatically. Fix this by detecting an appending write on a nonsparse fs and skipping the read. Signed-off-by:
Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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