- 26 Nov, 2007 11 commits
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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:
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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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 29 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:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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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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Eric Sandeen authored
patch f44ec6f3 upstream. This attempts to address CVE-2006-6058 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6058 first reported at http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-17-11-2006.html Essentially a corrupted minix dir inode reporting a very large i_size will loop for a very long time in minix_readdir, minix_find_entry, etc, because on EIO they just move on to try the next page. This is under the BKL, printk-storming as well. This can lock up the machine for a very long time. Simply ratelimiting the printks gets things back under control. Make the message a bit more informative while we're here. Signed-off-by:
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Cc: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Signed-off-by:
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
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Alexey Starikovskiy authored
commit 1dbc1fda in mainline. ACPI: suspend: Wrong order of GPE restore. acpi_leave_sleep_state() should have correct list of wake and runtime GPEs, which is available only after disable_wakeup_device() is called. [cebbert@redhat.com: backport to 2.6.23] Signed-off-by:
Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de> Acked-by:
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by:
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Starikovskiy authored
patch is 9c1c6a1b in mainline. ACPI: sleep: Fix GPE suspend cleanup Commit 9b039330 removed acpi_gpe_sleep_prepare(), the only function used at S5 transition Add call to generic acpi_enable_wake_device(). Reference: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299882Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
Differs from mainline, but the functionality is already there. P5W-DH Deluxe has ICH7R which doesn't have PMP support but SIMG 4726 hardwired to the second port of AHCI controller at PCI device 1f.2. The 4726 doesn't work as PMP but as a storage processor which can do hardware RAID on downstream ports. When no device is attached to the downstream port of the 4726, pseudo ATA device for configuration appears. Unfortunately, ATA emulation on the device is very lousy and causes long hang during boot. This patch implements workaround for the board. If the mainboard is P5W-DH Deluxe (matched using DMI), only hardreset is used on the second port of AHCI controller @ 1f.2 and the hardreset doesn't depend on receiving the first FIS and just proceed to IDENTIFY. This workaround fixes bugzilla #8923. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8923Signed-off-by:
Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
Differs from mainline, but the functionality is already there. Backport ATA_FLAG_NO_SRST and ATA_FLAG_ASSUME_ATA. These are originally link flags (ATA_LFLAG_*) but link abstraction doesn't exist on 2.6.23, so make it port flags. This is for the following workaround for ASUS P5W DH Deluxe. These new flags don't introduce any behavior change unless set and nobody sets them yet. Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
patch e14cbfa6 in mainline. Another one doing spurious NCQ completions. Blacklist it. Signed-off-by:
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by:
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Dave Airlie authored
Upstream as 7fc86860 This code relied on the CPU and GPU address for the aperture being the same, On some r5xx hardware I was playing with I noticed that this isn't always true. This fixes issues seen on some r400 cards. (bugs.freedesktop.org 9957) Signed-off-by:
Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jiri Slaby authored
patch c4342205 in mainline. moxa, fix and optimise empty timer don't wait and delete empty timer in empty timer function. Also fire next empty timer at rounded jiffies to save power. This fixes a lockup, because we wait for ourselves to finish forever. (i.e. sync called from the timer itself). Signed-off-by:
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jiri Slaby authored
patch ac6aec2f in mainline. - register_device unconditionally (non-pci dependent) to have also isa devices in /dev - unregister devices on module removal - don't set TTY_DRIVER_DYNAMIC_DEV twice (removed the one dependent on some macro) This is the substantial part of the patch and the previous point is for not checking which devices to unregister and which not (simply register and unregister all found no matter on which bus they are plugged). Signed-off-by:
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HighPoint Linux Team authored
patch 0fec02c9 in mainline. avoid buffer overflow when returning sense data. With current adapter firmware the driver is working but future firmware updates may return sense data larger than 96 bytes, causing overflow on scp->sense_buffer and a kernel crash. This fix should be backported to earlier kernels. Signed-off-by:
HighPoint Linux Team <linux@highpoint-tech.com> Signed-off-by:
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by:
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
patch 15d8061b in mainline. The cs5535 uses an incorrect construct to access the other drive of a pair, causing it to access beyond an array boundary on the secondary interface. This fixes it by using the new ide_get_paired_drive() helper instead. Bart: patch description fixes Signed-off-by:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Acked-by:
Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by:
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
patch a87a87cc in mainline. The siimage uses an incorrect construct to access the other drive of a pair, causing it to access beyond an array boundary on the secondary interface. This fixes it by using the new ide_get_paired_drive() helper instead. Bart: patch description fixes Signed-off-by:
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
patch 1b678347 in mainline. This adds a helper to get to the "other" drive on a pair connected to a given hwif. Signed-off-by:
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Tony Battersby authored
patch 0c824b51 in mainline. The patch described by the following excerpt from ChangeLog-2.6.22 makes it impossible to use UDMA on a Tyan S2707 motherboard (SvrWks CSB5): commit 2d5eaa6d Author: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Date: Thu May 10 00:01:08 2007 +0200 ide: rework the code for selecting the best DMA transfer mode (v3) ... This one-line patch against 2.6.23 fixes the problem. Signed-off-by:
Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> Signed-off-by:
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Karsten Keil authored
patch 9713d9e6 in mainline. This fix the same issue which was debbuged for the C4 controller for the B1 versions. The capilib_ function modify or traverse a linked list without locking. This patch extends the existing locking to the calls of these function to prevent access to a list which is in the middle of a modification. Signed-off-by:
Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Karsten Keil authored
patch 1ccfd633 in mainline. The patch - Includes the call to capilib_data_b3_req in the spinlock. This routine in turn calls the offending mq_enqueue routine that triggered the freeze if not locked. This should also fix other indicators of incosistent capilib_msgidqueue list, that trigger messages like: Oct 5 03:05:57 BERL0 kernel: kcapi: msgid 3019 ncci 0x30301 not on queue that we saw several times a day (usually several in a row). - Fixes all occurrences of c4_dispatch_tx to be called with active spinlock, there were some instances where no lock was active. Mostly these are in very infrequently called routines, so the additional performance penalty is minimal. Signed-off-by:
Rainer Brestan <rainer.brestan@frequentis.com> Signed-off-by:
Ralf Schlatterbeck <rsc@runtux.com> Signed-off-by:
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Takashi Iwai authored
patch f6e9852a in mainline. [ALSA] hda-codec - Add array terminator for dmic in STAC codec Reported by Jan-Marek Glogowski. The dmic array is passed to snd_hda_parse_pin_def_config() and should be zero-terminated. Signed-off-by:
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Jiri Kosina authored
patch acd2a847 in mainline. USB: usbserial - fix potential deadlock between write() and IRQ usb_serial_generic_write() doesn't disable interrupts when taking port->lock, and could therefore deadlock with usb_serial_generic_read_bulk_callback() being called from interrupt, taking the same lock. Fix it. Signed-off-by:
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Acked-by:
Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Oliver Neukum authored
patch 0b28baaf in mainline. URB_FREE_BUFFER needs to be allowed in the sanity checks to use drivers that use that flag. Signed-off-by:
Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Acked-by:
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by:
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Alan Stern authored
patch 32fe0198 in mainline. This patch (as999) fixes a problem that sometimes shows up when host controller driver modules are loaded in the wrong order. If ehci-hcd happens to initialize an EHCI controller while the companion OHCI or UHCI controller is in the middle of a port reset, the reset can fail and the companion may get very confused. The patch adds an rw-semaphore and uses it to keep EHCI initialization and port resets mutually exclusive. Signed-off-by:
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by:
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Dely L Sy <dely.l.sy@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Benedikt Spranger authored
patch 5395353e in mainline. Fix a longstanding race in the Ethernet gadget driver, which can cause an oops on device disconnect. The fix is just to make the TX path check whether its freelist is empty. That check is otherwise not necessary, since the queue is always stopped when that list empties (and restarted when request completion puts an entry back on that freelist). The race window starts when the network code decides to transmit a packet, and ends when hard_start_xmit() grabs the freelist lock. When disconnect() is called inside that window, it shuts down the TX queue and breaks the otherwise-solid assumption that packets are never sent through a TX queue that's stopped. Signed-off-by:
Benedikt Spranger <bene@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by:
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Alan Stern authored
patch a691efa9 in mainline. This patch (as995) cleans up the remains of the former NO_AUTOSUSPEND quirk. Since autosuspend is disabled by default, we will let userspace worry about which devices can safely be suspended. Thus the lengthy series of quirk entries is no longer needed, and neither is the quirk ID. I suppose someone might eventually run across a hub that can't be suspended; let's ignore the possibility for now. The patch also cleans up the hasty way in which autosuspend gets disabled. Setting udev->autosuspend_delay to -1 wasn't quite right, because the value is always supposed to be a multiple of HZ. It's better to leave the delay value alone and set autosuspend_disabled, which is what the quirk routine used to do. Signed-off-by:
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