- 24 Mar, 2009 3 commits
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Nathan Fontenot authored
The return code from invoking the notifier chain when updating the ibm,dynamic-memory property is not handled properly. In failure cases (rc == NOTIFY_BAD) we should be restoring the original value of the property. In success (rc == NOTIFY_OK) we should be returning zero from the calling routine. Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
Commit e7943fbb broke ppc32 using Open Firmware client interface due to using the wrong relocation macro when accessing the variable "linux_banner". Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
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- 23 Mar, 2009 11 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Kyle McMartin authored
With a sufficiently new compiler and binutils, code which wasn't previously generating .eh_frame sections has begun to. Certain architectures (powerpc, in this case) may generate unexpected relocation formats in response to this, preventing modules from loading. While the new relocation types should probably be handled, revert to the previous behaviour with regards to generation of .eh_frame sections. (This was reported against Fedora, which appears to be the only distro doing any building against gcc-4.4 at present: RH bz#486545.) Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jody McIntyre authored
Revert the change to the orphan dates of Windows 95, DOS, compression. Add a new orphan date for OS/2. Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@sun.com> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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: (32 commits) ucc_geth: Fix oops when using fixed-link support dm9000: locking bugfix net: update dnet.c for bus_id removal dnet: DNET should depend on HAS_IOMEM dca: add missing copyright/license headers nl80211: Check that function pointer != NULL before using it sungem: missing net_device_ops be2net: fix to restore vlan ids into BE2 during a IF DOWN->UP cycle be2net: replenish when posting to rx-queue is starved in out of mem conditions bas_gigaset: correctly allocate USB interrupt transfer buffer smsc911x: reset last known duplex and carrier on open sh_eth: Fix mistake of the address of SH7763 sh_eth: Change handling of IRQ netns: oops in ip[6]_frag_reasm incrementing stats net: kfree(napi->skb) => kfree_skb net: fix sctp breakage ipv6: fix display of local and remote sit endpoints net: Document /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_budget tulip: fix crash on iface up with shirq debug virtio_net: Make virtio_net support carrier detection ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: sparc64: Fix crash with /proc/iomem sparc64: Reschedule KGDB capture to a software interrupt. sbus: Auto-load openprom module when device opened.
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Miklos Szeredi authored
This patch fixes bug #12208: Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12208 Subject : uml is very slow on 2.6.28 host This turned out to be not a scheduler regression, but an already existing problem in ptrace being triggered by subtle scheduler changes. The problem is this: - task A is ptracing task B - task B stops on a trace event - task A is woken up and preempts task B - task A calls ptrace on task B, which does ptrace_check_attach() - this calls wait_task_inactive(), which sees that task B is still on the runq - task A goes to sleep for a jiffy - ... Since UML does lots of the above sequences, those jiffies quickly add up to make it slow as hell. This patch solves this by not rescheduling in read_unlock() after ptrace_stop() has woken up the tracer. Thanks to Oleg Nesterov and Ingo Molnar for the feedback. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/galak/powerpcLinus Torvalds authored
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/galak/powerpc: powerpc/mm: Fix Respect _PAGE_COHERENT on classic ppc32 SW TLB load machines
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Kumar Gala authored
Grant picked up the wrong version of "Respect _PAGE_COHERENT on classic ppc32 SW" (commit a4bd6a93) It was missing the code to actually deal with the fixup of _PAGE_COHERENT based on the CPU feature. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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Anton Vorontsov authored
commit b1c4a9dd ("ucc_geth: Change uec phy id to the same format as gianfar's") introduced a regression in the ucc_geth driver that causes this oops when fixed-link is used: Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000000 Faulting instruction address: 0xc0151270 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] TMCUTU NIP: c0151270 LR: c0151270 CTR: c0017760 REGS: cf81fa60 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (2.6.29-rc8) MSR: 00009032 <EE,ME,IR,DR> CR: 24024042 XER: 20000000 DAR: 00000000, DSISR: 20000000 TASK = cf81cba0[1] 'swapper' THREAD: cf81e000 GPR00: c0151270 cf81fb10 cf81cba0 00000000 c0272e20 c025f354 00001e80 cf86b08c GPR08: d1068200 cffffb74 06000000 d106c200 42024042 10085148 0fffd000 0ffc81a0 GPR16: 00000001 00000001 00000000 007ffeb0 00000000 0000c000 cf83f36c cf83f000 GPR24: 00000030 cf83f360 cf81fb20 00000000 d106c200 20000000 00001e80 cf83f360 NIP [c0151270] ucc_geth_open+0x330/0x1efc LR [c0151270] ucc_geth_open+0x330/0x1efc Call Trace: [cf81fb10] [c0151270] ucc_geth_open+0x330/0x1efc (unreliable) [cf81fba0] [c0187638] dev_open+0xbc/0x12c [cf81fbc0] [c0187e38] dev_change_flags+0x8c/0x1b0 This patch fixes the issue by removing offending (and somewhat duplicate) code from init_phy() routine, and changes _probe() function to use uec_mdio_bus_name(). Also, since we fully construct phy_bus_id in the _probe() routine, we no longer need ->phy_address and ->mdio_bus fields in ucc_geth_info structure. I wish the patch would be a bit shorter, but it seems like the only way to fix the issue in a sane way. Luckily, the patch has been tested with real PHYs and fixed-link, so no further regressions expected. Reported-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> Tested-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David Brownell authored
This fixes a locking bug in the dm9000 driver. It calls request_irq() without setting IRQF_DISABLED ... which is correct for handlers that support IRQ sharing, since that behavior is not guaranteed for shared IRQs. However, its IRQ handler then wrongly assumes that IRQs are blocked. So the fix just uses the right spinlock primitives in the IRQ handler. NOTE: this is a classic example of the type of bug which lockdep currently masks by forcibly setting IRQF_DISABLED on IRQ handlers that did not request that flag. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Stephen Rothwell authored
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 22 Mar, 2009 6 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixesLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes: kconfig: improve seed in randconfig kconfig: fix randconfig for choice blocks
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommuLinus Torvalds authored
* 'fix-includes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu: m68k: merge the non-MMU and MMU versions of siginfo.h m68k: use the MMU version of unistd.h for all m68k platforms m68k: merge the non-MMU and MMU versions of signal.h m68k: merge the non-MMU and MMU versions of ptrace.h m68k: use MMU version of setup.h for both MMU and non-MMU m68k: merge the non-MMU and MMU versions of sigcontext.h m68k: merge the non-MMU and MMU versions of swab.h m68k: merge the non-MMU and MMU versions of param.h
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Gertjan van Wingerde authored
Update all previous incarnations of my email address to the correct one. Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tyler Hicks authored
If ecryptfs_encrypted_view or ecryptfs_xattr_metadata were being specified as mount options, a NULL pointer dereference of crypt_stat was possible during lookup. This patch moves the crypt_stat assignment into ecryptfs_lookup_and_interpose_lower(), ensuring that crypt_stat will not be NULL before we attempt to dereference it. Thanks to Dan Carpenter and his static analysis tool, smatch, for finding this bug. Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tyler Hicks authored
When allocating the memory used to store the eCryptfs header contents, a single, zeroed page was being allocated with get_zeroed_page(). However, the size of an eCryptfs header is either PAGE_CACHE_SIZE or ECRYPTFS_MINIMUM_HEADER_EXTENT_SIZE (8192), whichever is larger, and is stored in the file's private_data->crypt_stat->num_header_bytes_at_front field. ecryptfs_write_metadata_to_contents() was using num_header_bytes_at_front to decide how many bytes should be written to the lower filesystem for the file header. Unfortunately, at least 8K was being written from the page, despite the chance of the single, zeroed page being smaller than 8K. This resulted in random areas of kernel memory being written between the 0x1000 and 0x1FFF bytes offsets in the eCryptfs file headers if PAGE_SIZE was 4K. This patch allocates a variable number of pages, calculated with num_header_bytes_at_front, and passes the number of allocated pages along to ecryptfs_write_metadata_to_contents(). Thanks to Florian Streibelt for reporting the data leak and working with me to find the problem. 2.6.28 is the only kernel release with this vulnerability. Corresponds to CVE-2009-0787 Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Florian Streibelt <florian@f-streibelt.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
This fixes a regression introduced when we switched to using the core pci_set_power_state(). The chip seems to need the state to be written over and over again until it sticks, so we do that. Note that the code is a bit blunt, without timeout, etc... but that's pretty much because I put back in there the code exactly as it used to be before the regression. I still add a call to pci_set_power_state() at the end so that ACPI gets called appropriately on x86. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Tested-by: Raymond Wooninck <tittiatcoke@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 21 Mar, 2009 2 commits
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Ilya Yanok authored
Signed-off-by: Ilya Yanok <yanok@emcraft.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Maciej Sosnowski authored
In two dca files copyright and license headers are missing. This patch adds them there. Signed-off-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 20 Mar, 2009 9 commits
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Jouni Malinen authored
NL80211_CMD_GET_MESH_PARAMS and NL80211_CMD_SET_MESH_PARAMS handlers did not verify whether a function pointer is NULL (not supported by the driver) before trying to call the function. The former nl80211 command is available for unprivileged users, too, so this can potentially allow normal users to kill networking (or worse..) if mac80211 is built without CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH=y. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Stephen Hemminger authored
Sungem driver only got partially converted to net_device_ops. Since this could cause bugs, please push this to 2.6.29 Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Sathya Perla authored
This is a patch to reconfigure vlan-ids during an i/f down/up cycle Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathyap@serverengines.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Sathya Perla authored
This is a patch to replenish the rx-queue when it is in a starved state (due to out-of-mem conditions) Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathyap@serverengines.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
This updates the 32-bit headers to use the same definitions for the RPN shift inside the PTE as 64-bit, and thus updates _PAGE_CHG_MASK to become identical. This does introduce a runtime visible difference, which is that now, _PAGE_HASHPTE will be part of _PAGE_CHG_MASK and thus preserved. However this should have no practical effect as it should have been preserved in the first place and we got away with not having it there due to our PTE access functions preserving it anyway. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
This patch moves the definition of the PTE format for each MMU type to separate files instead of all in one file. This improves overall maintainability and will make it easier to add new types. On 64-bit, additionally, I've separated the headers relative to the format of the page table tree (3 vs. 4 levels for 64K vs 4K pages) from the headers specific to the PTE format for hash based processors, this will make it easier to add support for Book3 "E" 64-bit implementations. There are still some type-related ifdef's in the generic headers, we might remove them in the long run, but this patch shouldn't result in any code change, -hopefully- just definitions being moved around. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
- 19 Mar, 2009 9 commits
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Jeff Moyer authored
The libaio test harness turned up a problem whereby lookup_ioctx on a bogus io context was returning the 1 valid io context from the list (harness/cases/3.p). Because of that, an extra put_iocontext was done, and when the process exited, it hit a BUG_ON in the put_iocontext macro called from exit_aio (since we expect a users count of 1 and instead get 0). The problem was introduced by "aio: make the lookup_ioctx() lockless" (commit abf137dd). Thanks to Zach for pointing out that hlist_for_each_entry_rcu will not return with a NULL tpos at the end of the loop, even if the entry was not found. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Davide Libenzi authored
Remove a source of fput() call from inside IRQ context. Myself, like Eric, wasn't able to reproduce an fput() call from IRQ context, but Jeff said he was able to, with the attached test program. Independently from this, the bug is conceptually there, so we might be better off fixing it. This patch adds an optimization similar to the one we already do on ->ki_filp, on ->ki_eventfd. Playing with ->f_count directly is not pretty in general, but the alternative here would be to add a brand new delayed fput() infrastructure, that I'm not sure is worth it. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Sam Ravnborg says: "We have several architectures that plays strange games with $(CC) and $(CROSS_COMPILE). So we need to postpone any use of $(call cc-option..) until we have included the arch specific Makefile so we try with the correct $(CC) version." Requested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: [S390] make page table upgrade work again [S390] make page table walking more robust [S390] Dont check for pfn_valid() in uaccess_pt.c [S390] ftrace/mcount: fix kernel stack backchain [S390] topology: define SD_MC_INIT to fix performance regression [S390] __div64_31 broken for CONFIG_MARCH_G5
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hidLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid: HID: fix waitqueue usage in hiddev HID: fix incorrect free in hiddev
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstableLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: Btrfs: Clear space_info full when adding new devices Btrfs: Fix locking around adding new space_info
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Linus Torvalds authored
Nick Piggin noticed this (very unlikely) race between setting a page dirty and creating the buffers for it - we need to hold the mapping private_lock until we've set the page dirty bit in order to make sure that create_empty_buffers() might not build up a set of buffers without the dirty bits set when the page is dirty. I doubt anybody has ever hit this race (and it didn't solve the issue Nick was looking at), but as Nick says: "Still, it does appear to solve a real race, which we should close." Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
This makes sure that gcc doesn't try to optimize away wrapping arithmetic, which the kernel occasionally uses for overflow testing, ie things like if (ptr + offset < ptr) which technically is undefined for non-unsigned types. See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12597 for details. Not all versions of gcc support it, so we need to make it conditional (it looks like it was introduced in gcc-3.4). Reminded-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Martyn Welch authored
Support for the PPC9A VME Single Board Computer from GE Fanuc (PowerPC MPC8641D). This is the default config file for GE Fanuc's PPC9A, a 6U single board computer, based on Freescale's MPC8641D. Signed-off-by: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@gefanuc.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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