- 06 Nov, 2006 9 commits
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Since it is becoming clear that there are just enough users of the binary sysctl interface that completely removing the binary interface from the kernel will not be an option for foreseeable future, we need to find a way to address the sysctl maintenance issues. The basic problem is that sysctl requires one central authority to allocate sysctl numbers, or else conflicts and ABI breakage occur. The proc interface to sysctl does not have that problem, as names are not densely allocated. By not terminating a sysctl table until I have neither a ctl_name nor a procname, it becomes simple to add sysctl entries that don't show up in the binary sysctl interface. Which allows people to avoid allocating a binary sysctl value when not needed. I have audited the kernel code and in my reading I have not found a single sysctl table that wasn't terminated by a completely zero filled entry. So this change in behavior should not affect anything. I think this mechanism eases the pain enough that combined with a little disciple we can solve the reoccurring sysctl ABI breakage. Signed-off-by:
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by:
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Don't warn about libpthread's access to kernel.version. When it receives -ENOSYS it will read /proc/sys/kernel/version. If anything else shows up print the sysctl number string. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Make the delayacct lock irqsave; this avoids the possible deadlock where an interrupt is taken while holding the delayacct lock which needs to take the delayacct lock. Signed-off-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Tilman Schmidt authored
Make the failed-to-allocate-skb warning a non-debug message. Signed-off-by:
Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Cc: Kai Germaschewski <kai.germaschewski@gmx.de> Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Ankita Garg authored
The MEM_SWAPOUT crashpoint in LKDTM could be broken as some compilers inline the call to shrink_page_list() and symbol lookup for this function name fails. Replacing it with the function shrink_inactive_list(), which is the only function calling shrink_page_list(). Signed-off-by:
Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Gautham R Shenoy authored
Cpu-hotplug locking has a minor race case caused because of setting the variable "recursive" to NULL *after* releasing the cpu_bitmask_lock in the function unlock_cpu_hotplug,instead of doing so before releasing the cpu_bitmask_lock. This was the cause of most of the recent false spurious lock_cpu_unlock warnings. This should fix the problem reported by Martin Lorenz reported in http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/29/127. Thanks to Srinivasa DS for pointing it out. Signed-off-by:
Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: [NETLABEL]: Fix build failure. [IPV6]: Give sit driver an appropriate module alias. [IPV6]: Add ndisc_netdev_notifier unregister. [NET]: __alloc_pages() failures reported due to fragmentation [PKTGEN]: TCI endianness fixes [TG3]: Fix 2nd ifup failure on 5752M. [NETFILTER] bug: skb->protocol is already net-endian [NETFILTER] bug: nfulnl_msg_config_mode ->copy_range is 32bit [NETFILTER] bug: NFULA_CFG_QTHRESH uses 32bit [IPV6]: Fix ECN bug on big-endian [IPX]: Annotate and fix IPX checksum [IPX]: Trivial parts of endianness annotations
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David S. Miller authored
When I added the entries for the robust futex syscall entries, I forgot to bump NR_SYSCALLS. The current situation is error-prone because NR_SYSCALLS lives in entry.S where the system call limit checks are enforced. Move the definition to asm/unistd.h in order to make this mistake much more difficult to make. And wire up sys_migrate_pages since the powerpc folks implemented the compat wrapper for us. Signed-off-by:David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Paul Moore authored
> the build with the attached .config failed, make ends with: > ... > : undefined reference to `cipso_v4_sock_getattr' > net/built-in.o: In function `netlbl_socket_getattr': ... It looks like I was stupid and made NetLabel depend on CONFIG_NET and not CONFIG_INET, the patch below should fix this by making NetLabel depend on CONFIG_INET and CONFIG_SECURITY. Please review and apply for 2.6.19. Signed-off-by:
Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 05 Nov, 2006 11 commits
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Patrick McHardy authored
It would be nice to keep things working even with this built as a module, it took me some time to realize my IPv6 tunnel was broken because of the missing sit module. This module alias fixes things until distributions have added an appropriate alias to modprobe.conf. Signed-off-by:
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by:
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Dmitry Mishin authored
If inet6_init() fails later than ndisc_init() call, or IPv6 module is unloaded, ndisc_netdev_notifier call remains in the list and will follows in oops later. Signed-off-by:
Dmitry Mishin <dim@openvz.org> Signed-off-by:
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Larry Woodman authored
We have seen a couple of __alloc_pages() failures due to fragmentation, there is plenty of free memory but no large order pages available. I think the problem is in sock_alloc_send_pskb(), the gfp_mask includes __GFP_REPEAT but its never used/passed to the page allocator. Shouldnt the gfp_mask be passed to alloc_skb() ? Signed-off-by:
Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
open-coded variant there works only for little-endian Signed-off-by:
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Michael Chan authored
This fixes a bug reported in: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7438 tg3_close() turns off the PHY if WoL and ASF are both disabled. On the next tg3_open(), some devices such as the 5752M will not be brought up correctly without a PHY reset early in the reset sequence. The PHY clock is needed for some internal MAC blocks to function correctly. This problem is fixed by always resetting the PHY early in tg3_reset_hw() when it is called from tg3_open() or tg3_resume(). tg3_setup_phy() can then be called later in the sequence without the reset_phy parameter set to 1, since the PHY reset is already done. Update version to 3.68. Signed-off-by:
Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
htons() is not needed (and no, it's not misspelled ntohs() - userland expects net-endian here). Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
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Al Viro authored
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Al Viro authored
__constant_htons(2<<4) is not a replacement for htonl(2<<20). Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
Calculation of IPX checksum got buggered about 2.4.0. The old variant mangled the packet; that got fixed, but calculation itself got buggered. Restored the correct logics, fixed a subtle breakage we used to have even back then: if the sum is 0 mod 0xffff, we want to return 0, not 0xffff. The latter has special meaning for IPX (cheksum disabled). Observation (and obvious fix) nicked from history of FreeBSD ipx_cksum.c... Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
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- 04 Nov, 2006 5 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
The previous commit (45c18b0b, aka "Fix unlikely (but possible) race condition on task->user access") fixed a potential oops due to __sigqueue_alloc() getting its "user" pointer out of sync with switch_user(), and accessing a user pointer that had been de-allocated on another CPU. It still left another (much less serious) problem, where a concurrent __sigqueue_alloc and swich_user could cause sigqueue_alloc to do signal pending reference counting for a _different_ user than the one it then actually ended up using. No oops, but we'd end up with the wrong signal accounting. Another case of Oleg's eagle-eyes picking up the problem. This is trivially fixed by just making sure we load whichever "user" structure we decide to use (it doesn't matter _which_ one we pick, we just need to pick one) just once. Acked-by:
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Linus Torvalds authored
There's a possible race condition when doing a "switch_uid()" from one user to another, which could race with another thread doing a signal allocation and looking at the old thread ->user pointer as it is freed. This explains an oops reported by Lukasz Trabinski: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/462241 We fix this by delaying the (reference-counted) freeing of the user structure until the thread signal handler lock has been released, so that we know that the signal allocation has either seen the new value or has properly incremented the reference count of the old one. Race identified by Oleg Nesterov. Cc: Lukasz Trabinski <lukasz@wsisiz.edu.pl> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Linus Torvalds authored
Commit 5a06a363 ("[PATCH] ipc/msg.c: clean up coding style") breaks fakeroot on Alpha (variously hangs or oopses), according to a report by Falk Hueffner. The fact that the code seems to rely on compiler access ordering through the use of "volatile" is a pretty certain sign that the code has locking problems, and we should fix those properly and then remove the whole "volatile" entirely. But in the meantime, the movement of "volatile" was unintentional, and should be reverted. Cc: Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Acked-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Jens Axboe authored
After the inode slimming patch that unionised i_pipe/i_bdev/i_cdev, it's no longer enough to check for existance of ->i_pipe to verify that this is a pipe. Original patch from Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Final solution suggested by Linus. Signed-off-by:
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shaggy/jfs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shaggy/jfs-2.6: JFS: Remove redundant xattr permission checking
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- 03 Nov, 2006 15 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: PCI: Let PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE depend on BROKEN PCI: Revert "PCI: i386/x86_84: disable PCI resource decode on device disable"
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: USB: use MII hooks only if CONFIG_MII is enabled USB Storage: unusual_devs.h entry for Sony Ericsson P990i USB: xpad: additional USB id's added USB: fix compiler issues with newer gcc versions USB: HID: add blacklist AIRcable USB, little beautification USB: usblp: fix system suspend for some systems USB: failure in usblp's error path usbtouchscreen: use endpoint address from endpoint descriptor USB: sierra: Fix id for Sierra Wireless MC8755 in new table USB: new VID/PID-combos for cp2101 hid-core: big-endian fix fix USB: usb-storage: Unusual_dev update USB: add another sierra wireless device id
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Andreas Gruenbacher authored
The user.* extended attributes are only allowed on regular files and directories. Sticky directories further restrict write access to the owner and privileged users. (See the attr(5) man page for an explanation.) The original check in ext2/ext3 when user.* xattrs were merged was more restrictive than intended, and when the xattr permission checks were moved into the VFS, read access to user.* attributes on sticky directores ended up being denied in addition. Originally-from: Gerard Neil <xyzzy@devferret.org> Signed-off-by:
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Rothwell authored
sys_move_pages() uses vmalloc() to allocate an array of structures that is fills with information passed from user mode and then passes to do_stat_pages() (in the case the node list is NULL). do_stat_pages() depends on a marker in the node field of the structure to decide how large the array is and this marker is correctly inserted into the last element of the array. However, vmalloc() doesn't zero the memory it allocates and if the user passes NULL for the node list, then the node fields are not filled in (except for the end marker). If the memory the vmalloc() returned happend to have a word with the marker value in it in just the right place, do_pages_stat will fail to fill the status field of part of the array and we will return (random) kernel data to user mode. Signed-off-by:
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Peer Chen authored
Add support for PATA controllers of MCP67 to amd74xx.c. Signed-off-by:
Peer Chen <pchen@nvidia.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Acked-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
getdelays reports a "fatal reply error, errno 258". We don't have enough room for multi-threaded exit (PID + TGID). Signed-off-by:
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Amol Lad authored
spin_lock_irq{save,restore} is incorrectly called here (the function can sleep after acquring the lock). done the necessary corrections and removed unwanted cli/sti. Signed-off-by:Amol Lad <amol@verismonetworks.com> Signed-off-by:
Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Rothwell authored
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Stephen Rothwell authored
This is needed on bigendian 64bit architectures. Signed-off-by:
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Dike authored
In order to get the __NR_* constants, we need sys/syscall.h. linux/unistd.h works as well since it includes syscall.h, however syscall.h is more parsimonious. We were inconsistent in this, and this patch adds syscall.h includes where necessary and removes linux/unistd.h includes where they are not needed. asm/unistd.h also includes the __NR_* constants, but these are not the glibc-sanctioned ones, so this also removes one such inclusion. Signed-off-by:
Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Dike authored
Fix a UML hang in which everything would just stop until some I/O happened - a ping, someone whacking the keyboard - at which point everything would start up again as though nothing had happened. The cause was gcc reordering some code which absolutely needed to be executed in the order in the source. When unblock_signals switches signals from off to on, it needs to see if any interrupts had happened in the critical section. The interrupt handlers check signals_enabled - if it is zero, then the handler adds a bit to the "pending" bitmask and returns. unblock_signals checks this mask to see if any signals need to be delivered. The crucial part is this: signals_enabled = 1; save_pending = pending; if(save_pending == 0) return; pending = 0; In order to avoid an interrupt arriving between reading pending and setting it to zero, in which case, the record of the interrupt would be erased, signals are enabled. What happened was that gcc reordered this so that 'save_pending = pending' came before 'signals_enabled = 1', creating a one-instruction window within which an interrupt could arrive, set its bit in pending, and have it be immediately erased. When the I/O workload is purely disk-based, the loss of a block device interrupt stops the entire I/O system because the next block request will wait for the current one to finish. Thus the system hangs until something else causes some I/O to arrive, such as a network packet or console input. The fix to this particular problem is a memory barrier between enabling signals and reading the pending signal mask. An xchg would also probably work. Looking over this code for similar problems led me to do a few more things: - make signals_enabled and pending volatile so that they don't get cached in registers - add an mb() to the return paths of block_signals and unblock_signals so that the modification of signals_enabled doesn't get shuffled into the caller in the event that these are inlined in the future. Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Mahoney authored
Callers after reiserfs_init_bitmap_cache() expect errval to contain -EINVAL until much later. If a condition fails before errval is reset later, reiserfs_fill_super() will mistakenly return 0, causing an Oops in do_add_mount(). This patch resets errval to -EINVAL after the call. I view this as a temporary fix and real error codes should be used throughout reiserfs_fill_super(). Signed-off-by:
Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:spi_register_board_info from __ksymtab_gpl between '__ksymtab_spi_register_board_info' (at offset 0xc032f7d0) and '__ksymtab_spi_alloc_master' Fix this by removing the export. Acked-by:
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by:
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Rafael J. Wysocki authored
Add a swsusp debugging mode. This does everything that's needed for a suspend except for actually suspending. So we can look in the log messages and work out a) what code is being slow and b) which drivers are misbehaving. (1) # echo testproc > /sys/power/disk # echo disk > /sys/power/state This should turn off the non-boot CPU, freeze all processes, wait for 5 seconds and then thaw the processes and the CPU. (2) # echo test > /sys/power/disk # echo disk > /sys/power/state This should turn off the non-boot CPU, freeze all processes, shrink memory, suspend all devices, wait for 5 seconds, resume the devices etc. Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:acpi_noirq from .text between 'pcibios_penalize_isa_irq' (at offset 0xc026ffa1) and 'pirq_serverworks_get' Acked-by:
"Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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