openwrt/staging/blogic.git
15 years agox86: pass in pt_regs pointer for syscalls that need it
Brian Gerst [Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:51:46 +0000 (09:51 -0500)]
x86: pass in pt_regs pointer for syscalls that need it

Some syscalls need to access the pt_regs structure, either to copy
user register state or to modifiy it.  This patch adds stubs to load
the address of the pt_regs struct into the %eax register, and changes
the syscalls to regparm(1) to receive the pt_regs pointer as the
first argument.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
15 years agox86: use pt_regs pointer in do_device_not_available()
Brian Gerst [Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:51:45 +0000 (09:51 -0500)]
x86: use pt_regs pointer in do_device_not_available()

The generic exception handler (error_code) passes in the pt_regs
pointer and the error code (unused in this case).  The commit
"x86: fix math_emu register frame access" changed this to pass by
value, which doesn't work correctly with stack protector enabled.
Change it back to use the pt_regs pointer.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
15 years agostackprotector: fix multi-word cross-builds
Ingo Molnar [Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:17:29 +0000 (12:17 +0100)]
stackprotector: fix multi-word cross-builds

Stackprotector builds were failing if CROSS_COMPILER was more than
a single world (such as when distcc was used) - because the check
scripts used $1 instead of $*.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
15 years agox86: fix x86_32 stack protector bugs
Tejun Heo [Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:31:00 +0000 (16:31 +0900)]
x86: fix x86_32 stack protector bugs

Impact: fix x86_32 stack protector

Brian Gerst found out that %gs was being initialized to stack_canary
instead of stack_canary - 20, which basically gave the same canary
value for all threads.  Fixing this also exposed the following bugs.

* cpu_idle() didn't call boot_init_stack_canary()

* stack canary switching in switch_to() was being done too late making
  the initial run of a new thread use the old stack canary value.

Fix all of them and while at it update comment in cpu_idle() about
calling boot_init_stack_canary().

Reported-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
15 years agox86: implement x86_32 stack protector
Tejun Heo [Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:17:40 +0000 (22:17 +0900)]
x86: implement x86_32 stack protector

Impact: stack protector for x86_32

Implement stack protector for x86_32.  GDT entry 28 is used for it.
It's set to point to stack_canary-20 and have the length of 24 bytes.
CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR turns off CONFIG_X86_32_LAZY_GS and sets %gs
to the stack canary segment on entry.  As %gs is otherwise unused by
the kernel, the canary can be anywhere.  It's defined as a percpu
variable.

x86_32 exception handlers take register frame on stack directly as
struct pt_regs.  With -fstack-protector turned on, gcc copies the
whole structure after the stack canary and (of course) doesn't copy
back on return thus losing all changed.  For now, -fno-stack-protector
is added to all files which contain those functions.  We definitely
need something better.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
15 years agox86: make lazy %gs optional on x86_32
Tejun Heo [Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:17:40 +0000 (22:17 +0900)]
x86: make lazy %gs optional on x86_32

Impact: pt_regs changed, lazy gs handling made optional, add slight
        overhead to SAVE_ALL, simplifies error_code path a bit

On x86_32, %gs hasn't been used by kernel and handled lazily.  pt_regs
doesn't have place for it and gs is saved/loaded only when necessary.
In preparation for stack protector support, this patch makes lazy %gs
handling optional by doing the followings.

* Add CONFIG_X86_32_LAZY_GS and place for gs in pt_regs.

* Save and restore %gs along with other registers in entry_32.S unless
  LAZY_GS.  Note that this unfortunately adds "pushl $0" on SAVE_ALL
  even when LAZY_GS.  However, it adds no overhead to common exit path
  and simplifies entry path with error code.

* Define different user_gs accessors depending on LAZY_GS and add
  lazy_save_gs() and lazy_load_gs() which are noop if !LAZY_GS.  The
  lazy_*_gs() ops are used to save, load and clear %gs lazily.

* Define ELF_CORE_COPY_KERNEL_REGS() which always read %gs directly.

xen and lguest changes need to be verified.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
15 years agox86: add %gs accessors for x86_32
Tejun Heo [Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:17:40 +0000 (22:17 +0900)]
x86: add %gs accessors for x86_32

Impact: cleanup

On x86_32, %gs is handled lazily.  It's not saved and restored on
kernel entry/exit but only when necessary which usually is during task
switch but there are few other places.  Currently, it's done by
calling savesegment() and loadsegment() explicitly.  Define
get_user_gs(), set_user_gs() and task_user_gs() and use them instead.

While at it, clean up register access macros in signal.c.

This cleans up code a bit and will help future changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
15 years agox86: use asm .macro instead of cpp #define in entry_32.S
Tejun Heo [Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:17:40 +0000 (22:17 +0900)]
x86: use asm .macro instead of cpp #define in entry_32.S

Impact: cleanup

Use .macro instead of cpp #define where approriate.  This cleans up
code and will ease future changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
15 years agox86: no stack protector for vdso
Tejun Heo [Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:17:40 +0000 (22:17 +0900)]
x86: no stack protector for vdso

Impact: avoid crash on vsyscall

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
15 years agostackprotector: update make rules
Tejun Heo [Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:17:39 +0000 (22:17 +0900)]
stackprotector: update make rules

Impact: no default -fno-stack-protector if stackp is enabled, cleanup

Stackprotector make rules had the following problems.

* cc support test and warning are scattered across makefile and
  kernel/panic.c.

* -fno-stack-protector was always added regardless of configuration.

Update such that cc support test and warning are contained in makefile
and -fno-stack-protector is added iff stackp is turned off.  While at
it, prepare for 32bit support.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
15 years agox86: stackprotector.h misc update
Tejun Heo [Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:17:39 +0000 (22:17 +0900)]
x86: stackprotector.h misc update

Impact: misc udpate

* wrap content with CONFIG_CC_STACK_PROTECTOR so that other arch files
  can include it directly

* add missing includes

This will help future changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
15 years agoelf: add ELF_CORE_COPY_KERNEL_REGS()
Tejun Heo [Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:17:39 +0000 (22:17 +0900)]
elf: add ELF_CORE_COPY_KERNEL_REGS()

ELF core dump is used for both user land core dump and kernel crash
dump.  Depending on architecture, register might need to be accessed
differently for userland and kernel.  Allow architectures to define
ELF_CORE_COPY_KERNEL_REGS() and use different operation for kernel
register dump.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
15 years agoMerge branch 'x86/urgent' into core/percpu
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 9 Feb 2009 23:41:02 +0000 (00:41 +0100)]
Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into core/percpu

Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c

15 years agoMerge branch 'x86/uaccess' into core/percpu
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 9 Feb 2009 23:40:48 +0000 (00:40 +0100)]
Merge branch 'x86/uaccess' into core/percpu

15 years agox86: fix math_emu register frame access
Tejun Heo [Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:17:39 +0000 (22:17 +0900)]
x86: fix math_emu register frame access

do_device_not_available() is the handler for #NM and it declares that
it takes a unsigned long and calls math_emu(), which takes a long
argument and surprisingly expects the stack frame starting at the zero
argument would match struct math_emu_info, which isn't true regardless
of configuration in the current code.

This patch makes do_device_not_available() take struct pt_regs like
other exception handlers and initialize struct math_emu_info with
pointer to it and pass pointer to the math_emu_info to math_emulate()
like normal C functions do.  This way, unless gcc makes a copy of
struct pt_regs in do_device_not_available(), the register frame is
correctly accessed regardless of kernel configuration or compiler
used.

This doesn't fix all math_emu problems but it at least gets it
somewhat working.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
15 years agoMerge commit 'v2.6.29-rc4' into core/percpu
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:58:11 +0000 (14:58 +0100)]
Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc4' into core/percpu

Conflicts:
arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c
arch/x86/mm/fault.c

15 years agox86: math_emu info cleanup
Tejun Heo [Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:17:39 +0000 (22:17 +0900)]
x86: math_emu info cleanup

Impact: cleanup

* Come on, struct info?  s/struct info/struct math_emu_info/

* Use struct pt_regs and kernel_vm86_regs instead of defining its own
  register frame structure.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
15 years agox86: include correct %gs in a.out core dump
Tejun Heo [Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:17:39 +0000 (22:17 +0900)]
x86: include correct %gs in a.out core dump

Impact: dump the correct %gs into a.out core dump

aout_dump_thread() read %gs but didn't include it in core dump.  Fix
it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
15 years agox86, vmi: put a missing paravirt_release_pmd in pgd_dtor
Alok Kataria [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:29:35 +0000 (10:29 -0800)]
x86, vmi: put a missing paravirt_release_pmd in pgd_dtor

Commit 6194ba6ff6ccf8d5c54c857600843c67aa82c407 ("x86: don't special-case
pmd allocations as much") made changes to the way we handle pmd allocations,
and while doing that it dropped a call to  paravirt_release_pd on the
pgd page from the pgd_dtor code path.

As a result of this missing release, the hypervisor is now unaware of the
pgd page being freed, and as a result it ends up tracking this page as a
page table page.

After this the guest may start using the same page for other purposes, and
depending on what use the page is put to, it may result in various performance
and/or functional issues ( hangs, reboots).

Since this release is only required for VMI, I now release the pgd page from
the (vmi)_pgd_free hook.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
15 years agox86: find nr_irqs_gsi with mp_ioapic_routing
Yinghai Lu [Mon, 9 Feb 2009 00:18:03 +0000 (16:18 -0800)]
x86: find nr_irqs_gsi with mp_ioapic_routing

Impact: find right nr_irqs_gsi on some systems.

One test-system has gap between gsi's:

[    0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x04] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[    0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 4, version 0, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
[    0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x05] address[0xfeafd000] gsi_base[48])
[    0.000000] IOAPIC[1]: apic_id 5, version 0, address 0xfeafd000, GSI 48-54
[    0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x06] address[0xfeafc000] gsi_base[56])
[    0.000000] IOAPIC[2]: apic_id 6, version 0, address 0xfeafc000, GSI 56-62
...
[    0.000000] nr_irqs_gsi: 38

So nr_irqs_gsi is not right. some irq for MSI will overwrite with io_apic.

need to get that with acpi_probe_gsi when acpi io_apic is used

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
15 years agox86: add clflush before monitor for Intel 7400 series
Pallipadi, Venkatesh [Sat, 7 Feb 2009 00:52:05 +0000 (16:52 -0800)]
x86: add clflush before monitor for Intel 7400 series

For Intel 7400 series CPUs, the recommendation is to use a clflush on the
monitored address just before monitor and mwait pair [1].

This clflush makes sure that there are no false wakeups from mwait when the
monitored address was recently written to.

[1] "MONITOR/MWAIT Recommendations for Intel Xeon Processor 7400 series"
    section in specification update document of 7400 series
    http://download.intel.com/design/xeon/specupdt/32033601.pdf

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
15 years agox86: fix abuse of per_cpu_offset
Brian Gerst [Sun, 8 Feb 2009 14:58:40 +0000 (09:58 -0500)]
x86: fix abuse of per_cpu_offset

Impact: bug fix

Don't use per_cpu_offset() to determine if it valid to access a
per-cpu variable for a given cpu number.  It is not a valid assumption
on x86-64 anymore. Use cpu_possible() instead.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
15 years agox86: use linker to offset symbols by __per_cpu_load
Brian Gerst [Sun, 8 Feb 2009 14:58:39 +0000 (09:58 -0500)]
x86: use linker to offset symbols by __per_cpu_load

Impact: cleanup and bug fix

Use the linker to create symbols for certain per-cpu variables
that are offset by __per_cpu_load.  This allows the removal of
the runtime fixup of the GDT pointer, which fixes a bug with
resume reported by Jiri Slaby.

Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
15 years agopercpu: make PER_CPU_BASE_SECTION overridable by arches
Brian Gerst [Sun, 8 Feb 2009 14:58:38 +0000 (09:58 -0500)]
percpu: make PER_CPU_BASE_SECTION overridable by arches

Impact: bug fix

IA-64 needs to put percpu data in the seperate section even on UP.
Fixes regression caused by "percpu: refactor percpu.h"

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
15 years agoLinux 2.6.29-rc4
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 8 Feb 2009 20:37:20 +0000 (12:37 -0800)]
Linux 2.6.29-rc4

15 years agoMerge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-async-update
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 8 Feb 2009 20:35:26 +0000 (12:35 -0800)]
Merge git://git./linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-async-update

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-async-update:
  async: use list_move_tail
  async: Rename _special -> _domain for clarity.
  async: Add some documentation.
  async: Handle kthread_run() return codes.
  async: Fix running list handling.

15 years agoradeonfb: Fix resume from D3Cold on some platforms
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [Thu, 5 Feb 2009 01:06:52 +0000 (12:06 +1100)]
radeonfb: Fix resume from D3Cold on some platforms

For historical reason, this driver used its own saving/restoring
of the PCI config space, and used the state of it on resume as
an indication as to whether it needed to re-POST the chip or not.

This methods breaks with the later core changes since the core will
have restored things for us.

This patch fixes it by removing that custom code, using standard
core methods to save/restore state, and testing for the need to
re-POST by comparing the content of a few key PLL registers.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoaty128fb: Properly save PCI state before changing PCI PM level
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [Thu, 5 Feb 2009 01:06:51 +0000 (12:06 +1100)]
aty128fb: Properly save PCI state before changing PCI PM level

This fixes aty128fb to properly save the PCI config space -before- it
potentially switches the PM state of the chip. This avoids a
warning with the new PM core and is the right thing to do anyway.

I also replaced the hand-coded switch to D2 with a call to the
genericc pci_set_power_state() and removed the code that switches it
back to D0 since the generic code is doing that for us nowadays.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoatyfb: Properly save PCI state before changing PCI PM level
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [Thu, 5 Feb 2009 01:06:50 +0000 (12:06 +1100)]
atyfb: Properly save PCI state before changing PCI PM level

This fixes atyfb to properly save the PCI config space -before- it
potentially switches the PM state of the chip. This avoids a
warning with the new PM core and is the right thing to do anyway.

I also slightly cleaned up the code that checks whether we are
running on a PowerMac to do a runtime check instead of a compile
check only, and replaced a deprecated number with the proper
symbolic constant.

Finally, I removed the useless switch to D0 from resume since
the core does it for us.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoasync: use list_move_tail
Stefan Richter [Mon, 2 Feb 2009 12:24:34 +0000 (13:24 +0100)]
async: use list_move_tail

list.h provides a dedicated primitive for
"list_del followed by list_add_tail"... list_move_tail.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
15 years agoasync: Rename _special -> _domain for clarity.
Cornelia Huck [Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:31:31 +0000 (15:31 +0100)]
async: Rename _special -> _domain for clarity.

Rename the async_*_special() functions to async_*_domain(), which
describes the purpose of these functions much better.
[Broke up long lines to silence checkpatch]

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
15 years agoasync: Add some documentation.
Cornelia Huck [Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:45:33 +0000 (13:45 +0100)]
async: Add some documentation.

Add some kerneldoc to the async interface.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
15 years agoasync: Handle kthread_run() return codes.
Cornelia Huck [Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:45:31 +0000 (13:45 +0100)]
async: Handle kthread_run() return codes.

If we fail to create the manager thread, fall back to non-fastboot.
If we fail to create an async thread, try again after waiting for
a bit.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
15 years agoasync: Fix running list handling.
Cornelia Huck [Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:45:28 +0000 (13:45 +0100)]
async: Fix running list handling.

async_schedule() should pass in async_running as the running
list, and run_one_entry() should put the entry to be run on
the provided running list instead of always on the generic one.

Reported-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
15 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes...
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 7 Feb 2009 18:46:30 +0000 (10:46 -0800)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  PCI PM: make the PM core more careful with drivers using the new PM framework
  PCI PM: Read power state from device after trying to change it on resume
  PCI PM: Do not disable and enable bridges during suspend-resume
  PCI: PCIe portdrv: Simplify suspend and resume
  PCI PM: Fix saving of device state in pci_legacy_suspend
  PCI PM: Check if the state has been saved before trying to restore it
  PCI PM: Fix handling of devices without drivers
  PCI: return error on failure to read PCI ROMs
  PCI: properly clean up ASPM link state on device remove

15 years agomodule: remove over-zealous check in __module_get()
Rusty Russell [Sat, 7 Feb 2009 07:45:56 +0000 (18:15 +1030)]
module: remove over-zealous check in __module_get()

Impact: fix spurious BUG_ON() triggered under load

module_refcount() isn't reliable outside stop_machine(), as demonstrated
by Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>, networking can trigger it under load
(an inc on one cpu and dec on another while module_refcount() is tallying
 can give false results, for example).

Almost noone should be using __module_get, but that's another issue.

Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoMerge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux...
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 7 Feb 2009 16:30:20 +0000 (08:30 -0800)]
Merge branch 'release' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (30 commits)
  ACPI: Kconfig text - Fix the ACPI_CONTAINER module name according to the real module name.
  eeepc-laptop: fix oops when changing backlight brightness during eeepc-laptop init
  ACPICA: Fix table entry truncation calculation
  ACPI: Enable bit 11 in _PDC to advertise hw coord
  ACPI: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  ACPI: add missing KERN_* constants to printks
  ACPI: dock: Don't eval _STA on every show_docked sysfs read
  ACPI: disable ACPI cleanly when bad RSDP found
  ACPI: delete CPU_IDLE=n code
  ACPI: cpufreq: Remove deprecated /proc/acpi/processor/../performance proc entries
  ACPI: make some IO ports off-limits to AML
  ACPICA: add debug dump of BIOS _OSI strings
  ACPI: proc_dir_entry 'video/VGA' already registered
  ACPI: Skip the first two elements in the _BCL package
  ACPI: remove BM_RLD access from idle entry path
  ACPI: remove locking from PM1x_STS register reads
  eeepc-laptop: use netlink interface
  eeepc-laptop: Implement rfkill hotplugging in eeepc-laptop
  eeepc-laptop: Check return values from rfkill_register
  eeepc-laptop: Add support for extended hotkeys
  ...

15 years agoMerge branches 'release', 'asus', 'bugzilla-12450', 'cpuidle', 'debug', 'ec', 'misc...
Len Brown [Sat, 7 Feb 2009 06:34:56 +0000 (01:34 -0500)]
Merge branches 'release', 'asus', 'bugzilla-12450', 'cpuidle', 'debug', 'ec', 'misc', 'printk' and 'processor' into release

15 years agoACPI: Kconfig text - Fix the ACPI_CONTAINER module name according to the real module...
Thierry Vignaud [Sat, 7 Feb 2009 06:12:19 +0000 (01:12 -0500)]
ACPI: Kconfig text - Fix the ACPI_CONTAINER module name according to the real module name.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
15 years agoeeepc-laptop: fix oops when changing backlight brightness during eeepc-laptop init
Darren Salt [Sat, 7 Feb 2009 06:02:07 +0000 (01:02 -0500)]
eeepc-laptop: fix oops when changing backlight brightness during eeepc-laptop init

I got the following oops while changing the backlight brightness during
startup.  When it happens, it prevents use of the hotkeys, Fn-Fx, and the
lid button.

It's a clear use-before-init, as I verified by testing with an
appropriately-placed "else printk".

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Pid: 160, comm: kacpi_notify Not tainted (2.6.28.1-eee901 #4) 901
EIP: 0060:[<c0264e68>]  [<c0264e68>] eeepc_hotk_notify+26/da
EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 1
Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386
EAX: 00000009 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000009 EDX: f70dbf64
ESI: 00000029 EDI: f7335188 EBP: c02112c9 ESP: f70dbf80
 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
 f70731e0 f73acd50 c02164ac f7335180 f70aa040 c02112e6 f733518c c012b62f
 f70aa044 f70aa040 c012bdba f70aa04c 00000000 c012be6e 00000000 f70bdf80
 c012e198 f70dbfc4 f70dbfc4 f70aa040 c012bdba 00000000 c012e0c9 c012e091
Call Trace:
 [<c02164ac>] ? acpi_ev_notify_dispatch+4c/55
 [<c02112e6>] ? acpi_os_execute_deferred+1d/25
 [<c012b62f>] ? run_workqueue+71/f1
 [<c012bdba>] ? worker_thread+0/bf
 [<c012be6e>] ? worker_thread+b4/bf
 [<c012e198>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0/2b
 [<c012bdba>] ? worker_thread+0/bf
 [<c012e0c9>] ? kthread+38/5f
 [<c012e091>] ? kthread+0/5f
 [<c0103abf>] ? kernel_thread_helper+7/10
Code: 00 00 00 00 c3 83 3d 60 5c 50 c0 00 56 89 d6 53 0f 84 c4 00 00 00 8d 42
e0 83 f8 0f 77 0f 8b 1d 68 5c 50 c0 89 d8 e8 a9 fa ff ff <89> 03 8b 1d 60 5c
50 c0 89 f2 83 e2 7f 0f b7 4c 53 10 8d 41 01

Signed-off-by: Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
15 years agoACPICA: Fix table entry truncation calculation
Myron Stowe [Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:44:53 +0000 (15:44 -0700)]
ACPICA: Fix table entry truncation calculation

During early boot, ACPI RSDT/XSDT table entries are gathered into the
'initial_tables[]' array.  This array is currently statically defined (see
./drivers/acpi/tables.c).  When there are more table entries than can be
held in the 'initial_tables[]' array, the message "Truncating N table
entries!" is output.  As currently implemented, this message will always
erroneously calculate N as 0.

This patch fixes the calculation that determines how many table entries
will be missing (truncated).

This modification may be used under either the GPL or the BSD-style
license used for Intel ACPI CA code.

Signed-off-by: Myron Stowe <myron.stowe@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
15 years agoACPI: Enable bit 11 in _PDC to advertise hw coord
Pallipadi, Venkatesh [Mon, 2 Feb 2009 19:57:18 +0000 (11:57 -0800)]
ACPI: Enable bit 11 in _PDC to advertise hw coord

Bit 11 in intel PDC definitions is meant for OS capability to handle
hardware coordination of P-states. In Linux we have always supported
hwardware coordination of P-states. Just let the BIOSes know that we
support it, by setting this bit.

Some BIOSes use this bit to choose between hardware or software coordination
and without this change below, BIOSes switch to software coordination, which
is not very optimal in terms of power consumption and extra wakeups from idle.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
15 years agoACPI: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
Kay Sievers [Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:40:56 +0000 (23:40 +0100)]
ACPI: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
15 years agoACPI: add missing KERN_* constants to printks
Frank Seidel [Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:03:07 +0000 (17:03 +0100)]
ACPI: add missing KERN_* constants to printks

According to kerneljanitors todo list all printk calls (beginning
a new line) should have an according KERN_* constant.
Those are the missing peaces here for the acpi subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Frank Seidel <frank@f-seidel.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
15 years agoACPI: dock: Don't eval _STA on every show_docked sysfs read
Holger Macht [Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:18:24 +0000 (12:18 +0100)]
ACPI: dock: Don't eval _STA on every show_docked sysfs read

Some devices trigger a DEVICE_CHECK on every evalutation of _STA. This
can also be seen in commit 8b59560a3baf2e7c24e0fb92ea5d09eca92805db
(ACPI: dock: avoid check _STA method).  If an undock is processed, the
dock driver sends a uevent and userspace might read the show_docked
property in sysfs. This causes an evaluation of _STA of the particular
device which causes the dock driver to immediately dock again.

In any case, evaluation of _STA (show_docked) does not necessarily mean
that we are docked, so check with the internal device structure.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12360

Signed-off-by: Holger Macht <hmacht@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
15 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris...
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 7 Feb 2009 02:52:55 +0000 (18:52 -0800)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6:
  CRED: Fix SUID exec regression

15 years agoMerge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 7 Feb 2009 02:37:22 +0000 (18:37 -0800)]
Merge git://git./linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (37 commits)
  Btrfs: Make sure dir is non-null before doing S_ISGID checks
  Btrfs: Fix memory leak in cache_drop_leaf_ref
  Btrfs: don't return congestion in write_cache_pages as often
  Btrfs: Only prep for btree deletion balances when nodes are mostly empty
  Btrfs: fix btrfs_unlock_up_safe to walk the entire path
  Btrfs: change btrfs_del_leaf to drop locks earlier
  Btrfs: Change btrfs_truncate_inode_items to stop when it hits the inode
  Btrfs: Don't try to compress pages past i_size
  Btrfs: join the transaction in __btrfs_setxattr
  Btrfs: Handle SGID bit when creating inodes
  Btrfs: Make btrfs_drop_snapshot work in larger and more efficient chunks
  Btrfs: Change btree locking to use explicit blocking points
  Btrfs: hash_lock is no longer needed
  Btrfs: disable leak debugging checks in extent_io.c
  Btrfs: sort references by byte number during btrfs_inc_ref
  Btrfs: async threads should try harder to find work
  Btrfs: selinux support
  Btrfs: make btrfs acls selectable
  Btrfs: Catch missed bios in the async bio submission thread
  Btrfs: fix readdir on 32 bit machines
  ...

15 years agoeCryptfs: Regression in unencrypted filename symlinks
Tyler Hicks [Sat, 7 Feb 2009 00:06:51 +0000 (18:06 -0600)]
eCryptfs: Regression in unencrypted filename symlinks

The addition of filename encryption caused a regression in unencrypted
filename symlink support.  ecryptfs_copy_filename() is used when dealing
with unencrypted filenames and it reported that the new, copied filename
was a character longer than it should have been.

This caused the return value of readlink() to count the NULL byte of the
symlink target.  Most applications don't care about the extra NULL byte,
but a version control system (bzr) helped in discovering the bug.

Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoMerge branch 'x86/fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux...
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 7 Feb 2009 02:36:02 +0000 (18:36 -0800)]
Merge branch 'x86/fixes' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-roland

* 'x86/fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-roland:
  x86-64: fix int $0x80 -ENOSYS return

15 years agox86-64: fix int $0x80 -ENOSYS return
Roland McGrath [Sat, 7 Feb 2009 02:15:18 +0000 (18:15 -0800)]
x86-64: fix int $0x80 -ENOSYS return

One of my past fixes to this code introduced a different new bug.
When using 32-bit "int $0x80" entry for a bogus syscall number,
the return value is not correctly set to -ENOSYS.  This only happens
when neither syscall-audit nor syscall tracing is enabled (i.e., never
seen if auditd ever started).  Test program:

/* gcc -o int80-badsys -m32 -g int80-badsys.c
   Run on x86-64 kernel.
   Note to reproduce the bug you need auditd never to have started.  */

#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int
main (void)
{
  long res;
  asm ("int $0x80" : "=a" (res) : "0" (99999));
  printf ("bad syscall returns %ld\n", res);
  return res != -ENOSYS;
}

The fix makes the int $0x80 path match the sysenter and syscall paths.

Reported-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
15 years agoMerge branch 'to-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux...
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 7 Feb 2009 02:10:04 +0000 (18:10 -0800)]
Merge branch 'to-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-roland

* 'to-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-roland:
  elf core dump: fix get_user use

15 years agoelf core dump: fix get_user use
Roland McGrath [Sat, 7 Feb 2009 01:34:07 +0000 (17:34 -0800)]
elf core dump: fix get_user use

The elf_core_dump() code does its work with set_fs(KERNEL_DS) in force,
so vma_dump_size() needs to switch back with set_fs(USER_DS) to safely
use get_user() for a normal user-space address.

Checking for VM_READ optimizes out the case where get_user() would fail
anyway.  The vm_file check here was already superfluous given the control
flow earlier in the function, so that is a cleanup/optimization unrelated
to other changes but an obvious and trivial one.

Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
15 years agoCRED: Fix SUID exec regression
David Howells [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 11:45:46 +0000 (11:45 +0000)]
CRED: Fix SUID exec regression

The patch:

commit a6f76f23d297f70e2a6b3ec607f7aeeea9e37e8d
CRED: Make execve() take advantage of copy-on-write credentials

moved the place in which the 'safeness' of a SUID/SGID exec was performed to
before de_thread() was called.  This means that LSM_UNSAFE_SHARE is now
calculated incorrectly.  This flag is set if any of the usage counts for
fs_struct, files_struct and sighand_struct are greater than 1 at the time the
determination is made.  All of which are true for threads created by the
pthread library.

However, since we wish to make the security calculation before irrevocably
damaging the process so that we can return it an error code in the case where
we decide we want to reject the exec request on this basis, we have to make the
determination before calling de_thread().

So, instead, we count up the number of threads (CLONE_THREAD) that are sharing
our fs_struct (CLONE_FS), files_struct (CLONE_FILES) and sighand_structs
(CLONE_SIGHAND/CLONE_THREAD) with us.  These will be killed by de_thread() and
so can be discounted by check_unsafe_exec().

We do have to be careful because CLONE_THREAD does not imply FS or FILES.

We _assume_ that there will be no extra references to these structs held by the
threads we're going to kill.

This can be tested with the attached pair of programs.  Build the two programs
using the Makefile supplied, and run ./test1 as a non-root user.  If
successful, you should see something like:

[dhowells@andromeda tmp]$ ./test1
--TEST1--
uid=4043, euid=4043 suid=4043
exec ./test2
--TEST2--
uid=4043, euid=0 suid=0
SUCCESS - Correct effective user ID

and if unsuccessful, something like:

[dhowells@andromeda tmp]$ ./test1
--TEST1--
uid=4043, euid=4043 suid=4043
exec ./test2
--TEST2--
uid=4043, euid=4043 suid=4043
ERROR - Incorrect effective user ID!

The non-root user ID you see will depend on the user you run as.

[test1.c]
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <pthread.h>

static void *thread_func(void *arg)
{
while (1) {}
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
pthread_t tid;
uid_t uid, euid, suid;

printf("--TEST1--\n");
getresuid(&uid, &euid, &suid);
printf("uid=%d, euid=%d suid=%d\n", uid, euid, suid);

if (pthread_create(&tid, NULL, thread_func, NULL) < 0) {
perror("pthread_create");
exit(1);
}

printf("exec ./test2\n");
execlp("./test2", "test2", NULL);
perror("./test2");
_exit(1);
}

[test2.c]
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
uid_t uid, euid, suid;

getresuid(&uid, &euid, &suid);
printf("--TEST2--\n");
printf("uid=%d, euid=%d suid=%d\n", uid, euid, suid);

if (euid != 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "ERROR - Incorrect effective user ID!\n");
exit(1);
}
printf("SUCCESS - Correct effective user ID\n");
exit(0);
}

[Makefile]
CFLAGS = -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wall -Werror -Wunused
all: test1 test2

test1: test1.c
gcc $(CFLAGS) -o test1 test1.c -lpthread

test2: test2.c
gcc $(CFLAGS) -o test2 test2.c
sudo chown root.root test2
sudo chmod +s test2

Reported-by: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
15 years agovfs: Don't call attach_nobh_buffers() with an empty list
Dave Kleikamp [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 20:59:26 +0000 (14:59 -0600)]
vfs: Don't call attach_nobh_buffers() with an empty list

This is a modification of a patch by Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>

nobh_write_end() could call attach_nobh_buffers() with head == NULL.
This would result in a trap when attach_nobh_buffers() attempted to
access bh->b_this_page.

This can be illustrated by running the writev01 testcase from LTP on jfs.

This error was introduced by commit 5b41e74a "vfs: fix data leak in
nobh_write_end()".  That patch did not take into account that if
PageMappedToDisk() is true upon entry to nobh_write_begin(), then no
buffers will be allocated for the page.  In that case, we won't have to
worry about a failed write leaving unitialized data in the page.

Of course, head != NULL implies !page_has_buffers(page), so no need to
test both.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
Cc: Dmitri Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 19:14:23 +0000 (11:14 -0800)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
  ALSA: hda - Add missing COEF initialization for ALC887
  ALSA: hda - Add missing initialization for ALC272
  sound: usb-audio: handle wMaxPacketSize for FIXED_ENDPOINT devices
  ALSA: hda - Fix misc workqueue issues
  ALSA: hda - Add quirk for FSC Amilo Xi2550

15 years agoACPI: disable ACPI cleanly when bad RSDP found
Len Brown [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 19:00:56 +0000 (14:00 -0500)]
ACPI: disable ACPI cleanly when bad RSDP found

When ACPI is disabled in the BIOS of this VIA C3 box,
it invalidates the RSDP, which Linux notices:

ACPI Error (tbxfroot-0218): A valid RSDP was not found [20080926]

Bug Linux neglected to disable ACPI at that stage,
and later scribbled on smp_found_config:

ACPI: No APIC-table, disabling MPS

But this box doesn't run well in legacy PIC mode,
it needed IOAPIC mode to perform correctly:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/5/39

So exit ACPI mode cleanly when we first detect
that it is hopeless.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
15 years agoACPI: delete CPU_IDLE=n code
Len Brown [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 17:24:17 +0000 (12:24 -0500)]
ACPI: delete CPU_IDLE=n code

CPU_IDLE=y has been default for ACPI=y since Nov-2007,
and has shipped in many distributions since then.

Here we delete the CPU_IDLE=n ACPI idle code, since
nobody should be using it, and we don't want to
maintain two versions.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
15 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394...
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 16:48:16 +0000 (08:48 -0800)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  ieee1394: dv1394: move deprecation message from module init to file open
  firewire: core: Remove card from list of cards when enable fails

15 years agoAdd Sascha Hauer to .mailmap
Uwe Kleine-König [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 13:53:18 +0000 (14:53 +0100)]
Add Sascha Hauer to .mailmap

This fixes the shortlog attribution e.g. for 106757b38fff

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoadd another mailmap entry for Uwe Kleine-König
Uwe Kleine-König [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 13:53:19 +0000 (14:53 +0100)]
add another mailmap entry for Uwe Kleine-König

I created commit 7971db5a4b4176ad5df590fce07a962c643a2740 on a machine
where I forgot to set user.name and user.email before.  The default
values were not optimal.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agofork.c: fix NULL pointer dereference when nr_threads == threads-max
Li Zefan [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 08:17:19 +0000 (08:17 +0000)]
fork.c: fix NULL pointer dereference when nr_threads == threads-max

I happened to forked lots of processes, and hit NULL pointer dereference.
It is because in copy_process() after checking max_threads, 0 is returned
but not -EAGAIN.

The bug is introduced by "CRED: Detach the credentials from task_struct"
(commit f1752eec6145c97163dbce62d17cf5d928e28a27).

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoBtrfs: Make sure dir is non-null before doing S_ISGID checks
Chris Mason [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 16:35:57 +0000 (11:35 -0500)]
Btrfs: Make sure dir is non-null before doing S_ISGID checks

The S_ISGID check in btrfs_new_inode caused an oops during subvol creation
because sometimes the dir is null.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
15 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 15:41:10 +0000 (07:41 -0800)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md

* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md: Ensure an md array never has too many devices.
  md: Fix a bug in linear.c causing which_dev() to return the wrong device.
  md: Allow read error in a single drive raid1 to be passed up.

15 years agoieee1394: dv1394: move deprecation message from module init to file open
Stefan Richter [Tue, 3 Feb 2009 16:54:31 +0000 (17:54 +0100)]
ieee1394: dv1394: move deprecation message from module init to file open

On many Linux installations, the dv1394 driver will be auto-loaded
whenever an AV/C device (e.g. camcorder or audio device) is plugged in.
An irritating message would then appear in the kernel log.

Defer this message to until a dv1394 character device file is actually
used by a program.  Also include the program name in the message and
update the message slightly.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
15 years agoMerge branch 'fix/usb-audio' into for-linus
Takashi Iwai [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 13:25:13 +0000 (14:25 +0100)]
Merge branch 'fix/usb-audio' into for-linus

15 years agoMerge branch 'fix/hda' into for-linus
Takashi Iwai [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 13:25:04 +0000 (14:25 +0100)]
Merge branch 'fix/hda' into for-linus

15 years agoALSA: hda - Add missing COEF initialization for ALC887
Takashi Iwai [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 11:46:59 +0000 (12:46 +0100)]
ALSA: hda - Add missing COEF initialization for ALC887

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
15 years agoALSA: hda - Add missing initialization for ALC272
Takashi Iwai [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 11:45:52 +0000 (12:45 +0100)]
ALSA: hda - Add missing initialization for ALC272

ALC272 needs EAPD for speaker outputs as well as other similar ALC
codecs.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
15 years agosound: usb-audio: handle wMaxPacketSize for FIXED_ENDPOINT devices
Clemens Ladisch [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 07:13:07 +0000 (08:13 +0100)]
sound: usb-audio: handle wMaxPacketSize for FIXED_ENDPOINT devices

For audio devices that do not have proper audio descriptors (e.g.,
Edirol UA-20), we use hardcoded parameters from our quirks list.
However, we must still read the maximum packet size from the standard
endpoint descriptor; otherwise, we might use packets that are too big
and therefore rejected by the USB core.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
15 years agomd: Ensure an md array never has too many devices.
NeilBrown [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 07:02:46 +0000 (18:02 +1100)]
md: Ensure an md array never has too many devices.

Each different metadata format supported by md supports a
different maximum number of devices.
We really should be enforcing this maximum in the kernel, but
we aren't quite doing that properly.

We currently only enforce it at the 'hot_add' point, which is an
older interface which is not used by current userspace.

We need to also enforce it at 'add_new_disk' time for active arrays
and at 'do_md_run' time when starting a new array.

So move the test from 'hot_add' into 'bind_rdev_to_array' which is
called from both 'hot_add' and 'add_new_disk, and add a new
test in 'analyse_sbs' which is called from 'do_md_run'.

This bug (or missing feature) has been around "forever" and so
the patch is suitable for any -stable that is currently maintained.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
15 years agomd: Fix a bug in linear.c causing which_dev() to return the wrong device.
Andre Noll [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 04:10:52 +0000 (15:10 +1100)]
md: Fix a bug in linear.c causing which_dev() to return the wrong device.

ab5bd5cbc8d4b868378d062eed3d4240930fbb86 introduced the following
bug in linear software raid for large arrays on 32 bit machines:

which_dev() computes the device holding a given sector by shifting
down the sector number to a 32 bit range, dividing by the array
spacing and looking up the resulting index in the hash table of
the array.

Because the computed index might be slightly too small, a loop at
the end of which_dev() increases the index until the given sector
actually falls into the range of the device associated with that index.

The changes of the above mentioned commit caused this loop to check
whether the _index_ rather than the sector number is small enough,
effectively bypassing the loop and thus possibly returning the wrong
device.

As reported by Simon Kirby, this leads to errors such as

linear_make_request: Sector 2340486136 out of bounds on dev sdi: 156301312 sectors, offset 2109870464

Fix this bug by introducing a local variable for the index so that
the variable containing the passed sector is left unchanged.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
15 years agomd: Allow read error in a single drive raid1 to be passed up.
NeilBrown [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 04:06:47 +0000 (15:06 +1100)]
md: Allow read error in a single drive raid1 to be passed up.

If a raid1 only has a single working device and gets a read error,
we choose to simply return that error up to the filesystem (or whatever)
rather than failing the whole array.

However the codes doesn't quite do that.  We attempt a readbalance
which allocates the same drive, so we retry the read - indefinitely.

Instead:  If read_balance in the error case chooses the same drive that just
failed, treat it as a failure and don't retry.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
15 years agoprevent kprobes from catching spurious page faults
Masami Hiramatsu [Thu, 5 Feb 2009 22:12:39 +0000 (17:12 -0500)]
prevent kprobes from catching spurious page faults

Prevent kprobes from catching spurious faults which will cause infinite
recursive page-fault and memory corruption by stack overflow.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agobraino in sg_ioctl_trans()
Al Viro [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:32:27 +0000 (00:32 +0000)]
braino in sg_ioctl_trans()

... and yes, gcc is insane enough to eat that without complaint.
We probably want sparse to scream on those...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoMerge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfashe...
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:12:38 +0000 (16:12 -0800)]
Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2

* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2:
  Revert "configfs: Silence lockdep on mkdir(), rmdir() and configfs_depend_item()"

15 years agoMerge branch 'sh/for-2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal...
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:11:54 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
Merge branch 'sh/for-2.6.29' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6

* 'sh/for-2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6:
  sh: Fix up T-bit error handling in SH-4A mutex fastpath.
  sh: Fix up spurious syscall restarting.
  sh: fcnvds fix with denormalized numbers on SH-4 FPU.
  sh: Only reserve memory under CONFIG_ZERO_PAGE_OFFSET when it != 0.
  sh: Handle calling csum_partial with misaligned data
  sh: ap325rxa: Enable ov772x in defconfig.
  sh: ap325rxa: Add ov772x support.
  sh: ap325rxa: control camera power toggling.
  sh: mach-migor: Enable ov772x and tw9910 in defconfig.

15 years agoMerge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:11:32 +0000 (16:11 -0800)]
Merge git://git./linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  Revert "tcp: Always set urgent pointer if it's beyond snd_nxt"
  ipv6: Copy cork options in ip6_append_data
  udp: Fix UDP short packet false positive
  gianfar: Fix potential soft reset race
  gianfar: Fix BD_LENGTH_MASK definition
  cxgb3: Fix lro switch
  iwlwifi: save PCI state before suspend, restore after resume
  iwlwifi: clean key table in iwl_clear_stations_table

15 years agoRevert "tcp: Always set urgent pointer if it's beyond snd_nxt"
David S. Miller [Thu, 5 Feb 2009 23:38:31 +0000 (15:38 -0800)]
Revert "tcp: Always set urgent pointer if it's beyond snd_nxt"

This reverts commit 64ff3b938ec6782e6585a83d5459b98b0c3f6eb8.

Jeff Chua reports that it breaks rlogin for him.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
15 years agoipv6: Copy cork options in ip6_append_data
Herbert Xu [Thu, 5 Feb 2009 23:15:50 +0000 (15:15 -0800)]
ipv6: Copy cork options in ip6_append_data

As the options passed to ip6_append_data may be ephemeral, we need
to duplicate it for corking.  This patch applies the simplest fix
which is to memdup all the relevant bits.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
15 years agoMerge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wirel...
David S. Miller [Thu, 5 Feb 2009 23:08:11 +0000 (15:08 -0800)]
Merge branch 'master' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6

15 years agoudp: Fix UDP short packet false positive
Jesper Dangaard Brouer [Thu, 5 Feb 2009 23:05:45 +0000 (15:05 -0800)]
udp: Fix UDP short packet false positive

The UDP header pointer assignment must happen after calling
pskb_may_pull().  As pskb_may_pull() can potentially alter the SKB
buffer.

This was exposted by running multicast traffic through the NIU driver,
as it won't prepull the protocol headers into the linear area on
receive.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
15 years agoseq_file: fix big-enough lseek() + read()
Alexey Dobriyan [Thu, 5 Feb 2009 21:30:05 +0000 (00:30 +0300)]
seq_file: fix big-enough lseek() + read()

lseek() further than length of the file will leave stale ->index
(second-to-last during iteration). Next seq_read() will not notice
that ->f_pos is big enough to return 0, but will print last item
as if ->f_pos is pointing to it.

Introduced in commit cb510b8172602a66467f3551b4be1911f5a7c8c2
aka "seq_file: more atomicity in traverse()".

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoseq_file: move traverse so it can be used from seq_read
Eric Biederman [Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:12:25 +0000 (15:12 -0800)]
seq_file: move traverse so it can be used from seq_read

In 2.6.25 some /proc files were converted to use the seq_file
infrastructure.  But seq_files do not correctly support pread(), which
broke some usersapce applications.

To handle pread correctly we can't assume that f_pos is where we left it
in seq_read.  So move traverse() so that we can eventually use it in
seq_read and do thus some day support pread().

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agosgi-xp: fix writing past the end of kzalloc()'d space
Dean Nelson [Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:12:24 +0000 (15:12 -0800)]
sgi-xp: fix writing past the end of kzalloc()'d space

A missing type cast results in writing way beyond the end of a kzalloc()'d
memory segment resulting in slab corruption. But it seems like the better
solution is to define ->recv_msg_slots as a 'void *' rather than a
'struct xpc_notify_mq_msg_uv *' and add the type cast.

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoalpha: fixup BUG macro
Alexey Dobriyan [Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:12:21 +0000 (15:12 -0800)]
alpha: fixup BUG macro

Do usual do {} while (0) dance, otherwise

fs/gfs2/util.c:99: error: expected expression before 'else'
drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c:363: error: expected expression before 'else'

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agosx.c: fix missed unlock_kernel() on error path in sx_fw_ioctl()
Dan Carpenter [Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:12:20 +0000 (15:12 -0800)]
sx.c: fix missed unlock_kernel() on error path in sx_fw_ioctl()

If we return directly with -EPERM then lock_kernel() is still held.

This was found with a code checker (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git/).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix another such path - missed func_exit()]
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoatyfb: fix CONFIG_ namespace violations
Randy Dunlap [Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:12:20 +0000 (15:12 -0800)]
atyfb: fix CONFIG_ namespace violations

Fix namespace violations by changing non-kconfig CONFIG_ names to CNFG_*.

Fixes breakage in staging/, which adds a real CONFIG_PANEL.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agortc-ds1390: fix compilation warnings in drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1390.c
Manish Katiyar [Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:12:19 +0000 (15:12 -0800)]
rtc-ds1390: fix compilation warnings in drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1390.c

drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1390.c:125: warning: unused variable 'rtc'

Signed-off-by: Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agodrivers/video/backlight: rename da903x to da903x_bl
Mike Rapoport [Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:12:18 +0000 (15:12 -0800)]
drivers/video/backlight: rename da903x to da903x_bl

Currently both da903x backlight and voltage reulator drivers have the
same name. Rename the backlight driver to allow use of both drivers as
modules.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il>
Acked-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoatmel-ssc: fix misuse of dev_dbg when requested ssc instance is not found
Hans-Christian Egtvedt [Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:12:17 +0000 (15:12 -0800)]
atmel-ssc: fix misuse of dev_dbg when requested ssc instance is not found

The ssc pointer is not valid when the id is not found in the list.
Convert the message from a debug one into an error message and avoid
dereferencing the bad pointer.

Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agodo_wp_page: fix regression with execute in place
Carsten Otte [Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:12:16 +0000 (15:12 -0800)]
do_wp_page: fix regression with execute in place

Fix do_wp_page for VM_MIXEDMAP mappings.

In the case where pfn_valid returns 0 for a pfn at the beginning of
do_wp_page and the mapping is not shared writable, the code branches to
label `gotten:' with old_page == NULL.

In case the vma is locked (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED), lock_page,
clear_page_mlock, and unlock_page try to access the old_page.

This patch checks whether old_page is valid before it is dereferenced.

The regression was introduced by "mlock: mlocked pages are unevictable"
(commit b291f000393f5a0b679012b39d79fbc85c018233).

Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agowait: prevent exclusive waiter starvation
Johannes Weiner [Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:12:14 +0000 (15:12 -0800)]
wait: prevent exclusive waiter starvation

With exclusive waiters, every process woken up through the wait queue must
ensure that the next waiter down the line is woken when it has finished.

Interruptible waiters don't do that when aborting due to a signal.  And if
an aborting waiter is concurrently woken up through the waitqueue, noone
will ever wake up the next waiter.

This has been observed with __wait_on_bit_lock() used by
lock_page_killable(): the first contender on the queue was aborting when
the actual lock holder woke it up concurrently.  The aborted contender
didn't acquire the lock and therefor never did an unlock followed by
waking up the next waiter.

Add abort_exclusive_wait() which removes the process' wait descriptor from
the waitqueue, iff still queued, or wakes up the next waiter otherwise.
It does so under the waitqueue lock.  Racing with a wake up means the
aborting process is either already woken (removed from the queue) and will
wake up the next waiter, or it will remove itself from the queue and the
concurrent wake up will apply to the next waiter after it.

Use abort_exclusive_wait() in __wait_event_interruptible_exclusive() and
__wait_on_bit_lock() when they were interrupted by other means than a wake
up through the queue.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Reported-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Mentored-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> ["after some testing"]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agomaintainers: general@lists.openfabrics.org is moderated
Randy Dunlap [Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:12:13 +0000 (15:12 -0800)]
maintainers: general@lists.openfabrics.org is moderated

I got the "list is moderated message," so add it here.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agolis3lv02d: add axes knowledge for HP 6710
Martin Kebert [Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:12:12 +0000 (15:12 -0800)]
lis3lv02d: add axes knowledge for HP 6710

Add support for the HP laptops of model 6710x for having correctly setup
axes.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kebert <gkmarty@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agolis3lv02d: add axes knowledge for HP 6730
Pavel Herrmann [Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:12:11 +0000 (15:12 -0800)]
lis3lv02d: add axes knowledge for HP 6730

Add support for the HP laptops of model 6730x for having correctly setup
axes.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Herrmann <morpheus.ibis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agolis3lv02d: add axes knowledge for HP 6530
Eric Piel [Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:12:11 +0000 (15:12 -0800)]
lis3lv02d: add axes knowledge for HP 6530

Add support for the HP laptops of model 6530x for having correctly setup
axes.

Reported-by: Jerome Poulin <jeromepoulin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agolis3lv02d: add axes knowledge for HP 6510b
Jiri Tersel [Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:12:09 +0000 (15:12 -0800)]
lis3lv02d: add axes knowledge for HP 6510b

According to dmesg my laptop model HP 6510b is not being recognized by this
driver. After I have modified "lis3lv02d.c" axes in Neverball are OK.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Tersel <tersel@mail.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agohp-wmi: fix error path in hp_wmi_bios_setup()
Andrew Morton [Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:12:07 +0000 (15:12 -0800)]
hp-wmi: fix error path in hp_wmi_bios_setup()

The error-path code can call rfkill_unregister() with a pointer which does
not contain the result of a call to rfkill_register().  It goes BUG().

Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12560.

Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Testted-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agorevert "rlimit: permit setting RLIMIT_NOFILE to RLIM_INFINITY"
Andrew Morton [Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:12:06 +0000 (15:12 -0800)]
revert "rlimit: permit setting RLIMIT_NOFILE to RLIM_INFINITY"

Revert commit 0c2d64fb6cae9aae480f6a46cfe79f8d7d48b59f because it causes
(arguably poorly designed) existing userspace to spend interminable
periods closing billions of not-open file descriptors.

We could bring this back, with some sort of opt-in tunable in /proc, which
defaults to "off".

Peter's alanysis follows:

: I spent several hours trying to get to the bottom of a serious
: performance issue that appeared on one of our servers after upgrading to
: 2.6.28.  In the end it's what could be considered a userspace bug that
: was triggered by a change in 2.6.28.  Since this might also affect other
: people I figured I'd at least document what I found here, and maybe we
: can even do something about it:
:
:
: So, I upgraded some of debian.org's machines to 2.6.28.1 and immediately
: the team maintaining our ftp archive complained that one of their
: scripts that previously ran in a few minutes still hadn't even come
: close to being done after an hour or so.  Downgrading to 2.6.27 fixed
: that.
:
: Turns out that script is forking a lot and something in it or python or
: whereever closes all the file descriptors it doesn't want to pass on.
: That is, it starts at zero and goes up to ulimit -n/RLIMIT_NOFILE and
: closes them all with a few exceptions.
:
: Turns out that takes a long time when your limit -n is now 2^20 (1048576).
:
: With 2.6.27.* the ulimit -n was the standard 1024, but with 2.6.28 it is
: now a thousand times that.
:
: 2.6.28 included a patch titled "rlimit: permit setting RLIMIT_NOFILE to
: RLIM_INFINITY" (0c2d64fb6cae9aae480f6a46cfe79f8d7d48b59f)[1] that
: allows, as the title implies, to set the limit for number of files to
: infinity.
:
: Closer investigation showed that the broken default ulimit did not apply
: to "system" processes (like stuff started from init).  In the end I
: could establish that all processes that passed through pam_limit at one
: point had the bad resource limit.
:
: Apparently the pam library in Debian etch (4.0) initializes the limits
: to some default values when it doesn't have any settings in limit.conf
: to override them.  Turns out that for nofiles this is RLIM_INFINITY.
: Commenting out "case RLIMIT_NOFILE" in pam_limit.c:267 of our pam
: package version 0.79-5 fixes that - tho I'm not sure what side effects
: that has.
:
: Debian lenny (the upcoming 5.0 version) doesn't have this issue as it
: uses a different pam (version).

Reported-by: Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>
Cc: Adam Tkac <vonsch@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
15 years agoshm: fix shmctl(SHM_INFO) lockup with !CONFIG_SHMEM
Tony Battersby [Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:12:04 +0000 (15:12 -0800)]
shm: fix shmctl(SHM_INFO) lockup with !CONFIG_SHMEM

shm_get_stat() assumes that the inode is a "struct shmem_inode_info",
which is incorrect for !CONFIG_SHMEM (see fs/ramfs/inode.c:
ramfs_get_inode() vs.  mm/shmem.c: shmem_get_inode()).

This bad assumption can cause shmctl(SHM_INFO) to lockup when
shm_get_stat() tries to spin_lock(&info->lock).  Users of !CONFIG_SHMEM
may encounter this lockup simply by invoking the 'ipcs' command.

Reported by Jiri Olsa back in February 2008:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/29/74

Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.everything]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>