David Woodhouse [Thu, 29 May 2008 08:58:27 +0000 (11:58 +0300)]
maestro3: treat firmware data as const
The maestro3 driver is byte-swapping its firmware to be host-endian in
advance, when it doesn't seem to be necessary -- we could just use
le16_to_cpu() as we load it.
Doing that means that we need to switch the in-tree firmware to be
little-endian too.
Take the least intrusive way of doing this, which is to switch the
existing snd_m3_convert_from_le() function to convert _to_ little-endian
instead, and use it on the in-tree firmware instead of the loaded
firmware. It's a bit suboptimal but doesn't matter much right now
because we're about to remove the special cases for the in-tree version
anyway.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
powerpc: Add missing reference to coherent_dma_mask
There is dma_mask in of_device upon of_platform_device_create()
but we don't actually set coherent_dma_mask. This may cause weird
behavior of USB subsystem using of_device USB host drivers.
Steve Wise [Tue, 8 Jul 2008 21:40:05 +0000 (14:40 -0700)]
RDMA/cxgb3: Fix regression caused by class_device -> device conversion
The change to iwch_provider.c in commit f4e91eb4 ("IB: convert struct
class_device to struct device") undid the fix done in commit 7f049f2f
("RDMA/cxgb3: Hold rtnl_lock() around ethtool get_drvinfo call"). It
removed the calls to rtnl_lock() that serialized the iw_cxgb3 ethtool
ops calls into the cxgb3 driver. This locking is needed to avoid
messing up the internal state of the cxgb3 driver.
Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Merge branch 'hotfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6
* 'hotfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
SUNRPC: Fix an rpcbind breakage for the case of IPv6 lookups
SUNRPC: Fix a double-free in rpcbind
NFS: Fix readdir cache invalidation
Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
[MIPS] Fix 32bit kernels on R4k with 128 byte cache line size
[MIPS] Atlas, decstation: Fix section mismatches triggered by defconfigs
Jeff Mahoney [Tue, 8 Jul 2008 18:37:06 +0000 (14:37 -0400)]
reiserfs: discard prealloc in reiserfs_delete_inode
With the removal of struct file from the xattr code,
reiserfs_file_release() isn't used anymore, so the prealloc isn't
discarded. This causes hangs later down the line.
This patch adds it to reiserfs_delete_inode. In most cases it will be a
no-op due to it already having been called, but will avoid hangs with
xattrs.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
SUNRPC: Fix an rpcbind breakage for the case of IPv6 lookups
Now that rpcb_next_version has been split into an IPv4 version and an IPv6
version, we Oops when rpcb_call_async attempts to look up the IPv6-specific
RPC procedure in rpcb_next_version.
Fix the Oops simply by having rpcb_getport_async pass the correct RPC
procedure as an argument.
It is wrong to be freeing up the rpcbind arguments if the call to
rpcb_call_async() fails, since they should already have been freed up by
rpcb_map_release().
invalidate_inode_pages2_range() takes page offset arguments, not byte
ranges.
Another thought is that individual pages might perhaps get evicted by VM
pressure, in which case we might perhaps want to re-read not only the
evicted page, but all subsequent pages too (in case the server returns
more/less data per page so that the alignment of the next entry
changes). We should therefore remove the condition that we only do this on
page->index==0.
[MIPS] Fix 32bit kernels on R4k with 128 byte cache line size
The generated copy_page for R4k CPU with a 128 byte cache line size used
Create Dirty Exclusive cache line operations even if only part of the
cache line was filled. This change avoids generating cache operations,
if only part of the cache line size is copied in one loop. It also
increases the maxmimum loop size, because the generated code even fits
into the available space for r4k CPUs with 128 byte cache line size.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Sergei Shtylyov [Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:27:22 +0000 (19:27 +0200)]
palm_bk3710: fix IDECLK period calculation
The driver uses completely bogus rounding formula for calculating period from
the IDECLK frequency which gives one-off period values (e.g. 11 ns with 100 MHz
IDECLK) which in turn can lead to overclocked IDE transfer timings. Actually,
rounding is just wrong in this case, so use a mere division for a safe result.
While at it, also:
- give 'ide_palm_clk' variable a more suitable name;
- get rid of the useless 'ideclkp' variable;
- drop the LISP stype 'p' postfix from the 'clkp' variable's name. :-)
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Cc: mcherkashin@ru.mvista.com Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Add __ide_default_irq() inline helper and use it instead of
ide_default_irq() in ide-probe.c and ns87415.c (all host drivers
except IDE PCI ones always setup hwif->irq so it is enough to
check only for I/O bases 0x1f0 and 0x170).
This fixes post-2.6.25 regression since ide_default_irq()
define could shadow ide_default_irq() inline.
David Gibson [Tue, 8 Jul 2008 05:58:16 +0000 (15:58 +1000)]
Correct hash flushing from huge_ptep_set_wrprotect()
As Andy Whitcroft recently pointed out, the current powerpc version of
huge_ptep_set_wrprotect() has a bug. It just calls ptep_set_wrprotect()
which in turn calls pte_update() then hpte_need_flush() with the 'huge'
argument set to 0. This will cause hpte_need_flush() to flush the wrong
hash entries (of any). Andy's fix for this is already in the powerpc
tree as commit 016b33c4958681c24056abed8ec95844a0da80a3.
I have confirmed this is a real bug, not masked by some other
synchronization, with a new testcase for libhugetlbfs. A process write
a (MAP_PRIVATE) hugepage mapping, fork(), then alter the mapping and
have the child incorrectly see the second write.
Therefore, this should be fixed for 2.6.26, and for the stable tree.
Here is a suitable patch for 2.6.26, which I think will also be suitable
for the stable tree (neither of the headers in question has been changed
much recently).
It is cut down slighlty from Andy's original version, in that it does
not include a 32-bit version of huge_ptep_set_wrprotect(). Currently,
hugepages are not supported on any 32-bit powerpc platform. When they
are, a suitable 32-bit version can be added - the only 32-bit hardware
which supports hugepages does not use the conventional hashtable MMU and
so will have different needs anyway.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Darren Jenkins [Tue, 8 Jul 2008 07:51:44 +0000 (15:51 +0800)]
crypto: tcrypt - Fix memory leak in test_cipher
Coverity CID: 2306 & 2307 RESOURCE_LEAK
In the second for loop in test_cipher(), data is allocated space with
kzalloc() and is only ever freed in an error case.
Looking at this loop, data is written to this memory but nothing seems
to read from it.
So here is a patch removing the allocation, I think this is the right
fix.
Only compile tested.
Signed-off-by: Darren Jenkins <darrenrjenkins@gmailcom> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Benny Halevy is seeing extern inlines not resolved with gcc 4.3 with
no-unit-at-a-time
This patch reintroduces unit-at-a-time for gcc >= 4.0, bringing back the
possibility of Uli's crash. If that happens, we'll debug it.
I started seeing both the internal compiler errors and unresolved
inlines on Fedora 9. This patch fixes both problems, without so far
reintroducing the crash reported by Uli.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
powerpc: Fix unterminated of_device_id array in legacy_serial.c
A recent patch to legacy_serial.c factored out some code by
using the of_match_node() facility to match a node against
an array of possible matches. However, the patch didn't properly
terminate the array causing potential crashes in cases where no
match is found. In addition, the name of the array was poorly
chosen for a static symbol making debugging harder.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
vsprintf: add support for '%pS' and '%pF' pointer formats
They print out a pointer in symbolic format, if possible (ie using
symbolic KALLSYMS information). The '%pS' format is for regular direct
pointers (which can point to data or code and that you find on the stack
during backtraces etc), while '%pF' is for C function pointer types.
On most architectures, the two mean exactly the same thing, but some
architectures use an indirect pointer for C function pointers, where the
function pointer points to a function descriptor (which in turn contains
the actual pointer to the code). The '%pF' code automatically does the
appropriate function descriptor dereference on such architectures.
vsprintf: add infrastructure support for extended '%p' specifiers
This expands the kernel '%p' handling with an arbitrary alphanumberic
specifier extension string immediately following the '%p'. Right now
it's just being ignored, but the next commit will start adding some
specific pointer type extensions.
NOTE! The reason the extension is appended to the '%p' is to allow
minimal gcc type checking: gcc will still see the '%p' and will check
that the argument passed in is indeed a pointer, and yet will not
complain about the extended information that gcc doesn't understand
about (on the other hand, it also won't actually check that the pointer
type and the extension are compatible).
Alphanumeric characters were chosen because there is no sane existing
use for a string format with a hex pointer representation immediately
followed by alphanumerics (which is what such a format string would have
traditionally resulted in).
The actual code is the same, just split out into a helper function.
This makes it easier to read, and allows for simple future extension
of %p handling.
Philipp Zabel [Sat, 5 Jul 2008 23:15:34 +0000 (01:15 +0200)]
pxamci: fix byte aligned DMA transfers
The pxa27x DMA controller defaults to 64-bit alignment. This caused
the SCR reads to fail (and, depending on card type, error out) when
card->raw_scr was not aligned on a 8-byte boundary.
For performance reasons all scatter-gather addresses passed to
pxamci_request should be aligned on 8-byte boundaries, but if
this can't be guaranteed, byte aligned DMA transfers in the
have to be enabled in the controller to get correct behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <philipp.zabel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andrey Borzenkov reports that it resulted in a totally hung machine for
him when loading the OHCI driver. Extensive netconsole capture with
SysRq output shows that modprobe gets stuck in ohci_hub_status_data()
when probing and enabling the OHCI controller, see for example
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/5/236
for an analysis.
The problem appears to be an interrupt flood triggered by the commit
that gets reverted, and Andrey confirmed that the revert makes things
work for him again.
Reported-and-tested-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mark McLoughlin [Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:23:15 +0000 (18:23 +0100)]
KVM: IOAPIC: Fix level-triggered irq injection hang
The "remote_irr" variable is used to indicate an interrupt
which has been received by the LAPIC, but not acked.
In our EOI handler, we unset remote_irr and re-inject the
interrupt if the interrupt line is still asserted.
However, we do not set remote_irr here, leading to a
situation where if kvm_ioapic_set_irq() is called, then we go
ahead and call ioapic_service(). This means that IRR is
re-asserted even though the interrupt is currently in service
(i.e. LAPIC IRR is cleared and ISR/TMR set)
The issue with this is that when the currently executing
interrupt handler finishes and writes LAPIC EOI, then TMR is
unset and EOI sent to the IOAPIC. Since IRR is now asserted,
but TMR is not, then when the second interrupt is handled,
no EOI is sent and if there is any pending interrupt, it is
not re-injected.
This fixes a hang only seen while running mke2fs -j on an
8Gb virtio disk backed by a fully sparse raw file, with
aliguori "avoid fragmented virtio-blk transfers by copying"
changes.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Acked-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Anthony Liguori [Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:02:36 +0000 (19:02 +0300)]
x86: KVM guest: Add memory clobber to hypercalls
Hypercalls can modify arbitrary regions of memory. Make sure to indicate this
in the clobber list. This fixes a hang when using KVM_GUEST kernel built with
GCC 4.3.0.
This was originally spotted and analyzed by Marcelo.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Oliver Hartkopp [Sun, 6 Jul 2008 06:38:43 +0000 (23:38 -0700)]
can: add sanity checks
Even though the CAN netlayer only deals with CAN netdevices, the
netlayer interface to the userspace and to the device layer should
perform some sanity checks.
This patch adds several sanity checks that mainly prevent userspace apps
to send broken content into the system that may be misinterpreted by
some other userspace application.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver.hartkopp@volkswagen.de> Signed-off-by: Urs Thuermann <urs.thuermann@volkswagen.de> Acked-by: Andre Naujoks <nautsch@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Andrew Morton [Sat, 5 Jul 2008 08:02:01 +0000 (01:02 -0700)]
Fix pagemap_read() use of struct mm_walk
Fix some issues in pagemap_read noted by Alexey:
- initialize pagemap_walk.mm to "mm" , so the code starts working as
advertised
- initialize ->private to "&pm" so it wouldn't immediately oops in
pagemap_pte_hole()
- unstatic struct pagemap_walk, so two threads won't fsckup each other
(including those started by root, including flipping ->mm when you don't
have permissions)
- pagemap_read() contains two calls to ptrace_may_attach(), second one
looks unneeded.
- avoid possible kmalloc(0) and integer wraparound.
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Personally, I'd just remove the functionality entirely - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move _RET_IP_ and _THIS_IP_ to include/linux/kernel.h
These two macros are useful beyond lock debugging. Moved definitions from
include/linux/debug_locks.h to include/linux/kernel.h, so code that needs
them does not have to include the former, which would have been a less
intuitive choice of a header.
Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86 ACPI: fix resume from suspend to RAM on uniprocessor x86-64
x86 ACPI: normalize segment descriptor register on resume
ahci: give another shot at clearing all bits in irq_stat
Commit ea0c62f7cf70f13a67830471b613337bd0c9a62e tried to clear all
bits in irq_stat but it didn't actually achieve that as irq_stat was
anded with port_map right after read. This patch makes ahci driver
always use the unmasked value to clear irq_status.
While at it, add explanation on the peculiarities of ahci IRQ
clearing.
class->dev_release is called by device_release() iff dev->release
is not present so ide_port_class_release() is never called and the
last hwif->gendev reference is not dropped.
Fix it by removing ide_port_class_release() and get_device() call
from ide_register_port() (device_create_drvdata() takes a hwif->gendev
reference anyway).
This patch fixes hang on wait_for_completion(&hwif->gendev_rel_comp)
in ide_unregister() reported by Pavel Machek.
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Arjan van de Ven [Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:51:08 +0000 (15:51 -0700)]
softlockup: print a module list on being stuck
Most places in the kernel that go BUG: print a module list
(which is very useful for doing statistics and finding patterns),
however the softlockup detector does not do this yet.
This patch adds the one line change to fix this gap.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
x86 ACPI: fix resume from suspend to RAM on uniprocessor x86-64
Since the trampoline code is now used for ACPI resume from suspend to RAM,
the trampoline page tables have to be fixed up during boot not only on SMP
systems, but also on UP systems that use the trampoline.
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:03:48 +0000 (23:03 +0200)]
x86 ACPI: normalize segment descriptor register on resume
Some Dell laptops enter resume with apparent garbage in the segment
descriptor registers (almost certainly the result of a botched
transition from protected to real mode.) The only way to clean that
up is to enter protected mode ourselves and clean out the descriptor
registers.
This fixes resume on Dell XPS M1210 and Dell D620.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: pm list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
David Rientjes [Fri, 4 Jul 2008 19:24:13 +0000 (12:24 -0700)]
mempolicy: mask off internal flags for userspace API
Flags considered internal to the mempolicy kernel code are stored as part
of the "flags" member of struct mempolicy.
Before exposing a policy type to userspace via get_mempolicy(), these
internal flags must be masked. Flags exposed to userspace, however,
should still be returned to the user.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pierre Ossman [Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:51:20 +0000 (12:51 +0200)]
mmc: don't use DMA on newer ENE controllers
Even the newer ENE controllers have bugs in their DMA engine that make
it too dangerous to use. Disable it until someone has figured out under
which conditions it corrupts data.
This has caused problems at least once, and can be found as bug report
10925 in the kernel bugzilla.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Paul Jackson [Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:00:09 +0000 (10:00 -0700)]
doc: document the relax_domain_level kernel boot argument
Document the kernel boot parameter: relax_domain_level=.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In linux-next there is a commit ("x86: Add performance variants of cpumask
operators") which, as part of the 4096 cpu support work adds some new APIs
for dealing with cpu masks. Add trivial versions of these now so that
subsystems can update in a timely manner and avoid conflicts in linux-next
and the next merge window.
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andres Salomon [Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:00:04 +0000 (10:00 -0700)]
olpc: sdhci: add quirk for the Marvell CaFe's interrupt timeout
The CaFe chip has a hardware bug that ends up with us getting a timeout
value that's too small, causing the following sorts of problems:
[ 60.525138] mmcblk0: error -110 transferring data
[ 60.531477] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 1484353
[ 60.533371] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0p2, logical block 181632
[ 60.533371] lost page write due to I/O error on mmcblk0p2
Presumably this is an off-by-one error in the hardware. Incrementing
the timeout count value that we stuff into the TIMEOUT_CONTROL register
gets us a value that works. This bug was originally discovered by
Pierre Ossman, I believe.
[thanks to Robert Millan for proving that this was still a problem]
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andres Salomon [Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:00:03 +0000 (10:00 -0700)]
olpc: sdhci: add quirk for the Marvell CaFe's vdd/powerup issue
This has been sitting around unloved for way too long..
The Marvell CaFe chip's SD implementation chokes during card insertion
if one attempts to set the voltage and power up in the same
SDHCI_POWER_CONTROL register write. This adds a quirk that does
that particular dance in two steps.
It also adds an entry to pci_ids.h for the CaFe chip's SD device.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mike Miller [Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:00:02 +0000 (10:00 -0700)]
cciss: read config to obtain max outstanding commands per controller
This patch changes the way we determine the maximum number of outstanding
commands for each controller.
Most Smart Array controllers can support up to 1024 commands, the notable
exceptions are the E200 and E200i.
The next generation of controllers which were just added support a mode of
operation called Zero Memory Raid (ZMR). In this mode they only support
64 outstanding commands. In Full Function Raid (FFR) mode they support
1024.
We have been setting the queue depth by arbitrarily assigning some value
for each controller. We needed a better way to set the queue depth to
avoid lots of annoying "fifo full" messages. So we made the driver a
little smarter. We now read the config table and subtract 4 from the
returned value. The -4 is to allow some room for ioctl calls which are
not tracked the same way as io commands are tracked.
Please consider this for inclusion.
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Paul Jackson [Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:00:01 +0000 (10:00 -0700)]
cpusets: document proc status cpus and mems allowed lists
Provide a little documentation for the two new fields, Cpus_allowed_list
and Mems_allowed_list, that were added to each /proc/<pid>/status file a
while back.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Alpha Linux kernel fails with inconsistent kallsyms data
The build of the Alpha Linux kernel currently fails[1] with inconsistent
kallsyms data. As I never saw that before, I thought about hardware
problems. But in fact it is a bug in the Linux kernel.
The end of the rodata section is marked with the "__end_rodata" symbol.
This symbol have different aligning constraints than the inittext parts
and therefor the start marked "_sinittext". Because of that the
__end_rodata symbol shifts between < _sinittext and == _sinittext. The
later variant is seen as a code symbol and recorded in the kallsyms data.
On fix would be to move the exception table a little bit and get some
space between that two areas.
Cc: maximilian attems <max@stro.at> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The filesystem capability support meaning for CAP_SETPCAP is less powerful
than the non-filesystem capability support. As such, when filesystem
capabilities are configured, we should not permit CAP_SETPCAP to 'enhance'
the current process through strace manipulation of a child process.
Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit includes a bugfix for the fragile setuid fixup code in the
case that filesystem capabilities are supported (in access()). The effect
of this fix is gated on filesystem capability support because changing
securebits is only supported when filesystem capabilities support is
configured.)
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Randy Dunlap [Fri, 4 Jul 2008 16:59:57 +0000 (09:59 -0700)]
doc: doc maintainers
Maintain the kernel's Documentation/ tree.
This includes tree layout and contents, although not much in terms of new
content production. That will usually have to be done by someone familiar
with the software, at least in some rough form.
Includes review and editorial assistance for people contributing changes
to /Documentation.
Also includes prodding people for content if something is in need of
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This got broken by the recent "fix rmmod $spi_driver while spidev-user is
active". I tested the rmmod & write path but didn't check the read path.
I am sorry. The read logic changed and spidev_sync_read() +
spidev_sync_write() do not return zero on success anymore but the number
of bytes that has been transfered over the bus. This patch changes the
logic and copy_to_user() gets called again.
The write path returns the number of bytes which are written to the
underlying device what may be less than the requested size. This patch
makes the same change to the read path or else we request a read of 20
bytes, get 10, don't call copy to user and report to the user that we read
10 bytes.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove test of known-to-be-zero local] Signed-off-by: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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