1. 01 May, 2013 9 commits
  2. 26 Apr, 2013 27 commits
  3. 17 Apr, 2013 4 commits
    • Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar
      Linux 3.4.41 · 94402d16
      Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
      94402d16
    • David Woodhouse's avatar
      mtd: Disable mtdchar mmap on MMU systems · 06ce3e44
      David Woodhouse authored
      commit f5cf8f07 upstream.
      
      This code was broken because it assumed that all MTD devices were map-based.
      Disable it for now, until it can be fixed properly for the next merge window.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      06ce3e44
    • Hayes Wang's avatar
      r8169: fix auto speed down issue · 880f56d9
      Hayes Wang authored
      commit e2409d83 upstream.
      
      It would cause no link after suspending or shutdowning when the
      nic changes the speed to 10M and connects to a link partner which
      forces the speed to 100M.
      
      Check the link partner ability to determine which speed to set.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHayes Wang <hayeswang@realtek.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarFrancois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      880f56d9
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      kobject: fix kset_find_obj() race with concurrent last kobject_put() · 2931b31f
      Linus Torvalds authored
      commit a49b7e82 upstream.
      
      Anatol Pomozov identified a race condition that hits module unloading
      and re-loading.  To quote Anatol:
      
       "This is a race codition that exists between kset_find_obj() and
        kobject_put().  kset_find_obj() might return kobject that has refcount
        equal to 0 if this kobject is freeing by kobject_put() in other
        thread.
      
        Here is timeline for the crash in case if kset_find_obj() searches for
        an object tht nobody holds and other thread is doing kobject_put() on
        the same kobject:
      
          THREAD A (calls kset_find_obj())     THREAD B (calls kobject_put())
          splin_lock()
                                               atomic_dec_return(kobj->kref), counter gets zero here
                                               ... starts kobject cleanup ....
                                               spin_lock() // WAIT thread A in kobj_kset_leave()
          iterate over kset->list
          atomic_inc(kobj->kref) (counter becomes 1)
          spin_unlock()
                                               spin_lock() // taken
                                               // it does not know that thread A increased counter so it
                                               remove obj from list
                                               spin_unlock()
                                               vfree(module) // frees module object with containing kobj
      
          // kobj points to freed memory area!!
          kobject_put(kobj) // OOPS!!!!
      
        The race above happens because module.c tries to use kset_find_obj()
        when somebody unloads module.  The module.c code was introduced in
        commit 6494a93d"
      
      Anatol supplied a patch specific for module.c that worked around the
      problem by simply not using kset_find_obj() at all, but rather than make
      a local band-aid, this just fixes kset_find_obj() to be thread-safe
      using the proper model of refusing the get a new reference if the
      refcount has already dropped to zero.
      
      See examples of this proper refcount handling not only in the kref
      documentation, but in various other equivalent uses of this pattern by
      grepping for atomic_inc_not_zero().
      
      [ Side note: the module race does indicate that module loading and
        unloading is not properly serialized wrt sysfs information using the
        module mutex.  That may require further thought, but this is the
        correct fix at the kobject layer regardless. ]
      Reported-analyzed-and-tested-by: default avatarAnatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      2931b31f