- 29 Aug, 2005 2 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Steven Rostedt authored
It has been reported that the way Linux handles NODEFER for signals is not consistent with the way other Unix boxes handle it. I've written a program to test the behavior of how this flag affects signals and had several reports from people who ran this on various Unix boxes, confirming that Linux seems to be unique on the way this is handled. The way NODEFER affects signals on other Unix boxes is as follows: 1) If NODEFER is set, other signals in sa_mask are still blocked. 2) If NODEFER is set and the signal is in sa_mask, then the signal is still blocked. (Note: this is the behavior of all tested but Linux _and_ NetBSD 2.0 *). The way NODEFER affects signals on Linux: 1) If NODEFER is set, other signals are _not_ blocked regardless of sa_mask (Even NetBSD doesn't do this). 2) If NODEFER is set and the signal is in sa_mask, then the signal being handled is not blocked. The patch converts signal handling in all current Linux architectures to the way most Unix boxes work. Unix boxes that were tested: DU4, AIX 5.2, Irix 6.5, NetBSD 2.0, SFU 3.5 on WinXP, AIX 5.3, Mac OSX, and of course Linux 2.6.13-rcX. * NetBSD was the only other Unix to behave like Linux on point #2. The main concern was brought up by point #1 which even NetBSD isn't like Linux. So with this patch, we leave NetBSD as the lonely one that behaves differently here with #2. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 28 Aug, 2005 5 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Heiko Carstens authored
Bugfix (usage of uninitialized pointer in zfcp_port_dequeue) and compile fixes for the zfcp device driver. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
struct zfcp_port::scsi_id was removed by commit 3859f6a2Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge refs/heads/upstream-fixes from master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
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Paul Mackerras authored
[ Same race and same patch also by Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> ] I have a laptop (G3 powerbook) which will pretty reliably hit a race between con_open and con_close late in the boot process and oops in vt_ioctl due to tty->driver_data being NULL. What happens is this: process A opens /dev/tty6; it comes into con_open() (drivers/char/vt.c) and assign a non-NULL value to tty->driver_data. Then process A closes that and concurrently process B opens /dev/tty6. Process A gets through con_close() and clears tty->driver_data, since tty->count == 1. However, before process A can decrement tty->count, we switch to process B (e.g. at the down(&tty_sem) call at drivers/char/tty_io.c line 1626). So process B gets to run and comes into con_open with tty->count == 2, as tty->count is incremented (in init_dev) before con_open is called. Because tty->count != 1, we don't set tty->driver_data. Then when the process tries to do anything with that fd, it oopses. The simple and effective fix for this is to test tty->driver_data rather than tty->count in con_open. The testing and setting of tty->driver_data is serialized with respect to the clearing of tty->driver_data in con_close by the console_sem. We can't get a situation where con_open sees tty->driver_data != NULL and then con_close on a different fd clears tty->driver_data, because tty->count is incremented before con_open is called. Thus this patch eliminates the race, and in fact with this patch my laptop doesn't oops. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> [ Same patch Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> in http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112450820432121&w=2 ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 27 Aug, 2005 18 commits
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Andreas Herrmann authored
This patch fixes a severe problem with 2.6.13-rc7. Due to recent SCSI changes it is not possible to add any LUNs to the zfcp device driver anymore. With registration of remote ports this is fixed. Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <aherrman@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: James Bottomley <jejb@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Jan Blunck authored
I know that scsi procfs is legacy code but this is a fix for a memory leak. While reading through sg.c I realized that the implementation of /proc/scsi/sg/devices with seq_file is leaking memory due to freeing the pointer returned by the next() iterator method. Since next() might return NULL or an error this is wrong. This patch fixes it through using the seq_files private field for holding the reference to the iterator object. Here is a small bash script to trigger the leak. Use slabtop to watch the size-32 usage grow and grow. #!/bin/sh while true; do cat /proc/scsi/sg/devices > /dev/null done Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <j.blunck@tu-harburg.de> Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Patrick Boettcher authored
Fixed race between submitting streaming URBs in the driver and starting the actual transfer in hardware (demodulator and USB controller) which sometimes lead to garbled data transfers. URBs are now submitted first, then the transfer is enabled. Dibusb devices and clones are now fully functional again. Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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James Morris authored
This fixes a bug in the capifs initialization code, where the filesystem is not unregistered if kern_mount() fails. Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
When acpi_sleep_prepare was moved into a shutdown method we started calling it for all shutdowns. It appears this triggers some systems to power off on reboot. Avoid this by only calling acpi_sleep_prepare if we are going to power off the system. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Al Viro authored
- copy_from_user() can fail; ->write() must check its return value. - severe buffer overruns both in ->read() and ->write() - lseek to the end (i.e. to mmapper_size) and if (count + *ppos > mmapper_size) count = count + *ppos - mmapper_size; will do absolutely nothing. Then it will call copy_to_user(buf,&v_buf[*ppos],count); with obvious results (similar for ->write()). Fixed by turning read to simple_read_from_buffer() and by doing normal limiting of count in ->write(). - gratitious lock_kernel() in ->mmap() - it's useless there. - lots of gratuitous includes. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored
Don't check type of sax25_family; dev_set_mac_address has already done that before and anyway, the type to check against would have been ARPHRD_AX25. We only got away because AF_AX25 and ARPHRD_AX25 both happen to be defined to the same value. Don't check sax25_ndigis either; it's value is insignificant for the purpose of setting the MAC address and the check has shown to break some application software for no good reason. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Ralf Baechle authored
I dropped the timer initialization bits by accident when sending the p-persistence fix. This patch gets the driver to work again on halfduplex links. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Jeff Garzik authored
Fix bugs for unlikely edge cases noticed by Douglas Gilbert: - When READ(6)/WRITE(6) sector count == 0, treat it as 256 sectors - For other READ(x)/WRITE(x), when sector count == 0, error. We don't support successfully completing zero-length transfers at this time.
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Jeff Garzik authored
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James Bottomley authored
The problem arises if an entity in sysfs is created and removed without ever having been made completely visible. In SCSI this is triggered by removing a device while it's initialising. The problem appears to be that because it was never made visible in sysfs, the sysfs dentry has a null d_inode which oopses when a reference is made to it. The solution is simply to check d_inode and assume the object was never made visible (and thus doesn't need deleting) if it's NULL. (akpm: possibly a stopgap for 2.6.13 scsi problems. May not be the long-term fix) Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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NeilBrown authored
It's possible for this to still have flags in it and a previous instance has been stopped, and that confused the new array using the same mddev. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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NeilBrown authored
I just discovered this is needed for module auto-loading. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Roland Dreier authored
Fix a use-after-free bug in userspace verbs cleanup: we can't touch mr->device after we free mr by calling ib_dereg_mr(). Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Deepak Saxena authored
We are currently reserving one byte more than actually needed by the flash device and overlapping into the next I/O expansion bus window. This a) causes us to allocate an extra page of VM due to ARM ioremap() alignment code and b) could cause problems if another driver tries to request the next expansion bus window. Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Andi Kleen authored
Some nodes can have large holes on x86-64. This fixes problems with the VM allowing too many dirty pages because it overestimates the number of available RAM in a node. In extreme cases you can end up with all RAM filled with dirty pages which can lead to deadlocks and other nasty behaviour. This patch just tells the VM about the known holes from e820. Reserved (like the kernel text or mem_map) is still not taken into account, but that should be only a few percent error now. Small detail is that the flat setup uses the NUMA free_area_init_node() now too because it offers more flexibility. (akpm: lotsa thanks to Martin for working this problem out) Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Mark M. Hoffman authored
This patch fixes several instances of hwmon drivers kfree'ing the "wrong" pointer; the existing code works somewhat by accident. (akpm: plucked from Greg's queue based on lkml discussion. Finishes off the patch from Jon Corbet) Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Anton Blanchard authored
I recently had a BUG_ON() go off spuriously on a gcc 4.0 compiled kernel. It turns out gcc-4.0 was removing a sign extension while earlier gcc versions would not. Thinking this to be a compiler bug, I submitted a report: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23422 It turns out we need to cast the input in order to tell gcc to sign extend it. Thanks to Andrew Pinski for his help on this bug. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 26 Aug, 2005 15 commits
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Jeff Garzik authored
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Paul Jackson authored
At the suggestion of Nick Piggin and Dinakar, totally disable the facility to allow cpu_exclusive cpusets to define dynamic sched domains in Linux 2.6.13, in order to avoid problems first reported by John Hawkes (corrupt sched data structures and kernel oops). This has been built for ppc64, i386, ia64, x86_64, sparc, alpha. It has been built, booted and tested for cpuset functionality on an SN2 (ia64). Dinakar or Nick - could you verify that it for sure does avoid the problems Hawkes reported. Hawkes is out of town, and I don't have the recipe to reproduce what he found. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Paul Jackson authored
The partial disabling of Dinakar's new facility to allow cpu_exclusive cpusets to define dynamic sched domains doesn't go far enough. At the suggestion of Nick Piggin and Dinakar, let us instead totally disable this facility for 2.6.13, in order to avoid problems first reported by John Hawkes (corrupt sched data structures and kernel oops). This patch removes the partial disabling code in 2.6.13-rc7, in anticipation of the next patch, which will totally disable it instead. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Jean Delvare authored
Coverity uncovered an off-by-one error in the fscpos driver, in function set_temp_reset(). Writing to the temp3_reset sysfs file will lead to an array overrun, in turn causing an I2C write to a random register of the FSC Poseidon chip. Additionally, writing to temp1_reset and temp2_reset will not work as expected. The fix is straightforward. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Marcelo Tosatti authored
Be more precise on deciding whether to call m8xx_ide_init() at m8xx_setup.c:platform_init(). Compilation fails if CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE is defined but CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MPC8xx_IDE isnt. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Al Viro authored
spinlock used in irq handler should be initialized before registering irq, even if we know that our device has interrupts disabled; handler is registered shared and taking spinlock is done unconditionally. As it is, we can and do get oopsen on boot for some configuration, depending on irq routing - I've got a reproducer. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Al Viro authored
In qdio_get_micros() volatile in return type is plain noise (even with old gccisms it would make no sense - noreturn function returning __u64 is a bit odd ;-) Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Al Viro authored
Dumb typo: iounmap(&local_pointer_variable). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
The adm9240 driver, in adm9240_detect(), allocates a structure. The error path attempts to kfree() ->client field of it (second one), resulting in an oops (or slab corruption) if the hardware is not present. ->client field in adm1026, adm1031, smsc47b397 and smsc47m1 is the first in ${HWMON}_data structure, but fix them too. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Steve French authored
The recent change to locks_remove_flock code in fs/locks.c changes how byte range locks are removed from closing files, which shows up a bug in cifs. The assumption in the cifs code was that the close call sent to the server would remove any pending locks on the server on this file, but that is no longer safe as the fs/locks.c code on the client wants unlock of 0 to PATH_MAX to remove all locks (at least from this client, it is not possible AFAIK to remove all locks from other clients made to the server copy of the file). Note that cifs locks are different from posix locks - and it is not possible to map posix locks perfectly on the wire yet, due to restrictions of the cifs network protocol, even to Samba without adding a new request type to the network protocol (which we plan to do for Samba 3.0.21 within a few months), but the local client will have the correct, posix view, of the lock in most cases. The correct fix for cifs for this would involve a bigger change than I would like to do this late in the 2.6.13-rc cycle - and would involve cifs keeping track of all unmerged (uncoalesced) byte range locks for each remote inode and scanning that list to remove locks that intersect or fall wholly within the range - locks that intersect may have to be reaquired with the smaller, remaining range. Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Alan Cox authored
Needed for a few PATA drivers. Also fix up a wrong comment. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Alan Cox authored
You spelt heuristic wrongly. Also reformatted to 80 columns, ignore the diff and fix the typo if you prefer that. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso authored
While touching this code I noticed the error handling is bogus, so I fixed it up. I've removed the IS_ERR(proc_dentry) check, which will never trigger and is clearly a typo: we must check proc_file instead. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso authored
Update hppfs for the symlink functions prototype change. Yes, I know the code I leave there is still _bogus_, see next patch for this. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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