one system: initrd get courrupted:

RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 != 2048) 134217728
crc error
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 388k freed
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (177777)
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (177777)
init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (177777)
Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.

bisected to
commit 9927c688
Author: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Date:   Sun Feb 3 15:48:56 2008 -0600

    [SCSI] ses: add new Enclosure ULD

changes:
1. change char to unsigned char to avoid type change later.
2. preserve len for page1
3. need to move desc_ptr even the entry is not enclosure_component_device/raid.
   so keep desc_ptr on right position
4. record page7 len, and double check if desc_ptr out of boundary before touch.
5. fix typo in subenclosure checking: should use hdr_buf instead.

[jejb: style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>

* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
  ata: fix sparse warning in pata_acpi.c
  ata: fix sparse warning in pata_marvell.c
  ata: fix sparse warning in pata_jmicron.c
  ata: fix sparse warning in pata_cs5536.c
  ata: sparse fixes for pata_amd.c
  pata_scc.c: add thaw ops
  pata_cs5536.c bugfix
  pata_legacy: don't call ata_host_detach() after initialization failure
  ata: fix sparse warnings in sata_mv.c
  ata: fix sparse warning in sata_via.c
  ata: fix sparse warning in sata_promise.c
  ata: fix sparse warning in ata_piix.c
  ata: fix sparse warning in libata-core.c
  ata: make ata_scsiop_inq_89 static in libata-scsi.c

* 'hotfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
  NFS: add missing spkm3 strings to mount option parser
  NFS: remove error field from nfs_readdir_descriptor_t
  NFS: missing spaces in KERN_WARNING
  NFS: Allow text-based mounts via compat_sys_mount
  NFS: fix reference counting for NFSv4 callback thread

drivers/ata/pata_acpi.c:80:2: warning: returning void-valued expression
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

drivers/ata/pata_marvell.c:88:2: warning: returning void-valued expression
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

drivers/ata/pata_jmicron.c:118:2: warning: returning void-valued expression
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

Everybody passes in a u32...why fight it.

drivers/ata/pata_cs5536.c:124:26: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different signedness)
drivers/ata/pata_cs5536.c:124:26:    expected int *val
drivers/ata/pata_cs5536.c:124:26:    got unsigned int *<noident>
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

drop return statement.
drivers/ata/pata_amd.c:149:2: warning: returning void-valued expression

Commit ce54d161 pata_amd: update mode selection for NV PATAs

added the initializer for nv_mode_filter but missed deleting the previously
set mode_filter

drivers/ata/pata_amd.c:509:3: warning: Initializer entry defined twice
drivers/ata/pata_amd.c:521:3:   also defined here
drivers/ata/pata_amd.c:544:3: warning: Initializer entry defined twice
drivers/ata/pata_amd.c:556:3:   also defined here
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

This patch adds default thaw ops and fixes the freeze/thaw inconsistency.
Signed-off-by: Kou Ishizaki <kou.ishizaki@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Akira Iguchi <akira2.iguchi@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

Fix speed negotiation for secondary device.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

ata_host_detach() detaches an attached port and shouldn't be called on
a port which hasn't been attached yet.  pata_legacy incorrectly calls
ata_host_detach() on unattached port after initialization failure
causing oops.  Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

pp is never used again in this function, no need to declare a
new one.

drivers/ata/sata_mv.c:1545:24: warning: symbol 'pp' shadows an earlier one
drivers/ata/sata_mv.c:1501:22: originally declared here
drivers/ata/sata_mv.c:1553:24: warning: symbol 'pp' shadows an earlier one
drivers/ata/sata_mv.c:1501:22: originally declared here
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

drivers/ata/sata_via.c:336:2: warning: returning void-valued expression
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

drivers/ata/sata_promise.c:546:15: warning: symbol 'len' shadows an earlier one
drivers/ata/sata_promise.c:538:6: originally declared here

len is set again immediately after the loop, so this is safe.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

drivers/ata/ata_piix.c:1655:8: warning: symbol 'rc' shadows an earlier one
drivers/ata/ata_piix.c:1616:6: originally declared here
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

rc is used to test the return value and possibly return an error.
No need to redeclare inside the loop.

drivers/ata/libata-core.c:7089:7: warning: symbol 'rc' shadows an earlier one
drivers/ata/libata-core.c:7030:9: originally declared here
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (82 commits)
  [NET]: Make sure sockets implement splice_read
  netconsole: avoid null pointer dereference at show_local_mac()
  [IPV6]: Fix reversed local_df test in ip6_fragment
  [XFRM]: Avoid bogus BUG() when throwing new policy away.
  [AF_KEY]: Fix bug in spdadd
  [NETFILTER] nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c: Mistyped state corrected.
  net: xfrm statistics depend on INET
  [NETFILTER]: make secmark_tg_destroy() static
  [INET]: Unexport inet_listen_wlock
  [INET]: Unexport __inet_hash_connect
  [NET]: Improve cache line coherency of ingress qdisc
  [NET]: Fix race in dev_close(). (Bug 9750)
  [IPSEC]: Fix bogus usage of u64 on input sequence number
  [RTNETLINK]: Send a single notification on device state changes.
  [NETLABLE]: Hide netlbl_unlabel_audit_addr6 under ifdef CONFIG_IPV6.
  [NETLABEL]: Don't produce unused variables when IPv6 is off.
  [NETLABEL]: Compilation for CONFIG_AUDIT=n case.
  [GENETLINK]: Relax dances with genl_lock.
  [NETLABEL]: Fix lookup logic of netlbl_domhsh_search_def.
  [IPV6]: remove unused method declaration (net/ndisc.h).
  ...

Fixes a segmentation fault when trying to splice from a non-TCP socket.
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <rdenis@simphalempin.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch avoids a null pointer dereference when we read local_mac 
for netconsole in configfs and shows default local mac address
value.

A null pointer dereference occurs when we call show_local_mac() via 
local_mac entry in configfs before we setup the content of netpoll
using netpoll_setup().
Signed-off-by: Keiichi KII <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

I managed to reverse the local_df test when forward-porting this
patch so it actually makes things worse by never fragmenting at
all.

Thanks to David Stevens for testing and reporting this bug.

Bill Fink pointed out that the local_df setting is also the wrong
way around.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid:
  HID: add USB IDs for MacBook 3rd generation
  HID: add LCSPEC from VERNIER to quirk list
  HID: fix processing of event quirks
  HID: Blacklist new GTCO CalComp USB device PIDs

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6:
  ACPI: DMI: quirk for FSC ESPRIMO Mobile V5505
  ACPI: DMI blacklist updates
  pnpacpi: __initdata is not an identifier
  ACPI: static acpi_chain_head
  ACPI: static acpi_find_dsdt_initrd()
  ACPI: static acpi_no_initrd_override_setup()
  thinkpad_acpi: static
  ACPI suspend: Execute _WAK with the right argument
  cpuidle: Add Documentation
  ACPI, cpuidle: Clarify C-state description in sysfs
  ACPI: fix suspend regression due to idle update

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (46 commits)
  sh: Fix multiple UTLB hit on UP SH-4.
  sh: fix pci io access for r2d boards
  sh: fix ioreadN_rep and iowriteN_rep
  sh: use ctrl_in/out for on chip pci access
  sh: Kill off more dead symbols.
  sh: __uncached_start only on sh32.
  sh: asm/irq.h needs asm/cpu/irq.h.
  serial: sh-sci: Fix up SH-5 build.
  sh: Get SH-5 caches working again post-unification.
  maple: Fix up maple build failure.
  sh: Kill off bogus SH_SDK7780_STANDALONE symbol.
  sh: asm/tlb.h needs linux/pagemap.h for CONFIG_SWAP=n.
  sh: Tidy include/asm-sh/hp6xx.h
  maple: improve detection of attached peripherals
  sh: Shut up some trivial build warnings.
  sh: Update SH-5 flush_cache_sigtramp() for API changes.
  sh: Fix up set_fixmap_nocache() for SH-5.
  sh: Fix up pte_mkhuge() build breakage for SH-5.
  sh: Disable big endian for SH-5.
  sh: Handle SH7366 CPU in check_bugs().
  ...

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt:
  hrtimer: catch expired CLOCK_REALTIME timers early
  hrtimer: check relative timeouts for overflow

* 'slab-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/christoph/vm:
  slub: Support 4k kmallocs again to compensate for page allocator slowness
  slub: Fallback to kmalloc_large for failing higher order allocs
  slub: Determine gfpflags once and not every time a slab is allocated
  make slub.c:slab_address() static
  slub: kmalloc page allocator pass-through cleanup
  slab: avoid double initialization & do initialization in 1 place

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
  RDMA/cma: Do not issue MRA if user rejects connection request
  mlx4_core: Move table_find from fmr_alloc to fmr_enable
  IB/mlx4: mlx4_ib_fmr_alloc() should call mlx4_fmr_enable()
  IPoIB: Remove unused struct ipoib_cm_tx.ibwc member
  IPoIB: On P_Key change event, reset state properly
  IB/mthca: Convert to use be16_add_cpu()
  RDMA/cxgb3: Fail loopback connections
  IB/cm: Fix infiniband_cm class kobject ref counting
  IB/cm: Remove debug printk()s that snuck upstream
  IB/mthca: Add missing sg_init_table() in mthca_map_user_db()

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86:
  x86: cpa, fix out of date comment
  KVM is not seen under X86 config with latest git (32 bit compile)
  x86: cpa: ensure page alignment
  x86: include proper prototypes for rodata_test
  x86: fix gart_iommu_init()
  x86: EFI set_memory_x()/set_memory_uc() fixes
  x86: make dump_pagetable() static
  x86: fix "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context" in print_vma_addr()

* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
  [POWERPC] Remove unused CONFIG_WANT_DEVICE_TREE
  [POWERPC] Cell RAS: Remove DEBUG, and add license and copyright
  [POWERPC] hvc_rtas_init() must be __init
  [POWERPC] free_property() must not be __init
  [POWERPC] vdso_do_func_patch{32,64}() must be __init
  [POWERPC] Remove generated files on make clean
  [POWERPC] Fix arch/ppc compilation - add typedef for pgtable_t
  [POWERPC] Wire up new timerfd syscalls
  [POWERPC] PS3: Update sys-manager button events
  [POWERPC] PS3: Sys-manager code cleanup
  [POWERPC] PS3: Use system reboot on restart
  [POWERPC] PS3: Fix bootwrapper hang bug
  [POWERPC] PS3: Fix reading pm interval in logical performance monitor
  [POWERPC] PS3: Fix setting bookmark in logical performance monitor
  [POWERPC] Fix DEBUG_PREEMPT warning when warning

Extract the common code to remove a dentry from the lru into a new function
dentry_lru_remove().

Two call sites used list_del() instead of list_del_init().  AFAIK the
performance of both is the same.  dentry_lru_remove() does a list_del_init().

As a result dentry->d_lru is now always empty when a dentry is freed.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

d_path() is used on a <dentry,vfsmount> pair.  Lets use a struct path to
reflect this.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build in mm/memory.c]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Acked-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

seq_path() is always called with a dentry and a vfsmount from a struct path.
Make seq_path() take it directly as an argument.
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

I'm embedding struct path into struct svc_expkey.
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

I'm embedding struct path into struct svc_export.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[ezk@cs.sunysb.edu: NFSD: fix wrong mnt_writer count in rename]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

get_dcookie() is always called with a dentry and a vfsmount from a struct
path.  Make get_dcookie() take it directly as an argument.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

proc_get_link() is always called with a dentry and a vfsmount from a struct
path.  Make proc_get_link() take it directly as an argument.
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

audit_log_d_path() is a d_path() wrapper that is used by the audit code.  To
use a struct path in audit_log_d_path() I need to embed it into struct
avc_audit_data.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Move and update d_path() kernel API documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>