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  7. 23 Apr, 2007 1 commit
    • Shaohua Li's avatar
      x86 microcode: don't check the size · fe1a5ddf
      Shaohua Li authored 
      IA32 manual says if micorcode update's size is 0, then the size is
default size (2048 bytes). But this doesn't suggest all microcode
update's size should be above 2048 bytes to me. We actually had a
microcode update whose size is 1024 bytes. The patch just removed the
check.

Backported by Daniel Drake.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
      fe1a5ddf
  9. 22 Apr, 2007 1 commit
  11. 20 Apr, 2007 4 commits
    • Adrian Bunk's avatar
      Linux 2.6.16.49-rc1 · eeceec45
      Adrian Bunk authored
      eeceec45
    • Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho's avatar
      tty_io: fix race in master pty close/slave pty close path · fec2411a
      Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho authored 
      This patch fixes a possible race that leads to double freeing an idr index.
 When the master begin to close, release_dev() is called and then
pty_close() is called:

        if (tty->driver->close)
                tty->driver->close(tty, filp);

This is done without helding any locks other than BKL.  Inside pty_close(),
being a master close, the devpts entry will be removed:

#ifdef CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS
                if (tty->driver == ptm_driver)
                        devpts_pty_kill(tty->index);
#endif

But devpts_pty_kill() will call get_node() that may sleep while waiting for
&devpts_root->d_inode->i_sem.  When this happens and the slave is being
opened, tty_open() just found the driver and index:

        driver = get_tty_driver(device, &index);
        if (!driver) {
                mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
                return -ENODEV;
        }

This part of the code is already protected under tty_mute.  The problem is
that the slave close already got an index.  Then init_dev() is called and
blocks waiting for the same &devpts_root->d_inode->i_sem.

When the master close resumes, it removes the devpts entry, and the
relation between idr index and the tty is gone.  The master then sleeps
waiting for the tty_mutex on release_dev().

Slave open resumes and found no tty for that index.  As result, a NULL tty
is returned and init_dev() doesn't flow to fast_track:

        /* check whether we're reopening an existing tty */
        if (driver->flags & TTY_DRIVER_DEVPTS_MEM) {
                tty = devpts_get_tty(idx);
                if (tty && driver->subtype == PTY_TYPE_MASTER)
                        tty = tty->link;
        } else {
                tty = driver->ttys[idx];
        }
        if (tty) goto fast_track;

The result of this, is that a new tty will be created and init_dev() returns
sucessfull. After returning, tty_mutex is dropped and master close may resume.

Master close finds it's the only use and both sides are closing, then releases
the tty and the index. At this point, the idr index is free, but slave still
has it.

Slave open then calls pty_open() and finds that tty->link->count is 0,
because there's no master and returns error.  Then tty_open() calls
release_dev() which executes without any warning, as it was a case of last
slave close when the master is already closed (master->count == 0,
slave->count == 1).  The tty is then released with the already released idr
index.

This normally would only issue a warning on idr_remove() but in case of a
customer's critical application, it's never too simple:

thread1: opens master, gets index X
thread1: begin closing master
thread2: begin opening slave with index X
thread1: finishes closing master, index X released
thread3: opens master, gets index X, just released
thread2: fails opening slave, releases index X         <----
thread4: opens master, gets index X, init_dev() then find an already in use
         and healthy tty and fails

If no more indexes are released, ptmx_open() will keep failing, as the
first free index available is X, and it will make init_dev() fail because
you're trying to "reopen a master" which isn't valid.

The patch notices when this race happens and make init_dev() fail
imediately.  The init_dev() function is called with tty_mutex held, so it's
safe to continue with tty till the end of function because release_dev()
won't make any further changes without grabbing the tty_mutex.

Without the patch, on some machines it's possible get easily idr warnings
like this one:

idr_remove called for id=15 which is not allocated.
 [<c02555b9>] idr_remove+0x139/0x170
 [<c02a1b62>] release_mem+0x182/0x230
 [<c02a28e7>] release_dev+0x4b7/0x700
 [<c02a0ea7>] tty_ldisc_enable+0x27/0x30
 [<c02a1e64>] init_dev+0x254/0x580
 [<c02a0d64>] check_tty_count+0x14/0xb0
 [<c02a4f05>] tty_open+0x1c5/0x340
 [<c02a4d40>] tty_open+0x0/0x340
 [<c017388f>] chrdev_open+0xaf/0x180
 [<c017c2ac>] open_namei+0x8c/0x760
 [<c01737e0>] chrdev_open+0x0/0x180
 [<c0167bc9>] __dentry_open+0xc9/0x210
 [<c0167e2c>] do_filp_open+0x5c/0x70
 [<c0167a91>] get_unused_fd+0x61/0xd0
 [<c0167e93>] do_sys_open+0x53/0x100
 [<c0167f97>] sys_open+0x27/0x30
 [<c010303b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

using this test application available on:
 http://www.ruivo.org/~aris/pty_sodomizer.cSigned-off-by: default avatarAristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho <aris@ruivo.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
      fec2411a
    • Linas Vepstas's avatar
      elevator: move clearing of unplug flag earlier · 908991f1
      Linas Vepstas authored 
      A flag was recently added to the elevator code to avoid
performing an unplug when reuests are being re-queued.
The goal of this flag was to avoid a deep recursion that
can occur when re-queueing requests after a SCSI device/host
reset.  See http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/17/254

However, that fix added the flag near the bottom of a case
statement, where an earlier break (in an if statement) could
transport one out of the case, without setting the flag.
This patch sets the flag earlier in the case statement.

I re-discovered the deep recursion recently during testing;
I was told that it was a known problem, and the fix to it was
in the kernel I was testing. Indeed it was ... but it didn't
fix the bug. With the patch below, I no longer see the bug.

Signed-off by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
      908991f1
    • Ard van Breemen's avatar
      start_kernel: test if irq's got enabled early, barf, and disable them again · cfef9300
      Ard van Breemen authored 
      The calls made by parse_parms to other initialization code might enable
interrupts again way too early.

Having interrupts on this early can make systems PANIC when they initialize
the IRQ controllers (which happens later in the code).  This patch detects
that irq's are enabled again, barfs about it and disables them again as a
safety net.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: default avatarArd van Breemen <ard@telegraafnet.nl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
      cfef9300
  13. 19 Apr, 2007 7 commits
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