1. 20 Feb, 2013 1 commit
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · e84cf5d0
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molnar:
       "SRCU changes:
      
         - These include debugging aids, updates that move towards the goal of
           permitting srcu_read_lock() and srcu_read_unlock() to be used from
           idle and offline CPUs, and a few small fixes.
      
        Changes to rcutorture and to RCU documentation:
      
         - Posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/26/188
      
        Enhancements to uniprocessor handling in tiny RCU:
      
         - Posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/27/2
      
        Tag RCU callbacks with grace-period number to simplify callback
        advancement:
      
         - Posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/26/203
      
        Miscellaneous fixes:
      
         - Posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/26/204"
      
      * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
        srcu: use ACCESS_ONCE() to access sp->completed in srcu_read_lock()
        srcu: Update synchronize_srcu_expedited()'s comments
        srcu: Update synchronize_srcu()'s comments
        srcu: Remove checks preventing idle CPUs from calling srcu_read_lock()
        srcu: Remove checks preventing offline CPUs from calling srcu_read_lock()
        srcu: Simple cleanup for cleanup_srcu_struct()
        srcu: Add might_sleep() annotation to synchronize_srcu()
        srcu: Simplify __srcu_read_unlock() via this_cpu_dec()
        rcu: Allow rcutorture to be built at low optimization levels
        rcu: Make rcutorture's shuffler task shuffle recently added tasks
        rcu: Allow TREE_PREEMPT_RCU on UP systems
        rcu: Provide RCU CPU stall warnings for tiny RCU
        context_tracking: Add comments on interface and internals
        rcu: Remove obsolete Kconfig option from comment
        rcu: Remove unused code originally used for context tracking
        rcu: Consolidate debugging Kconfig options
        rcu: Correct 'optimized' to 'optimize' in header comment
        rcu: Trace callback acceleration
        rcu: Tag callback lists with corresponding grace-period number
        rcutorture: Don't compare ptr with 0
        ...
      e84cf5d0
  2. 18 Feb, 2013 3 commits
  3. 15 Feb, 2013 9 commits
  4. 14 Feb, 2013 4 commits
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      sunvdc: Fix off-by-one in generic_request(). · f4d96054
      David S. Miller authored
      The 'operations' bitmap corresponds one-for-one with the operation
      codes, no adjustment is necessary.
      Reported-by: default avatarMark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      f4d96054
    • Tomi Valkeinen's avatar
      omapdrm: fix the dependency to omapdss · 91e83ffd
      Tomi Valkeinen authored
      omapdrm uses "select" in Kconfig to enable omapdss. This doesn't work
      correctly, as "select" forces omapdss to be enabled in the config even
      if it normally could not be enabled because of missing Kconfig
      dependencies.
      
      This causes a build break on ARM, when using allyesconfig:
      
      drivers/video/omap2/dss/dss.c: In function 'dss_calc_clock_div':
      drivers/video/omap2/dss/dss.c:572:20: error: 'CONFIG_OMAP2_DSS_MIN_FCK_PER_PCK' undeclared (first use in this function)
      drivers/video/omap2/dss/dss.c:572:20: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
      
      Instead of using select, this patch changes omapdrm to use "depend
      on".
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
      91e83ffd
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      OMAPDSS: add FEAT_DPI_USES_VDDS_DSI to omap3630_dss_feat_list · eb91e79b
      NeilBrown authored
      commit 195e672a
         OMAPDSS: DPI: Remove cpu_is_xxxx checks
      
      made the mistake of assuming that cpu_is_omap34xx() is exclusive of
      other cpu_is_* predicates whereas it includes cpu_is_omap3630().
      
      So on an omap3630, code that was previously enabled by
        if (cpu_is_omap34xx())
      is now disabled as
        dss_has_feature(FEAT_DPI_USES_VDDS_DSI)
      fails.
      
      So add FEAT_DPI_USES_VDDS_DSI to omap3630_dss_feat_list.
      
      Cc: Chandrabhanu Mahapatra <cmahapatra@ti.com>
      Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
      eb91e79b
    • Satoru Takeuchi's avatar
      efi: Clear EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES rather than EFI_BOOT by "noefi" boot parameter · 1de63d60
      Satoru Takeuchi authored
      There was a serious problem in samsung-laptop that its platform driver is
      designed to run under BIOS and running under EFI can cause the machine to
      become bricked or can cause Machine Check Exceptions.
      
          Discussion about this problem:
          https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557
          https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121
      
          The patches to fix this problem:
          efi: Make 'efi_enabled' a function to query EFI facilities
          83e68189
      
          samsung-laptop: Disable on EFI hardware
          e0094244
      
      Unfortunately this problem comes back again if users specify "noefi" option.
      This parameter clears EFI_BOOT and that driver continues to run even if running
      under EFI. Refer to the document, this parameter should clear
      EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES instead.
      
      Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt:
      ===============================================================================
      ...
      	noefi		[X86] Disable EFI runtime services support.
      ...
      ===============================================================================
      
      Documentation/x86/x86_64/uefi.txt:
      ===============================================================================
      ...
      - If some or all EFI runtime services don't work, you can try following
        kernel command line parameters to turn off some or all EFI runtime
        services.
      	noefi		turn off all EFI runtime services
      ...
      ===============================================================================
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSatoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/511C2C04.2070108@jp.fujitsu.com
      Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
      1de63d60
  5. 13 Feb, 2013 18 commits
    • Cyril Roelandt's avatar
      xen: remove redundant NULL check before unregister_and_remove_pcpu(). · 4f8c8527
      Cyril Roelandt authored
      unregister_and_remove_pcpu on a NULL pointer is a no-op, so the NULL check in
      sync_pcpu can be removed.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarCyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
      4f8c8527
    • Jan Beulich's avatar
      x86/xen: don't assume %ds is usable in xen_iret for 32-bit PVOPS. · 13d2b4d1
      Jan Beulich authored
      This fixes CVE-2013-0228 / XSA-42
      
      Drew Jones while working on CVE-2013-0190 found that that unprivileged guest user
      in 32bit PV guest can use to crash the > guest with the panic like this:
      
      -------------
      general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
      last sysfs file: /sys/devices/vbd-51712/block/xvda/dev
      Modules linked in: sunrpc ipt_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4
      iptable_filter ip_tables ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6
      xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipv6 xen_netfront ext4
      mbcache jbd2 xen_blkfront dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod [last
      unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
      
      Pid: 1250, comm: r Not tainted 2.6.32-356.el6.i686 #1
      EIP: 0061:[<c0407462>] EFLAGS: 00010086 CPU: 0
      EIP is at xen_iret+0x12/0x2b
      EAX: eb8d0000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 08049860 EDX: 00000010
      ESI: 00000000 EDI: 003d0f00 EBP: b77f8388 ESP: eb8d1fe0
       DS: 0000 ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 00e0 SS: 0069
      Process r (pid: 1250, ti=eb8d0000 task=c2953550 task.ti=eb8d0000)
      Stack:
       00000000 0027f416 00000073 00000206 b77f8364 0000007b 00000000 00000000
      Call Trace:
      Code: c3 8b 44 24 18 81 4c 24 38 00 02 00 00 8d 64 24 30 e9 03 00 00 00
      8d 76 00 f7 44 24 08 00 00 02 80 75 33 50 b8 00 e0 ff ff 21 e0 <8b> 40
      10 8b 04 85 a0 f6 ab c0 8b 80 0c b0 b3 c0 f6 44 24 0d 02
      EIP: [<c0407462>] xen_iret+0x12/0x2b SS:ESP 0069:eb8d1fe0
      general protection fault: 0000 [#2]
      ---[ end trace ab0d29a492dcd330 ]---
      Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
      Pid: 1250, comm: r Tainted: G      D    ---------------
      2.6.32-356.el6.i686 #1
      Call Trace:
       [<c08476df>] ? panic+0x6e/0x122
       [<c084b63c>] ? oops_end+0xbc/0xd0
       [<c084b260>] ? do_general_protection+0x0/0x210
       [<c084a9b7>] ? error_code+0x73/
      -------------
      
      Petr says: "
       I've analysed the bug and I think that xen_iret() cannot cope with
       mangled DS, in this case zeroed out (null selector/descriptor) by either
       xen_failsafe_callback() or RESTORE_REGS because the corresponding LDT
       entry was invalidated by the reproducer. "
      
      Jan took a look at the preliminary patch and came up a fix that solves
      this problem:
      
      "This code gets called after all registers other than those handled by
      IRET got already restored, hence a null selector in %ds or a non-null
      one that got loaded from a code or read-only data descriptor would
      cause a kernel mode fault (with the potential of crashing the kernel
      as a whole, if panic_on_oops is set)."
      
      The way to fix this is to realize that the we can only relay on the
      registers that IRET restores. The two that are guaranteed are the
      %cs and %ss as they are always fixed GDT selectors. Also they are
      inaccessible from user mode - so they cannot be altered. This is
      the approach taken in this patch.
      
      Another alternative option suggested by Jan would be to relay on
      the subtle realization that using the %ebp or %esp relative references uses
      the %ss segment.  In which case we could switch from using %eax to %ebp and
      would not need the %ss over-rides. That would also require one extra
      instruction to compensate for the one place where the register is used
      as scaled index. However Andrew pointed out that is too subtle and if
      further work was to be done in this code-path it could escape folks attention
      and lead to accidents.
      Reviewed-by: default avatarPetr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com>
      Reported-by: default avatarPetr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
      13d2b4d1
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      sparc64: Fix get_user_pages_fast() wrt. THP. · 89a77915
      David S. Miller authored
      Mostly mirrors the s390 logic, as unlike x86 we don't need the
      SetPageReferenced() bits.
      
      On sparc64 we also lack a user/privileged bit in the huge PMDs.
      
      In order to make this work for THP and non-THP builds, some header
      file adjustments were necessary.  Namely, provide the PMD_HUGE_* bit
      defines and the pmd_large() inline unconditionally rather than
      protected by TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE.
      Reported-by: default avatarAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      89a77915
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      sparc64: Add missing HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE. · b9156ebb
      David S. Miller authored
      This got missed in the cleanups done for the S390 THP
      support.
      
      CC: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      b9156ebb
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net · 323a72d8
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
       "This is primarily to get those r8169 reverts sorted, but other fixes
        have accumulated meanwhile.
      
         1) Revert two r8169 changes to fix suspend/resume for some users,
            from Francois Romieu.
      
         2) PCI dma mapping errors in atl1c are not checked for and this cause
            hard crashes for some users, from Xiong Huang.
      
         3) In 3.8.x we merged the removal of the EXPERIMENTAL dependency for
            'dlm' but the same patch for 'sctp' got lost somewhere, resulting
            in the potential for build errors since there are cross
            dependencies.  From Kees Cook.
      
         4) SCTP's ipv6 socket route validation makes boolean tests
            incorrectly, fix from Daniel Borkmann.
      
         5) mac80211 does sizeof(ptr) instead of (sizeof(ptr) * nelem), from
            Cong Ding.
      
         6) arp_rcv() can crash on shared non-linear packets, from Eric
            Dumazet.
      
         7) Avoid crashes in macvtap by setting ->gso_type consistently in
            ixgbe, qlcnic, and bnx2x drivers.  From Michael S Tsirkin and
            Alexander Duyck.
      
         8) Trinity fuzzer spots infinite loop in __skb_recv_datagram(), fix
            from Eric Dumazet.
      
         9) STP protocol frames should use high packet priority, otherwise an
            overloaded bridge can get stuck.  From Stephen Hemminger.
      
        10) The HTB packet scheduler was converted some time ago to store
            internal timestamps in nanoseconds, but we don't convert back into
            psched ticks for the user during dumps.  Fix from Jiri Pirko.
      
        11) mwl8k channel table doesn't set the .band field properly,
            resulting in NULL pointer derefs.  Fix from Jonas Gorski.
      
        12) mac80211 doesn't accumulate channels properly during a scan so we
            can downgrade heavily to a much less desirable connection speed.
            Fix from Johannes Berg.
      
        13) PHY probe failure in stmmac can result in resource leaks and
            double MDIO registery later, from Giuseppe CAVALLARO.
      
        14) Correct ipv6 checksumming in ip6t_NPT netfilter module, also fix
            address prefix mangling, from YOSHIFUJI Hideaki."
      
      * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (27 commits)
        net, sctp: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
        net: sctp: sctp_v6_get_dst: fix boolean test in dst cache
        batman-adv: Fix NULL pointer dereference in DAT hash collision avoidance
        net/macb: fix race with RX interrupt while doing NAPI
        atl1c: add error checking for pci_map_single functions
        htb: fix values in opt dump
        ixgbe: Only set gso_type to SKB_GSO_TCPV4 as RSC does not support IPv6
        net: fix infinite loop in __skb_recv_datagram()
        net: qmi_wwan: add Yota / Megafon M100-1 4g modem
        mwl8k: fix band for supported channels
        bridge: set priority of STP packets
        mac80211: fix channel selection bug
        arp: fix possible crash in arp_rcv()
        bnx2x: set gso_type
        qlcnic: set gso_type
        ixgbe: fix gso type
        stmmac: mdio register has to fail if the phy is not found
        stmmac: fix macro used for debugging the xmit
        Revert "r8169: enable internal ASPM and clock request settings".
        Revert "r8169: enable ALDPS for power saving".
        ...
      323a72d8
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 42976ad0
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull x86 fixes from Peter Anvin:
       "One (hopefully) last batch of x86 fixes.  You asked for the patch by
        patch justifications, so here they are:
      
            x86, MCE: Retract most UAPI exports
      
         This one unexports from userspace a bunch of definitions which should
         never have been exported.  We really don't want to create an
         accidental legacy here.
      
            x86, doc: Add a bootloader ID for OVMF
      
         This is a documentation-only patch, just recording the official
         assignment of a boot loader ID.
      
            x86: Do not leak kernel page mapping locations
      
         Security: avoid making it needlessly easy for user space to probe the
         kernel memory layout.
      
            x86/mm: Check if PUD is large when validating a kernel address
      
         Prevent failures using /proc/kcore when using 1G pages.
      
            x86/apic: Work around boot failure on HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server systems
      
         Works around a BIOS problem causing boot failures on affected hardware."
      
      * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
        x86/mm: Check if PUD is large when validating a kernel address
        x86/apic: Work around boot failure on HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server systems
        x86, doc: Add a bootloader ID for OVMF
        x86: Do not leak kernel page mapping locations
        x86, MCE: Retract most UAPI exports
      42976ad0
    • Wolfram Sang's avatar
      MAINTAINERS: change my email and repos · 14d77c4d
      Wolfram Sang authored
      Change to my private email, change to my shiny new kernel.org repos,
      and drop outdated entry from the former maintainer. Drop my PCA entry,
      too, since it belongs to the I2C realm anyhow.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarWolfram Sang <wolfram@the-dreams.de>
      14d77c4d
    • Rafael J. Wysocki's avatar
      PCI/PM: Clean up PME state when removing a device · 249bfb83
      Rafael J. Wysocki authored
      Devices are added to pci_pme_list when drivers use pci_enable_wake()
      or pci_wake_from_d3(), but they aren't removed from the list unless
      the driver explicitly disables wakeup.  Many drivers never disable
      wakeup, so their devices remain on the list even after they are
      removed, e.g., via hotplug.  A subsequent PME poll will oops when
      it tries to touch the device.
      
      This patch disables PME# on a device before removing it, which removes
      the device from pci_pme_list.  This is safe even if the device never
      had PME# enabled.
      
      This oops can be triggered by unplugging a Thunderbolt ethernet adapter
      on a Macbook Pro, as reported by Daniel below.
      
      [bhelgaas: changelog]
      Reference: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAMVG2svG21yiM1wkH4_2pen2n+cr2-Zv7TbH3Gj+8MwevZjDbw@mail.gmail.comReported-and-tested-by: default avatarDaniel J Blueman <daniel@quora.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
      CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
      249bfb83
    • Kees Cook's avatar
      net, sctp: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL · 3bdb1a44
      Kees Cook authored
      This config item has not carried much meaning for a while now and is
      almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the Linux kernel
      summit, remove it.
      Acked-by: default avatarVlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      3bdb1a44
    • Daniel Borkmann's avatar
      net: sctp: sctp_v6_get_dst: fix boolean test in dst cache · e9c0dfba
      Daniel Borkmann authored
      We walk through the bind address list and try to get the best source
      address for a given destination. However, currently, we take the
      'continue' path of the loop when an entry is invalid (!laddr->valid)
      *and* the entry state does not equal SCTP_ADDR_SRC (laddr->state !=
      SCTP_ADDR_SRC).
      
      Thus, still, invalid entries with SCTP_ADDR_SRC might not 'continue'
      as well as valid entries with SCTP_ADDR_{NEW, SRC, DEL}, with a possible
      false baddr and matchlen as a result, causing in worst case dst route
      to be false or possibly NULL.
      
      This test should actually be a '||' instead of '&&'. But lets fix it
      and make this a bit easier to read by having the condition the same way
      as similarly done in sctp_v4_get_dst.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarVlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      e9c0dfba
    • Pau Koning's avatar
      batman-adv: Fix NULL pointer dereference in DAT hash collision avoidance · 816cd5b8
      Pau Koning authored
      An entry in DAT with the hashed position of 0 can cause a NULL pointer
      dereference when the first entry is checked by batadv_choose_next_candidate.
      This first candidate automatically has the max value of 0 and the max_orig_node
      of NULL. Not checking max_orig_node for NULL in batadv_is_orig_node_eligible
      will lead to a NULL pointer dereference when checking for the lowest address.
      
      This problem was added in 785ea114
      ("batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - create DHT helper functions").
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPau Koning <paukoning@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      816cd5b8
    • Nicolas Ferre's avatar
      net/macb: fix race with RX interrupt while doing NAPI · 8770e91a
      Nicolas Ferre authored
      When interrupts are disabled, an RX condition can occur but
      it is not reported when enabling interrupts again. We need to check
      RSR and use napi_reschedule() if condition is met.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      8770e91a
    • Huang, Xiong's avatar
      atl1c: add error checking for pci_map_single functions · ac574804
      Huang, Xiong authored
      it is reported that code hit DMA-API errors on 3.8-rc6+,
      (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908436, and
           https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908550)
      
      this patch just adds error handler for
          pci_map_single and skb_frag_dma_map.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarxiong <xiong@qca.qualcomm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      ac574804
    • Mel Gorman's avatar
      x86/mm: Check if PUD is large when validating a kernel address · 0ee364eb
      Mel Gorman authored
      A user reported the following oops when a backup process reads
      /proc/kcore:
      
       BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffbb00ff33b000
       IP: [<ffffffff8103157e>] kern_addr_valid+0xbe/0x110
       [...]
      
       Call Trace:
        [<ffffffff811b8aaa>] read_kcore+0x17a/0x370
        [<ffffffff811ad847>] proc_reg_read+0x77/0xc0
        [<ffffffff81151687>] vfs_read+0xc7/0x130
        [<ffffffff811517f3>] sys_read+0x53/0xa0
        [<ffffffff81449692>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
      
      Investigation determined that the bug triggered when reading
      system RAM at the 4G mark. On this system, that was the first
      address using 1G pages for the virt->phys direct mapping so the
      PUD is pointing to a physical address, not a PMD page.
      
      The problem is that the page table walker in kern_addr_valid() is
      not checking pud_large() and treats the physical address as if
      it was a PMD.  If it happens to look like pmd_none then it'll
      silently fail, probably returning zeros instead of real data. If
      the data happens to look like a present PMD though, it will be
      walked resulting in the oops above.
      
      This patch adds the necessary pud_large() check.
      
      Unfortunately the problem was not readily reproducible and now
      they are running the backup program without accessing
      /proc/kcore so the patch has not been validated but I think it
      makes sense.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.coM>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
      Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130211145236.GX21389@suse.deSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      0ee364eb
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      Merge branch 'rcu/srcu' of... · ac0e3202
      Ingo Molnar authored
      Merge branch 'rcu/srcu' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
      
      Pull SRCU changes from Paul E. McKenney.
      
        " These include debugging aids, updates that move towards the goal
          of permitting srcu_read_lock() and srcu_read_unlock() to be used
          from idle and offline CPUs, and a few small fixes. "
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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      Merge branch 'autofs-fix' of... · ecf223fc
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Merge branch 'autofs-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux into akpm
      
      Pull hp parisc automounter fix from Helge Deller:
       "This unbreaks automounter support for the parisc architecture (and
        probably aarch64 as well).""
      
      * 'autofs-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
        unbreak automounter support on 64-bit kernel with 32-bit userspace (v2)
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      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux into akpm · a0e5056e
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull s390 regression fix from Martin Schwidefsky:
       "The recent fix for the s390 sched_clock() function uncovered yet
        another bug in s390_next_ktime which causes an endless loop in KVM.
        This regression should be fixed before v3.8.
      
        I keep the fingers crossed that this is the last one for v3.8."
      
      * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux:
        s390/timer: avoid overflow when programming clock comparator
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      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu into akpm · f2ea97cb
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull m68knommu fix from Greg Ungerer:
       "This contains a single critical fix for the non-MMU m68k platforms.
      
        The change of the kernel exec code path has revealed a problem in the
        start thread code that causes crashing on boot.  This is the fix for
        it."
      
      * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu:
        m68knommu: fix trap on execing /bin/init
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