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  5. 19 Mar, 2006 2 commits
    • Michael Chan's avatar
      [TG3]: 40-bit DMA workaround part 2 · 4a29cc2e
      Michael Chan authored 
      The 40-bit DMA workaround recently implemented for 5714, 5715, and
5780 needs to be expanded because there may be other tg3 devices
behind the EPB Express to PCIX bridge in the 5780 class device.

For example, some 4-port card or mother board designs have 5704 behind
the 5714.

All devices behind the EPB require the 40-bit DMA workaround.

Thanks to Chris Elmquist again for reporting the problem and testing
the patch.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      4a29cc2e
    • Ralf Baechle DL5RB's avatar
      [AX.25]: Fix potencial memory hole. · c7c694d1
      Ralf Baechle DL5RB authored 
      If the AX.25 dialect chosen by the sysadmin is set to DAMA master / 3
(or DAMA slave / 2, if CONFIG_AX25_DAMA_SLAVE=n) ax25_kick() will fall
through the switch statement without calling ax25_send_iframe() or any
other function that would eventually free skbn thus leaking the packet.

Fix by restricting the sysctl inferface to allow only actually supported
AX.25 dialects.

The system administration mistake needed for this to happen is rather
unlikely, so this is an uncritical hole.

Coverity #651.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRalf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      c7c694d1
  7. 18 Mar, 2006 16 commits
  9. 17 Mar, 2006 5 commits
    • Hugh Dickins's avatar
      [PATCH] fix free swap cache latency · 6f5e6b9e
      Hugh Dickins authored 
      Lee Revell reported 28ms latency when process with lots of swapped memory
exits.

2.6.15 introduced a latency regression when unmapping: in accounting the
zap_work latency breaker, pte_none counted 1, pte_present PAGE_SIZE, but a
swap entry counted nothing at all.  We think of pages present as the slow
case, but Lee's trace shows that free_swap_and_cache's radix tree lookup
can make a lot of work - and we could have been doing it many thousands of
times without a latency break.

Move the zap_work update up to account swap entries like pages present.
This does account non-linear pte_file entries, and unmap_mapping_range
skipping over swap entries, by the same amount even though they're quick:
but neither of those cases deserves complicating the code (and they're
treated no worse than they were in 2.6.14).
Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      6f5e6b9e
    • Sam Ravnborg's avatar
      [PATCH] kbuild: fix buffer overflow in modpost · 7670f023
      Sam Ravnborg authored 
      Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> reported that modpost would stop with SIGABRT if
used with long filepaths.
The error looked like:
>   Building modules, stage 2.
>   MODPOST
> *** glibc detected *** scripts/mod/modpost: realloc(): invalid next size:
+0x0809f588 ***
> [...]

Fix this by allocating at least the required memory + SZ bytes each time.
Before we sometimes ended up allocating too little memory resuting in the
glibc detected bug above.  Based on patch originally submitted by: Jiri
Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      7670f023
    • Peter Staubach's avatar
      [PATCH] nfsservctl(): remove user-triggerable printk · 85c6932e
      Peter Staubach authored 
      A user can use nfsservctl() to spam the logs.

This can happen because the arguments to the nfsservctl() system call are
versioned.  This is a good thing.  However, when a bad version is detected,
the kernel prints a message and then returns an error.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      85c6932e
    • Christoph Lameter's avatar
      [PATCH] fix race in pagevec_strip? · 5b40dc78
      Christoph Lameter authored 
      We can call try_to_release_page() with PagePrivate off and a valid
page->mapping This may cause all sorts of trouble for the filesystem
*_releasepage() handlers.  XFS bombs out in that case.

Lock the page before checking for page private.
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      5b40dc78
    • Kevin Corry's avatar
      [PATCH] dm stripe: Fix bounds · 8ba32fde
      Kevin Corry authored 
      The dm-stripe target currently does not enforce that the size of a stripe
device be a multiple of the chunk-size.  Under certain conditions, this can
lead to I/O requests going off the end of an underlying device.  This
test-case shows one example.

echo "0 100 linear /dev/hdb1 0" | dmsetup create linear0
echo "0 100 linear /dev/hdb1 100" | dmsetup create linear1
echo "0 200 striped 2 32 /dev/mapper/linear0 0 /dev/mapper/linear1 0" | \
   dmsetup create stripe0
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/stripe0 bs=1k

This will produce the output:
dd: writing '/dev/mapper/stripe0': Input/output error
97+0 records in
96+0 records out

And in the kernel log will be:
attempt to access beyond end of device
dm-0: rw=0, want=104, limit=100

The patch will check that the table size is a multiple of the stripe
chunk-size when the table is created, which will prevent the above striped
device from being created.

This should not affect tools like LVM or EVMS, since in all the cases I can
think of, striped devices are always created with the sizes being a
multiple of the chunk-size.

The size of a stripe device must be a multiple of its chunk-size.

(akpm: that typecast is quite gratuitous)
Signed-off-by: default avatarKevin Corry <kevcorry@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      8ba32fde
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