- 23 Jun, 2008 5 commits
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Trond Myklebust authored
This appears to fix the Oops reported in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10826Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Nick Piggin authored
There is a race in the COW logic. It contains a shortcut to avoid the COW and reuse the page if we have the sole reference on the page, however it is possible to have two racing do_wp_page()ers with one causing the other to mistakenly believe it is safe to take the shortcut when it is not. This could lead to data corruption. Process 1 and process2 each have a wp pte of the same anon page (ie. one forked the other). The page's mapcount is 2. Then they both attempt to write to it around the same time... proc1 proc2 thr1 proc2 thr2 CPU0 CPU1 CPU3 do_wp_page() do_wp_page() trylock_page() can_share_swap_page() load page mapcount (==2) reuse = 0 pte unlock copy page to new_page pte lock page_remove_rmap(page); trylock_page() can_share_swap_page() load page mapcount (==1) reuse = 1 ptep_set_access_flags (allow W) write private key into page read from page ptep_clear_flush() set_pte_at(pte of new_page) Fix this by moving the page_remove_rmap of the old page after the pte clear and flush. Potentially the entire branch could be moved down here, but in order to stay consistent, I won't (should probably move all the *_mm_counter stuff with one patch). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Commit 89f5b7da ("Reinstate ZERO_PAGE optimization in 'get_user_pages()' and fix XIP") broke vmware, as reported by Jeff Chua: "This broke vmware 6.0.4. Jun 22 14:53:03.845: vmx| NOT_IMPLEMENTED /build/mts/release/bora-93057/bora/vmx/main/vmmonPosix.c:774" and the reason seems to be that there's an old bug in how we handle do FOLL_ANON on VM_SHARED areas in get_user_pages(), but since it only triggered if the whole page table was missing, nobody had apparently hit it before. The recent changes to 'follow_page()' made the FOLL_ANON logic trigger not just for whole missing page tables, but for individual pages as well, and exposed this problem. This fixes it by making the test for when FOLL_ANON is used more careful, and also makes the code easier to read and understand by moving the logic to a separate inline function. Reported-and-tested-by: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Gustavo Fernando Padovan authored
I noted that the 'struct tty_struct *real_tty' is not used in this function, so I removed the code about 'real_tty'. Signed-off-by: Gustavo Fernando Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alan Cox authored
Some of the requirement rules are now more relaxed. Also correct a contradiction in the previous update Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 22 Jun, 2008 1 commit
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Linus Torvalds authored
Christian Borntraeger reported that reinstating cond_resched() with CONFIG_PREEMPT caused a performance regression on lmbench: For example select file 500: 23 microseconds 32 microseconds and that's really because we totally unnecessarily do the cond_resched() in the innermost loop of select(), which is just silly. This moves it out from the innermost loop (which only ever loops ove the bits in a single "unsigned long" anyway), which makes the performance regression go away. Reported-and-tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 21 Jun, 2008 9 commits
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Christoph Lameter authored
The zonelist patches caused the loop that checks for available objects in permitted zones to not terminate immediately. One object per zone per allocation may be allocated and then abandoned. Break the loop when we have successfully allocated one object. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: Ext4: Fix online resize block group descriptor corruption
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git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6: hwmon: (lm75) sensor reading bugfix hwmon: (abituguru3) update driver detection hwmon: (w83791d) new maintainer hwmon: (abituguru3) Identify Abit AW8D board as such hwmon: Update the sysfs interface documentation hwmon: (adt7473) Initialize max_duty_at_overheat before use hwmon: (lm85) Fix function RANGE_TO_REG()
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Bernhard Walle authored
This patch changes the function reserve_bootmem_node() from void to int, returning -ENOMEM if the allocation fails. This fixes a build problem on x86 with CONFIG_KEXEC=y and CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES=y Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Reported-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: netns: Don't receive new packets in a dead network namespace. sctp: Make sure N * sizeof(union sctp_addr) does not overflow. pppoe: warning fix ipv6: Drop packets for loopback address from outside of the box. ipv6: Remove options header when setsockopt's optlen is 0 mac80211: detect driver tx bugs
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> writes: > Subject: ICMP sockets destruction vs ICMP packets oops > After icmp_sk_exit() nuked ICMP sockets, we get an interrupt. > icmp_reply() wants ICMP socket. > > Steps to reproduce: > > launch shell in new netns > move real NIC to netns > setup routing > ping -i 0 > exit from shell > > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 > IP: [<ffffffff803fce17>] icmp_sk+0x17/0x30 > PGD 17f3cd067 PUD 17f3ce067 PMD 0 > Oops: 0000 [1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC > CPU 0 > Modules linked in: usblp usbcore > Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.26-rc6-netns-ct #4 > RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff803fce17>] [<ffffffff803fce17>] icmp_sk+0x17/0x30 > RSP: 0018:ffffffff8057fc30 EFLAGS: 00010286 > RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff81017c7db900 > RDX: 0000000000000034 RSI: ffff81017c7db900 RDI: ffff81017dc41800 > RBP: ffffffff8057fc40 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 000000000000a815 > R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffffff8057fd28 > R13: ffffffff8057fd00 R14: ffff81017c7db938 R15: ffff81017dc41800 > FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff80525000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b > CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000017fcda000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 > DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 > DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 > Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffffffff8053a000, task ffffffff804fa4a0) > Stack: 0000000000000000 ffff81017c7db900 ffffffff8057fcf0 ffffffff803fcfe4 > ffffffff804faa38 0000000000000246 0000000000005a40 0000000000000246 > 000000000001ffff ffff81017dd68dc0 0000000000005a40 0000000055342436 > Call Trace: > <IRQ> [<ffffffff803fcfe4>] icmp_reply+0x44/0x1e0 > [<ffffffff803d3a0a>] ? ip_route_input+0x23a/0x1360 > [<ffffffff803fd645>] icmp_echo+0x65/0x70 > [<ffffffff803fd300>] icmp_rcv+0x180/0x1b0 > [<ffffffff803d6d84>] ip_local_deliver+0xf4/0x1f0 > [<ffffffff803d71bb>] ip_rcv+0x33b/0x650 > [<ffffffff803bb16a>] netif_receive_skb+0x27a/0x340 > [<ffffffff803be57d>] process_backlog+0x9d/0x100 > [<ffffffff803bdd4d>] net_rx_action+0x18d/0x250 > [<ffffffff80237be5>] __do_softirq+0x75/0x100 > [<ffffffff8020c97c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30 > [<ffffffff8020f085>] do_softirq+0x65/0xa0 > [<ffffffff80237af7>] irq_exit+0x97/0xa0 > [<ffffffff8020f198>] do_IRQ+0xa8/0x130 > [<ffffffff80212ee0>] ? mwait_idle+0x0/0x60 > [<ffffffff8020bc46>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xf > <EOI> [<ffffffff80212f2c>] ? mwait_idle+0x4c/0x60 > [<ffffffff80212f23>] ? mwait_idle+0x43/0x60 > [<ffffffff8020a217>] ? cpu_idle+0x57/0xa0 > [<ffffffff8040f380>] ? rest_init+0x70/0x80 > Code: 10 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e c9 c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 55 48 89 e5 53 > 48 83 ec 08 48 8b 9f 78 01 00 00 e8 2b c7 f1 ff 89 c0 <48> 8b 04 c3 48 83 c4 08 > 5b c9 c3 66 66 66 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 > RIP [<ffffffff803fce17>] icmp_sk+0x17/0x30 > RSP <ffffffff8057fc30> > CR2: 0000000000000000 > ---[ end trace ea161157b76b33e8 ]--- > Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! Receiving packets while we are cleaning up a network namespace is a racy proposition. It is possible when the packet arrives that we have removed some but not all of the state we need to fully process it. We have the choice of either playing wack-a-mole with the cleanup routines or simply dropping packets when we don't have a network namespace to handle them. Since the check looks inexpensive in netif_receive_skb let's just drop the incoming packets. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David S. Miller authored
As noticed by Gabriel Campana, the kmalloc() length arg passed in by sctp_getsockopt_local_addrs_old() can overflow if ->addr_num is large enough. Therefore, enforce an appropriate limit. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Stephen Hemminger authored
Fix warning: drivers/net/pppoe.c: In function 'pppoe_recvmsg': drivers/net/pppoe.c:945: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast because skb->len is unsigned int and total_len is size_t Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] SN2: security hole in sn2_ptc_proc_write
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- 20 Jun, 2008 25 commits
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Ivan Kokshaysky authored
Which was removed in the hope that generic legacy IDE quirk in drivers/pci/probe.c is sufficient for Cypress IDE. It isn't, as this controller has non-standard BAR layout: secondary channel registers are in the BAR0-1 of the second PCI function - not in the BAR2-3 of the same function, as the generic quirk routine assumes. Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ivan Kokshaysky authored
Vast majority of these build failures are gcc-4.3 warnings about static functions and objects being referenced from non-static (read: "extern inline") functions, in conjunction with our -Werror. We cannot just convert "extern inline" to "static inline", as people keep suggesting all the time, because "extern inline" logic is crucial for generic kernel build. So - just make sure that all callees of critical "extern inline" functions are also "extern inline"; - use "static inline", wherever it's possible. traps.c: work around gcc-4.3 being too smart about array bounds-checking. TODO: add "gnu_inline" attribute to all our "extern inline" functions to ensure desired behaviour with future compilers. Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ivan Kokshaysky authored
With built-in scsi disk driver, the final link fails with a following error: `.exit.text' referenced in section `.rodata' of drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/built-in.o This happens with -Os (CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y) with all gcc-4 versions, and also with -O2 and gcc-4.3. The problem is in sd.c:sd_major() being inlined into __exit function exit_sd(), and the compiler generating a jump table in .rodata section for the 'switch' statement in sd_major(). So we have references to discarded section. Fixed with a big hammer in the form of -fno-jump-tables. Note that jump tables vs. discarded sections is a generic problem, other architectures are just lucky not to suffer from it. But with a slightly more complex switch/case statement it can be reproduced on x86 as well. So maybe at some point we should consider -fno-jump-tables as a generic compile option... Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ivan Kokshaysky authored
To calculate addresses of locally defined variables, GCC uses 32-bit displacement from the GP. Which doesn't work for per cpu variables in modules, as an offset to the kernel per cpu area is way above 4G. The workaround is to force allocation of a GOT entry for per cpu variable using ldq instruction with a 'literal' relocation. I had to use custom asm/percpu.h, as a required argument magic doesn't work with asm-generic/percpu.h macros. Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: BAST: Remove old IDE driver pcmcia ide kingston compactflash's have a new manufacturer id pcmcia: add another pata/ide ID pcmcia: add an pata/ide ID ide: increase timeout in wait_drive_not_busy() palm_bk3710: fix resource management
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6: ieee1394: Kconfig menu touch-up firewire: Kconfig menu touch-up firewire: deadline for PHY config transmission firewire: fw-ohci: unify printk prefixes firewire: fill_bus_reset_event needs lock protection firewire: fw-ohci: write selfIDBufferPtr before LinkControl.rcvSelfID firewire: fw-ohci: disable PHY packet reception into AR context firewire: fw-ohci: use of uninitialized data in AR handler firewire: don't panic on invalid AR request buffer
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: ACPI: no AC status notification ACPI Exception (video-1721): UNKNOWN_STATUS_CODE, Cant attach device
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'drm-patches' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6: (21 commits) drm: only trust core drm ioctls - driver ioctls are a mess. drm/i915: add support for Intel series 4 chipsets. drm/radeon: add hier-z registers for r300 and r500 chipsets drm/radeon: use DSTCACHE_CTLSTAT rather than RB2D_DSTCACHE_CTLSTAT drm/radeon: switch IGP gart to use radeon_write_agp_base() drm/radeon: Restore sw interrupt on resume drm/r500: add support for AGP based cards. drm/radeon: fix texture uploads with large 3d textures (bug 13980) drm/radeon: add initial r500 support. drm/radeon: init pipe setup in kernel code. drm/radeon: fixup radeon_do_engine_reset drm/radeon: fix pixcache and purge/cache flushing registers drm/radeon: write AGP_BASE_2 on chips that support it. drm/radeon: merge IGP chip setup and fixup RS400 vs RS480 support drm/radeon: IGP clean up register and magic numbers. drm/rs690: set base 2 to 0. drm/rs690: set all of gart base address. radeon: add production microcode from AMD drm: pcigart use proper pci map interfaces. drm: the sg alloc ioctl should write back the handle to userspace ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/agp-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'agp-patches' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/agp-2.6: [agp]: fixup chipset flush for new Intel G4x. agp: brown paper bag patch - put back the two lines it took out.
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: softlockup: fix NMI hangs due to lock race - 2.6.26-rc regression rcupreempt: remove export of rcu_batches_completed_bh cpuset: limit the input of cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched, delay accounting: fix incorrect delay time when constantly waiting on runqueue sched: CPU hotplug events must not destroy scheduler domains created by the cpusets sched: rt-group: fix RR buglet sched: rt-group: heirarchy aware throttle sched: rt-group: fix hierarchy sched: NULL pointer dereference while setting sched_rt_period_us sched: fix defined-but-unused warning
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, geode: add a VSA2 ID for General Software x86: use BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE on 32-bit x86, 32-bit: fix boot failure on TSC-less processors x86: fix NULL pointer deref in __switch_to x86: set PAE PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT to 44 bits.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/blackfin-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/blackfin-2.6: Blackfin Serial Driver: Use timer to poll CTS PIN instead of workqueue. Blackfin arch: fix typo error in bf548 serial header file
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-devLinus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: ahci: sis can't do PMP ata_piix: add TECRA M4 to broken suspend list LIBATA: Add HAVE_PATA_PLATFORM to select PATA_PLATFORM driver sata_mv: warn on PIO with multiple DRQs sata_mv: enable async_notify for 60x1 Rev.C0 and higher libata: don't check whether to use DMA or not for no data commands ahci: jmb361 has only one port
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Linus Torvalds authored
The inline assembly in drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c was incredibly broken, and included all the function prologue and epilogue stuff, even though it was itself then inside a C function where the compiler would add its own prologue and epilogue on top of it all. This then just _happened_ to work if you had exactly the right compiler version and exactly the right compiler flags, so that gcc just happened to not create any prologue at all (the gcc-generated epilogue wouldn't matter, since it would never be reached). But the more proper way to fix it is to simply not do this. Move the inline asm to the top level, with no surrounding function at all (the better alternative would be to remove the prologue and make it actually use proper description of the arguments to the inline asm, but that's a bigger change than the one I'm willing to make right now). Tested-by: S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@pardus.org.tr> Acked-by: Thomas Mingarelli <Thomas.Mingarelli@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Cliff Wickman authored
Security hole in sn2_ptc_proc_write It is possible to overrun a buffer with a write to this /proc file. Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Ben Dooks authored
Remove the old BAST IDE driver, as we are now using the platform-pata support. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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Christophe Niclaes authored
Up to now, Kingston compactflash cards (ab)used the Toshiba Manufacturer's ID, In their new CF cards, they use a new one. Let's the ide subsystem recognize CF cards with the new id. Signed-off-by: Christophe Niclaes <cniclaes@develtech.com> Acked-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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Kristoffer Ericson authored
Addition of Transcend 1GB 45x id so that it is properly detected. [bart: fix typo in ide-cs's ID spotted by Alan Cox] Signed-off-by: William Peters <w1ll14@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Ericson <Kristoffer_e1@hotmail.com> CC: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> CC: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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Matt Reimer authored
Add an id for: product info: "M-Systems", "CF300", "" manfid: 0x000a, 0x0000 function: 4 (fixed disk) Signed-off-by: Matt Reimer <mreimer@vpop.net> CC: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> CC: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz authored
Some ATAPI devices take longer than the current max timeout value to become ready (i.e. TEAC DV-W28ECW takes 6 ms) so increase the timeout value to 10 ms. This fixes kernel.org bugzilla bug #10887: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10887Reported-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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Sergei Shtylyov authored
The driver expected a *virtual* address in the IDE platform device's memory resource and didn't request the memory region for the register block. Fix this taking into account the fact that DaVinci SoC devices are fixed-mapped to the virtual memory early and we can get their virtual addresses using IO_ADDRESS() macro, not having to call ioremap()... While at it, also do some cosmetic changes... Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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Linus Torvalds authored
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki and Oleg Nesterov point out that since the commit 557ed1fa ("remove ZERO_PAGE") removed the ZERO_PAGE from the VM mappings, any users of get_user_pages() will generally now populate the VM with real empty pages needlessly. We used to get the ZERO_PAGE when we did the "handle_mm_fault()", but since fault handling no longer uses ZERO_PAGE for new anonymous pages, we now need to handle that special case in follow_page() instead. In particular, the removal of ZERO_PAGE effectively removed the core file writing optimization where we would skip writing pages that had not been populated at all, and increased memory pressure a lot by allocating all those useless newly zeroed pages. This reinstates the optimization by making the unmapped PTE case the same as for a non-existent page table, which already did this correctly. While at it, this also fixes the XIP case for follow_page(), where the caller could not differentiate between the case of a page that simply could not be used (because it had no "struct page" associated with it) and a page that just wasn't mapped. We do that by simply returning an error pointer for pages that could not be turned into a "struct page *". The error is arbitrarily picked to be EFAULT, since that was what get_user_pages() already used for the equivalent IO-mapped page case. [ Also removed an impossible test for pte_offset_map_lock() failing: that's not how that function works ] Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Frederic Bohe authored
This is the patch for the group descriptor table corruption during online resize pointed out by Theodore Tso. The problem was caused by the fact that the ext4 group descriptor can be either 32 or 64 bytes long. Only the 64 bytes structure was taken into account. Signed-off-by: Frederic Bohe <frederic.bohe@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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