- 30 Dec, 2006 23 commits
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David Brownell authored
Some issues were recently turned up with the current specification of what it means for spi_transfer.tx_buf to be null, as part of transfers which are (from the SPI protocol driver perspective) pure reads. Specifically, that it seems better to change the TX behaviour there from "undefined" to "will shift zeroes". This lets protocol drivers (like the ads7846 driver) depend on that behavior. It's what most controller drivers in the tree are already doing (with one exception and one case of driver wanting-to-oops), it's what Microwire hardware will necessarily be doing, and it removes an issue whereby certain security audits would need to define such a value anyway as part of removing covert channels. This patch changes the specification to require shifting zeroes, and updates all currently merged SPI controller drivers to do so. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Al Viro authored
(akpm: macros are wonderful) Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Randy Dunlap authored
RAID_UNKNOWN is used even when PROC_FS=n, so move it outside of the CONFIG_PROC_FS block. drivers/block/cciss.c:1910: error: 'RAID_UNKNOWN' undeclared (first use in this function) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Dimitri Gorokhovik authored
Recent cleanup of slab.h broke SLOB allocator: the routine kmem_cache_init has now the __init attribute for both slab.c and slob.c. This routine cannot be removed after init in the case of slob.c -- it serves as a timer callback. Provide a separate timer callback routine, call it once from kmem_cache_init, keep the __init attribute on the latter. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Gorokhovik <dimitri.gorokhovik@free.fr> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Dimitri Gorokhovik authored
ramfs doesn't provide the .set_dirty_page a_op, and when the BLOCK layer is not configured in, 'set_page_dirty' makes a call via a NULL pointer. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Gorokhovik <dimitri.gorokhovik@free.fr> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
mod_sysfs_setup() doesn't return error when kobject_add_dir() failed. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Andreas Schwab authored
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> Cc: "Yu, Luming" <luming.yu@intel.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Remove the __resched_legal() check: it is conceptually broken. The biggest problem it had is that it can mask buggy cond_resched() calls. A cond_resched() call is only legal if we are not in an atomic context, with two narrow exceptions: - if the system is booting - a reacquire_kernel_lock() down() done while PREEMPT_ACTIVE is set But __resched_legal() hid this and just silently returned whenever these primitives were called from invalid contexts. (Same goes for cond_resched_locked() and cond_resched_softirq()). Furthermore, the __legal_resched(0) call was buggy in that it caused unnecessarily long softirq latencies via cond_resched_softirq(). (which is only called from softirq-off sections, hence the code did nothing.) The fix is to resurrect the efficiency of the might_sleep checks and to only allow the narrow exceptions. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Mikael Pettersson authored
include/linux/utsrelease.h and include/linux/version.h aren't removed any more by mrproper in kernel 2.6.20-rc2. The patch below fixes this. The definition of MRPROPER_FILES looks weird: generated-headers looks like a misspelling of generated_headers, but that one is a Makefile target, not a variable or a file, so I don't see how including it in MRPROPER_FILES could have any effect. Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Tilman Schmidt authored
While trying to develop a line discipline I found a couple of things worth mentioning in Documentation/tty.txt which weren't, so I decided to add them. It would be nice if someone more knowledgeable than me in that area would look over them, in case I got something wrong. Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Jiri Slaby authored
Many spinlock recursion was in the isicom driver. Eliminate it. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Soeren Sonnenburg authored
The apple fn keys don't work anymore with 2.6.20-rc1. The reason is that USB_HID_POWERBOOK appears in several files although USB_HIDINPUT_POWERBOOK is the thing to be used. The patch fixes this. Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Eric Moore authored
Update to maintainers list. My employer has changed the domain from lsil to lsi. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Michael S. Tsirkin authored
Commit bed8bdfd ("IB: kmemdup() cleanup") introduced one bad conversion to kmemdup() in mthca_alloc_fmr(), where the structure allocated and the structure copied are not the same size. Revert this back to the original kmalloc()/memcpy() code. Reported-by: Dotan Barak <dotanb@mellanox.co.il>. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@digitalvampire.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Jiri Slaby authored
tty_driver->owner is not set, so if somebody remove mxser_module, it might oops (and doesn't tell the user: no way, it's in use). Set the .owner value. Cc: <osv@javad.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Randy Dunlap authored
Don't have macros between a function's kernel-doc block and the function definition. This is not valid for kernel-doc. Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2.6.20-rc1-git8//drivers/pci/probe.c:653): No description found for parameter 'IORESOURCE_PCI_FIXED' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Thomas Meyer authored
Due to the changes to make the kernel relocateable a new file is created during the build process. [jirislaby@gmail.com: The .gitigonre was intended to be in arch/ subtree] Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki authored
constrained_alloc(), which is called to detect where oom is from, checks passed zone_list(). If zone_list doesn't include all nodes, it thinks oom is from mempolicy. But there is memory-less-node. memory-less-node's zones are never included in zonelist[]. contstrained_alloc() should get memory_less_node into count. Otherwise, it always thinks 'oom is from mempolicy'. This means that current process dies at any time. This patch fix it. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Fix suspend hang: rcutorture threads need to be nofreeze. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ingo Molnar authored
WARN_ON() ever triggering is a kernel bug. Do not try to paper over this fact by suggesting to the user that this is 'only' a warning, as the following recent commit does: commit 30e25b71 Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Date: Fri Dec 8 02:36:24 2006 -0800 [PATCH] Fix generic WARN_ON message A warning is a warning, not a BUG. ( it might make sense to rename BUG() to CRASH() and BUG_ON() to CRASH_ON(), but that does not change the fact that WARN_ON() signals a kernel bug. ) i and others objected to this change during lkml review: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116115160710533&w=2 still the change slipped upstream - grumble :) Also, use the standard "BUG: " format to make it easier to grep logs and to make it easier to google for kernel bugs. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Judith Lebzelter authored
Choose rpa_vscsi.c over iseries_vscsi.c when building both pseries and iseries. This fixes a link error. Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzelter <judith@osdl.org> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Zach Brown authored
lockdep found a AB BC CA lock inversion in retry-based AIO: 1) The task struct's alloc_lock (A) is acquired in process context with interrupts enabled. An interrupt might arrive and call wake_up() which grabs the wait queue's q->lock (B). 2) When performing retry-based AIO the AIO core registers aio_wake_function() as the wake funtion for iocb->ki_wait. It is called with the wait queue's q->lock (B) held and then tries to add the iocb to the run list after acquiring the ctx_lock (C). 3) aio_kick_handler() holds the ctx_lock (C) while acquiring the alloc_lock (A) via lock_task() and unuse_mm(). Lockdep emits a warning saying that we're trying to connect the irq-safe q->lock to the irq-unsafe alloc_lock via ctx_lock. This fixes the inversion by calling unuse_mm() in the AIO kick handing path after we've released the ctx_lock. As Ben LaHaise pointed out __put_ioctx could set ctx->mm to NULL, so we must only access ctx->mm while we have the lock. Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Sebastien Dugué authored
set_param_str() cannot use kstrdup() to duplicate the parameter. That's fine when the driver is compiled as a module but it sure is not when built into the kernel as the kernel parameters are parsed before the kmalloc slabs are setup. Signed-off-by: Sebastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@bull.net> Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 29 Dec, 2006 5 commits
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git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: [S390] cio: fix stsch_reset. [S390] Change max. buffer size for monwriter device.
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Linus Torvalds authored
* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (28 commits) V4L/DVB (5010): Cx88: Fix leadtek_eeprom tagging V4L/DVB (5012): Usbvision fix: It was using "&&" instead "&" V4L/DVB (5001): Add two required headers on kernel 2.6.20-rc1 V4L/DVB (5014): Allyesconfig build fixes on some non x86 arch V4L/DVB (4997): Bttv: delete duplicated ioremap() V4L/DVB (4996): Msp3400: fix kthread_run error check V4L/DVB (4995): Vivi: fix kthread_run() error check V4L/DVB (4994): Vivi: fix use after free in list_for_each() V4L/DVB (4992): Fix typo in saa7134-dvb.c V4L/DVB (4991): Cafe_ccic.c: fix NULL dereference V4L/DVB (4990): Cpia2/cpia2_usb.c: fix error-path leak V4L/DVB (4988): Cx2341x audio_properties is an u16, not u8 V4L/DVB (4984): LOG_STATUS should show the real temporal filter value. V4L/DVB (4983): Force temporal filter to 0 when scaling to prevent ghosting. V4L/DVB (4982): Fix broken audio mode handling for line-in in msp3400. V4L/DVB (4980): Fixes bug 7267: PAL/60 is not working V4L/DVB (4979): Fixes compilation when CONFIG_V4L1_COMPAT is not selected V4L/DVB (4973): Dvb-core: fix printk type warning V4L/DVB (4972): Dvb-core: fix bug in CRC-32 checking on 64-bit systems V4L/DVB (4970): Usbvision memory fixes ...
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Linus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (42 commits) r8169: extraneous Cmd{Tx/Rx}Enb write forcedeth: modified comment header NetXen: Reducing ring sizes for IOMMU issue. NetXen: Fix for PPC machines. NetXen: work queue fixes. NetXen: Link status message correction for quad port cards. NetXen: Multiple adapter fix. NetXen: Using correct CHECKSUM flag. NetXen: driver reload fix for newer firmware. NetXen: Adding new device ids. PHY probe not working properly for ibm_emac (PPC4xx) ep93xx: some minor cleanups to the ep93xx eth driver sky2: phy power down needs PCI config write enabled sky2: power management/MSI workaround sky2: dual port NAPI problem via-velocity uses INET interfaces e1000: Do not truncate TSO TCP header with 82544 workaround myri10ge: handle failures in suspend and resume myri10ge: no need to save MSI and PCIe state in the driver myri10ge: make msi configurable at runtime through sysfs ...
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Linus Torvalds authored
* 'netxen-ioctl' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: netxen: remove private ioctl
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Linus Torvalds authored
The VM layer (on the face of it, fairly reasonably) expected that when it does a ->writepage() call to the filesystem, it would write out the full page at that point in time. Especially since it had earlier marked the whole page dirty with "set_page_dirty()". But that isn't actually the case: ->writepage() does not actually write a page, it writes the parts of the page that have been explicitly marked dirty before, *and* that had not got written out for other reasons since the last time we told it they were dirty. That last caveat is the important one. Which _most_ of the time ends up being the whole page (since we had called "set_page_dirty()" on the page earlier), but if the filesystem had done any dirty flushing of its own (for example, to honor some internal write ordering guarantees), it might end up doing only a partial page IO (or none at all) when ->writepage() is actually called. That is the correct thing in general (since we actually often _want_ only the known-dirty parts of the page to be written out), but the shared dirty page handling had implicitly forgotten about these details, and had a number of cases where it was doing just the "->writepage()" part, without telling the low-level filesystem that the whole page might have been re-dirtied as part of being mapped writably into user space. Since most of the time the FS did actually write out the full page, we didn't notice this for a loong time, and this needed some really odd patterns to trigger. But it caused occasional corruption with rtorrent and with the Debian "apt" database, because both use shared mmaps to update the end result. This fixes it. Finally. After way too much hair-pulling. Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Acked-by: Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@google.com> Acked-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> Acked-by: Martin Johansson <martin@fatbob.nu> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Andrei Popa <andrei.popa@i-neo.ro> Cc: High Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com> Cc: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@yahoo.fr> Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Kenneth Cheng <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: Tobias Diedrich <ranma@tdiedrich.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 27 Dec, 2006 12 commits
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Michael Holzheu authored
Copy inline assembly of stsch and add "memory" to clobber list in order to prevent gcc from optimizing away the checking of the global variable "pgm_check_occured". Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Melissa Howland authored
Reduce the max. buffer size for the monwriter device to prevent a possible problem with the z/VM monitor service. Signed-off-by: Melissa Howland <melissah@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Jean Delvare authored
reference to .init.text: from .text between 'cx88_card_setup' (at offset 0x68c) and 'cx88_risc_field' Caused by leadtek_eeprom() being declared __devinit and called from a non-devinit context. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab authored
include/media/ir-common.h:78: error: field 'work' has incomplete type drivers/media/common/ir-functions.c: In function 'ir_rc5_timer_end': drivers/media/common/ir-functions.c:301: error: 'jiffies' undeclared (first use in this function) drivers/media/common/ir-functions.c:301: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once) drivers/media/common/ir-functions.c:301: error: for each function it appears in.) drivers/media/common/ir-functions.c:347: error: 'HZ' undeclared (first use in this function) Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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David Brownell authored
- CAFE_CCIC needs to depend on PCI, else "allyesconfig" breaks on systems without PCI - em28xx-video can't udelay(2500) else "allyesconfig" breaks on systems that refuse to spin that long (I saw it on ARM) Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
ioremap() is called twice to same resource. The returen value of first one is not error-checked. second one is complely ignored. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
The return value of kthread_run() should be checked by IS_ERR(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
The return value of kthread_run() should be checked by IS_ERR(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
Freeing data including list_head in list_for_each() is not safe. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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Stephan Berberig authored
Fix a typo (use_frontent -> use_frontend) in saa7134-dvb.c. Signed-off-by: Stephan Berberig <s.berberig@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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Adrian Bunk authored
We shouldn't dereference "cam" when we already know it's NULL. Spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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