- 08 May, 2007 40 commits
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Jesper Juhl authored
commit 226a6b84 renumbered Chapter 11 in Documentation/CodingStyle to Chapter 12, but it didn't update the reference to that chapter further down in the file. This patch corrects the chapter reference. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jan Kara authored
Propagate flags such as S_APPEND, S_IMMUTABLE, etc. from i_flags into ext2-specific i_flags. Hence, when someone sets these flags via a different interface than ioctl, they are stored correctly. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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OGAWA Hirofumi authored
It seems that the recent Windows changed specification, and it's undocumented. Windows doesn't update ->free_clusters correctly. This patch doesn't use ->free_clusters by default. (instead, add "usefree" for forcing to use it) Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Juergen Beisert <juergen127@kreuzholzen.de> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jarek Poplawski authored
It looks like a remainder from designing... Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao@o2.pl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Gibson authored
Most architectures defined three macros, MK_IOSPACE_PFN(), GET_IOSPACE() and GET_PFN() in pgtable.h. However, the only callers of any of these macros are in Sparc specific code, either in arch/sparc, arch/sparc64 or drivers/sbus. This patch removes the redundant macros from all architectures except sparc and sparc64. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Borislav Petkov authored
This patch shuts warnings of the sort: make -C /mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/build \ KBUILD_SRC=/mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6 \ KBUILD_EXTMOD="" -f /mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/Makefile mandocs make -f /mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts/basic make -f /mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/scripts/Makefile.build obj=Documentation/DocBook mandocs SRCTREE=/mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/ /mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/build/scripts/basic/docproc doc /mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.tmpl >Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.xml if grep -q refentry Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.xml; then xmlto man -m /mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/Documentation/DocBook/stylesheet.xsl -o Documentation/DocBook/man Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.xml ; gzip -f Documentation/DocBook/man/*.9; fi Note: meta version: No productnumber or alternative sppp_close Note: meta version: No refmiscinfo@class=version sppp_close Note: Writing sppp_close.9 Note: meta version: No productnumber or alternative sppp_open Note: meta version: No refmiscinfo@class=version sppp_open by adding a RefMiscInfo xml tag in the form of the current kernel version to the function, struct and enum definitions in files included by kernel-doc when building 'mandocs'. However, the version string appears truncated on the manpage due to some constraints in the xml DTD for the man header, I believe, for the troff output is truncated too. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Milind Arun Choudhary authored
use __set_current_state(TASK_*) instead of current->state = TASK_*, Signed-off-by: Milind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Milind Arun Choudhary authored
use __set_current_state(TASK_*) instead of current->state = TASK_*, in fs/reiserfs Signed-off-by: Milind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com> Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Adrian Bunk authored
As scheduled, do_setitimer() now returns -EINVAL for invalid timeval. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jean Delvare authored
Ingo Molnar's semaphore to mutex conversions left some noise on a few trylock calls. Clean it up. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Pavel Emelianov authored
If the thread failed to create the subsequent wait_event will hang forever. This is likely to happen if kernel hits max_threads limit. Will be critical for virtualization systems that limit the number of tasks and kernel memory usage within the container. (akpm: JBD should be converted fully to the kthread API: kthread_should_stop() and kthread_stop()). Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Miklos Szeredi authored
There's a missing check for CAP_SYS_ADMIN in do_change_type(). Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Egmont Koblinger authored
The UTF-8 part of the vt driver suffers from the following issues which are addressed in my patch: 1) If there's no glyph found for a particular valid UTF-8 character, we try to display U+FFFD. However if this one is not found either, here's what the current kernel does: - First, if the Unicode value is less than the number of glyphs, use the glyph directly from that position of the glyph table. While it may be a good idea in the 8-bit world, it has absolutely no sense with Unicode in mind. For example, if a Latin-2 font is loaded and an application prints U+00FB ("u with circumflex", not present in Latin-2) then as a fallback solution the glyph from the 0xFB position of the Latin-2 fontset (which is an "u with double accent" - a different character) is displayed. - Second, if this fallback fails too, a simple ASCII question mark is printed, which is visually undistinguishable from a real question mark. I changed the code to skip the first step (except if in non-UTF-8 mode), and changed the second step to print the question mark with inverse color attributes, so it is visually clear that it's not a real question mark, and resembles more to the common glyph of U+FFFD. 2) The UTF-8 decoder is buggy in many ways: - Lone continuation bytes (section 3.1 of Markus Kuhn's UTF-8 stress test) are not caught, they are displayed as some "random" (taken directly form the font table, see above) glyphs instead the replacement character. - Incomplete sequences (sections 3.2 and 3.3 of the stress test) emit no replacement character, but rather cause the subsequent valid character to be displayed more times(!). - The decoder is not safe: overlong sequences are not caught currently, they are displayed as if these were valid representations. This may even have security impacts. - The decoder does not handle D800..DFFF and FFFE..FFFF specially, it just emits these code points and lets it be looked up in the glyph table. Since these are invalid code points, I replace them by U+FFFD and hence give no chance for them to be looked up in the glyph table. (Assuming no font ships glyphs for these code points, this change is not visible to the users since the glyph shown will be the same.) With my fixes to the decoder it now behaves exactly as Markus Kuhn's stress test recommends. 3) It has no concept of double-width (CJK) characters. It's way beyond the scope of my patch to try to display them, but at least I think it's important for the cursor to jump two positions when printing such characters, since this is what applications (such as text editors) expect. Currently the cursor only jumps one position, and hence applications suffer from displaying and refreshing problems, and editing some English letters that are preceded by some CJK characters in the same line is a nightmare. With my patch an additional space is inserted after the CJK character has been printed (which usually means a replacement symbol of course). (If U+FFFD isn't availble and hence an inverse question mark is displayed in the first cell, I keep the inverted state for the space in the 2nd column so it's quite easy to see that they are tied together.) 4) There is a small built-in table of zero-width spaces that are not to be printed but silently skipped. U+200A is included there, but it's not a zero-width character, so I remove it from there. Signed-off-by: Egmont Koblinger <egmont@uhulinux.hu> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oliver Neukum authored
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jan Kara authored
A patch that stores inode flags such as S_IMMUTABLE, S_APPEND, etc. from i_flags to EXT3_I(inode)->i_flags when inode is written to disk. The same thing is done on GETFLAGS ioctl. Quota code changes these flags on quota files (to make it harder for sysadmin to screw himself) and these changes were not correctly propagated into the filesystem (especially, lsattr did not show them and users were wondering...). Propagate flags such as S_APPEND, S_IMMUTABLE, etc. from i_flags into ext3-specific i_flags. Hence, when someone sets these flags via a different interface than ioctl, they are stored correctly. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tom Alsberg authored
As discovered here today, the change in Kernel 2.6.17 intended to inhibit users from setting RLIMIT_CPU to 0 (as that is equivalent to unlimited) by "cheating" and setting it to 1 in such a case, does not make a difference, as the check is done in the wrong place (too late), and only applies to the profiling code. On all systems I checked running kernels above 2.6.17, no matter what the hard and soft CPU time limits were before, a user could escape them by issuing in the shell (sh/bash/zsh) "ulimit -t 0", and then the user's process was not ever killed. Attached is a trivial patch to fix that. Simply moving the check to a slightly earlier location (specifically, before the line that actually assigns the limit - *old_rlim = new_rlim), does the trick. Do note that at least the zsh (but not ash, dash, or bash) shell has the problem of "caching" the limits set by the ulimit command, so when running zsh the fix will not immediately be evident - after entering "ulimit -t 0", "ulimit -a" will show "-t: cpu time (seconds) 0", even though the actual limit as returned by getrlimit(...) will be 1. It can be verified by opening a subshell (which will not have the values of the parent shell in cache) and checking in it, or just by running a CPU intensive command like "echo '65536^1048576' | bc" and verifying that it dumps core after one second. Regardless of whether that is a misfeature in the shell, perhaps it would be better to return -EINVAL from setrlimit in such a case instead of cheating and setting to 1, as that does not really reflect the actual state of the process anymore. I do not however know what the ground for that decision was in the original 2.6.17 change, and whether there would be any "backward" compatibility issues, so I preferred not to touch that right now. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Atsushi Nemoto authored
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Atsushi Nemoto authored
The serial_txx9 driver have abused device numbers (major 4, minor 128) if CONFIG_SERIAL_TXX9_STDSERIAL was not set. This patch makes the driver use proper device numbers assigned for it (major 204, minor 196-203). I suppose a typical user of this driver set CONFIG_SERIAL_TXX9_STDSERIAL to Y (i.e. use "ttyS0"), so this patch would not cause big compatibility issue. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Scott Wiersdorf authored
A patch for getdelays.c that fixes a buffer overrun when you set -w. Cc: <matt@bluehost.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michael Ellerman authored
Apparently it's not cool anymore to use SPIN/RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED. There's some mention of this in Documentation/spinlocks.txt, but that only talks about dynamic initialisation. A comment in the code mentioning the preferred usage would be good IMHO. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add reason for deprecation] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Pavel Emelianov authored
There are many places in the kernel where the construction like foo = list_entry(head->next, struct foo_struct, list); are used. The code might look more descriptive and neat if using the macro list_first_entry(head, type, member) \ list_entry((head)->next, type, member) Here is the macro itself and the examples of its usage in the generic code. If it will turn out to be useful, I can prepare the set of patches to inject in into arch-specific code, drivers, networking, etc. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
This patches modifies the pnpbios kernel thread to start with ktrhead_run not kernel_thread and deamonize. Doing this makes the code a little simpler and easier to maintain. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Randy Dunlap authored
Add usage to getdelays.c. This patch was originally posted by Randy Dunlap http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/19/168Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jarek Poplawski authored
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Milind Arun Choudhary authored
SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED cleanup,use __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED instead Signed-off-by: Milind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Milind Arun Choudhary authored
SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED cleanup,use __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED instead Signed-off-by: Milind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Milind Arun Choudhary authored
SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED cleanup,use __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED instead Signed-off-by: Milind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Stephen M. Cameron authored
Document how to detect drive failures for cciss Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
While the !highres/!dyntick code assigns the duty of the do_timer() call to one specific CPU, this was dropped in the highres/dyntick part during development. Steven Rostedt discovered the xtime lock contention on highres/dyntick due to several CPUs trying to update jiffies. Add the single CPU assignement back. In the dyntick case this needs to be handled carefully, as the CPU which has the do_timer() duty must drop the assignement and let it be grabbed by another CPU, which is active. Otherwise the do_timer() calls would not happen during the long sleep. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Stephen Cameron authored
Make cciss unconditionally include scsi/scsi.h, because of the use of SCSI_IOCTL_GET_IDLUN and SCSI_IOCTL_GET_BUS_NUMBER. Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alan Cox authored
HZ has not always been 100Hz for some time. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Bjorn Helgaas authored
We used to warn unless the EFI system table major revision was exactly 1. But EFI 2.00 firmware is starting to appear, and the 2.00 changes don't affect anything in Linux. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andi Kleen authored
Simple driver that blinks the keyboard LEDs when loaded. Useful for checking that the kernel is still alive or for crashdumping Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Miguel Ojeda authored
CREDITS: - Summarize 3 lines into one. - Add webpage. MAINTAINERS: - Add auxdisplay drivers/tree webpages. Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <maxextreme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Randy Dunlap authored
Johannes Berg reported that struct names are not highlighted (bold, italic, etc.) in html kernel-doc output. (Also not in text-mode output, but I don't see that changing.) This patch adds the following: - highlight struct names in html output mode - highlight environment var. names in html output mode - indent struct fields in the original struct layout Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jeffrey Layton authored
A while back, Christoph mentioned that he thought that iunique ought to be cleaned up to use a more conventional loop construct. This patch does that, turning the strange goto loop into a do/while. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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John Johansen authored
notify_change() already calls security_inode_setattr() before calling iop->setattr. Alan sayeth This is a behaviour change on all of these and limits some behaviour of existing established security modules When inode_change_ok is called it has side effects. This includes clearing the SGID bit on attribute changes caused by chmod. If you make this change the results of some rulesets may be different before or after the change is made. I'm not saying the change is wrong but it does change behaviour so that needs looking at closely (ditto all other attribute twiddles) Signed-off-by: Steve Beattie <sbeattie@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: John Johansen <jjohansen@suse.de> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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John Johansen authored
notify_change() already calls security_inode_setattr() before calling iop->setattr. Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: John Johansen <jjohansen@suse.de> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Brownell authored
We've had various reports of some legacy "probe the hardware" style platform drivers having nasty problems with hotplug support. The core issue is that those legacy drivers don't fully conform to the driver model. They assume a role that should be the responsibility of infrastructure code: creating device nodes. The "modprobe" step in hotplugging relies on drivers to have split those roles into different modules. The lack of this split causes the problems. When a driver creates nodes for devices that don't exist (sending a hotplug event), then exits (aborting one modprobe) before the "modprobe $MODALIAS" step completes (by failing, since it's in the middle of a modprobe), the result can be an endless loop of modprobe invocations ... badness. This fix uses the newish per-device flag controlling issuance of "add" events. (A previous version of this patch used a per-device "driver can hotplug" flag, which only scrubbed $MODALIAS from the environment rather than suppressing the entire hotplug event.) It also shrinks that flag to one bit, saving a word in "struct device". So the net of this patch is removing some nasty failures with legacy drivers, while retaining hotplug capability for the majority of platform drivers. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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