- 04 Oct, 2010 19 commits
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Arnd Bergmann authored
The BKL is only used in put_super and fill_super, which are both protected by the superblocks s_umount rw_semaphore. Therefore it is safe to remove the BKL entirely. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
The BKL is only used in fill_super, which is protected by the superblocks s_umount rw_semaphore. Therefore it is safe to remove the BKL entirely. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
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Arnd Bergmann authored
autofs4 uses the BKL only to guard its ioctl operations. This can be trivially converted to use a mutex, as we have done with most device drivers before. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
As in other file systems, we can replace the big kernel lock with a private mutex in isofs. This means we can now access multiple file systems concurrently, but it also means that we serialize readdir and lookup across sleeping operations which previously released the big kernel lock. This should not matter though, as these operations are in practice serialized through the hardware access. The isofs_get_blocks functions now does not take any lock any more, it used to recursively get the BKL. After looking at the code for hours, I convinced myself that it was never needed here anyway, because it only reads constant fields of the inode and writes to a buffer head array that is at this time only visible to the caller. The get_sb and fill_super operations do not need the locking at all because they operate on a file system that is either about to be created or to be destroyed but in either case is not visible to other threads. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
The lock_kernel in fat_put_super is not needed because it only protects the super block itself and we know that no other thread can reach it because we are about to kfree the object. In the two fill_super functions, this converts the locking to use lock_super like elsewhere in the fat code. This is probably not needed either, but is consistent and puts us on the safe side. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>
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Jan Blunck authored
The BKL is still used in ext2_put_super(), ext2_fill_super(), ext2_sync_fs() ext2_remount() and ext2_write_inode(). From these calls ext2_put_super(), ext2_fill_super() and ext2_remount() are protected against each other by the struct super_block s_umount rw semaphore. The call in ext2_write_inode() could only protect the modification of the ext2_sb_info through ext2_update_dynamic_rev() against concurrent ext2_sync_fs() or ext2_remount(). ext2_fill_super() and ext2_put_super() can be left out because you need a valid filesystem reference in all three cases, which you do not have when you are one of these functions. If the BKL is only protecting the modification of the ext2_sb_info it can safely be removed since this is protected by the struct ext2_sb_info s_lock. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Jan Blunck authored
After pushing down the BKL to the get_sb/fill_super operations of the filesystems that still make usage of the BKL it is safe to remove it from do_new_mount(). I've read through all the code formerly covered by the BKL inside do_kern_mount() and have satisfied myself that it doesn't need the BKL any more. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Jan Blunck authored
The BKL is only used in remount_fs and get_sb that are both protected by the superblocks s_umount rw_semaphore. Therefore it is safe to remove the BKL entirely. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Jan Blunck authored
The BKL is only used in put_super, fill_super and remount_fs that are all three protected by the superblocks s_umount rw_semaphore. Therefore it is safe to remove the BKL entirely. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Jan Blunck authored
The BKL is only used in put_super, fill_super and remount_fs that are all three protected by the superblocks s_umount rw_semaphore. Therefore it is safe to remove the BKL entirely. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Jan Blunck authored
The BKL is only used in put_super, fill_super and remount_fs that are all three protected by the superblocks s_umount rw_semaphore. Therefore it is safe to remove the BKL entirely. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Jan Blunck authored
The BKL is only used in put_super and fill_super that are both protected by the superblocks s_umount rw_semaphore. Therefore it is safe to remove the BKL entirely. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Jan Blunck authored
The BKL is still used in ext4_put_super(), ext4_fill_super() and ext4_remount(). All three calles are protected against concurrent calls by the s_umount rw semaphore of struct super_block. Therefore the BKL is protecting nothing in this case. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org> Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Jan Blunck authored
The BKL lock is protecting the remounting against a potential call to ext3_put_super(). This could not happen, since this is protected by the s_umount rw semaphore of struct super_block. Therefore I think the BKL is protecting nothing here. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Jan Blunck authored
The BKL is protecting nothing than two memory allocations here. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Jan Blunck authored
The BKL is only used in put_super and fill_super that are both protected by the superblocks s_umount rw_semaphore. Therefore it is safe to remove the BKL entirely. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org> Cc: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Jan Blunck authored
The BKL is only used in put_super and fill_super that are both protected by the superblocks s_umount rw_semaphore. Therefore it is safe to remove the BKL entirely. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Jan Blunck authored
The BKL is only used in put_super, fill_super and remount_fs that are all three protected by the superblocks s_umount rw_semaphore. Therefore it is safe to remove the BKL entirely. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Jan Blunck authored
This patch is a preparation necessary to remove the BKL from do_new_mount(). It explicitly adds calls to lock_kernel()/unlock_kernel() around get_sb/fill_super operations for filesystems that still uses the BKL. I've read through all the code formerly covered by the BKL inside do_kern_mount() and have satisfied myself that it doesn't need the BKL any more. do_kern_mount() is already called without the BKL when mounting the rootfs and in nfsctl. do_kern_mount() calls vfs_kern_mount(), which is called from various places without BKL: simple_pin_fs(), nfs_do_clone_mount() through nfs_follow_mountpoint(), afs_mntpt_do_automount() through afs_mntpt_follow_link(). Both later functions are actually the filesystems follow_link inode operation. vfs_kern_mount() is calling the specified get_sb function and lets the filesystem do its job by calling the given fill_super function. Therefore I think it is safe to push down the BKL from the VFS to the low-level filesystems get_sb/fill_super operation. [arnd: do not add the BKL to those file systems that already don't use it elsewhere] Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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- 29 Sep, 2010 2 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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David Howells authored
When caching is disabled on the MN10300 arch, the sys_cacheflush() function is removed by conditional stuff in the makefiles, but is still referred to by the syscall table. Provide a null version that just returns 0 when caching is disabled (or -EINVAL if the arguments are silly). Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 28 Sep, 2010 9 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
Tssk. Apparently Al hadn't checked commit c52c2ddc ("alpha: switch osf_sigprocmask() to use of sigprocmask()") at all. It doesn't compile. Fixed as per suggestions from Michael Cree. Reported-by: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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: fix module refcount breakage introduced by libahci split
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Tejun Heo authored
libata depends on scsi_host_template for module reference counting and sht's should be owned by each low level driver. During libahci split, the sht was left with libahci.ko leaving the actual low level drivers not reference counted. This made ahci and ahci_platform always unloadable even while they're being actively used. Fix it by defining AHCI_SHT() macro in ahci.h and defining a sht for each low level ahci driver. stable: only applicable to 2.6.35. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Pedro Francisco <pedrogfrancisco@gmail.com> Tested-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/stagingLinus Torvalds authored
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/staging: hwmon (coretemp): Fix build breakage if SMP is undefined
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: PCI: fix pci_resource_alignment prototype
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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: (47 commits) tcp: Fix >4GB writes on 64-bit. net/9p: Mount only matching virtio channels de2104x: fix ethtool tproxy: check for transparent flag in ip_route_newports ipv6: add IPv6 to neighbour table overflow warning tcp: fix TSO FACK loss marking in tcp_mark_head_lost 3c59x: fix regression from patch "Add ethtool WOL support" ipv6: add a missing unregister_pernet_subsys call s390: use free_netdev(netdev) instead of kfree() sgiseeq: use free_netdev(netdev) instead of kfree() rionet: use free_netdev(netdev) instead of kfree() ibm_newemac: use free_netdev(netdev) instead of kfree() smsc911x: Add MODULE_ALIAS() net: reset skb queue mapping when rx'ing over tunnel br2684: fix scheduling while atomic de2104x: fix TP link detection de2104x: fix power management de2104x: disable autonegotiation on broken hardware net: fix a lockdep splat e1000e: 82579 do not gate auto config of PHY by hardware during nominal use ...
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Guenter Roeck authored
Commit e40cc4bd introduced a build breakage if CONFIG_SMP is undefined. This commit fixes the problem. This fix is only a workaround. For a real fix, cpu_sibling_mask() should be defined in UP include code, eg in linux/smp.h, and asm/smp.h should not be included directly. This fix is currently not possible because asm/smp.h defines cpu_sibling_mask() unconditionally and is included directly from many source files. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds authored
* 'x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Avoid 'constant_test_bit()' misoptimization due to cast to non-volatile
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David S. Miller authored
Fixes kernel bugzilla #16603 tcp_sendmsg() truncates iov_len to an 'int' which a 4GB write to write zero bytes, for example. There is also the problem higher up of how verify_iovec() works. It wants to prevent the total length from looking like an error return value. However it does this using 'int', but syscalls return 'long' (and thus signed 64-bit on 64-bit machines). So it could trigger false-positives on 64-bit as written. So fix it to use 'long'. Reported-by: Olaf Bonorden <bono@onlinehome.de> Reported-by: Daniel Büse <dbuese@gmx.de> Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 27 Sep, 2010 10 commits
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Dan Rosenberg authored
The PKT_CTRL_CMD_STATUS device ioctl retrieves a pointer to a pktcdvd_device from the global pkt_devs array. The index into this array is provided directly by the user and is a signed integer, so the comparison to ensure that it falls within the bounds of this array will fail when provided with a negative index. This can be used to read arbitrary kernel memory or cause a crash due to an invalid pointer dereference. This can be exploited by users with permission to open /dev/pktcdvd/control (on many distributions, this is readable by group "cdrom"). Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com> [ Rather than add a cast, just make the function take the right type -Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Howells authored
The configuration choice for the port on which the GDB stub listens has a default of GDBSTUB_TTYSM0, but this should be GDBSTUB_ON_TTYSM0 to match the option. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Sven Eckelmann authored
p9_virtio_create will only compare the the channel's tag characters against the device name till the end of the channel's tag but not till the end of the device name. This means that if a user defines channels with the tags foo and foobar then he would mount foo when he requested foonot and may mount foo when he requested foobar. Thus it is necessary to check both string lengths against each other in case of a successful partial string match. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Ondrej Zary authored
When the interface is up, using ethtool breaks it because: a) link is put down but media_timer interval is not shortened to NO_LINK b) rxtx is stopped but not restarted Also manual 10baseT-HD (and probably FD too - untested) mode does not work - the link is forced up, packets are transmitted but nothing is received. Changing CSR14 value to match documentation (not disabling link check) fixes this. Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Ulrich Weber authored
as done in ip_route_connect() Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weber <uweber@astaro.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Ulrich Weber authored
IPv4 and IPv6 have separate neighbour tables, so the warning messages should be distinguishable. [ Add a suitable message prefix on the ipv4 side as well -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weber <uweber@astaro.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Yuchung Cheng authored
When TCP uses FACK algorithm to mark lost packets in tcp_mark_head_lost(), if the number of packets in the (TSO) skb is greater than the number of packets that should be marked lost, TCP incorrectly exits the loop and marks no packets lost in the skb. This underestimates tp->lost_out and affects the recovery/retransmission. This patch fargments the skb and marks the correct amount of packets lost. Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infinibandLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: RDMA/cxgb3: Turn off RX coalescing for iWARP connections
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (28 commits) ARM: 6411/1: vexpress: set RAM latencies to 1 cycle for PL310 on ct-ca9x4 tile ARM: 6409/1: davinci: map sram using MT_MEMORY_NONCACHED instead of MT_DEVICE ARM: 6408/1: omap: Map only available sram memory ARM: 6407/1: mmu: Setup MT_MEMORY and MT_MEMORY_NONCACHED L1 entries ARM: pxa: remove pr_<level> uses of KERN_<level> ARM: pxa168fb: clear enable bit when not active ARM: pxa: fix cpu_is_pxa*() not expanding to zero when not configured ARM: pxa168: fix corrected reset vector ARM: pxa: Use PIO for PI2C communication on Palm27x ARM: pxa: Fix Vpac270 gpio_power for MMC ARM: 6401/1: plug a race in the alignment trap handler ARM: 6406/1: at91sam9g45: fix i2c bus speed leds: leds-ns2: fix locking ARM: dove: fix __io() definition to use bus based offset dmaengine: fix interrupt clearing for mv_xor ARM: kirkwood: Unbreak PCIe I/O port ARM: Fix build error when using KCONFIG_CONFIG ARM: 6383/1: Implement phys_mem_access_prot() to avoid attributes aliasing ARM: 6400/1: at91: fix arch_gettimeoffset fallout ARM: 6398/1: add proc info for ARM11MPCore/Cortex-A9 from ARM ...
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