1. 03 Jan, 2006 21 commits
  2. 02 Jan, 2006 2 commits
    • Dag-Erling Smrgrav's avatar
      [PATCH] Avoid namespace pollution in <asm/param.h> · abe842eb
      Dag-Erling Smrgrav authored
      In commit 3D59121003721a8fad11ee72e646fd9d3076b5679c, the x86 and x86-64
      <asm/param.h> was changed to include <linux/config.h> for the
      configurable timer frequency.
      
      However, asm/param.h is sometimes used in userland (it is included
      indirectly from <sys/param.h>), so your commit pollutes the userland
      namespace with tons of CONFIG_FOO macros.  This greatly confuses
      software packages (such as BusyBox) which use CONFIG_FOO macros
      themselves to control the inclusion of optional features.
      
      After a short exchange, Christoph approved this patch
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      abe842eb
    • Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: more g5 overtemp problem fix · f12f4d90
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
      Some G5s still occasionally experience shutdowns due to overtemp
      conditions despite the recent fix. After analyzing logs from such
      machines, it appears that the overtemp code is a bit too quick at
      shutting the machine down when reaching the critical temperature (tmax +
      8) and doesn't leave the fan enough time to actually cool it down. This
      happens if the temperature of a CPU suddenly rises too high in a very
      short period of time, or occasionally on boot (that is the CPUs are
      already overtemp by the time the driver loads).
      
      This patches makes the code a bit more relaxed, leaving a few seconds to
      the fans to do their job before kicking the machine shutown.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      f12f4d90
  3. 01 Jan, 2006 2 commits
  4. 31 Dec, 2005 3 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      35f349ee
    • Yi Yang's avatar
      [PATCH] Fix false old value return of sysctl · 82c9df82
      Yi Yang authored
      For the sysctl syscall, if the user wants to get the old value of a
      sysctl entry and set a new value for it in the same syscall, the old
      value is always overwritten by the new value if the sysctl entry is of
      string type and if the user sets its strategy to sysctl_string.  This
      issue lies in the strategy being run twice if the strategy is set to
      sysctl_string, the general strategy sysctl_string always returns 0 if
      success.
      
      Such strategy routines as sysctl_jiffies and sysctl_jiffies_ms return 1
      because they do read and write for the sysctl entry.
      
      The strategy routine sysctl_string return 0 although it actually read
      and write the sysctl entry.
      
      According to my analysis, if a strategy routine do read and write, it
      should return 1, if it just does some necessary check but not read and
      write, it should return 0, for example sysctl_intvec.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarYi Yang <yang.y.yi@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      82c9df82
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      sysctl: don't overflow the user-supplied buffer with '\0' · 8febdd85
      Linus Torvalds authored
      If the string was too long to fit in the user-supplied buffer,
      the sysctl layer would zero-terminate it by writing past the
      end of the buffer. Don't do that.
      
      Noticed by Yi Yang <yang.y.yi@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      8febdd85
  5. 30 Dec, 2005 5 commits
  6. 29 Dec, 2005 7 commits