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* [PATCH] fs/*: trivial vsnprintf() conversionAlexey Dobriyan2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | It would very lame to get buffer overflow via one of the following. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Exar quad port serialPaul B Schroeder2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is on our "Envoy" boxes which we have, according to the documentation, an "Exar ST16C554/554D Quad UART with 16-byte Fifo's". The box also has two other "on-board" serial ports and a modem chip. The two on-board serial UARTs were being detected along with the first two Exar UARTs. The last two Exar UARTs were not showing up and neither was the modem. This patch was the only way I could the kernel to see beyond the standard four serial ports and get all four of the Exar UARTs to show up. [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Paul B Schroeder <pschroeder@uplogix.com> Cc: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] lockdep: annotate bcsp driverPeter Zijlstra2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ============================================= [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] 2.6.18-1.2699.fc6 #1 --------------------------------------------- swapper/0 is trying to acquire lock: (&list->lock#3){+...}, at: [<c05ad307>] skb_dequeue+0x12/0x43 but task is already holding lock: (&list->lock#3){+...}, at: [<df98cd79>] bcsp_dequeue+0x6a/0x11e [hci_uart] Two different list locks nest, annotate so. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Compile-time check re world-writeable module paramsAlexey Dobriyan2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | One of the mistakes a module_param() user can make is to supply default value of module parameter as the last argument. module_param() accepts permissions instead. If default value is, say, 3 (-------wx), parameter becomes world-writeable. So far, the only remedy was to apply grep(1) and read drivers submitted to -mm. BTDT. With this patch applied, compiler will finally do some job. *) bounds checking on permissions *) world-writeable bit checking on permissions *) compile breakage if checks trigger First version of this check (only "& 2" part) directly caught 4 out of 7 places during my last grep. Subject: Neverending module_param() bugs [X] drivers/acpi/sbs.c:101:module_param(capacity_mode, int, CAPACITY_UNIT); [X] drivers/acpi/sbs.c:102:module_param(update_mode, int, UPDATE_MODE); [ ] drivers/acpi/sbs.c:103:module_param(update_info_mode, int, UPDATE_INFO_MODE); [ ] drivers/acpi/sbs.c:104:module_param(update_time, int, UPDATE_TIME); [ ] drivers/acpi/sbs.c:105:module_param(update_time2, int, UPDATE_TIME2); [X] drivers/char/watchdog/sbc8360.c:203:module_param(timeout, int, 27); [X] drivers/media/video/tuner-simple.c:13:module_param(offset, int, 0666); Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] taskstats: cleanup reply assemblingOleg Nesterov2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Thomas Graf wrote: > > nla_nest_start() may return NULL, either rely on prepare_reply() to be > correct and BUG() on failure or do proper error handling for all > functions. nla_put() in taskstat.c can fail only if the 'size' argument of alloc_skb() was not right. This is a kernel bug, we should not hide it. So add 'BUG()' on error path and check for 'na == NULL'. > genlmsg_cancel() is only required in error paths for dumping > procedures. So we can remove 'genlmsg_cancel()' calls and 'void *reply' (saves 227 bytes). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] taskstats: use nla_reserve() for reply assemblingOleg Nesterov2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently taskstats_user_cmd()/taskstats_exit() do: 1) allocate stats 2) fill stats 3) make a temporary copy on stack (236 bytes) 4) copy that copy to skb 5) free stats With the help of nla_reserve() we can operate on skb->data directly, thus avoiding all these steps except 2). So, before this patch: // copy *stats to skb->data int mk_reply(skb, ..., struct taskstats *stats); fill_pid(stats); mk_reply(skb, ..., stats); After: // return a pointer to skb->data struct taskstats *mk_reply(skb, ...); stat = mk_reply(skb, ...); fill_pid(stats); Shrinks taskatsks.o by 162 bytes. A stupid benchmark (send one million TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_PID) shows the real user sys before: 4.02 0.06 3.96 4.02 0.04 3.98 4.02 0.04 3.97 after: 3.86 0.08 3.78 3.88 0.10 3.77 3.89 0.09 3.80 but this looks suspiciously good. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] taskstats: factor out reply assemblingOleg Nesterov2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce mk_reply() helper which does all nla_put()s on reply. Saves 453 bytes and a preparation for the next patch. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] taskstats: cleanup ->signal->stats allocationOleg Nesterov2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Allocate ->signal->stats on demand in taskstats_exit(), this allows us to remove taskstats_tgid_alloc() (the last non-trivial inline) from taskstat's public interface. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] taskstats: cleanup do_exit() pathOleg Nesterov2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | do_exit: taskstats_exit_alloc() ... taskstats_exit_send() taskstats_exit_free() I think this is not good, let it be a single function exported to the core kernel, taskstats_exit(), which does alloc + send + free itself. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] taskstats_exit_alloc: optimize/simplifyOleg Nesterov2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | If there are no listeners, every task does unneeded kmem_cache alloc/free on exit. We don't need listeners->sem for 'if (!list_empty())' check. Yes, we may have a false positive, but this doesn't differ from the case when the listener is unregistered after we drop the semaphore. So we don't need to do allocation beforehand. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] read_cache_pages() cleanupOGAWA Hirofumi2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | Use put_pages_list() instead of opencoding it. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] paride: return proper error codeAkinobu Mita2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | This patch makes module init return proper value instead of -1 (-EPERM). Cc: Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.net> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] slab: use probe_kernel_address()Andrew Morton2006-12-07
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] probe_kernel_address() needs to do set_fs()Andrew Morton2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | probe_kernel_address() purports to be generic, only it forgot to select KERNEL_DS, so it presently won't work right on all architectures. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] parport_pc: Add support for OX16PCI952 parallel portRyan Underwood2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | Add support for the parallel port (implemented as separate PCI function) on the Oxford Semiconductor OX16PCI952. Signed-off-by: Ryan Underwood <nemesis@icequake.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kconfig: PRINTK_TIME depends on PRINTKRandy Dunlap2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | Make PRINTK_TIME depend on PRINTK. Only display/offer it if PRINTK is enabled. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] profile: fix uaccess handlingHeiko Carstens2006-12-07
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] compat: fix uaccess handlingHeiko Carstens2006-12-07
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] binfmt: fix uaccess handlingHeiko Carstens2006-12-07
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Disable CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID for abnormal exitRoland McGrath2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID flag is used by NPTL to have its threads communicate via memory/futex when they exit, so pthread_join can synchronize using a simple futex wait. The word of user memory where NPTL stores a thread's own TID is what it passes; this gets reset to zero at thread exit. It is not desireable to touch this user memory when threads are dying due to a fatal signal. A core dump is more usefully representative of the dying program state if the threads live at the time of the crash have their NPTL data structures unperturbed. The userland expectation of CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID has only ever been that it works for a thread making an _exit system call. This problem was identified by Ernie Petrides <petrides@redhat.com>. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ernie Petrides <petrides@redhat.com> Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Function v9fs_get_idpool returns int, not u32 as called twice in ↵Mika Kukkonen2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | fs/9p/vfs_inode.c Function v9fs_get_idpool returns int, not u32. Actually it returns -1 on errors, and these two callers check if the value is smaller than 0, which was caught by gcc with extra warning flags. Compile tested only but should be OK, as the value computed in v9fs_get_idpool() is also int. Signed-of-by: Mika Kukkonen <mikukkon@iki.fi> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] tifm: fix NULL ptr and styleRandy Dunlap2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | Fix sparse NULL warning; drivers/misc/tifm_core.c:223:17: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer Fix style while there. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] handle ext4 directory corruption betterEric Sandeen2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I've been using Steve Grubb's purely evil "fsfuzzer" tool, at http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/files/fsfuzzer-0.4.tar.gz Basically it makes a filesystem, splats some random bits over it, then tries to mount it and do some simple filesystem actions. At best, the filesystem catches the corruption gracefully. At worst, things spin out of control. As you might guess, we found a couple places in ext4 where things spin out of control :) First, we had a corrupted directory that was never checked for consistency... it was corrupt, and pointed to another bad "entry" of length 0. The for() loop looped forever, since the length of ext4_next_entry(de) was 0, and we kept looking at the same pointer over and over and over and over... I modeled this check and subsequent action on what is done for other directory types in ext4_readdir... (adding this check adds some computational expense; I am testing a followup patch to reduce the number of times we check and re-check these directory entries, in all cases. Thanks for the idea, Andreas). Next we had a root directory inode which had a corrupted size, claimed to be > 200M on a 4M filesystem. There was only really 1 block in the directory, but because the size was so large, readdir kept coming back for more, spewing thousands of printk's along the way. Per Andreas' suggestion, if we're in this read error condition and we're trying to read an offset which is greater than i_blocks worth of bytes, stop trying, and break out of the loop. With these two changes fsfuzz test survives quite well on ext4. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] handle ext3 directory corruption betterEric Sandeen2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I've been using Steve Grubb's purely evil "fsfuzzer" tool, at http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/files/fsfuzzer-0.4.tar.gz Basically it makes a filesystem, splats some random bits over it, then tries to mount it and do some simple filesystem actions. At best, the filesystem catches the corruption gracefully. At worst, things spin out of control. As you might guess, we found a couple places in ext3 where things spin out of control :) First, we had a corrupted directory that was never checked for consistency... it was corrupt, and pointed to another bad "entry" of length 0. The for() loop looped forever, since the length of ext3_next_entry(de) was 0, and we kept looking at the same pointer over and over and over and over... I modeled this check and subsequent action on what is done for other directory types in ext3_readdir... (adding this check adds some computational expense; I am testing a followup patch to reduce the number of times we check and re-check these directory entries, in all cases. Thanks for the idea, Andreas). Next we had a root directory inode which had a corrupted size, claimed to be > 200M on a 4M filesystem. There was only really 1 block in the directory, but because the size was so large, readdir kept coming back for more, spewing thousands of printk's along the way. Per Andreas' suggestion, if we're in this read error condition and we're trying to read an offset which is greater than i_blocks worth of bytes, stop trying, and break out of the loop. With these two changes fsfuzz test survives quite well on ext3. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] binfmt_elf: randomize PIE binaries (2nd try)Marcus Meissner2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Randomizes -pie compiled binaries from 64k (0x10000) up to ELF_ET_DYN_BASE. 0 -> 64k is excluded to allow NULL ptr accesses to fail. Signed-off-by: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] lockdep: misc fixes in lockdep.cJarek Poplawski2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | - numeric string size replaced with constant in print_lock_name and print_lockdep_cache, - return on null pointer in print_lock_dependencies, - one more lockdep return with 0 with unlocking fix in mark_lock. Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] lockdep: internal locking fixesJarek Poplawski2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | Here are mainly some lockdep returns with 0 with unlocking fixes. Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] paride_register(): shuffle return valuesAlexey Dobriyan2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | paride_register() returns 1 on success, 0 on failure and module init code looks like static int __init foo_init(void) { return paride_register(&foo) - 1; } which is not what one get used to. Converted to usual 0/-E convention. In case of kbic driver, unwind registration. It was just return (paride_register(&k951)||paride_register(&k971))-1; Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] paride: rename pi_register() and pi_unregister()Alexey Dobriyan2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | We're about to change the semantics of pi_register()'s return value, so rename it to something else first, so that any unconverted code reliaby breaks. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] spi: set kset of master class dev explicitlyHans-Christian Egtvedt2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | <quote Imre Deak from Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:18:54 +0200> In order for spi_busnum_to_master to work spi master devices must be linked into the spi_master_class.subsys.kset list. At the moment the default class_obj_subsys.kset is used and we can't enumerate the master devices. </quote> Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hcegtvedt@atmel.com> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] spi: correct bus_num and buffer bug in spi coreHans-Christian Egtvedt2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Correct the following in driver/spi/spi.c in function spi_busnum_to_master: * must allow bus_num 0, the if is really not needed. * correct the name buffer which is too small for bus_num >= 10000. It should be 9 bytes big, not 8. Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hcegtvedt@atmel.com> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Remove superfluous lock_super() in extN xattr codeAndreas Gruenbacher2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | lock_super() is unnecessary for setting super-block feature flags. Use the provided *_SET_COMPAT_FEATURE() macros as well. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpuset: minor code refinementsPaul Jackson2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | A couple of minor code simplifications to the kernel/cpuset.c code. No functional change. Just a little less code and a little more readable. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] pull in necessary header files for cdev.hJan Engelhardt2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | linux/cdev.h uses struct kobject and other structs and should therefore include them. Currently, a module either needs to add the missing includes itself, or, in case a module includes other headers already, needs to put <linux/cdev.h> last, which goes against a alphabetically-sorted include list. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] lockdep: fix ide/proc interactionPeter Zijlstra2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | rmmod/3080 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE0:SE1] is trying to acquire: (proc_subdir_lock){--..}, at: [<c04a33b0>] remove_proc_entry+0x40/0x191 and this task is already holding: (ide_lock){++..}, at: [<c05651a2>] ide_unregister_subdriver+0x39/0xc8 which would create a new lock dependency: (ide_lock){++..} -> (proc_subdir_lock){--..} but this new dependency connects a hard-irq-safe lock: (ide_lock){++..} ... which became hard-irq-safe at: [<c043c458>] lock_acquire+0x4b/0x6b [<c06129d7>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x22/0x32 [<c0567870>] ide_intr+0x17/0x1a9 [<c044eb31>] handle_IRQ_event+0x20/0x4d [<c044ebf2>] __do_IRQ+0x94/0xef [<c0406771>] do_IRQ+0x9e/0xbd to a hard-irq-unsafe lock: (proc_subdir_lock){--..} ... which became hard-irq-unsafe at: ... [<c043c458>] lock_acquire+0x4b/0x6b [<c06126ab>] _spin_lock+0x19/0x28 [<c04a32f2>] xlate_proc_name+0x1b/0x99 [<c04a3547>] proc_create+0x46/0xdf [<c04a3642>] create_proc_entry+0x62/0xa5 [<c07c1972>] proc_misc_init+0x1c/0x1d2 [<c07c1844>] proc_root_init+0x4c/0xe9 [<c07ad703>] start_kernel+0x294/0x3b3 Move ide_remove_proc_entries() out from under ide_lock; there is nothing that indicates that this is needed. In specific, the call to ide_add_proc_entries() is unprotected, and there is nothing else in the file using the respective ->proc fields. Also the lock order around destroy_proc_ide_interface() suggests this. Alan sayeth: proc_ide_write_settings walks the setting list under ide_setting_sem, read ditto. remove_proc_entry is doing proc side housekeeping. Looks fine to me, although that old code is such a mess anything could be going on. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] via82cxxx: handle error condition properlyAlan Cox2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | Jeff noted that the via driver returned an error to an unsigned int in a a case where errors are not permitted. Move the check down earlier so we can handle it properly. Not as pretty but it works this way and avoids hacking up ugly stuff in the legacy ide core. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fix reiserfs bad path release panicSuzuki K P2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | One of our test team hit a reiserfs_panic while running fsstress tests on 2.6.19-rc1. The message looks like : REISERFS: panic(device Null superblock): reiserfs[5676]: assertion !(p->path_length != 1 ) failed at fs/reiserfs/stree.c:397:reiserfs_check_path: path not properly relsed. The backtrace looked : kernel BUG in reiserfs_panic at fs/reiserfs/prints.c:361! .reiserfs_check_path+0x58/0x74 .reiserfs_get_block+0x1444/0x1508 .__block_prepare_write+0x1c8/0x558 .block_prepare_write+0x34/0x64 .reiserfs_prepare_write+0x118/0x1d0 .generic_file_buffered_write+0x314/0x82c .__generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x350/0x3e0 .__generic_file_write_nolock+0x78/0xb0 .generic_file_write+0x60/0xf0 .reiserfs_file_write+0x198/0x2038 .vfs_write+0xd0/0x1b4 .sys_write+0x4c/0x8c syscall_exit+0x0/0x4 Upon debugging I found that the restart_transaction was not releasing the path if the th->refcount was > 1. /*static*/ int restart_transaction(struct reiserfs_transaction_handle *th, struct inode *inode, struct path *path) { [...] /* we cannot restart while nested */ if (th->t_refcount > 1) { <<- Path is not released in this case! return 0; } pathrelse(path); <<- Path released here. [...] This could happen in such a situation : In reiserfs/inode.c: reiserfs_get_block() :: if (repeat == NO_DISK_SPACE || repeat == QUOTA_EXCEEDED) { /* restart the transaction to give the journal a chance to free ** some blocks. releases the path, so we have to go back to ** research if we succeed on the second try */ SB_JOURNAL(inode->i_sb)->j_next_async_flush = 1; -->> retval = restart_transaction(th, inode, &path); <<-- We are supposed to release the path, no matter we succeed or fail. But if the th->refcount is > 1, the path is still valid. And, if (retval) goto failure; repeat = _allocate_block(th, block, inode, &allocated_block_nr, NULL, create); If the above allocate_block fails with NO_DISK_SPACE or QUOTA_EXCEEDED, we would have path which is not released. if (repeat != NO_DISK_SPACE && repeat != QUOTA_EXCEEDED) { goto research; } if (repeat == QUOTA_EXCEEDED) retval = -EDQUOT; else retval = -ENOSPC; goto failure; [...] failure: [...] reiserfs_check_path(&path); << Panics here ! Attached here is a patch which could fix the issue. fix reiserfs/inode.c : restart_transaction() to release the path in all cases. The restart_transaction() doesn't release the path when the the journal handle has a refcount > 1. This would trigger a reiserfs_panic() if we encounter an -ENOSPC / -EDQUOT in reiserfs_get_block(). Signed-off-by: Suzuki K P <suzuki@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com> Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Export pm_suspend for the shared APM emulationRalf Baechle2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | The new shared APM emulation just like its ARM and MIPS predecessors uses pm_suspend() which was only exported on SH. Move export to close to it's definition where it really should be anyway. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] io/storage: Documentation update to as-iosched.txtFilipe2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | Documentation update, adding references to CFQ scheduler and to another document about selecting IO Schedulers. Signed-off-by: Filipe Lautert <filipe@icewall.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] file: kill unnecessary timer in fdtable_deferTejun Heo2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | free_fdtable_rc() schedules timer to reschedule fddef->wq if schedule_work() on it returns 0. However, schedule_work() guarantees that the target work is executed at least once after the scheduling regardless of its return value. 0 return simply means that the work was already pending and thus no further action was required. Another problem is that it used contant '5' as @expires argument to mod_timer(). Kill unnecessary fddef->timer. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] SysRq-X: show blocked tasksIngo Molnar2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | Add SysRq-X support: show blocked (TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) tasks only. Useful for debugging IO stalls. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fuse: fix compile without CONFIG_BLOCKMiklos Szeredi2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Randy Dunlap wote: > Should FUSE depend on BLOCK? Without that and with BLOCK=n, I get: > > inode.c:(.text+0x3acc5): undefined reference to `sb_set_blocksize' > inode.c:(.text+0x3a393): undefined reference to `get_sb_bdev' > fs/built-in.o:(.data+0xd718): undefined reference to `kill_block_super Most fuse filesystems work fine without block device support, so I think a better solution is to disable the 'fuseblk' filesystem type if BLOCK=n. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fuse: add DESTROY operationMiklos Szeredi2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a DESTROY operation for block device based filesystems. With the help of this operation, such a filesystem can flush dirty data to the device synchronously before the umount returns. This is needed in situations where the filesystem is assumed to be clean immediately after unmount (e.g. ejecting removable media). Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fuse: add bmap supportMiklos Szeredi2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | Add support for the BMAP operation for block device based filesystems. This is needed to support swap-files and lilo. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fuse: add blksize optionMiklos Szeredi2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | Add 'blksize' option for block device based filesystems. During initialization this is used to set the block size on the device and the super block. The default block size is 512bytes. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fuse: add support for block device based filesystemsMiklos Szeredi2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I never intended this, but people started using fuse to implement block device based "real" filesystems (ntfs-3g, zfs). The following four patches add better support for these kinds of filesystems. Unlike "normal" fuse filesystems, using this feature should require superuser privileges (enforced by the fusermount utility). Thanks to Szabolcs Szakacsits for the input and testing. This patch adds a 'fuseblk' filesystem type, which is only different from the 'fuse' filesystem type in how the 'dev_name' mount argument is interpreted. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fuse: minor cleanup in fuse_dentry_revalidateMiklos Szeredi2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | Remove unneeded code from fuse_dentry_revalidate(). This made some sense while the validity time could wrap around, but now it's a very obvious no-op. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fuse: update userspace interface to version 7.8Miklos Szeredi2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | Add a flag to the RELEASE message which specifies that a FLUSH operation should be performed as well. This interface update is needed for the FreeBSD port, and doesn't actually touch the Linux implementation at all. Also rename the unused 'flush_flags' in the FLUSH message to 'unused'. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] constify inode accessorsJan Engelhardt2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | Change the signature of i_size_read(), IMINOR() and IMAJOR() because they, or the functions they call, will never modify the argument. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] SPI: improve sysfs compiler complaint handlingJeff Garzik2006-12-07
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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