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* [PATCH] bug fix in kernel/kmod.cKenneth Lee2006-09-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I think there is a bug in kmod.c: In __call_usermodehelper(), when kernel_thread(wait_for_helper, ...) return success, since wait_for_helper() might call complete() at any time, the sub_info should not be used any more. Normally wait_for_helper() take a long time to finish, you may not get problem for most of the case. But if you remove /sbin/modprobe, it may become easier for you to get a oop in khelper. Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@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] genirq: fix typo in IRQ resendImre Deak2006-09-16
| | | | | | | | | | | Fix a bug where the IRQ_PENDING flag is never cleared and the ISR is called endlessly without an actual interrupt. Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@solidboot.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] rcu_do_batch: make ->qlen decrement irq safeOleg Nesterov2006-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | rcu_do_batch() decrements rdp->qlen with irqs enabled. This is not good, it can also be modified by call_rcu() from interrupt. Decrement ->qlen once with irqs disabled, after a main loop. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] lockdep: double the number of stack-trace entriesIngo Molnar2006-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | Miles Lane reported the "BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low!" message, which means that during normal use his system produced enough lockdep events so that the 128-thousand entries stack-trace array got exhausted. Double the size of the array. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] audit: AUDIT_PERM supportAl Viro2006-09-11
| | | | | | add support for AUDIT_PERM predicate Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] update audit rule change messagesAmy Griffis2006-09-11
| | | | | | | | Make the audit message for implicit rule removal more informative. Make the rule update message consistent with other messages. Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] sanity check audit_bufferAmy Griffis2006-09-11
| | | | | | | | Add sanity checks for NULL audit_buffer consistent with other audit_log* routines. Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] fix ppid bug in 2.6.18 kernelSteve Grubb2006-09-11
| | | | | | | | | | | Hello, During some troubleshooting, I found that ppid was accidentally omitted from the legacy rule section. This resulted in EINVAL for any rule with ppid sent with AUDIT_ADD. Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] Use the correct restart option for futex_lock_piThomas Gleixner2006-09-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current implementation of futex_lock_pi returns -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK in case that the lock operation has been interrupted by a signal. This results in a return of -EINTR to userspace in case there is an handler for the signal. This is wrong, because userspace expects that the lock function does not return in any case of signal delivery. This was not caught by my insufficient test case, but triggered a nasty userspace problem in an high load application scenario. Unfortunately also glibc does not check for this invalid return value. Using -ERSTARTNOINTR makes sure, that the interrupted syscall is restarted. The restart block related code can be safely removed, as the possible timeout argument is an absolute time value. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 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: do not touch console state when tainting the kernelIngo Molnar2006-09-06
| | | | | | | | Remove an unintended console_verbose() side-effect from add_taint(). 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] prevent swsusp with PAEPavel Machek2006-09-06
| | | | | | | | | | PAE + swsusp results in hard-to-debug crash about 50% of time during resume. Cause is known, fix needs to be ported from x86-64 (but we can't make it to 2.6.18, and I'd like this to be worked around in 2.6.18). Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] lockdep ifdef fixJarek Poplawski2006-09-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With CONFIG_SMP=y CONFIG_PREEMPT=y CONFIG_LOCKDEP=y CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y # CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING is not set spin_unlock_irqrestore() goes through lockdep but spin_lock_irqsave() doesn't. Apparently, bad things happen. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] eligible_child: remove an obsolete ->tgid checkOleg Nesterov2006-09-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | It is not possible to find a sub-thread in ->children/->ptrace_children lists, ptrace_attach() does not allow to attach to sub-threads. Even if it was possible to ptrace the task from the same thread group, we can't allow to release ->group_leader while there are others (ptracer) threads in the same group. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kerneldoc for handle_bad_irq()Henrik Kretzschmar2006-09-01
| | | | | | | | Adds the description of the parameters from handle_bad_irq(). Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] task delay accounting fixesShailabh Nagar2006-09-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Cleanup allocation and freeing of tsk->delays used by delay accounting. This solves two problems reported for delay accounting: 1. oops in __delayacct_blkio_ticks http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0608.2/1844.html Currently tsk->delays is getting freed too early in task exit which can cause a NULL tsk->delays to get accessed via reading of /proc/<tgid>/stats. The patch fixes this problem by freeing tsk->delays closer to when task_struct itself is freed up. As a result, it also eliminates the use of tsk->delays_lock which was only being used (inadequately) to safeguard access to tsk->delays while a task was exiting. 2. Possible memory leak in kernel/delayacct.c http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0608.2/1389.html The patch cleans up tsk->delays allocations after a bad fork which was missing earlier. The patch has been tested to fix the problems listed above and stress tested with rapid calls to delay accounting's taskstats command interface (which is the other path that can access the same data, besides the /proc interface causing the oops above). Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpuset: oom panic fixNick Piggin2006-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cpuset_excl_nodes_overlap always returns 0 if current is exiting. This caused customer's systems to panic in the OOM killer when processes were having trouble getting memory for the final put_user in mm_release. Even though there were lots of processes to kill. Change to returning 1 in this case. This achieves parity with !CONFIG_CPUSETS case, and was observed to fix the problem. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpuset: top_cpuset tracks hotplug changes to cpu_online_mapPaul Jackson2006-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change the list of cpus allowed to tasks in the top (root) cpuset to dynamically track what cpus are online, using a CPU hotplug notifier. Make this top cpus file read-only. On systems that have cpusets configured in their kernel, but that aren't actively using cpusets (for some distros, this covers the majority of systems) all tasks end up in the top cpuset. If that system does support CPU hotplug, then these tasks cannot make use of CPUs that are added after system boot, because the CPUs are not allowed in the top cpuset. This is a surprising regression over earlier kernels that didn't have cpusets enabled. In order to keep the behaviour of cpusets consistent between systems actively making use of them and systems not using them, this patch changes the behaviour of the 'cpus' file in the top (root) cpuset, making it read only, and making it automatically track the value of cpu_online_map. Thus tasks in the top cpuset will have automatic use of hot plugged CPUs allowed by their cpuset. Thanks to Anton Blanchard and Nathan Lynch for reporting this problem, driving the fix, and earlier versions of this patch. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Remove redundant up() in stop_machine()Yingchao Zhou2006-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | An up() is called in kernel/stop_machine.c on failure, and also in the caller (unconditionally). Signed-off-by: Zhou Yingchao <yingchao.zhou@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] futex_find_get_task(): remove an obscure EXIT_ZOMBIE checkOleg Nesterov2006-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | futex_find_get_task: if (p->state == EXIT_ZOMBIE || p->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE) return NULL; I can't understand this. First, p->state can't be EXIT_ZOMBIE. The ->exit_state check looks strange too. Sub-threads or tasks whose ->parent ignores SIGCHLD go directly to EXIT_DEAD state (I am ignoring a ptrace case). Why EXIT_DEAD tasks should be ok? Yes, EXIT_ZOMBIE is more important (a task may stay zombie for a long time), but this doesn't mean we should explicitely ignore other EXIT_XXX states. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] revert "Drop tasklist lock in do_sched_setscheduler"Oleg Nesterov2006-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | sched_setscheduler() looks at ->signal->rlim[]. It is unsafe do dereference ->signal unless tasklist_lock or ->siglock is held (or p == current). We pin the task structure, but this can't prevent from release_task()->__exit_signal() which sets ->signal = NULL. Restore tasklist_lock across the setscheduler call. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] workqueue: remove lock_cpu_hotplug()Andrew Morton2006-08-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use a private lock instead. It protects all per-cpu data structures in workqueue.c, including the workqueues list. Fix a bug in schedule_on_each_cpu(): it was forgetting to lock down the per-cpu resources. Unfixed long-standing bug: if someone unplugs the CPU identified by `singlethread_cpu' the kernel will get very sick. Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] futex_handle_fault always failsjohn stultz2006-08-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We found this issue last week w/ the -RT kernel, but it seems the same issue is in mainline as well. Basically it is possible for futex_unlock_pi to return without actually freeing the lock. This is due to buggy logic in the use of futex_handle_fault() and its attempt argument in a failure case. Looking at futex.c the logic is as follows: 1) In futex_unlock_pi() we start w/ ret=0 and we go down to the first futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(), where we find uval==-EFAULT. We then jump to the pi_faulted label. 2) From pi_faulted: We increment attempt, unlock the sem and hit the retry label. 3) From the retry label, with ret still zero, we again hit EFAULT on the first futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(), and again goto the pi_faulted label. 4) Again from pi_faulted: we increment attempt and enter the conditional, where we call futex_handle_fault. 5) futex_handle_fault fails, and we goto the out_unlock_release_sem label. 6) From out_unlock_release_sem we return, and since ret is still zero, we return without error, while never actually unlocking the lock. Issue #1: at the first futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() we should probably be setting ret=-EFAULT before jumping to pi_faulted: However in our case this doesn't really affect anything, as the glibc we're using ignores the error value from futex_unlock_pi(). Issue #2: Look at futex_handle_fault(), its first conditional will return -EFAULT if attempt is >= 2. However, from the "if(attempt++) futex_handle_fault(attempt)" logic above, we'll *never* call futex_handle_fault when attempt is less then two. So we never get a chance to even try to fault the page in. The following patch addresses these two issues by 1) Always setting ret to -EFAULT if futex_handle_fault fails, and 2) Removing the = in futex_handle_fault's (attempt >= 2) check. I'm really not sure this is the right fix, but wanted to bring it up so folks knew the issue is alive and well in the current -git tree. From looking at the git logs the logic was first introduced (then later copied to other places) in the following commit almost a year ago: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=4732efbeb997189d9f9b04708dc26bf8613ed721;hp=5b039e681b8c5f30aac9cc04385cc94be45d0823 Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] sys_getppid oopses on debug kernelKirill Korotaev2006-08-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sys_getppid() optimization can access a freed memory. On kernels with DEBUG_SLAB turned ON, this results in Oops. As Dave Hansen noted, this optimization is also unsafe for memory hotplug. So this patch always takes the lock to be safe. [oleg@tv-sign.ru: simplifications] Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] panic.c build fixAndrew Morton2006-08-14
| | | | | | | | | kernel/panic.c: In function 'add_taint': kernel/panic.c:176: warning: implicit declaration of function 'debug_locks_off' Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] fix hrtimer percpu usage typoJan Blunck2006-08-14
| | | | | | | | | The percpu variable is used incorrectly in switch_hrtimer_base(). Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] futex: Apply recent futex fixes to futex_compatThomas Gleixner2006-08-06
| | | | | | | | | | The recent fixups in futex.c need to be applied to futex_compat.c too. Fixes a hang reported by Olaf. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] memory hotadd fixes: find_next_system_ram catch range fixKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2006-08-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | find_next_system_ram() is used to find available memory resource at onlining newly added memory. This patch fixes following problem. find_next_system_ram() cannot catch this case. Resource: (start)-------------(end) Section : (start)-------------(end) Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Keith Mannthey <kmannth@gmail.com> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] memory hotadd fixes: change find_next_system_ram's return value mannerKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2006-08-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | find_next_system_ram() returns valid memory range which meets requested area, only used by memory-hot-add. This function always rewrite requested resource even if returned area is not fully fit in requested one. And sometimes the returnd resource is larger than requested area. This annoyes the caller. This patch changes the returned value to fit in requested area. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Keith Mannthey <kmannth@gmail.com> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] vt: printk: Fix framebuffer console triggering might_sleep assertionAntonino A. Daplas2006-08-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reported by: Dave Jones Whilst printk'ing to both console and serial console, I got this... (2.6.18rc1) BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/sched.c:4438 in_atomic():0, irqs_disabled():1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff80271db8>] show_trace+0xaa/0x23d [<ffffffff80271f60>] dump_stack+0x15/0x17 [<ffffffff8020b9f8>] __might_sleep+0xb2/0xb4 [<ffffffff8029232e>] __cond_resched+0x15/0x55 [<ffffffff80267eb8>] cond_resched+0x3b/0x42 [<ffffffff80268c64>] console_conditional_schedule+0x12/0x14 [<ffffffff80368159>] fbcon_redraw+0xf6/0x160 [<ffffffff80369c58>] fbcon_scroll+0x5d9/0xb52 [<ffffffff803a43c4>] scrup+0x6b/0xd6 [<ffffffff803a4453>] lf+0x24/0x44 [<ffffffff803a7ff8>] vt_console_print+0x166/0x23d [<ffffffff80295528>] __call_console_drivers+0x65/0x76 [<ffffffff80295597>] _call_console_drivers+0x5e/0x62 [<ffffffff80217e3f>] release_console_sem+0x14b/0x232 [<ffffffff8036acd6>] fb_flashcursor+0x279/0x2a6 [<ffffffff80251e3f>] run_workqueue+0xa8/0xfb [<ffffffff8024e5e0>] worker_thread+0xef/0x122 [<ffffffff8023660f>] kthread+0x100/0x136 [<ffffffff8026419e>] child_rip+0x8/0x12 This can occur when release_console_sem() is called but the log buffer still has contents that need to be flushed. The console drivers are called while the console_may_schedule flag is still true. The might_sleep() is triggered when fbcon calls console_conditional_schedule(). Fix by setting console_may_schedule to zero earlier, before the call to the console drivers. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ptrace: make pid of child process available for PTRACE_EVENT_VFORK_DONEChuck Ebbert2006-08-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | When delivering PTRACE_EVENT_VFORK_DONE, provide pid of the child process when tracer calls ptrace(PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG). This is already (accidentally) available when the tracer is tracing VFORK in addition to VFORK_DONE. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> Cc: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] bug in futex unqueue_meChristian Borntraeger2006-08-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a barrier() in futex unqueue_me to avoid aliasing of two pointers. On my s390x system I saw the following oops: Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address 0000000000000000 Oops: 0004 [#1] CPU: 0 Not tainted Process mytool (pid: 13613, task: 000000003ecb6ac0, ksp: 00000000366bdbd8) Krnl PSW : 0704d00180000000 00000000003c9ac2 (_spin_lock+0xe/0x30) Krnl GPRS: 00000000ffffffff 000000003ecb6ac0 0000000000000000 0700000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000001fe00002028 00000000000c091f 000001fe00002054 000001fe00002054 0000000000000000 00000000366bddc0 00000000005ef8c0 00000000003d00e8 0000000000144f91 00000000366bdcb8 Krnl Code: ba 4e 20 00 12 44 b9 16 00 3e a7 84 00 08 e3 e0 f0 88 00 04 Call Trace: ([<0000000000144f90>] unqueue_me+0x40/0xe4) [<0000000000145a0c>] do_futex+0x33c/0xc40 [<000000000014643e>] sys_futex+0x12e/0x144 [<000000000010bb00>] sysc_noemu+0x10/0x16 [<000002000003741c>] 0x2000003741c The code in question is: static int unqueue_me(struct futex_q *q) { int ret = 0; spinlock_t *lock_ptr; /* In the common case we don't take the spinlock, which is nice. */ retry: lock_ptr = q->lock_ptr; if (lock_ptr != 0) { spin_lock(lock_ptr); /* * q->lock_ptr can change between reading it and * spin_lock(), causing us to take the wrong lock. This * corrects the race condition. [...] and my compiler (gcc 4.1.0) makes the following out of it: 00000000000003c8 <unqueue_me>: 3c8: eb bf f0 70 00 24 stmg %r11,%r15,112(%r15) 3ce: c0 d0 00 00 00 00 larl %r13,3ce <unqueue_me+0x6> 3d0: R_390_PC32DBL .rodata+0x2a 3d4: a7 f1 1e 00 tml %r15,7680 3d8: a7 84 00 01 je 3da <unqueue_me+0x12> 3dc: b9 04 00 ef lgr %r14,%r15 3e0: a7 fb ff d0 aghi %r15,-48 3e4: b9 04 00 b2 lgr %r11,%r2 3e8: e3 e0 f0 98 00 24 stg %r14,152(%r15) 3ee: e3 c0 b0 28 00 04 lg %r12,40(%r11) /* write q->lock_ptr in r12 */ 3f4: b9 02 00 cc ltgr %r12,%r12 3f8: a7 84 00 4b je 48e <unqueue_me+0xc6> /* if r12 is zero then jump over the code.... */ 3fc: e3 20 b0 28 00 04 lg %r2,40(%r11) /* write q->lock_ptr in r2 */ 402: c0 e5 00 00 00 00 brasl %r14,402 <unqueue_me+0x3a> 404: R_390_PC32DBL _spin_lock+0x2 /* use r2 as parameter for spin_lock */ So the code becomes more or less: if (q->lock_ptr != 0) spin_lock(q->lock_ptr) instead of if (lock_ptr != 0) spin_lock(lock_ptr) Which caused the oops from above. After adding a barrier gcc creates code without this problem: [...] (the same) 3ee: e3 c0 b0 28 00 04 lg %r12,40(%r11) 3f4: b9 02 00 cc ltgr %r12,%r12 3f8: b9 04 00 2c lgr %r2,%r12 3fc: a7 84 00 48 je 48c <unqueue_me+0xc4> 400: c0 e5 00 00 00 00 brasl %r14,400 <unqueue_me+0x38> 402: R_390_PC32DBL _spin_lock+0x2 As a general note, this code of unqueue_me seems a bit fishy. The retry logic of unqueue_me only works if we can guarantee, that the original value of q->lock_ptr is always a spinlock (Otherwise we overwrite kernel memory). We know that q->lock_ptr can change. I dont know what happens with the original spinlock, as I am not an expert with the futex code. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@timesys.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntrae@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Make suspend possible with a traced process at a breakpointRafael J. Wysocki2006-08-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It should be possible to suspend, either to RAM or to disk, if there's a traced process that has just reached a breakpoint. However, this is a special case, because its parent process might have been frozen already and then we are unable to deliver the "freeze" signal to the traced process. If this happens, it's better to cancel the freezing of the traced process. Ref. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6787 Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] take filling ->pid, etc. out of audit_get_context()Al Viro2006-08-03
| | | | | | | move that stuff downstream and into the only branch where it'll be used. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] don't bother with aux entires for dummy contextAl Viro2006-08-03
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] mark context of syscall entered with no rules as dummyAl Viro2006-08-03
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] introduce audit rules counterAl Viro2006-08-03
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] fix audit oops with invalid operatorAmy Griffis2006-08-03
| | | | | | | | | | | Michael C Thompson wrote: [Tue Aug 01 2006, 02:36:36PM EDT] > The trigger for this oops is: > # auditctl -a exit,always -S pread64 -F 'inode<1' Setting the err value will fix it. Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] fix oops with CONFIG_AUDIT and !CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALLAmy Griffis2006-08-03
| | | | | | | Always initialize the audit_inode_hash[] so we don't oops on list rules. Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] fix missed create event for directory auditAmy Griffis2006-08-03
| | | | | | | | | | When an object is created via a symlink into an audited directory, audit misses the event due to not having collected the inode data for the directory. Modify __audit_inode_child() to copy the parent inode data if a parent wasn't found in audit_names[]. Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] fix faulty inode data collection for open() with O_CREATAmy Griffis2006-08-03
| | | | | | | | | | | When the specified path is an existing file or when it is a symlink, audit collects the wrong inode number, which causes it to miss the open() event. Adding a second hook to the open() path fixes this. Also add audit_copy_inode() to consolidate some code. Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Fix force_sig_info() semantics after cleanupsLinus Torvalds2006-08-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Suresh points out that commit b0423a0d9cc836b2c3d796623cd19236bfedfe63 broke the semantics of a synchronous signal like SIGSEGV occurring recursively inside its own handler handler (or, indeed, any other context when the signal was blocked). That was unintentional, and this fixes things up by reinstating the old semantics, but without reverting the cleanups. Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] timer: Fix tvec_bases initializerJosh Triplett2006-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | kernel/timer.c defines a (per-cpu) pointer to tvec_base_t, but initializes it using { &a_tvec_base_t }, which sparse warns about; change this to just &a_tvec_base_t. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] reference rt-mutex-design in rtmutex.cSteven Rostedt2006-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | In order to prevent Doc Rot, this patch adds a reference to the design document for rtmutex.c in rtmutex.c. So when someone needs to update or change the design of that file they will know that a document actually exists that explains the design (helping them change it), and hopefully that they will update the document if they too change the design. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.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] Reducing local_bh_enable/disable overhead in irqtraceTim Chen2006-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The recent changes from irqtrace feature has added overheads to local_bh_disable and local_bh_enable that reduces UDP performance across x86_64 and IA64, even though IA64 does not support the irqtrace feature. Patch in question is [PATCH]lockdep: irqtrace subsystem, core http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=c ommit;h=de30a2b355ea85350ca2f58f3b9bf4e5bc007986 Prior to this patch, local_bh_disable was a short macro. Now it is a function which calls __local_bh_disable with added irq flags save and restore. The irq flags save and restore were also added to local_bh_enable, probably for injecting the trace irqs code. This overhead is on the generic code path across all architectures. On a IA_64 test machine (Itanium-2 1.6 GHz) running a benchmark like netperf's UDP streaming test, the added overhead results in a drop of 3% in throughput, as udp_sendmsg calls the local_bh_enable/disable several times. Other workloads that have heavy usages of local_bh_enable/disable could also be affected. The patch ideally should not have affected IA-64 performance as it does not have IRQ tracing support. A significant portion of the overhead is in the added irq flags save and restore, which I think is not needed if IRQ tracing is unused. A suggested patch is attached below that recovers the lost performance. However, the "ifdef"s in the patch are a bit ugly. Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] pi-futex: missing pi_waiters plist initializationHeiko Carstens2006-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Initialize init task's pi_waiters plist. Otherwise cpu hotplug of cpu 0 might crash, since rt_mutex_getprio() accesses an uninitialized list head. call chain which led to crash: take_cpu_down sched_idle_next __setscheduler rt_mutex_getprio Using PLIST_HEAD_INIT in the INIT_TASK macro doesn't work unfortunately, since the pi_waiters member is only conditionally present. Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 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] Add DocBook documentation for workqueue functionsRolf Eike Beer2006-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | kernel/workqueue.c was omitted from generating kernel documentation. This adds a new section "Workqueues and Kevents" and adds documentation for some of the functions. Some functions in this file already had DocBook-style comments, now they finally become visible. Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fix cond_resched() fixJim Houston2006-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | In cond_resched_lock() it calls __resched_legal() before dropping the spin lock. __resched_legal() will always finds the preempt_count non-zero and will prevent the call to __cond_resched(). The attached patch adds a parameter to __resched_legal() with the expected preempt_count value. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fix bad macro param in timer.cSteven Rostedt2006-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We have #define INDEX(N) (base->timer_jiffies >> (TVR_BITS + N * TVN_BITS)) & TVN_MASK and it's used via list = varray[i + 1]->vec + (INDEX(i + 1)); So, due to underparenthesisation, this INDEX(i+1) is now a ... (TVR_BITS + i + 1 * TVN_BITS)) ... So this bugfix changes behaviour. It worked before by sheer luck: "If i was anything but 0, it was broken. But this was only used by s390 and arm. Since it was for the next interrupt, could that next interrupt be a problem (going into the second cascade)? But it was probably seldom wrong. That is, this would fail if the next interrupt was in the second cascade, and was wrapped. Which may never of happened. Also if it did happen, it would have just missed the interrupt. If an interrupt was missed, and no one was there to miss it, was it really missed :-)" Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpu hotplug: replace __devinit* with __cpuinit* for cpu notificationsChandra Seetharaman2006-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Few of the callback functions and notifier blocks that are associated with cpu notifications incorrectly have __devinit and __devinitdata. They should be __cpuinit and __cpuinitdata instead. It makes no functional difference but wastes text area when CONFIG_HOTPLUG is enabled and CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is not. This patch fixes all those instances. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] IA64: kprobe invalidate icache of jump bufferbibo, mao2006-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Kprobe inserts breakpoint instruction in probepoint and then jumps to instruction slot when breakpoint is hit, the instruction slot icache must be consistent with dcache. Here is the patch which invalidates instruction slot icache area. Without this patch, in some machines there will be fault when executing instruction slot where icache content is inconsistent with dcache. Signed-off-by: bibo,mao <bibo.mao@intel.com> Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Acked-by: Keshavamurthy Anil S <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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