- 28 Feb, 2013 40 commits
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Heiko Carstens authored
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge third patch-bumb from Andrew Morton: "This wraps me up for -rc1. - Lots of misc stuff and things which were deferred/missed from patchbombings 1 & 2. - ocfs2 things - lib/scatterlist - hfsplus - fatfs - documentation - signals - procfs - lockdep - coredump - seqfile core - kexec - Tejun's large IDR tree reworkings - ipmi - partitions - nbd - random() things - kfifo - tools/testing/selftests updates - Sasha's large and pointless hlist cleanup" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (163 commits) hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators kcmp: make it depend on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE selftests: add a simple doc tools/testing/selftests/Makefile: rearrange targets selftests/efivarfs: add create-read test selftests/efivarfs: add empty file creation test selftests: add tests for efivarfs kfifo: fix kfifo_alloc() and kfifo_init() kfifo: move kfifo.c from kernel/ to lib/ arch Kconfig: centralise CONFIG_ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS w1: add support for DS2413 Dual Channel Addressable Switch memstick: move the dereference below the NULL test drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: use devm_kzalloc Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt: fix typo include/linux/eventfd.h: fix incorrect filename is a comment mtd: mtd_stresstest: use prandom_bytes() mtd: mtd_subpagetest: convert to use prandom library mtd: mtd_speedtest: use prandom_bytes mtd: mtd_pagetest: convert to use prandom library mtd: mtd_oobtest: convert to use prandom library ...
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Sasha Levin authored
I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member) The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter: hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member) Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate. Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required: - Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h - Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones. - A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this was modified to use 'obj->member' instead. - Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator properly, so those had to be fixed up manually. The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here: @@ iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host; type T; expression a,c,d,e; identifier b; statement S; @@ -T b; <+... when != b ( hlist_for_each_entry(a, - b, c, d) S | hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a, - b, c) S | hlist_for_each_entry_from(a, - b, c) S | hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a, - b, c, d) S | hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a, - b, c, d) S | hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a, - b, c) S | for_each_busy_worker(a, c, - b, d) S | ax25_uid_for_each(a, - b, c) S | ax25_for_each(a, - b, c) S | inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a, - b, c) S | sctp_for_each_hentry(a, - b, c) S | sk_for_each(a, - b, c) S | sk_for_each_rcu(a, - b, c) S | sk_for_each_from -(a, b) +(a) S + sk_for_each_from(a) S | sk_for_each_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | sk_for_each_bound(a, - b, c) S | hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a, - b, c, d, e) S | hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a, - b, c) S | nr_neigh_for_each(a, - b, c) S | nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | nr_node_for_each(a, - b, c) S | nr_node_for_each_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | - for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S + for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S | - for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S + for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S | for_each_host(a, - b, c) S | for_each_host_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | for_each_mesh_entry(a, - b, c, d) S ) ...+> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings] [akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes] Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Cyrill Gorcunov authored
Since kcmp syscall has been implemented (initially on x86 architecture) a number of other archs wire it up as well: xtensa, sparc, sh, s390, mips, microblaze, m68k (not taking into account those who uses <asm-generic/unistd.h> for syscall numbers definitions). But the Makefile, which turns kcmp.o generation on still depends on former config-x86. Thus get rid of this limitation and make kcmp.o depend on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE option. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jeremy Kerr authored
This change adds a little documentation to the tests under tools/testing/selftests/, based on akpm's explanation. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: move from Documentation to tools/testing/selftests/README.txt] Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
Do it one-per-line to reduce patch conflict pain. Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jeremy Kerr authored
Test that reads from a newly-created efivarfs file (with no data written) will return EOF. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Cc: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jeremy Kerr authored
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Cc: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jeremy Kerr authored
This change adds a few initial efivarfs tests to the tools/testing/selftests directory. The open-unlink test is based on code from Lingzhu Xiang. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Cc: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Stefani Seibold authored
Fix kfifo_alloc() and kfifo_init() to alloc at least the requested number of elements. Since the kfifo operates on power of 2 the request size will be rounded up to the next power of two. Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Stefani Seibold authored
Move kfifo.c from kernel/ to lib/ Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Stephen Rothwell authored
Change it to CONFIG_HAVE_VIRT_TO_BUS and set it in all architecures that already provide virt_to_bus(). Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> 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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Mariusz Bialonczyk authored
Also fixes some whitespace inconsistency in Kconfig and w1_family.h when DS2408 chip support was added. Signed-off-by: Mariusz Bialonczyk <manio@skyboo.net> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Wei Yongjun authored
The dereference should be moved below the NULL test. spatch with a semantic match is used to found this. (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Julia Lawall authored
devm_kzalloc allocates memory that is released when a driver detaches. This patch uses devm_kzalloc for data that is allocated in the probe function of a platform device and is only freed in the remove function. Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
Noted by Jesper Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah.khan@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Martin Sustrik authored
Comment in eventfd.h referred to 'include/asm-generic/fcntl.h' while the correct path is 'include/uapi/asm-generic/fcntl.h'. Signed-off-by: Martin Sustrik <sustrik@250bpm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Laight <david.laight@aculab.com> Cc: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
This removes home-brewed pseudo-random number generator and use prandom library. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Laight <david.laight@aculab.com> Cc: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
Use prandom_bytes instead of equivalent local function. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Laight <david.laight@aculab.com> Cc: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
This removes home-brewed pseudo-random number generator and use prandom library. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Laight <david.laight@aculab.com> Cc: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
This removes home-brewed pseudo-random number generator and use prandom library. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Laight <david.laight@aculab.com> Cc: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
Using prandom_bytes() is enough. Because this data is only used for testing, not used for cryptographic use. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Laight <david.laight@aculab.com> Cc: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Yuanhan Liu authored
Fix the wrong comment about the return value of clone_uts_ns() Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: "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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Alex Elder authored
I just fixed this in "drivers/block/rbd.c" and I noticed that "drivers/block/nbd.c" has the same problem. Fix a warning issued by sparse by adding some lockdep annotations to indicate the queue lock gets dropped (because it's held when do_nbd_request() is called) and re-acquired within the function. Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@inktank.com> Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@us.sios.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Wouter Verhelst authored
Documentation/blockdev/nbd.txt contained some documentation which was horribly outdated and probably still dates from the original patch that added NBD support to the kernel. This patch removes the useless and outdated bits. The tools on nbd.sf.net are fully documented in manpages, which is where documentation for the non-kernel bits should live. Additionally, add a reference to the MAINTAINERS file for the nbd-general mailinglist that is used for discussion of the userland tools and the kernel module already. Signed-off-by: Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Paolo Bonzini authored
Pass the read-only flag to set_device_ro, so that it will be visible to the block layer and in sysfs. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com> Cc: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Paolo Bonzini authored
There are two problems with shutdown in the NBD driver. 1: Receiving the NBD_DISCONNECT ioctl does not sync the filesystem. This patch adds the sync operation into __nbd_ioctl()'s NBD_DISCONNECT handler. This is useful because BLKFLSBUF is restricted to processes that have CAP_SYS_ADMIN, and the NBD client may not possess it (fsync of the block device does not sync the filesystem, either). 2: Once we clear the socket we have no guarantee that later reads will come from the same backing storage. The patch adds calls to kill_bdev() in __nbd_ioctl()'s socket clearing code so the page cache is cleaned, lest reads that hit on the page cache will return stale data from the previously-accessible disk. Example: # qemu-nbd -r -c/dev/nbd0 /dev/sr0 # file -s /dev/nbd0 /dev/stdin: # UDF filesystem data (version 1.5) etc. # qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0 # qemu-nbd -r -c/dev/nbd0 /dev/sda # file -s /dev/nbd0 /dev/stdin: # UDF filesystem data (version 1.5) etc. While /dev/sda has: # file -s /dev/sda /dev/sda: x86 boot sector; etc. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com> Cc: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> Cc: <stable@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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Alex Bligh authored
Currently, the NBD device does not accept flush requests from the Linux block layer. If the NBD server opened the target with neither O_SYNC nor O_DSYNC, however, the device will be effectively backed by a writeback cache. Without issuing flushes properly, operation of the NBD device will not be safe against power losses. The NBD protocol has support for both a cache flush command and a FUA command flag; the server will also pass a flag to note its support for these features. This patch adds support for the cache flush command and flag. In the kernel, we receive the flags via the NBD_SET_FLAGS ioctl, and map NBD_FLAG_SEND_FLUSH to the argument of blk_queue_flush. When the flag is active the block layer will send REQ_FLUSH requests, which we translate to NBD_CMD_FLUSH commands. FUA support is not included in this patch because all free software servers implement it with a full fdatasync; thus it has no advantage over supporting flush only. Because I [Paolo] cannot really benchmark it in a realistic scenario, I cannot tell if it is a good idea or not. It is also not clear if it is valid for an NBD server to support FUA but not flush. The Linux block layer gives a warning for this combination, the NBD protocol documentation says nothing about it. The patch also fixes a small problem in the handling of flags: nbd->flags must be cleared at the end of NBD_DO_IT, but the driver was not doing that. The bug manifests itself as follows. Suppose you two different client/server pairs to start the NBD device. Suppose also that the first client supports NBD_SET_FLAGS, and the first server sends NBD_FLAG_SEND_FLUSH; the second pair instead does neither of these two things. Before this patch, the second invocation of NBD_DO_IT will use a stale value of nbd->flags, and the second server will issue an error every time it receives an NBD_CMD_FLUSH command. This bug is pre-existing, but it becomes much more important after this patch; flush failures make the device pretty much unusable, unlike Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> Acked-by: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Yuanhan Liu authored
Put get/get_uts() into CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL code block as they are used only when CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL is enabled. Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> Cc: "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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Xi Wang authored
The null check of `strchr() + 1' is broken, which is always non-null, leading to OOB read. Instead, check the result of strchr(). Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: <stable@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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Ming Lei authored
Currently, sizeof(struct parsed_partitions) may be 64KB in 32bit arch, so it is easy to trigger page allocation failure by check_partition, especially in hotplug block device situation(such as, USB mass storage, MMC card, ...), and Felipe Balbi has observed the failure. This patch does below optimizations on the allocation of struct parsed_partitions to try to address the issue: - make parsed_partitions.parts as pointer so that the pointed memory can fit in 32KB buffer, then approximate 32KB memory can be saved - vmalloc the buffer pointed by parsed_partitions.parts because 32KB is still a bit big for kmalloc - given that many devices have the partition count limit, so only allocate disk_max_parts() partitions instead of 256 partitions always Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Reported-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ming Lei authored
It isn't necessary to read the information of partitions whose number is equal and more than state->limit since only maximum state->limit partitions will be added inside rescan_partitions(). That is also what other kind of partitions are doing. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Peter Jones authored
UEFI 2.3.1D will include a change to the spec language mandating that a GPT header must be greater than *or equal to* the size of the defined structure. While verifying that this would work on Linux, I discovered that we're not actually checking the minimum bound at all. The result of this is that when we verify the checksum, it's possible that on a malformed header (with header_size of 0), we won't actually verify any data. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warning] Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Philippe De Muyter authored
AIX formatted disks do not always have the MSDOS 55aa signature. This happens e.g. for unbootable AIX disks. Up to now, such disks were not recognized as AIX disks, because of the missing 55aa. Fix that by inverting the two tests. Let's first check for the AIX magic strings, and only if that fails check for the MSDOS magic word. Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be> Cc: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dae S. Kim authored
If the minor number is assigned dynamically, there is no need to search for misc->minor in misc_list, since misc->minor == MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: reduce scope of local `c'] Signed-off-by: Dae S. Kim <dae@velatum.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Corey Minyard authored
Add try... parameters to disable pci and platform (openfirmware) device scanning for IPMI. Also add docs for all the try... parameters. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Corey Minyard authored
The configuration change building ipmi_si into the kernel precludes the use of a custom driver that can utilize more than one KCS interface, multiple IPMBs, and more than one BMC. This capability is important for fault-tolerant systems. Even if the kernel option ipmi_si.trydefaults=0 is specified, ipmi_si discovers and claims one of the KCS interfaces on a Stratus server. The inability to now prevent the kernel from managing this device is a regression from previous kernels. The regression breaks a capability fault-tolerant vendors have relied upon. To support both ACPI opregion access and the need to avoid activation of ipmi_si on some platforms, we've added two new kernel options, ipmi_si.tryacpi and ipmi_si.trydmi be added to prevent ipmi_si from initializing when these options are set to 0 on the kernel command line. With these options at the default value of 1, ipmi_si init proceeds according to the kernel default. Tested-by: Jim Paradis <jparadis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Evans <Robert.Evans@stratus.com> Signed-off-by: Jim Paradis <jparadis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Camuso <tcamuso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Robert P. J. Day authored
Given the obvious distinction between kernel and userspace supported by uapi/, it seems unnecessary to comment on that. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tejun Heo authored
Until recently, when an negative ID is specified, idr functions used to ignore the sign bit and proceeded with the operation with the rest of bits, which is bizarre and error-prone. The behavior recently got changed so that negative IDs are treated as invalid but we're triggering WARN_ON_ONCE() on negative IDs just in case somebody was depending on the sign bit being ignored, so that those can be detected and fixed easily. We only need this for a while. Explain why WARN_ON_ONCE()s are there and that they can be removed later. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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