- 29 Sep, 2006 40 commits
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Vivek Goyal authored
o As per ELF specifications, it looks like that elf note "namesz" field contains the length of "name" including the size of null character. And currently we are filling "namesz" without taking into the consideration the null character size. o Kexec-tools performs this check deligently hence I ran into the issue while trying to open /proc/kcore in kexec-tools for some info. Signed-off-by:
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
This unlock/lock on a super-unlikely path isn't worth the kernel text. Cc: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Signed-off-by:
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Vadim Lobanov authored
Perform a code cleanup against the expand_fdtable() and expand_files() functions inside fs/file.c. It aims to make the flow of code within these functions simpler and easier to understand, via added comments and modest refactoring. Signed-off-by:
Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
* fix copright typo * remove trailing whitespace * remove Kernel Traffic from Resources. Zack, it was great reading! * Name Arjan by name and fix URL of "How to NOT" paper. * Remove "Last updated" tag. Signed-off-by:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
Add tty locking around the audit and accounting code. The whole current->signal-> locking is all deeply strange but it's for someone else to sort out. Add rather than replace the lock for acct.c Signed-off-by:
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
If you send a priority character (as is done for flow control) then the tty driver can either have its own method for "jumping the queue" or the characrer can be queued normally. In the latter case we call the write method but without the atomic_write_lock taken elsewhere. Make this consistent. Note that the send_xchar method if implemented remains outside of the lock as it can jump ahead of a current write so must not be locked out by it. Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
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Alan Cox authored
[PATCH] istallion: Remove private baud rate decoding, which is also broken in this case on some platforms Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
The driver has no business doing this work itself any more and hasn't for some years. When the new speed stuff goes in this will break entirely so fix it up ready. Also remove a #if 0 around a comment.... Signed-off-by:
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Atsushi Nemoto authored
If the chip detected "oscillator stop" condition, show an warning message. And initialize it with the Epoch time instead of leaving it with unknown date/time. Signed-off-by:
Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Acked-by:
Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
All sound/sound_firmware.c contains is mod_firmware_load() that is a legacy API only used by some OSS drivers. This patch builds it into an own sound_firmware module that is only built depending on CONFIG_SOUND_PRIME making the kernel slightly smaller for ALSA users. [alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk: comment fix] Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by:
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Rusty Russell authored
I had to look back: this code was extracted from the module.c code in 2005. Signed-off-by:
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by:
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Andreas Gruenbacher authored
Add access control lists for tmpfs. Signed-off-by:
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andreas Gruenbacher authored
The patches solve the following problem: We want to grant access to devices based on who is logged in from where, etc. This includes switching back and forth between multiple user sessions, etc. Using ACLs to define device access for logged-in users gives us all the flexibility we need in order to fully solve the problem. Device special files nowadays usually live on tmpfs, hence tmpfs ACLs. Different distros have come up with solutions that solve the problem to different degrees: SUSE uses a resource manager which tracks login sessions and sets ACLs on device inodes as appropriate. RedHat uses pam_console, which changes the primary file ownership to the logged-in user. Others use a set of groups that users must be in in order to be granted the appropriate accesses. The freedesktop.org project plans to implement a combination of a console-tracker and a HAL-device-list based solution to grant access to devices to users, and more distros will likely follow this approach. These patches have first been posted here on 2 February 2005, and again on 8 January 2006. We have been shipping them in SLES9 and SLES10 with no problems reported. The previous submission is archived here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/229 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/230 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/231 This patch: Add some infrastructure for access control lists on in-memory filesystems such as tmpfs. Signed-off-by:
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Chris Snook authored
POSIX states that poll() shall fail with EINVAL if nfds > OPEN_MAX. In this context, POSIX is referring to sysconf(OPEN_MAX), which is the value of current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_NOFILE].rlim_cur in the linux kernel, not the compile-time constant which happens to also be named OPEN_MAX. In the current code, an application may poll up to max_fdset file descriptors, even if this exceeds RLIMIT_NOFILE. The current code also breaks applications which poll more than max_fdset descriptors, which worked circa 2.4.18 when the check was against NR_OPEN, which is 1024*1024. This patch enforces the limit precisely as POSIX defines, even if RLIMIT_NOFILE has been changed at run time with ulimit -n. To elaborate on the rationale for this, there are three cases: 1) RLIMIT_NOFILE is at the default value of 1024 In this (default) case, the patch changes nothing. Calls with nfds > 1024 fail with EINVAL both before and after the patch, and calls with nfds <= 1024 pass the check both before and after the patch, since 1024 is the initial value of max_fdset. 2) RLIMIT_NOFILE has been raised above the default In this case, poll() becomes more permissive, allowing polling up to RLIMIT_NOFILE file descriptors even if less than 1024 have been opened. The patch won't introduce new errors here. If an application somehow depends on poll() failing when it polls with duplicate or invalid file descriptors, it's already broken, since this is already allowed below 1024, and will also work above 1024 if enough file descriptors have been open at some point to cause max_fdset to have been increased above nfds. 3) RLIMIT_NOFILE has been lowered below the default In this case, the system administrator or the user has gone out of their way to protect the system from inefficient (or malicious) applications wasting kernel memory. The current code allows polling up to 1024 file descriptors even if RLIMIT_NOFILE is much lower, which is not what the user or administrator intended. Well-written applications which only poll valid, unique file descriptors will never notice the difference, because they'll hit the limit on open() first. If an application gets broken because of the patch in this case, then it was already poorly/maliciously designed, and allowing it to work in the past was a violation of POSIX and a DoS risk on low-resource systems. With this patch, poll() will permit exactly what POSIX suggests, no more, no less, and for any run-time value set with ulimit -n, not just 256 or 1024. There are existing apps which which poll a large number of file descriptors, some of which may be invalid, and if those numbers stradle 1024, they currently fail with or without the patch in -mm, though they worked fine under 2.4.18. Signed-off-by:
Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Eric Sesterhenn authored
For len equal to 4, we never call sppp_lcp_conf_parse_options(), therefore rmagic does not get initialized. Signed-off-by:
Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Acked-by:
Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by:
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Ian S. Nelson authored
I've been using systemtap for some debugging and I noticed that it can't probe a lot of modules. Turns out it's kind of silly, the sections section of /sys/module is limited to 32byte filenames and many of the actual sections are a a bit longer than that. [akpm@osdl.org: rewrite to use dymanic allocation] Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by:
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Matthew Wilcox authored
I just got a bounce telling me my contributions aren't welcome. Signed-off-by:
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Pavel Machek authored
People search maintainers for NBD and then decide it is not maintained. (akpm: ditto LVM. And other things, but I forget what they were) Signed-off-by:
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Pavel Machek authored
This cleans up SubmittingPatches a bit. Signed-off-by:
Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Andreas Mohr authored
Constify two structs. Correct some typos. Compile-tested and run-tested (module inserted) on 2.6.18-rc4-mm3. Signed-off-by:
Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Signed-off-by:
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Akinobu Mita authored
This patch limits the messages when ldisc open faulures happen. It happens under memory pressure. Signed-off-by:
Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com> Acked-by:
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Randy Dunlap authored
Mention Documenation/ABI/ requirements in Documentation/SubmitChecklist. Signed-off-by:
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
akpm draws my attention to the fact that sysctl(VM_PAGE_CLUSTER) might conceivably change page_cluster to 0 while valid_swaphandles() is in the middle of using it, leading to an embarrassingly long loop: take a local snapshot of page_cluster and work with that. Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by:
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Chandra Seetharaman authored
ratelimit_pages in page-writeback.c is recalculated (in set_ratelimit()) every time a CPU is hot-added/removed. But this value is not recalculated when new pages are hot-added. This patch fixes that problem by calling set_ratelimit() when new pages are hot-added. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by:
Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Chandra Seetharaman authored
page-writeback.c has a static local variable "total_pages", which is the total number of pages in the system. There is a global variable "vm_total_pages", which is the total number of pages the VM controls. Both are assigned from the return value of nr_free_pagecache_pages(). This patch removes the local variable and uses the global variable in that place. One more issue with the local static variable "total_pages" is that it is not updated when new pages are hot-added. Since vm_total_pages is updated when new pages are hot-added, this patch fixes that problem too. Signed-off-by:
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Geoff Levand authored
This change corrects the logic on the preprocessor conditionals that include support for ISA port i/o (/dev/ioports) into the mem character driver. This fixes the following error when building for powerpc platforms with CONFIG_PCI=n. drivers/built-in.o: undefined reference to `pci_io_base' Signed-off-by:
Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Acked-by:
Linas Vepstas <lins@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Kaz Kojima authored
I think this is a time to step down from my SUPERH architecture maintainerships. The major development issues for this port seem to shift on the hardwares I can't access and I have no recent activity on kernel. I shouldn't qualify as a maintainer of SUPERH port now and there is no problem because Paul is actively maintaining it. The attached patch drops my name, address and web URL from MAINTAINERS file. Signed-off-by:
Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by:
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Andreas Mohr authored
Replace current->fs by fs helper variable to reduce some indirection overhead and (at least at the moment, before the current_thread_info() %gs PDA improvement is available) get rid of more costly current references. Reduces fs/namei.o from 37786 to 37082 Bytes (704 Bytes saved). [akpm@osdl.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by:
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Alan Stern authored
This patch (as776) adds a new chapter to Documentation/CodingStyle, explaining the circumstances under which a function should return 0 for failure and non-zero for success as opposed to a negative error code for failure and 0 for success. Signed-off-by:
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by:
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Andreas Mohr authored
Un-inlining rwsem_down_failed_common() (two callsites) reduced lib/rwsem.o on my Athlon, gcc 4.1.2 from 5935 to 5480 Bytes (455 Bytes saved). I thus guess that reduced icache footprint (and better function caching) is worth more than any function call overhead. Signed-off-by:
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Jim Lewis authored
This patch adds Jim Lewis to the MAINTAINERS file for the Spidernet network driver. Signed-off-by:
James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by:
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Serge E. Hallyn authored
Forward port of the patch by Solar and ported by Julio. Compiles, boots, and passes my looptorturetest.sh. Signed-off-by:
Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Julio Auto <mindvortex@gmail.com> Cc: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
This appears to be a verbatim copy-n-paste of the GPL. Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
The cpuset code handling hot unplug of CPUs or Memory Nodes was incorrect - it could remove a CPU or Node from the top cpuset, while leaving it still in some child cpusets. One basic rule of cpusets is that each cpusets cpus and mems are subsets of its parents. The cpuset hot unplug code violated this rule. So the cpuset hotunplug handler must walk down the tree, removing any removed CPU or Node from all cpusets. However, it is not allowed to make a cpusets cpus or mems become empty. They can only transition from empty to non-empty, not back. So if the last CPU or Node would be removed from a cpuset by the above walk, we scan back up the cpuset hierarchy, finding the nearest ancestor that still has something online, and copy its CPU or Memory placement. Signed-off-by:
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
Change the list of memory nodes allowed to tasks in the top (root) nodeset to dynamically track what cpus are online, using a call to a cpuset hook from the memory hotplug code. 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 memory hotplug, then these tasks cannot make use of memory nodes that are added after system boot, because the memory nodes are not allowed in the top cpuset. This is a surprising regression over earlier kernels that didn't have cpusets enabled. One key motivation for this change is to remain consistent with the behaviour for the top_cpuset's 'cpus', which is also read-only, and which automatically tracks the cpu_online_map. This change also has the minor benefit that it fixes a long standing, little noticed, minor bug in cpusets. The cpuset performance tweak to short circuit the cpuset_zone_allowed() check on systems with just a single cpuset (see 'number_of_cpusets', in linux/cpuset.h) meant that simply changing the 'mems' of the top_cpuset had no affect, even though the change (the write system call) appeared to succeed. With the following change, that write to the 'mems' file fails -EACCES, and the 'mems' file stubbornly refuses to be changed via user space writes. Thus no one should be mislead into thinking they've changed the top_cpusets's 'mems' when in affect they haven't. 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 'mems' file in the top (root) cpuset, making it read only, and making it automatically track the value of node_online_map. Thus tasks in the top cpuset will have automatic use of hot plugged memory nodes allowed by their cpuset. [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] [bunk@stusta.de: build fix] Signed-off-by:
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Pavel Machek authored
Fix simple typo in RTC_HCTOSYS option. Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
A previous patch to allow an exiting task to OOM kill itself (and thereby avoid a little deadlock) introduced a problem. We don't want the PF_EXITING task, even if it is 'current', to access mem reserves if there is already a TIF_MEMDIE process in the system sucking up reserves. Also make the commenting a little bit clearer, and note that our current scheme of effectively single threading the OOM killer is not itself perfect. Signed-off-by:
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
- It is not possible to have task->mm == &init_mm. - task_lock() buys nothing for 'if (!p->mm)' check. Signed-off-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
No logic changes, but imho easier to read. Signed-off-by:
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