1. 11 Apr, 2016 38 commits
  2. 10 Apr, 2016 1 commit
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Revert "ext4: allow readdir()'s of large empty directories to be interrupted" · 9f2394c9
      Linus Torvalds authored
      This reverts commit 1028b55b.
      
      It's broken: it makes ext4 return an error at an invalid point, causing
      the readdir wrappers to write the the position of the last successful
      directory entry into the position field, which means that the next
      readdir will now return that last successful entry _again_.
      
      You can only return fatal errors (that terminate the readdir directory
      walk) from within the filesystem readdir functions, the "normal" errors
      (that happen when the readdir buffer fills up, for example) happen in
      the iterorator where we know the position of the actual failing entry.
      
      I do have a very different patch that does the "signal_pending()"
      handling inside the iterator function where it is allowable, but while
      that one passes all the sanity checks, I screwed up something like four
      times while emailing it out, so I'm not going to commit it today.
      
      So my track record is not good enough, and the stars will have to align
      better before that one gets committed.  And it would be good to get some
      review too, of course, since celestial alignments are always an iffy
      debugging model.
      
      IOW, let's just revert the commit that caused the problem for now.
      Reported-by: default avatarGreg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
      Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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  3. 09 Apr, 2016 1 commit
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'parisc-4.6-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux · 5b5b7fd1
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull parisc fixes from Helge Deller:
       "Since commit 0de79858 ("parisc: Use generic extable search and
        sort routines") module loading is boken on parisc, because the parisc
        module loader wasn't prepared for the new R_PARISC_PCREL32 relocations.
      
        In addition, due to that breakage, Mikulas Patocka noticed that
        handling exceptions from modules probably never worked on parisc.  It
        was just masked by the fact that exceptions from modules don't happen
        during normal use.
      
        This patch series fixes those issues and survives the tests of the
        lib/test_user_copy kernel module test.  Some patches are tagged for
        stable"
      
      * 'parisc-4.6-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
        parisc: Update comment regarding relative extable support
        parisc: Unbreak handling exceptions from kernel modules
        parisc: Fix kernel crash with reversed copy_from_user()
        parisc: Avoid function pointers for kernel exception routines
        parisc: Handle R_PARISC_PCREL32 relocations in kernel modules
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