- 08 May, 2009 9 commits
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
stts() is implemented in terms of read_cr0/write_cr0 to update the state of the TS bit. This happens during context switch, and so is fairly performance critical. Rather than falling back to a trap-and-emulate native read_cr0, implement our own by caching the last-written value from write_cr0 (the TS bit is the only one we really care about). Impact: optimise Xen context switches Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Ignore known IST-using traps. Aside from the debugger traps, they're low-level faults which Xen will handle for us, so the kernel needn't worry about them. Keep warning in case unknown trap starts using IST. Impact: suppress spurious warnings Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Native x86-64 uses the IST mechanism to run int3 and debug traps on an alternative stack. Xen does not do this, and so the frames were being misinterpreted by the ptrace code. This change special-cases these two exceptions by using Xen variants which run on the normal kernel stack properly. Impact: avoid crash or bad data when IST trap is invoked under Xen Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Use reserve_early rather than e820 reservations for Xen start info and mfn->pfn table, so that the memory use is a bit more self-documenting. [ Impact: cleanup ] Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <4A032EF1.6070708@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Conflicts: arch/frv/include/asm/pgtable.h arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h arch/x86/xen/mmu.c Merge reason: x86/xen was on a .29 base still, move it to a fresher branch and pick up Xen fixes as well, plus resolve conflicts Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
The Xen pagetables are no longer implicitly reserved as part of the other i386_start_kernel reservations, so make sure we explicitly reserve them. This prevents them from being released into the general kernel free page pool and reused. [ Impact: fix Xen guest crash ] Also-Bisected-by: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <4A032EEC.30509@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Huang Ying authored
Tim Starling reported that crashdump will panic with kernel compiled with CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP due to null pointer deference in machine_kexec_32.c: machine_kexec(), when deferencing kexec_image. Refering to: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13265 This patch fixes the BUG via replacing global variable reference: kexec_image in machine_kexec() with local variable reference: image, which is more appropriate, and will not be null. Same BUG is in machine_kexec_64.c too, so fixed too in the same way. [ Impact: fix crash on kexec ] Reported-by: Tim Starling <tstarling@wikimedia.org> Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <1241751101.6259.85.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Jan Beulich authored
With the introduction of the .brk section, special care must be taken that no unused page table entries remain if _brk_end and _end are separated by a 2M page boundary. cleanup_highmap() runs very early and hence cannot take care of that, hence potential entries needing to be removed past _brk_end must be cleared once the brk allocator has done its job. [ Impact: avoids undesirable TLB aliases ] Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Jan Beulich authored
If the first non-reserved (sub-)range doesn't fit the size requested, an endless loop will be entered. If a range returned from find_e820_area_size() turns out insufficient in size, the range must be skipped before calling the function again. [ Impact: fixes boot hang on some platforms ] Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 06 May, 2009 3 commits
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Nikanth Karthikesan authored
[ Impact: printk message cleanup ] Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> LKML-Reference: <200905040908.27299.knikanth@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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David Rientjes authored
The mem= option will truncate the memory map at a specified address so it's not possible to register nodes with memory beyond the e820 upper bound. unparse_node() is only called when then node had memory associated with it, although with the mem= option it is no longer addressable. [ Impact: fix boot hang on certain (large) systems ] Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0905051248150.20021@chino.kir.corp.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'drm-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6: drm/r128: fix r128 ioremaps to use ioremap_wc. drm: cleanup properly in drm_get_dev() failure paths drm: clean the map list before destroying the hash table drm: remove unreachable code in drm_sysfs.c drm: add control node checks missing from kms merge drm/kms: don't try to shortcut drm mode set function drm/radeon: bump minor version for occlusion queries support
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- 05 May, 2009 24 commits
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Dave Airlie authored
This should allow r128 to start working again since PAT changes. taken from F-11 kernel. Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] xen_domu_defconfig: fix build issues/warnings
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Mel Gorman authored
madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) forces page cache readahead on a range of memory backed by a file. The assumption is made that the page required is order-0 and "normal" page cache. On hugetlbfs, this assumption is not true and order-0 pages are allocated and inserted into the hugetlbfs page cache. This leaks hugetlbfs page reservations and can cause BUGs to trigger related to corrupted page tables. This patch causes MADV_WILLNEED to be ignored for hugetlbfs-backed regions. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds authored
* 'timers/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: clockevents: prevent endless loop in tick_handle_periodic()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds authored
* 'irq/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: Revert "genirq: assert that irq handlers are indeed running in hardirq context"
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: account system time properly
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c: fix sparse warning dma-debug: remove broken dma memory leak detection for 2.6.30 locking: Documentation: lockdep-design.txt, fix note of state bits
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing: x86, mmiotrace: fix range test tracing: fix ref count in splice pages
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: show number of core_siblings instead of thread_siblings in /proc/cpuinfo amd-iommu: fix iommu flag masks x86: initialize io_bitmap_base on 32bit x86: gettimeofday() vDSO: fix segfault when tv == NULL
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixesLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes: kbuild, modpost: fix unexpected non-allocatable warning with mips kbuild, modpost: fix "unexpected non-allocatable" warning with SUSE gcc kbuild, modpost: fix unexpected non-allocatable section when cross compiling
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Jan Beulich authored
- drivers/xen/events.c did not compile - xen_setup_hook caused a modpost section warning - the use of u64 (instead of unsigned long long) together with a %llu in drivers/xen/balloon.c caused a compiler warning Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6: i2c-algo-pca: Let PCA9564 recover from unacked data byte (state 0x30) i2c-algo-bit: Fix timeout test i2c: Timeouts off by 1
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (30 commits) e1000: fix virtualization bug bonding: fix alb mode locking regression Bluetooth: Fix issue with sysfs handling for connections usbnet: CDC EEM support (v5) tcp: Fix tcp_prequeue() to get correct rto_min value ehea: fix invalid pointer access ne2k-pci: Do not register device until initialized. Subject: [PATCH] br2684: restore net_dev initialization net: Only store high 16 bits of kernel generated filter priorities virtio_net: Fix function name typo virtio_net: Cleanup command queue scatterlist usage bonding: correct the cleanup in bond_create() virtio: add missing include to virtio_net.h smsc95xx: add support for LAN9512 and LAN9514 smsc95xx: configure LED outputs netconsole: take care of NETDEV_UNREGISTER event xt_socket: checks for the state of nf_conntrack bonding: bond_slave_info_query() fix cxgb3: fixing gcc 4.4 compiler warning: suggest parentheses around operand of ‘!’ netfilter: use likely() in xt_info_rdlock_bh() ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpcLinus Torvalds authored
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: powerpc: Fix setting of oprofile cpu type powerpc: Update MPC5xxx and Xilinx Virtex maintainer entries powerpc adjust oprofile_cpu_type version 3
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: selinux: Fix send_sigiotask hook
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fsLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs: net/9p: handle correctly interrupted 9P requests net/9p: return error when p9_client_stat fails net/9p: set correct stat size when sending Twstat messages
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmcLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc: mvsdio: fix CONFIG_PM=y build mmci: fix crash with debug enabled sdhci: catch ADMA errors mmc: increase power up delay sdhci-pci: bad error handling in probe function mmc_block: be prepared for oversized requests
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: ASoC: Remove BROKEN from mpc5200 kconfig ASoC: TWL4030: Fix gain control for earpiece amplifier ALSA: pcm core - Avoid jiffies check for devices with BATCH flag ALSA: Add missing SNDRV_PCM_INFO_BATCH flag to some drivers ALSA: indigo-express: add missing 64KHz flags ASoC: Set the MPC5200 i2s driver to BROKEN status. ASoC: Fix logic in WM8350 master clocking check
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Enrik Berkhan authored
Currently, the i2c-algo-pca driver does nothing if the chip enters state 0x30 (Data byte in I2CDAT has been transmitted; NOT ACK has been received). Thus, the i2c bus connected to the controller gets stuck afterwards. I have seen this kind of error on a custom board in certain load situations most probably caused by interference or noise. A possible reaction is to let the controller generate a STOP condition. This is documented in the PCA9564 data sheet (2006-09-01) and the same is done for other NACK states as well. Further, state 0x38 isn't handled completely, either. Try to do another START in this case like the data sheet says. As this couldn't be tested, I've added a comment to try to reset the chip if the START doesn't help as suggested by Wolfram Sang. Signed-off-by: Enrik Berkhan <Enrik.Berkhan@ge.com> Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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Dave Airlie authored
When fetching DDC using i2c algo bit, we were often seeing timeouts before getting valid EDID on a retry. The VESA spec states 2ms is the DDC timeout, so when this translates into 1 jiffie and we are close to the end of the time period, it could return with a timeout less than 2ms. Change this code to use time_after instead of time_after_eq. Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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Roel Kluin authored
with while (timeout++ < MAX_TIMEOUT); timeout reaches MAX_TIMEOUT + 1 after the loop, so the tests below are off by one. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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Jesse Brandeburg authored
a recent fix to e1000 (commit 15b2bee2) caused KVM/QEMU/VMware based virtualized e1000 interfaces to begin failing when resetting. This is because the driver in a virtual environment doesn't get to run instructions *AT ALL* when an interrupt is asserted. The interrupt code runs immediately and this recent bug fix allows an interrupt to be possible when the interrupt handler will reject it (due to the new code), when being called from any path in the driver that holds the E1000_RESETTING flag. the driver should use the __E1000_DOWN flag instead of the __E1000_RESETTING flag to prevent interrupt execution while reconfiguring the hardware. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jay Vosburgh authored
Fix locking issue in alb MAC address management; removed incorrect locking and replaced with correct locking. This bug was introduced in commit 059fe7a5 ("bonding: Convert locks to _bh, rework alb locking for new locking") Bug reported by Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net>, who also tested the fix. Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 04 May, 2009 4 commits
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Stephen Smalley authored
The CRED patch incorrectly converted the SELinux send_sigiotask hook to use the current task SID rather than the target task SID in its permission check, yielding the wrong permission check. This fixes the hook function. Detected by the ltp selinux testsuite and confirmed to correct the test failure. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Jake Edge authored
By using the same test as is used for /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps, only allow processes that can ptrace() a given process to see information that might be used to bypass address space layout randomization (ASLR). These include eip, esp, wchan, and start_stack in /proc/pid/stat as well as the non-symbolic output from /proc/pid/wchan. ASLR can be bypassed by sampling eip as shown by the proof-of-concept code at http://code.google.com/p/fuzzyaslr/ As part of a presentation (http://www.cr0.org/paper/to-jt-linux-alsr-leak.pdf) esp and wchan were also noted as possibly usable information leaks as well. The start_stack address also leaks potentially useful information. Cc: Stable Team <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jake Edge <jake@lwn.net> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Marcel Holtmann authored
Due to a semantic changes in flush_workqueue() the current approach of synchronizing the sysfs handling for connections doesn't work anymore. The whole approach is actually fully broken and based on assumptions that are no longer valid. With the introduction of Simple Pairing support, the creation of low-level ACL links got changed. This change invalidates the reason why in the past two independent work queues have been used for adding/removing sysfs devices. The adding of the actual sysfs device is now postponed until the host controller successfully assigns an unique handle to that link. So the real synchronization happens inside the controller and not the host. The only left-over problem is that some internals of the sysfs device handling are not initialized ahead of time. This leaves potential access to invalid data and can cause various NULL pointer dereferences. To fix this a new function makes sure that all sysfs details are initialized when an connection attempt is made. The actual sysfs device is only registered when the connection has been successfully established. To avoid a race condition with the registration, the check if a device is registered has been moved into the removal work. As an extra protection two flush_work() calls are left in place to make sure a previous add/del work has been completed first. Based on a report by Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@hevs.ch> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Tested-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> Tested-by: Roger Quadros <ext-roger.quadros@nokia.com> Tested-by: Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@hevs.ch>
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Omar Laazimani authored
This introduces a CDC Ethernet Emulation Model (EEM) host side driver to support USB EEM devices. EEM is different from the Ethernet Control Model (ECM) currently supported by the "CDC Ethernet" driver. One key difference is that it doesn't require of USB interface alternate settings to manage interface state; some maldesigned hardware can't handle that part of USB. It also avoids a separate USB interface for control and status updates. [ dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net: fix skb leaks, add rx packet checks, improve fault handling, EEM conformance updates, cleanup ] Signed-off-by: Omar Laazimani <omar.oberthur@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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