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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6 · a2dccdb2
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      * 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
  [S390] etr: fix clock synchronization race
  [S390] Fix IRQ tracing in case of PER
      a2dccdb2
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog · 7d5fcdc3
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog:
  watchdog: update MAINTAINERS entry
      7d5fcdc3
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'fix/hda' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 · e271e872
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      * 'fix/hda' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
  ALSA: hda - Add a PC-beep workaround for ASUS P5-V
  ALSA: hda - Assume PC-beep as default for Realtek
  ALSA: hda - Don't register beep input device when no beep is available
  ALSA: hda - Fix pin-detection of Nvidia HDMI
      e271e872
    • David Howells's avatar
      CRED: Fix __task_cred()'s lockdep check and banner comment · 8f92054e
      David Howells authored 
      Fix __task_cred()'s lockdep check by removing the following validation
condition:

	lockdep_tasklist_lock_is_held()

as commit_creds() does not take the tasklist_lock, and nor do most of the
functions that call it, so this check is pointless and it can prevent
detection of the RCU lock not being held if the tasklist_lock is held.

Instead, add the following validation condition:

	task->exit_state >= 0

to permit the access if the target task is dead and therefore unable to change
its own credentials.

Fix __task_cred()'s comment to:

 (1) discard the bit that says that the caller must prevent the target task
     from being deleted.  That shouldn't need saying.

 (2) Add a comment indicating the result of __task_cred() should not be passed
     directly to get_cred(), but rather than get_task_cred() should be used
     instead.

Also put a note into the documentation to enforce this point there too.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8f92054e
    • David Howells's avatar
      CRED: Fix get_task_cred() and task_state() to not resurrect dead credentials · de09a977
      David Howells authored 
      It's possible for get_task_cred() as it currently stands to 'corrupt' a set of
credentials by incrementing their usage count after their replacement by the
task being accessed.

What happens is that get_task_cred() can race with commit_creds():

	TASK_1			TASK_2			RCU_CLEANER
	-->get_task_cred(TASK_2)
	rcu_read_lock()
	__cred = __task_cred(TASK_2)
				-->commit_creds()
				old_cred = TASK_2->real_cred
				TASK_2->real_cred = ...
				put_cred(old_cred)
				  call_rcu(old_cred)
		[__cred->usage == 0]
	get_cred(__cred)
		[__cred->usage == 1]
	rcu_read_unlock()
							-->put_cred_rcu()
							[__cred->usage == 1]
							panic()

However, since a tasks credentials are generally not changed very often, we can
reasonably make use of a loop involving reading the creds pointer and using
atomic_inc_not_zero() to attempt to increment it if it hasn't already hit zero.

If successful, we can safely return the credentials in the knowledge that, even
if the task we're accessing has released them, they haven't gone to the RCU
cleanup code.

We then change task_state() in procfs to use get_task_cred() rather than
calling get_cred() on the result of __task_cred(), as that suffers from the
same problem.

Without this change, a BUG_ON in __put_cred() or in put_cred_rcu() can be
tripped when it is noticed that the usage count is not zero as it ought to be,
for example:

kernel BUG at kernel/cred.c:168!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run
CPU 0
Pid: 2436, comm: master Not tainted 2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64 #1 0HR330/OptiPlex
745
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81069881>]  [<ffffffff81069881>] __put_cred+0xc/0x45
RSP: 0018:ffff88019e7e9eb8  EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff880161514480 RCX: 00000000ffffffff
RDX: 00000000ffffffff RSI: ffff880140c690c0 RDI: ffff880140c690c0
RBP: ffff88019e7e9eb8 R08: 00000000000000d0 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000040 R12: ffff880140c690c0
R13: ffff88019e77aea0 R14: 00007fff336b0a5c R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  00007f12f50d97c0(0000) GS:ffff880007400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f8f461bc000 CR3: 00000001b26ce000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process master (pid: 2436, threadinfo ffff88019e7e8000, task ffff88019e77aea0)
Stack:
 ffff88019e7e9ec8 ffffffff810698cd ffff88019e7e9ef8 ffffffff81069b45
<0> ffff880161514180 ffff880161514480 ffff880161514180 0000000000000000
<0> ffff88019e7e9f28 ffffffff8106aace 0000000000000001 0000000000000246
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff810698cd>] put_cred+0x13/0x15
 [<ffffffff81069b45>] commit_creds+0x16b/0x175
 [<ffffffff8106aace>] set_current_groups+0x47/0x4e
 [<ffffffff8106ac89>] sys_setgroups+0xf6/0x105
 [<ffffffff81009b02>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: 48 8d 71 ff e8 7e 4e 15 00 85 c0 78 0b 8b 75 ec 48 89 df e8 ef 4a 15 00
48 83 c4 18 5b c9 c3 55 8b 07 8b 07 48 89 e5 85 c0 74 04 <0f> 0b eb fe 65 48 8b
04 25 00 cc 00 00 48 3b b8 58 04 00 00 75
RIP  [<ffffffff81069881>] __put_cred+0xc/0x45
 RSP <ffff88019e7e9eb8>
---[ end trace df391256a100ebdd ]---
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      de09a977
    • Wim Van Sebroeck's avatar
      watchdog: update MAINTAINERS entry · 230a5cef
      Wim Van Sebroeck authored 
      Add Mailing-list and website to watchdog MAINTAINERS entry.
Signed-off-by: default avatarWim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
      230a5cef
    • Takashi Iwai's avatar
      ALSA: hda - Add a PC-beep workaround for ASUS P5-V · dc1eae25
      Takashi Iwai authored 
      ASUS P5-V provides a SSID that unexpectedly matches with the value
compilant with Realtek's specification.  Thus the driver interprets
it badly, resulting in non-working PC beep.

This patch adds a white-list for such a case; a white-list of known
devices with working PC beep.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
      dc1eae25
    • Russell King's avatar
      ARM: Add barriers to io{read,write}{8,16,32} accessors as well · b92b3612
      Russell King authored 
      The ioread/iowrite accessors also need barriers as they're used in
place of readl/writel et.al. in portable drivers.  Create __iormb()
and __iowmb() which are conditionally defined to be barriers dependent
on ARM_DMA_MEM_BUFFERABLE, and always use these macros in the accessors.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      b92b3612
    • Catalin Marinas's avatar
      ARM: 6273/1: Add barriers to the I/O accessors if ARM_DMA_MEM_BUFFERABLE · 79f64dbf
      Catalin Marinas authored 
      When the coherent DMA buffers are mapped as Normal Non-cacheable
(ARM_DMA_MEM_BUFFERABLE enabled), buffer accesses are no longer ordered
with Device memory accesses causing failures in device drivers that do
not use the mandatory memory barriers before starting a DMA transfer.
LKML discussions led to the conclusion that such barriers have to be
added to the I/O accessors:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/683509/focus=686153
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/46414
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cross-arch/5250

This patch introduces a wmb() barrier to the write*() I/O accessors to
handle the situations where Normal Non-cacheable writes are still in the
processor (or L2 cache controller) write buffer before a DMA transfer
command is issued. For the read*() accessors, a rmb() is introduced
after the I/O to avoid speculative loads where the driver polls for a
DMA transfer ready bit.
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      79f64dbf
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