- 12 Sep, 2014 18 commits
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Axel Lin authored
Current code uses data_rate as array index in ads1015_read_adc() and uses pga as array index in ads1015_reg_to_mv, so we must make sure both data_rate and pga settings are in valid value range. Return -EINVAL if the setting is out-of-range. Signed-off-by:
Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> (cherry picked from commit e9814295) Signed-off-by:
Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
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Axel Lin authored
Current code uses channel as array index, so the valid channel value is 0 .. ADS1015_CHANNELS - 1. Signed-off-by:
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Axel Lin authored
On platforms with sizeof(int) < sizeof(unsigned long), writing a rpm value larger than MAXINT will result in unpredictable limit values written to the chip. Avoid auto-conversion from unsigned long to int to fix the problem. Signed-off-by:
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Guenter Roeck authored
On platforms with sizeof(int) < sizeof(long), writing a temperature limit larger than MAXINT will result in unpredictable limit values written to the chip. Avoid auto-conversion from long to int to fix the problem. Cc: Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by:
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Axel Lin authored
On platforms with sizeof(int) < sizeof(long), writing a temperature limit larger than MAXINT will result in unpredictable limit values written to the chip. Avoid auto-conversion from long to int to fix the problem. Signed-off-by:
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Jeremy Vial authored
According to the comment “restore_es3: applies to 34xx >= ES3.0" in "arch/arm/mach-omap2/sleep34xx.S”, omap3_restore_es3 should be used if the revision of an OMAP34xx is ES3.1.2. Signed-off-by:
Jeremy Vial <jvial@adeneo-embedded.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> (cherry picked from commit 9b5f7428) Signed-off-by:
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Takashi Iwai authored
ALC269 & co have many vendor-specific setups with COEF verbs. However, some verbs seem specific to some codec versions and they result in the codec stalling. Typically, such a case can be avoided by checking the return value from reading a COEF. If the return value is -1, it implies that the COEF is invalid, thus it shouldn't be written. This patch adds the invalid COEF checks in appropriate places accessing ALC269 and its variants. The patch actually fixes the resume problem on Acer AO725 laptop. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52181Tested-by:
Francesco Muzio <muziofg@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> (cherry picked from commit f3ee07d8) Signed-off-by:
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Clemens Ladisch authored
Just add the PCI ID for the STX II. It appears to work the same as the STX, except for the addition of the not-yet-supported daughterboard. Tested-by:
Mario <fugazzi99@gmail.com> Tested-by:
corubba <corubba@gmx.de> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Signed-off-by:
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Paul S McSpadden authored
Original patch fixed the original problem, but the sound was far too low for most users. This patch references a compare matrix to allow the volume levels to act normally. I personally tested this patch myself, and volume levels returned to normal. Please see this discussion for more details: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65251Signed-off-by:
Paul S McSpadden <fisch602@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.14+] Signed-off-by:
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Bryan O'Donoghue authored
The EHCI packet buffer in/out threshold is programmable for Intel Quark X1000 USB host controller, and the default value is 0x20 dwords. The in/out threshold can be programmed to 0x80 dwords (512 Bytes) to maximize the perfomrance, but only when isochronous/interrupt transactions are not initiated by the USB host controller. This patch is to reconfigure the packet buffer in/out threshold as maximal as possible to maximize the performance, and 0x7F dwords (508 Bytes) should be used because the USB host controller initiates isochronous/interrupt transactions. Signed-off-by:
Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Alvin (Weike) Chen <alvin.chen@intel.com> Acked-by:
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Reviewed-by:
Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> (cherry picked from commit 6e693739) Signed-off-by:
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Patrick Riphagen authored
This adds support for new Xsens devices, using Xsens' own Vendor ID. Signed-off-by:
Patrick Riphagen <patrick.riphagen@xsens.com> Signed-off-by:
Frans Klaver <frans.klaver@xsens.com> Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Patrick Riphagen authored
The converters are used in specific products. It can be useful to know which they are exactly. Signed-off-by:
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Oliver Neukum authored
usbfs allows user space to pass down an URB which sets URB_SHORT_NOT_OK for output URBs. That causes usbcore to log messages without limit for a nonsensical disallowed combination. The fix is to silently drop the attribute in usbfs. The problem is reported to exist since 3.14 https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13085Signed-off-by:
Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by:
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Alan Stern authored
This patch fixes a bug in ohci-hcd. When an URB is unlinked, the corresponding Endpoint Descriptor is added to the ed_rm_list and taken off the hardware schedule. Once the ED is no longer visible to the hardware, finish_unlinks() handles the URBs that were unlinked or have completed. If any URBs remain attached to the ED, the ED is added back to the hardware schedule -- but only if the controller is running. This fails when a controller dies. A non-empty ED does not get added back to the hardware schedule and does not remain on the ed_rm_list; ohci-hcd loses track of it. The remaining URBs cannot be unlinked, which causes the USB stack to hang. The patch changes finish_unlinks() so that non-empty EDs remain on the ed_rm_list if the controller isn't running. This requires moving some of the existing code around, to avoid modifying the ED's hardware fields more than once. Signed-off-by:
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Jan Kara authored
We did not check relocated directory in any way when processing Rock Ridge 'CL' tag. Thus a corrupted isofs image can possibly have a CL entry pointing to another CL entry leading to possibly unbounded recursion in kernel code and thus stack overflow or deadlocks (if there is a loop created from CL entries). Fix the problem by not allowing CL entry to point to a directory entry with CL entry (such use makes no good sense anyway) and by checking whether CL entry doesn't point to itself. CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by:
Chris Evans <cevans@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> (cherry picked from commit 410dd3cf) Signed-off-by:
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Jiri Kosina authored
There are a few very theoretical off-by-one bugs in report descriptor size checking when performing a pre-parsing fixup. Fix those. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by:
Ben Hawkes <hawkes@google.com> Reviewed-by:
Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> (cherry picked from commit 4ab25786) Signed-off-by:
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Jiri Kosina authored
device_index is a char type and the size of paired_dj_deivces is 7 elements, therefore proper bounds checking has to be applied to device_index before it is used. We are currently performing the bounds checking in logi_dj_recv_add_djhid_device(), which is too late, as malicious device could send REPORT_TYPE_NOTIF_DEVICE_UNPAIRED early enough and trigger the problem in one of the report forwarding functions called from logi_dj_raw_event(). Fix this by performing the check at the earliest possible ocasion in logi_dj_raw_event(). Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by:
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Dave Chiluk authored
Stable_kernel_rules should point submitters of network stable patches to the netdev_FAQ.txt as requests for stable network patches should go to netdev first. Signed-off-by:
Dave Chiluk <chiluk@canonical.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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- 03 Sep, 2014 1 commit
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Sasha Levin authored
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- 27 Aug, 2014 21 commits
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Boris Ostrovsky authored
commit 8762e509 upstream. init_espfix_ap() is currently off by one level when informing hypervisor that allocated pages will be used for ministacks' page tables. The most immediate effect of this on a PV guest is that if 'stack_page = __get_free_page()' returns a non-zeroed-out page the hypervisor will refuse to use it for a page table (which it shouldn't be anyway). This will result in warnings by both Xen and Linux. More importantly, a subsequent write to that page (again, by a PV guest) is likely to result in fatal page fault. Signed-off-by:
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1404926298-5565-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.comReviewed-by:
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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willy tarreau authored
Right now the mvneta driver doesn't handle Tx IRQ, and relies on two mechanisms to flush Tx descriptors : a flush at the end of mvneta_tx() and a timer. If a burst of packets is emitted faster than the device can send them, then the queue is stopped until next wake-up of the timer 10ms later. This causes jerky output traffic with bursts and pauses, making it difficult to reach line rate with very few streams. A test on UDP traffic shows that it's not possible to go beyond 134 Mbps / 12 kpps of outgoing traffic with 1500-bytes IP packets. Routed traffic tends to observe pauses as well if the traffic is bursty, making it even burstier after the wake-up. It seems that this feature was inherited from the original driver but nothing there mentions any reason for not using the interrupt instead, which the chip supports. Thus, this patch enables Tx interrupts and removes the timer. It does the two at once because it's not really possible to make the two mechanisms coexist, so a split patch doesn't make sense. First tests performed on a Mirabox (Armada 370) show that less CPU seems to be used when sending traffic. One reason might be that we now call the mvneta_tx_done_gbe() with a mask indicating which queues have been done instead of looping over all of them. The same UDP test above now happily reaches 987 Mbps / 87.7 kpps. Single-stream TCP traffic can now more easily reach line rate. HTTP transfers of 1 MB objects over a single connection went from 730 to 840 Mbps. It is even possible to go significantly higher (>900 Mbps) by tweaking tcp_tso_win_divisor. Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Cc: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> Cc: Arnaud Ebalard <arno@natisbad.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Tested-by:
Arnaud Ebalard <arno@natisbad.org> Signed-off-by:
Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> (cherry picked from commit 71f6d1b3) Signed-off-by:
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willy tarreau authored
Marvell has not published the chip's datasheet yet, so it's very hard to find the relevant bits to manipulate to change the IRQ behaviour. Fortunately, these bits are described in the proprietary LSP patch set which is publicly available here : http://www.plugcomputer.org/downloads/mirabox/ So let's put them back in the driver in order to reduce the burden of current and future maintenance. Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Cc: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> Tested-by: -
willy tarreau authored
If a queue timeout is reported, we can oops because of some schedules while the caller is atomic, as shown below : mvneta d0070000.ethernet eth0: tx timeout BUG: scheduling while atomic: bash/1528/0x00000100 Modules linked in: slhttp_ethdiv(C) [last unloaded: slhttp_ethdiv] CPU: 2 PID: 1528 Comm: bash Tainted: G WC 3.13.0-rc4-mvebu-nf #180 [<c0011bd9>] (unwind_backtrace+0x1/0x98) from [<c000f1ab>] (show_stack+0xb/0xc) [<c000f1ab>] (show_stack+0xb/0xc) from [<c02ad323>] (dump_stack+0x4f/0x64) [<c02ad323>] (dump_stack+0x4f/0x64) from [<c02abe67>] (__schedule_bug+0x37/0x4c) [<c02abe67>] (__schedule_bug+0x37/0x4c) from [<c02ae261>] (__schedule+0x325/0x3ec) [<c02ae261>] (__schedule+0x325/0x3ec) from [<c02adb97>] (schedule_timeout+0xb7/0x118) [<c02adb97>] (schedule_timeout+0xb7/0x118) from [<c0020a67>] (msleep+0xf/0x14) [<c0020a67>] (msleep+0xf/0x14) from [<c01dcbe5>] (mvneta_stop_dev+0x21/0x194) [<c01dcbe5>] (mvneta_stop_dev+0x21/0x194) from [<c01dcfe9>] (mvneta_tx_timeout+0x19/0x24) [<c01dcfe9>] (mvneta_tx_timeout+0x19/0x24) from [<c024afc7>] (dev_watchdog+0x18b/0x1c4) [<c024afc7>] (dev_watchdog+0x18b/0x1c4) from [<c0020b53>] (call_timer_fn.isra.27+0x17/0x5c) [<c0020b53>] (call_timer_fn.isra.27+0x17/0x5c) from [<c0020cad>] (run_timer_softirq+0x115/0x170) [<c0020cad>] (run_timer_softirq+0x115/0x170) from [<c001ccb9>] (__do_softirq+0xbd/0x1a8) [<c001ccb9>] (__do_softirq+0xbd/0x1a8) from [<c001cfad>] (irq_exit+0x61/0x98) [<c001cfad>] (irq_exit+0x61/0x98) from [<c000d4bf>] (handle_IRQ+0x27/0x60) [<c000d4bf>] (handle_IRQ+0x27/0x60) from [<c000843b>] (armada_370_xp_handle_irq+0x33/0xc8) [<c000843b>] (armada_370_xp_handle_irq+0x33/0xc8) from [<c000fba9>] (__irq_usr+0x49/0x60) Ben Hutchings attempted to propose a better fix consisting in using a scheduled work for this, but while it fixed this panic, it caused other random freezes and panics proving that the reset sequence in the driver is unreliable and that additional fixes should be investigated. When sending multiple streams over a link limited to 100 Mbps, Tx timeouts happen from time to time, and the driver correctly recovers only when the function is disabled. Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Cc: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Tested-by:
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willy tarreau authored
Stats writers are mvneta_rx() and mvneta_tx(). They don't lock anything when they update the stats, and as a result, it randomly happens that the stats freeze on SMP if two updates happen during stats retrieval. This is very easily reproducible by starting two HTTP servers and binding each of them to a different CPU, then consulting /proc/net/dev in loops during transfers, the interface should immediately lock up. This issue also randomly happens upon link state changes during transfers, because the stats are collected in this situation, but it takes more attempts to reproduce it. The comments in netdevice.h suggest using per_cpu stats instead to get rid of this issue. This patch implements this. It merges both rx_stats and tx_stats into a single "stats" member with a single syncp. Both mvneta_rx() and mvneta_rx() now only update the a single CPU's counters. In turn, mvneta_get_stats64() does the summing by iterating over all CPUs to get their respective stats. With this change, stats are still correct and no more lockup is encountered. Note that this bug was present since the first import of the mvneta driver. It might make sense to backport it to some stable trees. If so, it depends on "d33dc73 net: mvneta: increase the 64-bit rx/tx stats out of the hot path". Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Cc: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> Reviewed-by:
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Tested-by:
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willy tarreau authored
Better count packets and bytes in the stack and on 32 bit then accumulate them at the end for once. This saves two memory writes and two memory barriers per packet. The incoming packet rate was increased by 4.7% on the Openblocks AX3 thanks to this. Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Cc: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> Reviewed-by:
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Johannes Berg authored
This reverts commit 277d916f as it was at least breaking iwlwifi by setting the IEEE80211_TX_CTL_NO_PS_BUFFER flag in all kinds of interface modes, not only for AP mode where it is appropriate. To avoid reintroducing the original problem, explicitly check for probe request frames in the multicast buffering code. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 277d916f ("mac80211: move "bufferable MMPDU" check to fix AP mode scan") Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> (cherry picked from commit 08b99399) Signed-off-by:
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Andy Lutomirski authored
This moves the espfix64 logic into native_iret. To make this work, it gets rid of the native patch for INTERRUPT_RETURN: INTERRUPT_RETURN on native kernels is now 'jmp native_iret'. This changes the 16-bit SS behavior on Xen from OOPSing to leaking some bits of the Xen hypervisor's RSP (I think). [ hpa: this is a nonzero cost on native, but probably not enough to measure. Xen needs to fix this in their own code, probably doing something equivalent to espfix64. ] Signed-off-by:
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7b8f1d8ef6597cb16ae004a43c56980a7de3cf94.1406129132.git.luto@amacapital.netSigned-off-by:
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H. Peter Anvin authored
Embedded systems, which may be very memory-size-sensitive, are extremely unlikely to ever encounter any 16-bit software, so make it a CONFIG_EXPERT option to turn off support for any 16-bit software whatsoever. Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com (cherry picked from commit 34273f41) Signed-off-by:
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H. Peter Anvin authored
Make espfix64 a hidden Kconfig option. This fixes the x86-64 UML build which had broken due to the non-existence of init_espfix_bsp() in UML: since UML uses its own Kconfig, this option does not appear in the UML build. This also makes it possible to make support for 16-bit segments a configuration option, for the people who want to minimize the size of the kernel. Reported-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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H. Peter Anvin authored
Header guard is #ifndef, not #ifdef... Reported-by:
Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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H. Peter Anvin authored
Sparse warns that the percpu variables aren't declared before they are defined. Rather than hacking around it, move espfix definitions into a proper header file. Reported-by:
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H. Peter Anvin authored
The IRET instruction, when returning to a 16-bit segment, only restores the bottom 16 bits of the user space stack pointer. This causes some 16-bit software to break, but it also leaks kernel state to user space. We have a software workaround for that ("espfix") for the 32-bit kernel, but it relies on a nonzero stack segment base which is not available in 64-bit mode. In checkin: b3b42ac2 x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels we "solved" this by forbidding 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels, with the logic that 16-bit support is crippled on 64-bit kernels anyway (no V86 support), but it turns out that people are doing stuff like running old Win16 binaries under Wine and expect it to work. This works around this by creating percpu "ministacks", each of which is mapped 2^16 times 64K apart. When we detect that the return SS is on the LDT, we copy the IRET frame to the ministack and use the relevant alias to return to userspace. The ministacks are mapped readonly, so if IRET faults we promote #GP to #DF which is an IST vector and thus has its own stack; we then do the fixup in the #DF handler. (Making #GP an IST exception would make the msr_safe functions unsafe in NMI/MC context, and quite possibly have other effects.) Special thanks to: - Andy Lutomirski, for the suggestion of using very small stack slots and copy (as opposed to map) the IRET frame there, and for the suggestion to mark them readonly and let the fault promote to #DF. - Konrad Wilk for paravirt fixup and testing. - Borislav Petkov for testing help and useful comments. Reported-by:Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Lars-Peter Clausen authored
When creating the demux table we need to iterate over the selected scan mask for the buffer to get the samples which should be copied to destination buffer. Right now the code uses the mask which contains all active channels, which means the demux table contains entries which causes it to copy all the samples from source to destination buffer one by one without doing any demuxing. Signed-off-by:
Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> Signed-off-by:
Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> Cc: Stable@vger.kernel.org (cherry picked from commit 61bd55ce) Signed-off-by:
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Alexandre Bounine authored
This is a bug fix for the situation when function tsi721_desc_get() fails to obtain a free transaction descriptor. The bug usually results in a memory access crash dump when data transfer scatter-gather list has more entries than size of hardware buffer descriptors ring. This fix ensures that error is properly returned to a caller instead of an invalid entry. This patch is applicable to kernel versions starting from v3.5. Signed-off-by:
Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Andre van Herk <andre.van.herk@prodrive-technologies.com> Cc: Stef van Os <stef.van.os@prodrive-technologies.com> Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.5+] Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> (cherry picked from commit 0193ed82) Signed-off-by:
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Eliad Peller authored
tsc can be NULL (mac80211 currently always passes NULL), resulting in NULL-dereference. check before copying it. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Eliad Peller <eliadx.peller@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Michael Brown authored
The PE/COFF headers currently describe only the initialised-data portions of the image, and result in no space being allocated for the uninitialised-data portions. Consequently, the EFI boot stub will end up overwriting unexpected areas of memory, with unpredictable results. Fix by including a .bss section in the PE/COFF headers (functionally equivalent to the init_size field in the bzImage header). Signed-off-by:
Michael Brown <mbrown@fensystems.co.uk> Cc: Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> (cherry picked from commit c7fb93ec) Signed-off-by:
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John David Anglin authored
The sa_restorer field in struct sigaction is obsolete and no longer in the parisc implementation. However, the core code assumes the field is present if SA_RESTORER is defined. So, the define needs to be removed. Signed-off-by:
John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> (cherry picked from commit 20dbea49) Signed-off-by:
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Dmitry Torokhov authored
We attempt to remove noise from coordinates reported by devices in input_handle_abs_event(), unfortunately, unless we were dropping the event altogether, we were ignoring the adjusted value and were passing on the original value instead. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by:
Andrew de los Reyes <adlr@chromium.org> Reviewed-by:
Benson Leung <bleung@chromium.org> Reviewed-by:
David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se> Signed-off-by:
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> (cherry picked from commit 50c5d36d) Signed-off-by:
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Mikulas Patocka authored
The patch 3e374919 is supposed to fix the problem where kmem_cache_create incorrectly reports duplicate cache name and fails. The problem is described in the header of that patch. However, the patch doesn't really fix the problem because of these reasons: * the logic to test for debugging is reversed. It was intended to perform the check only if slub debugging is enabled (which implies that caches with the same parameters are not merged). Therefore, there should be #if !defined(CONFIG_SLUB) || defined(CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON) The current code has the condition reversed and performs the test if debugging is disabled. * slub debugging may be enabled or disabled based on kernel command line, CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON is just the default settings. Therefore the test based on definition of CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON is unreliable. This patch fixes the problem by removing the test "!defined(CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON)". Therefore, duplicate names are never checked if the SLUB allocator is used. Note to stable kernel maintainers: when backporint this patch, please backport also the patch 3e374919. Acked-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by:
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by:
Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.6+ Signed-off-by:
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> (cherry picked from commit 69461747) Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
SLUB can alias multiple slab kmem_create_requests to one slab cache to save memory and increase the cache hotness. As a result the name of the slab can be stale. Only check the name for duplicates if we are in debug mode where we do not merge multiple caches. This fixes the following problem reported by Jonathan Brassow: The problem with kmem_cache* is this: *) Assume CONFIG_SLUB is set 1) kmem_cache_create(name="foo-a") - creates new kmem_cache structure 2) kmem_cache_create(name="foo-b") - If identical cache characteristics, it will be merged with the previously created cache associated with "foo-a". The cache's refcount will be incremented and an alias will be created via sysfs_slab_alias(). 3) kmem_cache_destroy(<ptr>) - Attempting to destroy cache associated with "foo-a", but instead the refcount is simply decremented. I don't even think the sysfs aliases are ever removed... 4) kmem_cache_create(name="foo-a") - This FAILS because kmem_cache_sanity_check colides with the existing name ("foo-a") associated with the non-removed cache. This is a problem for RAID (specifically dm-raid) because the name used for the kmem_cache_create is ("raid%d-%p", level, mddev). If the cache persists for long enough, the memory address of an old mddev will be reused for a new mddev - causing an identical formulation of the cache name. Even though kmem_cache_destory had long ago been used to delete the old cache, the merging of caches has cause the name and cache of that old instance to be preserved and causes a colision (and thus failure) in kmem_cache_create(). I see this regularly in my testing. Reported-by:Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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