1. 31 Aug, 2003 40 commits
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] kill CONFIG_KCORE_AOUT · e23a1220
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
      
      Remove CONFIG_KCORE_AOUT: the ability to present /proc/kcore in a.out
      format.
      
      I've checked with various arch maintainers.  It won't be missed.
      e23a1220
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      [PATCH] Fix build with CONFIG_KCORE_AOUT · 09952a58
      Andrew Morton authored
      We get a linkage error with CONFIG_KCORE_AOUT because there is no
      implementation of kclist_add() and kclist_del().
      
      Also fix a warning in the a.out version of read_kcore().
      
      Maybe we should just remove kcore a.out support.  m68knommu and h8300 are
      setting CONFIG_KCORE_AOUT in their defconfigs though.
      09952a58
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Add more bad_inode operations · 22cfa91b
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: <ffrederick@prov-liege.be>
      
      Flesh out the bad_inode file and inode operations tables with new
      additions.
      22cfa91b
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      [PATCH] Fix typo in #ifdef for ext2 xattr support · b2d627ee
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
      
      This patch corrects a typo in an ifdef that enables xattr operations for
      special files in the ext2 code; otherwise, extended attributes cannot be
      obtained or set on such inodes.
      b2d627ee
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Rework SELinux binprm hooks · 081bb1e6
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
      
      This patch reworks the SELinux binprm hook functions to use a security
      structure for the linux_binprm rather than directly stuffing the security
      identifier into the void* security field.  It also performs some cleanup of
      the SELinux binprm hook functions, and one miscellaneous fix.
      081bb1e6
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      [PATCH] Fix SELinux format specifiers · 2a1c7412
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>, James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>
      
      This patch corrects several format specifiers in the SELinux security server
      code.
      2a1c7412
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      [PATCH] Fix SELinux avtab · 696bce21
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      
      This patch changes the SELinux avtab to use vmalloc/vfree; the table is too
      large for kmalloc on s390.
      696bce21
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      [PATCH] Fix selinux_file_fcntl · 4218788b
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>, James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>
      
      This patch adds the appropriate #if around the F_*64 commands in the
      selinux_file_fcntl hook function.
      4218788b
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Fix ext3 htree corruption on big-endian platforms · e2d964e6
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>
      
      current bk 2.6.0 corrupts my ext3 filesystems, usually in the RESYNC dir
      during a bk pull.  Checking the recent changes I noticed that the one in
      fs/ext3/namei.c misses an endian conversion.  The attached patch fixes that
      and works fine for me since 2 days now on PPC.
      e2d964e6
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      [PATCH] visws: fix 2.6.0-test4 breakage · b6029830
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
      
      attached trivial patch fixes visws subarch kernel build.  It was broken by
      2.6.0-test4 cpumask_t changes.
      b6029830
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      [PATCH] reiserfs writepage-versus-truncate fix · c33e05c5
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
      
      The conversion of reiserfs to not return errors from
      writepage-outside-i_size was incorrect.  Fix.
      c33e05c5
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      [PATCH] parport_pc rmmod oops fix · bc6e6ea4
      Andrew Morton authored
      The `user_specified' variable is used in cleanup_module() and hence cannot be
      dropped from memory after module initialisation.
      bc6e6ea4
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      [PATCH] do_no_page() fix · cfbb8488
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>,
      	"Sharma, Arun" <arun.sharma@intel.com>
      
      The truncate race fix assumed that a non-zero vma->vm_ops->nopage implies a
      non-zero vma->vm_file.
      
      The ia64 x86 emulation code breaks this assumption, so teach do_no_page() to
      handle it.
      cfbb8488
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      [PATCH] ni5010.c: remove cli/sti · ba869a99
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Vinay K Nallamothu <vinay-rc@naturesoft.net>
      
      drivers/net/ni5010.c:
      This patch replaces cli/sti with spinlocks. Compiles fine though
      untested.
      ba869a99
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      [PATCH] abi doc update · 70e98dff
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: <ffrederick@prov-liege.be>
      
      Update the abi sysctl documentation.
      70e98dff
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      [PATCH] vm_enough_memory microoptimisation · f2c52c43
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: <ffrederick@prov-liege.be>
      
      The expected case is (sysctl_overcommit_memory == 0), so put that first.
      f2c52c43
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      [PATCH] Kobject doc addition · b1e412a2
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: <ffrederick@prov-liege.be>
      
      Here's an _important_ kobject doc patch.
      b1e412a2
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Fix permissions on /proc/kallsyms · 05628932
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      
      Change the permissions on /proc/kallsyms.  As David M-T points out,
      it's nice for analysis tools not to need root.  Place
      cond_resched() to avoid starvation problems on non-preempt.
      05628932
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] /proc/kallsym caching fix · bbe58736
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      
      Out by one error broke caching of results in /proc/kallsyms, slowing
      reading to a crawl.
      bbe58736
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      [PATCH] Fix 'pci=noacpi' with buggy ACPI BIOSes · f9b59c80
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Thomas Schlichter <schlicht@uni-mannheim.de>
      
      Make the `pci=noacpi' command line option work correctly.  It fixes
      interrupt routing probems for (at least 3) people with broken ACPI BIOSes.
      f9b59c80
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] c99 struct initialiser conversions · 64c7bdeb
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: CaT <cat@zip.com.au>
      
      Convert a whole bunch of struct initialisers into c99 format.
      64c7bdeb
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      [PATCH] pcnet32 needs unregister_pci · 96153507
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
      
      The problem in pcnet32 is, that it doesn't unregister pci, if there's no
      hardware.
      
      This patch solves the problem.
      96153507
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      [PATCH] drivers/char/pcxx.c warning fix · 76e409ce
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: "Krishnakumar. R" <krishnakumar@naturesoft.net>
      
      This patch removes the warning:
      
      drivers/char/pcxx.c:124:8: warning: extra tokens at end of #endif directive
      76e409ce
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] airo CONFIG_PCI=n build fix · d798505b
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      
      On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:
      > Javier Achirica:
      >   o [wireless airo] Fix PCI unregister code
      
      This patch causes a regression: if CONFIG_PCI is not set, it doesn't compile
      anymore. Here's a fix. I also killed a dead variable and its corresponding
      warning:
      d798505b
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      [PATCH] zoran: correct name field breakage · 067a2ed6
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Ronald Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>
      
      I suddenly noticed that 2.6.0-test4 seems to have removed the struct
      device->name field, apparently for memory consumption reasons. Linus
      changed this to pci_name((zr)->pci_dev) in my driver, and that's almost
      correct, except that it is the PCI device ID, and I'm not supposed to
      touch it. Also, since it's only 4 bytes, all my device names now show
      like 'DC1' (this should be 'DC10plus') and alike.
      
      The attached patch fixes this by going back to the behaviour that we
      used in 2.4.x: we use a separate name field in our private driver
      struct.
      067a2ed6
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      [PATCH] zoran: more cleanups · bb4afaab
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Ronald Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>
      
      This patch adds some newlines between variable declarations and function
      bodies. This was done on request by Francois Romieu.
      bb4afaab
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      [PATCH] zoran: cleanups · d9a800f7
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Ronald Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>
      
      This patch changes some funky coding style (a.k.a. indent artifact) in
      the function zoran_irq() to a somewhat more conservative coding style.
      It was noticed by Francois Romieu.
      d9a800f7
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      [PATCH] zoran: add pci_disable_device() call · b564dedd
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Ronald Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>
      
      This patch adds pci_disable_device() to the card release function; we
      already used pci_enable_device() in the card detection function.  This was
      noticed by Francois Romieu.
      b564dedd
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      [PATCH] zoran: add release callback · b8c0b00f
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Ronald Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>
      
      This patch adds a release callback which frees the video_device struct.
      This is needed to prevent freeing memory before it's not in use anymore,
      as described in http://lwn.net/Articles/36850/. Without this, the driver
      will give a warning when loaded. It might crash when unloading (see
      article), too. The video4linux patch (by Gerd Knorr) was accepted a week
      (or 2?) ago, but I forgot to adapt my driver to it.
      b8c0b00f
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      [PATCH] zoran: debug->zr_debug · ef392885
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Ronald Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>
      
      This patch renames the debug symbol to zr_debug because debug is already
      defined somewhere else. Without it, it will cause a symbol conflict when
      compiling this driver statically into the kernel. This was noticed by
      several people, including Linus himself.
      ef392885
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      [PATCH] zoran: memleak fixes · f5ae79e9
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Ronald Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>
      
      This patch fixes several memleaks in error cases when the setup of i2c
      client drivers for video encoders/decoders fails. We forgot to free some
      memory in various places. This was noticed by Francois Romieu.
      f5ae79e9
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      [PATCH] spin_lock_irqrestore() typo fixes · d6f459bc
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Vinay K Nallamothu <vinay-rc@naturesoft.net>
      
      s/spin_lock_irqrestore/spin_unlock_irqrestore/
      d6f459bc
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      [PATCH] remove add_wait_queue_cond() · 464319bf
      Andrew Morton authored
      It has no callers, is using the non-existent spin_lock_irqrestore(), and is
      obviously very untested.  Kill.
      464319bf
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      [PATCH] don't report async write errors on close() after all · 36939848
      Andrew Morton authored
      I had second thoughts on this.
      
      Reporting background writeout errors via close() only really makes sense if
      allthe IO has completed anyway: ie, the app has had the fd open without
      writing to it for many tens of seconds.
      
      It would be OK if it was harmless, but it is not.  Changes are, applications
      ignore errors from close().  So if an application does a fork/exit and the
      child correctly does an fsync() of the fd, the close-on-exit will have wiped
      out any accumulated EIO/ENOSPC errors.
      
      Or if someone does dup()/close()/fsync(), the fsync() could fail to detect
      earlier errors, thanks to the close.
      
      
      So.  The clear-and-report of errors on close() makes the reporting of errors
      on fsync/msync/fdatasync less reliable.
      36939848
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      [PATCH] zeromap_pmd_range bugfix · 1c890ad9
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      
      The patch below fixes a 2.6 mm problem.  Without this patch, zeromapped
      pages are not flushed properly when they are swapped out.
      
      What happens is that the page->index field is zero for page table pages
      corresponding to the zeromapped range.  This causes ptep_to_address() to
      return an incorrect virtual address with the result that PTEs are never
      invalidated at swap-out...
      
      The fix below mirrors the remap_pmd_range() case.
      1c890ad9
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      [PATCH] Add 3GB personality · 50eb14c6
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
      
      Another a bit ugly but necessary patch for 32bit emulation.
      
      Some applications including some versions of java break when the stack is
      beyond the i386 standard 3GB boundary.  For these add a 3GB personality
      that moves the stack to 3GB and fixes the beginning of the mmap area.  It's
      a bit ugly, but better than not running these applications at all (e.g. 
      the Oracle installer depends on such a buggy java :-().  It's also not only
      Java, but some other programs as well.
      50eb14c6
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      [PATCH] jffs aops return type fix · 688b2251
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
      
      prepare_write() and commit_write() return `int'.
      
      Fixes an ia64 compile warning.
      688b2251
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      [PATCH] Fix ftape warning · ec61dbaf
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Chris Heath <chris@heathens.co.nz>
      
      Here's a patch which fixes this warning:
      
      drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/fdc-io.c: In function `ftape_interrupt':
      drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/fdc-io.c:1299: warning: unused variable `_tracing'
      ec61dbaf
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      [PATCH] ikconfig - Makefile update · 9fd4c892
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
      
      Please merge this makefile update from Sam.
      From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      
      Remark, I removed dependencies for configs.o - the are generated by kbuild
      anyway. Only generated files needs explicit dependencies.
      9fd4c892
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      [PATCH] v4l use-after-free fix · d625bd72
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
      
      When working on converting the usb v4l drivers to the new v4l class
      changes, I ran into this nasty bug.  Seems that the core was using a
      structure after it had been freed.  The patch below fixes it.
      d625bd72