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    • Al Viro's avatar
      cramfs: fix named-pipe handling · 82d63fc9
      Al Viro authored 
      After commit a97c9bf3 (fix cramfs
making duplicate entries in inode cache) in kernel 2.6.14, named-pipe
on cramfs does not work properly.

It seems the commit make all named-pipe on cramfs share their inode
(and named-pipe buffer).

Make ..._test() refuse to merge inodes with ->i_ino == 1, take inode setup
back to get_cramfs_inode() and make ->drop_inode() evict ones with ->i_ino
== 1 immediately.
Reported-by: default avatarAtsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.14 and later]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      82d63fc9
    • Ian Campbell's avatar
      fbdefio: add set_page_dirty handler to deferred IO FB · d847471d
      Ian Campbell authored 
      Fixes kernel BUG at lib/radix-tree.c:473.

Previously the handler was incidentally provided by tmpfs but this was
removed with:

  commit 14fcc23f
  Author: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
  Date:   Mon Jul 28 15:46:19 2008 -0700

    tmpfs: fix kernel BUG in shmem_delete_inode

relying on this behaviour was incorrect in any case and the BUG also
appeared when the device node was on an ext3 filesystem.

v2: override a_ops at open() time rather than mmap() time to minimise
races per AKPM's concerns.
Signed-off-by: default avatarIan Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [14fcc23f is in 2.6.25.14 and 2.6.26.1]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d847471d
    • Anton Vorontsov's avatar
      rtc: rtc-ds1374: fix 'no irq' case handling · b42f9317
      Anton Vorontsov authored 
      On a PowerPC board with ds1374 RTC I'm getting this error while RTC tries
to probe:

rtc-ds1374 0-0068: unable to request IRQ

This happens because I2C probing code (drivers/of/of_i2c.c) is specifying
IRQ0 for 'no irq' case, which is correct.

The driver handles this incorrectly, though. This patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b42f9317
    • Nick Piggin's avatar
      mm: xip/ext2 fix block allocation race · 14bac5ac
      Nick Piggin authored 
      XIP can call into get_xip_mem concurrently with the same file,offset with
create=1.  This usually maps down to get_block, which expects the page
lock to prevent such a situation.  This causes ext2 to explode for one
reason or another.

Serialise those calls for the moment.  For common usages today, I suspect
get_xip_mem rarely is called to create new blocks.  In future as XIP
technologies evolve we might need to look at which operations require
scalability, and rework the locking to suit.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarCarsten Otte <cotte@freenet.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      14bac5ac
    • Nick Piggin's avatar
      mm: xip fix fault vs sparse page invalidate race · 538f8ea6
      Nick Piggin authored 
      XIP has a race between sparse pages being inserted into page tables, and
sparse pages being zapped when its time to put a non-sparse page in.

What can happen is that a process can be left with a dangling sparse page
in a MAP_SHARED mapping, while the rest of the world sees the non-sparse
version.  Ie.  data corruption.

Guard these operations with a seqlock, making fault-in-sparse-pages the
slowpath, and try-to-unmap-sparse-pages the fastpath.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarCarsten Otte <cotte@freenet.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      538f8ea6
    • Nick Piggin's avatar
      mm: dirty page tracking race fix · 479db0bf
      Nick Piggin authored 
      There is a race with dirty page accounting where a page may not properly
be accounted for.

clear_page_dirty_for_io() calls page_mkclean; then TestClearPageDirty.

page_mkclean walks the rmaps for that page, and for each one it cleans and
write protects the pte if it was dirty.  It uses page_check_address to
find the pte.  That function has a shortcut to avoid the ptl if the pte is
not present.  Unfortunately, the pte can be switched to not-present then
back to present by other code while holding the page table lock -- this
should not be a signal for page_mkclean to ignore that pte, because it may
be dirty.

For example, powerpc64's set_pte_at will clear a previously present pte
before setting it to the desired value.  There may also be other code in
core mm or in arch which do similar things.

The consequence of the bug is loss of data integrity due to msync, and
loss of dirty page accounting accuracy.  XIP's __xip_unmap could easily
also be unreliable (depending on the exact XIP locking scheme), which can
lead to data corruption.

Fix this by having an option to always take ptl to check the pte in
page_check_address.

It's possible to retain this optimization for page_referenced and
try_to_unmap.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com>
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@freenet.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      479db0bf
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