- 29 Sep, 2006 40 commits
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Siddha, Suresh B authored
Failing context is a multi threaded process context and the failing sequence is as follows. One thread T0 doing self modifying code on page X on processor P0 and another thread T1 doing COW (breaking the COW setup as part of just happened fork() in another thread T2) on the same page X on processor P1. T0 doing SMC can endup modifying the new page Y (allocated by the T1 doing COW on P1) but because of different I/D TLB's, P0 ITLB will not see the new mapping till the flush TLB IPI from P1 is received. During this interval, if T0 executes the code created by SMC it can result in an app error (as ITLB still points to old page X and endup executing the content in page X rather than using the content in page Y). Fix this issue by first clearing the PTE and flushing it, before updating it with new entry. Hugh sayeth: I was a bit sceptical, in the habit of thinking that Self Modifying Code must look such issues itself: but I guess there's nothing it can do to avoid this one. Fair enough, what you're changing it to is pretty much what powerpc and s390 were already doing, and is a more robust way of proceeding, consistent with how ptes are set everywhere else. The ptep_clear_flush is a bit heavy-handed (it's anxious to return the pte that was atomically cleared), but we'd have to wander through lots of arches to get the right minimal behaviour. It'd also be nice to eliminate ptep_establish completely, now only used to define other macros/inlines: it always seemed obfuscation to me, what you've got there now is clearer. Let's put those cleanups on a TODO list. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Heiko Carstens authored
Convert s390 page handling macros to functions. In particular this fixes a problem with s390's SetPageUptodate macro which uses its input parameter twice which again can cause subtle bugs. [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Zoltan Menyhart authored
We leak a bh ref in "journal_init_dev()" in case of failure. Signed-off-by: Zoltan Menyhart <Zoltan.Menyhart@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Dave Kleikamp authored
It's always good to make symbols static when we can, and this also eliminates the need to rename the function in jbd2 Suggested by Eric Sandeen. Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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David Woodhouse authored
The uninitialised pmu_backlight_lock causes the current Fedora test kernel (which has spinlock debugging enabled) to panic on suspend. This is suboptimal, so I fixed it. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Michael Hanselmann <linux-kernel@hansmi.ch> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Matthew Wilcox authored
If the cpu has the lock held for write, is interrupted, and the interrupt handler calls read_trylock(), it's an instant deadlock. Now, Dave Miller has subsequently pointed out that we don't have any situations where this can occur. Nevertheless, we should delete generic__raw_read_lock (and its associated EXPORT to make Arjan happy) so that nobody thinks they can use it. Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Al Viro authored
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Al Viro authored
... or we'll end up with cpu_online_map being evaluated on UP. In modules. cpumask.h is very careful to avoid that, and for a very good reason. So should we... PS: yes, it really triggers (on alpha). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (160 commits) [ETHTOOL]: Remove some entries from non-root command list. [Bluetooth]: Fix section mismatch of bt_sysfs_cleanup() [Bluetooth]: Don't update disconnect timer for incoming connections [ETHTOOL]: let mortals use ethtool [NetLabel]: add audit support for configuration changes [TCP]: Fix and simplify microsecond rtt sampling [TCP] tcp-lp: prevent chance for oops [SUNRPC]: Remove unnecessary check in net/sunrpc/svcsock.c [IPVS] bug: endianness breakage in ip_vs_ftp [IPVS]: ipvs annotations [NETFILTER]: h323 annotations [NETFILTER]: ipt annotations [NETFILTER]: NAT annotations [NETFILTER]: conntrack annotations [NETFILTER]: netfilter misc annotations [NET]: Annotate dst_ops protocol [NET]: is it Andy or Andi ?? [IPVS]: Make sure ip_vs_ftp ports are valid: module_param_array approach [IPVS]: Reverse valid ip_vs_ftp ports fix: port check approach [IrDA] stir4200: removing undocumented bits handling ...
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: USB: fix build error in ohci driver
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David S. Miller authored
GWOL might provide passwords GSET, GLINK, and GSTATS might poke the hardware Based upon feedback from Jeff Garzik. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Arnaud Patard authored
The bt_sysfs_cleanup() is marked with __exit attribute, but it will be called from an __init function in the error case. So the __exit attribute must be removed. Signed-off-by: Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Marcel Holtmann authored
In the case of device pairing the only safe method is to establish a low-level ACL link. In this case, the remote side should not use the disconnect timer to give the other side the chance to enter the PIN code. If the disconnect timer is used, the connection will be dropped to soon, because it is impossible to identify an actual user of this link. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Stephen Hemminger authored
There is no reason to not allow non-admin users to query network statistics and settings. [ Removed PHYS_ID and GREGS based upon feedback from Auke Kok and Michael Chan -DaveM] Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Paul Moore authored
This patch adds audit support to NetLabel, including six new audit message types shown below. #define AUDIT_MAC_UNLBL_ACCEPT 1406 #define AUDIT_MAC_UNLBL_DENY 1407 #define AUDIT_MAC_CIPSOV4_ADD 1408 #define AUDIT_MAC_CIPSOV4_DEL 1409 #define AUDIT_MAC_MAP_ADD 1410 #define AUDIT_MAC_MAP_DEL 1411 Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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John Heffner authored
This changes the microsecond RTT sampling so that samples are taken in the same way that RTT samples are taken for the RTO calculator: on the last segment acknowledged, and only when the segment hasn't been retransmitted. Signed-off-by: John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Wong Hoi Sing Edison authored
This patch fix the chance for tcp_lp_remote_hz_estimator return 0, if 0 < rhz < 64. It also make sure the flag LP_VALID_RHZ is set correctly. Signed-off-by: Wong Hoi Sing Edison <hswong3i@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Sesterhenn authored
coverity spotted this one as possible dereference in the dprintk(), but since there is only one caller of svc_create_socket(), which always passes a valid sin, we dont need this check. Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Al Viro authored
(p[3]<<24) | (p[2]<<16) | (p[1]<<8) | p[0] is not a valid way to spell get_unaligned((__be32 *)p Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Al Viro authored
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Al Viro authored
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Al Viro authored
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Al Viro authored
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Al Viro authored
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Al Viro authored
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Al Viro authored
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Steven Rostedt authored
I don't know of any Andy Kleen's but I do know a Andi Kleen. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Simon Horman authored
I'm not entirely sure what happens in the case of a valid port, at best it'll be silently ignored. This patch ensures that the port values are unsigned short values, and thus always valid. This is a second take at fixing this problem, it is simpler and arguably more correct than the previous approach that was committed as 3f5af5b3. Prior to this patch a patch that reverses 3f5af5b3 was sent. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Simon Horman authored
This patch reverses 3f5af5b3 as a better fix was suggested by Patrick McHardy. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Samuel Ortiz authored
FIFOCTL_RXERR and FIFOCTL_TXERR are undocumented bits, according to the Sigmatel datasheet. We should thus not take any assumption on their values and semantics. Problem spotted by andrzej zaborowski <balrogg@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Linus Walleij (LD/EAB authored
This patch detects the smsc-ircc chipset on the nx1000 (including nx7000 and nx7010) and the nx5000 HP/Compaq laptop series. Patch from "Linus Walleij (LD/EAB)" <linus.walleij@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Lamarque Vieira Souza authored
According to NatSemi datasheet, the configuration base address for the PC8738x family is 0x2e or 0x164. 0x0 doesn't appear in any datasheet. Patch from Lamarque Vieira Souza <lamarque@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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YOSHIFUJI Hideaki authored
Add the following for userspace export by the 'headers_include' make target: linux/fib_rules.h, linux/if_addr.h, linux/if_link.h, linux/neighbour.h. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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YOSHIFUJI Hideaki authored
Moving netlink interface bits to linux/if.h is rather troublesome for applications including both linux/if.h (which was changed to be included from linux/rtnetlink.h automatically) and net/if.h. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Masahide NAKAMURA authored
SPI=0 is used for acquired IPsec SA and MIPv6 RO state. Such state should not be added to the SPI hash because we do not care about it on deleting path. Signed-off-by: Masahide NAKAMURA <nakam@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
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Stephen Hemminger authored
The loopback device status structure is a singleton and doesn't need to be allocated. Add ethtool_ops hooks to show checksum always on, and make ethtool_ops const. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Samuel Ortiz authored
This patch replaces the bunch of arbitrary 64 and 128 bytes alloc_skb() calls with more accurate allocation sizes. Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Samuel Ortiz authored
With the inclusion of the stir421x code, we now need to select FW_LOADER whenever we try to build the irda-usb code. Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Samuel Ortiz authored
We lock the socket when both releasing and getting a disconnected notification. In the latter case, we also ste the socket as orphan. This fixes a potential kernel bug that can be triggered when we get the disconnection notification before closing the socket. Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Herbert Xu authored
Because the system won't turn off the SG flag for us we need to do this manually on the IPv6 path. Otherwise we will throw IPv6 packets with bad checksums at the hardware. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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