Commit log for commit 517d3cc1
("[libata] ata_piix: Enable parallel scan") says:

    This patch turns on parallel scanning for the ata_piix driver.
    This driver is used on most netbooks (no AHCI for cheap storage it seems).
    The scan is the dominating time factor in the kernel boot for these
    devices; with this flag it gets cut in half for the device I used
    for testing (eeepc).
    Alan took a look at the driver source and concluded that it ought to be safe
    to do for this driver.  Alan has also checked with the hardware team.

and it is all true but once we put all things together additional
constraints for PATA controllers show up (some hardware registers
have per-host not per-port atomicity) and we risk misprogramming
the controller.

I used the following test to check whether the issue is real:

  @@ -736,8 +736,20 @@ static void piix_set_piomode(struct ata_
   			(timings[pio][1] << 8);
   	}
   	pci_write_config_word(dev, master_port, master_data);
  -	if (is_slave)
  +	if (is_slave) {
  +		if (ap->port_no == 0) {
  +			u8 tmp = slave_data;
  +
  +			while (slave_data == tmp) {
  +				pci_read_config_byte(dev, slave_port, &tmp);
  +				msleep(50);
  +			}
  +
  +			dev_printk(KERN_ERR, &dev->dev, "PATA parallel scan "
  +				   "race detected\n");
  +		}
   		pci_write_config_byte(dev, slave_port, slave_data);
  +	}

   	/* Ensure the UDMA bit is off - it will be turned back on if
   	   UDMA is selected */

and it indeed triggered the error message.

Lets fix all such races by adding an extra locking to ->set_piomode
and ->set_dmamode methods for PATA controllers.

[ Alan: would be better to take the host lock in libata-core for these
  cases so that we fix all the adapters in one swoop.  "Looks fine as a
  temproary quickfix tho" ]

Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel:
  drm/i915: Improve CRTDDC mapping by using VBT info
  drm/i915: Fix CPU-spinning hangs related to fence usage by using an LRU.
  drm/i915: Set crtc/clone mask in different output devices
  drm/i915: Always use SDVO_B detect bit for SDVO output detection.
  drm/i915: Fix typo that broke SVID1 in intel_sdvo_multifunc_encoder()
  drm/i915: Check if BIOS enabled dual-channel LVDS on 8xx, not only on 9xx
  drm/i915: Set the multiplier for SDVO on G33 platform

Use VBT information to determine which DDC bus to use for CRTDCC.
Fall back to GPIOA if VBT info is not available.
Signed-off-by: David Müller <d.mueller@elsoft.ch>
Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Tested on: 855 (David), and 945GM, 965GM, GM45, and G45 (anholt)

The lack of a proper LRU was partially worked around by taking the fence
from the object containing the oldest seqno.  But if there are multiple
objects inactive, then they don't have seqnos and the first fence reg
among them would be chosen.  If you were trying to copy data between two
mappings, this could result in each page fault stealing the fence from
the other argument, and your application hanging.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23566
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23220
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23253
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23366

Cc: Stable Team <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6:
  ACPI: don't free non-existent backlight in acpi video module
  toshiba_acpi: return on a fail path
  ACPICA: Windows compatibility fix: same buffer/string store

* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify:
  inotify: update the group mask on mark addition
  inotify: fix length reporting and size checking
  inotify: do not send a block of zeros when no pathname is available

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 01:45:17PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
>  CC      arch/parisc/kernel/traps.o
> arch/parisc/kernel/traps.c: In function 'handle_interruption':
> arch/parisc/kernel/traps.c:535:18: warning: operation on 'regs->iasq[0]'
> may be undefined

Yes - Line 535 should use both [0] and [1].
Reported-by: John David Anglin <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patch fixes the bug that was reported in
  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14053

If we're in the case where we need to force a reencode and then resend of
the RPC request, due to xprt_transmit failing with a networking error, then
we _must_ retransmit the entire request.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

> James Bottomley (1):
>       module: workaround duplicate section names

-tip testing found that this patch breaks the build on x86 if
CONFIG_KALLSYMS is disabled:

 kernel/module.c: In function ‘load_module’:
 kernel/module.c:2367: error: ‘struct module’ has no member named ‘sect_attrs’
 distcc[8269] ERROR: compile kernel/module.c on ph/32 failed
 make[1]: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 1
 make: *** [kernel] Error 2
 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

Commit 1b364bf4 misses the fact that section attributes are only
built and dealt with if kallsyms is enabled. The patch below fixes
this.

( note, technically speaking this should depend on CONFIG_SYSFS as
  well but this patch is correct too and keeps the #ifdef less
  intrusive - in the KALLSYMS && !SYSFS case the code is a NOP. )
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[ Replaced patch with a slightly cleaner variation by James Bottomley ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Fix vSMP boot crash
  x86, xen: Initialize cx to suppress warning
  x86, xen: Suppress WP test on Xen

acpi_video_put_one_device was attempting to remove sysfs entries and
unregister a backlight device without first checking that said backlight
device structure had been created.
Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

Return from bt_rfkill_poll() when hci_get_radio_state() fails.

value is invalid in that case and should not be assigned to the rfkill
state.

This also fixes a double unlock bug.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

Fix a compatibility issue when the same buffer or string is
stored to itself. This has been seen in the field. Previously,
ACPICA would zero out the buffer/string. Now, the operation is
treated as a NOP.

http://bugzilla.acpica.org/show_bug.cgi?id=803Reported-by: Rezwanul Kabir <Rezwanul_Kabir@Dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

Seperating the addition and update of marks in inotify resulted in a
regression in that inotify never gets events.  The inotify group mask is
always 0.  This mask should be updated any time a new mark is added.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

0db501bd introduced a regresion in that it now sends a nul
terminator but the length accounting when checking for space or
reporting to userspace did not take this into account.  This corrects
all of the rounding logic.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

When an event has no pathname, there's no need to pad it with a null byte and
therefore generate an inotify_event sized block of zeros. This fixes a
regression introduced by commit 0db501bd where
my system wouldn't finish booting because some process was being confused by
this.
Signed-off-by: Brian Rogers <brian@xyzw.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

The root cause is a duplicate section name (.text); is this legal?
[ Amerigo Wang: "AFAIK, yes." ]

However, there's a problem with commit
6d760133 in that if you fail to allocate
a mod->sect_attrs (in this case it's null because of the duplication),
it still gets used without checking in add_notes_attrs()

This should fix it

[ This patch leaves other problems, particularly the sections directory,
  but recent parisc toolchains seem to produce these modules and this
  prevents a crash and is a minimal change -- RR ]
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The rarely-used symbol_put_addr() needs to use dereference_function_descriptor
on powerpc.
Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

As soon as the framebuffer is registered, our methods may be called by the
kernel. This leads to a crash as xenfb_refresh() gets called before we have
the irq.

Connect to the backend before registering our framebuffer with the kernel.

[ Fixes bug http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14059 ]
Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify:
  inotify: Ensure we alwasy write the terminating NULL.
  inotify: fix locking around inotify watching in the idr
  inotify: do not BUG on idr entries at inotify destruction
  inotify: seperate new watch creation updating existing watches

We call lmb_end_of_DRAM() to test whether a DMA mask is ok on a machine
without IOMMU, but this function is marked as __init.

I don't think there's a clean way to get the top of RAM max_pfn doesn't
appear to include highmem or I missed (or we have a bug :-) so for now,
let's just avoid having a broken 2.6.31 by making this function
non-__init and we can revisit later.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs:
  9p: update documentation pointers
  9p: remove unnecessary v9fses->options which duplicates the mount string
  net/9p: insulate the client against an invalid error code sent by a 9p server
  9p: Add missing cast for the error return value in v9fs_get_inode
  9p: Remove redundant inode uid/gid assignment
  9p: Fix possible regressions when ->get_sb fails.
  9p: Fix v9fs show_options
  9p: Fix possible memleak in v9fs_inode_from fid.
  9p: minor comment fixes
  9p: Fix possible inode leak in v9fs_get_inode.
  9p: Check for error in return value of v9fs_fid_add

Add a check in ip_append_data() for NULL *rtp to prevent future bugs in
callers from being exploitable.
Signed-off-by: Julien Tinnes <julien@cr0.org>
Signed-off-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@sdf.lonestar.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

kAFS crashes when asked to read a symbolic link because page_getlink()
passes a NULL file pointer to read_mapping_page(), but afs_readpage()
expects a file pointer from which to extract a key.

Modify afs_readpage() to request the appropriate key from the calling
process's keyrings if a file struct is not supplied with one attached.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Before the rewrite copy_event_to_user always wrote a terqminating '\0'
byte to user space after the filename.  Since the rewrite that
terminating byte was skipped if your filename is exactly a multiple of
event_size.  Ouch!

So add one byte to name_size before we round up and use clear_user to
set userspace to zero like /dev/zero does instead of copying the
strange nul_inotify_event.  I can't quite convince myself len_to_zero
will never exceed 16 and even if it doesn't clear_user should be more
efficient and a more accurate reflection of what the code is trying to
do.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

The are races around the idr storage of inotify watches.  It's possible
that a watch could be found from sys_inotify_rm_watch() in the idr, but it
could be removed from the idr before that code does it's removal.  Move the
locking and the refcnt'ing so that these have to happen atomically.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

If an inotify watch is left in the idr when an fsnotify group is destroyed
this will lead to a BUG.  This is not a dangerous situation and really
indicates a programming bug and leak of memory.  This patch changes it to
use a WARN and a printk rather than killing people's boxes.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

There is nothing known wrong with the inotify watch addition/modification
but this patch seperates the two code paths to make them each easy to
verify as correct.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  virtio: net refill on out-of-memory
  smc91x: fix compilation on SMP

* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
  powerpc/ps3: Update ps3_defconfig
  powerpc/ps3: Add missing check for PS3 to rtc-ps3 platform device registration

Update ps3_defconfig.

 o Refresh for 2.6.31.
 o Remove MTD support.
 o Add more HID drivers.
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

On non-PS3, we get:

| kernel BUG at drivers/rtc/rtc-ps3.c:36!

because the rtc-ps3 platform device is registered unconditionally in a kernel
with builtin support for PS3.
Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6:
  IMA: iint put in ima_counts_get and put

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k:
  m68k,m68knommu: Wire up rt_tgsigqueueinfo and perf_counter_open
  m68k: Fix redefinition of pgprot_noncached
  arch/m68k/include/asm/motorola_pgalloc.h: fix kunmap arg
  m68k: cnt reaches -1, not 0
  m68k: count can reach 51, not 50

If we change the inverted attribute to another value, the LED will not be
inverted until we change the GPIO state.
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Cc: Samuel R. C. Vale <srcvale@holoscopio.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When setting the same GPIO number, multiple IRQ shared requests will be
done without freing the previous request.  It will also try to free a
failed request or an already freed IRQ if 0 was written to the gpio file.

All these oops and leaks were fixed with the following solution: keep the
previous allocated GPIO (if any) still allocated in case the new request
fails.  The alternative solution would desallocate the previous allocated
GPIO and set gpio as 0.
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel R. C. Vale <srcvale@holoscopio.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This failure is very common on many platforms.  Handling it in the ACPI
processor driver is enough, and we don't need a warning message unless
CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG is set.

Based on a patch from Zhang Rui.

Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13389Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

If the BIOS reports an invalid throttling state (which seems to be
fairly common after system boot), a reset is done to state T0.
Because of a check in acpi_processor_get_throttling_ptc(), the reset
never actually gets executed, which results in the error reoccurring
on every access of for example /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling.

Add a 'force' option to acpi_processor_set_throttling() to ensure
the reset really takes effect.

Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13389

This patch, together with the next one, fixes a regression introduced in
2.6.30, listed on the regression list. They have been available for 2.5
months now in bugzilla, but have not been picked up, despite various
reminders and without any reason given.

Google shows that numerous people are hitting this issue. The issue is in
itself relatively minor, but the bug in the code is clear.

The patches have been in all my kernels and today testing has shown that
throttling works correctly with the patches applied when the system
overheats (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13918#c14).
Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Summary:
Kernel panic arise when stack protection is enabled, since strncat will
add a null terminating byte '\0'; So in functions
like this one (wmi_query_block):
        char wc[4]="WC";
	....
	strncat(method, block->object_id, 2);
        ...
the length of wc should be n+1 (wc[5]) or stack protection
fault will arise. This is not noticeable when stack protection is
disabled,but , isn't good either.
Config used: [CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL=y,
	      CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y]

Panic Trace
------------
       .... stack-protector: kernel stack corrupted in : fa7b182c
       2.6.30-rc8-obelisco-generic
       call_trace:
           [<c04a6c40>] ? panic+0x45/0xd9
	   [<c012925d>] ? __stack_chk_fail+0x1c/0x40
	   [<fa7b182c>] ? wmi_query_block+0x15a/0x162 [wmi]
	   [<fa7b182c>] ? wmi_query_block+0x15a/0x162 [wmi]
	   [<fa7e7000>] ? acer_wmi_init+0x00/0x61a [acer_wmi]
	   [<fa7e7135>] ? acer_wmi_init+0x135/0x61a [acer_wmi]
	   [<c0101159>] ? do_one_initcall+0x50+0x126

Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13514Signed-off-by: Costantino Leandro <lcostantino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>