1. 30 Dec, 2003 40 commits
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] (workaround): avoid raid1 crash during resync with qlogic controllers · 61179b28
      Andrew Morton authored
      qlogic's 16k maximum I/O size bites again.  Neil says:
      
       The problems we fixed were all to do with normal IO.  This one is resync
       IO.
      
       The problem here is that raid1 always does resync in RESYNC_BLOCK_SIZE
       (=64k) IOs and if the device doesn't cope - tough.
      
       The simple fix is to #define RESYNC_BLOCK_SIZE to PAGE_SIZE in md/raid1.c
      
       The better fix is to rewrite the raid1 resync code to use bio_add_page.
      
       This means we have to build the read request and the write requests at the
       same time, and then when a bio_add_page fails, we back-out the last page
       from the bios that have one too many, and then do the read followed by the
       writes.
      
       I have some code the nearly does this, but I haven't got it actually
       working yet and I am on leave until mid January.
      
       I would recommend doing
      
       fs/drivers/md/raid1.c:
       -#define RESYNC_BLOCK_SIZE (64*1024)
       +#define RESYNC_BLOCK_SIZE PAGE_SIZE
      
       for now.
      61179b28
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      [PATCH] Remove iso9660 check for sbsector < 660Mb · 88351d38
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Jon Burgess <mplayer@jburgess.uklinux.net>
      
      The iso9660 filesystem code checks that the "sbsector" option is
      positioned within the first 660Mb of the disk.
      
      Today the iso9660 filesystem is used on DVD's which are much bigger than
      660Mb and this check prevents the sbsector option being used to specify 
      the location of the superblock of multisession DVD's.
      
      With this check removed I can mount the second session on a DVD-R by 
      specifying the sbsector, even though the  firmware on that drive returns
      bogus data for the TOC.
      
      If an invalid large sector number is entered then a "request beyond end 
      of device" error is reported elsewhere in the block code, but appears to
      do no damage.
      88351d38
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      [PATCH] ALI ircc vendor update (add support for newer chipset) to FIR driver · 9bfed725
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
      
      Change by Clear Zhang of ALI
      9bfed725
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      [PATCH] Fix static build of drivers/mtd/chips/jedec_probe.c · 189fd4bc
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@develer.com>
      
      It needs init.h
      189fd4bc
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      [PATCH] SubmittingDrivers update · 21c77d06
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
      21c77d06
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      [PATCH] hugepage pagetable freeing fix · eb372d22
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
      
      We recently covered a bug in mm/mmap.c on IA-64.  While unmapping a address
      space, unmap_region calls free_pgtables to possibly free the pages that are
      used for page tables.  Currently no distinction is made between freeing a
      region that is mapped by normal pages vs the pages that are mapped by
      hugepages.  Architecture specific code needs to handle cases where PTEs
      corresponding to a region that is mapped by hugepages is properly getting
      unmapped.  Attached please find a patch that makes the required changes in
      generic part of kernel.  We will need to send a separate IA-64 patch to use
      this new semantics.  Currently, so not to disturb the PPC (as that is the
      only arch that had ARCH_HAS_HUGEPAGE_ONLY_RANGE defined) we are mapping back
      the definition of new function hugetlb_free_pgtables to free_pgtables.
      eb372d22
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      [PATCH] Check for preemption in kunmap_atomic() · 17095c07
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
      
      We need to check whether preemption is needed after reenabling preemption
      in kunmap_atomic().
      17095c07
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      [PATCH] Fix another dm and bio problem · 655da9eb
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>
      
      This fixes a problem similar to the patch I submitted on 11/20
      
      http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106936439707962&w=2
      
      In this case, though, the result is an:
      
      "Incorrect number of segments after building list" message.
      
      The macro __BVEC_START assumes a bi_idx of zero when the dm code can
      submit a bio with a non-zero bi_idx.
      The code has been tested on an 8 way / 8gb OSDL STP machine with a 197G
      lvm volume running dbt2 test.
      655da9eb
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      [PATCH] Small copy-paste typo in floppy.c · 06004ee5
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Juergen Quade <quade@hsnr.de>
      
      I just hit a copy-paste typo in floppy.c.
      06004ee5
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      [PATCH] ppdev MODULES_ALIAS · 25ceff8c
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Jim Radford <radford@indigita.com>
      
      I finally took the time to figure our why my parallel port wasn't
      working...  here's the patch.
      25ceff8c
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      [PATCH] change two annoying messages from framebuffer drivers · 0f821f9d
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Michael Hunold <hunold@convergence.de>
      
      the Linux-on-a-CD system Knoppix has nearly all framebuffer drivers for
      2.4.23 compiled in. Additionally, it surpresses most kernel messages by
      lowering the kernel log level.
      
      Two framebuffer drivers (clgenfb.c and hgafb.c), however, use KERN_ERR
      to say that their particular card has *not* been found which is very
      annoying.
      
      Especially the clgenfb.c driver simply says on bootup:
        >  Couldn't find PCI device
      which can really confuse newbie users.
      
      I've already send a patch that fixes this for 2.4 -- Marcelo and Geert
      Uytterhoeven have already ack'ed it.
      
      The same change should be done for 2.6, too IMHO.
      
      The appended patch replaces two KERN_ERR with KERN_INFO and additionally
      makes the cirrusfb.c message more descriptive.
      0f821f9d
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      [PATCH] add SpeedStep zero-page usage documentation · bef7c38f
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
      
      Add Intel SpeedStep zero-page memory usage doc.
      bef7c38f
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      [PATCH] H8/300 bitops.h update · dce29666
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
      
      * using generic_ffs
      * optimized code
      dce29666
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Fix memleak on execve failure · 7764b6de
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: IWAMOTO Toshihiro <iwamoto@valinux.co.jp>
      
      I found linux-2.6.0-test11 leaks memory when execve fails.  I've also
      checked the bitkeeper tree and the problem seems to be unchanged.
      
      The attached patch is a partial backout of bitkeeper rev.  1.87 of
      fs/exec.c.  I guess the original change was a simple mistake.
      (free_arg_pages() is a NOP when CONFIG_MMU is defined).
      7764b6de
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      [PATCH] lib/inflate.c fix · ab49402d
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      
      This patch fixes the "non-terminating inflate" problem that Russell King
      complained about on LKML earlier today.
      
      I chose to use "goto" much like zlib does, in order to not require
      setjmp/longjmp inside the kernel.  It's a bit ugly, but it also lets each
      function chose how it needs to be terminated on error, which is a good
      thing.
      ab49402d
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      [PATCH] FAT: Use just printk() instead of unneeded fat_fs_panic() · 0a33358c
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
      
      - uses just printk() instead of unneeded fat_fs_panic()
      - removes the debug printk
      - less verbose on error path
      - uses correct a error number on error path
      0a33358c
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      [PATCH] FAT: empty path by fat_striptail_len returns the -ENOENT · 26b88587
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
      
      If path length became zero by fat_striptail_len(), this returns the -ENOENT
      as empty path.
      26b88587
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      [PATCH] FAT: misc cleanups/fixes · 86b94f84
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
      
      fatfs misc cleanups/fixes.
      86b94f84
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      [PATCH] FAT: Add count of clusters check in fat_fill_super() (7/10) · 2d5acefc
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
      
      This adds the check of count of clusters.  And if it's too big, fat driver
      can't handle it.  So doesn't recognize this as fatfs.
      2d5acefc
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      [PATCH] FAT: Fix ->prev_free of fat (6/10) · d97a5110
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
      
      The -1 was documented as "there is no hint", so this patch uses -1 instead
      of 0 for FAT32 fsinfo.
      d97a5110
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] FAT: include/linux/msdos_fs.h cleanup · 5af71cb2
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
      
      include/linux/msdos_fs.h cleanup
      5af71cb2
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      [PATCH] FAT: trivial printk format fix (4/10) · 002a7d6e
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
      
      Fix printk format
      002a7d6e
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      [PATCH] FAT: add readv/writev support to FAT (3/10) · 8d15d343
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
      
      For atomicity write, adds readv/writev support to FAT.
      8d15d343
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      [PATCH] FAT: Fix the tailing dots on the utf8 path (2/10) · e8f2950f
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
            Michal Rokos <m.rokos@sh.cvut.cz>
      
      The problem is: even if vfat_striptail_len() counts len of name without
      trailing dots and sets len to the correct value, utf8_mbstowcs() doesn't
      care about len and takes whole name.  So dirs and files with dots can be
      created on vfat fs.
      e8f2950f
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      [PATCH] FAT: More relax FATFS validity tests (1/10) · f17963ee
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
            Yokota Hiroshi <yokota@netlab.is.tsukuba.ac.jp>
      
      This patch is required for my 640MB Optical disk.  Because MS windows 95/ME
      based FAT filesystem disk formatter generetes wrong super bloacks.
      f17963ee
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] init/main.c trivial cleanups · 83a3e44d
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
      
      - remove unused "rows" and "cols"
      - change the 2 variable to static
      83a3e44d
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      [PATCH] relax check of page/bh state on I/O error · e8640dfa
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
      
      Suppress a buffer_error() warning which occurs when a page which previously
      had an I/O error gets its buffers stripped.
      e8640dfa
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Put fixmaps into /proc/pid/maps via a pseudo-vma · f9a7b4ad
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
      
      This patch makes /proc/PID/maps report the range from FIXADDR_USER_START to
      FIXADDR_USER_END as a final pseudo-vma.  This is consistent with the notion
      that reading /proc/PID/maps tells you about every page containing data that
      the process can in fact access, and with things such as ptrace allowing
      access to this memory.  Without this, userland tools that want to look at all
      of a process's accessible pages need special-case knowledge about things such
      as the vsyscall DSO page.  With this change, existing code that iterates over
      the /proc/PID/maps lines will cover those pages like any other.  For example,
      this lets gdb's "gcore" command synthesize a core file from a live process
      that contains the vsyscall DSO page as a real core dump would, using its
      existing generic iterator code and no new special cases.
      f9a7b4ad
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      [PATCH] Fix double logical operator drivers/char/sx.c · 8976f5f6
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: "Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" <jeffpc@optonline.net>
      
      Simple clean up patch to remove double logical operators.
      8976f5f6
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Fix es7000 compile · 41792375
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
      41792375
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      [PATCH] Fix via686a/KX133 TSC failure · 4f97aa5a
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Chris Bajumpaa <cbajumpa@or8.net>
      
      This patch fixes a problem with the TSC failing on via686a/KX133
      motherboards either reverting to using the pit or deadlocking the machine
      alltogether under heavy load.  (Specifically Abit KA7/KA7-100).
      
      Message from the log:
      Dec 18 18:20:37 grinder kernel: Losing too many ticks!
      Dec 18 18:20:37 grinder kernel: TSC cannot be used as a timesource. (Are
      you running with SpeedStep?)
      Dec 18 18:20:37 grinder kernel: Falling back to a sane timesource.
      
      The snippet of code that was missing from timer_tsc.c comes from
      timer_pit.c.
      4f97aa5a
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      [PATCH] make gconfig warning removal · 3116a3ac
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: "Maciej Soltysiak" <solt@dns.toxicfilms.tv>
      
      make gconfig causes this:
      
      scripts/kconfig/gconf.c: In function `on_treeview1_button_press_event':
      scripts/kconfig/gconf.c:1175: warning: passing arg 1 of
      `gtk_widget_grab_focus' from incompatible pointer type
      3116a3ac
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      [PATCH] fatfs: fix printk storm during I/O errors · 548b4535
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
      
      The fatfs was ignoring the I/O error on two points. If I/O error
      happen while checking a free block entries, this checks the all
      entries, and reports an I/O error on each entry.
      
      This problem became cause of the disk full by syslogd.
      548b4535
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      [PATCH] ./README typo fix · 992d50d5
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
      992d50d5
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Fix Summit EBDA parsing · 2dd851e3
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
      
      The code to parse the EBDA (Extended BIOS Data Area) for Summit boxen is
      broken because it does not handle Lookout boxen (external boxes full of
      additional PCI slots).  This patch cleans up some ugliness in
      arch/i386/kernel/summit.c as well as fixing the code to handle Lookout boxen
      and various other configurations of PCI buses.  Without this, Summit PCI bus
      to node mappings are totally hosed with Lookout boxen attatched.  This patch
      depends upon the GENERICARCH fix.
      2dd851e3
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      [PATCH] Fix X86_GENERICARCH & NUMA compile error · 5cc7f329
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
      
      Trying to build a kernel with both CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH and
      CONFIG_NUMA on results in a compile error.  This patch fixes that build 
      problem by adding a config option for NUMA on Summit which is used to
      correctly conditionally compile arch/i386/kernel/summit.c and properly
      ifdef the function calls used in generic code.  Please apply.
      
      Running make -j24 bzImage
      arch/i386/mach-generic/built-in.o: In function `mps_oem_check':
      arch/i386/mach-generic/built-in.o(.text+0x3ce): undefined reference to
      `setup_summit'
      arch/i386/mach-generic/built-in.o: In function `acpi_madt_oem_check':
      arch/i386/mach-generic/built-in.o(.text+0x468): undefined reference to
      `setup_summit'
      make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
      5cc7f329
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      [PATCH] isdn/eicon/eicon_mod.c build fix · dbc58779
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
      
        CC [M]  drivers/isdn/eicon/eicon_mod.o
      drivers/isdn/eicon/eicon_mod.c: In function `eicon_exit':
      drivers/isdn/eicon/eicon_mod.c:1362: warning: implicit declaration of
      function `mca_mark_as_unused'
      dbc58779
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      [PATCH] Add signal state inheritance control to SELinux · 23644641
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
      
      This patch against 2.6.0 adds a control to the SELinux module over the
      inheritance of signal-related state upon security context transitions in
      order to protect the new security context.  If the permission is not
      granted by the policy for a given pair of contexts, then transitions
      between them will clear itimers, flush all pending signals, forcibly
      flush signal handlers, and unblock all signals.  Roland McGrath provided
      input and feedback on the patch. 
      Please apply, or let James Morris and me know if you'd like this to be
      resubmitted later.  Thanks.
      23644641
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      [PATCH] Remove use of nameidata by selinux_inode_permission · e606758e
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
      
      This patch removes the use of nameidata by selinux_inode_permission, as this
      appears to be unsafe in certain cases (e.g.  path_walk call from
      rpc_lookup_parent), leading to an Oops if d_path is subsequently called by
      avc_audit on the (mnt,dentry) pair to generate a pathname for an audit
      message.
      
      The change does not affect the ability of SELinux to perform its permission
      check (which only requires the inode), only the set of information that is
      available for audit messages.  We'll investigate better approaches for the
      SELinux audit generation in the future.
      e606758e
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      [PATCH] Reduce SELinux check on KDSKBENT/SENT ioctls · 38181ac4
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
      
      This patch reduces the full capability check in the SELinux module for the
      KDSKBENT/SENT ioctls to only check the corresponding SELinux permission,
      avoiding a change to the Linux permissions model for these operations.
      38181ac4