1. 21 Dec, 2012 34 commits
  2. 11 Dec, 2012 3 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 3.7 · 29594404
      Linus Torvalds authored
      29594404
    • Florian Fainelli's avatar
      Input: matrix-keymap - provide proper module license · 55220bb3
      Florian Fainelli authored
      The matrix-keymap module is currently lacking a proper module license,
      add one so we don't have this module tainting the entire kernel.  This
      issue has been present since commit 1932811f ("Input: matrix-keymap
      - uninline and prepare for device tree support")
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
      CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.5+
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      55220bb3
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net · 2c68bc72
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
      
       1) Netlink socket dumping had several missing verifications and checks.
      
          In particular, address comparisons in the request byte code
          interpreter could access past the end of the address in the
          inet_request_sock.
      
          Also, address family and address prefix lengths were not validated
          properly at all.
      
          This means arbitrary applications can read past the end of certain
          kernel data structures.
      
          Fixes from Neal Cardwell.
      
       2) ip_check_defrag() operates in contexts where we're in the process
          of, or about to, input the packet into the real protocols
          (specifically macvlan and AF_PACKET snooping).
      
          Unfortunately, it does a pskb_may_pull() which can modify the
          backing packet data which is not legal if the SKB is shared.  It
          very much can be shared in this context.
      
          Deal with the possibility that the SKB is segmented by using
          skb_copy_bits().
      
          Fix from Johannes Berg based upon a report by Eric Leblond.
      
      * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net:
        ipv4: ip_check_defrag must not modify skb before unsharing
        inet_diag: validate port comparison byte code to prevent unsafe reads
        inet_diag: avoid unsafe and nonsensical prefix matches in inet_diag_bc_run()
        inet_diag: validate byte code to prevent oops in inet_diag_bc_run()
        inet_diag: fix oops for IPv4 AF_INET6 TCP SYN-RECV state
      2c68bc72
  3. 10 Dec, 2012 3 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Revert "revert "Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD""" and associated damage · caf49191
      Linus Torvalds authored
      This reverts commits a5091539 and
      d7c3b937.
      
      This is a revert of a revert of a revert.  In addition, it reverts the
      even older i915 change to stop using the __GFP_NO_KSWAPD flag due to the
      original commits in linux-next.
      
      It turns out that the original patch really was bogus, and that the
      original revert was the correct thing to do after all.  We thought we
      had fixed the problem, and then reverted the revert, but the problem
      really is fundamental: waking up kswapd simply isn't the right thing to
      do, and direct reclaim sometimes simply _is_ the right thing to do.
      
      When certain allocations fail, we simply should try some direct reclaim,
      and if that fails, fail the allocation.  That's the right thing to do
      for THP allocations, which can easily fail, and the GPU allocations want
      to do that too.
      
      So starting kswapd is sometimes simply wrong, and removing the flag that
      said "don't start kswapd" was a mistake.  Let's hope we never revisit
      this mistake again - and certainly not this many times ;)
      Acked-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      caf49191
    • Johannes Berg's avatar
      ipv4: ip_check_defrag must not modify skb before unsharing · 1bf3751e
      Johannes Berg authored
      ip_check_defrag() might be called from af_packet within the
      RX path where shared SKBs are used, so it must not modify
      the input SKB before it has unshared it for defragmentation.
      Use skb_copy_bits() to get the IP header and only pull in
      everything later.
      
      The same is true for the other caller in macvlan as it is
      called from dev->rx_handler which can also get a shared SKB.
      Reported-by: default avatarEric Leblond <eric@regit.org>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      1bf3751e
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Revert "mm: avoid waking kswapd for THP allocations when compaction is deferred or contended" · 31f8d42d
      Linus Torvalds authored
      This reverts commit 782fd304.
      
      We are going to reinstate the __GFP_NO_KSWAPD flag that has been
      removed, the removal reverted, and then removed again.  Making this
      commit a pointless fixup for a problem that was caused by the removal of
      __GFP_NO_KSWAPD flag.
      
      The thing is, we really don't want to wake up kswapd for THP allocations
      (because they fail quite commonly under any kind of memory pressure,
      including when there is tons of memory free), and these patches were
      just trying to fix up the underlying bug: the original removal of
      __GFP_NO_KSWAPD in commit c6543459 ("mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD")
      was simply bogus.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      31f8d42d