- 28 Feb, 2013 40 commits
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Heiko Carstens authored
When the kernel resides in home space and the mvcos instruction is not available uaccesses for kernel ds happen via simple strnlen() or memcpy() calls. This however can break badly, since uaccesses in kernel space may fail as well, especially if CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is turned on. To fix this implement strnlen_kernel() and copy_in_kernel() functions which can only be used by the page table uaccess functions. These two functions detect invalid memory accesses and return the correct length of processed data.. Both functions are more or less a copy of the std variants without sacf calls. Fixes ipl crashes on 31 bit machines as well on 64 bit machines without mvcos. Caused by changing the default address space of the kernel being home space. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Heiko Carstens authored
The "standard" and page table walk variants of strncpy_from_user() first check the length of the to be copied string in userspace. The string is then copied to kernel space and the length returned to the caller. However userspace can modify the string at any time while the kernel checks for the length of the string or copies the string. In result the returned length of the string is not necessarily correct. Fix this by copying in a loop which mimics the mvcos variant of strncpy_from_user(), which handles this correctly. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Heiko Carstens authored
Just add s390 to the list of architectures that don't want this driver. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Syam Sidhardhan authored
We are using sizeof operator for an array given as function argument, which is incorrect. Signed-off-by: Syam Sidhardhan <s.syam@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Heiko Carstens authored
access_ok() always returns 'true' on s390. Therefore all calls are quite pointless and can be removed. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Heiko Carstens authored
If the maximum length specified for the to be accessed string for strncpy_from_user() and strnlen_user() is zero the following incorrect values would be returned or incorrect memory accesses would happen: strnlen_user_std() and strnlen_user_pt() incorrectly return "1" strncpy_from_user_pt() would incorrectly access "dst[maxlen - 1]" strncpy_from_user_mvcos() would incorrectly return "-EFAULT" Fix all these oddities by adding early checks. Reviewed-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Heiko Carstens authored
Always stay within page boundaries when copying from user within strlen_user_mvcos()/strncpy_from_user_mvcos(). This allows to shorten the code a bit and may prevent unnecessary faults, since we copy quite large amounts of memory to kernel space. Also directly call the mvcos variants of copy_from_user() to avoid indirect branches. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Stefan Haberland authored
Failfast bit was set incorrectly. Use set_bit to enable failfast. Reviewed-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland <stefan.haberland@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Heiko Carstens authored
Add hint to the page tables that we don't care about the change bit in storage keys that belong to vmemmap pages. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Heiko Carstens authored
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge third patch-bumb from Andrew Morton: "This wraps me up for -rc1. - Lots of misc stuff and things which were deferred/missed from patchbombings 1 & 2. - ocfs2 things - lib/scatterlist - hfsplus - fatfs - documentation - signals - procfs - lockdep - coredump - seqfile core - kexec - Tejun's large IDR tree reworkings - ipmi - partitions - nbd - random() things - kfifo - tools/testing/selftests updates - Sasha's large and pointless hlist cleanup" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (163 commits) hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators kcmp: make it depend on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE selftests: add a simple doc tools/testing/selftests/Makefile: rearrange targets selftests/efivarfs: add create-read test selftests/efivarfs: add empty file creation test selftests: add tests for efivarfs kfifo: fix kfifo_alloc() and kfifo_init() kfifo: move kfifo.c from kernel/ to lib/ arch Kconfig: centralise CONFIG_ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS w1: add support for DS2413 Dual Channel Addressable Switch memstick: move the dereference below the NULL test drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: use devm_kzalloc Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt: fix typo include/linux/eventfd.h: fix incorrect filename is a comment mtd: mtd_stresstest: use prandom_bytes() mtd: mtd_subpagetest: convert to use prandom library mtd: mtd_speedtest: use prandom_bytes mtd: mtd_pagetest: convert to use prandom library mtd: mtd_oobtest: convert to use prandom library ...
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Sasha Levin authored
I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member) The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter: hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member) Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate. Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required: - Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h - Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones. - A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this was modified to use 'obj->member' instead. - Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator properly, so those had to be fixed up manually. The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here: @@ iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host; type T; expression a,c,d,e; identifier b; statement S; @@ -T b; <+... when != b ( hlist_for_each_entry(a, - b, c, d) S | hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a, - b, c) S | hlist_for_each_entry_from(a, - b, c) S | hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a, - b, c, d) S | hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a, - b, c, d) S | hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a, - b, c) S | for_each_busy_worker(a, c, - b, d) S | ax25_uid_for_each(a, - b, c) S | ax25_for_each(a, - b, c) S | inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a, - b, c) S | sctp_for_each_hentry(a, - b, c) S | sk_for_each(a, - b, c) S | sk_for_each_rcu(a, - b, c) S | sk_for_each_from -(a, b) +(a) S + sk_for_each_from(a) S | sk_for_each_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | sk_for_each_bound(a, - b, c) S | hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a, - b, c, d, e) S | hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a, - b, c) S | nr_neigh_for_each(a, - b, c) S | nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | nr_node_for_each(a, - b, c) S | nr_node_for_each_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | - for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S + for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S | - for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S + for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S | for_each_host(a, - b, c) S | for_each_host_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | for_each_mesh_entry(a, - b, c, d) S ) ...+> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings] [akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes] Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Cyrill Gorcunov authored
Since kcmp syscall has been implemented (initially on x86 architecture) a number of other archs wire it up as well: xtensa, sparc, sh, s390, mips, microblaze, m68k (not taking into account those who uses <asm-generic/unistd.h> for syscall numbers definitions). But the Makefile, which turns kcmp.o generation on still depends on former config-x86. Thus get rid of this limitation and make kcmp.o depend on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE option. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jeremy Kerr authored
This change adds a little documentation to the tests under tools/testing/selftests/, based on akpm's explanation. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: move from Documentation to tools/testing/selftests/README.txt] Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
Do it one-per-line to reduce patch conflict pain. Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jeremy Kerr authored
Test that reads from a newly-created efivarfs file (with no data written) will return EOF. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Cc: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jeremy Kerr authored
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Cc: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jeremy Kerr authored
This change adds a few initial efivarfs tests to the tools/testing/selftests directory. The open-unlink test is based on code from Lingzhu Xiang. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Cc: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Stefani Seibold authored
Fix kfifo_alloc() and kfifo_init() to alloc at least the requested number of elements. Since the kfifo operates on power of 2 the request size will be rounded up to the next power of two. Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Stefani Seibold authored
Move kfifo.c from kernel/ to lib/ Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Stephen Rothwell authored
Change it to CONFIG_HAVE_VIRT_TO_BUS and set it in all architecures that already provide virt_to_bus(). Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mariusz Bialonczyk authored
Also fixes some whitespace inconsistency in Kconfig and w1_family.h when DS2408 chip support was added. Signed-off-by: Mariusz Bialonczyk <manio@skyboo.net> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Wei Yongjun authored
The dereference should be moved below the NULL test. spatch with a semantic match is used to found this. (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Julia Lawall authored
devm_kzalloc allocates memory that is released when a driver detaches. This patch uses devm_kzalloc for data that is allocated in the probe function of a platform device and is only freed in the remove function. Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
Noted by Jesper Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah.khan@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Martin Sustrik authored
Comment in eventfd.h referred to 'include/asm-generic/fcntl.h' while the correct path is 'include/uapi/asm-generic/fcntl.h'. Signed-off-by: Martin Sustrik <sustrik@250bpm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Laight <david.laight@aculab.com> Cc: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
This removes home-brewed pseudo-random number generator and use prandom library. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Laight <david.laight@aculab.com> Cc: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
Use prandom_bytes instead of equivalent local function. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Laight <david.laight@aculab.com> Cc: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
This removes home-brewed pseudo-random number generator and use prandom library. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Laight <david.laight@aculab.com> Cc: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
This removes home-brewed pseudo-random number generator and use prandom library. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Laight <david.laight@aculab.com> Cc: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
Using prandom_bytes() is enough. Because this data is only used for testing, not used for cryptographic use. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Laight <david.laight@aculab.com> Cc: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Yuanhan Liu authored
Fix the wrong comment about the return value of clone_uts_ns() Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alex Elder authored
I just fixed this in "drivers/block/rbd.c" and I noticed that "drivers/block/nbd.c" has the same problem. Fix a warning issued by sparse by adding some lockdep annotations to indicate the queue lock gets dropped (because it's held when do_nbd_request() is called) and re-acquired within the function. Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@inktank.com> Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@us.sios.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Wouter Verhelst authored
Documentation/blockdev/nbd.txt contained some documentation which was horribly outdated and probably still dates from the original patch that added NBD support to the kernel. This patch removes the useless and outdated bits. The tools on nbd.sf.net are fully documented in manpages, which is where documentation for the non-kernel bits should live. Additionally, add a reference to the MAINTAINERS file for the nbd-general mailinglist that is used for discussion of the userland tools and the kernel module already. Signed-off-by: Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Paolo Bonzini authored
Pass the read-only flag to set_device_ro, so that it will be visible to the block layer and in sysfs. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com> Cc: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Paolo Bonzini authored
There are two problems with shutdown in the NBD driver. 1: Receiving the NBD_DISCONNECT ioctl does not sync the filesystem. This patch adds the sync operation into __nbd_ioctl()'s NBD_DISCONNECT handler. This is useful because BLKFLSBUF is restricted to processes that have CAP_SYS_ADMIN, and the NBD client may not possess it (fsync of the block device does not sync the filesystem, either). 2: Once we clear the socket we have no guarantee that later reads will come from the same backing storage. The patch adds calls to kill_bdev() in __nbd_ioctl()'s socket clearing code so the page cache is cleaned, lest reads that hit on the page cache will return stale data from the previously-accessible disk. Example: # qemu-nbd -r -c/dev/nbd0 /dev/sr0 # file -s /dev/nbd0 /dev/stdin: # UDF filesystem data (version 1.5) etc. # qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0 # qemu-nbd -r -c/dev/nbd0 /dev/sda # file -s /dev/nbd0 /dev/stdin: # UDF filesystem data (version 1.5) etc. While /dev/sda has: # file -s /dev/sda /dev/sda: x86 boot sector; etc. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com> Cc: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alex Bligh authored
Currently, the NBD device does not accept flush requests from the Linux block layer. If the NBD server opened the target with neither O_SYNC nor O_DSYNC, however, the device will be effectively backed by a writeback cache. Without issuing flushes properly, operation of the NBD device will not be safe against power losses. The NBD protocol has support for both a cache flush command and a FUA command flag; the server will also pass a flag to note its support for these features. This patch adds support for the cache flush command and flag. In the kernel, we receive the flags via the NBD_SET_FLAGS ioctl, and map NBD_FLAG_SEND_FLUSH to the argument of blk_queue_flush. When the flag is active the block layer will send REQ_FLUSH requests, which we translate to NBD_CMD_FLUSH commands. FUA support is not included in this patch because all free software servers implement it with a full fdatasync; thus it has no advantage over supporting flush only. Because I [Paolo] cannot really benchmark it in a realistic scenario, I cannot tell if it is a good idea or not. It is also not clear if it is valid for an NBD server to support FUA but not flush. The Linux block layer gives a warning for this combination, the NBD protocol documentation says nothing about it. The patch also fixes a small problem in the handling of flags: nbd->flags must be cleared at the end of NBD_DO_IT, but the driver was not doing that. The bug manifests itself as follows. Suppose you two different client/server pairs to start the NBD device. Suppose also that the first client supports NBD_SET_FLAGS, and the first server sends NBD_FLAG_SEND_FLUSH; the second pair instead does neither of these two things. Before this patch, the second invocation of NBD_DO_IT will use a stale value of nbd->flags, and the second server will issue an error every time it receives an NBD_CMD_FLUSH command. This bug is pre-existing, but it becomes much more important after this patch; flush failures make the device pretty much unusable, unlike Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> Acked-by: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Yuanhan Liu authored
Put get/get_uts() into CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL code block as they are used only when CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL is enabled. Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Xi Wang authored
The null check of `strchr() + 1' is broken, which is always non-null, leading to OOB read. Instead, check the result of strchr(). Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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