From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>

This printk is unneccessary for quite a long time, please kill it. [I
added it, so it should be okay for me to request it being killed..]

From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>

ia64 needs more complete checking on the offset which is passed into reads
or writes of /dev/mem.

This patch factors out the range checking so that the architecture can
implement a private version.

From: "Noah J. Misch" <noah@caltech.edu>

Two gameport drivers need __devexit_p wrapped around their remove
functions.  A newer binutils caught this is a link error.  This patch fixes
that.

Wrapped a __devexit_p around the 'remove' functions of two gameport
drivers.  The lack of __devexit_p was wrong according to linux/init.h,
differed from the practices in nearby files, and caused a link error with
binutils 2.14.90.0.5.

From: miles@lsi.nec.co.jp (Miles Bader)

The cb_pic_handle_irq function on this platform hadn't been updated to
use irqreturn_t; do so.

From: miles@lsi.nec.co.jp (Miles Bader)

This reservation is handled by platform-independent code in 2.6.0, but some
platforms _also_ did it in platform-specific code (left over from 2.4.x).

From: miles@lsi.nec.co.jp (Miles Bader)

Use `late_initcall' instead of just `__initcall' as a workaround for
the fact that (1) simcons_tty_init can't be called before tty_init,
(2) tty_init is called via `module_init', (3) if statically linked,
module_init == device_init, and (4) there's no ordering of init lists.

We can do this easily because simcons is always statically linked, but
other tty drivers that depend on tty_init and which must use
`module_init' to declare their init routines are likely to be broken.

From: "Noah J. Misch" <noah@caltech.edu>

Allows the Toshiba SMM driver to compile with CONFIG_PROC_FS=n.

It is missing an up() on an error path.

Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> notes oopses in the anticipatory
scheduler with slab poisoning enabled due to arq->rb_node.rb_right being
uninitialised.  So wipe the whole thing when we allocate it.

deadline seems to have the same problem.

Backport this fix from 2.4

If you have an MCA kernel on non-MCA hardware and load an MCA driver,
mca_find_unused_adapter() ends up dereferencing NULL. 

Teach it about the absence of MCA buses.

With CONFIG_MCA=y and no MCA bus present, drivers go oops deep in the kobject
code when calling mca_register_driver().  Because there is no MCA subsystem
registered against the driver.

Plug this in mca_register_driver().

From: John Mock <kd6pag@qsl.net>

If 'parport_pc' is compile as a module, it fails to properly return certain
ioport resources after being removed.

If you try to load a DRM module when agpgart is not present, modprobe says
"Cannot allocate memory", which is rather misleading.

Make it return -EINVAL instead.

With CONFIG_MODULES=n this file does not compile because the type of
module->owner is not known.

Gven that card->owner is probably a null pointer when this driver is
statically linked, best thing to do is to just not poke around inside
card->owner at all.

Expand printk's traditional handling of null pointers so that anything in the
first page is considered a null pointer.

This gives us better behaviour when someone (acpi..) accidentally prints a
string which is embedded in a struct, the pointer to which is null.

From: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@prefeitura.sp.gov.br>

Fix bluetooth build when CONFIG_PROC_FS=n

From: jbarnes@sgi.com (Jesse Barnes)

The patch adds a symlink from /sys/devices/system/node/nodeM/cpuN to the
/sys/devices/cpu/cpuN directory so that a userspace program can determine
which CPUs belong to which nodes easily.  Non-NUMA systems can simply pass
NULL in for the root arg and everything will work like it used to.

cache_grow() will call kmem_freepages() if the call to alloc_slabmgmt()
fails.  But the pages have not been marked PageSlab at this stage, so
kmem_freepages() goes BUG.

It is more symmetrical to mark the pages as PageSlab in kmem_getpages().

The patch also prunes a bunch of incorrect comments.

(PageSlab doesn't actually do anything: its only value is as a debug check.
I think the LKCD patch uses it).

Plug the two-megabyte-per-day memory leak.

I happened to spot this kfree(of complete garbage) - it is on an
oh-we-raced-retry path which is obviously exceedingly rare,

From: Peter Bergner <bergner@vnet.ibm.com>

In fs/binfmt_elf.c:load_elf_binary() (both 2.6 and 2.4), there is some
minimal checking whether the interpreter it's about to load/run is a valid
ELF file, but it fails to check whether the interpreter is of the correct
arch.  We ran into this when a borked powerpc64-linux toolchain set the
interpreter on our 64-bit app to our 32-bit ld.so.  Executing the app
caused the kernel to really chew up memory.  I'm assuming x86_64 and
sparc64 might possibly see the same behavior.

Note I'm not sure of the history behind INTERPRETER_AOUT, so I added the
test for INTERPRETER_ELF so as not to change it's behavior in case someone
still relies on it.

As an aside, it seems the elf_check_arch() macros should really be checking
for more than a valid e_machine value.  I'd think checking one or more of
the e_ident[EI_CLASS], e_ident[EI_DATA] and e_ident[EI_OSABI] values would
be required as well, no?

From: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>

Fix a C99ism.

From: "Kurtis D. Rader" <kdrader@us.ibm.com>

http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1365

The digi_acceleport.c USB serial driver has a bogus "address of" operator
that results in BUGs.

The problem is that digi_wakeup_write_lock() takes a pointer to a struct
usb_serial_port.  However, what gets passed is a pointer to a pointer to a
struct usb_serial_port.

OK, I give up.  Kill all the might_sleep warnings from the early boot
process.

There seems to be no header file which declares system_running.

From: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>

attached patch should fix a quota locking problem causing deadlock (when
inode was being released from icache and it caused newly created quota
structure to be written).

From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>

mm/filemap.c's generic_file_aio_write_nolock changed SetPageReferenced
to mark_page_accessed in -test3: now follow that in shmem_file_write.

From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>

mm/shmem.c was converted to i_size_read in -test1, and the remaining
references to a file's naked i_size are safely protected by i_sem;
but surely shmem_file_write must use i_size_write to update i_size.

From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>

If it's possible for a tmpfs page beyond i_size to remain in cache until
shmem_truncate repeats truncate_inode_pages, then shmem_writepage's
BUG_ON(index >= info->next_index) cannot be completely safe.  But it's a
useful check in a fragile area, so retain it when not in shmem_truncate.

From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>

Extend use of that SHMEM_PAGEIN flag to where shmem_getpage adds a page
to the cache.  It couldn't have caused a BUG_ON(inode->i_blocks), but if
i_size is reduced (from another cpu) the instant after shmem_swp_alloc
checks it, shmem_getpage could insert a page into the cache just after
truncate_inode_pages has passed through cleaning it, leaving stale data
(which may mysteriously reappear if the file is later extended).

Easily fixed for tmpfs, using the mechanism just added for swapoff; and
probably more important there, since its read from swap can insert non-0
data.  But is there not a similar issue, a tiny window, in filemap.c?
if truncate_inode_pages comes in between checking i_size and adding new
page to cache.  Not worth getting excited, but something to beware of.

From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>

On 23 July, Sergey S. Kostyliov <rathamahata@php4.ru> reported a tmpfs
BUG_ON(inode->i_blocks) during swapoff: my last version of the fix to
swapoff/truncate race was inadequate, since I_FREEING might get set or
i_size be reduced (from another cpu) the instant after it's tested here.

So revert to the previous version of the fix, shmem_truncate calling
truncate_inode_pages again, if pages still left in cache; but avoid the
recall in usual cases of partial truncation, by having a "pagein" flag
to indicate when recall might be necessary.  (Since those flags already
use VM_ACCOUNT and VM_LOCKED, must redefine another VM_flag for this.)
Sergey and 2.4-aa have run fine with this for a couple of months.

From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>

LTP tests the filesystem on /tmp: many failures when tmpfs because it missed
the way directories hand down their gid.  Also fix ramfs and hugetlbfs.

From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>

LTP tests the filesystem on /tmp: there are many failures when using tmpfs
because simple_lookup forgot to reject filenames longer than the NAME_MAX
tmpfs declares in its statfs.  This also fixes ramfs and hugetlbfs.

This driver is taking uinitialised stack gunk from the pdev[] array and
feeding it into pci_read_config_byte() and crashing when modprobed with no
hardware present.

Fix it to not index past the initialised members of pdev[].

We don't know if this driver works.

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>

The following will prevent adjtime from causing time regression.  It delays
starting the adjtime mechanism for one tick, and keeps gettimeofday inside
the window.

Only fixes i386, but changes to other arch would be similar.

Running a simple clock test program and playing with adjtime demonstrates
that this fixes the problem (and 2.6.0-test6 is broken).  But given the
fragile nature of the timer code, it should go through some more testing
before inclusion.

Silence a bogus "may be used uninitialised" warning.  It only affects
architectures which use the tlb_finish_mmu() args.

Sync this up with 2.4:

 ChangeSet@1.404.2.2  2002-05-06 21:30:10-03:00  hch@infradead.org
 [PATCH] memsetup fixes (again)

 The mem= fixes from Red Hat's tree had a small bug:
 if mem= was not actually used with the additional features, but
 int plain old way, is used the value as the size of memory it
 wants, not the upper limit.  The problem with this is that there
 is a small difference due to memory holes.

 I had one report of a person using mem= to reduce memory size for
 a broken i386 chipset thaty only supports 64MB cached and the rest
 as mtd/slram device for swap.  I got broken as the boundaries changed.

From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

The command 'eject /dev/scd0' sends a START_STOP command to the device with
the data direction set to SCSI_DATA_WRITE but a transfer length of zero.
This causes a problem for some code paths.