- 26 May, 2010 20 commits
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Frank Arnold authored
commit 7f284d3c upstream. When running a quest kernel on xen we get: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000038 IP: [<ffffffff8142f2fb>] cpuid4_cache_lookup_regs+0x2ca/0x3df PGD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP last sysfs file: CPU 0 Modules linked in: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G W 2.6.34-rc3 #1 /HVM domU RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8142f2fb>] [<ffffffff8142f2fb>] cpuid4_cache_lookup_regs+0x 2ca/0x3df RSP: 0018:ffff880002203e08 EFLAGS: 00010046 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 0000000000000060 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000040 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffff880002203ed8 R08: 00000000000017c0 R09: ffff880002203e38 R10: ffff8800023d5d40 R11: ffffffff81a01e28 R12: ffff880187e6f5c0 R13: ffff880002203e34 R14: ffff880002203e58 R15: ffff880002203e68 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880002200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000000038 CR3: 0000000001a3c000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffffffff81a00000, task ffffffff81a44020) Stack: ffffffff810d7ecb ffff880002203e20 ffffffff81059140 ffff880002203e30 <0> ffffffff810d7ec9 0000000002203e40 000000000050d140 ffff880002203e70 <0> 0000000002008140 0000000000000086 ffff880040020140 ffffffff81068b8b Call Trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff810d7ecb>] ? sync_supers_timer_fn+0x0/0x1c [<ffffffff81059140>] ? mod_timer+0x23/0x25 [<ffffffff810d7ec9>] ? arm_supers_timer+0x34/0x36 [<ffffffff81068b8b>] ? hrtimer_get_next_event+0xa7/0xc3 [<ffffffff81058e85>] ? get_next_timer_interrupt+0x19a/0x20d [<ffffffff8142fa23>] get_cpu_leaves+0x5c/0x232 [<ffffffff8106a7b1>] ? sched_clock_local+0x1c/0x82 [<ffffffff8106a9a0>] ? sched_clock_tick+0x75/0x7a [<ffffffff8107748c>] generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0xae/0xd0 [<ffffffff8101f6ef>] smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x18/0x27 [<ffffffff8100a773>] call_function_single_interrupt+0x13/0x20 <EOI> [<ffffffff8143c468>] ? notifier_call_chain+0x14/0x63 [<ffffffff810295c6>] ? native_safe_halt+0xc/0xd [<ffffffff810114eb>] ? default_idle+0x36/0x53 [<ffffffff81008c22>] cpu_idle+0xaa/0xe4 [<ffffffff81423a9a>] rest_init+0x7e/0x80 [<ffffffff81b10dd2>] start_kernel+0x40e/0x419 [<ffffffff81b102c8>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xb3/0xb7 [<ffffffff81b103c4>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xf8/0x107 Code: 14 d5 40 ff ae 81 8b 14 02 31 c0 3b 15 47 1c 8b 00 7d 0e 48 8b 05 36 1c 8b 00 48 63 d2 48 8b 04 d0 c7 85 5c ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 <8b> 70 38 48 8d 8d 5c ff ff ff 48 8b 78 10 ba c4 01 00 00 e8 eb RIP [<ffffffff8142f2fb>] cpuid4_cache_lookup_regs+0x2ca/0x3df RSP <ffff880002203e08> CR2: 0000000000000038 ---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a726 ]--- The L3 cache index disable feature of AMD CPUs has to be disabled if the kernel is running as guest on top of a hypervisor because northbridge devices are not available to the guest. Currently, this fixes a boot crash on top of Xen. In the future this will become an issue on KVM as well. Check if northbridge devices are present and do not enable the feature if there are none. [ hpa: backported to 2.6.34 ] Signed-off-by:
Frank Arnold <frank.arnold@amd.com> LKML-Reference: <1271945222-5283-3-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org> Acked-by:
Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Borislav Petkov authored
commit ade029e2 upstream. K8_NB depends on PCI and when the last is disabled (allnoconfig) we fail at the final linking stage due to missing exported num_k8_northbridges. Add a header stub for that. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
commit 16a2164b upstream. If the kernel is large or the profiling step small, /proc/profile leaks data and readprofile shows silly stats, until readprofile -r has reset the buffer: clear the prof_buffer when it is vmalloc()ed. Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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Pavel Emelyanov authored
commit b3b38d84 upstream. inotify_new_group() receives a get_uid-ed user_struct and saves the reference on group->inotify_data.user. The problem is that free_uid() is never called on it. Issue seem to be introduced by 63c882a0 (inotify: reimplement inotify using fsnotify) after 2.6.30. Signed-off-by:
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Eric Paris authored
commit e0873344 upstream. There is a race in the inotify add/rm watch code. A task can find and remove a mark which doesn't have all of it's references. This can result in a use after free/double free situation. Task A Task B ------------ ----------- inotify_new_watch() allocate a mark (refcnt == 1) add it to the idr inotify_rm_watch() inotify_remove_from_idr() fsnotify_put_mark() refcnt hits 0, free take reference because we are on idr [at this point it is a use after free] [time goes on] refcnt may hit 0 again, double free The fix is to take the reference BEFORE the object can be found in the idr. Signed-off-by:
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Daniel T Chen authored
commit 0ebf9e36 upstream. Reference: http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2010-May/027525.html As reported on the mailing list, we also need to cap to the 0 dB offset for Lenovo models, else the sound will be distorted. Reported-and-Tested-by:
Tim Starling <tstarling@wikimedia.org> Signed-off-by:
Daniel T Chen <crimsun@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by:
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Takashi Iwai authored
commit 82134665 upstream. The capture source control of maya44 was wrongly coded with the bit shift instead of the bit mask. Also, the slot for line-in was wrongly assigned (slot 5 instead of 4). Reported-by:
Alex Chernyshoff <alexdsp@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Valentin Longchamp authored
commit 1c5250d6 upstream. The imx CTS trigger level is left at its reset value that is 32 chars. Since the RX FIFO has 32 entries, when CTS is raised, the FIFO already is full. However, some serial port devices first empty their TX FIFO before stopping when CTS is raised, resulting in lost chars. This patch sets the trigger level lower so that other chars arrive after CTS is raised, there is still room for 16 of them. Signed-off-by: Valentin Longchamp<valentin.longchamp@epfl.ch> Tested-by: Philippe Rétornaz<philippe.retornaz@epfl.ch> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang<w.sang@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Layton authored
commit 3d694380 upstream. When we made serverino the default, we trusted that the field sent by the server in the "uniqueid" field was actually unique. It turns out that it isn't reliably so. Samba, in particular, will just put the st_ino in the uniqueid field when unix extensions are enabled. When a share spans multiple filesystems, it's quite possible that there will be collisions. This is a server bug, but when the inodes in question are a directory (as is often the case) and there is a collision with the root inode of the mount, the result is a kernel panic on umount. Fix this by checking explicitly for directory inodes with the same uniqueid. If that is the case, then we can assume that using server inode numbers will be a problem and that they should be disabled. Fixes Samba bugzilla 7407 Signed-off-by:
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Reviewed-and-Tested-by:
Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Paul Mackerras authored
commit 0fe1ac48 upstream. Anton Blanchard found that large POWER systems would occasionally crash in the exception exit path when profiling with perf_events. The symptom was that an interrupt would occur late in the exit path when the MSR[RI] (recoverable interrupt) bit was clear. Interrupts should be hard-disabled at this point but they were enabled. Because the interrupt was not recoverable the system panicked. The reason is that the exception exit path was calling perf_event_do_pending after hard-disabling interrupts, and perf_event_do_pending will re-enable interrupts. The simplest and cleanest fix for this is to use the same mechanism that 32-bit powerpc does, namely to cause a self-IPI by setting the decrementer to 1. This means we can remove the tests in the exception exit path and raw_local_irq_restore. This also makes sure that the call to perf_event_do_pending from timer_interrupt() happens within irq_enter/irq_exit. (Note that calling perf_event_do_pending from timer_interrupt does not mean that there is a possible 1/HZ latency; setting the decrementer to 1 ensures that the timer interrupt will happen immediately, i.e. within one timebase tick, which is a few nanoseconds or 10s of nanoseconds.) Signed-off-by:
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by:
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Gerald Schaefer authored
commit 545c174d upstream. strace may change the system call number, so regs->gprs[2] must not be read before tracehook_report_syscall_entry(). This fixes a bug where "strace -f" will hang after a vfork(). Signed-off-by:
Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Nicolas Ferre authored
commit abc2c9fd upstream. Disable data error interrupts while we are actually recording that there is not such errors. This will prevent, in some cases, the warning message printed at new request queuing (in atmci_start_request()). Signed-off-by:
Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Nicolas Ferre authored
commit 009a891b upstream. The removing of an SD card in certain circumstances can lead to a kernel oops if we do not make sure that the "data" field of the host structure is valid. This patch adds a test in atmci_dma_cleanup() function and also calls atmci_stop_dma() before throwing away the reference to data. Signed-off-by:
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Nicolas Ferre authored
commit ebb1fea9 upstream. Two parameters were swapped in the calls to atmci_init_slot(). Signed-off-by:
Anders Grahn <anders.grahn@hd-wireless.se> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Alex Chiang authored
commit 7d6fb7bd upstream. Duplicate entries ended up acpisleep_dmi_table[] by accident. They don't hurt functionality, but they are ugly, so let's get rid of them. Signed-off-by:
Alex Chiang <achiang@canonical.com> Signed-off-by:
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FUJITA Tomonori authored
commit f33d7e2d upstream. dma_sync_single_range_for_cpu() and dma_sync_single_range_for_device() use a wrong address with a partial synchronization. Signed-off-by:
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Reviewed-by:
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
commit 4a6018f7 upstream. Ordinarily, application using hugetlbfs will create mappings with reserves. For shared mappings, these pages are reserved before mmap() returns success and for private mappings, the caller process is guaranteed and a child process that cannot get the pages gets killed with sigbus. An application that uses MAP_NORESERVE gets no reservations and mmap() will always succeed at the risk the page will not be available at fault time. This might be used for example on very large sparse mappings where the developer is confident the necessary huge pages exist to satisfy all faults even though the whole mapping cannot be backed by huge pages. Unfortunately, if an allocation does fail, VM_FAULT_OOM is returned to the fault handler which proceeds to trigger the OOM-killer. This is unhelpful. Even without hugetlbfs mounted, a user using mmap() can trivially trigger the OOM-killer because VM_FAULT_OOM is returned (will provide example program if desired - it's a whopping 24 lines long). It could be considered a DOS available to an unprivileged user. This patch alters hugetlbfs to kill a process that uses MAP_NORESERVE where huge pages were not available with SIGBUS instead of triggering the OOM killer. This change affects hugetlb_cow() as well. I feel there is a failure case in there, but I didn't create one. It would need a fairly specific target in terms of the faulting application and the hugepage pool size. The hugetlb_no_page() path is much easier to hit but both might as well be closed. Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by:
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Michael Hennerich authored
commit de145b44 upstream. The current allocation does not include the memory required for blanking lines. So avoid memory corruption when multiple devices are using the DMA memory near each other. Signed-off-by:
Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com> Signed-off-by:
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by:
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Oliver Neukum authored
commit 06efbeb4 upstream. The work queue has to be flushed after the device has been made inaccessible. The patch closes a window during which a work queue might remain active after the device is removed and would then lead to ACPI calls with undefined behavior. Signed-off-by:
Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Acked-by:
Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> Acked-by:
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Pavel Herrmann <morpheus.ibis@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Bjørn Mork authored
commit ccc2d97c upstream. commit 2783ef23 moved the initialisation of saddr and daddr after pskb_may_pull() to avoid a potential data corruption. Unfortunately also placing it after the short packet and bad checksum error paths, where these variables are used for logging. The result is bogus output like [92238.389505] UDP: short packet: From 2.0.0.0:65535 23715/178 to 0.0.0.0:65535 Moving the saddr and daddr initialisation above the error paths, while still keeping it after the pskb_may_pull() to keep the fix from commit 2783ef23. Signed-off-by:
Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> Acked-by:
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by:
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- 12 May, 2010 20 commits
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
This reverts commit d150a2b9. Thanks to Jiri Benc for finding the problem that this patch is not correct for the 2.6.32-stable series. Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
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Ralf Baechle authored
(cherry picked from commit e65c7f33d75e977350ca350573d93c517ec02776) Previously it was unconditionally used on all Sibyte family SOCs. The M3 bug has to be handled in the TLB exception handler which is extremly performance sensitive, so this modification is expected to deliver around 2-3% performance improvment. This is important as required changes to the M3 workaround will make it more costly. Signed-off-by:
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by:
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James Bottomley authored
commit 77a42297 upstream. There's nastyness in the way we currently handle barriers (and discards): They're effectively filesystem commands, but they get processed as BLOCK_PC commands. Unfortunately BLOCK_PC commands are taken by SCSI to be SG_IO commands and the issuer expects to see and handle any returned errors, however trivial. This leads to a huge problem, because the block layer doesn't expect this to happen and any trivially retryable error on a barrier causes an immediate I/O error to the filesystem. The only real way to hack around this is to take the usual class of offending errors (unit attentions) and make them all retryable in the case of a REQ_HARDBARRIER. A correct fix would involve a rework of the entire block and SCSI submit system, and so is out of scope for a quick fix. Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Hannes Reinecke authored
commit c213e140 upstream. Some arrays are giving I/O errors with ext3 filesystems when SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE gets a UNIT_ATTENTION. What is happening is that these commands have no retries, so the UNIT_ATTENTION causes the barrier to fail. We should be enable retries here to clear any transient error and allow the barrier to succeed. Signed-off-by:
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Douglas Gilbert authored
commit 5447ed6c upstream. In the scsi_debug driver, the virtual_gb option ignores the sector_size, implicitly assuming that is 512 bytes. So if 'virtual_gb=1 sector_size=4096' the result is an 8 GB (virtual) disk. Signed-off-by:
Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mike Christie authored
commit 96b1f96d upstream. This fixes a regression introduced with this commit: commit d3305f34 Author: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Date: Thu Aug 20 15:10:58 2009 -0500 [SCSI] libiscsi: don't increment cmdsn if cmd is not sent in 2.6.32. When I moved the hdr->cmdsn after init_task, I added a bug when header digests are used. The problem is that the LLD may calculate the header digest in init_task, so if we then set the cmdsn after the init_task call we change what the digest will be calculated by the target. Signed-off-by:
Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Signed-off-by:
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Tejun Heo authored
commit 70b25f89 upstream. blk_abort_request() expects queue lock to be held by the caller. Grab it before calling the function. Lack of this synchronization led to infinite loop on corrupt q->timeout_list. Signed-off-by:
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Jakob Viketoft authored
commit ccb8d8d0 upstream. The use of mfp_cfg_t causes build errors without including <mach/mfp.h>. CC: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de> Signed-off-by:
Jakob Viketoft <jakob.viketoft@bitsim.com> Signed-off-by:
Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Arjan van de Ven authored
commit 1c6fe036 upstream. commit 672917dc ("cpuidle: menu governor: reduce latency on exit") added an optimization, where the analysis on the past idle period moved from the end of idle, to the beginning of the new idle. Unfortunately, this optimization had a bug where it zeroed one key variable for new use, that is needed for the analysis. The fix is simple, zero the variable after doing the work from the previous idle. During the audit of the code that found this issue, another issue was also found; the ->measured_us data structure member is never set, a local variable is always used instead. Signed-off-by:
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Kamal Mostafa authored
commit ea5bc73f upstream. Add Dell Studio models (1558, 1557, 1555) to the 'set_sci_en_on_resume' list to fix hang on resume. BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553498Signed-off-by:
Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> Acked-by:
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Dan Carpenter authored
commit 18262714 upstream. acpi_device_class can only be 19 characters and a NULL terminator. The current code has a buffer overflow in acpi_power_meter_add(): strcpy(acpi_device_class(device), ACPI_POWER_METER_CLASS); Signed-off-by:
Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alex Chiang authored
commit 07bedca2 upstream. Multiple Lenovo ThinkPad models with Intel Core i5/i7 CPUs can successfully suspend/resume once, and then hang on the second s/r cycle. We got confirmation that this was due to a BIOS defect. The BIOS did not properly set SCI_EN coming out of S3. The BIOS guys hinted that The Other Leading OS ignores the fact that hardware owns the bit and sets it manually. In any case, an existing DMI table exists for machines where this defect is a known problem. Lenovo promise to fix their BIOS, but for folks who either won't or can't upgrade their BIOS, allow Linux to workaround the issue. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15407 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/532374 Confirmed by numerous testers in the launchpad bug that using acpi_sleep=sci_force_enable fixes the issue. We add the machines to acpisleep_dmi_table[] to automatically enable this workaround. Cc: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> Signed-off-by:
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Bjørn Mork authored
commit 6f550dc0 upstream. Never call dvb_frontend_detach if we failed to attach a frontend. This fixes the following oops, which will be triggered by a missing stv090x module: [ 8.172997] DVB: registering new adapter (TT-Budget S2-1600 PCI) [ 8.209018] adapter has MAC addr = 00:d0:5c:cc:a7:29 [ 8.328665] Intel ICH 0000:00:1f.5: PCI INT B -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 [ 8.328753] Intel ICH 0000:00:1f.5: setting latency timer to 64 [ 8.562047] DVB: Unable to find symbol stv090x_attach() [ 8.562117] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000ac [ 8.562239] IP: [<e08b04a3>] dvb_frontend_detach+0x4/0x67 [dvb_core] Ref http://bugs.debian.org/575207Signed-off-by:
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Gabriele A. Trombetti authored
commit 87aa6300 upstream. Fix: Raid-6 was not trying to correct a read-error when in singly-degraded state and was instead dropping one more device, going to doubly-degraded state. This patch fixes this behaviour. Tested-by:
Janos Haar <janos.haar@netcenter.hu> Signed-off-by:
Gabriele A. Trombetti <g.trombetti.lkrnl1213@logicschema.com> Reported-by:
NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Stijn Tintel authored
commit e2dbe06c upstream. Move initialization of the virtio framework before the initialization of mtd, so that block2mtd can be used on virtio-based block devices. Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15644Signed-off-by:
Stijn Tintel <stijn@linux-ipv6.be> Signed-off-by:
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by:
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NeilBrown authored
commit 1176568d upstream. Some time ago we stopped the clean/active metadata updates from being written to a 'spare' device in most cases so that it could spin down and say spun down. Device failure/removal etc are still recorded on spares. However commit 51d5668c broke this 50% of the time, depending on whether the event count is even or odd. The change log entry said: This means that the alignment between 'odd/even' and 'clean/dirty' might take a little longer to attain, how ever the code makes no attempt to create that alignment, so it could take arbitrarily long. So when we find that clean/dirty is not aligned with odd/even, force a second metadata-update immediately. There are already cases where a second metadata-update is needed immediately (e.g. when a device fails during the metadata update). We just piggy-back on that. Reported-by:
Joe Bryant <tenminjoe@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by:
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Dan Carpenter authored
commit b338cc82 upstream. There is a typo here. We should be testing "*dentry" instead of "dentry". If "*dentry" is an ERR_PTR, it gets dereferenced in either mkdir() or create() which would cause an OOPs. Signed-off-by:
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Mahoney authored
commit 86c38a31 upstream. GCC 4.5 introduces behavior that forces the alignment of structures to use the largest possible value. The default value is 32 bytes, so if some structures are defined with a 4-byte alignment and others aren't declared with an alignment constraint at all - it will align at 32-bytes. For things like the ftrace events, this results in a non-standard array. When initializing the ftrace subsystem, we traverse the _ftrace_events section and call the initialization callback for each event. When the structures are misaligned, we could be treating another part of the structure (or the zeroed out space between them) as a function pointer. This patch forces the alignment for all the ftrace_event_call structures to 4 bytes. Without this patch, the kernel fails to boot very early when built with gcc 4.5. It's trivial to check the alignment of the members of the array, so it might be worthwhile to add something to the build system to do that automatically. Unfortunately, that only covers this case. I've asked one of the gcc developers about adding a warning when this condition is seen. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> LKML-Reference: <4B85770B.6010901@suse.com> Signed-off-by:
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de> Signed-off-by:
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Michael Chan authored
commit c441b8d2 upstream. It has been reported that under certain heavy traffic conditions in MSI-X mode, the driver can lose an MSI-X vector causing all packets in the associated rx/tx ring pair to be dropped. The problem is caused by the chip dropping the write to unmask the MSI-X vector by the kernel (when migrating the IRQ for example). This can be prevented by increasing the GRC timeout value for these register read and write operations. Thanks to Dell for helping us debug this problem. Signed-off-by:
Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by:
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