- 02 Oct, 2012 2 commits
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Ben Hutchings authored
[ Upstream commit 7e6d06f0 ] Currently an skb requiring TSO may not fit within a minimum-size TX queue. The TX queue selected for the skb may stall and trigger the TX watchdog repeatedly (since the problem skb will be retried after the TX reset). This issue is designated as CVE-2012-3412. Set the maximum number of TSO segments for our devices to 100. This should make no difference to behaviour unless the actual MSS is less than about 700. Increase the minimum TX queue size accordingly to allow for 2 worst-case skbs, so that there will definitely be space to add an skb after we wake a queue. To avoid invalidating existing configurations, change efx_ethtool_set_ringparam() to fix up values that are too small rather than returning -EINVAL. Signed-off-by:
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Ben Hutchings authored
[ Upstream commit 30b678d8 ] A peer (or local user) may cause TCP to use a nominal MSS of as little as 88 (actual MSS of 76 with timestamps). Given that we have a sufficiently prodigious local sender and the peer ACKs quickly enough, it is nevertheless possible to grow the window for such a connection to the point that we will try to send just under 64K at once. This results in a single skb that expands to 861 segments. In some drivers with TSO support, such an skb will require hundreds of DMA descriptors; a substantial fraction of a TX ring or even more than a full ring. The TX queue selected for the skb may stall and trigger the TX watchdog repeatedly (since the problem skb will be retried after the TX reset). This particularly affects sfc, for which the issue is designated as CVE-2012-3412. Therefore: 1. Add the field net_device::gso_max_segs holding the device-specific limit. 2. In netif_skb_features(), if the number of segments is too high then mask out GSO features to force fall back to software GSO. Signed-off-by:
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- 14 Sep, 2012 38 commits
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
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Luca Tettamanti authored
commit 43ca6cb2 upstream. The old interface is bugged and reads the wrong sensor when retrieving the reading for the chassis fan (it reads the CPU sensor); the new interface works fine. Reported-by:
Göran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.se> Tested-by:
Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by:
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Mathias Krause authored
commit 276bdb82 upstream. ccid_hc_rx_getsockopt() and ccid_hc_tx_getsockopt() might be called with a NULL ccid pointer leading to a NULL pointer dereference. This could lead to a privilege escalation if the attacker is able to map page 0 and prepare it with a fake ccid_ops pointer. Signed-off-by:
Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com> Cc: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
commit bba3d8c3 upstream. The following build error occured during a parisc build with swap-over-NFS patches applied. net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: initializer element is not constant net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: (near initialization for 'memalloc_socks') net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: initializer element is not constant Dave Anglin says: > Here is the line in sock.i: > > struct static_key memalloc_socks = ((struct static_key) { .enabled = > ((atomic_t) { (0) }) }); The above line contains two compound literals. It also uses a designated initializer to initialize the field enabled. A compound literal is not a constant expression. The location of the above statement isn't fully clear, but if a compound literal occurs outside the body of a function, the initializer list must consist of constant expressions. Reported-by:
Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com> Signed-off-by:
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Dave Airlie authored
commit c4903429 upstream. This will cause udev to load vmwgfx instead of waiting for X to do it. Reviewed-by:
Jakob Bornecrantz <jakob@vmware.com> Signed-off-by:
Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Dmitry Torokhov authored
commit 7b125b94 upstream. They all define their chassis type as "Other" and therefore are not categorized as "laptops" by the driver, which tries to perform AUX IRQ delivery test which fails and causes touchpad not working. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42620Signed-off-by:
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Miklos Szeredi authored
commit c9e67d48 upstream. In some cases fuse_retrieve() would return a short byte count if offset was non-zero. The data returned was correct, though. Signed-off-by:
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Kara authored
commit 156bddd8 upstream. Code tracking when transaction needs to be committed on fdatasync(2) forgets to handle a situation when only inode's i_size is changed. Thus in such situations fdatasync(2) doesn't force transaction with new i_size to disk and that can result in wrong i_size after a crash. Fix the issue by updating inode's i_datasync_tid whenever its size is updated. Reported-by:
Kristian Nielsen <knielsen@knielsen-hq.org> Signed-off-by:
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Kara authored
commit 9c2fc0de upstream. When a file is stored in ICB (inode), we overwrite part of the file, and the page containing file's data is not in page cache, we end up corrupting file's data by overwriting them with zeros. The problem is we use simple_write_begin() which simply zeroes parts of the page which are not written to. The problem has been introduced by be021ee4 (udf: convert to new aops). Fix the problem by providing a ->write_begin function which makes the page properly uptodate. Reported-by:
Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> Signed-off-by:
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James Bottomley authored
commit 14216561 upstream. This is a particularly nasty SCSI ATA Translation Layer (SATL) problem. SAT-2 says (section 8.12.2) if the device is in the stopped state as the result of processing a START STOP UNIT command (see 9.11), then the SATL shall terminate the TEST UNIT READY command with CHECK CONDITION status with the sense key set to NOT READY and the additional sense code of LOGICAL UNIT NOT READY, INITIALIZING COMMAND REQUIRED; mpt2sas internal SATL seems to implement this. The result is very confusing standby behaviour (using hdparm -y). If you suspend a drive and then send another command, usually it wakes up. However, if the next command is a TEST UNIT READY, the SATL sees that the drive is suspended and proceeds to follow the SATL rules for this, returning NOT READY to all subsequent commands. This means that the ordering of TEST UNIT READY is crucial: if you send TUR and then a command, you get a NOT READY to both back. If you send a command and then a TUR, you get GOOD status because the preceeding command woke the drive. This bit us badly because commit 85ef06d1 Author: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Date: Fri Jul 1 16:17:47 2011 +0200 block: flush MEDIA_CHANGE from drivers on close(2) Changed our ordering on TEST UNIT READY commands meaning that SATA drives connected to an mpt2sas now suspend and refuse to wake (because the mpt2sas SATL sees the suspend *before* the drives get awoken by the next ATA command) resulting in lots of failed commands. The standard is completely nuts forcing this inconsistent behaviour, but we have to work around it. The fix for this is twofold: 1. Set the allow_restart flag so we wake the drive when we see it has been suspended 2. Return all TEST UNIT READY status directly to the mid layer without any further error handling which prevents us causing error handling which may offline the device just because of a media check TUR. Reported-by:
Matthias Prager <linux@matthiasprager.de> Signed-off-by:
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sreekanth.reddy@lsi.com authored
SCSI: mpt2sas: Fix for Driver oops, when loading driver with max_queue_depth command line option to a very small value commit 338b131a upstream. If the specified max_queue_depth setting is less than the expected number of internal commands, then driver will calculate the queue depth size to a negitive number. This negitive number is actually a very large number because variable is unsigned 16bit integer. So, the driver will ask for a very large amount of memory for message frames and resulting into oops as memory allocation routines will not able to handle such a large request. So, in order to limit this kind of oops, The driver need to set the max_queue_depth to a scsi mid layer's can_queue value. Then the overall message frames required for IO is minimum of either (max_queue_depth plus internal commands) or the IOC global credits. Signed-off-by:
Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@lsi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Kashyap Desai authored
commit bd8d6dd4 upstream. The following patch moves the poll_aen_lock initializer from megasas_probe_one() to megasas_init(). This prevents a crash when a user loads the driver and tries to issue a poll() system call on the ioctl interface with no adapters present. Signed-off-by:
Kashyap Desai <Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com> Signed-off-by:
Adam Radford <aradford@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Dave Jones authored
commit 80de7c31 upstream. Trivially triggerable, found by trinity: kernel BUG at mm/mempolicy.c:2546! Process trinity-child2 (pid: 23988, threadinfo ffff88010197e000, task ffff88007821a670) Call Trace: show_numa_map+0xd5/0x450 show_pid_numa_map+0x13/0x20 traverse+0xf2/0x230 seq_read+0x34b/0x3e0 vfs_read+0xac/0x180 sys_pread64+0xa2/0xc0 system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f RIP: mpol_to_str+0x156/0x360 Signed-off-by:
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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Anton Blanchard authored
commit 71433285 upstream. During a context switch we always restore the per thread DSCR value. If we aren't doing explicit DSCR management (ie thread.dscr_inherit == 0) and the default DSCR changed while the process has been sleeping we end up with the wrong value. Check thread.dscr_inherit and select the default DSCR or per thread DSCR as required. This was found with the following test case, when running with more threads than CPUs (ie forcing context switching): http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/dscr_default_test.c With the four patches applied I can run a combination of all test cases successfully at the same time: http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/dscr_default_test.c http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/dscr_explicit_test.c http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/dscr_inherit_test.cSigned-off-by:
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by:
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Anton Blanchard authored
commit 1021cb26 upstream. If the default DSCR is non zero we set thread.dscr_inherit in copy_thread() meaning the new thread and all its children will ignore future updates to the default DSCR. This is not intended and is a change in behaviour that a number of our users have hit. We just need to inherit thread.dscr and thread.dscr_inherit from the parent which ends up being much simpler. This was found with the following test case: http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/dscr_default_test.cSigned-off-by:
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Sven Schnelle authored
commit 99f347ca upstream. If a device specifies zero endpoints in its interface descriptor, the kernel oopses in acm_probe(). Even though that's clearly an invalid descriptor, we should test wether we have all endpoints. This is especially bad as this oops can be triggered by just plugging a USB device in. Signed-off-by:
Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org> Signed-off-by:
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
commit d04dbd1c upstream. This structure needs to always stick around, even if CONFIG_HOTPLUG is disabled, otherwise we can oops when trying to probe a device that was added after the structure is thrown away. Thanks to Fengguang Wu and Bjørn Mork for tracking this issue down. Reported-by:
Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> CC: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> CC: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> CC: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> CC: Doron Cohen <doronc@siano-ms.com> Signed-off-by:
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
commit a3433179 upstream. This structure needs to always stick around, even if CONFIG_HOTPLUG is disabled, otherwise we can oops when trying to probe a device that was added after the structure is thrown away. Thanks to Fengguang Wu and Bjørn Mork for tracking this issue down. Reported-by:
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
commit b9c4167c upstream. This structure needs to always stick around, even if CONFIG_HOTPLUG is disabled, otherwise we can oops when trying to probe a device that was added after the structure is thrown away. Thanks to Fengguang Wu and Bjørn Mork for tracking this issue down. Reported-by:
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
commit e694d518 upstream. This structure needs to always stick around, even if CONFIG_HOTPLUG is disabled, otherwise we can oops when trying to probe a device that was added after the structure is thrown away. Thanks to Fengguang Wu and Bjørn Mork for tracking this issue down. Reported-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
commit 676ce6d5 upstream. Commit 91f68c89 ("block: fix infinite loop in __getblk_slow") is not good: a successful call to grow_buffers() cannot guarantee that the page won't be reclaimed before the immediate next call to __find_get_block(), which is why there was always a loop there. Yesterday I got "EXT4-fs error (device loop0): __ext4_get_inode_loc:3595: inode #19278: block 664: comm cc1: unable to read itable block" on console, which pointed to this commit. I've been trying to bisect for weeks, why kbuild-on-ext4-on-loop-on-tmpfs sometimes fails from a missing header file, under memory pressure on ppc G5. I've never seen this on x86, and I've never seen it on 3.5-rc7 itself, despite that commit being in there: bisection pointed to an irrelevant pinctrl merge, but hard to tell when failure takes between 18 minutes and 38 hours (but so far it's happened quicker on 3.6-rc2). (I've since found such __ext4_get_inode_loc errors in /var/log/messages from previous weeks: why the message never appeared on console until yesterday morning is a mystery for another day.) Revert 91f68c89, restoring __getblk_slow() to how it was (plus a checkpatch nitfix). Simplify the interface between grow_buffers() and grow_dev_page(), and avoid the infinite loop beyond end of device by instead checking init_page_buffers()'s end_block there (I presume that's more efficient than a repeated call to blkdev_max_block()), returning -ENXIO to __getblk_slow() in that case. And remove akpm's ten-year-old "__getblk() cannot fail ... weird" comment, but that is worrying: are all users of __getblk() really now prepared for a NULL bh beyond end of device, or will some oops?? Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by:
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Rafael J. Wysocki authored
commit 0b68c8e2 upstream. Commit dbf0e4c7 (PCI: EHCI: fix crash during suspend on ASUS computers) added a workaround for an ASUS suspend issue related to USB EHCI and a bug in a number of ASUS BIOSes that attempt to shut down the EHCI controller during system suspend if its PCI command register doesn't contain 0 at that time. It turns out that the same workaround is necessary in the analogous hibernation code path, so add it. References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45811Reported-and-tested-by:
Oleksij Rempel <bug-track@fisher-privat.net> Signed-off-by:
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by:
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Lorenzo Bianconi authored
commit e1352fde upstream. ath_rx_tasklet() calls ath9k_rx_skb_preprocess() and ath9k_rx_skb_postprocess() in a loop over the received frames. The decrypt_error flag is initialized to false just outside ath_rx_tasklet() loop. ath9k_rx_accept(), called by ath9k_rx_skb_preprocess(), only sets decrypt_error to true and never to false. Then ath_rx_tasklet() calls ath9k_rx_skb_postprocess() and passes decrypt_error to it. So, after a decryption error, in ath9k_rx_skb_postprocess(), we can have a leftover value from another processed frame. In that case, the frame will not be marked with RX_FLAG_DECRYPTED even if it is decrypted correctly. When using CCMP encryption this issue can lead to connection stuck because of CCMP PN corruption and a waste of CPU time since mac80211 tries to decrypt an already deciphered frame with ieee80211_aes_ccm_decrypt. Fix the issue initializing decrypt_error flag at the begging of the ath_rx_tasklet() loop. Signed-off-by:
Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi83@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alex Deucher authored
commit 4f81f986 upstream. We need it in the radeon drm module to fetch and verify the vbios image on UEFI systems. Signed-off-by:
Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Signed-off-by:
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Stephen M. Cameron authored
commit b0cf0b11 upstream. Delete code which sets SCSI status incorrectly as it's already been set correctly above this incorrect code. The bug was introduced in 2009 by commit b0e15f6d ("cciss: fix typo that causes scsi status to be lost.") Signed-off-by:
Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Reported-by:
Roel van Meer <roel.vanmeer@bokxing.nl> Tested-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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J. Bruce Fields authored
commit f06f00a2 upstream. svc_tcp_sendto sets XPT_CLOSE if we fail to transmit the entire reply. However, the XPT_CLOSE won't be acted on immediately. Meanwhile other threads could send further replies before the socket is really shut down. This can manifest as data corruption: for example, if a truncated read reply is followed by another rpc reply, that second reply will look to the client like further read data. Symptoms were data corruption preceded by svc_tcp_sendto logging something like kernel: rpc-srv/tcp: nfsd: sent only 963696 when sending 1048708 bytes - shutting down socket Reported-by:
Malahal Naineni <malahal@us.ibm.com> Tested-by:
J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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J. Bruce Fields authored
commit d10f27a7 upstream. The rpc server tries to ensure that there will be room to send a reply before it receives a request. It does this by tracking, in xpt_reserved, an upper bound on the total size of the replies that is has already committed to for the socket. Currently it is adding in the estimate for a new reply *before* it checks whether there is space available. If it finds that there is not space, it then subtracts the estimate back out. This may lead the subsequent svc_xprt_enqueue to decide that there is space after all. The results is a svc_recv() that will repeatedly return -EAGAIN, causing server threads to loop without doing any actual work. Reported-by:
Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> Tested-by:
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J. Bruce Fields authored
commit be1e4444 upstream. Examination of svc_tcp_clear_pages shows that it assumes sk_tcplen is consistent with sk_pages[] (in particular, sk_pages[n] can't be NULL if sk_tcplen would lead us to expect n pages of data). svc_tcp_restore_pages zeroes out sk_pages[] while leaving sk_tcplen. This is OK, since both functions are serialized by XPT_BUSY. However, that means the inconsistency must be repaired before dropping XPT_BUSY. Therefore we should be ensuring that svc_tcp_save_pages repairs the problem before exiting svc_tcp_recv_record on error. Symptoms were a BUG() in svc_tcp_clear_pages. Signed-off-by:
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Miklos Szeredi authored
commit a2140fc0 upstream. Refcounting of fsnotify_mark in audit tree is broken. E.g: refcount create_chunk alloc_chunk 1 fsnotify_add_mark 2 untag_chunk fsnotify_get_mark 3 fsnotify_destroy_mark audit_tree_freeing_mark 2 fsnotify_put_mark 1 fsnotify_put_mark 0 via destroy_list fsnotify_mark_destroy -1 This was reported by various people as triggering Oops when stopping auditd. We could just remove the put_mark from audit_tree_freeing_mark() but that would break freeing via inode destruction. So this patch simply omits a put_mark after calling destroy_mark or adds a get_mark before. The additional get_mark is necessary where there's no other put_mark after fsnotify_destroy_mark() since it assumes that the caller is holding a reference (or the inode is keeping the mark pinned, not the case here AFAICS). Signed-off-by:
Valentin Avram <aval13@gmail.com> Reported-by:
Peter Moody <pmoody@google.com> Acked-by:
Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Miklos Szeredi authored
commit 0fe33aae upstream. Don't do free_chunk() after fsnotify_add_mark(). That one does a delayed unref via the destroy list and this results in use-after-free. Signed-off-by:
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bjschuma@gmail.com authored
commit 425e776d upstream. This allows distros to remove the line from their modprobe configuration. Signed-off-by:
Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com> Signed-off-by:
Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by:
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Trond Myklebust authored
commit 47fbf797 upstream. Ever since commit 0a57cdac (NFSv4.1 send layoutreturn to fence disconnected data server) we've been sending layoutreturn calls while there is potentially still outstanding I/O to the data servers. The reason we do this is to avoid races between replayed writes to the MDS and the original writes to the DS. When this happens, the BUG_ON() in nfs4_layoutreturn_done can be triggered because it assumes that we would never call layoutreturn without knowing that all I/O to the DS is finished. The fix is to remove the BUG_ON() now that the assumptions behind the test are obsolete. Reported-by:
Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Reported-by:
Tigran Mkrtchyan <tigran.mkrtchyan@desy.de> Signed-off-by:
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Trond Myklebust authored
commit 08660043 upstream. If the rpc call to NFS3PROC_FSINFO fails, then we need to report that error so that the mount fails. Otherwise we can end up with a superblock with completely unusable values for block sizes, maxfilesize, etc. Reported-by:
Yuanming Chen <hikvision_linux@163.com> Signed-off-by:
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Michal Hocko authored
commit eb48c071 upstream. Each page mapped in a process's address space must be correctly accounted for in _mapcount. Normally the rules for this are straightforward but hugetlbfs page table sharing is different. The page table pages at the PMD level are reference counted while the mapcount remains the same. If this accounting is wrong, it causes bugs like this one reported by Larry Woodman: kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:135! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP CPU 22 Modules linked in: bridge stp llc sunrpc binfmt_misc dcdbas microcode pcspkr acpi_pad acpi] Pid: 18001, comm: mpitest Tainted: G W 3.3.0+ #4 Dell Inc. PowerEdge R620/07NDJ2 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8112cfed>] [<ffffffff8112cfed>] __delete_from_page_cache+0x15d/0x170 Process mpitest (pid: 18001, threadinfo ffff880428972000, task ffff880428b5cc20) Call Trace: delete_from_page_cache+0x40/0x80 truncate_hugepages+0x115/0x1f0 hugetlbfs_evict_inode+0x18/0x30 evict+0x9f/0x1b0 iput_final+0xe3/0x1e0 iput+0x3e/0x50 d_kill+0xf8/0x110 dput+0xe2/0x1b0 __fput+0x162/0x240 During fork(), copy_hugetlb_page_range() detects if huge_pte_alloc() shared page tables with the check dst_pte == src_pte. The logic is if the PMD page is the same, they must be shared. This assumes that the sharing is between the parent and child. However, if the sharing is with a different process entirely then this check fails as in this diagram: parent | ------------>pmd src_pte----------> data page ^ other--------->pmd--------------------| ^ child-----------| dst_pte For this situation to occur, it must be possible for Parent and Other to have faulted and failed to share page tables with each other. This is possible due to the following style of race. PROC A PROC B copy_hugetlb_page_range copy_hugetlb_page_range src_pte == huge_pte_offset src_pte == huge_pte_offset !src_pte so no sharing !src_pte so no sharing (time passes) hugetlb_fault hugetlb_fault huge_pte_alloc huge_pte_alloc huge_pmd_share huge_pmd_share LOCK(i_mmap_mutex) find nothing, no sharing UNLOCK(i_mmap_mutex) LOCK(i_mmap_mutex) find nothing, no sharing UNLOCK(i_mmap_mutex) pmd_alloc pmd_alloc LOCK(instantiation_mutex) fault UNLOCK(instantiation_mutex) LOCK(instantiation_mutex) fault UNLOCK(instantiation_mutex) These two processes are not poing to the same data page but are not sharing page tables because the opportunity was missed. When either process later forks, the src_pte == dst pte is potentially insufficient. As the check falls through, the wrong PTE information is copied in (harmless but wrong) and the mapcount is bumped for a page mapped by a shared page table leading to the BUG_ON. This patch addresses the issue by moving pmd_alloc into huge_pmd_share which guarantees that the shared pud is populated in the same critical section as pmd. This also means that huge_pte_offset test in huge_pmd_share is serialized correctly now which in turn means that the success of the sharing will be higher as the racing tasks see the pud and pmd populated together. Race identified and changelog written mostly by Mel Gorman. {akpm@linux-foundation.org: attempt to make the huge_pmd_share() comment comprehensible, clean up coding style] Reported-by:
Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Tested-by:
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reviewed-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
commit 43a34695 upstream. This structure needs to always stick around, even if CONFIG_HOTPLUG is disabled, otherwise we can oops when trying to probe a device that was added after the structure is thrown away. Thanks to Fengguang Wu and Bjørn Mork for tracking this issue down. Reported-by:
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Michael Cree authored
commit a2fa3ccd upstream. Currently we export SOCK_NONBLOCK to user space but that conflicts with the definition from glibc leading to compilation errors in user programs (e.g. see Debian bug #658460). The generic socket.h restricts the definition of SOCK_NONBLOCK to the kernel, as does the MIPS specific socket.h, so let's do the same on Alpha. Signed-off-by:
Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> Acked-by:
Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Miklos Szeredi authored
commit e68726ff upstream. Userspace can pass weird create mode in open(2) that we canonicalize to "(mode & S_IALLUGO) | S_IFREG" in vfs_create(). The problem is that we use the uncanonicalized mode before calling vfs_create() with unforseen consequences. So do the canonicalization early in build_open_flags(). Signed-off-by:
Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
commit 0e665d5d upstream. compat_sys_{read,write}v() need the same "pass a copy of file->f_pos" thing as sys_{read,write}{,v}(). Signed-off-by:
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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