- 15 Mar, 2006 7 commits
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Adrian Bunk authored
The Coverity checker spotted the following bug in dup_namespace(): <-- snip --> if (!new_ns->root) { up_write(&namespace_sem); kfree(new_ns); goto out; } ... out: return new_ns; <-- snip --> Callers expect a non-NULL result to not be freed. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Christoph Lameter authored
It seems that setting scheduling policy and priorities is also the kind of thing that might be performed in apps that also use the NUMA API, so it would seem consistent to use CAP_SYS_NICE for NUMA also. So use CAP_SYS_NICE for controlling migration permissions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Christoph Lameter authored
Update the documentation for page migration. - Fix up bits and pieces in cpusets.txt - Rework text in vm/page-migration to be clearer and reflect the final version of page migration in 2.6.16. Mention Andi Kleen's numactl package that contains user space tools for page migration via libnuma. Add reference to numa_maps and to the manpage in numactl. - Add todo list for outstanding issues Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Christoph Lameter authored
page migration currently simply retries a couple of times if try_to_unmap() fails without inspecting the return code. However, SWAP_FAIL indicates that the page is in a vma that has the VM_LOCKED flag set (if ignore_refs ==1). We can check for that return code and avoid retrying the migration. migrate_page_remove_references() now needs to return a reason why the failure occured. So switch migrate_page_remove_references to use -Exx style error messages. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Greg Smith authored
It seems this patch got dropped (it was in addition to the `s390: improve response code handling in chsc_enable_facility()' patch). Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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git://oss.sgi.com:8090/oss/git/rc-fixesLinus Torvalds authored
* git://oss.sgi.com:8090/oss/git/rc-fixes: Fix a direct I/O locking issue revealed by the new mutex code.
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Nathan Scott authored
Affects only XFS (i.e. DIO_OWN_LOCKING case) - currently it is not possible to get i_mutex locking correct when using DIO_OWN direct I/O locking in a filesystem due to indeterminism in the possible return code/lock/unlock combinations. This can cause a direct read to attempt a double i_mutex unlock inside XFS. We're now ensuring __blockdev_direct_IO always exits with the inode i_mutex (still) held for a direct reader. Tested with the three different locking modes (via direct block device access, ext3 and XFS) - both reading and writing; cannot find any regressions resulting from this change, and it clearly fixes the mutex_unlock warning originally reported here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114189068126253&w=2Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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- 14 Mar, 2006 14 commits
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Dave Kleikamp authored
This fixes a race where lsn could be cleared before taking the lock Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6: [SCSI] zfcp: fix device registration issues [SCSI] scsi_transport_fc: fix FC_HOST_NUM_ATTRS [SCSI] scsi: aha152x pcmcia driver needs spi transport [SCSI] zfcp: correctly set this_id for hosts [SCSI] Add Brownie to blacklist
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Maneesh Soni authored
lapic_shutdown() re-enables interrupts which is un-desirable for panic case, so use local_irq_save() and local_irq_restore() to keep the irqs disabled for kexec on panic case, and close a possible race window while kdump shutdown as shown in this stack trace -- BUG: spinlock lockup on CPU#1, bash/4396, c52781a0 [<c01c1870>] _raw_spin_lock+0xb7/0xd2 [<c029e148>] _spin_lock+0x6/0x8 [<c011b33f>] scheduler_tick+0xe7/0x328 [<c0128a7c>] update_process_times+0x51/0x5d [<c0114592>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x4f/0x58 [<c01141ff>] lapic_shutdown+0x76/0x7e [<c0104d7c>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x1c/0x30 [<c01141ff>] lapic_shutdown+0x76/0x7e [<c0116659>] machine_crash_shutdown+0x83/0xaa [<c013cc36>] crash_kexec+0xc1/0xe3 [<c029e148>] _spin_lock+0x6/0x8 [<c013cc22>] crash_kexec+0xad/0xe3 [<c0215280>] __handle_sysrq+0x84/0xfd [<c018d937>] write_sysrq_trigger+0x2c/0x35 [<c015e47b>] vfs_write+0xa2/0x13b [<c015ea73>] sys_write+0x3b/0x64 [<c0103c69>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
This reverts commit c33d4568. Andrew Clayton and Hugh Dickins report that it's broken for them and causes strange page table and slab corruption, and spontaneous reboots. Let's get it right next time. Cc: Andrew Clayton <andrew@rootshell.co.uk> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Dave Peterson authored
- Disable the EDAC sysfs code. The sysfs interface that EDAC presents to user space needs more thought, and is likely to change substantially. Therefore disable it for now so users don't start depending on it in its current form. - Disable the default behavior of calling panic() when an uncorrectible error is detected (since for now, there is no sysfs interface that allows the user to configure this behavior). Signed-off-by: David S. Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Trond Myklebust authored
In theory, NLM specs assure us that the server will only reply LCK_GRANTED or LCK_DENIED_GRACE_PERIOD to our NLM_UNLOCK request. In practice, we should not assume this to be the case, and the code will currently Oops if we do. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Trond Myklebust authored
In rpc_wake_up() and rpc_wake_up_status(), it is possible for the call to __rpc_wake_up_task() to fail if another thread happens to be calling rpc_wake_up_task() on the same rpc_task. Problem noticed by Bruno Faccini. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Trond Myklebust authored
It turns out that nfs4_proc_get_root() may return raw NFSv4 errors instead of mapping them to kernel errors. Problem spotted by Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Adrian Bunk authored
The Coverity checker spotted this possible NULL pointer dereference in rpc_new_client(). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Trond Myklebust authored
Based on an original patch by Mike O'Connor and Greg Banks of SGI. Mike states: A normal user can panic an NFS client and cause a local DoS with 'judicious'(?) use of O_DIRECT. Any O_DIRECT write to an NFS file where the user buffer starts with a valid mapped page and contains an unmapped page, will crash in this way. I haven't followed the code, but O_DIRECT reads with similar user buffers will probably also crash albeit in different ways. Details: when nfs_get_user_pages() calls get_user_pages(), it detects and correctly handles get_user_pages() returning an error, which happens if the first page covered by the user buffer's address range is unmapped. However, if the first page is mapped but some subsequent page isn't, get_user_pages() will return a positive number which is less than the number of pages requested (this behaviour is sort of analagous to a short write() call and appears to be intentional). nfs_get_user_pages() doesn't detect this and hands off the array of pages (whose last few elements are random rubbish from the newly allocated array memory) to it's caller, whence they go to nfs_direct_write_seg(), which then totally ignores the nr_pages it's given, and calculates its own idea of how many pages are in the array from the user buffer length. Needless to say, when it comes to transmit those uninitialised page* pointers, we see a crash in the network stack. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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GOTO Masanori authored
This patch fixes alternate signal stack corruption among cloned threads with CLONE_SIGHAND (and CLONE_VM) for linux-2.6.16-rc6. The value of alternate signal stack is currently inherited after a call of clone(... CLONE_SIGHAND | CLONE_VM). But if sigaltstack is set by a parent thread, and then if multiple cloned child threads (+ parent threads) call signal handler at the same time, some threads may be conflicted - because they share to use the same alternative signal stack region. Finally they get sigsegv. It's an undesirable race condition. Note that child threads created from NPTL pthread_create() also hit this conflict when the parent thread uses sigaltstack, without my patch. To fix this problem, this patch clears the child threads' sigaltstack information like exec(). This behavior follows the SUSv3 specification. In SUSv3, pthread_create() says "The alternate stack shall not be inherited (when new threads are initialized)". It means that sigaltstack should be cleared when sigaltstack memory space is shared by cloned threads with CLONE_SIGHAND. Note that I chose "if (clone_flags & CLONE_SIGHAND)" line because: - If clone_flags line is not existed, fork() does not inherit sigaltstack. - CLONE_VM is another choice, but vfork() does not inherit sigaltstack. - CLONE_SIGHAND implies CLONE_VM, and it looks suitable. - CLONE_THREAD is another candidate, and includes CLONE_SIGHAND + CLONE_VM, but this flag has a bit different semantics. I decided to use CLONE_SIGHAND. [ Changed to test for CLONE_VM && !CLONE_VFORK after discussion --Linus ] Signed-off-by: GOTO Masanori <gotom@sanori.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
Report AC Power present in /proc/pmu/info if there is no battery. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>, Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Michael Hunold authored
The behaviour of the all-in-one Video4Linux tuner driver apparently changed. It now wants to know the tv standard, otherwise it refuses to tune. Restore tuning functionality in my driver for the "Multimedia eXtension Board". The all-in-one tuner driver apparently changed its behaviour. Signed-off-by: Michael Hunold <hunold@linuxtv.org> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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David Brownell authored
Fix a bug in the block-erase optimization for Dataflash; it was using block erase even for smaller segments that need page erase. That wouldn't matter for JFFS2, which never erases less than one block (sometimes several blocks), but for other callers it might. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 13 Mar, 2006 10 commits
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Herbert Xu authored
When we link a socket into the hash table, we need to make sure that we set the num/port fields so that it shows us with a non-zero port value in proc/netlink and on the wire. This code and comment is copied over from the IPv4 stack as is. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Andi Kleen authored
EM64T CPUs have somewhat weird error reporting for non canonical RIPs in SYSRET. We can't handle any exceptions there because the exception handler would end up running on the user stack which is unsafe. To avoid problems any code that might end up with a user touched pt_regs should return using int_ret_from_syscall. int_ret_from_syscall ends up using IRET, which allows safe exceptions. Cc: Ernie Petrides <petrides@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Patrick McHardy authored
The check is wrong and lets NULL-ptrs slip through since !IS_ERR(NULL) is true. Coverity #190 Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Patrick McHardy authored
When ufo_append_data fails err is uninitialized, but returned back. Strangely gcc doesn't notice it. Coverity #901 and #902 Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Patrick McHardy authored
Covertiy #547 Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Patrick McHardy authored
The skb given to netlink_cmsg_recv_pktinfo is already freed, move it up a few lines. Coverity #948 Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Patrick McHardy authored
tmp_hdr is not freed when ipv6_clear_mutable_options fails. Coverity #650 Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Patrick McHardy authored
The skb is allocated by the function, so it needs to be freed instead of trimmed on overrun. Coverity #614 Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Patrick McHardy authored
Fix NULL-ptr dereference when a config message for a non-existant queue containing only an NFQA_CFG_PARAMS attribute is received. Coverity #433 Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Linus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: [PATCH] ahci: fix NULL pointer dereference detected by Coverity
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- 12 Mar, 2006 9 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] iwmmxt thread state alignment [ARM] 3350/1: Enable 1-wire on ARM [ARM] 3356/1: Workaround for the ARM1136 I-cache invalidation problem [ARM] 3355/1: NSLU2: remove propmt depends [ARM] 3354/1: NAS100d: fix power led handling [ARM] Fix muldi3.S
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Russell King authored
This patch removes the reliance of iwmmxt on hand coded alignments. Since thread_info is always 8K aligned, specifying that fpstate is 8-byte aligned achieves the same effect without needing to resort to hand coded alignments. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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David S. Miller authored
That's >= a full sized TSO frame, so we should always return 0 in that case. Based upon a report and initial patch from Lachlan Andrew, final patch suggested by Herbert Xu. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Gregor Maier authored
Signed-off-by: Gregor Maier <gregor@net.in.tum.de> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Brian Haley authored
The scope element in the ipv6_saddr_score struct used in ipv6_dev_get_saddr() is an unsigned integer, but __ipv6_addr_src_scope() returns a signed integer (and can return -1). Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Adrian Bunk authored
The Coverity checker spotted this dead code (note that (clock_ctrl == 7) is already handled above). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Dave Jones authored
We're leaking an skb in a failure path in this function. Coverity #632 Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jeff Garzik authored
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Tejun Heo authored
Fix NULL pointer dereference detected by the Coverity checker. Kill dev -> pdev -> dev conversion while at it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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