1. 17 Jan, 2013 1 commit
    • Ben Hutchings's avatar
      staging: vt6656: Fix inconsistent structure packing · 1ee4c55f
      Ben Hutchings authored
      vt6656 has several headers that use the #pragma pack(1) directive to
      enable structure packing, but never disable it.  The layout of
      structures defined in other headers can then depend on which order the
      various headers are included in, breaking the One Definition Rule.
      
      In practice this resulted in crashes on x86_64 until the order of header
      inclusion was changed for some files in commit 11d404cb ('staging:
      vt6656: fix headers and add cfg80211.').  But we need a proper fix that
      won't be affected by future changes to the order of inclusion.
      
      This removes the #pragma pack(1) directives and adds __packed to the
      structure definitions for which packing appears to have been intended.
      Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarMalcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      1ee4c55f
  2. 14 Jan, 2013 1 commit
  3. 07 Jan, 2013 24 commits
  4. 03 Jan, 2013 10 commits
  5. 02 Jan, 2013 4 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 · 5439ca6b
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull ext4 bug fixes from Ted Ts'o:
       "Various bug fixes for ext4.  Perhaps the most serious bug fixed is one
        which could cause file system corruptions when performing file punch
        operations."
      
      * tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
        ext4: avoid hang when mounting non-journal filesystems with orphan list
        ext4: lock i_mutex when truncating orphan inodes
        ext4: do not try to write superblock on ro remount w/o journal
        ext4: include journal blocks in df overhead calcs
        ext4: remove unaligned AIO warning printk
        ext4: fix an incorrect comment about i_mutex
        ext4: fix deadlock in journal_unmap_buffer()
        ext4: split off ext4_journalled_invalidatepage()
        jbd2: fix assertion failure in jbd2_journal_flush()
        ext4: check dioread_nolock on remount
        ext4: fix extent tree corruption caused by hole punch
      5439ca6b
    • Hugh Dickins's avatar
      mempolicy: remove arg from mpol_parse_str, mpol_to_str · a7a88b23
      Hugh Dickins authored
      Remove the unused argument (formerly no_context) from mpol_parse_str()
      and from mpol_to_str().
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a7a88b23
    • Hugh Dickins's avatar
      tmpfs mempolicy: fix /proc/mounts corrupting memory · f2a07f40
      Hugh Dickins authored
      Recently I suggested using "mount -o remount,mpol=local /tmp" in NUMA
      mempolicy testing.  Very nasty.  Reading /proc/mounts, /proc/pid/mounts
      or /proc/pid/mountinfo may then corrupt one bit of kernel memory, often
      in a page table (causing "Bad swap" or "Bad page map" warning or "Bad
      pagetable" oops), sometimes in a vm_area_struct or rbnode or somewhere
      worse.  "mpol=prefer" and "mpol=prefer:Node" are equally toxic.
      
      Recent NUMA enhancements are not to blame: this dates back to 2.6.35,
      when commit e17f74af "mempolicy: don't call mpol_set_nodemask() when
      no_context" skipped mpol_parse_str()'s call to mpol_set_nodemask(),
      which used to initialize v.preferred_node, or set MPOL_F_LOCAL in flags.
      With slab poisoning, you can then rely on mpol_to_str() to set the bit
      for node 0x6b6b, probably in the next page above the caller's stack.
      
      mpol_parse_str() is only called from shmem_parse_options(): no_context
      is always true, so call it unused for now, and remove !no_context code.
      Set v.nodes or v.preferred_node or MPOL_F_LOCAL as mpol_to_str() might
      expect.  Then mpol_to_str() can ignore its no_context argument also,
      the mpol being appropriately initialized whether contextualized or not.
      Rename its no_context unused too, and let subsequent patch remove them
      (that's not needed for stable backporting, which would involve rejects).
      
      I don't understand why MPOL_LOCAL is described as a pseudo-policy:
      it's a reasonable policy which suffers from a confusing implementation
      in terms of MPOL_PREFERRED with MPOL_F_LOCAL.  I believe this would be
      much more robust if MPOL_LOCAL were recognized in switch statements
      throughout, MPOL_F_LOCAL deleted, and MPOL_PREFERRED use the (possibly
      empty) nodes mask like everyone else, instead of its preferred_node
      variant (I presume an optimization from the days before MPOL_LOCAL).
      But that would take me too long to get right and fully tested.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f2a07f40
    • Eric Wong's avatar
      epoll: prevent missed events on EPOLL_CTL_MOD · 128dd175
      Eric Wong authored
      EPOLL_CTL_MOD sets the interest mask before calling f_op->poll() to
      ensure events are not missed.  Since the modifications to the interest
      mask are not protected by the same lock as ep_poll_callback, we need to
      ensure the change is visible to other CPUs calling ep_poll_callback.
      
      We also need to ensure f_op->poll() has an up-to-date view of past
      events which occured before we modified the interest mask.  So this
      barrier also pairs with the barrier in wq_has_sleeper().
      
      This should guarantee either ep_poll_callback or f_op->poll() (or both)
      will notice the readiness of a recently-ready/modified item.
      
      This issue was encountered by Andreas Voellmy and Junchang(Jason) Wang in:
      http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1408782/Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
      Cc: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
      Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
      Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
      Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
      Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Andreas Voellmy <andreas.voellmy@yale.edu>
      Tested-by: default avatar"Junchang(Jason) Wang" <junchang.wang@yale.edu>
      Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      128dd175