- 29 Sep, 2006 40 commits
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Kirill Korotaev authored
Fixed race on put_files_struct on exec with proc. Restoring files on current on error path may lead to proc having a pointer to already kfree-d files_struct. ->files changing at exit.c and khtread.c are safe as exit_files() makes all things under lock. Found during OpenVZ stress testing. [akpm@osdl.org: add export] Signed-off-by:
Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by:
Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Serge E. Hallyn authored
Convert i386 apm.c from kernel_thread(), whose export is deprecated, to kthread API. Signed-off-by:
Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
The current kernel serializes console resizes but does not serialize the resize against the tty structure updates. This means that while two parallel resizes cannot mess up the console you can get incorrect results reported. Secondly while doing this I added vc_lock_resize() to lock and resize the console. This leaves all knowledge of the console_sem in the vt/console driver and kicks it out of the tty layer, which is good Thirdly while doing this I decided I couldn't stand "disallocate" any longer so I switched it to "deallocate". Signed-off-by:
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by:
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Chris Mason authored
Fat is commonly used on removable media. Mounting with -o flush tells the FS to write things to disk as quickly as possible. It is like -o sync, but much faster (and not as safe). Signed-off-by:
Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by:
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Arun Sharma authored
Need to enable/disable all the counters instead of just counter 0. This affects all cpus with family=6, including i386/core. Usual symptom: only counter 0 provides samples. Other counters don't produce samples. Signed-off-by:
Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@google.com> Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr> Cc: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
[assuming BSD security levels are deleted] The only user of i_security, f_security, s_security fields is SELinux, however, quite a few security modules are trying to get into kernel. So, wrap them under CONFIG_SECURITY. Adding config option for each security field is likely an overkill. Following Stephen Smalley's suggestion, i_security initialization is moved to security_inode_alloc() to not clutter core code with ifdefs and make alloc_inode() codepath tiny little bit smaller and faster. The user of (highly greppable) struct fown_struct::security field is still to be found. I've checked every "fown_struct" and every "f_owner" occurence. Additionally it's removal doesn't break i386 allmodconfig build. struct inode, struct file, struct super_block, struct fown_struct become smaller. P.S. Combined with two reiserfs inode shrinking patches sent to linux-fsdevel, I can finally suck 12 reiserfs inodes into one page. /proc/slabinfo -ext2_inode_cache 388 10 +ext2_inode_cache 384 10 -inode_cache 280 14 +inode_cache 276 14 -proc_inode_cache 296 13 +proc_inode_cache 292 13 -reiser_inode_cache 336 11 +reiser_inode_cache 332 12 <= -shmem_inode_cache 372 10 +shmem_inode_cache 368 10 Signed-off-by:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
Shrink reiserfs inode more (by 8 bytes) for ACL non-users: -reiser_inode_cache 344 11 +reiser_inode_cache 336 11 Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
Shrink reiserfs inode by 12 bytes for xattr non-users (me). -reiser_inode_cache 356 11 +reiser_inode_cache 344 11 Signed-off-by:
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Chuck Ebbert authored
Fix "variable defined but not used" compiler warning in unwind.c when CONFIG_MODULES is not set. Signed-off-by:
Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
All suppliers of ->quota_read, ->quota_write (I've found ext2, ext3, UFS, reiserfs) already have them properly ifdeffed. All callers of ->quota_read, ->quota_write are under CONFIG_QUOTA umbrella, so... Signed-off-by:
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Chris Mason authored
ReiserFS does periodic cleanup of old transactions in order to limit the length of time a journal replay may take after a crash. Sometimes, writing metadata from an old (already committed) transaction may require committing a newer transaction, which also requires writing all data=ordered buffers. This can cause very long stalls on journal_begin. This patch makes sure new transactions will not need to be committed before trying a periodic reclaim of an old transaction. It is low risk because if a bad decision is made, it just means a slightly longer journal replay after a crash. Signed-off-by:
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Chris Mason authored
make sure that reiserfs_fsync only triggers barriers when mounted with -o barrier=flush Signed-off-by:
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Adam Tlalka authored
Fix utf-8 mode so alternate charset modes always work according to control sequences interpreted in do_con_trol function preserving backward US-ASCII and VT100 semigraphics compatibility. Malformed utf-8 sequences are represented as sequences of replacement glyphs,original codes or '?' as a last resort. unicode-xterm, gnome-terminal, kconsole and other terminal emulators in utf-8 mode respect acsc, enacs, rmacs sequences. Also I found that some important system programs (from Debian distro) uses acsc in utf-8 mode - dselect, aptitude, w3m for example. Signed-off-by:
Adam Tlalka <atlka@pg.gda.pl> Acked-by:
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Dmitry Torokhov authored
ucb1x00-ts: handle errors from input_register_device() Signed-off-by:
Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Dave Jones authored
In cases where we detect a single bit has been flipped, we spew the usual slab corruption message, which users instantly think is a kernel bug. In a lot of cases, single bit errors are down to bad memory, or other hardware failure. This patch adds an extra line to the slab debug messages in those cases, in the hope that users will try memtest before they report a bug. 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b Single bit error detected. Possibly bad RAM. Run memtest86. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by:
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
Just comment and next "while" look _very_ wrong. Place { correctly to hint unsuspecting ones that it's the end of the loop actually. Signed-off-by: -
Chris Wright authored
This code has suffered from broken core design and lack of developer attention. Broken security modules are too dangerous to leave around. It is time to remove this one. Signed-off-by:
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Acked-by:
Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by:
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by:
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Rolf Eike Beer authored
Now that the generic DMA code has a function to decide if a given DMA mapping is valid use it. This will catch cases where direction is not any of the defined enum values but some random number outside the valid range. The current implementation will only catch the defined but invalid case DMA_NONE. Signed-off-by:
Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Acked-by:
Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Rolf Eike Beer authored
As suggested by Muli Ben-Yehuda this function is moved to generic code as may be useful for all archs. [akpm@osdl.org: fix] Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
Jon Smirl noted a couple of tty driver functions now are quite misleadingly named with the death of devfs. A quick grep found another case in the lp driver. Signed-off-by:
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Rolf Eike Beer authored
Some of the kerneldoc comments in this file are ignored since the lead-in is malformed, using either "/*" or "/***" instead of "/**". [rdunlap@xenotime.net: kerneldoc fixes] Signed-off-by:
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Jan-Frode Myklebust authored
I was looking for the a way around an OOM-problem, and found a couple of undocumented new features for tuning the OOM-score of individual processes. Here's a small documentation patch for /proc/<pid>/oom_adj and /proc/<pid>/oom_score. Signed-off-by:
Jan-Frode Myklebust <mykleb@no.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Steven Rostedt authored
Oleg brought up some interesting points about grabbing the pi_lock for some protections. In this discussion, I realized that there are some places that the pi_lock is being grabbed when it really wasn't necessary. Also this patch does a little bit of clean up. This patch basically does three things: 1) renames the "boost" variable to "chain_walk". Since it is used in the debugging case when it isn't going to be boosted. It better describes what the test is going to do if it succeeds. 2) moves get_task_struct to just before the unlocking of the wait_lock. This removes duplicate code, and makes it a little easier to read. The owner wont go away while either the pi_lock or the wait_lock are held. 3) removes the pi_locking and owner blocked checking completely from the debugging case. This is because the grabbing the lock and doing the check, then releasing the lock is just so full of races. It's just as good to go ahead and call the pi_chain_walk function, since after releasing the lock the owner can then block anyway, and we would have missed that. For the debug case, we really do want to do the chain walk to test for deadlocks anyway. [oleg@tv-sign.ru: more of the same] Signed-of-by:
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Esben Nielsen <nielsen.esben@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Beulich authored
Previously, since determination whether there was an Intel random number generator was based on a single bit, on systems with a matching bridge device but without a firmware hub, there was a 50% chance that the code would incorrectly decide that the system had an RNG. This patch adds detection of the firmware hub to better qualify the existence of an RNG. There is one issue with the patch: I was unable to determine the LPC equivalent for the PCI bridge 8086:2430 (since the old code didn't care about which of the many devices provided by the ICH/ESB it was chose to use the PCI bridge device, but the FWH settings live in the LPC device, so the device list needed to be changed). Signed-off-by:
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by:
Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by:
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Eric Sandeen authored
There's a bug where a UDF_PART_FLAG_READ_ONLY udf partition gets mounted read-write, then subsequent problems happen; files seem to be able to be removed, but file creation results in EIO or worse, oops. EIO is coming from udf_new_block(), which returns EIO if the right flags aren't set; only UDF_PART_FLAG_READ_ONLY is set in this case. We probably s hould not have gotten this far... Attached patch seems to fix it - and includes a printk to alert the user that their "rw" mount request has been converted to "ro." Here's the testcase I used: [root@magnesium ~]# mkisofs -R -J -udf -o testiso /tmp/ ... Total translation table size: 0 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 342923 Total directory bytes: 382312 Path table size(bytes): 104 Max brk space used 103000 105059 extents written (205 MB) [root@magnesium ~]# mount -o loop testiso /mnt/test/ [root@magnesium ~]# ls /mnt/test/fsfile /mnt/test/fsfile [root@magnesium ~]# rm /mnt/test/fsfile [root@magnesium ~]# ls /mnt/test/fsfile ls: /mnt/test/fsfile: No such file or directory [root@magnesium ~]# touch /mnt/test/fsfile touch: cannot touch `/mnt/test/fsfile': Input/output error [root@magnesium tmp]# grep udf /proc/mounts /dev/loop1 /mnt/test udf rw 0 0 Force readonly mounts of UDF partitions marked as read-only. Signed-off-by:
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
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Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
ipc/sem.c only. $ agrep sysvsem -w -n ipc/sem.c:912: undo_list = current->sysvsem.undo_list; ipc/sem.c:932: undo_list = current->sysvsem.undo_list; ipc/sem.c:954: undo_list = current->sysvsem.undo_list; ipc/sem.c:963: current->sysvsem.undo_list = undo_list; ipc/sem.c:1247: tsk->sysvsem.undo_list = undo_list; ipc/sem.c:1249: tsk->sysvsem.undo_list = NULL; ipc/sem.c:1271: undo_list = tsk->sysvsem.undo_list; include/linux/sched.h:876: struct sysv_sem sysvsem; Signed-off-by:
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Olaf Hering authored
The on-disk data structures from AIX are not known, also the filesystem layout is not known. There is a msdos partition signature at the end of the first block, and the kernel recognizes 3 small (and overlapping) partitions. But they are not usable. Maybe the firmware uses it to find the bootloader for AIX, but AIX boots also if the first block is cleared. This is the content of the partition table: # dd if=/dev/sdb count=$(( 4 * 16 )) bs=1 skip=$(( 0x1be )) | xxd 0000000: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 0000010: 80ff ffff 41ff ffff 1b11 0000 381b 0000 ....A.......8... 0000020: 00ff ffff 41ff ffff 0211 0000 1900 0000 ....A........... 0000030: 80ff ffff 41ff ffff 1b11 0000 381b 0000 ....A.......8... Handle the whole disk as empty disk. This fixes also YaST which compares the output from parted (and formerly fdisk) with /proc/partitions. fdisk recognizes the AIX label since a long time, SuSE has a patch for parted to handle the disk label as unknown. dmesg will look like this: sda: [AIX] unknown partition table Tested on an IBM B50 with AIX V4.3.3. Signed-off-by:
Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Cc: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by:
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Matthias Urlichs authored
Unused: tty_struct.max_flip_cnt $ git grep max_flip_cnt include/linux/tty.h: int max_flip_cnt; $ Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Acked-by:
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Shem Multinymous authored
This teaches dmi_decode() how to decode and save OEM Strings (type 11) DMI information, which is currently discarded silently. Existing code using DMI is not affected. Follows the "System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) Specification" (http://www.dmtf.org/standards/smbios), and also the userspace dmidecode.c code. OEM Strings are the only safe way to identify some hardware, e.g., the ThinkPad embedded controller used by the soon-to-be-submitted tp_smapi driver. This will also let us eliminate the long whitelist in the mainline hdaps driver (in a future patch). Signed-off-by:
Shem Multinymous <multinymous@gmail.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
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Josh Triplett authored
lock_timer_base acquires a lock and returns with that lock held. Add a lock annotation to this function so that sparse can check callers for lock pairing, and so that sparse will not complain about this function since it intentionally uses the lock in this manner. Signed-off-by:
Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Signed-off-by:
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Miklos Szeredi authored
In the "operation does permission checking" model used by fuse, chdir permission is not checked, since there's no chdir method. For this case set a lookup flag, which will be passed to ->permission(), so fuse can distinguish it from permission checks for other operations. Signed-off-by:
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Miklos Szeredi authored
Some filesystems may want to report different values depending on the path within the filesystem, i.e. one mount is actually several filesystems. This can be the case for a network filesystem exported by an unprivileged server (e.g. sshfs). This is now possible, thanks to David Howells "VFS: Permit filesystem to perform statfs with a known root dentry" patch. This change is backward compatible, so no need to change interface version. Signed-off-by:
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Mark Huang authored
Initialize module_subsys earlier (or at least earlier than devices) since it could be used very early in the boot process if kmod loads a module before the device initcalls. Otherwise, kmod will crash in kernel/module.c:mod_sysfs_setup() since the kset in module_subsys is not initialized yet. I only noticed this problem because occasionally, kmod loads the modules for my SCSI and Ethernet adapters very early, during the boot process itself. I don't quite understand why it loads them sometimes and doesn't load them other times. Or who is telling kmod to do so. Can someone explain? Signed-off-by:
Mark Huang <mlhuang@cs.princeton.edu> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by:
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Eugene Teo authored
Files supported by fs/proc/base.c, i.e. /proc/<pid>/*, are not capable of meeting the validity checks in ELF load_elf_*() handling because they have no mmap handler which is required by ELF. In order to stop a.out executables being used as part of an exploit attack against /proc-related vulnerabilities, we make a.out executables depend on ->mmap() existing. Signed-off-by:
Eugene Teo <eteo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by:
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Sukadev Bhattiprolu authored
Replace kernel_thread() call in drivers/base/firmware_class.c with kthread_create() since kernel_thread() is deprecated in drivers. Signed-off-by:
Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Manuel Estrada Sainz <ranty@debian.org> Acked-by:
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Josh Triplett authored
rcu_torture_read_lock and rcu_bh_torture_read_lock acquire locks without releasing them, and the matching functions rcu_torture_read_unlock and rcu_bh_torture_read_unlock get called with the corresponding locks held and release them. Add lock annotations to these four functions so that sparse can check callers for lock pairing, and so that sparse will not complain about these functions since they intentionally use locks in this manner. Signed-off-by:
Paul McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Josh Triplett authored
grab_super gets called with sb_lock held, and releases it. Add a lock annotation to this function so that sparse can check callers for lock pairing, and so that sparse will not complain about this function since it intentionally uses the lock in this manner. Signed-off-by:
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Michael S. Tsirkin authored
Do not pull in various includes through lockdep.h if lockdep is disabled. Signed-off-by:
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Josh Triplett authored
hugetlbfs_forget_inode releases inode_lock. Add a lock annotation to this function so that sparse can check callers for lock pairing, and so that sparse will not complain about this functions since it intentionally uses the lock in this manner. Signed-off-by:
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