Pull vfio fix from Alex Williamson.
 "vfio-pci: Fix buffer overfill"

* tag 'vfio-for-v3.8-rc5' of git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio:
  vfio-pci: Fix buffer overfill

Pull ftrace fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "Kprobes now uses the function tracer if it can.  That is, if a probe
  is placed on a function mcount/nop location, and the arch supports it,
  instead of adding a breakpoint, kprobes will register a function
  callback as that is much more efficient.

  The function tracer requires to update modules before they run, and
  uses the module notifier to do so.  But if something else in the
  module notifiers registers a kprobe at one of these locations, before
  ftrace can get to it, then the system could fail.

  The function tracer must be initialized early, otherwise module
  notifiers that probe will only work by chance."

* tag 'trace-3.8-rc4-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  ftrace: Be first to run code modification on modules

Pull libata fixes from Jeff Garzik:

 1) ahci: Fix typo that caused erronenous error handling.

    Thought: I wonder if sparse could have caught this, somehow.

 2) ahci: support a slightly odd Enmotus variant

 3) core: fix a drive detection problem by correcting the logic by which
    the DevSlp timing variables are obtained and used.

* tag 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
  [libata] replace sata_settings with devslp_timing
  [libata] ahci: Add support for Enmotus Bobcat device.
  [libata] ahci: Fix lack of command retry after a success error handler.

Pull security subsystem bugfixes from James Morris.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security:
  security/device_cgroup: lock assert fails in dev_exception_clean()
  evm: checking if removexattr is not a NULL

wake_up_process() should never wakeup a TASK_STOPPED/TRACED task.
Change it to use TASK_NORMAL and add the WARN_ON().

TASK_ALL has no other users, probably can be killed.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

putreg() assumes that the tracee is not running and pt_regs_access() can
safely play with its stack.  However a killed tracee can return from
ptrace_stop() to the low-level asm code and do RESTORE_REST, this means
that debugger can actually read/modify the kernel stack until the tracee
does SAVE_REST again.

set_task_blockstep() can race with SIGKILL too and in some sense this
race is even worse, the very fact the tracee can be woken up breaks the
logic.

As Linus suggested we can clear TASK_WAKEKILL around the arch_ptrace()
call, this ensures that nobody can ever wakeup the tracee while the
debugger looks at it.  Not only this fixes the mentioned problems, we
can do some cleanups/simplifications in arch_ptrace() paths.

Probably ptrace_unfreeze_traced() needs more callers, for example it
makes sense to make the tracee killable for oom-killer before
access_process_vm().

While at it, add the comment into may_ptrace_stop() to explain why
ptrace_stop() still can't rely on SIGKILL and signal_pending_state().
Reported-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Reported-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Cleanup and preparation for the next change.

signal_wake_up(resume => true) is overused. None of ptrace/jctl callers
actually want to wakeup a TASK_WAKEKILL task, but they can't specify the
necessary mask.

Turn signal_wake_up() into signal_wake_up_state(state), reintroduce
signal_wake_up() as a trivial helper, and add ptrace_signal_wake_up()
which adds __TASK_TRACED.

This way ptrace_signal_wake_up() can work "inside" ptrace_request()
even if the tracee doesn't have the TASK_WAKEKILL bit set.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

If some other kernel subsystem has a module notifier, and adds a kprobe
to a ftrace mcount point (now that kprobes work on ftrace points),
when the ftrace notifier runs it will fail and disable ftrace, as well
as kprobes that are attached to ftrace points.

Here's the error:

 WARNING: at kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1618 ftrace_bug+0x239/0x280()
 Hardware name: Bochs
 Modules linked in: fat(+) stap_56d28a51b3fe546293ca0700b10bcb29__8059(F) nfsv4 auth_rpcgss nfs dns_resolver fscache xt_nat iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack lockd sunrpc ppdev parport_pc parport microcode virtio_net i2c_piix4 drm_kms_helper ttm drm i2c_core [last unloaded: bid_shared]
 Pid: 8068, comm: modprobe Tainted: GF            3.7.0-0.rc8.git0.1.fc19.x86_64 #1
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff8105e70f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
  [<ffffffff81134106>] ? __probe_kernel_read+0x46/0x70
  [<ffffffffa0180000>] ? 0xffffffffa017ffff
  [<ffffffffa0180000>] ? 0xffffffffa017ffff
  [<ffffffff8105e76a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
  [<ffffffff810fd189>] ftrace_bug+0x239/0x280
  [<ffffffff810fd626>] ftrace_process_locs+0x376/0x520
  [<ffffffff810fefb7>] ftrace_module_notify+0x47/0x50
  [<ffffffff8163912d>] notifier_call_chain+0x4d/0x70
  [<ffffffff810882f8>] __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x58/0x80
  [<ffffffff81088336>] blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x16/0x20
  [<ffffffff810c2a23>] sys_init_module+0x73/0x220
  [<ffffffff8163d719>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
 ---[ end trace 9ef46351e53bbf80 ]---
 ftrace failed to modify [<ffffffffa0180000>] init_once+0x0/0x20 [fat]
  actual: cc:bb:d2:4b:e1

A kprobe was added to the init_once() function in the fat module on load.
But this happened before ftrace could have touched the code. As ftrace
didn't run yet, the kprobe system had no idea it was a ftrace point and
simply added a breakpoint to the code (0xcc in the cc:bb:d2:4b:e1).

Then when ftrace went to modify the location from a call to mcount/fentry
into a nop, it didn't see a call op, but instead it saw the breakpoint op
and not knowing what to do with it, ftrace shut itself down.

The solution is to simply give the ftrace module notifier the max priority.
This should have been done regardless, as the core code ftrace modification
also happens very early on in boot up. This makes the module modification
closer to core modification.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130107140333.593683061@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reported-by: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

devcgroup_css_free() calls dev_exception_clean() without the devcgroup_mutex being locked.

Shutting down a kvm virt was giving me the following trace:

[36280.732764] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[36280.732778] WARNING: at /home/snits/dev/linux/security/device_cgroup.c:172 dev_exception_clean+0xa9/0xc0()
[36280.732782] Hardware name: Studio XPS 8100
[36280.732785] Modules linked in: xt_REDIRECT fuse ebtable_nat ebtables ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle bridge stp llc nf_conntrack_ipv4 ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 ip6table_filter it87 hwmon_vid xt_state nf_conntrack ip6_tables snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_seq coretemp snd_seq_device crc32c_intel snd_pcm snd_page_alloc snd_timer snd broadcom tg3 serio_raw i7core_edac edac_core ptp pps_core lpc_ich pcspkr mfd_core soundcore microcode i2c_i801 nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd vhost_net sunrpc tun macvtap macvlan kvm_intel kvm uinput binfmt_misc autofs4 usb_storage firewire_ohci firewire_core crc_itu_t radeon drm_kms_helper ttm
[36280.732921] Pid: 933, comm: libvirtd Tainted: G        W    3.8.0-rc3-00307-g4c217de #1
[36280.732922] Call Trace:
[36280.732927]  [<ffffffff81044303>] warn_slowpath_common+0x93/0xc0
[36280.732930]  [<ffffffff8104434a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[36280.732932]  [<ffffffff812deaf9>] dev_exception_clean+0xa9/0xc0
[36280.732934]  [<ffffffff812deb2a>] devcgroup_css_free+0x1a/0x30
[36280.732938]  [<ffffffff810ccd76>] cgroup_diput+0x76/0x210
[36280.732941]  [<ffffffff8119eac0>] d_delete+0x120/0x180
[36280.732943]  [<ffffffff81195cff>] vfs_rmdir+0xef/0x130
[36280.732945]  [<ffffffff81195e47>] do_rmdir+0x107/0x1c0
[36280.732949]  [<ffffffff8132d17e>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
[36280.732951]  [<ffffffff81198646>] sys_rmdir+0x16/0x20
[36280.732954]  [<ffffffff8173bd82>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[36280.732956] ---[ end trace ca39dced899a7d9f ]---
Signed-off-by: Jerry Snitselaar <jerry.snitselaar@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>

The following lines of code produce a kernel oops.

fd = socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC|SOCK_NONBLOCK, 0);
fchmod(fd, 0666);

[  139.922364] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at   (null)
[  139.924982] IP: [<  (null)>]   (null)
[  139.924982] *pde = 00000000
[  139.924982] Oops: 0000 [#5] SMP
[  139.924982] Modules linked in: fuse dm_crypt dm_mod i2c_piix4 serio_raw evdev binfmt_misc button
[  139.924982] Pid: 3070, comm: acpid Tainted: G      D      3.8.0-rc2-kds+ #465 Bochs Bochs
[  139.924982] EIP: 0060:[<00000000>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0
[  139.924982] EIP is at 0x0
[  139.924982] EAX: cf5ef000 EBX: cf5ef000 ECX: c143d600 EDX: c15225f2
[  139.924982] ESI: cf4d2a1c EDI: cf4d2a1c EBP: cc02df10 ESP: cc02dee4
[  139.924982]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
[  139.924982] CR0: 80050033 CR2: 00000000 CR3: 0c059000 CR4: 000006d0
[  139.924982] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
[  139.924982] DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
[  139.924982] Process acpid (pid: 3070, ti=cc02c000 task=d7705340 task.ti=cc02c000)
[  139.924982] Stack:
[  139.924982]  c1203c88 00000000 cc02def4 cf4d2a1c ae21eefa 471b60d5 1083c1ba c26a5940
[  139.924982]  e891fb5e 00000041 00000004 cc02df1c c1203964 00000000 cc02df4c c10e20c3
[  139.924982]  00000002 00000000 00000000 22222222 c1ff2222 cf5ef000 00000000 d76efb08
[  139.924982] Call Trace:
[  139.924982]  [<c1203c88>] ? evm_update_evmxattr+0x5b/0x62
[  139.924982]  [<c1203964>] evm_inode_post_setattr+0x22/0x26
[  139.924982]  [<c10e20c3>] notify_change+0x25f/0x281
[  139.924982]  [<c10cbf56>] chmod_common+0x59/0x76
[  139.924982]  [<c10e27a1>] ? put_unused_fd+0x33/0x33
[  139.924982]  [<c10cca09>] sys_fchmod+0x39/0x5c
[  139.924982]  [<c13f4f30>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
[  139.924982] Code:  Bad EIP value.

This happens because sockets do not define the removexattr operation.
Before removing the xattr, verify the removexattr function pointer is
not NULL.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>

Pull drm fixes from Dave Airlie:
 "A bunch of intel and radeon fixes, along with two fixes to TTM code.

  The correct fix for the Intel ironlake failure is in this, and should
  make things more stable, along with some misc radeon fixes."

* 'drm-fixes' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux:
  ttm: on move memory failure don't leave a node dangling
  ttm: don't destroy old mm_node on memcpy failure
  Revert "drm/radeon: do not move bo to different placement at each cs"
  drm/i915: fix FORCEWAKE posting reads
  drm/i915: Invalidate the relocation presumed_offsets along the slow path
  drm/i915/eDP: do not write power sequence registers for ghost eDP
  drm/radeon: improve semaphore debugging on lockup
  drm/radeon: allow FP16 color clear registers on r500
  drm/radeon: clear reset flags if engines are idle
  drm/i915: Record DERRMR, FORCEWAKE and RING_CTL in error-state

Commit 1fb9341a ("module: put modules in list much earlier") moved
some of the module initialization code around, and in the process
changed the exit paths too.  But for the duplicate export symbol error
case the change made the ddebug_cleanup path jump to after the module
mutex unlock, even though it happens with the mutex held.

Rusty has some patches to split this function up into some helper
functions, hopefully the mess of complex goto targets will go away
eventually.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

if we have a move notify callback, when moving fails, we call move notify
the opposite way around, however this ends up with *mem containing the mm_node
from the bo, which means we double free it. This is a follow on to the previous
fix.
Reviewed-by: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

When we are using memcpy to move objects around, and we fail to memcpy
due to lack of memory to populate or failure to finish the copy, we don't
want to destroy the mm_node that has been copied into old_copy.

While working on a new kms driver that uses memcpy, if I overallocated bo's
up to the memory limits, and eviction failed, then machine would oops soon
after due to having an active bo with an already freed drm_mm embedded in it,
freeing it a second time didn't end well.
Reviewed-by: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

More important fixes for 3.9:
- error_state improvements to help debug the new scanline wait code added
  for gen6+ - bug reports started popping up :( patch from Chris Wilson.
- fix a panel power sequence confusion between the eDP and lvds detection
  code resulting in black screens - regression introduce in 3.8 (Jani
  Nikula)
- Chris fixed the root-cause of the ilk relocation vs. evict bug.
- Another piece of cargo-culted rc6 lore from Jani, fixes up a regression
  where a system refused to go into rc6 after suspend sometimes.

* 'drm-intel-fixes' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm-intel:
  drm/i915: fix FORCEWAKE posting reads
  drm/i915: Invalidate the relocation presumed_offsets along the slow path
  drm/i915/eDP: do not write power sequence registers for ghost eDP
  drm/i915: Record DERRMR, FORCEWAKE and RING_CTL in error-state

A number of fixes, and one revert for a patch having some wierd side effects.

* 'drm-fixes-3.8' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux:
  Revert "drm/radeon: do not move bo to different placement at each cs"
  drm/radeon: improve semaphore debugging on lockup
  drm/radeon: allow FP16 color clear registers on r500
  drm/radeon: clear reset flags if engines are idle

Pull module fixes and a virtio block fix from Rusty Russell:
 "Various minor fixes, but a slightly more complex one to fix the
  per-cpu overload problem introduced recently by kvm id changes."

* tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  module: put modules in list much earlier.
  module: add new state MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED.
  module: prevent warning when finit_module a 0 sized file
  virtio-blk: Don't free ida when disk is in use

Pull misc syscall fixes from Al Viro:

 - compat syscall fixes (discussed back in December)

 - a couple of "make life easier for sigaltstack stuff by reducing
   inter-tree dependencies"

 - fix up compiler/asmlinkage calling convention disagreement of
   sys_clone()

 - misc

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  sys_clone() needs asmlinkage_protect
  make sure that /linuxrc has std{in,out,err}
  x32: fix sigtimedwait
  x32: fix waitid()
  switch compat_sys_wait4() and compat_sys_waitid() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  switch compat_sys_sigaltstack() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  CONFIG_GENERIC_SIGALTSTACK build breakage with asm-generic/syscalls.h
  Ensure that kernel_init_freeable() is not inlined into non __init code

The ia64 function "thread_matches()" has no users since commit
e868a55c ("[IA64] remove find_thread_for_addr()").  Remove it.

This allows us to make ptrace_check_attach() static to kernel/ptrace.c,
which is good since we'll need to change the semantics of it and fix up
all the callers.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Pull USB fixes from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here are 3 USB patches for 3.8-rc4.  Two of them are new device id
  patches, and the third fixes a reported oops in the io_ti USB serial
  driver"

* tag 'usb-3.8-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb:
  USB: io_ti: Fix NULL dereference in chase_port()
  USB: option: add TP-LINK HSUPA Modem MA180
  USB: option: blacklist network interface on ONDA MT8205 4G LTE

Pull tty/serial fixes from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here are a few tty/serial driver fixes for 3.8-rc4 that resolve a
  number of problems that people have been having, including the ptys
  ioctl issue that is a regression fix"

* tag 'tty-3.8-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty:
  8250/16?50: Add support for Broadcom TruManage redirected serial port
  pty: return EINVAL for TIOCGPTN for BSD ptys
  serial:ifx6x60:Keep word size accordance with SPI controller
  tty: 8250_dw: Fix inverted arguments to serial_out in IRQ handler
  serial: samsung: remove redundant setting of line config during port reset
  serial:ifx6x60:Delete SPI timer when shut down port
  tty/8250: The correct device id for this card is 0x0022
  tty/8250: pbn_b0_8_1152000_200 is supposed to be an 8 port definition
  tty: serial: vt8500: fix return value check in vt8500_serial_probe()
  serial: mxs-auart: Index is unsigned
  mxs: uart: fix setting RTS from software

Pull staging driver bugfixes from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here are some bugfixes for the drivers/staging tree for 3.8-rc4.

  Nothing major, just a number of small fixes for problems that people
  have reported, including finally tracking down the root of the 64/32
  bit problem with the vt6656 that has been driving people crazy for a
  while"

* tag 'staging-3.8-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging:
  staging/sb105x: PARPORT config is not good enough must use PARPORT_PC
  staging: wlan-ng: Fix clamping of returned SSID length
  staging: vt6656: Fix inconsistent structure packing
  staging:iio:adis16080: Perform sign extension
  iio: mxs-lradc: indexes are unsigned

Pull char/misc driver fixes from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here are two hyperv patches for 3.8-rc4 that fix some reported
  problems hv_balloon driver"

* tag 'char-misc-3.8-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc:
  Drivers: hv: balloon: Fix a memory leak
  Drivers: hv: balloon: Fix a bug in the definition of struct dm_info_msg

Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.8-rc3-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen

Pull Xen fixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 - CVE-2013-0190/XSA-40 (or stack corruption for 32-bit PV kernels)
 - Fix racy vma access spotted by Al Viro
 - Fix mmap batch ioctl potentially resulting in large O(n) page allcations.
 - Fix vcpu online/offline BUG:scheduling while atomic..
 - Fix unbound buffer scanning for more than 32 vCPUs.
 - Fix grant table being incorrectly initialized
 - Fix incorrect check in pciback
 - Allow privcmd in backend domains.

Fix up whitespace conflict due to ugly merge resolution in Xen tree in
arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.8-rc3-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
  xen: Fix stack corruption in xen_failsafe_callback for 32bit PVOPS guests.
  Revert "xen/smp: Fix CPU online/offline bug triggering a BUG: scheduling while atomic."
  xen/gntdev: remove erronous use of copy_to_user
  xen/gntdev: correctly unmap unlinked maps in mmu notifier
  xen/gntdev: fix unsafe vma access
  xen/privcmd: Fix mmap batch ioctl.
  Xen: properly bound buffer access when parsing cpu/*/availability
  xen/grant-table: correctly initialize grant table version 1
  x86/xen : Fix the wrong check in pciback
  xen/privcmd: Relax access control in privcmd_ioctl_mmap

Pull m68knommu arch fixes from Greg Ungerer:
 "This contains a couple of fixes, both affecting compilation of non-mmu
  m68k targets."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu:
  m68k: fix conditional use of init_pointer_table
  m68knommu: add KMAP definitions for non-MMU definitions

Commit 816422ad ("asm-generic, mm: pgtable: consolidate zero page
helpers") broke the compile on MIPS if SPARSEMEM is enabled.  We get
this:

  In file included from arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h:552,
                   from include/linux/mm.h:44,
                   from arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c:14:
  include/asm-generic/pgtable.h: In function 'my_zero_pfn':
  include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:466: error: implicit declaration of function 'page_to_section'
  In file included from arch/mips/kernel/asm-offsets.c:14:
  include/linux/mm.h: At top level:
  include/linux/mm.h:738: error: conflicting types for 'page_to_section'
  include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:466: note: previous implicit declaration of 'page_to_section' was here

Due header files inter-dependencies, the only way I see to fix it is
convert my_zero_pfn() for __HAVE_COLOR_ZERO_PAGE to macros.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Tested-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Acked-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The tty is NULL when the port is hanging up.
chase_port() needs to check for this.

This patch is intended for stable series.
The behavior was observed and tested in Linux 3.2 and 3.7.1.

Johan Hovold submitted a more elaborate patch for the mainline kernel.

[   56.277883] usb 1-1: edge_bulk_in_callback - nonzero read bulk status received: -84
[   56.278811] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 3
[   56.278856] usb 1-1: edge_bulk_in_callback - stopping read!
[   56.279562] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000001c8
[   56.280536] IP: [<ffffffff8144e62a>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x19/0x35
[   56.281212] PGD 1dc1b067 PUD 1e0f7067 PMD 0
[   56.282085] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
[   56.282744] Modules linked in:
[   56.283512] CPU 1
[   56.283512] Pid: 25, comm: khubd Not tainted 3.7.1 #1 innotek GmbH VirtualBox/VirtualBox
[   56.283512] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8144e62a>]  [<ffffffff8144e62a>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x19/0x35
[   56.283512] RSP: 0018:ffff88001fa99ab0  EFLAGS: 00010046
[   56.283512] RAX: 0000000000000046 RBX: 00000000000001c8 RCX: 0000000000640064
[   56.283512] RDX: 0000000000010000 RSI: ffff88001fa99b20 RDI: 00000000000001c8
[   56.283512] RBP: ffff88001fa99b20 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[   56.283512] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffff812fcb4c R12: ffff88001ddf53c0
[   56.283512] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00000000000001c8 R15: ffff88001e19b9f4
[   56.283512] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88001fd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   56.283512] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[   56.283512] CR2: 00000000000001c8 CR3: 000000001dc51000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
[   56.283512] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[   56.283512] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[   56.283512] Process khubd (pid: 25, threadinfo ffff88001fa98000, task ffff88001fa94f80)
[   56.283512] Stack:
[   56.283512]  0000000000000046 00000000000001c8 ffffffff810578ec ffffffff812fcb4c
[   56.283512]  ffff88001e19b980 0000000000002710 ffffffff812ffe81 0000000000000001
[   56.283512]  ffff88001fa94f80 0000000000000202 ffffffff00000001 0000000000000296
[   56.283512] Call Trace:
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff810578ec>] ? add_wait_queue+0x12/0x3c
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff812fcb4c>] ? usb_serial_port_work+0x28/0x28
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff812ffe81>] ? chase_port+0x84/0x2d6
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff81063f27>] ? try_to_wake_up+0x199/0x199
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff81263a5c>] ? tty_ldisc_hangup+0x222/0x298
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff81300171>] ? edge_close+0x64/0x129
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff810612f7>] ? __wake_up+0x35/0x46
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff8106135b>] ? should_resched+0x5/0x23
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff81264916>] ? tty_port_shutdown+0x39/0x44
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff812fcb4c>] ? usb_serial_port_work+0x28/0x28
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff8125d38c>] ? __tty_hangup+0x307/0x351
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff812e6ddc>] ? usb_hcd_flush_endpoint+0xde/0xed
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff8144e625>] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x14/0x35
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff812fd361>] ? usb_serial_disconnect+0x57/0xc2
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff812ea99b>] ? usb_unbind_interface+0x5c/0x131
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff8128d738>] ? __device_release_driver+0x7f/0xd5
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff8128d9cd>] ? device_release_driver+0x1a/0x25
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff8128d393>] ? bus_remove_device+0xd2/0xe7
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff8128b7a3>] ? device_del+0x119/0x167
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff812e8d9d>] ? usb_disable_device+0x6a/0x180
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff812e2ae0>] ? usb_disconnect+0x81/0xe6
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff812e4435>] ? hub_thread+0x577/0xe82
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff8144daa7>] ? __schedule+0x490/0x4be
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff8105798f>] ? abort_exclusive_wait+0x79/0x79
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff812e3ebe>] ? usb_remote_wakeup+0x2f/0x2f
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff812e3ebe>] ? usb_remote_wakeup+0x2f/0x2f
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff810570b4>] ? kthread+0x81/0x89
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff81057033>] ? __kthread_parkme+0x5c/0x5c
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff8145387c>] ? ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[   56.283512]  [<ffffffff81057033>] ? __kthread_parkme+0x5c/0x5c
[   56.283512] Code: 8b 7c 24 08 e8 17 0b c3 ff 48 8b 04 24 48 83 c4 10 c3 53 48 89 fb 41 50 e8 e0 0a c3 ff 48 89 04 24 e8 e7 0a c3 ff ba 00 00 01 00
<f0> 0f c1 13 48 8b 04 24 89 d1 c1 ea 10 66 39 d1 74 07 f3 90 66
[   56.283512] RIP  [<ffffffff8144e62a>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x19/0x35
[   56.283512]  RSP <ffff88001fa99ab0>
[   56.283512] CR2: 00000000000001c8
[   56.283512] ---[ end trace 49714df27e1679ce ]---
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Frisch <wfpub@roembden.net>
Cc: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

The driver description files gives these names to the vendor specific
functions on this modem:

 Diagnostics VID_2357&PID_0201&MI_00
 NMEA        VID_2357&PID_0201&MI_01
 Modem       VID_2357&PID_0201&MI_03
 Networkcard VID_2357&PID_0201&MI_04
Reported-by: Thomas Schäfer <tschaefer@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

The driver description files gives these names to the vendor specific
functions on this modem:

 Diag   VID_19D2&PID_0265&MI_00
 NMEA   VID_19D2&PID_0265&MI_01
 AT cmd VID_19D2&PID_0265&MI_02
 Modem  VID_19D2&PID_0265&MI_03
 Net    VID_19D2&PID_0265&MI_04
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

The sb105x driver calls parport_pc_probe_port() which isn't defined if
PARPORT_PC isn't enabled. Protecting it with CONFIG_PARPORT is not good
enough, must protect it with CONFIG_PARPORT_PC.
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Commit 2e254212 broke listing of available network names, since it
clamped the length of the returned SSID to WLAN_BSSID_LEN (6) instead of
WLAN_SSID_MAXLEN (32).

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52501Signed-off-by: Tormod Volden <debian.tormod@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.4+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Merge tag 'iio-fixes-for-3.8b' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio into staging-linus

Jonathan writes:

  Second round of fixes for IIO post 3.8-rc1

  Two tiny fixes
  * A build warning fix due to signed / unsigned comparison
  * Missing sign extension in adis16080

Add support for the UART device present in Broadcom TruManage capable
NetXtreme chips (ie: 5761m 5762, and 5725).

This implementation has a hidden transmit FIFO, so running in single-byte
interrupt mode results in too many interrupts.  The UART_CAP_HFIFO
capability was added to track this.  It continues to reload the THR as long
as the THRE and TSRE bits are set in the LSR up to a specified limit (1024
is used here).
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hurd <shurd@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Commit bbb63c51 (drivers:tty:fix up
ENOIOCTLCMD error handling) changed the default return value from tty
ioctl to be ENOTTY and not EINVAL. This is appropriate.

But in case of TIOCGPTN for the old BSD ptys glibc started failing
because it expects EINVAL to be returned. Only then it continues to
obtain the pts name the other way around.

So fix this case by explicit return of EINVAL in this case.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.7+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

The send buffer was being leaked; fix it.
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Reported-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

There is bug in the definition of struct dm_info_msg. This patch fixes
the definition of this structure and makes the corresponding adjustments.
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>