1. 21 May, 2006 7 commits
    • Peter Staubach's avatar
      [PATCH] NFS server subtree_check returns dubious value · 8c7b389e
      Peter Staubach authored
      Address a problem found when a Linux NFS server uses the "subtree_check"
      export option.
      
      The "subtree_check" NFS export option was designed to prohibit a client
      from using a file handle for which it should not have permission.  The
      algorithm used is to ensure that the entire path to the file being
      referenced is accessible to the user attempting to use the file handle.  If
      some part of the path is not accessible, then the operation is aborted and
      the appropriate version of ESTALE is returned to the NFS client.
      
      The error, ESTALE, is unfortunate in that it causes NFS clients to make
      certain assumptions about the continued existence of the file.  They assume
      that the file no longer exists and refuse to attempt to access it again.
      In this case, the file really does exist, but access was denied by the
      server for a particular user.
      
      A better error to return would be an EACCES sort of error.  This would
      inform the client that the particular operation that it was attempting was
      not allowed, without the nasty side effects of the ESTALE error.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
      Acked-By: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      8c7b389e
    • Vivek Goyal's avatar
      [PATCH] Kdump maintainer info update · ea6c2089
      Vivek Goyal authored
      Update MAINTAINERS file for info regarding kdump maintainership.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      ea6c2089
    • Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar
      [PATCH] powerpc: Fix ide-pmac sysfs entry · 22192ccd
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
      It looks like the generic ide code now wants ide_init_hwif_ports() to set
      the parent struct device into the ide_hw structure (new field ?).  Without
      this, the mac ide code can cause the ide probing code to explode in flames
      in sysfs registration due to what looks like a stale pointer in there
      (happens when removing/re-inserting one of the hotswap media bays on some
      laptops).
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
      Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      22192ccd
    • Chuck Ebbert's avatar
      [PATCH] i386: remove junk from stack dump · c44b20d5
      Chuck Ebbert authored
      i386 stack dump has a "<0>" in the middle of the line and an extra space
      between columns in multicolumn mode.  Remove those and also remove an extra
      blank line of source code.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      c44b20d5
    • Paul A. Clarke's avatar
      [PATCH] matroxfb: fix DVI setup to be more compatible · 6d39bedc
      Paul A. Clarke authored
      There has been a longstanding problem with the Matrox G450 and perhaps
      other similar cards, with modes "above" 1280x1024-60 on ppc/ppc64 boxes
      running Linux.  Higher resolutions and/or higher refresh rates resulted in
      a very noticably "jittery" display, and sometimes no display, depending on
      the physical monitor.  This patch fixes that problem on the systems I have
      easy access to...
      
      I've tested with SLES9SP3 (2.6.5+ kernel) and 2.6.16-rc6 custom kernels on
      an IBM eServer p5 520 w/G450 (a.k.a GXT135P on IBM's ppc64 systems), and a
      colleague of mine (Ian Romanick) tested it successfully on an Apple ppc32
      box (w/GXT135P).  I also tested it on IA32 box I have with a GXT135P to
      verify that it didn't obviously break anything.  In my testing, I covered
      single-card, single and dual-head setups using both HD15 and DVI-D signals,
      on both the IA32 and ppc64 boxes.  While everything appeared fine on both
      boxes, I did encounter one problem: I can't get any signal on the DVI-D
      output on the ppc64 box.  However, this is also the case without my patch.
      
      I just noticed that screen-blanking only occurs on the primary display as
      well.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul A. Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIan Romanick <idr@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPetr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
      Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      6d39bedc
    • Lin Feng Shen's avatar
      [PATCH] NFS: fix error handling on access_ok in compat_sys_nfsservctl · d64b1c87
      Lin Feng Shen authored
      Functions compat_nfs_svc_trans, compat_nfs_clnt_trans,
      compat_nfs_exp_trans, compat_nfs_getfd_trans and compat_nfs_getfs_trans,
      which are called by compat_sys_nfsservctl(fs/compat.c), don't handle the
      return value of access_ok properly.  access_ok return 1 when the addr is
      valid, and 0 when it's not, but these functions have the reversed
      understanding.  When the address is valid, they always return -EFAULT to
      compat_sys_nfsservctl.
      
      An example is to run /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd(32bit program on Power5).  It
      doesn't function as expected.  strace showes that nfsservctl returns
      -EFAULT.
      
      The patch fixes this by correcting the error handling on the return value
      of access_ok in the five functions.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLin Feng Shen <shenlinf@cn.ibm.com>
      Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
      Acked-by: default avatarNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      d64b1c87
    • Ayaz Abdulla's avatar
      [PATCH] forcedeth: fix multi irq issues · 84b3932b
      Ayaz Abdulla authored
      With Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> and
           Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      
      Bring back this recently-reverted patch, only fixed.
      
      Original changelog:
      
          From: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
      
          This patch fixes the issues with multiple irqs.
      
          I am resending based on feedback. I decoupled the dma mask for
          consistent memory and fixed leak with multiple irq in error path.
      
          Thanks to Manfred for catching the spin lock problem.
      
      Fix it:
      
          From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
      
          Fix bug introduced by ebf34c9b, covered in
          http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6568.
      
          Remove second instance of the request_irq() calls: they were moved
          from nv_open into nv_request_irq.
      
          Thanks to Alistair Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk> for reporting and
          persisting.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAyaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
      Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      84b3932b
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