- 20 Jun, 2011 7 commits
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Al Viro authored
nothing blocking except generic_permission() Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
Nothing blocking except for generic_permission(). Which will DTRT. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
... and never did, what with its ->permission() being what we do by default when ->permission is NULL... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
return (mask & MAY_EXEC) ? -EACCES : 0; is non-blocking... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
nothing potentially blocking except generic_permission(), which will DTRT Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
return -EIO; is *not* a blocking operation, thank you very much. Nick, what the hell have you been smoking? Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Dan Carpenter authored
d251ed27 "ubifs: fix sget races" left out the goto from this error path so the static checkers complain that we're dereferencing "sb" when it's an ERR_PTR. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 16 Jun, 2011 33 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/linux-2.6-nsfdLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/linux-2.6-nsfd: proc: Fix Oops on stat of /proc/<zombie pid>/ns/net
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
swapcache will reach the below code path in migrate_page_move_mapping, and swapcache is accounted as NR_FILE_PAGES but it's not accounted as NR_SHMEM. Hugh pointed out we must use PageSwapCache instead of comparing mapping to &swapper_space, to avoid build failure with CONFIG_SWAP=n. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: kbuild: Call depmod.sh via shell perf: clear out make flags when calling kernel make kernelver
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: AFS: Use i_generation not i_version for the vnode uniquifier AFS: Set s_id in the superblock to the volume name vfs: Fix data corruption after failed write in __block_write_begin() afs: afs_fill_page reads too much, or wrong data VFS: Fix vfsmount overput on simultaneous automount fix wrong iput on d_inode introduced by e6bc45d6 Delay struct net freeing while there's a sysfs instance refering to it afs: fix sget() races, close leak on umount ubifs: fix sget races ubifs: split allocation of ubifs_info into a separate function fix leak in proc_set_super()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-3.xLinus Torvalds authored
* 'sh-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-3.x: sh: sh7724: Add USBHS DMAEngine support sh: ecovec: Add renesas_usbhs support sh, exec: remove redundant set_fs(USER_DS) drivers: sh: resume enabled clocks fix dmaengine: shdma: SH_DMAC_MAX_CHANNELS message fix sh: Fix up xchg/cmpxchg corruption with gUSA RB. sh: Remove compressed kernel libgcc dependency. sh: fix wrong icache/dcache address-array start addr in cache-debugfs.
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'rmobile-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-3.x * 'rmobile-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-3.x: ARM: mach-shmobile: mackerel: tidyup usbhs driver settings ARM: mach-shmobile: Correct SCIF port types for SH7367. ARM: mach-shmobile: sh73a0 gic_arch_extn.irq_set_wake() fix ARM: mach-shmobile: Mackerel USB platform data update ARM: mach-shmobile: AG5EVM SDHI1 platform data update
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'fbdev-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/fbdev-3.x * 'fbdev-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/fbdev-3.x: fbdev: sh_mobile_hdmi: fix regression: statically enable RTPM fbdev/atyfb: Fix 2 defined-but-not-used warnings efifb: Fix call to wrong unregister function video: s3c-fb: move enabling channel for window video: s3c-fb: fix virtual resolution checking video: s3c-fb: fix misleading kfree in remove function
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: SELinux: skip file_name_trans_write() when policy downgraded. selinux: fix case of names with whitespace/multibytes on /selinux/create
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David Howells authored
Store the AFS vnode uniquifier in the i_generation field, not the i_version field of the inode struct. i_version can then be given the AFS data version number. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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David Howells authored
Set s_id in the superblock to the name of the AFS volume that this superblock corresponds to. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Jan Kara authored
I've got a report of a file corruption from fsxlinux on ext3. The important operations to the page were: mapwrite to a hole partial write to the page read - found the page zeroed from the end of the normal write The culprit seems to be that if get_block() fails in __block_write_begin() (e.g. transient ENOSPC in ext3), the function does ClearPageUptodate(page). Thus when we retry the write, the logic in __block_write_begin() thinks zeroing of the page is needed and overwrites old data. In fact, I don't see why we should ever need to zero the uptodate bit here - either the page was uptodate when we entered __block_write_begin() and it should stay so when we leave it, or it was not uptodate and noone had right to set it uptodate during __block_write_begin() so it remains !uptodate when we leave as well. So just remove clearing of the bit. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Anton Blanchard authored
afs_fill_page should read the page that is about to be written but the current implementation has a number of issues. If we aren't extending the file we always read PAGE_CACHE_SIZE at offset 0. If we are extending the file we try to read the entire file. Change afs_fill_page to read PAGE_CACHE_SIZE at the right offset, clamped to i_size. While here, avoid calling afs_fill_page when we are doing a PAGE_CACHE_SIZE write. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Randy Dunlap authored
Fix build by moving enum list outside of #ifdef CONFIG_IIO_RING_BUFFER. drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16201_core.c:413: error: 'ADIS16201_SCAN_SUPPLY' undeclared here (not in a function) drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16201_core.c:417: error: 'ADIS16201_SCAN_TEMP' undeclared here (not in a function) .. drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16203_core.c:374: error: 'ADIS16203_SCAN_SUPPLY' undeclared here (not in a function) drivers/staging/iio/accel/adis16203_core.c:378: error: 'ADIS16203_SCAN_AUX_ADC' undeclared here (not in a function) .. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk> Cc: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Al Viro authored
[Kudos to dhowells for tracking that crap down] If two processes attempt to cause automounting on the same mountpoint at the same time, the vfsmount holding the mountpoint will be left with one too few references on it, causing a BUG when the kernel tries to clean up. The problem is that lock_mount() drops the caller's reference to the mountpoint's vfsmount in the case where it finds something already mounted on the mountpoint as it transits to the mounted filesystem and replaces path->mnt with the new mountpoint vfsmount. During a pathwalk, however, we don't take a reference on the vfsmount if it is the same as the one in the nameidata struct, but do_add_mount() doesn't know this. The fix is to make sure we have a ref on the vfsmount of the mountpoint before calling do_add_mount(). However, if lock_mount() doesn't transit, we're then left with an extra ref on the mountpoint vfsmount which needs releasing. We can handle that in follow_managed() by not making assumptions about what we can and what we cannot get from lookup_mnt() as the current code does. The callers of follow_managed() expect that reference to path->mnt will be grabbed iff path->mnt has been changed. follow_managed() and follow_automount() keep track of whether such reference has been grabbed and assume that it'll happen in those and only those cases that'll have us return with changed path->mnt. That assumption is almost correct - it breaks in case of racing automounts and in even harder to hit race between following a mountpoint and a couple of mount --move. The thing is, we don't need to make that assumption at all - after the end of loop in follow_manage() we can check if path->mnt has ended up unchanged and do mntput() if needed. The BUG can be reproduced with the following test program: #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/wait.h> int main(int argc, char **argv) { int pid, ws; struct stat buf; pid = fork(); stat(argv[1], &buf); if (pid > 0) wait(&ws); return 0; } and the following procedure: (1) Mount an NFS volume that on the server has something else mounted on a subdirectory. For instance, I can mount / from my server: mount warthog:/ /mnt -t nfs4 -r On the server /data has another filesystem mounted on it, so NFS will see a change in FSID as it walks down the path, and will mark /mnt/data as being a mountpoint. This will cause the automount code to be triggered. !!! Do not look inside the mounted fs at this point !!! (2) Run the above program on a file within the submount to generate two simultaneous automount requests: /tmp/forkstat /mnt/data/testfile (3) Unmount the automounted submount: umount /mnt/data (4) Unmount the original mount: umount /mnt At this point the kernel should throw a BUG with something like the following: BUG: Dentry ffff880032e3c5c0{i=2,n=} still in use (1) [unmount of nfs4 0:12] Note that the bug appears on the root dentry of the original mount, not the mountpoint and not the submount because sys_umount() hasn't got to its final mntput_no_expire() yet, but this isn't so obvious from the call trace: [<ffffffff8117cd82>] shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x69/0x82 [<ffffffff8116160e>] generic_shutdown_super+0x37/0x15b [<ffffffffa00fae56>] ? nfs_super_return_all_delegations+0x2e/0x1b1 [nfs] [<ffffffff811617f3>] kill_anon_super+0x1d/0x7e [<ffffffffa00d0be1>] nfs4_kill_super+0x60/0xb6 [nfs] [<ffffffff81161c17>] deactivate_locked_super+0x34/0x83 [<ffffffff811629ff>] deactivate_super+0x6f/0x7b [<ffffffff81186261>] mntput_no_expire+0x18d/0x199 [<ffffffff811862a8>] mntput+0x3b/0x44 [<ffffffff81186d87>] release_mounts+0xa2/0xbf [<ffffffff811876af>] sys_umount+0x47a/0x4ba [<ffffffff8109e1ca>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x1fd/0x22f [<ffffffff816ea86b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b as do_umount() is inlined. However, you can see release_mounts() in there. Note also that it may be necessary to have multiple CPU cores to be able to trigger this bug. Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Tested-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Török Edwin authored
Git bisection shows that commit e6bc45d6 causes BUG_ONs under high I/O load: kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:1368! [ 2862.501007] Call Trace: [ 2862.501007] [<ffffffff811691d8>] d_kill+0xf8/0x140 [ 2862.501007] [<ffffffff81169c19>] dput+0xc9/0x190 [ 2862.501007] [<ffffffff8115577f>] fput+0x15f/0x210 [ 2862.501007] [<ffffffff81152171>] filp_close+0x61/0x90 [ 2862.501007] [<ffffffff81152251>] sys_close+0xb1/0x110 [ 2862.501007] [<ffffffff814c14fb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b A reliable way to reproduce this bug is: Login to KDE, run 'rsnapshot sync', and apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk, and apt-get remove openjdk-6-jdk. The buggy part of the patch is this: struct inode *inode = NULL; ..... - if (nd.last.name[nd.last.len]) - goto slashes; inode = dentry->d_inode; - if (inode) - ihold(inode); + if (nd.last.name[nd.last.len] || !inode) + goto slashes; + ihold(inode) ... if (inode) iput(inode); /* truncate the inode here */ If nd.last.name[nd.last.len] is nonzero (and thus goto slashes branch is taken), and dentry->d_inode is non-NULL, then this code now does an additional iput on the inode, which is wrong. Fix this by only setting the inode variable if nd.last.name[nd.last.len] is 0. Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/15/50Reported-by: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> Reported-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Linus Torvalds authored
We have some users of this function that date back to before the vma list was doubly linked, and just are silly. These days, you can find the previous vma by just following the vma->vm_prev pointer. In some cases you don't need any find_vma() lookup at all, and in other cases you're better off with the regular "find_vma()" that uses the vma cache front-end lookup. Some "find_vma_prev()" users are still valid, though. For example, in the case of a stack that grows up, it can be the case that we don't find any 'vma' at all (because we're looking up an address that is past the last vma), and that the stack that we want to grow is the 'prev' vma. But that kind of special case aside, we generally should prefer to use 'find_vma()'. Noticed due to a totally unrelated POWER memory corruption bug that just happened to hit in 'find_vma_prev()' and made me go "Hmm - why are we using that function here?". Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kuninori Morimoto authored
Signed-off-by: Kuninori Morimoto <morimoto.kuninori@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Kuninori Morimoto authored
Signed-off-by: Kuninori Morimoto <morimoto.kuninori@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
* 'fixes' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: ARM: footbridge: fix clock event support ARM: footbridge: fix debug macros ARM: initrd: disable initrds outside of memory ARM: extend Code: line by one 16-bit quantity for Thumb instructions ARM: 6955/1: cmpxchg syscall should data abort if page not write ARM: 6954/1: zImage: fix Thumb2 breakage ARM: 6953/1: DT: don't try to access physical address zero ARM: 6949/2: mach-u300: fix compilaton warning in IO accessors Revert "ARM: 6944/1: mm: allow ASID 0 to be allocated to tasks" Revert "ARM: 6943/1: mm: use TTBR1 instead of reserved context ID" davinci: make PCM platform devices static arm: davinci: Fix fallout from generic irq chip conversion ARM: 6894/1: mmci: trigger card detect IRQs on falling and rising edges ARM: 6952/1: fix lockdep warning of "unannotated irqs-off" ARM: 6951/1: include .bss in memory layout information ARM: 6948/1: Fix .size directives for __arm{7,9}tdmi_proc_info ARM: 6947/2: mach-u300: fix compilation error in timer ARM: 6946/1: vexpress: move v2m clock init to init_early ARM: mx51/sdma: Check the chip revision in run-time arm: mxs: include asm/processor.h for cpu_relax()
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Linus Torvalds authored
This reverts commit 7f81c889. It turns out that it's not actually a build-time check on x86-64 UML, which does some seriously crazy stuff with VM_STACK_FLAGS. The VM_STACK_FLAGS define depends on the arch-supplied VM_STACK_DEFAULT_FLAGS value, and on x86-64 UML we have arch/um/sys-x86_64/shared/sysdep/vm-flags.h: #define VM_STACK_DEFAULT_FLAGS \ (test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32) ? vm_stack_flags32 : vm_stack_flags) #define VM_STACK_DEFAULT_FLAGS vm_stack_flags (yes, seriously: two different #define's for that thing, with the first one being inside an "#ifdef TIF_IA32") It's possible that it is UML that should just be fixed in this area, but for now let's just undo the (very small) optimization. Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jörg Sommer authored
Fix format and spelling. Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jörg Sommer authored
According to commit 676db4af ("cgroupfs: create /sys/fs/cgroup to mount cgroupfs on") the canonical mountpoint for the cgroup filesystem is /sys/fs/cgroup. Hence, this should be used in the documentation. Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Maxin B. John authored
Instead of listing the architectures that are supported by kmemleak in Documentation/kmemleak.txt, just refer people to the list of supported architecutures in lib/Kconfig.debug so that Documentation/kmemleak.txt does not need more updates for this. Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Murray authored
This patch updates the incomplete documentation concerning the printk extended format specifiers. Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <amurray@mpc-data.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Check if lowest_mask is initialized in find_lowest_rq() sched: Fix need_resched() when checking peempt
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Dan Rosenberg authored
Fix several security issues in Alpha-specific syscalls. Untested, but mostly trivial. 1. Signedness issue in osf_getdomainname allows copying out-of-bounds kernel memory to userland. 2. Signedness issue in osf_sysinfo allows copying large amounts of kernel memory to userland. 3. Typo (?) in osf_getsysinfo bounds minimum instead of maximum copy size, allowing copying large amounts of kernel memory to userland. 4. Usage of user pointer in osf_wait4 while under KERNEL_DS allows privilege escalation via writing return value of sys_wait4 to kernel memory. Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Geert Uytterhoeven authored
Fixes this warning: drivers/misc/apds990x.c: At top level: drivers/misc/apds990x.c:613: warning: `apds990x_chip_on' defined but not used Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Hugh Dickins authored
Andrea Righi reported a case where an exiting task can race against ksmd::scan_get_next_rmap_item (http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/1/742) easily triggering a NULL pointer dereference in ksmd. ksm_scan.mm_slot == &ksm_mm_head with only one registered mm CPU 1 (__ksm_exit) CPU 2 (scan_get_next_rmap_item) list_empty() is false lock slot == &ksm_mm_head list_del(slot->mm_list) (list now empty) unlock lock slot = list_entry(slot->mm_list.next) (list is empty, so slot is still ksm_mm_head) unlock slot->mm == NULL ... Oops Close this race by revalidating that the new slot is not simply the list head again. Andrea's test case: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #define BUFSIZE getpagesize() int main(int argc, char **argv) { void *ptr; if (posix_memalign(&ptr, getpagesize(), BUFSIZE) < 0) { perror("posix_memalign"); exit(1); } if (madvise(ptr, BUFSIZE, MADV_MERGEABLE) < 0) { perror("madvise"); exit(1); } *(char *)NULL = 0; return 0; } Reported-by: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com> Tested-by: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Wanlong Gao authored
RTC_CLASS is changed to bool, so 'm' is invalid. Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <wanlong.gao@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alexander Stein authored
If dmi_get_system_info() returns NULL, pch_uart_init_port() will dereferencea a zero pointer. This oops was observed on an Atom based board which has no BIOS, but a bootloder which doesn't provide DMI data. Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nils Carlson authored
When interrupts are delayed due to interrupt masking or due to other interrupts being serviced the HPET periodic-emuation would fail. This happened because given an interval t and a time for the current interrupt m we would compute the next time as t + m. This works until we are delayed for > t, in which case we would be writing a new value which is in fact in the past. This can be solved by computing the next time instead as (k * t) + m where k is large enough to be in the future. The exact computation of k is described in a comment to the code. More detail: Assuming an interval of 5 between each expected interrupt we have a normal case of t0: interrupt, read t0 from comparator, set next interrupt t0 + 5 t5: interrupt, read t5 from comparator, set next interrupt t5 + 5 t10: interrupt, read t10 from comparator, set next interrupt t10 + 5 ... So, what happens when the interrupt is serviced too late? t0: interrupt, read t0 from comparator, set next interrupt t0 + 5 t11: delayed interrupt serviced, read t5 from comparator, set next interrupt t5 + 5, which is in the past! ... counter loops ... t10: Much much later, get the next interrupt. This can happen either because we have interrupts masked for too long (some stupid driver goes on a printk rampage) or just because we are pushing the limits of the interval (too small a period), or both most probably. My solution is to read the main counter as well and set the next interrupt to occur at the right interval, for example: t0: interrupt, read t0 from comparator, set next interrupt t0 + 5 t11: delayed interrupt serviced, read t5 from comparator, set next interrupt t15 as t10 has been missed. t15: back on track. Signed-off-by: Nils Carlson <nils.carlson@ericsson.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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akpm@linux-foundation.org authored
Commit a77aea92 ("cgroup: remove the ns_cgroup") removed the ns_cgroup but it forgot to remove the related doc in feature-removal-schedule.txt. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman authored
Asynchronous compaction is used when promoting to huge pages. This is all very nice but if there are a number of processes in compacting memory, a large number of pages can be isolated. An "asynchronous" process can stall for long periods of time as a result with a user reporting that firefox can stall for 10s of seconds. This patch aborts asynchronous compaction if too many pages are isolated as it's better to fail a hugepage promotion than stall a process. [minchan.kim@gmail.com: return COMPACT_PARTIAL for abort] Reported-and-tested-by: Ury Stankevich <urykhy@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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