Kristian Slavov [Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:42:14 +0000 (23:42 +0100)]
[PATCH] Address autoconfiguration does not work after device down/up cycle
If you set network interface down and up again, the IPv6 address
autoconfiguration does not work. 'ip addr' shows that the link-local
address is in tentative state. We don't even react to periodical router
advertisements.
During NETDEV_DOWN we clear IF_READY, and we don't set it back in
NETDEV_UP. While starting to perform DAD on the link-local address, we
notice that the device is not in IF_READY, and we abort autoconfiguration
process (which would eventually send router solicitations).
Acked-by: Juha-Matti Tapio <jmtapio@verkkotelakka.net> Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Jeff Mahoney [Mon, 13 Feb 2006 06:34:55 +0000 (22:34 -0800)]
[PATCH] reiserfs: disable automatic enabling of reiserfs inode attributes
Unfortunately, the reiserfs_attrs_cleared bit in the superblock flag can
lie. File systems have been observed with the bit set, yet still contain
garbage in the stat data field, causing unpredictable results.
This patch backs out the enable-by-default behavior.
Hugh Dickins [Sun, 12 Feb 2006 19:26:05 +0000 (19:26 +0000)]
[PATCH] hugetlbfs mmap ENOMEM failure
2.6.15's hugepage faulting introduced huge_pages_needed accounting into
hugetlbfs: to count how many pages are already in cache, for spot check
on how far a new mapping may be allowed to extend the file. But it's
muddled: each hugepage found covers HPAGE_SIZE, not PAGE_SIZE. Once
pages were already in cache, it would overshoot, wrap its hugepages
count backwards, and so fail a harmless repeat mapping with -ENOMEM.
Fixes the problem found by Don Dupuis.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-By: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Andi Kleen [Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:34:30 +0000 (10:34 +0100)]
[PATCH] i386: Move phys_proc_id/early intel workaround to correct function
early_cpu_detect only runs on the BP, but this code needs to run
on all CPUs. This will fix problems with the powernow-k8 driver
on dual core systems and general misdetection of AMD dual core.
Looks like a mismerge somewhere. Also add a warning comment.
Horms [Mon, 13 Feb 2006 02:14:57 +0000 (11:14 +0900)]
[PATCH] netfilter missing symbol has_bridge_parent
5dce971acf2ae20c80d5e9d1f6bbf17376870911 in Linus' tree,
otherwise known as bridge-netfilter-races-on-device-removal.patch in
2.5.15.4 removed has_bridge_parent, however this symbol is still
called with NETFILTER_DEBUG is enabled.
This patch uses the already seeded realoutdev value to detect if a parent
exists, and if so, the value of the parent.
Signed-Off-By: Horms <horms@verge.net.au> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The addition of the .text section definition in the definition of
_GLOBAL overrides the .relocate_code section definition. As a result,
these two functions don't end up in .relocate_code, so they don't get
relocated correctly, and the boot fails.
There's another suspicious-looking usage at kernel/swsusp.S:37 that
someone should look into. I did not exhaustively search the source
tree, though.
The following is the minimal patch that fixes the immediate problem.
I could easily be convinced that the _GLOBAL definition should be
modified to remove the ".text;" line either instead of, or in addition
to, this fix.
Signed-off-by: Paul Janzen <pcj@linux.sez.to> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Neil Brown [Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:05:23 +0000 (01:05 -0800)]
[PATCH] md: remove slashes from disk names when creation dev names in sysfs
e.g. The sx8 driver uses names like sx8/0.
This would make a md component dev name like
/sys/block/md0/md/dev-sx8/0
which is not allowed. So we change the '/' to '!' just like
fs/partitions/check.c(register_disk) does.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Steve Langasek [Wed, 8 Feb 2006 06:24:17 +0000 (07:24 +0100)]
[PATCH] __cmpxchg() must really always be inlined
With the latest 2.6.15 kernel builds for alpha on Debian, we ran into a
problem with undefined references to __cmpxchg_called_with_bad_pointer() in
a couple of kernel modules (xfs.ko and drm.ko; see
http://bugs.debian.org/347556).
It looks like people have been trying to out-clever each other wrt the
definition of "inline" on this architecture :), with the result that
__cmpxchg(), which must be inlined so the compiler can see its argument is
const, is not guaranteed to be inlined. Indeed, it was not being inlined
when building with -Os.
The attached patch fixes the issue by adding an
__attribute__((always_inline)) explicitly to the definition of __cmpxchg()
instead of relying on redefines of "inline" elsewhere to make this happen.
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Ashok Raj [Tue, 7 Feb 2006 11:37:09 +0000 (11:37 +0000)]
[PATCH] x86_64: Dont record local apic ids when they are disabled in MADT
Some broken BIOS's had processors disabled, but
same apic id as a valid processor. This causes
acpi_processor_start() to think this disabled
cpu is ok, and croak. So we dont record bad
apicid's anymore.
Andi Kleen [Mon, 6 Feb 2006 23:18:55 +0000 (00:18 +0100)]
[PATCH] x86_64: Let impossible CPUs point to reference per cpu data
Don't mark the reference per cpu data init data (so it stays
around after boot) and point all impossible CPUs to it. This way
they reference some valid - although shared memory. Usually
this is only initialization like INIT_LIST_HEADs and there
won't be races because these CPUs never run. Still somewhat hackish.
Herbert Xu [Mon, 6 Feb 2006 04:27:05 +0000 (20:27 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fixed hardware RX checksum handling
When we pull the PPP protocol off the skb, we forgot to update the
hardware RX checksum. This may lead to messages such as
dsl0: hw csum failure.
Similarly, we need to clear the hardware checksum flag when we use
the existing packet to store the decompressed result.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Stephen Smalley [Sat, 4 Feb 2006 03:57:49 +0000 (19:57 -0800)]
[PATCH] SELinux: fix size-128 slab leak
Remove private inode tests from security_inode_alloc and security_inode_free,
as we otherwise end up leaking inode security structures for private inodes.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Kimball Murray [Thu, 2 Feb 2006 05:08:59 +0000 (00:08 -0500)]
[PATCH] Input: mousedev - fix memory leak
Input: mousedev - fix memory leak
Apparently, "while true; do cat </dev/null >/dev/input/mice; done" causes
an OOM in a short amount of time. Funny that nobody noticed, it actually
is very easy to trigger just by switching between VT1 and VT7...
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Oleg Drokin [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:28:45 +0000 (09:28 -0800)]
[PATCH] d_instantiate_unique / NFS inode leakage
If we have found aliased dentry that we return, inode reference is not
dropped and inode is not attached anywhere, so it seems the reference to
inode is leaked in that case.
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>, Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Herbert Xu [Sat, 4 Feb 2006 10:29:45 +0000 (02:29 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fix extra dst release when ip_options_echo fails
When two ip_route_output_key lookups in icmp_send were combined I
forgot to change the error path for ip_options_echo to not drop the
dst reference since it now sits before the dst lookup. To fix it we
simply jump past the ip_rt_put call.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
David S. Miller [Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:31:34 +0000 (04:31 -0800)]
[PATCH] Make second arg to skb_reserved() signed.
Some subsystems, such as PPP, can send negative values
here. It just happened to work correctly on 32-bit with
an unsigned value, but on 64-bit this explodes.
Figured out by Paul Mackerras based upon several PPP crash
reports.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Ensure a consistent value is read from the STICK register by ensuring
that both high and low are read without high changing due to a roll
over of the low register.
Various Debian/SPARC users (myself include) have noticed problems with
Hummingbird based systems. The symptoms are that the system time is
seen to jump forward 3 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes give or take a few
seconds. In many cases the system then hangs some time afterwards.
I've spotted a race condition in the code to read the STICK register.
I could not work out why 3d, 6h, 11m is important but guess that it is
due to the 2^32 jump of STICK (forwards on one read and then the next
read will seem to be backwards) during a timer interrupt. I'm guessing
that a change of -2^32 will get converted to a large unsigned
increment after the arithmetic manipulation between STICK,
nanoseconds, jiffies etc.
I did a test where I modified __hbird_read_stick to artificially
inject rollover faults forcefully every few seconds. With this I saw
the clock jump over 6 times in 12 hours compared to once every month
or so.
Signed-off-by: Richard Mortimer <richm@oldelvet.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Evgeniy [Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:12:15 +0000 (18:12 +0300)]
[PATCH] Fix oops in ufs_fill_super at mount time
There's a lack of parenthesis in fs/ufs/utils.h, so instead of the 512th
byte of buffer, the usb2 pointer will point to the nth structure of type
ufs_super_block_second.
This can cause a mount-time oops if you're unlucky (especially with
DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, which is how Alexey Dobriyan saw this problem)
Alexander Viro [Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:29:55 +0000 (15:29 -0500)]
[PATCH] Fix double decrement of mqueue_mnt->mnt_count in sys_mq_open (CVE-2005-3356)
Fixed the refcounting on failure exits in sys_mq_open() and
cleaned the logics up. Rules are actually pretty simple - dentry_open()
expects vfsmount and dentry to be pinned down and it either transfers
them into created struct file or drops them. Old code had been very
confused in that area - if dentry_open() had failed either in do_open()
or do_create(), we ended up dentry and mqueue_mnt dropped twice, once
by dentry_open() cleanup and then by sys_mq_open().
Fix consists of making the rules for do_create() and do_open()
same as for dentry_open() and updating the sys_mq_open() accordingly;
that actually leads to more straightforward code and less work on
normal path.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <aviro@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Jens Axboe [Mon, 9 Jan 2006 19:15:33 +0000 (11:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] Kill blk_attempt_remerge()
[BLOCK] Kill blk_attempt_remerge()
It's a broken interface, it's done way too late. And apparently it triggers
slab problems in recent kernels as well (most likely after the generic dispatch
code was merged). So kill it, ide-cd is the only user of it.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
chrisw: backport to 2.6.15 tree Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Clemens Ladisch [Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:44:29 +0000 (09:44 +0100)]
[PATCH] usb-audio: don't use empty packets at start of playback
Some widespread USB interface chips with adaptive iso endpoints hang
after receiving a series of empty packets when they expect data. This
completely disables audio playback on those devices. To avoid this, we
have to send packets containing silence (zero samples) instead.
Martin Murray [Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:02:29 +0000 (21:02 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fix DoS in netlink_rcv_skb() (CVE-2006-0035)
Sanity check nlmsg_len during netlink_rcv_skb. An nlmsg_len == 0 can
cause infinite loop in kernel, effectively DoSing machine. Noted by
Martin Murray.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Problem narrowed down by Luis F. Ortiz and Richard Mortimer.
I tried using %l2 as suggested by Luis and that works for me.
Looking at the code I wonder if it makes sense to simplify the code
a little bit. The following works for me but I'm not sure how to
exercise the "NOERROR" codepath.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Bart De Schuymer [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:13:45 +0000 (13:13 -0800)]
[PATCH] Don't match tcp/udp source/destination port for IP fragments
Signed-off-by: Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Patrick McHardy [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:00:07 +0000 (02:00 +0100)]
[PATCH] Fix another crash in ip_nat_pptp (CVE-2006-0037)
The PPTP NAT helper calculates the offset at which the packet needs
to be mangled as difference between two pointers to the header. With
non-linear skbs however the pointers may point to two seperate buffers
on the stack and the calculation results in a wrong offset beeing
used.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Patrick McHardy [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:00:07 +0000 (02:00 +0100)]
[PATCH] Fix crash in ip_nat_pptp (CVE-2006-0036)
When an inbound PPTP_IN_CALL_REQUEST packet is received the
PPTP NAT helper uses a NULL pointer in pointer arithmentic to
calculate the offset in the packet which needs to be mangled
and corrupts random memory or crashes.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Kirill Korotaev [Mon, 9 Jan 2006 14:42:42 +0000 (17:42 +0300)]
[PATCH] netlink oops fix due to incorrect error code
Fixed oops after failed netlink socket creation.
Wrong parathenses in if() statement caused err to be 1,
instead of negative value.
Trivial fix, not trivial to find though.
Nathan Lynch [Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:05:12 +0000 (01:05 -0800)]
[PATCH] fix workqueue oops during cpu offline
Use first_cpu(cpu_possible_map) for the single-thread workqueue case. We
used to hardcode 0, but that broke on systems where !cpu_possible(0) when
workqueue_struct->cpu_workqueue_struct was changed from a static array to
alloc_percpu.
Commit id bce61dd49d6ba7799be2de17c772e4c701558f14 ("Fix hardcoded cpu=0 in
workqueue for per_cpu_ptr() calls") fixed that for Ben's funky sparc64
system, but it regressed my Power5. Offlining cpu 0 oopses upon the next
call to queue_work for a single-thread workqueue, because now we try to
manipulate per_cpu_ptr(wq->cpu_wq, 1), which is uninitialized.
So we need to establish an unchanging "slot" for single-thread workqueues
which will have a valid percpu allocation. Since alloc_percpu keys off of
cpu_possible_map, which must not change after initialization, make this
slot == first_cpu(cpu_possible_map).
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Samuel Thibault [Sun, 15 Jan 2006 06:15:28 +0000 (22:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] vgacon: fix doublescan mode
When doublescan mode is in use, scanlines must be doubled.
Thanks to Jason Dravet <dravet@hotmail.com> for reporting and testing.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
It still compiles as there's a weak definition of the function in
misc-embedded.c, but the kernel crashes as the bd_t fixup isn't performed.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Luis F. Ortiz [Thu, 5 Jan 2006 21:19:46 +0000 (13:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fix onboard video on SPARC Blade 100 for 2.6.{13,14,15}
I have recently been switching from using 2.4.32 on my trusty
old Sparc Blade 100 to using 2.6.15 . Some of the problems I ran into
were distorted video when the console was active (missing first
character, skipped dots) and when running X windows (colored snow,
stripes, missing pixels). A quick examination of the 2.6 versus 2.4
source for the ATY driver revealed alot of changes.
A closer look at the code/data for the 64GR/XL chip revealed
two minor "typos" that the rewriter(s) of the code made. The first is
a incorrect clock value (230 .vs. 235) and the second is a missing
flag (M64F_SDRAM_MAGIC_PLL). Making both these changes seems to have
fixed my problem. I tend to think the 235 value is the correct one,
as there is a 29.4 Mhz clock crystal close to the video chip and 235.2
(29.4*8) is too close to 235 to make it a coincidence.
The flag for M64F_SDRAM_MAGIC_PLL was dropped during the
changes made by adaplas in file revision 1.72 on the old bitkeeper
repository.
The change relating to the clock rate has been there forever,
at least in the 2.6 tree. I'm not sure where to look for the old 2.5
tree or if anyone cares when it happened.
On SPARC Blades 100's, which use the ATY MACH64GR video chipset, the
clock crystal frequency is 235.2 Mhz, not 230 Mhz. The chipset also
requires the use of M64F_SDRAM_MAGIC_PLL in order to setup the PLL
properly for the DRAM.
Signed-off-by: Luis F. Ortiz <lfo@Polyad.Org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
[PATCH] skge: handle out of memory on ring changes
Please consider this for 2.6.15.1; it fixes several cases where
the skge driver can get in a bad state and later crash; if an
admin operation that causes a restart fails from out of memory.
Such as changing the MTU or increasing the ring size.
The fixes involve checking the return value and doing necessary
unwinds. Or in some cases avoiding doing a full restart.
The same code is the netdev-2.6 tree for 2.6.16 but as separate pieces
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
[PATCH] BRIDGE: Fix faulty check in br_stp_recalculate_bridge_id()
There is a regression in 2.6.15.
One of the conversions from memcmp to compare_ether_addr is incorrect.
We need to do relative comparison to determine min MAC address to
use in bridge id. This will cause the wrong bridge id to be chosen
which violates 802.1d Spanning Tree Protocol, and may create forwarding
loops.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
However, asm/param.h is sometimes used in userland (it is included
indirectly from <sys/param.h>), so your commit pollutes the userland
namespace with tons of CONFIG_FOO macros. This greatly confuses
software packages (such as BusyBox) which use CONFIG_FOO macros
themselves to control the inclusion of optional features.
After a short exchange, Christoph approved this patch
Some G5s still occasionally experience shutdowns due to overtemp
conditions despite the recent fix. After analyzing logs from such
machines, it appears that the overtemp code is a bit too quick at
shutting the machine down when reaching the critical temperature (tmax +
8) and doesn't leave the fan enough time to actually cool it down. This
happens if the temperature of a CPU suddenly rises too high in a very
short period of time, or occasionally on boot (that is the CPUs are
already overtemp by the time the driver loads).
This patches makes the code a bit more relaxed, leaving a few seconds to
the fans to do their job before kicking the machine shutown.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 1 Jan 2006 01:00:29 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
sysctl: make sure to terminate strings with a NUL
This is a slightly more complete fix for the previous minimal sysctl
string fix. It always terminates the returned string with a NUL, even
if the full result wouldn't fit in the user-supplied buffer.
The returned length is the full untruncated length, so that you can
tell when truncation has occurred.
Yi Yang [Fri, 30 Dec 2005 08:37:10 +0000 (16:37 +0800)]
[PATCH] Fix false old value return of sysctl
For the sysctl syscall, if the user wants to get the old value of a
sysctl entry and set a new value for it in the same syscall, the old
value is always overwritten by the new value if the sysctl entry is of
string type and if the user sets its strategy to sysctl_string. This
issue lies in the strategy being run twice if the strategy is set to
sysctl_string, the general strategy sysctl_string always returns 0 if
success.
Such strategy routines as sysctl_jiffies and sysctl_jiffies_ms return 1
because they do read and write for the sysctl entry.
The strategy routine sysctl_string return 0 although it actually read
and write the sysctl entry.
According to my analysis, if a strategy routine do read and write, it
should return 1, if it just does some necessary check but not read and
write, it should return 0, for example sysctl_intvec.
Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <yang.y.yi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 31 Dec 2005 01:18:53 +0000 (17:18 -0800)]
sysctl: don't overflow the user-supplied buffer with '\0'
If the string was too long to fit in the user-supplied buffer,
the sysctl layer would zero-terminate it by writing past the
end of the buffer. Don't do that.
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:39:10 +0000 (08:39 -0800)]
Insanity avoidance in /proc
The old /proc interfaces were never updated to use loff_t, and are just
generally broken. Now, we should be using the seq_file interface for
all of the proc files, but converting the legacy functions is more work
than most people care for and has little upside..
But at least we can make the non-LFS rules explicit, rather than just
insanely wrapping the offset or something.
Erik Hovland [Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:57:35 +0000 (15:57 +0000)]
[ARM] 3216/1: indent and typo in drivers/serial/pxa.c
Patch from Erik Hovland
This patch provides two changes. An indent is supplied for an if/else clause so that it is more readable. An acronym is incorrectly typed as UER when it should be IER.
Signed-off-by: Erik Hovland <erik@hovland.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Jean Delvare [Thu, 29 Dec 2005 21:07:30 +0000 (22:07 +0100)]
[PATCH] Simplify the VIDEO_SAA7134_OSS Kconfig dependency line
Thanks to Roman Zippel for the suggestion.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
[ Short explanation: Kconfig uses ternary math: n/m/y, and !m is m ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
that changed the GART VM start offset. It fixed some machines, but
seems to continually interact badly with some X versions.
Quoth Ben Herrenschmidt:
"So I think at this point, the best is that we keep the old bogus code
that at least is consistent with the bug in the server. I'm working on a
big patch to X that reworks the memory map stuff completely and fixes
those issues on the server side, I'll do a DRM patch matching this X fix
as well so that the memory map is only ever set in one place and with
what I hope is a correct algorithm..."
Anton Blanchard [Wed, 28 Dec 2005 23:46:29 +0000 (10:46 +1100)]
[PATCH] ppc64: htab_initialize_secondary cannot be marked __init
Sonny has noticed hotplug CPU on ppc64 is broken in 2.6.15-*. One of the
problems is that htab_initialize_secondary is called when a cpu is being
brought up, but it is marked __init.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Dave Jones [Thu, 29 Dec 2005 01:01:04 +0000 (20:01 -0500)]
[PATCH] fix ia64 compile failure with gcc4.1
__get_unaligned creates a typeof the var its passed, and writes to it,
which on gcc4.1, spits out the following error:
drivers/char/vc_screen.c: In function 'vcs_write':
drivers/char/vc_screen.c:422: error: assignment of read-only variable 'val'
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
[ The "right" fix would be to try to fix <asm-generic/unaligned.h>
but that's hard to do with the tools gcc gives us. So this
simpler patch is preferable -- Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] uml: fix compilation with CONFIG_MODE_TT disabled
Fix UML compilation when SKAS mode is disabled. Indeed, we were compiling
SKAS-only object files, which failed due to some SKAS-only headers being
excluded from the search path.
Thanks to the bug report from Pekka J Enberg.
Acked-by: Pekka J Enberg <penberg (at) cs ! helsinki ! fi> Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Hostfs: update for new glibc - add missing symbol exports
Today, when compiling UML, I got warnings for two used unexported symbols:
readdir64 and truncate64. Indeed, my glibc headers are aliasing readdir to
readdir64 and truncate to truncate64 (and so on).
I'm then adding additional exports. Since I've no idea if the symbols where
always provided in the supported glibc's, I've added weak definitions too.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] uml: hostfs - fix possible PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT overflows
Prevent page->index << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT from overflowing.
There is a casting there, but was added without care, so it's at the wrong
place. Note the extra parens around the shift - "+" is higher precedence than
"<<", leading to a GCC warning which saved all us.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Trivial removal of unused variable from this file - doesn't even change the
generated assembly code, in fact (gcc should trigger a warning for unused value
here).
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Don't use printk() where "current_thread_info()" is crap.
Until when we switch to running on init_stack, current_thread_info() evaluates
to crap. Printk uses "current" at times (in detail, ¤t is evaluated with
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK to check the spinlock owner task).
And this leads to random segmentation faults.
Exactly, what happens is that ¤t = *(current_thread_info()), i.e. round
down $esp and dereference the value. I.e. access the stack below $esp, which
causes SIGSEGV on a VM_GROWSDOWN vma (see arch/i386/mm/fault.c).
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
David S. Miller [Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:27:04 +0000 (13:27 -0800)]
[SERMOUSE]: Sun mice speak 5-byte protocol too.
Noticed by Christophe Zimmerman, this explains the slow mouse movement
with 2.6.x kernels.
And checking the 2.4.x drivers/sbus/char/sunmouse.c driver shows we
always used a 5-byte protocol with Sun mice in the past. I have no
idea how the 3-byte thing got into the 2.6.x driver, but it's surely
wrong.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>