Remove the code that gatheres timestamp in pps_tty_dcd_change() in case
passed ts parameter is NULL because it never happens in the current code.
Fix comments as well.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su> Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
pps: make idr lock a mutex and protect idr_pre_get
Now pps_idr_lock is never used in interrupt context so we can replace
spin_lock_irq/spin_unlock_irq with plain spin_lock/spin_unlock. But
there is also a potential race condition when someone can steal an id
which was allocated by idr_pre_get before it is used. So convert spin
lock to mutex and protect the whole id generation process.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su> Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since now idr is only used to manage char device id's and not used in
kernel API anymore it should be moved to pps.c. This also makes it
possible to release id only at actual device freeing so nobody can
register a pps device with the same id while our device is not freed yet.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su> Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since we now have direct pointers to struct pps_device everywhere it's
easy to use dev_* functions to print messages instead of plain printks.
Where dev_* cannot be used printks are converted to pr_*.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su> Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Using device index as a pointer needs some unnecessary work to be done
every time the pointer is needed (in irq handler for example). Using a
direct pointer is much more easy (and safe as well).
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su> Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There was a race in PPS_FETCH ioctl handler when several processes want to
obtain PPS data simultaneously using sleeping PPS_FETCH. They all sleep
most of the time in the system call.
With the old approach when the first process waiting on the pps queue is
waken up it makes new system call right away and zeroes pps->go. So other
processes continue to sleep. This is a clear race condition because of
the global 'go' variable.
With the new approach pps->last_ev holds some value increasing at each PPS
event. PPS_FETCH ioctl handler saves current value to the local variable
at the very beginning so it can safely check that there is a new event by
just comparing both variables.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su> Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jeff Mahoney [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:00:48 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
taskstats: use better ifdef for alignment
Commit 4be2c95d ("taskstats: pad taskstats netlink response for aligment
issues on ia64") added a null field to align the taskstats structure but
the discussion centered around ia64. The issue exists on other platforms
with inefficient unaligned access and adding them piecemeal would be an
unmaintainable mess.
This patch uses Dave Miller's suggestion of using a combination of
CONFIG_64BIT && !CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS to determine
whether alignment is needed.
Note that this will cause breakage on those platforms with applications
like iotop which had hard-coded offsets into the packet to access the
taskstats structure.
The message seen on systems without the alignment fixes looks like: kernel
unaligned access to 0xe000023879dca9bc, ip=0xa000000100133d10
The addresses may vary but resolve to locations inside __delayacct_add_tsk.
iotop makes what I'd call unreasonable assumptions about the contents of a
netlink genetlink packet containing generic attributes. They're typed and
have headers that specify value lengths, so the client can (should)
identify and skip the ones the client doesn't understand.
The iotop code expects that the kernel will behave as it did then,
assuming that the packet format is set in stone. The format is set in
stone, but the packet offsets are not. There's nothing in the packet
format that guarantees that the packet will be sent in exactly the same
way. The attribute contents are set (or versioned) and the aggregate
contents are set but they can be anywhere in the packet.
The issue here isn't that an unaligned structure gets passed to userspace,
it's that the NLA infrastructure has something of a weakness: The 4 byte
attribute header may force the payload to be unaligned. The taskstats
structure is created at an unaligned location and then 64-bit values are
operated on inside the kernel, so the unaligned access warnings gets
spewed everywhere.
It's possible to use the unaligned access API to operate on the structure
in the kernel but it seems like a wasted effort to work around userspace
code that isn't following the packet format. Any new additions would also
need the be worked around. It's a maintenance nightmare.
The conclusion of the earlier discussion seemed to be "ok fine, if we have
to break it, don't break it on arches that don't have the problem." Dave
pointed out that the unaligned access problem doesn't only exist on ia64,
but also on other 64-bit arches that don't have efficient unaligned access
and it should be fixed there as well. The committed version of the patch
and this addition keep with the conclusion of that discussion not to break
it unnecessarily, which the pid padding and the packet padding fixes did
do. x86_64 and powerpc don't suffer this problem so they shouldn't suffer
the solution. Other 64-bit architectures do and will, though.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Reported-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org> Cc: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
NFC: Driver for NXP Semiconductors PN544 NFC chip.
Creates a new "Near Field Communication" subsystem in drivers/nfc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Field_Communication is useful ;)
This is a driver for the pn544 NFC device. The driver transfers
ETSI messages between the device and the user space.
Signed-off-by: Matti J. Aaltonen <matti.j.aaltonen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pavel Emelyanov [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:00:46 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
user_ns: improve the user_ns on-the-slab packaging
Currently on 64-bit arch the user_namespace is 2096 and when being
kmalloc-ed it resides on a 4k slab wasting 2003 bytes.
If we allocate a separate cache for it and reduce the hash size from 128
to 64 chains the packaging becomes *much* better - the struct is 1072
bytes and the hole between is 98 bytes.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/__initcall/module_init/] Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jovi Zhang [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:00:45 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
sysctl: remove obsolete comments
ctl_unnumbered.txt have been removed in Documentation directory so just
also remove this invalid comments
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix Documentation/sysctl/00-INDEX, per Dave] Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
rapidio: fix hang on RapidIO doorbell queue full condition
In fsl_rio_dbell_handler() the code currently simply acknowledges the QFI
queue full interrupt, but does nothing to resolve the queue full
condition. Instead, it jumps to the end of the isr. When a queue full
condition occurs, the isr is then re-entered immediately and continually,
forever.
The fix is to just fall through and read out current doorbell entries.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Taranowski <tom@baringforge.com> Cc: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Cc: Thomas Moll <thomas.moll@sysgo.com> Cc: Micha Nelissen <micha@neli.hopto.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
rapidio: use Component Tag for unified switch identification
Change the way how switchid value is set. Local counter variable does not
provide unified way to identify switch devices in a system with multiple
processors. Using local counter leads to the situation when the same RIO
switch has different switch ID for each processor. Replacing local
counter with unique portion of the Component Tag provides unified
reference to the switch by every processor in the system.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Cc: Thomas Moll <thomas.moll@sysgo.com> Cc: Micha Nelissen <micha@neli.hopto.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add setting links between rio_dev objects into the discovery process.
This needed to report device connections on agent (non-host) processors
that perform RIO discovery. Originally, these links have been introduced
for enumerating host only to support error management.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Cc: Thomas Moll <thomas.moll@sysgo.com> Cc: Micha Nelissen <micha@neli.hopto.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add definition of the unique device identifier field in the component tag.
RIO_CTAG_UDEVID does not take all 32 bits of the component tag value to
allow future extensions to the component tag use.
Selected size of the RIO_CTAG_UDEVID field (17 bits) is sufficient to
accommodate maximum number of endpoints in large RIO network (16-bit id)
plus switches.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Cc: Thomas Moll <thomas.moll@sysgo.com> Cc: Micha Nelissen <micha@neli.hopto.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Convert RIO switches device structures (rio_dev + rio_switch) into a
single allocation unit.
This change is based on the fact that RIO switches are using common RIO
device objects anyway. Allocating RIO switch objects as RIO devices with
added space for switch information simplifies handling of RIO switch
devices.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Cc: Thomas Moll <thomas.moll@sysgo.com> Cc: Micha Nelissen <micha@neli.hopto.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
rapidio: use common destid storage for endpoints and switches
Change code to use one storage location common for switches and endpoints.
This eliminates unnecessary device type checks during basic access
operations. Logic that assigns destid to RIO devices stays unchanged - as
before, switches use an associated destid because they do not have their
own.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Cc: Thomas Moll <thomas.moll@sysgo.com> Cc: Micha Nelissen <micha@neli.hopto.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Dave Anderson [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:00:36 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
/proc/kcore: fix seeking
Commit 34aacb2920 ("procfs: Use generic_file_llseek in /proc/kcore") broke
seeking on /proc/kcore. This changes it back to use default_llseek in
order to restore the original behavior.
The problem with generic_file_llseek is that it only allows seeks up to
inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes, which is 2GB-1 on procfs, where the memory file
offset values in the /proc/kcore PT_LOAD segments may exceed or start
beyond that offset value.
A similar revert was made for /proc/vmcore.
Signed-off-by: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Petr Holasek [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:00:34 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
kpagecount: add slab page checking because _mapcount is in a union
Add a PageSlab() check before adding the _mapcount value to /kpagecount.
page->_mapcount is in a union with the SLAB structure so for pages
controlled by SLAB, page_mapcount() returns nonsense.
Signed-off-by: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jesper Juhl [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:00:27 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
reiserfs: make sure va_end() is always called after va_start().
A call to va_start() must always be followed by a call to va_end() in the
same function. In fs/reiserfs/prints.c::print_block() this is not always
the case. If 'bh' is NULL we'll return without calling va_end().
One could add a call to va_end() before the 'return' statement, but it's
nicer to just move the call to va_start() after the test for 'bh' being
NULL.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Acked-by: Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Davide Libenzi [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:00:25 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
pipe: use event aware wakeups
Send the events the wakeup refers to, so that epoll, and even the new poll
code in fs/select.c can avoid wakeups if the events do not match the
requested set.
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wolfram Sang [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:00:23 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
gpiolib: annotate gpio-intialization with __must_check
Because GPIOs can have crucial functions especially in embedded systems,
we are better safe than sorry regarding their configuration. For
gpio_request, the documentation is simply enforced: <quote>"The return
value of gpio_request() must be checked."</quote> For gpio_direction_* and
gpio_request_*, we now act accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tomoya MORINAGA [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:00:22 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
gpio/ml_ioh_gpio: ML7213 GPIO driver
ML7213 is a companion chip for Intel Atom E6xx series. This driver can be
used for OKI SEMICONDUCTOR ML7213 IOH(Input/Output Hub) which is for
IVI(In-Vehicle Infotainment) use. This driver can access the IOH's GPIO
device.
Signed-off-by: Tomoya MORINAGA <tomoya-linux@dsn.okisemi.com> Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@stericsson.com> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@misterjones.org> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andres Salomon [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:00:12 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
cs5535: deprecate older cs5535_gpio driver
The newer drivers/gpio/cs5535-gpio.c replaces drivers/misc/cs5535_gpio.c.
The new driver has been in the tree for a little while, and has received
some testing; it's time to mark the old one as deprecated. I'm thinking
removal around 2.6.40 would be good, provided we're not missing critical
functionality in the newer driver.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org> Acked-by: Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andres Salomon [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:00:11 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
drivers/staging/olpc_dcon: convert to new cs5535 gpio API
Drop the old geode_gpio crud, as well as the raw outl() calls; instead,
use the Linux GPIO API where possible, and the cs5535_gpio API in other
places.
Note that we don't actually clean up the driver properly yet (once loaded,
it always remains loaded). That'll come later..
This patch is necessary for building the driver.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andres Salomon [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:00:10 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
drivers/gpio/cs5535-gpio.c: add some additional cs5535-specific GPIO functionality
This adds (well, re-adds actually) handling for events/IRQs through cs5535
GPIOs. In the wild and wooly world of CS5535, setup_event() is for
assigning an IRQ to a GPIO filter/event pair, and set_irq() sets up the
pair to trigger IRQs.
These should really only be used in highly platform-specific drivers (such
as OLPC's DCON driver). Sadly, because set_irq() uses MSRs, this causes
the driver to become X86-specific.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Paul Gortmaker [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:00:08 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
rtc: delete legacy MAINTAINERS entry
People stumble across the entry for the legacy PC specific RTC driver
entry in MAINTAINERS when they really want the multi-arch, multi-driver
RTC subsystem. So just delete the old entry that is causing the
confusion.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Paul Fox [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:00:07 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
rtc-cmos: fix suspend/resume
rtc-cmos was setting suspend/resume hooks at the device_driver level.
However, the platform bus code (drivers/base/platform.c) only looks for
resume hooks at the dev_pm_ops level, or within the platform_driver.
Switch rtc_cmos to use dev_pm_ops so that suspend/resume code is executed
again.
Paul said:
: The user visible symptom in our (XO laptop) case was that rtcwake would
: fail to wake the laptop. The RTC alarm would expire, but the wakeup
: wasn't unmasked.
:
: As for severity, the impact may have been reduced because if I recall
: correctly, the bug only affected platforms with CONFIG_PNP disabled.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fox <pgf@laptop.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.37.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Axel Lin [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:00:05 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
drivers/rtc/rtc-omap.c: fix a memory leak
request_mem_region() will call kzalloc to allocate memory for struct
resource. release_resource() unregisters the resource but does not free
the allocated memory, thus use release_mem_region() instead to fix the
memory leak.
Also add a missing iounmap() in omap_rtc_remove().
Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com> Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Acked-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Yannick Heneault [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:00:04 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
vgacon: check for efi machine
It seems there is a small problem of VGA palette corruption on EFI
machine. When the kernel initializes the architecture, it checks if the
machine is a EFI machine and assumes that a VGA console can exist.
When it initializes the console in vgacon_startup it checks if it can
really use the VGA console. I think this is where a check is missing.
Currently, the function can fail if a VESA boot mode is detected but not if
a EFI boot mode was used.
Thus vgacon_startup() doesn't fail and initialize the video card for a real
VGA mode. This function changes the first 16entries of the VGA palette.
When the efifb driver kicks in, the palette is not restored to default
ramp value, thus the 16 first entry remain in a modified state. The
following patch prevent this corruption.
Signed-off-by: Yannick Heneault <yheneaul@matrox.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Vasiliy Kulikov [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:00:00 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
fs/select.c: fix information leak to userspace
On some architectures __kernel_suseconds_t is int. On these archs struct
timeval has padding bytes at the end. This struct is copied to userspace
with these padding bytes uninitialized. This leads to leaking of contents
of kernel stack memory.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: avoid the memset on architectures which don't need it] Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Dave Jones [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:59:59 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
checkpatch: check for world-writeable sysfs/debugfs files
Exporting world writable sysfs/debugfs files is usually a bad thing. Warn
about it.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
David Rientjes [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:59:55 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
flex_array: export symbols to modules
Alex said:
I want to use flex_array to store a sparse array of ATM cell
re-assembly buffers for my ATM over Ethernet driver. Using the per-vcc
user_back structure causes problems when stacked with things like
br2684.
Add EXPORT_SYMBOL() for all publically accessible flex array functions
and move to obj-y so that modules may use this library.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Reported-by: Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There's a maintainer entry, but no named individual, so the script doesn't
use git history via --git-fallback.
This is also a defect for MAINTAINERS with status entries marked "Orphan"
or "Odd fixes".
The script now checks a section for any "M:" entry and that an "S:" entry
is supported or maintained. If both those conditions are not satisified,
use --git-fallback as appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Joe Perches [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:59:49 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
scripts/get_maintainer.pl: make --rolestats the default
This script now requires a user to add --norolestats to the command line
so it's harder to feed the output of this script to programs that send
mass emails.
Update --help to correct command line defaults.
Change version to 0.26.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Anton Arapov [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:59:49 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
lib/vsprintf.c: fix vscnprintf() if @size is == 0
vscnprintf() should return 0 if @size is == 0. Update the comment for it,
as @size is unsigned.
This change based on the code of commit b903c0b8899b46829a9b80ba55b61079b35940ec ("lib: fix scnprintf() if @size
is == 0") moves the real fix into vscnprinf() from scnprintf() and makes
scnprintf() call vscnprintf(), thus avoid code duplication.
Signed-off-by: Anton Arapov <aarapov@redhat.com> Acked-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Joe Perches [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:59:43 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
include/linux/printk.h: move console functions and variables together
There are many uses of printk_once(KERN_<level>, so add pr_<level>_once
macros to avoid printk_once(KERN_<level> pr_fmt(fmt).
Add an #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK for print_hex_dump and static inline void
functions for the #else cases to reduce embedded code size. Neaten and
organize the rest of the code.
This patch:
Move console functions and variables together.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Huang Ying [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:59:43 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
printk: use RCU to prevent potential lock contention in kmsg_dump
dump_list_lock is used to protect dump_list in kmsg_dumper implementation,
kmsg_dump() uses it to traverse dump_list too. But if there is contention
on the lock, kmsg_dump() will fail, and the valuable kernel message may be
lost.
This patch solves this issue with RCU. Because kmsg_dump() only read the
list, no lock is needed in kmsg_dump(). So that kmsg_dump() will never
fail because of lock contention.
Dan Carpenter [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:59:42 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
dca: remove unneeded NULL check
The return here doesn't release the locks or re-enable IRQs. But as
Andrew Morton points out, domain is never NULL. list_first_entry()
essentially never returns NULL and also we already verified that the list
is not empty.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Dan Rosenberg [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:59:41 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
kptr_restrict for hiding kernel pointers from unprivileged users
Add the %pK printk format specifier and the /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict
sysctl.
The %pK format specifier is designed to hide exposed kernel pointers,
specifically via /proc interfaces. Exposing these pointers provides an
easy target for kernel write vulnerabilities, since they reveal the
locations of writable structures containing easily triggerable function
pointers. The behavior of %pK depends on the kptr_restrict sysctl.
If kptr_restrict is set to 0, no deviation from the standard %p behavior
occurs. If kptr_restrict is set to 1, the default, if the current user
(intended to be a reader via seq_printf(), etc.) does not have CAP_SYSLOG
(currently in the LSM tree), kernel pointers using %pK are printed as 0's.
If kptr_restrict is set to 2, kernel pointers using %pK are printed as
0's regardless of privileges. Replacing with 0's was chosen over the
default "(null)", which cannot be parsed by userland %p, which expects
"(nil)".
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: check for IRQ context when !kptr_restrict, save an indent level, s/WARN/WARN_ONCE/]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixup]
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: fix kernel/sysctl.c warning] Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org> Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Amerigo Wang [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:59:39 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
kernel: clean up USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
For arch which needs USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS, it has to select
USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS, rather than leaving a choice to user, since they
don't provide their own implementions.
Also, move on_each_cpu() to kernel/smp.c, it is strange to put it in
kernel/softirq.c.
For arch which doesn't use USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS, e.g. blackfin, only
on_each_cpu() is compiled.
Signed-off-by: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Chris Ruffin [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:59:38 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
ihex: fix unused return value compiler warning
Fix unusued return value compiler warnings due to unchecked write() calls.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: correctly handle short writes] Signed-off-by: Chris Ruffin <cmruffin@gmail.com> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Shaohua Li [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:59:38 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h: make readmostly section correctly align
The readmostly section should end at a cacheline aligned address,
otherwise the last several data might share cachline with other data and
make the readmostly data still have cache bounce.
For example, in ia64, secpath_cachep is the last readmostly data, and it
shares cacheline with init_uts_ns.
Andrew Morton [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:59:37 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
include/linux/unaligned/packed_struct.h: use __packed
Cc: Will Newton <will.newton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:59:35 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
include/linux/kernel.h: abs(): fix handling of 32-bit unsigneds on 64-bit
Michal reports:
In the framebuffer subsystem the abs() macro is often used as a part of
the calculation of a Manhattan metric, which in turn is used as a measure
of similarity between video modes. The arguments of abs() are sometimes
unsigned numbers. This worked fine until commit a49c59c0 ("Make sure the
value in abs() does not get truncated if it is greater than 2^32:) , which
changed the definition of abs() to prevent truncation. As a result of
this change, in the following piece of code:
u32 a = 0, b = 1;
u32 c = abs(a - b);
'c' will end up with a value of 0xffffffff instead of the expected 0x1.
A problem caused by this change and visible by the end user is that
framebuffer drivers relying on functions from modedb.c will fail to find
high resolution video modes similar to that explicitly requested by the
user if an exact match cannot be found (see e.g.
Fix this by special-casing `long' types within abs().
This patch reduces x86_64 code size a bit - drivers/video/uvesafb.o shrunk
by 15 bytes, presumably because it is doing abs() on 4-byte quantities,
and expanding those to 8-byte longs adds code.
Occasionally the system gets into a state where the CMOS clock has gotten
slightly ahead of current time and the periodic update of RTC fails. The
message is a nuisance and repeats spamming the log.
Seiji Aguchi [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:59:30 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
kmsg_dump: add kmsg_dump() calls to the reboot, halt, poweroff and emergency_restart paths
We need to know the reason why system rebooted in support service.
However, we can't inform our customers of the reason because final
messages are lost on current Linux kernel.
This patch improves the situation above because the final messages are
saved by adding kmsg_dump() to reboot, halt, poweroff and
emergency_restart path.
Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Seiji Aguchi [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:59:29 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
kmsg_dump: constrain mtdoops and ramoops to perform their actions only for KMSG_DUMP_PANIC
This series aims to develop logging facility for enterprise use.
It is important to save kernel messages reliably on enterprise system
because they are helpful for diagnosing system.
This series add kmsg_dump() to the paths loosing kernel messages. The use
case is the following.
[Use case of reboot/poweroff/halt/emergency_restart]
My company has often experienced the followings in our support service.
- Customer's system suddenly reboots.
- Customers ask us to investigate the reason of the reboot.
We recognize the fact itself because boot messages remain in
/var/log/messages. However, we can't investigate the reason why the
system rebooted, because the last messages don't remain. And off course
we can't explain the reason.
We can solve above problem with this patch as follows.
Case1: reboot with command
- We can see "Restarting system with command:" or ""Restarting system.".
Case2: halt with command
- We can see "System halted.".
Case3: poweroff with command
- We can see " Power down.".
Case4: emergency_restart with sysrq.
- We can see "Sysrq:" outputted in __handle_sysrq().
Case5: emergency_restart with softdog.
- We can see "Initiating system reboot" in watchdog_fire().
So, we can distinguish the reason of reboot, poweroff, halt and emergency_restart.
If customer executed reboot command, you may think the customer should
know the fact. However, they often claim they don't execute the command
when they rebooted system by mistake.
No message remains on the current Linux kernel, so we can't show the proof
to the customer. This patch improves this situation.
This patch:
Alters mtdoops and ramoops to perform their actions only for
KMSG_DUMP_PANIC, KMSG_DUMP_OOPS and KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC because they would
like to log crashes only.
Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Akinobu Mita [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:59:28 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
uml: use simple_write_to_buffer()
Simplify write file operation for mmapper by using
simple_write_to_buffer().
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Randy Dunlap [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:59:27 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
uml: mmapper_kern needs MODULE_LICENSE
Add missing MODULE_LICENSE():
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in arch/um/drivers/mmapper_kern.o
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Greg Lonnon <glonnon@ridgerun.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Will Newton [Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:59:26 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
arch/um/drivers/line.c: safely iterate over list of winch handlers
unregister_winch() should use list_for_each_safe(), as it can delete from
the list.
Signed-off-by: Will Newton <will.newton@gmail.com> Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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