[BRIDGE]: Fix faulty check in br_stp_recalculate_bridge_id()
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.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Andrea Bittau [Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:26:15 +0000 (14:26 -0800)]
[DCCP]: Notify CCID only after ACK vectors have been processed.
The CCID should be notified of packet reception only when a packet is
valid. Therefore, the ACK vector needs to be processed before
notifying the CCID. Also, the CCID might need information provided by
the ACK vector.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Andrea Bittau [Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:25:49 +0000 (14:25 -0800)]
[DCCP]: Send an ACK vector when ACKing a response packet
If ACK vectors are used, each packet with an ACK should contain an ACK
vector. The only exception currently is response packets. It
probably is not a good idea to store ACK vector state before the
connection is completed (to help protect from syn floods).
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Andrea Bittau [Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:25:17 +0000 (14:25 -0800)]
[DCCP]: Do not process a packet twice when it's not in state DCCP_OPEN.
When packets are received, the connection is either in DCCP_OPEN
[fast-path] or it isn't. If it's not [e.g. DCCP_PARTOPEN] upper
layers will perform sanity checks and parse options. If it is in
DCCP_OPEN, dccp_rcv_established() will do it. It is important not to
re-parse options in dccp_rcv_established() when it is not called from
the fast-path. Else, fore example, the ack vector will be added twice
and the CCID will see the packet twice.
The solution is to always enfore sanity checks from the upper layers.
When packets arrive in the fast-path, sanity checks will be performed
before calling dccp_rcv_established().
Note(acme): I rewrote the patch to achieve the same result but keeping
dccp_rcv_established with the previous semantics and having it split
into __dccp_rcv_established, that doesn't does do any sanity check,
code in state != DCCP_OPEN use this lighter version as they already do
the sanity checks.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The attached patch makes DECnet routing only use routers from the same
area - rather than the highest rated router seen.
In theory there should not be an out-of-area router on a local network
but some networks are bridged rather than properly routed. VMS seems
to behave similarly: if I bring up a VMS node with no router then it
can't see anything else on the global network.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Caulfield <patrick@tykepenguin.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Roberto Nibali [Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:22:59 +0000 (14:22 -0800)]
[IPVS]: Cleanup IP_VS_DBG statements.
From: Roberto Nibali <ratz@drugphish.ch>
The attached patch (against current -GIT) is a cleanup patch which does
following:
o lookup debug messages shifted back to 9
o added more informational value to flags and refcnt since those
entries can be in multiple referenced structures
o cleanup 80 char violation
It's the prepatch to the session pool implementation and helps very much
to debug and monitor important variables and structures regarding the
threshold limitation and persistency without the thousands of lookup
messages which noone is interested in.
Signed-off-by: Horms <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently all network protocols need to call dev_ioctl as the default
fallback in their ioctl implementations. This patch adds a fallback
to dev_ioctl to sock_ioctl if the protocol returned -ENOIOCTLCMD.
This way all the procotol ioctl handlers can be simplified and we don't
need to export dev_ioctl.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[AF_UNIX]: Convert to use a spinlock instead of rwlock
From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
In af_unix, a rwlock is used to protect internal state. At least on my
P4 with HT it is faster to use a spinlock due to the simpler memory
barrier used to unlock. This patch raises bw_unix to ~690K/s.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In __alloc_skb(), the use of skb_shinfo() which casts a u8 * to the
shared info structure results in gcc being forced to do a reload of the
pointer since it has no information on possible aliasing. Fix this by
using a pointer to refer to skb_shared_info.
By initializing skb_shared_info sequentially, the write combining buffers
can reduce the number of memory transactions to a single write. Reorder
the initialization in __alloc_skb() to match the structure definition.
There is also an alignment issue on 64 bit systems with skb_shared_info
by converting nr_frags to a short everything packs up nicely.
Also, pass the slab cache pointer according to the fclone flag instead
of using two almost identical function calls.
This raises bw_unix performance up to a peak of 707KB/s when combined
with the spinlock patch. It should help other networking protocols, too.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
David S. Miller [Wed, 28 Dec 2005 04:57:40 +0000 (20:57 -0800)]
[PPPOX]: Fix assignment into const proto_ops.
And actually, with this, the whole pppox layer can basically
be removed and subsumed into pppoe.c, no other pppox sub-protocol
implementation exists and we've had this thing for at least 4
years.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Its common enough to to justify that, TCP still can't use it as it has the
prequeueing stuff, still to be made generic in the not so distant future :-)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mid-term I plan to restructure the file_operations so that we don't need
to have all these duplicate aio and vectored versions. This patch is
a small step in that direction but also a worthwile cleanup on it's own:
(1) introduce a alloc_sock_iocb helper that encapsulates allocating a
proper sock_iocb
(2) add do_sock_read and do_sock_write helpers for common read/write
code
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jaco Kroon [Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:51:46 +0000 (12:51 -0800)]
[PKTGEN]: Deinitialise static variables.
static variables should not be explicitly initialised to 0. This causes
them to be placed in .data instead of .bss. This patch de-initialises 3
static variables in net/core/pktgen.c.
There are approximately 800 more such variables in the source tree
(2.6.15rc5). If there is more interrest I'd be willing to track down the
rest of these as well and de-initialise them as well.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Eric Dumazet [Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:49:22 +0000 (12:49 -0800)]
[NET]: move struct proto_ops to const
I noticed that some of 'struct proto_ops' used in the kernel may share
a cache line used by locks or other heavily modified data. (default
linker alignement is 32 bytes, and L1_CACHE_LINE is 64 or 128 at
least)
This patch makes sure a 'struct proto_ops' can be declared as const,
so that all cpus can share all parts of it without false sharing.
This is not mandatory : a driver can still use a read/write structure
if it needs to (and eventually a __read_mostly)
I made a global stubstitute to change all existing occurences to make
them const.
This should reduce the possibility of false sharing on SMP, and
speedup some socket system calls.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Frank Filz [Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:36:46 +0000 (11:36 -0800)]
[SCTP]: Update SCTP_PEER_ADDR_PARAMS socket option to the latest api draft.
This patch adds support to set/get heartbeat interval, maximum number of
retransmissions, pathmtu, sackdelay time for a particular transport/
association/socket as per the latest SCTP sockets api draft11.
Signed-off-by: Frank Filz <ffilz@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Replace cube root algorithim with a faster version using Newton-Raphson.
Surprisingly, doing the scaled div64_64 is faster than a true 64 bit
division on 64 bit CPU's.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Here is a new feature for netem in 2.6.16. It adds the ability to
randomly corrupt packets with netem. A version was done by
Hagen Paul Pfeifer, but I redid it to handle the cases of backwards
compatibility with netlink interface and presence of hardware checksum
offload. It is useful for testing hardware offload in devices.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[BRIDGE]: handle speed detection after carrier changes
Speed of a interface may not be available until carrier
is detected in the case of autonegotiation. To get the correct value
we need to recheck speed after carrier event. But the check needs to
be done in a context that is similar to normal ethtool interface (can sleep).
Also, delay check for 1ms to try avoid any carrier bounce transitions.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[BRIDGE]: allow setting hardware address of bridge pseudo-dev
Some people are using bridging to hide multiple machines from an ISP
that restricts by MAC address. So in that case allow the bridge mac
address to be set to any of the existing interfaces. I don't want to
allow any arbitrary value and confuse STP.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[IP_SOCKGLUE]: Remove most of the tcp specific calls
As DCCP needs to be called in the same spots.
Now we have a member in inet_sock (is_icsk), set at sock creation time from
struct inet_protosw->flags (if INET_PROTOSW_ICSK is set, like for TCP and
DCCP) to see if a struct sock instance is a inet_connection_sock for places
like the ones in ip_sockglue.c (v4 and v6) where we previously were looking if
sk_type was SOCK_STREAM, that is insufficient because we now use the same code
for DCCP, that has sk_type SOCK_DCCP.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
So that we can share several timewait sockets related functions and
make the timewait mini sockets infrastructure closer to the request
mini sockets one.
Next changesets will take advantage of this, moving more code out of
TCP and DCCP v4 and v6 to common infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[DCCP]: Prepare the AF agnostic core for the introduction of DCCPv6
Basically exports a similar set of functions as the one exported by
the non-AF specific TCP code.
In the process moved some non-AF specific code from dccp_v4_connect to
dccp_connect_init and moved the checksum verification from
dccp_invalid_packet to dccp_v4_rcv, so as to use it in dccp_v6_rcv
too.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Out of tcp6_timewait_sock, that now is just an aggregation of
inet_timewait_sock and inet6_timewait_sock, using tw_ipv6_offset in struct
inet_timewait_sock, that is common to the IPv6 transport protocols that use
timewait sockets, like DCCP and TCP.
tw_ipv6_offset plays the struct inet_sock pinfo6 role, i.e. for the generic
code to find the IPv6 area in a timewait sock.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Benjamin LaHaise [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 07:22:32 +0000 (23:22 -0800)]
[AF_UNIX]: Remove superfluous reference counting in unix_stream_sendmsg
AF_UNIX stream socket performance on P4 CPUs tends to suffer due to a
lot of pipeline flushes from atomic operations. The patch below
removes the sock_hold() and sock_put() in unix_stream_sendmsg(). This
should be safe as the socket still holds a reference to its peer which
is only released after the file descriptor's final user invokes
unix_release_sock(). The only consideration is that we must add a
memory barrier before setting the peer initially.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <benjamin.c.lahaise@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Benjamin LaHaise [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 07:22:19 +0000 (23:22 -0800)]
[NET]: Avoid atomic xchg() for non-error case
It also looks like there were 2 places where the test on sk_err was
missing from the event wait logic (in sk_stream_wait_connect and
sk_stream_wait_memory), while the rest of the sock_error() users look
to be doing the right thing. This version of the patch fixes those,
and cleans up a few places that were testing ->sk_err directly.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <benjamin.c.lahaise@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Herbert Xu [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 07:16:37 +0000 (23:16 -0800)]
[IP]: Simplify and consolidate MSG_PEEK error handling
When a packet is obtained from skb_recv_datagram with MSG_PEEK enabled
it is left on the socket receive queue. This means that when we detect
a checksum error we have to be careful when trying to free the packet
as someone could have dequeued it in the time being.
Currently this delicate logic is duplicated three times between UDPv4,
UDPv6 and RAWv6. This patch moves them into a one place and simplifies
the code somewhat.
This is based on a suggestion by Eric Dumazet.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
More work is needed tho to introduce inet6_request_sock from
tcp6_request_sock, in the same layout considerations as ipv6_pinfo in
inet_sock, next changeset will do that.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Herbert Xu [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 07:14:27 +0000 (23:14 -0800)]
[IPV4]: Safer reassembly
Another spin of Herbert Xu's "safer ip reassembly" patch
for 2.6.16.
(The original patch is here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=112281936522415&w=2
and my only contribution is to have tested it.)
This patch (optionally) does additional checks before accepting IP
fragments, which can greatly reduce the possibility of reassembling
fragments which originated from different IP datagrams.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner <akepner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Bart De Schuymer [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 07:14:08 +0000 (23:14 -0800)]
[NETFILTER] ebtables: Support nf_log API from ebt_log and ebt_ulog
This makes ebt_log and ebt_ulog use the new nf_log api. This enables
the bridging packet filter to log packets e.g. via nfnetlink_log.
Signed-off-by: Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be> Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Eric Dumazet [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 07:13:48 +0000 (23:13 -0800)]
[NETFILTER] ip_tables: NUMA-aware allocation
Part of a performance problem with ip_tables is that memory allocation
is not NUMA aware, but 'only' SMP aware (ie each CPU normally touch
separate cache lines)
Even with small iptables rules, the cost of this misplacement can be
high on common workloads. Instead of using one vmalloc() area
(located in the node of the iptables process), we now allocate an area
for each possible CPU, using vmalloc_node() so that memory should be
allocated in the CPU's node if possible.
Port to arp_tables and ip6_tables by Harald Welte.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Replace existing BIC version 1.1 with new version 2.0.
The main change is to replace the window growth function
with a cubic function as described in:
http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/cubic-paper.pdf
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Trent Jaeger [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 07:12:40 +0000 (23:12 -0800)]
[LSM-IPSec]: Per-packet access control.
This patch series implements per packet access control via the
extension of the Linux Security Modules (LSM) interface by hooks in
the XFRM and pfkey subsystems that leverage IPSec security
associations to label packets. Extensions to the SELinux LSM are
included that leverage the patch for this purpose.
This patch implements the changes necessary to the SELinux LSM to
create, deallocate, and use security contexts for policies
(xfrm_policy) and security associations (xfrm_state) that enable
control of a socket's ability to send and receive packets.
Patch purpose:
The patch is designed to enable the SELinux LSM to implement access
control on individual packets based on the strongly authenticated
IPSec security association. Such access controls augment the existing
ones in SELinux based on network interface and IP address. The former
are very coarse-grained, and the latter can be spoofed. By using
IPSec, the SELinux can control access to remote hosts based on
cryptographic keys generated using the IPSec mechanism. This enables
access control on a per-machine basis or per-application if the remote
machine is running the same mechanism and trusted to enforce the
access control policy.
Patch design approach:
The patch's main function is to authorize a socket's access to a IPSec
policy based on their security contexts. Since the communication is
implemented by a security association, the patch ensures that the
security association's negotiated and used have the same security
context. The patch enables allocation and deallocation of such
security contexts for policies and security associations. It also
enables copying of the security context when policies are cloned.
Lastly, the patch ensures that packets that are sent without using a
IPSec security assocation with a security context are allowed to be
sent in that manner.
A presentation available at
www.selinux-symposium.org/2005/presentations/session2/2-3-jaeger.pdf
from the SELinux symposium describes the overall approach.
Patch implementation details:
The function which authorizes a socket to perform a requested
operation (send/receive) on a IPSec policy (xfrm_policy) is
selinux_xfrm_policy_lookup. The Netfilter and rcv_skb hooks ensure
that if a IPSec SA with a securit y association has not been used,
then the socket is allowed to send or receive the packet,
respectively.
The patch implements SELinux function for allocating security contexts
when policies (xfrm_policy) are created via the pfkey or xfrm_user
interfaces via selinux_xfrm_policy_alloc. When a security association
is built, SELinux allocates the security context designated by the
XFRM subsystem which is based on that of the authorized policy via
selinux_xfrm_state_alloc.
When a xfrm_policy is cloned, the security context of that policy, if
any, is copied to the clone via selinux_xfrm_policy_clone.
When a xfrm_policy or xfrm_state is freed, its security context, if
any is also freed at selinux_xfrm_policy_free or
selinux_xfrm_state_free.
Testing:
The SELinux authorization function is tested using ipsec-tools. We
created policies and security associations with particular security
contexts and added SELinux access control policy entries to verify the
authorization decision. We also made sure that packets for which no
security context was supplied (which either did or did not use
security associations) were authorized using an unlabelled context.
Signed-off-by: Trent Jaeger <tjaeger@cse.psu.edu> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Trent Jaeger [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 07:12:27 +0000 (23:12 -0800)]
[LSM-IPSec]: Security association restriction.
This patch series implements per packet access control via the
extension of the Linux Security Modules (LSM) interface by hooks in
the XFRM and pfkey subsystems that leverage IPSec security
associations to label packets. Extensions to the SELinux LSM are
included that leverage the patch for this purpose.
This patch implements the changes necessary to the XFRM subsystem,
pfkey interface, ipv4/ipv6, and xfrm_user interface to restrict a
socket to use only authorized security associations (or no security
association) to send/receive network packets.
Patch purpose:
The patch is designed to enable access control per packets based on
the strongly authenticated IPSec security association. Such access
controls augment the existing ones based on network interface and IP
address. The former are very coarse-grained, and the latter can be
spoofed. By using IPSec, the system can control access to remote
hosts based on cryptographic keys generated using the IPSec mechanism.
This enables access control on a per-machine basis or per-application
if the remote machine is running the same mechanism and trusted to
enforce the access control policy.
Patch design approach:
The overall approach is that policy (xfrm_policy) entries set by
user-level programs (e.g., setkey for ipsec-tools) are extended with a
security context that is used at policy selection time in the XFRM
subsystem to restrict the sockets that can send/receive packets via
security associations (xfrm_states) that are built from those
policies.
A presentation available at
www.selinux-symposium.org/2005/presentations/session2/2-3-jaeger.pdf
from the SELinux symposium describes the overall approach.
Patch implementation details:
On output, the policy retrieved (via xfrm_policy_lookup or
xfrm_sk_policy_lookup) must be authorized for the security context of
the socket and the same security context is required for resultant
security association (retrieved or negotiated via racoon in
ipsec-tools). This is enforced in xfrm_state_find.
On input, the policy retrieved must also be authorized for the socket
(at __xfrm_policy_check), and the security context of the policy must
also match the security association being used.
The patch has virtually no impact on packets that do not use IPSec.
The existing Netfilter (outgoing) and LSM rcv_skb hooks are used as
before.
Also, if IPSec is used without security contexts, the impact is
minimal. The LSM must allow such policies to be selected for the
combination of socket and remote machine, but subsequent IPSec
processing proceeds as in the original case.
Testing:
The pfkey interface is tested using the ipsec-tools. ipsec-tools have
been modified (a separate ipsec-tools patch is available for version
0.5) that supports assignment of xfrm_policy entries and security
associations with security contexts via setkey and the negotiation
using the security contexts via racoon.
The xfrm_user interface is tested via ad hoc programs that set
security contexts. These programs are also available from me, and
contain programs for setting, getting, and deleting policy for testing
this interface. Testing of sa functions was done by tracing kernel
behavior.
Signed-off-by: Trent Jaeger <tjaeger@cse.psu.edu> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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>
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