Hans Verkuil [Fri, 6 Aug 2010 15:48:00 +0000 (12:48 -0300)]
V4L/DVB: videotext: remove this obsolete API
Remove the vtx (aka videotext aka teletext) API from the v4l2 core.
This API was scheduled for removal in kernel 2.6.35.
The vtx device nodes have been superseded by vbi device nodes
for many years. No applications exist that use the vtx support.
Of the two i2c drivers that actually support this API the saa5249
has been impossible to use for a year now and no known hardware
that supports this device exists. The saa5246a is theoretically
supported by the old mxb boards, but it never actually worked.
In summary: there is no hardware that can use this API and there
are no applications actually implementing this API.
The vtx support still reserves minors 192-223 and we would really
like to reuse those for upcoming new functionality. In the unlikely
event that new hardware appears that wants to use the functionality
provided by the vtx API, then that functionality should be build
around the sliced VBI API instead.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
V4L/DVB: STV0288 Incorrect bit sample for Vitterbi status
bit 3(LK) indicates that the Vstatus is locked.
Currently using bit 7(CF) which is usually present, results in early
aborted search in FEC_AUTO and missing channels.
Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com> Cc: Igor M. Liplianin <liplianin@me.by> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
V4L/DVB: af9015: add USB ID for Terratec Cinergy T Stick RC MKII
Adding the USB ID for my TerraTec Electronic GmbH Cinergy T RC MKII
[0ccd:0097] and hooking it up into af9015, on top of your new NXP TDA18218
patches, makes it work for me.
Just the shipped IR remote control doesn't seem to create keycode events
yet (tested with different remote=%d parameters), are there any hints to
add support for that?
[ 2.250022] usb 1-10: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
[ 2.369287] usb 1-10: New USB device found, idVendor=0ccd, idProduct=0097
[ 2.369290] usb 1-10: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 2.369293] usb 1-10: Product: USB2.0 DVB-T TV Stick
[ 2.369294] usb 1-10: Manufacturer: NEWMI
[ 2.369296] usb 1-10: SerialNumber: 010101010600001
[ 2.534023] usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
[ 2.537235] input: NEWMI USB2.0 DVB-T TV Stick as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb1/1-10/1-10:1.1/input/input0
[ 2.537323] generic-usb 0003:0CCD:0097.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.01 Keyboard [NEWMI USB2.0 DVB-T TV Stick] on usb-0000:00:02.1-10/input1
[ 2.537349] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 2.537351] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[ 3.263177] generic-usb 0003:04D9:1603.0002: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [ USB Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:02.0-8.1/input0
[ 3.286946] generic-usb 0003:04D9:1603.0003: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.10 Device [ USB Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:02.0-8.1/input1
[ 3.467136] generic-usb 0003:046D:C050.0004: input,hidraw3: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:02.0-8.2/input0
[ 3.660890] generic-usb 0003:10D5:000D.0005: input,hidraw4: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [No brand SP02-A1] on usb-0000:00:02.0-8.3/input0
[ 5.567632] dvb-usb: found a 'TerraTec Cinergy T Stick RC' in cold state, will try to load a firmware
[ 5.693497] dvb-usb: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-usb-af9015.fw'
[ 5.773109] dvb-usb: found a 'TerraTec Cinergy T Stick RC' in warm state.
[ 5.773168] dvb-usb: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer.
[ 5.774290] DVB: registering new adapter (TerraTec Cinergy T Stick RC)
[ 6.007696] af9013: firmware version:5.1.0
[ 6.010843] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Afatech AF9013 DVB-T)...
[ 6.032697] tda18218: NXP TDA18218HN successfully identified.
[ 6.034442] dvb-usb: TerraTec Cinergy T Stick RC successfully initialized and connected.
[ 6.040612] usbcore: registered new interface driver dvb_usb_af9015
[mchehab@redhat.com: Fix merge conflict with another board addition] Signed-off-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de> Acked-by: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
lawrence rust [Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:50:20 +0000 (09:50 -0300)]
V4L/DVB: drivers/media: Make static data tables and strings const
Making static data const avoids allocation of additional r/w memory and
reduces initialisation time. It also provides some additional opportunities
for compiler optimisations.
Signed-off-by: Lawrence Rust <lvr@softsystem.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-dsp.c: In function ‘detect_a2_a2m_eiaj’:
drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-dsp.c:158: warning: ‘carrier_freq’ may be used uninitialized in this function
drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-dsp.c:158: warning: ‘stereo_freq’ may be used uninitialized in this function
drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-dsp.c:158: warning: ‘dual_freq’ may be used uninitialized in this function
V4L/DVB: v4l: Add a v4l2_subdev host private data field
The existing priv field stores subdev private data owned by the subdev
driver. Host (bridge) drivers might need to store per-subdev
host-specific data, such as a pointer to platform data.
Add a v4l2_subdev host_priv field to store host-specific data, and
rename the existing priv field to dev_priv.
lawrence rust [Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:49:58 +0000 (07:49 -0300)]
V4L/DVB: cx88: convert core->tvaudio into an enum
Using an enum and removing the default case from switch statements accessing
the value enables the compiler to emit a warning (enabled with -Wall) when an
audio mode is not handled.
This highlights an omission in the function cx88_dsp_detect_stereo_sap()
(in cx88-dsp.c) not handling WW_EIAJ and WW_M.
Signed-off-by: Lawrence Rust <lawrence@softsystem.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
This patch makes in-kernel decoding with the stock Streamzap PC Remote
work out of the box. There are quite a few things going on in this
patch, all related to getting this working:
1) I had to enable reporting of a long space at the end of each signal,
or I had weird buffering and keybounce issues.
2) The keymap has been reworked slightly to match actual decoded values,
the first edition was missing the pre-data bits present in the lirc
config file for this remote.
3) There's a whole new decoder included, specifically for the
not-quite-RC5 15-bit protocol variant used by the Streamzap PC
Remote. The decoder, while usable with other recievers (tested with
an mceusb receiver), will only be loaded by the streamzap driver, as
its likely not of use in almost all other situations. This can be
revisited if/when all keytable loading (and disabling of unneeded
protocol decoder engines) is moved to userspace, but for now, I think
this makes the most sense.
Note that I did try to enable handling the streamzap RC5-ish protocol in
the current RC5 decoder, but there's no particularly easy way to tell if
its 14-bit RC5 or 15-bit Streamzap until we see bit 14, and even then,
in testing an attempted decoder merge, only 2/3 of the keys were
properly recognized as being the 15-bit variant and decoded correctly,
the rest were close enough to compliant with 14-bit that they were
decoded as such (but they have overlap with one another, and thus we
can't just shrug and use the 14-bit decoded values).
Also of note in this patch is the removal of the streamzap driver's
internal delay buffer. Per discussion w/Christoph, it shouldn't be
needed by lirc any longer anyway, and it doesn't seem to make any
difference to the in-kernel decoder engine. That being the case, I'm
yanking it all out, as it greatly simplifies the driver code.
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
drivers/media/video/gspca/konica.c: In function ‘sd_start’:
drivers/media/video/gspca/konica.c:322: error: implicit declaration of function ‘usb_buffer_alloc’
drivers/media/video/gspca/konica.c:325: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
make[3]: ** [drivers/media/video/gspca/konica.o] Erro 1
Hans de Goede [Sun, 5 Sep 2010 10:03:48 +0000 (07:03 -0300)]
V4L/DVB: gspca_xirlink_cit: support bandwidth changing for devices with 1 alt setting
Some xirlink_cit models have only 1 alt setting, but the actual used
bandwidth can be programmed through a register use this to allow streaming
while other isoc streams (for example sound) are active at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Hans de Goede [Sun, 5 Sep 2010 19:05:22 +0000 (16:05 -0300)]
V4L/DVB: gspca_xirlink_cit: New gspca subdriver replacing v4l1 usbvideo/ibmcam.c
The old usbvideo ibmcam driver needs to be replaced with a v4l2 driver
preferably using the gspca webcam framework rather then the old usbvideo
framework.
This new gspca sub driver sets a first step in that direction. The ibmcam
driver supports 4 different model webcams. This new driver (for now) only
supports Model 3 cameras, as my test cam is a Model 3 cam, or so I thought.
Upon reading:
http://www.linux-usb.org/ibmcam/
I learned that the IBM Netcamera Pro I have even though having the same
usb id and the same bcd version is different from the Model 3 cameras
supported by the ibmcam driver. So this new gscpa subdriver supports Model 3
cameras (untested), and the IBM Netcamera Pro. Currently use with the
IBM Netcamera Pro requires a module parameter. I hope to be able to
autodetect which is which in the future.
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:18:21 +0000 (13:18 -0700)]
Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus
* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
MIPS: O32 compat/N32: Fix to use compat syscall wrappers for AIO syscalls.
MAINTAINERS: Change list for ioc_serial to linux-serial.
SERIAL: ioc3_serial: Return -ENOMEM on memory allocation failure
MIPS: jz4740: Fix Kbuild Platform file.
MIPS: Repair Kbuild make clean breakage.
Amit Shah [Wed, 20 Oct 2010 03:15:43 +0000 (13:45 +1030)]
virtio: console: Don't block entire guest if host doesn't read data
If the host is slow in reading data or doesn't read data at all,
blocking write calls not only blocked the program that called write()
but the entire guest itself.
To overcome this, let's not block till the host signals it has given
back the virtio ring element we passed it. Instead, send the buffer to
the host and return to userspace. This operation then becomes similar
to how non-blocking writes work, so let's use the existing code for this
path as well.
This code change also ensures blocking write calls do get blocked if
there's not enough room in the virtio ring as well as they don't return
-EAGAIN to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ralf Baechle [Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:32:41 +0000 (18:32 +0100)]
MAINTAINERS: Change list for ioc_serial to linux-serial.
IOC3 is also being used on SGI MIPS systems but this particular driver is
only being used on IA64 systems so linux-mips made no sense as a list. Pat
also thinks linux-serial@vger.kernel.org is the better list.
ret = 0
... when != ret = e1
*x = \(kmalloc\|kcalloc\|kzalloc\)(...)
... when != ret = e2
if (x == NULL) { ... when != ret = e3
return ret;
}
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
To: Pat Gefre <pfg@sgi.com> Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1704/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
David Daney [Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:51:26 +0000 (17:51 -0700)]
MIPS: Repair Kbuild make clean breakage.
When running make clean, Kbuild doesn't process the .config file, so nothing
generates a platform-y variable. We can get it to descend into the platform
directories by setting $(obj-).
The dec Platform file was unconditionally setting platform-, obliterating
its previous contents and preventing some directories from being cleaned.
This is change to an append operation '+=' to allow cavium-octeon to be
cleaned.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1718/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Avi Kivity [Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:46:55 +0000 (16:46 +0200)]
KVM: Fix fs/gs reload oops with invalid ldt
kvm reloads the host's fs and gs blindly, however the underlying segment
descriptors may be invalid due to the user modifying the ldt after loading
them.
Fix by using the safe accessors (loadsegment() and load_gs_index()) instead
of home grown unsafe versions.
This is CVE-2010-3698.
KVM-Stable-Tag. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:10:36 +0000 (13:10 -0700)]
Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus
* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
MIPS: Enable ISA_DMA_API config to fix build failure
MIPS: 32-bit: Fix build failure in asm/fcntl.h
MIPS: Remove all generated vmlinuz* files on "make clean"
MIPS: do_sigaltstack() expects userland pointers
MIPS: Fix error values in case of bad_stack
MIPS: Sanitize restart logics
MIPS: secure_computing, syscall audit: syscall number should in r2, not r0.
MIPS: Don't block signals if we'd failed to setup a sigframe
Sascha Hauer [Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:16:26 +0000 (10:16 +0200)]
mxc_nand: do not depend on disabling the irq in the interrupt handler
This patch reverts the driver to enabling/disabling the NFC interrupt
mask rather than enabling/disabling the system interrupt. This cleans
up the driver so that it doesn't rely on interrupts being disabled
within the interrupt handler.
For i.MX21 we keep the current behaviour, that is calling
enable_irq/disable_irq_nosync to enable/disable interrupts. This patch
is based on earlier work by John Ogness.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Tested-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:05:10 +0000 (13:05 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus/i2c/2636-rc8' of git://git.fluff.org/bjdooks/linux
* 'for-linus/i2c/2636-rc8' of git://git.fluff.org/bjdooks/linux:
i2c-imx: do not allow interruptions when waiting for I2C to complete
i2c-davinci: Fix TX setup for more SoCs
Namhyung Kim [Mon, 18 Oct 2010 03:55:21 +0000 (12:55 +0900)]
MIPS: Enable ISA_DMA_API config to fix build failure
Add ISA_DMA_API config item and select it when GENERIC_ISA_DMA enabled.
This fixes build failure on allmodconfig like following:
CC sound/isa/es18xx.o
sound/isa/es18xx.c: In function 'snd_es18xx_playback1_prepare':
sound/isa/es18xx.c:501:9: error: implicit declaration of function 'snd_dma_program'
sound/isa/es18xx.c: In function 'snd_es18xx_playback_pointer':
sound/isa/es18xx.c:818:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'snd_dma_pointer'
make[3]: *** [sound/isa/es18xx.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [sound/isa/es18xx.o] Error 2
make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
Al Viro [Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:50:37 +0000 (18:50 +0100)]
MIPS: Sanitize restart logics
Put the original syscall number into ->regs[0] when we leave syscall
with error. Use it in restart logics. Everything else will have
it 0 since we pass through SAVE_SOME on all the ways in. Note that
in places like bad_stack and inllegal_syscall we leave it 0 - it's not
restartable.
Daniel Mack [Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:43:30 +0000 (08:43 -0700)]
Input: evdev - fix Ooops in EVIOCGABS/EVIOCSABS
This fixes a regression introduced by the dynamic allocation of absinfo
for input devices. We need to bail out early for input devices which
don't have absolute axis.
i2c-imx: do not allow interruptions when waiting for I2C to complete
The i2c_imx_trx_complete() function is using
wait_event_interruptible_timeout() to wait for the I2C controller to
signal that it has completed an I2C bus operation. If the process that
causes the I2C operation receives a signal, the wait will be
interrupted, returning an error. It is better to let the I2C operation
finished before handling the signal (i.e. returning into userspace).
It is safe to use wait_event_timeout() instead, because the timeout
will allow the process to exit if the I2C bus hangs. It's also better
to allow the I2C operation to finish, because unacknowledged I2C
operations can cause the I2C bus to hang.
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Sudhakar Rajashekhara explains that at least OMAP-L138 requires MDR mode
settings before DXR for correct behaviour, so load MDR first with
STT cleared and later load again with STT set.
Tested on DM355 connected to Techwell TW2836 and Wolfson WM8985
Signed-off-by: Jon Povey <jon.povey@racelogic.co.uk> Acked-by: Troy Kisky <troy.kisky@boundarydevices.com> Tested-by: Sudhakar Rajashekhara <sudhakar.raj@ti.com> Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Stefan Richter [Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:09:12 +0000 (14:09 +0200)]
firewire: ohci: fix TI TSB82AA2 regression since 2.6.35
Revert commit 54672386ccf36ffa21d1de8e75624af83f9b0eeb
"firewire: ohci: fix up configuration of TI chips".
It caused massive slow-down and data corruption with a TSB82AA2 based
StarTech EC1394B2 ExpressCard and FireWire 800 harddisks.
The fact that some card EEPROMs do not program these enhancements may be
related to TSB81BA3 phy chip errata, if not to bugs of TSB82AA2 itself.
We could re-add these configuration steps, but only conditional on a
whitelist of cards on which these enhancements bring a proven positive
effect.
Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Shattow <lucent@gmail.com> Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> 2.6.35 Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Clemens Ladisch [Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:06:18 +0000 (12:06 +0200)]
ALSA: rawmidi: fix oops (use after free) when unloading a driver module
When a driver module is unloaded and the last still open file is a raw
MIDI device, the card and its devices will be actually freed in the
snd_card_file_remove() call when that file is closed. Afterwards, rmidi
and rmidi->card point into freed memory, so the module pointer is likely
to be garbage.
(This was introduced by commit 9a1b64caac82aa02cb74587ffc798e6f42c6170a.)
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Reported-by: Krzysztof Foltman <wdev@foltman.com> Cc: 2.6.30-2.6.35 <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
and it's used all over the place (including quite a few places where
we currently have sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, set, NULL), which is what
it's equivalent to). With that done, m32r doesn't use _BLOCKABLE
anywhere, so it got removed. And that chunk got picked when I'd been
reordering the queue to pull the arch-specific fixes in front.
Sorry."
Eric Paris [Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:34:14 +0000 (14:34 -0700)]
types.h: define __aligned_u64 and expose to userspace
We currently have a kernel internal type called aligned_u64 which aligns
__u64's on 8 bytes boundaries even on systems which would normally align
them on 4 byte boundaries. This patch creates a new type __aligned_u64
which does the same thing but which is exposed to userspace rather than
being kernel internal.
[akpm: merge early as both the net and audit trees want this]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: enhance the comment describing the reasons for using aligned_u64. Via Andreas and Andi.] Based-on-patch-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
FUJITA Tomonori [Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:34:13 +0000 (14:34 -0700)]
uml: fix build
Fix a build error introduced by d6d1b650ae6acce73d55dd024 ("param: simple
locking for sysfs-writable charp parameters").
CC arch/um/kernel/trap.o
arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c: In function 'hostaudio_open':
arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c:204: error: '__param_dsp' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c:204: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c:204: error: for each function it appears in.)
arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c: In function 'hostmixer_open_mixdev':
arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c:265: error: '__param_mixer' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c:272: error: '__param_dsp' undeclared (first use in this function)
Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> Tested-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Eric Dumazet [Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:34:12 +0000 (14:34 -0700)]
sysctl: min/max bounds are optional
sysctl check complains with a WARN() when proc_doulongvec_minmax() or
proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax() are used by a vector of longs (with
more than one element), with no min or max value specified.
This is unexpected, given we had a bug on this min/max handling :)
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 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>
The compat code for the VIDIOCSMICROCODE ioctl is totally buggered.
It's only used by the VIDEO_STRADIS driver, and that one is scheduled to
staging and eventually removed unless somebody steps up to maintain it
(at which point it should use request_firmware() rather than some magic
ioctl). So we'll get rid of it eventually.
But in the meantime, the compatibility ioctl code is broken, and this
tries to get it to at least limp along (even if Mauro suggested just
deleting it entirely, which may be the right thing to do - I don't think
the compatibility translation code has ever worked unless you were very
lucky).
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:09:28 +0000 (11:09 -0700)]
De-pessimize rds_page_copy_user
Don't try to "optimize" rds_page_copy_user() by using kmap_atomic() and
the unsafe atomic user mode accessor functions. It's actually slower
than the straightforward code on any reasonable modern CPU.
Back when the code was written (although probably not by the time it was
actually merged, though), 32-bit x86 may have been the dominant
architecture. And there kmap_atomic() can be a lot faster than kmap()
(unless you have very good locality, in which case the virtual address
caching by kmap() can overcome all the downsides).
But these days, x86-64 may not be more populous, but it's getting there
(and if you care about performance, it's definitely already there -
you'd have upgraded your CPU's already in the last few years). And on
x86-64, the non-kmap_atomic() version is faster, simply because the code
is simpler and doesn't have the "re-try page fault" case.
People with old hardware are not likely to care about RDS anyway, and
the optimization for the 32-bit case is simply buggy, since it doesn't
verify the user addresses properly.
Reported-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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