linux, branch v3.3

Linux 3.3

2012-03-18T23:15:34Z

Don't limit non-nested epoll paths

2012-03-18T19:25:04Z

Commit 28d82dc1c4ed ("epoll: limit paths") that I did to limit the number of possible wakeup paths in epoll is causing a few applications to longer work (dovecot for one). The original patch is really about limiting the amount of epoll nesting (since epoll fds can be attached to other fds). Thus, we probably can allow an unlimited number of paths of depth 1. My current patch limits it at 1000. And enforce the limits on paths that have a greater depth. This is captured in: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681578 Signed-off-by: Jason Baron Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2012-03-18T02:22:24Z

Pull networking changes from David Miller: "1) icmp6_dst_alloc() returns NULL instead of ERR_PTR() leading to crashes, particularly during shutdown. Reported by Dave Jones and fixed by Eric Dumazet. 2) hyperv and wimax/i2400m return NETDEV_TX_BUSY when they have already freed the SKB, which causes crashes as to the caller this means requeue the packet. Fixes from Eric Dumazet. 3) usbnet driver doesn't allocate the right amount of headroom on fresh RX SKBs, fix from Eric Dumazet. 4) Fix regression in ip6_mc_find_dev_rcu(), as an RCU lookup it abolutely should not take a reference to 'dev', this leads to leaks. Fix from RonQing Li. 5) Fix netfilter ctnetlink race between delete and timeout expiration. From Pablo Neira Ayuso. 6) Revert SFQ change which causes regressions, specifically queueing to tail can lead to unavoidable flow starvation. From Eric Dumazet. 7) Fix a memory leak and a crash on corrupt firmware files in bnx2x, from Michal Schmidt." * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: netfilter: ctnetlink: fix race between delete and timeout expiration ipv6: Don't dev_hold(dev) in ip6_mc_find_dev_rcu. wimax/i2400m: fix erroneous NETDEV_TX_BUSY use net/hyperv: fix erroneous NETDEV_TX_BUSY use net/usbnet: reserve headroom on rx skbs bnx2x: fix memory leak in bnx2x_init_firmware() bnx2x: fix a crash on corrupt firmware file sch_sfq: revert dont put new flow at the end of flows ipv6: fix icmp6_dst_alloc()

Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-03-17T16:54:16Z

Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar. * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf tools, x86: Build perf on older user-space as well perf tools: Use scnprintf where applicable perf tools: Incorrect use of snprintf results in SEGV

netfilter: ctnetlink: fix race between delete and timeout expiration

2012-03-17T08:47:08Z

Kerin Millar reported hardlockups while running `conntrackd -c' in a busy firewall. That system (with several processors) was acting as backup in a primary-backup setup. After several tries, I found a race condition between the deletion operation of ctnetlink and timeout expiration. This patch fixes this problem. Tested-by: Kerin Millar Reported-by: Kerin Millar Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6: Don't dev_hold(dev) in ip6_mc_find_dev_rcu.

2012-03-17T04:56:42Z

ip6_mc_find_dev_rcu() is called with rcu_read_lock(), so don't need to dev_hold(). With dev_hold(), not corresponding dev_put(), will lead to leak. [ bug introduced in 96b52e61be1 (ipv6: mcast: RCU conversions) ] Signed-off-by: RongQing.Li Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'akpm' (more patches from Andrew)

2012-03-17T00:14:55Z

Merge some more email patches from Andrew Morton: "A couple of nilfs fixes" * emailed from Andrew Morton : nilfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in nilfs_load_super_block() nilfs2: clamp ns_r_segments_percentage to [1, 99]

nilfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in nilfs_load_super_block()

2012-03-17T00:14:44Z

According to the report from Slicky Devil, nilfs caused kernel oops at nilfs_load_super_block function during mount after he shrank the partition without resizing the filesystem: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000048 IP: [] nilfs_load_super_block+0x17e/0x280 [nilfs2] *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ... Call Trace: [] init_nilfs+0x4b/0x2e0 [nilfs2] [] nilfs_mount+0x447/0x5b0 [nilfs2] [] mount_fs+0x36/0x180 [] vfs_kern_mount+0x51/0xa0 [] do_kern_mount+0x3e/0xe0 [] do_mount+0x169/0x700 [] sys_mount+0x6b/0xa0 [] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28 Code: 53 18 8b 43 20 89 4b 18 8b 4b 24 89 53 1c 89 43 24 89 4b 20 8b 43 20 c7 43 2c 00 00 00 00 23 75 e8 8b 50 68 89 53 28 8b 54 b3 20 <8b> 72 48 8b 7a 4c 8b 55 08 89 b3 84 00 00 00 89 bb 88 00 00 00 EIP: [] nilfs_load_super_block+0x17e/0x280 [nilfs2] SS:ESP 0068:ca9bbdcc CR2: 0000000000000048 This turned out due to a defect in an error path which runs if the calculated location of the secondary super block was invalid. This patch fixes it and eliminates the reported oops. Reported-by: Slicky Devil Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi Tested-by: Slicky Devil Cc: [2.6.30+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

nilfs2: clamp ns_r_segments_percentage to [1, 99]

2012-03-17T00:14:44Z

ns_r_segments_percentage is read from the disk. Bogus or malicious value could cause integer overflow and malfunction due to meaningless disk usage calculation. This patch reports error when mounting such bogus volumes. Signed-off-by: Haogang Chen Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security

2012-03-17T00:04:02Z

Pull maintainer update from James Morris: "Please pull this patch which adds Serge as maintainer of the capabilities code, as discussed on lwn and the lsm list. New capabilities must be signed off by the maintainer, and new uses of any capabilities should at be cc'd to the maintainer." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: MAINTAINERS: Add Serge as maintainer of capabilities