linux/Documentation, branch v3.10.26

libata: disable a disk via libata.force params

2014-01-09T20:24:23Z

commit b8bd6dc36186fe99afa7b73e9e2d9a98ad5c4865 upstream. A user on StackExchange had a failing SSD that's soldered directly onto the motherboard of his system. The BIOS does not give any option to disable it at all, so he can't just hide it from the OS via the BIOS. The old IDE layer had hdX=noprobe override for situations like this, but that was never ported to the libata layer. This patch implements a disable flag for libata.force. Example use: libata.force=2.0:disable [v2 of the patch, removed the nodisable flag per Tejun Heo] Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Link: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/102648/how-to-tell-linux-kernel-3-0-to-completely-ignore-a-failing-disk Link: http://askubuntu.com/questions/352836/how-can-i-tell-linux-kernel-to-completely-ignore-a-disk-as-if-it-was-not-even-co Link: http://superuser.com/questions/599333/how-to-disable-kernel-probing-for-drive Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

libata: Add atapi_dmadir force flag

2014-01-09T20:24:23Z

commit 966fbe193f47c68e70a80ec9991098e88e7959cb upstream. Some device require DMADIR to be enabled, but are not detected as such by atapi_id_dmadir. One such example is "Asus Serillel 2" SATA-host-to-PATA-device bridge: the bridge itself requires DMADIR, even if the bridged device does not. As atapi_dmadir module parameter can cause problems with some devices (as per Tejun Heo's memory), enabling it globally may not be possible depending on the hardware. This patch adds atapi_dmadir in the form of a "force" horkage value, allowing global, per-bus and per-device control. Signed-off-by: Vincent Pelletier Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tcp: tsq: restore minimal amount of queueing

2013-12-08T15:29:24Z

[ Upstream commit 98e09386c0ef4dfd48af7ba60ff908f0d525cdee ] After commit c9eeec26e32e ("tcp: TSQ can use a dynamic limit"), several users reported throughput regressions, notably on mvneta and wifi adapters. 802.11 AMPDU requires a fair amount of queueing to be effective. This patch partially reverts the change done in tcp_write_xmit() so that the minimal amount is sysctl_tcp_limit_output_bytes. It also remove the use of this sysctl while building skb stored in write queue, as TSO autosizing does the right thing anyway. Users with well behaving NICS and correct qdisc (like sch_fq), can then lower the default sysctl_tcp_limit_output_bytes value from 128KB to 8KB. This new usage of sysctl_tcp_limit_output_bytes permits each driver authors to check how their driver performs when/if the value is set to a minimum of 4KB. Normally, line rate for a single TCP flow should be possible, but some drivers rely on timers to perform TX completion and too long TX completion delays prevent reaching full throughput. Fixes: c9eeec26e32e ("tcp: TSQ can use a dynamic limit") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reported-by: Sujith Manoharan Reported-by: Arnaud Ebalard Tested-by: Sujith Manoharan Cc: Felix Fietkau Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vsprintf: check real user/group id for %pK

2013-12-04T18:56:06Z

commit 312b4e226951f707e120b95b118cbc14f3d162b2 upstream. Some setuid binaries will allow reading of files which have read permission by the real user id. This is problematic with files which use %pK because the file access permission is checked at open() time, but the kptr_restrict setting is checked at read() time. If a setuid binary opens a %pK file as an unprivileged user, and then elevates permissions before reading the file, then kernel pointer values may be leaked. This happens for example with the setuid pppd application on Ubuntu 12.04: $ head -1 /proc/kallsyms 00000000 T startup_32 $ pppd file /proc/kallsyms pppd: In file /proc/kallsyms: unrecognized option 'c1000000' This will only leak the pointer value from the first line, but other setuid binaries may leak more information. Fix this by adding a check that in addition to the current process having CAP_SYSLOG, that effective user and group ids are equal to the real ids. If a setuid binary reads the contents of a file which uses %pK then the pointer values will be printed as NULL if the real user is unprivileged. Update the sysctl documentation to reflect the changes, and also correct the documentation to state the kptr_restrict=0 is the default. This is a only temporary solution to the issue. The correct solution is to do the permission check at open() time on files, and to replace %pK with a function which checks the open() time permission. %pK uses in printk should be removed since no sane permission check can be done, and instead protected by using dmesg_restrict. Signed-off-by: Ryan Mallon Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Joe Perches Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tcp: TSO packets automatic sizing

2013-11-04T12:30:59Z

[ Upstream commits 6d36824e730f247b602c90e8715a792003e3c5a7, 02cf4ebd82ff0ac7254b88e466820a290ed8289a, and parts of 7eec4174ff29cd42f2acfae8112f51c228545d40 ] After hearing many people over past years complaining against TSO being bursty or even buggy, we are proud to present automatic sizing of TSO packets. One part of the problem is that tcp_tso_should_defer() uses an heuristic relying on upcoming ACKS instead of a timer, but more generally, having big TSO packets makes little sense for low rates, as it tends to create micro bursts on the network, and general consensus is to reduce the buffering amount. This patch introduces a per socket sk_pacing_rate, that approximates the current sending rate, and allows us to size the TSO packets so that we try to send one packet every ms. This field could be set by other transports. Patch has no impact for high speed flows, where having large TSO packets makes sense to reach line rate. For other flows, this helps better packet scheduling and ACK clocking. This patch increases performance of TCP flows in lossy environments. A new sysctl (tcp_min_tso_segs) is added, to specify the minimal size of a TSO packet (default being 2). A follow-up patch will provide a new packet scheduler (FQ), using sk_pacing_rate as an input to perform optional per flow pacing. This explains why we chose to set sk_pacing_rate to twice the current rate, allowing 'slow start' ramp up. sk_pacing_rate = 2 * cwnd * mss / srtt v2: Neal Cardwell reported a suspect deferring of last two segments on initial write of 10 MSS, I had to change tcp_tso_should_defer() to take into account tp->xmit_size_goal_segs Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Neal Cardwell Cc: Yuchung Cheng Cc: Van Jacobson Cc: Tom Herbert Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng Acked-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

media: DocBook: upgrade media_api DocBook version to 4.2

2013-09-27T00:18:20Z

commit 8bfd4a68ecc003c1a142f35551be846d6b13e822 upstream. Fixes the last three errors of media_api DocBook validatation: (...) media_api.xml:414: element imagedata: validity error : Value "SVG" for attribute format of imagedata is not among the enumerated set media_api.xml:432: element imagedata: validity error : Value "SVG" for attribute format of imagedata is not among the enumerated set media_api.xml:452: element imagedata: validity error : Value "SVG" for attribute format of imagedata is not among the enumerated set (...) Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

hwmon: (k10temp) Add support for Fam16h (Kabini)

2013-09-08T05:09:59Z

commit 30b146d1cb5e7560192057098eb705118bd5511f upstream. The temperature reporting interface stays the same, so we just add the PCI-ID to the list. Verified on AMD Olive Hill. Signed-off-by: Wei Hu Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

i2c-piix4: Add AMD CZ SMBus device ID

2013-07-25T21:07:28Z

commit b996ac90f595dda271cbd858b136b45557fc1a57 upstream. To add AMD CZ SMBus controller device ID. [bhelgaas: drop pci_ids.h update] Signed-off-by: Shane Huang Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

parisc: document the shadow registers

2013-07-22T01:21:26Z

commit a83f58bcb24003b9de2364de7c829a263423ead7 upstream. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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

2013-06-27T05:24:37Z

Pull networking fixes from David Miller: 1) Found via trinity: If you connect up an ipv6 socket to an ipv4 mapped address then an ipv6 one, sendmsg() can croak because ip6_sk_dst_check() assumes the route cached in the socket is an ipv6 one. In this case there is an ipv4 route attached, so it gets stomped on. Reported by Dave Jones and Hannes Frederic Sowa, fixed by Eric Dumazet. 2) AF_KEY notifications leak some kernel memory to userspace, fix from Mathias Krause. 3) DLCI calls __dev_get_by_name() without proper locking, and dlci_del doesn't validate that the device being deleted is actually a DLCI one. Fixes from Li Zefan. 4) Length check on bluetooth l2cap information responses is wrong, each response type has a different lenth, so we should make sure it's in a given range rather than enforce one single valid length. From Jaganath Kanakkassery. 5) Receive FIFO overflow is really easy to trigger in stress scenerios in the sh_eth driver, but the event isn't being handled properly at all. Specifically, the mask of error interrupts doesn't include the event so we never clear it, resulting in the driver becomming wedged processing an interrupt that never gets cleared. Fix from Sergei Shtylyov. 6) qlcnic sleeps while holding a spinlock, use mdelay() instead of msleep(). From Shahed Shaikh. 7) Missing curly braces causes SIP netfilter NAT module to always drop packets. Fix from Balazs Peter Odor. 8) ipt_ULOG in netfilter passes the wrong value to timer setup, causing the timer to dereference crap when it fires. Fix from Gao Feng. 9) Missing RCU protection around txq->axq_acq traversal in ath_txq_schedule(). Fix from Felix Fietkau. 10) Idle state transition test in ath9k_htc_config() is reversed, fix from Sujith Manoharan. 11) IPV6 forwarding handles unicast Router Alert packets incorrectly. It tests the wrong option state. Previously opt->ra being non-zero indicated a router alert marking in the SKB, but now it's indicated by a bit in opt->flags. Fix from YOSHIFUJI Hideaki. 12) SKB leak in GRE tunnel GSO handling, from Eric Dumazet. 13) get_user_pages_fast() error handling in TUN and MACVTAP use the same local variable for the base index and the loop iterator for page traversal, oops! Fix from Michael S Tsirkin. 14) ipv6_get_lladdr() can fail, and we must therefore check it's return value in inet6_set_iftoken(). For from Hannes Frederic Sowa. 15) If you change an interface name and meanwhile can sneak in something that looks up the name (like SO_BINDTODEVICE or SIOCGIFNAME) we can deadlock with CONFIG_PREEMPT=n. Fix this by providing a helper function that properly uses raw_seqcount_begin(). From Nicolas Schichan. 16) Chain noise calibration test is inverted in iwlwifi, fix from Nikolay Martynov. 17) Properly set TX iwlwifi descriptor flags for back requests. Fix from Emmanuel Grumbach. 18) We can't assume skb_transport_header() is set in xt_TCPOPTSTRAP module, fix from Pablo Neira Ayuso. 19) Some crummy APs don't provide the proper High Throughput info in association response frames. Add a workaround by assume we'll use whatever is in the beacon/probe. Fix from Johannes Berg. 20) mac80211 call to rate_idx_match_mask() swaps two arguments (mask and channel width). Fix from Simon Wunderlich. 21) xt_TCPMSS (like xt_TCPOPTSTRAP) must not try to handle fragmented frames. Fix from Phil Oester. 22) Fix rate control regression causing iwlwifi/iwlegacy chips to use 1Mbit/s on pre-11n networks. From Moshe Benji and Stanslaw Gruszka. 23) Disable brcmsmac power-save functions, they cause regressions. From Arend van Spriel. 24) Enforce a sane minimum MTU in l2cap_build_cmd() otherwise we can easily crash. Fix from Anderson Lizardo. 25) If a learning packet arrives during vxlan_stop() we crash, easily fixed by checking netif_running(). From Stephen Hemminger. 26) Static vxlan FDB entries should not be migrated, also from Stephen. 27) skb_clone() failures not handled in vxlan_xmit(), oops. Also from Stephen. 28) Add minimal driver for AR816x/AR817x ethernet chips, from Johannes Berg. 29) Fix regression in userspace VLAN acceleration control, added by the 802.1ad support changes. Fix from Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao. 30) Interval selection for MLD queries in the bridging code was reversed. Fix from Linus Lüssing. 31) ipv6's ndisc_send_redirect() erroneously writes to the packet we received not the packet we are building to send out. Fix from Matthias Schiffer. 32) Don't free netdev before unregistering it, in usb_8dev can driver. From Marc Kleine-Budde. 33) Fix nl80211 attribute buffer races, from Johannes Berg. 34) Although netlink_diag.h is under uapi/ it isn't present in Kbuild. From Stephen Hemminger. 35) Wrong address and family passed to MD5 key lookups in TCP, from Aydin Arik. 36) phy_type attribute created by SFC driver should not be writable. From Ben Hutchings. 37) Receive/Transmit queue allocations in pxa168_eth and mv643xx_eth should use kzalloc(). Otherwise if setup fails half-way, we'll dereference garbage when trying to teardown the rings. From Lubomir Rintel. 38) Fix double-allocation of dst (resulting in unfreeable net device) in ipv6's init_loopback(). From Gao Feng. 39) Fix fragmentation handling SKB leak in netfilter conntrack, we were freeing the wrong skb pointer. From Phil Oester. 40) Don't report "-1" (SPEED_UNKNOWN) in bond_miimon_commit(), from Nikolay Aleksandrov. 41) davinci_cpdma doesn't check for DMA mapping errors, letting the device scribble to random addresses. From Sebastian Siewior. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (69 commits) dlci: validate the net device in dlci_del() dlci: acquire rtnl_lock before calling __dev_get_by_name() af_key: fix info leaks in notify messages ipv6: ip6_sk_dst_check() must not assume ipv6 dst net: fix kernel deadlock with interface rename and netdev name retrieval. net/tg3: Avoid delay during MMIO access ipv6: check return value of ipv6_get_lladdr macvtap: fix recovery from gup errors tun: fix recovery from gup errors gre: fix a possible skb leak ipv6: Process unicast packet with Router Alert by checking flag in skb. ath9k_htc: Handle IDLE state transition properly ath9k: fix an RCU issue in calling ieee80211_get_tx_rates netfilter: ipt_ULOG: fix incorrect setting of ulog timer netfilter: ctnetlink: send event when conntrack label was modified netfilter: nf_nat_sip: fix mangling qlcnic: Do not sleep while holding spinlock drivers: net: cpsw: fix compilation error with cpsw driver tcp: doc : fix the syncookies default value sh_eth: fix misreporting of transmit abort ...