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2005-11-10Linux 2.6.14.2v2.6.14.2Greg Kroah-Hartman
2005-11-10[PATCH] Fix ptrace self-attach ruleLinus Torvalds
Before we did CLONE_THREAD, the way to check whether we were attaching to ourselves was to just check "current == task", but with CLONE_THREAD we should check that the thread group ID matches instead. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-10[PATCH] fix alpha breakageIvan Kokshaysky
barrier.h uses barrier() in non-SMP case. And doesn't include compiler.h. Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-10[PATCH] ipvs: fix connection leak if expire_nodest_conn=1Julian Anastasov
There was a fix in 2.6.13 that changed the behaviour of ip_vs_conn_expire_now function not to put reference to connection, its callers should hold write lock or connection refcnt. But we forgot to convert one caller, when the real server for connection is unavailable caller should put the connection reference. It happens only when sysctl var expire_nodest_conn is set to 1 and such connections never expire. Thanks to Roberto Nibali who found the problem and tested a 2.4.32-rc2 patch, which is equal to this 2.6 version. Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Roberto Nibali <ratz@drugphish.ch> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-10[PATCH] fix de_thread() vs send_group_sigqueue() raceOleg Nesterov
When non-leader thread does exec, de_thread calls release_task(leader) before calling exit_itimers(). If local timer interrupt happens in between, it can oops in send_group_sigqueue() while taking ->sighand->siglock == NULL. However, we can't change send_group_sigqueue() to check p->signal != NULL, because sys_timer_create() does get_task_struct() only in SIGEV_THREAD_ID case. So it is possible that this task_struct was already freed and we can't trust p->signal. This patch changes de_thread() so that leader released after exit_itimers() call. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-10[PATCH] - fix signal->live leak in copy_process()Oleg Nesterov
exit_signal() (called from copy_process's error path) should decrement ->signal->live, otherwise forking process will miss 'group_dead' in do_exit(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-10[PATCH] NET: Fix zero-size datagram receptionHerbert Xu
The recent rewrite of skb_copy_datagram_iovec broke the reception of zero-size datagrams. This patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-10[PATCH] airo.c/airo_cs.c: correct prototypesAdrian Bunk
This patch creates a file airo.h containing prototypes of the global functions in airo.c used by airo_cs.c . If you got strange problems with either airo_cs devices or in any other completely unrelated part of the kernel shortly or long after a airo_cs device was detected by the kernel, this might have been caused by the fact that caller and callee disagreed regarding the size of the first argument to init_airo_card()... Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-10[PATCH] tcp: BIC max increment too largeStephen Hemminger
The max growth of BIC TCP is too large. Original code was based on BIC 1.0 and the default there was 32. Later code (2.6.13) included compensation for delayed acks, and should have reduced the default value to 16; since normally TCP gets one ack for every two packets sent. The current value of 32 makes BIC too aggressive and unfair to other flows. Submitted-by: Injong Rhee <rhee@eos.ncsu.edu> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-10[PATCH] USB: always export interface information for modaliasGreg Kroah-Hartman
This fixes a problem with some cdc acm devices that were not getting automatically loaded as the module alias was not being reported properly. This check was for back in the days when we only reported hotplug events for the main usb device, not the interfaces. We should always give the interface information for MODALIAS/modalias as it can be needed. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-10[PATCH] Oops on suspend after on-the-fly switch to anticipatory i/o ↵Jens Axboe
scheduler - PowerBook5, 4 Paul Collins wrote: >I boot with elevator=cfq (wanted to try the ionice stuff, never got >around to it). Having decided to go back to the anticipatory >scheduler, I did the following: > ># echo anticipatory > /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler ># echo anticipatory > /sys/block/hdc/queue/scheduler > >A while later I did 'sudo snooze', which produced the Oops below. > >Booting with elevator=as and then changing to cfq, sleep works fine. >But if I resume and change back to anticipatory I get a similar Oops >on the next 'sudo snooze'. > > > Oops: kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] > NIP: C01E1948 LR: C01D6A60 SP: EFBC5C20 REGS: efbc5b70 TRAP: 0300 >Not tainted > MSR: 00001032 EE: 0 PR: 0 FP: 0 ME: 1 IR/DR: 11 > DAR: 00000020, DSISR: 40000000 > TASK = efb012c0[1213] 'pmud' THREAD: efbc4000 > Last syscall: 54 GPR00: 00080000 EFBC5C20 EFB012C0 EFE9E044 >EFBC5CE8 00000002 00000000 C03B0000 GPR08: C046E5D8 00000000 >C03B47C8 E6A58360 22042422 1001E4DC 10010000 10000000 GPR16: >10000000 10000000 10000000 7FE4EB40 10000000 10000000 10010000 >C0400000 GPR24: C0380000 00000002 00000002 C046E0C0 00000000 >00000002 00000000 EFBC5CE8 NIP [c01e1948] as_insert_request+0xa8/0x6b0 > LR [c01d6a60] __elv_add_request+0xa0/0x100 > Call trace: > [c01d6a60] __elv_add_request+0xa0/0x100 > [c01ffb84] ide_do_drive_cmd+0xb4/0x190 > [c01fc1c0] generic_ide_suspend+0x80/0xa0 > [c01d4574] suspend_device+0x104/0x160 > [c01d47c0] device_suspend+0x120/0x330 > [c03f3b50] pmac_suspend_devices+0x50/0x1b0 > [c03f4294] pmu_ioctl+0x344/0x9b0 > [c0082aa4] do_ioctl+0x84/0x90 > [c0082b3c] vfs_ioctl+0x8c/0x460 > [c0082f50] sys_ioctl+0x40/0x80 > [c0004850] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x4c Don't clear ->elevator_data on exit, if we are switching queues we are overwriting the data of the new io scheduler. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-10[PATCH] fix XFS_QUOTA for modular XFSDimitri Puzin
This patch by Dimitri Puzin submitted through kernel Bugzilla #5514 fixes the following issue: Cannot build XFS filesystem support as module with quota support. It works only when the XFS filesystem support is compiled into the kernel. Menuconfig prevents from setting CONFIG_XFS_FS=m and CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA=y. How to reproduce: configure the XFS filesystem with quota support as module. The resulting kernel won't have quota support compiled into xfs.ko. Fix: Changing the fs/xfs/Kconfig file from tristate to bool lets you configure the quota support to be compiled into the XFS module. The Makefile-linux-2.6 checks only for CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA=y. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-10[PATCH] prism54 : Fix frame lengthRoger While
prism54 is leaking information when passing transmits to the firmware. There is no requirement to adjust the length to >= ETH_ZLEN. Just pass the skb length (after possible adjustment). Signed-off-by: Roger While <simrw@sim-basis.de> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-08Linux 2.6.14.1v2.6.14.1Greg Kroah-Hartman
2005-11-08[PATCH] CVE-2005-2709 sysctl unregistration oopsAl Viro
You could open the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/<if>/<whatever> file, then wait for interface to go away, try to grab as much memory as possible in hope to hit the (kfreed) ctl_table. Then fill it with pointers to your function. Then do read from file you've opened and if you are lucky, you'll get it called as ->proc_handler() in kernel mode. So this is at least an Oops and possibly more. It does depend on an interface going away though, so less of a security risk than it would otherwise be. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-27Linux v2.6.14v2.6.14Linus Torvalds
"Better late than never"
2005-10-27Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
2005-10-27[PATCH] cpufreq: SMP fix for conservative governorDave Jones
Don't try to access not-present CPUs. Conservative governor will always oops on SMP without this fix. Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4781 Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-27Revert "x86-64: Avoid unnecessary double bouncing for swiotlb"Linus Torvalds
Commit id 6142891a0c0209c91aa4a98f725de0d6e2ed4918 Andi Kleen reports that it seems to break things for some people, and since it's purely a small optimization, revert it for now. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-27[TCP]: Clear stale pred_flags when snd_wnd changesHerbert Xu
This bug is responsible for causing the infamous "Treason uncloaked" messages that's been popping up everywhere since the printk was added. It has usually been blamed on foreign operating systems. However, some of those reports implicate Linux as both systems are running Linux or the TCP connection is going across the loopback interface. In fact, there really is a bug in the Linux TCP header prediction code that's been there since at least 2.1.8. This bug was tracked down with help from Dale Blount. The effect of this bug ranges from harmless "Treason uncloaked" messages to hung/aborted TCP connections. The details of the bug and fix is as follows. When snd_wnd is updated, we only update pred_flags if tcp_fast_path_check succeeds. When it fails (for example, when our rcvbuf is used up), we will leave pred_flags with an out-of-date snd_wnd value. When the out-of-date pred_flags happens to match the next incoming packet we will again hit the fast path and use the current snd_wnd which will be wrong. In the case of the treason messages, it just happens that the snd_wnd cached in pred_flags is zero while tp->snd_wnd is non-zero. Therefore when a zero-window packet comes in we incorrectly conclude that the window is non-zero. In fact if the peer continues to send us zero-window pure ACKs we will continue making the same mistake. It's only when the peer transmits a zero-window packet with data attached that we get a chance to snap out of it. This is what triggers the treason message at the next retransmit timeout. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-27[PATCH] Yet more posix-cpu-timer fixesRoland McGrath
This just makes sure that a thread's expiry times can't get reset after it clears them in do_exit. This is what allowed us to re-introduce the stricter BUG_ON() check in a362f463a6d316d14daed0f817e151835ce97ff7. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-27Revert "remove false BUG_ON() from run_posix_cpu_timers()"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit 3de463c7d9d58f8cf3395268230cb20a4c15bffa. Roland has another patch that allows us to leave the BUG_ON() in place by just making sure that the condition it tests for really is always true. That goes in next. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-26[PATCH] Fix cpu timers expiration timeOleg Nesterov
There's a silly off-by-one error in the code that updates the expiration of posix CPU timers, causing them to not be properly updated when they hit exactly on their expiration time (which should be the normal case). This causes them to then fire immediately again, and only _then_ get properly updated. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-26Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serialLinus Torvalds
2005-10-26Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds
2005-10-26posix cpu timers: fix timer orderingLinus Torvalds
Pointed out by Oleg Nesterov, who has been walking over the code forwards and backwards. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-26[PATCH] fix radeon_cp_init_ring_buffer()Ivan Kokshaysky
I've seen similar failure on alpha. Obviously, someone forgot to convert sg->handle stuff for PCI gart case. Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-26[PATCH] svcsock timestamp fixAndrew Morton
Convert nanoseconds to microseconds correctly. Spotted by Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-26[PATCH] Fix HFS+ to free up the space when a file is deleted.Peter Wainwright
fsck_hfs reveals lots of temporary files accumulating in the hidden directory "\000\000\000HFS+ Private Data". According to the HFS+ documentation these are files which are unlinked while in use. However, there may be a bug in the Linux hfsplus implementation which causes this to happen even when the files are not in use. It looks like the "opencnt" field is never initialized as (I think) it should be in hfsplus_read_inode. This means that a file can appear to be still in use when in fact it has been closed. This patch seems to fix it for me. Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-26[PATCH] kill massive wireless-related log spamJeff Garzik
Although this message is having the intended effect of causing wireless driver maintainers to upgrade their code, I never should have merged this patch in its present form. Leading to tons of bug reports and unhappy users. Some wireless apps poll for statistics regularly, which leads to a printk() every single time they ask for stats. That's a little bit _too_ much of a reminder that the driver is using an old API. Change this to printing out the message once, per kernel boot. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-26[PATCH] export cpu_online_mapAndrew Morton
With CONFIG_SMP=n: *** Warning: "cpu_online_map" [drivers/firmware/dcdbas.ko] undefined! due to set_cpus_allowed(). Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-26[PATCH] ppc64: Fix wrong register mapping in mpic driverBenjamin Herrenschmidt
The mpic interrupt controller driver (used on G5 and early pSeries among others) has a bug where it doesn't get the right virtual address for the timer registers. It causes the driver to poke at the MMIO space of whatever has been mapped just next to it (ouch !) when initializing and causes boot failures on some IBM machines. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-26[PATCH] NUMA: broken per cpu pageset countersMagnus Damm
The NUMA counters in struct per_cpu_pageset (linux/mmzone.h) are never cleared today. This works ok for CPU 0 on NUMA machines because boot_pageset[] is already zero, but for other CPU:s this results in uninitialized counters. Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-26[PATCH] md: make sure mdthreads will always respond to kthread_stopNeilBrown
There are still a couple of cases where md threads (the resync/recovery thread) is not interruptible since the change to use kthreads. All places there it tests "signal_pending", it should also test kthread_should_stop, as with this patch. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-26[ARM] 3032/1: sparse: complains about generic_fls() prototype in ↵Ian Campbell
asm-arm/bitops.h Patch from Ian Campbell Sparse complains about the definition of generic_fls in asm-arm/bitops.h: CHECK /home/icampbell/devel/kernel/2.6/arch/arm/mach-pxa/viper.c include2/asm/bitops.h:350:34: error: marked inline, but without a definition The definition is unnecessary since linux/bitops.h defines generic_fls before including asm/bitops.h and asm/bitops.h should not be included directly. There are still some places where asm/bitops.h is directly included, but I think that code should be fixed. I was a little wary of the patch for this reason but lubbock, mainstone and assabet all build OK and so do my in house boards... ARM is the only arch with the generic_fls prototype in this way. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <icampbell@arcom.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-10-25PCI: be more verbose about resource quirksLinus Torvalds
When reserving an PCI quirk, note that in the kernel bootup messages. Also, parse the strange PIIX4 device resources - they should get their own PCI resource quirks, but for now just print out what it finds to verify that the code does the right thing. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-25[LLC]: Strip RIF flag from source MAC addressJochen Friedrich
Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-25[TR]: Preserve RIF flag even for 2 byte RIF fields.Jochen Friedrich
Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-25[IPV6]: Fix refcnt of struct ip6_flowlabelYan Zheng
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <yanzheng@21cn.com> Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-25[PATCH] qlogic lockup fixAndrew Morton
If qla2x00_probe_one()'s call to qla2x00_iospace_config() fails, we call qla2x00_free_device() to clean up. But because ha->dpc_pid hasn't been set yet, qla2x00_free_device() tries to stop a kernel thread which hasn't started yet. It does wait_for_completion() against an uninitialised completion struct and the kernel hangs up. Fix it by initialising ha->dpc_pid a bit earlier. Cc: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-25[PATCH] alpha: atomic dependency fixAndrew Morton
My alpha build is exploding because asm/atomic.h now needs smb_mb(), which is over in the (not included) system.h. I fear what will happen if I include system.h into atomic.h, so let's put the barriers into their own header file. Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-24[ARM] fix sharp zaurus c-3000 compile failure without CONFIG_FB_PXAPavel Machek
This fixes compile problem when CONFIG_FB_PXA is not set. LD .tmp_vmlinux1 arch/arm/mach-pxa/built-in.o(.text+0x1d74): In function `spitz_get_hsync_len': : undefined reference to `pxafb_get_hsync_time' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 3.46user 0.46system 5.10 (0m5.106s) elapsed 77.01%CPU Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-10-24[SERIAL] new hp diva console portJustin Chen
Add the new ID 0x132a and configure the new PCI Diva console port. This device supports only 1 single console UART. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-10-24[SERIAL] support the Exsys EX-4055 4S four-port cardBjorn Helgaas
Tested by Wolfgang Denk with this device: 00:0f.0 Network controller: PLX Technology, Inc. PCI <-> IOBus Bridge (rev 01) Subsystem: Exsys EX-4055 4S(16C550) RS-232 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 Region 0: Memory at 80100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128] Region 1: I/O ports at 7080 [size=128] Region 2: I/O ports at 7400 [size=32] 00:0f.0 Class 0280: 10b5:9050 (rev 01) Subsystem: d84d:4055 Results with this patch: Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 32 ports, IRQ sharing enabled ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:0f.0 ttyS4 at I/O 0x7400 (irq = 10) is a 16550A ttyS5 at I/O 0x7408 (irq = 10) is a 16550A ttyS6 at I/O 0x7410 (irq = 10) is a 16550A ttyS7 at I/O 0x7418 (irq = 10) is a 16550A Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-10-24[PATCH] Return the line length via sysfs for fbdevJames Simmons
This small patch returns the stride/line length of the framebuffer via sysfs. Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-24[PATCH] ALSA: Fix Oops of suspend/resume with generic driversTakashi Iwai
The patch fixes Oops from sound drivers using generic platform device but have no suspend/resume callbacks. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-24[PATCH] uml: fix compile failure for TT modeMiklos Szeredi
Without this patch, uml compile fails with: LD .tmp_vmlinux1 arch/um/kernel/built-in.o: In function `config_gdb_cb': arch/um/kernel/tt/gdb.c:129: undefined reference to `TASK_EXTERN_PID' Tested on i386, but fix needed on x86_64 too AFAICS. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-24[PATCH] posix-timers: fix posix_cpu_timer_set() vs run_posix_cpu_timers() raceOleg Nesterov
This might be harmless, but looks like a race from code inspection (I was unable to trigger it). I must admit, I don't understand why we can't return TIMER_RETRY after 'spin_unlock(&p->sighand->siglock)' without doing bump_cpu_timer(), but this is what original code does. posix_cpu_timer_set: read_lock(&tasklist_lock); spin_lock(&p->sighand->siglock); list_del_init(&timer->it.cpu.entry); spin_unlock(&p->sighand->siglock); We are probaly deleting the timer from run_posix_cpu_timers's 'firing' local list_head while run_posix_cpu_timers() does list_for_each_safe. Various bad things can happen, for example we can just delete this timer so that list_for_each() will not notice it and run_posix_cpu_timers() will not reset '->firing' flag. In that case, .... if (timer->it.cpu.firing) { read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); timer->it.cpu.firing = -1; return TIMER_RETRY; } sys_timer_settime() goes to 'retry:', calls posix_cpu_timer_set() again, it returns TIMER_RETRY ... Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-24[PATCH] posix-timers: exit path cleanupOleg Nesterov
No need to rebalance when task exited Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-24[PATCH] posix-timers: remove false BUG_ON() from run_posix_cpu_timers()Oleg Nesterov
do_exit() clears ->it_##clock##_expires, but nothing prevents another cpu to attach the timer to exiting process after that. After exit_notify() does 'write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock)' and before do_exit() calls 'schedule() local timer interrupt can find tsk->exit_state != 0. If that state was EXIT_DEAD (or another cpu does sys_wait4) interrupted task has ->signal == NULL. At this moment exiting task has no pending cpu timers, they were cleaned up in __exit_signal()->posix_cpu_timers_exit{,_group}(), so we can just return from irq. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>