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2006-03-27[PATCH] DMI: fix DMI onboard device discoveryAndrey Panin
Attached patch fixes invalid pointer arithmetic in DMI code to make onboard device discovery working again. akpm: bug has been present since dmi_find_device() was added in 2.6.14. Affects ipmi only (I think) - the symptoms weren't described. akpm: changed to use pointer arithmetic rather than open-coded sizeof. Signed-off-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru> Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-27[PATCH] cciss: fix use-after-free in cciss_init_onePatrick McHardy
free_hba() sets hba[i] to NULL, the dereference afterwards results in this crash. Setting busy_initializing to 0 actually looks unnecessary, but I'm not entirely sure, which is why I left it in. cciss: controller appears to be disabled Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000370 printing eip: c1114d53 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0002 [#1] Modules linked in: CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c1114d53>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.16 #1) EIP is at cciss_init_one+0x4e9/0x4fe eax: 00000000 ebx: c132cd60 ecx: c13154e4 edx: c27d3c00 esi: 00000000 edi: c2748800 ebp: c2536ee4 esp: c2536eb8 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo=c2536000 task=c2535a30) Stack: <0>00000000 00000000 00000000 c13fdba0 c2536ee8 c13159c0 c2536f38 f7c74740 c132cd60 c132cd60 ffffffed c2536ef0 c10c1d51 c2748800 c2536f04 c10c1d85 c132cd60 c2748800 c132cd8c c2536f14 c10c1db8 c2748848 00000000 c2536f28 Call Trace: [<c10031d5>] show_stack_log_lvl+0xa8/0xb0 [<c1003305>] show_registers+0x102/0x16a [<c10034a2>] die+0xc1/0x13c [<c1288160>] do_page_fault+0x38a/0x525 [<c1002e9b>] error_code+0x4f/0x54 [<c10c1d51>] pci_call_probe+0xd/0x10 [<c10c1d85>] __pci_device_probe+0x31/0x43 [<c10c1db8>] pci_device_probe+0x21/0x34 [<c110a654>] driver_probe_device+0x44/0x99 [<c110a73f>] __driver_attach+0x39/0x5d [<c1109e1c>] bus_for_each_dev+0x35/0x5a [<c110a777>] driver_attach+0x14/0x16 [<c110a220>] bus_add_driver+0x5c/0x8f [<c110ab22>] driver_register+0x73/0x78 [<c10c1f6d>] __pci_register_driver+0x5f/0x71 [<c13bf935>] cciss_init+0x1a/0x1c [<c13aa718>] do_initcalls+0x4c/0x96 [<c13aa77e>] do_basic_setup+0x1c/0x1e [<c10002b1>] init+0x35/0x118 [<c1000cf5>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Code: 04 b5 e0 de 40 c1 8d 50 04 8b 40 34 e8 3f b7 f9 ff 8b 04 b5 e0 de 40 c1 e8 aa f3 ff ff 89 f0 e8 e8 fa ff ff 8b 04 b5 e0 de 40 c1 <c7> 80 70 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 83 c8 ff 8d 65 f4 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-27[PATCH] DM: Fix bug: BIO_RW_BARRIER requests to md/raid1 hang.Neil Brown
Both R1BIO_Barrier and R1BIO_Returned are 4 !!!! This means that barrier requests don't get returned (i.e. b_endio called) because it looks like they already have been. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-27[PATCH] fix scheduler deadlockAnton Blanchard
We have noticed lockups during boot when stress testing kexec on ppc64. Two cpus would deadlock in scheduler code trying to grab already taken spinlocks. The double_rq_lock code uses the address of the runqueue to order the taking of multiple locks. This address is a per cpu variable: if (rq1 < rq2) { spin_lock(&rq1->lock); spin_lock(&rq2->lock); } else { spin_lock(&rq2->lock); spin_lock(&rq1->lock); } On the other hand, the code in wake_sleeping_dependent uses the cpu id order to grab locks: for_each_cpu_mask(i, sibling_map) spin_lock(&cpu_rq(i)->lock); This means we rely on the address of per cpu data increasing as cpu ids increase. While this will be true for the generic percpu implementation it may not be true for arch specific implementations. One way to solve this is to always take runqueues in cpu id order. To do this we add a cpu variable to the runqueue and check it in the double runqueue locking functions. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-27[PATCH] proc: fix duplicate line in /proc/devicesNeil Horman
Fix a duplicate block device line printed after the "Block device" header in /proc/devices. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-27[PATCH] rtc.h broke strace(1) buildsJoe Korty
Git patch 52dfa9a64cfb3dd01fa1ee1150d589481e54e28e [PATCH] move rtc_interrupt() prototype to rtc.h broke strace(1) builds. The below moves the kernel-only additions lower, under the already provided #ifdef __KERNEL__ statement. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-27[PATCH] dm: bio split bvec fixAlasdair G Kergon
The code that handles bios that span table target boundaries by breaking them up into smaller bios will not split an individual struct bio_vec into more than two pieces. Sometimes more than that are required. This patch adds a loop to break the second piece up into as many pieces as are necessary. Cc: "Abhishek Gupta" <abhishekgupt@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Smith <danms@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-27[PATCH] v9fs: assign dentry ops to negative dentriesLatchesar Ionkov
If a file is not found in v9fs_vfs_lookup, the function creates negative dentry, but doesn't assign any dentry ops. This leaves the negative entry in the cache (there is no d_delete to mark it for removal). If the file is created outside of the mounted v9fs filesystem, the file shows up in the directory with weird permissions. This patch assigns the default v9fs dentry ops to the negative dentry. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-27[PATCH] i810fb_cursor(): use GFP_ATOMICAntonino A. Daplas
The console cursor can be called in atomic context. Change memory allocation to use the GFP_ATOMIC flag in i810fb_cursor(). Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-27[PATCH] NET: Ensure device name passed to SO_BINDTODEVICE is NULL terminated.David S. Miller
The user can pass us arbitrary garbage so we should ensure the string they give us is null terminated before we pass it on to dev_get_by_index() et al. Found by Solar Designer. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-27[PATCH] XFS writeout fixNathan Scott
[XFS] Check that a page has dirty buffers before finding it acceptable for rewrite clustering. This prevents writing excessive amounts of clean data when doing random rewrites of a cached file. Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-27[PATCH] sysfs: fix a kobject leak in sysfs_add_link on the error pathGreg Kroah-Hartman
As pointed out by Oliver Neukum. Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-27[PATCH] get_cpu_sysdev() signedness fixAndrew Morton
Doing (int < NR_CPUS) doesn't dtrt if it's negative.. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-27[PATCH] firmware: fix BUG: in fw_realloc_bufferJeff Moyer
The fw_realloc_buffer routine does not handle an increase in buffer size of more than 4k. It's not clear to me why it expects that it will only get an extra 4k of data. The attached patch modifies fw_realloc_buffer to vmalloc as much memory as is requested, instead of what we previously had + 4k. I've tested this on my laptop, which would crash occaisionally on boot without the patch. With the patch, it hasn't crashed, but I can't be certain that this code path is exercised. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-27[PATCH] sysfs: sysfs_remove_dir() needs to invalidate the dentryGreg Kroah-Hartman
When calling sysfs_remove_dir() don't allow any further sysfs functions to work for this kobject anymore. This fixes a nasty USB cdc-acm oops on disconnect. Many thanks to Bob Copeland and Paul Fulghum for taking the time to track this down. Cc: Bob Copeland <email@bobcopeland.com> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-27[PATCH] TCP: Do not use inet->id of global tcp_socket when sending RST ↵Alexey Kuznetsov
(CVE-2006-1242) The problem is in ip_push_pending_frames(), which uses: if (!df) { __ip_select_ident(iph, &rt->u.dst, 0); } else { iph->id = htons(inet->id++); } instead of ip_select_ident(). Right now I think the code is a nonsense. Most likely, I copied it from old ip_build_xmit(), where it was really special, we had to decide whether to generate unique ID when generating the first (well, the last) fragment. In ip_push_pending_frames() it does not make sense, it should use plain ip_select_ident() instead. Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-27[PATCH] 2.6.xx: sata_mv: another critical fixMark Lord
This patch addresses a number of weird behaviours observed for the sata_mv driver, by fixing an "off by one" bug in processing of the EDMA response queue. Basically, sata_mv was looking in the wrong place for command results, and this produced a lot of unpredictable behaviour. Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-27[PATCH] Kconfig: VIDEO_DECODER must select FW_LOADERMichael Krufky
The cx25840 module requires external firmware in order to function, so it must select FW_LOADER, but saa7115 and saa7129 do not require it. Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-27[PATCH] V4L/DVB (3324): Fix Samsung tuner frequency rangesHans Verkuil
Forgot to take the NTSC frequency offset into account. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-27[PATCH] sata_mv: fix irq port status usageJeff Garzik
Interrupt handler did not properly initialize a variable on a per-port basis, leading to incorrect behavior on ports other than port 0. Bug caught and fixed by Mark Lord. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-19Linux 2.6.16v2.6.16Linus Torvalds
2006-03-19[PATCH] Remove obsolete CREDITS addressAndrea Arcangeli
This address is going to be obsolete, so I should update it.
2006-03-19Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: [MIPS] SB1: Check for -mno-sched-prolog if building corelis debug kernel. [MIPS] Sibyte: Fix race in sb1250_gettimeoffset(). [MIPS] Sibyte: Fix interrupt timer off by one bug. [MIPS] Sibyte: Fix M_SCD_TIMER_INIT and M_SCD_TIMER_CNT wrong field width. [MIPS] Protect more of timer_interrupt() by xtime_lock. [MIPS] Work around bad code generation for <asm/io.h>. [MIPS] Simple patch to power off DBAU1200 [MIPS] Fix DBAu1550 software power off. [MIPS] local_r4k_flush_cache_page fix [MIPS] SB1: Fix interrupt disable hazard. [MIPS] Get rid of the IP22-specific code in arclib. Update MAINTAINERS entry for MIPS.
2006-03-19[TG3]: 40-bit DMA workaround part 2Michael Chan
The 40-bit DMA workaround recently implemented for 5714, 5715, and 5780 needs to be expanded because there may be other tg3 devices behind the EPB Express to PCIX bridge in the 5780 class device. For example, some 4-port card or mother board designs have 5704 behind the 5714. All devices behind the EPB require the 40-bit DMA workaround. Thanks to Chris Elmquist again for reporting the problem and testing the patch. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-19[AX.25]: Fix potencial memory hole.Ralf Baechle DL5RB
If the AX.25 dialect chosen by the sysadmin is set to DAMA master / 3 (or DAMA slave / 2, if CONFIG_AX25_DAMA_SLAVE=n) ax25_kick() will fall through the switch statement without calling ax25_send_iframe() or any other function that would eventually free skbn thus leaking the packet. Fix by restricting the sysctl inferface to allow only actually supported AX.25 dialects. The system administration mistake needed for this to happen is rather unlikely, so this is an uncritical hole. Coverity #651. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-18[PATCH] Kconfig: swap VIDEO_CX88_ALSA and VIDEO_CX88_DVBMichael Krufky
VIDEO_CX88_ALSA should not be between VIDEO_CX88_DVB and VIDEO_CX88_DVB_ALL_FRONTENDS When cx88-alsa was added to cx88/Kconfig, it was added in between VIDEO_CX88_DVB and VIDEO_CX88_DVB_ALL_FRONTENDS. This caused undesireable effects to the appearance of the menu options in menuconfig. This fix reorders cx88-alsa and cx88-dvb in Kconfig, to match saa7134, and restore the correct menuconfig appearance. Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-18[PATCH] Fixed em28xx based system lockupMarkus Rechberger
Fixed em28xx based system lockup, device needs to be initialized before starting the isoc transfer otherwise the system will completly lock up. Signed-off-by: Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-18[PATCH] disable unshare(CLONE_VM) for nowOleg Nesterov
sys_unshare() does mmput(new_mm). This is not enough if we have mm->core_waiters. This patch is a temporary fix for soon to be released 2.6.16. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> [ Checked with Uli: "I'm not planning to use unshare(CLONE_VM). It's not needed for any functionality planned so far. What we (as in Red Hat) need unshare() for now is the filesystem side." ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] SB1: Check for -mno-sched-prolog if building corelis debug kernel.Ralf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] Sibyte: Fix race in sb1250_gettimeoffset().Ralf Baechle
From Dave Johnson <djohnson+linuxmips@sw.starentnetworks.com>: sb1250_gettimeoffset() simply reads the current cpu 0 timer remaining value, however once this counter reaches 0 and the interrupt is raised, it immediately resets and begins to count down again. If sb1250_gettimeoffset() is called on cpu 1 via do_gettimeofday() after the timer has reset but prior to cpu 0 processing the interrupt and taking write_seqlock() in timer_interrupt() it will return a full value (or close to it) causing time to jump backwards 1ms. Once cpu 0 handles the interrupt and timer_interrupt() gets far enough along it will jump forward 1ms. Fix this problem by implementing mips_hpt_*() on sb1250 using a spare timer unrelated to the existing periodic interrupt timers. It runs at 1Mhz with a full 23bit counter. This eliminated the custom do_gettimeoffset() for sb1250 and allowed use of the generic fixed_rate_gettimeoffset() using mips_hpt_*() and timerhi/timerlo. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] Sibyte: Fix interrupt timer off by one bug.Ralf Baechle
From Dave Johnson <djohnson+linuxmips@sw.starentnetworks.com>: The timers need to be loaded with 1 less than the desired interval not the interval itself. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] Sibyte: Fix M_SCD_TIMER_INIT and M_SCD_TIMER_CNT wrong field width.Ralf Baechle
From Dave Johnson <djohnson+linuxmips@sw.starentnetworks.com>: Field width should be 23 bits not 20 bits. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] Protect more of timer_interrupt() by xtime_lock.Ralf Baechle
From Dave Johnson <djohnson+linuxmips@sw.starentnetworks.com>: * do_timer() expects the arch-specific handler to take the lock as it modifies jiffies[_64] and xtime. * writing timerhi/lo in timer_interrupt() will mess up fixed_rate_gettimeoffset() which reads timerhi/lo. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] Work around bad code generation for <asm/io.h>.Ralf Baechle
If a call to set_io_port_base() was being followed by usage of mips_io_port_base in the same function gcc was possibly using the old value due to some clever abuse of const. Adding a barrier will keep the optimization and result in correct code with latest gcc. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] Simple patch to power off DBAU1200Matej Kupljen
Signed-off-by: Matej Kupljen <matej.kupljen@ultra.si> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] Fix DBAu1550 software power off.Sergei Shtylylov
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] local_r4k_flush_cache_page fixAtsushi Nemoto
If dcache_size != icache_size or dcache_size != scache_size, or set-associative cache, icache/scache does not flushed properly. Make blast_?cache_page_indexed() masks its index value correctly. Also, use physical address for physically indexed pcache/scache. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] SB1: Fix interrupt disable hazard.Ralf Baechle
The SB1 core has a three cycle interrupt disable hazard but we were wrongly treating it as fully interlocked. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18[MIPS] Get rid of the IP22-specific code in arclib.Ralf Baechle
This breaks the kernel build if sgiwd93 was configured as a module. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-18Update MAINTAINERS entry for MIPS.Ralf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-17[NET]: Fix race condition in sk_wait_event().Alexey Kuznetsov
It is broken, the condition is checked out of socket lock. It is wonderful the bug survived for so long time. [ This fixes bugzilla #6233: race condition in tcp_sendmsg when connection became established ] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-17[PATCH] fix free swap cache latencyHugh Dickins
Lee Revell reported 28ms latency when process with lots of swapped memory exits. 2.6.15 introduced a latency regression when unmapping: in accounting the zap_work latency breaker, pte_none counted 1, pte_present PAGE_SIZE, but a swap entry counted nothing at all. We think of pages present as the slow case, but Lee's trace shows that free_swap_and_cache's radix tree lookup can make a lot of work - and we could have been doing it many thousands of times without a latency break. Move the zap_work update up to account swap entries like pages present. This does account non-linear pte_file entries, and unmap_mapping_range skipping over swap entries, by the same amount even though they're quick: but neither of those cases deserves complicating the code (and they're treated no worse than they were in 2.6.14). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-17[PATCH] kbuild: fix buffer overflow in modpostSam Ravnborg
Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> reported that modpost would stop with SIGABRT if used with long filepaths. The error looked like: > Building modules, stage 2. > MODPOST > *** glibc detected *** scripts/mod/modpost: realloc(): invalid next size: +0x0809f588 *** > [...] Fix this by allocating at least the required memory + SZ bytes each time. Before we sometimes ended up allocating too little memory resuting in the glibc detected bug above. Based on patch originally submitted by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-17[PATCH] nfsservctl(): remove user-triggerable printkPeter Staubach
A user can use nfsservctl() to spam the logs. This can happen because the arguments to the nfsservctl() system call are versioned. This is a good thing. However, when a bad version is detected, the kernel prints a message and then returns an error. Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-17[PATCH] fix race in pagevec_strip?Christoph Lameter
We can call try_to_release_page() with PagePrivate off and a valid page->mapping This may cause all sorts of trouble for the filesystem *_releasepage() handlers. XFS bombs out in that case. Lock the page before checking for page private. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-17[PATCH] dm stripe: Fix boundsKevin Corry
The dm-stripe target currently does not enforce that the size of a stripe device be a multiple of the chunk-size. Under certain conditions, this can lead to I/O requests going off the end of an underlying device. This test-case shows one example. echo "0 100 linear /dev/hdb1 0" | dmsetup create linear0 echo "0 100 linear /dev/hdb1 100" | dmsetup create linear1 echo "0 200 striped 2 32 /dev/mapper/linear0 0 /dev/mapper/linear1 0" | \ dmsetup create stripe0 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/stripe0 bs=1k This will produce the output: dd: writing '/dev/mapper/stripe0': Input/output error 97+0 records in 96+0 records out And in the kernel log will be: attempt to access beyond end of device dm-0: rw=0, want=104, limit=100 The patch will check that the table size is a multiple of the stripe chunk-size when the table is created, which will prevent the above striped device from being created. This should not affect tools like LVM or EVMS, since in all the cases I can think of, striped devices are always created with the sizes being a multiple of the chunk-size. The size of a stripe device must be a multiple of its chunk-size. (akpm: that typecast is quite gratuitous) Signed-off-by: Kevin Corry <kevcorry@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-17[PATCH] x86: check for online cpus before bringing them upSrivatsa Vaddagiri
Bryce reported a bug wherein offlining CPU0 (on x86 box) and then subsequently onlining it resulted in a lockup. On x86, CPU0 is never offlined. The subsequent attempt to online CPU0 doesn't take that into account. It actually tries to bootup the already booted CPU. Following patch fixes the problem (as acknowledged by Bryce). Please consider for inclusion in 2.6.16. Check if cpu is already online. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-17[PATCH] v9fs: fix overzealous dropping of dentry which breaks dcacheEric Van Hensbergen
There is a d_drop in dir_release which caused problems as it invalidates dcache entries too soon. This was likely a part of the wierd cwd behavior folks were seeing. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-17[PATCH] posix-timers: fix requeue accounting when signal is ignoredRoman Zippel
When the posix-timer signal is ignored then the timer is rearmed by the callback function. The requeue pending accounting has to be fixed up else the state might be wrong. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-17[PATCH] time_interpolator: add __read_mostlyChristoph Lameter
The pointer to the current time interpolator and the current list of time interpolators are typically only changed during bootup. Adding __read_mostly takes them away from possibly hot cachelines. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>