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2011-03-23ath9k_hw: read and backup AR_WA register value even before chip reset on.Senthil Balasubramanian
commit 0a8d7cb0c8182df7a28ad719780071178c386f0f upstream. We need to read and backup AR_WA register value permanently and reading this after the chip is awakened results in this register being zeroed out. This seems to fix the ASPM with L1 enabled issue that we have observed. The laptop becomes very slow and hangs mostly with ASPM L1 enabled without this fix. Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23drm: Hold the mode mutex whilst probing for sysfs statusChris Wilson
commit 007c80a5497a3f9c8393960ec6e6efd30955dcb1 upstream. As detect will use hw registers and may modify structures, it needs to be serialised by use of the dev->mode_config.mutex. Make it so. Otherwise, we may cause random crashes as the sysfs file is queried whilst a concurrent hotplug poll is being run. For example: [ 1189.189626] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000100 [ 1189.189821] IP: [<e0c22019>] intel_tv_detect_type+0xa2/0x203 [i915] [ 1189.190020] *pde = 00000000 [ 1189.190104] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 1189.190209] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-SVIDEO-1/status [ 1189.190412] Modules linked in: mperf cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_stats decnet uinput fuse loop joydev snd_hd a_codec_realtek snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm i915 snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq drm_kms_helper snd_timer uvcvideo d rm snd_seq_device eeepc_laptop tpm_tis usbhid videodev i2c_algo_bit v4l1_compat snd sparse_keymap i2c_core hid serio_raw tpm psmouse evdev tpm_bios rfkill shpchp ac processor rng_c ore battery video power_supply soundcore pci_hotplug button output snd_page_alloc usb_storage uas ext3 jbd mbcache sd_mod crc_t10dif ata_generic ahci libahci ata_piix libata uhci_h cd ehci_hcd scsi_mod usbcore thermal atl2 thermal_sys nls_base [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan] [ 1189.192007] [ 1189.192007] Pid: 1464, comm: upowerd Not tainted 2.6.37-2-686 #1 ASUSTeK Computer INC. 701/701 [ 1189.192007] EIP: 0060:[<e0c22019>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0 [ 1189.192007] EIP is at intel_tv_detect_type+0xa2/0x203 [i915] [ 1189.192007] EAX: 00000000 EBX: dca74000 ECX: e0f68004 EDX: 00068004 [ 1189.192007] ESI: dd110c00 EDI: 400c0c37 EBP: dca7429c ESP: de365e2c [ 1189.192007] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 [ 1189.192007] Process upowerd (pid: 1464, ti=de364000 task=dcc8acb0 task.ti=de364000) [ 1189.192007] Stack: Mar 15 03:43:23 hostname kernel: [ 1189.192007] e0c2cda4 70000000 400c0c30 00000000 dd111000 de365e54 de365f24 dd110c00 [ 1189.192007] e0c22203 01000000 00000003 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 4353544e [ 1189.192007] 30383420 00000069 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 1189.192007] Call Trace: Mar 15 03:43:23 hostname kernel: [ 1189.192007] [<e0c22203>] ? intel_tv_detect+0x89/0x12d [i915] [ 1189.192007] [<e0a9dcef>] ? status_show+0x0/0x2f [drm] [ 1189.192007] [<e0a9dd03>] ? status_show+0x14/0x2f [drm] [Digression: what is upowerd doing reading those power hungry files?] Reported-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23TOMOYO: Fix memory leak upon file open.Tetsuo Handa
commit eae61f3c829439f8f9121b5cd48a14be04df451f upstream. In tomoyo_check_open_permission() since 2.6.36, TOMOYO was by error recalculating already calculated pathname when checking allow_rewrite permission. As a result, memory will leak whenever a file is opened for writing without O_APPEND flag. Also, performance will degrade because TOMOYO is calculating pathname regardless of profile configuration. This patch fixes the leak and performance degrade. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23x86: stop_machine_text_poke() should issue sync_core()Mathieu Desnoyers
commit 0e00f7aed6af21fc09b2a94d28bc34e449bd3a53 upstream. Intel Archiecture Software Developer's Manual section 7.1.3 specifies that a core serializing instruction such as "cpuid" should be executed on _each_ core before the new instruction is made visible. Failure to do so can lead to unspecified behavior (Intel XMC erratas include General Protection Fault in the list), so we should avoid this at all cost. This problem can affect modified code executed by interrupt handlers after interrupt are re-enabled at the end of stop_machine, because no core serializing instruction is executed between the code modification and the moment interrupts are reenabled. Because stop_machine_text_poke performs the text modification from the first CPU decrementing stop_machine_first, modified code executed in thread context is also affected by this problem. To explain why, we have to split the CPUs in two categories: the CPU that initiates the text modification (calls text_poke_smp) and all the others. The scheduler, executed on all other CPUs after stop_machine, issues an "iret" core serializing instruction, and therefore handles core serialization for all these CPUs. However, the text modification initiator can continue its execution on the same thread and access the modified text without any scheduler call. Given that the CPU that initiates the code modification is not guaranteed to be the one actually performing the code modification, it falls into the XMC errata. Q: Isn't this executed from an IPI handler, which will return with IRET (a serializing instruction) anyway? A: No, now stop_machine uses per-cpu workqueue, so that handler will be executed from worker threads. There is no iret anymore. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> LKML-Reference: <20110303160137.GB1590@Krystal> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23microblaze: Fix /dev/zero corruption from __clear_user()Steven J. Magnani
commit 6f3946b421395ff853bc0bcdab9c26b50ebbba8f upstream. A userland read of more than PAGE_SIZE bytes from /dev/zero results in (a) not all of the bytes returned being zero, and (b) memory corruption due to zeroing of bytes beyond the user buffer. This is caused by improper constraints on the assembly __clear_user function. The constrints don't indicate to the compiler that the pointer argument is modified. Since the function is inline, this results in double-incrementing of the pointer when __clear_user() is invoked through a multi-page read() of /dev/zero. Signed-off-by: Steven J. Magnani <steve@digidescorp.com> Acked-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23x86, quirk: Fix SB600 revision checkAndreas Herrmann
commit 1d3e09a304e6c4e004ca06356578b171e8735d3c upstream. Commit 7f74f8f28a2bd9db9404f7d364e2097a0c42cc12 (x86 quirk: Fix polarity for IRQ0 pin2 override on SB800 systems) introduced a regression. It removed some SB600 specific code to determine the revision ID without adapting a corresponding revision ID check for SB600. See this mail thread: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129980296006380&w=2 This patch adapts the corresponding check to cover all SB600 revisions. Tested-by: Wang Lei <f3d27b@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20110315143137.GD29499@alberich.amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23IB/cm: Bump reference count on cm_id before invoking callbackSean Hefty
commit 29963437a48475036353b95ab142bf199adb909e upstream. When processing a SIDR REQ, the ib_cm allocates a new cm_id. The refcount of the cm_id is initialized to 1. However, cm_process_work will decrement the refcount after invoking all callbacks. The result is that the cm_id will end up with refcount set to 0 by the end of the sidr req handler. If a user tries to destroy the cm_id, the destruction will proceed, under the incorrect assumption that no other threads are referencing the cm_id. This can lead to a crash when the cm callback thread tries to access the cm_id. This problem was noticed as part of a larger investigation with kernel crashes in the rdma_cm when running on a real time OS. Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com> Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23Increase OSF partition limit from 8 to 18Linus Torvalds
commit 34d211a2d5df4984a35b18d8ccacbe1d10abb067 upstream. It turns out that while a maximum of 8 partitions may be what people "should" have had, you can actually fit up to 18 entries(*) in a sector. And some people clearly were taking advantage of that, like Michael Cree, who had ten partitions on one of his OSF disks. (*) The OSF partition data starts at byte offset 64 in the first sector, and the array of 16-byte partition entries start at offset 148 in the on-disk partition structure. Reported-by: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23RDMA/cma: Fix crash in request handlersSean Hefty
commit 25ae21a10112875763c18b385624df713a288a05 upstream. Doug Ledford and Red Hat reported a crash when running the rdma_cm on a real-time OS. The crash has the following call trace: cm_process_work cma_req_handler cma_disable_callback rdma_create_id kzalloc init_completion cma_get_net_info cma_save_net_info cma_any_addr cma_zero_addr rdma_translate_ip rdma_copy_addr cma_acquire_dev rdma_addr_get_sgid ib_find_cached_gid cma_attach_to_dev ucma_event_handler kzalloc ib_copy_ah_attr_to_user cma_comp [ preempted ] cma_write copy_from_user ucma_destroy_id copy_from_user _ucma_find_context ucma_put_ctx ucma_free_ctx rdma_destroy_id cma_exch cma_cancel_operation rdma_node_get_transport rt_mutex_slowunlock bad_area_nosemaphore oops_enter They were able to reproduce the crash multiple times with the following details: Crash seems to always happen on the: mutex_unlock(&conn_id->handler_mutex); as conn_id looks to have been freed during this code path. An examination of the code shows that a race exists in the request handlers. When a new connection request is received, the rdma_cm allocates a new connection identifier. This identifier has a single reference count on it. If a user calls rdma_destroy_id() from another thread after receiving a callback, rdma_destroy_id will proceed to destroy the id and free the associated memory. However, the request handlers may still be in the process of running. When control returns to the request handlers, they can attempt to access the newly created identifiers. Fix this by holding a reference on the newly created rdma_cm_id until the request handler is through accessing it. Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com> Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23libata: fix hotplug for drivers which don't implement LPMTejun Heo
commit eb0e85e36b971ec31610eda7e3ff5c11c1c44785 upstream. ata_eh_analyze_serror() suppresses hotplug notifications if LPM is being used because LPM generates spurious hotplug events. It compared whether link->lpm_policy was different from ATA_LPM_MAX_POWER to determine whether LPM is enabled; however, this is incorrect as for drivers which don't implement LPM, lpm_policy is always ATA_LPM_UNKNOWN. This disabled hotplug detection for all drivers which don't implement LPM. Fix it by comparing whether lpm_policy is greater than ATA_LPM_MAX_POWER. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23ahci: AHCI mode SATA patch for Intel Patsburg SATA RAID controllerSeth Heasley
commit 64a3903d0885879ba8706a8bcf71c5e3e7664db2 upstream. This patch adds an updated SATA RAID DeviceID for the Intel Patsburg PCH. Signed-off-by: Seth Heasley <seth.heasley@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23ahci: AHCI mode SATA patch for Intel DH89xxCC DeviceIDsSeth Heasley
commit a4a461a6df6c0481d5a3d61660ed97f5b539cf16 upstream. This patch adds the AHCI-mode SATA DeviceID for the Intel DH89xxCC PCH. Signed-off-by: Seth Heasley <seth.heasley@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23ahci: recognize Marvell 88se9125 PCIe SATA 6.0 Gb/s controllerPer Jessen
commit 467b41c688c79d1b5e076fbdf082f9cd5d6a000c upstream. Recognize Marvell 88SE9125 PCIe SATA 6.0 Gb/s controller. Signed-off-by: Per Jessen <per@computer.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23x86: Emit "mem=nopentium ignored" warning when not supportedKamal Mostafa
commit 9a6d44b9adb777ca9549e88cd55bd8f2673c52a2 upstream. Emit warning when "mem=nopentium" is specified on any arch other than x86_32 (the only that arch supports it). Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553464 Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> LKML-Reference: <1296783486-23033-2-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23x86: Fix panic when handling "mem={invalid}" paramKamal Mostafa
commit 77eed821accf5dd962b1f13bed0680e217e49112 upstream. Avoid removing all of memory and panicing when "mem={invalid}" is specified, e.g. mem=blahblah, mem=0, or mem=nopentium (on platforms other than x86_32). Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553464 Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> LKML-Reference: <1296783486-23033-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23ftrace: Fix memory leak with function graph and cpu hotplugSteven Rostedt
commit 868baf07b1a259f5f3803c1dc2777b6c358f83cf upstream. When the fuction graph tracer starts, it needs to make a special stack for each task to save the real return values of the tasks. All running tasks have this stack created, as well as any new tasks. On CPU hot plug, the new idle task will allocate a stack as well when init_idle() is called. The problem is that cpu hotplug does not create a new idle_task. Instead it uses the idle task that existed when the cpu went down. ftrace_graph_init_task() will add a new ret_stack to the task that is given to it. Because a clone will make the task have a stack of its parent it does not check if the task's ret_stack is already NULL or not. When the CPU hotplug code starts a CPU up again, it will allocate a new stack even though one already existed for it. The solution is to treat the idle_task specially. In fact, the function_graph code already does, just not at init_idle(). Instead of using the ftrace_graph_init_task() for the idle task, which that function expects the task to be a clone, have a separate ftrace_graph_init_idle_task(). Also, we will create a per_cpu ret_stack that is used by the idle task. When we call ftrace_graph_init_idle_task() it will check if the idle task's ret_stack is NULL, if it is, then it will assign it the per_cpu ret_stack. Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23x86/mm: Handle mm_fault_error() in kernel spaceAndrey Vagin
commit f86268549f424f83b9eb0963989270e14fbfc3de upstream. mm_fault_error() should not execute oom-killer, if page fault occurs in kernel space. E.g. in copy_from_user()/copy_to_user(). This would happen if we find ourselves in OOM on a copy_to_user(), or a copy_from_user() which faults. Without this patch, the kernels hangs up in copy_from_user(), because OOM killer sends SIG_KILL to current process, but it can't handle a signal while in syscall, then the kernel returns to copy_from_user(), reexcute current command and provokes page_fault again. With this patch the kernel return -EFAULT from copy_from_user(). The code, which checks that page fault occurred in kernel space, has been copied from do_sigbus(). This situation is handled by the same way on powerpc, xtensa, tile, ... Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <201103092322.p29NMNPH001682@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23x86: Don't check for BIOS corruption in first 64K when there's no need toNaga Chumbalkar
commit a7bd1dafdcc13ec7add4aafc927eb5e3a8d597e6 upstream. Due to commit 781c5a67f152c17c3e4a9ed9647f8c0be6ea5ae9 it is likely that the number of areas to scan for BIOS corruption is 0 -- especially when the first 64K is already reserved (X86_RESERVE_LOW is 64K by default). If that's the case then don't set up the scan. Signed-off-by: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com> LKML-Reference: <20110225202838.2229.71011.sendpatchset@nchumbalkar.americas.hpqcorp.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23x86/mm: Fix pgd_lock deadlockAndrea Arcangeli
commit a79e53d85683c6dd9f99c90511028adc2043031f upstream. It's forbidden to take the page_table_lock with the irq disabled or if there's contention the IPIs (for tlb flushes) sent with the page_table_lock held will never run leading to a deadlock. Nobody takes the pgd_lock from irq context so the _irqsave can be removed. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <201102162345.p1GNjMjm021738@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23MIPS: MTX-1: Make au1000_eth probe all PHY addressesFlorian Fainelli
commit bf3a1eb85967dcbaae42f4fcb53c2392cec32677 upstream. When au1000_eth probes the MII bus for PHY address, if we do not set au1000_eth platform data's phy_search_highest_address, the MII probing logic will exit early and will assume a valid PHY is found at address 0. For MTX-1, the PHY is at address 31, and without this patch, the link detection/speed/duplex would not work correctly. Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org> To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2111/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23nfs: fix compilation warningJovi Zhang
commit 43b7c3f051dea504afccc39bcb56d8e26c2e0b77 upstream. this commit fix compilation warning as following: linux-2.6/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c:3265: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23block: fix mis-synchronisation in blkdev_issue_zeroout()Lukas Czerner
commit 0aeea18964173715a1037034ef6838198f319319 upstream. BZ29402 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29402 We can hit serious mis-synchronization in bio completion path of blkdev_issue_zeroout() leading to a panic. The problem is that when we are going to wait_for_completion() in blkdev_issue_zeroout() we check if the bb.done equals issued (number of submitted bios). If it does, we can skip the wait_for_completition() and just out of the function since there is nothing to wait for. However, there is a ordering problem because bio_batch_end_io() is calling atomic_inc(&bb->done) before complete(), hence it might seem to blkdev_issue_zeroout() that all bios has been completed and exit. At this point when bio_batch_end_io() is going to call complete(bb->wait), bb and wait does not longer exist since it was allocated on stack in blkdev_issue_zeroout() ==> panic! (thread 1) (thread 2) bio_batch_end_io() blkdev_issue_zeroout() if(bb) { ... if (bb->end_io) ... bb->end_io(bio, err); ... atomic_inc(&bb->done); ... ... while (issued != atomic_read(&bb.done)) ... (let issued == bb.done) ... (do the rest of the function) ... return ret; complete(bb->wait); ^^^^^^^^ panic We can fix this easily by simplifying bio_batch and completion counting. Also remove bio_end_io_t *end_io since it is not used. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Reported-by: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Tested-by: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> CC: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23drm/i915: Fix calculation of backlight value in combined modeTakashi Iwai
commit ba3820ade317ee36e496b9b40d2ec3987dd4aef0 upstream. [The upstream commit above is a combination of revert + one-liner fix. This patch contains only the latter that is needed for 2.6.37.x.] This patch fixes the backlight level calculation for combination mode used in some models like GM45. It's due to a wrong bit shift introduced by the commit a95735569312f2ab0c80425e2cd1e5cb0b4e1870 drm/i915: Refactor panel backlight controls Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23472 Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34524 Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672946 Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2011-03-23rt2x00: fix hang when unplugging USB device in useJohannes Stezenbach
commit d7bb5f845f437662296adbfeaab8fbfce1c32289 upstream. When an rt2x00 USB device is unplugged while in use, it reliably hangs the whole system. After some time the watchdog prints: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 64s! [kworker/u:0:5] ... [<c01a88d8>] (usb_submit_urb+0x0/0x2ac) from [<bf0e752c>] (rt2x00usb_kick_rx_entry+0xb4/0xe8 [rt2x00usb]) [<bf0e7478>] (rt2x00usb_kick_rx_entry+0x0/0xe8 [rt2x00usb]) from [<bf0e7588>] (rt2x00usb_clear_entry+x28/0x2c [rt2x00usb]) [<bf0e7560>] (rt2x00usb_clear_entry+0x0/0x2c [rt2x00usb]) from [<bf0d5bc4>] (rt2x00lib_rxdone+0x2e0/0x2f8 [rt2x00lib]) [<bf0d58e4>] (rt2x00lib_rxdone+0x0/0x2f8 [rt2x00lib]) from [<bf0e7e00>] (rt2x00usb_work_rxdone+0x54/0x74 [rt2x00usb]) [<bf0e7dac>] (rt2x00usb_work_rxdone+0x0/0x74 [rt2x00usb]) from [<c00542b4>] (process_one_work+0x20c/0x35c) Clear the DEVICE_STATE_PRESENT flag when usb_submit_urb() returns -ENODEV to fix this. Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net> Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23rt2x00: Fix crash on USB unplugIvo van Doorn
commit 070192dd2975c0e97bbdeac7623b755235c6db7d upstream. By not scheduling the TX/RX completion worker threads when Radio is disabled, or hardware has been unplugged, the queues cannot be completely cleaned. This causes crashes when the hardware has been unplugged while the radio is still enabled. Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Acked-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23netfilter: fix export secctx error handlingPablo Neira Ayuso
commit cba85b532e4aabdb97f44c18987d45141fd93faa upstream. In 1ae4de0cdf855305765592647025bde55e85e451, the secctx was exported via the /proc/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack and ctnetlink interfaces instead of the secmark. That patch introduced the use of security_secid_to_secctx() which may return a non-zero value on error. In one of my setups, I have NF_CONNTRACK_SECMARK enabled but no security modules. Thus, security_secid_to_secctx() returns a negative value that results in the breakage of the /proc and `conntrack -L' outputs. To fix this, we skip the inclusion of secctx if the aforementioned function fails. This patch also fixes the dynamic netlink message size calculation if security_secid_to_secctx() returns an error, since its logic is also wrong. This problem exists in Linux kernel >= 2.6.37. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23Btrfs: deal with short returns from copy_from_userChris Mason
commit 31339acd07b4ba687906702085127895a56eb920 upstream. When copy_from_user is only able to copy some of the bytes we requested, we may end up creating a partially up to date page. To avoid garbage in the page, we need to treat a partial copy as a zero length copy. This makes the rest of the file_write code drop the page and retry the whole copy instead of marking the partially up to date page as dirty. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23Fix corrupted OSF partition table parsingTimo Warns
commit 1eafbfeb7bdf59cfe173304c76188f3fd5f1fd05 upstream. The kernel automatically evaluates partition tables of storage devices. The code for evaluating OSF partitions contains a bug that leaks data from kernel heap memory to userspace for certain corrupted OSF partitions. In more detail: for (i = 0 ; i < le16_to_cpu(label->d_npartitions); i++, partition++) { iterates from 0 to d_npartitions - 1, where d_npartitions is read from the partition table without validation and partition is a pointer to an array of at most 8 d_partitions. Add the proper and obvious validation. Signed-off-by: Timo Warns <warns@pre-sense.de> [ Changed the patch trivially to not repeat the whole le16_to_cpu() thing, and to use an explicit constant for the magic value '8' ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23NFS: NFSROOT should default to "proto=udp"Chuck Lever
commit 53d4737580535e073963b91ce87d4216e434fab5 upstream. There have been a number of recent reports that NFSROOT is no longer working with default mount options, but fails only with certain NICs. Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net> bisected to commit 56463e50 "NFS: Use super.c for NFSROOT mount option parsing". Among other things, this commit changes the default mount options for NFSROOT to use TCP instead of UDP as the underlying transport. TCP seems less able to deal with NICs that are slow to initialize. The system logs that have accompanied reports of problems all show that NFSROOT attempts to establish a TCP connection before the NIC is fully initialized, and thus the TCP connection attempt fails. When a TCP connection attempt fails during a mount operation, the NFS stack needs to fail the operation. Usually user space knows how and when to retry it. The network layer does not report a distinct error code for this particular failure mode. Thus, there isn't a clean way for the RPC client to see that it needs to retry in this case, but not in others. Because NFSROOT is used in some environments where it is not possible to update the kernel command line to specify "udp", the proper thing to do is change NFSROOT to use UDP by default, as it did before commit 56463e50. To make it easier to see how to change default mount options for NFSROOT and to distinguish default settings from mandatory settings, I've adjusted a couple of areas to document the specifics. root_nfs_cat() is also modified to deal with commas properly when concatenating strings containing mount option lists. This keeps root_nfs_cat() call sites simpler, now that we may be concatenating multiple mount option strings. Tested-by: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net> Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23sunrpc: Propagate errors from xs_bind() through xs_create_sock()Ben Hutchings
commit 4cea288aaf0e11647880cc487350b1dc45d9febc upstream. xs_create_sock() is supposed to return a pointer or an ERR_PTR-encoded error, but it currently returns 0 if xs_bind() fails. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23ASoC: Fix broken bitfield definitions in WM8978Mark Brown
commit 823dba5191220fc94b83dc0b3f2178ff0842e294 upstream. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Acked-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23mtd: fix race in cfi_cmdset_0001 driverJoakim Tjernlund
commit ecf3fde07c8dcb92a1bf3fbdfe70905d85cd00e1 upstream. As inval_cache_and_wait_for_operation() drop and reclaim the lock to invalidate the cache, some other thread may suspend the operation before reaching the for(;;) loop. Therefore the loop must start with checking the chip->state before reading status from the chip. Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se> Acked-by: Michael Cashwell <mboards@prograde.net> Acked-by: Stefan Bigler <stefan.bigler@keymile.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23mtd: mtd_blkdevs: fix double free on error pathMaxim Levitsky
commit bd637f6f22235b4613f9ab6555e8088a455c1ed4 upstream. This one liner patch fixes double free that will occur if add_mtd_blktrans_dev fails. On failure it frees the input argument, but all its users also free it on error which is natural thing to do. Thus don't free it. All credit for finding that bug belongs to reporters of the bug in the android bugzilla http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13761 Commit message tweaked by Artem. Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23mtd: add "platform:" prefix for platform modaliasAxel Lin
commit c804c733846572ca85c2bba60c7fe6fa024dff18 upstream. Since 43cc71eed1250755986da4c0f9898f9a635cb3bf (platform: prefix MODALIAS with "platform:"), the platform modalias is prefixed with "platform:". Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23mtd: jedec_probe: initialise make sector erase command variableAntony Pavlov
commit ceabebb2bd2672f709e4454e16bc6042732e2dfe upstream. In the commit 08968041bef437ec363623cd3218c2b083537ada (mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: make sector erase command variable) introdused a field sector_erase_cmd. In the same commit initialisation of cfi->sector_erase_cmd made in cfi_chip_setup() (file drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_probe.c), so the CFI chip has no problem: ... cfi->cfi_mode = CFI_MODE_CFI; cfi->sector_erase_cmd = CMD(0x30); ... But for the JEDEC chips this initialisation is not carried out, so the JEDEC chips have sector_erase_cmd == 0. This patch adds the missing initialisation. Signed-off-by: Antony Pavlov <antony@niisi.msk.ru> Acked-by: Guillaume LECERF <glecerf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23mtd: jedec_probe: Change variable name from cfi_p to cfiAntony Pavlov
commit efba2e313ea1b1bd69a7c4659263becf43bb1adc upstream. In the following commit, we'll need to use the CMD() macro in order to fix the initialisation of the sector_erase_cmd field. That requires the local variable to be called 'cfi', so change it first in a simple patch. Signed-off-by: Antony Pavlov <antony@niisi.msk.ru> Acked-by: Guillaume LECERF <glecerf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23hwmon/f71882fg: Set platform drvdata to NULL laterHans de Goede
commit d9ebaa45472c92704f4814682eec21455edcfa1f upstream. This avoids a possible race leading to trying to dereference NULL. Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14Linux 2.6.37.4v2.6.37.4Greg Kroah-Hartman
2011-03-14ip6ip6: autoload ip6 tunnelstephen hemminger
commit 6dfbd87a20a737641ef228230c77f4262434fa24 upstream ip6ip6: autoload ip6 tunnel Add necessary alias to autoload ip6ip6 tunnel module. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14DiB7000M: add pid filteringOlivier Grenie
commit e192a7cf0effe7680264a5bc35c0ad1bdcdc921c upstream. This patch adds the pid filtering for the dib7000M demod. It also corrects the pid filtering for the dib7700 based board. It should prevent an oops, when using dib7700p based board. References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=644807 Signed-off-by: Olivier Grenie <olivier.grenie@dibcom.fr> Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <patrick.boettcher@dibcom.fr> Tested-by: Pavel SKARKA <paul.sp@seznam.cz> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14cx25840: fix probing of cx2583x chipsSven Barth
commit 1e6406b8f0dc1ae7d7c39c9e1ac6ca78e016ebfb upstream. Fix the probing of cx2583x chips, because two controls were clustered that are not created for these chips. This regression was introduced in 2.6.36. Signed-off-by: Sven Barth <pascaldragon@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14cx23885: Revert "Check for slave nack on all transactions"Andy Walls
commit 67914b5c400d6c213f9e56d7547a2038ab5c06f4 upstream. This reverts commit 44835f197bf1e3f57464f23dfb239fef06cf89be. With the CX23885 hardware I2C master, checking for I2C slave ACK/NAK is not valid when the I2C_EXTEND or I2C_NOSTOP bits are set. Revert the commit that checks for I2C slave ACK/NAK on all transactions, so that XC5000 tuners work with the CX23885 again. Thanks go to Mark Zimmerman for reporting and bisecting this problem. Bisected-by: Mark Zimmerman <markzimm@frii.com> Reported-by: Mark Zimmerman <markzimm@frii.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14ivtv: Fix corrective action taken upon DMA ERR interrupt to avoid hangMichael
commit d213ad08362909ab50fbd6568fcc9fd568268d29 upstream. After upgrading the kernel from stock Ubuntu 7.10 to 10.04, with no hardware changes, I started getting the dreaded DMA TIMEOUT errors, followed by inability to encode until the machine was rebooted. I came across a post from Andy in March (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/users/40943#40943) where he speculates that perhaps the corrective actions being taken after a DMA ERROR are not sufficient to recover the situation. After some testing I suspect that this is indeed the case, and that in fact the corrective action may be what hangs the card's DMA engine, rather than the original error. Specifically these DMA ERROR IRQs seem to present with two different values in the IVTV_REG_DMASTATUS register: 0x11 and 0x13. The current corrective action is to clear that status register back to 0x01 or 0x03, and then issue the next DMA request. In the case of a 0x13 this seems to result in a minor glitch in the encoded stream due to the failed transfer that was not retried, but otherwise things continue OK. In the case of a 0x11 the card's DMA write engine is never heard from again, and a DMA TIMEOUT follows shortly after. 0x11 is the killer. I suspect that the two cases need to be handled differently. The difference is in bit 1 (0x02), which is set when the error is about to be successfully recovered, and clear when things are about to go bad. Bit 1 of DMASTATUS is described differently in different places either as a positive "write finished", or an inverted "write busy". If we take the first definition, then when an error arises with state 0x11, it means that the write did not complete. It makes sense to start a new transfer, as in the current code. But if we take the second definition, then 0x11 means "an error but the write engine is still busy". Trying to feed it a new transfer in this situation might not be a good idea. As an experiment, I added code to ignore the DMA ERROR IRQ if DMASTATUS is 0x11. I.e., don't start a new transfer, don't clear our flags, etc. The hope was that the card would complete the transfer and issue a ENC DMA COMPLETE, either successfully or with an error condition there. However the card still hung. The only remaining corrective action being taken with a 0x11 status was then the write back to the status register to clear the error, i.e. DMASTATUS = DMASTATUS & ~3. This would have the effect of clearing the error bit 4, while leaving the lower bits indicating DMA write busy. Strangely enough, removing this write to the status register solved the problem! If the DMA ERROR IRQ with DMASTATUS=0x11 is completely ignored, with no corrective action at all, then the card will complete the transfer and issue a new IRQ. If the status register is written to when it has the value 0x11, then the DMA engine hangs. Perhaps it's illegal to write to DMASTATUS while the read or write busy bit is set? At any rate, it appears that the current corrective action is indeed making things worse rather than better. I put together a patch that modifies ivtv_irq_dma_err to do the following: - Don't write back to IVTV_REG_DMASTATUS. - If write-busy is asserted, leave the card alone. Just extend the timeout slightly. - If write-busy is de-asserted, retry the current transfer. This has completely fixed my DMA TIMEOUT woes. DMA ERR events still occur, but now they seem to be correctly handled. 0x11 events no longer hang the card, and 0x13 events no longer result in a glitch in the stream, as the failed transfer is retried. I'm happy. I've inlined the patch below in case it is of interest. As described above, I have a theory about why it works (based on a different interpretation of bit 1 of DMASTATUS), but I can't guarantee that my theory is correct. There may be another explanation, or it may be a fluke. Maybe ignoring that IRQ entirely would be equally effective? Maybe the status register read/writeback sequence is race condition if the card changes it in the mean time? Also as I am using a PVR-150 only, I have not been able to test it on other cards, which may be especially relevant for 350s that support concurrent decoding. Hopefully the patch does not break the DMA READ path. Mike [awalls@md.metrocast.net: Modified patch to add a verbose comment, make minor brace reformats, and clear the error flags in the IVTV_REG_DMASTATUS iff both read and write DMA were not in progress. Mike's conjecture about a race condition with the writeback is correct; it can confuse the DMA engine.] [Comment and analysis from the ML post by Michael <mike@rsy.com>] Signed-off-by: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14sched: Fix sched rt group scheduling when hierachy is enabledBalbir Singh
commit 0c3b9168017cbad2c4af3dd65ec93fe646eeaa62 upstream. The current sched rt code is broken when it comes to hierarchical scheduling, this patch fixes two problems 1. It adds redundant enqueuing (harmless) when it finds a queue has tasks enqueued, but it has no run time and it is not throttled. 2. The most important change is in sched_rt_rq_enqueue/dequeue. The code just picks the rt_rq belonging to the current cpu on which the period timer runs, the patch fixes it, so that the correct rt_se is enqueued/dequeued. Tested with a simple hierarchy /c/d, c and d assigned similar runtimes of 50,000 and a while 1 loop runs within "d". Both c and d get throttled, without the patch, the task just stops running and never runs (depends on where the sched_rt b/w timer runs). With the patch, the task is throttled and runs as expected. [ bharata, suggestions on how to pick the rt_se belong to the rt_rq and correct cpu ] Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20110303113435.GA2868@balbir.in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14drivers/net: Call netif_carrier_off at the end of the probeIvan Vecera
commit 0d672e9f8ac320c6d1ea9103db6df7f99ea20361 upstream. Without calling of netif_carrier_off at the end of the probe the operstate is unknown when the device is initially opened. By default the carrier is on so when the device is opened and netif_carrier_on is called the link watch event is not fired and operstate remains zero (unknown). This patch fixes this behavior in forcedeth and r8169. Signed-off-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com> Acked-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14r8169: prevent RxFIFO induced loops in the irq handler.Francois Romieu
commit f60ac8e7ab7cbb413a0131d5665b053f9f386526 upstream. While the RxFIFO interruption is masked for most 8168, nothing prevents it to appear in the irq status word. This is no excuse to crash. Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> Cc: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com> Cc: Hayes <hayeswang@realtek.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14r8169: RxFIFO overflow oddities with 8168 chipsets.Francois Romieu
commit 1519e57fe81c14bb8fa4855579f19264d1ef63b4 upstream. Some experiment-based action to prevent my 8168 chipsets locking-up hard in the irq handler under load (pktgen ~1Mpps). Apparently a reset is not always mandatory (is it at all ?). - RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_12 - RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_25 Missed ~55% packets. Note: - this is an old SiS 965L motherboard - the 8168 chipset emits (lots of) control frames towards the sender - RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_26 The chipset does not go into a frenzy of mac control pause when it crashes yet but it can still be crashed. It needs more work. Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> Cc: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com> Cc: Hayes <hayeswang@realtek.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14r8169: use RxFIFO overflow workaround for 8168c chipset.Ivan Vecera
commit b5ba6d12bdac21bc0620a5089e0f24e362645efd upstream. I found that one of the 8168c chipsets (concretely XID 1c4000c0) starts generating RxFIFO overflow errors. The result is an infinite loop in interrupt handler as the RxFIFOOver is handled only for ...MAC_VER_11. With the workaround everything goes fine. Signed-off-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com> Acked-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> Cc: Hayes <hayeswang@realtek.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14netfilter: arpt_mangle: fix return values of checkentryPablo Neira Ayuso
commit 9d0db8b6b1da9e3d4c696ef29449700c58d589db upstream. In 135367b "netfilter: xtables: change xt_target.checkentry return type", the type returned by checkentry was changed from boolean to int, but the return values where not adjusted. arptables: Input/output error This broke arptables with the mangle target since it returns true under success, which is interpreted by xtables as >0, thus returning EIO. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14net: don't allow CAP_NET_ADMIN to load non-netdev kernel modulesVasiliy Kulikov
commit 8909c9ad8ff03611c9c96c9a92656213e4bb495b upstream. Since a8f80e8ff94ecba629542d9b4b5f5a8ee3eb565c any process with CAP_NET_ADMIN may load any module from /lib/modules/. This doesn't mean that CAP_NET_ADMIN is a superset of CAP_SYS_MODULE as modules are limited to /lib/modules/**. However, CAP_NET_ADMIN capability shouldn't allow anybody load any module not related to networking. This patch restricts an ability of autoloading modules to netdev modules with explicit aliases. This fixes CVE-2011-1019. Arnd Bergmann suggested to leave untouched the old pre-v2.6.32 behavior of loading netdev modules by name (without any prefix) for processes with CAP_SYS_MODULE to maintain the compatibility with network scripts