David Woodhouse [Thu, 1 Nov 2007 20:27:38 +0000 (16:27 -0400)]
[JFFS2] Don't strip sgid bit from inode permissions
<viro> dwmw2: anyway, removing sgid from directories or from
files without S_IXGRP is a plain and simple bug
<viro> these days you don't need that logics at all - simply remove it
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
David Woodhouse [Thu, 1 Nov 2007 20:25:56 +0000 (16:25 -0400)]
[JFFS2] Improve getdents vs. f_pos handling on NOR flash.
Commit a491486a2087ac3dfc00efb4f838c8d684afaf54 started obliterating
dirents directly on the medium, when jffs2_can_mark_obsolete(). Removing
them immediately from the f->dents list, however, screws up handling of
f_pos within a directory -- because the offset is equivalent to the
number of entries through the list we are, and the existence of
deletion dirents served to provide 'placeholders' for unlinked
entries. Now, 'rm -r' doesn't even manage to unlink everything in the
directory.
Revert to keeping 'deletion' dirents in the list, at least in memory
even though we no longer write anything to the medium.
Spotted, debugged and mostly fixed by Joakim Tjernlund
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Convert CFI tables from Atmel cmdset_0001 chips to Intel format and set
BufWrite timeouts to 0 for Atmel cmdset_0001 and cmdset_0002 chips.
Some chips may indicate support for buffered writes even though they
only support dual-word writes.
The CFI fixup must run before fixup_use_write_buffers for this to work.
Signed-off-by: Håvard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Use of_get_next_child for proper ref counting as suggested by Stephen Rothwell
and remove add_mtd_partitions from parse_partitions to avoid duplicate
mtd device registration for RedBoot partitions.
Signed-off-by: Valentine Barshak <vbarshak@ru.mvista.com> Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Heckled-for-on-IRC-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Ken'ichi Ohmichi [Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:19:26 +0000 (14:19 +0900)]
x86: Dump filtering supports x86_64 sparsemem
This patch adds the symbol "init_level4_pgt" to the vmcoreinfo data so
that makedumpfile (dump filtering command) supports x86_64 sparsemem
kernel of linux-2.6.24.
makedumpfile creates a small dumpfile by excluding unnecessary pages for
the analysis. It checks attributes in page structures and distinguishes
necessary pages and unnecessary ones. To check them, makedumpfile gets
the vmcoreinfo data which has the minimum debugging information only for
dump filtering.
For older x86_64 kernel (linux-2.6.23 or before), makedumpfile translates
the virtual address of page structure into physical address by subtracting
PAGE_OFFSET from virtual address, but this translation isn't effective for
linux-2.6.24 sparsemem kernel, because its page structures are in virtual
memmap area. makedumpfile should translate their virtual address by 4-levels
paging and it needs the symbol "init_level4_pgt".
Signed-off-by: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The kernel only ever supports 1 version of the boot protocol
so there is no need to check the boot protocol revision to
see if a feature is supported.
Both x86 and x86_64 support the same boot protocol so we need
to implement the KEEP_SEGMENTS on x86_64 as well. It isn't
just paravirt bootloaders that could use this functionality.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
James Bottomley [Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:17:19 +0000 (12:17 -0500)]
x86: voyager: fix bogus conversion to per_cpu for boot_cpu_info
There were two problems. Firstly, someone forgot the struct keyword in
front of cpuinfo_x86, so I take it this wasn't even compile checked.
Secondly, the actual definition has this as a SHARED_ALIGNED, so the
definitions mismatch.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:14:04 +0000 (10:14 -0700)]
Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6:
[JFFS2] Update MAINTAINERS entry -- the jffs-dev list is dead
[JFFS2] Prevent return of initialised variable in jffs2_init_acl_post()
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:12:39 +0000 (10:12 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc:
mmc_spi: Fix mmc-over-spi regression
mmc: use common byte swap macros
mmc: fix cid and csd byte order
at91_mci: Fix bad reference
This patch fixes that regression by changing the scheme used to keep
from knowingly trying to use a shared bus segment, and updates the
adjacent comments slightly to better explain the issue.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Herbert Xu [Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:52:07 +0000 (00:52 -0700)]
[CRYPTO] users: Fix up scatterlist conversion errors
This patch fixes the errors made in the users of the crypto layer during
the sg_init_table conversion. It also adds a few conversions that were
missing altogether.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The pid namespace patches changed the semantics of
find_task_by_pid without breaking the compile resulting
in get_net_ns_by_pid doing the wrong thing.
So switch to using the intended find_task_by_vpid.
Combined with Denis' earlier patch to make netlink traffic
fully synchronous the inadvertent race I introduced with
accessing current is actually removed.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[NET]: Marking struct pernet_operations __net_initdata was inappropriate
It is not safe to to place struct pernet_operations in a special section.
We need struct pernet_operations to last until we call unregister_pernet_subsys.
Which doesn't happen until module unload.
So marking struct pernet_operations is a disaster for modules in two ways.
- We discard it before we call the exit method it points to.
- Because I keep struct pernet_operations on a linked list discarding
it for compiled in code removes elements in the middle of a linked
list and does horrible things for linked insert.
So this looks safe assuming __exit_refok is not discarded
for modules.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:53:58 +0000 (22:53 -0700)]
[INET] ESP: Must #include <linux/scatterlist.h>
This patch fixes the following compile errors in some configurations:
<-- snip -->
...
CC net/ipv4/esp4.o
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/net/ipv4/esp4.c: In function 'esp_output':
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/net/ipv4/esp4.c:113: error: implicit declaration of function 'sg_init_table'
make[3]: *** [net/ipv4/esp4.o] Error 1
...
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/net/ipv6/esp6.c: In function 'esp6_output':
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/net/ipv6/esp6.c:112: error: implicit declaration of function 'sg_init_table'
make[3]: *** [net/ipv6/esp6.o] Error 1
<-- snip -->
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jeff Garzik [Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:53:14 +0000 (22:53 -0700)]
[TCP] IPV6: fix softnet build breakage
net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c: In function 'tcp_v6_rcv':
net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:1736: error: implicit declaration of function
'get_softnet_dma'
net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:1736: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer
without a cast
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:56:01 +0000 (13:56 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-x86setup
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-x86setup:
x86 setup: sizeof() is unsigned, unbreak comparisons
x86 setup: handle boot loaders which set up the stack incorrectly
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/x86:
x86: kill the old i386 and x86_64 directories
x86: move i386 and x86_64 Kconfig files to x86 directory
kconfig: small code refactoring in kconfig Makefile
x86: unification of i386 and x86_64 Kconfig.debug
x86: move defconfig files for i386 and x86_64 to x86
x86: move i386 and x86_64 Makefiles to arch/x86
drivers/ide/pci/generic: fix build for CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n
It turns out that const and __{dev}initdata cannot be mixed currently
and that generic IDE PCI host driver is also affected by the same issue:
On Thursday 25 October 2007, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> CC drivers/ide/pci/generic.o
> drivers/ide/pci/generic.c:52: error: __setup_str_ide_generic_all_on causes a
> +section type conflict
[ Also reported by Martijn Uffing <mp3project@sarijopen.student.utwente.nl>. ]
This patch workarounds the problem in a bit hackish way but without
removing const from generic_chipsets[] (it adds const to __setup() so
__setup_str_ide_generic_all becomes const).
Now all __{dev}initdata data in generic IDE PCI host driver are read-only
so it builds again (driver's .init.data section gets marked as READONLY).
> My randconfig script the attached config caught an error on:
> drivers/ide/pci/cy82c693.c:439: error: primary causes a section type conflict
>
> My git tree: c00046c279a2521075250fad682ca0acc10d4fd7
>
> Bisected to:
> 8562043606430185cad26d085d46adcc7ad67fd1 is first bad commit
> commit 8562043606430185cad26d085d46adcc7ad67fd1
> Author: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat Oct 20 00:32:34 2007 +0200
>
> ide: constify struct ide_port_info
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
It turns out that const and __{dev}initdata cannot be mixed currently
and that hpt366 host driver is also affected by the same issue:
> drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c:1428: error: hpt366_chipsets causes a section type
> conflict
This patch workarounds the problem by making static struct hpt_info instances
const. Now all __devinitdata data in hpt366 host driver are read-only so it
builds again (driver's .init.data section gets marked as READONLY).
While at it:
* Bump driver version.
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Cc: "Avuton Olrich" <avuton@gmail.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
> My randconfig script the attached config caught an error on:
> drivers/ide/pci/cy82c693.c:439: error: primary causes a section type conflict
>
> My git tree: c00046c279a2521075250fad682ca0acc10d4fd7
>
> Bisected to:
> 8562043606430185cad26d085d46adcc7ad67fd1 is first bad commit
> commit 8562043606430185cad26d085d46adcc7ad67fd1
> Author: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat Oct 20 00:32:34 2007 +0200
>
> ide: constify struct ide_port_info
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
It turns out that const and __{dev}initdata cannot be mixed currently.
This patch workarounds the problem by removing __devinitdata tag from 'primary'
variable (which makes 'primary' to be moved from .init.data to .bss section).
Now all __devinitdata data in cy82c693 host driver are read-only so it builds
again (driver's .init.data section gets marked as READONLY).
While at it:
* Move 'primary' variable to its only user, init_iops_cy82c693().
1) Patch doesn't change any code here, so gcc is already smart enough
to "feel" constness in such simple functions.
2) There is no such thing as const task_struct. Anyone who think
otherwise deserves compiler warning.
Paul Moore [Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:29:08 +0000 (04:29 -0700)]
[NetLabel]: correct usage of RCU locking
This fixes some awkward, and perhaps even problematic, RCU lock usage in the
NetLabel code as well as some other related trivial cleanups found when
looking through the RCU locking. Most of the changes involve removing the
redundant RCU read locks wrapping spinlocks in the case of a RCU writer.
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ryousei Takano [Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:27:59 +0000 (04:27 -0700)]
[TCP]: fix D-SACK cwnd handling
In the current net-2.6 kernel, handling FLAG_DSACKING_ACK is broken.
The flag is cleared to 1 just after FLAG_DSACKING_ACK is set.
if (found_dup_sack)
flag |= FLAG_DSACKING_ACK;
:
flag = 1;
To fix it, this patch introduces a part of the tcp_sacktag_state patch:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=119210560431519&w=2
Signed-off-by: Ryousei Takano <takano-ryousei@aist.go.jp> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[NET] napi: use non-interruptible sleep in napi_disable
The current napi_disable() uses msleep_interruptible() but doesn't
(and can't) exit in case there's a signal, thus ending up doing a
hot spin without a cpu_relax. Use uninterruptible sleep instead.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Adrian Bunk [Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:55:44 +0000 (03:55 -0700)]
[NET] fs/proc/proc_net.c: make a struct static
Struct proc_net_ns_ops can become static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[NET] dev_change_name: ignore changes to same name
Prevent error/backtrace from dev_rename() when changing
name of network device to the same name. This is a common
situation with udev and other scripts that bind addr to device.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jamal Hadi Salim [Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:49:09 +0000 (02:49 -0700)]
[NET]: Document some simple rules for actions
This patch adds documentation on what is expected of an
action which branches away from the action-graph or when it
needs to trample on actins. It also describes what is expected of
users of such actions.
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jamal Hadi Salim [Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:47:23 +0000 (02:47 -0700)]
[NET_CLS_ACT]: Introduce skb_act_clone
Reworked skb_clone looks uglier with the single ifdef
CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT This patch introduces skb_act_clone which will
replace skb_clone in tc actions
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Johannes Berg [Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:51:37 +0000 (14:51 +0200)]
[PATCH] mac80211: fix printk warning on 64-bit
My AID message patch introduced a warning on 64-bit machines because ~
extends to unsigned long:
| net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c: In function ‘ieee80211_rx_mgmt_assoc_resp’:
| net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c:1187: warning: format ‘%d’ expects type ‘int’, but argument 7 has type ‘long unsigned int’
This fixes it by explicitly casting the result to u16 (which 'aid' is).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:09:38 +0000 (16:09 -0700)]
x86 setup: sizeof() is unsigned, unbreak comparisons
We use signed values for limit checking since the values can go
negative under certain circumstances. However, sizeof() is unsigned
and forces the comparison to be unsigned, so move the comparison into
the heap_free() macros so we can ensure it is a signed comparison.
H. Peter Anvin [Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:11:33 +0000 (16:11 -0700)]
x86 setup: handle boot loaders which set up the stack incorrectly
Apparently some specific versions of LILO enter the kernel with a
stack pointer that doesn't match the rest of the segments. Make our
best attempt at untangling the resulting mess.
Johannes Berg [Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:05:25 +0000 (17:05 +0200)]
[PATCH] add myself as mac80211 maintainer
This adds myself as mac80211 maintainer and updates the git URL to point
to the wireless-2.6 tree. Also move Jiri down so he isn't first in list.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Vlad Yasevich [Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:54:46 +0000 (18:54 -0700)]
[UDP]: Make use of inet_iif() when doing socket lookups.
UDP currently uses skb->dev->ifindex which may provide the wrong
information when the socket bound to a specific interface.
This patch makes inet_iif() accessible to UDP and makes UDP use it.
The scenario we are trying to fix is when a client is running on
the same system and the server and both client and server bind to
a non-loopback device.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Acked-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Randy Dunlap [Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:21:49 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
bitops kernel-doc: inline instead of macro
Use duplicated inline functions for test_and_set_bit_lock() on x86
instead of #define macros, thus avoiding a bad example. This allows
kernel-doc to run cleanly instead of terminating with an error:
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:50:32 +0000 (15:50 -0700)]
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
[IPV4]: Explicitly call fib_get_table() in fib_frontend.c
[NET]: Use BUILD_BUG_ON in net/core/flowi.c
[NET]: Remove in-code externs for some functions from net/core/dev.c
[NET]: Don't declare extern variables in net/core/sysctl_net_core.c
[TCP]: Remove unneeded implicit type cast when calling tcp_minshall_update()
[NET]: Treat the sign of the result of skb_headroom() consistently
[9P]: Fix missing unlock before return in p9_mux_poll_start
[PKT_SCHED]: Fix sch_prio.c build with CONFIG_NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE
[IPV4] ip_gre: sendto/recvfrom NBMA address
[SCTP]: Consolidate sctp_ulpq_renege_xxx functions
[NETLINK]: Fix ACK processing after netlink_dump_start
[VLAN]: MAINTAINERS update
[DCCP]: Implement SIOCINQ/FIONREAD
[NET]: Validate device addr prior to interface-up
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:44:54 +0000 (15:44 -0700)]
Merge branch 'sg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'sg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
fix sg_phys to use dma_addr_t
ub: add sg_init_table for sense and read capacity commands
x86: pci-gart fix
blackfin: fix sg fallout
xtensa: dma-mapping.h is using linux/scatterlist.h functions, so include it
SG: audit of drivers that use blk_rq_map_sg()
arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c: fix a building error
SG: Change sg_set_page() to take length and offset argument
AVR32: Fix sg_page breakage
mmc: sg fallout
m68k: sg fallout
More SG build fixes
sg: add missing sg_init_table calls to zfcp
SG build fix
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest:
lguest: documentation update
lguest: Add to maintainers file.
lguest: build fix
lguest: clean up lguest_launcher.h
lguest: remove unused "wake" element from struct lguest
lguest: use defines from x86 headers instead of magic numbers
lguest: example launcher header cleanup.
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:20:22 +0000 (15:20 -0700)]
Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
[libata] sata_nv: SWNCQ should not apply to MCP61
libata-core: Be a bit more relaxed about early DMA zero devices
ahci: ahci: implement workaround for ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe ahci_broken_hardreset(), take #2
Fix pata_icside build for recent libata API changes
libata: cosmetic clean up in ata_eh_reset()
libata-core.c: make 2 functions static
[libata] Create internal helper ata_dev_set_feature()
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:19:59 +0000 (15:19 -0700)]
Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6:
[netdrvr] forcedeth: add MCP77 device IDs
rndis_host: reduce MTU instead of refusing to talk to devices with low max packet size
cpmac: update to new fixed phy driver interface
cpmac: convert to napi_struct interface
cpmac: use print_mac() instead of MAC_FMT
natsemi: fix oops, link back netdevice from private-struct
ehea: fix port_napi_disable/enable
bonding/bond_main.c: fix cut'n'paste error
make bonding/bond_main.c:bond_deinit() static
drivers/net/ipg.c: cleanups
remove Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched:
sched: mark CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED as !EXPERIMENTAL
sched: isolate SMP balancing code a bit more
sched: reduce balance-tasks overhead
sched: make cpu_shares_{show,store}() static
sched: clean up some control group code
sched: constify sched.h
sched: document profile=sleep requiring CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
sched: use show_regs() to improve __schedule_bug() output
sched: clean up sched_domain_debug()
sched: fix fastcall mismatch in completion APIs
sched: fix sched_domain sysctl registration again
Ram Gupta [Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:03:28 +0000 (10:03 -0500)]
fs: Fix to correct the mbcache entries counter
This patch fixes the c_entry_count counter of the mbcache. Currently
it increments the counter first & allocate the cache entry later. In
case of failure to allocate the entry due to insufficient memory this
counter is still left incremented. This patch fixes this anomaly.
David Howells [Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:27:40 +0000 (15:27 +0100)]
Fix pointer mismatches in proc_sysctl.c
Fix pointer mismatches in proc_sysctl.c. The proc_handler() method returns a
size_t through an arg pointer, but is given a pointer to a ssize_t to return
into.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:18:32 +0000 (23:18 -0400)]
Fix /proc/acpi/alarm BCD alarm encodings
This fixes some totally illogical and wrong code that converts things to
and from BCD mode essentially randomly, does math on values in BCD mode
etc etc. Introduce a few helper functions to make it a bit more obvious
what is going on, and make sure that we always do all the arithmetic
(and anythign else, for that matter) in binary, not BCD.
Tested by Mark Lord, who found the problem originally, and also pushed
the patch back and reminded me about it.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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