Daniel Drake [Wed, 10 Aug 2005 17:30:04 +0000 (18:30 +0100)]
[PATCH] USB: Fix HP8200 detection in shuttle_usbat
Adding flash-device support to the shuttle_usbat driver in 2.6.11
introduced the need to detect which type of device we are dealing with:
CDRW drive, or flash media reader.
The detection routine used turned out to not work for HP8200 CDRW users,
who saw their devices being detected as a flash disk.
This patch (which has been tested on both flash and cdrom) removes some
unnecessary code, moves device detection to much later during
initialization, and introduces a new detection routine which appears to
work.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Alan Stern [Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:11:07 +0000 (16:11 -0400)]
[PATCH] USB: URB_ASYNC_UNLINK flag removed from the kernel
29 July 2005, Cambridge, MA:
This afternoon Alan Stern submitted a patch to remove the URB_ASYNC_UNLINK
flag from the Linux kernel. Mr. Stern explained, "This flag is a relic
from an earlier, less-well-designed system. For over a year it hasn't
been used for anything other than printing warning messages."
An anonymous spokesman for the Linux kernel development community
commented, "This is exactly the sort of thing we see happening all the
time. As the kernel evolves, support for old techniques and old code can
be jettisoned and replaced by newer, better approaches. Proprietary
operating systems do not have the freedom or flexibility to change so
quickly."
Mr. Stern, a staff member at Harvard University's Rowland Institute who
works on Linux only as a hobby, noted that the patch (labelled as548) did
not update two files, keyspan.c and option.c, in the USB drivers' "serial"
subdirectory. "Those files need more extensive changes," he remarked.
"They examine the status field of several URBs at times when they're not
supposed to. That will need to be fixed before the URB_ASYNC_UNLINK flag
is removed."
Greg Kroah-Hartman, the kernel maintainer responsible for overseeing all
of Linux's USB drivers, did not respond to our inquiries or return our
calls. His only comment was "Applied, thanks."
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Matthew Dharm [Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:50:29 +0000 (14:50 -0700)]
[PATCH] USB Storage: wedge SCSI revision at 2 for usb-storage devices
This patch started life as as479b, and has been rediffed. Please note
the order of submission of this latest patch series -- even tho this has
an older original number, it is the last patch I'll be sending today.
This patch changes the reported SCSI revision level to 2 for all
disk-type devices. This is needed in a few cases because the device
reports a level of 3 or higher but then crashes when given a REPORT LUNS
command (for which support is supposed to be mandatory at those levels).
This shouldn't harm us, since it only matters for sparse LUNs and we
have separate ways of coping with that.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Matthew Dharm [Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:49:01 +0000 (14:49 -0700)]
[PATCH] USB Storage: add support for Maxtor One-Touch button
This patch is originally from Nick Sillik, and has been rediffed against
the latest tree.
This patch adds usability to the OneTouch Button on Maxtor External USB
Hard Drives. Using an unusual device entry it declares an extra init
function which claims the interrupt endpoint associated with this
button. The button is connected to the input system.
Signed-off-by: Nick Sillik <n.sillik@temple.edu> Signed-off-by: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Matthew Dharm [Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:45:50 +0000 (14:45 -0700)]
[PATCH] USB Storage: close a race condition in disconnect near queuecommand
This patch started life as as534, and has been re-diffed against the latest
tree.
usb-storage has a small loophole, a window between the time queuecommand
accepts a new command and the time the control thread starts to execute
it. If disconnect is called during that window, the driver won't cancel
the pending command -- we've been relying on the SCSI core to cancel it
for us during host removal. But it's better for usb-storage to cancel
it; this avoids races and reduces reliance on the SCSI core.
Fortunately cancelling these commands is easy to do; the key is to do it
_before_ calling scsi_remove_host.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Matthew Dharm [Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:44:29 +0000 (14:44 -0700)]
[PATCH] USB Storage: close a race condition in disconnect near probe
This patch started life as as533, and has been re-diffed against the
current tree.
Disconnect processing in usb-storage naturally divides into two parts:
one to quiesce the driver (make sure no commands are executing or
queued) and remove the host, and the other to deallocate all the USB and
non-USB resources. This patch creates two subroutines to handle those
two parts. Mostly it's just code movement, but there is one significant
change. If the scsi-scanning thread fails to initialize but the host
has successfully been added, we need to quiesce the driver before
removing the host. After all, it's possible that scanning could have
been initiated from somewhere else, such as userspace -- very low
probability, but it's easily handled by calling the new subroutine.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Matthew Dharm [Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:43:08 +0000 (14:43 -0700)]
[PATCH] USB Storage: remove dependency on SCSI-provided serial/tag number
This patch started life as as531 from Alan Stern. It has been rediffed
against the latest tree.
The SCSI people have deprecated the use of scsi_cmnd.serial_number for
anything other than printk. Worse than that, the SCSI core doesn't
always increment the number (when the error handler is running, for
example). So this patch creates a locally-stored value for use in
bulk-only tags. The net result is a simplification, since we no longer
have to save & restore the serial_number value while autosensing.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Olav Kongas [Fri, 5 Aug 2005 11:23:35 +0000 (14:23 +0300)]
[PATCH] USB: Switch isp116x-hcd over to root hub interrupt
Switch isp116x-hcd over from root hub polling to interrupt. This change closes
also a race that was present with the old polling scheme: status polling could
happen in a time window, where root hub status bits were not stable.
Signed-off-by: Olav Kongas <ok@artecdesign.ee> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Olav Kongas [Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:02:54 +0000 (17:02 +0300)]
[PATCH] USB: isp116x-hcd: remove clock() and reset()
This patch removes support for user-provided platform-specific hardware reset
and clock starting/stopping functions. Hardware reset was needed earlier as
getting the software reset working was tricky due to the lack of documentation.
Recently, a number of people using isp116x have said the software reset is
working for them.
I haven't heard of anybody using the clock starting/stopping.
Signed-off-by: Olav Kongas <ok@artecdesign.ee> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Randy Dunlap [Mon, 1 Aug 2005 03:41:19 +0000 (20:41 -0700)]
[PATCH] USB usblp: rate-limit printer status error messages
Rate-limit usblp printer error status messages.
I unplugged my USB printer and almost instantly got several hundred
of these in my kernel message log:
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: error -19 reading printer status
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Pete Zaitcev [Mon, 15 Aug 2005 04:16:03 +0000 (21:16 -0700)]
[PATCH] USB: ub 4: Zaitcev's quasi-S/G
Back out Axboe-style quasi-S/G and replace it with one command and
repeated URBs. This is similar to what usb-storage does, only instead
of a few URBs allocated together, one URB is reused.
Jens's idea was very nice, but it collapsed when I had to support
packet commads for CD burning. I cannot issue two or more packet
commands where application expected only one.
However, burning does not work completely yet. The cdrecord starts,
recognizes the device, then aborts without writing a TOC.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Pete Zaitcev [Sun, 31 Jul 2005 05:51:52 +0000 (22:51 -0700)]
[PATCH] USB: ub 3/3: death to ub_bd_rq_fn_1
When Al Viro saw the ub.c, he observed that it was a proof positive of
Linus not reading patches anymore: names like fo_ob_ar_ba_2 used to
cause serious fireworks. In my defence, any good scheme can be pushed
to the realm of absurd if pushed far enough.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Pete Zaitcev [Sun, 31 Jul 2005 05:38:30 +0000 (22:38 -0700)]
[PATCH] USB: ub 1/3: Axboe's quasi-S/G
This the quasi-S/G patch for ub as suggested by Jens Axboe at OLS and
implemented that night before 4 a.m. Surprisingly, it worked right away...
Alas, I had to skip some OLS partying, but it was for the good cause.
Now the speed of ub is quite acceptable even on partitions with small
block size.
The ub does not really support S/G. Instead, it just tells the block
layer that it does. Then, most of the time, the block layer merges
requests and passes single-segmnent requests down to ub; everything
works as before. Very rarely ub gets an unmerged S/G request. In such
case, it issues several commands to the device.
I added a small array of counters to monitor the merging (sg_stat).
This may be dropped later.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
[PATCH] usb-storage: Add IGNORE_RESIDUE flag for Mitsumi USB 2.0 card reader (VIA hardware)
This patch adds an entry in the unusual_devs.h file for a Mitsumi card
reader/floppy combo that uses a VIA chipset. The IGNORE_RESIDUE flag was
needed for the second LUN to operate properly.
Alan Stern [Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:15:57 +0000 (15:15 -0400)]
[PATCH] USB: Fix regression in core/devio.c
This patch (as551) fixes another little problem recently added to the
USB core. Someone didn't fix the type of the first argument to
unregister_chrdev_region.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This makes libusb pick up the real nodes instead of the mounted usbfs:
export USB_DEVFS_PATH=/dev/bus/usb
Background:
All this makes it possible to manage usb devices with udev instead of
the devfs solution. We are currently working on a pam_console/resmgr
replacement driven by udev and a pam-helper. It applies ACL's to device
nodes, which is required for modern desktop functionalty like
"Fast User Switching" or multiple local login support.
New patch with its own major. I've succesfully disabled usbfs and use real
nodes only on my box. With: "export USB_DEVFS_PATH=/dev/bus/usb" libusb picks
up the udev managed nodes instead of reading usbfs files.
This makes udev to provide symlinks for libusb to pick up:
SUBSYSTEM="usb_device", PROGRAM="/sbin/usbdevice %k", SYMLINK="%c"
[PATCH] USB: Prevent hid-core claiming Apple Bluetooth device on new G4 powerbooks
To recap: My new G4 powerbook has a bluetooth device that boots up in
what apppears to be a compatability mode - it looks exactly like an HID
keyboard/mouse device.
A special command sequence is sent to switch it into full bluetooth
mode. When this occurs the original HID device vanishes, and a new
(bluetooth HID) USB device appears on the bus with a different product
ID.
The original thread is here:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=12532263
The attached patch adds the device to the hid-core quirks so that
hid-core ignores it.
Signed-off-by: Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Ian Abbott [Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:01:27 +0000 (14:01 +0100)]
[PATCH] USB ftdi_sio: New IDs for ELV, Xsens and Falcom products
This patch for the ftdi_sio driver adds a bunch of new devices and fixes
an incorrect PID:
o Fix PID for ELV UO100 (the PID was in fact for ELV UR100).
o Add PID ELV UR100 (see above) and ELV ALC 8500 Expert.
o Add a whole bunch of other PIDs for ELV USB devices, commented out for
now as they may be used by other drivers eventually. (Christian Abt
of ELV.de submitted a full list of devices including an indication of
which set of drivers are used by default in the MS Windows world. We
decided to comment out the devices that use FTDI's D2XX Windows
drivers by default.)
o Add PIDs for eight devices from Xsens Technologies BV (submitted in a
patch against 2.6.12.2 by Patrick Riphagen).
o Add PID for Falcom Samba GPRS modem (submitted by Sebastian Schubert).
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Dariusz M [Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:06:13 +0000 (18:06 +0200)]
[PATCH] USB: pl2303 driver, makes pl2303HX chip work correctly
This trivial patch makes pl2303 driver work correctly with pl2303HX chip.
Apparently some bug in HX version of pl2303 makes the chip loose some
transmitted bytes or stop working at all after reception of
USB_REQ_CLEAR_FEATURE mesage. Logs generated by UsbSnoop application reveal
that windows driver does not send this type of messages to the converter.
This patch centralizes the assignment of bcdDevice numbers for different
gadget controllers. This won't improve the object code at all, but it
does save a lot of repetitive and error-prone source code ... and will
simplify the work of supporting a new controller driver, since most new
gadget drivers will no longer need patches (unless some hardware quirks
limit USB protocol messaging).
Added minor cleanups and identifer hooks for the UDC in the Freescale
iMX series processors.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The following patch removes unneeded casts for the following (void *) pointers:
- tty_struct->driver_data
- void *private argument of usb_serial_port_softint()
Jeff Garzik [Thu, 8 Sep 2005 20:44:33 +0000 (16:44 -0400)]
Kconfig: IEEE80211 should not depend on NET_RADIO
We should not restrict use of ieee80211 to only when wireless drivers
are enabled. In-development and out-of-tree drivers may wish to use it,
and by removing this restriction we eliminate a circular dependency.
Al Viro [Thu, 8 Sep 2005 01:28:51 +0000 (18:28 -0700)]
[PATCH] Fix 32bit sendmsg() flaw
When we copy 32bit ->msg_control contents to kernel, we walk the same
userland data twice without sanity checks on the second pass.
Second version of this patch: the original broke with 64-bit arches
running 32-bit-compat-mode executables doing sendmsg() syscalls with
unaligned CMSG data areas
Another thing is that we use kmalloc() to allocate and sock_kfree_s()
to free afterwards; less serious, but also needs fixing.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Hannes Reinecke [Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:30:38 +0000 (17:30 -0700)]
[PATCH] scan all enabled ports on ata_piix
ICH6 spec defines the PORT_ bits as:
PORT_ENABLED (R/W):
0 = Disabled. The port is in the off state and cannot detect any
devices.
1 = Enabled. The port can transition between the on, partial, and
slumber states and can detect devices.
PORT_PRESENT (R/O)
The status of this bit may change at any time. This bit is cleared
when the port is disabled via PORT_ENABLED. This bit is not cleared upon
surprise removal of a device.
So from a textual view it is not necessary that PORT_PRESENT _must_ be set,
especially if a device detection has to be done anyway. And, in fact, this
is the view that ACER has been taken with its new Laptops (e.g. Travelmate
4150).
And the definition of PORT_ENABLED / PORT_PRESENT is mixed up, btw.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
James Bottomley [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 23:56:51 +0000 (16:56 -0700)]
[PATCH] fix klist semantics for lists which have elements removed on traversal
The problem is that klists claim to provide semantics for safe traversal of
lists which are being modified. The failure case is when traversal of a
list causes element removal (a fairly common case). The issue is that
although the list node is refcounted, if it is embedded in an object (which
is universally the case), then the object will be freed regardless of the
klist refcount leading to slab corruption because the klist iterator refers
to the prior element to get the next.
The solution is to make the klist take and release references to the
embedding object meaning that the embedding object won't be released until
the list relinquishes the reference to it.
(akpm: fast-track this because it's needed for the 2.6.13 scsi merge)
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds support for the SiS182 sata chipset. This is a
minimalistic version of the patch from
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4192. Basically, it add the PCI
IDs and handles the change of the 2nd port adress register.
Signed-Off-By: Arnaud Patard <apatard@mandriva.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
All uses of ADDRLEN are comparisons with 64 (it's an address width).
added define to 32 (again, we only care about comparisons with 64)
if not defined.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] bogus symbol used in arch/um/os-Linux/elf_aux.c
elf_aux is userland code; it uses symbol (ELF_CLASS) that doesn't exist in
userland headers; pulled into kernel-offsets.h, switched elf_aux to using it.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
A piece of the UML stubs patch got lost - it has
Killed STUBS_CFLAGS - it's not needed and the only remaining use had been
gratitious - it only polluted CFLAGS
in description and does remove it in arch/um/Makefile-x86_64, but forgets to
do the same in i386 counterpart. Lost chunk follows:
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Sanitized and fixed floppy dependencies: split the messy dependencies for
BLK_DEV_FD by introducing a new symbol (ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC), making
BLK_DEV_FD depend on that one and taking declarations of ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC
to arch/*/Kconfig. While we are at it, fixed several obvious cases when
BLK_DEV_FD should have been excluded (architectures lacking asm/floppy.h
are *not* going to have floppy.c compile, let alone work).
If you can come up with better name for that ("this architecture might
have working PC-compatible floppy disk controller"), you are more than
welcome - just s/ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC/your_prefered_name/g in the patch
below...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Michael Krufky [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:19:40 +0000 (15:19 -0700)]
[PATCH] DVB: lgdt330x check callback fix
Most of the patch is whitespace cleanup, but more importantly, this patch
checks to see whether a callback is set before calling it. On cx88 boards
(currently the only boards using lgdt330x in 2.6.13) every callback is set.
However, newer drivers currently in development leave a callback undefined,
and lgdt330x must not call it if it isn't defined.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Michael Krufky [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:19:38 +0000 (15:19 -0700)]
[PATCH] DVB: Clarify description text for dvb-bt8xx in Kconfig
Patrick Keene wrote to the linux-dvb list, asking where in menuconfig he
can enable dvb-bt8xx for his AVerMedia DVB card. I pointed the following
out to him:
When pivot_root is called from an init script in an initramfs environment,
it causes a circular reference in the mount tree.
The cause of this is that pivot_root() is not prepared to handle pivoting
an unattached mount. In an initramfs environment, rootfs is the root of
the namespace, and so it is not attached.
This patch fixes this and related problems, by returning -EINVAL if either
the current root or the new root is detached.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Cc: <bigfish@asmallpond.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] kprobes: fix bug when probed on task and isr functions
This patch fixes a race condition where in system used to hang or sometime
crash within minutes when kprobes are inserted on ISR routine and a task
routine.
The fix has been stress tested on i386, ia64, pp64 and on x86_64. To
reproduce the problem insert kprobes on schedule() and do_IRQ() functions
and you should see hang or system crash.
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jim Keniston [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:19:34 +0000 (15:19 -0700)]
[PATCH] kprobes: fix handling of simultaneous probe hit/unregister
This patch fixes a bug in kprobes's handling of a corner case on i386 and
x86_64. On an SMP system, if one CPU unregisters a kprobe just after
another CPU hits that probepoint, kprobe_handler() on the latter CPU sees
that the kprobe has been unregistered, and attempts to let the CPU continue
as if the probepoint hadn't been hit. The bug is that on i386 and x86_64,
we were neglecting to set the IP back to the beginning of the probed
instruction. This could cause an oops or crash.
This bug doesn't exist on ppc64 and ia64, where a breakpoint instruction
leaves the IP pointing to the beginning of the instruction. I don't know
about sparc64. (Dave, could you please advise?)
This fix has been tested on i386 and x86_64 SMP systems. To reproduce the
problem, set one CPU to work registering and unregistering a kprobe
repeatedly, and another CPU pounding the probepoint in a tight loop.
Acked-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Kprobes/IA64: fix race when break hits and kprobe not found
This patch addresses a potential race condition for a case where Kprobe has
been removed right after another CPU has taken a break hit.
The way this is addressed here is when the CPU that has taken a break hit
does not find its corresponding kprobe, then we check to see if the
original instruction got replaced with other than break. If it got
replaced with other than break instruction, then we continue to execute
from the replaced instruction, else if we find that it is still a break,
then we let the kernel handle this, as this might be the break instruction
inserted by other than kprobe(may be kernel debugger).
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Kprobes: prevent possible race conditions generic
There are possible race conditions if probes are placed on routines within the
kprobes files and routines used by the kprobes. For example if you put probe
on get_kprobe() routines, the system can hang while inserting probes on any
routine such as do_fork(). Because while inserting probes on do_fork(),
register_kprobes() routine grabs the kprobes spin lock and executes
get_kprobe() routine and to handle probe of get_kprobe(), kprobes_handler()
gets executed and tries to grab kprobes spin lock, and spins forever. This
patch avoids such possible race conditions by preventing probes on routines
within the kprobes file and routines used by kprobes.
I have modified the patches as per Andi Kleen's suggestion to move kprobes
routines and other routines used by kprobes to a seperate section
.kprobes.text.
Also moved page fault and exception handlers, general protection fault to
.kprobes.text section.
These patches have been tested on i386, x86_64 and ppc64 architectures, also
compiled on ia64 and sparc64 architectures.
Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I noticed a strange return value in smsc_ircc_init in
drivers/net/irda/smsc_ircc2.c in rc4-mm1.
When reaching the line "if (ircc_fir > 0 && ircc_sir > 0)", ret is 0. So I
don't see the point of setting it to 0 in the "else" case. >From what I
see in 2.6.12 it should probably be set to -ENODEV at the begining of the
"else" case. The attached patch does this.
Note that I didn't actually see any breakage caused by this.
Jan Kara [Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:19:17 +0000 (15:19 -0700)]
[PATCH] Fix race in do_get_write_access()
attached patch should fix the following race:
Proc 1 Proc 2
__flush_batch()
ll_rw_block()
do_get_write_access()
lock_buffer
jh is only waiting for checkpoint
-> b_transaction == NULL ->
do nothing
unlock_buffer
test_set_buffer_locked()
test_clear_buffer_dirty()
__journal_file_buffer()
change the data
submit_bh()
and we have sent wrong data to disk... We now clean the dirty buffer flag
under buffer lock in all cases and hence we know that whenever a buffer is
starting to be journaled we either finish the pending write-out before
attaching a buffer to a transaction or we won't write the buffer until the
transaction is going to be committed.
The test in jbd_unexpected_dirty_buffer() is redundant - remove it.
Furthermore we have to clear the buffer dirty bit under the buffer lock to
prevent races with buffer write-out (and hence prevent returning a buffer with
IO happening).
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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