New (updated) version of ethernet driver for cris v10.
- First steps to simplify and make the MII code more similar
between the etrax100 and etraxfs ports.
- Start the transmit queue before enabling tx interrupts
to avoid race with the first frame.
- Flip the comparition statement to stick to physical addresses
to avoid phys_to_virt mapping a potential null pointer.
This was not an error but the change simplifies debugging
of address-space mappings.
- Made myPrevRxDesc local to e100_rx since it was only used there.
Fixed out of memory handling in e100_rx. If dev_alloc_skb() fails
persistently the system is hosed anyway but at least it won't
loop in an interrupt handler.
- Correct some code formatting issues.
- Add defines SET_ETH_ENABLE_LEDS, SET_ETH_DISABLE_LEDS
and SET_ETH_AUTONEG used in new cris v10 ethernet driver.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Acked-by: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:00:45 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
aic94xx_sds: rename FLASH_SIZE
arm:
drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_sds.c:381:1: warning: "FLASH_SIZE" redefined
In file included from include/asm/arch/irqs.h:22,
from include/asm/irq.h:4,
from include/asm/hardirq.h:6,
from include/linux/hardirq.h:7,
from include/asm-generic/local.h:5,
from include/asm/local.h:1,
from include/linux/module.h:19,
from include/linux/device.h:21,
from include/linux/pci.h:52,
from drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_sds.c:28:
include/asm/arch/platform.h:444:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
Cc: Gilbert Wu <gilbert_wu@adaptec.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A CPU which was not brought up during boot (using maxcpus and
additional_cpus parameters) couldn't be onlined anymore. For such a CPU it
seemed that MCE was not supported during CPU_UP_PREPARE-time which caused
mce_cpu_callback to return NOTIFY_BAD to notifier_call_chain. To fix this
we:
- call mce_create_device for CPU_ONLINE event (instead of CPU_UP_PREPARE),
- avoid mce_remove_device() for the CPU that is not correctly initialized
by mce_create_device() failure,
- make mce_cpu_callback always return NOTIFY_OK for CPU_ONLINE event.
Because CPU_ONLINE callback return value is always ignored.
[akinobu.mita@gmail.com: avoid mce_remove_device() for not initialized device]
[akinobu.mita@gmail.com: make mce_cpu_callback always return NOTIFY_OK] Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:00:41 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
x86: disable preemption in delay_tsc()
Marin Mitov points out that delay_tsc() can misbehave if it is preempted and
rescheduled on a different CPU which has a skewed TSC. Fix it by disabling
preemption.
(I assume that the worst-case behaviour here is a stall of 2^32 cycles)
Andrey Borzenkov [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:00:37 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
make /proc/acpi/ac_adapter dependent on ACPI_PROCFS
Do not provide /proc/acpi/ac_adapter if ACPI_PROCFS is not defined. This
eliminates duplicated power adapters in HAL and makes it consistent with
battery module
Signed-off-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> Acked-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Allow sigcont to be sent to a process with greater capabilities if it is in
the same session. Otherwise, a shell from which I've started a root shell
and done 'suspend' can't be restarted by the parent shell.
Also don't do file-capabilities signaling checks when uids for the
processes don't match, since the standard check_kill_permission will have
done those checks.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups] Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Tested-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jeff Dike [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:00:31 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
uml: fix build for !CONFIG_PRINTK
Handle the case of CONFIG_PRINTK being disabled. This requires a do-nothing
stub to be present in arch/um/include/user.h so that we don't get references
to printk from libc code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jeff Dike [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:00:28 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
uml: fix build for !CONFIG_TCP
Make UML build in the absence of CONFIG_INET by making the inetaddr_notifier
registration depend on it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jeff Dike [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:00:27 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
uml: remove last include of libc asm/page.h
asm/page.h is disappearing from the libc headers and we don't need it anyway.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jeff Dike [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:00:23 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
uml: fix spurious IRQ testing
The spurious IRQ testing in request_irq is mishandled in um_request_irq, which
sets the incoming file descriptors non-blocking only after request_irq
succeeds. This results in the spurious irq calling read on a blocking
descriptor, and a hang.
Fixed by reversing the O_NONBLOCK setting and the request_irq call.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jan Kara [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:00:19 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
Fix 64KB blocksize in ext3 directories
With 64KB blocksize, a directory entry can have size 64KB which does not
fit into 16 bits we have for entry lenght. So we store 0xffff instead and
convert value when read from / written to disk. The patch also converts
some places to use ext3_next_entry() when we are changing them anyway.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups] Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:00:16 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
hibernate: fix lockdep report
Lockdep reports a circular locking dependency in the hibernate code
because
- during system boot hibernate code (from an initcall) locks pm_mutex
and then a sysfs buffer mutex via name_to_dev_t
- during regular operation hibernate code locks pm_mutex under a
sysfs buffer mutex because it's called from sysfs methods.
The deadlock can never happen because during initcall invocation nothing
can write to sysfs yet. This removes the lockdep report by marking the
initcall locking as being in a different class.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Russ Anderson [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:00:15 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
__do_IRQ does not check IRQ_DISABLED when IRQ_PER_CPU is set
In __do_IRQ(), the normal case is that IRQ_DISABLED is checked and if set
the handler (handle_IRQ_event()) is not called.
Earlier in __do_IRQ(), if IRQ_PER_CPU is set the code does not check
IRQ_DISABLED and calls the handler even though IRQ_DISABLED is set. This
behavior seems unintentional.
One user encountering this behavior is the CPE handler (in
arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c). When the CPE handler encounters too many CPEs
(such as a solid single bit error), it sets up a polling timer and disables
the CPE interrupt (to avoid excessive overhead logging the stream of single
bit errors). disable_irq_nosync() is called which sets IRQ_DISABLED. The
IRQ_PER_CPU flag was previously set (in ia64_mca_late_init()). The net
result is the CPE handler gets called even though it is marked disabled.
If the behavior of not checking IRQ_DISABLED when IRQ_PER_CPU is set is
intentional, it would be worthy of a comment describing the intended
behavior. disable_irq_nosync() does call chip->disable() to provide a
chipset specifiec interface for disabling the interrupt, which avoids this
issue when used.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is my trivial patch to swat innumerable little bugs with a single
blow.
After some intensive review (my apologies for not having gotten to this
sooner) what we have looks like a good base to build on with the current
pid namespace code but it is not complete, and it is still much to simple
to find issues where the kernel does the wrong thing outside of the initial
pid namespace.
Until the dust settles and we are certain we have the ABI and the
implementation is as correct as humanly possible let's keep process ID
namespaces behind CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL.
Allowing us the option of fixing any ABI or other bugs we find as long as
they are minor.
Allowing users of the kernel to avoid those bugs simply by ensuring their
kernel does not have support for multiple pid namespaces.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Kir Kolyshkin <kir@swsoft.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Arjan van de Ven [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:00:10 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
mark sys_open/sys_read exports unused
sys_open / sys_read were used in the early 1.2 days to load firmware from
disk inside drivers. Since 2.0 or so this was deprecated behavior, but
several drivers still were using this. Since a few years we have a
request_firmware() API that implements this in a nice, consistent way.
Only some old ISA sound drivers (pre-ALSA) still straggled along for some
time.... however with commit c2b1239a9f22f19c53543b460b24507d0e21ea0c the
last user is now gone.
This is a good thing, since using sys_open / sys_read etc for firmware is a
very buggy to dangerous thing to do; these operations put an fd in the
process file descriptor table.... which then can be tampered with from
other threads for example. For those who don't want the firmware loader,
filp_open()/vfs_read are the better APIs to use, without this security
issue.
The patch below marks sys_open and sys_read unused now that they're
really not used anymore, and for deletion in the 2.6.25 timeframe.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jan Kiszka [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:00:08 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
fix param_sysfs_builtin name length check
Commit faf8c714f4508207a9c81cc94dafc76ed6680b44 caused a regression:
parameter names longer than MAX_KBUILD_MODNAME will now be rejected,
although we just need to keep the module name part that short. This patch
restores the old behaviour while still avoiding that memchr is called with
its length parameter larger than the total string length.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently we special case when we have only the initial pid namespace.
Unfortunately in doing so the copied case for the other namespaces was
broken so we don't properly flush the thread directories :(
So this patch removes the unnecessary special case (removing a usage of
proc_mnt) and corrects the flushing of the thread directories.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We have seen ramdisk based install systems, where some pages of mapped
libraries and programs were suddendly zeroed under memory pressure. This
should not happen, as the ramdisk avoids freeing its pages by keeping them
dirty all the time.
It turns out that there is a case, where the VM makes a ramdisk page clean,
without telling the ramdisk driver. On memory pressure shrink_zone runs
and it starts to run shrink_active_list. There is a check for
buffer_heads_over_limit, and if true, pagevec_strip is called.
pagevec_strip calls try_to_release_page. If the mapping has no releasepage
callback, try_to_free_buffers is called. try_to_free_buffers has now a
special logic for some file systems to make a dirty page clean, if all
buffers are clean. Thats what happened in our test case.
The simplest solution is to provide a noop-releasepage callback for the
ramdisk driver. This avoids try_to_free_buffers for ramdisk pages.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adrian Bunk [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:00:01 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
fix mm/util.c:krealloc()
Commit ef8b4520bd9f8294ffce9abd6158085bde5dc902 added one NULL check for
"p" in krealloc(), but that doesn't seem to be enough since there
doesn't seem to be any guarantee that memcpy(ret, NULL, 0) works
(spotted by the Coverity checker).
For making it clearer what happens this patch also removes the pointless
min().
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adrian Bunk [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:00:00 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c: fix use-after-free
Fix an obvious use-after-free spotted by the Coverity checker.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Bjorn Helgaas [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:59:59 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
serial: only use PNP IRQ if it's valid
"Luming Yu" <luming.yu@gmail.com> says:
There is a "ttyS1 irq is -1" problem observed on tiger4 which cause the
serial port broken.
It is because that there is __no__ ACPI IRQ resource assigned for the
serial port. So the value of the IRQ for the port is never changed since it
got initialized to -1.
If PNP supplies a valid IRQ, use it. Otherwise, leave port.irq == 0, which
means "no IRQ" to the serial core.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Yu Luming <luming.yu@intel.com> Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Darrick J. Wong [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:59:58 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
i5000_edac: no need to __stringify() KBUILD_BASENAME
The i5000_edac driver's PCI registration structure has the name
""i5000_edac"" (with extra set of double-quotes) which is probably not
intentional. Get rid of __stringify.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Cc: Doug Thompson <norsk5@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Bjorn Helgaas [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:59:57 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
rtc: fall back to requesting only the ports we actually use
Firmware like PNPBIOS or ACPI can report the address space consumed by the
RTC. The actual space consumed may be less than the size (RTC_IO_EXTENT)
assumed by the RTC driver.
The PNP core doesn't request resources yet, but I'd like to make it do so.
If/when it does, the RTC_IO_EXTENT request may fail, which prevents the RTC
driver from loading.
Since we only use the RTC index and data registers at RTC_PORT(0) and
RTC_PORT(1), we can fall back to requesting just enough space for those.
If the PNP core requests resources, this results in typical I/O port usage
like this:
0070-0073 : 00:06 <-- PNP device 00:06 responds to 70-73
0070-0071 : rtc <-- RTC driver uses only 70-71
Bjorn Helgaas [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:59:56 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
rtc: release correct region in error path
The misc_register() error path always released an I/O port region,
even if the region was memory-mapped (only mips uses memory-mapped RTC,
as far as I can see).
Fengguang Wu [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:59:54 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
reiserfs: don't drop PG_dirty when releasing sub-page-sized dirty file
This is not a new problem in 2.6.23-git17. 2.6.22/2.6.23 is buggy in the
same way.
Reiserfs could accumulate dirty sub-page-size files until umount time.
They cannot be synced to disk by pdflush routines or explicit `sync'
commands. Only `umount' can do the trick.
Shannon Nelson [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:59:51 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
I/OAT: Add support for version 2 of ioatdma device
Add support for version 2 of the ioatdma device. This device handles
the descriptor chain and DCA services slightly differently:
- Instead of moving the dma descriptors between a busy and an idle chain,
this new version uses a single circular chain so that we don't have
rewrite the next_descriptor pointers as we add new requests, and the
device doesn't need to re-read the last descriptor.
- The new device has the DCA tags defined internally instead of needing
them defined statically.
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com> Cc: "Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux Kernel Markers: fix marker mutex not taken upon module load
Upon module load, we must take the markers mutex. It implies that the marker
mutex must be nested inside the module mutex.
It implies changing the nesting order : now the marker mutex nests inside the
module mutex. Make the necessary changes to reverse the order in which the
mutexes are taken.
Includes some cleanup from Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>.
Dmitri Vorobiev [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:59:47 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
Fixes to the BFS filesystem driver
I found a few bugs in the BFS driver. Detailed description of the bugs as
well as the steps to reproduce the errors are given in the kernel bugzilla.
Please follow these links for more information:
This patch fixes the bugs described above. Besides, the patch introduces
coding style changes to make the BFS driver conform to the requirements
specified for Linux kernel code. Finally, I made a few cosmetic changes
such as removal of trivial debug output.
Also, the patch removes the fields `si_lf_ioff' and `si_lf_sblk' of the
in-core superblock structure. These fields are initialized but never
actually used.
If you are wondering why I need BFS, here is the answer: I am using this
driver in the context of Linux kernel classes I am teaching in the Moscow
State University and in the International Institute of Information
Technology in Pune, India.
Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com> Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This was originally intended as a simple initial example of how to create a
control groups subsystem; it wasn't intended for mainline, but I didn't make
this clear enough to Andrew.
The CFS cgroup subsystem now has better functionality for the per-cgroup usage
accounting (based directly on CFS stats) than the "usage" status file in this
patch, and the "load" status file is rather simplistic - although having a
per-cgroup load average report would be a useful feature, I don't believe this
patch actually provides it. If it gets into the final 2.6.24 we'd probably
have to support this interface for ever.
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ken Chen [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:59:44 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
hugetlb: fix i_blocks accounting
For administrative purpose, we want to query actual block usage for
hugetlbfs file via fstat. Currently, hugetlbfs always return 0. Fix that
up since kernel already has all the information to track it properly.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adam Litke [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:59:42 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
hugetlb: enforce quotas during reservation for shared mappings
When a MAP_SHARED mmap of a hugetlbfs file succeeds, huge pages are reserved
to guarantee no problems will occur later when instantiating pages. If quotas
are in force, page instantiation could fail due to a race with another process
or an oversized (but approved) shared mapping.
To prevent these scenarios, debit the quota for the full reservation amount up
front and credit the unused quota when the reservation is released.
Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adam Litke [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:59:41 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
hugetlb: allow bulk updating in hugetlb_*_quota()
Add a second parameter 'delta' to hugetlb_get_quota and hugetlb_put_quota to
allow bulk updating of the sbinfo->free_blocks counter. This will be used by
the next patch in the series.
Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adam Litke [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:59:39 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
hugetlb: debit quota in alloc_huge_page
Now that quota is credited by free_huge_page(), calls to hugetlb_get_quota()
seem out of place. The alloc/free API is unbalanced because we handle the
hugetlb_put_quota() but expect the caller to open-code hugetlb_get_quota().
Move the get inside alloc_huge_page to clean up this disparity.
This patch has been kept apart from the previous patch because of the somewhat
dodgy ERR_PTR() use herein. Moving the quota logic means that
alloc_huge_page() has two failure modes. Quota failure must result in a
SIGBUS while a standard allocation failure is OOM. Unfortunately, ERR_PTR()
doesn't like the small positive errnos we have in VM_FAULT_* so they must be
negated before they are used.
Does anyone take issue with the way I am using PTR_ERR. If so, what are your
thoughts on how to clean this up (without needing an if,else if,else block at
each alloc_huge_page() callsite)?
Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adam Litke [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:59:38 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
hugetlb: fix quota management for private mappings
The hugetlbfs quota management system was never taught to handle MAP_PRIVATE
mappings when that support was added. Currently, quota is debited at page
instantiation and credited at file truncation. This approach works correctly
for shared pages but is incomplete for private pages. In addition to
hugetlb_no_page(), private pages can be instantiated by hugetlb_cow(); but
this function does not respect quotas.
Private huge pages are treated very much like normal, anonymous pages. They
are not "backed" by the hugetlbfs file and are not stored in the mapping's
radix tree. This means that private pages are invisible to
truncate_hugepages() so that function will not credit the quota.
This patch (based on a prototype provided by Ken Chen) moves quota crediting
for all pages into free_huge_page(). page->private is used to store a pointer
to the mapping to which this page belongs. This is used to credit quota on
the appropriate hugetlbfs instance.
Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adam Litke [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:59:37 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
hugetlb: split alloc_huge_page into private and shared components
Hugetlbfs implements a quota system which can limit the amount of memory that
can be used by the filesystem. Before allocating a new huge page for a file,
the quota is checked and debited. The quota is then credited when truncating
the file. I found a few bugs in the code for both MAP_PRIVATE and MAP_SHARED
mappings. Before detailing the problems and my proposed solutions, we should
agree on a definition of quotas that properly addresses both private and
shared pages. Since the purpose of quotas is to limit total memory
consumption on a per-filesystem basis, I argue that all pages allocated by the
fs (private and shared) should be charged against quota.
Private Mappings
================
The current code will debit quota for private pages sometimes, but will never
credit it. At a minimum, this causes a leak in the quota accounting which
renders the accounting essentially useless as it is. Shared pages have a one
to one mapping with a hugetlbfs file and are easy to account by debiting on
allocation and crediting on truncate. Private pages are anonymous in nature
and have a many to one relationship with their hugetlbfs files (due to copy on
write). Because private pages are not indexed by the mapping's radix tree,
thier quota cannot be credited at file truncation time. Crediting must be
done when the page is unmapped and freed.
Shared Pages
============
I discovered an issue concerning the interaction between the MAP_SHARED
reservation system and quotas. Since quota is not checked until page
instantiation, an over-quota mmap/reservation will initially succeed. When
instantiating the first over-quota page, the program will receive SIGBUS.
This is inconsistent since the reservation is supposed to be a guarantee. The
solution is to debit the full amount of quota at reservation time and credit
the unused portion when the reservation is released.
This patch series brings quotas back in line by making the following
modifications:
* Private pages
- Debit quota in alloc_huge_page()
- Credit quota in free_huge_page()
* Shared pages
- Debit quota for entire reservation at mmap time
- Credit quota for instantiated pages in free_huge_page()
- Credit quota for unused reservation at munmap time
This patch:
The shared page reservation and dynamic pool resizing features have made the
allocation of private vs. shared huge pages quite different. By splitting
out the private/shared-specific portions of the process into their own
functions, readability is greatly improved. alloc_huge_page now calls the
proper helper and performs common operations.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups] Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
These blocks were prepared to be written out, but were never handled in
ops_run_biodrain(), so they remain locked forever. The operations flags
are all clear which means handle_stripe() thinks nothing else needs to be
done.
This state suggests that the STRIPE_OP_PREXOR bit was sampled 'set' when it
should not have been. This patch cleans up cases where the code looks at
sh->ops.pending when it should be looking at the consistent stack-based
snapshot of the operations flags.
Report from Joel:
Resync done. Patch fix this bug.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Tested-by: Joel Bertrand <joel.bertrand@systella.fr> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adam Litke [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:59:33 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
hugetlb: follow_hugetlb_page() for write access
When calling get_user_pages(), a write flag is passed in by the caller to
indicate if write access is required on the faulted-in pages. Currently,
follow_hugetlb_page() ignores this flag and always faults pages for
read-only access. This can cause data corruption because a device driver
that calls get_user_pages() with write set will not expect COW faults to
occur on the returned pages.
This patch passes the write flag down to follow_hugetlb_page() and makes
sure hugetlb_fault() is called with the right write_access parameter.
[ezk@cs.sunysb.edu: build fix] Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
David Brownell [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:59:29 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
atmel_serial build warnings begone
Remove annoying build warnings about unused variables in atmel_serial,
which afflict both AT91 and AVR32 builds.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When a DMA device is unregistered, its reference count is decremented twice
for each channel: Once dma_class_dev_release() and once in
dma_chan_cleanup(). This may result in the DMA device driver's remove()
function completing before all channels have been cleaned up, causing lots
of use-after-free fun.
Fix it by incrementing the device's reference count twice for each
channel during registration.
[dan.j.williams@intel.com: kill unnecessary client refcounting] Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ondrej Zary [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:59:24 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
paride: pf driver fixes
The pf driver for parallel port floppy drives seems to be broken. At least
with Imation SuperDisk with EPAT chip, the driver calls pi_connect() and
pi_disconnect after each transferred sector. At least with EPAT, this
operation is very expensive - causes drive recalibration. Thus, transferring
even a single byte (dd if=/dev/pf0 of=/dev/null bs=1 count=1) takes 20
seconds, making the driver useless.
The pf_next_buf() function seems to be broken as it returns 1 always (except
when pf_run is non-zero), causing the loop in do_pf_read_drq (and
do_pf_write_drq) to be executed only once.
The following patch fixes this problem. It also fixes swapped descriptions in
pf_lock() function and removes DBMSG macro, which seems useless.
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Atsushi Nemoto [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:59:22 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
spi: fix double-free on spi_unregister_master
After 49dce689ad4ef0fd1f970ef762168e4bd46f69a3, device_for_each_child
iteration hits the master device itself. Do not call spi_unregister_device()
for the master device.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Acked-by: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Peter Zijlstra [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:59:15 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
mm: speed up writeback ramp-up on clean systems
We allow violation of bdi limits if there is a lot of room on the system.
Once we hit half the total limit we start enforcing bdi limits and bdi
ramp-up should happen. Doing it this way avoids many small writeouts on an
otherwise idle system and should also speed up the ramp-up.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Balbir Singh [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:59:14 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
make getdelays cgroupstats aware
Update the getdelays utility to become cgroupstats aware. A new -C option has
been added. It takes in a control group path and prints out a summary of the
states of tasks in the control group
Lee Schermerhorn [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:59:10 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
Migration: find correct vma in new_vma_page()
We hit the BUG_ON() in mm/rmap.c:vma_address() when trying to migrate via
mbind(MPOL_MF_MOVE) a non-anon region that spans multiple vmas. For
anon-regions, we just fail to migrate any pages beyond the 1st vma in the
range.
This occurs because do_mbind() collects a list of pages to migrate by
calling check_range(). check_range() walks the task's mm, spanning vmas as
necessary, to collect the migratable pages into a list. Then, do_mbind()
calls migrate_pages() passing the list of pages, a function to allocate new
pages based on vma policy [new_vma_page()], and a pointer to the first vma
of the range.
For each page in the list, new_vma_page() calls page_address_in_vma()
passing the page and the vma [first in range] to obtain the address to get
for alloc_page_vma(). The page address is needed to get interleaving
policy correct. If the pages in the list come from multiple vmas,
eventually, new_page_address() will pass that page to page_address_in_vma()
with the incorrect vma. For !PageAnon pages, this will result in a bug
check in rmap.c:vma_address(). For anon pages, vma_address() will just
return EFAULT and fail the migration.
This patch modifies new_vma_page() to check the return value from
page_address_in_vma(). If the return value is EFAULT, new_vma_page()
searchs forward via vm_next for the vma that maps the page--i.e., that does
not return EFAULT. This assumes that the pages in the list handed to
migrate_pages() is in address order. This is currently case. The patch
documents this assumption in a new comment block for new_vma_page().
If new_vma_page() cannot locate the vma mapping the page in a forward
search in the mm, it will pass a NULL vma to alloc_page_vma(). This will
result in the allocation using the task policy, if any, else system default
policy. This situation is unlikely, but the patch documents this behavior
with a comment.
Note, this patch results in restarting from the first vma in a multi-vma
range each time new_vma_page() is called. If this is not acceptable, we
can make the vma argument a pointer, both in new_vma_page() and it's caller
unmap_and_move() so that the value held by the loop in migrate_pages()
always passes down the last vma in which a page was found. This will
require changes to all new_page_t functions passed to migrate_pages(). Is
this necessary?
For this patch to work, we can't bug check in vma_address() for pages
outside the argument vma. This patch removes the BUG_ON(). All other
callers [besides new_vma_page()] already check the return status.
Tested on x86_64, 4 node NUMA platform.
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jordan Crouse [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:58:58 +0000 (16:58 -0800)]
LXFB: use the correct MSR number for panel support
A relatively recent version of the Geode LX datasheet listed the wrong
address for one of the MSRs that controls TFT panels, resulting in
breakage. This patch corrects the MSR address.
Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jan Kara [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:58:56 +0000 (16:58 -0800)]
Forbid user to change file flags on quota files
Forbid user from changing file flags on quota files. User has no bussiness
in playing with these flags when quota is on. Furthermore there is a
remote possibility of deadlock due to a lock inversion between quota file's
i_mutex and transaction's start (i_mutex for quota file is locked only when
trasaction is started in quota operations) in ext3 and ext4.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: LIOU Payphone <lioupayphone@gmail.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch lowers the priority of those messages, adds a "cgroup: " prefix
to another couple of printks and kills the useless reference to the source
file.
Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jeff Dike [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:58:53 +0000 (16:58 -0800)]
uml: update address space affected by pud_clear
pud_clear wasn't setting the _PAGE_NEWPAGE bit, fooling tlb_flush into
thinking that this area of the address space was up-to-date and not unmapping
whatever was covered by the pud.
This manifested itself as ldconfig on x86_64 complaining about the first
library it looked at not being a valid ELF file. A config file is mapped at
0x4000000, as the only thing mapped under its pud, and unmapped. The
unmapping caused a pud_clear, which, due to this bug, didn't actually unmap
the config file data on the host. The first library is then mapped at the
same location, but is not actually mapped on the host because accesses to it
cause no page faults. As a result, ldconfig sees the old config file data.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups] Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jeff Dike [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:58:51 +0000 (16:58 -0800)]
uml: fix recvmsg return value checking
Stupid bug - we need to compare the return value of recvmsg to the value of
iov_len, not its size. This caused port_helper processes not to be killed on
shutdown on x86_64 because the pids weren't being passed out properly.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Philippe Elie [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:58:48 +0000 (16:58 -0800)]
oProfile: oops when profile_pc() returns ~0LU
Instruction pointer returned by profile_pc() can be a random value. This
break the assumption than we can safely set struct op_sample.eip field to a
magic value to signal to the per-cpu buffer reader side special event like
task switch ending up in a segfault in get_task_mm() when profile_pc()
return ~0UL. Fixed by sanitizing the sampled eip and reject/log invalid
eip.
Problem reported by Sami Farin, patch tested by him.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr> Tested-by: Sami Farin <safari-kernel@safari.iki.fi> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Randy Dunlap [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:58:45 +0000 (16:58 -0800)]
chipsfb: uses/depends on PCI
chipsfb uses PCI interfaces and should depend on PCI.
CC drivers/video/chipsfb.o
drivers/video/chipsfb.c: In function 'chipsfb_pci_init':
drivers/video/chipsfb.c:378: error: implicit declaration of function 'pci_request_region'
drivers/video/chipsfb.c:435: error: implicit declaration of function 'pci_release_region'
make[2]: *** [drivers/video/chipsfb.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [drivers/video] Error 2
make: *** [drivers] Error 2
!CONFIG_PCI causes the build to fail.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mike Frysinger [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:58:43 +0000 (16:58 -0800)]
rtc: tweak driver documentation for rtc periodic
The max_user_freq member is not really meant for RTC drivers to modify, so
update the rtc documentation so drivers writers know what is expected of
them when handling periodic events.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jeff Dike [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:58:42 +0000 (16:58 -0800)]
uml: fix symlink loops
symlinks to directories in the non-O= case were lacking -n, which meant
that, when the link already existed, a new link pointing at itself was
created in the target directory.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Paul Mundt [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:58:41 +0000 (16:58 -0800)]
lib: move bitmap.o from lib-y to obj-y.
mac80211 has a reference to __bitmap_empty() via bitmap_empty(). In
lib/bitmap.c this is flagged with an EXPORT_SYMBOL(), but this is
ultimately ineffective due to bitmap.o being linked in lib-y, resulting in:
Pascal Terjan [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:58:39 +0000 (16:58 -0800)]
cm40x0_cs.c: fix debug macros
When PCMCIA_DEBUG is set, cm40x0_cs.c and cm4000_cs.c don't build because the
definition of reader_to_dev uses a non-existent handle field of the struct
pcmcia_device in the call to handle_to_dev. As handle_to_dev works on struct
pcmcia_device, the fix is quite trivial.
Signed-off-by: Pascal Terjan <pterjan@mandriva.com> Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Bjorn Helgaas [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:58:36 +0000 (16:58 -0800)]
serial: add PNP ID for Davicom ISA 33.6K modem
This should resolve these bug reports of the modem not working:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4355
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/connect-script-failed-on-ppp-go-123975/
I don't have hardware to test this, but the initial report in the kernel
bugzilla indicates that this change fixed the problem.
Akinobu Mita [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:58:35 +0000 (16:58 -0800)]
slab: fix typo in allocation failure handling
This patch fixes wrong array index in allocation failure handling.
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
David Brownell [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:58:30 +0000 (16:58 -0800)]
RTCs: handle NVRAM better
Several of the RTC drivers are exporting binary "nvram" files in sysfs. Such
NVRAM (or on many systems, EEPROM) data is often initialized during system
manufacture to hold data about identity (serial numbers, Ethernet addresses,
etc), configuration, calibration, and so forth.
This patch improves integrity and security of those files:
- Correctly initializes the size in one of the two cases where
that was not yet being done.
- Improves system security/integrity by making this state not
be world-writable by default.
Letting arbitrary userspace code mangle such state by default is at least Not
A Good Thing; and it could sometimes be worse, depending on the particular
data that might be corrupted. (I disregard the paranoiac "don't let anyone
read it either" approach. Anyone storing passwords in such memory doesn't
really care about security.)
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Cc: Torsten Ertbjerg Rasmussen <tr@newtec.dk> Cc: Mark Zhan <rongkai.zhan@windriver.com> Cc: Thomas Hommel <thomas.hommel@gefanuc.com> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
David Brownell [Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:58:29 +0000 (16:58 -0800)]
rtc_hctosys expects RTCs in UTC (doc)
The RTC "hctosys" mechanism expects that RTC clock will use UTC, not local
time (e.g. PST). Say so in Kconfig and in the kernel message.
(Strictly speaking, the RTC clock should be tracking the POSIX epoch. That's
not worth going into here. Goofing timezones means clocks are wrong by many
hours; the POSIX-v-UTC differences just cost seconds.)
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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