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Roland McGrath
c09249f8d1 x86-64: fix int $0x80 -ENOSYS return
One of my past fixes to this code introduced a different new bug.
When using 32-bit "int $0x80" entry for a bogus syscall number,
the return value is not correctly set to -ENOSYS.  This only happens
when neither syscall-audit nor syscall tracing is enabled (i.e., never
seen if auditd ever started).  Test program:

	/* gcc -o int80-badsys -m32 -g int80-badsys.c
	   Run on x86-64 kernel.
	   Note to reproduce the bug you need auditd never to have started.  */

	#include <errno.h>
	#include <stdio.h>

	int
	main (void)
	{
	  long res;
	  asm ("int $0x80" : "=a" (res) : "0" (99999));
	  printf ("bad syscall returns %ld\n", res);
	  return res != -ENOSYS;
	}

The fix makes the int $0x80 path match the sysenter and syscall paths.

Reported-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
2009-02-06 18:22:29 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6cec50838e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
  ALSA: hda - Add missing COEF initialization for ALC887
  ALSA: hda - Add missing initialization for ALC272
  sound: usb-audio: handle wMaxPacketSize for FIXED_ENDPOINT devices
  ALSA: hda - Fix misc workqueue issues
  ALSA: hda - Add quirk for FSC Amilo Xi2550
2009-02-06 11:14:23 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
5e3bd4e4b1 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  ieee1394: dv1394: move deprecation message from module init to file open
  firewire: core: Remove card from list of cards when enable fails
2009-02-06 08:48:16 -08:00
Uwe Kleine-König
bcee402e76 Add Sascha Hauer to .mailmap
This fixes the shortlog attribution e.g. for 106757b38f

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-06 08:47:25 -08:00
Uwe Kleine-König
6d7f2caa77 add another mailmap entry for Uwe Kleine-König
I created commit 7971db5a4b on a machine
where I forgot to set user.name and user.email before.  The default
values were not optimal.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-06 08:47:25 -08:00
Li Zefan
04ec93fe9b fork.c: fix NULL pointer dereference when nr_threads == threads-max
I happened to forked lots of processes, and hit NULL pointer dereference.
It is because in copy_process() after checking max_threads, 0 is returned
but not -EAGAIN.

The bug is introduced by "CRED: Detach the credentials from task_struct"
(commit f1752eec61).

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-06 08:43:11 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
b2a740aab8 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md: Ensure an md array never has too many devices.
  md: Fix a bug in linear.c causing which_dev() to return the wrong device.
  md: Allow read error in a single drive raid1 to be passed up.
2009-02-06 07:41:10 -08:00
Stefan Richter
86431532ec ieee1394: dv1394: move deprecation message from module init to file open
On many Linux installations, the dv1394 driver will be auto-loaded
whenever an AV/C device (e.g. camcorder or audio device) is plugged in.
An irritating message would then appear in the kernel log.

Defer this message to until a dv1394 character device file is actually
used by a program.  Also include the program name in the message and
update the message slightly.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2009-02-06 15:52:28 +01:00
Takashi Iwai
b0050cae2b Merge branch 'fix/usb-audio' into for-linus 2009-02-06 14:25:13 +01:00
Takashi Iwai
b2573eb586 Merge branch 'fix/hda' into for-linus 2009-02-06 14:25:04 +01:00
Takashi Iwai
4a5a4c56b4 ALSA: hda - Add missing COEF initialization for ALC887
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2009-02-06 12:46:59 +01:00
Takashi Iwai
c6e8f2daad ALSA: hda - Add missing initialization for ALC272
ALC272 needs EAPD for speaker outputs as well as other similar ALC
codecs.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2009-02-06 12:45:52 +01:00
Clemens Ladisch
894dcd7878 sound: usb-audio: handle wMaxPacketSize for FIXED_ENDPOINT devices
For audio devices that do not have proper audio descriptors (e.g.,
Edirol UA-20), we use hardcoded parameters from our quirks list.
However, we must still read the maximum packet size from the standard
endpoint descriptor; otherwise, we might use packets that are too big
and therefore rejected by the USB core.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2009-02-06 09:47:12 +01:00
NeilBrown
de01dfadf2 md: Ensure an md array never has too many devices.
Each different metadata format supported by md supports a
different maximum number of devices.
We really should be enforcing this maximum in the kernel, but
we aren't quite doing that properly.

We currently only enforce it at the 'hot_add' point, which is an
older interface which is not used by current userspace.

We need to also enforce it at 'add_new_disk' time for active arrays
and at 'do_md_run' time when starting a new array.

So move the test from 'hot_add' into 'bind_rdev_to_array' which is
called from both 'hot_add' and 'add_new_disk, and add a new
test in 'analyse_sbs' which is called from 'do_md_run'.

This bug (or missing feature) has been around "forever" and so
the patch is suitable for any -stable that is currently maintained.

Cc: stable@kernel.org

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-02-06 18:02:46 +11:00
Andre Noll
852c8bf484 md: Fix a bug in linear.c causing which_dev() to return the wrong device.
ab5bd5cbc8 introduced the following
bug in linear software raid for large arrays on 32 bit machines:

which_dev() computes the device holding a given sector by shifting
down the sector number to a 32 bit range, dividing by the array
spacing and looking up the resulting index in the hash table of
the array.

Because the computed index might be slightly too small, a loop at
the end of which_dev() increases the index until the given sector
actually falls into the range of the device associated with that index.

The changes of the above mentioned commit caused this loop to check
whether the _index_ rather than the sector number is small enough,
effectively bypassing the loop and thus possibly returning the wrong
device.

As reported by Simon Kirby, this leads to errors such as

	linear_make_request: Sector 2340486136 out of bounds on dev sdi: 156301312 sectors, offset 2109870464

Fix this bug by introducing a local variable for the index so that
the variable containing the passed sector is left unchanged.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-02-06 15:10:52 +11:00
NeilBrown
4706b349f4 md: Allow read error in a single drive raid1 to be passed up.
If a raid1 only has a single working device and gets a read error, 
we choose to simply return that error up to the filesystem (or whatever)
rather than failing the whole array.

However the codes doesn't quite do that.  We attempt a readbalance
which allocates the same drive, so we retry the read - indefinitely. 

Instead:  If read_balance in the error case chooses the same drive that just
failed, treat it as a failure and don't retry.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-02-06 15:06:47 +11:00
Masami Hiramatsu
9be260a646 prevent kprobes from catching spurious page faults
Prevent kprobes from catching spurious faults which will cause infinite
recursive page-fault and memory corruption by stack overflow.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 17:01:50 -08:00
Al Viro
767b5828ad braino in sg_ioctl_trans()
... and yes, gcc is insane enough to eat that without complaint.
We probably want sparse to scream on those...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 16:35:52 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
082256333f Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2:
  Revert "configfs: Silence lockdep on mkdir(), rmdir() and configfs_depend_item()"
2009-02-05 16:12:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
09cd5b8f9d Merge branch 'sh/for-2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* 'sh/for-2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6:
  sh: Fix up T-bit error handling in SH-4A mutex fastpath.
  sh: Fix up spurious syscall restarting.
  sh: fcnvds fix with denormalized numbers on SH-4 FPU.
  sh: Only reserve memory under CONFIG_ZERO_PAGE_OFFSET when it != 0.
  sh: Handle calling csum_partial with misaligned data
  sh: ap325rxa: Enable ov772x in defconfig.
  sh: ap325rxa: Add ov772x support.
  sh: ap325rxa: control camera power toggling.
  sh: mach-migor: Enable ov772x and tw9910 in defconfig.
2009-02-05 16:11:54 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
cc5724ce10 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  Revert "tcp: Always set urgent pointer if it's beyond snd_nxt"
  ipv6: Copy cork options in ip6_append_data
  udp: Fix UDP short packet false positive
  gianfar: Fix potential soft reset race
  gianfar: Fix BD_LENGTH_MASK definition
  cxgb3: Fix lro switch
  iwlwifi: save PCI state before suspend, restore after resume
  iwlwifi: clean key table in iwl_clear_stations_table
2009-02-05 16:11:32 -08:00
David S. Miller
a23f4bbd8d Revert "tcp: Always set urgent pointer if it's beyond snd_nxt"
This reverts commit 64ff3b938e.

Jeff Chua reports that it breaks rlogin for him.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-05 15:38:31 -08:00
Herbert Xu
0178b695fd ipv6: Copy cork options in ip6_append_data
As the options passed to ip6_append_data may be ephemeral, we need
to duplicate it for corking.  This patch applies the simplest fix
which is to memdup all the relevant bits.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-05 15:15:50 -08:00
David S. Miller
12402b5b7a Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2009-02-05 15:08:11 -08:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
7b5e56f9d6 udp: Fix UDP short packet false positive
The UDP header pointer assignment must happen after calling
pskb_may_pull().  As pskb_may_pull() can potentially alter the SKB
buffer.

This was exposted by running multicast traffic through the NIU driver,
as it won't prepull the protocol headers into the linear area on
receive.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-05 15:05:45 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
f01d1d546a seq_file: fix big-enough lseek() + read()
lseek() further than length of the file will leave stale ->index
(second-to-last during iteration). Next seq_read() will not notice
that ->f_pos is big enough to return 0, but will print last item
as if ->f_pos is pointing to it.

Introduced in commit cb510b8172
aka "seq_file: more atomicity in traverse()".

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 14:18:14 -08:00
Eric Biederman
33da8892a2 seq_file: move traverse so it can be used from seq_read
In 2.6.25 some /proc files were converted to use the seq_file
infrastructure.  But seq_files do not correctly support pread(), which
broke some usersapce applications.

To handle pread correctly we can't assume that f_pos is where we left it
in seq_read.  So move traverse() so that we can eventually use it in
seq_read and do thus some day support pread().

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 12:56:49 -08:00
Dean Nelson
361916a943 sgi-xp: fix writing past the end of kzalloc()'d space
A missing type cast results in writing way beyond the end of a kzalloc()'d
memory segment resulting in slab corruption. But it seems like the better
solution is to define ->recv_msg_slots as a 'void *' rather than a
'struct xpc_notify_mq_msg_uv *' and add the type cast.

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 12:56:49 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
fb9a680011 alpha: fixup BUG macro
Do usual do {} while (0) dance, otherwise

fs/gfs2/util.c:99: error: expected expression before 'else'
drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c:363: error: expected expression before 'else'

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 12:56:49 -08:00
Dan Carpenter
736d54533a sx.c: fix missed unlock_kernel() on error path in sx_fw_ioctl()
If we return directly with -EPERM then lock_kernel() is still held.

This was found with a code checker (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git/).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix another such path - missed func_exit()]
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 12:56:48 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
fe86175bce atyfb: fix CONFIG_ namespace violations
Fix namespace violations by changing non-kconfig CONFIG_ names to CNFG_*.

Fixes breakage in staging/, which adds a real CONFIG_PANEL.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 12:56:48 -08:00
Manish Katiyar
cd29cf7d11 rtc-ds1390: fix compilation warnings in drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1390.c
drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1390.c:125: warning: unused variable 'rtc'

Signed-off-by: Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-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>
2009-02-05 12:56:48 -08:00
Mike Rapoport
ce43ae538b drivers/video/backlight: rename da903x to da903x_bl
Currently both da903x backlight and voltage reulator drivers have the
same name. Rename the backlight driver to allow use of both drivers as
modules.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il>
Acked-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 12:56:48 -08:00
Hans-Christian Egtvedt
dfecb7164e atmel-ssc: fix misuse of dev_dbg when requested ssc instance is not found
The ssc pointer is not valid when the id is not found in the list.
Convert the message from a debug one into an error message and avoid
dereferencing the bad pointer.

Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 12:56:48 -08:00
Carsten Otte
ab92661d5d do_wp_page: fix regression with execute in place
Fix do_wp_page for VM_MIXEDMAP mappings.

In the case where pfn_valid returns 0 for a pfn at the beginning of
do_wp_page and the mapping is not shared writable, the code branches to
label `gotten:' with old_page == NULL.

In case the vma is locked (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED), lock_page,
clear_page_mlock, and unlock_page try to access the old_page.

This patch checks whether old_page is valid before it is dereferenced.

The regression was introduced by "mlock: mlocked pages are unevictable"
(commit b291f00039).

Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 12:56:48 -08:00
Johannes Weiner
777c6c5f1f wait: prevent exclusive waiter starvation
With exclusive waiters, every process woken up through the wait queue must
ensure that the next waiter down the line is woken when it has finished.

Interruptible waiters don't do that when aborting due to a signal.  And if
an aborting waiter is concurrently woken up through the waitqueue, noone
will ever wake up the next waiter.

This has been observed with __wait_on_bit_lock() used by
lock_page_killable(): the first contender on the queue was aborting when
the actual lock holder woke it up concurrently.  The aborted contender
didn't acquire the lock and therefor never did an unlock followed by
waking up the next waiter.

Add abort_exclusive_wait() which removes the process' wait descriptor from
the waitqueue, iff still queued, or wakes up the next waiter otherwise.
It does so under the waitqueue lock.  Racing with a wake up means the
aborting process is either already woken (removed from the queue) and will
wake up the next waiter, or it will remove itself from the queue and the
concurrent wake up will apply to the next waiter after it.

Use abort_exclusive_wait() in __wait_event_interruptible_exclusive() and
__wait_on_bit_lock() when they were interrupted by other means than a wake
up through the queue.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Reported-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Mentored-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		["after some testing"]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 12:56:48 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
40b0bb1e73 maintainers: general@lists.openfabrics.org is moderated
I got the "list is moderated message," so add it here.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 12:56:47 -08:00
Martin Kebert
87357d277a lis3lv02d: add axes knowledge for HP 6710
Add support for the HP laptops of model 6710x for having correctly setup
axes.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kebert <gkmarty@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 12:56:47 -08:00
Pavel Herrmann
c77a022d29 lis3lv02d: add axes knowledge for HP 6730
Add support for the HP laptops of model 6730x for having correctly setup
axes.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Herrmann <morpheus.ibis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 12:56:47 -08:00
Eric Piel
80eda5fb58 lis3lv02d: add axes knowledge for HP 6530
Add support for the HP laptops of model 6530x for having correctly setup
axes.

Reported-by: Jerome Poulin <jeromepoulin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 12:56:47 -08:00
Jiri Tersel
6bfef2b3cf lis3lv02d: add axes knowledge for HP 6510b
According to dmesg my laptop model HP 6510b is not being recognized by this
driver. After I have modified "lis3lv02d.c" axes in Neverball are OK.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Tersel <tersel@mail.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 12:56:47 -08:00
Andrew Morton
44f0606d52 hp-wmi: fix error path in hp_wmi_bios_setup()
The error-path code can call rfkill_unregister() with a pointer which does
not contain the result of a call to rfkill_register().  It goes BUG().

Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12560.

Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Testted-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 12:56:47 -08:00
Andrew Morton
60fd760fb9 revert "rlimit: permit setting RLIMIT_NOFILE to RLIM_INFINITY"
Revert commit 0c2d64fb6c because it causes
(arguably poorly designed) existing userspace to spend interminable
periods closing billions of not-open file descriptors.

We could bring this back, with some sort of opt-in tunable in /proc, which
defaults to "off".

Peter's alanysis follows:

: I spent several hours trying to get to the bottom of a serious
: performance issue that appeared on one of our servers after upgrading to
: 2.6.28.  In the end it's what could be considered a userspace bug that
: was triggered by a change in 2.6.28.  Since this might also affect other
: people I figured I'd at least document what I found here, and maybe we
: can even do something about it:
:
:
: So, I upgraded some of debian.org's machines to 2.6.28.1 and immediately
: the team maintaining our ftp archive complained that one of their
: scripts that previously ran in a few minutes still hadn't even come
: close to being done after an hour or so.  Downgrading to 2.6.27 fixed
: that.
:
: Turns out that script is forking a lot and something in it or python or
: whereever closes all the file descriptors it doesn't want to pass on.
: That is, it starts at zero and goes up to ulimit -n/RLIMIT_NOFILE and
: closes them all with a few exceptions.
:
: Turns out that takes a long time when your limit -n is now 2^20 (1048576).
:
: With 2.6.27.* the ulimit -n was the standard 1024, but with 2.6.28 it is
: now a thousand times that.
:
: 2.6.28 included a patch titled "rlimit: permit setting RLIMIT_NOFILE to
: RLIM_INFINITY" (0c2d64fb6c)[1] that
: allows, as the title implies, to set the limit for number of files to
: infinity.
:
: Closer investigation showed that the broken default ulimit did not apply
: to "system" processes (like stuff started from init).  In the end I
: could establish that all processes that passed through pam_limit at one
: point had the bad resource limit.
:
: Apparently the pam library in Debian etch (4.0) initializes the limits
: to some default values when it doesn't have any settings in limit.conf
: to override them.  Turns out that for nofiles this is RLIM_INFINITY.
: Commenting out "case RLIMIT_NOFILE" in pam_limit.c:267 of our pam
: package version 0.79-5 fixes that - tho I'm not sure what side effects
: that has.
:
: Debian lenny (the upcoming 5.0 version) doesn't have this issue as it
: uses a different pam (version).

Reported-by: Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>
Cc: Adam Tkac <vonsch@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 12:56:47 -08:00
Tony Battersby
a68e61e8ff shm: fix shmctl(SHM_INFO) lockup with !CONFIG_SHMEM
shm_get_stat() assumes that the inode is a "struct shmem_inode_info",
which is incorrect for !CONFIG_SHMEM (see fs/ramfs/inode.c:
ramfs_get_inode() vs.  mm/shmem.c: shmem_get_inode()).

This bad assumption can cause shmctl(SHM_INFO) to lockup when
shm_get_stat() tries to spin_lock(&info->lock).  Users of !CONFIG_SHMEM
may encounter this lockup simply by invoking the 'ipcs' command.

Reported by Jiri Olsa back in February 2008:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/29/74

Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.everything]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 12:56:47 -08:00
Andrea Righi
1f5e31d7e5 fbmem: don't call copy_from/to_user() with mutex held
Avoid calling copy_from/to_user() with fb_info->lock mutex held in fbmem
ioctl().

fb_mmap() is called under mm->mmap_sem (A) held, that also acquires
fb_info->lock (B); fb_ioctl() takes fb_info->lock (B) and does
copy_from/to_user() that might acquire mm->mmap_sem (A), causing a
deadlock.

NOTE: it doesn't push down the fb_info->lock in each own driver's
fb_ioctl(), so there are still potential deadlocks elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 12:56:46 -08:00
David Brownell
afd8d0f940 rtc: rtc-dm355evm driver
Simple RTC driver for the MSP430 firmware on the DM355 EVM board.  Other
than not supporting atomic reads/writes of all four bytes, this is
reasonable as a basic no-alarm RTC.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.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>
2009-02-05 12:56:46 -08:00
Matthew Garrett
77a592655c misc: dell-laptop should depend on POWER_SUPPLY
dell-laptop makes use of the power supply class information to choose
which backlight interface to change. Add a depends on it.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 12:56:46 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra
ac7b900490 generic swap(): don't return a value from swap()
The swap() macro is accidentally retuning the value of its first argument.
Change it into a doesn't-return-anything macro before someone goes and
relies upon this behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 12:56:46 -08:00
David Altobelli
c073b2db00 hpilo: open/close fix
The device can take a while to respond to an open/close request, so
increase the time kernel will wait for response (1 ms to 10ms).

Also, properly clean up a channel on a failed open, by calling the channel
close routine.  Just freeing the memory isn't sufficient, the device needs
to be informed that the channel is no longer open, and the device memory
cleared of references to freed dma buffer.

Signed-off-by: David Altobelli <david.altobelli@hp.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>
2009-02-05 12:56:46 -08:00
Andrew Morton
58763a2974 kernel/async.c: fix printk warnings
alpha:

kernel/async.c: In function 'run_one_entry':
kernel/async.c:141: warning: format '%lli' expects type 'long long int', but argument 2 has type 'async_cookie_t'
kernel/async.c:149: warning: format '%lli' expects type 'long long int', but argument 2 has type 'async_cookie_t'
kernel/async.c:149: warning: format '%lld' expects type 'long long int', but argument 4 has type 's64'
kernel/async.c: In function 'async_synchronize_cookie_special':
kernel/async.c:250: warning: format '%lli' expects type 'long long int', but argument 3 has type 's64'

Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05 12:56:46 -08:00