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Christoph Hellwig
c7ebbbce36 [SCSI] SAS transport class
The SAS transport class contains common code to deal with SAS HBAs, an
aproximated representation of SAS topologies in the driver model,
and various sysfs attributes to expose these topologies and managment
interfaces to userspace.

In addition to the basic SCSI core objects this transport class introduces
two additional intermediate objects:  The SAS PHY as represented by struct
sas_phy defines an "outgoing" PHY on a SAS HBA or Expander, and the SAS
remote PHY represented by struct sas_rphy defines an "incoming" PHY on a
SAS Expander or end device.  Note that this is purely a software concept, the
underlying hardware for a PHY and a remote PHY is the exactly the same.

There is no concept of a SAS port in this code, users can see what PHYs
form a wide port based on the port_identifier attribute, which is the same
for all PHYs in a port.

This submission doesn't handle hot-plug addition or removal of SAS devices
and thus doesn't do scanning in a workqueue yet, that will be added in
phase2 after this submission.  In a third phase I will add additional
managment infrastructure.

I think this submission is ready for 2.6.14, but additional comments are
of course very welcome.

I'd like to thanks James Smart a lot for his very useful input on the
design.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-09-09 16:43:37 -05:00
Douglas Gilbert
942fc2fb73 [SCSI] permit READ DEFECT DATA in block/scsi_ioctl
The soon to be released smartmontools 5.34 uses the
READ DEFECT DATA command on SCSI disks. A disk that
has defect list entries (or worse, an increasing number
of them) is at risk.

Currently the first invocation of smartctl causes this:
   scsi: unknown opcode 0x37
message to appear the console and in the log.

The READ DEFECT DATA SCSI command does not change
the state of a disk. Its opcode (0x37) is valid for
SBC devices (e.g. disks) and SMC-2 devices (media
changers) where it is called INITIALIZE STATUS ELEMENT
WITH RANGE and again doesn't change the external state
of the device.

Changelog:
  - mark SCSI opcode 0x37 (READ DEFECT DATA) as
    safe_for_read

Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-09-09 16:42:44 -05:00
Douglas Gilbert
1c8e71d720 [SCSI] sg: do not set VM_IO flag on mmap-ed pages
Further to the problem discussed in this post:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=112540053711489&w=2

It seems that the sg driver does not need to set the VM_IO flag
on pages that it memory maps to the user space since they are
not from the IO space. Ahmed Teirelbar <ahmed.teirelbar@adic.com>
wants the facility and has tested this patch as I have without
adverse effects.

The oops protection is still important. Some users really did
try and use dio transfers from the sg driver to memory mapped
IO space (on a video capture card if my memory serves) during the
lk 2.4 series. I'm not sure how successful it was but that will
now be politely refused in lk 2.6.13+ .

Changelog:
   - set the page flags for sg's reserved buffer mmap-ed
     to the user space to VM_RESERVED (rather than
     VM_RESERVED | VM_IO )

Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-09-09 16:37:05 -05:00
James Bottomley
788ce43aa1 [SCSI] SCSI core: fix leakage of scsi_cmnd's
Actually, just one problem and one cosmetic fix:

1) We need to dequeue for the loop and kill case (it seems easiest
simply to dequeue in the scsi_kill_request() routine)
2) There's no real need to drop the queue lock.  __scsi_done() is lock
agnostic, so since there's no requirement, let's just leave it in to
avoid any locking issues.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-09-09 16:30:59 -05:00
James Bottomley
e91442b635 [SCSI] SCSI core: fix leakage of scsi_cmnd's
From: 	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>

This patch (as559b) adds a new routine, scsi_unprep_request, which
gets called every place a request is requeued.  (That includes
scsi_queue_insert as well as scsi_requeue_command.)  It also changes
scsi_kill_requests to make it call __scsi_done with result equal to
DID_NO_CONNECT << 16.  (I'm not sure if it's necessary to call
scsi_init_cmd_errh here; maybe you can check on that.)  Finally, the
patch changes the return value from scsi_end_request, to avoid
returning a stale pointer in the case where the request was requeued.
Fortunately the return value is used in only place, and the change
actually simplified it.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>

Rejections fixed up and
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-09-09 10:44:16 -05:00
Neil Brown
286f3e13a1 [SCSI] fix possible deadlock in scsi_lib.c
If a filesystem, while writing out data, decides that it is good
to issue a cache flush on a SCSI drive (or other 'sd' device), it will
call blkdev_issue_flush which calls ->issue_flush_fn which is
scsi_issue_flush_fn.
This calls sd_issue_flush which calls sd_sync_cache, which calls
scsi_execute_request.
This will (as sshdr != NULL) call
    kmalloc(SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE, GFP_KERNEL)

If memory is tight, the presence of GFP_KERNEL may cause write
requests to be sent to some filesystem to free up memory, however if
that filesystem is waiting for the issue_flush_fn to complete, you
could get a deadlock.

I wonder if it might be more appropriate to use GFP_NOIO as in the
following patch.

I wonder if it might be even more appropriate to cope better with a
kmalloc failure, especially as in this use, sd_sync_cache only will
use the sense information to print out a more informative error
message.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-09-09 10:29:22 -05:00
Alan Stern
903f4fed85 [SCSI] fix callers of scsi_remove_device() who already hold the scan muted
This patch (as544) adds a private entry point to scsi_remove_device, for
use when callers already own the scan_mutex.  The appropriate callers are
modified to use the new entry point.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-09-09 10:28:17 -05:00
Alan Stern
e517d3133f [SCSI] add missing scan mutex to scsi_scan_target()
This patch (as543) adds a private entry point to scsi_scan_target, for use
when the caller already owns the scan_mutex, and updates the kerneldoc for
that routine (which was badly out-of-date).  It converts scsi_scan_channel
to use the new entry point.  Lastly, it modifies scsi_get_host_dev to make
it acquire the scan_mutex, necessary since the routine adds a new
scsi_device even if it doesn't do any actual scanning.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-09-09 10:24:31 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
caf39e87cc [SCSI] Re-do "final klist fixes"
With the previous commit that introduces the klist enhancements, we can
now re-do 2b7d6a8cb9 again.
2005-09-07 18:44:33 -07:00
James Bottomley
34bb61f9dd [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>
2005-09-07 18:26:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
df4edad178 [SCSI] Revert "final klist fixes"
Revert commit 2b7d6a8cb9.

The "fix" was known to not even compile.  Duh.  That's not a fix.
That's just stupid.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 17:50:58 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0481990b75 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-for-linus-2.6 2005-09-07 17:31:27 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
db400b3c4e Merge branch 'drm-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6 2005-09-07 17:29:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0dd7f883a9 Merge branch 'upstream' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6 2005-09-07 17:28:25 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
cc896f0871 Merge branch 'upstream' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev 2005-09-07 17:27:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
87129d9626 Merge git://oss.sgi.com:8090/oss/git/xfs-2.6 2005-09-07 17:23:52 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
55faed1e60 Merge branch 'upstream' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 2005-09-07 17:22:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
946e91f36e Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2005-09-07 17:21:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f7402dc44d Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2005-09-07 17:20:11 -07:00
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
e72225d160 [PATCH] bogus #if (simserial)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 17:17:34 -07:00
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
3352ae5de4 [PATCH] CHECKFLAGS on ppc64 got broken
Now that asm-powerpc/* is using ifdefs on __powerpc64__ we need to add it
to CHECKFLAGS on ppc64.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 17:17:34 -07:00
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
147a67f010 [PATCH] bogus #if (ncr53c406)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 17:17:34 -07:00
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
4c86b114a4 [PATCH] bogus #if (smc91x.h)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 17:17:34 -07:00
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
9a0b3869bb [PATCH] bogus #if (arch/um/kernel/mem.c)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 17:17:34 -07:00
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
f718404aa9 [PATCH] -Wundef fixes (hisax)
CARD_... in hisax are all used with #if; CARD_FN_ENTERNOW_PCI lacks define
to 0 if corresponding config option is not set.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 17:17:33 -07:00
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
185a7a1cd7 [PATCH] -Wundef fixes (ncr5380)
NDEBUG and NDEBUG_ABORT are almost always used as integers in NCR5380; added
define to 0 if they are not defined, switched lone ifdef NDEBUG into if.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 17:17:33 -07:00
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
f20badbe12 [PATCH] -Wundef fixes (hamachi)
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>
2005-09-07 17:17:33 -07:00
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
95608261da [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>
2005-09-07 17:17:33 -07:00
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
8412205838 [PATCH] updated mail address
parcelfarce is dead...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 17:17:33 -07:00
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
e12ba644ee [PATCH] iomem annotations (sound/arm/aaci)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 17:17:33 -07:00
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
90dffc03ca [PATCH] lost chunk of "uml: build cleanups"
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>
2005-09-07 17:17:32 -07:00
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
a08b6b7968 [PATCH] Kconfig fix (BLK_DEV_FD dependencies)
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>
2005-09-07 17:17:12 -07:00
viro@zenIV.linux.org.uk
8ae418cf85 [PATCH] s2io u64 use for uintptr_t
u64 is not uintptr_t; unsigned long is...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 17:16:52 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
24c83d45d7 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial 2005-09-07 17:02:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1077682b2f Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2005-09-07 17:00:53 -07:00
Michael Krufky
dc9ca2af49 [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>
2005-09-07 16:58:02 -07:00
Michael Krufky
2684f5c74d [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:

config DVB_BT8XX
       tristate "Nebula/Pinnacle PCTV/Twinhan PCI cards"

It has been agreed upon that this description is extremely misleading.

This patch changes the one-liner description text of dvb-bt8xx to something
more meaningful, and adds AVerMedia to the detailed description.

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:58:02 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
d203a7eca8 [PATCH] Indycam / VINO drivers
Rewrite of the Indycam / VINO video v4l2 drivers for the SGI Indy.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Mikael Nousiainen <tmnousia@cc.hut.fi>
Cc: <video4linux-list@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:58:01 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
0bb6fcc13a [PATCH] pivot_root() circular reference fix
Fix http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4857

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>
2005-09-07 16:58:01 -07:00
Keshavamurthy Anil S
deac66ae45 [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>
2005-09-07 16:58:01 -07:00
Jim Keniston
bce0649417 [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>
2005-09-07 16:58:01 -07:00
Keshavamurthy Anil S
661e5a3d99 [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>
2005-09-07 16:58:00 -07:00
Prasanna S Panchamukhi
83005161c8 [PATCH] kprobes-prevent-possible-race-conditions-sparc64-changes fix
This patch adds flags "ax" to .kprobe.text section.

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>
2005-09-07 16:58:00 -07:00
Prasanna S Panchamukhi
05e14cb3ba [PATCH] Kprobes: prevent possible race conditions sparc64 changes
This patch contains the sparc64 architecture specific changes to prevent the
possible race conditions.

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>
2005-09-07 16:58:00 -07:00
Prasanna S Panchamukhi
1f7ad57b75 [PATCH] Kprobes: prevent possible race conditions ia64 changes
This patch contains the ia64 architecture specific changes to prevent the
possible race conditions.

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>
2005-09-07 16:58:00 -07:00
Prasanna S Panchamukhi
bb144a85c7 [PATCH] Kprobes: prevent possible race conditions ppc64 changes
This patch contains the ppc64 architecture specific changes to prevent the
possible race conditions.

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>
2005-09-07 16:58:00 -07:00
Prasanna S Panchamukhi
0f2fbdcbb0 [PATCH] kprobes: prevent possible race conditions x86_64 changes
This patch contains the x86_64 architecture specific changes to prevent the
possible race conditions.

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>
2005-09-07 16:57:59 -07:00
Prasanna S Panchamukhi
3d97ae5b95 [PATCH] kprobes: prevent possible race conditions i386 changes
This patch contains the i386 architecture specific changes to prevent the
possible race conditions.

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>
2005-09-07 16:57:59 -07:00
Prasanna S Panchamukhi
d0aaff9796 [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>
2005-09-07 16:57:59 -07:00
Brice Goglin
505db03639 [PATCH] Fix smsc_ircc_init return value
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.

Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:59 -07:00