So I dug deeper into the DMA problems I had with iwlagn and a kind soul
helped me in that he said something about pci-e alignment and mentioned
the iwl_rx_allocate function to check for crossing 4KB boundaries. Since
there's 8KB A-MPDU support, crossing 4k boundaries didn't seem like
something the device would fail with, but when I looked into the
function for a minute anyway I stumbled over this little gem:
BUG_ON(rxb->dma_addr & (~DMA_BIT_MASK(36) & 0xff));
Clearly, that is a totally bogus check, one would hope the compiler
removes it entirely. (Think about it)
After fixing it, I obviously ran into it, nothing guarantees the
alignment the way you want it, because of the way skbs and their
headroom are allocated. I won't explain that here nor double-check that
I'm right, that goes beyond what most of the CC'ed people care about.
So then I came up with the patch below, and so far my system has
survived minutes with 64K pages, when it would previously fail in
seconds. And I haven't seen a single instance of the TX bug either. But
when you see the patch it'll be pretty obvious to you why.
This should fix the following reported kernel bugs:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11596http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11393http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11983
I haven't checked if there are any elsewhere, but I suppose RHBZ will
have a few instances too...
I'd like to ask anyone who is CC'ed (those are people I know ran into
the bug) to try this patch.
I am convinced that this patch is correct in spirit, but I haven't
understood why, for example, there are so many unmap calls. I'm not
entirely convinced that this is the only bug leading to the TX reply
errors.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Before ieee80211_notify_mac() was added, it was presented with the
use case of using it to tell mac80211 that the association may
have been lost because the firmware crashed/reset.
Since then, it has also been used by iwlwifi to (slightly) speed
up re-association after resume, a workaround around the fact that
mac80211 has no suspend/resume handling yet. It is also not used
by any other drivers, so clearly it cannot be necessary for "good
enough" suspend/resume.
Unfortunately, the callback suffers from a severe problem: It only
works for station mode. If suspend/resume happens while in IBSS or
any other mode (but station), then the callback is pointless.
Recently, it has created a number of locking issues, first because
it required rtnl locking rather than RCU due to calling sleeping
functions within the critical section, and now because it's called
by iwlwifi from the mac80211 workqueue that may not use the rtnl
because it is flushed under rtnl.
(cf. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12046)
I think, therefore, that we should take a step back, remove it
entirely for now and add the small feature it provided properly.
For suspend and resume we will need to introduce new hooks, and for
the case where the firmware was reset the driver will probably
simply just pretend it has done a suspend/resume cycle to get
mac80211 to reprogram the hardware completely, not just try to
connect to the current AP again in station mode. When doing so, we
will need to take into account locking issues and possibly defer
to schedule_work from within mac80211 for the resume operation,
while the suspend operation must be done directly.
Proper suspend/resume should also not necessarily try to reconnect
to the current AP, the time spent in suspend may have been short
enough to not be disconnected from the AP, mac80211 will detect
that the AP went out of range quickly if it did, and if the
association is lost then the AP will disassoc as soon as a data
frame is sent. We might also take into account WWOL then, and
have mac80211 program the hardware into such a mode where it is
available and requested.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
skb->tail can't be meant here because it's not the same across 32/64 bit
compilations. This means there's no way the current driver can work on
64-bit architectures.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.27]
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
__copy_from_user() will return invalid value 16 when it fails to
access user space and the size is 10.
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Dell Optiplex 330 appears to hang on reboot. This is resolved by adding
a quirk to set bios reboot.
Signed-off-by: Leann Ogasawara <leann.ogasawara@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Conklin <steve.conklin@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix tracing buffer mutex leak in case of allocation failure
This error was spotted by this semantic patch:
http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/mut.html
It looks correct as far as I can tell. Please review.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This was recently changed to check for need_reconnect, but should
actually be a check for a tidStatus of CifsExiting.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
block: hold extra reference to bio in blk_rq_map_user_iov()
relay: fix cpu offline problem
Release old elevator on change elevator
block: fix boot failure with CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT=y and nash
block/md: fix md autodetection
block: make add_partition() return pointer to hd_struct
block: fix add_partition() error path
By using WARN(), kerneloops.org can collect which component is causing
the delay and make statistics about that. suspend_test_finish() is
currently the number 2 item but unless we can collect who's causing
it we're not going to be able to fix the hot topic ones..
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
kernel/profile.c: fix section mismatch warning
function tracing: fix wrong pos computing when read buffer has been fulfilled
tracing: fix mmiotrace resizing crash
ring-buffer: no preempt for sched_clock()
ring-buffer: buffer record on/off switch
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
cpuset: fix regression when failed to generate sched domains
sched, signals: fix the racy usage of ->signal in account_group_xxx/run_posix_cpu_timers
sched: fix kernel warning on /proc/sched_debug access
sched: correct sched-rt-group.txt pathname in init/Kconfig
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
swiotlb: use coherent_dma_mask in alloc_coherent
MAINTAINERS: remove me as RAID maintainer
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/blackfin-2.6:
Blackfin arch: fix a broken define in dma-mapping
Blackfin arch: fix bug - Turn on DEBUG_DOUBLEFAULT, booting SMP kernel crash
Blackfin arch: fix bug - shared lib function in L2 failed be called
Blackfin arch: fix incorrect limit check for bf54x check_gpio
Blackfin arch: fix bug - Cpufreq assumes clocks in kHz and not Hz.
Blackfin arch: dont warn when running a kernel on the oldest supported silicon
Blackfin arch: fix bug - kernel build with write back policy fails to be booted up
Blackfin arch: fix bug - dmacopy test case fail on all platform
Blackfin arch: Fix typo when adding CONFIG_DEBUG_VERBOSE
Blackfin arch: don't copy bss when copying L1
Blackfin arch: fix bug - Fail to boot jffs2 kernel for BF561 with SMP patch
Blackfin arch: handle case of d_path() returning error in decode_address()
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
ALSA: hda - Fix resume of GPIO unsol event for STAC/IDT
ALSA: hda - Add quirks for HP Pavilion DV models
ALSA: hda - Fix GPIO initialization in patch_stac92hd71bxx()
ALSA: hda - Check model type instead of SSID in patch_92hd71bxx()
ALSA: sound/pci/pcxhr/pcxhr.c: introduce missing kfree and pci_disable_device
ALSA: hda: STAC_VREF_EVENT value change
ALSA: hda - Missing NULL check in hda_beep.c
ALSA: hda - Add digital beep playback switch for STAC/IDT codecs
Impact: fix memory leak
Error handling code following a kzalloc should free the allocated data.
The semantic match that finds the problem is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
// <smpl>
@r exists@
local idexpression x;
statement S;
expression E;
identifier f,l;
position p1,p2;
expression *ptr != NULL;
@@
(
if ((x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...)) == NULL) S
|
x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...);
...
if (x == NULL) S
)
<... when != x
when != if (...) { <+...x...+> }
x->f = E
...>
(
return \(0\|<+...x...+>\|ptr\);
|
return@p2 ...;
)
@script:python@
p1 << r.p1;
p2 << r.p2;
@@
print "* file: %s kmalloc %s return %s" % (p1[0].file,p1[0].line,p2[0].line)
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: widen the reach of the low-memory-protect DMI quirk
Phoenix BIOSes variously identify their vendor as "Phoenix Technologies,
LTD" or "Phoenix Technologies LTD" (without the comma.)
This patch makes the identification string in the bad_bios_dmi_table
more general (following a suggestion by Ingo Molnar), so that both
versions are handled.
Again, the patched file compiles cleanly and the patch has been tested
successfully on my machine.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Kohlbecher <xt28@gmx.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: makes device isolation the default for AMD IOMMU
Some device drivers showed double-free bugs of DMA memory while testing
them with AMD IOMMU. If all devices share the same protection domain
this can lead to data corruption and data loss. Prevent this by putting
each device into its own protection domain per default.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
this compiler warning:
arch/x86/kernel/ds.c: In function 'ds_request':
arch/x86/kernel/ds.c:368: warning: 'context' may be used uninitialized in this function
Shows that the code flow in ds_request() is buggy - it goes into
the unlock+release-context path even when the context is not allocated
yet.
First allocate the context, then do the other checks.
Also, take care with GFP allocations under the ds_lock spinlock.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If the size passed in is OK but we end up mapping too many segments,
we call the unmap path directly like from IO completion. But from IO
completion we have an extra reference to the bio, so this error case
goes OOPS when it attempts to free and already free bio.
Fix it by getting an extra reference to the bio before calling the
unmap failure case.
Reported-by: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
relay_open() will close allocated buffers when failed.
but if cpu offlined, some buffer will not be closed.
this patch fixed it.
and did cleanup for relay_reset() too.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We should release old elevator when change to use a new one.
Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We run into system boot failure with kernel 2.6.28-rc. We found it on a
couple of machines, including T61 notebook, nehalem machine, and another
HPC NX6325 notebook. All the machines use FedoraCore 8 or FedoraCore 9.
With kernel prior to 2.6.28-rc, system boot doesn't fail.
I debug it and locate the root cause. Pls. see
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11899https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471517
As a matter of fact, there are 2 bugs.
1)root=/dev/sda1, system boot randomly fails. Mostly, boot for 5 times
and fails once. nash has a bug. Some of its functions misuse return
value 0. Sometimes, 0 means timeout and no uevent available. Sometimes,
0 means nash gets an uevent, but the uevent isn't block-related (for
exmaple, usb). If by coincidence, kernel tells nash that uevents are
available, but kernel also set timeout, nash might stops collecting
other uevents in queue if current uevent isn't block-related. I work
out a patch for nash to fix it.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=18858
2) root=LABEL=/, system always can't boot. initrd init reports
switchroot fails. Here is an executation branch of nash when booting:
(1) nash read /sys/block/sda/dev; Assume major is 8 (on my desktop)
(2) nash query /proc/devices with the major number; It found line
"8 sd";
(3) nash use 'sd' to search its own probe table to find device (DISK)
type for the device and add it to its own list;
(4) Later on, it probes all devices in its list to get filesystem
labels; scsi register "8 sd" always.
When major is 259, nash fails to find the device(DISK) type. I enables
CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT=y when compiling kernel, so 259 is picked up
for device /dev/sda1, which causes nash to fail to find device (DISK)
type.
To fixing issue 2), I create a patch for nash and another patch for
kernel.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=18859http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=18837
Below is the patch for kernel 2.6.28-rc4. It registers blkext, a new
block device in proc/devices.
With 2 patches on nash and 1 patch on kernel, I boot my machines for
dozens of times without failure.
Signed-off-by Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Block ext devt conversion missed md_autodetect_dev() call in
rescan_partitions() leaving md autodetect unable to see partitions.
Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Make add_partition() return pointer to the new hd_struct on success
and ERR_PTR() value on failure. This change will be used to fix md
autodetection bug.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
dma_mapping_error is an actual function, so fix broken define with a
real inline stub
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Fixed the GPIO mask and co initialization in patch_stac92hd71bxx()
so that the gpio_maks for HP_M4 model is set properly.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Impact: fix section mismatch warning in kernel/profile.c
Here, profile_nop function has been called from a non-init function
create_hash_tables(void). Which generetes a section mismatch warning.
Previously, create_hash_tables(void) was a init function. So, removing
__init from create_hash_tables(void) requires profile_nop to be
non-init.
This patch makes profile_nop function inline and fixes the
following warning:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x6ebb6): Section mismatch in reference from
the function create_hash_tables() to the function
.init.text:profile_nop()
The function create_hash_tables() references
the function __init profile_nop().
This is often because create_hash_tables lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of profile_nop is wrong.
Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: properly rebuild sched-domains on kmalloc() failure
When cpuset failed to generate sched domains due to kmalloc()
failure, the scheduler should fallback to the single partition
'fallback_doms' and rebuild sched domains, but now it only
destroys but not rebuilds sched domains.
The regression was introduced by:
| commit dfb512ec48
| Author: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
| Date: Fri Aug 29 13:11:41 2008 -0700
|
| sched: arch_reinit_sched_domains() must destroy domains to force rebuild
After the above commit, partition_sched_domains(0, NULL, NULL) will
only destroy sched domains and partition_sched_domains(1, NULL, NULL)
will create the default sched domain.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
prevent cifs_writepages() from skipping unwritten pages
Fixed parsing of mount options when doing DFS submount
[CIFS] Fix check for tcon seal setting and fix oops on failed mount from earlier patch
[CIFS] Fix build break
cifs: reinstate sharing of tree connections
[CIFS] minor cleanup to cifs_mount
cifs: reinstate sharing of SMB sessions sans races
cifs: disable sharing session and tcon and add new TCP sharing code
[CIFS] clean up server protocol handling
[CIFS] remove unused list, add new cifs sock list to prepare for mount/umount fix
[CIFS] Fix cifs reconnection flags
[CIFS] Can't rely on iov length and base when kernel_recvmsg returns error
Fixes a data corruption under heavy stress in which pages could be left
dirty after all open instances of a inode have been closed.
In order to write contiguous pages whenever possible, cifs_writepages()
asks pagevec_lookup_tag() for more pages than it may write at one time.
Normally, it then resets index just past the last page written before calling
pagevec_lookup_tag() again.
If cifs_writepages() can't write the first page returned, it wasn't resetting
index, and the next call to pagevec_lookup_tag() resulted in skipping all of
the pages it previously returned, even though cifs_writepages() did nothing
with them. This can result in data loss when the file descriptor is about
to be closed.
This patch ensures that index gets set back to the next returned page so
that none get skipped.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Shirish S Pargaonkar <shirishp@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Since these hit the same routines, and are relatively small, it is easier to review
them as one patch.
Fixed incorrect handling of the last option in some cases
Fixed prefixpath handling convert path_consumed into host depended string length (in bytes)
Use non default separator if it is provided in the original mount options
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <niallain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Impact: fix incorrectly marked unstable TSC clock
Patch (commit 0d12cdd "sched: improve sched_clock() performance") has
a regression on one of the test systems here.
With the patch, I see:
checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#1]:
Measured 28 cycles TSC warp between CPUs, turning off TSC clock.
Marking TSC unstable due to check_tsc_sync_source failed
Whereas, without the patch syncs pass fine on all CPUs:
checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#1]: passed.
Due to this, TSC is marked unstable, when it is not actually unstable.
This is because syncs in check_tsc_wrap() goes away due to this commit.
As per the discussion on this thread, correct way to fix this is to add
explicit syncs as below?
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
For some unknown reason at Steven Rostedt added in disabling of the SPE
instruction generation for e500 based PPC cores in commit
6ec562328f.
We are removing it because:
1. It generates e500 kernels that don't work
2. its not the correct set of flags to do this
3. we handle this in the arch/powerpc/Makefile already
4. its unknown in talking to Steven why he did this
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Tested-and-Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: fix guest kernel crash with CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES=y
Jens noticed that scrub_page() has a buggy unmap of the wrong
thing. (virtual address instead of page)
Linus pointed out that the whole scrub_page() code is an unnecessary
reimplementation of clear_highpage() to begin with.
Just use clear_highpage() rather than reimplementing it poorly.
Reported-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
set tcon->ses earlier
If the inital tree connect fails, we'll end up calling cifs_put_smb_ses
with a NULL pointer. Fix it by setting the tcon->ses earlier.
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (27 commits)
rtnetlink: propagate error from dev_change_flags in do_setlink()
isdn: remove extra byteswap in isdn_net_ciscohdlck_slarp_send_reply
Phonet: refuse to send bigger than MTU packets
e1000e: fix IPMI traffic
e1000e: fix warn_on reload after phy_id error
phy: fix phy address bug
e100: fix dma error in direction for mapping
igb: use dev_printk instead of printk
qla3xxx: Cleanup: Fix link print statements.
igb: Use device_set_wakeup_enable
e1000: Use device_set_wakeup_enable
e1000e: Use device_set_wakeup_enable
via-velocity: enable perfect filtering for multicast packets
phy: Add support for Marvell 88E1118 PHY
mlx4_en: Pause parameters per port
phylib: fix premature freeing of struct mii_bus
atl1: Do not enumerate options unsupported by chip
atl1e: fix broken multicast by removing unnecessary crc inversion
gianfar: Fix DMA unmap invocations
net/ucc_geth: Fix oops in uec_get_ethtool_stats()
...
Impact: fix potential NULL dereference
Contrary to ad474caca3 changelog, other
acct_group_xxx() helpers can be called after exit_notify() by timer tick.
Thanks to Roland for pointing out this. Somehow I missed this simple fact
when I read the original patch, and I am afraid I confused Frank during
the discussion. Sorry.
Fortunately, these helpers work with current, we can check ->exit_state
to ensure that ->signal can't go away under us.
Also, add the comment and compiler barrier to account_group_exec_runtime(),
to make sure we load ->signal only once.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Johannes Berg