While looking for where to send trivial patches, I found old contact
information in Documentation/SubmittingPatches.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
This patch for 2.4.x updates the dead email address for 'Mydraal'
and since he no longer wishes to field questions concerning
SysRq or this document removes the statement stating otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Otherwise a bad mem policy system call can confuse the interleaving
code into referencing undefined nodes.
Originally reported by Doug Chapman
I was told it's CVE-2005-3358
(one has to love these security people - they make everything sound important)
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
In commit 3D59121003721a8fad11ee72e646fd9d3076b5679c, the x86 and x86-64
<asm/param.h> was changed to include <linux/config.h> for the
configurable timer frequency.
However, asm/param.h is sometimes used in userland (it is included
indirectly from <sys/param.h>), so your commit pollutes the userland
namespace with tons of CONFIG_FOO macros. This greatly confuses
software packages (such as BusyBox) which use CONFIG_FOO macros
themselves to control the inclusion of optional features.
After a short exchange, Christoph approved this patch
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Some G5s still occasionally experience shutdowns due to overtemp
conditions despite the recent fix. After analyzing logs from such
machines, it appears that the overtemp code is a bit too quick at
shutting the machine down when reaching the critical temperature (tmax +
8) and doesn't leave the fan enough time to actually cool it down. This
happens if the temperature of a CPU suddenly rises too high in a very
short period of time, or occasionally on boot (that is the CPUs are
already overtemp by the time the driver loads).
This patches makes the code a bit more relaxed, leaving a few seconds to
the fans to do their job before kicking the machine shutown.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is a slightly more complete fix for the previous minimal sysctl
string fix. It always terminates the returned string with a NUL, even
if the full result wouldn't fit in the user-supplied buffer.
The returned length is the full untruncated length, so that you can
tell when truncation has occurred.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
For the sysctl syscall, if the user wants to get the old value of a
sysctl entry and set a new value for it in the same syscall, the old
value is always overwritten by the new value if the sysctl entry is of
string type and if the user sets its strategy to sysctl_string. This
issue lies in the strategy being run twice if the strategy is set to
sysctl_string, the general strategy sysctl_string always returns 0 if
success.
Such strategy routines as sysctl_jiffies and sysctl_jiffies_ms return 1
because they do read and write for the sysctl entry.
The strategy routine sysctl_string return 0 although it actually read
and write the sysctl entry.
According to my analysis, if a strategy routine do read and write, it
should return 1, if it just does some necessary check but not read and
write, it should return 0, for example sysctl_intvec.
Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <yang.y.yi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If the string was too long to fit in the user-supplied buffer,
the sysctl layer would zero-terminate it by writing past the
end of the buffer. Don't do that.
Noticed by Yi Yang <yang.y.yi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The old /proc interfaces were never updated to use loff_t, and are just
generally broken. Now, we should be using the seq_file interface for
all of the proc files, but converting the legacy functions is more work
than most people care for and has little upside..
But at least we can make the non-LFS rules explicit, rather than just
insanely wrapping the offset or something.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch fixes a typo introduced by conversion to dynamic input_dev
allocation.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch fixes a typo introduced by conversion to dynamic input_dev
allocation.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch fixes a typo introduced by conversion to dynamic input_dev
allocation.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Patch from Erik Hovland
This patch provides two changes. An indent is supplied for an if/else clause so that it is more readable. An acronym is incorrectly typed as UER when it should be IER.
Signed-off-by: Erik Hovland <erik@hovland.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Thanks to Roman Zippel for the suggestion.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
[ Short explanation: Kconfig uses ternary math: n/m/y, and !m is m ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This reverts the series of commits
67dbb4ea33281ab031a847807ce381
that changed the GART VM start offset. It fixed some machines, but
seems to continually interact badly with some X versions.
Quoth Ben Herrenschmidt:
"So I think at this point, the best is that we keep the old bogus code
that at least is consistent with the bug in the server. I'm working on a
big patch to X that reworks the memory map stuff completely and fixes
those issues on the server side, I'll do a DRM patch matching this X fix
as well so that the memory map is only ever set in one place and with
what I hope is a correct algorithm..."
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Sonny has noticed hotplug CPU on ppc64 is broken in 2.6.15-*. One of the
problems is that htab_initialize_secondary is called when a cpu is being
brought up, but it is marked __init.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Currently, we do not pass the correct start_pfn to e820_hole_size, to
calculate holes. Following patch fixes that.
The bug results in incorrect number of node_present_pages for each pgdat
and causes ugly output in /sys and probably VM inbalances.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Sighed-off-by: Shair Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Sighed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch fixes a typo introduced by conversion to dynamic input_dev
allocation.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
__get_unaligned creates a typeof the var its passed, and writes to it,
which on gcc4.1, spits out the following error:
drivers/char/vc_screen.c: In function 'vcs_write':
drivers/char/vc_screen.c:422: error: assignment of read-only variable 'val'
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
[ The "right" fix would be to try to fix <asm-generic/unaligned.h>
but that's hard to do with the tools gcc gives us. So this
simpler patch is preferable -- Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix UML compilation when SKAS mode is disabled. Indeed, we were compiling
SKAS-only object files, which failed due to some SKAS-only headers being
excluded from the search path.
Thanks to the bug report from Pekka J Enberg.
Acked-by: Pekka J Enberg <penberg (at) cs ! helsinki ! fi>
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Today, when compiling UML, I got warnings for two used unexported symbols:
readdir64 and truncate64. Indeed, my glibc headers are aliasing readdir to
readdir64 and truncate to truncate64 (and so on).
I'm then adding additional exports. Since I've no idea if the symbols where
always provided in the supported glibc's, I've added weak definitions too.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Prevent page->index << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT from overflowing.
There is a casting there, but was added without care, so it's at the wrong
place. Note the extra parens around the shift - "+" is higher precedence than
"<<", leading to a GCC warning which saved all us.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Trivial removal of unused variable from this file - doesn't even change the
generated assembly code, in fact (gcc should trigger a warning for unused value
here).
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Don't use printk() where "current_thread_info()" is crap.
Until when we switch to running on init_stack, current_thread_info() evaluates
to crap. Printk uses "current" at times (in detail, ¤t is evaluated with
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK to check the spinlock owner task).
And this leads to random segmentation faults.
Exactly, what happens is that ¤t = *(current_thread_info()), i.e. round
down $esp and dereference the value. I.e. access the stack below $esp, which
causes SIGSEGV on a VM_GROWSDOWN vma (see arch/i386/mm/fault.c).
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Noticed by Christophe Zimmerman, this explains the slow mouse movement
with 2.6.x kernels.
And checking the 2.4.x drivers/sbus/char/sunmouse.c driver shows we
always used a 5-byte protocol with Sun mice in the past. I have no
idea how the 3-byte thing got into the 2.6.x driver, but it's surely
wrong.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Resubmitting after recommendation to use GET_REG32_1() instead of
GET_REG32_LOOP(..., 1). Retested. Problem remains fixed.
Prevent tg3_get_regs() from reading reserved and undocumented registers
at RX_CPU_BASE and TX_CPU_BASE offsets which caused hostile behavior
on PCIe platforms.
Acked-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
As reported by Jules Villard <jvillard@ens-lyon.fr> and some others, the
recent GART aperture start reconfiguration causes problems on some
setups.
What I _think_ might be happening is that the X server is also trying to
muck around with the card memory map and is forcing it back into a wrong
setting that also happens to no longer match what the DRM wants to do
and blows up. There are bugs all over the place in that code (and still
some bugs in the DRM as well anyway).
This patch attempts to avoid that by using the largest of the 2 values,
which I think will cause it to behave as it used to for you and will
still fix the problem with machines that have an aperture size smaller
than the video memory.
Acked-by: Jules Villard <jvillard@ens-lyon.fr>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The below "jumbo" patch fixes the following problems in MLDv2.
1) Add necessary "ntohs" to recent "pskb_may_pull" check [breaks
all nonzero source queries on little-endian (!)]
2) Add locking to source filter list [resend of prior patch]
3) fix "mld_marksources()" to
a) send nothing when all queried sources are excluded
b) send full exclude report when source queried sources are
not excluded
c) don't schedule a timer when there's nothing to report
NOTE: RFC 3810 specifies the source list should be saved and each
source reported individually as an IS_IN. This is an obvious DOS
path, requiring the host to store and then multicast as many sources
as are queried (e.g., millions...). This alternative sends a full,
relevant report that's limited to number of sources present on the
machine.
4) fix "add_grec()" to send empty-source records when it should
The original check doesn't account for a non-empty source
list with all sources inactive; the new code keeps that
short-circuit case, and also generates the group header
with an empty list if needed.
5) fix mca_crcount decrement to be after add_grec(), which needs
its original value
These issues (other than item #1 ;-) ) were all found by Yan Zheng,
much thanks!
Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently the checks are scattered all over and this leads
to inconsistencies and even cases where the check is not made.
Based upon a patch from Kris Katterjohn.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We need to release idev->lcok before we call addrconf_dad_stop().
It calls ipv6_addr_del(), which will hold idev->lock.
Bug spotted by Yasuyuki KOZAKAI <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Call nf_bridge_put() before allocating a new nf_bridge structure and
potentially overwriting the pointer to a previously allocated one.
This fixes a memory leak which can occur when the bridge topology
allows for an skb to traverse more than one bridge.
Signed-off-by: David Kimdon <david.kimdon@devicescape.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The existing default of 10 is just way too low.
Signed-off-by: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The oops is characteristic of the underlying device being removed from
visibility before the class device, and sure enough we do device_del()
before transport_unregister() in the scsi_target_reap() routines. I've
no idea why this is suddenly showing up, since the code has been in
there since that function was first invented. However, I've confirmed
this fixes Andrew Vasquez's boot oops.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix n_r3964 timeouts (hardcoded for 100Hz)
Also the include of <asm/termios.h> in 'n_r3964.h' is unnecessary and
prevents using the header file in any application that has to include
<termios.h> due to duplicate definition of 'struct termio'.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Kees Cook