kernel/linux.git/drivers/char/misc.c, branch linux-2.6.35.y

drivers: misc: pass miscdevice pointer via file private data

2010-05-25T15:07:03+00:00

For misc devices, inode->i_cdev doesn't point to the device drivers own data. Link between file operations and device driver internal data is lost. Pass pointer to misc device struct via file private data for driver open function use. Signed-off-by: Samu Onkalo Cc: Al Viro Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

drivers/char/misc.c: use bitmap/bitops functions for dynamic minor number allocation

2009-12-15T16:53:27+00:00

Use DECLARE_BITMAP(), find_first_zero_bit(), set_bit() and clear_bit() instead of rewriting code to do it with the minor number dynamic allocation bitmap. We need to invert the bit position to keep the code behaviour of using the last minor numbers first, since we don't have a find_last_zero_bit. Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

drivers/char/misc.c: clear allocation bit in minor bitmap when device register fails

2009-12-15T16:53:27+00:00

If there's a failure creating the device (because there's already one with the same name, for example), the current implementation does not clear the bit for the allocated minor and that number is lost for future allocations. Second, the test currently in misc_deregister is broken, since it does not test for the 0 minor. Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

misc: remove MAC pmu function declaration from misc device class

2009-12-15T16:53:26+00:00

Commit 8c8709334cec803368a432a33e0f2e116d48fe07 has removed the pmu_device_init call from misc_init, but unlike other similar commits, has not removed its declaration. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

drivers: Remove BKL from misc_open

2009-10-14T15:33:32+00:00

misc_open() is already serialized with misc_mtx. Remove the BKL locking which got there via the BKL pushdown. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman LKML-Reference: <20091010153349.237173041@linutronix.de>

seq_file: constify seq_operations

2009-09-23T14:39:29+00:00

Make all seq_operations structs const, to help mitigate against revectoring user-triggerable function pointers. This is derived from the grsecurity patch, although generated from scratch because it's simpler than extracting the changes from there. Signed-off-by: James Morris Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Acked-by: Casey Schaufler Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Driver-Core: extend devnode callbacks to provide permissions

2009-09-19T19:50:38+00:00

This allows subsytems to provide devtmpfs with non-default permissions for the device node. Instead of the default mode of 0600, null, zero, random, urandom, full, tty, ptmx now have a mode of 0666, which allows non-privileged processes to access standard device nodes in case no other userspace process applies the expected permissions. This also fixes a wrong assignment in pktcdvd and a checkpatch.pl complain. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver Core: misc: add nodename support for misc devices.

2009-06-16T04:30:25+00:00

This adds support for misc devices to report their requested nodename to userspace. It also updates a number of misc drivers to provide the needed subdirectory and device name to be used for them. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

device create: char: convert device_create_drvdata to device_create

2008-10-16T16:24:42+00:00

Now that device_create() has been audited, rename things back to the original call to be sane. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman