kernel/linux.git/include/linux, branch v3.4.16

mtd: nand: allow NAND_NO_SUBPAGE_WRITE to be set from driver

2012-10-28T17:14:16+00:00

commit bf7a01bf7987b63b121d572b240c132ec44129c4 upstream. The NAND_CHIPOPTIONS_MSK has limited utility and is causing real bugs. It silently masks off at least one flag that might be set by the driver (NAND_NO_SUBPAGE_WRITE). This breaks the GPMI NAND driver and possibly others. Really, as long as driver writers exercise a small amount of care with NAND_* options, this mask is not necessary at all; it was only here to prevent certain options from accidentally being set by the driver. But the original thought turns out to be a bad idea occasionally. Thus, kill it. Note, this patch fixes some major gpmi-nand breakage. Signed-off-by: Brian Norris Tested-by: Huang Shijie Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vlan: don't deliver frames for unknown vlans to protocols

2012-10-28T17:14:15+00:00

[ Upstream commit 48cc32d38a52d0b68f91a171a8d00531edc6a46e ] 6a32e4f9dd9219261f8856f817e6655114cfec2f made the vlan code skip marking vlan-tagged frames for not locally configured vlans as PACKET_OTHERHOST if there was an rx_handler, as the rx_handler could cause the frame to be received on a different (virtual) vlan-capable interface where that vlan might be configured. As rx_handlers do not necessarily return RX_HANDLER_ANOTHER, this could cause frames for unknown vlans to be delivered to the protocol stack as if they had been received untagged. For example, if an ipv6 router advertisement that's tagged for a locally not configured vlan is received on an interface with macvlan interfaces attached, macvlan's rx_handler returns RX_HANDLER_PASS after delivering the frame to the macvlan interfaces, which caused it to be passed to the protocol stack, leading to ipv6 addresses for the announced prefix being configured even though those are completely unusable on the underlying interface. The fix moves marking as PACKET_OTHERHOST after the rx_handler so the rx_handler, if there is one, sees the frame unchanged, but afterwards, before the frame is delivered to the protocol stack, it gets marked whether there is an rx_handler or not. Signed-off-by: Florian Zumbiehl Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

netlink: add reference of module in netlink_dump_start

2012-10-28T17:14:15+00:00

[ Upstream commit 6dc878a8ca39e93f70c42f3dd7260bde10c1e0f1 ] I get a panic when I use ss -a and rmmod inet_diag at the same time. It's because netlink_dump uses inet_diag_dump which belongs to module inet_diag. I search the codes and find many modules have the same problem. We need to add a reference to the module which the cb->dump belongs to. Thanks for all help from Stephen,Jan,Eric,Steffen and Pablo. Change From v3: change netlink_dump_start to inline,suggestion from Pablo and Eric. Change From v2: delete netlink_dump_done,and call module_put in netlink_dump and netlink_sock_destruct. Signed-off-by: Gao feng Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

SUNRPC: Fix a UDP transport regression

2012-10-28T17:14:13+00:00

commit f39c1bfb5a03e2d255451bff05be0d7255298fa4 and commit 84e28a307e376f271505af65a7b7e212dd6f61f4 upstream. Commit 43cedbf0e8dfb9c5610eb7985d5f21263e313802 (SUNRPC: Ensure that we grab the XPRT_LOCK before calling xprt_alloc_slot) is causing hangs in the case of NFS over UDP mounts. Since neither the UDP or the RDMA transport mechanism use dynamic slot allocation, we can skip grabbing the socket lock for those transports. Add a new rpc_xprt_op to allow switching between the TCP and UDP/RDMA case. Note that the NFSv4.1 back channel assigns the slot directly through rpc_run_bc_task, so we can ignore that case. Reported-by: Dick Streefland Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

netfilter: ipset: fix timeout value overflow bug

2012-10-21T16:28:00+00:00

commit 127f559127f5175e4bec3dab725a34845d956591 upstream. Large timeout parameters could result wrong timeout values due to an overflow at msec to jiffies conversion (reported by Andreas Herz) [ This patch was mangled by Pablo Neira Ayuso since David Laight and Eric Dumazet noticed that we were using hardcoded 1000 instead of MSEC_PER_SEC to calculate the timeout ] Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Acked-by: David Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mempolicy: fix a race in shared_policy_replace()

2012-10-12T20:38:56+00:00

commit b22d127a39ddd10d93deee3d96e643657ad53a49 upstream. shared_policy_replace() use of sp_alloc() is unsafe. 1) sp_node cannot be dereferenced if sp->lock is not held and 2) another thread can modify sp_node between spin_unlock for allocating a new sp node and next spin_lock. The bug was introduced before 2.6.12-rc2. Kosaki's original patch for this problem was to allocate an sp node and policy within shared_policy_replace and initialise it when the lock is reacquired. I was not keen on this approach because it partially duplicates sp_alloc(). As the paths were sp->lock is taken are not that performance critical this patch converts sp->lock to sp->mutex so it can sleep when calling sp_alloc(). [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: Original patch] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Josh Boyer Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

xfrm_user: ensure user supplied esn replay window is valid

2012-10-12T20:38:41+00:00

[ Upstream commit ecd7918745234e423dd87fcc0c077da557909720 ] The current code fails to ensure that the netlink message actually contains as many bytes as the header indicates. If a user creates a new state or updates an existing one but does not supply the bytes for the whole ESN replay window, the kernel copies random heap bytes into the replay bitmap, the ones happen to follow the XFRMA_REPLAY_ESN_VAL netlink attribute. This leads to following issues: 1. The replay window has random bits set confusing the replay handling code later on. 2. A malicious user could use this flaw to leak up to ~3.5kB of heap memory when she has access to the XFRM netlink interface (requires CAP_NET_ADMIN). Known users of the ESN replay window are strongSwan and Steffen's iproute2 patch (). The latter uses the interface with a bitmap supplied while the former does not. strongSwan is therefore prone to run into issue 1. To fix both issues without breaking existing userland allow using the XFRMA_REPLAY_ESN_VAL netlink attribute with either an empty bitmap or a fully specified one. For the former case we initialize the in-kernel bitmap with zero, for the latter we copy the user supplied bitmap. For state updates the full bitmap must be supplied. To prevent overflows in the bitmap length calculation the maximum size of bmp_len is limited to 128 by this patch -- resulting in a maximum replay window of 4096 packets. This should be sufficient for all real life scenarios (RFC 4303 recommends a default replay window size of 64). Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause Cc: Steffen Klassert Cc: Martin Willi Cc: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: set correct baud_base for EXSYS EX-41092 Dual 16950

2012-10-07T15:32:25+00:00

commit 26e8220adb0aec43b7acafa0f1431760eee28522 upstream. Apparently the same card model has two IDs, so this patch complements the commit 39aced68d664291db3324d0fcf0985ab5626aac2 adding the missing one. Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kthread_worker: reimplement flush_kthread_work() to allow freeing the work item being executed

2012-10-02T17:30:40+00:00

commit 46f3d976213452350f9d10b0c2780c2681f7075b upstream. kthread_worker provides minimalistic workqueue-like interface for users which need a dedicated worker thread (e.g. for realtime priority). It has basic queue, flush_work, flush_worker operations which mostly match the workqueue counterparts; however, due to the way flush_work() is implemented, it has a noticeable difference of not allowing work items to be freed while being executed. While the current users of kthread_worker are okay with the current behavior, the restriction does impede some valid use cases. Also, removing this difference isn't difficult and actually makes the code easier to understand. This patch reimplements flush_kthread_work() such that it uses a flush_work item instead of queue/done sequence numbers. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Colin Cross Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

time: Move ktime_t overflow checking into timespec_valid_strict

2012-10-02T17:30:36+00:00

commit cee58483cf56e0ba355fdd97ff5e8925329aa936 upstream Andreas Bombe reported that the added ktime_t overflow checking added to timespec_valid in commit 4e8b14526ca7 ("time: Improve sanity checking of timekeeping inputs") was causing problems with X.org because it caused timeouts larger then KTIME_T to be invalid. Previously, these large timeouts would be clamped to KTIME_MAX and would never expire, which is valid. This patch splits the ktime_t overflow checking into a new timespec_valid_strict function, and converts the timekeeping codes internal checking to use this more strict function. Reported-and-tested-by: Andreas Bombe Cc: Zhouping Liu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman