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commit d79f16c046086f4fe0d42184a458e187464eb83e fixed a user triggerable
scribble on free memory but added a new one which allows the user to
scribble even more and user controlled data into freed space.
As with 6pack we need to halt the queue before we free the buffers, because
the transmit logic is not protected by the semaphore.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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commit acf673a3187edf72068ee2f92f4dc47d66baed47 fixed a user triggerable free
memory scribble but in doing so replaced it with a different one that allows
the user to control the data and scribble even more.
sixpack_close is called by the tty layer in tty context. The tty context is
protected by sp_get() and sp_put(). However network layer activity via
sp_xmit() is not protected this way. We must therefore stop the queue
otherwise the user gets to dump a buffer mostly of their choice into freed
kernel pages.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Need to do the unregister_device() after all references to the driver
private have been done.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Need to do the unregister_device() after all references to the driver
private have been done.
Also we need to use del_timer_sync() for the timers so that we don't
have any asynchronous references after the unregister.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/entry/entry_64_compat.S
arch/x86/math-emu/get_address.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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If register_netdev() fails we are not propagating the error and
we return success because ax_open() succeeded previously.
Fix this by checking the return value of ax_open() and
register_netdev() and propagate the error in case of failure.
Reported-by: RUC_Soft_Sec <zy900702@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Since 1d5da757da860a6916adbf68b09e868062b4b3b8 (ax25: Stop using magic
neighbour cache operations.) any attempt to transmit IP packets over
a bpqether device will result in a message like "Dead loop on virtual
device bpq0, fix it urgently!"
Fix suggested by Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.1
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Now that there is no paravirt TSC, the "native" is
inappropriate. The function does RDTSC, so give it the obvious
name: rdtsc().
Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kvm ML <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fd43e16281991f096c1e4d21574d9e1402c62d39.1434501121.git.luto@kernel.org
[ Ported it to v4.2-rc1. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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native_read_tsc()
This is only used if BAYCOM_DEBUG is defined.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Sailer <t.sailer@alumni.ethz.ch
Acked-by: Walter Harms <wharms@bfs.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kvm ML <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1195ce0c7f34169ff3006341b77806184a46b9bf.1434501121.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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While testing my netfilter changes I noticed several files where
recompiling unncessarily because they unncessarily included
netfilter.h.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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We get a static checker warning here on devel kernels:
drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c:560 ax_xmit()
warn: variable dereferenced before check 'skb' (see line 532)
It turns out that the NULL check can be deleted.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Before the ax25 stack calls dev_queue_xmit it always calls
ax25_type_trans which sets skb->protocol to ETH_P_AX25.
Which means that by looking at the protocol type it is possible to
detect IP packets that have not been munged by the ax25 stack in
ndo_start_xmit and call a function to munge them.
Rename ax25_neigh_xmit to ax25_ip_xmit and tweak the return type and
value to be appropriate for an ndo_start_xmit function.
Update all of the ax25 devices to test the protocol type for ETH_P_IP
and return ax25_ip_xmit as the first thing they do. This preserves
the existing semantics of IP packet processing, but the timing will be
a little different as the IP packets now pass through the qdisc layer
before reaching the ax25 ip packet processing.
Remove the now unnecessary ax25 neighbour table operations.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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AX25 already has it's own private arp cache operations to isolate
it's abuse of dev_rebuild_header to transmit packets. Add a function
ax25_neigh_construct that will allow all of the ax25 devices to
force using these operations, so that the generic arp code does
not need to.
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The two sets of header operations are functionally identical remove
the duplicate definition.
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The two sets of header operations are functionally identical remove the
duplicate definition.
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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this is check for dev is unnecessary, as we are already checking dev
after allocating it via alloc_netdev, and jumping to label: out
if it is NULL.
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Extend alloc_netdev{,_mq{,s}}() to take name_assign_type as argument, and convert
all users to pass NET_NAME_UNKNOWN.
Coccinelle patch:
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expression sizeof_priv, name, setup, txqs, rxqs, count;
@@
(
-alloc_netdev_mqs(sizeof_priv, name, setup, txqs, rxqs)
+alloc_netdev_mqs(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup, txqs, rxqs)
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-alloc_netdev_mq(sizeof_priv, name, setup, count)
+alloc_netdev_mq(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup, count)
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-alloc_netdev(sizeof_priv, name, setup)
+alloc_netdev(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup)
)
v9: move comments here from the wrong commit
Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Use del_timer_sync to ensure that the timer is stopped on all CPUs before
the driver exists.
This change was suggested by Thomas Gleixner
The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@r@
declarer name module_exit;
identifier ex;
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module_exit(ex);
@@
identifier r.ex;
@@
ex(...) {
<...
- del_timer
+ del_timer_sync
(...)
...>
}
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Conflicts:
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_sriov_pf.c
net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c
ipv6 tunnel statistic bug fixes conflicting with consolidation into
generic sw per-cpu net stats.
qlogic conflict between queue counting bug fix and the addition
of multiple MAC address support.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Set the return variable to an error code as done elsewhere in the function.
A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
(
if@p1 (\(ret < 0\|ret != 0\))
{ ... return ret; }
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ret@p1 = 0
)
... when != ret = e1
when != &ret
*if(...)
{
... when != ret = e2
when forall
return ret;
}
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
to instead of memcmp.
Cc: Joerg Reuter <jreuter@yaina.de>
Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The yam_ioctl() code fails to initialise the cmd field
of the struct yamdrv_ioctl_cfg. Add an explicit memset(0)
before filling the structure to avoid the 4-byte info leak.
Signed-off-by: Salva Peiró <speiro@ai2.upv.es>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The local variable 'bi' comes from userspace. If userspace passed a
large number to 'bi.data.calibrate', there would be an integer overflow
in the following line:
s->hdlctx.calibrate = bi.data.calibrate * s->par.bitrate / 16;
Signed-off-by: Wenliang Fan <fanwlexca@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Several files refer to an old address for the Free Software Foundation
in the file header comment. Resolve by replacing the address with
the URL <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/> so that we do not have to keep
updating the header comments anytime the address changes.
CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
CC: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
CC: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
CC: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
CC: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
CC: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
CC: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Conflicts:
drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c
include/net/dst.h
Trivial merge conflicts, both were overlapping changes.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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We overwrite the ->bitrate with the user supplied information on the
next line.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch proposes to remove the use of the IRQF_DISABLED flag
It's a NOOP since 2.6.35 and it will be removed one day.
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch proposes to remove the use of the IRQF_DISABLED flag
It's a NOOP since 2.6.35 and it will be removed one day.
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch proposes to remove the IRQF_DISABLED flag
from drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_*
It's a NOOP since 2.6.35 and it will be removed one day.
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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So far, only net_device * could be passed along with netdevice notifier
event. This patch provides a possibility to pass custom structure
able to provide info that event listener needs to know.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
v2->v3: fix typo on simeth
shortened dev_getter
shortened notifier_info struct name
v1->v2: fix notifier_call parameter in call_netdevice_notifier()
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Use preferable function name which implies using a pseudo-random number
generator.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: convert team_mode_random.c]
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Sailer <t.sailer@alumni.ethz.ch>
Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> [mwifiex]
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Cc: Thomas Sailer <t.sailer@alumni.ethz.ch>
Cc: Jean-Paul Roubelat <jpr@f6fbb.org>
Cc: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Cc: Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com>
Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: "Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Cc: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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yam_open has a redundant null check on null, it will
never be called with dev == NULL. Remove this redundant check.
This also cleans up a smatch warning:
drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c:869 yam_open() warn: variable
dereferenced before check 'dev' (see line 867)
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty
Pull tty/serial patches from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
"Here's the big tty/serial driver patches for 3.9-rc1.
More tty port rework and fixes from Jiri here, as well as lots of
individual serial driver updates and fixes.
All of these have been in the linux-next tree for a while."
* tag 'tty-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (140 commits)
tty: mxser: improve error handling in mxser_probe() and mxser_module_init()
serial: imx: fix uninitialized variable warning
serial: tegra: assume CONFIG_OF
TTY: do not update atime/mtime on read/write
lguest: select CONFIG_TTY to build properly.
ARM defconfigs: add missing inclusions of linux/platform_device.h
fb/exynos: include platform_device.h
ARM: sa1100/assabet: include platform_device.h directly
serial: imx: Fix recursive locking bug
pps: Fix build breakage from decoupling pps from tty
tty: Remove ancient hardpps()
pps: Additional cleanups in uart_handle_dcd_change
pps: Move timestamp read into PPS code proper
pps: Don't crash the machine when exiting will do
pps: Fix a use-after free bug when unregistering a source.
pps: Use pps_lookup_dev to reduce ldisc coupling
pps: Add pps_lookup_dev() function
tty: serial: uartlite: Support uartlite on big and little endian systems
tty: serial: uartlite: Fix sparse and checkpatch warnings
serial/arc-uart: Miscll DT related updates (Grant's review comments)
...
Fix up trivial conflicts, mostly just due to the TTY config option
clashing with the EXPERIMENTAL removal.
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proc_net_remove is only used to remove proc entries
that under /proc/net,it's not a general function for
removing proc entries of netns. if we want to remove
some proc entries which under /proc/net/stat/, we still
need to call remove_proc_entry.
this patch use remove_proc_entry to replace proc_net_remove.
we can remove proc_net_remove after this patch.
Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Right now, some modules such as bonding use proc_create
to create proc entries under /proc/net/, and other modules
such as ipv4 use proc_net_fops_create.
It looks a little chaos.this patch changes all of
proc_net_fops_create to proc_create. we can remove
proc_net_fops_create after this patch.
Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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alloc failures already get standardized OOM
messages and a dump_stack.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The option allows you to remove TTY and compile without errors. This
saves space on systems that won't support TTY interfaces anyway.
bloat-o-meter output is below.
The bulk of this patch consists of Kconfig changes adding "depends on
TTY" to various serial devices and similar drivers that require the TTY
layer. Ideally, these dependencies would occur on a common intermediate
symbol such as SERIO, but most drivers "select SERIO" rather than
"depends on SERIO", and "select" does not respect dependencies.
bloat-o-meter output comparing our previous minimal to new minimal by
removing TTY. The list is filtered to not show removed entries with awk
'$3 != "-"' as the list was very long.
add/remove: 0/226 grow/shrink: 2/14 up/down: 6/-35356 (-35350)
function old new delta
chr_dev_init 166 170 +4
allow_signal 80 82 +2
static.__warned 143 142 -1
disallow_signal 63 62 -1
__set_special_pids 95 94 -1
unregister_console 126 121 -5
start_kernel 546 541 -5
register_console 593 588 -5
copy_from_user 45 40 -5
sys_setsid 128 120 -8
sys_vhangup 32 19 -13
do_exit 1543 1526 -17
bitmap_zero 60 40 -20
arch_local_irq_save 137 117 -20
release_task 674 652 -22
static.spin_unlock_irqrestore 308 260 -48
Signed-off-by: Joe Millenbach <jmillenbach@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Adding casts of objects to the same type is unnecessary
and confusing for a human reader.
For example, this cast:
int y;
int *p = (int *)&y;
I used the coccinelle script below to find and remove these
unnecessary casts. I manually removed the conversions this
script produces of casts with __force, __iomem and __user.
@@
type T;
T *p;
@@
- (T *)p
+ p
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it. Performed with the following command:
perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*<asm/system[.]h>' *`
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Fixed 'warning: return from incompatible pointer type' related
to module parameters.
Signed-off-by: Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@bisect.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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alloc failures use dump_stack so emitting an additional
out-of-memory message is an unnecessary duplication.
Remove the allocation failure messages.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h>
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h>
Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
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Lockdep found a locking inconsistency in the mkiss_close function:
> kernel: [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
> kernel: 2.6.39.1 #3
> kernel: ---------------------------------
> kernel: inconsistent {IN-SOFTIRQ-R} -> {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} usage.
> kernel: ax25ipd/2813 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
> kernel: (disc_data_lock){+++?.-}, at: [<ffffffffa018552b>] mkiss_close+0x1b/0x90 [mkiss]
> kernel: {IN-SOFTIRQ-R} state was registered at:
The message hints that disc_data_lock is aquired with softirqs disabled,
but does not itself disable softirqs, which can in rare circumstances
lead to a deadlock.
The same problem is present in the 6pack driver, this patch fixes both
by using write_lock_bh instead of write_lock.
Reported-by: Bernard F6BVP <f6bvp@free.fr>
Tested-by: Bernard F6BVP <f6bvp@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle<ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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* remove interrupt.g inclusion from netdevice.h -- not needed
* fixup fallout, add interrupt.h and hardirq.h back where needed.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This reverts commit b1c43f82c5aa265442f82dba31ce985ebb7aa71c.
It was broken in so many ways, and results in random odd pty issues.
It re-introduced the buggy schedule_work() in flush_to_ldisc() that can
cause endless work-loops (see commit a5660b41af6a: "tty: fix endless
work loop when the buffer fills up").
It also used an "unsigned int" return value fo the ->receive_buf()
function, but then made multiple functions return a negative error code,
and didn't actually check for the error in the caller.
And it didn't actually work at all. BenH bisected down odd tty behavior
to it:
"It looks like the patch is causing some major malfunctions of the X
server for me, possibly related to PTYs. For example, cat'ing a
large file in a gnome terminal hangs the kernel for -minutes- in a
loop of what looks like flush_to_ldisc/workqueue code, (some ftrace
data in the quoted bits further down).
...
Some more data: It -looks- like what happens is that the
flush_to_ldisc work queue entry constantly re-queues itself (because
the PTY is full ?) and the workqueue thread will basically loop
forver calling it without ever scheduling, thus starving the consumer
process that could have emptied the PTY."
which is pretty much exactly the problem we fixed in a5660b41af6a.
Milton Miller pointed out the 'unsigned int' issue.
Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Reported-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: Stefan Bigler <stefan.bigler@keymile.com>
Cc: Toby Gray <toby.gray@realvnc.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* 'trivial' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
gfs2: Drop __TIME__ usage
isdn/diva: Drop __TIME__ usage
atm: Drop __TIME__ usage
dlm: Drop __TIME__ usage
wan/pc300: Drop __TIME__ usage
parport: Drop __TIME__ usage
hdlcdrv: Drop __TIME__ usage
baycom: Drop __TIME__ usage
pmcraid: Drop __DATE__ usage
edac: Drop __DATE__ usage
rio: Drop __DATE__ usage
scsi/wd33c93: Drop __TIME__ usage
scsi/in2000: Drop __TIME__ usage
aacraid: Drop __TIME__ usage
media/cx231xx: Drop __TIME__ usage
media/radio-maxiradio: Drop __TIME__ usage
nozomi: Drop __TIME__ usage
cyclades: Drop __TIME__ usage
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