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Jason Wang
b01af4579e 8139cp: set ring address before enabling receiver
Currently, we enable the receiver before setting the ring address which could
lead the card DMA into unexpected areas. Solving this by set the ring address
before enabling the receiver.

btw. I find and test this in qemu as I didn't have a 8139cp card in hand. please
review it carefully.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-01 14:22:11 -04:00
Paul Moore
20e2a86485 cipso: handle CIPSO options correctly when NetLabel is disabled
When NetLabel is not enabled, e.g. CONFIG_NETLABEL=n, and the system
receives a CIPSO tagged packet it is dropped (cipso_v4_validate()
returns non-zero).  In most cases this is the correct and desired
behavior, however, in the case where we are simply forwarding the
traffic, e.g. acting as a network bridge, this becomes a problem.

This patch fixes the forwarding problem by providing the basic CIPSO
validation code directly in ip_options_compile() without the need for
the NetLabel or CIPSO code.  The new validation code can not perform
any of the CIPSO option label/value verification that
cipso_v4_validate() does, but it can verify the basic CIPSO option
format.

The behavior when NetLabel is enabled is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-06-01 14:18:29 -04:00
Dan Carpenter
301f33fbcf ACPI video: use after input_unregister_device()
We can't use "input" anymore after calling input_unregister_device().
The call to input_free_device() is a double free.  The normal way to
deal with this is to make input_register_device() the last function
called in the function.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2012-06-01 13:41:40 -04:00
Alan Cox
155689defc gma500: don't register the ACPI video bus
We are not yet ready for this and it makes a mess on some devices.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2012-06-01 13:40:56 -04:00
Alan Cox
c6996bdd85 acpi_video: Intel video is not always i915
Stop it poking at random registers on the i740 cards that may be out there
still.

As per Matthew's feedback remove the conditional checks and never enable the
opregion handling unless an appropriate driver has been loaded.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2012-06-01 13:40:55 -04:00
Alan Cox
cfb46f433a acpi_video: fix leaking PCI references
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2012-06-01 13:40:55 -04:00
Pavel Shilovsky
8825736060 CIFS: Move get_next_mid to ops struct
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilovsky@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2012-06-01 12:35:19 -05:00
Pavel Shilovsky
7f0adb53bc CIFS: Make accessing is_valid_oplock/dump_detail ops struct field safe
Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilovsky@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2012-06-01 12:35:16 -05:00
Pavel Shilovsky
ea319d57d3 CIFS: Improve identation in cifs_unlock_range
Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilovsky@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2012-06-01 12:35:12 -05:00
Pavel Shilovsky
0013fb4ca3 CIFS: Fix possible wrong memory allocation
when cifs_reconnect sets maxBuf to 0 and we try to calculate a size
of memory we need to store locks.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilovsky@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2012-06-01 12:35:08 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
1193755ac6 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs changes from Al Viro.
 "A lot of misc stuff.  The obvious groups:
   * Miklos' atomic_open series; kills the damn abuse of
     ->d_revalidate() by NFS, which was the major stumbling block for
     all work in that area.
   * ripping security_file_mmap() and dealing with deadlocks in the
     area; sanitizing the neighborhood of vm_mmap()/vm_munmap() in
     general.
   * ->encode_fh() switched to saner API; insane fake dentry in
     mm/cleancache.c gone.
   * assorted annotations in fs (endianness, __user)
   * parts of Artem's ->s_dirty work (jff2 and reiserfs parts)
   * ->update_time() work from Josef.
   * other bits and pieces all over the place.

  Normally it would've been in two or three pull requests, but
  signal.git stuff had eaten a lot of time during this cycle ;-/"

Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt (the
'truncate_range' inode method was removed by the VM changes, the VFS
update adds an 'update_time()' method), and in fs/btrfs/ulist.[ch] (due
to sparse fix added twice, with other changes nearby).

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (95 commits)
  nfs: don't open in ->d_revalidate
  vfs: retry last component if opening stale dentry
  vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): don't throw away file on error
  vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): inline __dentry_open()
  vfs: do_dentry_open(): don't put filp
  vfs: split __dentry_open()
  vfs: do_last() common post lookup
  vfs: do_last(): add audit_inode before open
  vfs: do_last(): only return EISDIR for O_CREAT
  vfs: do_last(): check LOOKUP_DIRECTORY
  vfs: do_last(): make ENOENT exit RCU safe
  vfs: make follow_link check RCU safe
  vfs: do_last(): use inode variable
  vfs: do_last(): inline walk_component()
  vfs: do_last(): make exit RCU safe
  vfs: split do_lookup()
  Btrfs: move over to use ->update_time
  fs: introduce inode operation ->update_time
  reiserfs: get rid of resierfs_sync_super
  reiserfs: mark the superblock as dirty a bit later
  ...
2012-06-01 10:34:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4edebed866 Ext4 updates for 3.5
The major new feature added in this update is Darrick J. Wong's
 metadata checksum feature, which adds crc32 checksums to ext4's
 metadata fields.  There is also the usual set of cleanups and bug
 fixes.
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

Pull Ext4 updates from Theodore Ts'o:
 "The major new feature added in this update is Darrick J Wong's
  metadata checksum feature, which adds crc32 checksums to ext4's
  metadata fields.

  There is also the usual set of cleanups and bug fixes."

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (44 commits)
  ext4: hole-punch use truncate_pagecache_range
  jbd2: use kmem_cache_zalloc wrapper instead of flag
  ext4: remove mb_groups before tearing down the buddy_cache
  ext4: add ext4_mb_unload_buddy in the error path
  ext4: don't trash state flags in EXT4_IOC_SETFLAGS
  ext4: let getattr report the right blocks in delalloc+bigalloc
  ext4: add missing save_error_info() to ext4_error()
  ext4: add debugging trigger for ext4_error()
  ext4: protect group inode free counting with group lock
  ext4: use consistent ssize_t type in ext4_file_write()
  ext4: fix format flag in ext4_ext_binsearch_idx()
  ext4: cleanup in ext4_discard_allocated_blocks()
  ext4: return ENOMEM when mounts fail due to lack of memory
  ext4: remove redundundant "(char *) bh->b_data" casts
  ext4: disallow hard-linked directory in ext4_lookup
  ext4: fix potential integer overflow in alloc_flex_gd()
  ext4: remove needs_recovery in ext4_mb_init()
  ext4: force ro mount if ext4_setup_super() fails
  ext4: fix potential NULL dereference in ext4_free_inodes_counts()
  ext4/jbd2: add metadata checksumming to the list of supported features
  ...
2012-06-01 10:12:15 -07:00
Al Viro
44fbbb3dc6 x86: get rid of calling do_notify_resume() when returning to kernel mode
If we end up calling do_notify_resume() with !user_mode(refs), it
does nothing (do_signal() explicitly bails out and we can't get there
with TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME in such situations).  Then we jump to
resume_userspace_sig, which rechecks the same thing and bails out
to resume_kernel, thus breaking the loop.

It's easier and cheaper to check *before* calling do_notify_resume()
and bail out to resume_kernel immediately.  And kill the check in
do_signal()...

Note that on amd64 we can't get there with !user_mode() at all - asm
glue takes care of that.

Acked-and-reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 13:01:51 -04:00
Al Viro
29bf5dd895 blackfin: check __get_user() return value
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 13:01:27 -04:00
Al Viro
35d5180757 whack-a-mole with TIF_FREEZE
blackfin has reintroduced it, completely unused.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 13:00:49 -04:00
David Howells
a2eddc7c49 FRV: Optimise the system call exit path in entry.S [ver #2]
Optimise the system call exit path in entry.S by packing some instructions.

Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:59:38 -04:00
David Howells
1e5ef91556 FRV: Shrink TIF_WORK_MASK [ver #2]
Shrink TIF_WORK_MASK so that it will fit in the 12-bit signed immediate
operand field of an ANDI instruction.

Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:59:37 -04:00
David Howells
137c3c469f FRV: Prevent syscall exit tracing and notify_resume at end of kernel exceptions
Move the test for kernel mode processing from do_signal() into entry.S to also
prevent system call exit tracing and userspace resumption notification handling
happening when returning from kernel exceptions.

Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:59:18 -04:00
Al Viro
efee984c27 new helper: signal_delivered()
Does block_sigmask() + tracehook_signal_handler();  called when
sigframe has been successfully built.  All architectures converted
to it; block_sigmask() itself is gone now (merged into this one).

I'm still not too happy with the signature, but that's a separate
story (IMO we need a structure that would contain signal number +
siginfo + k_sigaction, so that get_signal_to_deliver() would fill one,
signal_delivered(), handle_signal() and probably setup...frame() -
take one).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:58:52 -04:00
Al Viro
17440f171e powerpc: get rid of restore_sigmask()
... it's just a call of set_current_blocked() now

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:58:51 -04:00
Al Viro
77097ae503 most of set_current_blocked() callers want SIGKILL/SIGSTOP removed from set
Only 3 out of 63 do not.  Renamed the current variant to __set_current_blocked(),
added set_current_blocked() that will exclude unblockable signals, switched
open-coded instances to it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:58:51 -04:00
Al Viro
edd63a2763 set_restore_sigmask() is never called without SIGPENDING (and never should be)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:58:50 -04:00
Al Viro
6fd84c0831 TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK can be set only when TIF_SIGPENDING is set
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:58:50 -04:00
Al Viro
bf343dfd87 don't call try_to_freeze() from do_signal()
get_signal_to_deliver() will handle it itself

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:58:49 -04:00
Al Viro
a610d6e672 pull clearing RESTORE_SIGMASK into block_sigmask()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:58:49 -04:00
Al Viro
5754f412a3 sh64: failure to build sigframe != signal without handler
it's actually "send me SIGSEGV"...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:58:49 -04:00
Al Viro
39974d085d openrisc: tracehook_signal_handler() is supposed to be called on success
... not if sigframe couldn't have been built.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:58:48 -04:00
Al Viro
b7f9a11a6c new helper: sigmask_to_save()
replace boilerplate "should we use ->saved_sigmask or ->blocked?"
with calls of obvious inlined helper...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:58:48 -04:00
Al Viro
51a7b448d4 new helper: restore_saved_sigmask()
first fruits of ..._restore_sigmask() helpers: now we can take
boilerplate "signal didn't have a handler, clear RESTORE_SIGMASK
and restore the blocked mask from ->saved_mask" into a common
helper.  Open-coded instances switched...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:58:47 -04:00
Al Viro
4ebefe3ec7 new helpers: {clear,test,test_and_clear}_restore_sigmask()
helpers parallel to set_restore_sigmask(), used in the next commits

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:58:47 -04:00
Al Viro
754421c8ca HAVE_RESTORE_SIGMASK is defined on all architectures now
Everyone either defines it in arch thread_info.h or has TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
and picks default set_restore_sigmask() in linux/thread_info.h.  Kill the
ifdefs, slap #error in linux/thread_info.h to catch breakage when new ones
get merged.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:58:46 -04:00
Matthew Garrett
a6c2390cd6 dell-laptop: Remove rfkill code
The interface just doesn't work on some machines, and Dell haven't been
able to tell us either which machines those are or what we should be
doing instead. This would be fine, except it results in userspace ending
up confused and general sadness. So let's just rip it out for now.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2012-06-01 12:46:56 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
0ef97dcfce nfs: don't open in ->d_revalidate
NFSv4 can't do reliable opens in d_revalidate, since it cannot know whether a
mount needs to be followed or not.  It does check d_mountpoint() on the dentry,
which can result in a weird error if the VFS found that the mount does not in
fact need to be followed, e.g.:

  # mount --bind /mnt/nfs /mnt/nfs-clone
  # echo something > /mnt/nfs/tmp/bar
  # echo x > /tmp/file
  # mount --bind /tmp/file /mnt/nfs-clone/tmp/bar
  # cat  /mnt/nfs/tmp/bar
  cat: /mnt/nfs/tmp/bar: Not a directory

Which should, by any sane filesystem, result in "something" being printed.

So instead do the open in f_op->open() and in the unlikely case that the cached
dentry turned out to be invalid, drop the dentry and return EOPENSTALE to let
the VFS retry.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:12:02 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
16b1c1cd71 vfs: retry last component if opening stale dentry
NFS optimizes away d_revalidates for last component of open.  This means that
open itself can find the dentry stale.

This patch allows the filesystem to return EOPENSTALE and the VFS will retry the
lookup on just the last component if possible.

If the lookup was done using RCU mode, including the last component, then this
is not possible since the parent dentry is lost.  In this case fall back to
non-RCU lookup.  Currently this is not used since NFS will always leave RCU
mode.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:12:01 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
50ee93afca vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): don't throw away file on error
If open fails, don't put the file.  This allows it to be reused if open needs to
be retried.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:12:01 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
91daee988d vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): inline __dentry_open()
Copy __dentry_open() into nameidata_to_filp().

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:12:01 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
78f71eff3c vfs: do_dentry_open(): don't put filp
Move put_filp() out to __dentry_open(), the only caller now.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:12:00 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
90ad1a8ecb vfs: split __dentry_open()
Split __dentry_open() into two functions:

  do_dentry_open() - does most of the actual work, doesn't put file on failure
  open_check_o_direct() - after a successful open, checks direct_IO method

This will allow i_op->atomic_open to do just the file initialization and leave
the direct_IO checking to the VFS.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:12:00 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
5f5daac12a vfs: do_last() common post lookup
Now the post lookup code can be shared between O_CREAT and plain opens since
they are essentially the same.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:12:00 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
d7fdd7f6e1 vfs: do_last(): add audit_inode before open
This allows this code to be shared between O_CREAT and plain opens.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:11:59 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
050ac841ea vfs: do_last(): only return EISDIR for O_CREAT
This allows this code to be shared between O_CREAT and plain opens.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:11:59 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
af2f55426d vfs: do_last(): check LOOKUP_DIRECTORY
Check for ENOTDIR before finishing open.  This allows this code to be shared
between O_CREAT and plain opens.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:11:58 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
54c33e7f95 vfs: do_last(): make ENOENT exit RCU safe
This will allow this code to be used in RCU mode.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:11:58 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
d45ea86792 vfs: make follow_link check RCU safe
This will allow this code to be used in RCU mode.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:11:58 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
decf340087 vfs: do_last(): use inode variable
Use helper variable instead of path->dentry->d_inode before complete_walk().
This will allow this code to be used in RCU mode.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:11:57 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
a1eb331530 vfs: do_last(): inline walk_component()
Copy walk_component() into do_lookup().

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:11:57 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
e276ae672f vfs: do_last(): make exit RCU safe
Allow returning from do_last() with LOOKUP_RCU still set on the "out:" and
"exit:" labels.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:11:57 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
697f514df1 vfs: split do_lookup()
Split do_lookup() into two functions:

  lookup_fast() - does cached lookup without i_mutex
  lookup_slow() - does lookup with i_mutex

Both follow managed dentries.

The new functions are needed by atomic_open.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01 12:11:56 -04:00
Matt Fleming
0c7596621e x86, efi: Add EFI boot stub documentation
Since we can't expect every user to read the EFI boot stub code it
seems prudent to have a couple of paragraphs explaining what it is and
how it works.

The "initrd=" option in particular is tricky because it only
understands absolute EFI-style paths (backslashes as directory
separators), and until now this hasn't been documented anywhere. This
has tripped up a couple of users.

Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331907517-3985-4-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2012-06-01 09:11:41 -07:00
Matt Fleming
9fa7dedad3 x86, efi; Add EFI boot stub console support
We need a way of printing useful messages to the user, for example
when we fail to open an initrd file, instead of just hanging the
machine without giving the user any indication of what went wrong. So
sprinkle some error messages throughout the EFI boot stub code to make
it easier for users to diagnose/report problems.

Reported-by: Keshav P R <the.ridikulus.rat@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331907517-3985-3-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2012-06-01 09:11:26 -07:00