Setting ->owner as done currently (pde->owner = THIS_MODULE) is racy
as correctly noted at bug #12454. Someone can lookup entry with NULL
->owner, thus not pinning enything, and release it later resulting
in module refcount underflow.
We can keep ->owner and supply it at registration time like ->proc_fops
and ->data.
But this leaves ->owner as easy-manipulative field (just one C assignment)
and somebody will forget to unpin previous/pin current module when
switching ->owner. ->proc_fops is declared as "const" which should give
some thoughts.
->read_proc/->write_proc were just fixed to not require ->owner for
protection.
rmmod'ed directories will be empty and return "." and ".." -- no harm.
And directories with tricky enough readdir and lookup shouldn't be modular.
We definitely don't want such modular code.
Removing ->owner will also make PDE smaller.
So, let's nuke it.
Kudos to Jeff Layton for reminding about this, let's say, oversight.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12454
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
* 'bkl-removal' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6:
Rationalize fasync return values
Move FASYNC bit handling to f_op->fasync()
Use f_lock to protect f_flags
Rename struct file->f_ep_lock
* 'irq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (32 commits)
x86: disable __do_IRQ support
sparseirq, powerpc/cell: fix unused variable warning in interrupt.c
genirq: deprecate obsolete typedefs and defines
genirq: deprecate __do_IRQ
genirq: add doc to struct irqaction
genirq: use kzalloc instead of explicit zero initialization
genirq: make irqreturn_t an enum
genirq: remove redundant if condition
genirq: remove unused hw_irq_controller typedef
irq: export remove_irq() and setup_irq() symbols
irq: match remove_irq() args with setup_irq()
irq: add remove_irq() for freeing of setup_irq() irqs
genirq: assert that irq handlers are indeed running in hardirq context
irq: name 'p' variables a bit better
irq: further clean up the free_irq() code flow
irq: refactor and clean up the free_irq() code flow
irq: clean up manage.c
irq: use GFP_KERNEL for action allocation in request_irq()
kernel/irq: fix sparse warning: make symbol static
irq: optimize init_kstat_irqs/init_copy_kstat_irqs
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: (81 commits)
[S390] remove duplicated #includes
[S390] cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper
[S390] cpumask: Use accessors code.
[S390] cpumask: prepare for iterators to only go to nr_cpu_ids/nr_cpumask_bits.
[S390] cpumask: remove cpu_coregroup_map
[S390] fix clock comparator save area usage
[S390] Add hwcap flag for the etf3 enhancement facility
[S390] Ensure that ipl panic notifier is called late.
[S390] fix dfp elf hwcap/facility bit detection
[S390] smp: perform initial cpu reset before starting a cpu
[S390] smp: fix memory leak on __cpu_up
[S390] ipl: Improve checking logic and remove switch defaults.
[S390] s390dbf: Remove needless check for NULL pointer.
[S390] s390dbf: Remove redundant initilizations.
[S390] use kzfree()
[S390] BUG to BUG_ON changes
[S390] zfcpdump: Prevent zcore from beeing built as a kernel module.
[S390] Use csum_partial in checksum.h
[S390] cleanup lowcore.h
[S390] eliminate ipl_device from lowcore
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (29 commits)
crypto: sha512-s390 - Add missing block size
hwrng: timeriomem - Breaks an allyesconfig build on s390:
nlattr: Fix build error with NET off
crypto: testmgr - add zlib test
crypto: zlib - New zlib crypto module, using pcomp
crypto: testmgr - Add support for the pcomp interface
crypto: compress - Add pcomp interface
netlink: Move netlink attribute parsing support to lib
crypto: Fix dead links
hwrng: timeriomem - New driver
crypto: chainiv - Use kcrypto_wq instead of keventd_wq
crypto: cryptd - Per-CPU thread implementation based on kcrypto_wq
crypto: api - Use dedicated workqueue for crypto subsystem
crypto: testmgr - Test skciphers with no IVs
crypto: aead - Avoid infinite loop when nivaead fails selftest
crypto: skcipher - Avoid infinite loop when cipher fails selftest
crypto: api - Fix crypto_alloc_tfm/create_create_tfm return convention
crypto: api - crypto_alg_mod_lookup either tested or untested
crypto: amcc - Add crypt4xx driver
crypto: ansi_cprng - Add maintainer
...
This patch introduces the kernel parameter hvc_iucv_allow= that specifies
a comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
If specified, the z/VM IUCV hypervisor console device driver accepts IUCV
connections from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
If the hvc_iucv= kernel parameter specifies a value that is not
valid, display an error message.
Minor changes to existing kernel messages.
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
During bootup performance tracing I noticed many occurrences of
vca* device creation and removal, leading to the usual userspace
uevent processing, which are, in this case, rather pointless.
A simple test showing the kernel timing (not including all the
work userspace has to do), gives us these numbers:
$ time for i in `seq 1000`; do echo a > /dev/tty2; done
real 0m1.142s
user 0m0.015s
sys 0m0.540s
If we move the hook for the vcs* driver core devices from the
tty "binding" to the vc allocation/deallocation, which is what
the vcs* devices represent, we get the following numbers:
$ time for i in `seq 1000`; do echo a > /dev/tty2; done
real 0m0.152s
user 0m0.030s
sys 0m0.072s
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch fixes the bug reported in
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11681.
"Lots of device drivers register a 'struct device_driver' with
the '.bus' member set to '&platform_bus_type'. This is wrong,
since the platform_bus functions expect the 'struct device_driver'
to be wrapped up in a 'struct platform_driver' which provides
some additional callbacks (like suspend_late, resume_early).
The effect may be that platform_suspend_late() uses bogus data
outside the device_driver struct as a pointer pointer to the
device driver's suspend_late() function or other hard to
reproduce failures."(Lothar Wassmann)
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
CC drivers/char/hw_random/timeriomem-rng.o
drivers/char/hw_random/timeriomem-rng.c: In function 'timeriomem_rng_data_read':
drivers/char/hw_random/timeriomem-rng.c:60: error: implicit declaration of function 'readl'
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Most fasync implementations do something like:
return fasync_helper(...);
But fasync_helper() will return a positive value at times - a feature used
in at least one place. Thus, a number of other drivers do:
err = fasync_helper(...);
if (err < 0)
return err;
return 0;
In the interests of consistency and more concise code, it makes sense to
map positive return values onto zero where ->fasync() is called.
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Traditionally, changes to struct file->f_flags have been done under BKL
protection, or with no protection at all. This patch causes all f_flags
changes after file open/creation time to be done under protection of
f_lock. This allows the removal of some BKL usage and fixes a number of
longstanding (if microscopic) races.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
commit 11c3b5c3e0
Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Date: Tue Dec 16 12:24:56 2008 -0800
driver core: move klist_children into private structure
Broke our parisc build pretty badly because we touch the klists directly
in three cases (AGP, SBA and GSC). Although GregKH will revert this
patch, there's no reason we should be using the iterators directly, we
can just move to the standard device_for_each_child() API.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
radeonfb/aty128fb: Disable broken early resume hook for PowerBooks
hvc_console: Remove tty->low_latency on pseries backends
powerpc: fix linkstation and storcenter compilation breakage
powerpc/4xx: Enable SERIAL_OF support by default for Virtex platforms
The hvcs and hvsi backends both set tty->low_latency to one, along
with more or less scary comments regarding bugs or races that would
happen if not doing so.
However, they also both call tty_flip_buffer_push() in conexts where
it's illegal to do so since some recent tty changes (or at least it
may have been illegal always but it nows blows) when low_latency is
set (ie, hard interrupt or with spinlock held and irqs disabled).
This removes the setting for now to get them back to working condition,
we'll have to address the races described in the comments separately
if they are still an issue (some of this might have been fixed already).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
When GTT size is equal to amount of video memory, the amount of GTT
entries is computed lower than zero, which is invalid and leads to
off-by-one error in intel_i915_configure()
Originally posted here:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12539http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445592
Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Cc: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: fix bug to make agp work with dri
Jeffrey reported that dri does work with 64bit, but doesn't work with
32bit it turns out NB aperture is 32M, aperture on agp is 128M
64bit is using 64M for vaidation for 64 iommu/gart 32bit is only using
32M..., and will not update the nb aperture.
So try to compare nb apterture and agp apterture before leaving not
touch nb aperture.
Reported-by: Jeffrey Trull <jetrull@sbcglobal.net>
Tested-by: Jeffrey Trull <jetrull@sbcglobal.net>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/72115/:
| net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h:327: error: syntax error before 'volatile'
| net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h:350: error: syntax error before '}' token
| net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h:455: error: field 'sta' has incomplete type
| distcc[19430] ERROR: compile net/mac80211/main.c on sprygo/32 failed
This is caused by
| # define mfp ((*(volatile struct MFP*)MFP_BAS))
in arch/m68k/include/asm/atarihw.h, which conflicts with the new "mfp" enum in
net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h.
Rename "mfp" to "st_mfp", as it's a way too generic name for a global #define.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some hardware platforms, the TS-7800[1] is one for example, can
supply the kernel with an entropy source, albeit a slow one for
TS-7800 users, by just reading a particular IO address. This
source must not be read above a certain rate otherwise the quality
suffers.
The driver is then hooked into by calling
platform_device_(register|add|del) passing a structure similar to:
------
static struct timeriomem_rng_data ts78xx_ts_rng_data = {
.address = (u32 *__iomem) TS_RNG,
.period = 1000000, /* one second */
};
static struct platform_device ts78xx_ts_rng_device = {
.name = "timeriomem_rng",
.id = -1,
.dev = {
.platform_data = &ts78xx_ts_rng_data,
},
.num_resources = 0,
};
------
[1] http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product=TS-7800
Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
The "break" would just result in reusing a free'd pointer. I don't have
the cards myself to test it though. :/
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Caused by 736d54533a (sx.c: fix missed unlock_kernel() on error path in
sx_fw_ioctl()). You guys keep breaking things this way in every single
kernel release in at least couple of places... :-(
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix to function which is called by IMA, now tpm_chip_find_get() considers the case in which the machine doesn't have a TPM or, if it has, its TPM isn't enabled.
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
If we return directly with -EPERM then lock_kernel() is still held.
This was found with a code checker (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git/).
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix another such path - missed func_exit()]
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
