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2008-12-23NFS: add "[no]resvport" mount optionChuck Lever
The standard default security setting for NFS is AUTH_SYS. An NFS client connects to NFS servers via a privileged source port and a fixed standard destination port (2049). The client sends raw uid and gid numbers to identify users making NFS requests, and the server assumes an appropriate authority on the client has vetted these values because the source port is privileged. On Linux, by default in-kernel RPC services use a privileged port in the range between 650 and 1023 to avoid using source ports of well- known IP services. Using such a small range limits the number of NFS mount points and the number of unique NFS servers to which a client can connect concurrently. An NFS client can use unprivileged source ports to expand the range of source port numbers, allowing more concurrent server connections and more NFS mount points. Servers must explicitly allow NFS connections from unprivileged ports for this to work. In the past, bumping the value of the sunrpc.max_resvport sysctl on the client would permit the NFS client to use unprivileged ports. Bumping this setting also changes the maximum port number used by other in-kernel RPC services, some of which still required a port number less than 1023. This is exacerbated by the way source port numbers are chosen by the Linux RPC client, which starts at the top of the range and works downwards. It means that bumping the maximum means all RPC services requesting a source port will likely get an unprivileged port instead of a privileged one. Changing this setting effects all NFS mount points on a client. A sysadmin could not selectively choose which mount points would use non-privileged ports and which could not. Lastly, this mechanism of expanding the limit on the number of NFS mount points was entirely undocumented. To address the need for the NFS client to use a large range of source ports without interfering with the activity of other in-kernel RPC services, we introduce a new NFS mount option. This option explicitly tells only the NFS client to use a non-privileged source port when communicating with the NFS server for one specific mount point. This new mount option is called "resvport," like the similar NFS mount option on FreeBSD and Mac OS X. A sister patch for nfs-utils will be submitted that documents this new option in nfs(5). The default setting for this new mount option requires the NFS client to use a privileged port, as before. Explicitly specifying the "noresvport" mount option allows the NFS client to use an unprivileged source port for this mount point when connecting to the NFS server port. This mount option is supported only for text-based NFS mounts. [ Sidebar: it is widely known that security mechanisms based on the use of privileged source ports are ineffective. However, the NFS client can combine the use of unprivileged ports with the use of secure authentication mechanisms, such as Kerberos. This allows a large number of connections and mount points while ensuring a useful level of security. Eventually we may change the default setting for this option depending on the security flavor used for the mount. For example, if the mount is using only AUTH_SYS, then the default setting will be "resvport;" if the mount is using a strong security flavor such as krb5, the default setting will be "noresvport." ] Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> [Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com: Fixed a bug whereby nfs4_init_client() was being called with incorrect arguments.] Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23NFS: move nfs_server flag initializationChuck Lever
Make it possible for the NFSv4 mount set up logic to pass mount option flags down the stack to nfs_create_rpc_client(). This is immediately useful if we want NFS mount options to modulate settings of the underlying RPC transport, but it may be useful at some later point if other parts of the NFSv4 mount initialization logic want to know what the mount options are. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23NFS: expand flags passed to nfs_create_rpc_client()Chuck Lever
The nfs_create_rpc_client() function sets up an RPC client for an NFS mount point. Add an option that allows it to set up an RPC transport from an unprivileged port. Instead of having nfs_create_rpc_client()'s callers retain local knowledge about how to set up an RPC client, create a couple of flag arguments to control the use of RPC_CLNT_CREATE flags. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23NFS: introduce nfs_mount_info struct for calling nfs_mount()Chuck Lever
Clean up: convert nfs_mount() to take a single data structure argument to make it simpler to add more arguments. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23NFS: Move declaration of nfs_mount() to fs/nfs/internal.hChuck Lever
Clean up: The nfs_mount() function is not to be used outside of the NFS client. Move its public declaration to fs/nfs/internal.h. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23NFS: rename nfs_path variableChuck Lever
Clean up: I'm about to move the declaration of nfs_mount into fs/nfs/internal.h and include it in fs/nfs/nfsroot.c. There's a conflicting definition of nfs_path in fs/nfs/internal.h and fs/nfs/nfsroot.c, so rename the private one. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23lockd: convert reclaimer thread to kthread interfaceJeff Layton
My understanding is that there is a push to turn the kernel_thread interface into a non-exported symbol and move all kernel threads to use the kthread API. This patch changes lockd to use kthread_run to spawn the reclaimer thread. I've made the assumption here that the extra module references taken when we spawn this thread are unnecessary and removed them. I've also added a KERN_ERR printk that pops if the thread can't be spawned to warn the admin that the locks won't be reclaimed. In the future, it would be nice to be able to notify userspace that locks have been lost (probably by implementing SIGLOST), and adding some good policies about how long we should reattempt to reclaim the locks. Finally, I removed a comment about memory leaks that I believe is obsolete and added a new one to clarify the result of sending a SIGKILL to the reclaimer thread. As best I can tell, doing so doesn't actually cause a memory leak. I consider this patch 2.6.29 material. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23LOCKD: Make lockd_up() and lockd_down() exported GPL-onlyTrond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23SUNRPC: nfsacl_encode/nfsacl_decode should be exported as GPL-onlyTrond Myklebust
Again, this has never been intended as a public abi for out-of-tree modules. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23SUNRPC: rpcsec_gss modules should not be used by out-of-tree codeTrond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23SUNRPC: Convert the xdr helpers and rpc_pipefs to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPLTrond Myklebust
We've never considered the sunrpc code as part of any ABI to be used by out-of-tree modules. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23SUNRPC: Remove the last remnant of the BKL...Trond Myklebust
Somehow, this escaped the previous purge. There should be no need to keep any extra locks in the XDR callbacks. The NFS client XDR code only writes into private objects, whereas all reads of shared objects are confined to fields that do not change, such as filehandles... Ditto for lockd, the NFSv2/v3 client mount code, and rpcbind. The nfsd XDR code may require the BKL, but since it does a synchronous RPC call from a thread that already holds the lock, that issue is moot. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23nfs: remove redundant tests on reading new pagesWu Fengguang
aops->readpages() and its NFS helper readpage_async_filler() will only be called to do readahead I/O for newly allocated pages. So it's not necessary to test for the always 0 dirty/uptodate page flags. The removal of nfs_wb_page() call also fixes a readahead bug: the NFS readahead has been synchronous since 2.6.23, because that call will clear PG_readahead, which is the reminder for asynchronous readahead. More background: the PG_readahead page flag is shared with PG_reclaim, one for read path and the other for write path. clear_page_dirty_for_io() unconditionally clears PG_readahead to prevent possible readahead residuals, assuming itself to be always called in the write path. However, NFS is one and the only exception in that it _always_ calls clear_page_dirty_for_io() in the read path, i.e. for readpages()/readpage(). Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-20Null pointer deref with hrtimer_try_to_cancel()Thomas Gleixner
Impact: Prevent kernel crash with posix timer clockid CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW commit 2d42244ae71d6c7b0884b5664cf2eda30fb2ae68 (clocksource: introduce CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW) introduced a new clockid, which is only available to read out the raw not NTP adjusted system time. The above commit did not prevent that a posix timer can be created with that clockid. The timer_create() syscall succeeds and initializes the timer to a non existing hrtimer base. When the timer is deleted either by timer_delete() or by the exit() cleanup the kernel crashes. Prevent the creation of timers for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW by setting the posix clock function to no_timer_create which returns an error code. Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-20Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs: fs/9p: change simple_strtol to simple_strtoul 9p: convert d_iname references to d_name.name 9p: Remove potentially bad parameter from function entry debug print.
2008-12-20Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: fix resume (S2R) broken by Intel microcode module, on A110L x86 gart: don't complain if no AMD GART found AMD IOMMU: panic if completion wait loop fails AMD IOMMU: set cmd buffer pointers to zero manually x86: re-enable MCE on secondary CPUS after suspend/resume AMD IOMMU: allocate rlookup_table with __GFP_ZERO
2008-12-20x86: fix resume (S2R) broken by Intel microcode module, on A110LDmitry Adamushko
Impact: fix deadlock This is in response to the following bug report: Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12100 Subject : resume (S2R) broken by Intel microcode module, on A110L Submitter : Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Date : 2008-11-25 08:48 (19 days old) Handled-By : Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> [ The deadlock scenario has been discovered by Andreas Mohr ] I think I might have a logical explanation why the system: (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12100) might hang upon resuming, OTOH it should have likely hanged each and every time. (1) possible deadlock in microcode_resume_cpu() if either 'if' section is taken; (2) now, I don't see it in spec. and can't experimentally verify it (newer ucodes don't seem to be available for my Core2duo)... but logically-wise, I'd think that when read upon resuming, the 'microcode revision' (MSR 0x8B) should be back to its original one (we need to reload ucode anyway so it doesn't seem logical if a cpu doesn't drop the version)... if so, the comparison with memcmp() for the full 'struct cpu_signature' is wrong... and that's how one of the aforementioned 'if' sections might have been triggered - leading to a deadlock. Obviously, in my tests I simulated loading/resuming with the ucode of the same version (just to see that the file is loaded/re-loaded upon resuming) so this issue has never popped up. I'd appreciate if someone with an appropriate system might give a try to the 2nd patch (titled "fix a comparison && deadlock..."). In any case, the deadlock situation is a must-have fix. Reported-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Tested-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19fs/9p: change simple_strtol to simple_strtoulJulia Lawall
Since v9ses->uid is unsigned, it would seem better to use simple_strtoul that simple_strtol. A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @r2@ long e; position p; @@ e = simple_strtol@p(...) @@ position p != r2.p; type T; T e; @@ e = - simple_strtol@p + simple_strtoul (...) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-12-199p: convert d_iname references to d_name.nameWu Fengguang
d_iname is rubbish for long file names. Use d_name.name in printks instead. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-12-199p: Remove potentially bad parameter from function entry debug print.Duane Griffin
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-12-19Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6: [SCSI] mpt fusion: clear list of outstanding commands on host reset [SCSI] scsi_lib: only call scsi_unprep_request() under queue lock [SCSI] ibmvstgt: move crq_queue_create to the end of initialization [SCSI] libiscsi REGRESSION: fix passthrough support with older iscsi tools [SCSI] aacraid: disable Dell Percraid quirk on Adaptec 2200S and 2120S
2008-12-19Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: ALSA: Fix a Oops bug in omap soc driver. ALSA: hda - Remove non-working headphone control for Dell laptops ALSA: hda - Add no-jd model for IDT 92HD73xx ALSA: Revert "ALSA: hda: removed unneeded hp_nid references" ALSA: hda - Add quirk for Dell Studio 17 ALSA: hda - Fix silent HP output on D975
2008-12-19Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: cciss: fix problem that deleting multiple logical drives could cause a panic
2008-12-19Merge branch 'drm-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6 * 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6: drm/i915: GEM on PAE has problems - disable it for now. drm/i915: Don't return busy for buffers left on the flushing list.
2008-12-19Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/mdLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: md: Don't read past end of bitmap when reading bitmap.
2008-12-19Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: PCI hotplug: ibmphp: Fix module ref count underflow PCI hotplug: acpiphp wants a 64-bit _SUN PCI: pciehp: fix unexpected power off with pciehp_force PCI: fix aer resume sanity check
2008-12-19Merge branch 'fix/asoc' into for-linusTakashi Iwai
2008-12-19ALSA: Fix a Oops bug in omap soc driver.Stanley Miao
There will be a Oops or frequent underrun messages when playing music with omap soc driver, this is because a data region is incorretly sized, other data region will be overwriten when writing to this data region. Signed-off-by: Stanley Miao <stanley.miao@windriver.com> Acked-by: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@nokia.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2008-12-19ALSA: hda - Remove non-working headphone control for Dell laptopsTakashi Iwai
The previous commit re-enabled hp_nid setup for IDT92HD73*, but it's unneeded indeed for Dell laptops that have multiple headphones. Setting the extra hp_nid results in a non-working "Headpohne" mixer control. Thus hp_nid should be 0 for these dell models. Also, the automatic addition of hp_nid should check whether it's a dual-HP model or not. For dual-HPs, the pins are already checked by the early workaround. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2008-12-19ALSA: hda - Add no-jd model for IDT 92HD73xxTakashi Iwai
Added the model without the jack-detection for some desktops that have really no jack-detection. The recent driver caused regressions regarding the sound output on such machines. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2008-12-19ALSA: Revert "ALSA: hda: removed unneeded hp_nid references"Takashi Iwai
This reverts commit 07f455f779acfb3eba4921fd1399761559b10fa9. ALSA: hda: removed unneeded hp_nid references Removed unneeded hp_nid references for 92hd73xx codec family. This caused the silent output on some Intel desktops due to missing routing of widget 0x0a and 0x0d. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2008-12-19cciss: fix problem that deleting multiple logical drives could cause a panicStephen M. Cameron
Fix problem that deleting multiple logical drives could cause a panic. It fixes a panic which can be easily reproduced in the following way: Just create several "arrays," each with multiple logical drives via hpacucli, then delete the first array, and it will blow up in deregister_disk(), in the call to get_host() when it tries to dig the hba pointer out of a NULL queue pointer. The problem has been present since my code to make rebuild_lun_table behave better went in. Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-19ALSA: hda - Add quirk for Dell Studio 17Joerg Schirottke
Added the matching model=dell-m6 for Dell Studio 17 laptop. Signed-off-by: Joerg Schirottke <master@kanotix.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2008-12-19drm/i915: GEM on PAE has problems - disable it for now.Dave Airlie
On PAE systems, GEM allocates pages using shmem, and passes these pages to be bound into AGP, however the AGP interfaces + the x86 set_memory interfaces all take unsigned long not dma_addr_t. The initial fix for this was a mess, so we need to do this correctly for 2.6.29. Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2008-12-19drm/i915: Don't return busy for buffers left on the flushing list.Eric Anholt
These buffers don't have active rendering still occurring to them, they just need either a flush to be emitted or a retire_requests to occur so that we notice they're done. Return unbusy so that one of the two occurs. The two expected consumers of this interface (OpenGL and libdrm_intel BO cache) both want this behavior. Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Acked-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2008-12-19md: Don't read past end of bitmap when reading bitmap.NeilBrown
When we read the write-intent-bitmap off the device, we currently read a whole number of pages. When PAGE_SIZE is 4K, this works due to the alignment we enforce on the superblock and bitmap. When PAGE_SIZE is 64K, this case read past the end-of-device which causes an error. When we write the superblock, we ensure to clip the last page to just be the required size. Copy that code into the read path to just read the required number of sectors. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2008-12-19Linux 2.6.28-rc9Linus Torvalds
2008-12-18Merge branch 'fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx * 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx: async_xor: dma_map destination DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL dmaengine: protect 'id' from concurrent registrations ioat: wait for self-test completion
2008-12-18Merge branch 'fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6 * 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6: avr32: favr-32 build fix ATSTK1006: Fix boot from NAND flash avr32: remove .note.gnu.build-id section when making vmlinux.bin avr32: Enable pullup on USART TX lines
2008-12-18Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: bnx2: Fix bug in bnx2_free_rx_mem(). irda: Add irda_skb_cb qdisc related padding jme: Fixed a typo net: kernel BUG at drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:165! drivers/net: starfire: Fix napi ->poll() weight handling tlan: Fix pci memory unmapping enc28j60: use netif_rx_ni() to deliver RX packets tlan: Fix small (< 64 bytes) datagram transmissions netfilter: ctnetlink: fix missing CTA_NAT_SEQ_UNSPEC
2008-12-18Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: sparc: We need to implement arch_ptrace_stop().
2008-12-18Maintainer email fixes for inotifyJohn McCutchan
Update John McCutchan and Robert Love's email addresses for maintenance of inotify Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com> Acked-by: Robert Love <rlove@rlove.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-18avr32: favr-32 build fixHaavard Skinnemoen
The favr-32 board code still refers to the old asm/arch header files which were moved to mach/ some time ago. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
2008-12-18ATSTK1006: Fix boot from NAND flashHaavard Skinnemoen
Enable JFFS2 write buffer support so that the kernel can access a root filesystem in NAND flash. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
2008-12-18Merge branch 'iommu-fixes-2.6.28' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/linux-2.6-iommu into x86/urgent
2008-12-18x86 gart: don't complain if no AMD GART foundBjorn Helgaas
Impact: remove annoying bootup printk It's perfectly normal for no AMD GART to be present, e.g., if you have Intel CPUs. None of the other iommu_init() functions makes noise when it finds nothing. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18ALSA: hda - Fix silent HP output on D975Takashi Iwai
Some desktops seems to have no HP/mic jack detection on the front panel, which results in the silent output in the recent driver, because the driver mutes the output (to save power) when no plug is detected. This patch adds a new model that disables the jack-detection. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2008-12-18bnx2: Fix bug in bnx2_free_rx_mem().Michael Chan
DMA memory for the jumbo rx page rings was freed incorrectly using the wrong local variable as the array index. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-18PCI hotplug: ibmphp: Fix module ref count underflowNeil Horman
I happened to notice that the ibmphp hotplug driver does something rather silly in its init routine. It purposely calls module_put so as to underflow its module ref count to avoid being removed from the kernel. This is bad practice, and wrong, since it provides a window for subsequent module_gets to reset the refcount to zero, allowing an unload to race in and cause all sorts of mysterious panics. If the module is unsafe to load, simply omitting the module_exit parameter is sufficient to prevent the kernel from allowing the unload. Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2008-12-17irda: Add irda_skb_cb qdisc related paddingSamuel Ortiz
We need to pad irda_skb_cb in order to keep it safe accross dev_queue_xmit() calls. This is some ugly and temporary hack triggered by recent qisc code changes. Even though it fixes bugzilla.kernel.org bug #11795, it will be replaced by a proper fix before 2.6.29 is released. Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>