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commit 798681bf "ARM: 7158/1: add new MFP implement for NUC900"
adds subname parameter for mfp_set_groupg.
Thus add subname parameter to the callers.
Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Acked-by: Wan Zongshun <mcuos.com@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (86 commits)
ipv4: fix redirect handling
ping: dont increment ICMP_MIB_INERRORS
sky2: fix hang in napi_disable
sky2: enforce minimum ring size
bonding: Don't allow mode change via sysfs with slaves present
f_phonet: fix page offset of first received fragment
stmmac: fix pm functions avoiding sleep on spinlock
stmmac: remove spin_lock in stmmac_ioctl.
stmmac: parameters auto-tuning through HW cap reg
stmmac: fix advertising 1000Base capabilties for non GMII iface
stmmac: use mdelay on timeout of sw reset
sky2: version 1.30
sky2: used fixed RSS key
sky2: reduce default Tx ring size
sky2: rename up/down functions
sky2: pci posting issues
sky2: fix hang on shutdown (and other irq issues)
r6040: fix check against MCRO_HASHEN bit in r6040_multicast_list
MAINTAINERS: change email address for shemminger
pch_gbe: Move #include of module.h
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http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/kernel/git-cur/linux-2.6-arm
* 'fixes' of http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/kernel/git-cur/linux-2.6-arm:
ARM: wire up process_vm_writev and process_vm_readv syscalls
ARM: 7160/1: setup: avoid overflowing {elf,arch}_name from proc_info_list
ARM: 7158/1: add new MFP implement for NUC900
ARM: 7157/1: fix a building WARNING for nuc900
ARM: 7156/1: l2x0: fix compile error on !CONFIG_USE_OF
ARM: 7155/1: arch.h: Declare 'pt_regs' locally
ARM: 7154/1: mach-bcmring: fix build error in dma.c
ARM: 7153/1: mach-bcmring: fix build error in core.c
ARM: 7152/1: distclean: Remove generated .dtb files
ARM: 7150/1: Allow kernel unaligned accesses on ARMv6+ processors
ARM: 7149/1: spi/pl022: Enable clock in probe
Revert "ARM: 7098/1: kdump: copy kernel relocation code at the kexec prepare stage"
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
* 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
PM / Suspend: Fix bug in suspend statistics update
PM / Hibernate: Fix the early termination of test modes
PM / shmobile: Fix build of sh7372_pm_init() for CONFIG_PM unset
PM Sleep: Do not extend wakeup paths to devices with ignore_children set
PM / driver core: disable device's runtime PM during shutdown
PM / devfreq: correct Kconfig dependency
PM / devfreq: fix use after free in devfreq_remove_device
PM / shmobile: Avoid restoring the INTCS state during initialization
PM / devfreq: Remove compiler error after irq.h update
PM / QoS: Properly use the WARN() macro in dev_pm_qos_add_request()
PM / Clocks: Only disable enabled clocks in pm_clk_suspend()
ARM: mach-shmobile: sh7372 A3SP no_suspend_console fix
PM / shmobile: Don't skip debugging output in pd_power_up()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging:
hwmon: (exynos4_tmu) Fix Kconfig dependency
[ Merging code in-flight, just because I can. What timezone should I
use? - Linus ]
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/ide:
cy82c693: fix PCI device selection
icside: DMA support fix
IDE: Don't powerdown Compaq Triflex IDE device on suspend
piix: ICH7 MWDMA1 errata
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen
* 'stable/for-linus-fixes-3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
xen-gntalloc: signedness bug in add_grefs()
xen-gntalloc: integer overflow in gntalloc_ioctl_alloc()
xen-gntdev: integer overflow in gntdev_alloc_map()
xen:pvhvm: enable PVHVM VCPU placement when using more than 32 CPUs.
xen/balloon: Avoid OOM when requesting highmem
xen: Remove hanging references to CONFIG_XEN_PLATFORM_PCI
xen: map foreign pages for shared rings by updating the PTEs directly
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
block: add missed trace_block_plug
paride: fix potential information leak in pg_read()
bio: change some signed vars to unsigned
block: avoid unnecessary plug list flush
cciss: auto engage SCSI mid layer at driver load time
loop: cleanup set_status interface
include/linux/bio.h: use a static inline function for bio_integrity_clone()
loop: prevent information leak after failed read
block: Always check length of all iov entries in blk_rq_map_user_iov()
The Windows driver .inf disables ASPM on all cciss devices. Do the same.
backing-dev: ensure wakeup_timer is deleted
block: Revert "[SCSI] genhd: add a new attribute "alias" in gendisk"
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* 'unicore32' of git://github.com/gxt/linux:
unicore32, exec: remove redundant set_fs(USER_DS)
unicore32: Fix typo 'PUV3_I2C'
unicore32: drop unused Kconfig symbols
rtc: rtc-puv3: Add __devinit and __devexit markers for probe and remove
arch/unicore32: do not use EXTRA_AFLAGS or EXTRA_CFLAGS
unicore32: fix build error for find bitops
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
powerpc/signal32: Fix sigset_t conversion when copying to user
powerpc: Fix atomic_xxx_return barrier semantics
powerpc: Remove buggy 9-year-old test for binutils < 2.12.1
powerpc/book3e-64: Fix debug support for userspace
powerpc: Remove extraneous CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS define
powerpc: Revert show_regs() define for readability
powerpc/ps3: Fix SMP lockdep boot warning
powerpc/ps3: Fix lost SMP IPIs
powerpc: Add hvcall.h include to book3s_hv.c
powerpc/trace: Add a dummy stack frame for trace_hardirqs_off
powerpc: Copy down exception vectors after feature fixups
powerpc: panic if we can't instantiate RTAS
powerpc/4xx: Fix typos in kexec config dependencies
powerpc/fsl: MCU_MPC8349EMITX wants I2C built-in, modular won't do...
powerpc/fsl_udc_core: Fix dumb typo
carma-fpga: Missed switch from of_register_platform_driver()
powerpc: Fix build breakage in jump_label.c
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If IRQ was never initialized, then calling napi_disable() would hang.
Add more bookkeeping to track whether IRQ was ever initialized.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The hardware has a restriction that the minimum ring size possible
is 128. The number of elements used is controlled by tx_pending and
the overall number of elements in the ring tx_ring_size, therefore it
is okay to limit the number of elements in use to a small value (63)
but still provide a bigger ring.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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When changing mode via bonding's sysfs, the slaves are not initialized
correctly. Forbid to change modes with slaves present to ensure that every
slave is initialized correctly via bond_enslave().
Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Acked-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
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We pull one byte (the MAC header) from the first fragment before the
fragment is actually appended. So the socket buffer length is 1, not 0.
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Commit 4ca46ff3e0d8c234cb40ebb6457653b59584426c (PM / Sleep: Mark
devices involved in wakeup signaling during suspend) introduced
the power.wakeup_path field in struct dev_pm_info to mark devices
whose children are enabled to wake up the system from sleep states,
so that power domains containing the parents that provide their
children with wakeup power and/or relay their wakeup signals are not
turned off. Unfortunately, that introduced a PM regression on SH7372
whose power consumption in the system "memory sleep" state increased
as a result of it, because it prevented the power domain containing
the I2C controller from being turned off when some children of that
controller were enabled to wake up the system, although the
controller was not necessary for them to signal wakeup.
To fix this issue use the observation that devices whose
power.ignore_children flag is set for runtime PM should be treated
analogously during system suspend. Namely, they shouldn't be
included in wakeup paths going through their children. Since the
SH7372 I2C controller's power.ignore_children flag is set, doing so
will restore the previous behavior of that SOC.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless into for-davem
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6:
[SCSI] hpsa: Disable ASPM
[SCSI] aacraid: controller hangs if kernel uses non-default ASPM policy
[SCSI] mpt2sas: add missing allocation.
[SCSI] Silencing 'killing requests for dead queue'
[SCSI] fix WARNING: at drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c:1704
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If there is an architecture-specific random number generator we use it
to acquire randomness one "long" at a time. We should put these random
words into consecutive words in the result buffer - not just overwrite
the first word again and again.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix build warnings:
drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c:592:13: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c:599:13: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix x86 allyesconfig builds. Builds fail due to a non-static variable
named 'debug' in drivers/staging/media/as102:
arch/x86/built-in.o:arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S:1296: first defined here
ld: Warning: size of symbol `debug' changed from 90 in arch/x86/built-in.o to 4 in drivers/built-in.o
Thou shalt have no non-static identifiers that are named 'debug'.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Pierrick Hascoet <pierrick.hascoet@abilis.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rename dependency of EXYNOS4_TMU in Kconfig to the existing one.
Signed-off-by: Donggeun Kim <dg77.kim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
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This patch fixes the pm functions to avoid the system
sleeps while a spinlock is taken.
Signed-off-by: Francesco Virlinzi <francesco.virlinzi@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch removes un-needed spin_lock in stmmac_ioctl while reading and
writing mdio registers. While holding spin_lock the code must be
atomic, which is not true in this case as both mdiobus_read and writes
have mutex locks.
Without this patch reading mdio registers via mii-tool results in below
BUG:
mii-tool -vvv eth0"
Using SIOCGMIIPHY=0x8947
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/mutex.c:287
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 614, name: mii-tool
2 locks held by mii-tool/614:
#0: (rtnl_mutex){......}, at: [<c01fd80c>] dev_ioctl+0x550/0x674
#1: (&priv->lock){......}, at: [<c01b34ec>] stmmac_ioctl+0x4c/0x78
[<c002ea14>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xcc) from [<c0272c38>]
(mutex_lock_nested+0x24/0x35c)
[<c0272c38>] (mutex_lock_nested+0x24/0x35c) from [<c01b237c>]
(mdiobus_read+0x44/0x70)
[<c01b237c>] (mdiobus_read+0x44/0x70) from [<c01b0c64>]
(phy_mii_ioctl+0x4c/0x138)
[<c01b0c64>] (phy_mii_ioctl+0x4c/0x138) from [<c01b34fc>]
(stmmac_ioctl+0x5c/0x78)
[<c01b34fc>] (stmmac_ioctl+0x5c/0x78) from [<c01fcec8>]
(dev_ifsioc+0x2a4/0x2c8)
[<c01fcec8>] (dev_ifsioc+0x2a4/0x2c8) from [<c01fd81c>]
(dev_ioctl+0x560/0x674)
[<c01fd81c>] (dev_ioctl+0x560/0x674) from [<c00c36e0>]
(vfs_ioctl+0x2c/0x8c)
[<c00c36e0>] (vfs_ioctl+0x2c/0x8c) from [<c00c4130>]
(do_vfs_ioctl+0x530/0x578)
[<c00c4130>] (do_vfs_ioctl+0x530/0x578) from [<c00c41ac>]
(sys_ioctl+0x34/0x54)
[<c00c41ac>] (sys_ioctl+0x34/0x54) from [<c0028aa0>]
(ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x2c)
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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New GMAC devices (newer than the databook 3.50a) have the
HW capability register that provides which features are actually
supported by the hardware.
On old devices many information have to be passed through the
platform, for example: enhanced descriptor structure,
TX COE etc. These are mandatory to properly configure the driver.
This remains still valid because the driver has to support old
Synopsys devices but now it's also able to override them using the
values from the HW capability register if supported.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch fixes the way to stop the 1000Base advertising
capabilties for non GMII interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@st.com>
Acked-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch uses an mdelay to manage the timeout on
sw reset to be independant of cpu_clk.
Signed-off-by: Francesco Virlinzi <francesco.virlinzi@st.com>
Reviewed-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Update version number.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Rather than generating a different RSS key on each boot, just use
a predetermined value that will map same flow to same value on
every device.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The default Tx ring size for the sky2 driver is quite large and could
cause excess buffer bloat for many users. The minimum ring size
possible and still allow handling the worst case packet on 64bit platforms
is 38 which gets rounded up to a power of 2. But most packets only require
a couple of ring elements.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The code is clearer if the up/down functions are renamed to
open/close like other drivers. Purely syntax change.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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A couple of the reset and setup paths have possible PCI posting issues.
When setting registers, a read is necessary to force the writes to complete.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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There are several problems with recent change to how IRQ's are setup.
* synchronize_irq in sky2_shutdown would hang because there
was no IRQ setup.
* when device was set to down, some IRQ bits left enabled so a
hardware error would produce IRQ with no handler
* quick link on Optima chip set was enabled without handler
* suspend/resume would leave IRQ on with no handler if device
was down
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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We are checking whether the MCR0_HASHEN bit is set using a logical and
instead of bitwise and, fix that.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The first #include must be pch_gbe.h as it
does a #define of pr_fmt.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Re-request fw from fs may fail for different reasons, once the fw was
loaded we won't release it until driver is removed.
This also resolves the boot problem when initial fw is located on initrd,
but rootfs is still unavailable, in this case device reset will fail due
to absence of fw files.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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so the defconfig of the atmel continue to have the support of the network
as before
Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Patch avoids SIGA-r calls in case of SIGA-r required. It only calls
SIGA-r if a threshold of free buffer is reached. CPU consumption is
reduced as a consequence.
Signed-off-by: Einar Lueck <elelueck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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when use dst_get_neighbour to get neighbour, we need
rcu_read_lock to protect, since dst_get_neighbour uses
rcu_dereference.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Invocation of dev_alloc_name() is re-inserted, because the created
net_device name is used to create the device name for the iucv bus.
This device is created before the register_netdev call.
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The patch "qeth: exploit asynchronous delivery of storage blocks"
added a WARN_ON in qeth_schedule_recovery. A device recovery should
not cause a kernel warning. This is obviously a debugging left-over
that we forgot to remove.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Without appropriate configuration at the SE, a HiperSockets device
cannot be used for sniffing. Setting the sniffer attribute is rejected
with -EPERM.
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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gref->gref_id is unsigned so the error handling didn't work.
gnttab_grant_foreign_access() returns an int type, so we can add a
cast here, and it doesn't cause any problems.
gnttab_grant_foreign_access() can return a variety of errors
including -ENOSPC, -ENOSYS and -ENOMEM.
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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On 32 bit systems a high value of op.count could lead to an integer
overflow in the kzalloc() and gref_ids would be smaller than
expected. If the you triggered another integer overflow in
"if (gref_size + op.count > limit)" then you'd probably get memory
corruption inside add_grefs().
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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The multiplications here can overflow resulting in smaller buffer
sizes than expected. "count" comes from a copy_from_user().
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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If highmem pages are requested from the balloon on a system without
highmem, the implementation of alloc_xenballooned_pages will allocate
all available memory trying to find highmem pages to return. Allow
low memory to be returned when highmem pages are requested to avoid
this loop.
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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When mapping a foreign page with xenbus_map_ring_valloc() with the
GNTTABOP_map_grant_ref hypercall, set the GNTMAP_contains_pte flag and
pass a pointer to the PTE (in init_mm).
After the page is mapped, the usual fault mechanism can be used to
update additional MMs. This allows the vmalloc_sync_all() to be
removed from alloc_vm_area().
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[v1: Squashed fix by Michal for no-mmu case]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
[S390] topology: fix topology on z10 machines
[S390] crypto: avoid MSA3 and MSA4 instructions in ESA mode
[S390] avoid STCKF if running in ESA mode
[S390] zfcpdump: Do not initialize zfcpdump in kdump mode
[S390] ap: Setup processing for messages in request queue.
[S390] Kconfig: Select CONFIG_KEXEC for CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
[S390] incorrect note program header
[S390] pfault: ignore leftover completion interrupts
[S390] fix pgste update logic
[S390] wire up process_vm syscalls
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Smatch has a new check for Rosenberg type information leaks where structs
are copied to the user with uninitialized stack data in them. i In this
case, the pg_write_hdr struct has a hole in it.
struct pg_write_hdr {
char magic; /* 0 1 */
char func; /* 1 1 */
/* XXX 2 bytes hole, try to pack */
int dlen; /* 4 4 */
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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A long time ago, probably in 2002, one of the distros, or maybe more than
one, loaded block drivers prior to loading the SCSI mid layer. This meant
that the cciss driver, being a block driver, could not engage the SCSI mid
layer at init time without panicking, and relied on being poked by a
userland program after the system was up (and the SCSI mid layer was
therefore present) to engage the SCSI mid layer.
This is no longer the case, and cciss can safely rely on the SCSI mid
layer being present at init time and engage the SCSI mid layer straight
away. This means that users will see their tape drives and medium
changers at driver load time without need for a script in /etc/rc.d that
does this:
for x in /proc/driver/cciss/cciss*
do
echo "engage scsi" > $x
done
However, if no tape drives or medium changers are detected, the SCSI mid
layer will not be engaged. If a tape drive or medium change is later
hot-added to the system it will then be necessary to use the above script
or similar for the device(s) to be acceesible.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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