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Linus Torvalds
bf60362566 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  [ATM]: [lec] use refcnt to protect lec_arp_entries outside lock
  [ATM]: [lec] add reference counting to lec_arp entries
  [ATM]: [lec] use work queue instead of timer for lec arp expiry
  [ATM]: [lec] old_close is no longer used
  [ATM]: [lec] convert lec_arp_table to hlist
  [ATM]: [lec] header indent, comment and whitespace cleanup
  [ATM]: [lec] indent, comment and whitespace cleanup [continued]
  [ATM]: [lec] indent, comment and whitespace cleanup
  [SCTP]: Do not timestamp every SCTP packet.
  [SCTP]: Use correct mask when disabling PMTUD.
  [SCTP]: Include sk_buff overhead while updating the peer's receive window.
  [SCTP]: Enable Nagle algorithm by default.
  [BNX2]: Disable MSI on 5706 if AMD 8132 bridge is present.
  [NetLabel]: audit fixups due to delayed feedback
2006-09-29 18:54:48 -07:00
Chas Williams
6656e3c4c8 [ATM]: [lec] use refcnt to protect lec_arp_entries outside lock
Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-29 17:17:17 -07:00
Chas Williams
33a9c2d4b7 [ATM]: [lec] add reference counting to lec_arp entries
Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-29 17:16:48 -07:00
Chas Williams
987e46bdf3 [ATM]: [lec] use work queue instead of timer for lec arp expiry
Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-29 17:15:59 -07:00
Chas Williams
edbc9b014f [ATM]: [lec] old_close is no longer used
Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-29 17:15:15 -07:00
Chas Williams
d0732f649f [ATM]: [lec] convert lec_arp_table to hlist
Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-29 17:14:27 -07:00
Chas Williams
1c9d3e72a7 [ATM]: [lec] header indent, comment and whitespace cleanup
Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-29 17:13:24 -07:00
Chas Williams
1fa9961d63 [ATM]: [lec] indent, comment and whitespace cleanup [continued]
Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-29 17:11:47 -07:00
Chas Williams
d44f77466c [ATM]: [lec] indent, comment and whitespace cleanup
Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-29 17:11:14 -07:00
Vlad Yasevich
f236218b72 [SCTP]: Do not timestamp every SCTP packet.
We only need the timestamp on COOKIE-ECHO chunks, so instead of always
timestamping every SCTP packet, let common code timestamp if the socket
option is set.  For COOKIE-ECHO, simply get the time of day if we don't
have a timestamp.  This introduces a small possibility that the cookie
may be considered expired, but it will be renegotiated.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-29 17:10:03 -07:00
Vlad Yasevich
b56bab46f3 [SCTP]: Use correct mask when disabling PMTUD.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-29 17:09:34 -07:00
Sridhar Samudrala
cd49788563 [SCTP]: Include sk_buff overhead while updating the peer's receive window.
Currently if the sender is sending small messages, it can cause a receiver
to run out of receive buffer space even when the advertised receive window
is still open and results in packet drops and retransmissions. Including
a overhead while updating the sender's view of peer receive window will
reduce the chances of receive buffer space overshooting the receive window.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-29 17:09:05 -07:00
Sridhar Samudrala
208edef6a5 [SCTP]: Enable Nagle algorithm by default.
This allows more aggressive bundling of chunks when sending small
messages.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-29 17:08:01 -07:00
Michael Chan
f9317a40c4 [BNX2]: Disable MSI on 5706 if AMD 8132 bridge is present.
MSI is defined to be 32-bit write.  The 5706 does 64-bit MSI writes
with byte enables disabled on the unused 32-bit word.  This is legal
but causes problems on the AMD 8132 which will eventually stop
responding after a while.

Without this patch, the MSI test done by the driver during open will
pass, but MSI will eventually stop working after a few MSIs are
written by the device.

AMD believes this incompatibility is unique to the 5706, and
prefers to locally disable MSI rather than globally disabling it
using pci_msi_quirk.

Update version to 1.4.45.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-29 17:06:23 -07:00
Paul Moore
95d4e6be25 [NetLabel]: audit fixups due to delayed feedback
Fix some issues Steve Grubb had with the way NetLabel was using the audit
subsystem.  This should make NetLabel more consistent with other kernel
generated audit messages specifying configuration changes.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Acked-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-29 17:05:05 -07:00
David S. Miller
fbe96f92b3 [SERIAL] sunzilog: Mark sunzilog_init_hw as __devinit.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-29 16:12:43 -07:00
David S. Miller
3a1d5c84ed [SPARC]: Don't zero out tail during copy_from_user_inatomic().
Actually, since we use the same code for all the copying
types in and out of userspace, we check at runtime whether
preemption is disabled.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-29 16:12:41 -07:00
Ollie Wild
d6c641026d [PATCH] uml build fix
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 15:58:21 -07:00
David Woodhouse
2148ccc437 [PATCH] MLSXFRM: fix mis-labelling of child sockets
Accepted connections of types other than AF_INET, AF_INET6, AF_UNIX won't
have an appropriate label derived from the peer, so don't use it.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 15:58:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9a69d1aecc Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: (33 commits)
  IB/ipath: Fix lockdep error upon "ifconfig ibN down"
  IB/ipath: Fix races with ib_resize_cq()
  IB/ipath: Support new PCIE device, QLE7142
  IB/ipath: Set CPU affinity early
  IB/ipath: Fix EEPROM read when driver is compiled with -Os
  IB/ipath: Fix and recover TXE piobuf and PBC parity errors
  IB/ipath: Change HT CRC message to indicate how to resolve problem
  IB/ipath: Clean up module exit code
  IB/ipath: Call mtrr_del with correct arguments
  IB/ipath: Flush RWQEs if access error or invalid error seen
  IB/ipath: Improved support for PowerPC
  IB/ipath: Drop unnecessary "(void *)" casts
  IB/ipath: Support multiple simultaneous devices of different types
  IB/ipath: Fix mismatch in shifts and masks for printing debug info
  IB/ipath: Fix compiler warnings and errors on non-x86_64 systems
  IB/ipath: Print more informative parity error messages
  IB/ipath: Ensure that PD of MR matches PD of QP checking the Rkey
  IB/ipath: RC and UC should validate SLID and DLID
  IB/ipath: Only allow complete writes to flash
  IB/ipath: Count SRQs properly
  ...
2006-09-29 15:18:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c0341b0f47 Merge git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6
* git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6: (49 commits)
  [XFS] Remove v1 dir trace macro - missed in a past commit.
  [XFS] 955947: Infinite loop in xfs_bulkstat() on formatter() error
  [XFS] pv 956241, author: nathans, rv: vapo - make ino validation checks
  [XFS] pv 956240, author: nathans, rv: vapo - Minor fixes in
  [XFS] Really fix use after free in xfs_iunpin.
  [XFS] Collapse sv_init and init_sv into just the one interface.
  [XFS] standardize on one sema init macro
  [XFS] Reduce endian flipping in alloc_btree, same as was done for
  [XFS] Minor cleanup from dio locking fix, remove an extra conditional.
  [XFS] Fix kmem_zalloc_greedy warnings on 64 bit platforms.
  [XFS] pv 955157, rv bnaujok - break the loop on EFAULT formatter() error
  [XFS] pv 955157, rv bnaujok - break the loop on formatter() error
  [XFS] Fixes the leak in reservation space because we weren't ungranting
  [XFS] Add lock annotations to xfs_trans_update_ail and
  [XFS] Fix a porting botch on the realtime subvol growfs code path.
  [XFS] Minor code rearranging and cleanup to prevent some coverity false
  [XFS] Remove a no-longer-correct debug assert from dio completion
  [XFS] Add a greedy allocation interface, allocating within a min/max size
  [XFS] Improve error handling for the zero-fsblock extent detection code.
  [XFS] Be more defensive with page flags (error/private) for metadata
  ...
2006-09-29 09:36:55 -07:00
Yoichi Yuasa
ae1390d8c3 [PATCH] i2c-sibyte: Fix modular build breakage
Fix undefined reference in i2c_sibyte_exit().

   drivers/built-in.o: In function `i2c_sibyte_exit':
   i2c-sibyte.c:(.exit.text+0x368): undefined reference to `i2c_del_bus'
   i2c-sibyte.c:(.exit.text+0x368): relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_26 against `i2c_del_bus'
   i2c-sibyte.c:(.exit.text+0x38c): undefined reference to `i2c_del_bus'
   i2c-sibyte.c:(.exit.text+0x38c): relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_26 against `i2c_del_bus'

Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:34:17 -07:00
Paul Jackson
181b648036 [PATCH] cpuset: fix obscure attach_task vs exiting race
Fix obscure race condition in kernel/cpuset.c attach_task() code.

There is basically zero chance of anyone accidentally being harmed by this
race.

It requires a special 'micro-stress' load and a special timing loop hacks
in the kernel to hit in less than an hour, and even then you'd have to hit
it hundreds or thousands of times, followed by some unusual and senseless
cpuset configuration requests, including removing the top cpuset, to cause
any visibly harm affects.

One could, with perhaps a few days or weeks of such effort, get the
reference count on the top cpuset below zero, and manage to crash the
kernel by asking to remove the top cpuset.

I found it by code inspection.

The race was introduced when 'the_top_cpuset_hack' was introduced, and one
piece of code was not updated.  An old check for a possibly null task
cpuset pointer needed to be changed to a check for a task marked
PF_EXITING.  The pointer can't be null anymore, thanks to
the_top_cpuset_hack (documented in kernel/cpuset.c).  But the task could
have gone into PF_EXITING state after it was found in the task_list scan.

If a task is PF_EXITING in this code, it is possible that its task->cpuset
pointer is pointing to the top cpuset due to the_top_cpuset_hack, rather
than because the top_cpuset was that tasks last valid cpuset.  In that
case, the wrong cpuset reference counter would be decremented.

The fix is trivial.  Instead of failing the system call if the tasks cpuset
pointer is null here, fail it if the task is in PF_EXITING state.

The code for 'the_top_cpuset_hack' that changes an exiting tasks cpuset to
the top_cpuset is done without locking, so could happen at anytime.  But it
is done during the exit handling, after the PF_EXITING flag is set.  So if
we verify that a task is still not PF_EXITING after we copy out its cpuset
pointer (into 'oldcs', below), we know that 'oldcs' is not one of these
hack references to the top_cpuset.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:25 -07:00
Kirill Korotaev
683e91cbd0 [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: add a note about "format=flowed" when sending patches
Add a note about "format=flowed" when sending patches and explain how to
fix mozilla.  Thunderbird has the similar options.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:25 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
03cbc358aa [PATCH] lockdep core: improve the lock-chain-hash
With CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC turned off i was getting sporadic failures in
the locking self-test:

  ------------>
  | Locking API testsuite:
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                   | spin |wlock |rlock |mutex | wsem | rsem |
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------
                       A-A deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
                   A-B-B-A deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
               A-B-B-C-C-A deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
               A-B-C-A-B-C deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
           A-B-B-C-C-D-D-A deadlock:  ok  |FAILED|  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
           A-B-C-D-B-D-D-A deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
           A-B-C-D-B-C-D-A deadlock:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |FAILED|

after much debugging it turned out to be caused by accidental chain-hash
key collisions.  The current hash is:

 #define iterate_chain_key(key1, key2) \
	(((key1) << MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS_BITS/2) ^ \
	((key1) >> (64-MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS_BITS/2)) ^ \
 	(key2))

where MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS_BITS is 11.  This hash is pretty good as it will
shift by 5 bits in every iteration, where every new ID 'mixed' into the
hash would have up to 11 bits.  But because there was a 6 bits overlap
between subsequent IDs and their high bits tended to be similar, there was
a chance for accidental chain-hash collision for a low number of locks
held.

the solution is to shift by 11 bits:

 #define iterate_chain_key(key1, key2) \
	(((key1) << MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS_BITS) ^ \
	((key1) >> (64-MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS_BITS)) ^ \
 	(key2))

This keeps the hash perfect up to 5 locks held, but even above that the
hash is still good because 11 bits is a relative prime to the total 64
bits, so a complete match will only occur after 64 held locks (which doesnt
happen in Linux).  Even after 5 locks held, entropy of the 5 IDs mixed into
the hash is already good enough so that overlap doesnt generate a colliding
hash ID.

with this change the false positives went away.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:25 -07:00
Vivek Goyal
632dd2053a [PATCH] Kcore elf note namesz field fix
o As per ELF specifications, it looks like that elf note "namesz" field
  contains the length of "name" including the size of null character.  And
  currently we are filling "namesz" without taking into the consideration
  the null character size.

o Kexec-tools performs this check deligently hence I ran into the issue
  while trying to open /proc/kcore in kexec-tools for some info.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:25 -07:00
Andrew Morton
327dcaadc0 [PATCH] expand_fdtable(): remove pointless unlock+lock
This unlock/lock on a super-unlikely path isn't worth the kernel text.

Cc: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:25 -07:00
Vadim Lobanov
74d392aaab [PATCH] Clean up expand_fdtable() and expand_files()
Perform a code cleanup against the expand_fdtable() and expand_files()
functions inside fs/file.c.  It aims to make the flow of code within these
functions simpler and easier to understand, via added comments and modest
refactoring.

Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:25 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
3706baa8b1 [PATCH] Documentation/SubmittingDrivers: minor update
* fix copright typo
* remove trailing whitespace
* remove Kernel Traffic from Resources. Zack, it was great reading!
* Name Arjan by name and fix URL of "How to NOT" paper.
* Remove "Last updated" tag.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:25 -07:00
Alan Cox
eb84a20e9e [PATCH] audit/accounting: tty locking
Add tty locking around the audit and accounting code.

The whole current->signal-> locking is all deeply strange but it's for
someone else to sort out.  Add rather than replace the lock for acct.c

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:25 -07:00
Alan Cox
5f412b2424 [PATCH] Fix locking for tty drivers when doing urgent characters
If you send a priority character (as is done for flow control) then the tty
driver can either have its own method for "jumping the queue" or the characrer
can be queued normally.  In the latter case we call the write method but
without the atomic_write_lock taken elsewhere.

Make this consistent.  Note that the send_xchar method if implemented remains
outside of the lock as it can jump ahead of a current write so must not be
locked out by it.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:24 -07:00
Alan Cox
67cc0161ec [PATCH] specialix - remove private speed decoding
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:24 -07:00
Alan Cox
1db27c11e9 [PATCH] istallion: Remove private baud rate decoding, which is also broken in this case on some platforms
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:24 -07:00
Alan Cox
d720bc4b8f [PATCH] generic_serial: remove private decoding of baud rate bits
The driver has no business doing this work itself any more and hasn't for some
years.  When the new speed stuff goes in this will break entirely so fix it up
ready.

Also remove a #if 0 around a comment....

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:24 -07:00
Atsushi Nemoto
13c73f045f [PATCH] RTC: more XSTP/VDET support for rtc-rs5c348 driver
If the chip detected "oscillator stop" condition, show an warning message.
And initialize it with the Epoch time instead of leaving it with unknown
date/time.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:24 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
b9dd6ffc3d [PATCH] build sound/sound_firmware.c only for OSS
All sound/sound_firmware.c contains is mod_firmware_load() that is a legacy
API only used by some OSS drivers.

This patch builds it into an own sound_firmware module that is only built
depending on CONFIG_SOUND_PRIME making the kernel slightly smaller for ALSA
users.

[alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk: comment fix]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:24 -07:00
Rusty Russell
e5582ca21a [PATCH] stop_machine.c copyright
I had to look back: this code was extracted from the module.c code in 2005.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:24 -07:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
39f0247d38 [PATCH] Access Control Lists for tmpfs
Add access control lists for tmpfs.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:24 -07:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
f0c8bd164e [PATCH] Generic infrastructure for acls
The patches solve the following problem: We want to grant access to devices
based on who is logged in from where, etc.  This includes switching back and
forth between multiple user sessions, etc.

Using ACLs to define device access for logged-in users gives us all the
flexibility we need in order to fully solve the problem.

Device special files nowadays usually live on tmpfs, hence tmpfs ACLs.

Different distros have come up with solutions that solve the problem to
different degrees: SUSE uses a resource manager which tracks login sessions
and sets ACLs on device inodes as appropriate.  RedHat uses pam_console, which
changes the primary file ownership to the logged-in user.  Others use a set of
groups that users must be in in order to be granted the appropriate accesses.

The freedesktop.org project plans to implement a combination of a
console-tracker and a HAL-device-list based solution to grant access to
devices to users, and more distros will likely follow this approach.

These patches have first been posted here on 2 February 2005, and again
on 8 January 2006. We have been shipping them in SLES9 and SLES10 with
no problems reported.  The previous submission is archived here:

   http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/229
   http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/230
   http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/231

This patch:

Add some infrastructure for access control lists on in-memory
filesystems such as tmpfs.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:24 -07:00
Chris Snook
4e6fd33b75 [PATCH] enforce RLIMIT_NOFILE in poll()
POSIX states that poll() shall fail with EINVAL if nfds > OPEN_MAX.  In
this context, POSIX is referring to sysconf(OPEN_MAX), which is the value
of current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_NOFILE].rlim_cur in the linux kernel, not
the compile-time constant which happens to also be named OPEN_MAX.  In the
current code, an application may poll up to max_fdset file descriptors,
even if this exceeds RLIMIT_NOFILE.  The current code also breaks
applications which poll more than max_fdset descriptors, which worked circa
2.4.18 when the check was against NR_OPEN, which is 1024*1024.  This patch
enforces the limit precisely as POSIX defines, even if RLIMIT_NOFILE has
been changed at run time with ulimit -n.

To elaborate on the rationale for this, there are three cases:

1) RLIMIT_NOFILE is at the default value of 1024

In this (default) case, the patch changes nothing.  Calls with nfds > 1024
fail with EINVAL both before and after the patch, and calls with nfds <=
1024 pass the check both before and after the patch, since 1024 is the
initial value of max_fdset.

2) RLIMIT_NOFILE has been raised above the default

In this case, poll() becomes more permissive, allowing polling up to
RLIMIT_NOFILE file descriptors even if less than 1024 have been opened.
The patch won't introduce new errors here.  If an application somehow
depends on poll() failing when it polls with duplicate or invalid file
descriptors, it's already broken, since this is already allowed below 1024,
and will also work above 1024 if enough file descriptors have been open at
some point to cause max_fdset to have been increased above nfds.

3) RLIMIT_NOFILE has been lowered below the default

In this case, the system administrator or the user has gone out of their
way to protect the system from inefficient (or malicious) applications
wasting kernel memory.  The current code allows polling up to 1024 file
descriptors even if RLIMIT_NOFILE is much lower, which is not what the user
or administrator intended.  Well-written applications which only poll
valid, unique file descriptors will never notice the difference, because
they'll hit the limit on open() first.  If an application gets broken
because of the patch in this case, then it was already poorly/maliciously
designed, and allowing it to work in the past was a violation of POSIX and
a DoS risk on low-resource systems.

With this patch, poll() will permit exactly what POSIX suggests, no more,
no less, and for any run-time value set with ulimit -n, not just 256 or
1024.  There are existing apps which which poll a large number of file
descriptors, some of which may be invalid, and if those numbers stradle
1024, they currently fail with or without the patch in -mm, though they
worked fine under 2.4.18.

Signed-off-by: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:23 -07:00
Eric Sesterhenn
8c6ba51bda [PATCH] Uninitialized variable in drivers/net/wan/syncppp.c
For len equal to 4, we never call sppp_lcp_conf_parse_options(),
therefore rmagic does not get initialized.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:23 -07:00
Ian S. Nelson
04b1db9fd7 [PATCH] /sys/modules: allow full length section names
I've been using systemtap for some debugging and I noticed that it can't
probe a lot of modules.  Turns out it's kind of silly, the sections section
of /sys/module is limited to 32byte filenames and many of the actual
sections are a a bit longer than that.

[akpm@osdl.org: rewrite to use dymanic allocation]
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:23 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox
3b5e0cbb4f [PATCH] SuperH list is moderated
I just got a bounce telling me my contributions aren't welcome.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:23 -07:00
Pavel Machek
5ddb88c0ab [PATCH] network block device is mostly known as "NBD"
People search maintainers for NBD and then decide it is not
maintained.

(akpm: ditto LVM.  And other things, but I forget what they were)

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:23 -07:00
Pavel Machek
8e9cb8fdab [PATCH] SubmittingPatches cleanups
This cleans up SubmittingPatches a bit.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:23 -07:00
Andreas Mohr
1497b2749b [PATCH] lib/ts_fsm.c: constify structs
Constify two structs.
Correct some typos.

Compile-tested and run-tested (module inserted) on 2.6.18-rc4-mm3.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:23 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
4050914f7c [PATCH] rate limiting for the ldisc open failure messages
This patch limits the messages when ldisc open faulures happen.  It happens
under memory pressure.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:23 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
1a036cdd95 [PATCH] Mention Documenation/ABI/ requirements in Documentation/SubmitChecklist
Mention Documenation/ABI/ requirements in Documentation/SubmitChecklist.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:23 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
3f9e7949f8 [PATCH] valid_swaphandles() fix
akpm draws my attention to the fact that sysctl(VM_PAGE_CLUSTER) might
conceivably change page_cluster to 0 while valid_swaphandles() is in the
middle of using it, leading to an embarrassingly long loop: take a local
snapshot of page_cluster and work with that.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:23 -07:00
Chandra Seetharaman
2d1d43f6a4 [PATCH] call mm/page-writeback.c:set_ratelimit() when new pages are hot-added
ratelimit_pages in page-writeback.c is recalculated (in set_ratelimit())
every time a CPU is hot-added/removed.  But this value is not recalculated
when new pages are hot-added.

This patch fixes that problem by calling set_ratelimit() when new pages
are hot-added.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:22 -07:00