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97ed83905e5f8547a94a8066441351c6920728a1
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: drivers/net/Kconfig: fix whitespace for GELIC_WIRELESS entry
Problem Details: Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
```diff diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig index a64bb415f10c..fe7b5ec09708 100644 --- a/drivers/net/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig @@ -2366,15 +2366,15 @@ config GELIC_NET module will be called ps3_gelic. config GELIC_WIRELESS - bool "PS3 Wireless support" - depends on GELIC_N...
985a34bd75cc8c96e43f00dcdda7c3fdb51a3026
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: x86: remove quicklists
Problem Details: quicklists cause a serious memory leak on 32-bit x86, as documented at: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9991 the reason is that the quicklist pool is a special-purpose cache that grows out of proportion. It is not accounted for anywhere and users have no way to even realize that it's the...
```diff diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index f41c9538ca30..237fc128143d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -66,9 +66,6 @@ config MMU config ZONE_DMA def_bool y -config QUICKLIST - def_bool X86_32 - config SBUS bool diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgta...
40f0933d51f4cba26a5c009a26bb230f4514c1b6
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: x86: ia32 syscall restart fix
Problem Details: The code to restart syscalls after signals depends on checking for a negative orig_ax, and for particular negative -ERESTART* values in ax. These fields are 64 bits and for a 32-bit task they get zero-extended. The syscall restart behavior is lost, a regression from a native 32-bit kernel and from 64-b...
```diff diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c index 8f64abe699fd..d5904eef1d31 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -1055,10 +1055,17 @@ static int putreg32(struct task_struct *child, unsigned regno, u32 value) R32(esi, si); R32(ebp, bp); R32(eax, ax);...
1f94ef598e8d29b92b9fc85d43c832e03721d3cb
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: Revert "cpu hotplug: adjust root-domain->online span in response to hotplug event"
Problem Details: This reverts commit 393d94d98b19089ec172566e23557997931b137e. Lets fix this right. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundati...
```diff diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index b02e4fc25645..52b98675acb2 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -5813,13 +5813,6 @@ migration_call(struct notifier_block *nfb, unsigned long action, void *hcpu) /* Must be high prio: stop_machine expects to yield to it. */ rq = task_rq_lock...
cae167d3d7f22a6a54ba47e7c3623b4c45a01e2b
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: serial: sh-sci: Fix fifo stall on SH7760/SH7780/SH7785 SCIF.
Problem Details: There was an off-by-1 in the SCRFDR calculation that caused writes over 128-bytes to hang in the FIFO. Fix it up. Signed-off-by: Yutaro Ebihara <ebiharaml@si-linux.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
```diff diff --git a/drivers/serial/sh-sci.c b/drivers/serial/sh-sci.c index a8c116b80bff..9d244d1644e1 100644 --- a/drivers/serial/sh-sci.c +++ b/drivers/serial/sh-sci.c @@ -414,12 +414,12 @@ static void sci_init_pins_scif(struct uart_port *port, unsigned int cflag) defined(CONFIG_CPU_SUBTYPE_SH7785) static inli...
bd12935f04066df31903eaf74b1cec03319ecd2e
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: ACPI: Fix a duplicate log level
Problem Details: Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
```diff diff --git a/drivers/acpi/osl.c b/drivers/acpi/osl.c index 8edba7b678eb..065819ba87c7 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/osl.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/osl.c @@ -1237,7 +1237,7 @@ int acpi_check_resource_conflict(struct resource *res) if (clash) { if (acpi_enforce_resources != ENFORCE_RESOURCES_NO) { - printk(KERN_IN...
4af8e10a6c57e7292862bd1703712f0565c7e429
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: Revert "ACPI: EC: Use proper handle for boot EC"
Problem Details: This reverts commit 208c70a45624400fafd7511b96bc426bf01f8f5e. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10100 Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
```diff diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ec.c b/drivers/acpi/ec.c index caf873c14bfb..7222a18a0319 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/ec.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/ec.c @@ -943,11 +943,7 @@ int __init acpi_ec_ecdt_probe(void) boot_ec->command_addr = ecdt_ptr->control.address; boot_ec->data_addr = ecdt_ptr->data.address; boot_ec->gp...
d7c1fbd6606085dbf95e47068d6bd2db8a180e38
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: RDMA/iwcm: Don't access a cm_id after dropping reference
Problem Details: cm_work_handler() can access cm_id_priv after it drops its reference by calling iwch_deref_id(), which might cause it to be freed. The fix is to look at whether IWCM_F_CALLBACK_DESTROY is set _before_ dropping the reference. Then if it was set, free the cm_id on this thread. Signed-off-by: Steve Wis...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c index 223b1aa7d92b..81c9195b512a 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c @@ -839,6 +839,7 @@ static void cm_work_handler(struct work_struct *_work) unsigned long flags; int empty; int ret ...
d33ed425c6cc14370d8c418b504328d2c3db58b4
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: IB/iser: Handle iser_device allocation error gracefully
Problem Details: "iser_device" allocation failure is "handled" with a BUG_ON() right before dereferencing the NULL-pointer - fix this! Signed-off-by: Arne Redlich <arne.redlich@xiranet.com> Signed-off-by: Erez Zilber <erezz@voltaire.com>
```diff diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_verbs.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_verbs.c index 768ba69f2fd9..993f0a8ff28f 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_verbs.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_verbs.c @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ struct iser_device *iser_device_find_by_ib_device(struct rdma...
9a378270c085080b2f38dee6308de4d8413b5141
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: IB/iser: Fix list iteration bug
Problem Details: The iteration through the list of "iser_device"s during device lookup/creation is broken -- it might result in an infinite loop if more than one HCA is used with iSER. Fix this by using list_for_each_entry() instead of the open-coded flawed list iteration code. Signed-off-by: Arne Redlich <arne.redli...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_verbs.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_verbs.c index 714b8db02b29..768ba69f2fd9 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_verbs.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_verbs.c @@ -237,33 +237,29 @@ static int iser_free_ib_conn_res(struct iser_conn *ib_conn)...
c8d16e27a3601d1cbcdfe657eb4ff5e762019e8d
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: ACPI: fix boot oops regression in thermal
Problem Details: Fix a memory overflow bug when copying NULL internal package element object to external. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10132 Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
```diff diff --git a/drivers/acpi/utilities/utobject.c b/drivers/acpi/utilities/utobject.c index 76ee766c84f9..e08b3fa6639f 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/utilities/utobject.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/utilities/utobject.c @@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ acpi_ut_get_simple_object_size(union acpi_operand_object *internal_object, * element -...
c368392a9951e6e25e2e2f9268153f1e9365e2c2
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: [POWERPC] spufs: fix rescheduling of non-runnable contexts
Problem Details: At present, we can hit the BUG_ON in __spu_update_sched_info by reading the regs file of a context between two calls to spu_run. The spu_release_saved called by spufs_regs_read() is resulting in the (now non-runnable) context being placed back on the run queue, so the next call to spu_run ends up in th...
```diff diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/context.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/context.c index cf6c2c89211d..0ad83aeb70b1 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/context.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/context.c @@ -170,7 +170,8 @@ void spu_release_saved(struct spu_context *ctx) ...
f5dbb55b995b77d396fe2204495a0af3e24d28c2
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: fix BIOS PCI config cycle buglet causing ACPI boot regression
Problem Details: I figured out another ACPI related regression today. randconfig testing triggered an early boot-time hang on a laptop of mine (32-bit x86, config attached) - the screen was scrolling ACPI AML exceptions [with no serial port and no early debugging available]. v2.6.24 works fine on that laptop with the...
```diff diff --git a/arch/x86/pci/pcbios.c b/arch/x86/pci/pcbios.c index 10ac8c316c46..2f7109ac4c15 100644 --- a/arch/x86/pci/pcbios.c +++ b/arch/x86/pci/pcbios.c @@ -198,6 +198,11 @@ static int pci_bios_read(unsigned int seg, unsigned int bus, "b" (bx), "D" ((long)reg), "S" (&pci_indirect)); + /* + ...
b3544ea97041d86ed78e5889724ca784042178f3
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: BF54x LQ043 Framebuffer driver: fix bug lcd_device_register API breakage
Problem Details: Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
```diff diff --git a/drivers/video/bf54x-lq043fb.c b/drivers/video/bf54x-lq043fb.c index ace5b3f3cdeb..836746fb9a55 100644 --- a/drivers/video/bf54x-lq043fb.c +++ b/drivers/video/bf54x-lq043fb.c @@ -672,7 +672,7 @@ static int __init bfin_bf54x_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) &bfin_lq043fb_bl_ops); bl_d...
fdcc53587fd2754ba87b0607b3f889520178a7af
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: BF54x LQ043 Framebuffer driver: fix bug NULL for gpio_request label is not allowed
Problem Details: Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
```diff diff --git a/drivers/video/bf54x-lq043fb.c b/drivers/video/bf54x-lq043fb.c index 0ce791e6f79c..ace5b3f3cdeb 100644 --- a/drivers/video/bf54x-lq043fb.c +++ b/drivers/video/bf54x-lq043fb.c @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ static int request_ports(struct bfin_bf54xfb_info *fbi) u16 eppi_req_18[] = EPPI0_18; u16 disp = fbi-...
62347218243179a6ab03fe9f965a5819c4714bf8
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: stifb: fix crash A1439A CRX (Rattler) graphics card
Problem Details: Fix kernel crash when stifb driver is used with a A1439A CRX (Rattler) graphics card. (Reference: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.hppa/1834) Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-fou...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/video/stifb.c b/drivers/video/stifb.c index e7c8db2eb49b..f98be301140c 100644 --- a/drivers/video/stifb.c +++ b/drivers/video/stifb.c @@ -505,16 +505,24 @@ ngleSetupAttrPlanes(struct stifb_info *fb, int BufferNumber) static void rattlerSetupPlanes(struct stifb_info *fb) { + int saved_id,...
1039edc98a80aece735b0c6d8b4e5f9dcec2cc32
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: mbxfb: fix incorrect argument type
Problem Details: Fix wrong pointer type passed into the dev_dbg() function. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/video/mbx/mbxfb.c b/drivers/video/mbx/mbxfb.c index 80cd117ca65c..01f77bcc68f9 100644 --- a/drivers/video/mbx/mbxfb.c +++ b/drivers/video/mbx/mbxfb.c @@ -889,7 +889,7 @@ static int __devinit mbxfb_probe(struct platform_device *dev) struct mbxfb_info *mfbi; struct mbxfb_platform_data *pd...
f7009264c519603b8ec67c881bd368a56703cfc9
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: iov_iter_advance() fix
Problem Details: iov_iter_advance() skips over zero-length iovecs, however it does not properly terminate at the end of the iovec array. Fix this by checking against i->count before we skip a zero-length iov. The bug was reproduced with a test program that continually randomly creates iovs to writev. The fix was als...
```diff diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index ab98557e228e..df343d1e6345 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -1742,21 +1742,27 @@ size_t iov_iter_copy_from_user(struct page *page, } EXPORT_SYMBOL(iov_iter_copy_from_user); -static void __iov_iter_advance_iov(struct iov_iter *i, size_t bytes) +vo...
e24e2e64c468c8060bb7173abecdf11d00ed5751
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: modules: warn about suspicious return values from module's ->init() hook
Problem Details: Return value convention of module's init functions is 0/-E. Sometimes, e.g. during forward-porting mistakes happen and buggy module created, where result of comparison "workqueue != NULL" is propagated all the way up to sys_init_module. What happens is that some other module created workqueue in que...
```diff diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index 68d05d2f4d8a..5d437bffd8dc 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -2178,6 +2178,14 @@ sys_init_module(void __user *umod, wake_up(&module_wq); return ret; } + if (ret > 0) { + printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: '%s'->init suspiciously returned %d...
6c5db22d280302c33dafb309c25bf2841fb99c37
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: modules: fix module waiting for dependent modules' init
Problem Details: Commit c9a3ba55 (module: wait for dependent modules doing init.) didn't quite work because the waiter holds the module lock, meaning that the state of the module it's waiting for cannot change. Fortunately, it's fairly simple to update the state outside the lock and do the wakeup. Thanks to Jan Glaub...
```diff diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index be4807fb90e4..68d05d2f4d8a 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -2179,9 +2179,11 @@ sys_init_module(void __user *umod, return ret; } - /* Now it's a first class citizen! */ - mutex_lock(&module_mutex); + /* Now it's a first class citiz...
2668db9111bb1a6ab5a54f41f703179f35c7d098
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: hugetlb: correct page count for surplus huge pages
Problem Details: Free pages in the hugetlb pool are free and as such have a reference count of zero. Regular allocations into the pool from the buddy are "freed" into the pool which results in their page_count dropping to zero. However, surplus pages can be directly utilized by the caller without first being freed to...
```diff diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index dcacc811e70e..74c1b6b0b37b 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -286,6 +286,12 @@ static struct page *alloc_buddy_huge_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock); if (page) { + /* + * This page is now managed by the hugetlb alloca...
842078054da2d754c6b998b116d7c468abbfaaca
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: gpio/pca953x bugfix: mark as can_sleep
Problem Details: The pca953x driver is an I2C driver so gpio_chip->can_sleep should be set. This lets upper layers know they should use the gpio_*_cansleep() calls to access values, and may not access them from nonsleeping contexts. Signed-off-by: Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org> Signed-off-by: David Brownell...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c b/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c index 92583cd4bffd..6e72fd31184d 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c @@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ static void pca953x_setup_gpio(struct pca953x_chip *chip, int gpios) gc->direction_output = pca953x_gpio_direction_output; gc->ge...
52720ae77d392d3f4c12281c37304edbc8cb51f1
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: md: fix formatting error in /proc/mdstat
Problem Details: If an md array is "auto-read-only", then this appears in /proc/mdstat as /dev/md0: active(auto-read-only) whereas if it is truely readonly, it appears as /dev/md0: active (read-only) The difference being a space. One program known to parse this file expects the space and gets badly confused....
```diff diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index 827824a9f3e9..ccbbf63727cc 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -5149,7 +5149,7 @@ static int md_seq_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v) if (mddev->ro==1) seq_printf(seq, " (read-only)"); if (mddev->ro==2) - seq_printf(seq, "(...
69682d852f5c94ee94e21174b3e8b719626c98db
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: mempolicy: fix reference counting bugs
Problem Details: Address 3 known bugs in the current memory policy reference counting method. I have a series of patches to rework the reference counting to reduce overhead in the allocation path. However, that series will require testing in -mm once I repost it. 1) alloc_page_vma() does not release the extra referen...
```diff diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c index c47e87278a92..cc63fae02f06 100644 --- a/ipc/shm.c +++ b/ipc/shm.c @@ -271,9 +271,10 @@ static struct mempolicy *shm_get_policy(struct vm_area_struct *vma, if (sfd->vm_ops->get_policy) pol = sfd->vm_ops->get_policy(vma, addr); - else if (vma->vm_policy) + else if (...
251cc9b9df065cb2c170ea45f566c0d9456186c2
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: memstick: fix parsing of "assembly_date" attribute field
Problem Details: Signed-off-by: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
```diff diff --git a/drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c b/drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c index 2381c5d7275b..62b913ba9b97 100644 --- a/drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c +++ b/drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c @@ -303,6 +303,20 @@ static ssize_t mspro_block_attr_show_sysinfo(struct device *dev, dev...
eebbe9ca7855eb520cde62234028b6bd90083659
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: tifm: fix memorystick host initialization code
Problem Details: Instead of assuming that host is powered on only once at card insertion, allow for the possibility that memstick layer may need to cycle card's power to get it out from some unhealthy states. Signed-off-by: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-of...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/memstick/host/tifm_ms.c b/drivers/memstick/host/tifm_ms.c index b88f5b30efbf..2b5bf52a8302 100644 --- a/drivers/memstick/host/tifm_ms.c +++ b/drivers/memstick/host/tifm_ms.c @@ -496,7 +496,18 @@ static void tifm_ms_set_param(struct memstick_host *msh, switch (param) { case MEMSTICK_PO...
92b22d935fed1e4d88b9b6f9a674ab2a4272ee78
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: tifm: fix the MemoryStick host fifo handling code
Problem Details: Additional input received from JMicron on MemoryStick host interfaces showed that some assumtions in fifo handling code were incorrect. This patch also fixes data corruption used to occure during PIO transfers. Signed-off-by: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-found...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/memstick/host/tifm_ms.c b/drivers/memstick/host/tifm_ms.c index c62e709ca771..b88f5b30efbf 100644 --- a/drivers/memstick/host/tifm_ms.c +++ b/drivers/memstick/host/tifm_ms.c @@ -24,275 +24,289 @@ static int no_dma; module_param(no_dma, bool, 0644); -#define TIFM_MS_TIMEOUT 0x00100 ...
b614ce8b3c697947d75685f0b9f2059307dde715
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: tridentfb: fix memory size detection
Problem Details: Fix memory size multiplier during detection. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
```diff diff --git a/drivers/video/tridentfb.c b/drivers/video/tridentfb.c index 5976a1e40514..0a4e07d43d2d 100644 --- a/drivers/video/tridentfb.c +++ b/drivers/video/tridentfb.c @@ -745,7 +745,7 @@ static unsigned int __devinit get_memsize(void) switch (tmp) { case 0x01: - k = 512; + k = 512 * Kb; ...
3acd9d462062bb332073fde90bf9d118ac5a043d
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: tridentfb: register should be left in non-locked state
Problem Details: Remove locking registers after they are unlocked during switch to/from MMIO mode. This fixes regression on the Blade3D (Trident 9880) caused by the previous patch (probe fixes). Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton ...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/video/tridentfb.c b/drivers/video/tridentfb.c index 919ce75db9e2..5976a1e40514 100644 --- a/drivers/video/tridentfb.c +++ b/drivers/video/tridentfb.c @@ -566,44 +566,32 @@ static inline void write3CE(int reg, unsigned char val) static void enable_mmio(void) { - unsigned char tmp; - /*...
e84290dc79d30af3e95b38e670f80c0b5046bbf2
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: of_serial: fix section mismatch warnings
Problem Details: Fix the following section mismatches: WARNING: drivers/built-in.o(.exit.text+0x5a): Section mismatch in reference from the function of_platform_serial_exit() to the variable .devinit.data:of_platform_serial_driver The function __exit of_platform_serial_exit() references a variable __devinitdata of_pla...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/serial/of_serial.c b/drivers/serial/of_serial.c index a64d85821996..c0e50a461055 100644 --- a/drivers/serial/of_serial.c +++ b/drivers/serial/of_serial.c @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ static struct of_device_id __devinitdata of_platform_serial_table[] = { { /* end of list */ }, }; -static struct...
914afea84e3e20cdbcd040f8387a0e6ef20ffc97
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink_queue: fix EPERM when binding/unbinding and instance 0 exists
Problem Details: Similar to the nfnetlink_log problem, nfnetlink_queue incorrectly returns -EPERM when binding or unbinding to an address family and queueing instance 0 exists and is owned by a different process. Unlike nfnetlink_log it previously completes the operation, but it is still incorrect. Signed-off-by: Patr...
```diff diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c index c0cc3d3618a3..012cb6910820 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c @@ -703,19 +703,12 @@ nfqnl_recv_config(struct sock *ctnl, struct sk_buff *skb, /* Commands without queue context ...
b7047a1c886386b10a103b4fea26678db8b57832
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink_log: fix EPERM when binding/unbinding and instance 0 exists
Problem Details: When binding or unbinding to an address family, the res_id is usually set to zero. When logging instance 0 already exists and is owned by a different process, this makes nfunl_recv_config return -EPERM without performing the bind operation. Since no operation on the foreign logging instance itself was...
```diff diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c index c6802c0d6ed8..bf3f19b21fe4 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c @@ -702,20 +702,30 @@ nfulnl_recv_config(struct sock *ctnl, struct sk_buff *skb, struct nfgenmsg *nfmsg = NLMSG_DATA(nlh); ...
4f4c9430cf5ee1ca3567bc88faf8b4c18ed0bd13
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: [NETFILTER]: xt_time: fix failure to match on Sundays
Problem Details: From: Andrew Schulman <andrex@alumni.utexas.net> xt_time_match() in net/netfilter/xt_time.c in kernel 2.6.24 never matches on Sundays. On my host I have a rule like iptables -A OUTPUT -m time --weekdays Sun -j REJECT and it never matches. The problem is in localtime_2(), which uses r->weekd...
```diff diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_time.c b/net/netfilter/xt_time.c index e9a8794bc3ab..9fa2e0824708 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/xt_time.c +++ b/net/netfilter/xt_time.c @@ -95,8 +95,11 @@ static inline void localtime_2(struct xtm *r, time_t time) */ r->dse = time / 86400; - /* 1970-01-01 (w=0) was a Thursday (...
e82cc1288fa57857c6af8c57f3d07096d4bcd9d9
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: USB: fix ehci unlink regressions
Problem Details: The recent EHCI driver update to split the IAA watchdog timer out from the other timers made several things work better, but not everything; and it created a couple new issues in bugzilla. Ergo this patch: - Handle a should-be-rare SMP race between the watchdog firing and (very late) IAA interr...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c index b8ad55aff842..46ee7f4c0912 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c +++ b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c @@ -281,23 +281,44 @@ static void ehci_iaa_watchdog(unsigned long param) { struct ehci_hcd *ehci = (struct ehci_hcd *) param; u...
33635efafef6994891496c266dc9f48c2987ec96
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: USB: fsl_usb2_udc: fix broken Kconfig
Problem Details: The patch fixes broken Kconfig caused by the name change of MPC834x option. It also makes fsl_usb2_udc selectable on new platforms like MPC837x. Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
```diff diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig b/drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig index c13955164686..6f45dd669b33 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/Kconfig @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ config USB_ATMEL_USBA config USB_GADGET_FSL_USB2 boolean "Freescale Highspeed USB DR Peripheral Controller" - de...
8a20acc5fef23755e75f3c48d90c64ce4dc62304
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: USB: drivers/usb/storage/sddr55.c: fix uninitialized var warnings
Problem Details: drivers/usb/storage/sddr55.c: In function 'sddr55_transport': drivers/usb/storage/sddr55.c:526: warning: 'deviceID' may be used uninitialized in this function drivers/usb/storage/sddr55.c:525: warning: 'manufacturerID' may be used uninitialized in this function Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/usb/storage/sddr55.c b/drivers/usb/storage/sddr55.c index d43a3415e12f..6d14327c921d 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/storage/sddr55.c +++ b/drivers/usb/storage/sddr55.c @@ -522,8 +522,8 @@ int sddr55_reset(struct us_data *us) { static unsigned long sddr55_get_capacity(struct us_data *us) { - ...
b507cc9710d8b6e3013468b40522e235342fc84a
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: USB: fix usb-serial generic recursive lock
Problem Details: Nobody should be using the generic usb-serial for anything other than testing. Still, it's not a good thing that it's easy to lock up. There is a traceback from NMI oopser here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431379 But in short, if a line discipline has a chance to echo anything, input ...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c b/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c index 97fa3c428435..7cfce9dabb90 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ static void flush_and_resubmit_read_urb (struct usb_serial_port *port) room = tty_buffer_request_room(tty,...
7000d38d6126d6ef928605bdacebc9f12279c5aa
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink_log: fix computation of netlink skb size
Problem Details: This patch is similar to nfnetlink_queue fixes. It fixes the computation of skb size by using NLMSG_SPACE instead of NLMSG_ALIGN. Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
```diff diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c index 7efa40d47393..c6802c0d6ed8 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c @@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ nfulnl_log_packet(unsigned int pf, /* FIXME: do we want to make the size calculation conditional based ...
cabaa9bfb01eb4cee97ffb8a18405f4c5175d3d9
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink_queue: fix computation of allocated size for netlink skb.
Problem Details: Size of the netlink skb was wrongly computed because the formula was using NLMSG_ALIGN instead of NLMSG_SPACE. NLMSG_ALIGN does not add the room for netlink header as NLMSG_SPACE does. This was causing a failure of message building in some cases. On my test system, all messages for packets in range [8...
```diff diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c index 0043d3a9f87e..c0cc3d3618a3 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c @@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ nfqnl_build_packet_message(struct nfqnl_instance *queue, struct net_device *indev; struct net...
b5e85dee2a5433246d5b7488918a1a0ad22c046a
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink: fix ifdef in nfnetlink_compat.h
Problem Details: Use __KERNEL__ instead of __KERNEL to make sure the headers are not usable by the kernel. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
```diff diff --git a/include/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink_compat.h b/include/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink_compat.h index 02a42d875cf7..e1451760c9cd 100644 --- a/include/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink_compat.h +++ b/include/linux/netfilter/nfnetlink_compat.h @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ #ifndef _NFNETLINK_COMPAT_H #define _NFNETLINK_COMPAT_H...
b91aac29bb9b7cab34b0297449bd2a16944b83d9
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: PCI Hotplug: Fix small mem leak in IBM Hot Plug Controller Driver
Problem Details: In drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_ebda.c::ebda_rsrc_controller(), storage is allocated with kzalloc() and assigned to 'tmp_slot'. Then lots of stuff, like ->flag, ->supported_speed etc is set in tmp_slot. A bit further down there's then this test : if (!bus_info_ptr1) { rc = -ENODEV; goto erro...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_ebda.c b/drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_ebda.c index 600ed7b67ae7..bbccde9f228f 100644 --- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_ebda.c +++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_ebda.c @@ -963,6 +963,7 @@ static int __init ebda_rsrc_controller (void) bus_info_ptr1 = ibmphp_find_same_bus_...
e88a0c2ca81207a75afe5bbb8020541dabf606ac
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: drivers: fix dma_get_required_mask
Problem Details: There's a bug in the current implementation of dma_get_required_mask() where it ands the returned mask with the current device mask. This rather defeats the purpose if you're using the call to determine what your mask should be (since you will at that time have the default DMA_32BIT_MASK). This bug r...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c index efaf282c438c..911ec600fe71 100644 --- a/drivers/base/platform.c +++ b/drivers/base/platform.c @@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ u64 dma_get_required_mask(struct device *dev) high_totalram += high_totalram - 1; mask = (((u64)high_totalram) << 32) + 0xf...
fbab976d7ce4556d4212d554f766dae461d22e16
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: firmware: provide stubs for the FW_LOADER=n case
Problem Details: libsas has a case where it uses the firmware loader to provide services, but doesn't want to select it all the time. This currently causes a compile failure in libsas if FW_LOADER=n. Fix this by providing error stubs for the firmware loader API in the FW_LOADER=n case. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley...
```diff diff --git a/include/linux/firmware.h b/include/linux/firmware.h index 33d8f2087b6e..4d10c7328d2d 100644 --- a/include/linux/firmware.h +++ b/include/linux/firmware.h @@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ struct firmware { size_t size; u8 *data; }; + struct device; + +#if defined(CONFIG_FW_LOADER) || defined(CONFIG_FW_LOADE...
661b4e89daf10e3f65a1086fd95c7a84720ccdd2
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: nozomi: fix initialization and early flow control access
Problem Details: Due to some flaws in the initialization and flow control code kernel oopses could be triggered e.g. when accessing the card too early after insertion. See e.g. kernel.org bug #10077. The main part of the fix is a trivial state management making sure the card is realy ready to use before allowing any ac...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/char/nozomi.c b/drivers/char/nozomi.c index dfaab2322de3..6d0dc5f9b6bb 100644 --- a/drivers/char/nozomi.c +++ b/drivers/char/nozomi.c @@ -190,6 +190,14 @@ enum card_type { F32_8 = 8192, /* 3072 bytes downl. + 1024 bytes uplink * 2 -> 8192 */ }; +/* Initialization states a card can be i...
ef79df263062fd04fe9db4ee1b9f014a87a8e924
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: sysdev: fix problem with sysdev_class being re-registered
Problem Details: We need to initialize the kobject for a sysdev_class as it could have been recycled (stupid static kobjects...) We also do the same thing in case sysdev devices are being re-registered. Thanks to Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com> for pointing out the problem. Signed-off-by: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gm...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/base/sys.c b/drivers/base/sys.c index 2f79c55acdcc..8e13fd942163 100644 --- a/drivers/base/sys.c +++ b/drivers/base/sys.c @@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ int sysdev_class_register(struct sysdev_class * cls) pr_debug("Registering sysdev class '%s'\n", kobject_name(&cls->kset.kobj)); INIT_LIST_HE...
1ef36fa64e65079de18ff5179a51af58e44d49a6
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: lguest: Do not append space to guests kernel command line
Problem Details: The lguest launcher appends a space to the kernel command line (if kernel arguments are specified on its command line). This space is unneeded. More importantly, this appended space will make Red Hat's nash script interpreter (used in a Fedora style initramfs) add an empty argument to init's command li...
```diff diff --git a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c index 0f23d67f958f..bec5a32e4095 100644 --- a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c +++ b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c @@ -486,9 +486,12 @@ static void concat(char *dst, char *args[]) unsigned int i, len = 0; for (i = 0; args[i]; i++) { +...
4357bd9453b81e0a41db1dec16e06d74256b7560
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: lguest: Revert 1ce70c4fac3c3954bd48c035f448793867592bc0, fix real problem.
Problem Details: Ahmed managed to crash the Host in release_pgd(), which cannot be a Guest bug, and indeed it wasn't. The bug was that handing a 0 as the address of the toplevel page table being manipulated can cause the lookup code in find_pgdir() to return an uninitialized cache entry (we shadow up to 4 top level pa...
```diff diff --git a/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c b/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c index 9c27c104d83c..a104c532ff70 100644 --- a/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c +++ b/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c @@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ static void lguest_set_pmd(pmd_t *pmdp, pmd_t pmdval) { *pmdp = pmdval; lazy_hcall(LHCALL_SET_PMD, __pa(pmdp)&PAGE_MASK, - (...
f14ae652baa3d72ae378f0c06b89cc2c4ef15ff8
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: lguest: fix __get_vm_area usage.
Problem Details: Robert Bragg's 5dc331852848a38ca00a2817e5b98a1d0561b116 tightened (ie. fixed) the checking in __get_vm_area, and it broke lguest. lguest should pass the exact "end" it wants, not some random constant (it was possible previously that it would actually get an address different from SWITCHER_ADDR). Also...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/lguest/core.c b/drivers/lguest/core.c index 7743d73768df..c632c08cbbdc 100644 --- a/drivers/lguest/core.c +++ b/drivers/lguest/core.c @@ -69,11 +69,22 @@ static __init int map_switcher(void) switcher_page[i] = virt_to_page(addr); } + /* First we check that the Switcher won't overlap ...
cdef59a94c2fc962ada379d4240d556db7b56d55
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: ocfs2: Fix NULL pointer dereferences in o2net
Problem Details: In some situations, ocfs2_set_nn_state might get called with sc = NULL and valid = 0. If sc = NULL, we can't dereference it to get the o2nm_node member. Instead, do what o2net_initialize_handshake does and use NULL when calling o2net_reconnect_delay and o2net_idle_timeout. Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <tao.m...
```diff diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp.c b/fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp.c index ee50c9610e7f..b8057c51b205 100644 --- a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp.c +++ b/fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp.c @@ -451,9 +451,9 @@ static void o2net_set_nn_state(struct o2net_node *nn, /* delay if we're withing a RECONNECT_DELAY of the * last attempt */ ...
c824c3c723f2e37a00b3b739a55b28de595fd72e
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: ocfs2/dlm: dlm_thread should not sleep while holding the dlm_spinlock
Problem Details: This patch addresses the bug in which the dlm_thread could go to sleep while holding the dlm_spinlock. Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
```diff diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmthread.c b/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmthread.c index cebd089f8955..4060bb328bc8 100644 --- a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmthread.c +++ b/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmthread.c @@ -176,12 +176,14 @@ static int dlm_purge_lockres(struct dlm_ctxt *dlm, res->lockname.name, master); if (!master) { + /* drop spinlo...
4338ab6a750303cbae4cc76cc7de5edba6598ebe
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: ocfs2: Fix an endian bug in online resize.
Problem Details: In ocfs2_group_add, 'cr' is a disk field of type 'ocfs2_chain_rec', and we were putting cpu byteorder values into it. Swap things to the right endian before storing. Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
```diff diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/resize.c b/fs/ocfs2/resize.c index 37835ffcb039..8166968e9015 100644 --- a/fs/ocfs2/resize.c +++ b/fs/ocfs2/resize.c @@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ int ocfs2_group_add(struct inode *inode, struct ocfs2_new_group_input *input) memset(cr, 0, sizeof(struct ocfs2_chain_rec)); } - cr->c_blkno = le6...
0f71b7b40f55de909e40fa5ab217a5da3439c7d8
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: ocfs2: Fix endian bug in o2dlm protocol negotiation.
Problem Details: struct dlm_query_join_packet is made up of four one-byte fields. They are effectively in big-endian order already. However, little-endian machines swap them before putting the packet on the wire (because query_join's response is a status, and that status is treated as a u32 on the wire). Thus, a big...
```diff diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmcommon.h b/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmcommon.h index 9843ee17ea27..1f939631ab74 100644 --- a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmcommon.h +++ b/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmcommon.h @@ -602,17 +602,19 @@ enum dlm_query_join_response_code { JOIN_PROTOCOL_MISMATCH, }; +struct dlm_query_join_packet { + u8 code; /* Response ...
3a4780a85d4a160a471ed887bfce58b414f556b1
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: [PATCH] fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdomain.c: fix printk warning
Problem Details: fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdomain.c: In function 'dlm_send_join_cancels': fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdomain.c:983: warning: format '%u' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 7 has type 'long unsigned int' Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
```diff diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdomain.c b/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdomain.c index 638d2ebb892b..906974cfbf18 100644 --- a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdomain.c +++ b/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdomain.c @@ -937,7 +937,7 @@ static int dlm_send_join_cancels(struct dlm_ctxt *dlm, sizeof(unsigned long))) { mlog(ML_ERROR, "map_size %u ...
f4299e1943d0c9ce29a6c5dc7c7674a82a17b315
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: riscom8: Fix hang on load
Problem Details: This has been around for a while but nobody reported it until recently. Resubmitting the fix as it's appropriate for 2.6.25 Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
```diff diff --git a/drivers/char/riscom8.c b/drivers/char/riscom8.c index 8fc4fe4e38f1..589ac6f65b9a 100644 --- a/drivers/char/riscom8.c +++ b/drivers/char/riscom8.c @@ -1620,14 +1620,8 @@ static int __init rc_init_drivers(void) static void rc_release_drivers(void) { - unsigned long flags; - - spin_lock_irqsave(&r...
bafe68034e3ef5e9f512bd0468001caf34981c41
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: avr32: Work around byteswap bug in gcc < 4.2
Problem Details: gcc versions earlier than 4.2 sign-extends the result of le16_to_cpu() and friends when we implement __arch__swabX() using __builtin_bswap_X(). Disable our arch-specific optimizations when those gcc versions are being used. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
```diff diff --git a/include/asm-avr32/byteorder.h b/include/asm-avr32/byteorder.h index 402ff4125cdc..d77b48ba7338 100644 --- a/include/asm-avr32/byteorder.h +++ b/include/asm-avr32/byteorder.h @@ -12,8 +12,14 @@ extern unsigned long __builtin_bswap_32(unsigned long x); extern unsigned short __builtin_bswap_16(unsign...
4fa45725df0f00c2bf86a0fc2670e88bfe0ceee7
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: RDMA/cxgb3: Fix iwch_create_cq() off-by-one error
Problem Details: The cxbg3 driver is unnecessarily decreasing the number of CQ entries by one when creating a CQ. This will cause the CQ not to have as many entries as requested by the user if the user requests a power of 2 size. Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jon@opengridcomputing.com> Acked-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengri...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_provider.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_provider.c index ee3d63cd1f96..b2ea9210467f 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_provider.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_provider.c @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ static struct ib_cq *iwch_create_cq(struct ib_dev...
ab875cf67e89eef150ae8d4ef09c361e47b6b398
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: alpha: fix iommu-related boot panic
Problem Details: This fixes a boot panic due to a typo in the recent iommu patchset from FUJITA Tomonori <tomof@acm.org> - the code used dma_get_max_seg_size() instead of dma_get_seg_boundary(). It also removes a couple of unnecessary BUG_ON() and ALIGN() macros. Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu....
```diff diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c index be6fa105cd34..e07a23fc5b74 100644 --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c @@ -144,15 +144,14 @@ iommu_arena_find_pages(struct device *dev, struct pci_iommu_arena *arena, unsigned long base; unsig...
393d94d98b19089ec172566e23557997931b137e
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: cpu hotplug: adjust root-domain->online span in response to hotplug event
Problem Details: We currently set the root-domain online span automatically when the domain is added to the cpu if the cpu is already a member of cpu_online_map. This was done as a hack/bug-fix for s2ram, but it also causes a problem with hotplug CPU_DOWN transitioning. The right way to fix the original problem is to...
```diff diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index 52b98675acb2..b02e4fc25645 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -5813,6 +5813,13 @@ migration_call(struct notifier_block *nfb, unsigned long action, void *hcpu) /* Must be high prio: stop_machine expects to yield to it. */ rq = task_rq_lock...
10a398d04c4a1fc395840f4d040493375f562302
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: time: remove obsolete CLOCK_TICK_ADJUST
Problem Details: The first version of the ntp_interval/tick_length inconsistent usage patch was recently merged as bbe4d18ac2e058c56adb0cd71f49d9ed3216a405 http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=bbe4d18ac2e058c56adb0cd71f49d9ed3216a405 While the fix did greatly improve t...
```diff diff --git a/include/linux/timex.h b/include/linux/timex.h index c3f374786a43..8ea3e71ba7fa 100644 --- a/include/linux/timex.h +++ b/include/linux/timex.h @@ -232,14 +232,7 @@ static inline int ntp_synced(void) #else #define NTP_INTERVAL_FREQ (HZ) #endif - -#define CLOCK_TICK_OVERFLOW (LATCH * HZ - CLOCK_TI...
67951f63807328b81e45c3c87af049c55c0a0081
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: [SCSI] Fix dependency problems in SCSI drivers
Problem Details: We have several drivers that don't list SCSI as a dependency in Kconfig. That leads to them potentially being selected as Y even if SCSI is M (which will produce a build failure). Fix this by making the if SCSI_LOWLEVEL that goes around all the drivers a tristate forcing them all automatically to inh...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig index c46666a24809..b9d374082b65 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ menuconfig SCSI_LOWLEVEL depends on SCSI!=n default y -if SCSI_LOWLEVEL +if SCSI_LOWLEVEL && SCSI config ISCSI_TCP tristate "iSCSI...
6efcae460186c0c1c94afff58a92784e1fc0d10b
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: Fix waitid si_code regression
Problem Details: In commit ee7c82da830ea860b1f9274f1f0cdf99f206e7c2 ("wait_task_stopped: simplify and fix races with SIGCONT/SIGKILL/untrace"), the magic (short) cast when storing si_code was lost in wait_task_stopped. This leaks the in-kernel CLD_* values that do not match what userland expects. Signed-off-by: Rolan...
```diff diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index cd20bf07e9e3..53872bf993fa 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -1378,7 +1378,7 @@ unlock_sig: if (!retval && infop) retval = put_user(0, &infop->si_errno); if (!retval && infop) - retval = put_user(why, &infop->si_code); + retval = put_user...
ac5bbf21bf38b3f5eaa8cb1e17f7513dc354afda
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: [ARM] 4851/1: ns9xxx: fix size of gpiores
Problem Details: GPIO_MAX is the number of the last gpio, not the number of gpios. So the bitmap must provide GPIO_MAX + 1 bits. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
```diff diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-ns9xxx/gpio.c b/arch/arm/mach-ns9xxx/gpio.c index b2230213b983..5286e9fc1d30 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mach-ns9xxx/gpio.c +++ b/arch/arm/mach-ns9xxx/gpio.c @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ static spinlock_t gpio_lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(gpio_lock); /* only access gpiores with atomic ops */ -stati...
f13ba2f7d3a877967477ec8f64e1dae7a967c7e2
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: [CRYPTO] skcipher: Fix section mismatches
Problem Details: The previous patch to move chainiv and eseqiv into blkcipher created a section mismatch for the chainiv exit function which was also called from __init. This patch removes the __exit marking on it. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
```diff diff --git a/crypto/chainiv.c b/crypto/chainiv.c index 0a7cac6e9089..6da3f577e4db 100644 --- a/crypto/chainiv.c +++ b/crypto/chainiv.c @@ -318,10 +318,8 @@ int __init chainiv_module_init(void) { return crypto_register_template(&chainiv_tmpl); } -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(chainiv_module_init); -void __exit chainiv...
84c6f6046c5a2189160a8f0dca8b90427bf690ea
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: x86_64: make ptrace always sign-extend orig_ax to 64 bits
Problem Details: This makes 64-bit ptrace calls setting the 64-bit orig_ax field for a 32-bit task sign-extend the low 32 bits up to 64. This matches what a 64-bit debugger expects when tracing a 32-bit task. This follows on my "x86_64 ia32 syscall restart fix". This didn't matter until that was fixed. The debugger...
```diff diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c index f41fdc98efb1..8f64abe699fd 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -323,6 +323,16 @@ static int putreg(struct task_struct *child, return set_flags(child, value); #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 + /* + * Orig_ax is...
1757f2d12dce775982aaa006bce1cf4f7ce90111
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: [PPC] 8xx: swap bug-fix
Problem Details: This makes swap routines operate correctly on the ppc_8xx based machines. Recent kernel's size makes swap feature very important on low-memory platfor those are actually non-operable without it. Signed-off-by: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
```diff diff --git a/arch/ppc/kernel/head_8xx.S b/arch/ppc/kernel/head_8xx.S index eb8d26f87362..321bda2de2cb 100644 --- a/arch/ppc/kernel/head_8xx.S +++ b/arch/ppc/kernel/head_8xx.S @@ -329,8 +329,18 @@ InstructionTLBMiss: mfspr r11, SPRN_MD_TWC /* ....and get the pte address */ lwz r10, 0(r11) /* Get the pte */ ...
3e0d65bf6d5b464949b749a8da7977f6b197d301
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: [POWERPC] 85xx: sbc8548 - Fix incorrect PCI-X and PCI interrupt map
Problem Details: The following patch allows interrupts to occur on the sbc8548. Currently PCI and PCI-X devices get assigned an IRQ but the interrupt count never increases. This solves the problem and adds PCI support as well. Signed-off-by: Jeremy McNicoll <jeremy.mcnicoll@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmake...
```diff diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/sbc8548.dts b/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/sbc8548.dts index 14be38ad5d4b..b86e65d926c1 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/sbc8548.dts +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/sbc8548.dts @@ -184,11 +184,17 @@ cell-index = <0>; interrupt-map-mask = <0xf800 0x0 0x0 0x7>; interrupt-map = <...
deedf504302ff747985db081352e045ff7087a11
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: iwlwifi: fix potential lock inversion deadlock
Problem Details: This is a change to a previous patch ("iwlwifi: 3945 split tx_complete to command and packet function") to ensure we do not have hardirq safe locks (priv->lock in this case) depend on hardirq unsafe locks. We only call iwl3945_tx_queue_reclaim while in a tasklet so we have to use the irqsafe version o...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c index dc3d695bf096..50a641c0c5b7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.c @@ -283,8 +283,8 @@ static void iwl3945_tx_queue_reclaim(struct iwl3945_priv *priv, ...
f868f4e196177ee96f77304ab707a0ad5ddd6fe4
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: wireless: correct warnings from using '%llx' for type 'u64'
Problem Details: drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/debug.c: In function 'read_file_tsf': drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/debug.c:203: warning: format '%016llx' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'u64' drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/debug.c:203: warning: format '%016llx' expects type 'long long unsigned int'...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/debug.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/debug.c index d3eb9e88c84d..41d5fa34b544 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/debug.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/debug.c @@ -200,7 +200,8 @@ static ssize_t read_file_tsf(struct file *file, char __user *user_buf, { struct at...
6ba81c2c989291c5893014f84805ce9d196778b0
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: ath5k: work around wrong beacon rx timestamp in IBSS mode
Problem Details: atheros hardware has a problem with the rx timestamp of some IBSS beacons when they caused a TSF update (they have the same BSSID). the rx timestamp is wrong especially if the beacon frames get bigger than 78 byte (at least on AR5213 and AR5414 hardware). in that case ath5k_extend_tsf() will assume a ...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c index 5eacc7cdd9e3..b5c0a0d7a81c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c @@ -1715,8 +1715,10 @@ ath5k_rx_decrypted(struct ath5k_softc *sc, struct ath5k_desc *ds, static void -at...
b47f407bef0d5349dacf65cd3560a976609d4b45
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: ath5k: move rx and tx status structures out of hardware descriptor
Problem Details: move ath5k_tx_status and ath5k_rx_status structures out of the hardware descriptor since they are not accessed by the hardware at all. they just contain converted information from the hardware descriptor. since they are only used in the rx and tx tasklets there is also no use to keep them for each desc...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/ath5k.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/ath5k.h index 2af7982f6f0d..b21830771ea5 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/ath5k.h +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/ath5k.h @@ -505,6 +505,7 @@ struct ath5k_beacon_state { /* * Atheros hardware descriptor + * This is read an...
28447f3cfdf72f6ea97b50cc1eefe35602107dff
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: iwlwifi: Fix 3945 rate scaling
Problem Details: This patch fix 3945 rate scaling after cfg80211 rate/band changes Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
```diff diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945-rs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945-rs.c index c4bfba6f3c2b..08604eb8291b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945-rs.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945-rs.c @@ -158,9 +158,9 @@ static void iwl3945_clear_window(struct iwl3945_rate_...
f4d6082d53c588036a1c37891cb7d65088be13f5
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: iwlwifi: fix locking unbalance in 4965 rate scale
Problem Details: This patch fixes locking unbalance after adding rcu locking for sta Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
```diff diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965-rs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965-rs.c index 306fbdc6e62f..25e73864c2a4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965-rs.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965-rs.c @@ -852,19 +852,18 @@ static void rs_tx_status(void *priv_rate, struct ne...
87d96114a73dfa323c12c77a2ea9f96f0020c690
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: b43: Fix failed frames status report typo
Problem Details: This fixes a typo in the status report. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
```diff diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c index 8e9497c526af..663aed4e9e05 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c @@ -917,7 +917,7 @@ static void b43_destroy_dmaring(struct b43_dmaring *ring, ring->max_used_slots, r...
56c9054f16ecb62bd83e9c55032522604d2f626c
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: ath5k: Fixes for PCI-E cards
Problem Details: * Fix nic_wakeup for PCI-E chips (don't set AR5K_RESET_CTL_PCI bit) * Fix dma size setting for PCI-E chips (thanx to Bob Copeland). Changes-licensed-under: ISC Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@winlab.rutgers.edu> Signed-off-by: John W. Lin...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/ath5k.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/ath5k.h index c0b65961f55f..04efceef95a8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/ath5k.h +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/ath5k.h @@ -171,13 +171,13 @@ struct ath5k_srev_name { #define AR5K_SREV_VER_AR5213A 0x59 #define AR5K_SREV_VER...
1c10e93828f8861c3f58d647e259de0e2c63b930
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: ide: update references to Documentation/ide/ide.txt (v2)
Problem Details: Fix all references to Documentation/ide/ide.txt. Add/update ide/00-INDEX file. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
```diff diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX index 30b327a116ea..042073f656e5 100644 --- a/Documentation/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/00-INDEX @@ -183,8 +183,6 @@ i386/ - directory with info about Linux on Intel 32 bit architecture. ia64/ - directory with info about Linux on Intel 64 bit ar...
331a5ad2a2ab6e93d1848b060c84fd2821c72e29
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: ide: move ide.txt to Documentation/ide/
Problem Details: Cleanup some of Documentation directory: Move Documentation/ide.txt to the ide/ sub-directory. Fix trailing whitespace while there. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
```diff diff --git a/Documentation/ide.txt b/Documentation/ide/ide.txt similarity index 99% rename from Documentation/ide.txt rename to Documentation/ide/ide.txt index bcd7cd1278ef..e3b3425328b6 100644 --- a/Documentation/ide.txt +++ b/Documentation/ide/ide.txt @@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ =====================================...
0c6025d44448bd688dfd351a09bc620aafa4d1ff
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: ide: fix buggy code in ide_register_hw()
Problem Details: Relocating the index to come after finding the hwif pointer. Signed-off-by: Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@gmail.com> Reported-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
```diff diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide.c b/drivers/ide/ide.c index fa16bc30bbc9..c2b791224097 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/ide.c +++ b/drivers/ide/ide.c @@ -667,7 +667,6 @@ int ide_register_hw(hw_regs_t *hw, void (*quirkproc)(ide_drive_t *), do { hwif = ide_deprecated_find_port(hw->io_ports[IDE_DATA_OFFSET]); - index...
ef4298d0f06c788d204caa9e395de6e9e2fd9fc9
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: ide: fix enabling DMA on it821x in "smart" mode
Problem Details: ide_tune_dma() should return '1' if IDE_HFLAG_NO_SET_MODE host flag is set. Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
```diff diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-dma.c b/drivers/ide/ide-dma.c index 2de99e4be5c9..d61e5788d310 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/ide-dma.c +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-dma.c @@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ static int ide_tune_dma(ide_drive_t *drive) } if (hwif->host_flags & IDE_HFLAG_NO_SET_MODE) - return 0; + return 1; if (ide_s...
b348487f0dc06f09a4c0d9e353eaa66e70230c7d
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: ide-cd: mark REQ_TYPE_ATA_PC write requests with REQ_RW flag
Problem Details: On Thursday 06 March 2008, walt wrote: > For me, this commit causes the problem it's intended to fix: > > commit 9f10d9ee0ac6d79d7bc8b9a158bf4a29322d84d3 > Author: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> > Date: Tue Feb 26 21:50:35 2008 +0100 > > ide-cd: fix 'ireason' handling for REQ_...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-cd_ioctl.c b/drivers/ide/ide-cd_ioctl.c index b68284de4e85..6d147ce6782f 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/ide-cd_ioctl.c +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-cd_ioctl.c @@ -457,6 +457,10 @@ int ide_cdrom_packet(struct cdrom_device_info *cdi, layer. the packet must be complete, as we do not touch...
4e99a1ff3410c627a428d5ddb6cd2e7bc908a486
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: NFS: Fix dentry revalidation for NFSv4 referrals and mountpoint crossings
Problem Details: As long as the directory contents haven't changed, we should just let the path walk proceed to cross the mountpoint. Apart from being an optimisation in the case of 'nohide' mountpoint traversals, it also fixes an issue with referrals: referral inodes don't have valid filehandles, so calling nfs_revali...
```diff diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c index ae04892a5e5d..6cea7479c5b4 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c @@ -710,6 +710,8 @@ int nfs_lookup_verify_inode(struct inode *inode, struct nameidata *nd) { struct nfs_server *server = NFS_SERVER(inode); + if (test_bit(NFS_INO_MOUNTPOINT, &NFS_I(inode)...
c37dcd334c0b0a46a90cfa13b9f69e2aaa89bc09
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: NFS: Fix the fsid revalidation in nfs_update_inode()
Problem Details: When we detect that we've crossed a mountpoint on the remote server, we must take care not to use that inode to revalidate the fsid on our current superblock. To do so, we label the inode as a remote mountpoint, and check for that in nfs_update_inode(). Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...
```diff diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c index 966a8850aa30..a4c7cf2bff3a 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c @@ -299,6 +299,7 @@ nfs_fhget(struct super_block *sb, struct nfs_fh *fh, struct nfs_fattr *fattr) else inode->i_op = &nfs_mountpoint_inode_operations; inode->i_fop = NUL...
ee1a2c564f67407947e89f1dac75ac0af0ba88c7
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: SUNRPC: Fix a nfs4 over rdma transport oops
Problem Details: Prevent an RPC oops when freeing a dynamically allocated RDMA buffer, used in certain special-case large metadata operations. Signed-off-by: Tom Talpey <tmt@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: James Lentini <jlentini@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
```diff diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c index 02c522c17de5..a564c1a39ec5 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c @@ -614,7 +614,11 @@ xprt_rdma_free(void *buffer) return; req = container_of(buffer, struct rpcrdma_req, rl_xd...
af1b8c2ff7c337c4e96db12d6b7b61eaa91aa069
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: NFS: Fix an f_mode/f_flags confusion in fs/nfs/write.c
Problem Details: O_SYNC is stored in filp->f_flags. Thanks to Al Viro for pointing out the bug. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
```diff diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c index f55c437124a2..80c61fdb2720 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/write.c +++ b/fs/nfs/write.c @@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ int nfs_updatepage(struct file *file, struct page *page, */ if (nfs_write_pageuptodate(page, inode) && inode->i_flock == NULL && - !(file->f_mode & O_SYNC...
8a3edd800dcdf949953777c73abf54de261574e8
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: [NETNS][IPV6] fix some missing namespace
Problem Details: This patch adds some missing namespace Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
```diff diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c index 937018529d18..98762fde2b65 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c @@ -404,6 +404,7 @@ int ip6_forward(struct sk_buff *skb) struct dst_entry *dst = skb->dst; struct ipv6hdr *hdr = ipv6_hdr(skb); struct inet6_skb_parm *...
e9720acd728a46cb40daa52c99a979f7c4ff195c
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: [NET]: Make /proc/net a symlink on /proc/self/net (v3)
Problem Details: Current /proc/net is done with so called "shadows", but current implementation is broken and has little chances to get fixed. The problem is that dentries subtree of /proc/net directory has fancy revalidation rules to make processes living in different net namespaces see different entries in /proc/net...
```diff diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c index 96ee899d6502..cc43cf0c1fa5 100644 --- a/fs/proc/base.c +++ b/fs/proc/base.c @@ -2274,6 +2274,7 @@ static const struct pid_entry tgid_base_stuff[] = { DIR("task", S_IRUGO|S_IXUGO, task), DIR("fd", S_IRUSR|S_IXUSR, fd), DIR("fdinfo", S_IRU...
5d49c101a126808a38f2a1f4eedc1fd28233e37f
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: gigaset: fix Oops on module unload regression
Problem Details: The card state mutex was only initialized when a device was connected, but used during unload unconditionally, leading to an Oops if a driver was loaded and unloaded again without ever connecting a device. Fix this by initializing the mutex as soon as the structure is allocated. Also add a missing mut...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c b/drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c index aacedec4986f..827c32c16795 100644 --- a/drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c +++ b/drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c @@ -637,7 +637,6 @@ struct cardstate *gigaset_initcs(struct gigaset_driver *drv, int channels, err("maximum number of devi...
80d38f9a7871d9bafc3f244dabe48b41a58de705
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: drivers/char/esp.c: fix bootup lockup
Problem Details: randconfig testing found a bootup lockup in drivers/char/esp.c because of a spinlock that wasn't correctly initialized. I'm not sure why it became more prominent in 2.6.25-rc4, the bug seems rather old and i've been doing allyesconfig bootups for ages with CONFIG_ESP enabled. This fixes this bootup l...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/char/esp.c b/drivers/char/esp.c index c01e26d9ee5e..f3fe62067344 100644 --- a/drivers/char/esp.c +++ b/drivers/char/esp.c @@ -2484,6 +2484,7 @@ static int __init espserial_init(void) return 0; } + spin_lock_init(&info->lock); /* rx_trigger, tx_trigger are needed by autoconfig *...
951b62c11e86acf8c55d9828aa8c921575023c29
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: [SCSI] advansys: Fix bug in AdvLoadMicrocode
Problem Details: buf[i] can be up to 0xfd, so doubling it and assigning the result to an unsigned char truncates the value. Just use an unsigned int instead; it's only a temporary. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley...
```diff diff --git a/drivers/scsi/advansys.c b/drivers/scsi/advansys.c index 3c2d6888bb8c..8591585e5cc5 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/advansys.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/advansys.c @@ -6439,7 +6439,7 @@ static int AdvLoadMicrocode(AdvPortAddr iop_base, unsigned char *buf, int size, i += 2; len += 2; } else { - unsig...
2692a2406b9262bbb101708815be99ec2988e48b
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: sched: rt-group: fixup schedulability constraints calculation
Problem Details: it was only possible to configure the rt-group scheduling parameters beyond the default value in a very small range. that's because div64_64() has a different calling convention than do_div() :/ fix a few untidies while we are here; sysctl_sched_rt_period may overflow due to that multiplication, so c...
```diff diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index 5b13e4b0e009..b8ee864c7481 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -7726,9 +7726,7 @@ static unsigned long to_ratio(u64 period, u64 runtime) if (runtime == RUNTIME_INF) return 1ULL << 16; - runtime *= (1ULL << 16); - div64_64(runtime, period)...
1868f958eb56fc41c5985c8732e564a400c5fdf5
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: sched: fix the wrong time slice value for SCHED_FIFO tasks
Problem Details: Function sys_sched_rr_get_interval returns wrong time slice value for SCHED_FIFO tasks. The time slice for SCHED_FIFO tasks should be 0. Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
```diff diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index 63a469f8853d..5b13e4b0e009 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -5100,7 +5100,7 @@ long sys_sched_rr_get_interval(pid_t pid, struct timespec __user *interval) time_slice = 0; if (p->policy == SCHED_RR) { time_slice = DEF_TIMESLICE; - } els...
6fa46fa526f2cab9ce21fa5e39501553a40d196d
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: sched: balance RT task resched only on runqueue
Problem Details: Sripathi Kodi reported a crash in the -rt kernel: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435674 this is due to a place that can reschedule a task without holding the tasks runqueue lock. This was caused by the RT balancing code that pulls RT tasks to the current run queue and will reschedule ...
```diff diff --git a/kernel/sched_rt.c b/kernel/sched_rt.c index 76e828517541..0a6d2e516420 100644 --- a/kernel/sched_rt.c +++ b/kernel/sched_rt.c @@ -1107,9 +1107,11 @@ static void prio_changed_rt(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, pull_rt_task(rq); /* * If there's a higher priority task waiting to run -...
1722770f131bb5c8e238825f3eba2efa331483a2
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: x86-boot: don't request VBE2 information
Problem Details: The new x86 setup code (4fd06960f120) broke booting on an old P3/500MHz with an onboard Voodoo3 of mine. After debugging it, it turned out to be caused by the fact that the vesa probing now asks for VBE2 data. Disassembing the video BIOS shows that it overflows the vesa_general_info structure when VBE...
```diff diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/vesa.h b/arch/x86/boot/vesa.h index ff5b73cd406f..468e444622c5 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/vesa.h +++ b/arch/x86/boot/vesa.h @@ -26,17 +26,10 @@ struct vesa_general_info { far_ptr video_mode_ptr; /* 14 */ u16 total_memory; /* 18 */ - u16 oem_software_rev; /* 20 */ - far_ptr oem_v...
d032b31a3a22a571cb50c0b5dffbe9ba9328d6e2
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: x86: fix typo in step.c
Problem Details: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR has no meaning in the actual MSR... Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
```diff diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/step.c b/arch/x86/kernel/step.c index 2ef1a5f8d675..9d406cdc847f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/step.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/step.c @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static void enable_step(struct task_struct *child, bool block) child->thread.debugctlmsr | DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF); } else { ...
609b5297bcfb7b39b7a4137e9ec48407a8c96763
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: x86: fix merge mistake in i387.c
Problem Details: convert_fxsr_to_user() in 2.6.24's i387_32.c did this, and convert_to_fxsr() also does the inverse, so I assume it's an oversight that it is no longer being done. [ mingo@elte.hu: we encode it this way because there's no space for the 'FPU Last Instruction Opcode' (->fop) field in the legacy user...
```diff diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c b/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c index 60fe80157569..d2e39e69aaf8 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c @@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ static void convert_from_fxsr(struct user_i387_ia32_struct *env, } #else env->fip = fxsave->fip; - env->fcs = fxsave->fcs; + env...
e40cd10ccff3d9fbffd57b93780bee4b7b9bff51
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: x86: clear DF before calling signal handler
Problem Details: The Linux kernel currently does not clear the direction flag before calling a signal handler, whereas the x86/x86-64 ABI requires that. Linux had this behavior/bug forever, but this becomes a real problem with gcc version 4.3, which assumes that the direction flag is correctly cleared at the entry of ...
```diff diff --git a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c index 1c0503bdfb1a..5e7771a3ba2f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c +++ b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c @@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ int ia32_setup_frame(int sig, struct k_sigaction *ka, regs->ss = __USER32_DS; set_fs(USER_DS); - regs->flag...
6f913160fa8e8de5ea2746a2f6b1d65c67e092b0
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: [POWERPC] QE: Fix QE firmware uploading limit
Problem Details: Fix a typo in qe_upload_firmware() that prevented uploading firmware on systems with more than one RISC core. Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
```diff diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/qe.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/qe.c index 6efbd5e5bb1b..f963fbf21ef0 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/qe.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/qe.c @@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ int qe_upload_firmware(const struct qe_firmware *firmware) } /* Validate some of the fields...
a55387e5ad903dec4e281907e4d8e74679ae60e2
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: [POWERPC] 8xx: Fix wrapper platform for adder875, and combine defconfigs.
Problem Details: This fixes the following bug: http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-February/051979.html Separate defconfigs are no longer needed now that CONFIG_DEVICE_TREE is gone. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
```diff diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper index c3178155311b..d50e498a072b 100755 --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper @@ -191,10 +191,14 @@ ps3) ksection=.kernel:vmlinux.bin isection=.kernel:initrd ;; -ep88xc|ep405|redboot*|ep8248e) +ep88xc|ep4...
76db5bd26f2d79712459bf80ce0e5c0c5c31b769
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: [POWERPC] 8xx: fix swap
Problem Details: This makes swap routines operate correctly on the ppc_8xx based machines. Code has been revalidated on mpc885ads (8M sdram) with recent kernel. Based on patch from Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com> to do the same on arch/ppc instance. Recent kernel's size makes swap feature very important on low-memory ...
```diff diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S index f7458396cd7c..3c9452d4308b 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_8xx.S @@ -332,8 +332,18 @@ InstructionTLBMiss: mfspr r11, SPRN_MD_TWC /* ....and get the pte address */ lwz r10, 0(r11) /* ...
28b958859206b7010d03129611c2e444898e3ee4
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: [POWERPC] 83xx: Fix wrong USB phy type in mpc837xmds dts
Problem Details: Due to chip constraint MPC837x USB DR module can only use ULPI and serial PHY interfaces. The patch fixes the wrong type in dts. Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
```diff diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc8377_mds.dts b/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc8377_mds.dts index a3637fff73cc..677a0615eb00 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc8377_mds.dts +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc8377_mds.dts @@ -91,7 +91,6 @@ mode = "cpu"; }; - /* phy type (ULPI, UTMI, UTMI_WIDE, SERIAL) */...
989a7241df87526bfef0396567e71ebe53a84ae4
Analyze and fix the following issue in the Linux kernel code: slub: fix typo in Documentation/vm/slub.txt
Problem Details: slub_debug=,dentry is correct, not dentry_cache. Signed-off-by: Itaru Kitayama <i-kitayama@ap.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
```diff diff --git a/Documentation/vm/slub.txt b/Documentation/vm/slub.txt index dcf8bcf846d6..7c13f22a0c9e 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/slub.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/slub.txt @@ -50,14 +50,14 @@ F.e. in order to boot just with sanity checks and red zoning one would specify: Trying to find an issue in the dentry ...