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Dmitry Torokhov 4f00469c16 [PATCH] Input: kill devfs references
Input: remove references to devfs from input subsystem

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:52 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 74be227f72 [PATCH] Driver Core: document struct class_device properly
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:52 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 53f4654272 [PATCH] Driver Core: fix up all callers of class_device_create()
The previous patch adding the ability to nest struct class_device
changed the paramaters to the call class_device_create().  This patch
fixes up all in-kernel users of the function.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:52 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 51d172d5f3 [PATCH] Driver Core: add the ability for class_device structures to be nested
This patch allows struct class_device to be nested, so that another
struct class_device can be the parent of a new one, instead of only
having the struct class be the parent.  This will allow us to
(hopefully) fix up the input and video class subsystem mess.

But please people, don't go crazy and start making huge trees of class
devices, you should only need 2 levels deep to get everything to work
(remember to use a class_interface to get notification of a new class
device being added to the system.)

Oh, this also allows us to have the possibility of potentially, someday,
moving /sys/block into /sys/class.  The main hindrance is that pesky
/dev numberspace issue...

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:51 -07:00
Kay Sievers a7fd67062e [PATCH] add sysfs attr to re-emit device hotplug event
A "coldplug + udevstart" can be simple like this:
  for i in /sys/block/*/*/uevent; do echo 1 > $i; done
  for i in /sys/class/*/*/uevent; do echo 1 > $i; done
  for i in /sys/bus/*/devices/*/uevent; do echo 1 > $i; done

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:51 -07:00
Dmitry Torokhov d8539d81ae [PATCH] Driver core: pass interface to class interface methods
Driver core: pass interface to class intreface methods

Pass interface as argument to add() and remove() class interface
methods. This way a subsystem can implement generic add/remove
handlers and then call interface-specific ones.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:51 -07:00
Dmitry Torokhov 7bd7b09142 [PATCH] I2O: remove i2o_device_class
I2O: cleanup - remove i2o_device_class

I2O devices reside on their own bus so there should be no reason
to also have i2c_device class that mirros i2o bus.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:51 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 607cf4d9aa [PATCH] I2O: Clean up some pretty bad driver model abuses in the i2o code
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:51 -07:00
Dmitry Torokhov 4f5ca09e0b [PATCH] I2O: remove class interface
I2O: remove i2o_device_class_interface misuse

The intent of class interfaces was to provide different
'views' at the same object, not just run some code every
time a new class device is registered. Kill interface
structure, make class core register default attributes
and set up sysfs links right when registering class
devices.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:50 -07:00
Dmitry Torokhov dbe9035d4f [PATCH] Driver core: send hotplug event before adding class interfaces
Move call to kobject_hotplug() above code that adds interfaces
to a class device, otherwise children's hotplug events may reach
userspace first.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:50 -07:00
David Brownell b94dc6b586 [PATCH] usb device wakeup flags
This patch teaches "usb_device" about the new driver model wakeup support:

 - It updates device wakeup capabilities when entering a configuration
   with the WAKEUP attribute;

 - During suspend processing it consults the policy bit to see
   whether it should enable wakeup for that device.  (This resolves
   a FIXME to not assume the answer is always "yes"; some devices
   lie about supporting remote wakeup.)

Support for root hubs and the HCDs is separate (and more complex).

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:50 -07:00
David Brownell 0ac85241eb [PATCH] driver model wakeup flags
This is a refresh of an earlier patch to add "wakeup" support to the
PM core model.  This provides per-device bus-neutral control of the
use of wakeup events.

  * "struct device_pm_info" has two bits that are initialized as
    part of setting up the enclosing struct device:
      - "can_wakeup", reflecting hardware capabilities
      - "may_wakeup", the policy setting (when CONFIG_PM)

  * There's a writeable sysfs "wakeup" file, with one of two values:
      - "enabled", when the policy is to allow wakeup
      - "disabled", when the policy is not to allow it
      - "" if the device can't currently issue wakeups

By default, wakeup is enabled on all devices that support it.  If its
driver doesn't support it ... treat it as a bug.  :)

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:50 -07:00
Erik Hovland 2a7ff1feda [PATCH] changes device to driver in porting.txt
The document porting.txt in Documentation/driver-model says:
When a device is successfully bound to a device

I think it should say:
When a device is successfully bound to a driver

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:50 -07:00
Erik Hovland 4ed17dccd6 [PATCH] kobject_uevent.c has a typo in a comment
This patch changes trough to through in a comment in kobject_uevent.c.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:50 -07:00
Will Dyson d5dee80ad6 [PATCH] add sysfs support for ide tape
I was recently given an old Travan tape drive and asked to do something
useful with it.  The ide-scsi + st (+serverworks ide controller) combo
results in a hard lockup of the machine which I have not had the energy to
debug, so I turned to ide-tape (which seems to work).  The system in
question debian stable, using udev to manage /dev.

The following patch to ide-tape.c allows udev to create the cdev nodes for
my drive.

Cc: Gadi Oxman <gadio@netvision.net.il>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:50 -07:00
Ed L. Cashin 3dc7c55563 [PATCH] aoe: update to version 14
Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Update driver version number to 14.
2005-10-28 09:52:50 -07:00
Ed L. Cashin 475172fb18 [PATCH] aoe: use get_unaligned for accesses in ATA id buffer
Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Use get_unaligned for possibly-unaligned multi-byte accesses to the
ATA device identify response buffer.
2005-10-28 09:52:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 741b2252a5 Linux v2.6.14
"Better late than never"
2005-10-27 17:02:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds cdada08eb2 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6 2005-10-27 16:58:20 -07:00
Dave Jones 9273214409 [PATCH] cpufreq: SMP fix for conservative governor
Don't try to access not-present CPUs.  Conservative governor will always
oops on SMP without this fix.

Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4781

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-27 16:29:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 79b95a454b Revert "x86-64: Avoid unnecessary double bouncing for swiotlb"
Commit id 6142891a0c

Andi Kleen reports that it seems to break things for some people,
and since it's purely a small optimization, revert it for now.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-27 16:28:39 -07:00
Herbert Xu 2ad41065d9 [TCP]: Clear stale pred_flags when snd_wnd changes
This bug is responsible for causing the infamous "Treason uncloaked"
messages that's been popping up everywhere since the printk was added.
It has usually been blamed on foreign operating systems.  However,
some of those reports implicate Linux as both systems are running
Linux or the TCP connection is going across the loopback interface.

In fact, there really is a bug in the Linux TCP header prediction code
that's been there since at least 2.1.8.  This bug was tracked down with
help from Dale Blount.

The effect of this bug ranges from harmless "Treason uncloaked"
messages to hung/aborted TCP connections.  The details of the bug
and fix is as follows.

When snd_wnd is updated, we only update pred_flags if
tcp_fast_path_check succeeds.  When it fails (for example,
when our rcvbuf is used up), we will leave pred_flags with
an out-of-date snd_wnd value.

When the out-of-date pred_flags happens to match the next incoming
packet we will again hit the fast path and use the current snd_wnd
which will be wrong.

In the case of the treason messages, it just happens that the snd_wnd
cached in pred_flags is zero while tp->snd_wnd is non-zero.  Therefore
when a zero-window packet comes in we incorrectly conclude that the
window is non-zero.

In fact if the peer continues to send us zero-window pure ACKs we
will continue making the same mistake.  It's only when the peer
transmits a zero-window packet with data attached that we get a
chance to snap out of it.  This is what triggers the treason
message at the next retransmit timeout.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-27 15:11:04 -02:00
Roland McGrath 72ab373a56 [PATCH] Yet more posix-cpu-timer fixes
This just makes sure that a thread's expiry times can't get reset after
it clears them in do_exit.

This is what allowed us to re-introduce the stricter BUG_ON() check in
a362f463a6.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-27 09:08:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a362f463a6 Revert "remove false BUG_ON() from run_posix_cpu_timers()"
This reverts commit 3de463c7d9.

Roland has another patch that allows us to leave the BUG_ON() in place
by just making sure that the condition it tests for really is always
true.

That goes in next.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-27 09:07:33 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 7a4ed937aa [PATCH] Fix cpu timers expiration time
There's a silly off-by-one error in the code that updates the expiration
of posix CPU timers, causing them to not be properly updated when they
hit exactly on their expiration time (which should be the normal case).

This causes them to then fire immediately again, and only _then_ get
properly updated.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-26 15:21:14 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e02fd44056 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial 2005-10-26 14:02:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds dd41bf9166 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2005-10-26 14:01:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 70ab81c2ed posix cpu timers: fix timer ordering
Pointed out by Oleg Nesterov, who has been walking over the code
forwards and backwards.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-26 11:23:06 -07:00
Ivan Kokshaysky b0917bd912 [PATCH] fix radeon_cp_init_ring_buffer()
I've seen similar failure on alpha.

Obviously, someone forgot to convert sg->handle stuff for
PCI gart case.

Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-26 10:46:19 -07:00
Andrew Morton 4bcde03d41 [PATCH] svcsock timestamp fix
Convert nanoseconds to microseconds correctly.

Spotted by Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-26 10:39:43 -07:00
Peter Wainwright 94c1d31845 [PATCH] Fix HFS+ to free up the space when a file is deleted.
fsck_hfs reveals lots of temporary files accumulating in the hidden
directory "\000\000\000HFS+ Private Data".  According to the HFS+
documentation these are files which are unlinked while in use.  However,
there may be a bug in the Linux hfsplus implementation which causes this to
happen even when the files are not in use.  It looks like the "opencnt"
field is never initialized as (I think) it should be in hfsplus_read_inode.
 This means that a file can appear to be still in use when in fact it has
been closed.  This patch seems to fix it for me.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-26 10:39:43 -07:00
Jeff Garzik 35848e048f [PATCH] kill massive wireless-related log spam
Although this message is having the intended effect of causing wireless
driver maintainers to upgrade their code, I never should have merged this
patch in its present form.  Leading to tons of bug reports and unhappy
users.

Some wireless apps poll for statistics regularly, which leads to a printk()
every single time they ask for stats.  That's a little bit _too_ much of a
reminder that the driver is using an old API.

Change this to printing out the message once, per kernel boot.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-26 10:39:43 -07:00
Andrew Morton bb32051532 [PATCH] export cpu_online_map
With CONFIG_SMP=n:

*** Warning: "cpu_online_map" [drivers/firmware/dcdbas.ko] undefined!

due to set_cpus_allowed().

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-26 10:39:43 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 958d24df82 [PATCH] ppc64: Fix wrong register mapping in mpic driver
The mpic interrupt controller driver (used on G5 and early pSeries among
others) has a bug where it doesn't get the right virtual address for the
timer registers.  It causes the driver to poke at the MMIO space of
whatever has been mapped just next to it (ouch !) when initializing and
causes boot failures on some IBM machines.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-26 10:39:43 -07:00
Magnus Damm 1c6fe94659 [PATCH] NUMA: broken per cpu pageset counters
The NUMA counters in struct per_cpu_pageset (linux/mmzone.h) are never
cleared today.  This works ok for CPU 0 on NUMA machines because
boot_pageset[] is already zero, but for other CPU:s this results in
uninitialized counters.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-26 10:39:43 -07:00
NeilBrown 8712e55356 [PATCH] md: make sure mdthreads will always respond to kthread_stop
There are still a couple of cases where md threads (the resync/recovery
thread) is not interruptible since the change to use kthreads.  All places
there it tests "signal_pending", it should also test kthread_should_stop,
as with this patch.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-26 10:39:42 -07:00
Ian Campbell 7edc24c4d1 [ARM] 3032/1: sparse: complains about generic_fls() prototype in asm-arm/bitops.h
Patch from Ian Campbell

Sparse complains about the definition of generic_fls in asm-arm/bitops.h:
  CHECK   /home/icampbell/devel/kernel/2.6/arch/arm/mach-pxa/viper.c
include2/asm/bitops.h:350:34: error: marked inline, but without a definition

The definition is unnecessary since linux/bitops.h defines generic_fls before including asm/bitops.h and asm/bitops.h should not be included directly. There are still some places where asm/bitops.h is directly included, but I think that code should be fixed. I was a little wary of the patch for this reason but lubbock, mainstone and assabet all build OK and so do my in house boards...

ARM is the only arch with the generic_fls prototype in this way.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <icampbell@arcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-10-26 15:04:21 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 6693e74a16 PCI: be more verbose about resource quirks
When reserving an PCI quirk, note that in the kernel bootup messages.

Also, parse the strange PIIX4 device resources - they should get their
own PCI resource quirks, but for now just print out what it finds to
verify that the code does the right thing.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-25 20:40:09 -07:00
Jochen Friedrich 5ed688a716 [LLC]: Strip RIF flag from source MAC address
Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-25 21:34:39 -02:00
Jochen Friedrich 5ac660ee13 [TR]: Preserve RIF flag even for 2 byte RIF fields.
Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-25 21:31:38 -02:00
Yan Zheng 4ea6a8046b [IPV6]: Fix refcnt of struct ip6_flowlabel
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <yanzheng@21cn.com>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-25 21:17:52 -02:00
Andrew Morton 444d1d9bb5 [PATCH] qlogic lockup fix
If qla2x00_probe_one()'s call to qla2x00_iospace_config() fails, we call
qla2x00_free_device() to clean up.  But because ha->dpc_pid hasn't been set
yet, qla2x00_free_device() tries to stop a kernel thread which hasn't started
yet.  It does wait_for_completion() against an uninitialised completion struct
and the kernel hangs up.

Fix it by initialising ha->dpc_pid a bit earlier.

Cc: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-25 13:51:48 -07:00
Andrew Morton 0db9ae4a79 [PATCH] alpha: atomic dependency fix
My alpha build is exploding because asm/atomic.h now needs smb_mb(), which is
over in the (not included) system.h.

I fear what will happen if I include system.h into atomic.h, so let's put the
barriers into their own header file.

Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-25 09:32:46 -07:00
Pavel Machek c34e152a49 [ARM] fix sharp zaurus c-3000 compile failure without CONFIG_FB_PXA
This fixes compile problem when CONFIG_FB_PXA is not set.

  LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
arch/arm/mach-pxa/built-in.o(.text+0x1d74): In function
`spitz_get_hsync_len':
: undefined reference to `pxafb_get_hsync_time'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
3.46user 0.46system 5.10 (0m5.106s) elapsed 77.01%CPU

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-10-24 22:30:10 +01:00
Justin Chen 551f8f0e87 [SERIAL] new hp diva console port
Add the new ID 0x132a and configure the new PCI Diva console port.  This
device supports only 1 single console UART.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-10-24 22:16:38 +01:00
Bjorn Helgaas add7b58e75 [SERIAL] support the Exsys EX-4055 4S four-port card
Tested by Wolfgang Denk with this device:

    00:0f.0 Network controller: PLX Technology, Inc. PCI <-> IOBus Bridge (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Exsys EX-4055 4S(16C550) RS-232
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
        Region 0: Memory at 80100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
        Region 1: I/O ports at 7080 [size=128]
        Region 2: I/O ports at 7400 [size=32]

    00:0f.0 Class 0280: 10b5:9050 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: d84d:4055

Results with this patch:

    Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 32 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
    ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
    PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:0f.0
    ttyS4 at I/O 0x7400 (irq = 10) is a 16550A
    ttyS5 at I/O 0x7408 (irq = 10) is a 16550A
    ttyS6 at I/O 0x7410 (irq = 10) is a 16550A
    ttyS7 at I/O 0x7418 (irq = 10) is a 16550A

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-10-24 22:11:57 +01:00
James Simmons c14e2cfc18 [PATCH] Return the line length via sysfs for fbdev
This small patch returns the stride/line length of the framebuffer via
sysfs.

Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-24 14:08:29 -07:00
Takashi Iwai d5c5d8fe32 [PATCH] ALSA: Fix Oops of suspend/resume with generic drivers
The patch fixes Oops from sound drivers using generic platform device
but have no suspend/resume callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-24 09:45:28 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi 10ded9493e [PATCH] uml: fix compile failure for TT mode
Without this patch, uml compile fails with:

  LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
arch/um/kernel/built-in.o: In function `config_gdb_cb':
arch/um/kernel/tt/gdb.c:129: undefined reference to `TASK_EXTERN_PID'

Tested on i386, but fix needed on x86_64 too AFAICS.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-24 08:59:25 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov a69ac4a78d [PATCH] posix-timers: fix posix_cpu_timer_set() vs run_posix_cpu_timers() race
This might be harmless, but looks like a race from code inspection (I
was unable to trigger it).  I must admit, I don't understand why we
can't return TIMER_RETRY after 'spin_unlock(&p->sighand->siglock)'
without doing bump_cpu_timer(), but this is what original code does.

posix_cpu_timer_set:

	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);

	spin_lock(&p->sighand->siglock);
	list_del_init(&timer->it.cpu.entry);
	spin_unlock(&p->sighand->siglock);

We are probaly deleting the timer from run_posix_cpu_timers's 'firing'
local list_head while run_posix_cpu_timers() does list_for_each_safe.

Various bad things can happen, for example we can just delete this timer
so that list_for_each() will not notice it and run_posix_cpu_timers()
will not reset '->firing' flag. In that case,

	....

	if (timer->it.cpu.firing) {
		read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
		timer->it.cpu.firing = -1;
		return TIMER_RETRY;
	}

sys_timer_settime() goes to 'retry:', calls posix_cpu_timer_set() again,
it returns TIMER_RETRY ...

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-24 08:13:14 -07:00