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Jan Engelhardt
3654654f7a netlink: let nlmsg and nla functions take pointer-to-const args
The changed functions do not modify the NL messages and/or attributes
at all. They should use const (similar to strchr), so that callers
which have a const nlmsg/nlattr around can make use of them without
casting.

While at it, constify a data array.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-16 09:52:32 -08:00
David S. Miller
b5e4156743 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2010-11-16 09:17:12 -08:00
stephen hemminger
61391cde9e netdev: add rcu annotations to receive handler hook
Suggested by Eric's bridge RCU changes.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-15 11:13:17 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
a386f99025 bridge: add proper RCU annotation to should_route_hook
Add br_should_route_hook_t typedef, this is the only way we can
get a clean RCU implementation for function pointer.

Move route_hook to location where it is used.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-15 11:13:16 -08:00
Joe Perches
d577f1ccdd include/net/caif/cfctrl.h: Remove unnecessary semicolons
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Sjur Braendeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-15 11:07:16 -08:00
Joe Perches
c59504ebc5 include/linux/if_macvlan.h: Remove unnecessary semicolons
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-15 11:07:15 -08:00
David S. Miller
6c1b6c6b87 Merge branch 'dccp' of git://eden-feed.erg.abdn.ac.uk/net-next-2.6 2010-11-15 10:59:49 -08:00
Tom Herbert
fe8222406c net: Simplify RX queue allocation
This patch move RX queue allocation to alloc_netdev_mq and freeing of
the queues to free_netdev (symmetric to TX queue allocation).  Each
kobject RX queue takes a reference to the queue's device so that the
device can't be freed before all the kobjects have been released-- this
obviates the need for reference counts specific to RX queues.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-15 10:57:28 -08:00
Timo Teräs
cc9ff19da9 xfrm: use gre key as flow upper protocol info
The GRE Key field is intended to be used for identifying an individual
traffic flow within a tunnel. It is useful to be able to have XFRM
policy selector matches to have different policies for different
GRE tunnels.

Signed-off-by: Timo Teräs <timo.teras@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-15 10:44:04 -08:00
Andreas Herrmann
7919a57bc6 bitops: Provide generic sign_extend32 function
This patch moves code out from wireless drivers where two different
functions are defined in three code locations for the same purpose and
provides a common function to sign extend a 32-bit value.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-15 13:27:04 -05:00
Gery Kahn
c8aea565e8 wl1271: ref_clock cosmetic changes
Cosmetic cleanup for ref_clock code while configured by board.

Signed-off-by: Gery Kahn <geryk@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
2010-11-15 13:25:02 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
ca4ffe8f28 cfg80211: fix disabling channels based on hints
After a module loads you will have loaded the world roaming regulatory
domain or a custom regulatory domain. Further regulatory hints are
welcomed and should be respected unless the regulatory hint is coming
from a country IE as the IEEE spec allows for a country IE to be a subset
of what is allowed by the local regulatory agencies.

So disable all channels that do not fit a regulatory domain sent
from a unless the hint is from a country IE and the country IE had
no information about the band we are currently processing.

This fixes a few regulatory issues, for example for drivers that depend
on CRDA and had no 5 GHz freqencies allowed were not properly disabling
5 GHz at all, furthermore it also allows users to restrict devices
further as was intended.

If you recieve a country IE upon association we will also disable the
channels that are not allowed if the country IE had at least one
channel on the respective band we are procesing.

This was the original intention behind this design but it was
completely overlooked...

Cc: David Quan <david.quan@atheros.com>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
cc: Easwar Krishnan <easwar.krishnan@atheros.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-15 13:24:10 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
749b527b21 cfg80211: fix allowing country IEs for WIPHY_FLAG_STRICT_REGULATORY
We should be enabling country IE hints for WIPHY_FLAG_STRICT_REGULATORY
even if we haven't yet recieved regulatory domain hint for the driver
if it needed one. Without this Country IEs are not passed on to drivers
that have set WIPHY_FLAG_STRICT_REGULATORY, today this is just all
Atheros chipset drivers: ath5k, ath9k, ar9170, carl9170.

This was part of the original design, however it was completely
overlooked...

Cc: Easwar Krishnan <easwar.krishnan@atheros.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-15 13:24:09 -05:00
Stephen Hemminger
2e48928d8a rfkill: remove dead code
The following code is defined but never used.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-11-15 13:24:06 -05:00
Jesse Gross
58e998c6d2 offloading: Force software GSO for multiple vlan tags.
We currently use vlan_features to check for TSO support if there is
a vlan tag.  However, it's quite likely that the NIC is not able to
do TSO when there is an arbitrary number of tags.  Therefore if there
is more than one tag (in-band or out-of-band), fall back to software
emulation.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
CC: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-15 09:22:53 -08:00
Gerrit Renker
d83447f094 dccp ccid-2: Schedule Sync as out-of-band mechanism
The problem with Ack Vectors is that
  i) their length is variable and can in principle grow quite large,
 ii) it is hard to predict exactly how large they will be.

Due to the second point it seems not a good idea to reduce the MPS; in
particular when on average there is enough room for the Ack Vector and an
increase in length is momentarily due to some burst loss, after which the
Ack Vector returns to its normal/average length.

The solution taken by this patch is to subtract a minimum-expected Ack Vector
length from the MPS, and to defer any larger Ack Vectors onto a separate
Sync - but only if indeed there is no space left on the skb.

This patch provides the infrastructure to schedule Sync-packets for transporting
(urgent) out-of-band data. Its signalling is quicker than scheduling an Ack, since
it does not need to wait for new application data.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2010-11-15 07:12:00 +01:00
David S. Miller
c25ecd0a21 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-11-14 11:57:05 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
9457b24a09 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (66 commits)
  can-bcm: fix minor heap overflow
  gianfar: Do not call device_set_wakeup_enable() under a spinlock
  ipv6: Warn users if maximum number of routes is reached.
  docs: Add neigh/gc_thresh3 and route/max_size documentation.
  axnet_cs: fix resume problem for some Ax88790 chip
  ipv6: addrconf: don't remove address state on ifdown if the address is being kept
  tcp: Don't change unlocked socket state in tcp_v4_err().
  x25: Prevent crashing when parsing bad X.25 facilities
  cxgb4vf: add call to Firmware to reset VF State.
  cxgb4vf: Fail open if link_start() fails.
  cxgb4vf: flesh out PCI Device ID Table ...
  cxgb4vf: fix some errors in Gather List to skb conversion
  cxgb4vf: fix bug in Generic Receive Offload
  cxgb4vf: don't implement trivial (and incorrect) ndo_select_queue()
  ixgbe: Look inside vlan when determining offload protocol.
  bnx2x: Look inside vlan when determining checksum proto.
  vlan: Add function to retrieve EtherType from vlan packets.
  virtio-net: init link state correctly
  ucc_geth: Fix deadlock
  ucc_geth: Do not bring the whole IF down when TX failure.
  ...
2010-11-12 17:17:55 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
00dad7fa99 Merge branch 'usb-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6
* 'usb-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (28 commits)
  Revert "USB: xhci: Use GFP_ATOMIC under spin_lock"
  USB: ohci-jz4740: Fix spelling in MODULE_ALIAS
  UWB: Return UWB_RSV_ALLOC_NOT_FOUND rather than crashing on NULL dereference if kzalloc fails
  usb: core: fix information leak to userland
  usb: misc: iowarrior: fix information leak to userland
  usb: misc: sisusbvga: fix information leak to userland
  usb: subtle increased memory usage in u_serial
  USB: option: fix when the driver is loaded incorrectly for some Huawei devices.
  USB: xhci: Use GFP_ATOMIC under spin_lock
  usb: gadget: goku_udc: add registered flag bit, fixing build
  USB: ehci/mxc: compile fix
  USB: Fix FSL USB driver on non Open Firmware systems
  USB: the development of the usb tree is now in git
  usb: musb: fail unaligned DMA transfers on v1.8 and above
  USB: ftdi_sio: add device IDs for Milkymist One JTAG/serial
  usb.h: fix ioctl kernel-doc info
  usb: musb: gadget: kill duplicate code in musb_gadget_queue()
  usb: musb: Fix handling of spurious SESSREQ
  usb: musb: fix kernel oops when loading musb_hdrc module for the 2nd time
  USB: musb: blackfin: push clkin value to platform resources
  ...
2010-11-12 17:13:28 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
edaa4d668b Merge branch 'tty-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6
* 'tty-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6:
  n_gsm: Fix length handling
  n_gsm: Copy n2 over when configuring via ioctl interface
  serial: bfin_5xx: grab port lock before making port termios changes
  serial: bfin_5xx: disable CON_PRINTBUFFER for consoles
  serial: bfin_5xx: remove redundant SSYNC to improve TX speed
  serial: bfin_5xx: always include DMA headers
  vcs: make proper usage of the poll flags
  amiserial: Remove unused variable icount
  8250: Fix tcsetattr to avoid ioctl(TIOCMIWAIT) hang
  tty_ldisc: Fix BUG() on hangup
  TTY: restore tty_ldisc_wait_idle
  SERIAL: blacklist si3052 chip
  drivers/serial/bfin_5xx.c: Fix line continuation defects
  tty: prevent DOS in the flush_to_ldisc
  8250: add support for Kouwell KW-L221N-2
  nozomi: Fix warning from the previous TIOCGCOUNT changes
  tty: fix warning in synclink driver
  tty: Fix formatting in tty.h
  tty: the development tree is now done in git
2010-11-12 16:02:30 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
1d7138de87 igmp: RCU conversion of in_dev->mc_list
in_dev->mc_list is protected by one rwlock (in_dev->mc_list_lock).

This can easily be converted to a RCU protection.

Writers hold RTNL, so mc_list_lock is removed, not replaced by a
spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Cypher Wu <cypher.w@gmail.com>
Cc: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-12 13:18:57 -08:00
Hao Zheng
0a85df0046 vlan: Add function to retrieve EtherType from vlan packets.
Depending on how a packet is vlan tagged (i.e. hardware accelerated or
not), the encapsulated protocol is stored in different locations.  This
provides a consistent method of accessing that protocol, which is needed
by drivers, security checks, etc.

Signed-off-by: Hao Zheng <hzheng@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-12 12:30:57 -08:00
David S. Miller
7c13a0d9a1 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-2.6 2010-11-12 11:04:26 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
7803c05429 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
  Input: do not pass injected events back to the originating handler
  Input: pcf8574_keypad - fix error handling in pcf8574_kp_probe
  Input: acecad - fix a memory leak in usb_acecad_probe error path
  Input: atkbd - add 'terminal' parameter for IBM Terminal keyboards
  Input: i8042 - add Sony VAIOs to MUX blacklist
  kgdboc: reset input devices (keyboards) when exiting debugger
  Input: export input_reset_device() for use in KGDB
  Input: adp5588-keys - unify common header defines
2010-11-12 09:52:31 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
8a9f772c14 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (27 commits)
  block: remove unused copy_io_context()
  Documentation: remove anticipatory scheduler info
  block: remove REQ_HARDBARRIER
  ioprio: rcu_read_lock/unlock protect find_task_by_vpid call (V2)
  ioprio: fix RCU locking around task dereference
  block: ioctl: fix information leak to userland
  block: read i_size with i_size_read()
  cciss: fix proc warning on attempt to remove non-existant directory
  bio: take care not overflow page count when mapping/copying user data
  block: limit vec count in bio_kmalloc() and bio_alloc_map_data()
  block: take care not to overflow when calculating total iov length
  block: check for proper length of iov entries in blk_rq_map_user_iov()
  cciss: remove controllers supported by hpsa
  cciss: use usleep_range not msleep for small sleeps
  cciss: limit commands allocated on reset_devices
  cciss: Use kernel provided PCI state save and restore functions
  cciss: fix board status waiting code
  drbd: Removed checks for REQ_HARDBARRIER on incomming BIOs
  drbd: REQ_HARDBARRIER -> REQ_FUA transition for meta data accesses
  drbd: Removed the BIO_RW_BARRIER support form the receiver/epoch code
  ...
2010-11-12 08:52:47 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
28397babba Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf, amd: Use kmalloc_node(,__GFP_ZERO) for northbridge structure allocation
  perf_events: Fix time tracking in samples
  perf trace: update usage
  perf trace: update Documentation with new perf trace variants
  perf trace: live-mode command-line cleanup
  perf trace record: handle commands correctly
  perf record: make the record options available outside perf record
  perf trace scripting: remove system-wide param from shell scripts
  perf trace scripting: fix some small memory leaks and missing error checks
  perf: Fix usages of profile_cpu in builtin-top.c to use cpu_list
  perf, ui: Eliminate stack-smashing protection compiler complaint
2010-11-12 08:39:52 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
99efb9369c Merge branch 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6
* 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6: (39 commits)
  drm/ttm: Be consistent on ttm_bo_init() failures
  drm/radeon/kms: Fix retrying ttm_bo_init() after it failed once.
  drm/radeon/kms: fix thermal sensor reporting on rv6xx
  drm/radeon/kms: fix bugs in ddc and cd path router code
  drm/radeon/kms: add support for clock/data path routers
  drm: vmwgfx: fix information leak to userland
  drivers/gpu: Use vzalloc
  drm/vmwgfx: Fix oops on failing bo pin
  drm/ttm: Remove the CAP_SYS_ADMIN requirement for bo pinning
  drm/ttm: Make sure a sync object doesn't disappear while we use it
  drm/radeon/kms: don't disable shared encoders on pre-DCE3 display blocks
  drivers/gpu/drm: Update WARN uses
  drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx: Fix k.alloc switched arguments
  DRM: ignore invalid EDID extensions
  drm/radeon/kms: make the connector code less verbose
  drm/ttm: remove failed ttm binding error printout
  drm/ttm: Add a barrier when unreserving
  drm/ttm: Remove mm init error printouts and checks
  drm/ttm: Remove pointless list_empty check
  drm/ttm: Use private locks for the default bo range manager
  ...
2010-11-12 08:11:58 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
0f90933c47 Merge branch 'for-2.6.37' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
* 'for-2.6.37' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux:
  locks: remove dead lease error-handling code
  locks: fix leak on merging leases
  nfsd4: fix 4.1 connection registration race
2010-11-12 07:59:41 -08:00
Arun Murthy
fef7764f8b backlight: add low threshold to pwm backlight
The intensity of the backlight can be varied from a range of
max_brightness to zero.  Though most, if not all the pwm based backlight
devices start flickering at lower brightness value.  And also for each
device there exists a brightness value below which the backlight appears
to be turned off though the value is not equal to zero.

If the range of brightness for a device is from zero to max_brightness.  A
graph is plotted for brightness Vs intensity for the pwm based backlight
device has to be a linear graph.

intensity
	  |   /
	  |  /
	  | /
	  |/
	  ---------
	 0	max_brightness

But pratically on measuring the above we note that the intensity of
backlight goes to zero(OFF) when the value in not zero almost nearing to
zero(some x%).  so the graph looks like

intensity
	  |    /
	  |   /
	  |  /
	  |  |
	  ------------
	 0   x	 max_brightness

In order to overcome this drawback knowing this x% i.e nothing but the low
threshold beyond which the backlight is off and will have no effect, the
brightness value is being offset by the low threshold value(retaining the
linearity of the graph).  Now the graph becomes

intensity
	  |     /
	  |    /
	  |   /
	  |  /
	  -------------
	   0	  max_brightness

With this for each and every digit increment in the brightness from zero
there is a change in the intensity of backlight.  Devices having this
behaviour can set the low threshold brightness(lth_brightness) and pass
the same as platform data else can have it as zero.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Arun Murthy <arun.murthy@stericsson.com>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-12 07:55:33 -08:00
Samu Onkalo
0efba16cc0 leds: driver for National Semiconductors LP5523 chip
LP5523 chip is nine channel led driver with programmable engines.  Driver
provides support for that chip for direct access via led class or via
programmable engines.

Signed-off-by: Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-12 07:55:32 -08:00
Samu Onkalo
500fe14136 leds: driver for National Semiconductor LP5521 chip
This patchset provides support for LP5521 and LP5523 LED driver chips from
National Semicondutor.  Both drivers supports programmable engines and
naturally LED class features.

Documentation is provided as a part of the patchset.  I created "leds"
subdirectory under Documentation.  Perhaps the rest of the leds*
documentation should be moved there.

Datasheets are freely available at National Semiconductor www pages.

This patch:

LP5521 chip is three channel led driver with programmable engines.  Driver
provides support for that chip for direct access via led class or via
programmable engines.

Signed-off-by: Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-12 07:55:32 -08:00
Johannes Berg
5ada28bf76 led-class: always implement blinking
Currently, blinking LEDs can be awkward because it is not guaranteed that
all LEDs implement blinking.  The trigger that wants it to blink then
needs to implement its own timer solution.

Rather than require that, add led_blink_set() API that triggers can use.
This function will attempt to use hw blinking, but if that fails
implements a timer for it.  To stop blinking again, brightness_set() also
needs to be wrapped into API that will stop the software blink.

As a result of this, the timer trigger becomes a very trivial one, and
hopefully we can finally see triggers using blinking as well because it's
always easy to use.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-12 07:55:32 -08:00
Nick Piggin
27d20fddc8 radix-tree: fix RCU bug
Salman Qazi describes the following radix-tree bug:

In the following case, we get can get a deadlock:

0.  The radix tree contains two items, one has the index 0.
1.  The reader (in this case find_get_pages) takes the rcu_read_lock.
2.  The reader acquires slot(s) for item(s) including the index 0 item.
3.  The non-zero index item is deleted, and as a consequence the other item is
    moved to the root of the tree. The place where it used to be is queued for
    deletion after the readers finish.
3b. The zero item is deleted, removing it from the direct slot, it remains in
    the rcu-delayed indirect node.
4.  The reader looks at the index 0 slot, and finds that the page has 0 ref
    count
5.  The reader looks at it again, hoping that the item will either be freed or
    the ref count will increase. This never happens, as the slot it is looking
    at will never be updated. Also, this slot can never be reclaimed because
    the reader is holding rcu_read_lock and is in an infinite loop.

The fix is to re-use the same "indirect" pointer case that requires a slot
lookup retry into a general "retry the lookup" bit.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Reported-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-12 07:55:32 -08:00
Dan Rosenberg
eaf06b241b Restrict unprivileged access to kernel syslog
The kernel syslog contains debugging information that is often useful
during exploitation of other vulnerabilities, such as kernel heap
addresses.  Rather than futilely attempt to sanitize hundreds (or
thousands) of printk statements and simultaneously cripple useful
debugging functionality, it is far simpler to create an option that
prevents unprivileged users from reading the syslog.

This patch, loosely based on grsecurity's GRKERNSEC_DMESG, creates the
dmesg_restrict sysctl.  When set to "0", the default, no restrictions are
enforced.  When set to "1", only users with CAP_SYS_ADMIN can read the
kernel syslog via dmesg(8) or other mechanisms.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: explain the config option in kernel.txt]
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-12 07:55:32 -08:00
Catalin Marinas
43b3a0c732 include/linux/highmem.h needs hardirq.h
Commit 3e4d3af501 ("mm: stack based kmap_atomic()") introduced the
kmap_atomic_idx_push() function which warns on in_irq() with
CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM enabled.  This patch includes linux/hardirq.h for
the in_irq definition.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-12 07:55:30 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
3f9d35b951 atomic: add atomic_inc_not_zero_hint()
Followup of perf tools session in Netfilter WorkShop 2010

In the network stack we make high usage of atomic_inc_not_zero() in
contexts we know the probable value of atomic before increment (2 for udp
sockets for example)

Using a special version of atomic_inc_not_zero() giving this hint can help
processor to use less bus transactions.

On x86 (MESI protocol) for example, this avoids entering Shared state,
because "lock cmpxchg" issues an RFO (Read For Ownership)

akpm: Adds a new include/linux/atomic.h.  This means that new code should
henceforth include linux/atomic.h and not asm/atomic.h.  The presence of
include/linux/atomic.h will in fact cause checkpatch.pl to warn about use
of asm/atomic.h.  The new include/linux/atomic.h becomes the place where
arch-neutral atomic_t code should be placed.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-12 07:55:30 -08:00
Jean Delvare
8705a1baf7 include/linux/resource.h needs types.h
Fix the following warning:
usr/include/linux/resource.h:49: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h>

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-12 07:55:30 -08:00
Eric Paris
ac5aa2e333 netfilter: NF_HOOK_COND has wrong conditional
The NF_HOOK_COND returns 0 when it shouldn't due to what I believe to be an
error in the code as the order of operations is not what was intended.  C will
evalutate == before =.  Which means ret is getting set to the bool result,
rather than the return value of the function call.  The code says

if (ret = function() == 1)
when it meant to say:
if ((ret = function()) == 1)

Normally the compiler would warn, but it doesn't notice it because its
a actually complex conditional and so the wrong code is wrapped in an explict
set of () [exactly what the compiler wants you to do if this was intentional].
Fixing this means that errors when netfilter denies a packet get propagated
back up the stack rather than lost.

Problem introduced by commit 2249065f (netfilter: get rid of the grossness
in netfilter.h).

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-11-12 08:26:06 +01:00
David S. Miller
c753796769 ipv4: Make rt->fl.iif tests lest obscure.
When we test rt->fl.iif against zero, we're seeing if it's
an output or an input route.

Make that explicit with some helper functions.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-11 17:07:48 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
72cdd1d971 net: get rid of rtable->idev
It seems idev field in struct rtable has no special purpose, but adding
extra atomic ops.

We hold refcounts on the device itself (using percpu data, so pretty
cheap in current kernel).

infiniband case is solved using dst.dev instead of idev->dev

Removal of this field means routing without route cache is now using
shared data, percpu data, and only potential contention is a pair of
atomic ops on struct neighbour per forwarded packet.

About 5% speedup on routing test.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Cc: Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-11 10:29:40 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
46b13fc5c0 neigh: reorder struct neighbour
It is important to move nud_state outside of the often modified cache
line (because of refcnt), to reduce false sharing in neigh_event_send()

This is a followup of commit 0ed8ddf404 (neigh: Protect neigh->ha[]
with a seqlock)

This gives a 7% speedup on routing test with IP route cache disabled.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-11 10:29:40 -08:00
Jens Axboe
cedb4a7d9f block: remove unused copy_io_context()
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-11-11 13:40:11 +01:00
Stephane Eranian
eed01528a4 perf_events: Fix time tracking in samples
This patch corrects time tracking in samples. Without this patch
both time_enabled and time_running are bogus when user asks for
PERF_SAMPLE_READ.

One uses PERF_SAMPLE_READ to sample the values of other counters
in each sample. Because of multiplexing, it is necessary to know
both time_enabled, time_running to be able to scale counts correctly.

In this second version of the patch, we maintain a shadow
copy of ctx->time which allows us to compute ctx->time without
calling update_context_time() from NMI context. We avoid the
issue that update_context_time() must always be called with
ctx->lock held.

We do not keep shadow copies of the other event timings
because if the lead event is overflowing then it is active
and thus it's been scheduled in via event_sched_in() in
which case neither tstamp_stopped, tstamp_running can be modified.

This timing logic only applies to samples when PERF_SAMPLE_READ
is used.

Note that this patch does not address timing issues related
to sampling inheritance between tasks. This will be addressed
in a future patch.

With this patch, the libpfm4 example task_smpl now reports
correct counts (shown on 2.4GHz Core 2):

$ task_smpl -p 2400000000 -e unhalted_core_cycles:u,instructions_retired:u,baclears  noploop 5
noploop for 5 seconds
IIP:0x000000004006d6 PID:5596 TID:5596 TIME:466,210,211,430 STREAM_ID:33 PERIOD:2,400,000,000 ENA=1,010,157,814 RUN=1,010,157,814 NR=3
	2,400,000,254 unhalted_core_cycles:u (33)
	2,399,273,744 instructions_retired:u (34)
	53,340 baclears (35)

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4cc6e14b.1e07e30a.256e.5190@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-10 22:58:39 +01:00
Eric Dumazet
8d987e5c75 net: avoid limits overflow
Robin Holt tried to boot a 16TB machine and found some limits were
reached : sysctl_tcp_mem[2], sysctl_udp_mem[2]

We can switch infrastructure to use long "instead" of "int", now
atomic_long_t primitives are available for free.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-10 12:12:00 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
02e031cbc8 block: remove REQ_HARDBARRIER
REQ_HARDBARRIER is dead now, so remove the leftovers.  What's left
at this point is:

 - various checks inside the block layer.
 - sanity checks in bio based drivers.
 - now unused bio_empty_barrier helper.
 - Xen blockfront use of BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER - it's dead for a while,
   but Xen really needs to sort out it's barrier situaton.
 - setting of ordered tags in uas - dead code copied from old scsi
   drivers.
 - scsi different retry for barriers - it's dead and should have been
   removed when flushes were converted to FS requests.
 - blktrace handling of barriers - removed.  Someone who knows blktrace
   better should add support for REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA, though.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-11-10 14:54:09 +01:00
Jens Axboe
00e375e7e9 Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/drivers' into for-linus
Conflicts:
	drivers/block/cciss.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-11-10 14:51:27 +01:00
Thomas Hellstrom
7dfbbdcffe drm/ttm: Be consistent on ttm_bo_init() failures
Call destroy() on _all_ ttm_bo_init() failures, and make sure that
behavior is documented in the function description.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2010-11-10 11:52:19 +10:00
Alan Cox
65f8e441ed tty: Fix formatting in tty.h
Someone added a new ldisc number and messed up the tabbing. Fix it before
anyone else copies it.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-09 14:36:23 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
5c4dd2242a Merge branch 'musb-v2.6.37-rc2' of git://gitorious.org/usb/usb into work-linus 2010-11-09 09:28:51 -08:00
Thomas Hellstrom
3205bc242b drm/ttm: Documentation update
Remove an obsolete comment about mm nodes.
Document the new bo range manager interface.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2010-11-09 13:33:15 +10:00