[PATCH] HVCS char driver janitoring: move block of code

Move a block of code from the bottom of the file to the top, which is needed
to enable the cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Ryan S. Arnold <rsa@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] make 1-bit bitfields unsigned

Keeps sparse happy.

Signed-of-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] The scheduled removal of some OSS options

The scheduled removal of the OSS drivers depending on OSS_OBSOLETE_DRIVER.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] reiserfs: add missing D-cache flushing

Looks like, reiserfs_prepare_file_region_for_write() doesn't contain
several flush_dcache_page() calls.

Found with help from Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>

[akpm@osdl.org: small speedup]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Cc: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] elf: fix kcore note size calculation

 - Define "CORE" string as CORE_STR in single common place.
 - Include terminating zero in CORE_STR length calculation for elf_buflen.
 - Use roundup(,4) to include alignment in elf_buflen calculation.

[akpm@osdl.org: simplification suggested by Roland]
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] elf: include terminating zero in n_namesz

The ELF32 spec says we should plus we include the zero on other platforms.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] elf: Always define elf_addr_t in linux/elf.h

Define elf_addr_t in linux/elf.h.  The size of the type is determined using
ELF_CLASS.  This allows us to remove the defines that today are spread all
over .c and .h files.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] Fix the size limit of compat space msgsize

Currently we allocate 64k space on the user stack and use it the msgbuf for
sys_{msgrcv,msgsnd} for compat and the results are later copied in user [
by copy_in_user].  This patch introduces helper routines for
sys_{msgrcv,msgsnd} as below:

do_msgsnd() : Accepts the mtype and user space ptr to the buffer along with
the msqid and msgflg.

do_msgrcv() : Accepts a kernel space ptr to mtype and a userspace ptr to
the buffer.  The mtype has to be copied back the user space msgbuf by the
caller.

These changes avoid the need to allocate the msgsize on the userspace (
thus removing the size limt ) and the overhead of an extra copy_in_user().

Signed-off-by: Suzuki K P <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] initrd: remove unused false condition for initrd_start

After LOADER_TYPE && INITRD_START are true, the short if-condition
for INITRD_START can never be false.

Remove unused code from the else condition.

Signed-off-by: Henry Nestler <henry.ne@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] ver_linux additions

scripts/ver_linux needed some minor clean-ups, as follows:
1) Add reporting of actual oprofile release
2) Add reporting of actual wireless-tools release
3) Add reporting of actual pcmciautils release

Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] remove the syslog interface when printk is disabled

Attempts to read() from the non-existent dmesg buffer will return zero and
userspace tends to get stuck in a busyloop.

So just remove /dev/kmsg altogether if CONFIG_PRINTK=n.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] qconf: support old QT

Might make qconf compilable with qt-3.1 as well as qt-3.3

Cc: greg chesson <xtp@google.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] ktime: Fix signed / unsigned mismatch in ktime_to_ns

The 32 bit implementation of ktime_to_ns returns unsigned value, while the
64 bit version correctly returns an signed value.  There is no current user
affected by this, but it has to be fixed, as ktime values can be negative.

Pointed-out-by: Helmut Duregger <Helmut.Duregger@student.uibk.ac.at>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] retries in ext4_prepare_write() violate ordering requirements

In journal=ordered or journal=data mode retry in ext4_prepare_write()
breaks the requirements of journaling of data with respect to metadata.
The fix is to call commit_write to commit allocated zero blocks before
retry.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] retries in ext3_prepare_write() violate ordering requirements

In journal=ordered or journal=data mode retry in ext3_prepare_write()
breaks the requirements of journaling of data with respect to metadata.
The fix is to call commit_write to commit allocated zero blocks before
retry.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] remove HASH_HIGHMEM

It has no users and it's doubtful that we'll need it again.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] protect ext2 ioctl modifying append_only immutable etc with i_mutex

Port commit a090d9132c1e53e3517111123680c15afb25c0a4 into ext2:

All modifications of ->i_flags in inodes that might be visible to somebody
else must be under ->i_mutex.  That patch fixes ext2 ioctl() setting S_APPEND.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] remove kernel syscalls

The last thing we agreed on was to remove the macros entirely for 2.6.19,
on all architectures. Unfortunately, I think nobody actually _did_ that,
so they are still there.

[akpm@osdl.org: x86_64 fix]
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] driver/base/memory.c: handle errors properly

Do proper error-checking and propagation in drivers/base/memory.c, hence fix
__must_check warnings.

Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] PCEngines WRAP LED Support

A driver for the PCEngines WRAP boards (http://www.pcengines.ch), which are
very similar to the Soekris net4801 (same NS SC1100 geode reference
design).

The LEDs on the WRAP are on different GPIO lines and I have modified and
copied the net48xx error led support for this.  It also includes support
for an "extra" led (in addition to error).  The three LEDs on the WRAP are
at GPIO lines 2,3,18 (WRAP LEDs from left to right).  This driver gives
access to the second and third LEDs by twiddling GPIO lines 3 & 18.

Because these boards are so similar to the net48xx, I basically sed-ed that
driver to form the basis for leds-wrap.c.  The only changes from
leds-net48xx.c are:

 - #define WRAP_EXTRA_LED_GPIO

 - name changes

 - duplicate relevant sections to provide support for the "extra" led

 - reverse the various *_led_set values.  The WRAP is "backwards" from the
   net48xx, and these needed to be updated for that.

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Kristian Kielhofner <kris@krisk.org>
Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] HZ: 300Hz support

Fix two things.  Firstly the unit is "Hz" not "HZ".  Secondly it is useful
to have 300Hz support when doing multimedia work.  250 is fine for us in
Europe but the US frame rate is 30fps (29.99 blah for pedants).  300 gives
us a tick divisible by both 25 and 30, and for interlace work 50 and 60.
It's also giving similar performance to 250Hz.

I'd argue we should remove 250 and add 300, but that might be excess
disruption for now.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] debug: workqueue locking sanity

Workqueue functions should not leak locks, assert so, printing the
last function ran.

Use macros in lockdep.h to avoid include dependency pains.

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] ext4_ext_split(): remove dead code

The Coverity checker noted that this was dead code, since in all places
above in this function, "err" is immediately checked.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] sleep profiling

Implement prof=sleep profiling.  TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE sleeps will be taken
as a profile hit, and every millisecond spent sleeping causes a profile-hit
for the call site that initiated the sleep.

Sample readprofile output on i386:

   306 ps2_sendbyte                               1.3973
   432 call_usermodehelper_keys                   1.9548
   484 ps2_command                                0.6453
   790 __driver_attach                            4.7879
  1593 msleep                                    44.2500
  3976 sync_buffer                               64.1290
  4076 do_lookup                                 12.4648
  8587 sync_page                                122.6714
 20820 total                                      0.0067

(NOTE: architectures need to check whether get_wchan() can be called from
deep within the wakeup path.)

akpm: we need to mark more functions __sched.  lock_sock(), msleep(), others..

akpm: the contention in do_lookup() is a surprise.  Presumably doing disk
reads for directory contents while holding i_mutex.

[akpm@osdl.org: various fixes]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] Documentation: remount_fs() needs lock_kernel

Fixed long-lived typo: remount_fs() needs BKL

Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] lockdep: name some old style locks

Name some of the remaning 'old_style_spin_init' locks

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] lockdep: print current locks on in_atomic warnings

Add debug_show_held_locks(current) to __might_sleep() and schedule(); this
makes finding the offending lock leak easier.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] corrupted cramfs filesystems cause kernel oops

Steve Grubb's fzfuzzer tool (http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/files/
fsfuzzer-0.6.tar.gz) generates corrupt Cramfs filesystems which cause
Cramfs to kernel oops in cramfs_uncompress_block().  The cause of the oops
is an unchecked corrupted block length field read by cramfs_readpage().

This patch adds a sanity check to cramfs_readpage() which checks that the
block length field is sensible.  The (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE << 1) size check is
intentional, even though the uncompressed data is not going to be larger
than PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, gzip sometimes generates compressed data larger than
the original source data.  Mkcramfs checks that the compressed size is
always less than or equal to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE << 1.  Of course Cramfs could
use the original uncompressed data in this case, but it doesn't.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] Make initramfs printk a warning on incorrect cpio type

It turns out that the "-c" option of cpio is highly unportable even between
distros let alone unix variants, and may actually make the wrong type of
cpio archive.  I just wasted quite some time on this, and the kernel can
detect this and warn about it (it's __init memory so it gets thrown away
and thus there is no runtime overhead)

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] i2lib unused variable cleanup

  In file included from drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.c:285:
    drivers/char/ip2/i2lib.c: In function `i2Output':
    drivers/char/ip2/i2lib.c:1019: warning: unused variable `rc'

Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] ext4: uninline large functions

Saves nearly 4kbytes on x86.

Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] ext3: uninline large functions

Saves nearly 4kbytes on x86.

Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] vfs_getattr(): remove dead code

As Mikulas points out, (1 << anything) won't be evaluating to zero.  This code
is long-dead.

Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] get_options to allow a hypenated range for isolcpus

This allows a hyphenated range of positive numbers in the string passed
to command line helper function, get_options.

Currently the command line option "isolcpus=" takes as its argument a
list of cpus.

Format: <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
Valid values of <cpu_number>  include all cpus, 0 to "number of CPUs in
system - 1". This can get extremely long when isolating the majority of
cpus on a large system.  The kernel isolcpus code would not need any
changing to use this feature.  To use it, the change would be in the
command line format for 'isolcpus='
Format:
<cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
or
<cpu number>-<cpu number>  (must be a positive range in ascending
order.)
or a mixture
<cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>

Signed-off-by: Derek Fults <dfults@sgi.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] More list debugging context

Print the other (hopefully) known good pointer when list_head debugging
too, which may yield additional clues.

Also fix for 80-columns to win akpm brownie points.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] Correct misc_register return code handling in several drivers

Clean up several code points in which the return code from misc_register is
not handled properly.

Several modules failed to deregister various hooks when misc_register fails,
and this patch cleans them up.  Also there are a few modules that legitimately
don't care about the failure status of misc register.  These drivers however
unilaterally call misc_deregister on module unload.

Since misc_register doesn't initialize the list_head in the init_routine if it
fails, the deregister operation is at risk for oopsing when list_del is
called.  The initial solution was to manually init the list in the miscdev
structure in each of those modules, but the consensus in this thread was to
consolodate and do that universally inside misc_register.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Kylene Jo Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] VFS: extra check inside dentry_unhash()

d_count check after dget() is always true.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] drivers/cdrom/*: trivial vsnprintf() conversion

Fixing sbpcd.c baroque error printing in process.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] hpfs: fix printk format warnings

Fix hpfs printk warnings:

  fs/hpfs/dir.c:87: warning: format '%08x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'long unsigned int'
  fs/hpfs/dir.c:147: warning: format '%08x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'long int'
  fs/hpfs/dir.c:148: warning: format '%08x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'long int'
  fs/hpfs/dnode.c:537: warning: format '%08x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'long unsigned int'
  fs/hpfs/dnode.c:854: warning: format '%08x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'loff_t'
  fs/hpfs/ea.c:247: warning: format '%08x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'long unsigned int'
  fs/hpfs/inode.c:254: warning: format '%08x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'long unsigned int'
  fs/hpfs/map.c:129: warning: format '%08x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'ino_t'
  fs/hpfs/map.c:135: warning: format '%08x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'ino_t'
  fs/hpfs/map.c:140: warning: format '%08x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'ino_t'
  fs/hpfs/map.c:147: warning: format '%08x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'ino_t'
  fs/hpfs/map.c:154: warning: format '%08x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'ino_t'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] hpfs: bring hpfs_error() into shape

 - switch to error message buffer in .bss
 - missing va_end() (htf it worked before?)
 - use vsnprintf()
 - rename variables to understandable "fmt", "args".
 - "const char *fmt", yes.
 - add __attribute__((format ...

Still, put that coffee down before reading more.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] fs/*: trivial vsnprintf() conversion

It would very lame to get buffer overflow via one of the following.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] Exar quad port serial

This is on our "Envoy" boxes which we have, according to the documentation, an
"Exar ST16C554/554D Quad UART with 16-byte Fifo's".  The box also has two
other "on-board" serial ports and a modem chip.

The two on-board serial UARTs were being detected along with the first two
Exar UARTs.  The last two Exar UARTs were not showing up and neither was the
modem.

This patch was the only way I could the kernel to see beyond the standard four
serial ports and get all four of the Exar UARTs to show up.

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Paul B Schroeder <pschroeder@uplogix.com>
Cc: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] lockdep: annotate bcsp driver

    =============================================
    [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
    2.6.18-1.2699.fc6 #1
    ---------------------------------------------
    swapper/0 is trying to acquire lock:
     (&list->lock#3){+...}, at: [<c05ad307>] skb_dequeue+0x12/0x43

    but task is already holding lock:
     (&list->lock#3){+...}, at: [<df98cd79>] bcsp_dequeue+0x6a/0x11e [hci_uart]

Two different list locks nest, annotate so.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] Compile-time check re world-writeable module params

One of the mistakes a module_param() user can make is to supply default
value of module parameter as the last argument.  module_param() accepts
permissions instead.  If default value is, say, 3 (-------wx), parameter
becomes world-writeable.

So far, the only remedy was to apply grep(1) and read drivers submitted
to -mm. BTDT.

With this patch applied, compiler will finally do some job.

*) bounds checking on permissions
*) world-writeable bit checking on permissions
*) compile breakage if checks trigger

First version of this check (only "& 2" part) directly caught 4 out of 7
places during my last grep.

    Subject: Neverending module_param() bugs
    [X] drivers/acpi/sbs.c:101:module_param(capacity_mode, int, CAPACITY_UNIT);
    [X] drivers/acpi/sbs.c:102:module_param(update_mode, int, UPDATE_MODE);
    [ ] drivers/acpi/sbs.c:103:module_param(update_info_mode, int, UPDATE_INFO_MODE);
    [ ] drivers/acpi/sbs.c:104:module_param(update_time, int, UPDATE_TIME);
    [ ] drivers/acpi/sbs.c:105:module_param(update_time2, int, UPDATE_TIME2);
    [X] drivers/char/watchdog/sbc8360.c:203:module_param(timeout, int, 27);
    [X] drivers/media/video/tuner-simple.c:13:module_param(offset, int, 0666);

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] taskstats: cleanup reply assembling

Thomas Graf wrote:
>
> nla_nest_start() may return NULL, either rely on prepare_reply() to be
> correct and BUG() on failure or do proper error handling for all
> functions.

nla_put() in taskstat.c can fail only if the 'size' argument of alloc_skb()
was not right. This is a kernel bug, we should not hide it. So add 'BUG()'
on error path and check for 'na == NULL'.

> genlmsg_cancel() is only required in error paths for dumping
> procedures.

So we can remove 'genlmsg_cancel()' calls and 'void *reply' (saves 227 bytes).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] taskstats: use nla_reserve() for reply assembling

Currently taskstats_user_cmd()/taskstats_exit() do:

1) allocate stats
2) fill stats
3) make a temporary copy on stack (236 bytes)
4) copy that copy to skb
5) free stats

With the help of nla_reserve() we can operate on skb->data directly,
thus avoiding all these steps except 2).

So, before this patch:

// copy *stats to skb->data
int mk_reply(skb, ..., struct taskstats *stats);

fill_pid(stats);
mk_reply(skb, ..., stats);

After:
// return a pointer to skb->data
struct taskstats *mk_reply(skb, ...);

stat = mk_reply(skb, ...);
fill_pid(stats);

Shrinks taskatsks.o by 162 bytes.

A stupid benchmark (send one million TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_PID) shows the

real user sys
before:
4.02 0.06 3.96
4.02 0.04 3.98
4.02 0.04 3.97
after:
3.86 0.08 3.78
3.88 0.10 3.77
3.89 0.09 3.80

but this looks suspiciously good.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] taskstats: factor out reply assembling

Introduce mk_reply() helper which does all nla_put()s on reply.

Saves 453 bytes and a preparation for the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] taskstats: cleanup ->signal->stats allocation

Allocate ->signal->stats on demand in taskstats_exit(), this allows us to
remove taskstats_tgid_alloc() (the last non-trivial inline) from taskstat's
public interface.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] taskstats: cleanup do_exit() path

do_exit:
taskstats_exit_alloc()
...
taskstats_exit_send()
taskstats_exit_free()

I think this is not good, let it be a single function exported to the core
kernel, taskstats_exit(), which does alloc + send + free itself.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] taskstats_exit_alloc: optimize/simplify

If there are no listeners, every task does unneeded kmem_cache alloc/free on
exit. We don't need listeners->sem for 'if (!list_empty())' check. Yes, we may
have a false positive, but this doesn't differ from the case when the listener
is unregistered after we drop the semaphore. So we don't need to do allocation
beforehand.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] read_cache_pages() cleanup

Use put_pages_list() instead of opencoding it.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] paride: return proper error code

This patch makes module init return proper value instead of -1 (-EPERM).

Cc: Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.net>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] slab: use probe_kernel_address()

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] probe_kernel_address() needs to do set_fs()

probe_kernel_address() purports to be generic, only it forgot to select
KERNEL_DS, so it presently won't work right on all architectures.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] parport_pc: Add support for OX16PCI952 parallel port

Add support for the parallel port (implemented as separate PCI function) on
the Oxford Semiconductor OX16PCI952.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Underwood <nemesis@icequake.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] kconfig: PRINTK_TIME depends on PRINTK

Make PRINTK_TIME depend on PRINTK.  Only display/offer it if PRINTK is
enabled.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] profile: fix uaccess handling

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] compat: fix uaccess handling

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] binfmt: fix uaccess handling

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] Disable CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID for abnormal exit

The CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID flag is used by NPTL to have its threads
communicate via memory/futex when they exit, so pthread_join can
synchronize using a simple futex wait.  The word of user memory where NPTL
stores a thread's own TID is what it passes; this gets reset to zero at
thread exit.

It is not desireable to touch this user memory when threads are dying due
to a fatal signal.  A core dump is more usefully representative of the
dying program state if the threads live at the time of the crash have their
NPTL data structures unperturbed.  The userland expectation of
CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID has only ever been that it works for a thread making
an _exit system call.

This problem was identified by Ernie Petrides <petrides@redhat.com>.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ernie Petrides <petrides@redhat.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] Function v9fs_get_idpool returns int, not u32 as called twice in fs/9p/vfs_inode.c

Function v9fs_get_idpool returns int, not u32.  Actually it returns -1 on
errors, and these two callers check if the value is smaller than 0, which
was caught by gcc with extra warning flags.  Compile tested only but should
be OK, as the value computed in v9fs_get_idpool() is also int.

Signed-of-by: Mika Kukkonen <mikukkon@iki.fi>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] tifm: fix NULL ptr and style

Fix sparse NULL warning;
  drivers/misc/tifm_core.c:223:17: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

Fix style while there.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] handle ext4 directory corruption better

I've been using Steve Grubb's purely evil "fsfuzzer" tool, at
http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/files/fsfuzzer-0.4.tar.gz

Basically it makes a filesystem, splats some random bits over it, then
tries to mount it and do some simple filesystem actions.

At best, the filesystem catches the corruption gracefully.  At worst,
things spin out of control.

As you might guess, we found a couple places in ext4 where things spin out
of control :)

First, we had a corrupted directory that was never checked for
consistency...  it was corrupt, and pointed to another bad "entry" of
length 0.  The for() loop looped forever, since the length of
ext4_next_entry(de) was 0, and we kept looking at the same pointer over and
over and over and over...  I modeled this check and subsequent action on
what is done for other directory types in ext4_readdir...

(adding this check adds some computational expense; I am testing a followup
patch to reduce the number of times we check and re-check these directory
entries, in all cases.  Thanks for the idea, Andreas).

Next we had a root directory inode which had a corrupted size, claimed to
be > 200M on a 4M filesystem.  There was only really 1 block in the
directory, but because the size was so large, readdir kept coming back for
more, spewing thousands of printk's along the way.

Per Andreas' suggestion, if we're in this read error condition and we're
trying to read an offset which is greater than i_blocks worth of bytes,
stop trying, and break out of the loop.

With these two changes fsfuzz test survives quite well on ext4.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] handle ext3 directory corruption better

I've been using Steve Grubb's purely evil "fsfuzzer" tool, at
http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/files/fsfuzzer-0.4.tar.gz

Basically it makes a filesystem, splats some random bits over it, then
tries to mount it and do some simple filesystem actions.

At best, the filesystem catches the corruption gracefully.  At worst,
things spin out of control.

As you might guess, we found a couple places in ext3 where things spin out
of control :)

First, we had a corrupted directory that was never checked for
consistency...  it was corrupt, and pointed to another bad "entry" of
length 0.  The for() loop looped forever, since the length of
ext3_next_entry(de) was 0, and we kept looking at the same pointer over and
over and over and over...  I modeled this check and subsequent action on
what is done for other directory types in ext3_readdir...

(adding this check adds some computational expense; I am testing a followup
patch to reduce the number of times we check and re-check these directory
entries, in all cases.  Thanks for the idea, Andreas).

Next we had a root directory inode which had a corrupted size, claimed to
be > 200M on a 4M filesystem.  There was only really 1 block in the
directory, but because the size was so large, readdir kept coming back for
more, spewing thousands of printk's along the way.

Per Andreas' suggestion, if we're in this read error condition and we're
trying to read an offset which is greater than i_blocks worth of bytes,
stop trying, and break out of the loop.

With these two changes fsfuzz test survives quite well on ext3.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] binfmt_elf: randomize PIE binaries (2nd try)

Randomizes -pie compiled binaries from 64k (0x10000) up to ELF_ET_DYN_BASE.

0 -> 64k is excluded to allow NULL ptr accesses to fail.

Signed-off-by: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] lockdep: misc fixes in lockdep.c

 - numeric string size replaced with constant in print_lock_name and
   print_lockdep_cache,

 - return on null pointer in print_lock_dependencies,

 - one more lockdep return with 0 with unlocking fix in mark_lock.

Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] lockdep: internal locking fixes

Here are mainly some lockdep returns with 0 with unlocking fixes.

Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] paride_register(): shuffle return values

paride_register() returns 1 on success, 0 on failure and module init
code looks like

static int __init foo_init(void)
{
return paride_register(&foo) - 1;
}

which is not what one get used to. Converted to usual 0/-E convention.

In case of kbic driver, unwind registration. It was just

return (paride_register(&k951)||paride_register(&k971))-1;

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] paride: rename pi_register() and pi_unregister()

We're about to change the semantics of pi_register()'s return value, so
rename it to something else first, so that any unconverted code reliaby
breaks.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] spi: set kset of master class dev explicitly

<quote Imre Deak from Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:18:54 +0200>
  In order for spi_busnum_to_master to work spi master devices must be linked
  into the spi_master_class.subsys.kset list.  At the moment the default
  class_obj_subsys.kset is used and we can't enumerate the master devices.
</quote>

Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hcegtvedt@atmel.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] spi: correct bus_num and buffer bug in spi core

Correct the following in driver/spi/spi.c in function spi_busnum_to_master:

 * must allow bus_num 0, the if is really not needed.
 * correct the name buffer which is too small for bus_num >= 10000. It

should be 9 bytes big, not 8.

Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hcegtvedt@atmel.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] Remove superfluous lock_super() in extN xattr code

lock_super() is unnecessary for setting super-block feature flags.  Use the
provided *_SET_COMPAT_FEATURE() macros as well.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] cpuset: minor code refinements

A couple of minor code simplifications to the kernel/cpuset.c code.  No
functional change.  Just a little less code and a little more readable.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] pull in necessary header files for cdev.h

linux/cdev.h uses struct kobject and other structs and should therefore
include them.  Currently, a module either needs to add the missing includes
itself, or, in case a module includes other headers already, needs to put
<linux/cdev.h> last, which goes against a alphabetically-sorted include
list.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] lockdep: fix ide/proc interaction

  rmmod/3080 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE0:SE1] is trying to acquire:
   (proc_subdir_lock){--..}, at: [<c04a33b0>] remove_proc_entry+0x40/0x191

  and this task is already holding:
   (ide_lock){++..}, at: [<c05651a2>] ide_unregister_subdriver+0x39/0xc8
  which would create a new lock dependency:
   (ide_lock){++..} -> (proc_subdir_lock){--..}

  but this new dependency connects a hard-irq-safe lock:
   (ide_lock){++..}
  ... which became hard-irq-safe at:
    [<c043c458>] lock_acquire+0x4b/0x6b
    [<c06129d7>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x22/0x32
    [<c0567870>] ide_intr+0x17/0x1a9
    [<c044eb31>] handle_IRQ_event+0x20/0x4d
    [<c044ebf2>] __do_IRQ+0x94/0xef
    [<c0406771>] do_IRQ+0x9e/0xbd

  to a hard-irq-unsafe lock:
   (proc_subdir_lock){--..}
  ... which became hard-irq-unsafe at:
  ...  [<c043c458>] lock_acquire+0x4b/0x6b
    [<c06126ab>] _spin_lock+0x19/0x28
    [<c04a32f2>] xlate_proc_name+0x1b/0x99
    [<c04a3547>] proc_create+0x46/0xdf
    [<c04a3642>] create_proc_entry+0x62/0xa5
    [<c07c1972>] proc_misc_init+0x1c/0x1d2
    [<c07c1844>] proc_root_init+0x4c/0xe9
    [<c07ad703>] start_kernel+0x294/0x3b3

Move ide_remove_proc_entries() out from under ide_lock; there is nothing
that indicates that this is needed.

In specific, the call to ide_add_proc_entries() is unprotected, and there
is nothing else in the file using the respective ->proc fields. Also the
lock order around destroy_proc_ide_interface() suggests this.

Alan sayeth:

  proc_ide_write_settings walks the setting list under ide_setting_sem, read
  ditto.  remove_proc_entry is doing proc side housekeeping.

  Looks fine to me, although that old code is such a mess anything could be
  going on.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] via82cxxx: handle error condition properly

Jeff noted that the via driver returned an error to an unsigned int in a
a case where errors are not permitted. Move the check down earlier so we
can handle it properly. Not as pretty but it works this way and avoids
hacking up ugly stuff in the legacy ide core.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] fix reiserfs bad path release panic

One of our test team hit a reiserfs_panic while running fsstress tests on
2.6.19-rc1.  The message looks like :

  REISERFS: panic(device Null superblock):
  reiserfs[5676]: assertion !(p->path_length != 1 ) failed at
  fs/reiserfs/stree.c:397:reiserfs_check_path: path not properly relsed.

The backtrace looked :

  kernel BUG in reiserfs_panic at fs/reiserfs/prints.c:361!
.reiserfs_check_path+0x58/0x74
.reiserfs_get_block+0x1444/0x1508
.__block_prepare_write+0x1c8/0x558
.block_prepare_write+0x34/0x64
.reiserfs_prepare_write+0x118/0x1d0
.generic_file_buffered_write+0x314/0x82c
.__generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x350/0x3e0
.__generic_file_write_nolock+0x78/0xb0
.generic_file_write+0x60/0xf0
.reiserfs_file_write+0x198/0x2038
.vfs_write+0xd0/0x1b4
.sys_write+0x4c/0x8c
syscall_exit+0x0/0x4

Upon debugging I found that the restart_transaction was not releasing
the path if the th->refcount was > 1.

/*static*/
int restart_transaction(struct reiserfs_transaction_handle *th,
                            struct inode *inode, struct path *path)
{
[...]

         /* we cannot restart while nested */
         if (th->t_refcount > 1) { <<- Path is not released in this case!
                 return 0;
         }

         pathrelse(path); <<- Path released here.
[...]

This could happen in such a situation :

In reiserfs/inode.c: reiserfs_get_block() ::

      if (repeat == NO_DISK_SPACE || repeat == QUOTA_EXCEEDED) {
          /* restart the transaction to give the journal a chance to free
           ** some blocks.  releases the path, so we have to go back to
           ** research if we succeed on the second try
           */
          SB_JOURNAL(inode->i_sb)->j_next_async_flush = 1;

        -->>  retval = restart_transaction(th, inode, &path); <<--

  We are supposed to release the path, no matter we succeed or fail. But
if the th->refcount is > 1, the path is still valid. And,

          if (retval)
                   goto failure;
          repeat =
              _allocate_block(th, block, inode,
                             &allocated_block_nr, NULL, create);

If the above allocate_block fails with NO_DISK_SPACE or QUOTA_EXCEEDED,
we would have path which is not released.

         if (repeat != NO_DISK_SPACE && repeat != QUOTA_EXCEEDED) {
                   goto research;
         }
         if (repeat == QUOTA_EXCEEDED)
                   retval = -EDQUOT;
         else
                   retval = -ENOSPC;
         goto failure;
[...]

       failure:
[...]
         reiserfs_check_path(&path); << Panics here !

Attached here is a patch which could fix the issue.

fix reiserfs/inode.c : restart_transaction() to release the path in all
cases.

The restart_transaction() doesn't release the path when the the journal
handle has a refcount > 1.  This would trigger a reiserfs_panic() if we
encounter an -ENOSPC / -EDQUOT in reiserfs_get_block().

Signed-off-by: Suzuki K P <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] Export pm_suspend for the shared APM emulation

The new shared APM emulation just like its ARM and MIPS predecessors uses
pm_suspend() which was only exported on SH.  Move export to close to it's
definition where it really should be anyway.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] io/storage: Documentation update to as-iosched.txt

Documentation update, adding references to CFQ scheduler and to another
document about selecting IO Schedulers.

Signed-off-by: Filipe Lautert <filipe@icewall.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] file: kill unnecessary timer in fdtable_defer

free_fdtable_rc() schedules timer to reschedule fddef->wq if
schedule_work() on it returns 0.  However, schedule_work() guarantees that
the target work is executed at least once after the scheduling regardless
of its return value.  0 return simply means that the work was already
pending and thus no further action was required.

Another problem is that it used contant '5' as @expires argument to
mod_timer().

Kill unnecessary fddef->timer.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] SysRq-X: show blocked tasks

Add SysRq-X support: show blocked (TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) tasks only.

Useful for debugging IO stalls.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] fuse: fix compile without CONFIG_BLOCK

Randy Dunlap wote:
> Should FUSE depend on BLOCK?  Without that and with BLOCK=n, I get:
>
> inode.c:(.text+0x3acc5): undefined reference to `sb_set_blocksize'
> inode.c:(.text+0x3a393): undefined reference to `get_sb_bdev'
> fs/built-in.o:(.data+0xd718): undefined reference to `kill_block_super

Most fuse filesystems work fine without block device support, so I
think a better solution is to disable the 'fuseblk' filesystem type if
BLOCK=n.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] fuse: add DESTROY operation

Add a DESTROY operation for block device based filesystems.  With the help of
this operation, such a filesystem can flush dirty data to the device
synchronously before the umount returns.

This is needed in situations where the filesystem is assumed to be clean
immediately after unmount (e.g.  ejecting removable media).

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] fuse: add bmap support

Add support for the BMAP operation for block device based filesystems.  This
is needed to support swap-files and lilo.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] fuse: add blksize option

Add 'blksize' option for block device based filesystems.  During
initialization this is used to set the block size on the device and the super
block.  The default block size is 512bytes.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] fuse: add support for block device based filesystems

I never intended this, but people started using fuse to implement block device
based "real" filesystems (ntfs-3g, zfs).

The following four patches add better support for these kinds of filesystems.
Unlike "normal" fuse filesystems, using this feature should require superuser
privileges (enforced by the fusermount utility).

Thanks to Szabolcs Szakacsits for the input and testing.

This patch adds a 'fuseblk' filesystem type, which is only different from the
'fuse' filesystem type in how the 'dev_name' mount argument is interpreted.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] fuse: minor cleanup in fuse_dentry_revalidate

Remove unneeded code from fuse_dentry_revalidate().  This made some sense
while the validity time could wrap around, but now it's a very obvious no-op.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] fuse: update userspace interface to version 7.8

Add a flag to the RELEASE message which specifies that a FLUSH operation
should be performed as well.  This interface update is needed for the FreeBSD
port, and doesn't actually touch the Linux implementation at all.

Also rename the unused 'flush_flags' in the FLUSH message to 'unused'.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] constify inode accessors

Change the signature of i_size_read(), IMINOR() and IMAJOR() because they,
or the functions they call, will never modify the argument.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] SPI: improve sysfs compiler complaint handling

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] sound/oss/emu10k1: handle userspace copy errors

Propagate copy_to/from_user() errors back through callers.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] RTC: handle sysfs errors

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] PNP: handle sysfs errors

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] I2O: more error checking

i2o_scsi: handle sysfs failure

i2o_device:
 * convert i2o_device_add() to return integer error code
   rather than pointer.  Fortunately -nobody- checks the return code of
   this function, so changing has nil impact.
 * handle errors thrown by device_register()

More work in i2o_device remains.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] /proc/kallsyms reports lower-case types for some non-exported symbols

This patch addresses incorrect symbol type information reported through
/proc/kallsyms.  A lowercase character should designate the symbol as local
(or non-exported).  An uppercase character should designate the symbol as
global (or external).

Without this patch, some non-exported symbols are incorrectly assigned an
upper-case designation in /proc/kallsyms.  This patch corrects this
condition by converting non-exported symbols types to lower case when
appropriate and eliminates the superfluous upcase_if_global function

Signed-off-by: Adam B. Jerome <abj@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] ext4: fsid for statvfs

Update ext4_statfs to return an FSID that is a 64 bit XOR of the 128 bit
filesystem UUID as suggested by Andreas Dilger.  See the following Bugzilla
entry for details:

  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136

Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] ext3: fsid for statvfs

Update ext3_statfs to return an FSID that is a 64 bit XOR of the 128 bit
filesystem UUID as suggested by Andreas Dilger.  See the following Bugzilla
entry for details:

  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136

Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] ext2: fsid for statvfs

Update ext2_statfs to return an FSID that is a 64 bit XOR of the 128 bit
filesystem UUID as suggested by Andreas Dilger.  See the following Bugzilla
entry for details:

  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136

Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] honour MNT_NOEXEC for access()

Make access(X_OK) take the "noexec" mount option into account.

Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] lockdep: annotate nfs/nfsd in-kernel sockets

Stick NFS sockets in their own class to avoid some lockdep warnings.  NFS
sockets are never exposed to user-space, and will hence not trigger certain
code paths that would otherwise pose deadlock scenarios.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
[ Fixed patch corruption by quilt, pointed out by Peter Zijlstra ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>