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This fixes the following circular locking dependency problem:
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[ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
2.6.30-rc3 #5
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segctord/3895 is trying to acquire lock:
(&nilfs->ns_writer_mutex){+.+...}, at: [<d0d02172>]
nilfs_mdt_get_block+0x89/0x20f [nilfs2]
but task is already holding lock:
(&bmap->b_sem){++++..}, at: [<d0d02d99>]
nilfs_bmap_propagate+0x14/0x2e [nilfs2]
which lock already depends on the new lock.
The bugfix is done by replacing call sites of nilfs_get_writer() which
are never called from read-only context with direct dereferencing of
pointer to a writable FS-instance.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Some function calls in nilfs_prepare_segment_for_recovery() may fail
because they can create blocks on meta data files without configuring
a writable FS-instance. Concretely, nilfs_mdt_create_block() routine
of meta data files will fail in that case.
This fixes the problem by temporarily attaching a writable FS-instace
during the function is called.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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He's long moved on from the project.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Fix some warnings during compilation and correct a programming error
that was leaking a directory in /proc.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-by: Bernhard Schiffner <bernhard@schiffner-limbach.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Hey, I have an Edimax wireless USB adapter that uses the rt2870 chipset.
lsusb shows it as follows:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 7392:7717
When I added that ID to rt2870.h, the device came up and worked as
expected.
From: Dave Hayes <dwhayes@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Impact: fix module removal
This patch fixes an oops when the w35und module is removed from the
kernel and added back.
Reported-by: luoyi <luoyi.ly@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sandro Bonazzola <sandro.bonazzola@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch (as1238) adds proper reference counting for ftdi_sio's
private data structure. Without it, the driver will free the
structure while it is still in use if the user unplugs the serial
device before closing the device file.
The patch also replaces a slightly dangerous
cancel_delayed_work/flush_scheduled_work pair with
cancel_delayed_work_sync, which is always safer.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Reported-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Tested-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch was originaly submitted by Phillip Potter
<phillipinda@hotmail.com> but was re-diffed to conform with
SubmittingPatches and to rebase on a newer tree by me.
Signed-off-by: Phil Dibowitz <phil@ipom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch (as1234) fixes a bug in the UTF8 -> UTF-16 conversion
routine in the gadget/usbstring library. In a UTF-8 multi-byte
sequence, all bytes after the first should have their high-order
two bits set to 10, not 11.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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If CONFIG_USB_ACM and CONFIG_USB_PRINTER are not set, then
cdc-wdm and usbtmc won't get built.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <amluto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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For reference:
http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/sheevaplug.jsp
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Values of dB between -0.99 and -0.01 will be output with the wrong
sign. This converts the negative value to positive and outputs it
with a "-" prefix.
Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This reverts commit 006f4571a15fae3a0575f2a0f9e9b63b3d1012f8:
This patch moves platform_data from struct device into
struct platform_device, based on the two ideas:
1. Now all platform_driver is registered by platform_driver_register,
which makes probe()/release()/... of platform_driver passed parameter
of platform_device *, so platform driver can get platform_data from
platform_device;
2. Other kind of devices do not need to use platform_data, we can
decrease size of device if moving it to platform_device.
Taking into consideration of thousands of files to be fixed and they
can't be finished in one night(maybe it will take a long time), so we
keep platform_data in device to allow two kind of cases coexist until
all platform devices pass its platfrom data from
platform_device->platform_data.
All patches to do this kind of conversion are welcome.
As we don't really want to do it, it was a bad idea.
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This reverts commit ce21c7bcd796fc4f45d48781b7e85f493cc55ee5:
We will remove platform_data field from struct device until
all platform devices pass its specific data from platfom_device
and all platform drivers use platform specific data passed by
platform_device->platform_data. This kind of conversion will
need a long time, for thousands of files is affected.
To make the conversion easily, we allow platform specific data
passed by struct device or struct platform_device and platform
driver may use it from struct device or struct platform_device.
As we really don't want to do this at all.
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 01:55:53PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > lib/Kconfig.debug: select PRINTK_DEBUG
> >
> > should that perhaps refer to "DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG"? since there is
> > no such thing as a PRINTK_DEBUG Kconfig variable.
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> Looks like a rudiment from an earlier version of Jason's "driver core:
> basic infrastructure for per-module dynamic debug messages",
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=346e15beb5343c2eb8216d820f2ed8f150822b08
> Search an LKML archive for '+#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK_DEBUG'.
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> Jason, should it be deleted or replaced by something?
We re-named 'DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG' to 'DYNAMIC_DEBUG' in 2.6.30....
'PRINTK_DEBUG' as pointed out never existed. So, it appears to be
extraneous, and should be removed. thanks for pointing it out.
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Fix function parameter notation in platform.c;
fixes kernel-doc warnings.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6:
mtd: fix timeout in M25P80 driver
mtd: Bug in m25p80.c during whole-chip erase
mtd: expose subpage size via sysfs
mtd: mtd in mtd_release is unused without CONFIG_MTD_CHAR
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: MCE: make cmci_discover_lock irq-safe
x86: xen, i386: reserve Xen pagetables
x86, kexec: fix crashdump panic with CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP
x86-64: finish cleanup_highmaps()'s job wrt. _brk_end
x86: fix boot hang in early_reserve_e820()
x86: Fix a typo in a printk message
x86, srat: do not register nodes beyond e820 map
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* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6:
hwmon: (w83781d) Fix W83782D support (NULL pointer dereference)
hwmon: (asus_atk0110) Fix compiler warning
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* 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze:
microblaze: Fix return value for sys_ipc
microblaze: Storage class should be before const qualifier
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Fix kprobes to lock text_mutex around some arch_arm/disarm_kprobe() which
are newly added by commit de5bd88d5a5cce3cacea904d3503e5ebdb3852a2.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This fixes the use of fwmarks to denote IPv4 virtual services
which was unfortunately broken as a result of the integration
of IPv6 support into IPVS, which was included in 2.6.28.
The problem arises because fwmarks are stored in the 4th octet
of a union nf_inet_addr .all, however in the case of IPv4 only
the first octet, corresponding to .ip, is assigned and compared.
In other words, using .all = { 0, 0, 0, htonl(svc->fwmark) always
results in a value of 0 (32bits) being stored for IPv4. This means
that one fwmark can be used, as it ends up being mapped to 0, but things
break down when multiple fwmarks are used, as they all end up being mapped
to 0.
As fwmarks are 32bits a reasonable fix seems to be to just store the fwmark
in .ip, and comparing and storing .ip when fwmarks are used.
This patch makes the assumption that in calls to ip_vs_ct_in_get()
and ip_vs_sched_persist() if the proto parameter is IPPROTO_IP then
we are dealing with an fwmark. I believe this is valid as ip_vs_in()
does fairly strict filtering on the protocol and IPPROTO_IP should
not be used in these calls unless explicitly passed when making
these calls for fwmarks in ip_vs_sched_persist().
Tested-by: Fabien Duchêne <fabien.duchene@student.uclouvain.be>
Cc: Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack@wm7d.net>
Cc: Julius Volz <julius.volz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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commit b31a1d8b41513b96e9c7ec2f68c5734cef0b26a4 ("gianfar: Convert
gianfar to an of_platform_driver"), possibly due merge issues,
reintroduced completely unneded mpc83xx_wdt_init call, which
I removed some time ago in commit 20d38e01d48019c578ab0ec1464454c0
("powerpc/fsl_soc: remove mpc83xx_wdt code").
Remove it once again.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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This code is used as a library by several device drivers,
which select INET_LRO.
If some are modules and some are statically built into the
kernel, we get build failures if INET_LRO is modular.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Commit 360782dde00a2e6e7d9fd57535f90934707ab8a8 (hwmon: (w83781d) Stop
abusing struct i2c_client for ISA devices) broke W83782D support for
devices connected on the ISA bus. You will hit a NULL pointer
dereference as soon as you read any device attribute. Other devices,
and W83782D devices on the SMBus, aren't affected.
Reported-by: Michel Abraham
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Tested-by: Michel Abraham
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atk_sensor_type is only used when DEBUG is defined.
Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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Extend erase timeout in M25P80 SPI Flash driver.
The M25P80 drivers fails erasing sectors on a M25P128 because the ready
wait timeout is too short. Change the timeout from a simple loop count to a
suitable number of seconds.
Signed-off-by: Peter Horton <zero@colonel-panic.org>
Tested-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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Lockdep reports the warning below when Li tries to offline one cpu:
[ 110.835487] =================================
[ 110.835616] [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
[ 110.835688] 2.6.30-rc4-00336-g8c9ed89 #52
[ 110.835757] ---------------------------------
[ 110.835828] inconsistent {HARDIRQ-ON-W} -> {IN-HARDIRQ-W} usage.
[ 110.835908] swapper/0 [HC1[1]:SC0[0]:HE0:SE1] takes:
[ 110.835982] (cmci_discover_lock){?.+...}, at: [<ffffffff80236dc0>] cmci_clear+0x30/0x9b
cmci_clear() can be called via smp_call_function_single().
It is better to disable interrupt while holding cmci_discover_lock,
to turn it into an irq-safe lock - we can deadlock otherwise.
[ Impact: fix possible deadlock in the MCE code ]
Reported-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A03ED38.8000700@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reported-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com>
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The Xen pagetables are no longer implicitly reserved as part of the other
i386_start_kernel reservations, so make sure we explicitly reserve them.
This prevents them from being released into the general kernel free page
pool and reused.
[ Impact: fix Xen guest crash ]
Also-Bisected-by: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A032EEC.30509@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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BIOS on Mac Mini Core2 Duo sets both INPUT and OUTPUT pinctl bits to
the line-in jack, and it confuses the driver as if it's a valid input.
This patch adds the check of OUTPUT bit so that the driver fixes the
invalid pin setup.
Tested-by: Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@gmx.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Tim Starling reported that crashdump will panic with kernel compiled
with CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP due to null pointer deference in
machine_kexec_32.c: machine_kexec(), when deferencing
kexec_image. Refering to:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13265
This patch fixes the BUG via replacing global variable reference:
kexec_image in machine_kexec() with local variable reference: image,
which is more appropriate, and will not be null.
Same BUG is in machine_kexec_64.c too, so fixed too in the same way.
[ Impact: fix crash on kexec ]
Reported-by: Tim Starling <tstarling@wikimedia.org>
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1241751101.6259.85.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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With the introduction of the .brk section, special care must be taken
that no unused page table entries remain if _brk_end and _end are
separated by a 2M page boundary. cleanup_highmap() runs very early and
hence cannot take care of that, hence potential entries needing to be
removed past _brk_end must be cleared once the brk allocator has done
its job.
[ Impact: avoids undesirable TLB aliases ]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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If the first non-reserved (sub-)range doesn't fit the size requested,
an endless loop will be entered. If a range returned from
find_e820_area_size() turns out insufficient in size, the range must
be skipped before calling the function again.
[ Impact: fixes boot hang on some platforms ]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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The low-level mlx4 driver modified the page-list addresses for fast
register work requests post send to big-endian, and set a "present"
bit. This caused problems later when the consumer attempted to unmap
the pages using the page-list (using the list addresses which were
assumed to be still in CPU-endian order). Fix the mlx4 driver to
allocate two buffers and use a private buffer for the hardware-format
bus addresses.
This patch fixes <https://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1571>,
an NFS/RDMA server crash. The cause of the crash was found by Vu Pham
of Mellanox. The fix is along the lines suggested by Steve Wise in
comment #21 in bug 1571.
Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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6328a57401dc5f5cf9931738eb7268fcd8058c49
"Enable PNPACPI _PSx Support, v3"
added a call to acpi_bus_set_power(handle, ACPI_STATE_D3)
to pnpacpi_disable_resource() before the existing call
to evaluate _DIS on the device.
This caused suspend to fail on the system in
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13243
because the sanity check to verify we entered _PS3
failed on the serial port.
As a work-around, that sanity check can be disabled
system-wide with "acpi.power_nocheck=1"
Or perhaps we should just shrug off the _PS3 failure
and carry on with _DIS like we used to -- which is
what this patch does.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6: (32 commits)
[CIFS] Fix double list addition in cifs posix open code
[CIFS] Allow raw ntlmssp code to be enabled with sec=ntlmssp
[CIFS] Fix SMB uid in NTLMSSP authenticate request
[CIFS] NTLMSSP reenabled after move from connect.c to sess.c
[CIFS] Remove sparse warning
[CIFS] remove checkpatch warning
[CIFS] Fix final user of old string conversion code
[CIFS] remove cifs_strfromUCS_le
[CIFS] NTLMSSP support moving into new file, old dead code removed
[CIFS] Fix endian conversion of vcnum field
[CIFS] Remove trailing whitespace
[CIFS] Remove sparse endian warnings
[CIFS] Add remaining ntlmssp flags and standardize field names
[CIFS] Fix build warning
cifs: fix length handling in cifs_get_name_from_search_buf
[CIFS] Remove unneeded QuerySymlink call and fix mapping for unmapped status
[CIFS] rename cifs_strndup to cifs_strndup_from_ucs
Added loop check when mounting DFS tree.
Enable dfs submounts to handle remote referrals.
[CIFS] Remove older session setup implementation
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"Transitioning device [%s] to D%d" is not correct.
We print this line when we attempted to transition
the device, and it failed.
So instead, print
"Device [%s] failed to transition to D%d\n"
This can happen under two conditions:
1. acpi_power_transition() fails when trying to handle the
_ON/_OFF for associated power resource.
2. acpi_evaluate_object() on the explicit _PS0/_PS3
for that actual device could fail.
this change clarifies, but doesn't fix
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13243
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Remove adding open file entry twice to lists in the file
Do not fill file info twice in case of posix opens and creates
Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishp@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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When userspace sets effect->u.rumble.strong_magnitude to 0x8001 or
larger, ml_combine_effects() would always return strong_magnitude
0xffff.
Problem is that 'gain' is passed in as signed integer. Multiplying
magnitude (__u16) with gain (int) causes magnitude read as signed and
results negative value (with magnitude > 0x8000). This signed integer
is then divided and value, still negative, converted to 32bit unsigned
integer. Finally checking combine overflow min(new+old, 0xffff) gives
out 0xffff.
Fix is to simply change 'gain' to unsigned int.
Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Acked-by: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
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BTN_TOUCH is not set by the wacom driver which causes it to be handled by the
joydev driver while the resulting device is broken. This causes problems with
applications that try to use a joystick device.
Ubuntu BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/300143
Signed-off-by: Tim Cole <tim.cole@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
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http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13121
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ashish Karkare <akarkare@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Add acpi/acpica/*.c to the acpi.* modparam namespace
so that any modparams we stick into ACPICA do not
expose ACPICA filenames to users.
There are currently only two modparams in ACPICA,
just recently added for
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13041
With this change, they become
acpi.gts=1
acpi.bfs=1
rather than
hwsleep.gts=1
hwsleep.bfs=1
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Don't check vm_region::vm_start is page aligned in add_nommu_region() because
the region may reflect some non-page-aligned mapped file, such as could be
obtained from RomFS XIP.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
md: remove rd%d links immediately after stopping an array.
md: remove ability to explicit set an inactive array to 'clean'.
md: constify VFTs
md: tidy up status_resync to handle large arrays.
md: fix some (more) errors with bitmaps on devices larger than 2TB.
md/raid10: don't clear bitmap during recovery if array will still be degraded.
md: fix loading of out-of-date bitmap.
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It's a really simple patch that basically just open-codes the current
"secure_ip_id()" call, but when open-coding it we now use a _static_
hashing area, so that it gets updated every time.
And to make sure somebody can't just start from the same original seed of
all-zeroes, and then do the "half_md4_transform()" over and over until
they get the same sequence as the kernel has, each iteration also mixes in
the same old "current->pid + jiffies" we used - so we should now have a
regular strong pseudo-number generator, but we also have one that doesn't
have a single seed.
Note: the "pid + jiffies" is just meant to be a tiny tiny bit of noise. It
has no real meaning. It could be anything. I just picked the previous
seed, it's just that now we keep the state in between calls and that will
feed into the next result, and that should make all the difference.
I made that hash be a per-cpu data just to avoid cache-line ping-pong:
having multiple CPU's write to the same data would be fine for randomness,
and add yet another layer of chaos to it, but since get_random_int() is
supposed to be a fast interface I did it that way instead. I considered
using "__raw_get_cpu_var()" to avoid any preemption overhead while still
getting the hash be _mostly_ ping-pong free, but in the end good taste won
out.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] 5507/1: support R_ARM_MOVW_ABS_NC and MOVT_ABS relocation types
[ARM] 5506/1: davinci: DMA_32BIT_MASK --> DMA_BIT_MASK(32)
i.MX31: Disable CPU_32v6K in mx3_defconfig.
mx3fb: Fix compilation with CONFIG_PM
mx27ads: move PBC mapping out of vmalloc space
MXC: remove BUG_ON in interrupt handler
mx31: remove mx31moboard_defconfig
ARM: ARCH_MXC should select HAVE_CLK
mxc : BUG in imx_dma_request
mxc : Clean up properly when imx_dma_free() used without imx_dma_disable()
[ARM] mv78xx0: update defconfig
[ARM] orion5x: update defconfig
[ARM] Kirkwood: update defconfig
[ARM] Kconfig typo fix: "PXA930" -> "CPU_PXA930".
[ARM] S3C2412: Add missing cache flush in suspend code
[ARM] S3C: Add UDIVSLOT support for newer UARTS
[ARM] S3C64XX: Add S3C64XX_PA_IIS{0,1} to <mach/map.h>
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