kernel/git/stable/linux.git/include, branch linux-2.6.15.y

[PATCH] mempolicy.c compile fix, make sure BITS_PER_BYTE is defined

2006-03-05T19:07:18+00:00

Gar.. mm/mempolicy.c: In function 'get_nodes': mm/mempolicy.c:527: error: 'BITS_PER_BYTE' undeclared (first use in this function) mm/mempolicy.c:527: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once mm/mempolicy.c:527: error: for each function it appears in.) About to retry a build with the below patch which should do the trick. (How did this *ever* build?) Signed-off-by: Dave Jones Signed-off-by: Chris Wright

[PATCH] Fix a severe bug

2006-03-01T22:36:37+00:00

netlink overrun was broken while improvement of netlink. Destination socket is used in the place where it was meant to be source socket, so that now overrun is never sent to user netlink sockets, when it should be, and it even can be set on kernel socket, which results in complete deadlock of rtnetlink. Suggested fix is to restore status quo passing source socket as additional argument to netlink_attachskb(). A little explanation: overrun is set on a socket, when it failed to receive some message and sender of this messages does not or even have no way to handle this error. This happens in two cases: 1. when kernel sends something. Kernel never retransmits and cannot wait for buffer space. 2. when user sends a broadcast and the message was not delivered to some recipients. Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Chris Wright

[PATCH] fix zap_thread's ptrace related problems

2006-03-01T22:36:35+00:00

1. The tracee can go from ptrace_stop() to do_signal_stop() after __ptrace_unlink(p). 2. It is unsafe to __ptrace_unlink(p) while p->parent may wait for tasklist_lock in ptrace_detach(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] do_sigaction: cleanup ->sa_mask manipulation

2006-03-01T22:36:34+00:00

Clear unblockable signals beforehand. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] s390: add #ifdef KERNEL to asm-s390/setup.h

2006-03-01T22:36:31+00:00

Based on a patch from Maximilian Attems . Nothing in asm-s390/setup.h is of interest for user space. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] __cmpxchg() must really always be inlined

2006-02-10T07:20:17+00:00

With the latest 2.6.15 kernel builds for alpha on Debian, we ran into a problem with undefined references to __cmpxchg_called_with_bad_pointer() in a couple of kernel modules (xfs.ko and drm.ko; see http://bugs.debian.org/347556). It looks like people have been trying to out-clever each other wrt the definition of "inline" on this architecture :), with the result that __cmpxchg(), which must be inlined so the compiler can see its argument is const, is not guaranteed to be inlined. Indeed, it was not being inlined when building with -Os. The attached patch fixes the issue by adding an __attribute__((always_inline)) explicitly to the definition of __cmpxchg() instead of relying on redefines of "inline" elsewhere to make this happen. Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] SELinux: fix size-128 slab leak

2006-02-10T07:20:12+00:00

Remove private inode tests from security_inode_alloc and security_inode_free, as we otherwise end up leaking inode security structures for private inodes. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley Acked-by: James Morris Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] Make second arg to skb_reserved() signed.

2006-01-31T06:13:18+00:00

Some subsystems, such as PPP, can send negative values here. It just happened to work correctly on 32-bit with an unsigned value, but on 64-bit this explodes. Figured out by Paul Mackerras based upon several PPP crash reports. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] Kill blk_attempt_remerge()

2006-01-31T06:13:17+00:00

[BLOCK] Kill blk_attempt_remerge() It's a broken interface, it's done way too late. And apparently it triggers slab problems in recent kernels as well (most likely after the generic dispatch code was merged). So kill it, ide-cd is the only user of it. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe chrisw: backport to 2.6.15 tree Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] Avoid namespace pollution in

2006-01-02T16:38:38+00:00

In commit 3D59121003721a8fad11ee72e646fd9d3076b5679c, the x86 and x86-64 was changed to include for the configurable timer frequency. However, asm/param.h is sometimes used in userland (it is included indirectly from ), so your commit pollutes the userland namespace with tons of CONFIG_FOO macros. This greatly confuses software packages (such as BusyBox) which use CONFIG_FOO macros themselves to control the inclusion of optional features. After a short exchange, Christoph approved this patch Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds