fcntl_setlk()/close() race prevention has a subtle hole - we need to
make sure that if we *do* have an fcntl/close race on SMP box, the
access to descriptor table and inode->i_flock won't get reordered.
As it is, we get STORE inode->i_flock, LOAD descriptor table entry vs.
STORE descriptor table entry, LOAD inode->i_flock with not a single
lock in common on both sides. We do have BKL around the first STORE,
but check in locks_remove_posix() is outside of BKL and for a good
reason - we don't want BKL on common path of close(2).
Solution is to hold ->file_lock around fcheck() in there; that orders
us wrt removal from descriptor table that preceded locks_remove_posix()
on close path and we either come first (in which case eviction will be
handled by the close side) or we'll see the effect of close and do
eviction ourselves. Note that even though it's read-only access,
we do need ->file_lock here - rcu_read_lock() won't be enough to
order the things.
We have a race between fcntl() and close() that can lead to
dnotify_struct inserted into inode's list *after* the last descriptor
had been gone from current->files.
Since that's the only point where dnotify_struct gets evicted, we are
screwed - it will stick around indefinitely. Even after struct file in
question is gone and freed. Worse, we can trigger send_sigio() on it at
any later point, which allows to send an arbitrary signal to arbitrary
process if we manage to apply enough memory pressure to get the page
that used to host that struct file and fill it with the right pattern...
ISDN: Do not validate ISDN net device address prior to interface-up
Commit bada339 (Validate device addr prior to interface-up) caused a regression
in the ISDN network code, see: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9923
The trivial fix is to remove the pointer to eth_validate_addr() in the
net_device struct in isdn_net_init().
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <email address hidden>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <email address hidden>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <email address hidden>
This patch fixes an issue on the HVR1300, where GPIO is blown away due to
the radio input being undefined, breaking the functionality of the DVB
demodulator and MPEG2 encoder used on the cx8802 mpeg TS port.
This is a minimal patch for 2.6.26 and the -stable series. This must be
fixed a better way for 2.6.27.
Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <email address hidden>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <email address hidden>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <email address hidden>
(cherry picked from commit 6b92b3bd7ac91b7e255541f4be9bfd55b12dae41)
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <email address hidden>
Frank Bennett reported that ivtv was causing skype to crash. With help
from one of their developers he showed it was a kernel problem.
VIDIOCGCAP copies a name into a fixed length buffer - ivtv uses names
that are too long and does not truncate them so corrupts a few bytes of
the app data area.
Possibly the names also want trimming but for now this should fix the
corruption case.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <email address hidden>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <email address hidden>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <email address hidden>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <email address hidden>
(cherry picked from commit d2b213f7b76f187c4391079c7581d3a08b940133)
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <email address hidden>
31ae1b2...
by
Greg Kroah-Hartman <email address hidden>
USB: remove broken usb-serial num_endpoints check
commit: 07c3b1a1001614442c665570942a3107a722c314
The num_interrupt_in, num_bulk_in, and other checks in the usb-serial
code are just wrong, there are too many different devices out there with
different numbers of endpoints. We need to just be sticking with the
device ids instead of trying to catch this kind of thing. It broke too
many different devices.
This fixes a large number of usb-serial devices to get them working
properly again.
This change is necessary to allow cwnd to grow during persistent
reordering. Cwnd moderation is applied when in the disorder state
and an ack that fills the hole comes in. If the hole was greater
than 3 packets, but less than tp->reordering, cwnd will shrink when
it should not have.
Signed-off-by: John Heffner <email address hidden>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <email address hidden>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <email address hidden>
JFFS2: Fix free space leak with in-band cleanmarkers
We were accounting for the cleanmarker by calling jffs2_link_node_ref()
(without locking!), which adjusted both superblock and per-eraseblock
accounting, subtracting the size of the cleanmarker from {jeb,c}->free_size
and adding it to {jeb,c}->used_size.
But only _then_ were we adding the size of the newly-erased block back
to the superblock counts, and we were adding each of jeb->{free,used}_size
to the corresponding superblock counts. Thus, the size of the cleanmarker
was effectively subtracted from the superblock's free_size _twice_.
Fix this, by always adding a full eraseblock size to c->free_size when
we've erased a block. And call jffs2_link_node_ref() under the proper
lock, while we're at it.
Thanks to Alexander Yurchenko and/or Damir Shayhutdinov for (almost)
pinpointing the problem.
[Backport of commit 014b164e1392a166fe96e003d2f0e7ad2e2a0bb7]
