* Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While booting with the 2.6.25-rc1-git1 kernel on the powerbox the
> softlockup is seen, with following trace.
> BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 61s! [insmod:377]
> TASK = c0077cb2f0e0[377] 'insmod' THREAD: c0077cb28000 CPU: 1
> NIP [c00
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:27:53 -0800 Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Fix several kernel-doc notation errors in fs/pipe.c.
>
Thanks, Randy. I think I'll slip these four patches into mainline while
they don't conflict with anyone else's stuff.
>
> * Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > LD init/built-in.o
> > > distcc[12023] ERROR: compile (null) on localhost failed
> > > make: *** [vmlinux.o] Error 1
> >
> > That message sure looks to me like it could only be a distcc bug.
>
> ok - but it never occured before.
Ma
Hi,
I noticed that Linus has committed your patch.
Here's a resend of my patch. Kindly review please.
[PATCH] mm: tidy up follow_hugetlb_page() and get_user_pages()
This patch extends Jonathan Corbet's patch to avoid buffer overflows in
get_user_pages(). It tidies up follow_hugetlb_page(), and
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:28:40 +0800 Eugene Teo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This patch extends Jonathan Corbet's patch to avoid buffer overflows in
> get_user_pages(). It cleans up follow_hugetlb_page(), and get_user_pages() so
> that it is easier to read. It also makes sure that len and vma are va
On Tuesday 12 February 2008 00:18, Roland Dreier wrote:
> Thanks, applied.
>
> Jack, I thought you guys tested the build on powerpc. How did this
> sneak through?
>
It did not sneak through, because the problem does not exist in the OFED git.
The following commit was performed to
git://git.ope
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:17:33 -0700 Jonathan Corbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Avoid buffer overflows in get_user_pages()
>
> So I spent a while pounding my head against my monitor trying to figure
> out the vmsplice() vulnerability - how could a failure to check for
> *read* access turn into a
On Feb 12, 2008 2:17 PM, Scott Lovenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Feb 12, 2008 12:23 AM, Peter Teoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I was looking for documentation on the kstack_depth_to_print under
> /proc/sys/kernel, and I found it in Documentation/sysctl.txt (written by
> Rik).
> >
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:33:23 +0100 Thomas Petazzoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I resend a new one with proper credits, will Andrew pick it up and
> replace the old version by the new version ?
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This build failure is seen on the powerpc from the 2.6.24-git18 kernel and is
still visible
in the 2.6.25-rc1-git1.
drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c:44: error: __param_proto causes a section
type conflict
drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c:44: error: __param_proto causes a section
type confli
* Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > LD init/built-in.o
> > distcc[12023] ERROR: compile (null) on localhost failed
> > make: *** [vmlinux.o] Error 1
>
> That message sure looks to me like it could only be a distcc bug.
ok - but it never occured before.
Ingo
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Hi Matt,
Thanks for your review.
Le Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:01:18 -0600,
Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
> Looks ok. Please preserve original authorship (ie me) in some fashion
> in your description.
Andrew seems to already have picked up the patch in -mm (I received an
e-mail + x86-conf
I was looking for documentation on the kstack_depth_to_print under
/proc/sys/kernel, and I found it in Documentation/sysctl.txt (written
by Rik).
How about /proc/sys/net? or all other directories under /sys or /proc fs?
Wouldn't it be useful to have a centralized store located in
Documentation
Filesystems like ext2 put their superblock 1 block into the partition
in order to avoid overwriting disk labels and other uglies. UFS does
this too, as do several others. One of the few exceptions I've been
able to find is XFS.
This is a real issue on sparc where the default sun disk labels
cre
On Feb 10, 2008 6:00 PM, Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Amit Shah wrote:
>
> > cc503c1b "x86: PIE executable randomization" doesn't boot on my Ubuntu
> > Feisty Fawn Intel Core2 system.
> > I get numerous segfaults before getting a (initramfs) busybox shell. A
> > simi
> LD init/built-in.o
> distcc[12023] ERROR: compile (null) on localhost failed
> make: *** [vmlinux.o] Error 1
That message sure looks to me like it could only be a distcc bug.
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On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:02:22 -0800 (PST)
David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:11:36 -0500
>
> > __deprecate the old one,
>
> Deprecate is garbage, shit hangs around in the tree forever
> and people just turn off the warnings
opl3 breaks allmodconfig in current git:
sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_synth.c: In function `snd_opl3_find_patch':
sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_synth.c:308: error: `OPL3_PATCH_HASH_SIZE' undeclared
(first use in this function)
sound/drivers/opl3/opl3_synth.c:308: error: (Each undeclared identifier is
repor
From: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:41:21 +1100
> stop machine is used for more than just module loading and unloading.
> I don't think you can just disable it.
Right, in particular it is used for CPU hotplug.
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From: Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:42:20 -0500
> The kernel is actually worse, because the set/get macros are more complex.
> Some live in ctree.h like in the progs, but the nasty ones live in
> struct-funcs.c
This is really problematic, because you've got these th
On Tuesday 12 February 2008 15:10, Max Krasnyansky wrote:
> Rusty - Stop machine.
>After doing a bunch of testing last three days I actually downgraded
> stop machine changes from [highly experimental] to simply [experimental].
> Pleas see this thread for more info:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux
Jeff Dike wrote:
UML defined its own external __kmalloc and things. Isnt there some other
way to fix it? I guess including slab.h is not possible here?
>
It would be an annoyance to reintroduce um_kmalloc, but that might be
the best thing to do here.
I'm ok with that as long as we get this an
On Feb 12, 2008 1:17 AM, Scott Lovenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 12, 2008 12:23 AM, Peter Teoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > I was looking for documentation on the kstack_depth_to_print under
> > /proc/sys/kernel, and I found it in Documentation/sysctl.txt (written
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:03:21 -0800 (PST) Davide Libenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
Thanks.
> Subject: [patch] avoid kmemcheck warning in epoll
I converted this to "epoll: avoid kmemcheck warning", as per
SubmittingPatches's section 14.
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On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 22:11 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:17:51 -0800
>
> > this is why you need specific trees for just the API change
>
> API trees don't work, just like other changes they will have
> interdependencies on thi
Use tabs instead of spaces.
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
diff -Naurp linux-2.6.25-rc1/include/asm-m68knommu/cacheflush.h
linux-2.6.x/include/asm-m68knommu/cacheflush.h
--- linux-2.6.25-rc1/include/asm-m68knommu/cacheflush.h 2008-02-11
14:50:23.0 +1000
+++ linux-2.
From: Matt Waddel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I was looking at timers in the Coldfire system and I
noticed that the CONFIG_HIGHPROFILE option seems to
be a little out of date.
This patch gets it compiling and running on a 2.6.23
uClinux kernel. Please apply if you think it's OK.
Signed-off-by: Greg Ung
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:11:36 -0500 Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:45:55PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > It would be very nice to have a separate tree with _only_ API changes
> > that could be frozen well before Linus' merge window opens. It should be
> > a
Modify the extra asm flags for debugger capabilities,
use asflags instead for EXTRA_AFLAGS. Suggestion from
Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
diff -Naurp linux-2.6.25-rc1/arch/m68knommu/platform/5206/Makefile
linux-2.6.x/arch/m68knommu/platform
Avoid unneccessary use of xchg() in set_mb().
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
diff -Naurp linux-2.6.25-rc1/include/asm-m68knommu/system.h
linux-2.6.x/include/asm-m68knommu/system.h
--- linux-2.6.25-rc1/include/asm-m68knommu/system.h 2008-02-11
14:50:23.0 +1000
++
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting Nick 'Zaf' Clifford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
>> Please CC me on any/all replies
>>
>> After trying to upgrade to deal with the most recent security issue, I
>>
>
> Judging by the 2.6.24.2 changelog I don't think the 2.6.24.1 kernel you
> grabbed has the fix
From: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:17:51 -0800
> this is why you need specific trees for just the API change
API trees don't work, just like other changes they will have
interdependencies on things like fixups, cleanups, etc.
This is why, with the networking, we
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:56:48 -0800 Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It's possible to do in a series of patches, yes, but again, development
> happens in parallel, with no one stopping for anyone else, and that's
> fine, we work it out when we send stuff to Linus at merge time.
>
> So with th
From: Walter T Gruczka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Remove bogus conditional jump in return from interrupt path.
Reorder the code path now that is not there.
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
diff -Naurp linux-2.6.25-rc1/arch/m68knommu/platform/coldfire/entry.S
linux-2.6.x/arch/m68knom
From: Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:53:12 -0800
> Where do you "fix this up" at? I can send a patch for the IB tree, but
> Roland can't put it in his tree, and I can't put it in my tree, it needs
> to go _after_ both of our trees.
Totally agreed.
The fact is there are in
Epoll calls rb_set_parent(n, n) to initialize the rb-tree node, but
rb_set_parent() accesses node's pointer in its code. This creates a
warning in kmemcheck (reported by Vegard Nossum) about an uninitialized
memory access. The warning is harmless since the following rb-tree node
insert is going
From: Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:11:36 -0500
> __deprecate the old one,
Deprecate is garbage, shit hangs around in the tree forever
and people just turn off the warnings.
Clean sweeps work much better, albeit with some merge pain,
we'll cope.
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On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 01:09:24AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>
> On Monday 11 February 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > Hi Bart,
> >
> > here's the ide_atapi_pc unification series. It all went pretty smoothly
> > along
> > the search & replace line. Using driver-specific members in
From: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:05:16 -0500
> Mostly fixes, a few cleanups (generally assisting fixes), and an
> exception for PS3 wireless because it had been posted, reviewed and
> acked for a while, just not committed.
>
> Please pull from 'upstream-davem' branch
On Tuesday 12 February 2008 14:16, Robert Hancock wrote:
> Nick Piggin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 February 2008 10:17, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> >> Avoid buffer overflows in get_user_pages()
> >>
> >> So I spent a while pounding my head against my monitor trying to figure
> >> out the vmsplice() vulne
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 04:07:04PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:21:33 -0800 Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think the only way to fix this is not going to just "drop the tree"
> > like you are suggesting, but to let both people know (the person who
> > caused the
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:17:51PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:43:14 -0800
> Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 08:31:46PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:21:33 -0800
> > > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
Hi,
Based on suggestion from Thomas Petazzoni, I'm moving this to LKML.
This is regarding the following code in kernel/irq/handle.c. Consider
the case of a shared IRQ line, where two handlers are registered such
that first handler does not specify IRQF_DISABLED, but the second one
does. But it se
From: FUJITA Tomonori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:38:01 +0900
> Great, thanks! SPARC IOMMUs use bitmap for the free area management
> like POWER IOMMUs so it could use lib/iommu-helper as POWER does.
Please look at Linus's current tree, I believe I have things
in a working state
[skipping the populate_rootfs discussion as it seems you have a better
handle on that than me]
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:58:09PM +0100, Eric Piel wrote:
> >And while we're at it the file reading thing in there is utter crap
> >aswell. You really should be using the firmware loader which works
>
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:45:55PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> It would be very nice to have a separate tree with _only_ API changes
> that could be frozen well before Linus' merge window opens. It should be
> a requirement that maintainers use this tree as a basis for testing API
> changes and
Roland Dreier wrote:
Thanks, applied.
Jack, I thought you guys tested the build on powerpc. How did this
sneak through?
We OFED on PPC - not clear how this happened
We will check our process again
Tziporet
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This patch extends Jonathan Corbet's patch to avoid buffer overflows in
get_user_pages(). It cleans up follow_hugetlb_page(), and get_user_pages() so
that it is easier to read. It also makes sure that len and vma are validated.
Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/linux/huget
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:43:14 -0800
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 08:31:46PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:21:33 -0800
> > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > > The maintainer will be notified. I hope to provide some clue
>
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:59:14 -0800
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:03:29 -0800 Arjan van de Ven
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > +config DEVKMEM
> > + bool "/dev/kmem virtual device support"
> > + help
> > + Say Y here if you want to support the /dev/km
On 11.02.2008 [23:17:40 -0500], Miles Lane wrote:
> I don't believe it is related to this patch, but while testing,
Does this not happen with the patch reverted? I'd be really surprised if
this had any effect on your fans... You could always just revert the
patch you bisected down to from 2.6.24-g
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:27:41 -0800
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 04:59:54PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Eliminate warnings when rcu_assign_pointer is used with unsigned long.
> > It is reasonable to use RCU with non-pointer values so allow it for
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> [PATCH] 2.6.24 - mempolicy: silently restrict nodemask to allowed nodes
>
Linus has already merged this patch into his tree, but next time you
pass along a contribution to a maintainer the first line should read:
From: Lee Schermerhorn <[EMAIL PRO
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:30:22 +0900 KOSAKI Motohiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Andrew
>
> # this is second post of the same patch.
>
> this is backport from -mm to mainline.
> original patch is http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=12025001182&w=2
>
> my change is only line number change a
Stefan Richter wrote:
Jarod Wilson wrote:
Stefan Richter wrote:
+static void sbp2_conditionally_block(struct sbp2_logical_unit *lu)
+{
+struct fw_card *card =
fw_device(lu->tgt->unit->device.parent)->card;
+
+if (!atomic_read(&lu->tgt->dont_block) &&
+lu->generation != card->gen
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:21:33 -0800 Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Note that a lot of these are already in the MAINTAINERS file.
>
> But for the record, here's mine, in the order they need to be pulled
> from.
> Driver core:
> kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gre
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 02:26:41PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> This is against current Linus git
> (a4ffc0a0b240a29cbe489f6db9dae112a49ef1c1).
>
> This rolls up all the -mm bugfixes that were accumulated, and
> addresses some new review comments from Al. Also contains some
> reworking from hch an
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:03:29 -0800 Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> +config DEVKMEM
> + bool "/dev/kmem virtual device support"
> + help
> + Say Y here if you want to support the /dev/kmem device. The
> + /dev/kmem device is rarely used, but can be used for certain
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 20:31 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> in my experience, the only chance you have is doing API changes as first in
> the set of changes,
> and then hoping (making) all other trees use the new APIs. Any other order
> just turns into
> an impossible mismash.
It would be very
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Carlos Corbacho wrote:
>
> WMI drivers, like their ACPI counterparts, should also check if ACPI is
> disabled or not, and bail out if so, otherwise we cause a crash.
Shouldn't "wmi_has_guid()" just return false if ACPI isn't enabled, and
the drivers should just then always
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 08:31:46PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:21:33 -0800
> Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > > The maintainer will be notified. I hope to provide some clue as to
> > > what the conflict is with, but probably not initially.
> > >
> > > I wil
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:21:33 -0800
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The maintainer will be notified. I hope to provide some clue as to
> > what the conflict is with, but probably not initially.
> >
> > I will attempt to build the tree between each merge (and a failed
> > build will again
Hi Andrew
# this is second post of the same patch.
this is backport from -mm to mainline.
original patch is http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=12025001182&w=2
my change is only line number change and remove extra space.
please ack.
[PATCH] 2.6.24 - mempolicy:
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 16:45 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I think the moving to another CPU gets really dependent on the CPU type.
> On a P4+HT the caches are shared, and moving costs almost nothing for
> cache hits, while on CPUs which have other cache layouts the migration
> cost is higher.
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:02:08PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Andrew was looking for someone to run a linux-next tree that just
> contained the subsystem git and quilt trees for 2.6.x+1 and I (in a
> moment of madness) volunteered. So, this is to announce the creating of
> such
I don't believe it is related to this patch, but while testing, I
tried running "find /proc | xargs cat" and "find /proc | xargs head"
and "find /proc | xargs tail" and "ls -aR /" all at once. Everything
seemed to be running great. Firefox continued to be highly
responsive. I did notice that one
I was looking at the out-of-tree driver for a PCI high-security module
(from a vendor who shall remain nameless) today, as we had a problem
reported where the device didn't work properly if the computer had more
than 4GB of RAM (this is x86 32-bit, with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G enabled).
Essentially
Andrew, looks like Linus decided not to pull this stuff.
Can we please put it into -mm then.
My tree is here
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maxk/cpuisol-2.6.git
Please use 'master' branch (or 'for-linus' they are identical).
There are no changes since last time I sent it. D
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:38:04 -0800
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:05:09 -0800
> Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Subject: [PATCH] make /dev/kmem a config option
> > From: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > This patch makes /dev/kmem a
Excellent. Your patch fixed it for me.
Thanks,
Miles
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Quoting Nick 'Zaf' Clifford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Please CC me on any/all replies
>
> After trying to upgrade to deal with the most recent security issue, I
Judging by the 2.6.24.2 changelog I don't think the 2.6.24.1 kernel you
grabbed has the fix you're looking for...
> have encountered what
Hello Sam ,
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 04:47:43PM -0900, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
Hello All , grabbed using git just moments ago .
make V=1 KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 INSTALL_PATH=/boot clean all install
modules_install
...snip...
make -f scr
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 13:23 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:36:49 -0600 James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 12:02 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > >
> > > Andrew was looking for someone to run a linux-next tree that just
On Monday 11 February 2008 06:51:15 pm Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:20:46 -0800 Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Monday 11 February 2008 05:09:44 pm Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:48:35 -0800
> > > Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >
Nick Piggin wrote:
On Tuesday 12 February 2008 10:17, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
Avoid buffer overflows in get_user_pages()
So I spent a while pounding my head against my monitor trying to figure
out the vmsplice() vulnerability - how could a failure to check for
*read* access turn into a root expl
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:20:46 -0800 Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 11 February 2008 05:09:44 pm Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:48:35 -0800
> > Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > > so even booting kerne
From: Casey Schaufler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Smack uses CIPSO labeling, but allows for unlabeled packets
by specifying an "ambient" label that is applied to incoming
unlabeled packets. Because the other end of the connection
may dislike IP options, and ssh is one know application that
behaves thus,
--- "Ahmed S. Darwish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 07:26:02PM +0100, Joerg Platte wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > when booting linux 2.6.25-rc1 I get the following error:
> >
> > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0138
> > IP: [] smack_netlabel+0x13/0xc
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:02:08 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Andrew was looking for someone to run a linux-next tree that just
> contained the subsystem git and quilt trees for 2.6.x+1 and I (in a
> moment of madness) volunteered.
I neglected to mention the other brave souls
On Monday, February 11, 2008 2:58 pm Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 2.6.25-rc1 takes really long time till it suspends (about 30-40secs, used
> to be about 5 secs at all) and it is resuming about few minutes. While
> resuming, capslock toggles the capslock led but with few secs delay.
>
> 2.6
Hi James,
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:36:49 -0600 James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 12:02 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >
> > Andrew was looking for someone to run a linux-next tree that just
> > contained the subsystem git and quilt trees for 2.6.x+1 and I (in a
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:46:12 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On a serious note, it seems that two scatter lists per request leaded
> to this bug. Can the scatter list in struct ub_request be removed?
Good question. It's an eyesore to be sure. The duplication exists
for the sak
Maybe this should go to a more specific list, but I had
a question about a dmesg v. Kconfig item.
One option under graphics asks about enabling firmware EDID
and says should be safe. So it's 'yes'
Further down under nVidia FB Support, there is an option
"Enable DDC Support" which tries to use i
On Monday 11 February 2008 05:09:44 pm Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:48:35 -0800
> Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > From: Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > so even booting kernel with acpi=off or even MCFG is not there, we still can
> > use MMCONFIG.
> >
>
> This
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 23:46:19 -0800
Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:05:06 -0800, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > http://students.zipernowsky.hu/~oliverp/kernel/regression_2624/
>
> > I think ub.c is basically abandoned in favour of usb-storage.
>
Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 10:43:42AM +, David Woodhouse wrote:
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 10:23 +, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
That would be misleading though - !CPU_CP15_MMU does not mean we
support unaligned accesses. It means that we may have no way to
On Tuesday 12 February 2008 10:17, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Avoid buffer overflows in get_user_pages()
>
> So I spent a while pounding my head against my monitor trying to figure
> out the vmsplice() vulnerability - how could a failure to check for
> *read* access turn into a root exploit? It turn
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 01:17:38PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:38:42 -0800
> Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > All users are gone, remove definitions and comments referring
> > to them.
>
> I'm still showing occurrences in:
>
> ./Documentation/RCU/NMI-RCU.
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 12:02 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Andrew was looking for someone to run a linux-next tree that just
> contained the subsystem git and quilt trees for 2.6.x+1 and I (in a
> moment of madness) volunteered. So, this is to announce the creating of
> such a tree
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Move networking (core and drivers) docbook to its own networking book.
Fix a few kernel-doc errors in header and source files.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Documentation/DocBook/Makefile|2
Documentation/DocBook/kernel-ap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Move pipes and splice docbook to filesystems book.
kernel-api book is huge (10x most other books) & slow to process.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl | 20
Documentation/DocBoo
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fix several kernel-doc notation errors in fs/pipe.c.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/pipe.c | 10 +-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- linux-2.6.25-rc1.orig/fs/pipe.c
+++ linux-2.6.25-rc1/fs/pipe.c
@@ -171
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Use updated file list for docbook files and
fix kernel-doc warnings in sunrpc:
Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c:689): No description found
for parameter 'rpc_client'
Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c:765): No description foun
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 16:54 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 15:01 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >> Matt Mackall wrote:
> >>> Best would be to have no ifdefs and do it all with linker magic, of
> >>> course. But that's trickier.
> >>>
> >> I concur with
The description of the interrupt routing doesn't match the (nice) diagram.
Signed-off-by: Nick Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Nick.
--- a/Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt2007-10-10 06:31:38.0 +1000
+++ b/Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt2008-02-12 11:57:08.0 +1100
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:59:54 -0800
linux-kernel added to CC:, any change to generic kernel infrastructure
should be posted there
> Eliminate warnings when rcu_assign_pointer is used with unsigned long.
> It is reasonable to use RCU with non-pointer v
Eliminate warnings when rcu_assign_pointer is used with unsigned long.
It is reasonable to use RCU with non-pointer values so allow it for general
use. Add a comment to explain the if test.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/linux/rcupdate.h | 13 +++--
1
Greg KH wrote:
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 06:35:16PM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek wrote:
+ if (hdr->id == id_nic) {
+ pci_dev = pci_get_bus_and_slot((nic->pci_bdf & 0xff00) >>
8, + (nic->pci_bdf & 0xff));
pci_get_bus_and_slot fails in the
Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 06:42:09PM +0900, Kohei KaiGai wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -R /sys/kernel/capability/
/sys/kernel/capability/:
codes names version
/sys/kernel/capability/codes:
0 10 12 14 16 18 2 21 23 25 27 29 30 32 4 6 8
1 11 13 15 17
On Monday, February 11, 2008 3:22 pm Venki Pallipadi wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:10:54AM +0100, R. J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Monday, 11 of February 2008, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> > > Hello,
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > 2.6.25-rc1 takes really long time till it suspends (about 30-40secs,
> > > used
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