linux-stable.git/drivers/net/ehea, branch v2.6.30 Linux kernel stable tree ehea: fix invalid pointer access 2009-05-04T18:06:37+00:00 Hannes Hering hering2@de.ibm.com 2009-05-04T18:06:37+00:00 0b2febf38a33d7c40fb7bb4a58c113a1fa33c412 This patch fixes an invalid pointer access in case the receive queue holds no pointer to the next skb when the queue is empty. Signed-off-by: Hannes Hering <hering2@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
This patch fixes an invalid pointer access in case the receive queue
holds no pointer to the next skb when the queue is empty.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Hering <hering2@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ehea: Fix incomplete conversion to net_device_ops 2009-04-14T22:18:00+00:00 Alexander Beregalov a.beregalov@gmail.com 2009-04-14T22:18:00+00:00 32e8f9a8d9bd52b59b512f8e5177b08e8edfd58b Reported-by: Subrata Modak <subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
Reported-by: Subrata Modak <subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ehea: fix circular locking problem 2009-03-13T20:50:40+00:00 Jan-Bernd Themann themann@de.ibm.com 2009-03-13T20:50:40+00:00 52e21b1bd96444c452f6eab7dc438a8a898aa14a This patch fixes the circular locking problem by changing the locking strategy concerning the logging of firmware handles. Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
This patch fixes the circular locking problem by changing the locking strategy
concerning the logging of firmware handles.

Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ehea: Fix memory hotplug handling 2009-02-20T08:42:01+00:00 Thomas Klein tklein@de.ibm.com 2009-02-20T08:42:01+00:00 3876732c12cd2b9896e8c3e86fad142112e93569 Added missing set_bit() to disable data transfer when a memchange notification is handled Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
Added missing set_bit() to disable data transfer when a memchange
notification is handled

Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ehea: Fix: Remove adapter from adapter list in error path 2009-02-11T21:47:57+00:00 Hannes Hering hering2@de.ibm.com 2009-02-11T21:47:57+00:00 51621fbdb1ea8709ab67170b54e71be6d9fa29ad Remove adapter from adapter list before freeing data structure in error path. Signed-off-by: Hannes Hering <hering2@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
Remove adapter from adapter list before freeing data structure in
error path.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Hering <hering2@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() 2009-01-27T05:12:58+00:00 Kay Sievers kay.sievers@vrfy.org 2009-01-27T05:12:58+00:00 db1d7bf70f42124f73675fca62fe32f3ab1111b4 Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ehea: Improve driver behaviour in low mem conditions 2009-01-21T22:45:57+00:00 Thomas Klein tklein@de.ibm.com 2009-01-21T22:45:57+00:00 e2878806227d223467f84f900ef4c6733ee166df Reworked receive queue fill policies to make the driver more tolerant in low memory conditions. Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
Reworked receive queue fill policies to make the driver more tolerant
in low memory conditions.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ehea: Fix mem allocations which require page alignment 2009-01-21T22:45:33+00:00 Thomas Klein tklein@de.ibm.com 2009-01-21T22:45:33+00:00 3faf2693bd6800c2521799f6a9ae174d9f080ed2 PAGE_SIZE allocations via slab are not guaranteed to be page-aligned. Fixed all memory allocations where page alignment is required by firmware. Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
PAGE_SIZE allocations via slab are not guaranteed to be page-aligned. Fixed
all memory allocations where page alignment is required by firmware.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ehea: Use net_device_ops structure 2009-01-21T22:43:59+00:00 Thomas Klein tklein@de.ibm.com 2009-01-21T22:43:59+00:00 086c1b2c52f03d128d1a6db47f8736c56e915043 Adapt to lately introduced net_device_ops structure. Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
Adapt to lately introduced net_device_ops structure.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net: Remove redundant NAPI functions 2009-01-21T22:33:50+00:00 Ben Hutchings bhutchings@solarflare.com 2009-01-20T00:43:59+00:00 288379f050284087578b77e04f040b57db3db3f8 Following the removal of the unused struct net_device * parameter from the NAPI functions named *netif_rx_* in commit 908a7a1, they are exactly equivalent to the corresponding *napi_* functions and are therefore redundant. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
Following the removal of the unused struct net_device * parameter from
the NAPI functions named *netif_rx_* in commit 908a7a1, they are
exactly equivalent to the corresponding *napi_* functions and are
therefore redundant.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>