<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c, branch linux-2.6.36.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>ppp: potential NULL dereference in ppp_mp_explode()</title>
<updated>2010-09-13T19:44:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>error27@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-10T01:58:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=3429769bc67c7a48b3c01b2452b32171b3450202'/>
<id>3429769bc67c7a48b3c01b2452b32171b3450202</id>
<content type='text'>
Smatch complains because we check whether "pch-&gt;chan" is NULL and then
dereference it unconditionally on the next line.  Partly the reason this
bug was introduced is because code was too complicated.  I've simplified
it a little.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;error27@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Smatch complains because we check whether "pch-&gt;chan" is NULL and then
dereference it unconditionally on the next line.  Partly the reason this
bug was introduced is because code was too complicated.  I've simplified
it a little.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;error27@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex</title>
<updated>2010-07-13T03:21:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-11T11:18:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=15fd0cd9a2ad24a78fbee369dec8ca660979d57e'/>
<id>15fd0cd9a2ad24a78fbee369dec8ca660979d57e</id>
<content type='text'>
All these files use the big kernel lock in a trivial
way to serialize their private file operations,
typically resulting from an earlier semi-automatic
pushdown from VFS.

None of these drivers appears to want to lock against
other code, and they all use the BKL as the top-level
lock in their file operations, meaning that there
is no lock-order inversion problem.

Consequently, we can remove the BKL completely,
replacing it with a per-file mutex in every case.
Using a scripted approach means we can avoid
typos.

file=$1
name=$2
if grep -q lock_kernel ${file} ; then
    if grep -q 'include.*linux.mutex.h' ${file} ; then
            sed -i '/include.*&lt;linux\/smp_lock.h&gt;/d' ${file}
    else
            sed -i 's/include.*&lt;linux\/smp_lock.h&gt;.*$/include &lt;linux\/mutex.h&gt;/g' ${file}
    fi
    sed -i ${file} \
        -e "/^#include.*linux.mutex.h/,$ {
                1,/^\(static\|int\|long\)/ {
                     /^\(static\|int\|long\)/istatic DEFINE_MUTEX(${name}_mutex);

} }"  \
    -e "s/\(un\)*lock_kernel\&gt;[ ]*()/mutex_\1lock(\&amp;${name}_mutex)/g" \
    -e '/[      ]*cycle_kernel_lock();/d'
else
    sed -i -e '/include.*\&lt;smp_lock.h\&gt;/d' ${file}  \
                -e '/cycle_kernel_lock()/d'
fi

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
All these files use the big kernel lock in a trivial
way to serialize their private file operations,
typically resulting from an earlier semi-automatic
pushdown from VFS.

None of these drivers appears to want to lock against
other code, and they all use the BKL as the top-level
lock in their file operations, meaning that there
is no lock-order inversion problem.

Consequently, we can remove the BKL completely,
replacing it with a per-file mutex in every case.
Using a scripted approach means we can avoid
typos.

file=$1
name=$2
if grep -q lock_kernel ${file} ; then
    if grep -q 'include.*linux.mutex.h' ${file} ; then
            sed -i '/include.*&lt;linux\/smp_lock.h&gt;/d' ${file}
    else
            sed -i 's/include.*&lt;linux\/smp_lock.h&gt;.*$/include &lt;linux\/mutex.h&gt;/g' ${file}
    fi
    sed -i ${file} \
        -e "/^#include.*linux.mutex.h/,$ {
                1,/^\(static\|int\|long\)/ {
                     /^\(static\|int\|long\)/istatic DEFINE_MUTEX(${name}_mutex);

} }"  \
    -e "s/\(un\)*lock_kernel\&gt;[ ]*()/mutex_\1lock(\&amp;${name}_mutex)/g" \
    -e '/[      ]*cycle_kernel_lock();/d'
else
    sed -i -e '/include.*\&lt;smp_lock.h\&gt;/d' ${file}  \
                -e '/cycle_kernel_lock()/d'
fi

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-06-07T00:42:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-07T00:42:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=eedc765ca4b19a41cf0b921a492ac08d640060d1'/>
<id>eedc765ca4b19a41cf0b921a492ac08d640060d1</id>
<content type='text'>
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/sfc/net_driver.h
	drivers/net/sfc/siena.c
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/sfc/net_driver.h
	drivers/net/sfc/siena.c
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ppp_generic: fix multilink fragment sizes</title>
<updated>2010-06-04T22:56:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben McKeegan</name>
<email>ben@netservers.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-02T23:14:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=536e00e570c87f258554e919c444b81a7002e46d'/>
<id>536e00e570c87f258554e919c444b81a7002e46d</id>
<content type='text'>
Fix bug in multilink fragment size calculation introduced by
commit 9c705260feea6ae329bc6b6d5f6d2ef0227eda0a
"ppp: ppp_mp_explode() redesign"

Signed-off-by: Ben McKeegan &lt;ben@netservers.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Fix bug in multilink fragment size calculation introduced by
commit 9c705260feea6ae329bc6b6d5f6d2ef0227eda0a
"ppp: ppp_mp_explode() redesign"

Signed-off-by: Ben McKeegan &lt;ben@netservers.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ppp: eliminate shadowed variable name</title>
<updated>2010-06-02T12:16:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>stephen hemminger</name>
<email>shemminger@vyatta.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-01T06:05:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c6b20d941b08941bece53bc3d857beb1fb25fffc'/>
<id>c6b20d941b08941bece53bc3d857beb1fb25fffc</id>
<content type='text'>
Sparse complains about shadowed declaration of skb. So use other
name.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Sparse complains about shadowed declaration of skb. So use other
name.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>drivers/net: Use memdup_user</title>
<updated>2010-05-31T07:24:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julia Lawall</name>
<email>julia@diku.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-21T22:18:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b23d00e9212d04eb894dd29422c7a53b36b8e32d'/>
<id>b23d00e9212d04eb894dd29422c7a53b36b8e32d</id>
<content type='text'>
Use memdup_user when user data is immediately copied into the
allocated region.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// &lt;smpl&gt;
@@
expression from,to,size,flag;
position p;
identifier l1,l2;
@@

-  to = \(kmalloc@p\|kzalloc@p\)(size,flag);
+  to = memdup_user(from,size);
   if (
-      to==NULL
+      IS_ERR(to)
                 || ...) {
   &lt;+... when != goto l1;
-  -ENOMEM
+  PTR_ERR(to)
   ...+&gt;
   }
-  if (copy_from_user(to, from, size) != 0) {
-    &lt;+... when != goto l2;
-    -EFAULT
-    ...+&gt;
-  }
// &lt;/smpl&gt;

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall &lt;julia@diku.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Use memdup_user when user data is immediately copied into the
allocated region.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// &lt;smpl&gt;
@@
expression from,to,size,flag;
position p;
identifier l1,l2;
@@

-  to = \(kmalloc@p\|kzalloc@p\)(size,flag);
+  to = memdup_user(from,size);
   if (
-      to==NULL
+      IS_ERR(to)
                 || ...) {
   &lt;+... when != goto l1;
-  -ENOMEM
+  PTR_ERR(to)
   ...+&gt;
   }
-  if (copy_from_user(to, from, size) != 0) {
-    &lt;+... when != goto l2;
-    -EFAULT
-    ...+&gt;
-  }
// &lt;/smpl&gt;

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall &lt;julia@diku.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cleanup: remove MIN_FRAG_SIZE definition.</title>
<updated>2010-05-31T07:24:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rami Rosen</name>
<email>ramirose@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-25T10:00:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=604c1b1868f16e7b2fc13401d8c9147f167bec0a'/>
<id>604c1b1868f16e7b2fc13401d8c9147f167bec0a</id>
<content type='text'>
 - This patch removes MIN_FRAG_SIZE definition in
drivers/net/ppp_generic.c as it is unneeded.

Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen &lt;ramirose@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
 - This patch removes MIN_FRAG_SIZE definition in
drivers/net/ppp_generic.c as it is unneeded.

Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen &lt;ramirose@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>driver core: add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loading</title>
<updated>2010-05-25T22:08:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kay Sievers</name>
<email>kay.sievers@vrfy.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-20T16:07:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=578454ff7eab61d13a26b568f99a89a2c9edc881'/>
<id>578454ff7eab61d13a26b568f99a89a2c9edc881</id>
<content type='text'>
This adds:
  alias: devname:&lt;name&gt;
to some common kernel modules, which will allow the on-demand loading
of the kernel module when the device node is accessed.

Ideally all these modules would be compiled-in, but distros seems too
much in love with their modularization that we need to cover the common
cases with this new facility. It will allow us to remove a bunch of pretty
useless init scripts and modprobes from init scripts.

The static device node aliases will be carried in the module itself. The
program depmod will extract this information to a file in the module directory:
  $ cat /lib/modules/2.6.34-00650-g537b60d-dirty/modules.devname
  # Device nodes to trigger on-demand module loading.
  microcode cpu/microcode c10:184
  fuse fuse c10:229
  ppp_generic ppp c108:0
  tun net/tun c10:200
  dm_mod mapper/control c10:235

Udev will pick up the depmod created file on startup and create all the
static device nodes which the kernel modules specify, so that these modules
get automatically loaded when the device node is accessed:
  $ /sbin/udevd --debug
  ...
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/cpu/microcode' c10:184
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/fuse' c10:229
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/ppp' c108:0
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/net/tun' c10:200
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/mapper/control' c10:235
  udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/net/tun' 0666
  udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/fuse' 0666

A few device nodes are switched to statically allocated numbers, to allow
the static nodes to work. This might also useful for systems which still run
a plain static /dev, which is completely unsafe to use with any dynamic minor
numbers.

Note:
The devname aliases must be limited to the *common* and *single*instance*
device nodes, like the misc devices, and never be used for conceptually limited
systems like the loop devices, which should rather get fixed properly and get a
control node for losetup to talk to, instead of creating a random number of
device nodes in advance, regardless if they are ever used.

This facility is to hide the mess distros are creating with too modualized
kernels, and just to hide that these modules are not compiled-in, and not to
paper-over broken concepts. Thanks! :)

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Miklos Szeredi &lt;miklos@szeredi.hu&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tigran Aivazian &lt;tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Signed-Off-By: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
This adds:
  alias: devname:&lt;name&gt;
to some common kernel modules, which will allow the on-demand loading
of the kernel module when the device node is accessed.

Ideally all these modules would be compiled-in, but distros seems too
much in love with their modularization that we need to cover the common
cases with this new facility. It will allow us to remove a bunch of pretty
useless init scripts and modprobes from init scripts.

The static device node aliases will be carried in the module itself. The
program depmod will extract this information to a file in the module directory:
  $ cat /lib/modules/2.6.34-00650-g537b60d-dirty/modules.devname
  # Device nodes to trigger on-demand module loading.
  microcode cpu/microcode c10:184
  fuse fuse c10:229
  ppp_generic ppp c108:0
  tun net/tun c10:200
  dm_mod mapper/control c10:235

Udev will pick up the depmod created file on startup and create all the
static device nodes which the kernel modules specify, so that these modules
get automatically loaded when the device node is accessed:
  $ /sbin/udevd --debug
  ...
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/cpu/microcode' c10:184
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/fuse' c10:229
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/ppp' c108:0
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/net/tun' c10:200
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/mapper/control' c10:235
  udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/net/tun' 0666
  udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/fuse' 0666

A few device nodes are switched to statically allocated numbers, to allow
the static nodes to work. This might also useful for systems which still run
a plain static /dev, which is completely unsafe to use with any dynamic minor
numbers.

Note:
The devname aliases must be limited to the *common* and *single*instance*
device nodes, like the misc devices, and never be used for conceptually limited
systems like the loop devices, which should rather get fixed properly and get a
control node for losetup to talk to, instead of creating a random number of
device nodes in advance, regardless if they are ever used.

This facility is to hide the mess distros are creating with too modualized
kernels, and just to hide that these modules are not compiled-in, and not to
paper-over broken concepts. Thanks! :)

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Miklos Szeredi &lt;miklos@szeredi.hu&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;chris.mason@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tigran Aivazian &lt;tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Signed-Off-By: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-05-03T22:45:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-03T22:45:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0f7ca5917e989c4f77db3e97f92badaf3266d4dc'/>
<id>0f7ca5917e989c4f77db3e97f92badaf3266d4dc</id>
<content type='text'>
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ppp_generic: handle non-linear skbs when passing them to pppd</title>
<updated>2010-05-03T20:27:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Simon Arlott</name>
<email>simon@fire.lp0.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-03T10:20:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=19937d0482cfe194fe52e97e59aa58ec911de0d1'/>
<id>19937d0482cfe194fe52e97e59aa58ec911de0d1</id>
<content type='text'>
Frequently when using PPPoE with an interface MTU greater than 1500,
the skb is likely to be non-linear. If the skb needs to be passed to
pppd then the skb data must be read correctly.

The previous commit fixes an issue with accidentally sending skbs
to pppd based on an invalid read of the protocol type. When that
error occurred pppd was reading invalid skb data too.

Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott &lt;simon@fire.lp0.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Frequently when using PPPoE with an interface MTU greater than 1500,
the skb is likely to be non-linear. If the skb needs to be passed to
pppd then the skb data must be read correctly.

The previous commit fixes an issue with accidentally sending skbs
to pppd based on an invalid read of the protocol type. When that
error occurred pppd was reading invalid skb data too.

Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott &lt;simon@fire.lp0.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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