linux-stable.git/include/linux, branch linux-3.7.y

net, wireless: overwrite default_ethtool_ops

2013-02-14T18:48:02+00:00

[ Upstream commit d07d7507bfb4e23735c9b83e397c43e1e8a173e8 ]

Since:

commit 2c60db037034d27f8c636403355d52872da92f81
Author: Eric Dumazet 
Date:   Sun Sep 16 09:17:26 2012 +0000

    net: provide a default dev->ethtool_ops

wireless core does not correctly assign ethtool_ops.

After alloc_netdev*() call, some cfg80211 drivers provide they own
ethtool_ops, but some do not. For them, wireless core provide generic
cfg80211_ethtool_ops, which is assigned in NETDEV_REGISTER notify call:

        if (!dev->ethtool_ops)
                dev->ethtool_ops = &cfg80211_ethtool_ops;

But after Eric's commit, dev->ethtool_ops is no longer NULL (on cfg80211
drivers without custom ethtool_ops), but points to &default_ethtool_ops.

In order to fix the problem, provide function which will overwrite
default_ethtool_ops and use it by wireless core.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka 
Acked-by: Johannes Berg 
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

efi: Make 'efi_enabled' a function to query EFI facilities

2013-02-04T00:27:05+00:00

commit 83e68189745ad931c2afd45d8ee3303929233e7f upstream.

Originally 'efi_enabled' indicated whether a kernel was booted from
EFI firmware. Over time its semantics have changed, and it now
indicates whether or not we are booted on an EFI machine with
bit-native firmware, e.g. 64-bit kernel with 64-bit firmware.

The immediate motivation for this patch is the bug report at,

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557

which details how running a platform driver on an EFI machine that is
designed to run under BIOS can cause the machine to become
bricked. Also, the following report,

    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121

details how running said driver can also cause Machine Check
Exceptions. Drivers need a new means of detecting whether they're
running on an EFI machine, as sadly the expression,

    if (!efi_enabled)

hasn't been a sufficient condition for quite some time.

Users actually want to query 'efi_enabled' for different reasons -
what they really want access to is the list of available EFI
facilities.

For instance, the x86 reboot code needs to know whether it can invoke
the ResetSystem() function provided by the EFI runtime services, while
the ACPI OSL code wants to know whether the EFI config tables were
mapped successfully. There are also checks in some of the platform
driver code to simply see if they're running on an EFI machine (which
would make it a bad idea to do BIOS-y things).

This patch is a prereq for the samsung-laptop fix patch.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming 
Cc: David Airlie 
Cc: Corentin Chary 
Cc: Matthew Garrett 
Cc: Dave Jiang 
Cc: Olof Johansson 
Cc: Peter Jones 
Cc: Colin Ian King 
Cc: Steve Langasek 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

module: add new state MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED.

2013-01-28T04:49:02+00:00

commit 0d21b0e3477395e7ff2acc269f15df6e6a8d356d upstream.

You should never look at such a module, so it's excised from all paths
which traverse the modules list.

We add the state at the end, to avoid gratuitous ABI break (ksplice).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ptrace: introduce signal_wake_up_state() and ptrace_signal_wake_up()

2013-01-28T04:49:00+00:00

commit 910ffdb18a6408e14febbb6e4b6840fd2c928c82 upstream.

Cleanup and preparation for the next change.

signal_wake_up(resume => true) is overused. None of ptrace/jctl callers
actually want to wakeup a TASK_WAKEKILL task, but they can't specify the
necessary mask.

Turn signal_wake_up() into signal_wake_up_state(state), reintroduce
signal_wake_up() as a trivial helper, and add ptrace_signal_wake_up()
which adds __TASK_TRACED.

This way ptrace_signal_wake_up() can work "inside" ptrace_request()
even if the tracee doesn't have the TASK_WAKEKILL bit set.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

libata: replace sata_settings with devslp_timing

2013-01-28T04:48:59+00:00

commit 803739d25c2343da6d2f95eebdcbc08bf67097d4 upstream.

NCQ capability was used to check availability of SATA Settings page
from Identify Device Data Log, which contains DevSlp timing variables.
It does not work on some HDDs and leads to error messages.

IDENTIFY word 78 bit 5(Hardware Feature Control) can't work either
because it is only the sufficient condition of Identify Device data
log, not the necessary condition.

This patch replaced ata_device->sata_settings with ->devslp_timing
to only save DevSlp timing variables(8 bytes), instead of the whole
SATA Settings page(512 bytes).

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51881

Reported-by: Borislav Petkov 
Signed-off-by: Shane Huang 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

libceph: remove 'osdtimeout' option

2013-01-17T16:46:48+00:00

(cherry picked from commit 83aff95eb9d60aff5497e9f44a2ae906b86d8e88)

This would reset a connection with any OSD that had an outstanding
request that was taking more than N seconds.  The idea was that if the
OSD was buggy, the client could compensate by resending the request.

In reality, this only served to hide server bugs, and we haven't
actually seen such a bug in quite a while.  Moreover, the userspace
client code never did this.

More importantly, often the request is taking a long time because the
OSD is trying to recover, or overloaded, and killing the connection
and retrying would only make the situation worse by giving the OSD
more work to do.

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil 
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

audit: create explicit AUDIT_SECCOMP event type

2013-01-17T16:46:22+00:00

commit 7b9205bd775afc4439ed86d617f9042ee9e76a71 upstream.

The seccomp path was using AUDIT_ANOM_ABEND from when seccomp mode 1
could only kill a process.  While we still want to make sure an audit
record is forced on a kill, this should use a separate record type since
seccomp mode 2 introduces other behaviors.

In the case of "handled" behaviors (process wasn't killed), only emit a
record if the process is under inspection.  This change also fixes
userspace examination of seccomp audit events, since it was considered
malformed due to missing fields of the AUDIT_ANOM_ABEND event type.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Eric Paris 
Cc: Jeff Layton 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Julien Tinnes 
Acked-by: Will Drewry 
Acked-by: Steve Grubb 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: compaction: partially revert capture of suitable high-order page

2013-01-17T16:46:10+00:00

commit 8fb74b9fb2b182d54beee592350d9ea1f325917a upstream.

Eric Wong reported on 3.7 and 3.8-rc2 that ppoll() got stuck when
waiting for POLLIN on a local TCP socket.  It was easier to trigger if
there was disk IO and dirty pages at the same time and he bisected it to
commit 1fb3f8ca0e92 ("mm: compaction: capture a suitable high-order page
immediately when it is made available").

The intention of that patch was to improve high-order allocations under
memory pressure after changes made to reclaim in 3.6 drastically hurt
THP allocations but the approach was flawed.  For Eric, the problem was
that page->pfmemalloc was not being cleared for captured pages leading
to a poor interaction with swap-over-NFS support causing the packets to
be dropped.  However, I identified a few more problems with the patch
including the fact that it can increase contention on zone->lock in some
cases which could result in async direct compaction being aborted early.

In retrospect the capture patch took the wrong approach.  What it should
have done is mark the pageblock being migrated as MIGRATE_ISOLATE if it
was allocating for THP and avoided races that way.  While the patch was
showing to improve allocation success rates at the time, the benefit is
marginal given the relative complexity and it should be revisited from
scratch in the context of the other reclaim-related changes that have
taken place since the patch was first written and tested.  This patch
partially reverts commit 1fb3f8ca0e92 ("mm: compaction: capture a
suitable high-order page immediately when it is made available").

Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Wong 
Tested-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: David Miller 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

svcrpc: Revert "sunrpc/cache.h: replace simple_strtoul"

2013-01-17T16:46:08+00:00

commit 621eb19ce1ec216e03ad354cb0c4061736b2a436 upstream.

Commit bbf43dc888833ac0539e437dbaeb28bfd4fbab9f "sunrpc/cache.h: replace
simple_strtoul" introduced new range-checking which could cause get_int
to fail on unsigned integers too large to be represented as an int.

We could parse them as unsigned instead--but it turns out svcgssd is
actually passing down "-1" in some cases.  Which is perhaps stupid, but
there's nothing we can do about it now.

So just revert back to the previous "sloppy" behavior that accepts
either representation.

Reported-by: Sven Geggus 
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mfd: Remove Unicode Byte Order Marks from da9055

2013-01-17T16:45:59+00:00

commit 90a38d999739f35f4fc925c875e6ee518546b66c upstream.

Older gcc (< 4.4) doesn't like files starting with Unicode BOMs:

include/linux/mfd/da9055/core.h:1: error: stray ‘\357’ in program
include/linux/mfd/da9055/core.h:1: error: stray ‘\273’ in program
include/linux/mfd/da9055/core.h:1: error: stray ‘\277’ in program
include/linux/mfd/da9055/pdata.h:1: error: stray ‘\357’ in program
include/linux/mfd/da9055/pdata.h:1: error: stray ‘\273’ in program
include/linux/mfd/da9055/pdata.h:1: error: stray ‘\277’ in program
include/linux/mfd/da9055/reg.h:1: error: stray ‘\357’ in program
include/linux/mfd/da9055/reg.h:1: error: stray ‘\273’ in program
include/linux/mfd/da9055/reg.h:1: error: stray ‘\277’ in program

Remove the BOMs, the rest of the files is plain ASCII anyway.

Output of "file" before:

include/linux/mfd/da9055/core.h:  UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) C program text
include/linux/mfd/da9055/pdata.h: UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) C program text
include/linux/mfd/da9055/reg.h:   UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) C program text

Output of "file" after:

include/linux/mfd/da9055/core.h:  ASCII C program text
include/linux/mfd/da9055/pdata.h: ASCII C program text
include/linux/mfd/da9055/reg.h:   ASCII C program text

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman