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<title>atomic: use &lt;linux/atomic.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2011-07-26T23:49:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arun Sharma</name>
<email>asharma@fb.com</email>
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<published>2011-07-26T23:09:06+00:00</published>
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This allows us to move duplicated code in &lt;asm/atomic.h&gt;
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to &lt;linux/atomic.h&gt;

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma &lt;asharma@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This allows us to move duplicated code in &lt;asm/atomic.h&gt;
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to &lt;linux/atomic.h&gt;

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma &lt;asharma@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6</title>
<updated>2011-07-22T21:49:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-22T21:49:48+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  firewire: document the sysfs ABIs
  firewire: cdev: ABI documentation enhancements
  firewire: cdev: prevent race between first get_info ioctl and bus reset event queuing
  firewire: cdev: return -ENOTTY for unimplemented ioctls, not -EINVAL
  firewire: ohci: skip soft reset retries after card ejection
  firewire: ohci: fix PHY reg access after card ejection
  firewire: ohci: add a comment on PHY reg access serialization
  firewire: ohci: reduce potential context_stop latency
  firewire: ohci: remove superfluous posted write flushes
  firewire: net: replacing deprecated __attribute__((packed)) with __packed
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  firewire: document the sysfs ABIs
  firewire: cdev: ABI documentation enhancements
  firewire: cdev: prevent race between first get_info ioctl and bus reset event queuing
  firewire: cdev: return -ENOTTY for unimplemented ioctls, not -EINVAL
  firewire: ohci: skip soft reset retries after card ejection
  firewire: ohci: fix PHY reg access after card ejection
  firewire: ohci: add a comment on PHY reg access serialization
  firewire: ohci: reduce potential context_stop latency
  firewire: ohci: remove superfluous posted write flushes
  firewire: net: replacing deprecated __attribute__((packed)) with __packed
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<title>firewire: cdev: prevent race between first get_info ioctl and bus reset event queuing</title>
<updated>2011-07-16T05:24:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-09T14:43:22+00:00</published>
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Between open(2) of a /dev/fw* and the first FW_CDEV_IOC_GET_INFO
ioctl(2) on it, the kernel already queues FW_CDEV_EVENT_BUS_RESET events
to be read(2) by the client.  The get_info ioctl is practically always
issued right away after open, hence this condition only occurs if the
client opens during a bus reset, especially during a rapid series of bus
resets.

The problem with this condition is twofold:

  - These bus reset events carry the (as yet undocumented) @closure
    value of 0.  But it is not the kernel's place to choose closures;
    they are privat to the client.  E.g., this 0 value forced from the
    kernel makes it unsafe for clients to dereference it as a pointer to
    a closure object without NULL pointer check.

  - It is impossible for clients to determine the relative order of bus
    reset events from get_info ioctl(2) versus those from read(2),
    except in one way:  By comparison of closure values.  Again, such a
    procedure imposes complexity on clients and reduces freedom in use
    of the bus reset closure.

So, change the ABI to suppress queuing of bus reset events before the
first FW_CDEV_IOC_GET_INFO ioctl was issued by the client.

Note, this ABI change cannot be version-controlled.  The kernel cannot
distinguish old from new clients before the first FW_CDEV_IOC_GET_INFO
ioctl.

We will try to back-merge this change into currently maintained stable/
longterm series, and we only document the new behaviour.  The old
behavior is now considered a kernel bug, which it basically is.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
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Between open(2) of a /dev/fw* and the first FW_CDEV_IOC_GET_INFO
ioctl(2) on it, the kernel already queues FW_CDEV_EVENT_BUS_RESET events
to be read(2) by the client.  The get_info ioctl is practically always
issued right away after open, hence this condition only occurs if the
client opens during a bus reset, especially during a rapid series of bus
resets.

The problem with this condition is twofold:

  - These bus reset events carry the (as yet undocumented) @closure
    value of 0.  But it is not the kernel's place to choose closures;
    they are privat to the client.  E.g., this 0 value forced from the
    kernel makes it unsafe for clients to dereference it as a pointer to
    a closure object without NULL pointer check.

  - It is impossible for clients to determine the relative order of bus
    reset events from get_info ioctl(2) versus those from read(2),
    except in one way:  By comparison of closure values.  Again, such a
    procedure imposes complexity on clients and reduces freedom in use
    of the bus reset closure.

So, change the ABI to suppress queuing of bus reset events before the
first FW_CDEV_IOC_GET_INFO ioctl was issued by the client.

Note, this ABI change cannot be version-controlled.  The kernel cannot
distinguish old from new clients before the first FW_CDEV_IOC_GET_INFO
ioctl.

We will try to back-merge this change into currently maintained stable/
longterm series, and we only document the new behaviour.  The old
behavior is now considered a kernel bug, which it basically is.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>firewire: cdev: return -ENOTTY for unimplemented ioctls, not -EINVAL</title>
<updated>2011-07-16T05:24:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-09T14:42:26+00:00</published>
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On Jun 27 Linus Torvalds wrote:
&gt; The correct error code for "I don't understand this ioctl" is ENOTTY.
&gt; The naming may be odd, but you should think of that error value as a
&gt; "unrecognized ioctl number, you're feeding me random numbers that I
&gt; don't understand and I assume for historical reasons that you tried to
&gt; do some tty operation on me".
[...]
&gt; The EINVAL thing goes way back, and is a disaster. It predates Linux
&gt; itself, as far as I can tell. You'll find lots of man-pages that have
&gt; this line in it:
&gt;
&gt;   EINVAL Request or argp is not valid.
&gt;
&gt; and it shows up in POSIX etc. And sadly, it generally shows up
&gt; _before_ the line that says
&gt;
&gt;   ENOTTY The specified request does not apply to the kind of object
&gt; that the descriptor d references.
&gt;
&gt; so a lot of people get to the EINVAL, and never even notice the ENOTTY.
[...]
&gt; At least glibc (and hopefully other C libraries) use a _string_ that
&gt; makes much more sense: strerror(ENOTTY) is "Inappropriate ioctl for
&gt; device"

So let's correct this in the &lt;linux/firewire-cdev.h&gt; ABI while it is
still young, relative to distributor adoption.

Side note:  We return -ENOTTY not only on _IOC_TYPE or _IOC_NR mismatch,
but also on _IOC_SIZE mismatch.  An ioctl with an unsupported size of
argument structure can be seen as an unsupported version of that ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
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On Jun 27 Linus Torvalds wrote:
&gt; The correct error code for "I don't understand this ioctl" is ENOTTY.
&gt; The naming may be odd, but you should think of that error value as a
&gt; "unrecognized ioctl number, you're feeding me random numbers that I
&gt; don't understand and I assume for historical reasons that you tried to
&gt; do some tty operation on me".
[...]
&gt; The EINVAL thing goes way back, and is a disaster. It predates Linux
&gt; itself, as far as I can tell. You'll find lots of man-pages that have
&gt; this line in it:
&gt;
&gt;   EINVAL Request or argp is not valid.
&gt;
&gt; and it shows up in POSIX etc. And sadly, it generally shows up
&gt; _before_ the line that says
&gt;
&gt;   ENOTTY The specified request does not apply to the kind of object
&gt; that the descriptor d references.
&gt;
&gt; so a lot of people get to the EINVAL, and never even notice the ENOTTY.
[...]
&gt; At least glibc (and hopefully other C libraries) use a _string_ that
&gt; makes much more sense: strerror(ENOTTY) is "Inappropriate ioctl for
&gt; device"

So let's correct this in the &lt;linux/firewire-cdev.h&gt; ABI while it is
still young, relative to distributor adoption.

Side note:  We return -ENOTTY not only on _IOC_TYPE or _IOC_NR mismatch,
but also on _IOC_SIZE mismatch.  An ioctl with an unsupported size of
argument structure can be seen as an unsupported version of that ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6</title>
<updated>2011-07-14T14:56:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-14T14:56:40+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c
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Conflicts:
	net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c
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<entry>
<title>net: Push protocol type directly down to header_ops-&gt;cache()</title>
<updated>2011-07-13T09:29:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-13T06:28:12+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>firewire: ohci: do not bind to Pinnacle cards, avert panic</title>
<updated>2011-07-10T10:53:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-09T22:23:03+00:00</published>
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When firewire-ohci is bound to a Pinnacle MovieBoard, eventually a
"Register access failure" is logged and an interrupt storm or a kernel
panic happens.  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36622

Until this is sorted out (if that is going to succeed at all), let's
just prevent firewire-ohci from touching these devices.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
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When firewire-ohci is bound to a Pinnacle MovieBoard, eventually a
"Register access failure" is logged and an interrupt storm or a kernel
panic happens.  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36622

Until this is sorted out (if that is going to succeed at all), let's
just prevent firewire-ohci from touching these devices.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>firewire: ohci: skip soft reset retries after card ejection</title>
<updated>2011-07-09T15:12:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-03T15:39:26+00:00</published>
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The software reset in firewire-ohci's pci_remove does not have a great
prospect of success if the card was already physically removed at this
point.  So let's skip the 500 ms that were spent in retries here.

Also, replace a defined constant by its open-coded value.  This is not a
constant from a specification but an arbitrarily chosen retry limit.  It
was only used in this single place.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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The software reset in firewire-ohci's pci_remove does not have a great
prospect of success if the card was already physically removed at this
point.  So let's skip the 500 ms that were spent in retries here.

Also, replace a defined constant by its open-coded value.  This is not a
constant from a specification but an arbitrarily chosen retry limit.  It
was only used in this single place.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>firewire: ohci: fix PHY reg access after card ejection</title>
<updated>2011-07-09T15:12:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-22T19:05:08+00:00</published>
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Detect and handle ejection of FireWire CardBus cards in PHY register
accesses:

  - The last attempt of firewire-core to reset the bus during shutdown
    caused a spurious "firewire_ohci: failed to write phy reg" error
    message in the log.  Skip this message as well as the prior retry
    loop that needlessly took 100 milliseconds.

  - In the unlikely case that a PHY register was read right after card
    ejection, a bogus value was obtained and possibly acted upon.
    Instead, fail the read attempt.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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Detect and handle ejection of FireWire CardBus cards in PHY register
accesses:

  - The last attempt of firewire-core to reset the bus during shutdown
    caused a spurious "firewire_ohci: failed to write phy reg" error
    message in the log.  Skip this message as well as the prior retry
    loop that needlessly took 100 milliseconds.

  - In the unlikely case that a PHY register was read right after card
    ejection, a bogus value was obtained and possibly acted upon.
    Instead, fail the read attempt.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>firewire: ohci: add a comment on PHY reg access serialization</title>
<updated>2011-07-09T15:12:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-21T13:24:26+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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