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<title>Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6</title>
<updated>2011-08-27T16:32:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2011-08-27T16:32:08+00:00</published>
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* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  firewire: sbp2: fix panic after rmmod with slow targets
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* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  firewire: sbp2: fix panic after rmmod with slow targets
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<title>firewire: sbp2: fix panic after rmmod with slow targets</title>
<updated>2011-08-22T22:44:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Boot</name>
<email>bootc@bootc.net</email>
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<published>2011-08-22T20:38:38+00:00</published>
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If firewire-sbp2 starts a login to a target that doesn't complete ORBs
in a timely manner (and has to retry the login), and the module is
removed before the operation times out, you end up with a null-pointer
dereference and a kernel panic.

[SR:  This happens because sbp2_target_get/put() do not maintain
module references.  scsi_device_get/put() do, but at occasions like
Chris describes one, nobody holds a reference to an SBP-2 sdev.]

This patch cancels pending work for each unit in sbp2_remove(), which
hopefully means there are no extra references around that prevent us
from unloading. This fixes my crash.

Signed-off-by: Chris Boot &lt;bootc@bootc.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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If firewire-sbp2 starts a login to a target that doesn't complete ORBs
in a timely manner (and has to retry the login), and the module is
removed before the operation times out, you end up with a null-pointer
dereference and a kernel panic.

[SR:  This happens because sbp2_target_get/put() do not maintain
module references.  scsi_device_get/put() do, but at occasions like
Chris describes one, nobody holds a reference to an SBP-2 sdev.]

This patch cancels pending work for each unit in sbp2_remove(), which
hopefully means there are no extra references around that prevent us
from unloading. This fixes my crash.

Signed-off-by: Chris Boot &lt;bootc@bootc.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6</title>
<updated>2011-08-22T01:13:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-22T01:13:19+00:00</published>
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* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  firewire: core: handle ack_busy when fetching the Config ROM
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* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  firewire: core: handle ack_busy when fetching the Config ROM
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<title>Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6</title>
<updated>2011-08-15T15:40:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-15T15:40:49+00:00</published>
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* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  firewire: ohci: fix DMA unmapping in an error path
  firewire: cdev: fix 32 bit userland on 64 bit kernel compat corner cases
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* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  firewire: ohci: fix DMA unmapping in an error path
  firewire: cdev: fix 32 bit userland on 64 bit kernel compat corner cases
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<title>firewire: core: handle ack_busy when fetching the Config ROM</title>
<updated>2011-08-13T11:53:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-07T13:20:18+00:00</published>
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Some older Panasonic made camcorders (Panasonic AG-EZ30 and NV-DX110,
Grundig Scenos DLC 2000) reject requests with ack_busy_X if a request is
sent immediately after they sent a response to a prior transaction.
This causes firewire-core to fail probing of the camcorder with "giving
up on config rom for node id ...".  Consequently, programs like kino or
dvgrab are unaware of the presence of a camcorder.

Such transaction failures happen also with the ieee1394 driver stack
(of the 2.4...2.6 kernel series until 2.6.36 inclusive) but with a lower
likelihood, such that kino or dvgrab are generally able to use these
camcorders via the older driver stack.  The cause for firewire-ohci's or
firewire-core's worse behavior is not yet known.  Gap count optimization
in firewire-core is not the cause.  Perhaps the slightly higher latency
of transaction completion in the older stack plays a role.  (ieee1394:
AR-resp DMA context tasklet -&gt; packet completion ktread -&gt; user process;
firewire-core: tasklet -&gt; user process.)

This change introduces retries and delays after ack_busy_X into
firewire-core's Config ROM reader, such that at least firewire-core's
probing and /dev/fw* creation are successful.  This still leaves the
problem that userland processes are facing transaction failures.
gscanbus's built-in retry routines deal with them successfully, but
neither kino's nor dvgrab's do ever succeed.

But at least DV capture with "dvgrab -noavc -card 0" works now.  Live
video preview in kino works too, but not actual capture.

One way to prevent Configuration ROM reading failures in application
programs is to modify libraw1394 to synthesize read responses by means
of firewire-core's Configuration ROM cache.  This would only leave
CMP and FCP transaction failures as a potential problem source for
applications.

Reported-and-tested-by: Thomas Seilund &lt;tps@netmaster.dk&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: René Fritz &lt;rene@colorcube.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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Some older Panasonic made camcorders (Panasonic AG-EZ30 and NV-DX110,
Grundig Scenos DLC 2000) reject requests with ack_busy_X if a request is
sent immediately after they sent a response to a prior transaction.
This causes firewire-core to fail probing of the camcorder with "giving
up on config rom for node id ...".  Consequently, programs like kino or
dvgrab are unaware of the presence of a camcorder.

Such transaction failures happen also with the ieee1394 driver stack
(of the 2.4...2.6 kernel series until 2.6.36 inclusive) but with a lower
likelihood, such that kino or dvgrab are generally able to use these
camcorders via the older driver stack.  The cause for firewire-ohci's or
firewire-core's worse behavior is not yet known.  Gap count optimization
in firewire-core is not the cause.  Perhaps the slightly higher latency
of transaction completion in the older stack plays a role.  (ieee1394:
AR-resp DMA context tasklet -&gt; packet completion ktread -&gt; user process;
firewire-core: tasklet -&gt; user process.)

This change introduces retries and delays after ack_busy_X into
firewire-core's Config ROM reader, such that at least firewire-core's
probing and /dev/fw* creation are successful.  This still leaves the
problem that userland processes are facing transaction failures.
gscanbus's built-in retry routines deal with them successfully, but
neither kino's nor dvgrab's do ever succeed.

But at least DV capture with "dvgrab -noavc -card 0" works now.  Live
video preview in kino works too, but not actual capture.

One way to prevent Configuration ROM reading failures in application
programs is to modify libraw1394 to synthesize read responses by means
of firewire-core's Configuration ROM cache.  This would only leave
CMP and FCP transaction failures as a potential problem source for
applications.

Reported-and-tested-by: Thomas Seilund &lt;tps@netmaster.dk&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: René Fritz &lt;rene@colorcube.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<title>firewire: ohci: fix DMA unmapping in an error path</title>
<updated>2011-08-12T13:30:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-11T18:40:42+00:00</published>
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If request_irq failed, we would pass wrong arguments to
dma_free_coherent.  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728185

Reported-by: Mads Kiilerich
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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If request_irq failed, we would pass wrong arguments to
dma_free_coherent.  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728185

Reported-by: Mads Kiilerich
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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<title>firewire: cdev: fix 32 bit userland on 64 bit kernel compat corner cases</title>
<updated>2011-08-12T13:30:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Richter</name>
<email>stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-10T22:06:04+00:00</published>
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Clemens points out that we need to use compat_ptr() in order to safely
cast from u64 to addresses of a 32-bit usermode client.

Before, our conversion went wrong
  - in practice if the client cast from pointer to integer such that
    sign-extension happened, (libraw1394 and libdc1394 at least were not
    doing that, IOW were not affected)
or
  - in theory on s390 (which doesn't have FireWire though) and on the
    tile architecture, regardless of what the client does.
The bug would usually be observed as the initial get_info ioctl failing
with "Bad address" (EFAULT).

Reported-by: Carl Karsten &lt;carl@personnelware.com&gt;
Reported-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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Clemens points out that we need to use compat_ptr() in order to safely
cast from u64 to addresses of a 32-bit usermode client.

Before, our conversion went wrong
  - in practice if the client cast from pointer to integer such that
    sign-extension happened, (libraw1394 and libdc1394 at least were not
    doing that, IOW were not affected)
or
  - in theory on s390 (which doesn't have FireWire though) and on the
    tile architecture, regardless of what the client does.
The bug would usually be observed as the initial get_info ioctl failing
with "Bad address" (EFAULT).

Reported-by: Carl Karsten &lt;carl@personnelware.com&gt;
Reported-by: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter &lt;stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de&gt;
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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>
</author>
<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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<entry>
<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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