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<title>Merge branch 'master' of git://1984.lsi.us.es/net</title>
<updated>2012-04-03T23:15:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
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<published>2012-04-03T23:15:48+00:00</published>
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<title>Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless</title>
<updated>2012-03-28T02:15:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-28T02:15:01+00:00</published>
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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2012-03-27T23:52:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-27T23:52:32+00:00</published>
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
 1) Name string overrun fix in gianfar driver from Joe Perches.

 2) VHOST bug fixes from Michael S. Tsirkin and Nadav Har'El

 3) Fix dependencies on xt_LOG netfilter module, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

 4) Fix RCU locking in xt_CT, also from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

 5) Add a parameter to skb_add_rx_frag() so we can fix the truesize
    adjustments in the drivers that use it.  The individual drivers
    aren't fixed by this commit, but will be dealt with using follow-on
    commits.  From Eric Dumazet.

 6) Add some device IDs to qmi_wwan driver, from Andrew Bird.

 7) Fix a potential rcu_read_lock() imbalancein rt6_fill_node().  From
    Eric Dumazet.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net:
  net: fix a potential rcu_read_lock() imbalance in rt6_fill_node()
  net: add a truesize parameter to skb_add_rx_frag()
  gianfar: Fix possible overrun and simplify interrupt name field creation
  USB: qmi_wwan: Add ZTE (Vodafone) K3570-Z and K3571-Z net interfaces
  USB: option: Ignore ZTE (Vodafone) K3570/71 net interfaces
  USB: qmi_wwan: Add ZTE (Vodafone) K3565-Z and K4505-Z net interfaces
  qlcnic: Bug fix for LRO
  netfilter: nf_conntrack: permanently attach timeout policy to conntrack
  netfilter: xt_CT: fix assignation of the generic protocol tracker
  netfilter: xt_CT: missing rcu_read_lock section in timeout assignment
  netfilter: cttimeout: fix dependency with l4protocol conntrack module
  netfilter: xt_LOG: use CONFIG_IP6_NF_IPTABLES instead of CONFIG_IPV6
  vhost: fix release path lockdep checks
  vhost: don't forget to schedule()
  tools/virtio: stub out strong barriers
  tools/virtio: add linux/hrtimer.h stub
  tools/virtio: add linux/module.h stub
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
 1) Name string overrun fix in gianfar driver from Joe Perches.

 2) VHOST bug fixes from Michael S. Tsirkin and Nadav Har'El

 3) Fix dependencies on xt_LOG netfilter module, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

 4) Fix RCU locking in xt_CT, also from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

 5) Add a parameter to skb_add_rx_frag() so we can fix the truesize
    adjustments in the drivers that use it.  The individual drivers
    aren't fixed by this commit, but will be dealt with using follow-on
    commits.  From Eric Dumazet.

 6) Add some device IDs to qmi_wwan driver, from Andrew Bird.

 7) Fix a potential rcu_read_lock() imbalancein rt6_fill_node().  From
    Eric Dumazet.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net:
  net: fix a potential rcu_read_lock() imbalance in rt6_fill_node()
  net: add a truesize parameter to skb_add_rx_frag()
  gianfar: Fix possible overrun and simplify interrupt name field creation
  USB: qmi_wwan: Add ZTE (Vodafone) K3570-Z and K3571-Z net interfaces
  USB: option: Ignore ZTE (Vodafone) K3570/71 net interfaces
  USB: qmi_wwan: Add ZTE (Vodafone) K3565-Z and K4505-Z net interfaces
  qlcnic: Bug fix for LRO
  netfilter: nf_conntrack: permanently attach timeout policy to conntrack
  netfilter: xt_CT: fix assignation of the generic protocol tracker
  netfilter: xt_CT: missing rcu_read_lock section in timeout assignment
  netfilter: cttimeout: fix dependency with l4protocol conntrack module
  netfilter: xt_LOG: use CONFIG_IP6_NF_IPTABLES instead of CONFIG_IPV6
  vhost: fix release path lockdep checks
  vhost: don't forget to schedule()
  tools/virtio: stub out strong barriers
  tools/virtio: add linux/hrtimer.h stub
  tools/virtio: add linux/module.h stub
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<entry>
<title>cfg80211: allow CFG80211_SIGNAL_TYPE_UNSPEC in station_info</title>
<updated>2012-03-26T19:07:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John W. Linville</name>
<email>linville@tuxdriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-15T17:25:41+00:00</published>
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The station_info struct had demanded dBm signal values, but the
cfg80211 wireless extensions implementation was also accepting
"unspecified" (i.e. RSSI) unit values while the nl80211 code was
completely unaware of them.  Resolve this by formally allowing the
"unspecified" units while making nl80211 ignore them.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
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The station_info struct had demanded dBm signal values, but the
cfg80211 wireless extensions implementation was also accepting
"unspecified" (i.e. RSSI) unit values while the nl80211 code was
completely unaware of them.  Resolve this by formally allowing the
"unspecified" units while making nl80211 ignore them.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfilter: xt_LOG: don't use xchg() for simple assignment</title>
<updated>2012-03-26T12:00:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Beulich</name>
<email>JBeulich@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-07T23:45:44+00:00</published>
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At least on ia64 the (bogus) use of xchg() here results in the compiler
warning about an unused expression result. As only an assignment is
intended here, convert it to such.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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At least on ia64 the (bogus) use of xchg() here results in the compiler
warning about an unused expression result. As only an assignment is
intended here, convert it to such.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'device-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux</title>
<updated>2012-03-24T17:41:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-24T17:41:37+00:00</published>
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Pull &lt;linux/device.h&gt; avoidance patches from Paul Gortmaker:
 "Nearly every subsystem has some kind of header with a proto like:

	void foo(struct device *dev);

  and yet there is no reason for most of these guys to care about the
  sub fields within the device struct.  This allows us to significantly
  reduce the scope of headers including headers.  For this instance, a
  reduction of about 40% is achieved by replacing the include with the
  simple fact that the device is some kind of a struct.

  Unlike the much larger module.h cleanup, this one is simply two
  commits.  One to fix the implicit &lt;linux/device.h&gt; users, and then one
  to delete the device.h includes from the linux/include/ dir wherever
  possible."

* tag 'device-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
  device.h: audit and cleanup users in main include dir
  device.h: cleanup users outside of linux/include (C files)
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Pull &lt;linux/device.h&gt; avoidance patches from Paul Gortmaker:
 "Nearly every subsystem has some kind of header with a proto like:

	void foo(struct device *dev);

  and yet there is no reason for most of these guys to care about the
  sub fields within the device struct.  This allows us to significantly
  reduce the scope of headers including headers.  For this instance, a
  reduction of about 40% is achieved by replacing the include with the
  simple fact that the device is some kind of a struct.

  Unlike the much larger module.h cleanup, this one is simply two
  commits.  One to fix the implicit &lt;linux/device.h&gt; users, and then one
  to delete the device.h includes from the linux/include/ dir wherever
  possible."

* tag 'device-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
  device.h: audit and cleanup users in main include dir
  device.h: cleanup users outside of linux/include (C files)
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'bug-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux</title>
<updated>2012-03-24T17:08:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-24T17:08:39+00:00</published>
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Pull &lt;linux/bug.h&gt; cleanup from Paul Gortmaker:
 "The changes shown here are to unify linux's BUG support under the one
  &lt;linux/bug.h&gt; file.  Due to historical reasons, we have some BUG code
  in bug.h and some in kernel.h -- i.e.  the support for BUILD_BUG in
  linux/kernel.h predates the addition of linux/bug.h, but old code in
  kernel.h wasn't moved to bug.h at that time.  As a band-aid, kernel.h
  was including &lt;asm/bug.h&gt; to pseudo link them.

  This has caused confusion[1] and general yuck/WTF[2] reactions.  Here
  is an example that violates the principle of least surprise:

      CC      lib/string.o
      lib/string.c: In function 'strlcat':
      lib/string.c:225:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'BUILD_BUG_ON'
      make[2]: *** [lib/string.o] Error 1
      $
      $ grep linux/bug.h lib/string.c
      #include &lt;linux/bug.h&gt;
      $

  We've included &lt;linux/bug.h&gt; for the BUG infrastructure and yet we
  still get a compile fail! [We've not kernel.h for BUILD_BUG_ON.] Ugh -
  very confusing for someone who is new to kernel development.

  With the above in mind, the goals of this changeset are:

  1) find and fix any include/*.h files that were relying on the
     implicit presence of BUG code.
  2) find and fix any C files that were consuming kernel.h and hence
     relying on implicitly getting some/all BUG code.
  3) Move the BUG related code living in kernel.h to &lt;linux/bug.h&gt;
  4) remove the asm/bug.h from kernel.h to finally break the chain.

  During development, the order was more like 3-4, build-test, 1-2.  But
  to ensure that git history for bisect doesn't get needless build
  failures introduced, the commits have been reorderd to fix the problem
  areas in advance.

	[1]  https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/3/90
	[2]  https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/17/414"

Fix up conflicts (new radeon file, reiserfs header cleanups) as per Paul
and linux-next.

* tag 'bug-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
  kernel.h: doesn't explicitly use bug.h, so don't include it.
  bug: consolidate BUILD_BUG_ON with other bug code
  BUG: headers with BUG/BUG_ON etc. need linux/bug.h
  bug.h: add include of it to various implicit C users
  lib: fix implicit users of kernel.h for TAINT_WARN
  spinlock: macroize assert_spin_locked to avoid bug.h dependency
  x86: relocate get/set debugreg fcns to include/asm/debugreg.
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Pull &lt;linux/bug.h&gt; cleanup from Paul Gortmaker:
 "The changes shown here are to unify linux's BUG support under the one
  &lt;linux/bug.h&gt; file.  Due to historical reasons, we have some BUG code
  in bug.h and some in kernel.h -- i.e.  the support for BUILD_BUG in
  linux/kernel.h predates the addition of linux/bug.h, but old code in
  kernel.h wasn't moved to bug.h at that time.  As a band-aid, kernel.h
  was including &lt;asm/bug.h&gt; to pseudo link them.

  This has caused confusion[1] and general yuck/WTF[2] reactions.  Here
  is an example that violates the principle of least surprise:

      CC      lib/string.o
      lib/string.c: In function 'strlcat':
      lib/string.c:225:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'BUILD_BUG_ON'
      make[2]: *** [lib/string.o] Error 1
      $
      $ grep linux/bug.h lib/string.c
      #include &lt;linux/bug.h&gt;
      $

  We've included &lt;linux/bug.h&gt; for the BUG infrastructure and yet we
  still get a compile fail! [We've not kernel.h for BUILD_BUG_ON.] Ugh -
  very confusing for someone who is new to kernel development.

  With the above in mind, the goals of this changeset are:

  1) find and fix any include/*.h files that were relying on the
     implicit presence of BUG code.
  2) find and fix any C files that were consuming kernel.h and hence
     relying on implicitly getting some/all BUG code.
  3) Move the BUG related code living in kernel.h to &lt;linux/bug.h&gt;
  4) remove the asm/bug.h from kernel.h to finally break the chain.

  During development, the order was more like 3-4, build-test, 1-2.  But
  to ensure that git history for bisect doesn't get needless build
  failures introduced, the commits have been reorderd to fix the problem
  areas in advance.

	[1]  https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/3/90
	[2]  https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/17/414"

Fix up conflicts (new radeon file, reiserfs header cleanups) as per Paul
and linux-next.

* tag 'bug-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
  kernel.h: doesn't explicitly use bug.h, so don't include it.
  bug: consolidate BUILD_BUG_ON with other bug code
  BUG: headers with BUG/BUG_ON etc. need linux/bug.h
  bug.h: add include of it to various implicit C users
  lib: fix implicit users of kernel.h for TAINT_WARN
  spinlock: macroize assert_spin_locked to avoid bug.h dependency
  x86: relocate get/set debugreg fcns to include/asm/debugreg.
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<entry>
<title>poll: add poll_requested_events() and poll_does_not_wait() functions</title>
<updated>2012-03-23T23:58:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hans Verkuil</name>
<email>hans.verkuil@cisco.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-23T22:02:27+00:00</published>
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In some cases the poll() implementation in a driver has to do different
things depending on the events the caller wants to poll for.  An example
is when a driver needs to start a DMA engine if the caller polls for
POLLIN, but doesn't want to do that if POLLIN is not requested but instead
only POLLOUT or POLLPRI is requested.  This is something that can happen
in the video4linux subsystem among others.

Unfortunately, the current epoll/poll/select implementation doesn't
provide that information reliably.  The poll_table_struct does have it: it
has a key field with the event mask.  But once a poll() call matches one
or more bits of that mask any following poll() calls are passed a NULL
poll_table pointer.

Also, the eventpoll implementation always left the key field at ~0 instead
of using the requested events mask.

This was changed in eventpoll.c so the key field now contains the actual
events that should be polled for as set by the caller.

The solution to the NULL poll_table pointer is to set the qproc field to
NULL in poll_table once poll() matches the events, not the poll_table
pointer itself.  That way drivers can obtain the mask through a new
poll_requested_events inline.

The poll_table_struct can still be NULL since some kernel code calls it
internally (netfs_state_poll() in ./drivers/staging/pohmelfs/netfs.h).  In
that case poll_requested_events() returns ~0 (i.e.  all events).

Very rarely drivers might want to know whether poll_wait will actually
wait.  If another earlier file descriptor in the set already matched the
events the caller wanted to wait for, then the kernel will return from the
select() call without waiting.  This might be useful information in order
to avoid doing expensive work.

A new helper function poll_does_not_wait() is added that drivers can use
to detect this situation.  This is now used in sock_poll_wait() in
include/net/sock.h.  This was the only place in the kernel that needed
this information.

Drivers should no longer access any of the poll_table internals, but use
the poll_requested_events() and poll_does_not_wait() access functions
instead.  In order to enforce that the poll_table fields are now prepended
with an underscore and a comment was added warning against using them
directly.

This required a change in unix_dgram_poll() in unix/af_unix.c which used
the key field to get the requested events.  It's been replaced by a call
to poll_requested_events().

For qproc it was especially important to change its name since the
behavior of that field changes with this patch since this function pointer
can now be NULL when that wasn't possible in the past.

Any driver accessing the qproc or key fields directly will now fail to compile.

Some notes regarding the correctness of this patch: the driver's poll()
function is called with a 'struct poll_table_struct *wait' argument.  This
pointer may or may not be NULL, drivers can never rely on it being one or
the other as that depends on whether or not an earlier file descriptor in
the select()'s fdset matched the requested events.

There are only three things a driver can do with the wait argument:

1) obtain the key field:

	events = wait ? wait-&gt;key : ~0;

   This will still work although it should be replaced with the new
   poll_requested_events() function (which does exactly the same).
   This will now even work better, since wait is no longer set to NULL
   unnecessarily.

2) use the qproc callback. This could be deadly since qproc can now be
   NULL. Renaming qproc should prevent this from happening. There are no
   kernel drivers that actually access this callback directly, BTW.

3) test whether wait == NULL to determine whether poll would return without
   waiting. This is no longer sufficient as the correct test is now
   wait == NULL || wait-&gt;_qproc == NULL.

   However, the worst that can happen here is a slight performance hit in
   the case where wait != NULL and wait-&gt;_qproc == NULL. In that case the
   driver will assume that poll_wait() will actually add the fd to the set
   of waiting file descriptors. Of course, poll_wait() will not do that
   since it tests for wait-&gt;_qproc. This will not break anything, though.

   There is only one place in the whole kernel where this happens
   (sock_poll_wait() in include/net/sock.h) and that code will be replaced
   by a call to poll_does_not_wait() in the next patch.

   Note that even if wait-&gt;_qproc != NULL drivers cannot rely on poll_wait()
   actually waiting. The next file descriptor from the set might match the
   event mask and thus any possible waits will never happen.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil &lt;hans.verkuil@cisco.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Davide Libenzi &lt;davidel@xmailserver.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&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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In some cases the poll() implementation in a driver has to do different
things depending on the events the caller wants to poll for.  An example
is when a driver needs to start a DMA engine if the caller polls for
POLLIN, but doesn't want to do that if POLLIN is not requested but instead
only POLLOUT or POLLPRI is requested.  This is something that can happen
in the video4linux subsystem among others.

Unfortunately, the current epoll/poll/select implementation doesn't
provide that information reliably.  The poll_table_struct does have it: it
has a key field with the event mask.  But once a poll() call matches one
or more bits of that mask any following poll() calls are passed a NULL
poll_table pointer.

Also, the eventpoll implementation always left the key field at ~0 instead
of using the requested events mask.

This was changed in eventpoll.c so the key field now contains the actual
events that should be polled for as set by the caller.

The solution to the NULL poll_table pointer is to set the qproc field to
NULL in poll_table once poll() matches the events, not the poll_table
pointer itself.  That way drivers can obtain the mask through a new
poll_requested_events inline.

The poll_table_struct can still be NULL since some kernel code calls it
internally (netfs_state_poll() in ./drivers/staging/pohmelfs/netfs.h).  In
that case poll_requested_events() returns ~0 (i.e.  all events).

Very rarely drivers might want to know whether poll_wait will actually
wait.  If another earlier file descriptor in the set already matched the
events the caller wanted to wait for, then the kernel will return from the
select() call without waiting.  This might be useful information in order
to avoid doing expensive work.

A new helper function poll_does_not_wait() is added that drivers can use
to detect this situation.  This is now used in sock_poll_wait() in
include/net/sock.h.  This was the only place in the kernel that needed
this information.

Drivers should no longer access any of the poll_table internals, but use
the poll_requested_events() and poll_does_not_wait() access functions
instead.  In order to enforce that the poll_table fields are now prepended
with an underscore and a comment was added warning against using them
directly.

This required a change in unix_dgram_poll() in unix/af_unix.c which used
the key field to get the requested events.  It's been replaced by a call
to poll_requested_events().

For qproc it was especially important to change its name since the
behavior of that field changes with this patch since this function pointer
can now be NULL when that wasn't possible in the past.

Any driver accessing the qproc or key fields directly will now fail to compile.

Some notes regarding the correctness of this patch: the driver's poll()
function is called with a 'struct poll_table_struct *wait' argument.  This
pointer may or may not be NULL, drivers can never rely on it being one or
the other as that depends on whether or not an earlier file descriptor in
the select()'s fdset matched the requested events.

There are only three things a driver can do with the wait argument:

1) obtain the key field:

	events = wait ? wait-&gt;key : ~0;

   This will still work although it should be replaced with the new
   poll_requested_events() function (which does exactly the same).
   This will now even work better, since wait is no longer set to NULL
   unnecessarily.

2) use the qproc callback. This could be deadly since qproc can now be
   NULL. Renaming qproc should prevent this from happening. There are no
   kernel drivers that actually access this callback directly, BTW.

3) test whether wait == NULL to determine whether poll would return without
   waiting. This is no longer sufficient as the correct test is now
   wait == NULL || wait-&gt;_qproc == NULL.

   However, the worst that can happen here is a slight performance hit in
   the case where wait != NULL and wait-&gt;_qproc == NULL. In that case the
   driver will assume that poll_wait() will actually add the fd to the set
   of waiting file descriptors. Of course, poll_wait() will not do that
   since it tests for wait-&gt;_qproc. This will not break anything, though.

   There is only one place in the whole kernel where this happens
   (sock_poll_wait() in include/net/sock.h) and that code will be replaced
   by a call to poll_does_not_wait() in the next patch.

   Note that even if wait-&gt;_qproc != NULL drivers cannot rely on poll_wait()
   actually waiting. The next file descriptor from the set might match the
   event mask and thus any possible waits will never happen.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil &lt;hans.verkuil@cisco.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Davide Libenzi &lt;davidel@xmailserver.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&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>netfilter: cttimeout: fix dependency with l4protocol conntrack module</title>
<updated>2012-03-22T23:52:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pablo Neira Ayuso</name>
<email>pablo@netfilter.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-22T22:40:01+00:00</published>
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This patch introduces nf_conntrack_l4proto_find_get() and
nf_conntrack_l4proto_put() to fix module dependencies between
timeout objects and l4-protocol conntrack modules.

Thus, we make sure that the module cannot be removed if it is
used by any of the cttimeout objects.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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This patch introduces nf_conntrack_l4proto_find_get() and
nf_conntrack_l4proto_put() to fix module dependencies between
timeout objects and l4-protocol conntrack modules.

Thus, we make sure that the module cannot be removed if it is
used by any of the cttimeout objects.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2012-03-21T20:36:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-21T20:36:41+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs pile 1 from Al Viro:
 "This is _not_ all; in particular, Miklos' and Jan's stuff is not there
  yet."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (64 commits)
  ext4: initialization of ext4_li_mtx needs to be done earlier
  debugfs-related mode_t whack-a-mole
  hfsplus: add an ioctl to bless files
  hfsplus: change finder_info to u32
  hfsplus: initialise userflags
  qnx4: new helper - try_extent()
  qnx4: get rid of qnx4_bread/qnx4_getblk
  take removal of PF_FORKNOEXEC to flush_old_exec()
  trim includes in inode.c
  um: uml_dup_mmap() relies on -&gt;mmap_sem being held, but activate_mm() doesn't hold it
  um: embed -&gt;stub_pages[] into mmu_context
  gadgetfs: list_for_each_safe() misuse
  ocfs2: fix leaks on failure exits in module_init
  ecryptfs: make register_filesystem() the last potential failure exit
  ntfs: forgets to unregister sysctls on register_filesystem() failure
  logfs: missing cleanup on register_filesystem() failure
  jfs: mising cleanup on register_filesystem() failure
  make configfs_pin_fs() return root dentry on success
  configfs: configfs_create_dir() has parent dentry in dentry-&gt;d_parent
  configfs: sanitize configfs_create()
  ...
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Pull vfs pile 1 from Al Viro:
 "This is _not_ all; in particular, Miklos' and Jan's stuff is not there
  yet."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (64 commits)
  ext4: initialization of ext4_li_mtx needs to be done earlier
  debugfs-related mode_t whack-a-mole
  hfsplus: add an ioctl to bless files
  hfsplus: change finder_info to u32
  hfsplus: initialise userflags
  qnx4: new helper - try_extent()
  qnx4: get rid of qnx4_bread/qnx4_getblk
  take removal of PF_FORKNOEXEC to flush_old_exec()
  trim includes in inode.c
  um: uml_dup_mmap() relies on -&gt;mmap_sem being held, but activate_mm() doesn't hold it
  um: embed -&gt;stub_pages[] into mmu_context
  gadgetfs: list_for_each_safe() misuse
  ocfs2: fix leaks on failure exits in module_init
  ecryptfs: make register_filesystem() the last potential failure exit
  ntfs: forgets to unregister sysctls on register_filesystem() failure
  logfs: missing cleanup on register_filesystem() failure
  jfs: mising cleanup on register_filesystem() failure
  make configfs_pin_fs() return root dentry on success
  configfs: configfs_create_dir() has parent dentry in dentry-&gt;d_parent
  configfs: sanitize configfs_create()
  ...
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