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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2014-03-14T03:38:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-14T03:38:36+00:00</published>
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
 "I know this is a bit more than you want to see, and I've told the
  wireless folks under no uncertain terms that they must severely scale
  back the extent of the fixes they are submitting this late in the
  game.

  Anyways:

   1) vmxnet3's netpoll doesn't perform the equivalent of an ISR, which
      is the correct implementation, like it should.  Instead it does
      something like a NAPI poll operation.  This leads to crashes.

      From Neil Horman and Arnd Bergmann.

   2) Segmentation of SKBs requires proper socket orphaning of the
      fragments, otherwise we might access stale state released by the
      release callbacks.

      This is a 5 patch fix, but the initial patches are giving
      variables and such significantly clearer names such that the
      actual fix itself at the end looks trivial.

      From Michael S.  Tsirkin.

   3) TCP control block release can deadlock if invoked from a timer on
      an already "owned" socket.  Fix from Eric Dumazet.

   4) In the bridge multicast code, we must validate that the
      destination address of general queries is the link local all-nodes
      multicast address.  From Linus Lüssing.

   5) The x86 BPF JIT support for negative offsets puts the parameter
      for the helper function call in the wrong register.  Fix from
      Alexei Starovoitov.

   6) The descriptor type used for RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_17 chips in the
      r8169 driver is incorrect.  Fix from Hayes Wang.

   7) The xen-netback driver tests skb_shinfo(skb)-&gt;gso_type bits to see
      if a packet is a GSO frame, but that's not the correct test.  It
      should use skb_is_gso(skb) instead.  Fix from Wei Liu.

   8) Negative msg-&gt;msg_namelen values should generate an error, from
      Matthew Leach.

   9) at86rf230 can deadlock because it takes the same lock from it's
      ISR and it's hard_start_xmit method, without disabling interrupts
      in the latter.  Fix from Alexander Aring.

  10) The FEC driver's restart doesn't perform operations in the correct
      order, so promiscuous settings can get lost.  Fix from Stefan
      Wahren.

  11) Fix SKB leak in SCTP cookie handling, from Daniel Borkmann.

  12) Reference count and memory leak fixes in TIPC from Ying Xue and
      Erik Hugne.

  13) Forced eviction in inet_frag_evictor() must strictly make sure all
      frags are deleted, otherwise module unload (f.e.  6lowpan) can
      crash.  Fix from Florian Westphal.

  14) Remove assumptions in AF_UNIX's use of csum_partial() (which it
      uses as a hash function), which breaks on PowerPC.  From Anton
      Blanchard.

      The main gist of the issue is that csum_partial() is defined only
      as a value that, once folded (f.e.  via csum_fold()) produces a
      correct 16-bit checksum.  It is legitimate, therefore, for
      csum_partial() to produce two different 32-bit values over the
      same data if their respective alignments are different.

  15) Fix endiannes bug in MAC address handling of ibmveth driver, also
      from Anton Blanchard.

  16) Error checks for ipv6 exthdrs offload registration are reversed,
      from Anton Nayshtut.

  17) Externally triggered ipv6 addrconf routes should count against the
      garbage collection threshold.  Fix from Sabrina Dubroca.

  18) The PCI shutdown handler added to the bnx2 driver can wedge the
      chip if it was not brought up earlier already, which in particular
      causes the firmware to shut down the PHY.  Fix from Michael Chan.

  19) Adjust the sanity WARN_ON_ONCE() in qdisc_list_add() because as
      currently coded it can and does trigger in legitimate situations.
      From Eric Dumazet.

  20) BNA driver fails to build on ARM because of a too large udelay()
      call, fix from Ben Hutchings.

  21) Fair-Queue qdisc holds locks during GFP_KERNEL allocations, fix
      from Eric Dumazet.

  22) The vlan passthrough ops added in the previous release causes a
      regression in source MAC address setting of outgoing headers in
      some circumstances.  Fix from Peter Boström"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (70 commits)
  ipv6: Avoid unnecessary temporary addresses being generated
  eth: fec: Fix lost promiscuous mode after reconnecting cable
  bonding: set correct vlan id for alb xmit path
  at86rf230: fix lockdep splats
  net/mlx4_en: Deregister multicast vxlan steering rules when going down
  vmxnet3: fix building without CONFIG_PCI_MSI
  MAINTAINERS: add networking selftests to NETWORKING
  net: socket: error on a negative msg_namelen
  MAINTAINERS: Add tools/net to NETWORKING [GENERAL]
  packet: doc: Spelling s/than/that/
  net/mlx4_core: Load the IB driver when the device supports IBoE
  net/mlx4_en: Handle vxlan steering rules for mac address changes
  net/mlx4_core: Fix wrong dump of the vxlan offloads device capability
  xen-netback: use skb_is_gso in xenvif_start_xmit
  r8169: fix the incorrect tx descriptor version
  tools/net/Makefile: Define PACKAGE to fix build problems
  x86: bpf_jit: support negative offsets
  bridge: multicast: enable snooping on general queries only
  bridge: multicast: add sanity check for general query destination
  tcp: tcp_release_cb() should release socket ownership
  ...
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
 "I know this is a bit more than you want to see, and I've told the
  wireless folks under no uncertain terms that they must severely scale
  back the extent of the fixes they are submitting this late in the
  game.

  Anyways:

   1) vmxnet3's netpoll doesn't perform the equivalent of an ISR, which
      is the correct implementation, like it should.  Instead it does
      something like a NAPI poll operation.  This leads to crashes.

      From Neil Horman and Arnd Bergmann.

   2) Segmentation of SKBs requires proper socket orphaning of the
      fragments, otherwise we might access stale state released by the
      release callbacks.

      This is a 5 patch fix, but the initial patches are giving
      variables and such significantly clearer names such that the
      actual fix itself at the end looks trivial.

      From Michael S.  Tsirkin.

   3) TCP control block release can deadlock if invoked from a timer on
      an already "owned" socket.  Fix from Eric Dumazet.

   4) In the bridge multicast code, we must validate that the
      destination address of general queries is the link local all-nodes
      multicast address.  From Linus Lüssing.

   5) The x86 BPF JIT support for negative offsets puts the parameter
      for the helper function call in the wrong register.  Fix from
      Alexei Starovoitov.

   6) The descriptor type used for RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_17 chips in the
      r8169 driver is incorrect.  Fix from Hayes Wang.

   7) The xen-netback driver tests skb_shinfo(skb)-&gt;gso_type bits to see
      if a packet is a GSO frame, but that's not the correct test.  It
      should use skb_is_gso(skb) instead.  Fix from Wei Liu.

   8) Negative msg-&gt;msg_namelen values should generate an error, from
      Matthew Leach.

   9) at86rf230 can deadlock because it takes the same lock from it's
      ISR and it's hard_start_xmit method, without disabling interrupts
      in the latter.  Fix from Alexander Aring.

  10) The FEC driver's restart doesn't perform operations in the correct
      order, so promiscuous settings can get lost.  Fix from Stefan
      Wahren.

  11) Fix SKB leak in SCTP cookie handling, from Daniel Borkmann.

  12) Reference count and memory leak fixes in TIPC from Ying Xue and
      Erik Hugne.

  13) Forced eviction in inet_frag_evictor() must strictly make sure all
      frags are deleted, otherwise module unload (f.e.  6lowpan) can
      crash.  Fix from Florian Westphal.

  14) Remove assumptions in AF_UNIX's use of csum_partial() (which it
      uses as a hash function), which breaks on PowerPC.  From Anton
      Blanchard.

      The main gist of the issue is that csum_partial() is defined only
      as a value that, once folded (f.e.  via csum_fold()) produces a
      correct 16-bit checksum.  It is legitimate, therefore, for
      csum_partial() to produce two different 32-bit values over the
      same data if their respective alignments are different.

  15) Fix endiannes bug in MAC address handling of ibmveth driver, also
      from Anton Blanchard.

  16) Error checks for ipv6 exthdrs offload registration are reversed,
      from Anton Nayshtut.

  17) Externally triggered ipv6 addrconf routes should count against the
      garbage collection threshold.  Fix from Sabrina Dubroca.

  18) The PCI shutdown handler added to the bnx2 driver can wedge the
      chip if it was not brought up earlier already, which in particular
      causes the firmware to shut down the PHY.  Fix from Michael Chan.

  19) Adjust the sanity WARN_ON_ONCE() in qdisc_list_add() because as
      currently coded it can and does trigger in legitimate situations.
      From Eric Dumazet.

  20) BNA driver fails to build on ARM because of a too large udelay()
      call, fix from Ben Hutchings.

  21) Fair-Queue qdisc holds locks during GFP_KERNEL allocations, fix
      from Eric Dumazet.

  22) The vlan passthrough ops added in the previous release causes a
      regression in source MAC address setting of outgoing headers in
      some circumstances.  Fix from Peter Boström"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (70 commits)
  ipv6: Avoid unnecessary temporary addresses being generated
  eth: fec: Fix lost promiscuous mode after reconnecting cable
  bonding: set correct vlan id for alb xmit path
  at86rf230: fix lockdep splats
  net/mlx4_en: Deregister multicast vxlan steering rules when going down
  vmxnet3: fix building without CONFIG_PCI_MSI
  MAINTAINERS: add networking selftests to NETWORKING
  net: socket: error on a negative msg_namelen
  MAINTAINERS: Add tools/net to NETWORKING [GENERAL]
  packet: doc: Spelling s/than/that/
  net/mlx4_core: Load the IB driver when the device supports IBoE
  net/mlx4_en: Handle vxlan steering rules for mac address changes
  net/mlx4_core: Fix wrong dump of the vxlan offloads device capability
  xen-netback: use skb_is_gso in xenvif_start_xmit
  r8169: fix the incorrect tx descriptor version
  tools/net/Makefile: Define PACKAGE to fix build problems
  x86: bpf_jit: support negative offsets
  bridge: multicast: enable snooping on general queries only
  bridge: multicast: add sanity check for general query destination
  tcp: tcp_release_cb() should release socket ownership
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2014-03-13T00:27:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-13T00:27:23+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "The ARM patch fixes a build breakage with randconfig.  The x86 one
  fixes Windows guests on AMD processors"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: SVM: fix cr8 intercept window
  ARM: KVM: fix non-VGIC compilation
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Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "The ARM patch fixes a build breakage with randconfig.  The x86 one
  fixes Windows guests on AMD processors"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: SVM: fix cr8 intercept window
  ARM: KVM: fix non-VGIC compilation
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<entry>
<title>tcp: tcp_release_cb() should release socket ownership</title>
<updated>2014-03-11T20:45:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>eric.dumazet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-10T16:50:11+00:00</published>
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Lars Persson reported following deadlock :

-000 |M:0x0:0x802B6AF8(asm) &lt;-- arch_spin_lock
-001 |tcp_v4_rcv(skb = 0x8BD527A0) &lt;-- sk = 0x8BE6B2A0
-002 |ip_local_deliver_finish(skb = 0x8BD527A0)
-003 |__netif_receive_skb_core(skb = 0x8BD527A0, ?)
-004 |netif_receive_skb(skb = 0x8BD527A0)
-005 |elk_poll(napi = 0x8C770500, budget = 64)
-006 |net_rx_action(?)
-007 |__do_softirq()
-008 |do_softirq()
-009 |local_bh_enable()
-010 |tcp_rcv_established(sk = 0x8BE6B2A0, skb = 0x87D3A9E0, th = 0x814EBE14, ?)
-011 |tcp_v4_do_rcv(sk = 0x8BE6B2A0, skb = 0x87D3A9E0)
-012 |tcp_delack_timer_handler(sk = 0x8BE6B2A0)
-013 |tcp_release_cb(sk = 0x8BE6B2A0)
-014 |release_sock(sk = 0x8BE6B2A0)
-015 |tcp_sendmsg(?, sk = 0x8BE6B2A0, ?, ?)
-016 |sock_sendmsg(sock = 0x8518C4C0, msg = 0x87D8DAA8, size = 4096)
-017 |kernel_sendmsg(?, ?, ?, ?, size = 4096)
-018 |smb_send_kvec()
-019 |smb_send_rqst(server = 0x87C4D400, rqst = 0x87D8DBA0)
-020 |cifs_call_async()
-021 |cifs_async_writev(wdata = 0x87FD6580)
-022 |cifs_writepages(mapping = 0x852096E4, wbc = 0x87D8DC88)
-023 |__writeback_single_inode(inode = 0x852095D0, wbc = 0x87D8DC88)
-024 |writeback_sb_inodes(sb = 0x87D6D800, wb = 0x87E4A9C0, work = 0x87D8DD88)
-025 |__writeback_inodes_wb(wb = 0x87E4A9C0, work = 0x87D8DD88)
-026 |wb_writeback(wb = 0x87E4A9C0, work = 0x87D8DD88)
-027 |wb_do_writeback(wb = 0x87E4A9C0, force_wait = 0)
-028 |bdi_writeback_workfn(work = 0x87E4A9CC)
-029 |process_one_work(worker = 0x8B045880, work = 0x87E4A9CC)
-030 |worker_thread(__worker = 0x8B045880)
-031 |kthread(_create = 0x87CADD90)
-032 |ret_from_kernel_thread(asm)

Bug occurs because __tcp_checksum_complete_user() enables BH, assuming
it is running from softirq context.

Lars trace involved a NIC without RX checksum support but other points
are problematic as well, like the prequeue stuff.

Problem is triggered by a timer, that found socket being owned by user.

tcp_release_cb() should call tcp_write_timer_handler() or
tcp_delack_timer_handler() in the appropriate context :

BH disabled and socket lock held, but 'owned' field cleared,
as if they were running from timer handlers.

Fixes: 6f458dfb4092 ("tcp: improve latencies of timer triggered events")
Reported-by: Lars Persson &lt;lars.persson@axis.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lars Persson &lt;lars.persson@axis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Lars Persson reported following deadlock :

-000 |M:0x0:0x802B6AF8(asm) &lt;-- arch_spin_lock
-001 |tcp_v4_rcv(skb = 0x8BD527A0) &lt;-- sk = 0x8BE6B2A0
-002 |ip_local_deliver_finish(skb = 0x8BD527A0)
-003 |__netif_receive_skb_core(skb = 0x8BD527A0, ?)
-004 |netif_receive_skb(skb = 0x8BD527A0)
-005 |elk_poll(napi = 0x8C770500, budget = 64)
-006 |net_rx_action(?)
-007 |__do_softirq()
-008 |do_softirq()
-009 |local_bh_enable()
-010 |tcp_rcv_established(sk = 0x8BE6B2A0, skb = 0x87D3A9E0, th = 0x814EBE14, ?)
-011 |tcp_v4_do_rcv(sk = 0x8BE6B2A0, skb = 0x87D3A9E0)
-012 |tcp_delack_timer_handler(sk = 0x8BE6B2A0)
-013 |tcp_release_cb(sk = 0x8BE6B2A0)
-014 |release_sock(sk = 0x8BE6B2A0)
-015 |tcp_sendmsg(?, sk = 0x8BE6B2A0, ?, ?)
-016 |sock_sendmsg(sock = 0x8518C4C0, msg = 0x87D8DAA8, size = 4096)
-017 |kernel_sendmsg(?, ?, ?, ?, size = 4096)
-018 |smb_send_kvec()
-019 |smb_send_rqst(server = 0x87C4D400, rqst = 0x87D8DBA0)
-020 |cifs_call_async()
-021 |cifs_async_writev(wdata = 0x87FD6580)
-022 |cifs_writepages(mapping = 0x852096E4, wbc = 0x87D8DC88)
-023 |__writeback_single_inode(inode = 0x852095D0, wbc = 0x87D8DC88)
-024 |writeback_sb_inodes(sb = 0x87D6D800, wb = 0x87E4A9C0, work = 0x87D8DD88)
-025 |__writeback_inodes_wb(wb = 0x87E4A9C0, work = 0x87D8DD88)
-026 |wb_writeback(wb = 0x87E4A9C0, work = 0x87D8DD88)
-027 |wb_do_writeback(wb = 0x87E4A9C0, force_wait = 0)
-028 |bdi_writeback_workfn(work = 0x87E4A9CC)
-029 |process_one_work(worker = 0x8B045880, work = 0x87E4A9CC)
-030 |worker_thread(__worker = 0x8B045880)
-031 |kthread(_create = 0x87CADD90)
-032 |ret_from_kernel_thread(asm)

Bug occurs because __tcp_checksum_complete_user() enables BH, assuming
it is running from softirq context.

Lars trace involved a NIC without RX checksum support but other points
are problematic as well, like the prequeue stuff.

Problem is triggered by a timer, that found socket being owned by user.

tcp_release_cb() should call tcp_write_timer_handler() or
tcp_delack_timer_handler() in the appropriate context :

BH disabled and socket lock held, but 'owned' field cleared,
as if they were running from timer handlers.

Fixes: 6f458dfb4092 ("tcp: improve latencies of timer triggered events")
Reported-by: Lars Persson &lt;lars.persson@axis.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lars Persson &lt;lars.persson@axis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2014-03-11T17:17:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-11T17:17:50+00:00</published>
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Pull audit namespace fixes from Eric Biederman:
 "Starting with 3.14-rc1 the audit code is faulty (think oopses and
  races) with respect to how it computes the network namespace of which
  socket to reply to, and I happened to notice by chance when reading
  through the code.

  My testing and the automated build bots don't find any problems with
  these fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  audit: Update kdoc for audit_send_reply and audit_list_rules_send
  audit: Send replies in the proper network namespace.
  audit: Use struct net not pid_t to remember the network namespce to reply in
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Pull audit namespace fixes from Eric Biederman:
 "Starting with 3.14-rc1 the audit code is faulty (think oopses and
  races) with respect to how it computes the network namespace of which
  socket to reply to, and I happened to notice by chance when reading
  through the code.

  My testing and the automated build bots don't find any problems with
  these fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  audit: Update kdoc for audit_send_reply and audit_list_rules_send
  audit: Send replies in the proper network namespace.
  audit: Use struct net not pid_t to remember the network namespce to reply in
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)</title>
<updated>2014-03-11T00:26:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-11T00:26:36+00:00</published>
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Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "Nine fixes"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;:
  cris: convert ffs from an object-like macro to a function-like macro
  hfsplus: add HFSX subfolder count support
  tools/testing/selftests/ipc/msgque.c: handle msgget failure return correctly
  MAINTAINERS: blackfin: add git repository
  revert "kallsyms: fix absolute addresses for kASLR"
  mm/Kconfig: fix URL for zsmalloc benchmark
  fs/proc/base.c: fix GPF in /proc/$PID/map_files
  mm/compaction: break out of loop on !PageBuddy in isolate_freepages_block
  mm: fix GFP_THISNODE callers and clarify
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Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "Nine fixes"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;:
  cris: convert ffs from an object-like macro to a function-like macro
  hfsplus: add HFSX subfolder count support
  tools/testing/selftests/ipc/msgque.c: handle msgget failure return correctly
  MAINTAINERS: blackfin: add git repository
  revert "kallsyms: fix absolute addresses for kASLR"
  mm/Kconfig: fix URL for zsmalloc benchmark
  fs/proc/base.c: fix GPF in /proc/$PID/map_files
  mm/compaction: break out of loop on !PageBuddy in isolate_freepages_block
  mm: fix GFP_THISNODE callers and clarify
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: fix GFP_THISNODE callers and clarify</title>
<updated>2014-03-11T00:26:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-10T22:49:43+00:00</published>
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GFP_THISNODE is for callers that implement their own clever fallback to
remote nodes.  It restricts the allocation to the specified node and
does not invoke reclaim, assuming that the caller will take care of it
when the fallback fails, e.g.  through a subsequent allocation request
without GFP_THISNODE set.

However, many current GFP_THISNODE users only want the node exclusive
aspect of the flag, without actually implementing their own fallback or
triggering reclaim if necessary.  This results in things like page
migration failing prematurely even when there is easily reclaimable
memory available, unless kswapd happens to be running already or a
concurrent allocation attempt triggers the necessary reclaim.

Convert all callsites that don't implement their own fallback strategy
to __GFP_THISNODE.  This restricts the allocation a single node too, but
at the same time allows the allocator to enter the slowpath, wake
kswapd, and invoke direct reclaim if necessary, to make the allocation
happen when memory is full.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Stancek &lt;jstancek@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&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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GFP_THISNODE is for callers that implement their own clever fallback to
remote nodes.  It restricts the allocation to the specified node and
does not invoke reclaim, assuming that the caller will take care of it
when the fallback fails, e.g.  through a subsequent allocation request
without GFP_THISNODE set.

However, many current GFP_THISNODE users only want the node exclusive
aspect of the flag, without actually implementing their own fallback or
triggering reclaim if necessary.  This results in things like page
migration failing prematurely even when there is easily reclaimable
memory available, unless kswapd happens to be running already or a
concurrent allocation attempt triggers the necessary reclaim.

Convert all callsites that don't implement their own fallback strategy
to __GFP_THISNODE.  This restricts the allocation a single node too, but
at the same time allows the allocator to enter the slowpath, wake
kswapd, and invoke direct reclaim if necessary, to make the allocation
happen when memory is full.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Stancek &lt;jstancek@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&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/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2014-03-10T19:57:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-10T19:57:26+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro.

Clean up file table accesses (get rid of fget_light() in favor of the
fdget() interface), add proper file position locking.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  get rid of fget_light()
  sockfd_lookup_light(): switch to fdget^W^Waway from fget_light
  vfs: atomic f_pos accesses as per POSIX
  ocfs2 syncs the wrong range...
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Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro.

Clean up file table accesses (get rid of fget_light() in favor of the
fdget() interface), add proper file position locking.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  get rid of fget_light()
  sockfd_lookup_light(): switch to fdget^W^Waway from fget_light
  vfs: atomic f_pos accesses as per POSIX
  ocfs2 syncs the wrong range...
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<entry>
<title>get rid of fget_light()</title>
<updated>2014-03-10T15:44:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-04T19:54:22+00:00</published>
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instead of returning the flags by reference, we can just have the
low-level primitive return those in lower bits of unsigned long,
with struct file * derived from the rest.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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instead of returning the flags by reference, we can just have the
low-level primitive return those in lower bits of unsigned long,
with struct file * derived from the rest.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: atomic f_pos accesses as per POSIX</title>
<updated>2014-03-10T15:44:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-03T17:36:58+00:00</published>
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Our write() system call has always been atomic in the sense that you get
the expected thread-safe contiguous write, but we haven't actually
guaranteed that concurrent writes are serialized wrt f_pos accesses, so
threads (or processes) that share a file descriptor and use "write()"
concurrently would quite likely overwrite each others data.

This violates POSIX.1-2008/SUSv4 Section XSI 2.9.7 that says:

 "2.9.7 Thread Interactions with Regular File Operations

  All of the following functions shall be atomic with respect to each
  other in the effects specified in POSIX.1-2008 when they operate on
  regular files or symbolic links: [...]"

and one of the effects is the file position update.

This unprotected file position behavior is not new behavior, and nobody
has ever cared.  Until now.  Yongzhi Pan reported unexpected behavior to
Michael Kerrisk that was due to this.

This resolves the issue with a f_pos-specific lock that is taken by
read/write/lseek on file descriptors that may be shared across threads
or processes.

Reported-by: Yongzhi Pan &lt;panyongzhi@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Our write() system call has always been atomic in the sense that you get
the expected thread-safe contiguous write, but we haven't actually
guaranteed that concurrent writes are serialized wrt f_pos accesses, so
threads (or processes) that share a file descriptor and use "write()"
concurrently would quite likely overwrite each others data.

This violates POSIX.1-2008/SUSv4 Section XSI 2.9.7 that says:

 "2.9.7 Thread Interactions with Regular File Operations

  All of the following functions shall be atomic with respect to each
  other in the effects specified in POSIX.1-2008 when they operate on
  regular files or symbolic links: [...]"

and one of the effects is the file position update.

This unprotected file position behavior is not new behavior, and nobody
has ever cared.  Until now.  Yongzhi Pan reported unexpected behavior to
Michael Kerrisk that was due to this.

This resolves the issue with a f_pos-specific lock that is taken by
read/write/lseek on file descriptors that may be shared across threads
or processes.

Reported-by: Yongzhi Pan &lt;panyongzhi@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc</title>
<updated>2014-03-10T02:27:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-10T02:27:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=79e615420c3d7426a117aa825bdb1483b927e429'/>
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Pull ARM SoC fixes from from Olof Johansson:
 "A collection of fixes for ARM platforms.  A little large due to us
  missing to do one last week, but there's nothing in particular here
  that is in itself large and scary.

  Mostly a handful of smaller fixes all over the place.  The majority is
  made up of fixes for OMAP, but there are a few for others as well.  In
  particular, there was a decision to rename a binding for the Broadcom
  pinctrl block that we need to go in before the final release since we
  then treat it as ABI"

* tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc:
  ARM: dts: omap3-gta04: Add ti,omap36xx to compatible property to avoid problems with booting
  ARM: tegra: add LED options back into tegra_defconfig
  ARM: dts: omap3-igep: fix boot fail due wrong compatible match
  ARM: OMAP3: Fix pinctrl interrupts for core2
  pinctrl: Rename Broadcom Capri pinctrl binding
  pinctrl: refer to updated dt binding string.
  Update dtsi with new pinctrl compatible string
  ARM: OMAP: Kill warning in CPUIDLE code with !CONFIG_SMP
  ARM: OMAP2+: Add support for thumb mode on DT booted N900
  ARM: OMAP2+: clock: fix clkoutx2 with CLK_SET_RATE_PARENT
  ARM: OMAP4: hwmod: Fix SOFTRESET logic for OMAP4
  ARM: DRA7: hwmod data: correct the sysc data for spinlock
  ARM: OMAP5: PRM: Fix reboot handling
  ARM: sunxi: dt: Change the touchscreen compatibles
  ARM: sun7i: dt: Fix interrupt trigger types
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Pull ARM SoC fixes from from Olof Johansson:
 "A collection of fixes for ARM platforms.  A little large due to us
  missing to do one last week, but there's nothing in particular here
  that is in itself large and scary.

  Mostly a handful of smaller fixes all over the place.  The majority is
  made up of fixes for OMAP, but there are a few for others as well.  In
  particular, there was a decision to rename a binding for the Broadcom
  pinctrl block that we need to go in before the final release since we
  then treat it as ABI"

* tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc:
  ARM: dts: omap3-gta04: Add ti,omap36xx to compatible property to avoid problems with booting
  ARM: tegra: add LED options back into tegra_defconfig
  ARM: dts: omap3-igep: fix boot fail due wrong compatible match
  ARM: OMAP3: Fix pinctrl interrupts for core2
  pinctrl: Rename Broadcom Capri pinctrl binding
  pinctrl: refer to updated dt binding string.
  Update dtsi with new pinctrl compatible string
  ARM: OMAP: Kill warning in CPUIDLE code with !CONFIG_SMP
  ARM: OMAP2+: Add support for thumb mode on DT booted N900
  ARM: OMAP2+: clock: fix clkoutx2 with CLK_SET_RATE_PARENT
  ARM: OMAP4: hwmod: Fix SOFTRESET logic for OMAP4
  ARM: DRA7: hwmod data: correct the sysc data for spinlock
  ARM: OMAP5: PRM: Fix reboot handling
  ARM: sunxi: dt: Change the touchscreen compatibles
  ARM: sun7i: dt: Fix interrupt trigger types
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