I happened to forked lots of processes, and hit NULL pointer dereference.
It is because in copy_process() after checking max_threads, 0 is returned
but not -EAGAIN.

The bug is introduced by "CRED: Detach the credentials from task_struct"
(commit f1752eec).
Signed-off-by: NLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md: Ensure an md array never has too many devices.
  md: Fix a bug in linear.c causing which_dev() to return the wrong device.
  md: Allow read error in a single drive raid1 to be passed up.

Each different metadata format supported by md supports a
different maximum number of devices.
We really should be enforcing this maximum in the kernel, but
we aren't quite doing that properly.

We currently only enforce it at the 'hot_add' point, which is an
older interface which is not used by current userspace.

We need to also enforce it at 'add_new_disk' time for active arrays
and at 'do_md_run' time when starting a new array.

So move the test from 'hot_add' into 'bind_rdev_to_array' which is
called from both 'hot_add' and 'add_new_disk, and add a new
test in 'analyse_sbs' which is called from 'do_md_run'.

This bug (or missing feature) has been around "forever" and so
the patch is suitable for any -stable that is currently maintained.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

ab5bd5cb introduced the following
bug in linear software raid for large arrays on 32 bit machines:

which_dev() computes the device holding a given sector by shifting
down the sector number to a 32 bit range, dividing by the array
spacing and looking up the resulting index in the hash table of
the array.

Because the computed index might be slightly too small, a loop at
the end of which_dev() increases the index until the given sector
actually falls into the range of the device associated with that index.

The changes of the above mentioned commit caused this loop to check
whether the _index_ rather than the sector number is small enough,
effectively bypassing the loop and thus possibly returning the wrong
device.

As reported by Simon Kirby, this leads to errors such as

	linear_make_request: Sector 2340486136 out of bounds on dev sdi: 156301312 sectors, offset 2109870464

Fix this bug by introducing a local variable for the index so that
the variable containing the passed sector is left unchanged.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NAndre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

If a raid1 only has a single working device and gets a read error, 
we choose to simply return that error up to the filesystem (or whatever)
rather than failing the whole array.

However the codes doesn't quite do that.  We attempt a readbalance
which allocates the same drive, so we retry the read - indefinitely. 

Instead:  If read_balance in the error case chooses the same drive that just
failed, treat it as a failure and don't retry.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

Prevent kprobes from catching spurious faults which will cause infinite
recursive page-fault and memory corruption by stack overflow.
Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

... and yes, gcc is insane enough to eat that without complaint.
We probably want sparse to scream on those...
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2:
  Revert "configfs: Silence lockdep on mkdir(), rmdir() and configfs_depend_item()"

* 'sh/for-2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6:
  sh: Fix up T-bit error handling in SH-4A mutex fastpath.
  sh: Fix up spurious syscall restarting.
  sh: fcnvds fix with denormalized numbers on SH-4 FPU.
  sh: Only reserve memory under CONFIG_ZERO_PAGE_OFFSET when it != 0.
  sh: Handle calling csum_partial with misaligned data
  sh: ap325rxa: Enable ov772x in defconfig.
  sh: ap325rxa: Add ov772x support.
  sh: ap325rxa: control camera power toggling.
  sh: mach-migor: Enable ov772x and tw9910 in defconfig.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  Revert "tcp: Always set urgent pointer if it's beyond snd_nxt"
  ipv6: Copy cork options in ip6_append_data
  udp: Fix UDP short packet false positive
  gianfar: Fix potential soft reset race
  gianfar: Fix BD_LENGTH_MASK definition
  cxgb3: Fix lro switch
  iwlwifi: save PCI state before suspend, restore after resume
  iwlwifi: clean key table in iwl_clear_stations_table

This reverts commit 64ff3b93.

Jeff Chua reports that it breaks rlogin for him.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

As the options passed to ip6_append_data may be ephemeral, we need
to duplicate it for corking.  This patch applies the simplest fix
which is to memdup all the relevant bits.
Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The UDP header pointer assignment must happen after calling
pskb_may_pull().  As pskb_may_pull() can potentially alter the SKB
buffer.

This was exposted by running multicast traffic through the NIU driver,
as it won't prepull the protocol headers into the linear area on
receive.
Signed-off-by: NJesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

lseek() further than length of the file will leave stale ->index
(second-to-last during iteration). Next seq_read() will not notice
that ->f_pos is big enough to return 0, but will print last item
as if ->f_pos is pointing to it.

Introduced in commit cb510b81
aka "seq_file: more atomicity in traverse()".
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

In 2.6.25 some /proc files were converted to use the seq_file
infrastructure.  But seq_files do not correctly support pread(), which
broke some usersapce applications.

To handle pread correctly we can't assume that f_pos is where we left it
in seq_read.  So move traverse() so that we can eventually use it in
seq_read and do thus some day support pread().
Signed-off-by: NEric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

A missing type cast results in writing way beyond the end of a kzalloc()'d
memory segment resulting in slab corruption. But it seems like the better
solution is to define ->recv_msg_slots as a 'void *' rather than a
'struct xpc_notify_mq_msg_uv *' and add the type cast.
Signed-off-by: NDean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Do usual do {} while (0) dance, otherwise

fs/gfs2/util.c:99: error: expected expression before 'else'
drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c:363: error: expected expression before 'else'
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NIvan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

If we return directly with -EPERM then lock_kernel() is still held.

This was found with a code checker (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git/).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix another such path - missed func_exit()]
Signed-off-by: NDan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fix namespace violations by changing non-kconfig CONFIG_ names to CNFG_*.

Fixes breakage in staging/, which adds a real CONFIG_PANEL.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1390.c:125: warning: unused variable 'rtc'
Signed-off-by: NManish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAlessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Currently both da903x backlight and voltage reulator drivers have the
same name. Rename the backlight driver to allow use of both drivers as
modules.
Signed-off-by: NMike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il>
Acked-by: NEric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The ssc pointer is not valid when the id is not found in the list.
Convert the message from a debug one into an error message and avoid
dereferencing the bad pointer.
Signed-off-by: NHans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NHaavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fix do_wp_page for VM_MIXEDMAP mappings.

In the case where pfn_valid returns 0 for a pfn at the beginning of
do_wp_page and the mapping is not shared writable, the code branches to
label `gotten:' with old_page == NULL.

In case the vma is locked (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED), lock_page,
clear_page_mlock, and unlock_page try to access the old_page.

This patch checks whether old_page is valid before it is dereferenced.

The regression was introduced by "mlock: mlocked pages are unevictable"
(commit b291f000).
Signed-off-by: NCarsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

With exclusive waiters, every process woken up through the wait queue must
ensure that the next waiter down the line is woken when it has finished.

Interruptible waiters don't do that when aborting due to a signal.  And if
an aborting waiter is concurrently woken up through the waitqueue, noone
will ever wake up the next waiter.

This has been observed with __wait_on_bit_lock() used by
lock_page_killable(): the first contender on the queue was aborting when
the actual lock holder woke it up concurrently.  The aborted contender
didn't acquire the lock and therefor never did an unlock followed by
waking up the next waiter.

Add abort_exclusive_wait() which removes the process' wait descriptor from
the waitqueue, iff still queued, or wakes up the next waiter otherwise.
It does so under the waitqueue lock.  Racing with a wake up means the
aborting process is either already woken (removed from the queue) and will
wake up the next waiter, or it will remove itself from the queue and the
concurrent wake up will apply to the next waiter after it.

Use abort_exclusive_wait() in __wait_event_interruptible_exclusive() and
__wait_on_bit_lock() when they were interrupted by other means than a wake
up through the queue.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Reported-by: NChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Mentored-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		["after some testing"]
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

I got the "list is moderated message," so add it here.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add support for the HP laptops of model 6710x for having correctly setup
axes.
Signed-off-by: NMartin Kebert <gkmarty@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NEric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Acked-by: NPavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add support for the HP laptops of model 6730x for having correctly setup
axes.
Signed-off-by: NPavel Herrmann <morpheus.ibis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NEric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Acked-by: NPavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add support for the HP laptops of model 6530x for having correctly setup
axes.
Reported-by: NJerome Poulin <jeromepoulin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NEric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Acked-by: NPavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

According to dmesg my laptop model HP 6510b is not being recognized by this
driver. After I have modified "lis3lv02d.c" axes in Neverball are OK.
Signed-off-by: NJiri Tersel <tersel@mail.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: NEric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Acked-by: NPavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The error-path code can call rfkill_unregister() with a pointer which does
not contain the result of a call to rfkill_register().  It goes BUG().

Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12560.

Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: NHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Testted-by: NHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Revert commit 0c2d64fb because it causes
(arguably poorly designed) existing userspace to spend interminable
periods closing billions of not-open file descriptors.

We could bring this back, with some sort of opt-in tunable in /proc, which
defaults to "off".

Peter's alanysis follows:

: I spent several hours trying to get to the bottom of a serious
: performance issue that appeared on one of our servers after upgrading to
: 2.6.28.  In the end it's what could be considered a userspace bug that
: was triggered by a change in 2.6.28.  Since this might also affect other
: people I figured I'd at least document what I found here, and maybe we
: can even do something about it:
:
:
: So, I upgraded some of debian.org's machines to 2.6.28.1 and immediately
: the team maintaining our ftp archive complained that one of their
: scripts that previously ran in a few minutes still hadn't even come
: close to being done after an hour or so.  Downgrading to 2.6.27 fixed
: that.
:
: Turns out that script is forking a lot and something in it or python or
: whereever closes all the file descriptors it doesn't want to pass on.
: That is, it starts at zero and goes up to ulimit -n/RLIMIT_NOFILE and
: closes them all with a few exceptions.
:
: Turns out that takes a long time when your limit -n is now 2^20 (1048576).
:
: With 2.6.27.* the ulimit -n was the standard 1024, but with 2.6.28 it is
: now a thousand times that.
:
: 2.6.28 included a patch titled "rlimit: permit setting RLIMIT_NOFILE to
: RLIM_INFINITY" (0c2d64fb)[1] that
: allows, as the title implies, to set the limit for number of files to
: infinity.
:
: Closer investigation showed that the broken default ulimit did not apply
: to "system" processes (like stuff started from init).  In the end I
: could establish that all processes that passed through pam_limit at one
: point had the bad resource limit.
:
: Apparently the pam library in Debian etch (4.0) initializes the limits
: to some default values when it doesn't have any settings in limit.conf
: to override them.  Turns out that for nofiles this is RLIM_INFINITY.
: Commenting out "case RLIMIT_NOFILE" in pam_limit.c:267 of our pam
: package version 0.79-5 fixes that - tho I'm not sure what side effects
: that has.
:
: Debian lenny (the upcoming 5.0 version) doesn't have this issue as it
: uses a different pam (version).
Reported-by: NPeter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>
Cc: Adam Tkac <vonsch@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

shm_get_stat() assumes that the inode is a "struct shmem_inode_info",
which is incorrect for !CONFIG_SHMEM (see fs/ramfs/inode.c:
ramfs_get_inode() vs.  mm/shmem.c: shmem_get_inode()).

This bad assumption can cause shmctl(SHM_INFO) to lockup when
shm_get_stat() tries to spin_lock(&info->lock).  Users of !CONFIG_SHMEM
may encounter this lockup simply by invoking the 'ipcs' command.

Reported by Jiri Olsa back in February 2008:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/29/74Signed-off-by: NTony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reported-by: NJiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.everything]
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Avoid calling copy_from/to_user() with fb_info->lock mutex held in fbmem
ioctl().

fb_mmap() is called under mm->mmap_sem (A) held, that also acquires
fb_info->lock (B); fb_ioctl() takes fb_info->lock (B) and does
copy_from/to_user() that might acquire mm->mmap_sem (A), causing a
deadlock.

NOTE: it doesn't push down the fb_info->lock in each own driver's
fb_ioctl(), so there are still potential deadlocks elsewhere.
Signed-off-by: NAndrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Simple RTC driver for the MSP430 firmware on the DM355 EVM board.  Other
than not supporting atomic reads/writes of all four bytes, this is
reasonable as a basic no-alarm RTC.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NKevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
Acked-by: NAlessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

dell-laptop makes use of the power supply class information to choose
which backlight interface to change. Add a depends on it.
Signed-off-by: NMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The swap() macro is accidentally retuning the value of its first argument.
Change it into a doesn't-return-anything macro before someone goes and
relies upon this behaviour.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The device can take a while to respond to an open/close request, so
increase the time kernel will wait for response (1 ms to 10ms).

Also, properly clean up a channel on a failed open, by calling the channel
close routine.  Just freeing the memory isn't sufficient, the device needs
to be informed that the channel is no longer open, and the device memory
cleared of references to freed dma buffer.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Altobelli <david.altobelli@hp.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

alpha:

kernel/async.c: In function 'run_one_entry':
kernel/async.c:141: warning: format '%lli' expects type 'long long int', but argument 2 has type 'async_cookie_t'
kernel/async.c:149: warning: format '%lli' expects type 'long long int', but argument 2 has type 'async_cookie_t'
kernel/async.c:149: warning: format '%lld' expects type 'long long int', but argument 4 has type 's64'
kernel/async.c: In function 'async_synchronize_cookie_special':
kernel/async.c:250: warning: format '%lli' expects type 'long long int', but argument 3 has type 's64'

Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

SOFT_RESET must be asserted for at least 3 TX clocks in order for it to work
properly.  The syncs in the gfar_write() commands have been hiding this, but
we need to guarantee it.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>