Yesterday, I got the following error with 2.6.16.13 during a file copy from
a smb filesystem over a wireless link.  I guess there was some error on the
wireless link, which in turn caused an error condition for the smb
filesystem.

In the log, smb_file_read reports error=4294966784 (0xfffffe00), which also
shows up in the slab dumps, and also is -ERESTARTSYS.  Error code 27499
corresponds to 0x6b6b, so the rq_errno field seems to be the only one being
set after freeing the slab.

In smb_add_request (which is the only place in smbfs where I found
ERESTARTSYS), I found the following:

        if (!timeleft || signal_pending(current)) {
                /*
                 * On timeout or on interrupt we want to try and remove the
                 * request from the recvq/xmitq.
                 */
                smb_lock_server(server);
                if (!(req->rq_flags & SMB_REQ_RECEIVED)) {
                        list_del_init(&req->rq_queue);
                        smb_rput(req);
                }
                smb_unlock_server(server);
        }
	[...]
        if (signal_pending(current))
                req->rq_errno = -ERESTARTSYS;

I guess that some codepath like smbiod_flush() caused the request to be
removed from the queue, and smb_rput(req) be called, without
SMB_REQ_RECEIVED being set.  This violates an asumption made by the quoted
code.

Then, the above code calls smb_rput(req) again, the req gets freed, and
req->rq_errno = -ERESTARTSYS writes into the already freed slab.  As
list_del_init doesn't cause an error if called multiple times, that does
cause the observed behaviour (freed slab with rq_errno=-ERESTARTSYS).

If this observation is correct, the following patch should fix it.

I wonder why the smb code uses list_del_init everywhere - using list_del
instead would catch such situations by poisoning the next and prev
pointers.

May  4 23:29:21 knautsch kernel: [17180085.456000] ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
May  4 23:29:21 knautsch kernel: [17180085.456000] ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log captured.
May  4 23:33:02 knautsch kernel: [17180306.316000] ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
May  4 23:33:02 knautsch kernel: [17180306.316000] ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
May  4 23:33:02 knautsch kernel: [17180306.968000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:34:18 knautsch kernel: [17180383.256000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:34:18 knautsch kernel: [17180383.284000] SMB connection re-established (-5)
May  4 23:37:19 knautsch kernel: [17180563.956000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:40:09 knautsch kernel: [17180733.636000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:40:26 knautsch kernel: [17180750.700000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:43:02 knautsch kernel: [17180907.304000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:43:08 knautsch kernel: [17180912.324000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] smb_errno: class Unknown, code 27499 from command 0x6b
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] Slab corruption: start=c4ebe09c, len=244
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] Last user: [<e087b903>](smb_rput+0x53/0x90 [smbfs])
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] 0f0: 00 fe ff ff
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] Next obj: start=c4ebe19c, len=244
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] Last user: [<00000000>](_stext+0x3feffde0/0x30)
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] 010: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.460000] SMB connection re-established (-5)
May  4 23:43:42 knautsch kernel: [17180946.292000] ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
May  4 23:43:42 knautsch kernel: [17180946.292000] ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
May  4 23:45:04 knautsch kernel: [17181028.752000] ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
May  4 23:45:04 knautsch kernel: [17181028.752000] ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
May  4 23:45:05 knautsch kernel: [17181029.868000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] smb_errno: class Unknown, code 27499 from command 0x6b
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] Slab corruption: start=c4ebe09c, len=244
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] Last user: [<e087b903>](smb_rput+0x53/0x90 [smbfs])
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] 0f0: 00 fe ff ff
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] Next obj: start=c4ebe19c, len=244
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] Last user: [<00000000>](_stext+0x3feffde0/0x30)
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] 010: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181061.024000] SMB connection re-established (-5)
May  4 23:46:17 knautsch kernel: [17181102.132000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] smb_errno: class Unknown, code 27499 from command 0x6b
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] Slab corruption: start=c4ebe09c, len=244
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] Last user: [<e087b903>](smb_rput+0x53/0x90 [smbfs])
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] 0f0: 00 fe ff ff
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] Next obj: start=c4ebe19c, len=244
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] Last user: [<00000000>](_stext+0x3feffde0/0x30)
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] 010: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.492000] SMB connection re-established (-5)
May  4 23:49:20 knautsch kernel: [17181284.828000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:49:39 knautsch kernel: [17181303.896000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
Signed-off-by: NJan Niehusmann <jan@gondor.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Even since a previous patch:

Fix race between CONFIG_DEBUG_SLABALLOC and modules
Sun, 27 Jun 2004 17:55:19 +0000 (17:55 +0000)
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=92b3db26d31cf21b70e3c1eadc56c179506d8fbe

The function symbol_put_addr() will deadlock the kernel.

symbol_put_addr() would acquire modlist_lock, then while holding the lock call
two functions kernel_text_address() and module_text_address() which also try
to acquire the same lock.  This deadlocks the kernel of course.

This patch changes symbol_put_addr() to not acquire the modlist_lock, it
doesn't need it since it never looks at the module list directly.  Also, it
now uses core_kernel_text() instead of kernel_text_address().  The latter has
an additional check for addr inside a module, but we don't need to do that
since we call module_text_address() (the same function kernel_text_address
uses) ourselves.
Signed-off-by: NTrent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@fsmlabs.com>
Acked-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Add new vmsplice system call and add missing __NR_xxx defines for
sys_set_robust_list, sys_get_robust_list, sys_splice, sys_sync_file_range
and sys_tee.
Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Copy the filenames of hardlinks when inserting them into the hash, since
the "name" pointer may point to scratch space (name_buf).  Not doing so
results in corruption if the scratch space is later overwritten: the wrong
file may be hardlinked, or, if the scratch space contains garbage, the link
will fail and a 0-byte file will be created instead.
Signed-off-by: NMark Huang <mlhuang@cs.princeton.edu>
Acked-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

While debugging why our LCS emulator is having some problems I noticed the
following weirdness in drivers/s390/net/lcs.c routine lcs_irq.  The `if'
statement is always true since SCHN_STAT_PCI is defined as 0x80.

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

As pointed out in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6490, this
function can experience overflows on 32-bit machines, causing our response to
changed values of min_free_kbytes to go whacky.

Fixing it efficiently is all too hard, so fix it with 64-bit math instead.

Cc: Ake Sandgren <ake.sandgren@hpc2n.umu.se>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Exploit rcu_needs_cpu() interface to keep the cpu 'ticking' if necessary.
Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

With "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>

Introduce rcu_needs_cpu() interface.  This can be used to tell if there
will be a new rcu batch on a cpu soon by looking at the curlist pointer.
This can be used to avoid to enter a tickless idle state where the cpu
would miss that a new batch is ready when rcu_start_batch would be called
on a different cpu.
Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Mark Moseley reported that a chroot environment on a SMB share can be left
via "cd ..\\".  Similar to CVE-2006-1863 issue with cifs, this fix is for
smbfs.

Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> wrote:

Looks fine to me.  This should catch the slash on lookup or equivalent,
which will be all obvious paths of interest.
Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

An earlier commit (75cf7456) changed an
overly-zealous PCI quirk to only poke those VIA devices that need it.
However, some PCI devices were not included in what I hope is now the full
list.  Consequently we're failing to run the quirk on all machines which need
it, causing IRQ routing failures.

This should I hope correct this.

Thanks to Masoud Sharbiani <masouds@masoud.ir> for pointing this out
and testing the fix.
Signed-off-by: NChris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Fix some NULL dereferences in the pcmcia code when using old userland
tools.
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: NDominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The TIS driver is dependent upon information from the ACPI table for device
discovery thus it compiles but does no actual work without this dependency.
Signed-off-by: NKylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

I am having the bug FATAL: Error inserting capi ([..]/capi.ko): Device or
resource busy when I try to reload capi after loading it.  in dmesg:
capi20: unable to get major 68

Fix the issue which is caused by setting the major to zero when registering
the chrdev succeeded.

(akpm: this means that we can again not use `major=0' (dynamic major
allocation) for this driver).

Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch fixes two problems.

First, the comparison of entries in the waitq.c was incorrect.

Second, the NFY_NONE check was incorrect. The test of whether the dentry
is mounted if ineffective, for example, if an expire fails then we could
wait forever on a non existant expire. The bug was identified by Jeff
Moyer.

The patch changes autofs4 to wait on expires only as this is all that's
needed.  If there is no existing wait when autofs4_wait is call with a type
of NFY_NONE it delays until either a wait appears or the the expire flag is
cleared.
Signed-off-by: NIan Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Remove the unused EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sys_openat).
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Check for NULL kmalloc return value before writing to it.
Signed-off-by: NSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This reverts commit 10dbe196.

The resource struct is still 32-bit, so trying to save a 64-bit memory
size there obviously won't work.

When we merge the 64-bit resource series, we can re-enable this.

Thanks to Sachin Sant and Maneesh Soni for debugging

Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Sharyathi Nagesh <sharyath@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Make sure to clear the driverfs_dev pointer when we do del_gendisk() (on
disk removal), so that other users that may still have a ref to the disk
won't try to use the stale pointer.

Also move the KOBJ_REMOVE uevent handler up, so that the uevent still
has access to the driverfs_dev data.

This all should hopefully fix the problems with MMC umounts after device
removals that caused commit 56cf6504 and
its reversal (1a2acc9e).

Original problem reported by Todd Blumer and others.
Acked-by: NGreg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
Cc: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Cc: Todd Blumer <todd@sdgsystems.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  [NEIGH]: Fix IP-over-ATM and ARP interaction.
  [TG3]: ethtool always report port is TP.

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  [SPARC]: Fix warning on prom_getproperty in openprom.c
  [SPARC]: Handle UNWIND_INFO properly.
  [SPARC64]: Update defconfig.
  [SPARC]: show device name in /proc/dvma_map
  [SPARC]: Remove duplicate symbol exports

Fix race condition during destruction calls to avoid possibility of
accessing object after it has been freed.  Instead of waking up a wait
queue directly, which is susceptible to a race where the object is
freed between the reference count going to 0 and the wake_up(), use a
completion to wait in the function doing the freeing.
Signed-off-by: NSean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>

The ipath driver's table of PCI IDs needs a { 0, } entry at the end.
This makes all of the device aliases visible to userspace so hotplug
loads the module for all supported devices.  Without the patch,
modinfo ipath_core only shows:

    alias:          pci:v00001FC1d0000000Dsv*sd*bc*sc*i*

instead of the correct:

    alias:          pci:v00001FC1d00000010sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
    alias:          pci:v00001FC1d0000000Dsv*sd*bc*sc*i*
Signed-off-by: NRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: NBryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>

The classical IP over ATM code maintains its own IPv4 <-> <ATM stuff>
ARP table, using the standard neighbour-table code. The
neigh_table_init function adds this neighbour table to a linked list
of all neighbor tables which is used by the functions neigh_delete()
neigh_add() and neightbl_set(), all called by the netlink code.

Once the ATM neighbour table is added to the list, there are two
tables with family == AF_INET there, and ARP entries sent via netlink
go into the first table with matching family. This is indeterminate
and often wrong.

To see the bug, on a kernel with CLIP enabled, create a standard IPv4
ARP entry by pinging an unused address on a local subnet. Then attempt
to complete that entry by doing

ip neigh replace <ip address> lladdr <some mac address> nud reachable

Looking at the ARP tables by using 

ip neigh show

will reveal two ARP entries for the same address. One of these can be
found in /proc/net/arp, and the other in /proc/net/atm/arp.

This patch adds a new function, neigh_table_init_no_netlink() which
does everything the neigh_table_init() does, except add the table to
the netlink all-arp-tables chain. In addition neigh_table_init() has a
check that all tables on the chain have a distinct address family.
The init call in clip.c is changed to call
neigh_table_init_no_netlink().

Since ATM ARP tables are rather more complicated than can currently be
handled by the available rtattrs in the netlink protocol, no
functionality is lost by this patch, and non-ATM ARP manipulation via
netlink is rescued. A more complete solution would involve a rtattr
for ATM ARP entries and some way for the netlink code to give
neigh_add and friends more information than just address family with
which to find the correct ARP table.

[ I've changed the assertion checking in neigh_table_init() to not
  use BUG_ON() while holding neigh_tbl_lock.  Instead we remember that
  we found an existing tbl with the same family, and after dropping
  the lock we'll give a diagnostic kernel log message and a stack dump.
  -DaveM ]
Signed-off-by: NSimon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NMartin Habets <errandir_news@mph.eclipse.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Even with fiber cards ethtool reports that the connected port is TP,
the patch fix this.
Signed-off-by: NKarsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Acked-by: NMichael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

For sparc32 we need R_SPARC_UA32 relocation support, for
sparc64 we need the handle R_SPARC_DISP32 relocations.

Based upon reports and initial patch by Martin Habets.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/i2c-2.6:
  [PATCH] scx200_acb: Fix for the CS5535 errata
  [PATCH] scx200_acb: Fix resource name use after free
  [PATCH] scx200_acb: Fix return on init error

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6:
  [PATCH] USB: fix omninet driver bug
  [PATCH] USB: add ark3116 usb to serial driver
  [PATCH] usbserial: Fixes leak in serial_open() error path.
  [PATCH] usbserial: Fixes use-after-free in serial_open().
  [PATCH] USB: Emagic USB firmware loading fixes
  [PATCH] USB: add an IBM USB keyboard to the HID_QUIRK_NOGET blacklist
  [PATCH] USB: Add Sieraa Wireless 580 evdo card to airprime.c
  [PATCH] USB: ftdi_sio: add device id for ACT Solutions HomePro ZWave interface
  [PATCH] USB: ftdi_sio: Add support for HCG HF Dual ISO RFID Reader
  [PATCH] USB: ub oops in block_uevent
  [PATCH] USB: usbcore: don't check the device's power source
  [PATCH] USB: fix OHCI PM regression
  [PATCH] USB: pegasus fixes (logstorm, suspend)
  [PATCH] USBATM: fix modinfo output
  [PATCH] USBATM: change the default speedtouch iso altsetting
  [PATCH] USB: fix bug in ohci-hcd.c ohci_restart()

This reverts commit 56cf6504.

Both Erik Mouw and Andrew Vasquez independently pinpointed this commit
as causing problems, where the slab cache for a driver is never released
(most obviously causing problems when immediately re-loading that
driver, resulting in a "kmem_cache_create: duplicate cache <xyz>"
message, but it can also cause other trouble).

James Bottomley dug into it, and reports:

  "OK, here's the scoop.  The problem patch adds a get of driverfs_dev in
   add_disk(), but doesn't put it again until disk_release() (which occurs
   on final put_disk() of the gendisk).

   However, in SCSI, the driverfs_dev is the sdev_gendev.  That means
   there's a reference held on sdev_gendev  until final disk put.
   Unfortunately, we use the driver model driver_remove to trigger
   del_gendisk (which removes the gendisk from visibility and decrements
   the refcount), so we've introduced an unbreakable deadlock in the
   reference counting with this.

   I suggest simply reversing this patch at the moment.  If Russell and
   Jens can tell me what they're trying to do I'll see if there's another
   way to do it."

so hereby the patch gets reverted, waiting for a better fix.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
Cc: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

I introduced this way back in 2.6.13 when adding the port lock logic.
This device talks out through different "ports" all at the same time, so
the lock logic was wrong, preventing any data from ever being sent
properly.

Thanks a lot to Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@intevation.de> for being
patient and helping with debugging this.

Cc: Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@intevation.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Based on Simon's original driver, with some minor code cleanups and
tidying by me.

Cc: Simon Schulz <simon@auctionant.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

If serial_open() fails at the port assignment or mutex_lock_interruptible()
is interrupted, the 'serial' object will never be freed.

We should call kref_put() when those errors happens.
Signed-off-by: NLuiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

If the device is disconnected while serial_open() is executing and
either try_module_get() or the device specific open function fails, the
kref_put() call in the 'bailout_kref_put' label will free the memory
pointed out by 'port'.

The subsequent dereferences in the 'bailout_kref_put' label will be
invalid.

The fix is just to assure kref_put() is called after any 'port' usage.
Signed-off-by: NLuiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

It's become apparent as machines get faster that the emagic kernel firmware
loaders (based on the ezusb loader) have a reset race.  a 400MHz TiBook
never tripped it, but a 2GHz Pentium M seems to hit it about 30% of the
time.  The bug is seen as a hung USB box and the kernel error:

drivers/usb/misc/emi62.c: emi62_load_firmware - error loading firmware:
error = -110

The patch below inserts a delay after deasserting reset to allow the box to
settle before a new command is issued.  This affects only device startup.
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

After recent changes, the USB keyboard as shipped with IBM pSeries systems
does not work anymore, unless the keyboard is replugged after reboot.
Adding this model to the blacklist fixes it.
Signed-off-by: NOlaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This adds the Sierra Wireless card to airprime.c.

I tested this on my laptop.
Signed-off-by: NKen Brush <ken@cgi101.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
  [ARM] 3508/1: Update collie defconfig
  [ARM] Fix thread struct allocator for SMP case
  [ARM] Update mach-types
  [ARM] Update versatile_defconfig

* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial:
  [SERIAL] 8250: add locking to console write function
  [SERIAL] Remove unconditional enable of TX irq for console
  [SERIAL] 8250: set divisor register correctly for AMD Alchemy SoC uart
  [SERIAL] AMD Alchemy UART: claim memory range
  [SERIAL] Clean up serial locking when obtaining a reference to a port