Following should be fixed in your driver-core/driver-core-next.

From: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This oops was reported recently:
firmware_loading_store+0xf9/0x17b
dev_attr_store+0x20/0x22
sysfs_write_file+0x101/0x134
vfs_write+0xac/0xf3
sys_write+0x4a/0x6e
system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

The complete backtrace was unfortunately not captured, but details can be found
here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=769920

The cause is fairly clear.

Its caused by the fact that firmware_loading_store has a case 0 in its
switch statement that reads and writes the fw_priv->fw poniter without the
protection of the fw_lock mutex.  since there is a window between the time that
_request_firmware sets fw_priv->fw to NULL and the time the corresponding sysfs
file is unregistered, its possible for a user space application to race in, and
write a zero to the loading file, causing a NULL dereference in
firmware_loading_store.  Fix it by extending the protection of the fw_lock mutex
to cover all of the firware_loading_store function.
Signed-off-by: NNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The function vmbus_exists() was introduced recently to deal with cases where
the vmbus driver failed to initialize and yet other Hyper-V drivers attempted
to register with the vmbus bus driver. This patch introduced a bug where
vmbus_driver_unregister() would fail to unregister the driver. This patch
fixes the problem.
Signed-off-by: NK. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: NFuzhou Chen <fuzhouch@microsoft.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

With the conversion of the sysdev to a real struct device, more drivers
are calling device_create_file, and some of them don't check the return
value, which isn't wise.

But as they happen to be in parts of the kernel where a warning is
considered an error (i.e. powerpc), this breaks the build.  So for now,
remove the marking on the function, which fixes the build problems.
Reported-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

"debugfs: add tools to printk 32-bit registers" adds new functions which rely
on IOMEM functionality which is not present on all architectures and therefore
result in compile errors:

fs/debugfs/file.c: In function 'debugfs_print_regs32':
fs/debugfs/file.c:561:7: error: implicit declaration of function 'readl' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

Add an #ifdef CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM to fix this
Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NAlessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

According to Russell King, this isn't needed anymore, so just remove it.
Reported-by: NRussell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Cc: Boojin Kim <boojin.kim@samsung.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The sysdev.h file should not be needed by any in-kernel code, so remove
the .h file from these random files that seem to still want to include
it.

The sysdev code will be going away soon, so this include needs to be
removed no matter what.

Cc: Jiandong Zheng <jdzheng@broadcom.com>
Cc: Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
Cc: David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
Cc: Bryan Huntsman <bryanh@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Cc: Wan ZongShun <mcuos.com@gmail.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: "Venkatesh Pallipadi
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>

This isn't needed in the clockevents.c file, and the header file is
going away soon, so just remove the #include

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.

Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Cc: Boojin Kim <boojin.kim@samsung.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.

Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Now that there are no in-kernel users of this function, remove it as it
is no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.

Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.

Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cc: Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com>
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.

Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.

Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.

Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.

Cc: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.

Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This moves the 'memory sysdev_class' over to a regular 'memory' subsystem
and converts the devices to regular devices. The sysdev drivers are
implemented as subsystem interfaces now.

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This moves the 'cpu sysdev_class' over to a regular 'cpu' subsystem
and converts the devices to regular devices. The sysdev drivers are
implemented as subsystem interfaces now.

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.

Userspace relies on events and generic sysfs subsystem infrastructure
from sysdev devices, which are made available with this conversion.

Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This adds the needed include file for xen-selfballoon.c to fix the build
error reported by Stephen Rothwell.
Reported-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.

Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.

Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.

Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.

Cc: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

All sysdev classes and sysdev devices will converted to regular devices
and buses to properly hook userspace into the event processing.

There is no interesting difference between a 'sysdev' and 'device' which
would justify to roll an entire own subsystem with different userspace
export semantics. Userspace relies on events and generic sysfs subsystem
infrastructure from sysdev devices, which are currently not properly
available.

Every converted sysdev class will create a regular device with the class
name in /sys/devices/system and all registered devices will becom a children
of theses devices.

For compatibility reasons, the sysdev class-wide attributes are created
at this parent device. (Do not copy that logic for anything new, subsystem-
wide properties belong to the subsystem, not to some fake parent device
created in /sys/devices.)

Every sysdev driver is implemented as a simple subsystem interface now,
and no longer called a driver.

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

It turns out that some memory allocators use kobjects, which use krefs,
and kref.h was wanting to figure out the address of kfree(), which ended
up in a loop.

kfree was only being needed for a warning to tell the caller that they
were doing something stupid.  Now we just move that warning into the
comments for the functions, which results in a bit more fun as everyone
enjoys digging for people to mock at times of boredom.

So, remove the dependancy of slab.h on kref.h, and fix up the other
include file as well (we really only need bug.h and atomic.h, not
types.h).
Reported-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Commit 1b0b3b99 ("kref: fix CPU ordering with respect to krefs")
wrongly adds memory barriers to kref.

It states:

  some atomic operations are only atomic, not ordered. Thus a CPU is allowed
  to reorder memory references to an object to before the reference is
  obtained. This fixes it.

While true, it fails to show why this is a problem. I say it is not a
problem because if there is a race with kref_put() such that we could
end up referencing a free'd object without this memory barrier, we
would still have that race with the memory barrier.

The kref_put() in question could complete (and free the object) before
the atomic_inc() and we'd still be up shit creek.

The kref_init() case is even worse, if your object is published at this
time you're so wrong the memory barrier won't make a difference what
so ever. If its not published, the act of publishing should include
the needed barriers/locks to make sure all writes prior to the act of
publishing are complete such that others will only observe a complete
object.

Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Less lines of code is better.

Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

These are tiny functions, there's no point in having them out-of-line.

Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8eccvi2ur2fzgi00xdjlbf5z@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

In preparation for eventually supporting kexec in Linux VMs on Hyper-V,
get rid of an unnecessary check in hv_init().
Signed-off-by: NK. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: NHaiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

It turns out that the vmbus driver can be made unloadable. Make it
unloadable.
Signed-off-by: NK. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: NHaiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

There was a memory leak in a failure path in vmbus_process_offer().
Fix it.
Signed-off-by: NK. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: NHaiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The Japanese/Korean/Chinese versions still need updating.

Also, the stable kernel 2.6.x.y descriptions are out of date
and should be updated as well.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The old address hasn't worked since the great intrusion of August 2011.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This enables a much more efficient way of device searching. It uses the
1-wire read-rom operation which allows the direct reading of the slave
address. BUT this works only with exactly one slave on the bus.
Signed-off-by: NHubert Feurstein <h.feurstein@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NEvgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>

index c374978..9761950 100644
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Most network namespaces unlikely have listeners to uevents, and should
benefit from skipping all the string copies.

Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>