- Operations are now a shared const function block as with most other Linux
  objects

- Introduce wrappers for some optional functions to get consistent behaviour

- Wrap put_char which used to be patched by the tty layer

- Document which functions are needed/optional

- Make put_char report success/fail

- Cache the driver->ops pointer in the tty as tty->ops

- Remove various surplus lock calls we no longer need

- Remove proc_write method as noted by Alexey Dobriyan

- Introduce some missing sanity checks where certain driver/ldisc
  combinations would oops as they didn't check needed methods were present

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/compat_ioctl.c build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix isicom]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/ia64/hp/sim/simserial.c build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kgdb]
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This fixes the last couple of pid struct locking failures I know about.

[oleg@tv-sign.ru: clean up do_task_stat()]
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Historically tty->pgrp and friends were pid_t and the code "knew" they were
safe.  The change to pid structs opened up a few races and the removal of the
BKL in places made them quite hittable.  We put tty->pgrp under the ctrl_lock
for the tty.
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

- Push the BKL down into the line disciplines
- Switch the tty layer to unlocked_ioctl
- Introduce a new ctrl_lock spin lock for the control bits
- Eliminate much of the lock_kernel use in n_tty
- Prepare to (but don't yet) call the drivers with the lock dropped
  on the paths that historically held the lock

BKL now primarily protects open/close/ldisc change in the tty layer

[jirislaby@gmail.com: a couple of fixes]
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add another trivial helper for the sake of grep.  It also auto-documents the
fact that ->parent != real_parent implies ->ptrace.

No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: NRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Change all the #ifdef TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK conditionals in non-arch code to
#ifdef HAVE_SET_RESTORE_SIGMASK.  If arch code defines it first, the generic
set_restore_sigmask() using TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK is not defined.
Signed-off-by: NRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Set TIF_SIGPENDING in set_restore_sigmask.  This lets arch code take
TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK out of the set of bits that will be noticed on return to
user mode.  On some machines those bits are scarce, and we can free this
unneeded one up for other uses.

It is probably the case that TIF_SIGPENDING is always set anyway everywhere
set_restore_sigmask() is used.  But this is some cheap paranoia in case there
is an arcane case where it might not be.
Signed-off-by: NRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This adds the set_restore_sigmask() inline in <linux/thread_info.h> and
replaces every set_thread_flag(TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK) with a call to it.  No
change, but abstracts the details of the flag protocol from all the calls.
Signed-off-by: NRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The global init has a lot of long standing problems with the unhandled fatal
signals.

	- The "is_global_init(current)" check in get_signal_to_deliver()
	  protects only the main thread. Sub-thread can dequee the fatal
	  signal and shutdown the whole thread group except the main thread.
	  If it dequeues SIGSTOP /sbin/init will be stopped, this is not
	  right too. Note that we can't use is_global_init(->group_leader),
	  this breaks exec and this can't solve other problems we have.

	- Even if afterwards ignored, the fatal signals sets SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT
	  on delivery. This breaks exec, has other bad implications, and this
	  is just wrong.

Introduce the new SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE flag to fix these problems.  It also helps
to solve some other problems addressed by the subsequent patches.

Currently we use this flag for the global init only, but it could also be used
by kthreads and (perhaps) by the sub-namespace inits.
Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: N"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

We export send_sigqueue() and send_group_sigqueue() for the only user,
posix_timer_event().  This is a bit silly, because both are just trivial
helpers on top of do_send_sigqueue() and because the we pass the unused
.si_signo parameter.

Kill them both, rename do_send_sigqueue() to send_sigqueue(), and export it.
Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Previously handle_stop_signal(SIGCONT) could drop ->siglock.  That is why
kill_pid_info(SIGCONT) takes tasklist_lock to make sure the target task can't
go away after unlock.  Not needed now.
Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Based on discussion with Jiri and Roland.

In short: currently handle_stop_signal(SIGCONT, p) sends the notification to
p->parent, with this patch p itself notifies its parent when it becomes
running.

handle_stop_signal(SIGCONT) has to drop ->siglock temporary in order to notify
the parent with do_notify_parent_cldstop().  This leads to multiple problems:

	- as Jiri Kosina pointed out, the stopped task can resume without
	  actually seeing SIGCONT which may have a handler.

	- we race with another sig_kernel_stop() signal which may come in
	  that window.

	- we race with sig_fatal() signals which may set SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT
	  in that window.

	- we can't avoid taking tasklist_lock() while sending SIGCONT.

With this patch handle_stop_signal() just sets the new SIGNAL_CLD_CONTINUED
flag in p->signal->flags and returns.  The notification is sent by the first
task which returns from finish_stop() (there should be at least one) or any
other signalled thread from get_signal_to_deliver().

This is a user-visible change.  Say, currently kill(SIGCONT, stopped_child)
can't return without seeing SIGCHLD, with this patch SIGCHLD can be delayed
unpredictably.  Another difference is that if the child is ptraced by another
process, CLD_CONTINUED may be delivered to ->real_parent after ptrace_detach()
while currently it always goes to the tracer which doesn't actually need this
notification.  Hopefully not a problem.

The patch asks for the futher obvious cleanups, I'll send them separately.
Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Allows a userspace metadata handler to take action upon detecting a device
failure.

Based on an original patch by Neil Brown.

Changes:
-added blocked_wait waitqueue to rdev
-don't qualify Blocked with Faulty always let userspace block writes
-added md_wait_for_blocked_rdev to wait for the block device to be clear, if
 userspace misses the notification another one is sent every 5 seconds
-set MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED after clearing "blocked"
-kill DoBlock flag, just test mddev->external
Signed-off-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Cast the CAP_*_SET macros to be of kernel_cap_t type to avoid compiler
warnings.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

Make secctx_to_secid() take constant secdata.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NCasey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

Move ext4 headers out of include/linux.  This is just the trivial move,
there's some more thing that could be done later. 
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NMingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

Put the big stuff at the end, to prepare for upcoming changes (and
also hopefully achieve nicer packing of remaining members).
Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>

Based on earlier work by Jon Smirl and Jochen Friedrich.

Update most new-style i2c drivers to use standard module aliasing
instead of the old driver_name/type driver matching scheme. I've
left the video drivers apart (except for SoC camera drivers) as
they're a bit more diffcult to deal with, they'll have their own
patch later.
Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>

Based on earlier work by Jon Smirl and Jochen Friedrich.

This patch allows new-style i2c chip drivers to have alias names using
the official kernel aliasing system and MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(). At this
point, the old i2c driver binding scheme (driver_name/type) is still
supported.
Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>

The x1208, pcf8563 and isl1208 RTC drivers have been converted to
new-style i2c drivers, so they no longer use I2C driver IDs.
Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>

Extend the mlx4_cq_resize() API with a way to set the "collapsed" flag
for the CQ being created.
Signed-off-by: NYevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: NRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>

Cast the CAP_*_SET macros to be of kernel_cap_t type to avoid compiler
warnings.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Make secctx_to_secid() take constant secdata.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

spin_is_locked() doesn't work on UP without spinlock debugging. Make it
safer and just return 1 on UP, so we don't get false positives. The plan
is to kill this debug function during the -rc cycle.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The new queue_flag_set/clear() functions verify that the queue is
locked, but in doing so they will actually instead oops if the queue
lock hasn't been initialized at all.

So fix the lock debug test to consider the "no lock" case to be
unlocked.  This way you get a nice WARN_ON_ONCE() instead of a fatal
oops.

Bug introduced by commit 75ad23bc
("block: make queue flags non-atomic").

Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[PATCH 2/2] pci/irq: let pci_device_shutdown to call pci_msi_shutdown v2

this change

| commit 23a274c8
| Author: Prakash, Sathya <sathya.prakash@lsi.com>
| Date:   Fri Mar 7 15:53:21 2008 +0530
|
|     [SCSI] mpt fusion: Enable MSI by default for SAS controllers
|
|     This patch modifies the driver to enable MSI by default for all SAS chips.
|
|     Signed-off-by: Sathya Prakash <sathya.prakash@lsi.com>
|     Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
|
Causes the kexec of a RHEL 5.1 kernel to fail.

root casue: the rhel 5.1 kernel still uses INTx emulation.  and
mptscsih_shutdown doesn't call pci_disable_msi to reenable INTx on kexec path

So call pci_msi_shutdown in the shutdown path to do the same thing to msix
Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@hobbes.lan>

[PATCH 1/2] pci/irq: restore mask_bits in msi shutdown -v3

Yinghai found that kexec'ing a RHEL 5.1 kernel with 2.6.25-rc3+ kernels
prevents his NIC from working.  He bisected to

| commit 89d694b9
| Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| Date:   Mon Feb 18 18:25:17 2008 +0100
|
|   genirq: do not leave interupts enabled on free_irq
|
|   The default_disable() function was changed in commit:
|
|    76d21601
|    genirq: do not mask interrupts by default
|

For MSI, default_shutdown will call mask_bit for msi device.  All mask bits
will left disabled after free_irq.  Then in the kexec case, the next kernel
can only use msi_enable bit, so all device's MSI can not be used.

So lets to restore the mask bit to its pci reset defined value (enabled) when
we disable the kernels use of msi to be a little friendlier to kexec'd kernels.

Extend msi_set_mask_bit to msi_set_mask_bits to take mask, so we can fully
restore that to 0x00 instead of 0xfe.
Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@hobbes.lan>

The mapsize optimizations which were moved from x86 to the generic
code in commit 64970b68 increased the
binary size on non x86 architectures.

Looking into the real effects of the "optimizations" it turned out
that they are not used in find_next_bit() and find_next_zero_bit().

The ones in find_first_bit() and find_first_zero_bit() are used in a
couple of places but none of them is a real hot path.

Remove the "optimizations" all together and call the library functions
unconditionally.

Boot-tested on x86 and compile tested on every cross compiler I have.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The same definitions are used for the bounds logic and the asm-offsets.h
generation by kbuild.  Put them into include/linux/kbuild.h file.

Also add a new feature

	COMMENT("text")

which can be used to insert lines of ocmments into asm-offsets.h and
bounds.h.

Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jay Estabrook <jay.estabrook@hp.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Create a linux/unaligned directory similar in spirit to the linux/byteorder
folder to hold generic implementations collected from various arches.

Currently there are five implementations:
1) packed_struct.h: C-struct based, from asm-generic/unaligned.h
2) le_byteshift.h: Open coded byte-swapping, heavily based on asm-arm
3) be_byteshift.h: Open coded byte-swapping, heavily based on asm-arm
4) memmove.h: taken from multiple implementations in tree
5) access_ok.h: taken from x86 and others, unaligned access is ok.

All of the new implementations checks for sizes not equal to 1,2,4,8
and will fail to link.

API additions:

get_unaligned_{le16|le32|le64|be16|be32|be64}(p) which is meant to replace
code of the form:
le16_to_cpu(get_unaligned((__le16 *)p));

put_unaligned_{le16|le32|le64|be16|be32|be64}(val, pointer) which is meant to
replace code of the form:
put_unaligned(cpu_to_le16(val), (__le16 *)p);

The headers that arches should include from their asm/unaligned.h:

access_ok.h : Wrappers of the byteswapping functions in asm/byteorder

Choose a particular implementation for little-endian access:
le_byteshift.h
le_memmove.h (arch must be LE)
le_struct.h (arch must be LE)

Choose a particular implementation for big-endian access:
be_byteshift.h
be_memmove.h (arch must be BE)
be_struct.h (arch must be BE)

After including as needed from the above, include unaligned/generic.h and
define your arch's get/put_unaligned as (for LE):
Signed-off-by: NHarvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Since <linux/sysv_fs.h> isn't exported to userspace, there is little
point checking that this is a GNU-compatible compiler.
Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Acked-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

I implemented opstate_init() as a inline function in linux/edac.h.

added calling opstate_init() to:
	i82443bxgx_edac.c
	i82860_edac.c
	i82875p_edac.c
	i82975x_edac.c

I wrote a fixed patch of
edac-fix-module-initialization-on-several-modules.patch,
and tested building 2.6.25-rc7 with applying this. It was succeed.
I think the patch is now correct.

Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NHitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDoug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Avoid a possible kmem_cache_create() failure by creating idr_layer_cache
unconditionary at boot time rather than creating it on-demand when idr_init()
is called the first time.

This change also enables us to eliminate the check every time idr_init() is
called.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rename init_id_cache() to idr_init_cache()]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix alpha build]
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Since <linux/compiler.h> already tests for __GNUC__, there's no point in nbd.h
repeating that test.
Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patch allows Network Block Device to be mounted locally (nbd-client to
nbd-server over 127.0.0.1).

It creates a kthread to avoid the deadlock described in NBD tools
documentation.  So, if nbd-client hangs waiting for pages, the kblockd thread
can continue its work and free pages.

I have tested the patch to verify that it avoids the hang that always occurs
when writing to a localhost nbd connection.  I have also tested to verify that
no performance degradation results from the additional thread and queue.

Patch originally from Laurent Vivier.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: NLaurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When reading from/writing to some table, a root, which this table came from,
may affect this table's permissions, depending on who is working with the
table.

The core hunk is at the bottom of this patch.  All the rest is just pushing
the ctl_table_root argument up to the sysctl_perm() function.

This will be mostly (only?) used in the net sysctls.
Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The do_sysctl_strategy isn't used outside kernel/sysctl.c, so this can be
static and without a prototype in header.

Besides, move this one and parse_table() above their callers and drop the
forward declarations of the latter call.

One more "besides" - fix two checkpatch warnings: space before a ( and an
extra space at the end of a line.
Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Remove an empty #else.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>