- 26 4月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Eric Paris 提交于
The lsm common audit code has wacky contortions making sure which pieces of information are set based on if it was given a path, dentry, or inode. Split this into path and inode to get rid of some of the code complexity. Signed-off-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: NCasey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
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- 25 4月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Andi Kleen 提交于
Right now all RCU walks fall back to reference walk when CONFIG_SECURITY is enabled, even though just the standard capability module is active. This is because security_inode_exec_permission unconditionally fails RCU walks. Move this decision to the low level security module. This requires passing the RCU flags down the security hook. This way at least the capability module and a few easy cases in selinux/smack work with RCU walks with CONFIG_SECURITY=y Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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- 08 3月, 2011 4 次提交
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由 David Howells 提交于
Add a keyctl op (KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE_IOV) that is like KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE, but takes an iovec array and concatenates the data in-kernel into one buffer. Since the KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE copies the data anyway, this isn't too much of a problem. Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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由 David Howells 提交于
Add a new keyctl op to reject a key with a specified error code. This works much the same as negating a key, and so keyctl_negate_key() is made a special case of keyctl_reject_key(). The difference is that keyctl_negate_key() selects ENOKEY as the error to be reported. Typically the key would be rejected with EKEYEXPIRED, EKEYREVOKED or EKEYREJECTED, but this is not mandatory. Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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由 David Howells 提交于
Add a key type operation to permit the key type to vet the description of a new key that key_alloc() is about to allocate. The operation may reject the description if it wishes with an error of its choosing. If it does this, the key will not be allocated. Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: NMimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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由 David Howells 提交于
Add an RCU payload dereference macro as this seems to be a common piece of code amongst key types that use RCU referenced payloads. Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NMimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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- 05 3月, 2011 5 次提交
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由 Andi Kleen 提交于
Add a alloc_page_vma_node that allows passing the "local" node in. Used in a followon patch. Acked-by: NAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Andi Kleen 提交于
Currently alloc_pages_vma() always uses the local node as policy node for the LOCAL policy. Pass this node down as an argument instead. No behaviour change from this patch, but will be needed for followons. Acked-by: NAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Sage Weil 提交于
There was some broken keepalive code using a dead variable. Shift to using the proper bit flag. Signed-off-by: NSage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
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由 Sage Weil 提交于
With commit f363e45f we replaced a bunch of hacky workqueue mutual exclusion logic with the WQ_NON_REENTRANT flag. One pieces of fallout is that the exponential backoff breaks in certain cases: * con_work attempts to connect. * we get an immediate failure, and the socket state change handler queues immediate work. * con_work calls con_fault, we decide to back off, but can't queue delayed work. In this case, we add a BACKOFF bit to make con_work reschedule delayed work next time it runs (which should be immediately). Signed-off-by: NSage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
They are only used inside kernel/ptrace.c, and have been for a long time. We don't want to go back to the bad-old-days when architectures did things on their own, so make them static and private. Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 04 3月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Eric Paris 提交于
The VFS mount code passes the mount options to the LSM. The LSM will remove options it understands from the data and the VFS will then pass the remaining options onto the underlying filesystem. This is how options like the SELinux context= work. The problem comes in that -o remount never calls into LSM code. So if you include an LSM specific option it will get passed to the filesystem and will cause the remount to fail. An example of where this is a problem is the 'seclabel' option. The SELinux LSM hook will print this word in /proc/mounts if the filesystem is being labeled using xattrs. If you pass this word on mount it will be silently stripped and ignored. But if you pass this word on remount the LSM never gets called and it will be passed to the FS. The FS doesn't know what seclabel means and thus should fail the mount. For example an ext3 fs mounted over loop # mount -o loop /tmp/fs /mnt/tmp # cat /proc/mounts | grep /mnt/tmp /dev/loop0 /mnt/tmp ext3 rw,seclabel,relatime,errors=continue,barrier=0,data=ordered 0 0 # mount -o remount /mnt/tmp mount: /mnt/tmp not mounted already, or bad option # dmesg EXT3-fs (loop0): error: unrecognized mount option "seclabel" or missing value This patch passes the remount mount options to an new LSM hook. Signed-off-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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- 03 3月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Tao Ma 提交于
If we enable trace events to trace block actions, We use blk_fill_rwbs_rq to analyze the corresponding actions in request's cmd_flags, but we only choose the minor 2 bits from it, so most of other flags(e.g, REQ_SYNC) are missing. For example, with a sync write we get: write_test-2409 [001] 160.013869: block_rq_insert: 3,64 W 0 () 258135 + = 8 [write_test] Since now we have integrated the flags of both bio and request, it is safe to pass rq->cmd_flags directly to blk_fill_rwbs and blk_fill_rwbs_rq isn't needed any more. With this patch, after a sync write we get: write_test-2417 [000] 226.603878: block_rq_insert: 3,64 WS 0 () 258135 += 8 [write_test] Signed-off-by: NTao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com> Acked-by: NJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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- 02 3月, 2011 3 次提交
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
__blk_run_queue() automatically either calls q->request_fn() directly or schedules kblockd depending on whether the function is recursed. blk-flush implementation needs to be able to explicitly choose kblockd. Add @force_kblockd. All the current users are converted to specify %false for the parameter and this patch doesn't introduce any behavior change. stable: This is prerequisite for fixing ide oops caused by the new blk-flush implementation. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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由 Mark Brown 提交于
ASoC supports keeping the audio subsysetm active over suspend in order to support use cases such as audio passthrough from a cellular modem with the main CPU suspended. Ensure that we don't power down the CODEC when this is happening by checking to see if VMID is up and skipping suspend and resume when it is. If the CODEC has suspended then it'll turn VMID off before the core suspend() gets called. Signed-off-by: NMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: NSamuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
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由 Vivek Goyal 提交于
o Dominik Klein reported a system hang issue while doing some blkio throttling testing. https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/24/173 o Some tracing revealed that CFQ was not dispatching any more jobs as queue unplug was not happening. And queue unplug was not happening because unplug work was not being called as there was one throttling work on same cpu which as not finished yet. And throttling work had not finished as it was tyring to dispatch a bio to CFQ but all the request descriptors were consume to it was put to sleep. o So basically it is a cyclic dependecny between CFQ unplug work and throtl dispatch work. Tejun suggested that use separate workqueue for such cases. o This patch uses a separate workqueue for throttle related work and does not rely on kblockd workqueue anymore. Cc: stable@kernel.org Reported-by: NDominik Klein <dk@in-telegence.net> Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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- 01 3月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Rafael J. Wysocki 提交于
Several ACPI drivers fail to build if CONFIG_NET is unset, because they refer to things depending on CONFIG_THERMAL that in turn depends on CONFIG_NET. However, CONFIG_THERMAL doesn't really need to depend on CONFIG_NET, because the only part of it requiring CONFIG_NET is the netlink interface in thermal_sys.c. Put the netlink interface in thermal_sys.c under #ifdef CONFIG_NET and remove the dependency of CONFIG_THERMAL on CONFIG_NET from drivers/thermal/Kconfig. Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Luming Yu <luming.yu@intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 26 2月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Alexandre Bounine 提交于
Fixes sysfs config attribute to allow access to entire 16MB maintenance space of RapidIO devices. Signed-off-by: NAlexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com> Cc: Thomas Moll <thomas.moll@sysgo.com> Cc: Micha Nelissen <micha@neli.hopto.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 25 2月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Rafael J. Wysocki 提交于
Commit 074037ec (PM / Wakeup: Introduce wakeup source objects and event statistics (v3)) caused ACPI wakeup to only work if CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is set, but it also worked for CONFIG_PM_SLEEP unset before. This can be fixed by making device_set_wakeup_enable(), device_init_wakeup() and device_may_wakeup() work in the same way as before commit 074037ec when CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is unset. Reported-and-tested-by: NJustin Maggard <jmaggard10@gmail.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
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- 24 2月, 2011 2 次提交
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由 NeilBrown 提交于
There are two cases when we call flush_disk. In one, the device has disappeared (check_disk_change) so any data will hold becomes irrelevant. In the oter, the device has changed size (check_disk_size_change) so data we hold may be irrelevant. In both cases it makes sense to discard any 'clean' buffers, so they will be read back from the device if needed. In the former case it makes sense to discard 'dirty' buffers as there will never be anywhere safe to write the data. In the second case it *does*not* make sense to discard dirty buffers as that will lead to file system corruption when you simply enlarge the containing devices. flush_disk calls __invalidate_devices. __invalidate_device calls both invalidate_inodes and invalidate_bdev. invalidate_inodes *does* discard I_DIRTY inodes and this does lead to fs corruption. invalidate_bev *does*not* discard dirty pages, but I don't really care about that at present. So this patch adds a flag to __invalidate_device (calling it __invalidate_device2) to indicate whether dirty buffers should be killed, and this is passed to invalidate_inodes which can choose to skip dirty inodes. flusk_disk then passes true from check_disk_change and false from check_disk_size_change. dm avoids tripping over this problem by calling i_size_write directly rathher than using check_disk_size_change. md does use check_disk_size_change and so is affected. This regression was introduced by commit 608aeef1 which causes check_disk_size_change to call flush_disk, so it is suitable for any kernel since 2.6.27. Cc: stable@kernel.org Acked-by: NJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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由 Miklos Szeredi 提交于
Michael Leun reported that running parallel opens on a fuse filesystem can trigger a "kernel BUG at mm/truncate.c:475" Gurudas Pai reported the same bug on NFS. The reason is, unmap_mapping_range() is not prepared for more than one concurrent invocation per inode. For example: thread1: going through a big range, stops in the middle of a vma and stores the restart address in vm_truncate_count. thread2: comes in with a small (e.g. single page) unmap request on the same vma, somewhere before restart_address, finds that the vma was already unmapped up to the restart address and happily returns without doing anything. Another scenario would be two big unmap requests, both having to restart the unmapping and each one setting vm_truncate_count to its own value. This could go on forever without any of them being able to finish. Truncate and hole punching already serialize with i_mutex. Other callers of unmap_mapping_range() do not, and it's difficult to get i_mutex protection for all callers. In particular ->d_revalidate(), which calls invalidate_inode_pages2_range() in fuse, may be called with or without i_mutex. This patch adds a new mutex to 'struct address_space' to prevent running multiple concurrent unmap_mapping_range() on the same mapping. [ We'll hopefully get rid of all this with the upcoming mm preemptibility series by Peter Zijlstra, the "mm: Remove i_mmap_mutex lockbreak" patch in particular. But that is for 2.6.39 ] Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Reported-by: NMichael Leun <lkml20101129@newton.leun.net> Reported-by: NGurudas Pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com> Tested-by: NGurudas Pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com> Acked-by: NHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 22 2月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Dmitry Torokhov 提交于
We force particular alignment when we generate attribute structures when generation MODULE_VERSION() data and we need to make sure that this alignment is followed when we iterate over these structures, otherwise we may crash on platforms whose natural alignment is not sizeof(void *), such as m68k. Reported-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com> [ There are more issues here, but the fixes are incredibly ugly - Linus ] Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 20 2月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 John Fastabend 提交于
The dcb_app protocol field is a __u32 however the 802.1Qaz specification defines it as a 16 bit field. This patch brings the structure inline with the spec making it a __u16. CC: Shmulik Ravid <shmulikr@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: NJohn Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 19 2月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
When list debugging is enabled, we aim to readably show list corruption errors, and the basic list_add/list_del operations end up having extra debugging code in them to do some basic validation of the list entries. However, "list_del_init()" and "list_move[_tail]()" ended up avoiding the debug code due to how they were written. This fixes that. So the _next_ time we have list_move() problems with stale list entries, we'll hopefully have an easier time finding them.. Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 18 2月, 2011 2 次提交
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由 John Stultz 提交于
This patch re-enables UIE timer/polling emulation for rtc devices that do not support alarm irqs. CC: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reported-by: NUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Tested-by: NUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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由 John Stultz 提交于
Uwe pointed out that my alarm based UIE emulation is not sufficient to replace the older timer/polling based UIE emulation on devices where there is no alarm irq. This causes rtc devices without alarms to return -EINVAL to UIE ioctls. The fix is to re-instate the old timer/polling method for devices without alarm irqs. This patch reverts the following commits: 042620a0 - Remove UIE emulation 1daeddd5 - Cleanup removed UIE emulation declaration b5cc8ca1 - Remove Kconfig symbol for UIE emulation The emulation mode will still need to be wired-in with a following patch before it will work. CC: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reported-by: NUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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- 17 2月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
There are two spellings in use for 'freeze' + 'able' - 'freezable' and 'freezeable'. The former is the more prominent one. The latter is mostly used by workqueue and in a few other odd places. Unify the spelling to 'freezable'. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: N"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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- 16 2月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Andrea Arcangeli 提交于
Transparent hugepages can only be created if rmap is fully functional. So we must prevent hugepages to be created while is_vma_temporary_stack() is true. This also optmizes away some harmless but unnecessary setting of khugepaged_scan.address and it switches some BUG_ON to VM_BUG_ON. Signed-off-by: NAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 14 2月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 David Miller 提交于
Commit c0e69a5b ("klist.c: bit 0 in pointer can't be used as flag") intended to make sure that all klist objects were at least pointer size aligned, but used the constant "4" which only works on 32-bit. Use "sizeof(void *)" which is correct in all cases. Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: NJesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 11 2月, 2011 2 次提交
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由 Trilok Soni 提交于
Some keyboard controllers support more than 16 columns and rows. Increase the limit to 32. Signed-off-by: NTrilok Soni <tsoni@codeaurora.org> Acked-by: NEric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
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由 Chris Wright 提交于
Expand security_capable() to include cred, so that it can be usable in a wider range of call sites. Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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- 10 2月, 2011 3 次提交
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由 Mimi Zohar 提交于
ima_counts_get() updated the readcount and invalidated the PCR, as necessary. Only update the i_readcount in the VFS layer. Move the PCR invalidation checks to ima_file_check(), where it belongs. Maintaining the i_readcount in the VFS layer, will allow other subsystems to use i_readcount. Signed-off-by: NMimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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由 Mimi Zohar 提交于
Define i_readcount_inc/dec() functions to be called from the VFS layer. Changelog: - renamed iget/iput_readcount to i_readcount_inc/dec (Dave Chinner's suggestion) - removed i_lock in iput_readcount() (based on comments:Dave Chinner,Eric Paris) Signed-off-by: NMimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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由 Mimi Zohar 提交于
Convert the inode's i_readcount from an unsigned int to atomic. Signed-off-by: NMimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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- 09 2月, 2011 2 次提交
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由 Alexey Orishko 提交于
Changes are based on the following documents: - CDC NCM errata: http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/NCM10_012011.zip - CDC and WMC errata link: http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/CDC1.2_WMC1.1_012011.zipSigned-off-by: NAlexey Orishko <alexey.orishko@stericsson.com> Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Amit Shah 提交于
Signed-off-by: NAmit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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- 05 2月, 2011 2 次提交
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
The mask which filters out the valid bits which can be set via irq_modify_status() is missing IRQ_NO_BALANCING, which breaks UV. Add IRQ_PER_CPU as well to avoid another one line patch for 39. Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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由 Pavankumar Kondeti 提交于
This patch fixes the below compilation errors. CC drivers/usb/gadget/ci13xxx_msm.o CC net/mac80211/led.o drivers/usb/gadget/ci13xxx_msm.c: In function 'ci13xxx_msm_notify_event': drivers/usb/gadget/ci13xxx_msm.c:42: error: 'USB_AHBBURST' undeclared (first use in this function) drivers/usb/gadget/ci13xxx_msm.c:42: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once drivers/usb/gadget/ci13xxx_msm.c:42: error: for each function it appears in.) drivers/usb/gadget/ci13xxx_msm.c:43: error: 'USB_AHBMODE' undeclared (first use in this function) make[4]: *** [drivers/usb/gadget/ci13xxx_msm.o] Error 1 make[3]: *** [drivers/usb/gadget] Error 2 MSM USB driver is not supported on boards like trout (MSM7201) which has an external PHY. Signed-off-by: NPavankumar Kondeti <pkondeti@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- 04 2月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 David S. Miller 提交于
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 03 2月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Currently the syscall_meta structures for the syscall tracepoints are placed in the __syscall_metadata section, and at link time, the linker makes one large array of all these syscall metadata structures. On boot up, this array is read (much like the initcall sections) and the syscall data is processed. The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they are suppose to be in an array. A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other architectures (sparc). Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses are now put into the __syscall_metadata section. As pointers are always the natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together (otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail). By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers off a little more. The __syscall_metadata section is also moved into the .init.data section as it is now only needed at boot up. Suggested-by: NDavid Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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