Add a "param_lock" mutex to each module, and update params.c to use
the correct built-in or module mutex while locking kernel params.
Remove the kparam_block_sysfs_r/w() macros, replace them with direct
calls to kernel_param_[un]lock(module).

The kernel param code currently uses a single mutex to protect
modification of any and all kernel params.  While this generally works,
there is one specific problem with it; a module callback function
cannot safely load another module, i.e. with request_module() or even
with indirect calls such as crypto_has_alg().  If the module to be
loaded has any of its params configured (e.g. with a /etc/modprobe.d/*
config file), then the attempt will result in a deadlock between the
first module param callback waiting for modprobe, and modprobe trying to
lock the single kernel param mutex to set the new module's param.

This fixes that by using per-module mutexes, so that each individual module
is protected against concurrent changes in its own kernel params, but is
not blocked by changes to other module params.  All built-in modules
continue to use the built-in mutex, since they will always be loaded at
runtime and references (e.g. request_module(), crypto_has_alg()) to them
will never cause load-time param changing.

This also simplifies the interface used by modules to block sysfs access
to their params; while there are currently functions to block and unblock
sysfs param access which are split up by read and write and expect a single
kernel param to be passed, their actual operation is identical and applies
to all params, not just the one passed to them; they simply lock and unlock
the global param mutex.  They are replaced with direct calls to
kernel_param_[un]lock(THIS_MODULE), which locks THIS_MODULE's param_lock, or
if the module is built-in, it locks the built-in mutex.
Suggested-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: NDan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NRichard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

Three uml device drivers still use the big kernel lock,
but all of them can be safely converted to using
a per-driver mutex instead. Most likely this is not
even necessary, so after further review these can
and should be removed as well.

The exec system call no longer requires the BKL either,
so remove it from there, too.
Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

Fix a build error introduced by d6d1b650 ("param: simple
locking for sysfs-writable charp parameters").

    CC      arch/um/kernel/trap.o
  arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c: In function 'hostaudio_open':
  arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c:204: error: '__param_dsp' undeclared (first use in this function)
  arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c:204: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
  arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c:204: error: for each function it appears in.)
  arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c: In function 'hostmixer_open_mixdev':
  arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c:265: error: '__param_mixer' undeclared (first use in this function)
  arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c:272: error: '__param_dsp' undeclared (first use in this function)
Reported-by: NToralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Tested-by: NToralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Since the writing to sysfs can free the old one, we need to block that
when we access the charp variables.
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: NTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tested-by: NPhil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Jing Huang <huangj@brocade.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org

This moves the lock_kernel() call from soundcore_open
to the individual OSS device drivers, where we can deal
with it one driver at a time if needed, or just kill
off the drivers.

All core components in ALSA already provide
adequate locking in their open()-functions
and do not require the big kernel lock, so
there is no need to add the BKL there.
Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: NTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

Convert hostaudio_ioctl and hostmixer_ioctl_mixdev to
unlocked_ioctl without pushdown.

There is nothing to protect inside, the synchronization
is made from the host already.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

Error returns are negative.
Signed-off-by: NJohann Felix Soden <johfel@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Style fixes for the rest of the drivers.  arch/um/drivers should be pretty
CodingStyle-compliant now.

Except for the ubd driver, which will have to be treated separately.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Rename os_{read_write}_file_k back to os_{read_write}_file, delete
the originals and their bogus infrastructure, and fix all the callers.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patch starts the removal of a very old, very broken piece of code.  This
stems from the problem of passing a userspace buffer into read() or write() on
the host.  If that buffer had not yet been faulted in, read and write will
return -EFAULT.

To avoid this problem, the solution was to fault the buffer in before the
system call by touching the pages that hold the buffer by doing a copy-user of
a byte to each page.  This is obviously bogus, but it does usually work, in tt
mode, since the kernel and process are in the same address space and userspace
addresses can be accessed directly in the kernel.

In skas mode, where the kernel and process are in separate address spaces, it
is completely bogus because the userspace address, which is invalid in the
kernel, is passed into the system call instead of the corresponding physical
address, which would be valid.  Here, it appears that this code, on every host
read() or write(), tries to fault in a random process page.  This doesn't seem
to cause any correctness problems, but there is a performance impact.  This
patch, and the ones following, result in a 10-15% performance gain on a kernel
build.

This code can't be immediately tossed out because when it is, you can't log
in.  Apparently, there is some code in the console driver which depends on
this somehow.

However, we can start removing it by switching the code which does I/O using
kernel addresses to using plain read() and write().  This patch introduces
os_read_file_k and os_write_file_k for use with kernel buffers and converts
all call locations which use obvious kernel buffers to use them.  These
include I/O using buffers which are local variables which are on the stack or
kmalloc-ed.  Later patches will handle the less obvious cases, followed by a
mass conversion back to the original interface.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Whitespace and style fixes.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Comment the lack of locking and make a couple of variables static.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

kbuild explicitly includes this at build time.
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

Make lots of structures const in order to make it obvious that they need no
locking.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

misc sparse annotations
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch replaces the deprecated MODULE_PARM function by the new
module_param function.
Signed-off-by: NDominik Hackl <dominik@hackl.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!