Vitja Makarov [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:52:26 +0000 (16:52 +0800)]
EMAC driver: add power down mode
This patch puts phy in power-down mode when interface is down.
Also we should think about energy detect power-down mode, that will
decrease power consumption when no link.
Signed-off-by: Vitja Makarov <vitja.makarov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mike Frysinger [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:52:24 +0000 (16:52 +0800)]
EMAC driver: use simpler comment headers and strip out information that is maintained in the scm's log
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Aidan Williams [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:52:23 +0000 (16:52 +0800)]
EMAC driver: bf537 MAC multicast hash filtering patch
The bf537 Ethernet MAC driver in the 2007R1.1-RC3 kernel (and the
current kernel) do not implement multicast hash filtering. This
is a performance problem if you have lots of multicast on your network.
This patch plugs the right bits into the multicast hash registers.
Signed-off-by: Aidan Williams <aidan@nicta.com.au> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch disables config mode access after clearing PCI settings.
Some BIOS's seem to not do WOL if config bit still set.
Fixes: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9721 Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If the sky2 deadman timer forces a recovery, the multicast hash
list is lost. Move the call to sky2_set_multicast to the end
of sky2_up() so all paths that bring device up will restore multicast.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Johnson Leung [Sun, 3 Feb 2008 11:50:54 +0000 (03:50 -0800)]
phylib: Add Realtek 821x eth PHY support
this PHY present on the MPC8315E and MPC837xE RDB boards.
Signed-off-by: Johnson Leung <r58129@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Lam <r43770@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Joe D'Abbraccio <ljd015@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mark Brown [Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:58:11 +0000 (13:58 +0000)]
natsemi: Update locking documentation
The documentation regarding synchronisation at the head of the natsemi
driver was badly bitrotted so replace it with a general statement about
the techniques used which is less likely to bitrot.
Also remove the note saying these chips are uncommon - it makes little
difference but they were used in a number of laptops and at least one mass
market PCI ethernet card.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Nate Case [Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:05:09 +0000 (10:05 -0600)]
PHYLIB: Locking fixes for PHY I/O potentially sleeping
PHY read/write functions can potentially sleep (e.g., a PHY accessed
via I2C). The following changes were made to account for this:
* Change spin locks to mutex locks
* Add a BUG_ON() to phy_read() phy_write() to warn against
calling them from an interrupt context.
* Use work queue for PHY state machine handling since
it can potentially sleep
* Change phydev lock from spinlock to mutex
Signed-off-by: Nate Case <ncase@xes-inc.com> Acked-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ayaz Abdulla [Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:03:04 +0000 (16:03 -0500)]
forcedeth: multicast fix
This patch fixes the case where no multicast addresses are requested to
be added to the multicast filter. The multicast mask must be set to all
1's instead of all 0's.
Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ayaz Abdulla [Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:02:55 +0000 (16:02 -0500)]
forcedeth: checksum fix
The driver should inform the stack when checksum has been performed by
the HW when both IP and TCP (or UDP) checksum flags are indicated by HW.
Previously, it would also inform the stack when only IP checksum flag
was indicated by HW. This can cause data corruption when IP fragments
are used. The IP Identification field can wrap around and cause data
from new fragments to fill into older fragment slots with same IP Id.
The stack would then not perform TCP/UDP checksum (after re-assembly of
all fragments) since driver falsely stated it was already calculated.
Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Roland Dreier [Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:45:11 +0000 (14:45 -0800)]
cxgb3: Remove incorrect __devinit annotations
When PCI error recovery was added to cxgb3, a function t3_io_slot_reset()
was added. This function can call back into t3_prep_adapter() at any
time, so t3_prep_adapter() can no longer be marked __devinit.
This patch removes the __devinit annotation from t3_prep_adapter() and
all the functions that it calls, which fixes
WARNING: drivers/net/cxgb3/built-in.o(.text+0x2427): Section mismatch in reference from the function t3_io_slot_reset() to the function .devinit.text:t3_prep_adapter()
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jay Vosburgh [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:07:47 +0000 (18:07 -0800)]
bonding: do not acquire rtnl in ARP monitor
The ARP monitor functions currently acquire RTNL when performing
failover operations, but do so incorrectly (out of order). This causes
various warnings from might_sleep.
The ARP monitor isn't supported for any of the bonding modes
that actually require RTNL, so it is safe to not hold RTNL when
failing over in the ARP monitor.
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Andy Gospodarek [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:07:46 +0000 (18:07 -0800)]
bonding: fix race that causes invalid statistics
I've seen reports of invalid stats in /proc/net/dev for bonding
interfaces, and found it's a pretty easy problem to reproduce. Since
the current code zeros the bonding stats when a read is requested and a
pointer to that data is returned to the caller we cannot guarantee that
the caller has completely accessed the data before a successive call to
request the stats zeroes the stats again.
This patch creates a new stack variable to keep track of the updated
stats and copies the data from that variable into the bonding stats
structure. This ensures that the value for any of the bonding stats
should not incorrectly return zero for any of the bonding statistics.
This does use more stack space and require an extra memcpy, but it seems
like a fair trade-off for consistently correct bonding statistics.
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jay Vosburgh [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:07:45 +0000 (18:07 -0800)]
bonding: fix NULL pointer deref in startup processing
Fix the "are we creating a duplicate" check to not compare
the name if the name is NULL (meaning that the system should select
a name). Bug reported by Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@amorsen.dk>.
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jay Vosburgh [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:07:44 +0000 (18:07 -0800)]
bonding: fix set_multicast_list locking
This patch eliminates a problem (reported by lockdep) in the
bond_set_multicast_list function. It first reduces the locking on
bond->lock to a simple read_lock, and second, adds netif_tx locking
around the bonding mc_list manipulations that occur outside of the
set_multicast_list function.
The original problem was related to IPv6 addrconf activity.
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jay Vosburgh [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:07:43 +0000 (18:07 -0800)]
bonding: fix parameter parsing
My last fix (commit ece95f7fefe3afae19e641e1b3f5e64b00d5b948)
didn't handle one case correctly. This resolves that, and it will now
correctly parse parameters with arbitrary white space, and either text
names or mode values.
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Ralf Baechle [Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:28:00 +0000 (17:28 +0000)]
Fix/Rewrite of the mipsnet driver]
This is Thiemo's patch.
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From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:29:13 +0000
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org
Subject: [PATCH, REPOST] Fix/Rewrite of the mipsnet driver
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Hello All,
currently the mipsnet driver fails after transmitting a number of
packages because SKBs are allocated but never freed. I fixed that
and coudn't refrain from removing the most egregious warts.
- mipsnet.h folded into mipsnet.c, as it doesn't provide any
useful external interface.
- Free SKB after transmission.
- Call free_irq in mipsnet_close, to balance the request_irq in
mipsnet_open.
- Removed duplicate read of rxDataCount.
- Some identifiers are now less verbose.
- Removed dead and/or unnecessarily complex code.
- Code formatting fixes.
Tested on Qemu's mipssim emulation, with this patch it can boot a
Debian NFSroot.
Thiemo
Signed-off-by: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Adrian Bunk [Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:19:08 +0000 (18:19 +0200)]
remove obsolete tokenring maintainer information
- Peter's email address is bouncing
- the project webpage no longer exists
- neither Peter nor Mike had a single patch included in the kernel
since 2.6.12-rc2 (when the git history begins)
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Andy Gospodarek [Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:21:44 +0000 (08:21 -0800)]
e1000e: tweak irq allocation messages
There's too much noise on systems that don't support MSI. Let's get rid
of a few and make the real error message more specific.
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Andreas Mohr [Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:21:39 +0000 (08:21 -0800)]
e100: fix spelling errors
Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Adrian Bunk [Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:21:28 +0000 (08:21 -0800)]
e1000: make e1000_dump_eeprom() static
This patch makes the needlessly global e1000_dump_eeprom() static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Adrian Bunk [Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:21:18 +0000 (08:21 -0800)]
e1000e: make a function static
This patch makes the needlessly global reg_pattern_test_array() static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Jiri Slaby [Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:49:16 +0000 (22:49 +0100)]
Net: e100, fix iomap mem accesses
Patch against netdev-2.6 follows.
--
writeX functions are not permitted on iomap-ped space change to iowriteX,
also pci_unmap pci_map-ped space on exit (instead of iounmap).
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Surjit Reang [Sun, 3 Feb 2008 12:27:38 +0000 (04:27 -0800)]
S2io: Fix for LRO Bugs
Resubmitting patch from Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, with subject -
[PATCH] s2io LRO bugs.
a) initiate_new_session() sets ->tcp_ack to ntohl(...); everything
else stores and expects to find there the net-endian value.
b) check for monotonic timestamps in verify_l3_l4_lro_capable()
compares the value sitting in TCP option (right there in the skb->data,
net-endian 32bit) with the value picked from earlier packet.
Doing that without ntohl() is an interesting idea and it might even
work occasionally; unfortunately, it's quite broken.
Signed-off-by: Surjit Reang <surjit.reang@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: Ramkrishna Vepa <ram.vepa@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mitch Williams [Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:43:02 +0000 (12:43 -0800)]
e1000e: add new wakeup cababilities
Ethtool supports wake-on-ARP and wake-on-link, and so does the hardware
supported by e1000e. This patch just introduces the two.
Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The RTL8150 driver uses an MTU of 1540 by default, which causes a
bunch of problems -- it prevents booting from NFS root, for one.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Cc: Petko Manolov <petkan@nucleusys.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Adrian Bunk [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:03:34 +0000 (22:03 +0200)]
net/sunbmac.c section fix
This patch fixes the following section mismatch:
<-- snip -->
...
WARNING: drivers/net/sunbmac.o(.devinit.text+0x24): Section mismatch in reference from the function bigmac_sbus_probe() to the function .init.text:bigmac_ether_init()
...
<-- snip -->
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Adrian Bunk [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:03:39 +0000 (22:03 +0200)]
net/sunqe.c section fix
This patch fixes the following section mismatch:
<-- snip -->
...
WARNING: drivers/net/sunqe.o(.devinit.text+0x4): Section mismatch in reference from the function qec_sbus_probe() to the function .init.text:qec_ether_init()
...
<-- snip -->
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Adrian Bunk [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:03:32 +0000 (22:03 +0200)]
drivers/net/sunvnet.c:print_version() must be __devinit
This patch fixes the following section mismatches:
<-- snip -->
...
WARNING: drivers/net/sunvnet.o(.text+0x220): Section mismatch in reference from the function print_version() to the variable .devinit.data:version
WARNING: drivers/net/sunvnet.o(.text+0x228): Section mismatch in reference from the function print_version() to the variable .devinit.data:version
...
<-- snip -->
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Adrian Bunk [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:02:08 +0000 (22:02 +0200)]
ibmlana_init_one() must be __devinit
This patch fixes the following section mismatch:
<-- snip -->
...
WARNING: drivers/net/built-in.o(.text+0x1148a5): Section mismatch in reference from the function ibmlana_init_one() to the variable .init.data:ibmlana_adapter_names
...
<-- snip -->
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Adrian Bunk [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:02:07 +0000 (22:02 +0200)]
olympic_open() must be __devinit
This patch fixes the following section mismatch:
<-- snip -->
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WARNING: drivers/net/built-in.o(.text+0x155573): Section mismatch in reference from the function olympic_open() to the function .devinit.text:olympic_init()
...
<-- snip -->
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Adrian Bunk [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:02:10 +0000 (22:02 +0200)]
ibmlana_adapter_names[] must be __devinitdata
This patch fixes the following section mismatch:
<-- snip -->
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WARNING: drivers/net/built-in.o(.devinit.text+0x1baa4): Section mismatch in reference from the function ibmlana_init_one() to the variable .init.data:ibmlana_adapter_names
...
<-- snip -->
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Adrian Bunk [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:02:05 +0000 (22:02 +0200)]
via-rhine.c:rhine_hw_init() must be __devinit
Thie patch fixes the following section mismatch:
<-- snip -->
...
WARNING: drivers/net/built-in.o(.text+0xdd840): Section mismatch in reference from the function rhine_hw_init() to the function .devinit.text:rhine_reload_eeprom()
...
<-- snip -->
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
macb: Fix section mismatch and shrink runtime footprint
macb devices are only found integrated on SoCs, so they can't be
hotplugged. Thus, the probe() and exit() functions can be __init and
__exit, respectively. By using platform_driver_probe() instead of
platform_driver_register(), there won't be any references to the
discarded probe() function after the driver has loaded.
This also fixes a section mismatch due to macb_probe(), defined as
__devinit, calling macb_get_hwaddr, defined as __init.
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Due to changes in the struct device_driver there is no direct
access to its kobj any longer. The kobj was used to create
sysfs links between eHEA ethernet devices and the driver.
This patch removes the affected sysfs links to resolve
the build problems.
Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Anton Vorontsov [Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:22:54 +0000 (16:22 +0300)]
ucc_geth: add support for netpoll
This patch adds netpoll support for the QE UCC Gigabit Ethernet
driver. Tested using netconsole and KGDBoE.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Anton Vorontsov [Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:22:48 +0000 (16:22 +0300)]
ucc_geth: fix module removal
- uccf should be set to NULL to not double-free memory on
subsequent calls;
- ind_hash_q and group_hash_q lists should be initialized in the
probe() function, instead of struct_init() (called by open()),
otherwise there will be an oops if ucc_geth_driver removed
prior 'ifconfig ethX up';
- add unregister_netdev();
- reorder geth_remove() steps.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Doug Maxey [Fri, 1 Feb 2008 02:20:51 +0000 (20:20 -0600)]
ehea: fix qmr checkpatch complaints
Cc: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Maxey <dwm@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Doug Maxey [Fri, 1 Feb 2008 02:20:50 +0000 (20:20 -0600)]
ehea: fix phyp checkpatch complaints
Cc: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Maxey <dwm@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Doug Maxey [Fri, 1 Feb 2008 02:20:49 +0000 (20:20 -0600)]
ehea: fix main checkpatch complaints
Cc: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Maxey <dwm@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Doug Maxey [Fri, 1 Feb 2008 02:20:48 +0000 (20:20 -0600)]
ehea: fix ethtool checkpatch complaints
Cc: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Maxey <dwm@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Doug Maxey [Fri, 1 Feb 2008 02:20:47 +0000 (20:20 -0600)]
ehea: fix ehea.h checkpatch complaints
Cc: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Maxey <dwm@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Nick Piggin [Sat, 2 Feb 2008 14:01:17 +0000 (15:01 +0100)]
fix writev regression: pan hanging unkillable and un-straceable
Frederik Himpe reported an unkillable and un-straceable pan process.
Zero length iovecs can go into an infinite loop in writev, because the
iovec iterator does not always advance over them.
The sequence required to trigger this is not trivial. I think it
requires that a zero-length iovec be followed by a non-zero-length iovec
which causes a pagefault in the atomic usercopy. This causes the writev
code to drop back into single-segment copy mode, which then tries to
copy the 0 bytes of the zero-length iovec; a zero length copy looks like
a failure though, so it loops.
Put a test into iov_iter_advance to catch zero-length iovecs. We could
just put the test in the fallback path, but I feel it is more robust to
skip over zero-length iovecs throughout the code (iovec iterator may be
used in filesystems too, so it should be robust).
All those 2-byte values denoting the different capabilities are being written to
the local copy of the caps buffer without being converted to big endian for
simplicity of usage and shorter code later. Also, we add some comments stating
which are the fields of the caps page in question in order to alleviate the
cryptic pointer casting exercises as in e.g. idetape_get_mode_sense_results().
There should be no functional changes resulting from this patch.
SELECT_DRIVE() is called by IDE core code in start_request() before device
driver's ->do_request method. In ide-scsi case ->do_request is implemented
by idescsi_do_request() which is also the only user of idescsi_issue_pc().
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