Hi Greg,
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Greg KH wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 03:04:48PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> >
> > But wait ... isn't that a statically-allocated kobject, which were
> > supposed to be "naughty" in the first place?
>
> Ye
> -static volatile int kgdb_hwbreak_sstep[NR_CPUS];
> +volatile int kgdb_hwbreak_sstep[NR_CPUS];
That looks fishy to me. Why is it volatile-qualified? And does that
actually want to be a per-cpu var?
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drivers/net/iseries_veth.c: In function 'veth_transmit_to_many':
drivers/net/iseries_veth.c:1174: warning: unused variable 'port'
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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drivers/net/iseries_veth.c |1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff -ruNp a/dr
Of ethtool_ops->get_stats_count and ethtool_ops->get_ethtool_stats.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c |2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff -ruNp a/drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c b/drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c
--- a/drivers/net/mv643x
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:
>
> BTW ppc64_defconfig didn't quite like 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 either ...
> IIRC I got build failures in:
> drivers/net/pasemi_mac.c
[PATCH -mm] pasemi_mac: Build fix after recent netdev stats changes
Unbreak the following:
drivers/net
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:
>
> BTW ppc64_defconfig didn't quite like 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 either ...
> IIRC I got build failures in:
> drivers/net/spider_net.c
Fixing the above showed up another problem in another file of the
same driver (drivers/net/spider_net_et
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:
>
> BTW ppc64_defconfig didn't quite like 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 either ...
> IIRC I got build failures in:
> drivers/net/spider_net.c
[PATCH -mm] spider_net: Misc build fixes after recent netdev stats changes
Unbreak the follow
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:
>
> BTW ppc64_defconfig didn't quite like 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 either ...
> IIRC I got build failures in:
> drivers/md/raid6int8.c
This turned out to be a gcc bug -- I was using an old cross-compiler.
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:
>
> BTW ppc64_defconfig didn't quite like 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 either ...
> IIRC I got build failures in:
> drivers/ata/pata_scc.c
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/21/557
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Hi,
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> From: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> These build warnings:
>
> In file included from include/asm/thread_info.h:16,
> from include/linux/thread_info.h:21,
> from include/linux/preempt.h:9,
> from
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:39:06 +0400
> Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Quite a few fields are zeroed during user_struct creation, so use
> > kmem_cache_zalloc() -- save a few lines and #ifdef. Also will help avoid
> > #ifdef CONFIG_
a_bmdma_drive_eh' from
incompatible pointer type
drivers/ata/pata_scc.c:908: warning: passing arg 5 of 'ata_bmdma_drive_eh' from
incompatible pointer type
make[2]: *** [drivers/ata/pata_scc.o] Error 1
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTE
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Charles N Wyble wrote:
>
> Satyam Sharma wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Charles N Wyble wrote:
> >> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >>> Besides it's bad taste and taste is very important.
> >> Well it's bad taste for
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Charles N Wyble wrote:
>
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > Besides it's bad taste and taste is very important.
>
> Well it's bad taste for you (one person).
FWIW, my opinion is the same as Andi's here. Please, let's avoid this
disease -- unless *absolutely* required, stuff shou
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>
> Perhaps preinitialising to an error value such as -EINVAL would be of
> more sense. This way any error paths lacking initialisation are still
> reported as errors, even though the classification might be wrong.
Eeee ... at least I wouldn't pre
wasn't resolved
in 4.1.2 either?)
Satyam
> Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > Hi Maciej,
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This initialisati
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
>
> I checked my patch using checkpatch.pl version 0.10
> and I got the following error.
>
> ERROR: need consistent spacing around '*' (ctx:WxV)
> #2334: FILE: security/tomoyo/common.c:2306:
> +static unsigned int tmy_poll(struct file *file, poll_t
Hi Maciej,
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > > patch-mips-2.6.23-rc5-20070904-pmag-ba-err-2
> > > diff -up --recursive --new-file
> > > linux-mips-2.6.23-rc5-20070904.macro/drivers/video/pmag-ba-fb.c
> > > linux-mips-2.6.23-rc5-2
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Mel Gorman wrote:
>
> allmodconfig on ppc64 fails to build with the following error
BTW ppc64_defconfig didn't quite like 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 either ...
IIRC I got build failures in:
drivers/ata/pata_scc.c
drivers/md/raid6int8.c
drivers/net/spider_net.c
drivers/net/pasemi_mac.c
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Leonid Kalev wrote:
>
> ufs_get_fs_state() needs the file system type to read the state from the
> correct place in the superblock. It takes the type from UFS_SB(sb)->s_flags,
> but that value is stored after the first call to ufs_get_fs_state(). The patch
> below moves the
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Ken'ichi Ohmichi wrote:
>
> [PATCH 6/4] [-mm patch] use the existing offsetof().
> It is better that offsetof() is used for VMCOREINFO_OFFSET().
> This idea is Joe Perches's.
>
>
>
> Thanks
> Ken'ichi Ohmichi
>
> ---
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
S
Hi,
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Ken'ichi Ohmichi wrote:
>
> [PATCH 5/4] [-mm patch] Rename macros returning the size.
> The #define SIZE() should be renamed STRUCT_SIZE() since it's always
> returning the size of the struct with a given name. This would allow
> TYPEDEF_SIZE() to simply become SIZ
Hi Valdis,
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:16:28 EDT, Kyle Moffett said:
>
> > I am assuming that if the laptop has sufficiently important data on
> > it to warrant the above steps then I am also clueful enough to:
> >(A) Not carry the laptop arou
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>
> Uh, is there somebody else that feels they're being enlightened by this
> discussion?
Ok, probably I got a bit too harsh with Kyle there. But what I don't
understand is why is it so hard for someone to accept they're wrong
on this list, thank the
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks, Borislav.
Reviewed-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Kyle Moffett wrote:
>
> > [all sorts of crap about spies in washington needing stronger protection
> > than your average consumer]
>
> [snip]
>
> [...] all the bullcrap about foreign intelligence
Hehe, again, *you* started all the "bullcrap" about foreign "governments"
in
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:37:49 -0700
> Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:13:40 +0530 (IST) Satyam Sharma wrote:
> >
> > > Untested (not even compile-tested) patch.
> > > Could someone point me to ppc32/64 cross-co
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Kyle Moffett wrote:
>
> On Sep 18, 2007, at 19:44:59, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> >
> > The whole *point* here is to secure against physical access -- then how can
^^^
> > you assume "bar
Hi Andries,
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Andries E. Brouwer wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 05:48:28AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
>
> > > > On the other hand, this filesystem announces itself as UDF
> > > > ("CD-RTOS" "CD-BRIDGE" "CDUDF Fi
Hi Gilboa,
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Gilboa Davara wrote:
>
> This is my second stab at solving the "stack over flow due to
> dump_strace when close to stack-overflow is detected by do_IRQ" problem.
> (Hopefully) this patch is creates less noise then the previous one.
>
> [snip]
> > I'll try and cre
Hi,
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Jan Kara wrote:
>
> > Today I got a CD. MacOS does not mount it and Linux does not
> > mount it without an explicit filesystemtype option.
> > That is,
> > # mount /dev/hdc /dir -t iso9660
> > works fine, but
> > # mount /dev/hdc /dir
> > mount: you didn't spe
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Kyle Moffett wrote:
>
> So you can't draw any relationships between "Protect the end-user" with
> "Protect the device FROM the end-user", the former can be done very reliably
^^^ *attacker*
> to whatever level of risk-reduction you need and the lat
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Kyle Moffett wrote:
>
> On Sep 06, 2007, at 19:35:14, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 19:30 -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sep 06, 2007, at 11:06:16, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > > The question of how to protect against someone with *physical
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 01:32:52AM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > Sorry. Of course, you have to copy the entire /lib, etc. onto the tmpfs,
> > but you get the gist
> >
> > The point is that it is easy to subvert userspace if you have enough
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 01:59:50PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > Oh and btw, note that we're talking of the (lack of) security of a
> > "running kernel" here -- because across reboots, there is /really/
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:43:48 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc6/2.6.23-rc6-mm1/
> > >
> > > 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 is a 29MB diff against
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> These patches remove redundant DMA_..BIT_MASK definitions across
> two drivers. In this version of the patches, the computation
> of the majority of the bitmasks is done by the compiler.
>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: J
Hi Borislav,
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 11:01:21PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> > >> +#define DMA_64BIT_MASK DMA_BIT_MASK(64)
> > >>
> > >
> > > This one does not do what you mean. You need an explicit mask or a
>
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:
>
> > [ cut here ]
> > Badness at arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c:202
>
> comes when smp_call_function_map() has been called with irqs disabled,
> which is illegal. However, there is a special case, the panic(
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> Dhaval Giani wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:51:33PM -0400, Andrew James Wade wrote:
> >> EIP: [] tcp_rto_min+0xb/0x15 SS:ESP 0068:c0596dec
As Vlad Yasevich mentioned, this one is already fixed in 23-rc6.
The forcedeth oops is unrelated, but m
he definition
of __smp_call_function().
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Untested (not even compile-tested) patch.
Could someone point me to ppc32/64 cross-compilers for i386?
arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c | 27 ++-
1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 9 dele
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:54:45 +0530 "Satyam Sharma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On 9/17/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm getting this:
> > >
> &
On 9/17/07, Jeff Layton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:58:54 +0530
> "Satyam Sharma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Jeff,
> >
> > I think commit 866b04fccbf125cd39f2bdbcfeaa611d39a061a8 was wrong, and
> > introduce
Hi Kees,
On 9/13/07, Kees Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This patch against 2.6.23-rc6 will cause modpost to fail if any device
> id lists are incorrectly terminated, after reporting the offender.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Nice! :-)
BTW a very similar idea (but for a
On 9/17/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:49:37 -0700 Kees Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > This patch against 2.6.23-rc6 will cause modpost to fail if any device
> > id lists are incorrectly terminated, after reporting the offender.
>
> I'm getting this:
>
Hi Jeff,
I think commit 866b04fccbf125cd39f2bdbcfeaa611d39a061a8 was wrong, and
introduced a regression.
The "relevant" changelog [*] of that patch says:
> on filesystems w/o permanent inode numbers, i_ino values can be larger
> than 32 bits, which can cause problems for some 32 bit userspace
Ok, opened up: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9026
and brought it up to date with the discussion and David's comments on this
thread. Timo, please feel free to revisit this later and update us when you find
the time to do so.
[ BTW I think the "add CC:" thing in bugzilla is broken, I w
On 9/16/07, Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Timo,
>
>
> On 7/15/07, Timo Lindemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > To sum this up:
> >
> > the userspace 2.6.20.6 (the "good" kernel) and 2.6.22 (the "bad" kernel)
> >
Hi Timo,
On 7/15/07, Timo Lindemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To sum this up:
>
> the userspace 2.6.20.6 (the "good" kernel) and 2.6.22 (the "bad" kernel)
> were compiled in is exactly the same setup. I recompiled "good" to check
> for that, earlier, but "good" also works then.
>
> "good" does
Hi,
On 9/15/07, Gilboa Davara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> In a small exchange in fedora-kernel-list [1] Eric Sandeen has pointed
> out a possible stack overflow... when CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW is
> enabled. (Though not limited to it)
Yeah, I have experienced this phenomenon/pr
On 9/15/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 05:17:48 +0530
> "Satyam Sharma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > It's unobvious why the break point is at MAX_NUMNODES = BITS_PER_LONG and
> > > we might want
On 9/15/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:36:34 -0700
> Ethan Solomita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The dirty map may be stored either directly in the mapping (for NUMA
> > systems with less then BITS_PER_LONG nodes) or separately allocated
> > for systems wit
d in kernel.h, but
> > pr_err() was defined
> > multiple times in several other places
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I think it's a useful cleanup, patch looks good to me ...
Reviewed-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[ Origi
On 9/14/07, Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
[snip]
Ick, threading breaks in Gmail with Subject: changes, so I missed the latest
updates on this thread ... oh well, never mind.
Satyam
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[ Argh, just noticed this thread got broke and had been living a parallel
life due to Subject: changes, dropped Cc:'s, and munged In-Reply-To:'s.
Adding back all interested folk here. ]
> Hi Antoine, Ingo,
>
>
> On 9/14/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > * Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL
Hi Kamalesh,
There's two things at work here ...
On 9/14/07, Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With 2.6.23-rc6 running on the ppc64 box, following oops is hit
>
> Oops: Machine check, sig: 7 [#1]
>
> SMP NR_CPUS=128 pSeries
>
> Modules linked in: binfmt_misc ipv6 dm_mod ehci_
Hi Antoine, Ingo,
On 9/14/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> * Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > hm, could you try the patch below ontop of 2.6.23-rc6 and do:
> >
> > echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_yield_bug_workaround
> >
> > does this improve the numbers?
Hmm, I know d
ems.
>
> <-- snip -->
>
> Currently, every driver under drivers/usb/misc/ also has to be listed in
> drivers/usb/Makefile. This has been forgotten more than once, and this
> patch changes drivers/usb/Makefile to simply always visit
> drivers/usb/misc/ when bui
On 9/8/07, Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 9/7/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 00:34:59 -0700 "Luck, Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > local symbol 0: discarded in section `.
hat the .init.text-resident palinfo_cpu_callback() referenced the
.exit.text-resident remove_palinfo_proc_entries(), thereby causing link error.
So this is the second goof-up in that "misc cpuinit/exit annotations" series
of mine, apologies. I've installed the ia64 cross-compile toolc
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 16:23 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 10:32:33AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > >
> > > > > [ 382.529041] [] dev_close+0x24/0x67
> > > > > [
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Michael Stiller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i get the following warning if i call vfree some memory allocated by
> vmalloc on a single cpu machine running 2.6.22.6 SMP:
>
> WARNING: at arch/i386/kernel/smp.c:559 native_smp_call_function_mask()
> [] native_smp_call_function_mask+0x145
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> This isn't really a regression -- it's been like this for years. It's a
> non-functional configuration which doesn't really make sense, and would
> only crop up with randconfig (or crack).
>
> Linus was offered the patch a few weeks ago, but didn't
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Mark Hindley wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 02:09:47PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > Hi Steffen,
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 03:45:55AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 10:32:33AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> >
> > > > [ 382.529041] [] dev_close+0x24/0x67
> > > > [ 382.529052] [] ieee80211_master_stop+0x4a/0x6d [mac80211]
>
> This is where the bug
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:
>
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:04:00AM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >
> > > What I'm saying is that the superuser can pretty much do whatever it
> > > take
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:04:00AM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > With CIFS or other password based protocols (including RPCSEC_GSS)
>
> Well, rpcsec_gss isn't inherently password based, and you can
> authenticate in some way that doesn't actuall
utput of the "BUG: scheduling while atomic:" header a bit
to keep task->comm and task->pid together and preempt_count() after them.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
kernel/sched.c | 14 +++---
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Roland Dreier wrote:
> FWIW, I was running 2.6.23-rc5 on my laptop (along with iwlwifi-0.1.14
> for wireless) and I saw the same symptom: panic (blinking capslock)
> while in X. I saw one panic out of maybe 12 hours of uptime over a
> few reboots. The same system is quite s
Hi,
> On 02/09/07, Florian Lohoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > with current git i got this when "ifconfig eth1" down. eth1 had a mac
> > address which looked really like an eth1394 ethernet although the module
> > was not loaded. Something is really broken in 2.6.23-currentgit. I al
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Dale Farnsworth wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 08:24:52AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:38:57 +0800 gshan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > After I started the NFS server, it crashed:
> > >
> > > <3>Badness in local_bh_enable
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>
> I finally tracked the problem down to a dirty trick used to prevent
> do_test_wp_bit() from being inlined (Axel, you identified the right
> file). Unfortunately, this trick does not work anymore when gcc-4.x
> is used without -fno-unit-at-a-time, so l
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:15:01AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > > That's my impression as well. That's way too core/busy a codepath to have
> > > a bug in. As I said earlier, almost anybody testing -rc5 is sure to
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> When I have an iPod attached via USB to an ABIT IC7-G board before it boots up
> and let X start etc, the mouse (PS/2) does not function, but the keyboard
> works OK.
>
> GPM does not work either.
>
> When I attach the iPod after the machine has boot
antheses in the compound conditional to me, especially given that
ufs_get_fs_state() handles the UFS_ST_44BSD case perfectly well. So,
let's fix the compound condition appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/ufs/super.c | 15 ---
1 fi
Hi Eugene,
This already got merged into -mm, but ...
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Eugene Teo wrote:
>
> tsk->exit_state can only be 0, EXIT_ZOMBIE, or EXIT_DEAD. A non-zero test
> is the same as tsk->exit_state & (EXIT_ZOMBIE | EXIT_DEAD), so just testing
> tsk->exit_state is sufficient.
... IMHO this
is, and remove
duplicate MODULE_ declarations in mtdpart.c, as mtdcore.c already has them.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/mtd/Makefile |2 +-
drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c |4
2 files changed, 1
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> Hi Micah,
>
>
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Micah Gruber wrote:
>
> > This patch fixes a potential null dereference bug where we dereference
> > dev before a null check. This patch simply moves the dereferencing after
> > th
Hi Steffen,
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 03:45:55AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> >
> > drivers/net/3c59x.c: In function 'vortex_up':
> > drivers/net/3c59x.c:1495: warning: 'err' may be used uninitialized in this
Hi Micah,
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Micah Gruber wrote:
> This patch fixes a potential null dereference bug where we dereference
> dev before a null check. This patch simply moves the dereferencing after
> the null check.
>
> Signed-off-by: Micah Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
>
> --- a/drivers/ne
Hi Paul,
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> The locking used by get_random_bytes() can conflict with the
> preempt_disable() and synchronize_sched() form of RCU. This patch changes
> rcutorture's RNG to gather entropy from the new cpu_clock() interface
> (relying on interrupts, pr
Hi David,
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, David CHANIAL wrote:
>
> Le vendredi 20 juillet 2007 15:36, Satyam Sharma a ecrit:
> > Yes, you can apply the patch Neil just sent to your kernel,
> > re-build, and test that.
>
> Hi, I have no patched the kernel as asked by Neil, but i wo
ay evening pastime.
> I'll have a look at it.
How about ... (unrelated cleanup thrown in, but SCNR)
* Fix this warning:
drivers/watchdog/core/watchdog_dev.c:84:
warning: format '%i' expects type 'int', but argument 5 has type 'size_t'
* CONFIG_xxx options
Remove duplicate entry for the same driver.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
MAINTAINERS |6 --
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
--- linux-2.6.23-rc4-mm1/MAINTAINERS~fix2007-09-04 03:49:16.0
+0530
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc4-mm1/MAINTAINERS2007-09
. Let's
fix this by explicitly initializing 'err' to zero.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/net/3c59x.c |3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- linux-2.6.23-rc4-mm1/drivers/net/3c59x.c~fix2007-09-04
03:29:40.0
Hi Wolfgang,
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Wolfgang Walter wrote:
>
> in 2.6.22.6, net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
>
> random characters are printed by svc_tcp_accept:
>
> lockd: last TCP connect from
> [...]
>
> --- linux-2.6.22.6/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c 2007-08-27 18:10:14.0
> +0200
> +++ lin
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
>
> diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
> index a83160a..b2b7c8e 100644
> --- a/fs/namei.c
> +++ b/fs/namei.c
> @@ -374,6 +374,7 @@ void release_open_intent(struct nameidata *nd)
> else
> fput(nd->intent.open.file);
> }
> +EXPOR
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>
> Try this from net-2.6 tree:
>
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
> @@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ static u32 tcp_rto_min(struct sock *sk)
> struct dst_entry *dst = __sk_dst_get(sk);
> u32 rto_min = TCP_RTO_MIN;
>
> - i
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > drivers/scsi/ips.c: In function ‘ips_register_scsi’:
> > drivers/scsi/ips.c:6869:
> > warning: ignoring return value of ‘scsi_add_host’, declared with attribute
> > warn_unused_result
> >
> &
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Rene Herman wrote:
>
> On 09/02/2007 10:15 PM, Satyam Sharma wrote:
>
> > sound/isa/sb16/sb16.c: In function ‘snd_sb16_isa_probe’:
>
> Blah. Your message has:
>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-2022-jp
>
> This apparently
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> >
> > The encoding is set to ISO-2022-JP, this is probably breaking things.
>
> ??? I have no clue how/why/when that suddenly happened.
>
> I clearly see "C
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Sunday 02 September 2007 21:23:16 Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > On 02/09/07, Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi Jesper,
> > >
> > > On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > &g
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
>
> On 9/2/07, charles gagalac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 9/2/07, daryll q wrote:
> > > Upgraded my kernel from 2.6.23-rc2 to 2.6.23-rc5.
> > >
> > > System hangs (caps lock and scroll lock leds are both flashing).
> > >
> > > It *randomly* h
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c: In function ‘persistent_read_metadata’:
> > drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c:452: warning: ‘new_snapshot’ may be used
> > uninitialized in this function
> >
> > d
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > drivers/scsi/dc395x.c: In function ‘dc395x_init_one’:
> > drivers/scsi/dc395x.c:4272: warning: ‘ptr’ may be used uninitialized in this
> > function
> >
> > has been verified to
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> Thank you for doing this, I hope some of your patches get merged.
>
> Btw; it would be easier to see if one has got all the patches if you
> numbered your patch series with the usual "[PATCH XX/YY]".
Hey, thanks ;-) There are 13 in all, I just felt la
Hi Jesper,
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> > - if (!(interface = usb_find_interface(&sisusb_driver, subminor))) {
> > - dev_err(&sisusb->sisusb_dev->dev, "Failed to find
> > interface¥n");
>
> Odd how in your patch the line ends with "¥n" but if I look in my
>
drivers/scsi/dc395x.c: In function ‘dc395x_init_one’:
drivers/scsi/dc395x.c:4272: warning: ‘ptr’ may be used uninitialized in this
function
has been verified to be a bogus warning. Let's shut it up.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/scsi/dc395x.c |2
se as unsigned. Do some codingstyle
here and there while at it.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/asm-i386/processor.h |9 ++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- linux-2.6.23-rc4-mm1/include/asm-i386/processor.h~fix 2007-09-02
23:54:2
drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c: In function ‘persistent_read_metadata’:
drivers/md/dm-exception-store.c:452: warning: ‘new_snapshot’ may be used
uninitialized in this function
drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c: In function ‘ctl_ioctl’:
drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c:1407: warning: ‘param’ may be used uninitialized
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