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<title>Linux 2.6.16.54</title>
<updated>2007-09-24T22:24:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Bunk</name>
<email>bunk@stusta.de</email>
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<published>2007-09-24T22:24:51+00:00</published>
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<title>Linux 2.6.16.54-rc1</title>
<updated>2007-09-24T21:02:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Bunk</name>
<email>bunk@stusta.de</email>
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<published>2007-08-30T04:26:15+00:00</published>
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<title>TCP: Fix TCP handling of SACK in bidirectional flows</title>
<updated>2007-09-24T21:02:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ilpo Järvinen</name>
<email>ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi</email>
</author>
<published>2007-08-30T04:21:05+00:00</published>
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It's possible that new SACK blocks that should trigger new LOST
markings arrive with new data (which previously made is_dupack
false). In addition, I think this fixes a case where we get
a cumulative ACK with enough SACK blocks to trigger the fast
recovery (is_dupack would be false there too).

I'm not completely pleased with this solution because readability
of the code is somewhat questionable as 'is_dupack' in SACK case
is no longer about dupacks only but would mean something like
'lost_marker_work_todo' too... But because of Eifel stuff done
in CA_Recovery, the FLAG_DATA_SACKED check cannot be placed to
the if statement which seems attractive solution. Nevertheless,
I didn't like adding another variable just for that either... :-)

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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It's possible that new SACK blocks that should trigger new LOST
markings arrive with new data (which previously made is_dupack
false). In addition, I think this fixes a case where we get
a cumulative ACK with enough SACK blocks to trigger the fast
recovery (is_dupack would be false there too).

I'm not completely pleased with this solution because readability
of the code is somewhat questionable as 'is_dupack' in SACK case
is no longer about dupacks only but would mean something like
'lost_marker_work_todo' too... But because of Eifel stuff done
in CA_Recovery, the FLAG_DATA_SACKED check cannot be placed to
the if statement which seems attractive solution. Nevertheless,
I didn't like adding another variable just for that either... :-)

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>[PPP]: Fix output buffer size in ppp_decompress_frame().</title>
<updated>2007-09-24T21:02:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konstantin Sharlaimov</name>
<email>konstantin.sharlaimov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-08-30T04:17:37+00:00</published>
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This patch addresses the issue with "osize too small" errors in mppe
encryption.  The patch fixes the issue with wrong output buffer size
being passed to ppp decompression routine.

--------------------
As pointed out by Suresh Mahalingam, the issue addressed by
ppp-fix-osize-too-small-errors-when-decoding patch is not fully resolved yet.
The size of allocated output buffer is correct, however it size passed to
ppp-&gt;rcomp-&gt;decompress in ppp_generic.c if wrong. The patch fixes that.
--------------------

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Sharlaimov &lt;konstantin.sharlaimov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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This patch addresses the issue with "osize too small" errors in mppe
encryption.  The patch fixes the issue with wrong output buffer size
being passed to ppp decompression routine.

--------------------
As pointed out by Suresh Mahalingam, the issue addressed by
ppp-fix-osize-too-small-errors-when-decoding patch is not fully resolved yet.
The size of allocated output buffer is correct, however it size passed to
ppp-&gt;rcomp-&gt;decompress in ppp_generic.c if wrong. The patch fixes that.
--------------------

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Sharlaimov &lt;konstantin.sharlaimov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PPP]: Fix osize too small errors when decoding mppe.</title>
<updated>2007-09-24T21:01:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konstantin Sharlaimov</name>
<email>konstantin.sharlaimov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-09-24T21:01:54+00:00</published>
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The mppe_decompress() function required a buffer that is 1 byte too
small when receiving a message of mru size. This fixes buffer
allocation to prevent this from occurring.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Sharlaimov &lt;konstantin.sharlaimov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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The mppe_decompress() function required a buffer that is 1 byte too
small when receiving a message of mru size. This fixes buffer
allocation to prevent this from occurring.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Sharlaimov &lt;konstantin.sharlaimov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[MATH-EMU]: Fix underflow exception reporting.</title>
<updated>2007-08-30T04:14:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2007-08-30T04:14:37+00:00</published>
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The underflow exception cases were wrong.

This is one weird area of ieee1754 handling in that the underflow
behavior changes based upon whether underflow is enabled in the trap
enable mask of the FPU control register.  As a specific case the Sparc
V9 manual gives us the following description:

--------------------
If UFM = 0:     Underflow occurs if a nonzero result is tiny and a
                loss of accuracy occurs.  Tininess may be detected
                before or after rounding.  Loss of accuracy may be
                either a denormalization loss or an inexact result.

If UFM = 1:     Underflow occurs if a nonzero result is tiny.
                Tininess may be detected before or after rounding.
--------------------

What this amounts to in the packing case is if we go subnormal,
we set underflow if any of the following are true:

1) rounding sets inexact
2) we ended up rounding back up to normal (this is the case where
   we set the exponent to 1 and set the fraction to zero), this
   should set inexact too
3) underflow is set in FPU control register trap-enable mask

The initially discovered example was "DBL_MIN / 16.0" which
incorrectly generated an underflow.  It should not, unless underflow
is set in the trap-enable mask of the FPU csr.

Another example, "0x0.0000000000001p-1022 / 16.0", should signal both
inexact and underflow.  The cpu implementations and ieee1754
literature is very clear about this.  This is case #2 above.

However, if underflow is set in the trap enable mask, only underflow
should be set and reported as a trap.  That is handled properly by the
prioritization logic in

arch/sparc{,64}/math-emu/math.c:record_exception().

Based upon a report and test case from Jakub Jelinek.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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The underflow exception cases were wrong.

This is one weird area of ieee1754 handling in that the underflow
behavior changes based upon whether underflow is enabled in the trap
enable mask of the FPU control register.  As a specific case the Sparc
V9 manual gives us the following description:

--------------------
If UFM = 0:     Underflow occurs if a nonzero result is tiny and a
                loss of accuracy occurs.  Tininess may be detected
                before or after rounding.  Loss of accuracy may be
                either a denormalization loss or an inexact result.

If UFM = 1:     Underflow occurs if a nonzero result is tiny.
                Tininess may be detected before or after rounding.
--------------------

What this amounts to in the packing case is if we go subnormal,
we set underflow if any of the following are true:

1) rounding sets inexact
2) we ended up rounding back up to normal (this is the case where
   we set the exponent to 1 and set the fraction to zero), this
   should set inexact too
3) underflow is set in FPU control register trap-enable mask

The initially discovered example was "DBL_MIN / 16.0" which
incorrectly generated an underflow.  It should not, unless underflow
is set in the trap-enable mask of the FPU csr.

Another example, "0x0.0000000000001p-1022 / 16.0", should signal both
inexact and underflow.  The cpu implementations and ieee1754
literature is very clear about this.  This is case #2 above.

However, if underflow is set in the trap enable mask, only underflow
should be set and reported as a trap.  That is handled properly by the
prioritization logic in

arch/sparc{,64}/math-emu/math.c:record_exception().

Based upon a report and test case from Jakub Jelinek.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[SPARC32]: Fix rounding errors in ndelay/udelay implementation.</title>
<updated>2007-08-30T04:07:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Fortescue</name>
<email>mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2007-08-30T04:07:11+00:00</published>
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__ndelay and __udelay have not been delayung &gt;= specified time.
The problem with __ndelay has been tacked down to the rounding of the
multiplier constant. By changing this, delays &gt; app 18us are correctly
calculated.
The problem with __udelay has also been tracked down to rounding issues.
Changing the multiplier constant (to match that used in sparc64) corrects
for large delays and adding in a rounding constant corrects for trunctaion
errors in the claculations.
Many short delays will return without looping. This is not an error as there
is the fixed delay of doing all the maths to calculate the loop count.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fortescue &lt;mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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__ndelay and __udelay have not been delayung &gt;= specified time.
The problem with __ndelay has been tacked down to the rounding of the
multiplier constant. By changing this, delays &gt; app 18us are correctly
calculated.
The problem with __udelay has also been tracked down to rounding issues.
Changing the multiplier constant (to match that used in sparc64) corrects
for large delays and adding in a rounding constant corrects for trunctaion
errors in the claculations.
Many short delays will return without looping. This is not an error as there
is the fixed delay of doing all the maths to calculate the loop count.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fortescue &lt;mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>[SPARC32]: Fix bug in sparc optimized memset.</title>
<updated>2007-08-30T04:05:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Shmelev</name>
<email>ashmelev@task.sun.mcst.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2007-08-30T04:05:29+00:00</published>
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Sparc optimized memset (arch/sparc/lib/memset.S) does not fill last
byte of the memory area, if area size is less than 8 bytes and start
address is not word (4-bytes) aligned.

Here is code chunk where bug located:
/* %o0 - memory address, %o1 - size, %g3 - value */
8:
     add    %o0, 1, %o0
    subcc    %o1, 1, %o1
    bne,a    8b
     stb %g3, [%o0 - 1]

This code should write byte every loop iteration, but last time delay
instruction stb is not executed because branch instruction sets
"annul" bit.

Patch replaces bne,a by bne instruction.

Error can be reproduced by simple kernel module:

--------------------
#include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
#include &lt;linux/config.h&gt;
#include &lt;linux/kernel.h&gt;
#include &lt;linux/errno.h&gt;
#include &lt;string.h&gt;

static void do_memset(void **p, int size)
{
        memset(p, 0x00, size);
}

static int __init memset_test_init(void)
{
    char fooc[8];
    int *fooi;
    memset(fooc, 0xba, sizeof(fooc));

    do_memset((void**)(fooc + 3), 1);

    fooi = (int*) fooc;
    printk("%08X %08X\n", fooi[0], fooi[1]);

    return -1;
}

static void __exit memset_test_cleanup(void)
{
    return;
}

module_init(memset_test_init);
module_exit(memset_test_cleanup);

MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS;
--------------------

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shmelev &lt;ashmelev@task.sun.mcst.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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Sparc optimized memset (arch/sparc/lib/memset.S) does not fill last
byte of the memory area, if area size is less than 8 bytes and start
address is not word (4-bytes) aligned.

Here is code chunk where bug located:
/* %o0 - memory address, %o1 - size, %g3 - value */
8:
     add    %o0, 1, %o0
    subcc    %o1, 1, %o1
    bne,a    8b
     stb %g3, [%o0 - 1]

This code should write byte every loop iteration, but last time delay
instruction stb is not executed because branch instruction sets
"annul" bit.

Patch replaces bne,a by bne instruction.

Error can be reproduced by simple kernel module:

--------------------
#include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
#include &lt;linux/config.h&gt;
#include &lt;linux/kernel.h&gt;
#include &lt;linux/errno.h&gt;
#include &lt;string.h&gt;

static void do_memset(void **p, int size)
{
        memset(p, 0x00, size);
}

static int __init memset_test_init(void)
{
    char fooc[8];
    int *fooi;
    memset(fooc, 0xba, sizeof(fooc));

    do_memset((void**)(fooc + 3), 1);

    fooi = (int*) fooc;
    printk("%08X %08X\n", fooi[0], fooi[1]);

    return -1;
}

static void __exit memset_test_cleanup(void)
{
    return;
}

module_init(memset_test_init);
module_exit(memset_test_cleanup);

MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS;
--------------------

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shmelev &lt;ashmelev@task.sun.mcst.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>md: avoid possible BUG_ON in md bitmap handling</title>
<updated>2007-08-23T00:13:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Neil Brown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-08-23T00:13:17+00:00</published>
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md/bitmap tracks how many active write requests are pending on blocks
associated with each bit in the bitmap, so that it knows when it can clear
the bit (when count hits zero).

The counter has 14 bits of space, so if there are ever more than 16383, we
cannot cope.

Currently the code just calles BUG_ON as "all" drivers have request queue
limits much smaller than this.

However is seems that some don't.  Apparently some multipath configurations
can allow more than 16383 concurrent write requests.

So, in this unlikely situation, instead of calling BUG_ON we now wait
for the count to drop down a bit.  This requires a new wait_queue_head,
some waiting code, and a wakeup call.

Tested by limiting the counter to 20 instead of 16383 (writes go a lot slower
in that case...).

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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md/bitmap tracks how many active write requests are pending on blocks
associated with each bit in the bitmap, so that it knows when it can clear
the bit (when count hits zero).

The counter has 14 bits of space, so if there are ever more than 16383, we
cannot cope.

Currently the code just calles BUG_ON as "all" drivers have request queue
limits much smaller than this.

However is seems that some don't.  Apparently some multipath configurations
can allow more than 16383 concurrent write requests.

So, in this unlikely situation, instead of calling BUG_ON we now wait
for the count to drop down a bit.  This requires a new wait_queue_head,
some waiting code, and a wakeup call.

Tested by limiting the counter to 20 instead of 16383 (writes go a lot slower
in that case...).

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>md: fix a few problems with the interface (sysfs and ioctl) to md</title>
<updated>2007-08-22T23:39:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Neil Brown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-08-22T23:39:24+00:00</published>
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While developing more functionality in mdadm I found some bugs in md...

- When we remove a device from an inactive array (write 'remove' to
  the 'state' sysfs file - see 'state_store') would should not
  update the superblock information - as we may not have
  read and processed it all properly yet.

- initialise all raid_disk entries to '-1' else the 'slot sysfs file
  will claim '0' for all devices in an array before the array is
  started.

- all '\n' not to be present at the end of words written to
  sysfs files

- when we use SET_ARRAY_INFO to set the md metadata version,
  set the flag to say that there is persistant metadata.

- allow GET_BITMAP_FILE to be called on an array that hasn't
  been started yet.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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While developing more functionality in mdadm I found some bugs in md...

- When we remove a device from an inactive array (write 'remove' to
  the 'state' sysfs file - see 'state_store') would should not
  update the superblock information - as we may not have
  read and processed it all properly yet.

- initialise all raid_disk entries to '-1' else the 'slot sysfs file
  will claim '0' for all devices in an array before the array is
  started.

- all '\n' not to be present at the end of words written to
  sysfs files

- when we use SET_ARRAY_INFO to set the md metadata version,
  set the flag to say that there is persistant metadata.

- allow GET_BITMAP_FILE to be called on an array that hasn't
  been started yet.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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