linux-toradex.git, branch v2.6.27.55

Linux 2.6.27.55

2010-10-29T04:04:39+00:00

execve: make responsive to SIGKILL with large arguments

2010-10-29T04:04:19+00:00

commit 9aea5a65aa7a1af9a4236dfaeb0088f1624f9919 upstream.

An execve with a very large total of argument/environment strings
can take a really long time in the execve system call.  It runs
uninterruptibly to count and copy all the strings.  This change
makes it abort the exec quickly if sent a SIGKILL.

Note that this is the conservative change, to interrupt only for
SIGKILL, by using fatal_signal_pending().  It would be perfectly
correct semantics to let any signal interrupt the string-copying in
execve, i.e. use signal_pending() instead of fatal_signal_pending().
We'll save that change for later, since it could have user-visible
consequences, such as having a timer set too quickly make it so that
an execve can never complete, though it always happened to work before.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath 
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Chuck Ebbert 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

execve: improve interactivity with large arguments

2010-10-29T04:04:18+00:00

commit 7993bc1f4663c0db67bb8f0d98e6678145b387cd upstream.

This adds a preemption point during the copying of the argument and
environment strings for execve, in copy_strings().  There is already
a preemption point in the count() loop, so this doesn't add any new
points in the abstract sense.

When the total argument+environment strings are very large, the time
spent copying them can be much more than a normal user time slice.
So this change improves the interactivity of the rest of the system
when one process is doing an execve with very large arguments.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath 
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Chuck Ebbert 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

setup_arg_pages: diagnose excessive argument size

2010-10-29T04:04:18+00:00

commit 1b528181b2ffa14721fb28ad1bd539fe1732c583 upstream.

The CONFIG_STACK_GROWSDOWN variant of setup_arg_pages() does not
check the size of the argument/environment area on the stack.
When it is unworkably large, shift_arg_pages() hits its BUG_ON.
This is exploitable with a very large RLIMIT_STACK limit, to
create a crash pretty easily.

Check that the initial stack is not too large to make it possible
to map in any executable.  We're not checking that the actual
executable (or intepreter, for binfmt_elf) will fit.  So those
mappings might clobber part of the initial stack mapping.  But
that is just userland lossage that userland made happen, not a
kernel problem.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath 
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Chuck Ebbert 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

b44: fix carrier detection on bind

2010-10-29T04:04:18+00:00

commit bcf64aa379fcadd074449cbf0c049da70071b06f upstream.

For carrier detection to work properly when binding the driver with a cable
unplugged, netif_carrier_off() should be called after register_netdev(),
not before.

Signed-off-by: Paul Fertser 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc: Don't use kernel stack with translation off

2010-10-29T04:04:17+00:00

commit 54a834043314c257210db2a9d59f8cc605571639 upstream.

In f761622e59433130bc33ad086ce219feee9eb961 we changed
early_setup_secondary so it's called using the proper kernel stack
rather than the emergency one.

Unfortunately, this stack pointer can't be used when translation is off
on PHYP as this stack pointer might be outside the RMO.  This results in
the following on all non zero cpus:
  cpu 0x1: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c00000001639fd10]
      pc: 000000000001c50c
      lr: 000000000000821c
      sp: c00000001639ff90
     msr: 8000000000001000
     dar: c00000001639ffa0
   dsisr: 42000000
    current = 0xc000000016393540
    paca    = 0xc000000006e00200
      pid   = 0, comm = swapper

The original patch was only tested on bare metal system, so it never
caught this problem.

This changes __secondary_start so that we calculate the new stack
pointer but only start using it after we've called early_setup_secondary.

With this patch, the above problem goes away.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc: Initialise paca->kstack before early_setup_secondary

2010-10-29T04:04:17+00:00

commit f761622e59433130bc33ad086ce219feee9eb961 upstream.

As early setup calls down to slb_initialize(), we must have kstack
initialised before checking "should we add a bolted SLB entry for our kstack?"

Failing to do so means stack access requires an SLB miss exception to refill
an entry dynamically, if the stack isn't accessible via SLB(0) (kernel text
& static data).  It's not always allowable to take such a miss, and
intermittent crashes will result.

Primary CPUs don't have this issue; an SLB entry is not bolted for their
stack anyway (as that lives within SLB(0)).  This patch therefore only
affects the init of secondaries.

Signed-off-by: Matt Evans 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

r6040: Fix multicast list iteration when hash filter is used

2010-10-29T04:04:17+00:00

This was fixed in mainline by the interface change made in commit
f9dcbcc9e338d08c0f7de7eba4eaafbbb7f81249.

After walking the multicast list to set up the hash filter, this
function will walk off the end of the list when filling the
exact-match entries.  This was fixed in mainline by the interface
change made in commit f9dcbcc9e338d08c0f7de7eba4eaafbbb7f81249.

Reported-by: spamalot@hispeed.ch
Reference: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15355
Reported-by: Jason Heeris 
Reference: http://bugs.debian.org/600155
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

r6040: fix r6040_multicast_list

2010-10-29T04:04:16+00:00

commit 3bcf8229a8c49769e48d3e0bd1e20d8e003f8106 upstream.

As reported in , r6040_
multicast_list currently crashes. This is due a wrong maximum of multicast
entries. This patch fixes the following issues with multicast:

- number of maximum entries if off-by-one (4 instead of 3)

- the writing of the hash table index is not necessary and leads to invalid
values being written into the MCR1 register, so the MAC is simply put in a non
coherent state

- when we exceed the maximum number of mutlticast address, writing the
broadcast address should be done in registers MID_1{L,M,H} instead of
MID_O{L,M,H}, otherwise we would loose the adapter's MAC address

[bwh: Adjust for 2.6.32; should also apply to 2.6.27]

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Cc: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

bsg: fix incorrect device_status value

2010-10-29T04:04:16+00:00

commit 478971600e47cb83ff2d3c63c5c24f2b04b0d6a1 upstream.

bsg incorrectly returns sg's masked_status value for device_status.

[jejb: fix up expression logic]
Reported-by: Douglas Gilbert 
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori 
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman