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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/block/floppy.c, branch v3.2.73</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>floppy: don't write kernel-only members to FDRAWCMD ioctl output</title>
<updated>2014-05-18T13:58:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Daley</name>
<email>mattd@bugfuzz.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-28T07:05:21+00:00</published>
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commit 2145e15e0557a01b9195d1c7199a1b92cb9be81f upstream.

Do not leak kernel-only floppy_raw_cmd structure members to userspace.
This includes the linked-list pointer and the pointer to the allocated
DMA space.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Daley &lt;mattd@bugfuzz.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 2145e15e0557a01b9195d1c7199a1b92cb9be81f upstream.

Do not leak kernel-only floppy_raw_cmd structure members to userspace.
This includes the linked-list pointer and the pointer to the allocated
DMA space.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Daley &lt;mattd@bugfuzz.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>floppy: ignore kernel-only members in FDRAWCMD ioctl input</title>
<updated>2014-05-18T13:58:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Daley</name>
<email>mattd@bugfuzz.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-28T07:05:20+00:00</published>
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commit ef87dbe7614341c2e7bfe8d32fcb7028cc97442c upstream.

Always clear out these floppy_raw_cmd struct members after copying the
entire structure from userspace so that the in-kernel version is always
valid and never left in an interdeterminate state.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Daley &lt;mattd@bugfuzz.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit ef87dbe7614341c2e7bfe8d32fcb7028cc97442c upstream.

Always clear out these floppy_raw_cmd struct members after copying the
entire structure from userspace so that the in-kernel version is always
valid and never left in an interdeterminate state.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Daley &lt;mattd@bugfuzz.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>floppy: properly handle failure on add_disk loop</title>
<updated>2012-11-16T16:47:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski</name>
<email>herton.krzesinski@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-27T23:56:54+00:00</published>
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commit d60e7ec18c3fb2cbf90969ccd42889eb2d03aef9 upstream.

On floppy initialization, if something failed inside the loop we call
add_disk, there was no cleanup of previous iterations in the error
handling.

Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski &lt;herton.krzesinski@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit d60e7ec18c3fb2cbf90969ccd42889eb2d03aef9 upstream.

On floppy initialization, if something failed inside the loop we call
add_disk, there was no cleanup of previous iterations in the error
handling.

Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski &lt;herton.krzesinski@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>floppy: do put_disk on current dr if blk_init_queue fails</title>
<updated>2012-11-16T16:46:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski</name>
<email>herton.krzesinski@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-27T23:56:52+00:00</published>
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commit 238ab78469c6ab7845b43d5061cd3c92331b2452 upstream.

If blk_init_queue fails, we do not call put_disk on the current dr
(dr is decremented first in the error handling loop).

Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski &lt;herton.krzesinski@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 238ab78469c6ab7845b43d5061cd3c92331b2452 upstream.

If blk_init_queue fails, we do not call put_disk on the current dr
(dr is decremented first in the error handling loop).

Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski &lt;herton.krzesinski@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Remove the ancient and deprecated disable_hlt() and enable_hlt() facility</title>
<updated>2012-11-16T16:46:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-29T21:49:17+00:00</published>
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commit f6365201d8a21fb347260f89d6e9b3e718d63c70 upstream.

The X86_32-only disable_hlt/enable_hlt mechanism was used by the
32-bit floppy driver. Its effect was to replace the use of the
HLT instruction inside default_idle() with cpu_relax() - essentially
it turned off the use of HLT.

This workaround was commented in the code as:

 "disable hlt during certain critical i/o operations"

 "This halt magic was a workaround for ancient floppy DMA
  wreckage. It should be safe to remove."

H. Peter Anvin additionally adds:

 "To the best of my knowledge, no-hlt only existed because of
  flaky power distributions on 386/486 systems which were sold to
  run DOS.  Since DOS did no power management of any kind,
  including HLT, the power draw was fairly uniform; when exposed
  to the much hhigher noise levels you got when Linux used HLT
  caused some of these systems to fail.

  They were by far in the minority even back then."

Alan Cox further says:

 "Also for the Cyrix 5510 which tended to go castors up if a HLT
  occurred during a DMA cycle and on a few other boxes HLT during
  DMA tended to go astray.

  Do we care ? I doubt it. The 5510 was pretty obscure, the 5520
  fixed it, the 5530 is probably the oldest still in any kind of
  use."

So, let's finally drop this.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer &lt;jwboyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3rhk9bzf0x9rljkv488tloib@git.kernel.org
[ If anyone cares then alternative instruction patching could be
  used to replace HLT with a one-byte NOP instruction. Much simpler. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename, context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit f6365201d8a21fb347260f89d6e9b3e718d63c70 upstream.

The X86_32-only disable_hlt/enable_hlt mechanism was used by the
32-bit floppy driver. Its effect was to replace the use of the
HLT instruction inside default_idle() with cpu_relax() - essentially
it turned off the use of HLT.

This workaround was commented in the code as:

 "disable hlt during certain critical i/o operations"

 "This halt magic was a workaround for ancient floppy DMA
  wreckage. It should be safe to remove."

H. Peter Anvin additionally adds:

 "To the best of my knowledge, no-hlt only existed because of
  flaky power distributions on 386/486 systems which were sold to
  run DOS.  Since DOS did no power management of any kind,
  including HLT, the power draw was fairly uniform; when exposed
  to the much hhigher noise levels you got when Linux used HLT
  caused some of these systems to fail.

  They were by far in the minority even back then."

Alan Cox further says:

 "Also for the Cyrix 5510 which tended to go castors up if a HLT
  occurred during a DMA cycle and on a few other boxes HLT during
  DMA tended to go astray.

  Do we care ? I doubt it. The 5510 was pretty obscure, the 5520
  fixed it, the 5530 is probably the oldest still in any kind of
  use."

So, let's finally drop this.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer &lt;jwboyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3rhk9bzf0x9rljkv488tloib@git.kernel.org
[ If anyone cares then alternative instruction patching could be
  used to replace HLT with a one-byte NOP instruction. Much simpler. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename, context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>floppy: Cleanup disk-&gt;queue before caling put_disk() if add_disk() was never called</title>
<updated>2012-08-09T23:24:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vivek Goyal</name>
<email>vgoyal@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-08T19:03:38+00:00</published>
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commit 3f9a5aabd0a9fe0e0cd308506f48963d79169aa7 upstream.

add_disk() takes gendisk reference on request queue. If driver failed during
initialization and never called add_disk() then that extra reference is not
taken. That reference is put in put_disk(). floppy driver allocates the
disk, allocates queue, sets disk-&gt;queue and then relizes that floppy
controller is not present. It tries to tear down everything and tries to
put a reference down in put_disk() which was never taken.

In such error cases cleanup disk-&gt;queue before calling put_disk() so that
we never try to put down a reference which was never taken in first place.

Reported-and-tested-by: Suresh Jayaraman &lt;sjayaraman@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dirk Gouders &lt;gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 3f9a5aabd0a9fe0e0cd308506f48963d79169aa7 upstream.

add_disk() takes gendisk reference on request queue. If driver failed during
initialization and never called add_disk() then that extra reference is not
taken. That reference is put in put_disk(). floppy driver allocates the
disk, allocates queue, sets disk-&gt;queue and then relizes that floppy
controller is not present. It tries to tear down everything and tries to
put a reference down in put_disk() which was never taken.

In such error cases cleanup disk-&gt;queue before calling put_disk() so that
we never try to put down a reference which was never taken in first place.

Reported-and-tested-by: Suresh Jayaraman &lt;sjayaraman@suse.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dirk Gouders &lt;gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>floppy: use del_timer_sync() in init cleanup</title>
<updated>2011-09-21T08:22:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Carsten Emde</name>
<email>C.Emde@osadl.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-21T08:22:11+00:00</published>
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When no floppy is found the module code can be released while a timer
function is pending or about to be executed.

CPU0                                  CPU1
				      floppy_init()
timer_softirq()
   spin_lock_irq(&amp;base-&gt;lock);
   detach_timer();
   spin_unlock_irq(&amp;base-&gt;lock);
   -&gt; Interrupt
					del_timer();
				        return -ENODEV;
                                      module_cleanup();
   &lt;- EOI
   call_timer_fn();
   OOPS

Use del_timer_sync() to prevent this.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde &lt;C.Emde@osadl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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When no floppy is found the module code can be released while a timer
function is pending or about to be executed.

CPU0                                  CPU1
				      floppy_init()
timer_softirq()
   spin_lock_irq(&amp;base-&gt;lock);
   detach_timer();
   spin_unlock_irq(&amp;base-&gt;lock);
   -&gt; Interrupt
					del_timer();
				        return -ENODEV;
                                      module_cleanup();
   &lt;- EOI
   call_timer_fn();
   OOPS

Use del_timer_sync() to prevent this.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde &lt;C.Emde@osadl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6</title>
<updated>2011-05-29T18:18:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-29T18:18:09+00:00</published>
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* 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6:
  x86 idle: deprecate mwait_idle() and "idle=mwait" cmdline param
  x86 idle: deprecate "no-hlt" cmdline param
  x86 idle APM: deprecate CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE
  x86 idle floppy: deprecate disable_hlt()
  x86 idle: EXPORT_SYMBOL(default_idle, pm_idle) only when APM demands it
  x86 idle: clarify AMD erratum 400 workaround
  idle governor: Avoid lock acquisition to read pm_qos before entering idle
  cpuidle: menu: fixed wrapping timers at 4.294 seconds
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* 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6:
  x86 idle: deprecate mwait_idle() and "idle=mwait" cmdline param
  x86 idle: deprecate "no-hlt" cmdline param
  x86 idle APM: deprecate CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE
  x86 idle floppy: deprecate disable_hlt()
  x86 idle: EXPORT_SYMBOL(default_idle, pm_idle) only when APM demands it
  x86 idle: clarify AMD erratum 400 workaround
  idle governor: Avoid lock acquisition to read pm_qos before entering idle
  cpuidle: menu: fixed wrapping timers at 4.294 seconds
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86 idle floppy: deprecate disable_hlt()</title>
<updated>2011-05-29T07:39:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-01T19:08:48+00:00</published>
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Plan to remove floppy_disable_hlt in 2012, an ancient
workaround with comments that it should be removed.

This allows us to remove clutter and a run-time branch
from the idle code.

WARN_ONCE() on invocation until it is removed.

cc: x86@kernel.org
cc: stable@kernel.org # .39.x
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Plan to remove floppy_disable_hlt in 2012, an ancient
workaround with comments that it should be removed.

This allows us to remove clutter and a run-time branch
from the idle code.

WARN_ONCE() on invocation until it is removed.

cc: x86@kernel.org
cc: stable@kernel.org # .39.x
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: unexport DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE for legacy/fringe drivers</title>
<updated>2011-04-21T19:33:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-21T19:32:55+00:00</published>
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In-kernel disk event polling doesn't matter for legacy/fringe drivers
and may lead to infinite event loop if -&gt;check_events() implementation
generates events on level condition instead of edge.

Now that block layer supports suppressing exporting unlisted events,
simply leaving disk-&gt;events cleared allows these drivers to keep the
internal revalidation behavior intact while avoiding weird
interactions with userland event handler.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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In-kernel disk event polling doesn't matter for legacy/fringe drivers
and may lead to infinite event loop if -&gt;check_events() implementation
generates events on level condition instead of edge.

Now that block layer supports suppressing exporting unlisted events,
simply leaving disk-&gt;events cleared allows these drivers to keep the
internal revalidation behavior intact while avoiding weird
interactions with userland event handler.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
</pre>
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