linux-toradex.git/drivers/scsi/aacraid, branch v2.6.20.19

[PATCH] aacraid: fix security hole

2007-08-25T15:24:03+00:00

On the SCSI layer ioctl path there is no implicit permissions check for
ioctls (and indeed other drivers implement unprivileged ioctls). aacraid
however allows all sorts of very admin only things to be done so should
check.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox 
Acked-by: Mark Salyzyn 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau

[SCSI] aacraid: Product List Update

2007-01-06T15:02:37+00:00

Update drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c and Documentation/scsi/aacraid.txt
file with the current list of
adapters supported by the aacraid driver. Deprecated a few adapters that
never shipped, corrected a
few and added new adapters that matched the family code support. No
functional changes to the driver.
No side effects.

Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn 
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

[PATCH] getting rid of all casts of k[cmz]alloc() calls

2006-12-13T17:05:58+00:00

Run this:

	#!/bin/sh
	for f in $(grep -Erl "\([^\)]*\) *k[cmz]alloc" *) ; do
	  echo "De-casting $f..."
	  perl -pi -e "s/ ?= ?\([^\)]*\) *(k[cmz]alloc) *\(/ = \1\(/" $f
	done

And then go through and reinstate those cases where code is casting pointers
to non-pointers.

And then drop a few hunks which conflicted with outstanding work.

Cc: Russell King , Ian Molton 
Cc: Mikael Starvik 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Cc: Roman Zippel 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Kyle McMartin 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Greg KH 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Paul Fulghum 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Cc: Karsten Keil 
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Cc: Jeff Garzik 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Cc: Ian Kent 
Cc: Steven French 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Neil Brown 
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela 
Cc: Takashi Iwai 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[SCSI] aacraid: Driver version update

2006-11-22T18:29:53+00:00

Received from Mark Salyzyn:

Version patch, update to reflect a rough estimate of the Adaptec build
(2423) that coincides with the sources on kernel.org.

Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp 
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

[SCSI] aacraid: Abort management FIBs

2006-11-22T18:29:17+00:00

Received from Mark Salyzyn:

Add code to abort outstanding management ioctl fibs when the blinkLED recovery
is performed. This code is 'clunky' and does not have any real feedback in that
the reset could progress before the user application has gotten it's
notification of command completion. We put a schedule() call to delay just the
right amount for most cases, because we tried a spin and still managed to find
cases where we would spin forever waiting for the management application to
acknowledge the impending doom surrounding the cause of the BlinkLED. Will
cause an oops in the context of the management application if we proceed too
quickly. I view this as the lesser of many evils since currently if there are
outstanding management ioctls during a need to reset/recover the adapter, the
management application just locks up and waits forever. The best practices fix
for this problem not going to be simple or easy (at least the fixes I imagine
today); and we found a balance between the needs of the driver to proceed, and
the applications that locked or confused that would hold back the driver. I
just do not like the idea of a kernel oops in an application to deal with low
priority, sluggish or misbehaving applications.

Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp 
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

[SCSI] aacraid: Detect Blinkled at startup

2006-11-22T18:28:22+00:00

Received from Mark Salyzyn:

Blinkled at startup is useful for catching Adapters in a lot of pain, in a
BlinkLED assert, quickly; rather than waiting several minutes for commands to
timeout.

Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp 
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers

2006-10-05T14:10:12+00:00

Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.

The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).

Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.

Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.

I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.

This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:

	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);

And put the old one back at the end:

	set_irq_regs(old_regs);

Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().

In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:

	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);

I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().

Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:

 (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
     the input_dev struct.

 (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
     something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
     pointer or not.

 (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
     irq_handler_t.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells 
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)

[PATCH] missing include (free_irq() use)

2006-09-24T22:55:03+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[SCSI] aacraid: remove scsi_remove_device

2006-09-24T01:10:10+00:00

Received from Mark Salyzyn:

Until the system is stabilized, I am suggesting the enclosed
modification to prevent the driver from tickling the panic. Once sysfs
and friends are stabilized, the patch may be backed out. We have yet to
evaluate if we really want to relinquish existing Scsi Devices in any
case, holding on to them as configuration of arrays comes and goes makes
some sense as well. As a result, we have opted to pull the lines rather
than comment them in legacy.

Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp 
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

[SCSI] aacraid: merge rx and rkt code

2006-09-24T01:09:42+00:00

Received from Mark Salyzyn:

The only real difference between the rkt and rx platform modules is the
offset of the message registers. This patch recognizes this similarity
and simplifies the driver to reduce it's code footprint and to improve
maintainability by reducing the code duplication.

Visibly, the 'rkt.c' portion of this patch looks more complicated than
it really is. View it as retaining the rkt-only specifics of the
interface.

Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp 
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley