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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/smbfs, branch v2.6.19.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>[PATCH] Streamline generic_file_* interfaces and filemap cleanups</title>
<updated>2006-10-01T07:39:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Badari Pulavarty</name>
<email>pbadari@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-01T06:28:48+00:00</published>
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This patch cleans up generic_file_*_read/write() interfaces.  Christoph
Hellwig gave me the idea for this clean ups.

In a nutshell, all filesystems should set .aio_read/.aio_write methods and use
do_sync_read/ do_sync_write() as their .read/.write methods.  This allows us
to cleanup all variants of generic_file_* routines.

Final available interfaces:

generic_file_aio_read() - read handler
generic_file_aio_write() - write handler
generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - no lock write handler

__generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - internal worker routine

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty &lt;pbadari@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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This patch cleans up generic_file_*_read/write() interfaces.  Christoph
Hellwig gave me the idea for this clean ups.

In a nutshell, all filesystems should set .aio_read/.aio_write methods and use
do_sync_read/ do_sync_write() as their .read/.write methods.  This allows us
to cleanup all variants of generic_file_* routines.

Final available interfaces:

generic_file_aio_read() - read handler
generic_file_aio_write() - write handler
generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - no lock write handler

__generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - internal worker routine

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty &lt;pbadari@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] inode-diet: Eliminate i_blksize from the inode structure</title>
<updated>2006-09-27T15:26:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2006-09-27T08:50:49+00:00</published>
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This eliminates the i_blksize field from struct inode.  Filesystems that want
to provide a per-inode st_blksize can do so by providing their own getattr
routine instead of using the generic_fillattr() function.

Note that some filesystems were providing pretty much random (and incorrect)
values for i_blksize.

[bunk@stusta.de: cleanup]
[akpm@osdl.org: generic_fillattr() fix]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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This eliminates the i_blksize field from struct inode.  Filesystems that want
to provide a per-inode st_blksize can do so by providing their own getattr
routine instead of using the generic_fillattr() function.

Note that some filesystems were providing pretty much random (and incorrect)
values for i_blksize.

[bunk@stusta.de: cleanup]
[akpm@osdl.org: generic_fillattr() fix]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] Really ignore kmem_cache_destroy return value</title>
<updated>2006-09-27T15:26:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-09-27T08:49:40+00:00</published>
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* Rougly half of callers already do it by not checking return value
* Code in drivers/acpi/osl.c does the following to be sure:

	(void)kmem_cache_destroy(cache);

* Those who check it printk something, however, slab_error already printed
  the name of failed cache.
* XFS BUGs on failed kmem_cache_destroy which is not the decision
  low-level filesystem driver should make. Converted to ignore.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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* Rougly half of callers already do it by not checking return value
* Code in drivers/acpi/osl.c does the following to be sure:

	(void)kmem_cache_destroy(cache);

* Those who check it printk something, however, slab_error already printed
  the name of failed cache.
* XFS BUGs on failed kmem_cache_destroy which is not the decision
  low-level filesystem driver should make. Converted to ignore.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Remove obsolete #include &lt;linux/config.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2006-06-30T17:25:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jörn Engel</name>
<email>joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de</email>
</author>
<published>2006-06-30T17:25:36+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel &lt;joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel &lt;joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] mark address_space_operations const</title>
<updated>2006-06-28T21:59:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2006-06-28T11:26:44+00:00</published>
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Same as with already do with the file operations: keep them in .rodata and
prevents people from doing runtime patching.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Steven French &lt;sfrench@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Same as with already do with the file operations: keep them in .rodata and
prevents people from doing runtime patching.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Steven French &lt;sfrench@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] fs: use list_move()</title>
<updated>2006-06-26T16:58:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Akinobu Mita</name>
<email>mita@miraclelinux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-06-26T07:24:46+00:00</published>
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This patch converts the combination of list_del(A) and list_add(A, B) to
list_move(A, B) under fs/.

Cc: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Acked-by: Joel Becker &lt;joel.becker@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au&gt;
Cc: Hans Reiser &lt;reiserfs-dev@namesys.com&gt;
Cc: Urban Widmark &lt;urban@teststation.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Fasheh &lt;mark.fasheh@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita &lt;mita@miraclelinux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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This patch converts the combination of list_del(A) and list_add(A, B) to
list_move(A, B) under fs/.

Cc: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Acked-by: Joel Becker &lt;joel.becker@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au&gt;
Cc: Hans Reiser &lt;reiserfs-dev@namesys.com&gt;
Cc: Urban Widmark &lt;urban@teststation.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Fasheh &lt;mark.fasheh@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita &lt;mita@miraclelinux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] kthread: convert smbiod</title>
<updated>2006-06-25T17:01:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Serge E. Hallyn</name>
<email>serue@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-06-25T12:49:00+00:00</published>
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Update smbiod to use kthread instead of deprecated kernel_thread.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Update smbiod to use kthread instead of deprecated kernel_thread.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to perform statfs with a known root dentry</title>
<updated>2006-06-23T14:42:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-06-23T09:02:58+00:00</published>
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Give the statfs superblock operation a dentry pointer rather than a superblock
pointer.

This complements the get_sb() patch.  That reduced the significance of
sb-&gt;s_root, allowing NFS to place a fake root there.  However, NFS does
require a dentry to use as a target for the statfs operation.  This permits
the root in the vfsmount to be used instead.

linux/mount.h has been added where necessary to make allyesconfig build
successfully.

Interest has also been expressed for use with the FUSE and XFS filesystems.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Nathan Scott &lt;nathans@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Give the statfs superblock operation a dentry pointer rather than a superblock
pointer.

This complements the get_sb() patch.  That reduced the significance of
sb-&gt;s_root, allowing NFS to place a fake root there.  However, NFS does
require a dentry to use as a target for the statfs operation.  This permits
the root in the vfsmount to be used instead.

linux/mount.h has been added where necessary to make allyesconfig build
successfully.

Interest has also been expressed for use with the FUSE and XFS filesystems.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Nathan Scott &lt;nathans@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount</title>
<updated>2006-06-23T14:42:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-06-23T09:02:57+00:00</published>
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Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that
permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint.

The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry
pointers.  For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt()
which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the
superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour).

The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the
superblock pointer.

This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount
points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing.  In
such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root
and mnt_sb would be set directly.

The patch also makes the following changes:

 (*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount
     pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change
     very little.

 (*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should
     normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will
     always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb().

 (*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the
     dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon().

     This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that
     aren't actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The
     currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root,
     and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in
     dentries being left unculled.

     However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be
     implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is
     simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for '/' may well be
     inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries
     with child trees.

     [*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree.

 (*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of
     changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation.

[akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff]
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Nathan Scott &lt;nathans@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Roland Dreier &lt;rolandd@cisco.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that
permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint.

The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry
pointers.  For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt()
which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the
superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour).

The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the
superblock pointer.

This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount
points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing.  In
such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root
and mnt_sb would be set directly.

The patch also makes the following changes:

 (*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount
     pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change
     very little.

 (*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should
     normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will
     always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb().

 (*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the
     dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon().

     This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that
     aren't actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The
     currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root,
     and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in
     dentries being left unculled.

     However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be
     implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is
     simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for '/' may well be
     inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries
     with child trees.

     [*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree.

 (*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of
     changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation.

[akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff]
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Nathan Scott &lt;nathans@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Roland Dreier &lt;rolandd@cisco.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] smbfs: Fix slab corruption in samba error path</title>
<updated>2006-05-15T18:20:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Niehusmann</name>
<email>jan@gondor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-05-15T16:44:12+00:00</published>
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Yesterday, I got the following error with 2.6.16.13 during a file copy from
a smb filesystem over a wireless link.  I guess there was some error on the
wireless link, which in turn caused an error condition for the smb
filesystem.

In the log, smb_file_read reports error=4294966784 (0xfffffe00), which also
shows up in the slab dumps, and also is -ERESTARTSYS.  Error code 27499
corresponds to 0x6b6b, so the rq_errno field seems to be the only one being
set after freeing the slab.

In smb_add_request (which is the only place in smbfs where I found
ERESTARTSYS), I found the following:

        if (!timeleft || signal_pending(current)) {
                /*
                 * On timeout or on interrupt we want to try and remove the
                 * request from the recvq/xmitq.
                 */
                smb_lock_server(server);
                if (!(req-&gt;rq_flags &amp; SMB_REQ_RECEIVED)) {
                        list_del_init(&amp;req-&gt;rq_queue);
                        smb_rput(req);
                }
                smb_unlock_server(server);
        }
	[...]
        if (signal_pending(current))
                req-&gt;rq_errno = -ERESTARTSYS;

I guess that some codepath like smbiod_flush() caused the request to be
removed from the queue, and smb_rput(req) be called, without
SMB_REQ_RECEIVED being set.  This violates an asumption made by the quoted
code.

Then, the above code calls smb_rput(req) again, the req gets freed, and
req-&gt;rq_errno = -ERESTARTSYS writes into the already freed slab.  As
list_del_init doesn't cause an error if called multiple times, that does
cause the observed behaviour (freed slab with rq_errno=-ERESTARTSYS).

If this observation is correct, the following patch should fix it.

I wonder why the smb code uses list_del_init everywhere - using list_del
instead would catch such situations by poisoning the next and prev
pointers.

May  4 23:29:21 knautsch kernel: [17180085.456000] ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
May  4 23:29:21 knautsch kernel: [17180085.456000] ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log captured.
May  4 23:33:02 knautsch kernel: [17180306.316000] ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
May  4 23:33:02 knautsch kernel: [17180306.316000] ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
May  4 23:33:02 knautsch kernel: [17180306.968000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:34:18 knautsch kernel: [17180383.256000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:34:18 knautsch kernel: [17180383.284000] SMB connection re-established (-5)
May  4 23:37:19 knautsch kernel: [17180563.956000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:40:09 knautsch kernel: [17180733.636000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:40:26 knautsch kernel: [17180750.700000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:43:02 knautsch kernel: [17180907.304000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:43:08 knautsch kernel: [17180912.324000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] smb_errno: class Unknown, code 27499 from command 0x6b
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] Slab corruption: start=c4ebe09c, len=244
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] Last user: [&lt;e087b903&gt;](smb_rput+0x53/0x90 [smbfs])
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] 0f0: 00 fe ff ff
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] Next obj: start=c4ebe19c, len=244
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] Last user: [&lt;00000000&gt;](_stext+0x3feffde0/0x30)
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] 010: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.460000] SMB connection re-established (-5)
May  4 23:43:42 knautsch kernel: [17180946.292000] ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
May  4 23:43:42 knautsch kernel: [17180946.292000] ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
May  4 23:45:04 knautsch kernel: [17181028.752000] ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
May  4 23:45:04 knautsch kernel: [17181028.752000] ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
May  4 23:45:05 knautsch kernel: [17181029.868000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] smb_errno: class Unknown, code 27499 from command 0x6b
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] Slab corruption: start=c4ebe09c, len=244
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] Last user: [&lt;e087b903&gt;](smb_rput+0x53/0x90 [smbfs])
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] 0f0: 00 fe ff ff
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] Next obj: start=c4ebe19c, len=244
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] Last user: [&lt;00000000&gt;](_stext+0x3feffde0/0x30)
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] 010: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181061.024000] SMB connection re-established (-5)
May  4 23:46:17 knautsch kernel: [17181102.132000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] smb_errno: class Unknown, code 27499 from command 0x6b
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] Slab corruption: start=c4ebe09c, len=244
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] Last user: [&lt;e087b903&gt;](smb_rput+0x53/0x90 [smbfs])
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] 0f0: 00 fe ff ff
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] Next obj: start=c4ebe19c, len=244
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] Last user: [&lt;00000000&gt;](_stext+0x3feffde0/0x30)
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] 010: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.492000] SMB connection re-established (-5)
May  4 23:49:20 knautsch kernel: [17181284.828000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:49:39 knautsch kernel: [17181303.896000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784

Signed-off-by: Jan Niehusmann &lt;jan@gondor.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Yesterday, I got the following error with 2.6.16.13 during a file copy from
a smb filesystem over a wireless link.  I guess there was some error on the
wireless link, which in turn caused an error condition for the smb
filesystem.

In the log, smb_file_read reports error=4294966784 (0xfffffe00), which also
shows up in the slab dumps, and also is -ERESTARTSYS.  Error code 27499
corresponds to 0x6b6b, so the rq_errno field seems to be the only one being
set after freeing the slab.

In smb_add_request (which is the only place in smbfs where I found
ERESTARTSYS), I found the following:

        if (!timeleft || signal_pending(current)) {
                /*
                 * On timeout or on interrupt we want to try and remove the
                 * request from the recvq/xmitq.
                 */
                smb_lock_server(server);
                if (!(req-&gt;rq_flags &amp; SMB_REQ_RECEIVED)) {
                        list_del_init(&amp;req-&gt;rq_queue);
                        smb_rput(req);
                }
                smb_unlock_server(server);
        }
	[...]
        if (signal_pending(current))
                req-&gt;rq_errno = -ERESTARTSYS;

I guess that some codepath like smbiod_flush() caused the request to be
removed from the queue, and smb_rput(req) be called, without
SMB_REQ_RECEIVED being set.  This violates an asumption made by the quoted
code.

Then, the above code calls smb_rput(req) again, the req gets freed, and
req-&gt;rq_errno = -ERESTARTSYS writes into the already freed slab.  As
list_del_init doesn't cause an error if called multiple times, that does
cause the observed behaviour (freed slab with rq_errno=-ERESTARTSYS).

If this observation is correct, the following patch should fix it.

I wonder why the smb code uses list_del_init everywhere - using list_del
instead would catch such situations by poisoning the next and prev
pointers.

May  4 23:29:21 knautsch kernel: [17180085.456000] ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
May  4 23:29:21 knautsch kernel: [17180085.456000] ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log captured.
May  4 23:33:02 knautsch kernel: [17180306.316000] ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
May  4 23:33:02 knautsch kernel: [17180306.316000] ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
May  4 23:33:02 knautsch kernel: [17180306.968000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:34:18 knautsch kernel: [17180383.256000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:34:18 knautsch kernel: [17180383.284000] SMB connection re-established (-5)
May  4 23:37:19 knautsch kernel: [17180563.956000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:40:09 knautsch kernel: [17180733.636000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:40:26 knautsch kernel: [17180750.700000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:43:02 knautsch kernel: [17180907.304000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:43:08 knautsch kernel: [17180912.324000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] smb_errno: class Unknown, code 27499 from command 0x6b
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] Slab corruption: start=c4ebe09c, len=244
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] Last user: [&lt;e087b903&gt;](smb_rput+0x53/0x90 [smbfs])
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] 0f0: 00 fe ff ff
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] Next obj: start=c4ebe19c, len=244
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] Last user: [&lt;00000000&gt;](_stext+0x3feffde0/0x30)
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.416000] 010: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:43:34 knautsch kernel: [17180938.460000] SMB connection re-established (-5)
May  4 23:43:42 knautsch kernel: [17180946.292000] ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
May  4 23:43:42 knautsch kernel: [17180946.292000] ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
May  4 23:45:04 knautsch kernel: [17181028.752000] ipw2200: Firmware error detected.  Restarting.
May  4 23:45:04 knautsch kernel: [17181028.752000] ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
May  4 23:45:05 knautsch kernel: [17181029.868000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] smb_errno: class Unknown, code 27499 from command 0x6b
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] Slab corruption: start=c4ebe09c, len=244
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] Last user: [&lt;e087b903&gt;](smb_rput+0x53/0x90 [smbfs])
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] 0f0: 00 fe ff ff
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] Next obj: start=c4ebe19c, len=244
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] Last user: [&lt;00000000&gt;](_stext+0x3feffde0/0x30)
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181060.984000] 010: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:45:36 knautsch kernel: [17181061.024000] SMB connection re-established (-5)
May  4 23:46:17 knautsch kernel: [17181102.132000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] smb_errno: class Unknown, code 27499 from command 0x6b
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] Slab corruption: start=c4ebe09c, len=244
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] Last user: [&lt;e087b903&gt;](smb_rput+0x53/0x90 [smbfs])
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] 0f0: 00 fe ff ff
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] Next obj: start=c4ebe19c, len=244
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] Redzone: 0x5a2cf071/0x5a2cf071.
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] Last user: [&lt;00000000&gt;](_stext+0x3feffde0/0x30)
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] 000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.468000] 010: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b
May  4 23:47:46 knautsch kernel: [17181190.492000] SMB connection re-established (-5)
May  4 23:49:20 knautsch kernel: [17181284.828000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784
May  4 23:49:39 knautsch kernel: [17181303.896000] smb_file_read: //some_file validation failed, error=4294966784

Signed-off-by: Jan Niehusmann &lt;jan@gondor.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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