19 May, 2011
2 commits
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Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell -
On m68k natural alignment is 2-byte boundary but we are trying to
align structures in __modver section on sizeof(void *) boundary.
This causes trouble when we try to access elements in this section
in array-like fashion when create "version" attributes for built-in
modules.Moreover, as DaveM said, we can't reliably put structures into
independent objects, put them into a special section, and then expect
array access over them (via the section boundaries) after linking the
objects together to just "work" due to variable alignment choices in
different situations. The only solution that seems to work reliably
is to make an array of plain pointers to the objects in question and
put those pointers in the special section.Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
31 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi
24 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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Currently only drivers that are built as modules have their versions
shown in /sys/module//version, but this information might
also be useful for built-in drivers as well. This especially important
for drivers that do not define any parameters - such drivers, if
built-in, are completely invisible from userspace.This patch changes MODULE_VERSION() macro so that in case when we are
compiling built-in module, version information is stored in a separate
section. Kernel then uses this data to create 'version' sysfs attribute
in the same fashion it creates attributes for module parameters.Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
11 Aug, 2010
7 commits
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There may be cases (most obviously, sysfs-writable charp parameters) where
a module needs to prevent sysfs access to parameters.Rather than express this in terms of a big lock, the functions are
expressed in terms of what they protect against. This is clearer, esp.
if the implementation changes to a module-level or even param-level lock.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai
Tested-by: Phil Carmody -
Since this section can be read-only (they're in .rodata), they should
always have been const. Minor flow-through various functions.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
Tested-by: Phil Carmody -
Instead of using a "I kmalloced this" flag, we keep track of the kmalloced
strings and use that list to check if we need to kfree (in practice, the
list is very short).This means that kparams can be const again, and plugs a leak. This
is important for drivers/usb/gadget/nokia.c which gets modprobe/rmmod'ed
frequently on the N9000.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy
Tested-by: Phil Carmody -
This allows us to generalize the KPARAM_KMALLOCED flag, by calling a function
on every parameter when a module is unloaded.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai
Tested-by: Phil Carmody -
This is more kernel-ish, saves some space, and also allows us to
expand the ops without breaking all the callers who are happy for the
new members to be NULL.The few places which defined their own param types are changed to the
new scheme (more which crept in recently fixed in following patches).Since we're touching them anyway, we change get() and set() to take a
const struct kernel_param (which they really are). This causes some
harmless warnings until we fix them (in following patches).To reduce churn, module_param_call creates the ops struct so the callers
don't have to change (and casts the functions to reduce warnings).
The modern version which takes an ops struct is called module_param_cb.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai
Tested-by: Phil Carmody
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Ville Syrjala
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov
Cc: Alessandro Rubini
Cc: Michal Januszewski
Cc: Trond Myklebust
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields"
Cc: Neil Brown
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org -
This is modern style, and good to do before we start changing things.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai
Tested-by: Phil Carmody -
An audit by Dongdong Deng revealed that most driver-author-written param
calls don't handle val == NULL (which happens when parameters are specified
with no =, eg "foo" instead of "foo=1").The only real case to use this is boolean, so handle it specially for that
case and remove a source of bugs for everyone else.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
Cc: Dongdong Deng
Cc: Américo Wang
13 Mar, 2010
1 commit
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (56 commits)
doc: fix typo in comment explaining rb_tree usage
Remove fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
doc: fix console doc typo
doc: cpuset: Update the cpuset flag file
Fix of spelling in arch/sparc/kernel/leon_kernel.c no longer needed
Remove drivers/parport/ChangeLog
Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog
doc: typo - Table 1-2 should refer to "status", not "statm"
tree-wide: fix typos "ass?o[sc]iac?te" -> "associate" in comments
No need to patch AMD-provided drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios.h
devres/irq: Fix devm_irq_match comment
Remove reference to kthread_create_on_cpu
tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixes
tree-wide: fix 'lenght' typo in comments and code
drm/kms: fix spelling in error message
doc: capitalization and other minor fixes in pnp doc
devres: typo fix s/dev/devm/
Remove redundant trailing semicolons from macros
fix typo "definetly" -> "definitely" in comment
tree-wide: s/widht/width/g typo in comments
...Fix trivial conflict in Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX
08 Mar, 2010
4 commits
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Conflicts:
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S
drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
drivers/net/typhoon.c -
These are the non-static sysfs attributes that exist on
my test machine. Fix them to use sysfs_attr_init or
sysfs_bin_attr_init as appropriate. It simply requires
making a sysfs attribute present to see this. So this
is a little bit tedious but otherwise not too bad.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Acked-by: WANG Cong
Cc: Tejun Heo
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman -
Constify struct sysfs_ops.
This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.Benefits of this constification:
* prevents modification of data that is shared
(referenced) by many other structure instances
at runtime* detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
modification attempts on archs that enforce
read-only kernel data at runtime* potentially better optimized code as the compiler
can assume that the const data cannot be changed* the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
and therefore exclude them from false sharingSigned-off-by: Emese Revfy
Acked-by: David Teigland
Acked-by: Matt Domsch
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg
Acked-by: Jens Axboe
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman -
Constify struct kset_uevent_ops.
This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.Benefits of this constification:
* prevents modification of data that is shared
(referenced) by many other structure instances
at runtime* detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
modification attempts on archs that enforce
read-only kernel data at runtime* potentially better optimized code as the compiler
can assume that the const data cannot be changed* the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
and therefore exclude them from false sharingSigned-off-by: Emese Revfy
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
07 Mar, 2010
1 commit
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Fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:
kernel/params.c: linux/string.h is included more than once.Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput
Cc: André Goddard Rosa
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
05 Feb, 2010
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Edward Z. Yang
Acked-by: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
16 Dec, 2009
1 commit
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Makes use of skip_spaces() defined in lib/string.c for removing leading
spaces from strings all over the tree.It decreases lib.a code size by 47 bytes and reuses the function tree-wide:
text data bss dec hex filename
64688 584 592 65864 10148 (TOTALS-BEFORE)
64641 584 592 65817 10119 (TOTALS-AFTER)Also, while at it, if we see (*str && isspace(*str)), we can be sure to
remove the first condition (*str) as the second one (isspace(*str)) also
evaluates to 0 whenever *str == 0, making it redundant. In other words,
"a char equals zero is never a space".Julia Lawall tried the semantic patch (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr) below,
and found occurrences of this pattern on 3 more files:
drivers/leds/led-class.c
drivers/leds/ledtrig-timer.c
drivers/video/output.c@@
expression str;
@@( // ignore skip_spaces cases
while (*str && isspace(*str)) { \(str++;\|++str;\) }
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- *str &&
isspace(*str)
)Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa
Cc: Julia Lawall
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Jeff Dike
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Richard Purdie
Cc: Neil Brown
Cc: Kyle McMartin
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Cc: David Howells
Cc:
Cc: Samuel Ortiz
Cc: Patrick McHardy
Cc: Takashi Iwai
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 Oct, 2009
3 commits
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We create a dummy struct kernel_param on the stack for parsing each
array element, but we didn't initialize the flags word. This matters
for arrays of type "bool", where the flag indicates if it really is
an array of bools or unsigned int (old-style).Reported-by: Takashi Iwai
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
Cc: stable@kernel.org -
kp->arg is always true: it's the contents of that pointer we care about.
Reported-by: Takashi Iwai
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
Cc: stable@kernel.org -
e180a6b7759a "param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs" fixed the case
where charp parameters written via sysfs were freed, leaving drivers
accessing random memory.Unfortunately, storing a flag in the kparam struct was a bad idea: it's
rodata so setting it causes an oops on some archs. But that's not all:1) module_param_array() on charp doesn't work reliably, since we use an
uninitialized temporary struct kernel_param.
2) there's a fundamental race if a module uses this parameter and then
it's changed: they will still access the old, freed, memory.The simplest fix (ie. for 2.6.32) is to never free the memory. This
prevents all these problems, at cost of a memory leak. In practice, there
are only 18 places where a charp is writable via sysfs, and all are
root-only writable.Reported-by: Takashi Iwai
Cc: Sitsofe Wheeler
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Christof Schmitt
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
Cc: stable@kernel.org
24 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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Some boot mechanisms require that kernel parameters are stored in a
separate file which is loaded to memory without further processing
(e.g. the "Load from FTP" method on s390). When such a file contains
newline characters, the kernel parameter preceding the newline might
not be correctly parsed (due to the newline being stuck to the end of
the actual parameter value) which can lead to boot failures.This patch improves kernel command line usability in such a situation
by allowing generic whitespace characters as separators between kernel
parameters.Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
12 Jun, 2009
3 commits
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Impact: API cleanup
For historical reasons, 'bool' parameters must be an int, not a bool.
But there are around 600 users, so a conversion seems like useless churn.So we use __same_type() to distinguish, and handle both cases.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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Impact: cleanup
Rather than hack KPARAM_KMALLOCED into the perm field, separate it out.
Since the perm field was 32 bits and only needs 16, we don't add bloat.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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It takes an 'int' for historical reasons, and there are only two
users: simply switch it over to bool.The other user (uvesafb.c) will get a (harmless-on-x86) warning until
the next patch is applied.Cc: Brad Douglas
Cc: Michal Januszewski
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
31 Mar, 2009
1 commit
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Impact: fix crash on reading from /sys/module/.../ieee80211_default_rc_algo
The module_param type "charp" simply sets a char * pointer in the
module to the parameter in the commandline string: this is why we keep
the (mangled) module command line around. But when set via sysfs (as
about 11 charp parameters can be) this memory is freed on the way
out of the write(). Future reads hit random mem.So we kstrdup instead: we have to check we're not in early commandline
parsing, and we have to note when we've used it so we can reliably
kfree the parameter when it's next overwritten, and also on module
unload.(Thanks to Randy Dunlap for CONFIG_SYSFS=n fixes)
Reported-by: Sitsofe Wheeler
Diagnosed-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Tested-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Tested-by: Christof Schmitt
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
24 Oct, 2008
1 commit
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Move free_module_param_attrs() into the CONFIG_MODULES section, since
it's only used inside there. Thus avoiding the warningkernel/params.c:514: warning: 'free_module_param_attrs' defined but not used
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
22 Oct, 2008
3 commits
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There are a lot of one-liner uses of __setup() in the kernel: they're
cumbersome and not queryable (definitely not settable) via /sys. Yet
it's ugly to simplify them to module_param(), because by default that
inserts a prefix of the module name (usually filename).So, introduce a "core_param". The parameter gets no prefix, but
appears in /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ (if non-zero perms arg). I
thought about using the name "core", but that's more common than
"kernel". And if you create a module called "kernel", you will die
a horrible death.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
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Instead of insisting each new module_param sysfs entry is unique,
handle the case where it already exists (for builtin modules).The current code assumes that all identical prefixes are together in
the section: true for normal uses, but not necessarily so if someone
overrides MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX. More importantly, it's not true with
the new "core_param()" code which uses "kernel" as a prefix.This simplifies the caller for the builtin case, at a slight loss of
efficiency (we do the lookup every time to see if the directory
exists).Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman -
The kparam code tries to handle over-length parameter prefixes at
runtime. Not only would I bet this has never been tested, it's not
clear that truncating names is a good idea either.So let's check at compile time. We need to move the #define to
moduleparam.h to do this, though.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
09 Feb, 2008
1 commit
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Currently, for every sysfs node, the callers will be responsible for
implementing store operation, so many many callers are doing duplicate
things to validate input, they have the same mistakes because they are
calling simple_strtol/ul/ll/uul, especially for module params, they are
just numeric, but you can echo such values as 0x1234xxx, 07777888 and
1234aaa, for these cases, module params store operation just ignores
succesive invalid char and converts prefix part to a numeric although input
is acctually invalid.This patch tries to fix the aforementioned issues and implements
strict_strtox serial functions, kernel/params.c uses them to strictly
validate input, so module params will reject such values as 0x1234xxxx and
returns an error:write error: Invalid argument
Any modules which export numeric sysfs node can use strict_strtox instead of
simple_strtox to reject any invalid input.Here are some test results:
Before applying this patch:
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000g > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000gggggggg > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
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[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 010000 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
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[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0100008 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
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[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 010000aaaaa > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]#After applying this patch:
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000g > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
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[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0x1000gggggggg > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 010000 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 0100008 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo 010000aaaaa > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]# echo -n 4096 > /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
[root@yangyi-dev /]# cat /sys/module/e1000/parameters/copybreak
4096
[root@yangyi-dev /]#[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix compiler warnings]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix off-by-one found by tiwai@suse.de]
Signed-off-by: Yi Yang
Cc: Greg KH
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap"
Cc: Takashi Iwai
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Feb, 2008
1 commit
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Fixing:
CHECK kernel/params.c
kernel/params.c:329:41: warning: incorrect type in argument 8 (different signedness)
kernel/params.c:329:41: expected int *num
kernel/params.c:329:41: got unsigned int *Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 Jan, 2008
1 commit
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the original code use KOBJ_NAME_LEN for built-in module name length,
that's defined to 20 in linux/kobject.h, but this is not enough appearntly,
many module names are longer than this;
#define KOBJ_NAME_LEN 20another macro is MODULE_NAME_LEN defined in linux/module.h, I think this is
enough for module names:
#define MODULE_NAME_LEN (64 - sizeof(unsigned long))Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
26 Jan, 2008
1 commit
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (200 commits)
[SCSI] usbstorage: use last_sector_bug flag universally
[SCSI] libsas: abstract STP task status into a function
[SCSI] ultrastor: clean up inline asm warnings
[SCSI] aic7xxx: fix firmware build
[SCSI] aacraid: fib context lock for management ioctls
[SCSI] ch: remove forward declarations
[SCSI] ch: fix device minor number management bug
[SCSI] ch: handle class_device_create failure properly
[SCSI] NCR5380: fix section mismatch
[SCSI] sg: fix /proc/scsi/sg/devices when no SCSI devices
[SCSI] IB/iSER: add logical unit reset support
[SCSI] don't use __GFP_DMA for sense buffers if not required
[SCSI] use dynamically allocated sense buffer
[SCSI] scsi.h: add macro for enclosure bit of inquiry data
[SCSI] sd: add fix for devices with last sector access problems
[SCSI] fix pcmcia compile problem
[SCSI] aacraid: add Voodoo Lite class of cards.
[SCSI] aacraid: add new driver features flags
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.02.00-k7.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Issue correct MBC_INITIALIZE_FIRMWARE command.
...
25 Jan, 2008
4 commits
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Now that kobjects properly clean up their name structures, no matter if
they have a release function or not, we can drop this empty module
kobject release function too (it was needed prior to this because of the
way we handled static kobject names, we based the fact that if a release
function was present, then we could safely free the name string, now we
are more smart about things and only free names we have previously set.)Cc: Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman -
This converts the code to use the new kobject functions, cleaning up the
logic in doing so.Cc: Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman -
Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically. We also
rename module_subsys to module_kset to catch all users of the variable.Cc: Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman -
We don't need a "default" ktype for a kset. We should set this
explicitly every time for each kset. This change is needed so that we
can make ksets dynamic, and cleans up one of the odd, undocumented
assumption that the kset/kobject/ktype model has.This patch is based on a lot of help from Kay Sievers.
Nasty bug in the block code was found by Dave Young
Cc: Kay Sievers
Cc: Dave Young
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
24 Jan, 2008
1 commit
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This patch allows the various users of attribute_groups to selectively
allow the appearance of group attributes. The primary consumer of
this will be the transport classes in which we currently have
elaborate attribute selection algorithms to do this same thing.Acked-by: Greg KH
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley
