06 Aug, 2020

1 commit

  • Replace the existing /* fall through */ comments and its variants with
    the new pseudo-keyword macro fallthrough[1]. Also, remove unnecessary
    fall-through markings when it is the case.

    [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html?highlight=fallthrough#implicit-switch-case-fall-through

    Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva
    Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200707171121.GA13472@embeddedor
    Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck
    Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck

    Gustavo A. R. Silva
     

23 Oct, 2019

1 commit

  • All watchdog drivers implement the same set of ioctl commands, and
    fortunately all of them are compatible between 32-bit and 64-bit
    architectures.

    Modern drivers always go through drivers/watchdog/wdt.c as an abstraction
    layer, but older ones implement their own file_operations on a character
    device for this.

    Move the handling from fs/compat_ioctl.c into the individual drivers.

    Note that most of the legacy drivers will never be used on 64-bit
    hardware, because they are for an old 32-bit SoC implementation, but
    doing them all at once is safer than trying to guess which ones do
    or do not need the compat_ioctl handling.

    Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck
    Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

    Arnd Bergmann
     

06 May, 2019

1 commit

  • Using scripts/coccinelle/api/stream_open.cocci added in 10dce8af3422
    ("fs: stream_open - opener for stream-like files so that read and write
    can run simultaneously without deadlock"), search and convert to
    stream_open all in-kernel nonseekable_open users for which read and
    write actually do not depend on ppos and where there is no other methods
    in file_operations which assume @offset access.

    I've verified each generated change manually - that it is correct to convert -
    and each other nonseekable_open instance left - that it is either not correct
    to convert there, or that it is not converted due to current stream_open.cocci
    limitations. The script also does not convert files that should be valid to
    convert, but that currently have .llseek = noop_llseek or generic_file_llseek
    for unknown reason despite file being opened with nonseekable_open (e.g.
    drivers/input/mousedev.c)

    Among cases converted 14 were potentially vulnerable to read vs write deadlock
    (see details in 10dce8af3422):

    drivers/char/pcmcia/cm4000_cs.c:1685:7-23: ERROR: cm4000_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
    drivers/gnss/core.c:45:1-17: ERROR: gnss_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
    drivers/hid/uhid.c:635:1-17: ERROR: uhid_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
    drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c:988:1-17: ERROR: umad_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
    drivers/input/evdev.c:527:1-17: ERROR: evdev_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
    drivers/input/misc/uinput.c:401:1-17: ERROR: uinput_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
    drivers/isdn/capi/capi.c:963:8-24: ERROR: capi_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
    drivers/leds/uleds.c:77:1-17: ERROR: uleds_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
    drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c:198:1-17: ERROR: lirc_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
    drivers/s390/char/fs3270.c:488:1-17: ERROR: fs3270_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
    drivers/usb/misc/ldusb.c:310:1-17: ERROR: ld_usb_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
    drivers/xen/evtchn.c:667:8-24: ERROR: evtchn_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
    net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c:80:1-17: ERROR: batadv_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
    net/rfkill/core.c:1146:8-24: ERROR: rfkill_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.

    and the rest were just safe to convert to stream_open because their read and
    write do not use ppos at all and corresponding file_operations do not
    have methods that assume @offset file access(*):

    arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_gpt.c:631:8-24: WARNING: mpc52xx_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c:591:8-24: WARNING: spufs_ibox_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c:591:8-24: WARNING: spufs_ibox_stat_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c:591:8-24: WARNING: spufs_mbox_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c:591:8-24: WARNING: spufs_mbox_stat_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c:591:8-24: WARNING: spufs_wbox_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c:591:8-24: WARNING: spufs_wbox_stat_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    arch/um/drivers/harddog_kern.c:88:8-24: WARNING: harddog_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c:430:33-49: WARNING: microcode_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/char/ds1620.c:215:8-24: WARNING: ds1620_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/char/dtlk.c:301:1-17: WARNING: dtlk_fops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c:840:9-25: WARNING: ipmi_wdog_fops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/char/pcmcia/scr24x_cs.c:95:8-24: WARNING: scr24x_fops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/char/tb0219.c:246:9-25: WARNING: tb0219_fops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/firewire/nosy.c:306:8-24: WARNING: nosy_ops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/hwmon/fschmd.c:840:8-24: WARNING: watchdog_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/hwmon/w83793.c:1344:8-24: WARNING: watchdog_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c:1747:8-24: WARNING: ucma_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c:1178:8-24: WARNING: ucm_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c:1086:8-24: WARNING: uverbs_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/input/joydev.c:282:1-17: WARNING: joydev_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/pci/switch/switchtec.c:393:1-17: WARNING: switchtec_fops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_debugfs.c:135:8-24: WARNING: cros_ec_console_log_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1374.c:470:9-25: WARNING: ds1374_wdt_fops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/rtc/rtc-m41t80.c:805:9-25: WARNING: wdt_fops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/s390/char/tape_char.c:293:2-18: WARNING: tape_fops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/s390/char/zcore.c:194:8-24: WARNING: zcore_reipl_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt_api.c:528:8-24: WARNING: zcrypt_fops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/spi/spidev.c:594:1-17: WARNING: spidev_fops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c:974:1-17: WARNING: pi433_fops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/acquirewdt.c:203:8-24: WARNING: acq_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/advantechwdt.c:202:8-24: WARNING: advwdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/alim1535_wdt.c:252:8-24: WARNING: ali_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/alim7101_wdt.c:217:8-24: WARNING: wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/ar7_wdt.c:166:8-24: WARNING: ar7_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/at91rm9200_wdt.c:113:8-24: WARNING: at91wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/ath79_wdt.c:135:8-24: WARNING: ath79_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/bcm63xx_wdt.c:119:8-24: WARNING: bcm63xx_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/cpu5wdt.c:143:8-24: WARNING: cpu5wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/cpwd.c:397:8-24: WARNING: cpwd_fops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/eurotechwdt.c:319:8-24: WARNING: eurwdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/f71808e_wdt.c:528:8-24: WARNING: watchdog_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/gef_wdt.c:232:8-24: WARNING: gef_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/geodewdt.c:95:8-24: WARNING: geodewdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/ib700wdt.c:241:8-24: WARNING: ibwdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/ibmasr.c:326:8-24: WARNING: asr_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/indydog.c:80:8-24: WARNING: indydog_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/intel_scu_watchdog.c:307:8-24: WARNING: intel_scu_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/iop_wdt.c:104:8-24: WARNING: iop_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/it8712f_wdt.c:330:8-24: WARNING: it8712f_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/ixp4xx_wdt.c:68:8-24: WARNING: ixp4xx_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/ks8695_wdt.c:145:8-24: WARNING: ks8695wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/m54xx_wdt.c:88:8-24: WARNING: m54xx_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/machzwd.c:336:8-24: WARNING: zf_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/mixcomwd.c:153:8-24: WARNING: mixcomwd_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/mtx-1_wdt.c:121:8-24: WARNING: mtx1_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/mv64x60_wdt.c:136:8-24: WARNING: mv64x60_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/nuc900_wdt.c:134:8-24: WARNING: nuc900wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/nv_tco.c:164:8-24: WARNING: nv_tco_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/pc87413_wdt.c:289:8-24: WARNING: pc87413_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/pcwd.c:698:8-24: WARNING: pcwd_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/pcwd.c:737:8-24: WARNING: pcwd_temp_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/pcwd_pci.c:581:8-24: WARNING: pcipcwd_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/pcwd_pci.c:623:8-24: WARNING: pcipcwd_temp_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/pcwd_usb.c:488:8-24: WARNING: usb_pcwd_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/pcwd_usb.c:527:8-24: WARNING: usb_pcwd_temperature_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/pika_wdt.c:121:8-24: WARNING: pikawdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/pnx833x_wdt.c:119:8-24: WARNING: pnx833x_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/rc32434_wdt.c:153:8-24: WARNING: rc32434_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/rdc321x_wdt.c:145:8-24: WARNING: rdc321x_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/riowd.c:79:1-17: WARNING: riowd_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/sa1100_wdt.c:62:8-24: WARNING: sa1100dog_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/sbc60xxwdt.c:211:8-24: WARNING: wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/sbc7240_wdt.c:139:8-24: WARNING: wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/sbc8360.c:274:8-24: WARNING: sbc8360_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/sbc_epx_c3.c:81:8-24: WARNING: epx_c3_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/sbc_fitpc2_wdt.c:78:8-24: WARNING: fitpc2_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/sb_wdog.c:108:1-17: WARNING: sbwdog_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/sc1200wdt.c:181:8-24: WARNING: sc1200wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/sc520_wdt.c:261:8-24: WARNING: wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/sch311x_wdt.c:319:8-24: WARNING: sch311x_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/scx200_wdt.c:105:8-24: WARNING: scx200_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/smsc37b787_wdt.c:369:8-24: WARNING: wb_smsc_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/w83877f_wdt.c:227:8-24: WARNING: wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/w83977f_wdt.c:301:8-24: WARNING: wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/wafer5823wdt.c:200:8-24: WARNING: wafwdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c:828:8-24: WARNING: watchdog_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/wdrtas.c:379:8-24: WARNING: wdrtas_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/wdrtas.c:445:8-24: WARNING: wdrtas_temp_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/wdt285.c:104:1-17: WARNING: watchdog_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/wdt977.c:276:8-24: WARNING: wdt977_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/wdt.c:424:8-24: WARNING: wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/wdt.c:484:8-24: WARNING: wdt_temp_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/wdt_pci.c:464:8-24: WARNING: wdtpci_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    drivers/watchdog/wdt_pci.c:527:8-24: WARNING: wdtpci_temp_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    net/batman-adv/log.c:105:1-17: WARNING: batadv_log_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    sound/core/control.c:57:7-23: WARNING: snd_ctl_f_ops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    sound/core/rawmidi.c:385:7-23: WARNING: snd_rawmidi_f_ops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c:310:7-23: WARNING: snd_seq_f_ops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
    sound/core/timer.c:1428:7-23: WARNING: snd_timer_f_ops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.

    One can also recheck/review the patch via generating it with explanation comments included via

    $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=scripts/coccinelle/api/stream_open.cocci SPFLAGS="-D explain"

    (*) This second group also contains cases with read/write deadlocks that
    stream_open.cocci don't yet detect, but which are still valid to convert to
    stream_open since ppos is not used. For example drivers/pci/switch/switchtec.c
    calls wait_for_completion_interruptible() in its .read, but stream_open.cocci
    currently detects only "wait_event*" as blocking.

    Cc: Michael Kerrisk
    Cc: Yongzhi Pan
    Cc: Jonathan Corbet
    Cc: David Vrabel
    Cc: Juergen Gross
    Cc: Miklos Szeredi
    Cc: Tejun Heo
    Cc: Kirill Tkhai
    Cc: Arnd Bergmann
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig
    Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
    Cc: Julia Lawall
    Cc: Nikolaus Rath
    Cc: Han-Wen Nienhuys
    Cc: Anatolij Gustschin
    Cc: Jeff Dike
    Cc: Richard Weinberger
    Cc: Anton Ivanov
    Cc: Borislav Petkov
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: "James R. Van Zandt"
    Cc: Corey Minyard
    Cc: Harald Welte
    Acked-by: Lubomir Rintel [scr24x_cs]
    Cc: Stefan Richter
    Cc: Johan Hovold
    Cc: David Herrmann
    Cc: Jiri Kosina
    Cc: Benjamin Tissoires
    Cc: Jean Delvare
    Acked-by: Guenter Roeck [watchdog/* hwmon/*]
    Cc: Rudolf Marek
    Cc: Dmitry Torokhov
    Cc: Karsten Keil
    Cc: Jacek Anaszewski
    Cc: Pavel Machek
    Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
    Cc: Kurt Schwemmer
    Acked-by: Logan Gunthorpe [drivers/pci/switch/switchtec]
    Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas [drivers/pci/switch/switchtec]
    Cc: Benson Leung
    Acked-by: Enric Balletbo i Serra [platform/chrome]
    Cc: Alessandro Zummo
    Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni [rtc/*]
    Cc: Mark Brown
    Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck
    Cc: Florian Fainelli
    Cc: bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com
    Cc: Wan ZongShun
    Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo
    Cc: Marek Lindner
    Cc: Simon Wunderlich
    Cc: Antonio Quartulli
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Cc: Johannes Berg
    Cc: Jaroslav Kysela
    Cc: Takashi Iwai
    Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov

    Kirill Smelkov
     

18 Nov, 2013

1 commit

  • I just can't find any value in MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(WATCHDOG_MINOR)
    and MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(TEMP_MINOR) statements.

    Either the device is enumerated and the driver already has a module
    alias (e.g. PCI, USB etc.) that will get the right driver loaded
    automatically.

    Or the device is not enumerated and loading its driver will lead to
    more or less intrusive hardware poking. Such hardware poking should be
    limited to a bare minimum, so the user should really decide which
    drivers should be tried and in what order. Trying them all in
    arbitrary order can't do any good.

    On top of that, loading that many drivers at once bloats the kernel
    log. Also many drivers will stay loaded afterward, bloating the output
    of "lsmod" and wasting memory. Some modules (cs5535_mfgpt which gets
    loaded as a dependency) can't even be unloaded!

    If defining char-major-10-130 is needed then it should happen in
    user-space.

    Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare
    Acked-by: Guenter Roeck
    Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck
    Cc: Stephen Warren
    Cc: Mike Frysinger
    Cc: Wan ZongShun
    Cc: Ben Dooks
    Cc: Kukjin Kim
    Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo
    Cc: Jim Cromie

    Jean Delvare
     

29 Mar, 2012

2 commits

  • …m/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system

    Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells:
    "Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of
    separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion
    dependencies.

    I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can
    and made sure that they don't break.

    The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular
    dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to
    optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2().

    This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in
    asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h.

    The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h. It holds a number of
    low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg.
    memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that
    aren't used in many places (eg. switch_to()).

    These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces:

    (1) asm/barrier.h

    Move memory barriers here. This already done for MIPS and Alpha.

    (2) asm/switch_to.h

    Move switch_to() and related stuff here.

    (3) asm/exec.h

    Move arch_align_stack() here. Other process execution related bits
    could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h.

    (4) asm/cmpxchg.h

    Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and
    frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg().

    (5) asm/bug.h

    Move die() and related bits.

    (6) asm/auxvec.h

    Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here.

    Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis."

    Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code
    around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat
    weakened by that. We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it..

    * tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits)
    Delete all instances of asm/system.h
    Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
    Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h
    Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h
    Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC
    Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h
    Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h
    Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
    Create asm-generic/barrier.h
    Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
    Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa
    Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt]
    Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile
    Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc
    Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH
    Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score
    Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390
    Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
    Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC
    Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
    it. Performed with the following command:

    perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*' *`

    Signed-off-by: David Howells

    David Howells
     

28 Mar, 2012

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16 Mar, 2011

1 commit


10 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • Some systems don't provide DMI_BOARD_NAME in their DMI tables. Avoid
    crash in such situations in fitpc2_wdt_init.

    The fix is to check if the dmi_get_system_info return value is NULL.

    The oops:
    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
    IP: [] strstr+0x26/0xa0
    PGD 3966e067 PUD 39605067 PMD 0
    Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
    last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cache/index2/shared_cpu_map
    CPU 1
    Modules linked in: ...
    Pid: 1748, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.37-22-default #1 /Bochs
    RIP: 0010:[] [] strstr+0x26/0xa0
    RSP: 0018:ffff88003ad73f18 EFLAGS: 00010206
    RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000ffffffed RCX: 00000000ffffffff
    RDX: ffffffffa003f4cc RSI: ffffffffa003f4c2 RDI: 0000000000000000
    ...
    CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000003b7ac000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
    ...
    Process modprobe (pid: 1748, threadinfo ffff88003ad72000, task ffff88002e6365c0)
    Stack: ...
    Call Trace:
    [] fitpc2_wdt_init+0x1f/0x13c [sbc_fitpc2_wdt]
    [] do_one_initcall+0x3a/0x170
    ...
    Code: f3 c3 0f 1f 00 80 3e 00 53 48 89 f8 74 1b 48 89 f2 0f 1f 40 00 48 83 c2 01 80 3a 00 75 f7 49 89 d0 48 89 f8 49 29 f0 75 02 5b c3 3f 00 74 0e 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 83 c0 01 80 38 00 75 f7 49 89

    Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby
    Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck

    Jiri Slaby
     

27 Apr, 2010

2 commits


07 Mar, 2010

1 commit


26 Jan, 2010

1 commit


10 Nov, 2009

1 commit


18 Sep, 2009

1 commit