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* [PATCH] tmpfs: recommend remount for mpolHugh Dickins2006-02-241-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | akpm points out that switching to a non-NUMA kernel could be irritating if mounting tmpfs fails on an mpol option: tmpfs.txt recommend remount. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] dm: free minor after unlink gendiskJun'ichi Nomura2006-02-241-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | Minor number should be freed after del_gendisk(). Otherwise, there could be a window where 2 registered gendisk has same minor number. Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] dm: missing bdput/thaw_bdev at removalJun'ichi Nomura2006-02-241-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | Need to unfreeze and release bdev otherwise the bdev inode with inconsistent state is reused later and cause problem. Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ramfs: update dir mtime and ctimeAndrew Morton2006-02-241-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | Phil Marek <philipp.marek@bmlv.gv.at> points out that ramfs forgets to update a directory's mtime and ctime when it is modified. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] vmscan: fix zone_reclaimChristoph Lameter2006-02-241-3/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | - PF_SWAPWRITE needs to be set for RECLAIM_SWAP to be able to write out pages to swap. Currently RECLAIM_SWAP may not do that. - remove setting nr_reclaimed pages after slab reclaim since the slab shrinking code does not use that and the nr_reclaimed pages is just right for the intended follow up action. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] flags parameter for linkatUlrich Drepper2006-02-244-4/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I'm currently at the POSIX meeting and one thing covered was the incompatibility of Linux's link() with the POSIX definition. The name. Linux does not follow symlinks, POSIX requires it does. Even if somebody thinks this is a good default behavior we cannot change this because it would break the ABI. But the fact remains that some application might want this behavior. We have one chance to help implementing this without breaking the behavior. For this we could use the new linkat interface which would need a new flags parameter. If the new parameter is AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW the new behavior could be invoked. I do not want to introduce such a patch now. But we could add the parameter now, just don't use it. The patch below would do this. Can we get this late patch applied before the release more or less fixes the syscall API? Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Fix pseudo_palette setup in asiliantfb_setcolreg()Antonino A. Daplas2006-02-241-12/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | The setcolreg function will attempt to write 24 color entries to the pseudo_pallette. However, the pseudo_palette has only space for 16 entries. Thanks to Atsushi Nemoto for reporting this bug. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] au1100fb: replaced io_remap_page_range() with io_remap_pfn_range()Freddy Spierenburg2006-02-241-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Replaced the no longer existing io_remap_page_range() routine with the io_remap_pfn_range() routine. Did not have a chance yet to test the functionality of the driver, but at least the kernel compiles cleanly again. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] gbefb: Set default of FB_GBE_MEM to 4 MBMartin Michlmayr2006-02-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Allocating more than 4 MB memory for the GBE (SGI O2) framebuffer completely breakfs gbefb support at the moment. According to comments on #mipslinux, more than 4 MB has never worked correctly in Linux. Therefore, the default should be 4 MB. Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] gbefb: IP32 gbefb depth change fixKaj-Michael Lang2006-02-241-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The gbefb driver does not update the framebuffer layers visual setting when depth is changed with fbset, resulting in strange colors (very dark blue in 16-bit, almost black in 24-bit). Signed-off-by: Kaj-Michael Lang <milang@tal.org> Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: fix broken SMP boot sequenceJames Bottomley2006-02-246-21/+39
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Recent GDT changes broke the SMP boot sequence if the booting CPU is numbered anything other than zero. There's also a subtle source of error in that the boot time CPU now uses cpu_gdt_table (which is actually the GDT for booting CPUs in head.S). This patch fixes both problems by making GDT descriptors themselves allocated from a per_cpu area and switching to them in cpu_init(), which now means that cpu_gdt_table is exclusively used for booting CPUs again. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Matt Tolentino <metolent@snoqualmie.dp.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] page migration: Fix MPOL_INTERLEAVE behavior for migration via mbind()Christoph Lameter2006-02-241-4/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | migrate_pages_to() allocates a list of new pages on the intended target node or with the intended policy and then uses the list of new pages as targets for the migration of a list of pages out of place. When the pages are allocated it is not clear which of the out of place pages will be moved to the new pages. So we cannot specify an address as needed by alloc_page_vma(). This causes problem for MPOL_INTERLEAVE which will currently allocate the pages on the first node of the set. If mbind is used with vma that has the policy of MPOL_INTERLEAVE then the interleaving of pages may be destroyed. This patch fixes that by generating a fake address for each alloc_page_vma which will result is a distribution of pages as prescribed by MPOL_INTERLEAVE. Lee also noted that the sequence of nodes for the new pages seems to be inverted. So we also invert the way the lists of pages for migration are build. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Looks-ok-to: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] voyager: fix the cpu_possible_map to make voyager boot againJames Bottomley2006-02-241-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Right at the moment (thanks to a patch from Andrew), cpu_possible_map on voyager is CPU_MASK_NONE, which means the machine always thinks it has no CPUs. Fix that by doing an early initialisation of the cpu_possible_map from the cpu_phys_present_map. (akpm: we aim to please) Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] voyager: fix boot panic by adding topology exportJames Bottomley2006-02-241-0/+15
| | | | | | | | | It looks like I can't get away without exporting topology functions from voyager any longer, so add them to the voyager subarchitecture. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cfi: init wait queue in chip structSimon Vogl2006-02-241-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Fix a kernel oops for Intel P30 flashes, where the wait queue head was not initialized for the flchip struct, which in turn caused a crash at the first read operation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Kprobes causes NX protection fault on i686 SMPPrasanna S Panchamukhi2006-02-242-4/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix a problem seen on i686 machine with NX support where the instruction could not be single stepped because of NX bit set on the memory pages allocated by kprobes module. This patch provides allocation of instruction solt so that the processor can execute the instruction from that location similar to x86_64 architecture. Thanks to Bibo and Masami for testing this patch. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] vgacon: no vertical resizing on EGASamuel Thibault2006-02-241-32/+35
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | EGA boards suck: they mostly have write-only registers. This is particularly problematic for the overflow register: for being able to write to it, we would have to handle vertical sync & such too, which (I'd say) would potentially break a lot of configurations. Instead, just disabling vertical resize for EGA boards is just nice enough (horizontal resize still works). Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6106 Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Cc: Rafal Olearski <olearski@mail2.kim.net.pl> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: tidying COW codePaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2006-02-244-5/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | Improve (especially for coherence) some prototypes, and return code of init_cow_file in error case - for a short write return -EINVAL, otherwise return the error we got! Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: better error reporting for read_outputPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2006-02-241-12/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | Do precise error handling: print precise error messages, distinguishing short reads and read errors. This functions fails frequently enough for me so I bothered doing this fix. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: os_connect_socket error path fixupPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2006-02-241-5/+14
| | | | | | | | | | Fix an fd leak and a return of -1 instead of -errno in the error path - this showed up in intensive testing of HPPFS, the os_connect_socket user. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: fix ((unused)) attributePaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2006-02-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Use __attribute_used__ instead of __attribute__ ((unused)). This will help with GCC > 3.2. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: fix usage of kernel_errno in place of errnoPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2006-02-243-6/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | To avoid conflicts, in kernel files errno is expanded to kernel_errno, to distinguish it from glibc errno. In this case, the code wants to use the libc errno but the kernel one is used; in the other usage, we return errno in place of -errno in case of an error. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: correct error messages in COW driverPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2006-02-242-10/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | Improve some error messages in the COW driver, and say V3, not V2, when talking about V3 format. Also resync with our userspace code utility a bit more. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] alsa: fix bogus snd_device_free() in opl3-oss.cTakashi Iwai2006-02-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Remove snd_device_free() for an opl3-oss instance which should have been released. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] snd-cs4236 typo fixRene Herman2006-02-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | I noticed on 2.6.16-rc4 that my MPU-401 wasn't functional, due to a simple copy & paste error in sound/isa/cs423x/cs4236.c. Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] m32r: fix and update for gcc-4.0Hirokazu Takata2006-02-243-20/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix and update for gcc-4.0. - arch/m32r/kernel/signal.c: Change type of the 8th parameter of sys_rt_sigsuspend() from 'struct pt_regs' to 'struct pt_regs *'. This functions make use of the 'regs' parameter to return status value, but gcc-4.0 optimizes and removes it as a dead code. Functions, sys_sigaltstack() and sys_rt_sigreturn(), have also modified. - arch/m32r/lib/usercopy.c, include/asm-m32r/uaccess.h: Add early-clobber constraints('&') to output values of asm statements; these constraints seems to be required for gcc-4.0 register assignment. Signed-off-by: Hayato Fujiwara <fujiwara@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] m32r: enable asm code optimizationHirokazu Takata2006-02-241-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Add -O2 option to AFLAGS to enable asm code optimization for m32r. On m32r gas, "-m32r2 -O" option enables assembler's parallel code generation optimization for M32R2 ISA as a default. So, "-no-parallel" option is required explicitly for a cpu core with single instuction issuing, for example, VDEC2. Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds2006-02-236-153/+370
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| * [PATCH] drivers/net/tlan.c: #ifdef CONFIG_PCI the PCI specific codeAdrian Bunk2006-02-241-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | drivers/net/tlan.c compiles with CONFIG_PCI=n only with a warning and due to the dead code elimination of gcc. Additionally, this fixes the only compile error I found with CONFIG_PCI=n and the gcc -Werror-implicit-function-declaration flag on i386. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
| * Merge branch 'for-jeff' of ↵Jeff Garzik2006-02-235-153/+368
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| | * skge: protect interrupt maskStephen Hemminger2006-02-232-7/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is a race between updating the irq mask and setting it which can be triggered on SMP with a bad cable. Similar patch from Ingo Molnar and Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
| | * skge: genesis phy initialzationStephen Hemminger2006-02-231-11/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The SysKonnect Genesis based board would fail on initialization with phy_read errors caused by not waiting for last phy write. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
| | * skge: NAPI/irq race fixStephen Hemminger2006-02-231-12/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix a race in the receive NAPI, irq handling. The interrupt clear and the start need to be separated. Otherwise there is a window between the last frame received and the NAPI done level handling. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
| | * r8169: enable wake on lanFrancois Romieu2006-02-231-0/+87
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Similar to 8139cp code but more inspired/lucky. Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
| | * r8169: fix broken ring index handling in suspend/resumeFrancois Romieu2006-02-231-43/+59
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | rtl8169_hw_start() requires that the descriptor ring indexes be set to zero. Let a deferred invocation of rtl8169_reset_task() handle it. Enabling a few power management bits will not hurt either. suspend/resume is issued with irq on: the spinlock do not need to save the irq flag. Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
| | * [PATCH] sky2: close race on IRQ mask update.Stephen Hemminger2006-02-232-7/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Need to avoid race in updating IRQ mask. This can probably be replaced smarter use of the interrupt control registers (if/when chipset docs are available). Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
| | * [PATCH] sky2: use device iomem to access PCI configStephen Hemminger2006-02-232-48/+54
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To avoid problems with PCI config access without ACPI (or busted ACPI tables), use the device's window into PCI config space. I know this probably will upset the purists, but I would rather have users than ACPI testers. It also generates less code. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
| | * [PATCH] sky2: force early transmit statusStephen Hemminger2006-02-231-8/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Need to force a transmit coalesce timer restart after processing transmit packets. Otherwise, can get transmit status after last update and chip doesn't send the next one. Can go with the chip defaults for coalescing timers, except for Tx timer which needs to be bigger. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
| | * [PATCH] sky2: poke coalescing timer to fix hangStephen Hemminger2006-02-231-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Need to restart the interrupt coalescing timer after clearing the interrupt, to avoid races with interrupt timer and processing. Patch from Carl-Daniel Halfinger Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
| | * [PATCH] sky2: limit coalescing values to ring sizeStephen Hemminger2006-02-231-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Don't allow coalescing values to be bigger than the transmit ring. Since if you set them that big, the interrupt never happens and driver livelocks. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
| | * [PATCH] sky2: yukon-ec-u chipset initializationStephen Hemminger2006-02-232-19/+90
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add more complete setup code for Yukon EC_U chipset. Based on matching code in 8.31 code in SysKonnect vendor driver. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
* | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-02-2310-18/+28
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| * | | [NET]: Increase default IFB device count.Richard Lucassen2006-02-231-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The most usable number of ifb devices is 2. Change the default to 2. Signed-off-by: Richard Lucassen <spamtrap@lucassen.org> Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | [IPSEC]: Use TOS when doing tunnel lookupsHerbert Xu2006-02-231-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We should use the TOS because it's one of the routing keys. It also means that we update the correct routing cache entry when PMTU occurs. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | [NET] ethernet: Fix first packet goes out with MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00Jamal Hadi Salim2006-02-231-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When you turn off ARP on a netdevice then the first packet always goes out with a dstMAC of all zeroes. This is because the first packet is used to resolve ARP entries. Even though the ARP entry may be resolved (I tried by setting a static ARP entry for a host i was pinging from), it gets overwritten by virtue of having the netdevice disabling ARP. Subsequent packets go out fine with correct dstMAC address (which may be why people have ignored reporting this issue). To cut the story short: the culprit code is in net/ethernet/eth.c::eth_header() ---- /* * Anyway, the loopback-device should never use this function... */ if (dev->flags & (IFF_LOOPBACK|IFF_NOARP)) { memset(eth->h_dest, 0, dev->addr_len); return ETH_HLEN; } if(daddr) { memcpy(eth->h_dest,daddr,dev->addr_len); return ETH_HLEN; } ---- Note how the h_dest is being reset when device has IFF_NOARP. As a note: All devices including loopback pass a daddr. loopback in fact passes a 0 all the time ;-> This means i can delete the check totaly or i can remove the IFF_NOARP Alexey says: -------------------- I think, it was me who did this crap. It was so long ago I do not remember why it was made. I remember some troubles with dummy device. It tried to resolve addresses, apparently, without success and generated errors instead of blackholing. I think the problem was eventually solved at neighbour level. After some thinking I suspect the deletion of this chunk could change behaviour of some parts which do not use neighbour cache f.e. packet socket. I think safer approach would be to move this chunk after if (daddr). And the possibility to remove this completely could be analyzed later. -------------------- Patch updated with Alexey's safer suggestions. Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Acked-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | [XFRM]: Eliminate refcounting confusion by creating __xfrm_state_put().Herbert Xu2006-02-234-6/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We often just do an atomic_dec(&x->refcnt) on an xfrm_state object because we know there is more than 1 reference remaining and thus we can elide the heavier xfrm_state_put() call. Do this behind an inline function called __xfrm_state_put() so that is more obvious and also to allow us to more cleanly add refcount debugging later. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | [IPV4]: Fix garbage collection of multipath route entriesSuresh Bhogavilli2006-02-231-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When garbage collecting route cache entries of multipath routes in rt_garbage_collect(), entries were deleted from the hash bucket 'i' while holding a spin lock on bucket 'k' resulting in a system hang. Delete entries, if any, from bucket 'k' instead. Signed-off-by: Suresh Bhogavilli <sbhogavilli@verisign.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | [NETFILTER]: Fix bridge netfilter related in xfrm_lookupPatrick McHardy2006-02-232-3/+5
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The bridge-netfilter code attaches a fake dst_entry with dst->ops == NULL to purely bridged packets. When these packets are SNATed and a policy lookup is done, xfrm_lookup crashes because it tries to dereference dst->ops. Change xfrm_lookup not to dereference dst->ops before checking for the DST_NOXFRM flag and set this flag in the fake dst_entry. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-mergeLinus Torvalds2006-02-2326-973/+274
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| * | [PATCH] Fix race condition in hvc console.Michal Ostrowski2006-02-241-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | tty_schedule_flip() would schedule a thread that would call flush_to_ldisc(). If tty_buffer_request_room() gets called prior to that thread running -- which is likely in this loop in hvc_poll(), it would set the active flag in the tty buffer and consequently flush_to_ldisc() would ignore it. The result is that input on the hvc console is not processed. This fix calls tty_flip_buffer_push (and flags the tty as "low_latency"). The push to the ldisc thus happens synchronously. Signed-off-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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