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    • Theodore Ts'o's avatar
      ext4: Fix ext4_mb_initialize_context() to initialize all fields · 833576b3
      Theodore Ts'o authored 
      

Pavel Roskin pointed out that kmemcheck indicated that
ext4_mb_store_history() was accessing uninitialized values of
ac->ac_tail and ac->ac_buddy leading to garbage in the mballoc
history.  Fix this by initializing the entire structure to all zeros
first.

Also, two fields were getting doubly initialized by the caller of
ext4_mb_initialize_context, so remove them for efficiency's sake.

Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      833576b3
    • Peng Tao's avatar
      ext4: fix null handler of ioctls in no journal mode · ac046f1d
      Peng Tao authored 
      

The EXT4_IOC_GROUP_ADD and EXT4_IOC_GROUP_EXTEND ioctls should not
flush the journal in no_journal mode.  Otherwise, running resize2fs on
a mounted no_journal partition triggers the following error messages:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000014
IP: [<c039d282>] _spin_lock+0x8/0x19
*pde = 00000000 
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      ac046f1d
    • Curt Wohlgemuth's avatar
      ext4: Fix buffer head reference leak in no-journal mode · e6b5d301
      Curt Wohlgemuth authored 
      

We found a problem with buffer head reference leaks when using an ext4
partition without a journal.  In particular, calls to ext4_forget() would
not to a brelse() on the input buffer head, which will cause pages they
belong to to not be reclaimable.

Further investigation showed that all places where ext4_journal_forget() and
ext4_journal_revoke() are called are subject to the same problem.  The patch
below changes __ext4_journal_forget/__ext4_journal_revoke to do an explicit
release of the buffer head when the journal handle isn't valid.

Signed-off-by: default avatarCurt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      e6b5d301
    • Rakib Mullick's avatar
      x86, apic: Fix false positive section mismatch in numaq_32.c · 7473727b
      Rakib Mullick authored 
      

The variable apic_numaq placed in noninit section references the
function wakeup_secondary_cpu_via_nmi(), which is in __cpuinit
section. Thus causes a section mismatch warning. To avoid such
mismatch we mark apic_numaq as __refdata.

We were warned by the following warning:

  WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.data+0x932c): Section mismatch in
  reference from the variable apic_numaq to the function
  .cpuinit.text:wakeup_secondary_cpu_via_nmi()

Signed-off-by: default avatarRakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      7473727b
    • Rakib Mullick's avatar
      x86: Fix false positive section mismatch in es7000_32.c · 151586d0
      Rakib Mullick authored 
      

The variable apic_es7000_cluster references the function __cpuinit
wakeup_secondary_cpu_via_mip() from a noninit section. So we've been
warned by the following warning. To avoid possible collision between
init/noninit, its best to mark the variable as __refdata.

We were warned by the following warning:

  LD      arch/x86/kernel/apic/built-in.o
  WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/apic/built-in.o(.data+0x198c): Section
  mismatch in reference from the variable apic_es7000_cluster to the
  function .cpuinit.text:wakeup_secondary_cpu_via_mip()

Signed-off-by: default avatarRakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <b9df5fa10907120404k6279a10ch5e9682432272706f@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      151586d0
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing/function-profiler: do not free per cpu variable stat · 6ab5d668
      Steven Rostedt authored 
      

The per cpu variable stat is freeded if we fail to allocate a name
on start up. This was due to stat at first being allocated in the
initial design. But since then, it has become a static per cpu variable
but the free on error was not removed.

Also added __init annotation to the function that this is in.

[ Impact: prevent possible memory corruption on low mem at boot up ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      6ab5d668