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  1. Oct 14, 2014
  2. Oct 09, 2014
  3. Oct 02, 2014
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      md/raid5: disable 'DISCARD' by default due to safety concerns. · 8e0e99ba
      NeilBrown authored
      
      
      It has come to my attention (thanks Martin) that 'discard_zeroes_data'
      is only a hint.  Some devices in some cases don't do what it
      says on the label.
      
      The use of DISCARD in RAID5 depends on reads from discarded regions
      being predictably zero.  If a write to a previously discarded region
      performs a read-modify-write cycle it assumes that the parity block
      was consistent with the data blocks.  If all were zero, this would
      be the case.  If some are and some aren't this would not be the case.
      This could lead to data corruption after a device failure when
      data needs to be reconstructed from the parity.
      
      As we cannot trust 'discard_zeroes_data', ignore it by default
      and so disallow DISCARD on all raid4/5/6 arrays.
      
      As many devices are trustworthy, and as there are benefits to using
      DISCARD, add a module parameter to over-ride this caution and cause
      DISCARD to work if discard_zeroes_data is set.
      
      If a site want to enable DISCARD on some arrays but not on others they
      should select DISCARD support at the filesystem level, and set the
      raid456 module parameter.
          raid456.devices_handle_discard_safely=Y
      
      As this is a data-safety issue, I believe this patch is suitable for
      -stable.
      DISCARD support for RAID456 was added in 3.7
      
      Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
      Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
      Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      Cc: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (3.7+)
      Acked-by: default avatarMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      Fixes: 620125f2
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      8e0e99ba
  4. Sep 29, 2014
  5. Sep 28, 2014
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs · 1e3827bf
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro:
       "Assorted fixes + unifying __d_move() and __d_materialise_dentry() +
        minimal regression fix for d_path() of victims of overwriting rename()
        ported on top of that"
      
      * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
        vfs: Don't exchange "short" filenames unconditionally.
        fold swapping ->d_name.hash into switch_names()
        fold unlocking the children into dentry_unlock_parents_for_move()
        kill __d_materialise_dentry()
        __d_materialise_dentry(): flip the order of arguments
        __d_move(): fold manipulations with ->d_child/->d_subdirs
        don't open-code d_rehash() in d_materialise_unique()
        pull rehashing and unlocking the target dentry into __d_materialise_dentry()
        ufs: deal with nfsd/iget races
        fuse: honour max_read and max_write in direct_io mode
        shmem: fix nlink for rename overwrite directory
      1e3827bf
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-3.17-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup · 6111da34
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:
       "This is quite late but these need to be backported anyway.
      
        This is the fix for a long-standing cpuset bug which existed from
        2009.  cpuset makes use of PF_SPREAD_{PAGE|SLAB} flags to modify the
        task's memory allocation behavior according to the settings of the
        cpuset it belongs to; unfortunately, when those flags have to be
        changed, cpuset did so directly even whlie the target task is running,
        which is obviously racy as task->flags may be modified by the task
        itself at any time.  This obscure bug manifested as corrupt
        PF_USED_MATH flag leading to a weird crash.
      
        The bug is fixed by moving the flag to task->atomic_flags.  The first
        two are prepatory ones to help defining atomic_flags accessors and the
        third one is the actual fix"
      
      * 'for-3.17-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
        cpuset: PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB should be atomic flags
        sched: add macros to define bitops for task atomic flags
        sched: fix confusing PFA_NO_NEW_PRIVS constant
      6111da34
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc · 83692898
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull ARM SoC fixes from Olof Johansson:
       "Here's our last set of fixes for 3.17.  Most of these are for TI
        platforms, fixing some noisy Kconfig issues, runtime clock and power
        issues on several platforms and NAND timings on DRA7.
      
        There are also a couple of bug fixes for i.MX, one for QCOM and a
       small fix to avoid section mismatch noise on PXA.
      
        Diffstat looks large, partially due to some tables being updated and
        thus touching many lines.  The qcom gsbi change also restructures
        clock management a bit and thus touches a bunch of lines.
      
        All in all, a bit more changes than we'd like at this point, but
        nothing stands out as risky either so it seems like the right thing to
        send it up now instead of holding it to the merge window"
      
      * tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc:
        drivers/soc: qcom: do not disable the iface clock in probe
        ARM: imx: fix .is_enabled() of shared gate clock
        ARM: OMAP3: Fix I/O chain clock line assertion timed out error
        ARM: keystone: dts: fix bindings for pcie and usb clock nodes
        bus: omap_l3_noc: Fix connID for OMAP4
        ARM: DT: imx53: fix lvds channel 1 port
        ARM: dts: cm-t54: fix serial console power supply.
        ARM: dts: dra7-evm: Fix NAND GPMC timings
        ARM: pxa: fix section mismatch warning for pxa_timer_nodt_init
        ARM: OMAP: Fix Kconfig warning for omap1
      83692898
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus · 74807afd
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull MIPS fixes from Ralf Baechle:
       "The final round of fixes.  One corner case in the math emulator and
        another one in the mcount function for ftrace"
      
      * 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus:
        MIPS: mcount: Adjust stack pointer for static trace in MIPS32
        MIPS: Fix MFC1 & MFHC1 emulation for 64-bit MIPS systems
      74807afd
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · cd40fab6
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
       "This has:
      
         - EFI revert to fix a boot regression
         - early_ioremap() fix for boot failure
         - KASLR fix for possible boot failures
         - EFI fix for corrupted string printing
         - remove a misleading EFI bootup 'failed!' error message
      
        Unfortunately it's all rather close to the merge window"
      
      * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
        x86/efi: Truncate 64-bit values when calling 32-bit OutputString()
        x86/efi: Delete misleading efi_printk() error message
        Revert "efi/x86: efistub: Move shared dependencies to <asm/efi.h>"
        x86/kaslr: Avoid the setup_data area when picking location
        x86 early_ioremap: Increase FIX_BTMAPS_SLOTS to 8
      cd40fab6
    • Mikhail Efremov's avatar
      vfs: Don't exchange "short" filenames unconditionally. · d2fa4a84
      Mikhail Efremov authored
      Only exchange source and destination filenames
      if flags contain RENAME_EXCHANGE.
      In case if executable file was running and replaced by
      other file /proc/PID/exe should still show correct file name,
      not the old name of the file by which it was replaced.
      
      The scenario when this bug manifests itself was like this:
      * ALT Linux uses rpm and start-stop-daemon;
      * during a package upgrade rpm creates a temporary file
        for an executable to rename it upon successful unpacking;
      * start-stop-daemon is run subsequently and it obtains
        the (nonexistant) temporary filename via /proc/PID/exe
        thus failing to identify the running process.
      
      Note that "long" filenames (> DNAiME_INLINE_LEN) are still
      exchanged without RENAME_EXCHANGE and this behaviour exists
      long enough (should be fixed too apparently).
      So this patch is just an interim workaround that restores
      behavior for "short" names as it was before changes
      introduced by commit da1ce067 ("vfs: add cross-rename").
      
      See https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/7/6
      
       for details.
      
      AV: the comments about being more careful with ->d_name.hash
      than with ->d_name.name are from back in 2.3.40s; they
      became obsolete by 2.3.60s, when we started to unhash the
      target instead of swapping hash chain positions followed
      by d_delete() as we used to do when dcache was first
      introduced.
      
      Acked-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Fixes: da1ce067
      
       "vfs: add cross-rename"
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMikhail Efremov <sem@altlinux.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      d2fa4a84
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      fold swapping ->d_name.hash into switch_names() · a28ddb87
      Linus Torvalds authored
      
      
      and do it along with ->d_name.len there
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      a28ddb87
  6. Sep 27, 2014