It is legitimate to call tcp_fragment with len == skb->len since
that is done for FIN packets and the FIN flag counts as one byte.
So we should only check for the len > skb->len case.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Turns out the problem has nothing to do with use-after-free or double-free.
It's just that we're not clearing the CB area and DCCP unlike TCP uses a CB
format that's incompatible with IP.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <imcdnzl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
icmp_send doesn't use skb->sk at all so even if skb->sk has already
been freed it can't cause crash there (it would've crashed somewhere
else first, e.g., ip_queue_xmit).
I found a double-free on an skb that could explain this though.
dccp_sendmsg and dccp_write_xmit are a little confused as to what
should free the packet when something goes wrong. Sometimes they
both go for the ball and end up in each other's way.
This patch makes dccp_write_xmit always free the packet no matter
what. This makes sense since dccp_transmit_skb which in turn comes
from the fact that ip_queue_xmit always frees the packet.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> One thing you can probably do for this bug is to mark data packets
> explicitly somehow, perhaps in the SKB control block DCCP already
> uses for other data. Put some boolean in there, set it true for
> data packets. Then change the test in dccp_transmit_skb() as
> appropriate to test the boolean flag instead of "skb_cloned(skb)".
I agree. In fact we already have that flag, it's called skb->sk.
So here is patch to test that instead of skb_cloned().
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <imcdnzl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
This reverts commit 3359b54c8c and
replaces it with a cleaner version that is purely based on page table
operations, so that the synchronization between inode size and hugetlb
mappings becomes moot.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Missing half of the [PATCH] uml: Fix sysrq-r support for skas mode
We need to remove these (UPT_[DEFG]S) from the read side as well as the
write one - otherwise it simply won't build.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Found in the -rt patch set. The scsi_error thread likely will be in the
TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE state upon exit. This patch fixes this bug.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This introduces a limit parameter to the core bootmem allocator; The new
parameter indicates that physical memory allocated by the bootmem
allocator should be within the requested limit.
We also introduce alloc_bootmem_low_pages_limit, alloc_bootmem_node_limit,
alloc_bootmem_low_pages_node_limit apis, but alloc_bootmem_low_pages_limit
is the only api used for swiotlb.
The existing alloc_bootmem_low_pages() api could instead have been
changed and made to pass right limit to the core allocator. But that
would make the patch more intrusive for 2.6.14, as other arches use
alloc_bootmem_low_pages(). We may be done that post 2.6.14 as a
cleanup.
With this, swiotlb gets memory within 4G for both x86_64 and ia64
arches.
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
In drivers/acpi/glue.c the address of an integer is cast to the address of
an unsigned long. This breaks on systems where a long is larger than an
int --- for a start the int can be misaligned; for a second the assignment
through the pointer will overwrite part of the next variable.
Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Acked-by: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I've gotten a report on lkml, of a possible regression in the MGA DRM in
2.6.14-rc4 (since -rc1), I haven't been able to reproduce it here, but I've
figured out some possible issues in the mga code that were definitely
wrong, some of these are from DRM CVS, the main fix is the agp enable bit
on the old code path still used by everyone.....
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The PF_NOFREEZE process flag should not be inherited when a thread is
forked. This patch (as585) removes the flag from the child.
This problem is starting to show up more and more as drivers turn to the
kthread API instead of using kernel_thread(). As a result, their kernel
threads are now children of the kthread worker instead of modprobe, and
they inherit the PF_NOFREEZE flag. This can cause problems during system
suspend; the kernel threads are not getting frozen as they ought to be.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The variable RCS_TAR_IGNORE is used in scripts/packaging/Makefile, but not
exported from the main Makefile, so it's never used.
This results in the rpm targets being very unhappy in quilted trees.
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The implementation of __kernel_gettimeofday() in the 32 bits vDSO has a
small bug (a typo actually) that will cause it to lose 1 bit of precision.
Not terribly bad but worth fixing.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The main problem fixes is that in certain situations stopping md arrays may
take longer than you expect, or may require multiple attempts. This would
only happen when resync/recovery is happening.
This patch fixes three vaguely related bugs.
1/ The recent change to use kthreads got the setting of the
process name wrong. This fixes it.
2/ The recent change to use kthreads lost the ability for
md threads to be signalled with SIG_KILL. This restores that.
3/ There is a long standing bug in that if:
- An array needs recovery (onto a hot-spare) and
- The recovery is being blocked because some other array being
recovered shares a physical device and
- The recovery thread is killed with SIG_KILL
Then the recovery will appear to have completed with no IO being
done, which can cause data corruption.
This patch makes sure that incomplete recovery will be treated as
incomplete.
Note that any kernel affected by bug 2 will not suffer the problem of bug
3, as the signal can never be delivered. Thus the current 2.6.14-rc
kernels are not susceptible to data corruption. Note also that if arrays
are shutdown (with "mdadm -S" or "raidstop") then the problem doesn't
occur. It only happens if a SIGKILL is independently delivered as done by
'init' when shutting down.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Changes all spinlocks that can be held during an irq handler to disable
interrupts while the lock is held. Changes spin_[un]lock_irq to use the
irqsave/irqrestore variants for robustness and readability.
In raw1394.c:handle_iso_listen(), don't grab host_info_lock at all -- we're
not accessing host_info_list or host_count, and holding this lock while
trying to tasklet_kill the iso tasklet this can cause an ABBA deadlock if
ohci:dma_rcv_tasklet is running and tries to grab host_info_lock in
raw1394.c:receive_iso. Test program attached reliably deadlocks all SMP
machines I have been able to test without this patch.
Signed-off-by: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> reports a printk storm from this
driver. Fix.
Acked-by: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
hugetlbfs allows truncation of its files (should it?), but hugetlb.c often
forgets that: crashes and misaccounting ensue.
copy_hugetlb_page_range better grab the src page_table_lock since we don't
want to guess what happens if concurrently truncated. unmap_hugepage_range
rss accounting must not assume the full range was mapped. follow_hugetlb_page
must guard with page_table_lock and be prepared to exit early.
Restyle copy_hugetlb_page_range with a for loop like the others there.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oleg Nesterov reported an SMP deadlock. If there is a running timer
tracking a different process's CPU time clock when the process owning
the timer exits, we deadlock on tasklist_lock in posix_cpu_timer_del via
exit_itimers.
That code was using tasklist_lock to check for a race with __exit_signal
being called on the timer-target task and clearing its ->signal.
However, there is actually no such race. __exit_signal will have called
posix_cpu_timers_exit and posix_cpu_timers_exit_group before it does
that. Those will clear those k_itimer's association with the dying
task, so posix_cpu_timer_del will return early and never reach the code
in question.
In addition, posix_cpu_timer_del called from exit_itimers during execve
or directly from timer_delete in the process owning the timer can race
with an exiting timer-target task to cause a double put on timer-target
task struct. Make sure we always access cpu_timers lists with sighand
lock held.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Patch from Tony Lindgren
Machine restart calls cpu_proc_fin() to clean and disable
cache, and turn off interrupts. This patch adds proper
cpu_v6_proc_fin.
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The hugetlb pages are currently pre-faulted. At the time of mmap of
hugepages, we populate the new PTEs. It is possible that HW has already
cached some of the unused PTEs internally. These stale entries never
get a chance to be purged in existing control flow.
This patch extends the check in page fault code for hugepages. Check if
a faulted address falls with in size for the hugetlb file backing it.
We return VM_FAULT_MINOR for these cases (assuming that the arch
specific page-faulting code purges the stale entry for the archs that
need it).
Signed-off-by: Rohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com>
[ This is apparently arguably an ia64 port bug. But the code won't
hurt, and for now it fixes a real problem on some ia64 machines ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Patch from Paul Schulz
The following trivial patch is to fix what looks like a typo in the PXA register
definitions. The correction comes directly from the definition in the
Intel Documentation.
http://www.intel.com/design/pca/applicationsprocessors/manuals/278693.htm
Intel(R) PXA 255 Processor - Developers Manual - Jan 2004 - Page 12-33
Neither 'UDCCS_IO_ROF' or 'UDCCS_IO_DME' are currently used elseware
in the main code (from grep of tree)... The current definitions have been
in the code since at lease 2.4.7.
Signed-off-by: Paul Schulz <paul@mawsonlakes.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Reported by: Bob Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com>
"...I've got a Toshiba notebook (730XCDT -- Pentium 150MMX) for which
I'm using the Vesa FB driver. When the machine has been idle for some
time and the driver attempts to powerdown the display, rather than the
display going blank, it goes gray with several strange lines. When I
hit the "shift" key or other-wise wake up the display, the old video
state is not fully restored..."
vesafb recently added a blank method which has only 2 states, powerup and
powerdown. The powerdown state is used for all blanking levels, but in his
case, powerdown does not work correctly for higher levels of display
powersaving. Thus, for intermediate power levels, use software blanking,
and use only hardware blanking for an explicit powerdown.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This still leaves driver and architecture-specific subdirectories alone,
but gets rid of the bulk of the "generic" generated files that we should
ignore.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Patch from Kenneth Tan
The get_irqnr_and_base subroutine of ixp4xx does not take interrupt 0 condition into account properly. We should not perform "subs" here. The Z flag will be set when interrupt 0 occur, which resulting "movne r1, sp" in the caller routine (irq_handler) not being executed.
When interrupt 0 occur:
o if CONFIG_CPU_IXP46X is not set, "subs" will set the Z flag and return
o if CONFIG_CPU_IXP46X is set, codes in upper interrupt handling will be trigerred. But since this is not supper interrupt, the "cmp" in the upper interrupt handling portion will set the Z flag and return
Signed-off-by: Kenneth Tan <chong.yin.tan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Kenneth Tan
The cpu_is_ixp465 macro in include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4xx/hardware.h is always returning 0 because #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_IXP465 is always false.
Signed-off-by: Kenneth Tan <chong.yin.tan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Ben Dooks
Check that the device we are looking at is really
a platform device before trying to cast it to one
to find out the platform bus number.
Thanks to RMK for pointing this out.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The following build error happens with 2.6.14-rc4 when CONFIG_KALLSYMS is
not defined. The error message in a fragment of the output was:
CC arch/i386/lib/usercopy.o
AR arch/i386/lib/lib.a
/bin/sh: line 1: +@: command not found
make[3]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add `+' to parent make rule.
CHK include/linux/compile.h
Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <mrustad@mac.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
lock_kiocb() was introduced to serialize retrying and cancellation. In the
process of doing so it tried to sleep waiting for KIF_LOCKED while holding
the ctx_lock spinlock. Recent fixes have ensured that multiple concurrent
retries won't be attempted for a given iocb. Cancel has other problems and
has no significant in-tree users that have been complaining about it. So
for the immediate future we'll revert sleeping with the lock held and will
address proper cancellation and retry serialization in the future.
Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Only signal completion after marking request slot as free, otherwise other
processor can free request structure before we finish using it.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix -EIO on /proc/acpi/events after suspends. This actually breaks
suspending by power button in many setups.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Since Revision 1.10 was released the n_r3964 module wasn't able to receive any
data. The reason for that behavior is because there were some wrong calls of
mod_timer(...) in the function receive_char (...). This patch should fix this
problem and was successfully tested with talking to some kuka industrial
robots.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Currently you do not get all the map entries on nommu systems because the
start function doesn't index into the list using the value of "pos".
Signed-off-by: David McCullough <davidm@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This makes call_rcu() keep track of how many events there are on the RCU
list, and cause a reschedule event when the list gets too long.
This helps keep RCU event lists down.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This change makes quirk_intel_ide_combined() dependent on the precise
conditions under which it is needed:
* IDE is built in
* IDE SATA option is not set
* ata_piix or ahci drivers are enabled
This fixes an issue where some modular configurations would not cause
the quirk to be enabled.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Make sure we release the task struct properly when releasing pending
timers.
release_task() does write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock), so it can't race
with run_posix_cpu_timers() on any cpu.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Oopsable since nfs_wait_on_inode() can get called as part of iput_final().
Unnecessary since the caller had better be damned sure that the inode won't
disappear from underneath it anyway.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If the data cache has been marked as potentially invalid by nfs_refresh_inode,
we should invalidate it rather than assume that changes are due to our own
activity.
Also ensure that we always start with a valid cache before declaring it
to be protected by a delegation.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
During the development of an USB device I found a bug in the handling of
Highspeed HID devices in the kernel.
What happened?
Highspeed HID devices are correctly recognized and enumerated by the
kernel. But even if usbhid kernel module is loaded, no HID reports are
received by the kernel.
The output of the hardware USB analyzer told me that the host doesn't
even poll for interrupt IN transfers (even the "interrupt in" USB
transfer are polled by the host).
After some debugging in hid-core.c I've found the reason.
In case of a highspeed device, the endpoint interval is re-calculated in
driver/usb/input/hid-core.c:
line 1669:
/* handle potential highspeed HID correctly */
interval = endpoint->bInterval;
if (dev->speed == USB_SPEED_HIGH)
interval = 1 << (interval - 1);
Basically this calculation is correct (refer to USB 2.0 spec, 9.6.6).
This new calculated value of "interval" is used as input for
usb_fill_int_urb:
line 1685:
usb_fill_int_urb(hid->urbin, dev, pipe, hid->inbuf, 0,
hid_irq_in, hid, interval);
Unfortunately the same calculation as above is done a second time in
usb_fill_int_urb in the file include/linux/usb.h:
line 933:
if (dev->speed == USB_SPEED_HIGH)
urb->interval = 1 << (interval - 1);
else
urb->interval = interval;
This means, that if the endpoint descriptor (of a high speed device)
specifies e.g. bInterval = 7, the urb->interval gets the value:
hid-core.c: interval = 1 << (7-1) = 0x40 = 64
urb->interval = 1 << (interval -1) = 1 << (63) = integer overflow
Because of this the value of urb->interval is sometimes negative and is
rejected in core/urb.c:
line 353:
/* too small? */
if (urb->interval <= 0)
return -EINVAL;
The conclusion is, that the recalculaton of the interval (which is
necessary for highspeed) should not be made twice, because this is
simply wrong. ;-)
Re-calculation in usb_fill_int_urb makes more sense, because it is the
most general approach. So it would make sense to remove it from
hid-core.c.
Because in hid-core.c the interval variable is only used for calling
usb_fill_int_urb, it is no problem to remove the highspeed
re-calculation in this file.
Signed-off-by: Christian Krause <chkr@plauener.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Increased use of scatter-gather by usb-storage driver after 2.6.13 has
exposed a buggy codepath in isp116x-hcd, which was probably never
visited before: bug happened only for those urbs, for which
URB_SHORT_NOT_OK was set AND short transfer occurred.
The fix attached was tested in 2 ways: (a) it fixed failing
initialization of a flash drive with an embedded hub; (b) the fix was
tested with 'usbtest' against a modified g_zero driver (on top of
net2280), which generated short bulk IN transfers of various lengths
including multiples and non-multiples of max_packet_length.
Signed-off-by: Olav Kongas <ok@artecdesign.ee>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Dipankar made RCU limit the batch size to improve latency, but that
approach is unworkable: it can cause the RCU queues to grow without
bounds, since the batch limiter ended up limiting the callbacks.
So make the limit much higher, and start planning on instead limiting
the batch size by doing RCU callbacks more often if the queue looks like
it might be growing too long.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix the fact that the svideo input will only give input in black/white in
some circumstances. Reason is that in the PCI controller driver (zr36067),
after setting input, we reset norm, which overwrites the input register
with the default. This patch makes it always set the correct value for the
input when changing norm.
Signed-off-by: Ronald S. Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix bug #5404 in kernel bugzilla.
It basically updates the vpx3220 initialization tables with some newer
values that we've had in CVS for a while (and that, for some reason, never
ended up in the kernel... must've gotten lost). Those fix a ~16 pixels
noise at the top of the picture in at least SECAM, although (now that I
think about it) PAL was probably affected, also.
Signed-off-by: Ronald S. Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix bug 5441.
I didn't know about messy programs like svgatextmode... Couldn't this be
integrated in some linux/drivers/video/console/svgacon.c ?... So because
of the existence of the svgatextmode program, the kernel is not supposed to
touch to CRT_OVERFLOW/SYNC_END/DISP/DISP_END/OFFSET ?
Disabling the check in vgacon_resize() might help indeed, but I'm really
not sure whether it will work for any chipset: in my patch, CRT registers
are set at each console switch, since stty rows/cols apply to consoles
separately...
The attached solution is to keep the test, but if it fails, we assume that
the caller knows what it does (i.e. it is svgatextmode) and then disable
any further call to vgacon_doresize. Svgatextmode is usually used to
_expand_ the display, not to shrink it. And it is harmless in the case of
a too big stty rows/cols: the display will just be cropped. I tested it on
my laptop, and it works fine with svgatextmode.
A better solution would be that svgatextmode explicitely tells the kernel
not to care about video timing, but for this an interface needs be defined
and svgatextmode be patched.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
It seems that all the list_*_rcu primitives are missing a memory barrier
on the very first dereference. For example,
#define list_for_each_rcu(pos, head) \
for (pos = (head)->next; prefetch(pos->next), pos != (head); \
pos = rcu_dereference(pos->next))
It will go something like:
pos = (head)->next
prefetch(pos->next)
pos != (head)
do stuff
We're missing a barrier here.
pos = rcu_dereference(pos->next)
fetch pos->next
barrier given by rcu_dereference(pos->next)
store pos
Without the missing barrier, the pos->next value may turn out to be stale.
In fact, if "do stuff" were also dereferencing pos and relying on
list_for_each_rcu to provide the barrier then it may also break.
So here is a patch to make sure that we have a barrier for the first
element in the list.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
