linux.git/net/decnet, branch v2.6.21.7

[DECNet] fib: Fix out of bound access of dn_fib_props[]

2007-03-26T01:48:04+00:00

Fixes a typo which caused fib_props[] to have the wrong size
and makes sure the value used to index the array which is
provided by userspace via netlink is checked to avoid out of
bound access.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET]: Fix fib_rules compatibility breakage

2007-03-26T01:48:00+00:00

Based upon a patch from Patrick McHardy.

The fib_rules netlink attribute policy introduced in 2.6.19 broke
userspace compatibilty. When specifying a rule with "from all"
or "to all", iproute adds a zero byte long netlink attribute,
but the policy requires all addresses to have a size equal to
sizeof(struct in_addr)/sizeof(struct in6_addr), resulting in a
validation error.

Check attribute length of FRA_SRC/FRA_DST in the generic framework
by letting the family specific rules implementation provide the
length of an address. Report an error if address length is non
zero but no address attribute is provided. Fix actual bug by
checking address length for non-zero instead of relying on
availability of attribute.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf 
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[PATCH] sysctl: remove the proc_dir_entry member for the sysctl tables

2007-02-14T16:10:00+00:00

It isn't needed anymore, all of the users are gone, and all of the ctl_table
initializers have been converted to use explicit names of the fields they are
initializing.

[akpm@osdl.org: NTFS fix]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley 
Cc: James Morris 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl

2007-02-14T16:09:59+00:00

The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name.  Which is
pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented.

I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of
register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register
duplicate sysctl entries.

So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in
the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future
enhancments harder.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle 
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Corey Minyard 
Cc: Neil Brown 
Cc: "John W. Linville" 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Trond Myklebust 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: David Chinner 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] sysctl: decnet: remove unnecessary insert_at_head flag

2007-02-14T16:09:55+00:00

The sysctl numbers used are unique so setting the insert_at_head flag does not
succeed in overriding any sysctls, and is just confusing because it doesn't.
Clear the flag.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Patrick Caulfield 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h

2007-02-14T16:09:54+00:00

After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
anything defined in there.  Presumably these includes were once needed for
macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
course of cleaning it up.

To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.

Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
configs in arch/arm/configs on arm.  I also checked that no new warnings were
introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
by unnecessarily included header files).

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau 
Acked-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 7

2007-02-12T17:48:46+00:00

Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

2007-02-11T19:38:13+00:00

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (45 commits)
  [IPV4]: Restore multipath routing after rt_next changes.
  [XFRM] IPV6: Fix outbound RO transformation which is broken by IPsec tunnel patch.
  [NET]: Reorder fields of struct dst_entry
  [DECNET]: Convert decnet route to use the new dst_entry 'next' pointer
  [IPV6]: Convert ipv6 route to use the new dst_entry 'next' pointer
  [IPV4]: Convert ipv4 route to use the new dst_entry 'next' pointer
  [NET]: Introduce union in struct dst_entry to hold 'next' pointer
  [DECNET]: fix misannotation of linkinfo_dn
  [DECNET]: FRA_{DST,SRC} are le16 for decnet
  [UDP]: UDP can use sk_hash to speedup lookups
  [NET]: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] XFRM: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] X25: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] WANROUTER: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] UNIX: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] TIPC: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] SUNRPC: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] SCTP: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] SCHED: Fix whitespace errors.
  [NET] RXRPC: Fix whitespace errors.
  ...

[PATCH] FRA_{DST,SRC} are le16 for decnet

2007-02-11T19:18:07+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Transform kmem_cache_alloc()+memset(0) -> kmem_cache_zalloc().

2007-02-11T18:51:27+00:00

Replace appropriate pairs of "kmem_cache_alloc()" + "memset(0)" with the
corresponding "kmem_cache_zalloc()" call.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Roland McGrath 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Cc: Greg KH 
Acked-by: Joel Becker 
Cc: Steven Whitehouse 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Michael Halcrow 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Stephen Smalley 
Cc: James Morris 
Cc: Chris Wright 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds