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Matthew Garrett
fec6c20b57 efi: Validate UEFI boot variables
A common flaw in UEFI systems is a refusal to POST triggered by a malformed
boot variable. Once in this state, machines may only be restored by
reflashing their firmware with an external hardware device. While this is
obviously a firmware bug, the serious nature of the outcome suggests that
operating systems should filter their variable writes in order to prevent
a malicious user from rendering the machine unusable.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-04-30 15:30:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6ed23fd6c0 Merge branch 'pstore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux
* 'pstore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux:
  pstore: gracefully handle NULL pstore_info functions
  pstore: pass reason to backend write callback
2012-01-06 18:03:02 -08:00
Christoph Fritz
eee628da2e efivars: add missing parameter to efi_pstore_read()
In the case where CONFIG_PSTORE=n, the function efi_pstore_read() doesn't
have the correct list of parameters. This patch provides a definition
of efi_pstore_read() with 'char **buf' added to fix this warning:
"drivers/firmware/efivars.c:609: warning: initialization from".

problem introduced in commit f6f8285132

Signed-off-by: Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-11-28 15:33:32 -08:00
Kees Cook
3d6d8d20ec pstore: pass reason to backend write callback
This allows a backend to filter on the dmesg reason as well as the pstore
reason. When ramoops is switched to pstore, this is needed since it has
no interest in storing non-crash dmesg details.

Drop pstore_write() as it has no users, and handling the "reason" here
has no obviously correct value.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-11-17 13:13:29 -08:00
Kees Cook
f6f8285132 pstore: pass allocated memory region back to caller
The buf_lock cannot be held while populating the inodes, so make the backend
pass forward an allocated and filled buffer instead. This solves the following
backtrace. The effect is that "buf" is only ever used to notify the backends
that something was written to it, and shouldn't be used in the read path.

To replace the buf_lock during the read path, isolate the open/read/close
loop with a separate mutex to maintain serialized access to the backend.

Note that is is up to the pstore backend to cope if the (*write)() path is
called in the middle of the read path.

[   59.691019] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at .../mm/slub.c:847
[   59.691019] in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 1819, name: mount
[   59.691019] Pid: 1819, comm: mount Not tainted 3.0.8 #1
[   59.691019] Call Trace:
[   59.691019]  [<810252d5>] __might_sleep+0xc3/0xca
[   59.691019]  [<810a26e6>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x32/0xf3
[   59.691019]  [<810b53ac>] ? __d_lookup_rcu+0x6f/0xf4
[   59.691019]  [<810b68b1>] alloc_inode+0x2a/0x64
[   59.691019]  [<810b6903>] new_inode+0x18/0x43
[   59.691019]  [<81142447>] pstore_get_inode.isra.1+0x11/0x98
[   59.691019]  [<81142623>] pstore_mkfile+0xae/0x26f
[   59.691019]  [<810a2a66>] ? kmem_cache_free+0x19/0xb1
[   59.691019]  [<8116c821>] ? ida_get_new_above+0x140/0x158
[   59.691019]  [<811708ea>] ? __init_rwsem+0x1e/0x2c
[   59.691019]  [<810b67e8>] ? inode_init_always+0x111/0x1b0
[   59.691019]  [<8102127e>] ? should_resched+0xd/0x27
[   59.691019]  [<8137977f>] ? _cond_resched+0xd/0x21
[   59.691019]  [<81142abf>] pstore_get_records+0x52/0xa7
[   59.691019]  [<8114254b>] pstore_fill_super+0x7d/0x91
[   59.691019]  [<810a7ff5>] mount_single+0x46/0x82
[   59.691019]  [<8114231a>] pstore_mount+0x15/0x17
[   59.691019]  [<811424ce>] ? pstore_get_inode.isra.1+0x98/0x98
[   59.691019]  [<810a8199>] mount_fs+0x5a/0x12d
[   59.691019]  [<810b9174>] ? alloc_vfsmnt+0xa4/0x14a
[   59.691019]  [<810b9474>] vfs_kern_mount+0x4f/0x7d
[   59.691019]  [<810b9d7e>] do_kern_mount+0x34/0xb2
[   59.691019]  [<810bb15f>] do_mount+0x5fc/0x64a
[   59.691019]  [<810912fb>] ? strndup_user+0x2e/0x3f
[   59.691019]  [<810bb3cb>] sys_mount+0x66/0x99
[   59.691019]  [<8137b537>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-11-17 12:58:07 -08:00
Chen Gong
b238b8fa93 pstore: make pstore write function return normal success/fail value
Currently pstore write interface employs record id as return
value, but it is not enough because it can't tell caller if
the write operation is successful. Pass the record id back via
an argument pointer and return zero for success, non-zero for
failure.

Signed-off-by: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-10-12 09:17:24 -07:00
Don Zickus
abd4d5587b pstore: change mutex locking to spin_locks
pstore was using mutex locking to protect read/write access to the
backend plug-ins.  This causes problems when pstore is executed in
an NMI context through panic() -> kmsg_dump().

This patch changes the mutex to a spin_lock_irqsave then also checks to
see if we are in an NMI context.  If we are in an NMI and can't get the
lock, just print a message stating that and blow by the locking.

All this is probably a hack around the bigger locking problem but it
solves my current situation of trying to sleep in an NMI context.

Tested by loading the lkdtm module and executing a HARDLOCKUP which
will cause the machine to panic inside the nmi handler.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-08-16 11:55:58 -07:00
Tony Luck
b728a5c806 efivars: fix warnings when CONFIG_PSTORE=n
drivers/firmware/efivars.c:161: warning: ‘utf16_strlen’ defined but not used
utf16_strlen() is only used inside CONFIG_PSTORE - make this "static inline"
to shut the compiler up [thanks to hpa for the suggestion].

drivers/firmware/efivars.c:602: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
Between v1 and v2 of this patch series we decided to make the "part" number
unsigned - but missed fixing the stub version of efi_pstore_write()

Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-08-02 15:08:30 -07:00
Mike Waychison
7644c16c7e efivars: Introduce PSTORE_EFI_ATTRIBUTES
Consolidate the attributes listed for pstore operations in one place,
PSTORE_EFI_ATTRIBUTES.

Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-07-22 16:15:49 -07:00
Mike Waychison
c475594d83 efivars: Use string functions in pstore_write
Instead of open-coding the string operations for comparing the prefix of
the variable names, use the provided utf16_* string functions.

This patch also changes the calls to efi.set_variable to
efivars->ops->set_variable so that the right function gets called in the
case of gsmi (which doesn't have a valid efi structure).

As well, make sure that we only consider variables with the right vendor
string.

Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-07-22 16:15:40 -07:00
Mike Waychison
828aa1f00e efivars: introduce utf16_strncmp
Introduce utf16_strncmp which is used in the next patch.  Semantics
should be the same as the strncmp C function.

Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-07-22 16:15:31 -07:00
Mike Waychison
a294090839 efivars: String functions
Fix the string functions in the efivars driver to be called utf16_*
instead of utf8_* as the encoding is utf16, not utf8.

As well, rename utf16_strlen to utf16_strnlen as it takes a maxlength
argument and the name should be consistent with the standard C function
names.  utf16_strlen is still provided for convenience in a subsequent
patch.

Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-07-22 16:15:21 -07:00
Matthew Garrett
5ee9c198a4 efi: Add support for using efivars as a pstore backend
EFI provides an area of nonvolatile storage managed by the firmware. We
can use this as a pstore backend to maintain copies of oopses, aiding
diagnosis.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-07-22 16:15:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
57d19e80f4 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  b43: fix comment typo reqest -> request
  Haavard Skinnemoen has left Atmel
  cris: typo in mach-fs Makefile
  Kconfig: fix copy/paste-ism for dell-wmi-aio driver
  doc: timers-howto: fix a typo ("unsgined")
  perf: Only include annotate.h once in tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/annotate.c
  md, raid5: Fix spelling error in comment ('Ofcourse' --> 'Of course').
  treewide: fix a few typos in comments
  regulator: change debug statement be consistent with the style of the rest
  Revert "arm: mach-u300/gpio: Fix mem_region resource size miscalculations"
  audit: acquire creds selectively to reduce atomic op overhead
  rtlwifi: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal
  treewide: cleanup continuations and remove logging message whitespace
  ath9k_hw: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal
  include/linux/leds-regulator.h: fix syntax in example code
  tty: fix typo in descripton of tty_termios_encode_baud_rate
  xtensa: remove obsolete BKL kernel option from defconfig
  m68k: fix comment typo 'occcured'
  arch:Kconfig.locks Remove unused config option.
  treewide: remove extra semicolons
  ...
2011-05-23 09:12:26 -07:00
Justin P. Mattock
70f23fd66b treewide: fix a few typos in comments
- kenrel -> kernel
- whetehr -> whether
- ttt -> tt
- sss -> ss

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-05-10 10:16:21 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
aabb6e1531 efivars: prevent oops on unload when efi is not enabled
efivars_exit() should check for efi_enabled and not undo
allocations when efi is not enabled.  Otherwise there is an Oops
during module unload:

calling  efivars_init+0x0/0x1000 [efivars] @ 2810
EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17
initcall efivars_init+0x0/0x1000 [efivars] returned 0 after 5120 usecs
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
last sysfs file: /sys/module/firmware_class/initstate
CPU 1
Modules linked in: efivars(-) af_packet tun nfsd lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc ipt_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 iptable_filter ip_tables ip6t_REJECT xt_tcpudp nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables x_tables ipv6 cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq freq_table mperf binfmt_misc dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_multipath scsi_dh dm_mod snd_hda_codec_analog snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep mousedev snd_seq joydev snd_seq_device mac_hid evdev snd_pcm usbkbd usbmouse usbhid snd_timer hid tg3 snd sr_mod pcspkr rtc_cmos soundcore cdrom iTCO_wdt processor sg dcdbas i2c_i801 rtc_core iTCO_vendor_support intel_agp snd_page_alloc thermal_sys rtc_lib intel_gtt 8250_pnp button hwmon unix ide_pci_generic ide_core ata_generic pata_acpi ata_piix sd_mod crc_t10dif ext3 jbd mbcache uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ssb mmc_core pcmcia pcmcia_core firmware_class ehci_hcd usbcore [last unloaded: dell_rbu]

Pid: 2812, comm: rmmod Not tainted 2.6.39-rc6 #1 Dell Inc.                 OptiPlex 745                 /0TY565
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa06a17f6>]  [<ffffffffa06a17f6>] unregister_efivars+0x28/0x12c [efivars]
RSP: 0018:ffff88005eedde98  EFLAGS: 00010283
RAX: ffffffffa06a23fc RBX: ffffffffa06a44c0 RCX: ffff88007c227a50
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000055ac13db78 RDI: ffffffffa06a44c0
RBP: ffff88005eeddec8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88005eeddd78
R10: ffffffffa06a4220 R11: ffff88005eeddd78 R12: fffffffffffff7d0
R13: 00007fff5a3aaec0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffffa06a4508
FS:  00007fa8dcc4a6f0(0000) GS:ffff88007c200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000005d148000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process rmmod (pid: 2812, threadinfo ffff88005eedc000, task ffff88006754b000)
Stack:
 ffff88005eeddec8 ffffffffa06a4220 0000000000000000 00007fff5a3aaec0
 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 ffff88005eedded8 ffffffffa06a2418
 ffff88005eeddf78 ffffffff810d3598 ffffffffa06a4220 0000000000000880
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffffa06a2418>] efivars_exit+0x1c/0xc04 [efivars]
 [<ffffffff810d3598>] sys_delete_module+0x2d6/0x368
 [<ffffffff812d1db9>] ? lockdep_sys_exit_thunk+0x35/0x67
 [<ffffffff810fcba1>] ? audit_syscall_entry+0x172/0x1a5
 [<ffffffff81575082>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: 5c c9 c3 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 83 ec 08 0f 1f 44 00 00 4c 8b 67 48 48 89 fb 4c 8d 7f 48 49 81 ec 30 08 00 00 <4d> 8b ac 24 30 08 00 00 49 81 ed 30 08 00 00 eb 59 48 89 df 48
RIP  [<ffffffffa06a17f6>] unregister_efivars+0x28/0x12c [efivars]
 RSP <ffff88005eedde98>
CR2: 0000000000000000
 ---[ end trace aa99b99090f70baa ]---

Matt apparently removed such a check in 2004 (with no reason given):
 *  17 May 2004 - Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
 *   remove check for efi_enabled in exit
but there have been several changes since then.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-05-06 17:52:32 -07:00
Dan Carpenter
3116aabc81 efivars: handle errors from register_efivars()
We should unwind and return an error if register_efivars() fails.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-19 16:45:50 -07:00
Dan Carpenter
051d51bc6a efivars: memory leak on error in create_efivars_bin_attributes()
This is a cut and paste bug.  We intended to free ->del_var and
->new_var but we only free ->new_var.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-19 16:45:50 -07:00
Mike Waychison
4fc756bd9d efivars: Expose efivars functionality to external drivers.
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14 08:40:51 -07:00
Mike Waychison
3295814d83 efivars: Parameterize operations.
Instead of letting efivars access struct efi directly when dealing with
variables, use an operations structure.  This allows a later change to
reuse the efivars logic without having to pretend to support everything
in struct efi.

Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14 08:40:51 -07:00
Mike Waychison
76b53f7c8b efivars: Split out variable registration
In anticipation of re-using the variable facilities in efivars from
elsewhere, split out the registration and unregistration of struct
efivars from the rest of the EFI specific sysfs code.

Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14 08:40:50 -07:00
Mike Waychison
4142ef146a efivars: parameterize efivars
Now that we all global variable state is encapsulated by struct efivars,
parameterize all functions to the efivars local to the control flow rather
than at file scope.  We do this by removing the variable "efivars" at file
scope and move its storage down to the end of the file.

Variables get at efivars by storing the efivars pointer within each
efivar_entry.  The "new_var" and "del_var" binary attribute files get at
the efivars through the private pointer.

Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14 08:40:50 -07:00
Mike Waychison
d502fbb0dc efivars: Make efivars bin_attributes dynamic
In preparation for encapsulating efivars, we need to have the
bin_attributes be dynamically allocated so that we can use their
->private fields to get back to the struct efivars structure.

Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14 08:40:50 -07:00
Mike Waychison
29422693c4 efivars: move efivars globals into struct efivars
In preparation for abstracting out efivars to be usable by other similar
variable services, move the global lock, list and kset into a structure.
Later patches will change the scope of 'efivars' and have it be passed
by function argument.

Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14 08:40:49 -07:00
Chris Wright
2c3c8bea60 sysfs: add struct file* to bin_attr callbacks
This allows bin_attr->read,write,mmap callbacks to check file specific data
(such as inode owner) as part of any privilege validation.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21 09:37:31 -07:00
Tejun Heo
5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Emese Revfy
52cf25d0ab Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type
Constify struct sysfs_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

 * prevents modification of data that is shared
   (referenced) by many other structure instances
   at runtime

 * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
   modification attempts on archs that enforce
   read-only kernel data at runtime

 * potentially better optimized code as the compiler
   can assume that the const data cannot be changed

 * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
   and therefore exclude them from false sharing

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07 17:04:49 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
c10997f657 Kobject: convert drivers/* from kobject_unregister() to kobject_put()
There is no need for kobject_unregister() anymore, thanks to Kay's
kobject cleanup changes, so replace all instances of it with
kobject_put().


Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:40 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
d6d292c451 Kobject: change drivers/firmware/efivars.c to use kobject_init_and_add
Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of
the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized.

Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:27 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
bc87d2fe7a kobject: convert efivars to use kobject_create
Using a kset for this simple directory is an overkill.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:25 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
f62ed9e33b firmware: change firmware_kset to firmware_kobj
There is no firmware "subsystem" it's just a directory in /sys that
other portions of the kernel want to hook into.  So make it a kobject
not a kset to help alivate anyone who tries to do some odd kset-like
things with this.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:23 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
66ac831e03 kset: convert efivars to use kset_create for the vars sub-subsystem.
Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:19 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
89a07e34b1 kset: convert efivars to use kset_create for the efi subsystem.
Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:19 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
334c630754 kobject: convert efivars to kobj_attr interface
This cleans up a lot of code and gets rid of a unneeded macro, and gets
us one step closer to deleting the deprecated subsys_attr code.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:19 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
97fa5bb74c efivars: make new_var and del_var binary sysfs files
These files should not be "normal" sysfs files as they really are binary
ones.  This patch makes them binary files and saves code in doing so.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Tested-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:19 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
3514faca19 kobject: remove struct kobj_type from struct kset
We don't need a "default" ktype for a kset.  We should set this
explicitly every time for each kset.  This change is needed so that we
can make ksets dynamic, and cleans up one of the odd, undocumented
assumption that the kset/kobject/ktype model has.

This patch is based on a lot of help from Kay Sievers.

Nasty bug in the block code was found by Dave Young
<hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:10 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
e89a4116ef Driver core: rename ktype_edd and ktype_efivar
This makes it a bit more sane when trying to figure out how to clean up
the ktype mess.

Based on a larger patch from Kay Sievers

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:12 -07:00
Tejun Heo
7b595756ec sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner
sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game.  After
deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper,
so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners.  Note that
often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to
accessing removed modules.

This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner.  Note that with
this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the
backing module from being unloaded.

For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the
following message.

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293

(tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to
merge things properly.)

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:09:06 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
823bccfc40 remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer needed
We need to work on cleaning up the relationship between kobjects, ksets and
ktypes.  The removal of 'struct subsystem' is the first step of this,
especially as it is not really needed at all.

Thanks to Kay for fixing the bugs in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-05-02 18:57:59 -07:00
Matt Domsch
496a0fc8c5 [PATCH] Fix race in efi variable delete code
Fix race when deleting an EFI variable and issuing another EFI command on
the same variable.  The removal of the variable from the efivars_list
should be done in efivar_delete and not delayed until the kobject release.

Furthermore, remove the item from the list at module unload time, and use
list_for_each_entry_safe() rather than list_for_each_safe() for
readability.

Tested on ia64.

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26 13:51:01 -08:00
Jeff Garzik
69b2186c5f [PATCH] firmware/efivars: handle error
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:25 -07:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Bjorn Helgaas
b2c99e3c70 [PATCH] EFI: keep physical table addresses in efi structure
Almost all users of the table addresses from the EFI system table want
physical addresses.  So rather than doing the pa->va->pa conversion, just keep
physical addresses in struct efi.

This fixes a DMI bug: the efi structure contained the physical SMBIOS address
on x86 but the virtual address on ia64, so dmi_scan_machine() used ioremap()
on a virtual address on ia64.

This is essentially the same as an earlier patch by Matt Tolentino:
	http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112130292316281&w=2
except that this changes all table addresses, not just ACPI addresses.

Matt's original patch was backed out because it caused MCAs on HP sx1000
systems.  That problem is resolved by the ioremap() attribute checking added
for ia64.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: "Tolentino, Matthew E" <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26 08:56:54 -08:00
Randy.Dunlap
c59ede7b78 [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h
- Move capable() from sched.h to capability.h;

- Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used
	(in include/, block/, ipc/, kernel/, a few drivers/,
	mm/, security/, & sound/;
	many more drivers/ to go)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
Deepak Saxena
9c2153844d [PATCH] drivers/firmware: kmalloc + memset -> kzalloc conversion
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:54:00 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
0933ad9c23 [PATCH] kfree cleanups for drivers/firmware/
Here's a patch with kfree() cleanups for drivers/firmware/efivars.c Patch
removes redundant NULL checks before kfree and also makes a small
whitespace cleanup - moves two statements on same line to separate lines.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 16:25:06 -07:00
Dmitry Torokhov
70f2817a43 [PATCH] sysfs: (rest) if show/store is missing return -EIO
sysfs: fix the rest of the kernel so if an attribute doesn't
       implement show or store method read/write will return
       -EIO instead of 0 or -EINVAL or -EPERM.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:03 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00