Bug#782515: [PATCH stable 3.10-3.16] tcp: Fix crash in TCP Fast Open

2015-04-15 Thread David Miller
From: Eric Dumazet eric.duma...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 11:22:44 -0700 On Wed, 2015-04-15 at 19:00 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: Commit 355a901e6cf1 (tcp: make connect() mem charging friendly) changed tcp_send_syn_data() to perform an open-coded copy of the 'syn' skb rather than using

Bug#721396: Trying to build silo in 64 bit userland (aka sparc64)

2013-10-03 Thread David Miller
Please bring this up on the appropriate, public, mailing list, rather than to me privately. In this case that would be sparcli...@vger.kernel.org Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#712674: [PATCH net-next] cassini: Make missing firmware non-fatal

2013-07-02 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 00:13:27 +0100 The firmware patch for the Saturn PHY fixes a bug, but is not absolutely essential. And its licence is unclear, so it is not included in all distributions. Just log an error message and continue if it is missing

Bug#649841: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#649841:

2012-09-10 Thread David Miller
From: Kurt Roeckx k...@roeckx.be Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:30:56 +0200 On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 01:55:38AM +0100, David Miller wrote: This was fixed incorrectly, and causes regressions. The sparcv9 optimized assembler routines are no longer enabled, amongst other things. The change should

Bug#649841: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#649841:

2012-09-09 Thread David Miller
From: Kurt Roeckx k...@roeckx.be Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 08:42:46 +0200 severity 649841 important thanks On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 01:55:38AM +0100, David Miller wrote: This was fixed incorrectly, and causes regressions. The sparcv9 optimized assembler routines are no longer enabled

Bug#649841:

2012-09-08 Thread David Miller
This was fixed incorrectly, and causes regressions. The sparcv9 optimized assembler routines are no longer enabled, amongst other things. The change should be flat out reverted. The error message originally reported in the build was due to a bug in Sparc binutils, it wasn't turning on multiply

Bug#655387: [PATCH net v2] cdc_ether: Ignore bogus union descriptor for RNDIS devices

2012-05-06 Thread David Miller
From: Markus Kolb mar...@kolbs-net.de Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 12:13:32 +0200 David Miller wrote on 03.05.2012 07:11: From: Markus Kolblinux-201...@tower-net.de Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 06:57:39 +0200 I'll build it during next rainy day and will report its success after some usage ;-) Thank

Bug#655387: [PATCH net v2] cdc_ether: Ignore bogus union descriptor for RNDIS devices

2012-05-02 Thread David Miller
From: Bjørn Mork bj...@mork.no Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:35:10 +0200 The same comments as for v1 regarding testing applies. This is build tested only. Should go through some functional testing before being applied. Well? Is anyone gonna test this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#655387: [PATCH net v2] cdc_ether: Ignore bogus union descriptor for RNDIS devices

2012-05-02 Thread David Miller
From: Markus Kolb linux-201...@tower-net.de Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 06:57:39 +0200 I'll build it during next rainy day and will report its success after some usage ;-) Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#648766: [sparc] BUG: NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU0

2012-04-08 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2012 22:12:06 +0100 Will the recipient NACK if the cross-call interrupt is disabled, or do the processors have a buffer/FIFO for such IRQs? Recipient's NACK when their incoming cross-call queue is full. A cpu hung with PSTATE_IE clear

Bug#648766: [sparc] BUG: NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU0

2012-04-07 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:21:38 +0100 cheetah_xcall_deliver() does appear to be relevant to the problem and it looks like it could loop indefinitely - though presumably only if a processor is behaving strangely? I can only loop indefinitely if one of

Bug#660804: [Bug 42809] New: kernel panic when receiving an ipsec packet

2012-02-23 Thread David Miller
From: Eric Dumazet eric.duma...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:17:23 +0100 Le jeudi 23 février 2012 à 15:11 -0500, David Miller a écrit : Three instances of the same piece of code, maybe a helper function is appropriate at that point? :-) You might even get ambitious and add a big

Bug#660804: [Bug 42809] New: kernel panic when receiving an ipsec packet

2012-02-23 Thread David Miller
From: Eric Dumazet eric.duma...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:36:26 +0100 [PATCH] ipsec: be careful of non existing mac headers Nicollo Belli reported ipsec crashes in case we handle a frame without mac header (atm in his case) Before copying mac header, better make sure it is

Bug#660804: [PATCH V2] ipsec: be careful of non existing mac headers

2012-02-23 Thread David Miller
From: Eric Dumazet eric.duma...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:55:02 +0100 Niccolo Belli reported ipsec crashes in case we handle a frame without mac header (atm in his case) Before copying mac header, better make sure it is present. Bugzilla reference:

Bug#654876: [PATCH net] igmp: Avoid zero delay when receiving odd mixture of IGMP queries

2012-01-09 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 22:04:28 + Commit 5b7c84066733c5dfb0e4016d939757b38de189e4 ('ipv4: correct IGMP behavior on v3 query during v2-compatibility mode') added yet another case for query parsing, which can result in max_delay = 0. Substitute a

Bug#590327: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: Unbalanced enable for IRQ 19

2011-09-06 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 05:16:01 +0100 This is somewhat unusual in that the IDE controller will be sharing its IRQ, but that's supposed to work. However, the IDE core attempts to disable and enable the IRQ *before* it allocates it. If the UHCI driver

Bug#590327: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: Unbalanced enable for IRQ 19

2011-09-06 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 05:58:33 +0100 Well, I'm concerned with what to do in distro configurations which aren't just for 'modern systems'. We already swapped over all the drivers not labelled as experimental. With the rest, I worry that we'd be

Bug#639949: linux-image-3.0.0-1-sparc64-smp: Kernel fails to boot with illegal instruction on ultrasparc V240

2011-08-31 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 04:45:34 +0100 So anyway, this CPU doesn't implement popc and is wrongly being detected as doing so. I posted a fix for this already yesterday and it's in Linus's tree and queued up in Greg's -stable tree as well: From

Bug#637767: (no subject)

2011-08-14 Thread David Miller
The upstream GLIBC GIT commit for this fix is: 9c96ff23858b0759e12ad69e3c4599931c90bee8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#631945: [Bugme-new] [Bug 39372] New: Problems with HFSC Scheduler

2011-08-01 Thread David Miller
From: Eric Dumazet eric.duma...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:22:42 +0200 [PATCH] sch_sfq: fix sfq_enqueue() commit 8efa88540635 (sch_sfq: avoid giving spurious NET_XMIT_CN signals) forgot to call qdisc_tree_decrease_qlen() to signal upper levels that a packet (from another flow) was

Bug#634696: (no subject)

2011-07-25 Thread David Miller
The problem is how sha1.cc codes the SHA1 transform, it illegally casts the on-stack workspace buffer to a type requiring more alignment than 'workspace' is actually declared to have. This only shows up recently because gcc-4.6 now does a really aggressive optimization where it gets rid of the

Bug#630730: linux-image-2.6.32: GSO IPv6 issues

2011-06-21 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:20:13 +0100 David, these look like good candidates for longterm updates. What do you think? Sure but I don't do submissions for the longterm stuff, I only work on the -stable trees that Greg is actively maintaining. -- To

Bug#625914: [Bridge] Bug#625914: linux-image-2.6.38-2-amd64: bridging is not interacting well with multicast in 2.6.38-4

2011-05-12 Thread David Miller
From: Noah Meyerhans no...@debian.org Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 16:35:40 -0700 On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 03:11:00PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: There were two more follow on commits in stable related to this. I recommend merging 2.6.38.6 which includes these. The problem still exists in the

Bug#619450: [PATCH 2/2] via-ircc: Pass PCI device pointer to dma_{alloc,free}_coherent()

2011-03-30 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:12:52 +0100 via-ircc has been passing a NULL pointer to DMA allocation functions, which is completely invalid and results in a BUG on PowerPC. Now that we always have the device pointer available, pass it in. Reference:

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-31 Thread David Miller
From: Jesper Nilsson jesper.nils...@axis.com Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:05:57 +0100 On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 07:07:55AM +0100, David Miller wrote: Ugh, and I just noticed that include/linux/klist.h does this fixed alignment of 4 too, where is this stuff coming from? It's wrong on 64-bit

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-19 Thread David Miller
From: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:33:26 -0500 I'm still unsure that __long_long_aligned is needed over __long_aligned though. AFAIK, the only requirement we have for, e.g. tracepoints, is to align on the pointer size (sizeof(long)), so RCU

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-19 Thread David Miller
From: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:20:53 -0500 Now what I'm discussing with David Miller is if creating a __long_packed_aligned and using it for *both* type and variable alignment would be more palatable (it also works, and is more compact

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-19 Thread David Miller
From: Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:00:23 -0500 We can add a comment next to these structures specifying this dependency, and hopefully it would be updated if we ever do include a long long in them. Yes, I think a huge comment should be placed somewhere and also

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-19 Thread David Miller
From: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:13:27 -0500 Hrm, I'd like to see what kind of ill-conceived 32-bit architecture would generate a unaligned access for a 32-bit aligned u64. Do you have examples in mind ? By definition, the memory accesses should

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-19 Thread David Miller
From: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:15:38 -0500 * David Miller (da...@davemloft.net) wrote: If plain __long_aligned works and, since you're tagging it to the structure definition, it only specifies a minimum-alignment, then I'm fine with using

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-19 Thread David Miller
From: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:21:44 -0500 I still wonder how a 32-bit system can generate an unaligned access trap for an access to a 64-bit variable aligned on 32-bit, given that there is, by definition, no 64-bit memory accesses available

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-19 Thread David Miller
From: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:33:39 -0500 So I guess we go for the following. Is it verbose enough ? It's got all of the details that seem to matter, thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#609371: R_SPARC_13

2011-01-18 Thread David Miller
From: Richard Mortimer ri...@oldelvet.org.uk Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:23:14 + To close this off as a non-issue as far as my boot failures are concerned I did some further checking and objdump is displaying R_SPARC_OLO10 as two separate entries. I checked the scsi_mod.ko binary and found

Bug#609371: R_SPARC_13

2011-01-18 Thread David Miller
From: David Miller da...@davemloft.net Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:00:27 -0800 (PST) I'll look into fixing binutils so that it properly reports the correct R_SPARC_OLO10 relocation in dumps. There really is no excuse for what it's currently doing. In fact, I think this quirk has sent me

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-18 Thread David Miller
From: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:08:45 -0500 The following works fine for me now. Comments are welcome. Thanks for doing this work Mathieu. - No aligned() type attribute nor variable attribute. I get a crash on x86_64 (NULL pointer exception

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-18 Thread David Miller
From: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:08:45 -0500 - No aligned() type attribute nor variable attribute. I get a crash on x86_64 (NULL pointer exception when executing __trace_add_event_call, the 5th call). __alignof__(struct ftrace_event_call)

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-18 Thread David Miller
From: David Miller da...@davemloft.net Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:32:47 -0800 (PST) As far as GCC can see, the object is static and also not part of an array or any other C construct for which things like this could matter as long as the alignment it chooses meets the minimum alignment

Bug#609371: R_SPARC_13

2011-01-17 Thread David Miller
From: Richard Mortimer ri...@oldelvet.org.uk Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:46:21 + As an example from drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c function scsi_eh_wakeup(). This has relocation records of ... 2be4 R_SPARC_LO10 __tracepoint_scsi_eh_wakeup 2be4 R_SPARC_13

Bug#609371: R_SPARC_13

2011-01-17 Thread David Miller
From: Richard Mortimer ri...@oldelvet.org.uk Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:34:03 + However the same R_SPARC_13 also exists in scsi_mod.ko. It exists in the original Debian 2.6.37-trunk-sparc64 version and in my current build of the same with the 8 byte alignment for _trace_events. ... Thanks

Bug#609371: R_SPARC_13

2011-01-17 Thread David Miller
From: Richard Mortimer ri...@oldelvet.org.uk Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:34:03 + I guess that points towards the binutils linker not doing the correct thing. Ok, it is in fact doing the correct thing. I'm really surprised we never hit this before in all of these years :-) I guess we've

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-17 Thread David Miller
From: Bernhard R. Link brl+ccmadn...@pcpool00.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:39:54 +0100 * David Miller da...@davemloft.net [110117 07:07]: Ugh, and I just noticed that include/linux/klist.h does this fixed alignment of 4 too, where is this stuff coming from? It's wrong

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-17 Thread David Miller
From: Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:11:26 -0500 The problem comes when the linker puts these sections together. We read all the sections as one big array. If the linker puts in holes, then this breaks the array, and the kernel crashes while reading the section.

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-17 Thread David Miller
From: David Miller da...@davemloft.net Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:34:48 -0800 (PST) Where are these holes coming from? Reading the commit message for the change that introduced this problem (86c38a31aa7f2dd6e74a262710bf8ebf7455acc5), it seems like the issue is coming from the compiler

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-17 Thread David Miller
From: David Miller da...@davemloft.net Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:00:39 -0800 (PST) ftrace: Remove unnecessary alignment tag from ftrace_event_call. It's completely unnecessary and causes problems on platforms where this tag down-aligns the structure's alignment. Signed-off-by: David S

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-17 Thread David Miller
From: Bernhard R. Link brl+ccmadn...@pcpool00.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:39:54 +0100 I think we want none of this, and I think we should elide the align directives entirely, or at least fix them so we don't get unaligned stuff on 64-bit. One fix might be to move

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-17 Thread David Miller
From: Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:15:41 -0500 Again, this is to help the linker keep arrays in tacked. Tracepoints are allocated into the tracepoint section, and then read like an array. If the linker adds holes as it links sections into one big one, then the

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-17 Thread David Miller
From: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:35:25 -0500 Steven, what were you trying to fix in the first place when you added the aligned(4) to the definition ? It might have just been that the _ftrace_events section needed to be aligned on at least 8 bytes

Bug#609371: R_SPARC_13

2011-01-17 Thread David Miller
From: David Miller da...@davemloft.net Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:37:09 -0800 (PST) So we do end up seeing the R_SPARC_LO10 + R_SPARC_13 sequences in the final module object. Therefore, we really should handle R_SPARC_13 in the sparc module loader. Ok, I now feel like I'm hallucinating

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-16 Thread David Miller
From: Richard Mortimer ri...@oldelvet.org.uk Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:17:49 + I'm wondering if gcc is just getting better at honouring the source code. The DEFINE_EVENT macros in include/trace/ftrace.h have a __aligned__(4) attribute in them. Maybe that should be 8 on sparc64 systems.

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-16 Thread David Miller
From: Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:09:24 +0100 * David Miller da...@davemloft.net [110116 20:39]: From: Richard Mortimer ri...@oldelvet.org.uk Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:17:49 + I'm wondering if gcc is just getting better at honouring the source code

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-16 Thread David Miller
From: David Miller da...@davemloft.net Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 21:17:22 -0800 (PST) [ Please, everyone, retain the full CC: on all replies, thanks. Some people are replying only into the debian bug alias, and that loses information and exposure for fixing this bug. ] I think the problem we

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-15 Thread David Miller
From: Bastian Blank wa...@debian.org Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:00:11 +0100 On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:38:28AM -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Richard Mortimer ri...@oldelvet.org.uk So that means that the kernel is complaining about type 54 which is R_SPARC_UA64. That matches

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-15 Thread David Miller
From: Richard Mortimer ri...@oldelvet.org.uk Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:08:30 + [ Frederic, Steven, Ingo, the short version of the story is that we need to make it such that the _ftrace_events section is aligned properly for 64-bit systems, and in particular that GCC can see this too.

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-14 Thread David Miller
From: Richard Mortimer ri...@oldelvet.org.uk Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:53:35 + On 13/01/2011 23:57, David Miller wrote: Relocation type 36 is R_SPARC_LM22. I'm confused now! Maybe I've missed something but looking at arch/sparc/kernel/module.c it seems that the 36 is hexadecimal

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-13 Thread David Miller
From: Richard Mortimer ri...@oldelvet.org.uk Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:34:01 + On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 00:37 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 00:27 +, Richard Mortimer wrote: On 09/01/2011 03:46, David Miller wrote: From: Ben Hutchingsb...@decadent.org.uk Date

Bug#609371: linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64: module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36

2011-01-08 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 03:00:40 + On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 01:05 +, Richard Mortimer wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.37-1~experimental.1 Severity: normal Boot of linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64 fails to find the disks and drops to the

Bug#599816: Nested GRE locking bug

2010-10-25 Thread David Miller
From: Eric Dumazet eric.duma...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:02:36 +0200 Le mardi 19 octobre 2010 à 01:53 -0700, David Miller a écrit : From: Eric Dumazet eric.duma...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:11:59 +0200 net-next-2.6 contains a fix for this, adding the perc_cpu

Bug#599816: Nested GRE locking bug

2010-10-19 Thread David Miller
From: Eric Dumazet eric.duma...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:11:59 +0200 net-next-2.6 contains a fix for this, adding the perc_cpu xmit_recursion limit. We might push it to net-2.6 We need to think a bit more about this. We are essentially now saying that one can only configure tunnels

Bug#597904: [PATCH] phonet: Restrict to initial namespace

2010-09-24 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:43:33 +0100 The lifetime management for per-namespace state in phonet is broken in 2.6.32. When a network namespace is destroyed it will crash (repeatably): ... This bug is known to be triggered by using Chromium (which

Bug#594845: [PATCH] tun: Don't add sysfs attributes to devices without sysfs directories

2010-09-12 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:46:30 +0100 Prior to Linux 2.6.35, net devices outside the initial net namespace did not have sysfs directories. Attempting to add attributes to them will trigger a BUG(). Reported-and-tested-by: Russell Stuart

Bug#595554: [PATCH net-2.6] 3c59x: Fix deadlock in vortex_error()

2010-09-06 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:27:10 +0100 This is the regression I mentioned before. 3c59x should be good after this. Excellent, applied, thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#592187: [stable] Bug#576838: virtio network crashes again

2010-08-30 Thread David Miller
From: Greg KH g...@kroah.com Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:50:17 -0700 As I stated above, I need the ACK from David to be able to add these patches. David? I believe there were some regressions caused by these changes that were fixed later, a bit after those commites went into the tree. I'm

Bug#594604: linux-image-2.6.32-5-sparc64-smp: Kernel panic - not syncing: Irrecoverable deferred error trap.

2010-08-27 Thread David Miller
From: Josip Rodin j...@debbugs.entuzijast.net Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:31:37 +0200 David, can you please queue this sunxvr500.c post-2.6.32 bugfix to sta...@kernel.org? http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=bdd32ce95f79fb5cc964cd789d7ae4500bba7c6f

Bug#589989: [PATCH net-next-2.6] 3c59x: Fix call to mdio_sync() with the wrong argument

2010-07-23 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:18:28 +0100 commit a095cfc40ec7ebe63e9532383c5b5c2a27b14075 3c59x: Specify window explicitly for access to windowed registers changed the first parameter to mdio_sync(), from a pointer to the register mapping, to a pointer to

Bug#514644: [PATCH 1/2] ipv6: Clamp reported valid_lft to a minimum of 0

2010-06-30 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:37:47 +0100 Since addresses are only revalidated every 2 minutes, the reported valid_lft can underflow shortly before the address is deleted. Clamp it to a minimum of 0, as for prefered_lft. Reported-by: Piotr Lewandowski

Bug#514646: [PATCH 2/2] ipv6: Use interface max_desync_factor instead of static default

2010-06-30 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:42:55 +0100 max_desync_factor can be configured per-interface, but nothing is using the value. Reported-by: Piotr Lewandowski piotr.lewandow...@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Applied to

Bug#572201: forcedeth driver hangs under heavy load

2010-04-13 Thread David Miller
From: Eric Dumazet eric.duma...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:42:21 +0200 Le mardi 13 avril 2010 à 15:27 +0100, stephen mulcahy a écrit : Ok, I've tried both of the following with my reproducer 1. ethtool -K eth0 tso off RESULT: reproducer causes multiple hosts to be come

Bug#572201: forcedeth driver hangs under heavy load

2010-04-13 Thread David Miller
From: Ayaz Abdulla aabdu...@nvidia.com Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:33:15 -0400 Attached fix has been submitted to netdev. Thanks! I apply this soon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#566522: [PATCH] 3c503: Fix IRQ probing

2010-04-07 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:33:29 +0100 The driver attempts to select an IRQ for the NIC automatically by testing which of the supported IRQs are available and then probing each available IRQ with probe_irq_{on,off}(). There are obvious race conditions

Bug#553024: [PATCH 1/2] phylib: Support phy module autoloading

2010-04-01 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 19:05:12 +0100 On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 06:03:48PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 05:34 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] Since you've dealt with (a), and (b) is not really as important, I would just like to

Bug#573531: drbd8-modules-2.6.26-2-amd64: Can not load drbd module

2010-03-15 Thread David Miller
I've also been bitten by this bug - noticed it last Friday and it doesn't seem to be fixed this morning. Is there an ETA on a fix with packages? Thanks, --- David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#572442: sparc 2.6.29+ NMI watchdog deadlock on Sun Fire V240 etc

2010-03-04 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:59:20 + On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 10:19 +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: [...] Fortunately David Miller came to the rescue and personally debugged the problem on one of the buildds, and fixed the problem. His solution, that we

Bug#516785: linux-image-2.6.26-1-sparc64-smp: [sparc] SunFire480R cassini network driver kernel panic

2010-03-01 Thread David Miller
From: Hermann Lauer hermann.la...@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 12:30:05 +0100 What can be done to debug this further ? Nothing really, I just simply have no time to look into it with all the other things on my plate, sorry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#508108: [PATCH] Additional PCI id for sunxvr500 driver

2010-02-26 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:56:21 + Intergraph bought 3D Labs and some XVR-500 chips have Intergraph's vendor id. Reported-by: Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Cc: sta...@kernel.org Applied, thanks

Bug#508527: [PATCH] via-velocity: Give RX descriptors to the NIC later on open or MTU change

2010-01-03 Thread David Miller
From: Jan Ceuleers jan.ceule...@computer.org Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:36:03 +0100 Jan Ceuleers wrote: I have successfully booted a 2.6.32.2 kernel with this patch applied on top on a PXE-booting machine with nfsroot. Obviously this was on a machine with a Via Velocity NIC. Fair enough,

Bug#508527: [PATCH] via-velocity: Give RX descriptors to the NIC later on open or MTU change

2009-12-25 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:05:09 + velocity_open() calls velocity_give_many_rx_descs(), which gives RX descriptors to the NIC, before installing an interrupt handler or calling velocity_init_registers(). I think this is very unsafe and it appears

Bug#558426: [PATCH net-next]atl1e:disable NETIF_F_TSO6 for hardware limit

2009-12-02 Thread David Miller
From: jie.y...@atheros.com Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:18:34 +0800 From: Jie Yang jie.y...@atheros.com For hardware limit to support TSOV6, just disable this feature Signed-off-by: Jie Yang jie.y...@atheros.com Shouldn't we be applying this to net-2.6 since it's a bug fix? -- To

Bug#558426: [PATCH net-next]atl1e:disable NETIF_F_TSO6 for hardware limit

2009-12-02 Thread David Miller
From: Jie Yang jie.y...@atheros.com Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:34:18 +0800 On Wednesday, December 02, 2009 4:32 PM David Miller da...@davemloft.net wrote: From: jie.y...@atheros.com Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:18:34 +0800 From: Jie Yang jie.y...@atheros.com For hardware limit to support

Bug#538372: [PATCH net-2.6] Revert net: Support inclusion of linux/socket.h before sys/socket.h

2009-11-11 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:00:05 + This reverts commit 9c501935a3cdcf6b1d35aaee3aa11c7a7051a305. That commit caused linux/rtnetlink.h to require that sys/socket.h is included first, breaking autoconf tests for linux/rtnetlink.h and presumably some

Bug#538372: [PATCH net-2.6] Revert net: Support inclusion of linux/socket.h before sys/socket.h

2009-11-11 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:05:15 + linux/netlink.h will not compile for userland, because linux/socket.h is no longer defining sa_family_t. For userland, this should be defined by sys/socket.h. Still, you still essentially have two choices: 1)

Bug#538372: [PATCH] net: Support inclusion of linux/socket.h before sys/socket.h

2009-10-05 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:42:44 +0100 From: Bastian Blank wa...@debian.org The following user-space program fails to compile: #include linux/socket.h #include sys/socket.h int main() { return 0; } The reason is that linux/socket.h

Bug#536455: [PATCH 1/2] netdev: restore MAC address set and validate operations

2009-07-12 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:54:35 +0100 alloc_etherdev() used to install default implementations of these operations, but they must now be explicitly installed in struct net_device_ops. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Applied. --

Bug#488669: [FIX]: ultra45 boot failing...

2009-05-24 Thread David Miller
From: Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 15:52:20 +0200 I plan to revert it for lenny r2, and if time permits I'll try to make the xserver-xorg package generate an xorg.conf with Driver set to fbdev instead.. Indeed, that's likely to work much better. -- To

Bug#525958: (no subject)

2009-05-03 Thread David Miller
There is no reason whatsoever to enable the CONFIG_PROM_CONSOLE option in the kernel. By definition it can only cause problems and conflicts with other console drivers. For one example, it unconditionally gets registered as a real console before the Sun Hypervisor console driver has a chance to

Bug#488669: [FIX]: ultra45 boot failing...

2009-03-04 Thread David Miller
From: Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:41:08 +0100 On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 12:49 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 01:21 -0800, David Miller wrote: No, I would have said that if time is tight at least we can use fbdev as the Xorg driver for PCI

Bug#514418: [FIX]: ultra45 boot failing...

2009-02-09 Thread David Miller
From: Josip Rodin j...@debbugs.entuzijast.net Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 09:20:39 +0100 On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 04:58:08PM -0800, David Miller wrote: So you're saying that X working is more important than machines actually booting at all? These priorities are wrong. When N (where N 0) users

Bug#514418: [FIX]: ultra45 boot failing...

2009-02-09 Thread David Miller
From: Josip Rodin j...@debbugs.entuzijast.net Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 09:45:27 +0100 But then, it would have been completely your prerogative to respond to that simply by saying - DTRT and go upgrade X, patching old X is a waste of my time, and I guess nobody wanted to risk hearing that answer?

Bug#514418: [FIX]: ultra45 boot failing...

2009-02-08 Thread David Miller
From: Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 23:05:21 + To give a little bit of background, this patch was supposed to fix http://bugs.debian.org/500358. Bug trail contains all the gory details, but the crux of the problem (as I understand it) is the following: the commit

Bug#494223: Definition of PIM_REGISTER in pim.h, with more information

2008-08-29 Thread David Miller
From: Jose Calhariz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:43:20 +0100 I am sending this email again because I have more information. Thanks for your report. Yoshifuji-san, nothing in linux/pim.h should be exported to userspace. The previous location, linux/mroute.h, EXPLICITLY __KERNEL__

Bug#494223: Definition of PIM_REGISTER in pim.h, with more information

2008-08-29 Thread David Miller
From: David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:56:14 -0700 (PDT) net: Unbreak userspace which includes linux/mroute.h Actually, now that I can see how this linux/pim.h thing is used by both linux/mroute.h and linux/mroute6.h I have decided to fix the problem in a different way

Bug#478062: Fix FRTO+NewReno problem

2008-05-08 Thread David Miller
From: Ilpo_Järvinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 01:26:59 +0300 (EEST) [PATCH] [TCP] FRTO: SACK variant is errorneously used with NewReno I applied this with a minor coding style fixup. From: Ilpo_Järvinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 01:26:59 +0300 (EEST) +static int

Bug#433187: unkillable dpkg-query processes

2007-10-27 Thread David Miller
From: Bernd Zeimetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:03:44 +0100 I think things got worse with 2.6.24... The machine shoots itself now, I guess by running cron jobs or so. [29074.766486] TSTATE: 11009600 TPC: 0042f984 TNPC: 0042f928 Y:

Bug#433187: unkillable dpkg-query processes

2007-10-27 Thread David Miller
From: Bernd Zeimetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:09:47 +0200 titan:~# [ 2427.313946] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 11s! [aptitude:13375] [ 2427.389128] TSTATE: 11009602 TPC: 0042f93c TNPC: 0042f7d0 Y: Not tainted [ 2427.506821] TPC:

Bug#389225: correction

2006-09-25 Thread David Miller
I think the reporter's interpreation of the assembler code is incorrect. If the branch to .LL9 is taken, the load which initializes %g3 is executed. The annulment of the load only occurs if the branch is not taken, and for this snippet of code when the branch is not taken the .LL9 label is

Bug#329387: CVE assignment for syncshadowdb issue

2005-12-27 Thread David Miller
Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote on 12/27/05 8:30 PM: this has been assigned CVE-2005-4534 by MITRE. Please refer to it in the 2.16.11 release notes. Thanks! I'm not getting any traction on trying to push a full release out for this. Seems nobody cares about the 2.16 branch anymore (it's two

Bug#329387: Security advisory posted

2005-12-27 Thread David Miller
Upstream security advisory for this issue has been posted at http://www.bugzilla.org/security/2.16.10-nr/ -- Dave Miller http://www.justdave.net/ System Administrator, Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/ Project Leader, Bugzilla Bug Tracking System

Bug#329387: Bugzilla: Unsafe use of temporary files in the syncshadowdb script

2005-12-26 Thread David Miller
FYI, the reporter was mistaken, the upstream bug was NOT public. He could see it because he reported it. It might as well be now. (I just removed the security flag from it, so it is indeed public now). The patch he supplied (while a good start) was stated to be untested, and we also