* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
md: use interruptible wait when duration is controlled by userspace.
md/raid5: suspend shouldn't affect read requests.
md: tidy up error paths in md_alloc
md: fix error path when duplicate name is found on md device creation.
md: avoid dereferencing NULL pointer when accessing suspend_* sysfs attributes.
md: Use new topology calls to indicate alignment and I/O sizes
One of the kmemleak changes caused the following
scheduling-while-holding-the-tasklist-lock regression on x86:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/kmemleak.c:795
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1737, name: kmemleak
2 locks held by kmemleak/1737:
#0: (scan_mutex){......}, at: [<c10c4376>] kmemleak_scan_thread+0x45/0x86
#1: (tasklist_lock){......}, at: [<c10c3bb4>] kmemleak_scan+0x1a9/0x39c
Pid: 1737, comm: kmemleak Not tainted 2.6.31-rc1-tip #59266
Call Trace:
[<c105ac0f>] ? __debug_show_held_locks+0x1e/0x20
[<c102e490>] __might_sleep+0x10a/0x111
[<c10c38d5>] scan_yield+0x17/0x3b
[<c10c3970>] scan_block+0x39/0xd4
[<c10c3bc6>] kmemleak_scan+0x1bb/0x39c
[<c10c4331>] ? kmemleak_scan_thread+0x0/0x86
[<c10c437b>] kmemleak_scan_thread+0x4a/0x86
[<c104d73e>] kthread+0x6e/0x73
[<c104d6d0>] ? kthread+0x0/0x73
[<c100959f>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
kmemleak: 834 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
The bit causing it is highly dubious:
static void scan_yield(void)
{
might_sleep();
if (time_is_before_eq_jiffies(next_scan_yield)) {
schedule();
next_scan_yield = jiffies + jiffies_scan_yield;
}
}
It called deep inside the codepath and in a conditional way,
and that is what crapped up when one of the new scan_block()
uses grew a tasklist_lock dependency.
This minimal patch removes that yielding stuff and adds the
proper cond_resched().
The background scanning thread could probably also be reniced
to +10.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
User space can set various limits on an md array so that resync waits
when it gets to a certain point, or so that I/O is blocked for a short
while.
When md is waiting against one of these limit, it should use an
interruptible wait so as not to add to the load average, and so are
not to trigger a warning if the wait goes on for too long.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
md allows write to regions on an array to be suspended temporarily.
This allows user-space to participate is aspects of reshape.
In particular, data can be copied with not risk of a race.
We should not be blocking read requests though, so don't.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This reverts commit 73ce7b01b4.
After discovering that we don't listen to gratuitious arps in 2.6.30
I tracked the failure down to this commit.
The patch makes absolutely no sense. RFC2131 RFC3927 and RFC5227.
are all in agreement that an arp request with sip == 0 should be used
for the probe (to prevent learning) and an arp request with sip == tip
should be used for the gratitous announcement that people can learn
from.
It appears the author of the broken patch got those two cases confused
and modified the code to drop all gratuitous arp traffic. Ouch!
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
PCI drivers that implement the io_error_detected callback should return
PCI_ERS_RESULT_DISCONNECT if the state passed in is
pci_channel_io_perm_failure. This patch fixes the issue for igb.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
on permanent failure
PCI drivers that implement the io_error_detected callback
should return PCI_ERS_RESULT_DISCONNECT if the state
passed in is pci_channel_io_perm_failure. This state is not
checked in many of the network drivers.
This patch fixes the omission in the e1000e driver.
Signed-off-by: Mike Mason <mmlnx@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
PCI drivers that implement the io_error_detected callback
should return PCI_ERS_RESULT_DISCONNECT if the state
passed in is pci_channel_io_perm_failure. This state is
not checked in many of the network drivers.
The patch fixes the omission in the e1000 driver.
Based on Mike Mason's similar patch for e1000e.
Signed-off-by: Andre Detsch <adetsch@br.ibm.com>
CC: Mike Mason <mmlnx@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
driver was mixing NET_IP_ALIGN count bytes in map/unmap calls
unevenly. Only map the bytes that the hardware might dma into
also fix unmap related bug where ->dma was not being cleared
after unmap
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch addresses three WARN_ON statements from DMA-API debug code
ixgbe is mapping more than it unmaps, reduce the length of the map call and
remove the "used once" local variable.
found by Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> in 2.6.30, so is a candidate
for -stable.
in addition, fix missing ->dma = 0 after unmap to prevent double free with
pci_unmap_single
and lastly, don't unmap (half) pages that aren't mapped.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
CC: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Adapter link advertisement capabilities were not persistent during
adapter resets. While configuring multispeed fiber link check for
phy autoneg_advertised settings before overwriting with default
link capabilities
Signed-off-by: Mallikarjuna R Chilakala <mallikarjuna.chilakala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
82599 single speed fiber modules only support 10G/Full. Return
proper device capabilities while querrying the adapter and error
while changing device advertisement/speed/duplex capabilities.
Signed-off-by: Mallikarjuna R Chilakala <mallikarjuna.chilakala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We had a wide range of log messages for the same sort of SFP
failure. This patch makes them all more similar and less
confusing along with converting them to dev_err.
Signed-off-by: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Now that nothing uses the private stats structure we can remove it.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Now that netdev has its own stats structure we should use that
instead.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Now that netdev has its own stats structure we should use that
instead.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Now that netdev has its own stats structure we should use that
instead.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Now that netdev has its own stats structure we should use that
instead.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Now that netdev has its own stats structure we should use that
instead.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Now that netdev has its own stats structure we should use that
instead.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
As the recent bug in md_alloc showed, having a single exit path for
unlocking and putting is a good idea. So restructure md_alloc to have
a single mutex_unlock and mddev_put, and use gotos where necessary.
Found-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When an md device is created by name (rather than number) we need to
check that the name is not already in use. If this check finds a
duplicate, we return an error without dropping the lock or freeing
the newly create mddev.
This patch fixes that.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Found-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
* 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
kmemleak: Inform kmemleak about pid_hash
kmemleak: Do not warn if an unknown object is freed
kmemleak: Do not report new leaked objects if the scanning was stopped
kmemleak: Slightly change the policy on newly allocated objects
kmemleak: Do not trigger a scan when reading the debug/kmemleak file
kmemleak: Simplify the reports logged by the scanning thread
kmemleak: Enable task stacks scanning by default
kmemleak: Allow the early log buffer to be configurable.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm:
dm table: fix blk_stack_limits arg to use bytes not sectors
dm exception store: really fix type lookup
* 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (47 commits)
perf report: Add --symbols parameter
perf report: Add --comms parameter
perf report: Add --dsos parameter
perf_counter tools: Adjust only prelinked symbol's addresses
perf_counter: Provide a way to enable counters on exec
perf_counter tools: Reduce perf stat measurement overhead/skew
perf stat: Use percentages for scaling output
perf_counter, x86: Update x86_pmu after WARN()
perf stat: Micro-optimize the code: memcpy is only required if no event is selected and !null_run
perf stat: Improve output
perf stat: Fix multi-run stats
perf stat: Add -n/--null option to run without counters
perf_counter tools: Remove dead code
perf_counter: Complete counter swap
perf report: Print sorted callchains per histogram entries
perf_counter tools: Prepare a small callchain framework
perf record: Fix unhandled io return value
perf_counter tools: Add alias for 'l1d' and 'l1i'
perf-report: Add bare minimum PERF_EVENT_READ parsing
perf-report: Add modes for inherited stats and no-samples
...
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
Add Fenghua Yu as temporary co-maintainer for ia64
[IA64] address compiler warnings perfmon.c/salinfo.c
[IA64] Remove unnecessary semicolons
[IA64] sprintf should not be used with same source & destination address
Wire up new syscalls rt_tgsigqueueinfo and perf_counter_open.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wire up new syscalls rt_tgsigqueueinfo and perf_counter_open.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Maximum file size for hostfs mounts defaults to 2GB, so bigger files cannot be
read/written through hostfs. This patch initializes the maximum file size to
MAX_LFS_SIZE.
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13531
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Illmeyer <wolfgang@illmeyer.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A crappy macro prevents us unlocking on a fail path.
Expand the macro and unlock appropriatelly.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make sure we do not actually request the RTC IRQ until the device driver
is fully ready to handle and process any interrupt. This way a spurious
interrupt won't crash the system (which may happen if the bootloader was
poking the RTC right before booting Linux).
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Block writes require 64 byte alignment. Since block writes could be used
with SGRAM or WRAM also refine the memory type detection to check for
either type before deciding to use the 64 byte alignment.
Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjala <syrjala@sci.fi>
Tested-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Apparently HP OmniBook 500's BIOS doesn't like the way atyfb reprograms
the hardware. The BIOS will simply hang after a reboot. Fix the problem
by restoring the hardware to it's original state on reboot.
Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjala <syrjala@sci.fi>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
IRQ handling is wrong for any GPIO >= PL061_GPIO_NR.
Fix this by implementing and using a proper .to_irq method.
Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Note that IRQ has not been initialized when kmalloc() fails.
Also, use DECLARE_BITMAP() to make the code clearer.
Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Nathan reported that
| commit 73d60b7f74
| Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
| Date: Tue Jun 16 15:33:00 2009 -0700
|
| page-allocator: clear N_HIGH_MEMORY map before we set it again
|
| SRAT tables may contains nodes of very small size. The arch code may
| decide to not activate such a node. However, currently the early boot
| code sets N_HIGH_MEMORY for such nodes. These nodes therefore seem to be
| active although these nodes have no present pages.
|
| For 64bit N_HIGH_MEMORY == N_NORMAL_MEMORY, so that works for 64 bit too
unintentionally and incorrectly clears the cpuset.mems cgroup attribute on
an i386 kvm guest, meaning that cpuset.mems can not be used.
Fix this by only clearing node_states[N_NORMAL_MEMORY] for 64bit only.
and need to do save/restore for that in find_zone_movable_pfn
Reported-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Tested-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
By writing a tasks's pid to the file, a process adds that task to that
cgroup/cpuset. But to add a cpu/mem to a cpuset, the new list of cpus
should be written to the cpuset.mems file which would replace the old list
of cpus. Make this clearer in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
balance_dirty_pages can overreact and move all of the dirty pages to
writeback unnecessarily.
balance_dirty_pages makes its decision to throttle based on the number of
dirty plus writeback pages that are over the calculated limit,so it will
continue to move pages even when there are plenty of pages in writeback
and less than the threshold still dirty.
This allows it to overshoot its limits and move all the dirty pages to
writeback while waiting for the drives to catch up and empty the writeback
list.
A simple fio test easily demonstrates this problem.
fio --name=f1 --directory=/disk1 --size=2G -rw=write --name=f2 --directory=/disk2 --size=1G --rw=write --startdelay=10
This is the simplest fix I could find, but I'm not entirely sure that it
alone will be enough for all cases. But it certainly is an improvement on
my desktop machine writing to 2 disks.
Do we need something more for machines with large arrays where
bdi_threshold * number_of_drives is greater than the dirty_ratio ?
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The file opened in acct_on and freshly stored in the ns->bacct struct can
be closed in acct_file_reopen by a concurrent call after we release
acct_lock and before we call mntput(file->f_path.mnt).
Record file->f_path.mnt in a local variable and use this variable only.
Signed-off-by: Renaud Lottiaux <renaud.lottiaux@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When the 32-bit signed quantities get assigned to the u64 resource_size_t,
they are incorrectly sign-extended.
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13253
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9905
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Reported-by: Leann Ogasawara <leann@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Reported-by: <pablomme@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: <pablomme@googlemail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Bugfix to spi_bitbang infrastructure: make sure to always set transfer
parameters on the first pass through the message's per-transfer loop.
This can matter with drivers that replace the per-word or per-buffer
transfer primitives, on busses with multiple SPI devices.
Previously, this could have started messages using the settings left after
previous messages. The problem was observed when a high speed chip
(m25p80 type flash) was running very slowly because a low speed device
(avr8 microcontroller) had previously used the bus. Similar faults could
have driven the low speed device too fast, or used an unexpected word
size.
Acked-by: Steven A. Falco <sfalco@harris.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a mutex to avoid a circular locking problem between the mm layer
semaphore and fbdev ioctl mutex through the fb_mmap() call.
Also, add mutex to all places where smem_start and smem_len fields change
so the mutex inside the fb_mmap() is actually used. Changing of these
fields before calling the framebuffer_register() are not mutexed.
This is 2.6.31 material. It removes one lockdep (fb_mmap() and
register_framebuffer()) but there is still another one (fb_release() and
register_framebuffer()). It also cleans up handling of the smem_start and
smem_len fields used by mutexed section of the fb_mmap().
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a new spi_master.flags word listing constraints relevant to that
controller. Define the first constraint bit: a half duplex restriction.
Include that constraint in the OMAP1 MicroWire controller driver.
Have the mmc_spi host be the first customer of this flag. Its coding
relies heavily on full duplex transfers, so it must fail when the
underlying controller driver won't perform them.
(The spi_write_then_read routine could use it too: use the
temporarily-withdrawn full-duplex speedup unless this flag is set, in
which case the existing code applies. Similarly, any spi_master
implementing only SPI_3WIRE should set the flag.)
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add two new spi_device.mode bits to accomodate more protocol options, and
pass them through to usermode drivers:
* SPI_NO_CS ... a second 3-wire variant, where the chipselect
line is removed instead of a data line; transfers are still
full duplex.
This obviously has STRONG protocol implications since the
chipselect transitions can't be used to synchronize state
transitions with the SPI master.
* SPI_READY ... defines open drain signal that's pulled low
to pause the clock. This defines a 5-wire variant (normal
4-wire SPI plus READY) and two 4-wire variants (READY plus
each of the 3-wire flavors).
Such hardware flow control can be a big win. There are ADC
converters and flash chips that expose READY signals, but not
many host controllers support it today.
The spi_bitbang code should be changed to use SPI_NO_CS instead of its
current nonportable hack. That's a mode most hardware can easily support
(unlike SPI_READY).
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: "Paulraj, Sandeep" <s-paulraj@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
show_pools() walks the page_list of a pool w/o protection against the list
modifications in alloc/free. Take pool->lock to avoid stomping into
nirvana.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ext2_iget() returns -ESTALE if invoked on a deleted inode, in order to
report errors to NFS properly. However, in ext[234]_lookup(), this
-ESTALE can be propagated to userspace if the filesystem is corrupted such
that a directory entry references a deleted inode. This leads to a
misleading error message - "Stale NFS file handle" - and confusion on the
part of the admin.
The bug can be easily reproduced by creating a new filesystem, making a
link to an unused inode using debugfs, then mounting and attempting to ls
-l said link.
This patch thus changes ext2_lookup to return -EIO if it receives -ESTALE
from ext2_iget(), as ext2 does for other filesystem metadata corruption;
and also invokes the appropriate ext*_error functions when this case is
detected.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With ELF, at generating coredump, some more headers other than used
vmas are added.
When max_map_count == 65536, a core generated by following kinds of
code can be unreadable because the number of ELF's program header is
written in 16bit in Ehdr (please see elf.h) and the number overflows.
==
... = mmap(); (munmap, mprotect, etc...)
if (failed)
abort();
==
This can happen in mmap/munmap/mprotect/etc...which calls split_vma().
I think 65536 is not safe as _default_ and reduce it to 65530 is good
for avoiding unexpected corrupted core.
Anyway, max_map_count can be enlarged by sysctl if a user is brave..
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
