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Repair /proc/devices early-termination regression.
2.6.16 broke /proc/devices. An application often gets an
EOF before the end of data is reached, if that application
uses a series of short read(2)s to access the data. I have
used read buffers of varying sizes with varying degrees
of unsuccess (larger sizes get further into the data than
smaller sizes, following a simple pattern). It appears
that the only safe way to get the data is to use a single
read buffer larger than all the data in /proc/devices.
The following example demonstates the problem:
# dd if=/proc/devices bs=1
Character devices:
1 mem
27+0 records in
27+0 records out
This patch is a backport of the fix recently accepted to
Linus's tree:
commit 68eef3b4791572ecb70249c7fb145bb3742dd899
[PATCH] Simplify proc/devices and fix early termination regression
It replaces the complex, state-machine algorithm introduced
in 2.6.16 with a simple algorithm, modeled on the implementation
of /proc/interrupts.
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, simplifications]
Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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A Christoph suggested that the /proc/devices file be converted to use the
seq_file interface. This patch does that.
I've obxerved one or two installation that had sufficiently large sans that
they overran the 4k limit on /proc/devices.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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While fixing an oops in the st driver in a dirty release path, I
encountered an oops in cdev_put for cdevs allocated using cdev_alloc. If
cdev_del is called when the cdev kobject still has an open user, when the
last cdev_put is called, the cdev_put will call kobject_put, which will end
up ultimately releasing the cdev in cdev_dynamic_release. Patch fixes the
oops by preventing cdev_put from accessing freed memory.
Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This up() should be down() instead.
Signed-off-by: Wen-chien Jesse Sung <jesse@cola.voip.idv.tw>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Patch to add check to get_chrdev_list and get_blkdev_list to prevent reads
of /proc/devices from spilling over the provided page if more than 4096
bytes of string data are generated from all the registered character and
block devices in a system
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch makes some needlessly global identifiers static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This reverts a fs/char_dev.c patch that was merged into BK on March 3.
The problem is that it breaks things ... __register_chrdev_region() has
a block of code, commented "temporary" for over two years now, which
fails rudely during PCMCIA initialization or other register_chrdev()
calls, because it doesn't "degrade to linked list". This keeps whole
subsystems from working.
A real fix to that "temporary" code should be possible, using some better
scheme to allocate major numbers, but it's not something I want to spend
time on just now.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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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!
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