Kernel

[PATCH] SELinux: Make selinux_kernel_create_files_as() shouldn't just always return 0
Make selinux_kernel_create_files_as() return an error when it gets one, rather than unconditionally returning 0. Without this, cachefiles doesn't return an error if the SELinux policy doesn't let it create files with the label of the directory at the base of the cache. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells(a)red... 25 Feb 2010 21:37

readahead: pagecache context based mmap read-around
On 02/23/2010 10:10 PM, Wu Fengguang wrote: Do mmap read-around when there are cached pages in the nearby 256KB (covered by one radix tree node). There is a failure case though: for a sequence of page faults at page index 64*i+1, i=1,2,3,..., this heuristic will keep doing pointless read-arounds. Hop... 25 Feb 2010 21:37

[PATCH resend] s3cmci: s3cmci_card_present: Use no_detect to decide whether there is a card detect pin
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars(a)metafoo.de> --- drivers/mmc/host/s3cmci.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/s3cmci.c b/drivers/mmc/host/s3cmci.c index b9c96cc..2fdf768 100644 --- a/drivers/mmc/host/s3cmci.c +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/s3cmci.c @@ -11... 25 Feb 2010 20:30

staging/pohmelfs: fix write_inode parameter warning
Hi Randy, On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:41:22 -0800 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> wrote: From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> sparse warns that: drivers/staging/pohmelfs/inode.c:1797: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type so fix pohmelfs_write_inode() to have the exp... 25 Feb 2010 20:30

[PATCH] IA64: use asm-generic/scatterlist.h
IA64's scatterlist structure is identical to the generic one. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori(a)lab.ntt.co.jp> --- arch/ia64/include/asm/scatterlist.h | 24 +----------------------- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/ia64/include/asm/scatterlist.h b/arch/ia64/i... 25 Feb 2010 20:30

Crypto Update for 2.6.34
Hi Linus: Here is the crypto update for 2.6.34: * New pcrypt module to spread crypto work across CPUs. * Added RFC4543 GCM support. * Added nomadik RNG driver. * MD5 export/import support. * Random fixes. Please pull from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6.git or ma... 25 Feb 2010 20:30

Staging: Cleanup useless headers
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 08:08:15PM +0100, Alessio Igor Bogani wrote: BKL isn't anymore present into these files thus it is no necessary still include smp_lock.h. --- I need a "Signed-off-by:" in order to be able to apply a patch. Care to resend this with it in it? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe ... 25 Feb 2010 19:23

[tip:x86/mrst] x86, mrst: Add Kconfig dependencies for Moorestown
Commit-ID: 4b2f3f7d0fe97ad312fb572c8f8d88836ae8fb1e Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/4b2f3f7d0fe97ad312fb572c8f8d88836ae8fb1e Author: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan(a)linux.intel.com> AuthorDate: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:02:14 -0800 Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)zytor.com> CommitDate: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:16:26 -080... 25 Feb 2010 19:23

Staging: rar: fix errors/warnings related to coding style
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 06:37:07PM +0100, Norberto Lopes wrote: Signed-off-by: Norberto Lopes <nlopes.ml(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/staging/rar/rar_driver.c | 82 ++++++++++++++++++------------------- Unfortunatly, I've taken a patch in my tree that moves this file and renames it and then cleans up these... 25 Feb 2010 19:23

x86,kgdb: Implement early hardware breakpoint debugging
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 03:22:01PM -0600, Jason Wessel wrote: It is not possible to use the hw_breakpoint.c API prior to mm_init(), but it is possible to use hardware breakpoints with the kernel debugger. Prior to smp_init() it is possible to simply write to the dr registers of the boot cpu directly.... 25 Feb 2010 19:23