Kernel

[PATCH 08/33] lmb: Add lmb_to_bootmem()
lmb_to_bootmem() will reserve lmb.reserved.region in bootmem after bootmem is set up. We can use it to with all arches that support lmb later. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai(a)kernel.org> --- include/linux/lmb.h | 2 ++ mm/lmb.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 34 in... 30 Mar 2010 22:57

[PATCH 03/33] lmb: Seperate region array from lmb_region struct
lmb_init() will connect them back. Add nr_regions in struct lmb_region to track region array size. So later We can install dynamically allocated region array to that pointer Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai(a)kernel.org> --- include/linux/lmb.h | 3 ++- mm/lmb.c | 9 ++++++++- 2 files chang... 30 Mar 2010 22:57

arch/powerpc/kernel: Add missing unlock
Hi Julia, On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:33:34 +0200 (CEST) Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> wrote: From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> Add an unlock before exiting the function. Thanks for this. Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr(a)canb.auug.org.au> -- Cheers, ... 30 Mar 2010 22:57

[11/45] ax25: Fix possible oops in ax25_make_new
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2(a)gmail.com> commit 8c185ab6185bf5e67766edb000ce428269364c86 upstream. In ax25_make_new, if kmemdup of digipeat returns an error, there would be an oops in sk_free while calling sk... 30 Mar 2010 21:50

[04/45] futex: Handle futex value corruption gracefully
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx(a)linutronix.de> commit 59647b6ac3050dd964bc556fe6ef22f4db5b935c upstream. The WARN_ON in lookup_pi_state which complains about a mismatch between pi_state->owner->pid and the pid whi... 30 Mar 2010 21:50

[14/45] tcp: fix CONFIG_TCP_MD5SIG + CONFIG_PREEMPT timer BUG()
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Robert Varga <nite(a)hq.alert.sk> commit 657e9649e745b06675aa5063c84430986cdc3afa upstream. I have recently came across a preemption imbalance detected by: <4>huh, entered ffffffff80644630 with preempt_c... 30 Mar 2010 21:50

[08/45] hwmon: (lm78) Fix I/O resource conflict with PNP
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Jean Delvare <khali(a)linux-fr.org> This fix is the combination of the following two upstream patches: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=197027e6ef830d60e10f76efc... 30 Mar 2010 21:50

[15/45] x86: fix csum_ipv6_magic asm memory clobber
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault(a)ens-lyon.org> commit 392d814daf460a9564d29b2cebc51e1ea34e0504 upstream. Just like ip_fast_csum, the assembly snippet in csum_ipv6_magic needs a memory clobber, as it is o... 30 Mar 2010 21:50

[02/45] Fix potential crash with sys_move_pages
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds(a)linux-foundation.org> commit 6f5a55f1a6c5abee15a0e878e5c74d9f1569b8b0 upstream. We incorrectly depended on the 'node_state/node_isset()' functions testing the node range, rather ... 30 Mar 2010 21:50

[12/45] net: unix: fix sending fds in multiple buffers
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi(a)suse.cz> commit 8ba69ba6a324b13e1190fc31e41954d190fd4f1d upstream. Kalle Olavi Niemitalo reported that: "..., when one process calls sendmsg once to send 43804 bytes of da... 30 Mar 2010 21:50