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    • Eric W. Biederman's avatar
      [PATCH] net: Ignore sysfs network device rename bugs. · 92749821
      Eric W. Biederman authored
      
      
      The generic networking code ensures that no two networking devices
      have the same name, so  there is no time except when sysfs has
      implementation bugs that device_rename when called from
      dev_change_name will fail.
      
      The current error handling for errors from device_rename in
      dev_change_name is wrong and results in an unusable and unrecoverable
      network device if device_rename is happens to return an error.
      
      This patch removes the buggy error handling.  Which confines the mess
      when device_rename hits a problem to sysfs, instead of propagating it
      the rest of the network stack.  Making linux a little more robust.
      
      Without this patch you can observe what happens when sysfs has a bug
      when CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set and you attempt to rename
      a real network device to a name like (broken_parity_status, device,
      modalias, power, resource2, subsystem_vendor, class,  driver, irq,
      msi_bus, resource, subsystem, uevent, config, enable, local_cpus,
      numa_node, resource0, subsystem_device, vendor)
      
      Greg has a patch that fixes the sysfs bugs but he doesn't trust it
      for a 2.6.21 timeframe.  This patch which just ignores errors should
      be safe and it keeps the system from going completely wacky.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      92749821
    • David Howells's avatar
      [PATCH] SLAB: Mention slab name when listing corrupt objects · e94a40c5
      David Howells authored
      
      
      Mention the slab name when listing corrupt objects.  Although the function
      that released the memory is mentioned, that is frequently ambiguous as such
      functions often release several pieces of memory.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e94a40c5
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev · bb4899db
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
        libata: Limit ATAPI DMA to R/W commands only for TORiSAN DVD drives (take 3)
        libata: Limit max sector to 128 for TORiSAN DVD drives (take 3)
        libata: Clear tf before doing request sense (take 3)
        libata: reorder HSM_ST_FIRST for easier decoding (take 3)
        libata bugfix: preserve LBA bit for HDIO_DRIVE_TASK
        2.6.21 fix lba48 bug in libata fill_result_tf()
      bb4899db
    • Robert Hancock's avatar
      [PATCH] libata: add NCQ blacklist entries from Silicon Image Windows driver (v2) · 36e337d0
      Robert Hancock authored
      This adds some NCQ blacklist entries taken from the Silicon Image 3124/3132
      Windows driver .inf files. There are some confirming reports of problems
      with these drives under Linux (for example http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/4/178
      
      )
      so let's disable NCQ on these drives.
      
       [ I'm personally starting to wonder whether we shouldn't disable NCQ by
         default, and perhaps have a white-list. There seems to be a *lot* of
         drives that do this wrong..   - Linus ]
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
      Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      36e337d0