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Steven Whitehouse
44aaada9d1 GFS2: Add meta readahead field in directory entries
The intent of this new field in the directory entry is to
allow a subsequent lookup to know how many blocks, which
are contiguous with the inode, contain metadata which relates
to the inode. This will then allow the issuing of a single
read to read these blocks, rather than reading the inode
first, and then issuing a second read for the metadata.

This only works under some fairly strict conditions, since
we do not have back pointers from inodes to directory entries
we must ensure that the blocks referenced in this way will
always belong to the inode.

This rules out being able to use this system for indirect
blocks, as these can change as a result of truncate/rewrite.

So the idea here is to restrict this to xattr blocks only
for the time being. For most inodes, that means only a
single block. Also, when using ACLs and/or SELinux or
other LSMs, these will be added at inode creation time
so that they will be contiguous with the inode on disk and
also will almost always be needed when we read the inode in
for permissions checks.

Once an xattr block for an inode is allocated, it will never
change until the inode is deallocated.

This patch adds the new field, a further patch will add the
readahead in due course.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2014-02-07 11:23:22 +00:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
37e59f876b [media, edac] Change my email address
There are several left overs with my old email address.
Remove their occurrences and add myself at CREDITS, to
allow people to be able to reach me on my new addresses.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
2014-02-07 08:03:07 -02:00
Philipp Zabel
ef70bbe1aa gpio: make gpiod_direction_output take a logical value
The documentation was not clear about whether
gpio_direction_output should take a logical value or the physical
level on the output line, i.e. whether the ACTIVE_LOW status
would be taken into account.

This converts gpiod_direction_output to use the logical level
and adds a new gpiod_direction_output_raw for the raw value.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2014-02-07 09:47:02 +01:00
Eli Cohen
78c0f98cc9 IB/mlx5: Fix binary compatibility with libmlx5
Commit c1be5232d2 ("Fix micro UAR allocator") broke binary compatibility
between libmlx5 and mlx5_ib since it defines a different value to the number
of micro UARs per page, leading to wrong calculation in libmlx5. This patch
defines struct mlx5_ib_alloc_ucontext_req_v2 as an extension to struct
mlx5_ib_alloc_ucontext_req.  The extended size is determined in mlx5_ib_alloc_ucontext()
and in case of old library we use uuarn 0 which works fine -- this is
acheived due to create_user_qp() falling back from high to medium then to
low class where low class will return 0.  For new libraries we use the
more sophisticated allocation algorithm.

Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
2014-02-06 23:00:48 -08:00
Jan Moskyto Matejka
ee262ad827 inet: defines IPPROTO_* needed for module alias generation
Commit cfd280c912 ("net: sync some IP headers with glibc") changed a set of
define's to an enum (with no explanation why) which introduced a bug
in module mip6 where aliases are generated using the IPPROTO_* defines;
mip6 doesn't load if require_module called with the aliases from
xfrm_get_type().

Reverting this change back to define's to fix the aliases.

modinfo mip6 (before this change)
alias:          xfrm-type-10-IPPROTO_DSTOPTS
alias:          xfrm-type-10-IPPROTO_ROUTING

modinfo mip6 (after this change)
alias:          xfrm-type-10-43
alias:          xfrm-type-10-60

Signed-off-by: Jan Moskyto Matejka <mq@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-06 21:18:06 -08:00
Shaohua Li
579f82901f swap: add a simple detector for inappropriate swapin readahead
This is a patch to improve swap readahead algorithm.  It's from Hugh and
I slightly changed it.

Hugh's original changelog:

swapin readahead does a blind readahead, whether or not the swapin is
sequential.  This may be ok on harddisk, because large reads have
relatively small costs, and if the readahead pages are unneeded they can
be reclaimed easily - though, what if their allocation forced reclaim of
useful pages? But on SSD devices large reads are more expensive than
small ones: if the readahead pages are unneeded, reading them in caused
significant overhead.

This patch adds very simplistic random read detection.  Stealing the
PageReadahead technique from Konstantin Khlebnikov's patch, avoiding the
vma/anon_vma sophistications of Shaohua Li's patch, swapin_nr_pages()
simply looks at readahead's current success rate, and narrows or widens
its readahead window accordingly.  There is little science to its
heuristic: it's about as stupid as can be whilst remaining effective.

The table below shows elapsed times (in centiseconds) when running a
single repetitive swapping load across a 1000MB mapping in 900MB ram
with 1GB swap (the harddisk tests had taken painfully too long when I
used mem=500M, but SSD shows similar results for that).

Vanilla is the 3.6-rc7 kernel on which I started; Shaohua denotes his
Sep 3 patch in mmotm and linux-next; HughOld denotes my Oct 1 patch
which Shaohua showed to be defective; HughNew this Nov 14 patch, with
page_cluster as usual at default of 3 (8-page reads); HughPC4 this same
patch with page_cluster 4 (16-page reads); HughPC0 with page_cluster 0
(1-page reads: no readahead).

HDD for swapping to harddisk, SSD for swapping to VertexII SSD.  Seq for
sequential access to the mapping, cycling five times around; Rand for
the same number of random touches.  Anon for a MAP_PRIVATE anon mapping;
Shmem for a MAP_SHARED anon mapping, equivalent to tmpfs.

One weakness of Shaohua's vma/anon_vma approach was that it did not
optimize Shmem: seen below.  Konstantin's approach was perhaps mistuned,
50% slower on Seq: did not compete and is not shown below.

HDD        Vanilla Shaohua HughOld HughNew HughPC4 HughPC0
Seq Anon     73921   76210   75611   76904   78191  121542
Seq Shmem    73601   73176   73855   72947   74543  118322
Rand Anon   895392  831243  871569  845197  846496  841680
Rand Shmem 1058375 1053486  827935  764955  764376  756489

SSD        Vanilla Shaohua HughOld HughNew HughPC4 HughPC0
Seq Anon     24634   24198   24673   25107   21614   70018
Seq Shmem    24959   24932   25052   25703   22030   69678
Rand Anon    43014   26146   28075   25989   26935   25901
Rand Shmem   45349   45215   28249   24268   24138   24332

These tests are, of course, two extremes of a very simple case: under
heavier mixed loads I've not yet observed any consistent improvement or
degradation, and wider testing would be welcome.

Shaohua Li:

Test shows Vanilla is slightly better in sequential workload than Hugh's
patch.  I observed with Hugh's patch sometimes the readahead size is
shrinked too fast (from 8 to 1 immediately) in sequential workload if
there is no hit.  And in such case, continuing doing readahead is good
actually.

I don't prepare a sophisticated algorithm for the sequential workload
because so far we can't guarantee sequential accessed pages are swap out
sequentially.  So I slightly change Hugh's heuristic - don't shrink
readahead size too fast.

Here is my test result (unit second, 3 runs average):
	Vanilla		Hugh		New
Seq	356		370		360
Random	4525		2447		2444

Attached graph is the swapin/swapout throughput I collected with 'vmstat
2'.  The first part is running a random workload (till around 1200 of
the x-axis) and the second part is running a sequential workload.
swapin and swapout throughput are almost identical in steady state in
both workloads.  These are expected behavior.  while in Vanilla, swapin
is much bigger than swapout especially in random workload (because wrong
readahead).

Original patches by: Shaohua Li and Konstantin Khlebnikov.

[fengguang.wu@intel.com: swapin_nr_pages() can be static]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-02-06 13:48:51 -08:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
1f7c164b6f ACPI / hotplug / PCI: Rework acpiphp_check_host_bridge()
Since the only existing caller of acpiphp_check_host_bridge(),
which is acpi_pci_root_scan_dependent(), already has a struct
acpi_device pointer needed to obtain the ACPIPHP context, it
doesn't make sense to execute acpi_bus_get_device() on its
handle in acpiphp_handle_to_bridge() just in order to get that
pointer back.

For this reason, modify acpiphp_check_host_bridge() to take
a struct acpi_device pointer as its argument and rearrange the
code accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Tested-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
2014-02-06 17:31:52 +01:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
1a699476e2 ACPI / hotplug / PCI: Hotplug notifications from acpi_bus_notify()
Since acpi_bus_notify() is executed on all notifications for all
devices anyway, make it execute acpi_device_hotplug() for all
hotplug events instead of installing notify handlers pointing to
the same function for all hotplug devices.

This change reduces both the size and complexity of ACPI-based device
hotplug code.  Moreover, since acpi_device_hotplug() only does
significant things for devices that have either an ACPI scan handler,
or a hotplug context with .eject() defined, and those devices
had notify handlers pointing to acpi_hotplug_notify_cb() installed
before anyway, this modification shouldn't change functionality.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2014-02-06 17:31:52 +01:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
5e6f236c26 ACPI / hotplug / PCI: Simplify acpi_install_hotplug_notify_handler()
Since acpi_hotplug_notify_cb() does not use its data argument any
more, the second argument of acpi_install_hotplug_notify_handler()
can be dropped, so do that and update its callers accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2014-02-06 17:31:51 +01:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
3c2cc7ff9e ACPI / hotplug / PCI: Consolidate ACPIPHP with ACPI core hotplug
The ACPI-based PCI hotplug (ACPIPHP) code currently attaches its
hotplug context objects directly to ACPI namespace nodes representing
hotplug devices.  However, after recent changes causing struct
acpi_device to be created for every namespace node representing a
device (regardless of its status), that is not necessary any more.
Moreover, it's vulnerable to the theoretical issue that the ACPI
handle passed in the context between handle_hotplug_event() and
hotplug_event_work() may become invalid in the meantime (as a
result of a concurrent table unload).

In principle, this issue might be addressed by adding a non-empty
release handler for ACPIPHP hotplug context objects analogous to
acpi_scan_drop_device(), but that would duplicate the code in that
function and in acpi_device_del_work_fn().  For this reason, it's
better to modify ACPIPHP to attach its device hotplug contexts to
struct device objects representing hotplug devices and make it
use acpi_hotplug_notify_cb() as its notify handler.  At the same
time, acpi_device_hotplug() can be modified to dispatch the new
.hp.event() callback pointing to acpiphp_hotplug_event() from ACPI
device objects associated with PCI devices or use the generic
ACPI device hotplug code for device objects with matching scan
handlers.

This allows the existing code duplication between ACPIPHP and the
ACPI core to be reduced too and makes further ACPI-based device
hotplug consolidation possible.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2014-02-06 17:31:37 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
774016b2d4 GFS2: journal data writepages update
GFS2 has carried what is more or less a copy of the
write_cache_pages() for some time. It seems that this
copy has slipped behind the core code over time. This
patch brings it back uptodate, and in addition adds the
tracepoint which would otherwise be missing.

We could go further, and eliminate some or all of the
code duplication here. The issue is that if we do that,
then the function we need to split out from the existing
write_cache_pages(), which will look a lot like
gfs2_jdata_write_pagevec(), would land up putting quite a
lot of extra variables on the stack. I know that has been
a problem in the past in the writeback code path, which
is why I've hesitated to do it here.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2014-02-06 15:47:47 +00:00
James Hogan
00942d1a1b [media] media: rc: add sysfs scancode filtering interface
Add and document a generic sysfs based scancode filtering interface for
making use of IR data matching hardware to filter out uninteresting
scancodes. Two filters exist, one for normal operation and one for
filtering scancodes which are permitted to wake the system from suspend.

The following files are added to /sys/class/rc/rc?/:
 - filter: normal scancode filter value
 - filter_mask: normal scancode filter mask
 - wakeup_filter: wakeup scancode filter value
 - wakeup_filter_mask: wakeup scancode filter mask

A new s_filter() driver callback is added which must arrange for the
specified filter to be applied at the right time. Drivers can convert
the scancode filter into a raw IR data filter, which can be applied
immediately or later (for wake up filters).

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
2014-02-06 09:18:57 -02:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
0165d9325d netfilter: nf_tables: fix racy rule deletion
We may lost race if we flush the rule-set (which happens asynchronously
via call_rcu) and we try to remove the table (that userspace assumes
to be empty).

Fix this by recovering synchronous rule and chain deletion. This was
introduced time ago before we had no batch support, and synchronous
rule deletion performance was not good. Now that we have the batch
support, we can just postpone the purge of old rule in a second step
in the commit phase. All object deletions are synchronous after this
patch.

As a side effect, we save memory as we don't need rcu_head per rule
anymore.

Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Reported-by: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2014-02-06 11:46:06 +01:00
Pawel Moll
781f6d710d gpio: generic: Add label to platform data
When registering more than one platform device, it is
useful to set the gpio chip label in the platform data.

Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2014-02-06 10:33:47 +01:00
Lars-Peter Clausen
a3485d0885 gpio: consumer.h: Move forward declarations outside #ifdef
Make sure that the forward declared structs in gpio/consumer.h are also visible
on the else branch of the CONFIG_GPIOLIB #ifdef.

Fixes the following warnings and their associated errors when CONFIG_GPIOLIB is
not selected:
	include/linux/gpio/consumer.h:67:14: warning: 'struct device' declared inside parameter list
	include/linux/gpio/consumer.h:67:14: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
	[...]

Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2014-02-06 10:22:56 +01:00
Patrick McHardy
05513e9e33 netfilter: nf_tables: add reject module for NFPROTO_INET
Add a reject module for NFPROTO_INET. It does nothing but dispatch
to the AF-specific modules based on the hook family.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2014-02-06 09:44:18 +01:00
Patrick McHardy
cc4723ca31 netfilter: nft_reject: split up reject module into IPv4 and IPv6 specifc parts
Currently the nft_reject module depends on symbols from ipv6. This is
wrong since no generic module should force IPv6 support to be loaded.
Split up the module into AF-specific and a generic part.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2014-02-06 09:44:10 +01:00
Emmanuel Grumbach
63c361f511 mac80211: propagate STBC / LDPC flags to radiotap
This capabilities weren't propagated to the radiotap header.
We don't set here the VHT_KNOWN / MCS_HAVE flag because not
all the low level drivers will know how to properly flag
the frames, hence the low level driver will be in charge
of setting IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_MCS_HAVE_FEC,
IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_MCS_HAVE_STBC and / or
IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_VHT_KNOWN_STBC according to its
capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-06 09:34:58 +01:00
Emmanuel Grumbach
1b8d242adb mac80211: move VHT related RX_FLAG to another variable
ieee80211_rx_status.flags is full. Define a new vht_flag
variable to be able to set more VHT related flags and make
room in flags.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> [ath10k]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-06 09:34:10 +01:00
Emmanuel Grumbach
0059b2b142 mac80211: remove unused radiotap vendor fields in ieee80211_rx_status
The purpose of this housekeeping is to make some room for
VHT flags. The radiotap vendor fields weren't in use.

Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-06 09:33:46 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
1cd731df09 Bug-fixes:
- Revert "xen/grant-table: Avoid m2p_override during mapping" as it broke Xen ARM build.
  - Fix CR4 not being set on AP processors in Xen PVH mode.
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Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip

Pull Xen fixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "Bug-fixes:
   - Revert "xen/grant-table: Avoid m2p_override during mapping" as it
     broke Xen ARM build.
   - Fix CR4 not being set on AP processors in Xen PVH mode"

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  xen/pvh: set CR4 flags for APs
  Revert "xen/grant-table: Avoid m2p_override during mapping"
2014-02-05 16:01:11 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
8352650a5c Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-nvme
Pull NVMe driver update from Matthew Wilcox:
 "Looks like I missed the merge window ...  but these are almost all
  bugfixes anyway (the ones that aren't have been baking for months)"

* git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-nvme:
  NVMe: Namespace use after free on surprise removal
  NVMe: Correct uses of INIT_WORK
  NVMe: Include device and queue numbers in interrupt name
  NVMe: Add a pci_driver shutdown method
  NVMe: Disable admin queue on init failure
  NVMe: Dynamically allocate partition numbers
  NVMe: Async IO queue deletion
  NVMe: Surprise removal handling
  NVMe: Abort timed out commands
  NVMe: Schedule reset for failed controllers
  NVMe: Device resume error handling
  NVMe: Cache dev->pci_dev in a local pointer
  NVMe: Fix lockdep warnings
  NVMe: compat SG_IO ioctl
  NVMe: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED
  NVMe: Avoid shift operation when writing cq head doorbell
2014-02-05 15:53:26 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
64d46806b6 netfilter: nf_tables: add AF specific expression support
For the reject module, we need to add AF-specific implementations to
get rid of incorrect module dependencies. Try to load an AF-specific
module first and fall back to generic modules.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
2014-02-06 00:05:36 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
c4ad8f98be execve: use 'struct filename *' for executable name passing
This changes 'do_execve()' to get the executable name as a 'struct
filename', and to free it when it is done.  This is what the normal
users want, and it simplifies and streamlines their error handling.

The controlled lifetime of the executable name also fixes a
use-after-free problem with the trace_sched_process_exec tracepoint: the
lifetime of the passed-in string for kernel users was not at all
obvious, and the user-mode helper code used UMH_WAIT_EXEC to serialize
the pathname allocation lifetime with the execve() having finished,
which in turn meant that the trace point that happened after
mm_release() of the old process VM ended up using already free'd memory.

To solve the kernel string lifetime issue, this simply introduces
"getname_kernel()" that works like the normal user-space getname()
function, except with the source coming from kernel memory.

As Oleg points out, this also means that we could drop the tcomm[] array
from 'struct linux_binprm', since the pathname lifetime now covers
setup_new_exec().  That would be a separate cleanup.

Reported-by: Igor Zhbanov <i.zhbanov@samsung.com>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-02-05 12:54:53 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
e53376bef2 netfilter: nf_conntrack: don't release a conntrack with non-zero refcnt
With this patch, the conntrack refcount is initially set to zero and
it is bumped once it is added to any of the list, so we fulfill
Eric's golden rule which is that all released objects always have a
refcount that equals zero.

Andrey Vagin reports that nf_conntrack_free can't be called for a
conntrack with non-zero ref-counter, because it can race with
nf_conntrack_find_get().

A conntrack slab is created with SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU. Non-zero
ref-counter says that this conntrack is used. So when we release
a conntrack with non-zero counter, we break this assumption.

CPU1                                    CPU2
____nf_conntrack_find()
                                        nf_ct_put()
                                         destroy_conntrack()
                                        ...
                                        init_conntrack
                                         __nf_conntrack_alloc (set use = 1)
atomic_inc_not_zero(&ct->use) (use = 2)
                                         if (!l4proto->new(ct, skb, dataoff, timeouts))
                                          nf_conntrack_free(ct); (use = 2 !!!)
                                        ...
                                        __nf_conntrack_alloc (set use = 1)
 if (!nf_ct_key_equal(h, tuple, zone))
  nf_ct_put(ct); (use = 0)
   destroy_conntrack()
                                        /* continue to work with CT */

After applying the path "[PATCH] netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix RCU
race in nf_conntrack_find_get" another bug was triggered in
destroy_conntrack():

<4>[67096.759334] ------------[ cut here ]------------
<2>[67096.759353] kernel BUG at net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:211!
...
<4>[67096.759837] Pid: 498649, comm: atdd veid: 666 Tainted: G         C ---------------    2.6.32-042stab084.18 #1 042stab084_18 /DQ45CB
<4>[67096.759932] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa03d99ac>]  [<ffffffffa03d99ac>] destroy_conntrack+0x15c/0x190 [nf_conntrack]
<4>[67096.760255] Call Trace:
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffff814844a7>] nf_conntrack_destroy+0x17/0x30
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffffa03d9bb5>] nf_conntrack_find_get+0x85/0x130 [nf_conntrack]
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffffa03d9fb2>] nf_conntrack_in+0x352/0xb60 [nf_conntrack]
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffffa048c771>] ipv4_conntrack_local+0x51/0x60 [nf_conntrack_ipv4]
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffff81484419>] nf_iterate+0x69/0xb0
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffff814b5b00>] ? dst_output+0x0/0x20
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffff814845d4>] nf_hook_slow+0x74/0x110
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffff814b5b00>] ? dst_output+0x0/0x20
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffff814b66d5>] raw_sendmsg+0x775/0x910
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffff8104c5a8>] ? flush_tlb_others_ipi+0x128/0x130
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffff8100bc4e>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0xe/0x20
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffff8100bc4e>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0xe/0x20
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffff814c136a>] inet_sendmsg+0x4a/0xb0
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffff81444e93>] ? sock_sendmsg+0x13/0x140
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffff81444f97>] sock_sendmsg+0x117/0x140
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffff8102e299>] ? native_smp_send_reschedule+0x49/0x60
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffff81519beb>] ? _spin_unlock_bh+0x1b/0x20
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffff8109d930>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffff814960f0>] ? do_ip_setsockopt+0x90/0xd80
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffff8100bc4e>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0xe/0x20
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffff8100bc4e>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0xe/0x20
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffff814457c9>] sys_sendto+0x139/0x190
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffff810efa77>] ? audit_syscall_entry+0x1d7/0x200
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffff810ef7c5>] ? __audit_syscall_exit+0x265/0x290
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffff81474daf>] compat_sys_socketcall+0x13f/0x210
<4>[67096.760255]  [<ffffffff8104dea3>] ia32_sysret+0x0/0x5

I have reused the original title for the RFC patch that Andrey posted and
most of the original patch description.

Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@parallels.com>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Reported-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@parallels.com>
2014-02-05 17:46:06 +01:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
e525506fcb ACPI / hotplug / PCI: Define hotplug context lock in the core
Subsequent changes will require the ACPI core to acquire the lock
protecting the ACPIPHP hotplug contexts, so move the definition of
the lock to the core and change its name to be more generic.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Tested-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
2014-02-05 17:41:26 +01:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
78ea4639a7 ACPI / hotplug: Fix potential race in acpi_bus_notify()
There is a slight possibility for the ACPI device object pointed to
by adev in acpi_hotplug_notify_cb() to become invalid between the
acpi_bus_get_device() that it comes from and the subsequent dereference
of that pointer under get_device().  Namely, if acpi_scan_drop_device()
runs in parallel with acpi_hotplug_notify_cb(), acpi_device_del_work_fn()
queued up by it may delete the device object in question right after
a successful execution of acpi_bus_get_device() in acpi_bus_notify().

An analogous problem is present in acpi_bus_notify() where the device
pointer coming from acpi_bus_get_device() may become invalid before
it subsequent dereference in the "if" block.

To prevent that from happening, introduce a new function,
acpi_bus_get_acpi_device(), working analogously to acpi_bus_get_device()
except that it will grab a reference to the ACPI device object returned
by it and it will do that under the ACPICA's namespace mutex.  Then,
make both acpi_hotplug_notify_cb() and acpi_bus_notify() use
acpi_bus_get_acpi_device() instead of acpi_bus_get_device() so as to
ensure that the pointers used by them will not become stale at one
point.

In addition to that, introduce acpi_bus_put_acpi_device() as a wrapper
around put_device() to be used along with acpi_bus_get_acpi_device()
and make the (new) users of the latter use acpi_bus_put_acpi_device()
too.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Tested-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
2014-02-05 17:41:18 +01:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
7c2e17714e ACPICA: Introduce acpi_get_data_full() and rework acpi_get_data()
Introduce a new function, acpi_get_data_full(), working in analogy
with acpi_get_data() except that it can execute a callback provided
as its 4th argument right after acpi_ns_get_attached_data() has
returned a success.

That will allow Linux to reference count the object pointed to by
*data before the namespace mutex is released so as to ensure that it
will not be freed going forward until the reference to it acquired
by acpi_get_data_full() is dropped.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Tested-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
2014-02-05 17:41:16 +01:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
1db73ae39a of/device: Nullify match table in of_match_device() for CONFIG_OF=n
If the of_device_id table inside a device driver is protected by #ifdef
CONFIG_OF, the driver still has to provide a dummy declaration of the
table, or wrap it inside of_match_ptr(), when calling of_match_device()
in the CONFIG_OF=n case, else the driver fails to compile with e.g.

drivers/spi/spi-rspi.c: In function 'rspi_probe':
drivers/spi/spi-rspi.c:1203:26: error: 'rspi_of_match' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/spi/spi-rspi.c:1203:26: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in

Make of_match_device() nullify the table pointer if CONFIG_OF=n to fix
this.

Reported-by: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
2014-02-05 10:04:37 -06:00
Rob Herring
662372e42e of: restructure for_each macros to fix compile warnings
Commit 00b2c76a6a "include/linux/of.h: make for_each_child_of_node()
reference its args when CONFIG_OF=n" fixed warnings for unused
variables, but introduced variable "used uninitialized" warnings.
Simply initializing the variables would result in "set but not used"
warnings with W=1.

Fix both types of warnings by making all the for_each macros
unconditional and rely on the dummy static inline functions to
initialize and reference any variables.

Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
2014-02-05 09:51:54 -06:00
Sricharan R
96ca848ef7 DRIVERS: IRQCHIP: CROSSBAR: Add support for Crossbar IP
Some socs have a large number of interrupts requests to service
the needs of its many peripherals and subsystems. All of the
interrupt lines from the subsystems are not needed at the same
time, so they have to be muxed to the irq-controller appropriately.
In such places a interrupt controllers are preceded by an CROSSBAR
that provides flexibility in muxing the device requests to the controller
inputs.

This driver takes care a allocating a free irq and then configuring the
crossbar IP as a part of the mpu's irqchip callbacks. crossbar_init should
be called right before the irqchip_init, so that it is setup to handle the
irqchip callbacks.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@ti.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Signed-off-by: Sricharan R <r.sricharan@ti.com>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org> (for DT binding portion)
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-05 20:08:34 +05:30
Sricharan R
006e983bbc DRIVERS: IRQCHIP: IRQ-GIC: Add support for routable irqs
In some socs the gic can be preceded by a crossbar IP which
routes the peripheral interrupts to the gic inputs. The peripheral
interrupts are associated with a fixed crossbar input line and the
crossbar routes that to one of the free gic input line.

The DT entries for peripherals provides the fixed crossbar input line
as its interrupt number and the mapping code should associate this with
a free gic input line. This patch adds the support inside the gic irqchip
to handle such routable irqs. The routable irqs are registered in a linear
domain. The registered routable domain's callback should be implemented
to get a free irq and to configure the IP to route it.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@ti.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Signed-off-by: Sricharan R <r.sricharan@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2014-02-05 20:08:00 +05:30
Johannes Berg
8c78e38025 wireless: sort and extend element ID list
The element ID list is currently almost sorted by amendment
or similar topic, but the order is difficult to maintain and
not very transparent. Sort the list by ID instead, and add
a lot of missing IDs.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-05 14:03:23 +01:00
Janusz Dziedzic
9752482083 cfg80211: regulatory introduce maximum bandwidth calculation
In case we will get regulatory request with rule
where max_bandwidth_khz is set to 0 handle this
case as a special one.

If max_bandwidth_khz == 0 we should calculate maximum
available bandwidth base on all frequency contiguous rules.
In case we need auto calculation we just have to set:

country PL: DFS-ETSI
        (2402 - 2482 @ 40), (N/A, 20)
        (5170 - 5250 @ AUTO), (N/A, 20)
        (5250 - 5330 @ AUTO), (N/A, 20), DFS
        (5490 - 5710 @ 80), (N/A, 27), DFS

This mean we will calculate maximum bw for rules where
AUTO (N/A) were set, 160MHz (5330 - 5170) in example above.
So we will get:
        (5170 - 5250 @ 160), (N/A, 20)
        (5250 - 5330 @ 160), (N/A, 20), DFS

In other case:
country FR: DFS-ETSI
        (2402 - 2482 @ 40), (N/A, 20)
        (5170 - 5250 @ AUTO), (N/A, 20)
        (5250 - 5330 @ 80), (N/A, 20), DFS
        (5490 - 5710 @ 80), (N/A, 27), DFS

We will get 80MHz (5250 - 5170):
        (5170 - 5250 @ 80), (N/A, 20)
        (5250 - 5330 @ 80), (N/A, 20), DFS

Base on this calculations we will set correct channel
bandwidth flags (eg. IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_80MHZ).

We don't need any changes in CRDA or internal regulatory.

Signed-off-by: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@tieto.com>
[extend nl80211 description a bit, fix typo]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-05 14:03:19 +01:00
Andreas Herrmann
b66548e2a9 of: Increase MAX_PHANDLE_ARGS
arm-smmu driver uses of_parse_phandle_with_args when parsing DT
information to determine stream IDs for a master device.
Thus the number of stream IDs per master device is bound by
MAX_PHANDLE_ARGS.

To support Calxeda ECX-2000 hardware arm-smmu driver requires a
slightly higher value for MAX_PHANDLE_ARGS as this hardware has 10
stream IDs for one master device.

Increasing it to 16 seems a reasonable choice.

Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <herrmann.der.user@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann@calxeda.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
2014-02-05 12:07:31 +00:00
Al Stone
af1ae78abb ACPI: introduce CONFIG_ACPI_REDUCED_HARDWARE_ONLY
ACPI hardware reduced mode exists to allow newer platforms to use a
simpler form of ACPI that does not require supporting legacy versions
of the specification and their associated hardware.  This mode was
introduced in the ACPI 5.0 specification.

The ACPI hardware reduced mode is supposed to be used on systems
having the HW_REDUCED_ACPI flag set in the FADT.  ACPICA checks
that flag to determine whether or not it should work in the HW
reduced mode and there are pieces of code in it that will never
be used in that case.

Since some architecutres will always use the ACPI HW reduced mode,
it doesn't make sense for them to ever compile support for anything
else.  Thus, they should set the flag ACPI_REDUCED_HARDWARE to TRUE
in the ACPICA source.  To enable them to do that, introduce a new
kernel configuration option, CONFIG_ACPI_REDUCED_HARDWARE_ONLY, that
will cause the ACPICA's ACPI_REDUCED_HARDWARE flag to be TRUE when
set.

Introducing this configuration item is based on suggestions from Lv
Zheng saying that this does not belong in ACPICA, but rather to the
Linux kernel itself.

References: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-acpi/msg46369.html
Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Stone <al.stone@linaro.org>
[rjw: Subject and changelog]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2014-02-05 12:28:07 +01:00
Andrew Lunn
788a4d56ff drivers: phy: Add support for optional phys
Add devm_phy_optional_get and phy_optional_get, which should be used
when the phy is optional. They does not return an error when the phy
does not exist, rather they returns NULL, which is considered as a valid
phy, but results in NOPs when used with the consumer API.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Tested-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
2014-02-05 05:48:43 +00:00
Max Filippov
a13aff0641 net: ethoc: set up MII management bus clock
MII management bus clock is derived from the MAC clock by dividing it by
MIIMODER register CLKDIV field value. This value may need to be set up
in case it is undefined or its default value is too high (and
communication with PHY is too slow) or too low (and communication with
PHY is impossible). The value of CLKDIV is not specified directly, but
is derived from the MAC clock for the default MII management bus frequency
of 2.5MHz. The MAC clock may be specified in the platform data, or in
the 'clocks' device tree attribute.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-04 20:19:51 -08:00
Michal Kazior
9e0e29615a cfg80211: consider existing DFS interfaces
It was possible to break interface combinations in
the following way:

 combo 1: iftype = AP, num_ifaces = 2, num_chans = 2,
 combo 2: iftype = AP, num_ifaces = 1, num_chans = 1, radar = HT20

With the above interface combinations it was
possible to:

 step 1. start AP on DFS channel by matching combo 2
 step 2. start AP on non-DFS channel by matching combo 1

This was possible beacuse (step 2) did not consider
if other interfaces require radar detection.

The patch changes how cfg80211 tracks channels -
instead of channel itself now a complete chandef
is stored.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-04 21:58:17 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
fe94f3a4ff cfg80211: fix channel configuration in IBSS join
When receiving an IBSS_JOINED event select the BSS object
based on the {bssid, channel} couple rather than the bssid
only.
With the current approach if another cell having the same
BSSID (but using a different channel) exists then cfg80211
picks up the wrong BSS object.
The result is a mismatching channel configuration between
cfg80211 and the driver, that can lead to any sort of
problem.

The issue can be triggered by having an IBSS sitting on
given channel and then asking the driver to create a new
cell using the same BSSID but with a different frequency.
By passing the channel to cfg80211_get_bss() we can solve
this ambiguity and retrieve/create the correct BSS object.
All the users of cfg80211_ibss_joined() have been changed
accordingly.

Moreover WARN when cfg80211_ibss_joined() gets a NULL
channel as argument and remove a bogus call of the same
function in ath6kl (it does not make sense to call
cfg80211_ibss_joined() with a zero BSSID on ibss-leave).

Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Cc: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@iki.fi>
Cc: libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org
Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
[minor code cleanup in ath6kl]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-04 21:58:16 +01:00
Johannes Berg
b4ba544c8c mac80211: fix bufferable MMPDU RX handling
Action, disassoc and deauth frames are bufferable, and as such don't
have the PM bit in the frame control field reserved which means we
need to react to the bit when receiving in such a frame.

Fix this by introducing a new helper ieee80211_is_bufferable_mmpdu()
and using it for the RX path that currently ignores the PM bit in
any non-data frames for doze->wake transitions, but listens to it in
all frames for wake->doze transitions, both of which are wrong.

Also use the new helper in the TX path to clean up the code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-04 21:58:15 +01:00
Johannes Berg
ea73cbce4e nl80211: fix scheduled scan RSSI matchset attribute confusion
The scheduled scan matchsets were intended to be a list of filters,
with the found BSS having to pass at least one of them to be passed
to the host. When the RSSI attribute was added, however, this was
broken and currently wpa_supplicant adds that attribute in its own
matchset; however, it doesn't intend that to mean that anything
that passes the RSSI filter should be passed to the host, instead
it wants it to mean that everything needs to also have higher RSSI.

This is semantically problematic because we have a list of filters
like [ SSID1, SSID2, SSID3, RSSI ] with no real indication which
one should be OR'ed and which one AND'ed.

To fix this, move the RSSI filter attribute into each matchset. As
we need to stay backward compatible, treat a matchset with only the
RSSI attribute as a "default RSSI filter" for all other matchsets,
but only if there are other matchsets (an RSSI-only matchset by
itself is still desirable.)

To make driver implementation easier, keep a global min_rssi_thold
for the entire request as well. The only affected driver is ath6kl.

I found this when I looked into the code after Raja Mani submitted
a patch fixing the n_match_sets calculation to disregard the RSSI,
but that patch didn't address the semantic issue.

Reported-by: Raja Mani <rmani@qti.qualcomm.com>
Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-04 21:58:12 +01:00
Johannes Berg
d8ca16db6b mac80211: add length check in ieee80211_is_robust_mgmt_frame()
A few places weren't checking that the frame passed to the
function actually has enough data even though the function
clearly documents it must have a payload byte. Make this
safer by changing the function to take an skb and checking
the length inside. The old version is preserved for now as
the rtl* drivers use it and don't have a correct skb.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-04 21:58:07 +01:00
Johannes Berg
cc01f9b55f mac80211: remove module handling from rate control ops
There's not a single rate control algorithm actually in
a separate module where the module refcount would be
required. Similarly, there's no specific rate control
module.

Therefore, all the module handling code in rate control
is really just dead code, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-04 21:48:26 +01:00
Johannes Berg
631ad703ba mac80211: make rate control ops const
Change the code to allow making all the rate control ops
const, nothing ever needs to change them. Also change all
drivers to make use of this and mark the ops const.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-04 21:48:21 +01:00
Janusz Dziedzic
0b9323f600 nl80211: add Guard Interval support for set_bitrate_mask
Allow to force SGI, LGI.
Mainly for test purpose.

Signed-off-by: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-04 21:48:11 +01:00
Johannes Berg
4b5800fec6 cfg80211: make connect ie param const
This required liberally sprinkling 'const' over brcmfmac
and mwifiex but seems like a useful thing to do since the
pointer can't really be written.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-04 21:48:10 +01:00
Jouni Malinen
664834dee6 cfg80211: Clean up connect params and channel fetching
Addition of the frequency hints showed up couple of places in cfg80211
where pointers could be marked const and a shared function could be used
to fetch a valid channel.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
[fix mwifiex]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-04 21:48:09 +01:00
Jouni Malinen
b43504cf75 cfg80211: Advertise maximum associated STAs in AP mode
This allows drivers to advertise the maximum number of associated
stations they support in AP mode (including P2P GO). User space
applications can use this for cleaner way of handling the limit (e.g.,
hostapd rejecting IEEE 802.11 authentication without manual
configuration of the limit) or to figure out what type of use cases can
be executed with multiple devices before trying and failing.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-04 21:48:08 +01:00
Jouni Malinen
1df4a51082 cfg80211: Allow BSS hint to be provided for connect
This clarifies the expected driver behavior on the older
NL80211_ATTR_MAC and NL80211_ATTR_WIPHY_FREQ attributes and adds a new
set of similar attributes with _HINT postfix to enable use of a
recommendation of the initial BSS to choose. This can be helpful for
some drivers that can avoid an additional full scan on connection
request if the information is provided to them (user space tools like
wpa_supplicant already has that information available based on earlier
scans).

In addition, this can be used to get more expected behavior for cases
where a specific BSS should be picked first based on operations like
Interworking network selection or WPS. These cases were already easily
addressed with drivers that leave BSS selection to user space, but there
was no convenient way to do this with drivers that take care of BSS
selection internally without using the NL80211_ATTR_MAC which is not
really desired since it is needed for other purposes to force the
association to remain with the same BSS.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
[add const, fix policy]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2014-02-04 21:48:07 +01:00