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Pablo Neira Ayuso ff491a7334 netlink: change return-value logic of netlink_broadcast()
Currently, netlink_broadcast() reports errors to the caller if no
messages at all were delivered:

1) If, at least, one message has been delivered correctly, returns 0.
2) Otherwise, if no messages at all were delivered due to skb_clone()
   failure, return -ENOBUFS.
3) Otherwise, if there are no listeners, return -ESRCH.

With this patch, the caller knows if the delivery of any of the
messages to the listeners have failed:

1) If it fails to deliver any message (for whatever reason), return
   -ENOBUFS.
2) Otherwise, if all messages were delivered OK, returns 0.
3) Otherwise, if no listeners, return -ESRCH.

In the current ctnetlink code and in Netfilter in general, we can add
reliable logging and connection tracking event delivery by dropping the
packets whose events were not successfully delivered over Netlink. Of
course, this option would be settable via /proc as this approach reduces
performance (in terms of filtered connections per seconds by a stateful
firewall) but providing reliable logging and event delivery (for
conntrackd) in return.

This patch also changes some clients of netlink_broadcast() that
may report ENOBUFS errors via printk. This error handling is not
of any help. Instead, the userspace daemons that are listening to
those netlink messages should resync themselves with the kernel-side
if they hit ENOBUFS.

BTW, netlink_broadcast() clients include those that call
cn_netlink_send(), nlmsg_multicast() and genlmsg_multicast() since they
internally call netlink_broadcast() and return its error value.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-05 23:56:36 -08:00
Michal Januszewski 9350cc90ca uvesafb: don't treat mode info retrieval failures as errors
Some BIOSes return error codes when queried for information about
modes from their own modelist.  uvesafb treats this as an error
case and bails out.

Change this behavior so that broken modes do not prevent the driver
from working.  Only the failure to retrieve information about any
usable video mode is considered to be an error case.

Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:44 -07:00
Krzysztof Helt 012e26096b uvesafb: change mode parameter to mode_option
Make more drivers use the "mode_option" parameter.  This one is quite new
so drop the old "mode" parameter before someone starts using it seriously.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:37 -07:00
Andrew Morton 60c1645dfa drivers/video/uvesafb.c: fix error-path memory leak
Fix bug identified by Daniel Marjamki: `m' is leaked on the error path.

Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10452

Cc: Daniel Marjamki <danielm77@spray.se>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:41 -07:00
Michal Januszewski 5e72b32d86 uvesafb: don't treat valid modes returned byfb_find_mode() as errors
Don't treat valid modes returned by fb_find_mode() (best-fit modes, default
modes or the first valid mode) as errors.

Currently, when fb_find_mode() finds a valid mode belonging to one of the
above-mentioned classes, uvesafb will ignore it and will try to set a 640x480
video mode.  The expected behaviour (introduced by this patch) would be to use
the valid mode returned by fb_find_mode() instead.

Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:38 -07:00
Sergio Luis 79306a340c drivers/video/uvesafb.c: fix section mismatch warning in param_set_scroll()
Fix following warnings:
WARNING: drivers/video/built-in.o(.text+0x7c64a): Section mismatch in reference from the function param_set_scroll() to the variable .devinit.data:ypan
WARNING: drivers/video/built-in.o(.text+0x7c65d): Section mismatch in reference from the function param_set_scroll() to the variable .devinit.data:ypan
WARNING: drivers/video/built-in.o(.text+0x7c679): Section mismatch in reference from the function param_set_scroll() to the variable .devinit.data:ypan
WARNING: drivers/video/built-in.o(.text+0x7c699): Section mismatch in reference from the function param_set_scroll() to the variable .devinit.data:ypan
WARNING: drivers/video/built-in.o(.text+0x7c69f): Section mismatch in reference from the function param_set_scroll() to the variable .devinit.data:ypan
WARNING: drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xa3676): Section mismatch in reference from the function param_set_scroll() to the variable .devinit.data:ypan
WARNING: drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xa3689): Section mismatch in reference from the function param_set_scroll() to the variable .devinit.data:ypan
WARNING: drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xa36a5): Section mismatch in reference from the function param_set_scroll() to the variable .devinit.data:ypan
WARNING: drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xa36c5): Section mismatch in reference from the function param_set_scroll() to the variable .devinit.data:ypan
WARNING: drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xa36cb): Section mismatch in reference from the function param_set_scroll() to the variable .devinit.data:ypan
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4a079a): Section mismatch in reference from the function param_set_scroll() to the variable .devinit.data:ypan
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4a07ad): Section mismatch in reference from the function param_set_scroll() to the variable .devinit.data:ypan
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4a07c9): Section mismatch in reference from the function param_set_scroll() to the variable .devinit.data:ypan
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4a07e9): Section mismatch in reference from the function param_set_scroll() to the variable .devinit.data:ypan
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4a07ef): Section mismatch in reference from the function param_set_scroll() to the variable .devinit.data:ypan

Remove __devinitdata annotation from the variable ypan.

Signed-off-by: Sergio Luis <sergio@larces.uece.br>
Cc: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-23 17:12:15 -08:00
Randy Dunlap 5eb03a4ab2 uvesafb: small cleanups
Some cleanups in uvesafb:
- The custom module_param() get/set functions don't need to be inlined
  since it is referred to via a pointer in a struct.
- don't end a #define with a ';'
- remove one of the single quote marks in "''ypan'"

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:16 -08:00
Randy Dunlap 27b526a090 uvesafb: fix section mismatch warnings
Mark uvesafb_init_mtrr() as __devinit since its caller is __devinit
and since it accesses __devinitdata.

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4df80e): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: (between 'uvesafb_init_mtrr' and 'uvesafb_show_vbe_ver')

Variable 'blank' cannot be __devinitdata since it is referenced in an
fb_ops method that could be called at any time.

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4dfc1e): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:blank (between 'param_set_scroll' and 'vesa_setpalette')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4dfc24): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:blank (between 'param_set_scroll' and 'vesa_setpalette')

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-14 08:52:23 -08:00
Frank Lichtenheld 03ad369ac9 uvesafb: fix warnings about unused variables on non-x86
Variables that are only used in #ifdef CONFIG_X86 should also only be
declared there.

Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Cc: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14 18:45:37 -08:00
Michal Januszewski 8bdb3a2d7d uvesafb: the driver core
uvesafb is an enhanced version of vesafb.  It uses a userspace helper (v86d)
to execute calls to the x86 Video BIOS functions.  The driver is not limited
to any specific arch and whether it works on a given arch or not depends on
that arch being supported by the userspace daemon.  It has been tested on
x86_32 and x86_64.

A single BIOS call is represented by an instance of the uvesafb_ktask
structure.  This structure contains a buffer, a completion struct and a
uvesafb_task substructure, containing the values of the x86 registers, a flags
field and a field indicating the length of the buffer.  Whenever a BIOS call
is made in the driver, uvesafb_exec() builds a message using the uvesafb_task
substructure and the contents of the buffer.  This message is then assigned a
random ack number and sent to the userspace daemon using the connector
interface.

The message's sequence number is used as an index for the uvfb_tasks array,
which provides a mapping from the messages coming from userspace to the
in-kernel uvesafb_ktask structs.

The userspace daemon performs the requested operation and sends a reply in the
form of a uvesafb_task struct and, optionally, a buffer.  The seq and ack
numbers in the reply should be exactly the same as those in the request.

Each message from userspace is processed by uvesafb_cn_callback() and after
passing a few sanity checks leads to the completion of a BIOS call request.

Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:43:13 -07:00