linux-uconsole/drivers/misc
Robin Holt 68d39a688a x86: uv: XPC receive message reuse triggers invalid BUG_ON()
commit 046d6c563b upstream.

This was a difficult bug to trip.  XPC was in the middle of sending an
acknowledgement for a received message.

In xpc_received_payload_uv():
.
        ret = xpc_send_gru_msg(ch->sn.uv.cached_notify_gru_mq_desc, msg,
                               sizeof(struct xpc_notify_mq_msghdr_uv));
        if (ret != xpSuccess)
                XPC_DEACTIVATE_PARTITION(&xpc_partitions[ch->partid], ret);

        msg->hdr.msg_slot_number += ch->remote_nentries;

at the point in xpc_send_gru_msg() where the hardware has dispatched the
acknowledgement, the remote side is able to reuse the message structure
and send a message with a different slot number.  This problem is made
worse by interrupts.

The adjustment of msg_slot_number and the BUG_ON in
xpc_handle_notify_mq_msg_uv() which verifies the msg_slot_number is
consistent are only used for debug purposes.  Since a fix for this that
preserves the debug functionality would either have to infringe upon the
payload or allocate another structure just for debug, I decided to remove
it entirely.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-12-09 13:27:14 -08:00
..
c2port c2port: annotate bitfield for kmemcheck 2009-06-15 15:49:34 +02:00
cb710 cb710: use SG_MITER_TO_SG/SG_MITER_FROM_SG 2009-07-31 12:28:46 +02:00
eeprom at24: Use timeout also for read 2009-11-26 09:22:33 +01:00
hdpuftrs hdpuftrs: fix build 2008-10-30 11:38:46 -07:00
ibmasm headers: remove sched.h from interrupt.h 2009-10-11 11:20:58 -07:00
sgi-gru sgi-gru: decrapfiy options_write() function 2009-11-05 10:48:30 -08:00
sgi-xp x86: uv: XPC receive message reuse triggers invalid BUG_ON() 2010-12-09 13:27:14 -08:00
atmel-ssc.c atmel-ssc: fix misuse of dev_dbg when requested ssc instance is not found 2009-02-05 12:56:48 -08:00
atmel_pwm.c atmel_pwm: set up only one PWM clock when allocating a clock 2008-07-24 10:47:25 -07:00
atmel_tclib.c atmel_tc library 2008-03-04 13:41:23 +01:00
enclosure.c SCSI: enclosure: fix error path - actually return ERR_PTR() on error 2010-08-10 10:20:44 -07:00
ep93xx_pwm.c ARM: 5628/1: ep93xx: Introduce Pulse Width Modulator (PWM) driver 2009-07-30 17:45:43 +01:00
hpilo.c headers: remove sched.h from interrupt.h 2009-10-11 11:20:58 -07:00
hpilo.h hpilo: add interrupt handler 2009-09-15 09:50:48 -07:00
ics932s401.c ics932s401: new clock generator chip driver 2008-11-12 17:17:18 -08:00
ioc4.c ioc4: automatically load sgiioc4 subordinate module 2009-01-06 15:59:13 -08:00
isl29003.c isl29003: fix resume functionality 2009-05-06 16:36:10 -07:00
Kconfig ARM: 5628/1: ep93xx: Introduce Pulse Width Modulator (PWM) driver 2009-07-30 17:45:43 +01:00
kgdbts.c kgdbts: Use HW breakpoints with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA 2008-05-28 12:49:57 -05:00
lkdtm.c kprobes: use do_IRQ() in lkdtm 2009-09-23 07:39:27 -07:00
Makefile ARM: 5628/1: ep93xx: Introduce Pulse Width Modulator (PWM) driver 2009-07-30 17:45:43 +01:00
phantom.c headers: remove sched.h from interrupt.h 2009-10-11 11:20:58 -07:00
tifm_7xx1.c dma-mapping: replace all DMA_32BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(32) 2009-04-07 08:31:11 -07:00
tifm_core.c tifm: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() 2009-01-06 10:44:35 -08:00