Lets improve the comment to add a note on when to use memzero_explicit()
for those not digging through the git logs. We don't want people to
pollute places with memzero_explicit() where it's not really necessary.
Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/4/190
Suggested-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
removal. This is possible by using a simple atomic_t for the counter,
rather than our fancy per-cpu counter: it turns out that no one is doing
a module increment per net packet, so the slowdown should be in the noise.
Also, script fixed for new git version.
Cheers,
Rusty.
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Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux
Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
"The exciting thing here is the getting rid of stop_machine on module
removal. This is possible by using a simple atomic_t for the counter,
rather than our fancy per-cpu counter: it turns out that no one is
doing a module increment per net packet, so the slowdown should be in
the noise"
* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
param: do not set store func without write perm
params: cleanup sysfs allocation
kernel:module Fix coding style errors and warnings.
module: Remove stop_machine from module unloading
module: Replace module_ref with atomic_t refcnt
lib/bug: Use RCU list ops for module_bug_list
module: Unlink module with RCU synchronizing instead of stop_machine
module: Wait for RCU synchronizing before releasing a module
Add cma reserved information which is currently shown as a part of total
reserved only. This patch is continuation of our previous cma patches
related to this.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/20/64https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/22/383
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove hopefully-unneeded ifdefs]
Signed-off-by: Vishnu Pratap Singh <vishnu.ps@samsung.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: Pintu Kumar <pintu.k@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Here's the big char/misc driver update for 3.19-rc1
Lots of little things all over the place in different drivers, and a new
subsystem, "coresight" has been added. Full details are in the
shortlog.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'char-misc-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here's the big char/misc driver update for 3.19-rc1
Lots of little things all over the place in different drivers, and a
new subsystem, "coresight" has been added. Full details are in the
shortlog"
* tag 'char-misc-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (73 commits)
parport: parport_pc, do not remove parent devices early
spmi: Remove shutdown/suspend/resume kernel-doc
carma-fpga-program: drop videobuf dependency
carma-fpga: drop videobuf dependency
carma-fpga-program.c: fix compile errors
i8k: Fix temperature bug handling in i8k_get_temp()
cxl: Name interrupts in /proc/interrupt
CXL: Return error to PSL if IRQ demultiplexing fails & print clearer warning
coresight-replicator: remove .owner field for driver
coresight: fixed comments in coresight.h
coresight: fix typo in comment in coresight-priv.h
coresight: bindings for coresight drivers
coresight: Adding ABI documentation
w1: support auto-load of w1_bq27000 module.
w1: avoid potential u16 overflow
cn: verify msg->len before making callback
mei: export fw status registers through sysfs
mei: read and print all six FW status registers
mei: txe: add cherrytrail device id
mei: kill cached host and me csr values
...
Here's the set of driver core patches for 3.19-rc1.
They are dominated by the removal of the .owner field in platform
drivers. They touch a lot of files, but they are "simple" changes, just
removing a line in a structure.
Other than that, a few minor driver core and debugfs changes. There are
some ath9k patches coming in through this tree that have been acked by
the wireless maintainers as they relied on the debugfs changes.
Everything has been in linux-next for a while.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core update from Greg KH:
"Here's the set of driver core patches for 3.19-rc1.
They are dominated by the removal of the .owner field in platform
drivers. They touch a lot of files, but they are "simple" changes,
just removing a line in a structure.
Other than that, a few minor driver core and debugfs changes. There
are some ath9k patches coming in through this tree that have been
acked by the wireless maintainers as they relied on the debugfs
changes.
Everything has been in linux-next for a while"
* tag 'driver-core-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (324 commits)
Revert "ath: ath9k: use debugfs_create_devm_seqfile() helper for seq_file entries"
fs: debugfs: add forward declaration for struct device type
firmware class: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "vunmap"
firmware loader: fix hung task warning dump
devcoredump: provide a one-way disable function
device: Add dev_<level>_once variants
ath: ath9k: use debugfs_create_devm_seqfile() helper for seq_file entries
ath: use seq_file api for ath9k debugfs files
debugfs: add helper function to create device related seq_file
drivers/base: cacheinfo: remove noisy error boot message
Revert "core: platform: add warning if driver has no owner"
drivers: base: support cpu cache information interface to userspace via sysfs
drivers: base: add cpu_device_create to support per-cpu devices
topology: replace custom attribute macros with standard DEVICE_ATTR*
cpumask: factor out show_cpumap into separate helper function
driver core: Fix unbalanced device reference in drivers_probe
driver core: fix race with userland in device_add()
sysfs/kernfs: make read requests on pre-alloc files use the buffer.
sysfs/kernfs: allow attributes to request write buffer be pre-allocated.
fs: sysfs: return EGBIG on write if offset is larger than file size
...
Magic number of compress formats for kernel image is defined by two bytes.
These numbers are written in hexadecimal number, nevertheless magic
number for only gunzip is written in octal number. The formats should be
consistent for readability. Therefore, magic numbers for gunzip are also
defined by hexadecimal number.
Signed-off-by: Haesung Kim <matia.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
"origPtr" is used as an offset into the bd->dbuf[] array. That array is
allocated in start_bunzip() and has "bd->dbufSize" number of elements so
the test here should be >= instead of >.
Later we check "origPtr" again before using it as an offset so I don't
know if this bug can be triggered in real life.
Fixes: bc22c17e12 ('bzip2/lzma: library support for gzip, bzip2 and lzma decompression')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
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>
Current debug levels are not optimal. Especially if one want to provoke
big numbers of faults(broken device simulator) then any verbose level will
produce giant numbers of identical logging messages. Let's add ratelimit
parameter for that purpose.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patchset adds execveat(2) for x86, and is derived from Meredydd
Luff's patch from Sept 2012 (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/11/528).
The primary aim of adding an execveat syscall is to allow an
implementation of fexecve(3) that does not rely on the /proc filesystem,
at least for executables (rather than scripts). The current glibc version
of fexecve(3) is implemented via /proc, which causes problems in sandboxed
or otherwise restricted environments.
Given the desire for a /proc-free fexecve() implementation, HPA suggested
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/11/556) that an execveat(2) syscall would be
an appropriate generalization.
Also, having a new syscall means that it can take a flags argument without
back-compatibility concerns. The current implementation just defines the
AT_EMPTY_PATH and AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flags, but other flags could be
added in future -- for example, flags for new namespaces (as suggested at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/11/474).
Related history:
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/27/123 is an example of someone
realizing that fexecve() is likely to fail in a chroot environment.
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514043 covered
documenting the /proc requirement of fexecve(3) in its manpage, to
"prevent other people from wasting their time".
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=241609 described a
problem where a process that did setuid() could not fexecve()
because it no longer had access to /proc/self/fd; this has since
been fixed.
This patch (of 4):
Add a new execveat(2) system call. execveat() is to execve() as openat()
is to open(): it takes a file descriptor that refers to a directory, and
resolves the filename relative to that.
In addition, if the filename is empty and AT_EMPTY_PATH is specified,
execveat() executes the file to which the file descriptor refers. This
replicates the functionality of fexecve(), which is a system call in other
UNIXen, but in Linux glibc it depends on opening "/proc/self/fd/<fd>" (and
so relies on /proc being mounted).
The filename fed to the executed program as argv[0] (or the name of the
script fed to a script interpreter) will be of the form "/dev/fd/<fd>"
(for an empty filename) or "/dev/fd/<fd>/<filename>", effectively
reflecting how the executable was found. This does however mean that
execution of a script in a /proc-less environment won't work; also, script
execution via an O_CLOEXEC file descriptor fails (as the file will not be
accessible after exec).
Based on patches by Meredydd Luff.
Signed-off-by: David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com>
Cc: Meredydd Luff <meredydd@senatehouse.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@samsung.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is the page owner tracking code which is introduced so far ago. It
is resident on Andrew's tree, though, nobody tried to upstream so it
remain as is. Our company uses this feature actively to debug memory leak
or to find a memory hogger so I decide to upstream this feature.
This functionality help us to know who allocates the page. When
allocating a page, we store some information about allocation in extra
memory. Later, if we need to know status of all pages, we can get and
analyze it from this stored information.
In previous version of this feature, extra memory is statically defined in
struct page, but, in this version, extra memory is allocated outside of
struct page. It enables us to turn on/off this feature at boottime
without considerable memory waste.
Although we already have tracepoint for tracing page allocation/free,
using it to analyze page owner is rather complex. We need to enlarge the
trace buffer for preventing overlapping until userspace program launched.
And, launched program continually dump out the trace buffer for later
analysis and it would change system behaviour with more possibility rather
than just keeping it in memory, so bad for debug.
Moreover, we can use page_owner feature further for various purposes. For
example, we can use it for fragmentation statistics implemented in this
patch. And, I also plan to implement some CMA failure debugging feature
using this interface.
I'd like to give the credit for all developers contributed this feature,
but, it's not easy because I don't know exact history. Sorry about that.
Below is people who has "Signed-off-by" in the patches in Andrew's tree.
Contributor:
Alexander Nyberg <alexn@dsv.su.se>
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Jungsoo Son <jungsoo.son@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Jungsoo Son <jungsoo.son@lge.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a bitmap_find_next_zero_area_off() function which works like
bitmap_find_next_zero_area() function except it allows an offset to be
specified when alignment is checked. This lets caller request a bit such
that its number plus the offset is aligned according to the mask.
[gregory.0xf0@gmail.com: Retrieved from https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/6254/ and updated documentation]
Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregory Fong <gregory.0xf0@gmail.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
1) New offloading infrastructure and example 'rocker' driver for
offloading of switching and routing to hardware.
This work was done by a large group of dedicated individuals, not
limited to: Scott Feldman, Jiri Pirko, Thomas Graf, John Fastabend,
Jamal Hadi Salim, Andy Gospodarek, Florian Fainelli, Roopa Prabhu
2) Start making the networking operate on IOV iterators instead of
modifying iov objects in-situ during transfers. Thanks to Al Viro
and Herbert Xu.
3) A set of new netlink interfaces for the TIPC stack, from Richard
Alpe.
4) Remove unnecessary looping during ipv6 routing lookups, from Martin
KaFai Lau.
5) Add PAUSE frame generation support to gianfar driver, from Matei
Pavaluca.
6) Allow for larger reordering levels in TCP, which are easily
achievable in the real world right now, from Eric Dumazet.
7) Add a variable of napi_schedule that doesn't need to disable cpu
interrupts, from Eric Dumazet.
8) Use a doubly linked list to optimize neigh_parms_release(), from
Nicolas Dichtel.
9) Various enhancements to the kernel BPF verifier, and allow eBPF
programs to actually be attached to sockets. From Alexei
Starovoitov.
10) Support TSO/LSO in sunvnet driver, from David L Stevens.
11) Allow controlling ECN usage via routing metrics, from Florian
Westphal.
12) Remote checksum offload, from Tom Herbert.
13) Add split-header receive, BQL, and xmit_more support to amd-xgbe
driver, from Thomas Lendacky.
14) Add MPLS support to openvswitch, from Simon Horman.
15) Support wildcard tunnel endpoints in ipv6 tunnels, from Steffen
Klassert.
16) Do gro flushes on a per-device basis using a timer, from Eric
Dumazet. This tries to resolve the conflicting goals between the
desired handling of bulk vs. RPC-like traffic.
17) Allow userspace to ask for the CPU upon what a packet was
received/steered, via SO_INCOMING_CPU. From Eric Dumazet.
18) Limit GSO packets to half the current congestion window, from Eric
Dumazet.
19) Add a generic helper so that all drivers set their RSS keys in a
consistent way, from Eric Dumazet.
20) Add xmit_more support to enic driver, from Govindarajulu
Varadarajan.
21) Add VLAN packet scheduler action, from Jiri Pirko.
22) Support configurable RSS hash functions via ethtool, from Eyal
Perry.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1820 commits)
Fix race condition between vxlan_sock_add and vxlan_sock_release
net/macb: fix compilation warning for print_hex_dump() called with skb->mac_header
net/mlx4: Add support for A0 steering
net/mlx4: Refactor QUERY_PORT
net/mlx4_core: Add explicit error message when rule doesn't meet configuration
net/mlx4: Add A0 hybrid steering
net/mlx4: Add mlx4_bitmap zone allocator
net/mlx4: Add a check if there are too many reserved QPs
net/mlx4: Change QP allocation scheme
net/mlx4_core: Use tasklet for user-space CQ completion events
net/mlx4_core: Mask out host side virtualization features for guests
net/mlx4_en: Set csum level for encapsulated packets
be2net: Export tunnel offloads only when a VxLAN tunnel is created
gianfar: Fix dma check map error when DMA_API_DEBUG is enabled
cxgb4/csiostor: Don't use MASTER_MUST for fw_hello call
net: fec: only enable mdio interrupt before phy device link up
net: fec: clear all interrupt events to support i.MX6SX
net: fec: reset fep link status in suspend function
net: sock: fix access via invalid file descriptor
net: introduce helper macro for_each_cmsghdr
...
clean ups from that branch.
This code solves the issue of performing stack dumps from NMI context.
The issue is that printk() is not safe from NMI context as if the NMI
were to trigger when a printk() was being performed, the NMI could
deadlock from the printk() internal locks. This has been seen in practice.
With lots of review from Petr Mladek, this code went through several
iterations, and we feel that it is now at a point of quality to be
accepted into mainline.
Here's what is contained in this patch set:
o Creates a "seq_buf" generic buffer utility that allows a descriptor
to be passed around where functions can write their own "printk()"
formatted strings into it. The generic version was pulled out of
the trace_seq() code that was made specifically for tracing.
o The seq_buf code was change to model the seq_file code. I have
a patch (not included for 3.19) that converts the seq_file.c code
over to use seq_buf.c like the trace_seq.c code does. This was done
to make sure that seq_buf.c is compatible with seq_file.c. I may
try to get that patch in for 3.20.
o The seq_buf.c file was moved to lib/ to remove it from being dependent
on CONFIG_TRACING.
o The printk() was updated to allow for a per_cpu "override" of
the internal calls. That is, instead of writing to the console, a call
to printk() may do something else. This made it easier to allow the
NMI to change what printk() does in order to call dump_stack() without
needing to update that code as well.
o Finally, the dump_stack from all CPUs via NMI code was converted to
use the seq_buf code. The caller to trigger the NMI code would wait
till all the NMIs finished, and then it would print the seq_buf
data to the console safely from a non NMI context.
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Merge tag 'trace-seq-buf-3.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull nmi-safe seq_buf printk update from Steven Rostedt:
"This code is a fork from the trace-3.19 pull as it needed the
trace_seq clean ups from that branch.
This code solves the issue of performing stack dumps from NMI context.
The issue is that printk() is not safe from NMI context as if the NMI
were to trigger when a printk() was being performed, the NMI could
deadlock from the printk() internal locks. This has been seen in
practice.
With lots of review from Petr Mladek, this code went through several
iterations, and we feel that it is now at a point of quality to be
accepted into mainline.
Here's what is contained in this patch set:
- Creates a "seq_buf" generic buffer utility that allows a descriptor
to be passed around where functions can write their own "printk()"
formatted strings into it. The generic version was pulled out of
the trace_seq() code that was made specifically for tracing.
- The seq_buf code was change to model the seq_file code. I have a
patch (not included for 3.19) that converts the seq_file.c code
over to use seq_buf.c like the trace_seq.c code does. This was
done to make sure that seq_buf.c is compatible with seq_file.c. I
may try to get that patch in for 3.20.
- The seq_buf.c file was moved to lib/ to remove it from being
dependent on CONFIG_TRACING.
- The printk() was updated to allow for a per_cpu "override" of the
internal calls. That is, instead of writing to the console, a call
to printk() may do something else. This made it easier to allow
the NMI to change what printk() does in order to call dump_stack()
without needing to update that code as well.
- Finally, the dump_stack from all CPUs via NMI code was converted to
use the seq_buf code. The caller to trigger the NMI code would
wait till all the NMIs finished, and then it would print the
seq_buf data to the console safely from a non NMI context
One added bonus is that this code also makes the NMI dump stack work
on PREEMPT_RT kernels. As printk() includes sleeping locks on
PREEMPT_RT, printk() only writes to console if the console does not
use any rt_mutex converted spin locks. Which a lot do"
* tag 'trace-seq-buf-3.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
x86/nmi: Fix use of unallocated cpumask_var_t
printk/percpu: Define printk_func when printk is not defined
x86/nmi: Perform a safe NMI stack trace on all CPUs
printk: Add per_cpu printk func to allow printk to be diverted
seq_buf: Move the seq_buf code to lib/
seq-buf: Make seq_buf_bprintf() conditional on CONFIG_BINARY_PRINTF
tracing: Add seq_buf_get_buf() and seq_buf_commit() helper functions
tracing: Have seq_buf use full buffer
seq_buf: Add seq_buf_can_fit() helper function
tracing: Add paranoid size check in trace_printk_seq()
tracing: Use trace_seq_used() and seq_buf_used() instead of len
tracing: Clean up tracing_fill_pipe_page()
seq_buf: Create seq_buf_used() to find out how much was written
tracing: Add a seq_buf_clear() helper and clear len and readpos in init
tracing: Convert seq_buf fields to be like seq_file fields
tracing: Convert seq_buf_path() to be like seq_path()
tracing: Create seq_buf layer in trace_seq
Return the mathematically correct answer when an argument is 0.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ensure that lcm(a,b) returns the mathematically correct result, provided
it fits in an unsigned long. The current version returns garbage if a*b
overflows, even if the final result would fit.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
dma_debug_init() is called by architecture specific code at different
levels, but typically as a fs_initcall due to the debugfs initialization.
Some platforms may have early callers of the DMA-API, running prior to the
fs_initcall() level, which is not much of an issue unless
CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG is set. When the DMA-API debugging facilities are
turned on a caller will go through:
debug_dma_map_{single,page}
-> dma_mapping_error (inline function usually)
-> debug_dma_mapping_error
-> get_hash_bucket
Calling get_hash_bucket() returns a valid hash value since we hash on high
bits of the dma_addr cookie, but we will grab an unitialized spinlock,
which typically won't crash but produce a warning, the real crash will
however happen during the bucket list traversal because the list has not
been initialized yet.
An obvious solution is of course to move some of the offenders to run
after the fs_initcall level, but since this might not always be an option,
we add a flag "dma_debug_initialized" which is set to false by default,
and set to true once dma_debug_init() has had a chance to run.
The dma_debug_disabled() helper function previously introduced just needs
to check for dma_debug_initialized to allow the caller to proceed or not.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Horia Geanta <horia.geanta@freescale.com>
Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a helper function which returns whether the DMA debugging API is
disabled, right now we only check for global_disable, but in order to
accommodate early callers of the DMA-API, we will check for more
initialization flags in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Horia Geanta <horia.geanta@freescale.com>
Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Conflicts:
drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-desc.c
drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c
Overlapping changes in both conflict cases.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
As there are now no remaining users of arch_fast_hash(), lets kill
it entirely.
This basically reverts commit 71ae8aac3e ("lib: introduce arch
optimized hash library") and follow-up work, that is f.e., commit
237217546d ("lib: hash: follow-up fixups for arch hash"),
commit e3fec2f74f ("lib: Add missing arch generic-y entries for
asm-generic/hash.h") and last but not least commit 6a02652df5
("perf tools: Fix include for non x86 architectures").
Cc: Francesco Fusco <fusco@ntop.org>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch effectively reverts commit 500f808726 ("net: ovs: use CRC32
accelerated flow hash if available"), and other remaining arch_fast_hash()
users such as from nfsd via commit 6282cd5655 ("NFSD: Don't hand out
delegations for 30 seconds after recalling them.") where it has been used
as a hash function for bloom filtering.
While we think that these users are actually not much of concern, it has
been requested to remove the arch_fast_hash() library bits that arose
from [1] entirely as per recent discussion [2]. The main argument is that
using it as a hash may introduce bias due to its linearity (see avalanche
criterion) and thus makes it less clear (though we tried to document that)
when this security/performance trade-off is actually acceptable for a
general purpose library function.
Lets therefore avoid any further confusion on this matter and remove it to
prevent any future accidental misuse of it. For the time being, this is
going to make hashing of flow keys a bit more expensive in the ovs case,
but future work could reevaluate a different hashing discipline.
[1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/299369/
[2] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/418756/
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Francesco Fusco <fusco@ntop.org>
Cc: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
"These are the main changes in this cycle:
- Streamline RCU's use of per-CPU variables, shifting from "cpu"
arguments to functions to "this_"-style per-CPU variable
accessors.
- signal-handling RCU updates.
- real-time updates.
- torture-test updates.
- miscellaneous fixes.
- documentation updates"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (34 commits)
rcu: Fix FIXME in rcu_tasks_kthread()
rcu: More info about potential deadlocks with rcu_read_unlock()
rcu: Optimize cond_resched_rcu_qs()
rcu: Add sparse check for RCU_INIT_POINTER()
documentation: memory-barriers.txt: Correct example for reorderings
documentation: Add atomic_long_t to atomic_ops.txt
documentation: Additional restriction for control dependencies
documentation: Document RCU self test boot params
rcutorture: Fix rcu_torture_cbflood() memory leak
rcutorture: Remove obsolete kversion param in kvm.sh
rcutorture: Remove stale test configurations
rcutorture: Enable RCU self test in configs
rcutorture: Add early boot self tests
torture: Run Linux-kernel binary out of results directory
cpu: Avoid puts_pending overflow
rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_cleanup_after_idle()
rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_prepare_for_idle()
rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_needs_cpu()
rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_note_context_switch()
rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_preempt_check_callbacks()
...
Expand DIV_KX to use BPF_MOD operation in the
DIV_KX bpf 'classic' test.
CC: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov <kda@linux-powerpc.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Modules can use this function for creating pool.
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Acked-by: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Minor fixlet to perform the reserved pages counter aggregation for each
node, at show_mem()
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Verify whether both the lock and RCU protected iterators see all
test entries before and after expanding and shrinking has been
performed. Also verify whether the number of entries in the hashtable
remains stable during expansion and shrinking.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Conflicts:
drivers/net/ieee802154/fakehard.c
A bug fix went into 'net' for ieee802154/fakehard.c, which is removed
in 'net-next'.
Add build fix into the merge from Stephen Rothwell in openvswitch, the
logging macros take a new initial 'log' argument, a new call was added
in 'net' so when we merge that in here we have to explicitly add the
new 'log' arg to it else the build fails.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The seq_buf functions are rather useful outside of tracing. Instead
of having it be dependent on CONFIG_TRACING, move the code into lib/
and allow other users to have access to it even when tracing is not
configured.
The seq_buf utility is similar to the seq_file utility, but instead of
writing sending data back up to userland, it writes it into a buffer
defined at seq_buf_init(). This allows us to send a descriptor around
that writes printf() formatted strings into it that can be retrieved
later.
It is currently used by the tracing facility for such things like trace
events to convert its binary saved data in the ring buffer into an
ASCII human readable context to be displayed in /sys/kernel/debug/trace.
It can also be used for doing NMI prints safely from NMI context into
the seq_buf and retrieved later and dumped to printk() safely. Doing
printk() from an NMI context is dangerous because an NMI can preempt
a current printk() and deadlock on it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140619213952.058255809@goodmis.org
Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Otherwise the exported symbols might be discarded because of no users
in vmlinux.
Reported-by: Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This reverts commit e5a2c89995.
Commit e5a2c899 introduced an alternative_call, arch_fast_hash2,
that selects between __jhash2 and __intel_crc4_2_hash based on the
X86_FEATURE_XMM4_2.
Unfortunately, the alternative_call system does not appear to be
suitable for use with C functions, as register usage is not handled
properly for the called functions. The __jhash2 function in particular
clobbers registers that are not preserved when called via
alternative_call, resulting in a panic for direct callers of
arch_fast_hash2 on older CPUs lacking sse4_2. It is possible that
__intel_crc4_2_hash works merely by chance because it uses fewer
registers.
This commit was suggested as the source of the problem by Jesse
Gross <jesse@nicira.com>.
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Conflicts:
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/sge.c
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_phy.c
sge.c was overlapping two changes, one to use the new
__dev_alloc_page() in net-next, and one to use s->fl_pg_order in net.
ixgbe_phy.c was a set of overlapping whitespace changes.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reallocation is only required for shrinking and expanding and both rely
on a mutex for synchronization and callers of rhashtable_init() are in
non atomic context. Therefore, no reason to continue passing allocation
hints through the API.
Instead, use GFP_KERNEL and add __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY to allow
for silent fall back to vzalloc() without the OOM killer jumping in as
pointed out by Eric Dumazet and Eric W. Biederman.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently mutex_is_held can only test locks in the that are global
since it takes no arguments. This prevents rhashtable from being
used in places where locks are lock, e.g., per-namespace locks.
This patch adds a parent field to mutex_is_held and rhashtable_params
so that local locks can be used (and tested).
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The rhashtable function mutex_is_held is only used when PROVE_LOCKING
is enabled. This patch makes the mutex_is_held field in rhashtable
optional depending on PROVE_LOCKING.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
My editor spewed garbage that looked like memory corruption on
my screen. It turns out that a number of occurences of "fi" got
turned into a ligature.
This patch replaces these ligatures with the ASCII letters "fi".
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cheers,
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Actually since module_bug_list should be used in BUG context,
we may not need this. But for someone who want to use this
from normal context, this makes module_bug_list an RCU list.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Many sysfs *_show function use cpu{list,mask}_scnprintf to copy cpumap
to the buffer aligned to PAGE_SIZE, append '\n' and '\0' to return null
terminated buffer with newline.
This patch creates a new helper function cpumap_print_to_pagebuf in
cpumask.h using newly added bitmap_print_to_pagebuf and consolidates
most of those sysfs functions using the new helper function.
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Suggested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
We will hit NULL pointer dereference if we call
platform_device_register_simple or platform_device_add at very early
stage. I have observed following crash when called platform_device_add
from "init_irq" hook of machine_desc. This patch fixes this issue and
let system handle this case gracefully instead of kernel panic.
[0.000000] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
virtual address 0000000c
[0.000000] pgd = c0004000
[0.000000] [0000000c] *pgd=00000000
[0.000000] Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] PREEMPT ARM
[0.000000] Modules linked in:
[0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Tainted: G W 3.17.0-rc6-00198-ga1603f1-dirty #319
[0.000000] task: c05b23f0 ti: c05a8000 task.ti: c05a8000
[0.000000] PC is at kobject_namespace+0x18/0x58
[0.000000] LR is at kobject_add_internal+0x90/0x2ec
[snip]
[0.000000] [<c01b1df0>] (kobject_namespace) from [<c01b2338>] (kobject_add_internal+0x90/0x2ec)
[0.000000] [<c01b2338>] (kobject_add_internal) from [<c01b2728>] (kobject_add+0x4c/0x98)
[0.000000] [<c01b2728>] (kobject_add) from [<c0226274>] (device_add+0xe8/0x51c)
[0.000000] [<c0226274>] (device_add) from [<c0229c70>] (platform_device_add+0xb4/0x214)
[0.000000] [<c0229c70>] (platform_device_add) from [<c022a338>] (platform_device_register_full+0xb8/0xdc)
[0.000000] [<c022a338>] (platform_device_register_full) from [<c0570214>] (exynos_init_irq+0x90/0x9c)
[0.000000] [<c0570214>] (exynos_init_irq) from [<c056c18c>] (init_IRQ+0x2c/0x78)
[0.000000] [<c056c18c>] (init_IRQ) from [<c0569a54>] (start_kernel+0x22c/0x378)
[0.000000] [<c0569a54>] (start_kernel) from [<40008070>] (0x40008070)
[0.000000] Code: e590000c e3500000 0a00000e e5903014 (e593300c)
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Dubey <pankaj.dubey@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
As in 4f452e8aa4, use resource_size_t
to accomodate sizes greater than the size of an unsigned long int on
platforms that have more than 32 bit physical addresses.
Signed-off-by: Cristian Stoica <cristian.stoica@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
By default the arch_fast_hash hashing function pointers are initialized
to jhash(2). If during boot-up a CPU with SSE4.2 is detected they get
updated to the CRC32 ones. This dispatching scheme incurs a function
pointer lookup and indirect call for every hashing operation.
rhashtable as a user of arch_fast_hash e.g. stores pointers to hashing
functions in its structure, too, causing two indirect branches per
hashing operation.
Using alternative_call we can get away with one of those indirect branches.
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
nmap generates classic BPF programs to filter ARP packets with given target MAC
which triggered a bug in eBPF x64 JIT. The bug was fixed in
commit e0ee9c1215 ("x86: bpf_jit: fix two bugs in eBPF JIT compiler")
This patch is adding a testcase in eBPF instructions (those that
were generated by classic->eBPF converter) to be processed by JIT.
The test is primarily targeting JIT compiler.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
"21 fixes"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (21 commits)
mm/balloon_compaction: fix deflation when compaction is disabled
sh: fix sh770x SCIF memory regions
zram: avoid NULL pointer access in concurrent situation
mm/slab_common: don't check for duplicate cache names
ocfs2: fix d_splice_alias() return code checking
mm: rmap: split out page_remove_file_rmap()
mm: memcontrol: fix missed end-writeback page accounting
mm: page-writeback: inline account_page_dirtied() into single caller
lib/bitmap.c: fix undefined shift in __bitmap_shift_{left|right}()
drivers/rtc/rtc-bq32k.c: fix register value
memory-hotplug: clear pgdat which is allocated by bootmem in try_offline_node()
drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c: fix initialization failure without rtc source clock
kernel/kmod: fix use-after-free of the sub_info structure
drivers/rtc/rtc-pm8xxx.c: rework to support pm8941 rtc
mm, thp: fix collapsing of hugepages on madvise
drivers: of: add return value to of_reserved_mem_device_init()
mm: free compound page with correct order
gcov: add ARM64 to GCOV_PROFILE_ALL
fsnotify: next_i is freed during fsnotify_unmount_inodes.
mm/compaction.c: avoid premature range skip in isolate_migratepages_range
...
If __bitmap_shift_left() or __bitmap_shift_right() are asked to shift by
a multiple of BITS_PER_LONG, they will try to shift a long value by
BITS_PER_LONG bits which is undefined. Change the functions to avoid
the undefined shift.
Coverity id: 1192175
Coverity id: 1192174
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull block layer fixes from Jens Axboe:
"A small collection of fixes for the current kernel. This contains:
- Two error handling fixes from Jan Kara. One for null_blk on
failure to add a device, and the other for the block/scsi_ioctl
SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND fixing up the error jump point.
- A commit added in the merge window for the bio integrity bits
unfortunately disabled merging for all requests if
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY wasn't set. Reverse the logic, so that
integrity checking wont disallow merges when not enabled.
- A fix from Ming Lei for merging and generating too many segments.
This caused a BUG in virtio_blk.
- Two error handling printk() fixups from Robert Elliott, improving
the information given when we rate limit.
- Error handling fixup on elevator_init() failure from Sudip
Mukherjee.
- A fix from Tony Battersby, fixing up a memory leak in the
scatterlist handling with scsi-mq"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
block: Fix merge logic when CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY is not defined
lib/scatterlist: fix memory leak with scsi-mq
block: fix wrong error return in elevator_init()
scsi: Fix error handling in SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND
null_blk: Cleanup error recovery in null_add_dev()
blk-merge: recaculate segment if it isn't less than max segments
fs: clarify rate limit suppressed buffer I/O errors
fs: merge I/O error prints into one line
PREEMPT_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU serve the same function after
TINY_PREEMPT_RCU has been removed. This patch removes TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
and uses PREEMPT_RCU config option in its place.
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE Kconfig parameter causes preemptible
RCU's CPU stall warnings to dump out any preempted tasks that are blocking
the current RCU grace period. This information is useful, and the default
has been CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE=y for some years. It is therefore
time for this commit to remove this Kconfig parameter, so that future
kernel builds will always act as if CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE=y.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>