linux, branch v3.2.2

Linux 3.2.2

2012-01-26T00:39:32Z

SHM_UNLOCK: fix Unevictable pages stranded after swap

2012-01-26T00:13:59Z

commit 245132643e1cfcd145bbc86a716c1818371fcb93 upstream. Commit cc39c6a9bbde ("mm: account skipped entries to avoid looping in find_get_pages") correctly fixed an infinite loop; but left a problem that find_get_pages() on shmem would return 0 (appearing to callers to mean end of tree) when it meets a run of nr_pages swap entries. The only uses of find_get_pages() on shmem are via pagevec_lookup(), called from invalidate_mapping_pages(), and from shmctl SHM_UNLOCK's scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(). The first is already commented, and not worth worrying about; but the second can leave pages on the Unevictable list after an unusual sequence of swapping and locking. Fix that by using shmem_find_get_pages_and_swap() (then ignoring the swap) instead of pagevec_lookup(). But I don't want to contaminate vmscan.c with shmem internals, nor shmem.c with LRU locking. So move scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() into shmem.c, renaming it shmem_unlock_mapping(); and rename check_move_unevictable_page() to check_move_unevictable_pages(), looping down an array of pages, oftentimes under the same lock. Leave out the "rotate unevictable list" block: that's a leftover from when this was used for /proc/sys/vm/scan_unevictable_pages, whose flawed handling involved looking at pages at tail of LRU. Was there significance to the sequence first ClearPageUnevictable, then test page_evictable, then SetPageUnevictable here? I think not, we're under LRU lock, and have no barriers between those. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Shaohua Li Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michel Lespinasse Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

SHM_UNLOCK: fix long unpreemptible section

2012-01-26T00:13:59Z

commit 85046579bde15e532983438f86b36856e358f417 upstream. scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() is used to make SysV SHM_LOCKed pages evictable again once the shared memory is unlocked. It does this with pagevec_lookup()s across the whole object (which might occupy most of memory), and takes 300ms to unlock 7GB here. A cond_resched() every PAGEVEC_SIZE pages would be good. However, KOSAKI-san points out that this is called under shmem.c's info->lock, and it's also under shm.c's shm_lock(), both spinlocks. There is no strong reason for that: we need to take these pages off the unevictable list soonish, but those locks are not required for it. So move the call to scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() from shmem.c's unlock handling up to shm.c's unlock handling. Remove the recently added barrier, not needed now we have spin_unlock() before the scan. Use get_file(), with subsequent fput(), to make sure we have a reference to mapping throughout scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(): that's something that was previously guaranteed by the shm_lock(). Remove shmctl's lru_add_drain_all(): we don't fault in pages at SHM_LOCK time, and we lazily discover them to be Unevictable later, so it serves no purpose for SHM_LOCK; and serves no purpose for SHM_UNLOCK, since pages still on pagevec are not marked Unevictable. The original code avoided redundant rescans by checking VM_LOCKED flag at its level: now avoid them by checking shp's SHM_LOCKED. The original code called scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() on a locked area at shm_destroy() time: perhaps we once had accounting cross-checks which required that, but not now, so skip the overhead and just let inode eviction deal with them. Put check_move_unevictable_page() and scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() under CONFIG_SHMEM (with stub for the TINY case when ramfs is used), more as comment than to save space; comment them used for SHM_UNLOCK. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Shaohua Li Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michel Lespinasse Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

iwlegacy: 3945: fix hw passive scan on radar channels

2012-01-26T00:13:59Z

commit 68acc4afb040d98ddfd2cae0de09e2f4e1ee127f upstream. Patch fix firmware error on "iw dev wlan0 scan passive" for hardware scanning (with disable_hw_scan=0 module parameter). iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x82000008. iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: Loaded firmware version: 15.32.2.9 iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: Start IWL Error Log Dump: iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: Status: 0x0002A2E4, count: 1 iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: Desc Time asrtPC blink2 ilink1 nmiPC Line iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: SYSASSERT (0x5) 0041263900 0x13756 0x0031C 0x00000 764 iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: Error Reply type 0x000002FC cmd C_SCAN (0x80) seq 0x443E ser 0x00340000 iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: Command C_SCAN failed: FW Error iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: Can't stop Rx DMA. We have disable ability to change passive scanning to active on particular channel when traffic is detected on that channel. Otherwise firmware will report error, when we try to do passive scan on radar channels. Reported-and-debugged-by: Pedro Francisco Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

iwlagn: check for SMPS mode

2012-01-26T00:13:59Z

commit b2ccccdca46273c7b321ecf5041c362cd950da20 upstream. Check and report WARN only when its invalid Resolves: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42621 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=766071 Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: fix NULL ptr dereference in __count_immobile_pages

2012-01-26T00:13:59Z

commit 687875fb7de4a95223af20ee024282fa9099f860 upstream. Fix the following NULL ptr dereference caused by cat /sys/devices/system/memory/memory0/removable Pid: 13979, comm: sed Not tainted 3.0.13-0.5-default #1 IBM BladeCenter LS21 -[7971PAM]-/Server Blade RIP: __count_immobile_pages+0x4/0x100 Process sed (pid: 13979, threadinfo ffff880221c36000, task ffff88022e788480) Call Trace: is_pageblock_removable_nolock+0x34/0x40 is_mem_section_removable+0x74/0xf0 show_mem_removable+0x41/0x70 sysfs_read_file+0xfe/0x1c0 vfs_read+0xc7/0x130 sys_read+0x53/0xa0 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b We are crashing because we are trying to dereference NULL zone which came from pfn=0 (struct page ffffea0000000000). According to the boot log this page is marked reserved: e820 update range: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000010000 (usable) ==> (reserved) and early_node_map confirms that: early_node_map[3] active PFN ranges 1: 0x00000010 -> 0x0000009c 1: 0x00000100 -> 0x000bffa3 1: 0x00100000 -> 0x00240000 The problem is that memory_present works in PAGE_SECTION_MASK aligned blocks so the reserved range sneaks into the the section as well. This also means that free_area_init_node will not take care of those reserved pages and they stay uninitialized. When we try to read the removable status we walk through all available sections and hope that the zone is valid for all pages in the section. But this is not true in this case as the zone and nid are not initialized. We have only one node in this particular case and it is marked as node=1 (rather than 0) and that made the problem visible because page_to_nid will return 0 and there are no zones on the node. Let's check that the zone is valid and that the given pfn falls into its boundaries and mark the section not removable. This might cause some false positives, probably, but we do not have any sane way to find out whether the page is reserved by the platform or it is just not used for whatever other reasons. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

proc: clear_refs: do not clear reserved pages

2012-01-26T00:13:58Z

commit 85e72aa5384b1a614563ad63257ded0e91d1a620 upstream. /proc/pid/clear_refs is used to clear the Referenced and YOUNG bits for pages and corresponding page table entries of the task with PID pid, which includes any special mappings inserted into the page tables in order to provide things like vDSOs and user helper functions. On ARM this causes a problem because the vectors page is mapped as a global mapping and since ec706dab ("ARM: add a vma entry for the user accessible vector page"), a VMA is also inserted into each task for this page to aid unwinding through signals and syscall restarts. Since the vectors page is required for handling faults, clearing the YOUNG bit (and subsequently writing a faulting pte) means that we lose the vectors page *globally* and cannot fault it back in. This results in a system deadlock on the next exception. To see this problem in action, just run: $ echo 1 > /proc/self/clear_refs on an ARM platform (as any user) and watch your system hang. I think this has been the case since 2.6.37 This patch avoids clearing the aforementioned bits for reserved pages, therefore leaving the vectors page intact on ARM. Since reserved pages are not candidates for swap, this change should not have any impact on the usefulness of clear_refs. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Reported-by: Moussa Ba Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Russell King Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre Cc: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kprobes: initialize before using a hlist

2012-01-26T00:13:57Z

commit d496aab567e7e52b3e974c9192a5de6e77dce32c upstream. Commit ef53d9c5e ("kprobes: improve kretprobe scalability with hashed locking") introduced a bug where we can potentially leak kretprobe_instances since we initialize a hlist head after having used it. Initialize the hlist head before using it. Reported by: Jim Keniston Acked-by: Jim Keniston Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Srinivasa D S Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cifs: lower default wsize when unix extensions are not used

2012-01-26T00:13:57Z

commit ce91acb3acae26f4163c5a6f1f695d1a1e8d9009 upstream. We've had some reports of servers (namely, the Solaris in-kernel CIFS server) that don't deal properly with writes that are "too large" even though they set CAP_LARGE_WRITE_ANDX. Change the default to better mirror what windows clients do. Cc: Pavel Shilovsky Reported-by: Nick Davis Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Steve French Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

score: fix off-by-one index into syscall table

2012-01-26T00:13:56Z

commit c25a785d6647984505fa165b5cd84cfc9a95970b upstream. If the provided system call number is equal to __NR_syscalls, the current check will pass and a function pointer just after the system call table may be called, since sys_call_table is an array with total size __NR_syscalls. Whether or not this is a security bug depends on what the compiler puts immediately after the system call table. It's likely that this won't do anything bad because there is an additional NULL check on the syscall entry, but if there happens to be a non-NULL value immediately after the system call table, this may result in local privilege escalation. Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg Cc: Chen Liqin Cc: Lennox Wu Cc: Eugene Teo Cc: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman