linux/drivers/char, branch v3.2.38

ramoops: fix use of rounddown_pow_of_two()

2013-01-03T03:33:59Z

commit fdb5950754eb3dedb9fea7c8828d3e51d9dbc3f7 upstream. The return value of rounddown_pow_of_two wasn't evaluated, so the operation was a no-op. Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli Reported-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: WANG Cong Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

drm/i915: add Ivy Bridge GT2 Server entries

2013-01-03T03:32:52Z

commit cc22a938fc1db0c8ef5e693a69b159c4b851dab3 upstream. This adds PCI ID for IVB GT2 server variant which we were missing. Signed-off-by: Eugeni Dodonov [danvet: fix up conflict because the patch has been diffed against next. tsk.] Signed-Off-by: Daniel Vetter Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

tpm: Propagate error from tpm_transmit to fix a timeout hang

2012-10-30T23:27:09Z

commit abce9ac292e13da367bbd22c1f7669f988d931ac upstream. tpm_write calls tpm_transmit without checking the return value and assigns the return value unconditionally to chip->pending_data, even if it's an error value. This causes three bugs. So if we write to /dev/tpm0 with a tpm_param_size bigger than TPM_BUFSIZE=0x1000 (e.g. 0x100a) and a bufsize also bigger than TPM_BUFSIZE (e.g. 0x100a) tpm_transmit returns -E2BIG which is assigned to chip->pending_data as -7, but tpm_write returns that TPM_BUFSIZE bytes have been successfully been written to the TPM, altough this is not true (bug #1). As we did write more than than TPM_BUFSIZE bytes but tpm_write reports that only TPM_BUFSIZE bytes have been written the vfs tries to write the remaining bytes (in this case 10 bytes) to the tpm device driver via tpm_write which then blocks at /* cannot perform a write until the read has cleared either via tpm_read or a user_read_timer timeout */ while (atomic_read(&chip->data_pending) != 0) msleep(TPM_TIMEOUT); for 60 seconds, since data_pending is -7 and nobody is able to read it (since tpm_read luckily checks if data_pending is greater than 0) (#bug 2). After that the remaining bytes are written to the TPM which are interpreted by the tpm as a normal command. (bug #3) So if the last bytes of the command stream happen to be a e.g. tpm_force_clear this gets accidentally sent to the TPM. This patch fixes all three bugs, by propagating the error code of tpm_write and returning -E2BIG if the input buffer is too big, since the response from the tpm for a truncated value is bogus anyway. Moreover it returns -EBUSY to userspace if there is a response ready to be read. Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe Signed-off-by: Kent Yoder Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

TTY: ttyprintk, don't touch behind tty->write_buf

2012-10-17T02:48:10Z

commit ee8b593affdf893012e57f4c54a21984d1b0d92e upstream. If a user provides a buffer larger than a tty->write_buf chunk and passes '\r' at the end of the buffer, we touch an out-of-bound memory. Add a check there to prevent this. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Cc: Samo Pogacnik Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

random: Add comment to random_initialize()

2012-09-12T02:37:30Z

commit cbc96b7594b5691d61eba2db8b2ea723645be9ca upstream. Many platforms have per-machine instance data (serial numbers, asset tags, etc.) squirreled away in areas that are accessed during early system bringup. Mixing this data into the random pools has a very high value in providing better random data, so we should allow (and even encourage) architecture code to call add_device_randomness() from the setup_arch() paths. However, this limits our options for internal structure of the random driver since random_initialize() is not called until long after setup_arch(). Add a big fat comment to rand_initialize() spelling out this requirement. Suggested-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

drivers/char/random.c: fix boot id uniqueness race

2012-09-12T02:37:29Z

commit 44e4360fa3384850d65dd36fb4e6e5f2f112709b upstream. /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id can be read concurrently by userspace processes. If two (or more) user-space processes concurrently read boot_id when sysctl_bootid is not yet assigned, a race can occur making boot_id differ between the reads. Because the whole point of the boot id is to be unique across a kernel execution, fix this by protecting this operation with a spinlock. Given that this operation is not frequently used, hitting the spinlock on each call should not be an issue. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

random: mix in architectural randomness in extract_buf()

2012-08-09T23:24:56Z

commit d2e7c96af1e54b507ae2a6a7dd2baf588417a7e5 upstream. Mix in any architectural randomness in extract_buf() instead of xfer_secondary_buf(). This allows us to mix in more architectural randomness, and it also makes xfer_secondary_buf() faster, moving a tiny bit of additional CPU overhead to process which is extracting the randomness. [ Commit description modified by tytso to remove an extended advertisement for the RDRAND instruction. ] Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: DJ Johnston Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

Redefine ATOMIC_INIT and ATOMIC64_INIT to drop the casts

2012-08-09T23:24:54Z

commit a119365586b0130dfea06457f584953e0ff6481d upstream. The following build error occured during a ia64 build with swap-over-NFS patches applied. net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: initializer element is not constant net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: (near initialization for 'memalloc_socks') net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: initializer element is not constant This is identical to a parisc build error. Fengguang Wu, Mel Gorman and James Bottomley did all the legwork to track the root cause of the problem. This fix and entire commit log is shamelessly copied from them with one extra detail to change a dubious runtime use of ATOMIC_INIT() to atomic_set() in drivers/char/mspec.c Dave Anglin says: > Here is the line in sock.i: > > struct static_key memalloc_socks = ((struct static_key) { .enabled = > ((atomic_t) { (0) }) }); The above line contains two compound literals. It also uses a designated initializer to initialize the field enabled. A compound literal is not a constant expression. The location of the above statement isn't fully clear, but if a compound literal occurs outside the body of a function, the initializer list must consist of constant expressions. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

random: add new get_random_bytes_arch() function

2012-08-09T23:24:46Z

commit c2557a303ab6712bb6e09447df828c557c710ac9 upstream. Create a new function, get_random_bytes_arch() which will use the architecture-specific hardware random number generator if it is present. Change get_random_bytes() to not use the HW RNG, even if it is avaiable. The reason for this is that the hw random number generator is fast (if it is present), but it requires that we trust the hardware manufacturer to have not put in a back door. (For example, an increasing counter encrypted by an AES key known to the NSA.) It's unlikely that Intel (for example) was paid off by the US Government to do this, but it's impossible for them to prove otherwise

random: use the arch-specific rng in xfer_secondary_pool

2012-08-09T23:24:45Z

commit e6d4947b12e8ad947add1032dd754803c6004824 upstream. If the CPU supports a hardware random number generator, use it in xfer_secondary_pool(), where it will significantly improve things and where we can afford it. Also, remove the use of the arch-specific rng in add_timer_randomness(), since the call is significantly slower than get_cycles(), and we're much better off using it in xfer_secondary_pool() anyway. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings