linux/include/asm-generic, branch v3.13

mm: Fix NULL pointer dereference in madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) support

2013-12-20T20:17:03Z

Sasha Levin found a NULL pointer dereference that is due to a missing page table lock, which in turn is due to the pmd entry in question being a transparent huge-table entry. The code - introduced in commit 1998cc048901 ("mm: make madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) support swap file prefetch") - correctly checks for this situation using pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad(), but it turns out that that function doesn't work correctly. pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() expected that pmd_bad() would trigger if the transparent hugepage bit was set, but it doesn't do that if pmd_numa() is also set. Note that the NUMA bit only gets set on real NUMA machines, so people trying to reproduce this on most normal development systems would never actually trigger this. Fix it by removing the very subtle (and subtly incorrect) expectation, and instead just checking pmd_trans_huge() explicitly. Reported-by: Sasha Levin Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli [ Additionally remove the now stale test for pmd_trans_huge() inside the pmd_bad() case - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: fix TLB flush race between migration, and change_protection_range

2013-12-19T03:04:51Z

There are a few subtle races, between change_protection_range (used by mprotect and change_prot_numa) on one side, and NUMA page migration and compaction on the other side. The basic race is that there is a time window between when the PTE gets made non-present (PROT_NONE or NUMA), and the TLB is flushed. During that time, a CPU may continue writing to the page. This is fine most of the time, however compaction or the NUMA migration code may come in, and migrate the page away. When that happens, the CPU may continue writing, through the cached translation, to what is no longer the current memory location of the process. This only affects x86, which has a somewhat optimistic pte_accessible. All other architectures appear to be safe, and will either always flush, or flush whenever there is a valid mapping, even with no permissions (SPARC). The basic race looks like this: CPU A CPU B CPU C load TLB entry make entry PTE/PMD_NUMA fault on entry read/write old page start migrating page change PTE/PMD to new page read/write old page [*] flush TLB reload TLB from new entry read/write new page lose data [*] the old page may belong to a new user at this point! The obvious fix is to flush remote TLB entries, by making sure that pte_accessible aware of the fact that PROT_NONE and PROT_NUMA memory may still be accessible if there is a TLB flush pending for the mm. This should fix both NUMA migration and compaction. [mgorman@suse.de: fix build] Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Alex Thorlton Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2013-12-17T20:35:54Z

Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Three fixes for scheduler crashes, each triggers in relatively rare, hardware environment dependent situations" * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/fair: Rework sched_fair time accounting math64: Add mul_u64_u32_shr() sched: Remove PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED from generic code sched: Initialize power_orig for overlapping groups

word-at-a-time: provide generic big-endian zero_bytemask implementation

2013-12-12T18:39:01Z

Whilst architectures may be able to do better than this (which they can, by simply defining their own macro), this is a generic stab at a zero_bytemask implementation for the asm-generic, big-endian word-at-a-time implementation. On arm64, a clz instruction is used to implement the fls efficiently. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched: Remove PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED from generic code

2013-12-11T14:52:32Z

While hunting a preemption issue with Alexander, Ben noticed that the currently generic PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED stuff is horribly broken for load-store architectures. We currently rely on the IPI to fold TIF_NEED_RESCHED into PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED, but when this IPI lands while we already have a load for the preempt-count but before the store, the store will erase the PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED change. The current preempt-count only works on load-store archs because interrupts are assumed to be completely balanced wrt their preempt_count fiddling; the previous preempt_count load will match the preempt_count state after the interrupt and therefore nothing gets lost. This patch removes the PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED usage from generic code and pushes it into x86 arch code; the generic code goes back to relying on TIF_NEED_RESCHED. Boot tested on x86_64 and compile tested on ppc64. Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Reported-and-Tested-by: Alexander Graf Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131128132641.GP10022@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6

2013-11-24T00:18:25Z

Pull crypto update from Herbert Xu: - Made x86 ablk_helper generic for ARM - Phase out chainiv in favour of eseqiv (affects IPsec) - Fixed aes-cbc IV corruption on s390 - Added constant-time crypto_memneq which replaces memcmp - Fixed aes-ctr in omap-aes - Added OMAP3 ROM RNG support - Add PRNG support for MSM SoC's - Add and use Job Ring API in caam - Misc fixes [ NOTE! This pull request was sent within the merge window, but Herbert has some questionable email sending setup that makes him public enemy #1 as far as gmail is concerned. So most of his emails seem to be trapped by gmail as spam, resulting in me not seeing them. - Linus ] * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (49 commits) crypto: s390 - Fix aes-cbc IV corruption crypto: omap-aes - Fix CTR mode counter length crypto: omap-sham - Add missing modalias padata: make the sequence counter an atomic_t crypto: caam - Modify the interface layers to use JR API's crypto: caam - Add API's to allocate/free Job Rings crypto: caam - Add Platform driver for Job Ring hwrng: msm - Add PRNG support for MSM SoC's ARM: DT: msm: Add Qualcomm's PRNG driver binding document crypto: skcipher - Use eseqiv even on UP machines crypto: talitos - Simplify key parsing crypto: picoxcell - Simplify and harden key parsing crypto: ixp4xx - Simplify and harden key parsing crypto: authencesn - Simplify key parsing crypto: authenc - Export key parsing helper function crypto: mv_cesa: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED hwrng: OMAP3 ROM Random Number Generator support crypto: sha256_ssse3 - also test for BMI2 crypto: mv_cesa - Remove redundant of_match_ptr crypto: sahara - Remove redundant of_match_ptr ...

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2013-11-16T00:47:22Z

Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina: "Usual earth-shaking, news-breaking, rocket science pile from trivial.git" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (23 commits) doc: usb: Fix typo in Documentation/usb/gadget_configs.txt doc: add missing files to timers/00-INDEX timekeeping: Fix some trivial typos in comments mm: Fix some trivial typos in comments irq: Fix some trivial typos in comments NUMA: fix typos in Kconfig help text mm: update 00-INDEX doc: Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt fix typo DRM: comment: `halve' -> `half' Docs: Kconfig: `devlopers' -> `developers' doc: typo on word accounting in kprobes.c in mutliple architectures treewide: fix "usefull" typo treewide: fix "distingush" typo mm/Kconfig: Grammar s/an/a/ kexec: Typo s/the/then/ Documentation/kvm: Update cpuid documentation for steal time and pv eoi treewide: Fix common typo in "identify" __page_to_pfn: Fix typo in comment Correct some typos for word frequency clk: fixed-factor: Fix a trivial typo ...

Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux

2013-11-15T04:27:50Z

Pull module updates from Rusty Russell: "Mainly boring here, too. rmmod --wait finally removed, though" * tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: modpost: fix bogus 'exported twice' warnings. init: fix in-place parameter modification regression asmlinkage, module: Make ksymtab and kcrctab symbols and __this_module __visible kernel: add support for init_array constructors modpost: Optionally ignore secondary errors seen if a single module build fails module: remove rmmod --wait option.

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)

2013-11-13T06:45:43Z

Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: "Quite a lot of other stuff is banked up awaiting further next->mainline merging, but this batch contains: - Lots of random misc patches - OCFS2 - Most of MM - backlight updates - lib/ updates - printk updates - checkpatch updates - epoll tweaking - rtc updates - hfs - hfsplus - documentation - procfs - update gcov to gcc-4.7 format - IPC" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (269 commits) ipc, msg: fix message length check for negative values ipc/util.c: remove unnecessary work pending test devpts: plug the memory leak in kill_sb ./Makefile: export initial ramdisk compression config option init/Kconfig: add option to disable kernel compression drivers: w1: make w1_slave::flags long to avoid memory corruption drivers/w1/masters/ds1wm.cuse dev_get_platdata() drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c: fix unreachable state in h_msb_read_page() drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c: fix attributes array allocation drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: remove redundant of_match_ptr kernel/panic.c: reduce 1 byte usage for print tainted buffer gcov: reuse kbasename helper kernel/gcov/fs.c: use pr_warn() kernel/module.c: use pr_foo() gcov: compile specific gcov implementation based on gcc version gcov: add support for gcc 4.7 gcov format gcov: move gcov structs definitions to a gcc version specific file kernel/taskstats.c: return -ENOMEM when alloc memory fails in add_del_listener() kernel/taskstats.c: add nla_nest_cancel() for failure processing between nla_nest_start() and nla_nest_end() kernel/sysctl_binary.c: use scnprintf() instead of snprintf() ...

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2013-11-13T06:34:18Z

Pull vfs updates from Al Viro: "All kinds of stuff this time around; some more notable parts: - RCU'd vfsmounts handling - new primitives for coredump handling - files_lock is gone - Bruce's delegations handling series - exportfs fixes plus misc stuff all over the place" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (101 commits) ecryptfs: ->f_op is never NULL locks: break delegations on any attribute modification locks: break delegations on link locks: break delegations on rename locks: helper functions for delegation breaking locks: break delegations on unlink namei: minor vfs_unlink cleanup locks: implement delegations locks: introduce new FL_DELEG lock flag vfs: take i_mutex on renamed file vfs: rename I_MUTEX_QUOTA now that it's not used for quotas vfs: don't use PARENT/CHILD lock classes for non-directories vfs: pull ext4's double-i_mutex-locking into common code exportfs: fix quadratic behavior in filehandle lookup exportfs: better variable name exportfs: move most of reconnect_path to helper function exportfs: eliminate unused "noprogress" counter exportfs: stop retrying once we race with rename/remove exportfs: clear DISCONNECTED on all parents sooner exportfs: more detailed comment for path_reconnect ...