linux/include, branch v3.2.41

NLS: improve UTF8 -> UTF16 string conversion routine

2013-03-20T15:03:41Z

commit 0720a06a7518c9d0c0125bd5d1f3b6264c55c3dd upstream. The utf8s_to_utf16s conversion routine needs to be improved. Unlike its utf16s_to_utf8s sibling, it doesn't accept arguments specifying the maximum length of the output buffer or the endianness of its 16-bit output. This patch (as1501) adds the two missing arguments, and adjusts the only two places in the kernel where the function is called. A follow-on patch will add a third caller that does utilize the new capabilities. The two conversion routines are still annoyingly inconsistent in the way they handle invalid byte combinations. But that's a subject for a different patch. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern CC: Clemens Ladisch Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

tty/serial: Add support for Altera serial port

2013-03-20T15:03:33Z

commit e06c93cacb82dd147266fd1bdb2d0a0bd45ff2c1 upstream. Add support for Altera 8250/16550 compatible serial port. Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filenames, context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

efi: be more paranoid about available space when creating variables

2013-03-20T15:03:28Z

commit 68d929862e29a8b52a7f2f2f86a0600423b093cd upstream. UEFI variables are typically stored in flash. For various reasons, avaiable space is typically not reclaimed immediately upon the deletion of a variable - instead, the system will garbage collect during initialisation after a reboot. Some systems appear to handle this garbage collection extremely poorly, failing if more than 50% of the system flash is in use. This can result in the machine refusing to boot. The safest thing to do for the moment is to forbid writes if they'd end up using more than half of the storage space. We can make this more finegrained later if we come up with a method for identifying the broken machines. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Drop efivarfs changes and unused check_var_size() - Add error codes to include/linux/efi.h, added upstream by commit 5d9db883761a ('efi: Add support for a UEFI variable filesystem') - Add efi_status_to_err(), added upstream by commit 7253eaba7b17 ('efivarfs: Return an error if we fail to read a variable')] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

efi_pstore: Check remaining space with QueryVariableInfo() before writing data

2013-03-20T15:03:27Z

commit d80a361d779a9f19498943d1ca84243209cd5647 upstream. [Issue] As discussed in a thread below, Running out of space in EFI isn't a well-tested scenario. And we wouldn't expect all firmware to handle it gracefully. http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=134305325801789&w=2 On the other hand, current efi_pstore doesn't check a remaining space of storage at writing time. Therefore, efi_pstore may not work if it tries to write a large amount of data. [Patch Description] To avoid handling the situation above, this patch checks if there is a space enough to log with QueryVariableInfo() before writing data. Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi Acked-by: Mike Waychison Signed-off-by: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

dm: fix truncated status strings

2013-03-20T15:03:20Z

commit fd7c092e711ebab55b2688d3859d95dfd0301f73 upstream. Avoid returning a truncated table or status string instead of setting the DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG when the last target of a table fills the buffer. When processing a table or status request, the function retrieve_status calls ti->type->status. If ti->type->status returns non-zero, retrieve_status assumes that the buffer overflowed and sets DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG. However, targets don't return non-zero values from their status method on overflow. Most targets returns always zero. If a buffer overflow happens in a target that is not the last in the table, it gets noticed during the next iteration of the loop in retrieve_status; but if a buffer overflow happens in the last target, it goes unnoticed and erroneously truncated data is returned. In the current code, the targets behave in the following way: * dm-crypt returns -ENOMEM if there is not enough space to store the key, but it returns 0 on all other overflows. * dm-thin returns errors from the status method if a disk error happened. This is incorrect because retrieve_status doesn't check the error code, it assumes that all non-zero values mean buffer overflow. * all the other targets always return 0. This patch changes the ti->type->status function to return void (because most targets don't use the return code). Overflow is detected in retrieve_status: if the status method fills up the remaining space completely, it is assumed that buffer overflow happened. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Adjust context - dm_status_fn doesn't take a status_flags parameter - Bump the last component of each current version (verified not to match any version used in mainline) - Drop changes to dm-verity] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

exec: use -ELOOP for max recursion depth

2013-03-06T03:24:28Z

commit d740269867021faf4ce38a449353d2b986c34a67 upstream. To avoid an explosion of request_module calls on a chain of abusive scripts, fail maximum recursion with -ELOOP instead of -ENOEXEC. As soon as maximum recursion depth is hit, the error will fail all the way back up the chain, aborting immediately. This also has the side-effect of stopping the user's shell from attempting to reexecute the top-level file as a shell script. As seen in the dash source: if (cmd != path_bshell && errno == ENOEXEC) { *argv-- = cmd; *argv = cmd = path_bshell; goto repeat; } The above logic was designed for running scripts automatically that lacked the "#!" header, not to re-try failed recursion. On a legitimate -ENOEXEC, things continue to behave as the shell expects. Additionally, when tracking recursion, the binfmt handlers should not be involved. The recursion being tracked is the depth of calls through search_binary_handler(), so that function should be exclusively responsible for tracking the depth. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Cc: halfdog Cc: P J P Cc: Alexander Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

usermodehelper: implement UMH_KILLABLE

2013-03-06T03:24:27Z

commit d0bd587a80960d7ba7e0c8396e154028c9045c54 upstream. Implement UMH_KILLABLE, should be used along with UMH_WAIT_EXEC/PROC. The caller must ensure that subprocess_info->path/etc can not go away until call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(). call_usermodehelper_exec(UMH_KILLABLE) does wait_for_completion_killable. If it fails, it uses xchg(&sub_info->complete, NULL) to serialize with umh_complete() which does the same xhcg() to access sub_info->complete. If call_usermodehelper_exec wins, it can safely return. umh_complete() should get NULL and call call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(). Otherwise we know that umh_complete() was already called, in this case call_usermodehelper_exec() falls back to wait_for_completion() which should succeed "very soon". Note: UMH_NO_WAIT == -1 but it obviously should not be used with UMH_KILLABLE. We delay the neccessary cleanup to simplify the back porting. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

8250: use correct value for PORT_BRCM_TRUMANAGE

2013-03-06T03:24:25Z

When backporting commit ebebd49a8eab ('8250/16?50: Add support for Broadcom TruManage redirected serial port') I took the next available port type number for PORT_BRCM_TRUMANAGE (22). However, the 8250 port type numbers are exposed to userland through the TIOC{G,S}SERIAL ioctls and so must remain stable. Redefine PORT_BRCM_TRUMANAGE as 25, matching mainline as of commit 85f024401bf807. This leaves port types 22-24 within the valid range for 8250 but not implemented there. Change serial8250_verify_port() to specifically reject these and change serial8250_type() to return "unknown" for them (though I'm not sure why it would ever see them). Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

pstore: Avoid deadlock in panic and emergency-restart path

2013-03-06T03:24:22Z

commit 9f244e9cfd70c7c0f82d3c92ce772ab2a92d9f64 upstream. [Issue] When pstore is in panic and emergency-restart paths, it may be blocked in those paths because it simply takes spin_lock. This is an example scenario which pstore may hang up in a panic path: - cpuA grabs psinfo->buf_lock - cpuB panics and calls smp_send_stop - smp_send_stop sends IRQ to cpuA - after 1 second, cpuB gives up on cpuA and sends an NMI instead - cpuA is now in an NMI handler while still holding buf_lock - cpuB is deadlocked This case may happen if a firmware has a bug and cpuA is stuck talking with it more than one second. Also, this is a similar scenario in an emergency-restart path: - cpuA grabs psinfo->buf_lock and stucks in a firmware - cpuB kicks emergency-restart via either sysrq-b or hangcheck timer. And then, cpuB is deadlocked by taking psinfo->buf_lock again. [Solution] This patch avoids the deadlocking issues in both panic and emergency_restart paths by introducing a function, is_non_blocking_path(), to check if a cpu can be blocked in current path. With this patch, pstore is not blocked even if another cpu has taken a spin_lock, in those paths by changing from spin_lock_irqsave to spin_trylock_irqsave. In addition, according to a comment of emergency_restart() in kernel/sys.c, spin_lock shouldn't be taken in an emergency_restart path to avoid deadlock. This patch fits the comment below. /** * emergency_restart - reboot the system * * Without shutting down any hardware or taking any locks * reboot the system. This is called when we know we are in * trouble so this is our best effort to reboot. This is * safe to call in interrupt context. */ void emergency_restart(void) Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi Acked-by: Don Zickus Signed-off-by: Tony Luck [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Adjust context - Add #include ] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

ipv6: use a stronger hash for tcp

2013-03-06T03:24:21Z

[ Upstream commit 08dcdbf6a7b9d14c2302c5bd0c5390ddf122f664 ] It looks like its possible to open thousands of TCP IPv6 sessions on a server, all landing in a single slot of TCP hash table. Incoming packets have to lookup sockets in a very long list. We should hash all bits from foreign IPv6 addresses, using a salt and hash mix, not a simple XOR. inet6_ehashfn() can also separately use the ports, instead of xoring them. Reported-by: Neal Cardwell Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Yuchung Cheng Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings