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2010-09-20sched: Fix incorrect sanity checkPeter Zijlstra
commit 11854247e2c851e7ff9ce138e501c6cffc5a4217 upstream We moved to migrate on wakeup, which means that sleeping tasks could still be present on offline cpus. Amend the check to only test running tasks. Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: Fix fork vs hotplug vs cpuset namespacesPeter Zijlstra
commit fabf318e5e4bda0aca2b0d617b191884fda62703 upstream There are a number of issues: 1) TASK_WAKING vs cgroup_clone (cpusets) copy_process(): sched_fork() child->state = TASK_WAKING; /* waiting for wake_up_new_task() */ if (current->nsproxy != p->nsproxy) ns_cgroup_clone() cgroup_clone() mutex_lock(inode->i_mutex) mutex_lock(cgroup_mutex) cgroup_attach_task() ss->can_attach() ss->attach() [ -> cpuset_attach() ] cpuset_attach_task() set_cpus_allowed_ptr(); while (child->state == TASK_WAKING) cpu_relax(); will deadlock the system. 2) cgroup_clone (cpusets) vs copy_process So even if the above would work we still have: copy_process(): if (current->nsproxy != p->nsproxy) ns_cgroup_clone() cgroup_clone() mutex_lock(inode->i_mutex) mutex_lock(cgroup_mutex) cgroup_attach_task() ss->can_attach() ss->attach() [ -> cpuset_attach() ] cpuset_attach_task() set_cpus_allowed_ptr(); ... p->cpus_allowed = current->cpus_allowed over-writing the modified cpus_allowed. 3) fork() vs hotplug if we unplug the child's cpu after the sanity check when the child gets attached to the task_list but before wake_up_new_task() shit will meet with fan. Solve all these issues by moving fork cpu selection into wake_up_new_task(). Reported-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1264106190.4283.1314.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: Fix hotplug hangPeter Zijlstra
commit 70f1120527797adb31c68bdc6f1b45e182c342c7 upstream The hot-unplug kstopmachine usage does a wakeup after deactivating the cpu, hence we cannot use cpu_active() here but must rely on the good olde online. Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com> Reported-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> LKML-Reference: <1261326987.4314.24.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: Remove the cfs_rq dependency from set_task_cpu()Peter Zijlstra
commit 88ec22d3edb72b261f8628226cd543589a6d5e1b upstream In order to remove the cfs_rq dependency from set_task_cpu() we need to ensure the task is cfs_rq invariant for all callsites. The simple approach is to substract cfs_rq->min_vruntime from se->vruntime on dequeue, and add cfs_rq->min_vruntime on enqueue. However, this has the downside of breaking FAIR_SLEEPERS since we loose the old vruntime as we only maintain the relative position. To solve this, we observe that we only migrate runnable tasks, we do this using deactivate_task(.sleep=0) and activate_task(.wakeup=0), therefore we can restrain the min_vruntime invariance to that state. The only other case is wakeup balancing, since we want to maintain the old vruntime we cannot make it relative on dequeue, but since we don't migrate inactive tasks, we can do so right before we activate it again. This is where we need the new pre-wakeup hook, we need to call this while still holding the old rq->lock. We could fold it into ->select_task_rq(), but since that has multiple callsites and would obfuscate the locking requirements, that seems like a fudge. This leaves the fork() case, simply make sure that ->task_fork() leaves the ->vruntime in a relative state. This covers all cases where set_task_cpu() gets called, and ensures it sees a relative vruntime. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091216170518.191697025@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: Add pre and post wakeup hooksPeter Zijlstra
commit efbbd05a595343a413964ad85a2ad359b7b7efbd upstream As will be apparent in the next patch, we need a pre wakeup hook for sched_fair task migration, hence rename the post wakeup hook and one pre wakeup. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091216170518.114746117@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: Fix select_task_rq() vs hotplug issuesPeter Zijlstra
commit 5da9a0fb673a0ea0a093862f95f6b89b3390c31e upstream Since select_task_rq() is now responsible for guaranteeing ->cpus_allowed and cpu_active_mask, we need to verify this. select_task_rq_rt() can blindly return smp_processor_id()/task_cpu() without checking the valid masks, select_task_rq_fair() can do the same in the rare case that all SD_flags are disabled. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091216170517.961475466@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: Fix sched_exec() balancingPeter Zijlstra
commit 3802290628348674985d14914f9bfee7b9084548 upstream sched: Fix sched_exec() balancing Since we access ->cpus_allowed without holding rq->lock we need a retry loop to validate the result, this comes for near free when we merge sched_migrate_task() into sched_exec() since that already does the needed check. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091216170517.884743662@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: Fix broken assertionPeter Zijlstra
commit 077614ee1e93245a3b9a4e1213659405dbeb0ba6 upstream There's a preemption race in the set_task_cpu() debug check in that when we get preempted after setting task->state we'd still be on the rq proper, but fail the test. Check for preempted tasks, since those are always on the RQ. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20091217121830.137155561@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: Make warning less noisyIngo Molnar
commit 416eb39556a03d1c7e52b0791e9052ccd71db241 upstream Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091216170517.807938893@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: Ensure set_task_cpu() is never called on blocked tasksPeter Zijlstra
commit e2912009fb7b715728311b0d8fe327a1432b3f79 upstream In order to clean up the set_task_cpu() rq dependencies we need to ensure it is never called on blocked tasks because such usage does not pair with consistent rq->lock usage. This puts the migration burden on ttwu(). Furthermore we need to close a race against changing ->cpus_allowed, since select_task_rq() runs with only preemption disabled. For sched_fork() this is safe because the child isn't in the tasklist yet, for wakeup we fix this by synchronizing set_cpus_allowed_ptr() against TASK_WAKING, which leaves sched_exec to be a problem This also closes a hole in (6ad4c1888 sched: Fix balance vs hotplug race) where ->select_task_rq() doesn't validate the result against the sched_domain/root_domain. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091216170517.807938893@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: Use TASK_WAKING for fork wakupsPeter Zijlstra
commit 06b83b5fbea273672822b6ee93e16781046553ec upstream For later convenience use TASK_WAKING for fresh tasks. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091216170517.732561278@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: Fix set_cpu_active() in cpu_down()Xiaotian Feng
commit 9ee349ad6d326df3633d43f54202427295999c47 upstream Sachin found cpu hotplug test failures on powerpc, which made the kernel hang on his POWER box. The problem is that we fail to re-activate a cpu when a hot-unplug fails. Fix this by moving the de-activation into _cpu_down after doing the initial checks. Remove the synchronize_sched() calls and rely on those implied by rebuilding the sched domains using the new mask. Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20091216170517.500272612@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: Use rcu in sched_get_rr_param()Thomas Gleixner
commit 1a551ae715825bb2a2107a2dd68de024a1fa4e32 upstream read_lock(&tasklist_lock) does not protect sys_sched_get_rr_param() against a concurrent update of the policy or scheduler parameters as do_sched_scheduler() does not take the tasklist_lock. The access to task->sched_class->get_rr_interval is protected by task_rq_lock(task). Use rcu_read_lock() to protect find_task_by_vpid() and prevent the task struct from going away. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20091209100706.862897167@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: Use rcu in sched_get/set_affinity()Thomas Gleixner
commit 23f5d142519621b16cf2b378cf8adf4dcf01a616 upstream tasklist_lock is held read locked to protect the find_task_by_vpid() call and to prevent the task going away. sched_setaffinity acquires a task struct ref and drops tasklist lock right away. The access to the cpus_allowed mask is protected by rq->lock. rcu_read_lock() provides the same protection here. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20091209100706.789059966@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: Use rcu in sys_sched_getscheduler/sys_sched_getparam()Thomas Gleixner
commit 5fe85be081edf0ac92d83f9c39e0ab5c1371eb82 upstream read_lock(&tasklist_lock) does not protect sys_sched_getscheduler and sys_sched_getparam() against a concurrent update of the policy or scheduler parameters as do_sched_setscheduler() does not take the tasklist_lock. The accessed integers can be retrieved w/o locking and are snapshots anyway. Using rcu_read_lock() to protect find_task_by_vpid() and prevent the task struct from going away is not changing the above situation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20091209100706.753790977@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: Make wakeup side and atomic variants of completion API irq safeRafael J.Wysocki
commit 7539a3b3d1f892dd97eaf094134d7de55c13befe upstream Alan Stern noticed that all the wakeup side (and atomic) variants of the completion APIs should be irq safe, but the newly introduced completion_done() and try_wait_for_completion() aren't. The use of the irq unsafe variants in IRQ contexts can cause crashes/hangs. Fix the problem by making them use spin_lock_irqsave() and spin_lock_irqrestore(). Reported-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Cc: pm list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com> LKML-Reference: <200912130007.30541.rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: Remove forced2_migrations statsIngo Molnar
commit b9889ed1ddeca5a3f3569c8de7354e9e97d803ae upstream This build warning: kernel/sched.c: In function 'set_task_cpu': kernel/sched.c:2070: warning: unused variable 'old_rq' Made me realize that the forced2_migrations stat looks pretty pointless (and a misnomer) - remove it. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: Sanitize fork() handlingPeter Zijlstra
commit cd29fe6f2637cc2ccbda5ac65f5332d6bf5fa3c6 upstream Currently we try to do task placement in wake_up_new_task() after we do the load-balance pass in sched_fork(). This yields complicated semantics in that we have to deal with tasks on different RQs and the set_task_cpu() calls in copy_process() and sched_fork() Rename ->task_new() to ->task_fork() and call it from sched_fork() before the balancing, this gives the policy a clear point to place the task. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: Clean up ttwu() rq lockingPeter Zijlstra
commit ab19cb23313733c55e0517607844b86720b35f5f upstream Since set_task_clock() doesn't rely on rq->clock anymore we can simplyfy the mess in ttwu(). Optimize things a bit by not fiddling with the IRQ state there. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: Remove rq->clock coupling from set_task_cpu()Peter Zijlstra
commit 5afcdab706d6002cb02b567ba46e650215e694e8 upstream set_task_cpu() should be rq invariant and only touch task state, it currently fails to do so, which opens up a few races, since not all callers hold both rq->locks. Remove the relyance on rq->clock, as any site calling set_task_cpu() should also do a remote clock update, which should ensure the observed time between these two cpus is monotonic, as per kernel/sched_clock.c:sched_clock_remote(). Therefore we can simply remove the clock_offset bits and be happy. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: Remove unused cpu_nr_migrations()Hiroshi Shimamoto
commit 9824a2b728b63e7ff586b9fd9293c819be79f0f3 upstream cpu_nr_migrations() is not used, remove it. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4AF12A66.6020609@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: Consolidate select_task_rq() callersPeter Zijlstra
commit 970b13bacba14a8cef6f642861947df1d175b0b3 upstream sched: Consolidate select_task_rq() callers Small cleanup. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> [ v2: build fix ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: Protect sched_rr_get_param() access to task->sched_classThomas Gleixner
commit dba091b9e3522b9d32fc9975e48d3b69633b45f0 upstream sched_rr_get_param calls task->sched_class->get_rr_interval(task) without protection against a concurrent sched_setscheduler() call which modifies task->sched_class. Serialize the access with task_rq_lock(task) and hand the rq pointer into get_rr_interval() as it's needed at least in the sched_fair implementation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0912090930120.3089@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: Protect task->cpus_allowed access in sched_getaffinity()Thomas Gleixner
commit 3160568371da441b7f2fb57f2f1225404207e8f2 upstream sched_getaffinity() is not protected against a concurrent modification of the tasks affinity. Serialize the access with task_rq_lock(task). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20091208202026.769251187@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok()H. Peter Anvin
commit c41d68a513c71e35a14f66d71782d27a79a81ea6 upstream. compat_alloc_user_space() expects the caller to independently call access_ok() to verify the returned area. A missing call could introduce problems on some architectures. This patch incorporates the access_ok() check into compat_alloc_user_space() and also adds a sanity check on the length. The existing compat_alloc_user_space() implementations are renamed arch_compat_alloc_user_space() and are used as part of the implementation of the new global function. This patch assumes NULL will cause __get_user()/__put_user() to either fail or access userspace on all architectures. This should be followed by checking the return value of compat_access_user_space() for NULL in the callers, at which time the access_ok() in the callers can also be removed. Reported-by: Ben Hawkes <hawkes@sota.gen.nz> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20kernel/groups.c: fix integer overflow in groups_searchJerome Marchand
commit 1c24de60e50fb19b94d94225458da17c720f0729 upstream. gid_t is a unsigned int. If group_info contains a gid greater than MAX_INT, groups_search() function may look on the wrong side of the search tree. This solves some unfair "permission denied" problems. Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20gcov: fix null-pointer dereference for certain module typesPeter Oberparleiter
commit 85a0fdfd0f967507f3903e8419bc7e408f5a59de upstream. The gcov-kernel infrastructure expects that each object file is loaded only once. This may not be true, e.g. when loading multiple kernel modules which are linked to the same object file. As a result, loading such kernel modules will result in incorrect gcov results while unloading will cause a null-pointer dereference. This patch fixes these problems by changing the gcov-kernel infrastructure so that multiple profiling data sets can be associated with one debugfs entry. It applies to 2.6.36-rc1. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reported-by: Werner Spies <werner.spies@thalesgroup.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20tracing: t_start: reset FTRACE_ITER_HASH in case of seek/preadChris Wright
commit df09162550fbb53354f0c88e85b5d0e6129ee9cc upstream. Be sure to avoid entering t_show() with FTRACE_ITER_HASH set without having properly started the iterator to iterate the hash. This case is degenerate and, as discovered by Robert Swiecki, can cause t_hash_show() to misuse a pointer. This causes a NULL ptr deref with possible security implications. Tracked as CVE-2010-3079. Cc: Robert Swiecki <swiecki@google.com> Cc: Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20tracing: Do not allow llseek to set_ftrace_filterSteven Rostedt
commit 9c55cb12c1c172e2d51e85fbb5a4796ca86b77e7 upstream. Reading the file set_ftrace_filter does three things. 1) shows whether or not filters are set for the function tracer 2) shows what functions are set for the function tracer 3) shows what triggers are set on any functions 3 is independent from 1 and 2. The way this file currently works is that it is a state machine, and as you read it, it may change state. But this assumption breaks when you use lseek() on the file. The state machine gets out of sync and the t_show() may use the wrong pointer and cause a kernel oops. Luckily, this will only kill the app that does the lseek, but the app dies while holding a mutex. This prevents anyone else from using the set_ftrace_filter file (or any other function tracing file for that matter). A real fix for this is to rewrite the code, but that is too much for a -rc release or stable. This patch simply disables llseek on the set_ftrace_filter() file for now, and we can do the proper fix for the next major release. Reported-by: Robert Swiecki <swiecki@google.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com> Cc: Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com> Cc: vendor-sec@lst.de Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20tracing: Fix a race in function profileLi Zefan
commit 3aaba20f26f58843e8f20611e5c0b1c06954310f upstream. While we are reading trace_stat/functionX and someone just disabled function_profile at that time, we can trigger this: divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ... EIP is at function_stat_show+0x90/0x230 ... This fix just takes the ftrace_profile_lock and checks if rec->counter is 0. If it's 0, we know the profile buffer has been reset. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4C723644.4040708@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: revert stable c6fc81a sched: Fix a race between ttwu() and migrate_task()Mike Galbraith
This commit does not appear to have been meant for 32-stable, and causes ltp's cpusets testcases to fail, revert it. Original commit text: sched: Fix a race between ttwu() and migrate_task() Based on commit e2912009fb7b715728311b0d8fe327a1432b3f79 upstream, but done differently as this issue is not present in .33 or .34 kernels due to rework in this area. If a task is in the TASK_WAITING state, then try_to_wake_up() is working on it, and it will place it on the correct cpu. This commit ensures that neither migrate_task() nor __migrate_task() calls set_task_cpu(p) while p is in the TASK_WAKING state. Otherwise, there could be two concurrent calls to set_task_cpu(p), resulting in the task's cfs_rq being inconsistent with its cpu. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-09-20sched: kill migration thread in CPU_POST_DEAD instead of CPU_DEADAmit Arora
[Fixed in a different manner upstream, due to rewrites in this area] Problem : In a stress test where some heavy tests were running along with regular CPU offlining and onlining, a hang was observed. The system seems to be hung at a point where migration_call() tries to kill the migration_thread of the dying CPU, which just got moved to the current CPU. This migration thread does not get a chance to run (and die) since rt_throttled is set to 1 on current, and it doesn't get cleared as the hrtimer which is supposed to reset the rt bandwidth (sched_rt_period_timer) is tied to the CPU which we just marked dead! Solution : This patch pushes the killing of migration thread to "CPU_POST_DEAD" event. By then all the timers (including sched_rt_period_timer) should have got migrated (along with other callbacks). Signed-off-by: Amit Arora <amitarora@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-26mm: make the vma list be doubly linkedLinus Torvalds
commit 297c5eee372478fc32fec5fe8eed711eedb13f3d upstream. It's a really simple list, and several of the users want to go backwards in it to find the previous vma. So rather than have to look up the previous entry with 'find_vma_prev()' or something similar, just make it doubly linked instead. Tested-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-13mutex: Don't spin when the owner CPU is offline or other weird casesBenjamin Herrenschmidt
commit 4b402210486c6414fe5fbfd85934a0a22da56b04 upstream. Due to recent load-balancer changes that delay the task migration to the next wakeup, the adaptive mutex spinning ends up in a live lock when the owner's CPU gets offlined because the cpu_online() check lives before the owner running check. This patch changes mutex_spin_on_owner() to return 0 (don't spin) in any case where we aren't sure about the owner struct validity or CPU number, and if the said CPU is offline. There is no point going back & re-evaluate spinning in corner cases like that, let's just go to sleep. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1271212509.13059.135.camel@pasglop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-13sched, cputime: Introduce thread_group_times()Hidetoshi Seto
commit 0cf55e1ec08bb5a22e068309e2d8ba1180ab4239 upstream. This is a real fix for problem of utime/stime values decreasing described in the thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/3/522 Now cputime is accounted in the following way: - {u,s}time in task_struct are increased every time when the thread is interrupted by a tick (timer interrupt). - When a thread exits, its {u,s}time are added to signal->{u,s}time, after adjusted by task_times(). - When all threads in a thread_group exits, accumulated {u,s}time (and also c{u,s}time) in signal struct are added to c{u,s}time in signal struct of the group's parent. So {u,s}time in task struct are "raw" tick count, while {u,s}time and c{u,s}time in signal struct are "adjusted" values. And accounted values are used by: - task_times(), to get cputime of a thread: This function returns adjusted values that originates from raw {u,s}time and scaled by sum_exec_runtime that accounted by CFS. - thread_group_cputime(), to get cputime of a thread group: This function returns sum of all {u,s}time of living threads in the group, plus {u,s}time in the signal struct that is sum of adjusted cputimes of all exited threads belonged to the group. The problem is the return value of thread_group_cputime(), because it is mixed sum of "raw" value and "adjusted" value: group's {u,s}time = foreach(thread){{u,s}time} + exited({u,s}time) This misbehavior can break {u,s}time monotonicity. Assume that if there is a thread that have raw values greater than adjusted values (e.g. interrupted by 1000Hz ticks 50 times but only runs 45ms) and if it exits, cputime will decrease (e.g. -5ms). To fix this, we could do: group's {u,s}time = foreach(t){task_times(t)} + exited({u,s}time) But task_times() contains hard divisions, so applying it for every thread should be avoided. This patch fixes the above problem in the following way: - Modify thread's exit (= __exit_signal()) not to use task_times(). It means {u,s}time in signal struct accumulates raw values instead of adjusted values. As the result it makes thread_group_cputime() to return pure sum of "raw" values. - Introduce a new function thread_group_times(*task, *utime, *stime) that converts "raw" values of thread_group_cputime() to "adjusted" values, in same calculation procedure as task_times(). - Modify group's exit (= wait_task_zombie()) to use this introduced thread_group_times(). It make c{u,s}time in signal struct to have adjusted values like before this patch. - Replace some thread_group_cputime() by thread_group_times(). This replacements are only applied where conveys the "adjusted" cputime to users, and where already uses task_times() near by it. (i.e. sys_times(), getrusage(), and /proc/<PID>/stat.) This patch have a positive side effect: - Before this patch, if a group contains many short-life threads (e.g. runs 0.9ms and not interrupted by ticks), the group's cputime could be invisible since thread's cputime was accumulated after adjusted: imagine adjustment function as adj(ticks, runtime), {adj(0, 0.9) + adj(0, 0.9) + ....} = {0 + 0 + ....} = 0. After this patch it will not happen because the adjustment is applied after accumulated. v2: - remove if()s, put new variables into signal_struct. Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Spencer Candland <spencer@bluehost.com> Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <4B162517.8040909@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-13sched: Fix granularity of task_u/stime()Hidetoshi Seto
commit 761b1d26df542fd5eb348837351e4d2f3bc7bffe upstream. Originally task_s/utime() were designed to return clock_t but later changed to return cputime_t by following commit: commit efe567fc8281661524ffa75477a7c4ca9b466c63 Author: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Date: Thu Aug 23 15:18:02 2007 +0200 It only changed the type of return value, but not the implementation. As the result the granularity of task_s/utime() is still that of clock_t, not that of cputime_t. So using task_s/utime() in __exit_signal() makes values accumulated to the signal struct to be rounded and coarse grained. This patch removes casts to clock_t in task_u/stime(), to keep granularity of cputime_t over the calculation. v2: Use div_u64() to avoid error "undefined reference to `__udivdi3`" on some 32bit systems. Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com Cc: Spencer Candland <spencer@bluehost.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <4AFB9029.9000208@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-13timekeeping: Fix clock_gettime vsyscall time warpLin Ming
commit 0696b711e4be45fa104c12329f617beb29c03f78 upstream. Since commit 0a544198 "timekeeping: Move NTP adjusted clock multiplier to struct timekeeper" the clock multiplier of vsyscall is updated with the unmodified clock multiplier of the clock source and not with the NTP adjusted multiplier of the timekeeper. This causes user space observerable time warps: new CLOCK-warp maximum: 120 nsecs, 00000025c337c537 -> 00000025c337c4bf Add a new argument "mult" to update_vsyscall() and hand in the timekeeping internal NTP adjusted multiplier. Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: "Zhang Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <1258436990.17765.83.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-13nohz: Reuse ktime in sub-functions of tick_check_idle.Martin Schwidefsky
commit eed3b9cf3fe3fcc7a50238dfcab63a63914e8f42 upstream. On a system with NOHZ=y tick_check_idle calls tick_nohz_stop_idle and tick_nohz_update_jiffies. Given the right conditions (ts->idle_active and/or ts->tick_stopped) both function get a time stamp with ktime_get. The same time stamp can be reused if both function require one. On s390 this change has the additional benefit that gcc inlines the tick_nohz_stop_idle function into tick_check_idle. The number of instructions to execute tick_check_idle drops from 225 to 144 (without the ktime_get optimization it is 367 vs 215 instructions). before: 0) | tick_check_idle() { 0) | tick_nohz_stop_idle() { 0) | ktime_get() { 0) | read_tod_clock() { 0) 0.601 us | } 0) 1.765 us | } 0) 3.047 us | } 0) | ktime_get() { 0) | read_tod_clock() { 0) 0.570 us | } 0) 1.727 us | } 0) | tick_do_update_jiffies64() { 0) 0.609 us | } 0) 8.055 us | } after: 0) | tick_check_idle() { 0) | ktime_get() { 0) | read_tod_clock() { 0) 0.617 us | } 0) 1.773 us | } 0) | tick_do_update_jiffies64() { 0) 0.593 us | } 0) 4.477 us | } Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090929122533.206589318@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: John Jolly <jjolly@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-13nohz: Introduce arch_needs_cpuMartin Schwidefsky
commit 3c5d92a0cfb5103c0d5ab74d4ae6373d3af38148 upstream. Allow the architecture to request a normal jiffy tick when the system goes idle and tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick is called . On s390 the hook is used to prevent the system going fully idle if there has been an interrupt other than a clock comparator interrupt since the last wakeup. On s390 the HiperSockets response time for 1 connection ping-pong goes down from 42 to 34 microseconds. The CPU cost decreases by 27%. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090929122533.402715150@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: John Jolly <jjolly@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-13irq: Add new IRQ flag IRQF_NO_SUSPENDIan Campbell
commit 685fd0b4ea3f0f1d5385610b0d5b57775a8d5842 upstream. A small number of users of IRQF_TIMER are using it for the implied no suspend behaviour on interrupts which are not timer interrupts. Therefore add a new IRQF_NO_SUSPEND flag, rename IRQF_TIMER to __IRQF_TIMER and redefine IRQF_TIMER in terms of these new flags. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Cc: devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org LKML-Reference: <1280398595-29708-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-10slow-work: use get_ref wrapper instead of directly calling get_refDave Airlie
commit 88be12c440cfa2fa3f5be83507360aac9ea1c54e upstream. Otherwise we can get an oops if the user has no get_ref/put_ref requirement. Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-10sched: cgroup: Implement different treatment for idle sharesPeter Zijlstra
commit cd8ad40de36c2fe75f3b731bd70198b385895246 upstream. When setting the weight for a per-cpu task-group, we have to put in a phantom weight when there is no work on that cpu, otherwise we'll not service that cpu when new work gets placed there until we again update the per-cpu weights. We used to add these phantom weights to the total, so that the idle per-cpu shares don't get inflated, this however causes the non-idle parts to get deflated, causing unexpected weight distibutions. Reverse this, so that the non-idle shares are correct but the idle shares are inflated. Reported-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1257934048.23203.76.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-02futex: futex_find_get_task remove credentails checkMichal Hocko
commit 7a0ea09ad5352efce8fe79ed853150449903b9f5 upstream. futex_find_get_task is currently used (through lookup_pi_state) from two contexts, futex_requeue and futex_lock_pi_atomic. None of the paths looks it needs the credentials check, though. Different (e)uids shouldn't matter at all because the only thing that is important for shared futex is the accessibility of the shared memory. The credentail check results in glibc assert failure or process hang (if glibc is compiled without assert support) for shared robust pthread mutex with priority inheritance if a process tries to lock already held lock owned by a process with a different euid: pthread_mutex_lock.c:312: __pthread_mutex_lock_full: Assertion `(-(e)) != 3 || !robust' failed. The problem is that futex_lock_pi_atomic which is called when we try to lock already held lock checks the current holder (tid is stored in the futex value) to get the PI state. It uses lookup_pi_state which in turn gets task struct from futex_find_get_task. ESRCH is returned either when the task is not found or if credentials check fails. futex_lock_pi_atomic simply returns if it gets ESRCH. glibc code, however, doesn't expect that robust lock returns with ESRCH because it should get either success or owner died. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-02genirq: Deal with desc->set_type() changing desc->chipThomas Gleixner
commit 4673247562e39a17e09440fa1400819522ccd446 upstream. The set_type() function can change the chip implementation when the trigger mode changes. That might result in using an non-initialized irq chip when called from __setup_irq() or when called via set_irq_type() on an already enabled irq. The set_irq_type() function should not be called on an enabled irq, but because we forgot to put a check into it, we have a bunch of users which grew the habit of doing that and it never blew up as the function is serialized via desc->lock against all users of desc->chip and they never hit the non-initialized irq chip issue. The easy fix for the __setup_irq() issue would be to move the irq_chip_set_defaults(desc->chip) call after the trigger setting to make sure that a chip change is covered. But as we have already users, which do the type setting after request_irq(), the safe fix for now is to call irq_chip_set_defaults() from __irq_set_trigger() when desc->set_type() changed the irq chip. It needs a deeper analysis whether we should refuse to change the chip on an already enabled irq, but that'd be a large scale change to fix all the existing users. So that's neither stable nor 2.6.35 material. Reported-by: Esben Haabendal <eha@doredevelopment.dk> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-02sched: Fix over-scheduling bugAlex,Shi
commit 3c93717cfa51316e4dbb471e7c0f9d243359d5f8 upstream. Commit e70971591 ("sched: Optimize unused cgroup configuration") introduced an imbalanced scheduling bug. If we do not use CGROUP, function update_h_load won't update h_load. When the system has a large number of tasks far more than logical CPU number, the incorrect cfs_rq[cpu]->h_load value will cause load_balance() to pull too many tasks to the local CPU from the busiest CPU. So the busiest CPU keeps going in a round robin. That will hurt performance. The issue was found originally by a scientific calculation workload that developed by Yanmin. With that commit, the workload performance drops about 40%. CPU before after 00 : 2 : 7 01 : 1 : 7 02 : 11 : 6 03 : 12 : 7 04 : 6 : 6 05 : 11 : 7 06 : 10 : 6 07 : 12 : 7 08 : 11 : 6 09 : 12 : 6 10 : 1 : 6 11 : 1 : 6 12 : 6 : 6 13 : 2 : 6 14 : 2 : 6 15 : 1 : 6 Reviewed-by: Yanmin zhang <yanmin.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1276754893.9452.5442.camel@debian> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-02sched: Prevent compiler from optimising the sched_avg_update() loopWill Deacon
commit 0d98bb2656e9bd2dfda2d089db1fe1dbdab41504 upstream. GCC 4.4.1 on ARM has been observed to replace the while loop in sched_avg_update with a call to uldivmod, resulting in the following build failure at link-time: kernel/built-in.o: In function `sched_avg_update': kernel/sched.c:1261: undefined reference to `__aeabi_uldivmod' kernel/sched.c:1261: undefined reference to `__aeabi_uldivmod' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 This patch introduces a fake data hazard to the loop body to prevent the compiler optimising the loop away. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-02dynamic debug: move ddebug_remove_module() down into free_module()Jason Baron
commit b82bab4bbe9efa7bc7177fc20620fff19bd95484 upstream. The command echo "file ec.c +p" >/sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control causes an oops. Move the call to ddebug_remove_module() down into free_module(). In this way it should be called from all error paths. Currently, we are missing the remove if the module init routine fails. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Reported-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Tested-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-07-05signals: check_kill_permission(): don't check creds if same_thread_group()Oleg Nesterov
commit 065add3941bdca54fe04ed3471a96bce9af88793 upstream. Andrew Tridgell reports that aio_read(SIGEV_SIGNAL) can fail if the notification from the helper thread races with setresuid(), see http://samba.org/~tridge/junkcode/aio_uid.c This happens because check_kill_permission() doesn't permit sending a signal to the task with the different cred->xids. But there is not any security reason to check ->cred's when the task sends a signal (private or group-wide) to its sub-thread. Whatever we do, any thread can bypass all security checks and send SIGKILL to all threads, or it can block a signal SIG and do kill(gettid(), SIG) to deliver this signal to another sub-thread. Not to mention that CLONE_THREAD implies CLONE_VM. Change check_kill_permission() to avoid the credentials check when the sender and the target are from the same thread group. Also, move "cred = current_cred()" down to avoid calling get_current() twice. Note: David Howells pointed out we could relax this even more, the CLONE_SIGHAND (without CLONE_THREAD) case probably does not need these checks too. Roland said: : The glibc (libpthread) that does set*id across threads has : been in use for a while (2.3.4?), probably in distro's using kernels as old : or older than any active -stable streams. In the race in question, this : kernel bug is breaking valid POSIX application expectations. Reported-by: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org> Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-07-05mutex: Fix optimistic spinning vs. BKLTony Breeds
commit fd6be105b883244127a734ac9f14ae94a022dcc0 upstream. Currently, we can hit a nasty case with optimistic spinning on mutexes: CPU A tries to take a mutex, while holding the BKL CPU B tried to take the BLK while holding the mutex This looks like a AB-BA scenario but in practice, is allowed and happens due to the auto-release on schedule() nature of the BKL. In that case, the optimistic spinning code can get us into a situation where instead of going to sleep, A will spin waiting for B who is spinning waiting for A, and the only way out of that loop is the need_resched() test in mutex_spin_on_owner(). This patch fixes it by completely disabling spinning if we own the BKL. This adds one more detail to the extensive list of reasons why it's a bad idea for kernel code to be holding the BKL. Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> LKML-Reference: <20100519054636.GC12389@ozlabs.org> [ added an unlikely() attribute to the branch ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-07-05posix_timer: Fix error path in timer_createAndrey Vagin
commit 45e0fffc8a7778282e6a1514a6ae3e7ae6545111 upstream. Move CLOCK_DISPATCH(which_clock, timer_create, (new_timer)) after all posible EFAULT erros. *_timer_create may allocate/get resources. (for example posix_cpu_timer_create does get_task_struct) [ tglx: fold the remove crappy comment patch into this ] Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>