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  1. 14 Feb, 2017 4 commits
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      cpumask: use nr_cpumask_bits for parsing functions · 3b7ff5ed
      Tejun Heo authored 
      commit 4d59b6cc upstream.

Commit 513e3d2d ("cpumask: always use nr_cpu_ids in formatting and
parsing functions") converted both cpumask printing and parsing
functions to use nr_cpu_ids instead of nr_cpumask_bits.  While this was
okay for the printing functions as it just picked one of the two output
formats that we were alternating between depending on a kernel config,
doing the same for parsing wasn't okay.

nr_cpumask_bits can be either nr_cpu_ids or NR_CPUS.  We can always use
nr_cpu_ids but that is a variable while NR_CPUS is a constant, so it can
be more efficient to use NR_CPUS when we can get away with it.
Converting the printing functions to nr_cpu_ids makes sense because it
affects how the masks get presented to userspace and doesn't break
anything; however, using nr_cpu_ids for parsing functions can
incorrectly leave the higher bits uninitialized while reading in these
masks from userland.  As all testing and comparison functions use
nr_cpumask_bits which can be larger than nr_cpu_ids, the parsed cpumasks
can erroneously yield false negative results.

This made the taskstats interface incorrectly return -EINVAL even when
the inputs were correct.

Fix it by restoring the parse functions to use nr_cpumask_bits instead
of nr_cpu_ids.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170206182442.GB31078@htj.duckdns.org
Fixes: 513e3d2d ("cpumask: always use nr_cpu_ids in formatting and parsing functions")
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: default avatarMartin Steigerwald <martin.steigerwald@teamix.de>
Debugged-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      3b7ff5ed
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Revert "x86/ioapic: Restore IO-APIC irq_chip retrigger callback" · fd96835e
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      commit d966564f upstream.

This reverts commit 020eb3da.

Gabriel C reports that it causes his machine to not boot, and we haven't
tracked down the reason for it yet.  Since the bug it fixes has been
around for a longish time, we're better off reverting the fix for now.

Gabriel says:
 "It hangs early and freezes with a lot RCU warnings.

  I bisected it down to :

  > Ruslan Ruslichenko (1):
  >       x86/ioapic: Restore IO-APIC irq_chip retrigger callback

  Reverting this one fixes the problem for me..

  The box is a PRIMERGY TX200 S5 , 2 socket , 2 x E5520 CPU(s) installed"

and Ruslan and Thomas are currently stumped.
Reported-and-bisected-by: default avatarGabriel C <nix.or.die@gmail.com>
Cc: Ruslan Ruslichenko <rruslich@cisco.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      fd96835e
    • Stephen Smalley's avatar
      selinux: fix off-by-one in setprocattr · e72c13d9
      Stephen Smalley authored 
      commit 0c461cb7 upstream.

SELinux tries to support setting/clearing of /proc/pid/attr attributes
from the shell by ignoring terminating newlines and treating an
attribute value that begins with a NUL or newline as an attempt to
clear the attribute.  However, the test for clearing attributes has
always been wrong; it has an off-by-one error, and this could further
lead to reading past the end of the allocated buffer since commit
bb646cdb ("proc_pid_attr_write():
switch to memdup_user()").  Fix the off-by-one error.

Even with this fix, setting and clearing /proc/pid/attr attributes
from the shell is not straightforward since the interface does not
support multiple write() calls (so shells that write the value and
newline separately will set and then immediately clear the attribute,
requiring use of echo -n to set the attribute), whereas trying to use
echo -n "" to clear the attribute causes the shell to skip the
write() call altogether since POSIX says that a zero-length write
causes no side effects. Thus, one must use echo -n to set and echo
without -n to clear, as in the following example:
$ echo -n unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 > /proc/$$/attr/fscreate
$ cat /proc/$$/attr/fscreate
unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0
$ echo "" > /proc/$$/attr/fscreate
$ cat /proc/$$/attr/fscreate

Note the use of /proc/$$ rather than /proc/self, as otherwise
the cat command will read its own attribute value, not that of the shell.

There are no users of this facility to my knowledge; possibly we
should just get rid of it.

UPDATE: Upon further investigation it appears that a local process
with the process:setfscreate permission can cause a kernel panic as a
result of this bug.  This patch fixes CVE-2017-2618.
Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
[PM: added the update about CVE-2017-2618 to the commit description]
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
      e72c13d9
    • Vineet Gupta's avatar
      ARC: [arcompact] brown paper bag bug in unaligned access delay slot fixup · e871ea6b
      Vineet Gupta authored 
      commit a524c218 upstream.
Reported-by: default avatarJo-Philipp Wich <jo@mein.io>
Fixes: 9aed02fe ("ARC: [arcompact] handle unaligned access delay slot")
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      e871ea6b
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