1. 31 Jan, 2019 4 commits
    • Joe Lawrence's avatar
      powerpc/livepatch: small cleanups in save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() · 29a77bbb
      Joe Lawrence authored
      Mostly cosmetic changes:
      
      - Group common stack pointer code at the top
      - Simplify the first frame logic
      - Code stackframe iteration into for...loop construct
      - Check for trace->nr_entries overflow before adding any into the array
      Suggested-by: default avatarNicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
      29a77bbb
    • Joe Lawrence's avatar
      powerpc/livepatch: relax reliable stack tracer checks for first-frame · 18be3760
      Joe Lawrence authored
      The bottom-most stack frame (the first to be unwound) may be largely
      uninitialized, for the "Power Architecture 64-Bit ELF V2 ABI" only
      requires its backchain pointer to be set.
      
      The reliable stack tracer should be careful when verifying this frame:
      skip checks on STACK_FRAME_LR_SAVE and STACK_FRAME_MARKER offsets that
      may contain uninitialized residual data.
      
      Fixes: df78d3f6 ("powerpc/livepatch: Implement reliable stack tracing for the consistency model")
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
      18be3760
    • Nicolai Stange's avatar
      powerpc/64s: Make reliable stacktrace dependency clearer · a50d3250
      Nicolai Stange authored
      Make the HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE Kconfig option depend on
      PPC_BOOK3S_64 for documentation purposes. Before this patch, it
      depended on PPC64 && CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN and because CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
      implies PPC_BOOK3S_64, there's no functional change here.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
      [mpe: Split out of larger patch]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
      a50d3250
    • Nicolai Stange's avatar
      powerpc/64s: Clear on-stack exception marker upon exception return · eddd0b33
      Nicolai Stange authored
      The ppc64 specific implementation of the reliable stacktracer,
      save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable(), bails out and reports an "unreliable
      trace" whenever it finds an exception frame on the stack. Stack frames
      are classified as exception frames if the STACK_FRAME_REGS_MARKER
      magic, as written by exception prologues, is found at a particular
      location.
      
      However, as observed by Joe Lawrence, it is possible in practice that
      non-exception stack frames can alias with prior exception frames and
      thus, that the reliable stacktracer can find a stale
      STACK_FRAME_REGS_MARKER on the stack. It in turn falsely reports an
      unreliable stacktrace and blocks any live patching transition to
      finish. Said condition lasts until the stack frame is
      overwritten/initialized by function call or other means.
      
      In principle, we could mitigate this by making the exception frame
      classification condition in save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable() stronger:
      in addition to testing for STACK_FRAME_REGS_MARKER, we could also take
      into account that for all exceptions executing on the kernel stack
        - their stack frames's backlink pointers always match what is saved
          in their pt_regs instance's ->gpr[1] slot and that
        - their exception frame size equals STACK_INT_FRAME_SIZE, a value
          uncommonly large for non-exception frames.
      
      However, while these are currently true, relying on them would make
      the reliable stacktrace implementation more sensitive towards future
      changes in the exception entry code. Note that false negatives, i.e.
      not detecting exception frames, would silently break the live patching
      consistency model.
      
      Furthermore, certain other places (diagnostic stacktraces, perf, xmon)
      rely on STACK_FRAME_REGS_MARKER as well.
      
      Make the exception exit code clear the on-stack
      STACK_FRAME_REGS_MARKER for those exceptions running on the "normal"
      kernel stack and returning to kernelspace: because the topmost frame
      is ignored by the reliable stack tracer anyway, returns to userspace
      don't need to take care of clearing the marker.
      
      Furthermore, as I don't have the ability to test this on Book 3E or 32
      bits, limit the change to Book 3S and 64 bits.
      
      Fixes: df78d3f6 ("powerpc/livepatch: Implement reliable stack tracing for the consistency model")
      Reported-by: default avatarJoe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
      eddd0b33
  2. 30 Jan, 2019 8 commits
  3. 15 Jan, 2019 12 commits
  4. 14 Jan, 2019 11 commits
  5. 13 Jan, 2019 5 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 5.0-rc2 · 1c7fc5cb
      Linus Torvalds authored
      1c7fc5cb
    • Jonathan Neuschäfer's avatar
      kernel/sys.c: Clarify that UNAME26 does not generate unique versions anymore · b7285b42
      Jonathan Neuschäfer authored
      UNAME26 is a mechanism to report Linux's version as 2.6.x, for
      compatibility with old/broken software.  Due to the way it is
      implemented, it would have to be updated after 5.0, to keep the
      resulting versions unique.  Linus Torvalds argued:
      
       "Do we actually need this?
      
        I'd rather let it bitrot, and just let it return random versions. It
        will just start again at 2.4.60, won't it?
      
        Anybody who uses UNAME26 for a 5.x kernel might as well think it's
        still 4.x. The user space is so old that it can't possibly care about
        differences between 4.x and 5.x, can it?
      
        The only thing that matters is that it shows "2.4.<largeenough>",
        which it will do regardless"
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b7285b42
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'armsoc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc · dbc3c09b
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull ARM SoC fixes from Olof Johansson:
       "A bigger batch than I anticipated this week, for two reasons:
      
         - Some fallout on Davinci from board file -> DTB conversion, that
           also includes a few longer-standing fixes (i.e. not recent
           regressions).
      
         - drivers/reset material that has been in linux-next for a while, but
           didn't get sent to us until now for a variety of reasons
           (maintainer out sick, holidays, etc). There's a functional
           dependency in there such that one platform (Altera's SoCFPGA) won't
           boot without one of the patches; instead of reverting the patch
           that got merged, I looked at this set and decided it was small
           enough that I'll pick it up anyway. If you disagree I can revisit
           with a smaller set.
      
        That being said, there's also a handful of the usual stuff:
      
         - Fix for a crash on Armada 7K/8K when the kernel touches
           PSCI-reserved memory
      
         - Fix for PCIe reset on Macchiatobin (Armada 8K development board,
           what this email is sent from in fact :)
      
         - Enable a few new-merged modules for Amlogic in arm64 defconfig
      
         - Error path fixes on Integrator
      
         - Build fix for Renesas and Qualcomm
      
         - Initialization fix for Renesas RZ/G2E
      
        .. plus a few more fixlets"
      
      * tag 'armsoc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (28 commits)
        ARM: integrator: impd1: use struct_size() in devm_kzalloc()
        qcom-scm: Include <linux/err.h> header
        gpio: pl061: handle failed allocations
        ARM: dts: kirkwood: Fix polarity of GPIO fan lines
        arm64: dts: marvell: mcbin: fix PCIe reset signal
        arm64: dts: marvell: armada-ap806: reserve PSCI area
        ARM: dts: da850-lcdk: Correct the sound card name
        ARM: dts: da850-lcdk: Correct the audio codec regulators
        ARM: dts: da850-evm: Correct the sound card name
        ARM: dts: da850-evm: Correct the audio codec regulators
        ARM: davinci: omapl138-hawk: fix label names in GPIO lookup entries
        ARM: davinci: dm644x-evm: fix label names in GPIO lookup entries
        ARM: davinci: dm355-evm: fix label names in GPIO lookup entries
        ARM: davinci: da850-evm: fix label names in GPIO lookup entries
        ARM: davinci: da830-evm: fix label names in GPIO lookup entries
        arm64: defconfig: enable modules for amlogic s400 sound card
        reset: uniphier-glue: Add AHCI reset control support in glue layer
        dt-bindings: reset: uniphier: Add AHCI core reset description
        reset: uniphier-usb3: Rename to reset-uniphier-glue
        dt-bindings: reset: uniphier: Replace the expression of USB3 with generic peripherals
        ...
      dbc3c09b
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'for-5.0-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux · 6b529fb0
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull btrfs fixes from David Sterba:
      
       - two regression fixes in clone/dedupe ioctls, the generic check
         callback needs to lock extents properly and wait for io to avoid
         problems with writeback and relocation
      
       - fix deadlock when using free space tree due to block group creation
      
       - a recently added check refuses a valid fileystem with seeding device,
         make that work again with a quickfix, proper solution needs more
         intrusive changes
      
      * tag 'for-5.0-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux:
        btrfs: Use real device structure to verify dev extent
        Btrfs: fix deadlock when using free space tree due to block group creation
        Btrfs: fix race between reflink/dedupe and relocation
        Btrfs: fix race between cloning range ending at eof and writeback
      6b529fb0
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'driver-core-5.0-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core · 72d657dd
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull driver core fixes from Greg KH:
       "Here is one small sysfs change, and a documentation update for 5.0-rc2
      
        The sysfs change moves from using BUG_ON to WARN_ON, as discussed in
        an email thread on lkml while trying to track down another driver bug.
        sysfs should not be crashing and preventing people from seeing where
        they went wrong. Now it properly recovers and warns the developer.
      
        The documentation update removes the use of BUS_ATTR() as the kernel
        is moving away from this to use the specific BUS_ATTR_RW() and friends
        instead. There are pending patches in all of the different subsystems
        to remove the last users of this macro, but for now, don't advertise
        it should be used anymore to keep new ones from being introduced.
      
        Both have been in linux-next with no reported issues"
      
      * tag 'driver-core-5.0-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
        Documentation: driver core: remove use of BUS_ATTR
        sysfs: convert BUG_ON to WARN_ON
      72d657dd