- 07 Oct, 2019 9 commits
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Will Deacon authored
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS is defined differently depending on whether the main compiler is clang or not. This means that it is not possible to build the compat vDSO with GCC if the rest of the kernel is built with clang. Define VDSO_CPPFLAGS directly to break this dependency and allow a clang kernel to build a compat vDSO with GCC: $ make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- \ CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT=arm-linux-gnueabihf- CC=clang \ COMPATCC=arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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Will Deacon authored
There's no need to export COMPATCC, so just define it locally in the vdso32/Makefile, which is the only place where it is used. Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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Will Deacon authored
Rather than force the use of GCC for the compat cross-compiler, instead extract the target from CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT and pass it to clang if the main compiler is clang. Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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Vincenzo Frascino authored
arm64 was the last architecture using CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT_VDSO config option. With this patch series the dependency in the architecture has been removed. Remove CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT_VDSO from the Unified vDSO library code. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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Vincenzo Frascino authored
The jump labels are not used in vdso32 since it is not possible to run runtime patching on them. Remove the configuration option from the Makefile. Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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Vincenzo Frascino authored
Older versions of binutils (prior to 2.24) do not support the "ISHLD" option for memory barrier instructions, which leads to a build failure when assembling the vdso32 library. Add a compilation time mechanism that detects if binutils supports those instructions and configure the kernel accordingly. Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reported-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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Vincenzo Frascino authored
Moving over to the generic C implementation of the vDSO inadvertently left some stale files behind which are no longer used. Remove them. Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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Vincenzo Frascino authored
The .config file and the generated include/config/auto.conf can end up out of sync after a set of commands since CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT_VDSO is not updated correctly. The sequence can be reproduced as follows: $ make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- defconfig [...] $ make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- menuconfig [set CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT_VDSO="arm-linux-gnueabihf-"] $ make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- Which results in: arch/arm64/Makefile:62: CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT not defined or empty, the compat vDSO will not be built even though the compat vDSO has been built: $ file arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/vdso.so arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/vdso.so: ELF 32-bit LSB pie executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=c67f6c786f2d2d6f86c71f708595594aa25247f6, stripped A similar case that involves changing the configuration parameter multiple times can be reconducted to the same family of problems. Remove the use of CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT_VDSO altogether and instead rely on the cross-compiler prefix coming from the environment via CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT, much like we do for the rest of the kernel. Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reported-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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Mark Rutland authored
When detecting a spurious EL1 translation fault, we attempt to compare ESR_EL1.DFSC with PAR_EL1.FST. We erroneously use FIELD_PREP() to extract PAR_EL1.FST, when we should be using FIELD_GET(). In the wise words of Robin Murphy: | FIELD_GET() is a UBFX, FIELD_PREP() is a BFI Using FIELD_PREP() means that that dfsc & ESR_ELx_FSC_TYPE is always zero, and hence not equal to ESR_ELx_FSC_FAULT. Thus we detect any unhandled translation fault as spurious. ... so let's use FIELD_GET() to ensure we don't decide all translation faults are spurious. ESR_EL1.DFSC occupies bits [5:0], and requires no shifting. Fixes: 42f91093 ("arm64: mm: Ignore spurious translation faults taken from the kernel") Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Reported-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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- 04 Oct, 2019 5 commits
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James Morse authored
CPUs affected by Neoverse-N1 #1542419 may execute a stale instruction if it was recently modified. The affected sequence requires freshly written instructions to be executable before a branch to them is updated. There are very few places in the kernel that modify executable text, all but one come with sufficient synchronisation: * The module loader's flush_module_icache() calls flush_icache_range(), which does a kick_all_cpus_sync() * bpf_int_jit_compile() calls flush_icache_range(). * Kprobes calls aarch64_insn_patch_text(), which does its work in stop_machine(). * static keys and ftrace both patch between nops and branches to existing kernel code (not generated code). The affected sequence is the interaction between ftrace and modules. The module PLT is cleaned using __flush_icache_range() as the trampoline shouldn't be executable until we update the branch to it. Drop the double-underscore so that this path runs kick_all_cpus_sync() too. Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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James Morse authored
Commit bd82d4bd ("arm64: Fix incorrect irqflag restore for priority masking") added a macro to the entry.S call paths that leave the PSTATE.I bit set. This tells the pPNMI masking logic that interrupts are masked by the CPU, not by the PMR. This value is read back by local_daif_save(). Commit bd82d4bd added this call to el0_svc, as el0_svc_handler is called with interrupts masked. el0_svc_compat was missed, but should be covered in the same way as both of these paths end up in el0_svc_common(), which expects to unmask interrupts. Fixes: bd82d4bd ("arm64: Fix incorrect irqflag restore for priority masking") Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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Mark Rutland authored
If we take an unhandled fault in the kernel, we call show_pte() to dump the {PGDP,PGD,PUD,PMD,PTE} values for the corresponding page table walk, where the PGDP value is virt_to_phys(mm->pgd). The boot-time and runtime kernel page tables, init_pg_dir and swapper_pg_dir respectively, are kernel symbols. Thus, it is not valid to call virt_to_phys() on either of these, though we'll do so if we take a fault on a TTBR1 address. When CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is not selected, virt_to_phys() will silently fix this up. However, when CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is selected, this results in splats as below. Depending on when these occur, they can happen to suppress information needed to debug the original unhandled fault, such as the backtrace: | Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff7fffec73cf0f | Mem abort info: | ESR = 0x96000004 | EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits | SET = 0, FnV = 0 | EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 | Data abort info: | ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004 | CM = 0, WnR = 0 | ------------[ cut here ]------------ | virt_to_phys used for non-linear address: 00000000102c9dbe (swapper_pg_dir+0x0/0x1000) | WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7558 at arch/arm64/mm/physaddr.c:15 __virt_to_phys+0xe0/0x170 arch/arm64/mm/physaddr.c:12 | Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ... | SMP: stopping secondary CPUs | Dumping ftrace buffer: | (ftrace buffer empty) | Kernel Offset: disabled | CPU features: 0x0002,23000438 | Memory Limit: none | Rebooting in 1 seconds.. We can avoid this by ensuring that we call __pa_symbol() for init_mm.pgd, as this will always be a kernel symbol. As the dumped {PGD,PUD,PMD,PTE} values are the raw values from the relevant entries we don't need to handle these specially. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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Julien Grall authored
The HWCAP framework will detect a new capability based on the sanitized version of the ID registers. Sanitization is based on a whitelist, so any field not described will end up to be zeroed. At the moment, ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1.FRINTTS is not described in ftr_id_aa64isar1. This means the field will be zeroed and therefore the userspace will not be able to see the HWCAP even if the hardware supports the feature. This can be fixed by describing the field in ftr_id_aa64isar1. Fixes: ca9503fc ("arm64: Expose FRINT capabilities to userspace") Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com> Cc: mark.brown@arm.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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Will Deacon authored
As of ac7c3e4f ("compiler: enable CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING forcibly"), inline functions are no longer annotated with '__always_inline', which allows the compiler to decide whether inlining is really a good idea or not. Although this is a great idea on paper, the reality is that AArch64 GCC prior to 9.1 has been shown to get confused when creating an out-of-line copy of a function passing explicit 'register' variables into an inline assembly block: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91111 It's not clear whether this is specific to arm64 or not but, for now, ensure that all of our functions using 'register' variables are marked as '__always_inline' so that the old behaviour is effectively preserved. Hopefully other architectures are luckier with their compilers. Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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- 01 Oct, 2019 3 commits
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Adam Zerella authored
Sphinx generates the following warnings for the arm64 doc pages: Documentation/arm64/memory.rst:158: WARNING: Unexpected indentation. Documentation/arm64/memory.rst:162: WARNING: Unexpected indentation. These indentations warnings can be resolved by utilising code hightlighting instead. Signed-off-by: Adam Zerella <adam.zerella@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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Masayoshi Mizuma authored
The system which has SVE feature crashed because of the memory pointed by task->thread.sve_state was destroyed by someone. That is because sve_state is freed while the forking the child process. The child process has the pointer of sve_state which is same as the parent's because the child's task_struct is copied from the parent's one. If the copy_process() fails as an error on somewhere, for example, copy_creds(), then the sve_state is freed even if the parent is alive. The flow is as follows. copy_process p = dup_task_struct => arch_dup_task_struct *dst = *src; // copy the entire region. : retval = copy_creds if (retval < 0) goto bad_fork_free; : bad_fork_free: ... delayed_free_task(p); => free_task => arch_release_task_struct => fpsimd_release_task => __sve_free => kfree(task->thread.sve_state); // free the parent's sve_state Move child's sve_state = NULL and clearing TIF_SVE flag to arch_dup_task_struct() so that the child doesn't free the parent's one. There is no need to wait until copy_process() to clear TIF_SVE for dst, because the thread flags for dst are initialized already by copying the src task_struct. This change simplifies the code, so get rid of comments that are no longer needed. As a note, arm64 used to have thread_info on the stack. So it would not be possible to clear TIF_SVE until the stack is initialized. From commit c02433dd ("arm64: split thread_info from task stack"), the thread_info is part of the task, so it should be valid to modify the flag from arch_dup_task_struct(). Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.15.x- Fixes: bc0ee476 ("arm64/sve: Core task context handling") Signed-off-by: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com> Reported-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Suggested-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Tested-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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Thierry Reding authored
Commit 73f38166 ("arm64: Advertise mitigation of Spectre-v2, or lack thereof") renamed the caller of the install_bp_hardening_cb() function but forgot to update a comment, which can be confusing when trying to follow the code flow. Fixes: 73f38166 ("arm64: Advertise mitigation of Spectre-v2, or lack thereof") Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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- 30 Sep, 2019 17 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull btrfs fixes from David Sterba: "A bunch of fixes that accumulated in recent weeks, mostly material for stable. Summary: - fix for regression from 5.3 that prevents to use balance convert with single profile - qgroup fixes: rescan race, accounting leak with multiple writers, potential leak after io failure recovery - fix for use after free in relocation (reported by KASAN) - other error handling fixups" * tag 'for-5.4-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux: btrfs: qgroup: Fix reserved data space leak if we have multiple reserve calls btrfs: qgroup: Fix the wrong target io_tree when freeing reserved data space btrfs: Fix a regression which we can't convert to SINGLE profile btrfs: relocation: fix use-after-free on dead relocation roots Btrfs: fix race setting up and completing qgroup rescan workers Btrfs: fix missing error return if writeback for extent buffer never started btrfs: adjust dirty_metadata_bytes after writeback failure of extent buffer Btrfs: fix selftests failure due to uninitialized i_mode in test inodes
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git://github.com/c-sky/csky-linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull csky updates from Guo Ren: "This round of csky subsystem just some fixups: - Fix mb() synchronization problem - Fix dma_alloc_coherent with PAGE_SO attribute - Fix cache_op failed when cross memory ZONEs - Optimize arch_sync_dma_for_cpu/device with dma_inv_range - Fix ioremap function losing - Fix arch_get_unmapped_area() implementation - Fix defer cache flush for 610 - Support kernel non-aligned access - Fix 610 vipt cache flush mechanism - Fix add zero_fp fixup perf backtrace panic - Move static keyword to the front of declaration - Fix csky_pmu.max_period assignment - Use generic free_initrd_mem() - entry: Remove unneeded need_resched() loop" * tag 'csky-for-linus-5.4-rc1' of git://github.com/c-sky/csky-linux: csky: Move static keyword to the front of declaration csky: entry: Remove unneeded need_resched() loop csky: Fixup csky_pmu.max_period assignment csky: Fixup add zero_fp fixup perf backtrace panic csky: Use generic free_initrd_mem() csky: Fixup 610 vipt cache flush mechanism csky: Support kernel non-aligned access csky: Fixup defer cache flush for 610 csky: Fixup arch_get_unmapped_area() implementation csky: Fixup ioremap function losing csky: Optimize arch_sync_dma_for_cpu/device with dma_inv_range csky/dma: Fixup cache_op failed when cross memory ZONEs csky: Fixup dma_alloc_coherent with PAGE_SO attribute csky: Fixup mb() synchronization problem
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/socLinus Torvalds authored
Pull ARM SoC fixes from Olof Johansson: "A few fixes that have trickled in through the merge window: - Video fixes for OMAP due to panel-dpi driver removal - Clock fixes for OMAP that broke no-idle quirks + nfsroot on DRA7 - Fixing arch version on ASpeed ast2500 - Two fixes for reset handling on ARM SCMI" * tag 'armsoc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc: ARM: aspeed: ast2500 is ARMv6K reset: reset-scmi: add missing handle initialisation firmware: arm_scmi: reset: fix reset_state assignment in scmi_domain_reset bus: ti-sysc: Remove unpaired sysc_clkdm_deny_idle() ARM: dts: logicpd-som-lv: Fix i2c2 and i2c3 Pin mux ARM: dts: am3517-evm: Fix missing video ARM: dts: logicpd-torpedo-baseboard: Fix missing video ARM: omap2plus_defconfig: Fix missing video bus: ti-sysc: Fix handling of invalid clocks bus: ti-sysc: Fix clock handling for no-idle quirks
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-traceLinus Torvalds authored
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt: "A few more tracing fixes: - Fix a buffer overflow by checking nr_args correctly in probes - Fix a warning that is reported by clang - Fix a possible memory leak in error path of filter processing - Fix the selftest that checks for failures, but wasn't failing - Minor clean up on call site output of a memory trace event" * tag 'trace-v5.4-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: selftests/ftrace: Fix same probe error test mm, tracing: Print symbol name for call_site in trace events tracing: Have error path in predicate_parse() free its allocated memory tracing: Fix clang -Wint-in-bool-context warnings in IF_ASSIGN macro tracing/probe: Fix to check the difference of nr_args before adding probe
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ulfh/mmcLinus Torvalds authored
Pull more MMC updates from Ulf Hansson: "A couple more updates/fixes for MMC: - sdhci-pci: Add Genesys Logic GL975x support - sdhci-tegra: Recover loss in throughput for DMA - sdhci-of-esdhc: Fix DMA bug" * tag 'mmc-v5.4-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ulfh/mmc: mmc: host: sdhci-pci: Add Genesys Logic GL975x support mmc: tegra: Implement ->set_dma_mask() mmc: sdhci: Let drivers define their DMA mask mmc: sdhci-of-esdhc: set DMA snooping based on DMA coherence mmc: sdhci: improve ADMA error reporting
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Krzysztof Wilczynski authored
Move the static keyword to the front of declaration of csky_pmu_of_device_ids, and resolve the following compiler warning that can be seen when building with warnings enabled (W=1): arch/csky/kernel/perf_event.c:1340:1: warning: ‘static’ is not at beginning of declaration [-Wold-style-declaration] Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wilczynski <kw@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
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Valentin Schneider authored
Since the enabling and disabling of IRQs within preempt_schedule_irq() is contained in a need_resched() loop, we don't need the outer arch code loop. Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-miscLinus Torvalds authored
Pull Documentation/process update from Greg KH: "Here are two small Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst file updates that missed my previous char/misc pull request. The first one adds an Intel representative for the process, and the second one cleans up the text a bit more when it comes to how the disclosure rules work, as it was a bit confusing to some companies" * tag 'char-misc-5.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: Documentation/process: Clarify disclosure rules Documentation/process: Volunteer as the ambassador for Intel
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro: "A couple of misc patches" * 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: afs dynroot: switch to simple_dir_operations fs/handle.c - fix up kerneldoc
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git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
Pull more cifs updates from Steve French: "Fixes from the recent SMB3 Test events and Storage Developer Conference (held the last two weeks). Here are nine smb3 patches including an important patch for debugging traces with wireshark, with three patches marked for stable. Additional fixes from last week to better handle some newly discovered reparse points, and a fix the create/mkdir path for setting the mode more atomically (in SMB3 Create security descriptor context), and one for path name processing are still being tested so are not included here" * tag '5.4-rc-smb3-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6: CIFS: Fix oplock handling for SMB 2.1+ protocols smb3: missing ACL related flags smb3: pass mode bits into create calls smb3: Add missing reparse tags CIFS: fix max ea value size fs/cifs/sess.c: Remove set but not used variable 'capabilities' fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c: Make SMB2_notify_init static smb3: fix leak in "open on server" perf counter smb3: allow decryption keys to be dumped by admin for debugging
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Mao Han authored
The csky_pmu.max_period has type u64, and BIT() can only return 32 bits unsigned long on C-SKY. The initialization for max_period will be incorrect when count_width is bigger than 32. Use BIT_ULL() Signed-off-by: Mao Han <han_mao@c-sky.com> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <ren_guo@c-sky.com>
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Guo Ren authored
We need set fp zero to let backtrace know the end. The patch fixup perf callchain panic problem, because backtrace didn't know what is the end of fp. Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <ren_guo@c-sky.com> Reported-by: Mao Han <han_mao@c-sky.com>
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Mike Rapoport authored
The csky implementation of free_initrd_mem() is an open-coded version of free_reserved_area() without poisoning. Remove it and make csky use the generic version of free_initrd_mem(). Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge active entropy generation updates. This is admittedly partly "for discussion". We need to have a way forward for the boot time deadlocks where user space ends up waiting for more entropy, but no entropy is forthcoming because the system is entirely idle just waiting for something to happen. While this was triggered by what is arguably a user space bug with GDM/gnome-session asking for secure randomness during early boot, when they didn't even need any such truly secure thing, the issue ends up being that our "getrandom()" interface is prone to that kind of confusion, because people don't think very hard about whether they want to block for sufficient amounts of entropy. The approach here-in is to decide to not just passively wait for entropy to happen, but to start actively collecting it if it is missing. This is not necessarily always possible, but if the architecture has a CPU cycle counter, there is a fair amount of noise in the exact timings of reasonably complex loads. We may end up tweaking the load and the entropy estimates, but this should be at least a reasonable starting point. As part of this, we also revert the revert of the ext4 IO pattern improvement that ended up triggering the reported lack of external entropy. * getrandom() active entropy waiting: Revert "Revert "ext4: make __ext4_get_inode_loc plug"" random: try to actively add entropy rather than passively wait for it
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Linus Torvalds authored
This reverts commit 72dbcf72. Instead of waiting forever for entropy that may just not happen, we now try to actively generate entropy when required, and are thus hopefully avoiding the problem that caused the nice ext4 IO pattern fix to be reverted. So revert the revert. Cc: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Cc: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
For 5.3 we had to revert a nice ext4 IO pattern improvement, because it caused a bootup regression due to lack of entropy at bootup together with arguably broken user space that was asking for secure random numbers when it really didn't need to. See commit 72dbcf72 (Revert "ext4: make __ext4_get_inode_loc plug"). This aims to solve the issue by actively generating entropy noise using the CPU cycle counter when waiting for the random number generator to initialize. This only works when you have a high-frequency time stamp counter available, but that's the case on all modern x86 CPU's, and on most other modern CPU's too. What we do is to generate jitter entropy from the CPU cycle counter under a somewhat complex load: calling the scheduler while also guaranteeing a certain amount of timing noise by also triggering a timer. I'm sure we can tweak this, and that people will want to look at other alternatives, but there's been a number of papers written on jitter entropy, and this should really be fairly conservative by crediting one bit of entropy for every timer-induced jump in the cycle counter. Not because the timer itself would be all that unpredictable, but because the interaction between the timer and the loop is going to be. Even if (and perhaps particularly if) the timer actually happens on another CPU, the cacheline interaction between the loop that reads the cycle counter and the timer itself firing is going to add perturbations to the cycle counter values that get mixed into the entropy pool. As Thomas pointed out, with a modern out-of-order CPU, even quite simple loops show a fair amount of hard-to-predict timing variability even in the absense of external interrupts. But this tries to take that further by actually having a fairly complex interaction. This is not going to solve the entropy issue for architectures that have no CPU cycle counter, but it's not clear how (and if) that is solvable, and the hardware in question is largely starting to be irrelevant. And by doing this we can at least avoid some of the even more contentious approaches (like making the entropy waiting time out in order to avoid the possibly unbounded waiting). Cc: Ahmed Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@opentech.at> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Cc: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@gmail.com> Cc: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 29 Sep, 2019 6 commits
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Olof Johansson authored
Merge tag 'fixes-5.4-merge-window' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap into arm/fixes Fixes for omap variants Few fixes for ti-sysc interconnect target module driver for no-idle quirks that caused nfsroot to fail on some dra7 boards. And let's fixes to get LCD working again for logicpd board that got broken a while back with removal of panel-dpi driver. We need to now use generic CONFIG_DRM_PANEL_SIMPLE instead. * tag 'fixes-5.4-merge-window' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap: bus: ti-sysc: Remove unpaired sysc_clkdm_deny_idle() ARM: dts: logicpd-som-lv: Fix i2c2 and i2c3 Pin mux ARM: dts: am3517-evm: Fix missing video ARM: dts: logicpd-torpedo-baseboard: Fix missing video ARM: omap2plus_defconfig: Fix missing video bus: ti-sysc: Fix handling of invalid clocks bus: ti-sysc: Fix clock handling for no-idle quirks Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/pull-1568819401-72461@atomide.comSigned-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
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Olof Johansson authored
Merge tag 'scmi-fixes-5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sudeep.holla/linux into arm/fixes ARM SCMI fixes for v5.4 Couple of fixes: one in scmi reset driver initialising missed scmi handle and an other in scmi reset API implementation fixing the assignment of reset state * tag 'scmi-fixes-5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sudeep.holla/linux: reset: reset-scmi: add missing handle initialisation firmware: arm_scmi: reset: fix reset_state assignment in scmi_domain_reset Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190918142139.GA4370@bogusSigned-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimmLinus Torvalds authored
More libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams: - Complete the reworks to interoperate with powerpc dynamic huge page sizes - Fix a crash due to missed accounting for the powerpc 'struct page'-memmap mapping granularity - Fix badblock initialization for volatile (DRAM emulated) pmem ranges - Stop triggering request_key() notifications to userspace when NVDIMM-security is disabled / not present - Miscellaneous small fixups * tag 'libnvdimm-fixes-5.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: libnvdimm/region: Enable MAP_SYNC for volatile regions libnvdimm: prevent nvdimm from requesting key when security is disabled libnvdimm/region: Initialize bad block for volatile namespaces libnvdimm/nfit_test: Fix acpi_handle redefinition libnvdimm/altmap: Track namespace boundaries in altmap libnvdimm: Fix endian conversion issues libnvdimm/dax: Pick the right alignment default when creating dax devices powerpc/book3s64: Export has_transparent_hugepage() related functions.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/evalenti/linux-soc-thermalLinus Torvalds authored
Pull thermal SoC updates from Eduardo Valentin: "This is a really small pull in the midst of a lot of pending patches. We are in the middle of restructuring how we are maintaining the thermal subsystem, as per discussion in our last LPC. For now, I am sending just some changes that were pending in my tree. Looking forward to get a more streamlined process in the next merge window" * 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/evalenti/linux-soc-thermal: thermal: db8500: Rewrite to be a pure OF sensor thermal: db8500: Use dev helper variable thermal: db8500: Finalize device tree conversion thermal: thermal_mmio: remove some dead code
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull more i2c updates from Wolfram Sang: - make Lenovo Yoga C630 boot now that the dependencies are merged - restore BlockProcessCall for i801, accidently removed in this merge window - a bugfix for the riic driver - an improvement to the slave-eeprom driver which should have been in the first pull request but sadly got lost in the process * 'i2c/for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux: i2c: slave-eeprom: Add read only mode i2c: i801: Bring back Block Process Call support for certain platforms i2c: riic: Clear NACK in tend isr i2c: qcom-geni: Disable DMA processing on the Lenovo Yoga C630
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommuLinus Torvalds authored
Pull iommu fixes from Joerg Roedel: "A couple of fixes for the AMD IOMMU driver have piled up: - Some fixes for the reworked IO page-table which caused memory leaks or did not allow to downgrade mappings under some conditions. - Locking fixes to fix a couple of possible races around accessing 'struct protection_domain'. The races got introduced when the dma-ops path became lock-less in the fast-path" * tag 'iommu-fixes-5.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: iommu/amd: Lock code paths traversing protection_domain->dev_list iommu/amd: Lock dev_data in attach/detach code paths iommu/amd: Check for busy devices earlier in attach_device() iommu/amd: Take domain->lock for complete attach/detach path iommu/amd: Remove amd_iommu_devtable_lock iommu/amd: Remove domain->updated iommu/amd: Wait for completion of IOTLB flush in attach_device iommu/amd: Unmap all L7 PTEs when downgrading page-sizes iommu/amd: Introduce first_pte_l7() helper iommu/amd: Fix downgrading default page-sizes in alloc_pte() iommu/amd: Fix pages leak in free_pagetable()
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