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2012-11-14Merge v3.7-rc5 into tty-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman
This pulls in the 3.7-rc5 fixes into tty-next to make it easier to test.
2012-10-31module: fix out-by-one error in kallsymsRusty Russell
Masaki found and patched a kallsyms issue: the last symbol in a module's symtab wasn't transferred. This is because we manually copy the zero'th entry (which is always empty) then copy the rest in a loop starting at 1, though from src[0]. His fix was minimal, I prefer to rewrite the loops in more standard form. There are two loops: one to get the size, and one to copy. Make these identical: always count entry 0 and any defined symbol in an allocated non-init section. This bug exists since the following commit was introduced. module: reduce symbol table for loaded modules (v2) commit: 4a4962263f07d14660849ec134ee42b63e95ea9a LKML: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/24/27 Reported-by: Masaki Kimura <masaki.kimura.kz@hitachi.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2012-10-29Merge 3.7-rc3 into tty-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman
This merges the tty changes in 3.7-rc3 into tty-next Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-25Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's fixes)Linus Torvalds
Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton: "18 total. 15 fixes and some updates to a device_cgroup patchset which bring it up to date with the version which I should have merged in the first place." * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (18 patches) fs/compat_ioctl.c: VIDEO_SET_SPU_PALETTE missing error check gen_init_cpio: avoid stack overflow when expanding drivers/rtc/rtc-imxdi.c: add missing spin lock initialization mm, numa: avoid setting zone_reclaim_mode unless a node is sufficiently distant pidns: limit the nesting depth of pid namespaces drivers/dma/dw_dmac: make driver's endianness configurable mm/mmu_notifier: allocate mmu_notifier in advance tools/testing/selftests/epoll/test_epoll.c: fix build UAPI: fix tools/vm/page-types.c mm/page_alloc.c:alloc_contig_range(): return early for err path rbtree: include linux/compiler.h for definition of __always_inline genalloc: stop crashing the system when destroying a pool backlight: ili9320: add missing SPI dependency device_cgroup: add proper checking when changing default behavior device_cgroup: stop using simple_strtoul() device_cgroup: rename deny_all to behavior cgroup: fix invalid rcu dereference mm: fix XFS oops due to dirty pages without buffers on s390
2012-10-25Makefile: Documentation for external tool should be correctH. Peter Anvin
If one includes documentation for an external tool, it should be correct. This is not: 1. Overriding the input to rngd should typically be neither necessary nor desired. This is especially so since newer versions of rngd support a number of different *types* of sources. 2. The default kernel-exported device is called /dev/hwrng not /dev/hwrandom nor /dev/hw_random (both of which were used in the past; however, kernel and udev seem to have converged on /dev/hwrng.) Overall it is better if the documentation for rngd is kept with rngd rather than in a kernel Makefile. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-25pidns: limit the nesting depth of pid namespacesAndrew Vagin
'struct pid' is a "variable sized struct" - a header with an array of upids at the end. The size of the array depends on a level (depth) of pid namespaces. Now a level of pidns is not limited, so 'struct pid' can be more than one page. Looks reasonable, that it should be less than a page. MAX_PIS_NS_LEVEL is not calculated from PAGE_SIZE, because in this case it depends on architectures, config options and it will be reduced, if someone adds a new fields in struct pid or struct upid. I suggest to set MAX_PIS_NS_LEVEL = 32, because it saves ability to expand "struct pid" and it's more than enough for all known for me use-cases. When someone finds a reasonable use case, we can add a config option or a sysctl parameter. In addition it will reduce the effect of another problem, when we have many nested namespaces and the oldest one starts dying. zap_pid_ns_processe will be called for each namespace and find_vpid will be called for each process in a namespace. find_vpid will be called minimum max_level^2 / 2 times. The reason of that is that when we found a bit in pidmap, we can't determine this pidns is top for this process or it isn't. vpid is a heavy operation, so a fork bomb, which create many nested namespace, can make a system inaccessible for a long time. For example my system becomes inaccessible for a few minutes with 4000 processes. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: return -EINVAL in response to excessive nesting, not -ENOMEM] Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-24Merge branch 'for-3.7-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo: "This pull request contains three fixes. Two are reverts of task_lock() removal in cgroup fork path. The optimizations incorrectly assumed that threadgroup_lock can protect process forks (as opposed to thread creations) too. Further cleanup of cgroup fork path is scheduled. The third fixes cgroup emptiness notification loss." * 'for-3.7-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: Revert "cgroup: Remove task_lock() from cgroup_post_fork()" Revert "cgroup: Drop task_lock(parent) on cgroup_fork()" cgroup: notify_on_release may not be triggered in some cases
2012-10-24Merge branch 'for-3.7-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq Pull workqueue fix from Tejun Heo: "This pull request contains one patch from Dan Magenheimer to fix cancel_delayed_work() regression introduced by its reimplementation using try_to_grab_pending(). The reimplementation made it incorrectly return %true when the work item is idle. There aren't too many consumers of the return value but it broke at least ramster." * 'for-3.7-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: cancel_delayed_work() should return %false if work item is idle
2012-10-24workqueue: cancel_delayed_work() should return %false if work item is idleDan Magenheimer
57b30ae77b ("workqueue: reimplement cancel_delayed_work() using try_to_grab_pending()") made cancel_delayed_work() always return %true unless someone else is also trying to cancel the work item, which is broken - if the target work item is idle, the return value should be %false. try_to_grab_pending() indicates that the target work item was idle by zero return value. Use it for return. Note that this brings cancel_delayed_work() in line with __cancel_work_timer() in return value handling. Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <444a6439-b1a4-4740-9e7e-bc37267cfe73@default>
2012-10-24audit: remove bogus tty name checkAlan Cox
tty name is an array not a pointer Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-23console: use might_sleep in console_lockDaniel Vetter
Instead of BUG_ON(in_interrupt()), since that doesn't check for all the newfangled stuff like preempt. Note that this is valid since the console_sem is essentially used like a real mutex with only two twists: - we allow trylock from hardirq context - across suspend/resume we lock the logical console_lock, but drop the semaphore protecting the locking state. Now that doesn't guarantee that no one is playing tricks in single-thread atomic contexts at suspend/resume/boot time, but - I couldn't find anything suspicious with some grepping, - might_sleep shouldn't die, - and I think the upside of catching more potential issues is worth the risk of getting a might_sleep backtrace that would have been save (and then dealing with that fallout). Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-24Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Most of these are uprobes race fixes from Oleg, and their preparatory cleanups. (It's larger than what I'd normally send for an -rc kernel, but they looked significant enough to not delay them.) There's also an oprofile fix and an uncore PMU fix." * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (22 commits) perf/x86: Disable uncore on virtualized CPUs oprofile, x86: Fix wrapping bug in op_x86_get_ctrl() ring-buffer: Check for uninitialized cpu buffer before resizing uprobes: Fix the racy uprobe->flags manipulation uprobes: Fix prepare_uprobe() race with itself uprobes: Introduce prepare_uprobe() uprobes: Fix handle_swbp() vs unregister() + register() race uprobes: Do not delete uprobe if uprobe_unregister() fails uprobes: Don't return success if alloc_uprobe() fails uprobes/x86: Only rep+nop can be emulated correctly uprobes: Simplify is_swbp_at_addr(), remove stale comments uprobes: Kill set_orig_insn()->is_swbp_at_addr() uprobes: Introduce copy_opcode(), kill read_opcode() uprobes: Kill set_swbp()->is_swbp_at_addr() uprobes: Restrict valid_vma(false) to skip VM_SHARED vmas uprobes: Change valid_vma() to demand VM_MAYEXEC rather than VM_EXEC uprobes: Change write_opcode() to use FOLL_FORCE uprobes: Move clear_thread_flag(TIF_UPROBE) to uprobe_notify_resume() uprobes: Kill UTASK_BP_HIT state uprobes: Fix UPROBE_SKIP_SSTEP checks in handle_swbp() ...
2012-10-22console: implement lockdep support for console_lockDaniel Vetter
Dave Airlie recently discovered a locking bug in the fbcon layer, where a timer_del_sync (for the blinking cursor) deadlocks with the timer itself, since both (want to) hold the console_lock: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/21/36 Unfortunately the console_lock isn't a plain mutex and hence has no lockdep support. Which resulted in a few days wasted of tracking down this bug (complicated by the fact that printk doesn't show anything when the console is locked) instead of noticing the bug much earlier with the lockdep splat. Hence I've figured I need to fix that for the next deadlock involving console_lock - and with kms/drm growing ever more complex locking that'll eventually happen. Now the console_lock has rather funky semantics, so after a quick irc discussion with Thomas Gleixner and Dave Airlie I've quickly ditched the original idead of switching to a real mutex (since it won't work) and instead opted to annotate the console_lock with lockdep information manually. There are a few special cases: - The console_lock state is protected by the console_sem, and usually grabbed/dropped at _lock/_unlock time. But the suspend/resume code drops the semaphore without dropping the console_lock (see suspend_console/resume_console). But since the same thread that did the suspend will do the resume, we don't need to fix up anything. - In the printk code there's a special trylock, only used to kick off the logbuffer printk'ing in console_unlock. But all that happens while lockdep is disable (since printk does a few other evil tricks). So no issue there, either. - The console_lock can also be acquired form irq context (but only with a trylock). lockdep already handles that. This all leaves us with annotating the normal console_lock, _unlock and _trylock functions. And yes, it works - simply unloading a drm kms driver resulted in lockdep complaining about the deadlock in fbcon_deinit: ====================================================== [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 3.6.0-rc2+ #552 Not tainted ------------------------------------------------------- kms-reload/3577 is trying to acquire lock: ((&info->queue)){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff81058c70>] wait_on_work+0x0/0xa7 but task is already holding lock: (console_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81264686>] bind_con_driver+0x38/0x263 which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #1 (console_lock){+.+.+.}: [<ffffffff81087440>] lock_acquire+0x95/0x105 [<ffffffff81040190>] console_lock+0x59/0x5b [<ffffffff81209cb6>] fb_flashcursor+0x2e/0x12c [<ffffffff81057c3e>] process_one_work+0x1d9/0x3b4 [<ffffffff810584a2>] worker_thread+0x1a7/0x24b [<ffffffff8105ca29>] kthread+0x7f/0x87 [<ffffffff813b1204>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 -> #0 ((&info->queue)){+.+...}: [<ffffffff81086cb3>] __lock_acquire+0x999/0xcf6 [<ffffffff81087440>] lock_acquire+0x95/0x105 [<ffffffff81058cab>] wait_on_work+0x3b/0xa7 [<ffffffff81058dd6>] __cancel_work_timer+0xbf/0x102 [<ffffffff81058e33>] cancel_work_sync+0xb/0xd [<ffffffff8120a3b3>] fbcon_deinit+0x11c/0x1dc [<ffffffff81264793>] bind_con_driver+0x145/0x263 [<ffffffff81264a45>] unbind_con_driver+0x14f/0x195 [<ffffffff8126540c>] store_bind+0x1ad/0x1c1 [<ffffffff8127cbb7>] dev_attr_store+0x13/0x1f [<ffffffff8116d884>] sysfs_write_file+0xe9/0x121 [<ffffffff811145b2>] vfs_write+0x9b/0xfd [<ffffffff811147b7>] sys_write+0x3e/0x6b [<ffffffff813b0039>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b other info that might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(console_lock); lock((&info->queue)); lock(console_lock); lock((&info->queue)); *** DEADLOCK *** v2: Mark the lockdep_map static, noticed by Jani Nikula. Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-10-22module_signing: fix printk format warningRandy Dunlap
Fix the warning: kernel/module_signing.c:195:2: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'size_t' by using the proper 'z' modifier for printing a size_t. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-21Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into perf/urgent Pull ftrace ring-buffer resizing fix from Steve Rostedt. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-21Merge branch 'uprobes/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc into perf/urgent Pull various uprobes bugfixes from Oleg Nesterov - mostly race and failure path fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-19use clamp_t in UNAME26 fixKees Cook
The min/max call needed to have explicit types on some architectures (e.g. mn10300). Use clamp_t instead to avoid the warning: kernel/sys.c: In function 'override_release': kernel/sys.c:1287:10: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast [enabled by default] Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-19MODSIGN: Move the magic string to the end of a module and eliminate the searchDavid Howells
Emit the magic string that indicates a module has a signature after the signature data instead of before it. This allows module_sig_check() to be made simpler and faster by the elimination of the search for the magic string. Instead we just need to do a single memcmp(). This works because at the end of the signature data there is the fixed-length signature information block. This block then falls immediately prior to the magic number. From the contents of the information block, it is trivial to calculate the size of the signature data and thus the size of the actual module data. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-19Revert "cgroup: Remove task_lock() from cgroup_post_fork()"Tejun Heo
This reverts commit 7e3aa30ac8c904a706518b725c451bb486daaae9. The commit incorrectly assumed that fork path always performed threadgroup_change_begin/end() and depended on that for synchronization against task exit and cgroup migration paths instead of explicitly grabbing task_lock(). threadgroup_change is not locked when forking a new process (as opposed to a new thread in the same process) and even if it were it wouldn't be effective as different processes use different threadgroup locks. Revert the incorrect optimization. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <20121008020000.GB2575@localhost> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2012-10-19Revert "cgroup: Drop task_lock(parent) on cgroup_fork()"Tejun Heo
This reverts commit 7e381b0eb1e1a9805c37335562e8dc02e7d7848c. The commit incorrectly assumed that fork path always performed threadgroup_change_begin/end() and depended on that for synchronization against task exit and cgroup migration paths instead of explicitly grabbing task_lock(). threadgroup_change is not locked when forking a new process (as opposed to a new thread in the same process) and even if it were it wouldn't be effective as different processes use different threadgroup locks. Revert the incorrect optimization. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <20121008020000.GB2575@localhost> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Bitterly-Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2012-10-19pidns: remove recursion from free_pid_ns()Cyrill Gorcunov
free_pid_ns() operates in a recursive fashion: free_pid_ns(parent) put_pid_ns(parent) kref_put(&ns->kref, free_pid_ns); free_pid_ns thus if there was a huge nesting of namespaces the userspace may trigger avalanche calling of free_pid_ns leading to kernel stack exhausting and a panic eventually. This patch turns the recursion into an iterative loop. Based on a patch by Andrew Vagin. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export put_pid_ns() to modules] Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-19kernel/sys.c: fix stack memory content leak via UNAME26Kees Cook
Calling uname() with the UNAME26 personality set allows a leak of kernel stack contents. This fixes it by defensively calculating the length of copy_to_user() call, making the len argument unsigned, and initializing the stack buffer to zero (now technically unneeded, but hey, overkill). CVE-2012-0957 Reported-by: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu> Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-16printk: Fix scheduling-while-atomic problem in console_cpu_notify()Paul E. McKenney
The console_cpu_notify() function runs with interrupts disabled in the CPU_DYING case. It therefore cannot block, for example, as will happen when it calls console_lock(). Therefore, remove the CPU_DYING leg of the switch statement to avoid this problem. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-16cgroup: notify_on_release may not be triggered in some casesDaisuke Nishimura
notify_on_release must be triggered when the last process in a cgroup is move to another. But if the first(and only) process in a cgroup is moved to another, notify_on_release is not triggered. # mkdir /cgroup/cpu/SRC # mkdir /cgroup/cpu/DST # # echo 1 >/cgroup/cpu/SRC/notify_on_release # echo 1 >/cgroup/cpu/DST/notify_on_release # # sleep 300 & [1] 8629 # # echo 8629 >/cgroup/cpu/SRC/tasks # echo 8629 >/cgroup/cpu/DST/tasks -> notify_on_release for /SRC must be triggered at this point, but it isn't. This is because put_css_set() is called before setting CGRP_RELEASABLE in cgroup_task_migrate(), and is a regression introduce by the commit:74a1166d(cgroups: make procs file writable), which was merged into v3.0. Cc: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.0.x and later Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-10-14Merge branch 'modules-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux Pull module signing support from Rusty Russell: "module signing is the highlight, but it's an all-over David Howells frenzy..." Hmm "Magrathea: Glacier signing key". Somebody has been reading too much HHGTTG. * 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (37 commits) X.509: Fix indefinite length element skip error handling X.509: Convert some printk calls to pr_devel asymmetric keys: fix printk format warning MODSIGN: Fix 32-bit overflow in X.509 certificate validity date checking MODSIGN: Make mrproper should remove generated files. MODSIGN: Use utf8 strings in signer's name in autogenerated X.509 certs MODSIGN: Use the same digest for the autogen key sig as for the module sig MODSIGN: Sign modules during the build process MODSIGN: Provide a script for generating a key ID from an X.509 cert MODSIGN: Implement module signature checking MODSIGN: Provide module signing public keys to the kernel MODSIGN: Automatically generate module signing keys if missing MODSIGN: Provide Kconfig options MODSIGN: Provide gitignore and make clean rules for extra files MODSIGN: Add FIPS policy module: signature checking hook X.509: Add a crypto key parser for binary (DER) X.509 certificates MPILIB: Provide a function to read raw data into an MPI X.509: Add an ASN.1 decoder X.509: Add simple ASN.1 grammar compiler ...
2012-10-13Merge tag 'for_linus-3.7' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb Pull KGDB/KDB fixes and cleanups from Jason Wessel: "Cleanups - Clean up compile warnings in kgdboc.c and x86/kernel/kgdb.c - Add module event hooks for simplified debugging with gdb Fixes - Fix kdb to stop paging with 'q' on bta and dmesg - Fix for data that scrolls off the vga console due to line wrapping when using the kdb pager New - The debug core registers for kernel module events which allows a kernel aware gdb to automatically load symbols and break on entry to a kernel module - Allow kgdboc=kdb to setup kdb on the vga console" * tag 'for_linus-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb: tty/console: fix warnings in drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c kdb,vt_console: Fix missed data due to pager overruns kdb: Fix dmesg/bta scroll to quit with 'q' kgdboc: Accept either kbd or kdb to activate the vga + keyboard kdb shell kgdb,x86: fix warning about unused variable mips,kgdb: fix recursive page fault with CONFIG_KPROBES kgdb: Add module event hooks
2012-10-13Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar: "This tree includes some late late perf items that missed the first round: tools: - Bash auto completion improvements, now we can auto complete the tools long options, tracepoint event names, etc, from Namhyung Kim. - Look up thread using tid instead of pid in 'perf sched'. - Move global variables into a perf_kvm struct, from David Ahern. - Hists refactorings, preparatory for improved 'diff' command, from Jiri Olsa. - Hists refactorings, preparatory for event group viewieng work, from Namhyung Kim. - Remove double negation on optional feature macro definitions, from Namhyung Kim. - Remove several cases of needless global variables, on most builtins. - misc fixes kernel: - sysfs support for IBS on AMD CPUs, from Robert Richter. - Support for an upcoming Intel CPU, the Xeon-Phi / Knights Corner HPC blade PMU, from Vince Weaver. - misc fixes" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits) perf: Fix perf_cgroup_switch for sw-events perf: Clarify perf_cpu_context::active_pmu usage by renaming it to ::unique_pmu perf/AMD/IBS: Add sysfs support perf hists: Add more helpers for hist entry stat perf hists: Move he->stat.nr_events initialization to a template perf hists: Introduce struct he_stat perf diff: Removing the total_period argument from output code perf tool: Add hpp interface to enable/disable hpp column perf tools: Removing hists pair argument from output path perf hists: Separate overhead and baseline columns perf diff: Refactor diff displacement possition info perf hists: Add struct hists pointer to struct hist_entry perf tools: Complete tracepoint event names perf/x86: Add support for Intel Xeon-Phi Knights Corner PMU perf evlist: Remove some unused methods perf evlist: Introduce add_newtp method perf kvm: Move global variables into a perf_kvm struct perf tools: Convert to BACKTRACE_SUPPORT perf tools: Long option completion support for each subcommands perf tools: Complete long option names of perf command ...
2012-10-13Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal Pull third pile of kernel_execve() patches from Al Viro: "The last bits of infrastructure for kernel_thread() et.al., with alpha/arm/x86 use of those. Plus sanitizing the asm glue and do_notify_resume() on alpha, fixing the "disabled irq while running task_work stuff" breakage there. At that point the rest of kernel_thread/kernel_execve/sys_execve work can be done independently for different architectures. The only pending bits that do depend on having all architectures converted are restrictred to fs/* and kernel/* - that'll obviously have to wait for the next cycle. I thought we'd have to wait for all of them done before we start eliminating the longjump-style insanity in kernel_execve(), but it turned out there's a very simple way to do that without flagday-style changes." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: alpha: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics arm: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics x86, um: convert to saner kernel_execve() semantics infrastructure for saner ret_from_kernel_thread semantics make sure that kernel_thread() callbacks call do_exit() themselves make sure that we always have a return path from kernel_execve() ppc: eeh_event should just use kthread_run() don't bother with kernel_thread/kernel_execve for launching linuxrc alpha: get rid of switch_stack argument of do_work_pending() alpha: don't bother passing switch_stack separately from regs alpha: take SIGPENDING/NOTIFY_RESUME loop into signal.c alpha: simplify TIF_NEED_RESCHED handling
2012-10-13Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull third pile of VFS updates from Al Viro: "Stuff from Jeff Layton, mostly. Sanitizing interplay between audit and namei, removing a lot of insanity from audit_inode() mess and getting things ready for his ESTALE patchset." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: procfs: don't need a PATH_MAX allocation to hold a string representation of an int vfs: embed struct filename inside of names_cache allocation if possible audit: make audit_inode take struct filename vfs: make path_openat take a struct filename pointer vfs: turn do_path_lookup into wrapper around struct filename variant audit: allow audit code to satisfy getname requests from its names_list vfs: define struct filename and have getname() return it vfs: unexport getname and putname symbols acct: constify the name arg to acct_on vfs: allocate page instead of names_cache buffer in mount_block_root audit: overhaul __audit_inode_child to accomodate retrying audit: optimize audit_compare_dname_path audit: make audit_compare_dname_path use parent_len helper audit: remove dirlen argument to audit_compare_dname_path audit: set the name_len in audit_inode for parent lookups audit: add a new "type" field to audit_names struct audit: reverse arguments to audit_inode_child audit: no need to walk list in audit_inode if name is NULL audit: pass in dentry to audit_copy_inode wherever possible audit: remove unnecessary NULL ptr checks from do_path_lookup
2012-10-12audit: make audit_inode take struct filenameJeff Layton
Keep a pointer to the audit_names "slot" in struct filename. Have all of the audit_inode callers pass a struct filename ponter to audit_inode instead of a string pointer. If the aname field is already populated, then we can skip walking the list altogether and just use it directly. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-12vfs: make path_openat take a struct filename pointerJeff Layton
...and fix up the callers. For do_file_open_root, just declare a struct filename on the stack and fill out the .name field. For do_filp_open, make it also take a struct filename pointer, and fix up its callers to call it appropriately. For filp_open, add a variant that takes a struct filename pointer and turn filp_open into a wrapper around it. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-12audit: allow audit code to satisfy getname requests from its names_listJeff Layton
Currently, if we call getname() on a userland string more than once, we'll get multiple copies of the string and multiple audit_names records. Add a function that will allow the audit_names code to satisfy getname requests using info from the audit_names list, avoiding a new allocation and audit_names records. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-12vfs: define struct filename and have getname() return itJeff Layton
getname() is intended to copy pathname strings from userspace into a kernel buffer. The result is just a string in kernel space. It would however be quite helpful to be able to attach some ancillary info to the string. For instance, we could attach some audit-related info to reduce the amount of audit-related processing needed. When auditing is enabled, we could also call getname() on the string more than once and not need to recopy it from userspace. This patchset converts the getname()/putname() interfaces to return a struct instead of a string. For now, the struct just tracks the string in kernel space and the original userland pointer for it. Later, we'll add other information to the struct as it becomes convenient. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-12infrastructure for saner ret_from_kernel_thread semanticsAl Viro
* allow kernel_execve() leave the actual return to userland to caller (selected by CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE). Callers updated accordingly. * architecture that does select GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE in its Kconfig should have its ret_from_kernel_thread() do this: call schedule_tail call the callback left for it by copy_thread(); if it ever returns, that's because it has just done successful kernel_execve() jump to return from syscall IOW, its only difference from ret_from_fork() is that it does call the callback. * such an architecture should also get rid of ret_from_kernel_execve() and __ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_EXECVE This is the last part of infrastructure patches in that area - from that point on work on different architectures can live independently. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-12Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull timer core update from Thomas Gleixner: - Bug fixes (one for a longstanding dead loop issue) - Rework of time related vsyscalls - Alarm timer updates - Jiffies updates to remove compile time dependencies * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: timekeeping: Cast raw_interval to u64 to avoid shift overflow timers: Fix endless looping between cascade() and internal_add_timer() time/jiffies: bring back unconditional LATCH definition time: Convert x86_64 to using new update_vsyscall time: Only do nanosecond rounding on GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD systems time: Introduce new GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL time: Convert CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL to CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD time: Move update_vsyscall definitions to timekeeper_internal.h time: Move timekeeper structure to timekeeper_internal.h for vsyscall changes jiffies: Remove compile time assumptions about CLOCK_TICK_RATE jiffies: Kill unused TICK_USEC_TO_NSEC alarmtimer: Rename alarmtimer_remove to alarmtimer_dequeue alarmtimer: Remove unused helpers & defines alarmtimer: Use hrtimer per-alarm instead of per-base alarmtimer: Implement minimum alarm interval for allowing suspend
2012-10-12Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar: "A CPU hotplug related crash fix and a nohz accounting fixlet." * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched: Update sched_domains_numa_masks[][] when new cpus are onlined sched: Ensure 'sched_domains_numa_levels' is safe to use in other functions nohz: Fix one jiffy count too far in idle cputime
2012-10-12Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU fixes from Ingo Molnar: "This tree includes a shutdown/cpu-hotplug deadlock fix and a documentation fix." * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: rcu: Advise most users not to enable RCU user mode rcu: Grace-period initialization excludes only RCU notifier
2012-10-12kdb,vt_console: Fix missed data due to pager overrunsJason Wessel
It is possible to miss data when using the kdb pager. The kdb pager does not pay attention to the maximum column constraint of the screen or serial terminal. This result is not incrementing the shown lines correctly and the pager will print more lines that fit on the screen. Obviously that is less than useful when using a VGA console where you cannot scroll back. The pager will now look at the kdb_buffer string to see how many characters are printed. It might not be perfect considering you can output ASCII that might move the cursor position, but it is a substantially better approximation for viewing dmesg and trace logs. This also means that the vt screen needs to set the kdb COLUMNS variable. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2012-10-12kdb: Fix dmesg/bta scroll to quit with 'q'Jason Wessel
If you press 'q' the pager should exit instead of printing everything from dmesg which can really bog down a 9600 baud serial link. The same is true for the bta command. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2012-10-12kgdb: Add module event hooksJason Wessel
Allow gdb to auto load kernel modules when it is attached, which makes it trivially easy to debug module init functions or pre-set breakpoints in a kernel module that has not loaded yet. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2012-10-12acct: constify the name arg to acct_onJeff Layton
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-12audit: overhaul __audit_inode_child to accomodate retryingJeff Layton
In order to accomodate retrying path-based syscalls, we need to add a new "type" argument to audit_inode_child. This will tell us whether we're looking for a child entry that represents a create or a delete. If we find a parent, don't automatically assume that we need to create a new entry. Instead, use the information we have to try to find an existing entry first. Update it if one is found and create a new one if not. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-12audit: optimize audit_compare_dname_pathJeff Layton
In the cases where we already know the length of the parent, pass it as a parm so we don't need to recompute it. In the cases where we don't know the length, pass in AUDIT_NAME_FULL (-1) to indicate that it should be determined. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-12audit: make audit_compare_dname_path use parent_len helperEric Paris
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-12audit: remove dirlen argument to audit_compare_dname_pathJeff Layton
All the callers set this to NULL now. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-12audit: set the name_len in audit_inode for parent lookupsJeff Layton
Currently, this gets set mostly by happenstance when we call into audit_inode_child. While that might be a little more efficient, it seems wrong. If the syscall ends up failing before audit_inode_child ever gets called, then you'll have an audit_names record that shows the full path but has the parent inode info attached. Fix this by passing in a parent flag when we call audit_inode that gets set to the value of LOOKUP_PARENT. We can then fix up the pathname for the audit entry correctly from the get-go. While we're at it, clean up the no-op macro for audit_inode in the !CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-12audit: add a new "type" field to audit_names structJeff Layton
For now, we just have two possibilities: UNKNOWN: for a new audit_names record that we don't know anything about yet NORMAL: for everything else In later patches, we'll add other types so we can distinguish and update records created under different circumstances. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-12audit: reverse arguments to audit_inode_childJeff Layton
Most of the callers get called with an inode and dentry in the reverse order. The compiler then has to reshuffle the arg registers and/or stack in order to pass them on to audit_inode_child. Reverse those arguments for a micro-optimization. Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-12audit: no need to walk list in audit_inode if name is NULLJeff Layton
If name is NULL then the condition in the loop will never be true. Also, with this change, we can eliminate the check for n->name == NULL since the equivalence check will never be true if it is. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-12audit: pass in dentry to audit_copy_inode wherever possibleJeff Layton
In some cases, we were passing in NULL even when we have a dentry. Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>