- 18 Mar, 2016 2 commits
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Johannes Berg authored
[ Upstream commit cb150b9d ] Since cfg80211 frequently takes actions from its netdev notifier call, wireless extensions messages could still be ordered badly since the wext netdev notifier, since wext is built into the kernel, runs before the cfg80211 netdev notifier. For example, the following can happen: 5: wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 5: wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> link/ether when setting the interface down causes the wext message. To also fix this, export the wireless_nlevent_flush() function and also call it from the cfg80211 notifier. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
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Johannes Berg authored
[ Upstream commit 8bf86273 ] Beniamino reported that he was getting an RTM_NEWLINK message for a given interface, after the RTM_DELLINK for it. It turns out that the message is a wireless extensions message, which was sent because the interface had been connected and disconnection while it was deleted caused a wext message. For its netlink messages, wext uses RTM_NEWLINK, but the message is without all the regular rtnetlink attributes, so "ip monitor link" prints just rudimentary information: 5: wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff Deleted 5: wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 5: wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> link/ether (from my hwsim reproduction) This can cause userspace to get confused since it doesn't expect an RTM_NEWLINK message after RTM_DELLINK. The reason for this is that wext schedules a worker to send out the messages, and the scheduling delay can cause the messages to get out to userspace in different order. To fix this, have wext register a netdevice notifier and flush out any pending messages when netdevice state changes. This fixes any ordering whenever the original message wasn't sent by a notifier itself. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by:
Beniamino Galvani <bgalvani@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 17 Mar, 2016 1 commit
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Sasha Levin authored
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- 14 Mar, 2016 4 commits
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Hannes Frederic Sowa authored
[ Upstream commit 9ef2e965 ] This is a clone of commit 2ab95749 ("ip_forward: Drop frames with attached skb->sk") for ipv6. This commit has exactly the same reasons as the above mentioned commit, namely to prevent panics during netfilter reload or a misconfigured stack. Signed-off-by:
Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by:
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Marcelo Tosatti authored
[ Upstream commit 7cae2bed ] As reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1494350, it is possible to have vcpu->arch.st.last_steal initialized from a thread other than vcpu thread, say the iothread, via KVM_SET_MSRS. Which can cause an overflow later (when subtracting from vcpu threads sched_info.run_delay). To avoid that, move steal time accumulation to vcpu entry time, before copying steal time data to guest. Signed-off-by:
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Richard Weinberger authored
[ Upstream commit e4f6daac ] ubi_start_leb_change() allocates too few bytes. ubi_more_leb_change_data() will write up to req->upd_bytes + ubi->min_io_size bytes. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Reviewed-by:
Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by:
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Maciej W. Rozycki authored
[ Upstream commit e723e3f7 ] Avoid sending a partially initialised `siginfo_t' structure along SIGFPE signals issued from `do_ov' and `do_trap_or_bp', leading to information leaking from the kernel stack. Signed-off-by:
Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@imgtec.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by:
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- 09 Mar, 2016 33 commits
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Simon South authored
[ Upstream commit 02322ac9 ] This patch applies the microphone-related fix created for the Acer Aspire E1-572 to the E1-472 as well, as it uses the same Realtek ALC282 CODEC and demonstrates the same issues. This patch allows an external, headset microphone to be used and limits the gain on the (quite noisy) internal microphone. Signed-off-by:
Simon South <simon@simonsouth.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Todd E Brandt authored
[ Upstream commit 92f9e179 ] Pause/unpause graph tracing around do_suspend_lowlevel as it has inconsistent call/return info after it jumps to the wakeup vector. The graph trace buffer will otherwise become misaligned and may eventually crash and hang on suspend. To reproduce the issue and test the fix: Run a function_graph trace over suspend/resume and set the graph function to suspend_devices_and_enter. This consistently hangs the system without this fix. Signed-off-by:
Todd Brandt <todd.e.brandt@linux.intel.com> Cc: All applicable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alex Deucher authored
[ Upstream commit 5e031d9f ] On CI, we need to see if the number of crtcs changes to determine whether or not we need to upload the mclk table again. In practice we don't currently upload the mclk table again after the initial load. The only reason you would would be to add new states, e.g., for arbitrary mclk setting which is not currently supported. Acked-by:
Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Signed-off-by:
Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
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Bjørn Mork authored
[ Upstream commit 04fdbc82 ] The MC74xx and EM74xx modules use different IDs by default, according to the Lenovo EM7455 driver for Windows. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> Signed-off-by:
Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Timothy Pearson authored
[ Upstream commit 2d02b8bd ] During DRAM initialization on certain ASpeed devices, an incorrect bit (bit 10) was checked in the "SDRAM Bus Width Status" register to determine DRAM width. Query bit 6 instead in accordance with the Aspeed AST2050 datasheet v1.05. Signed-off-by:
Timothy Pearson <tpearson@raptorengineeringinc.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Helge Deller authored
[ Upstream commit 98e8b6c9 ] Mike Frysinger reported that his ptrace testcase showed strange behaviour on parisc: It was not possible to avoid a syscall and the return value of a syscall couldn't be changed. To modify a syscall number, we were missing to save the new syscall number to gr20 which is then picked up later in assembly again. The effect that the return value couldn't be changed is a side-effect of another bug in the assembly code. When a process is ptraced, userspace expects each syscall to report entrance and exit of a syscall. If a syscall number was given which doesn't exist, we jumped to the normal syscall exit code instead of informing userspace that the (non-existant) syscall exits. This unexpected behaviour confuses userspace and thus the bug was misinterpreted as if we can't change the return value. This patch fixes both problems and was tested on 64bit kernel with 32bit userspace. Signed-off-by:
Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.0+ Tested-by:
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by:
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Takashi Iwai authored
[ Upstream commit 197b958c ] The OSS sequencer client tries to drain the pending events at releasing. Unfortunately, as spotted by syzkaller fuzzer, this may lead to an unkillable process state when the event has been queued at the far future. Since the process being released can't be signaled any longer, it remains and waits for the echo-back event in that far future. Back to history, the draining feature was implemented at the time we misinterpreted POSIX definition for blocking file operation. Actually, such a behavior is superfluous at release, and we should just release the device as is instead of keeping it up forever. This patch just removes the draining call that may block the release for too long time unexpectedly. BugLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+Y4kD-aBGj37rf-xBw9bH3GMU6P+MYg4W1e-s-paVD2pg@mail.gmail.comReported-by:
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Dennis Kadioglu authored
[ Upstream commit 17e2df46 ] Plantronics DA45 does not support reading the sample rate which leads to many lines of "cannot get freq at ep 0x4" and "cannot get freq at ep 0x84". This patch adds the USB ID of the DA45 to quirks.c and avoids those error messages. Signed-off-by:
Dennis Kadioglu <denk@post.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Yegor Yefremov authored
[ Upstream commit c0992d0f ] Add support for Quectel UC20 and blacklist the QMI interface. Signed-off-by:
Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> [johan: amend commit message ] Signed-off-by:
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Daniele Palmas authored
[ Upstream commit 5deef555 ] This patch adds support for 0x1045 PID of Telit LE922. Signed-off-by:
Daniele Palmas <dnlplm@gmail.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Vittorio Alfieri authored
[ Upstream commit 3c4c615d ] The Parrot NMEA GPS Flight Recorder is a USB composite device consisting of hub, flash storage, and cp210x usb to serial chip. It is an accessory to the mass-produced Parrot AR Drone 2. The device emits standard NMEA messages which make the it compatible with NMEA compatible software. It was tested using gpsd version 3.11-3 as an NMEA interpreter and using the official Parrot Flight Recorder. Signed-off-by:
Vittorio Alfieri <vittorio88@gmail.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Patrik Halfar authored
[ Upstream commit 013dd239 ] New revision of Dell Wireless 5809e Gobi 4G HSPA+ Mobile Broadband Card has new idProduct. Bus 002 Device 006: ID 413c:81b3 Dell Computer Corp. Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 0 bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x413c Dell Computer Corp. idProduct 0x81b3 bcdDevice 0.06 iManufacturer 1 Sierra Wireless, Incorporated iProduct 2 Dell Wireless 5809e Gobi
™ 4G HSPA+ Mobile Broadband Card iSerial 3 bNumConfigurations 2 Signed-off-by:Patrik Halfar <patrik_halfar@halfarit.cz> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
[ Upstream commit a528aca7 ] Games with ordering and barriers are way too brittle. Just bump ->d_seq before and after updating ->d_inode and ->d_flags type bits, so that verifying ->d_seq would guarantee they are coherent. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.13+ Signed-off-by:
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
[ Upstream commit a7c6f571 ] I'll shortly be introducing another seqcount primitive that's useful to provide ordering semantics and would like to use the write_seqcount_barrier() name for that. Seeing how there's only one user of the current primitive, lets rename it to invalidate, as that appears what its doing. While there, employ lockdep_assert_held() instead of assert_spin_locked() to not generate debug code for regular kernels. Signed-off-by:
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: ktkhai@parallels.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com Cc: pang.xunlei@linaro.org Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150611124743.279926217@infradead.orgSigned-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
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Takashi Iwai authored
[ Upstream commit eab3c4db ] snd-hdsp driver accesses enum item values (int) instead of boolean values (long) wrongly for some ctl elements. This patch fixes them. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Takashi Iwai authored
[ Upstream commit c1099c32 ] HDSPM driver contains a code issuing zero-division potentially in system sample rate ctl code. This patch fixes it by not processing a zero or invalid rate value as a divisor, as well as excluding the invalid value to be passed via the given ctl element. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Takashi Iwai authored
[ Upstream commit 537e4813 ] snd-hdspm driver accesses enum item values (int) instead of boolean values (long) wrongly for some ctl elements. This patch fixes them. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Michael S. Tsirkin authored
[ Upstream commit 887349f6 ] Calling return copy_to_user(...) or return copy_from_user in an ioctl will not do the right thing if there's a pagefault: copy_to_user/copy_from_user return the number of bytes not copied in this case. Fix up kvm on mips to do return copy_to_user(...)) ? -EFAULT : 0; and return copy_from_user(...)) ? -EFAULT : 0; everywhere. Signed-off-by:
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12709/Signed-off-by:
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Michael S. Tsirkin authored
[ Upstream commit 4cad67fc ] Calling return copy_to_user(...) in an ioctl will not do the right thing if there's a pagefault: copy_to_user returns the number of bytes not copied in this case. Fix up kvm to do return copy_to_user(...)) ? -EFAULT : 0; everywhere. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by:
Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> Signed-off-by:
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Yadan Fan authored
[ Upstream commit 1ee9f4bd ] This issue is caused by commit 02323db1 ("cifs: fix cifs_uniqueid_to_ino_t not to ever return 0"), when BITS_PER_LONG is 64 on s390x, the corresponding cifs_uniqueid_to_ino_t() function will cast 64-bit fileid to 32-bit by using (ino_t)fileid, because ino_t (typdefed __kernel_ino_t) is int type. It's defined in arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/posix_types.h #ifndef __s390x__ typedef unsigned long __kernel_ino_t; ... #else /* __s390x__ */ typedef unsigned int __kernel_ino_t; So the #ifdef condition is wrong for s390x, we can just still use one cifs_uniqueid_to_ino_t() function with comparing sizeof(ino_t) and sizeof(u64) to choose the correct execution accordingly. Signed-off-by:
Yadan Fan <ydfan@suse.com> CC: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Pavel Shilovsky authored
[ Upstream commit 6cc3b242 ] For interim responses we only need to parse a header and update a number credits. Now it is done for all SMB2+ command except SMB2_READ which is wrong. Fix this by adding such processing. Signed-off-by:
Pavel Shilovsky <pshilovsky@samba.org> Tested-by:
Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@gmail.com> CC: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Justin Maggard authored
[ Upstream commit deb7deff ] When opening a file, SMB2_open() attempts to parse the lease state from the SMB2 CREATE Response. However, the parsing code was not careful to ensure that the create contexts are not empty or invalid, which can lead to out- of-bounds memory access. This can be seen easily by trying to read a file from a OSX 10.11 SMB3 server. Here is sample crash output: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8800a1a77cc6 IP: [<ffffffff8828a734>] SMB2_open+0x804/0x960 PGD 8f77067 PUD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 3 PID: 2876 Comm: cp Not tainted 4.5.0-rc3.x86_64.1+ #14 Hardware name: NETGEAR ReadyNAS 314 /ReadyNAS 314 , BIOS 4.6.5 10/11/2012 task: ffff880073cdc080 ti: ffff88005b31c000 task.ti: ffff88005b31c000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8828a734>] [<ffffffff8828a734>] SMB2_open+0x804/0x960 RSP: 0018:ffff88005b31fa08 EFLAGS: 00010282 RAX: 0000000000000015 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000006 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000246 RDI: ffff88007eb8c8b0 RBP: ffff88005b31fad8 R08: 666666203d206363 R09: 6131613030383866 R10: 3030383866666666 R11: 00000000000002b0 R12: ffff8800660fd800 R13: ffff8800a1a77cc2 R14: 00000000424d53fe R15: ffff88005f5a28c0 FS: 00007f7c8a2897c0(0000) GS:ffff88007eb80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: ffff8800a1a77cc6 CR3: 000000005b281000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Stack: ffff88005b31fa70 ffffffff88278789 00000000000001d3 ffff88005f5a2a80 ffffffff00000003 ffff88005d029d00 ffff88006fde05a0 0000000000000000 ffff88005b31fc78 ffff88006fde0780 ffff88005b31fb2f 0000000100000fe0 Call Trace: [<ffffffff88278789>] ? cifsConvertToUTF16+0x159/0x2d0 [<ffffffff8828cf68>] smb2_open_file+0x98/0x210 [<ffffffff8811e80c>] ? __kmalloc+0x1c/0xe0 [<ffffffff882685f4>] cifs_open+0x2a4/0x720 [<ffffffff88122cef>] do_dentry_open+0x1ff/0x310 [<ffffffff88268350>] ? cifsFileInfo_get+0x30/0x30 [<ffffffff88123d92>] vfs_open+0x52/0x60 [<ffffffff88131dd0>] path_openat+0x170/0xf70 [<ffffffff88097d48>] ? remove_wait_queue+0x48/0x50 [<ffffffff88133a29>] do_filp_open+0x79/0xd0 [<ffffffff8813f2ca>] ? __alloc_fd+0x3a/0x170 [<ffffffff881240c4>] do_sys_open+0x114/0x1e0 [<ffffffff881241a9>] SyS_open+0x19/0x20 [<ffffffff8896e257>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6a Code: 4d 8d 6c 07 04 31 c0 4c 89 ee e8 47 6f e5 ff 31 c9 41 89 ce 44 89 f1 48 c7 c7 28 b1 bd 88 31 c0 49 01 cd 4c 89 ee e8 2b 6f e5 ff <45> 0f b7 75 04 48 c7 c7 31 b1 bd 88 31 c0 4d 01 ee 4c 89 f6 e8 RIP [<ffffffff8828a734>] SMB2_open+0x804/0x960 RSP <ffff88005b31fa08> CR2: ffff8800a1a77cc6 ---[ end trace d9f69ba64feee469 ]--- Signed-off-by:
Justin Maggard <jmaggard@netgear.com> Signed-off-by:
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Takashi Iwai authored
[ Upstream commit b24e7ad1 ] X32 ABI takes the 64bit timespec, thus the timer user status ioctl becomes incompatible with IA32. This results in NOTTY error when the ioctl is issued. Meanwhile, this struct in X32 is essentially identical with the one in X86-64, so we can just bypassing to the existing code for this specific compat ioctl. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.4+ Signed-off-by:
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Takashi Iwai authored
[ Upstream commit 3a72494a ] The timer user status compat ioctl returned the bogus struct used for 64bit architectures instead of the 32bit one. This patch addresses it to return the proper struct. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Takashi Iwai authored
[ Upstream commit 2251fbbc ] Like the previous fixes for ctl and PCM, we need a fix for incompatible X32 ABI regarding the rawmidi: namely, struct snd_rawmidi_status has the timespec, and the size and the alignment on X32 differ from IA32. This patch fixes the incompatible ioctl for X32. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.4+ Signed-off-by:
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Takashi Iwai authored
[ Upstream commit 513ace79 ] X32 ABI uses the 64bit timespec in addition to 64bit alignment of 64bit values. This leads to incompatibilities in some PCM ioctls involved with snd_pcm_channel_info, snd_pcm_status and snd_pcm_sync_ptr structs. Fix the PCM compat ABI for these ioctls like the previous commit for ctl API. Reported-by:
Steven Newbury <steve@snewbury.org.uk> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.4+ Signed-off-by:
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Takashi Iwai authored
[ Upstream commit 6236d8bb ] The X32 ABI takes the same alignment like x86-64, and this may result in the incompatible struct size from ia32. Unfortunately, we hit this in some control ABI: struct snd_ctl_elem_value differs between them due to the position of 64bit variable array. This ends up with the unknown ioctl (ENOTTY) error. The fix is to add the compat entries for the new aligned struct. Reported-and-tested-by:
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Michael S. Tsirkin authored
[ Upstream commit 8160c4e4 ] Calling return copy_to_user(...) in an ioctl will not do the right thing if there's a pagefault: copy_to_user returns the number of bytes not copied in this case. Fix up vfio to do return copy_to_user(...)) ? -EFAULT : 0; everywhere. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
[ Upstream commit d4565649 ] both do_last() and walk_component() risk picking a NULL inode out of dentry about to become positive, *then* checking its flags and seeing that it's not negative anymore and using (already stale by then) value they'd fetched earlier. Usually ends up oopsing soon after that... Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.13+ Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
[ Upstream commit c80567c8 ] ... into returning a positive to path_openat(), which would interpret that as "symlink had been encountered" and proceed to corrupt memory, etc. It can only happen due to a bug in some ->open() instance or in some LSM hook, etc., so we report any such event *and* make sure it doesn't trick us into further unpleasantness. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.6+, at least Signed-off-by:
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Mikulas Patocka authored
[ Upstream commit b6853f78 ] The delete opration can allocate additional space on the HPFS filesystem due to btree split. The HPFS driver checks in advance if there is available space, so that it won't corrupt the btree if we run out of space during splitting. If there is not enough available space, the HPFS driver attempted to truncate the file, but this results in a deadlock since the commit 7dd29d8d ("HPFS: Introduce a global mutex and lock it on every callback from VFS"). This patch removes the code that tries to truncate the file and -ENOSPC is returned instead. If the user hits -ENOSPC on delete, he should try to delete other files (that are stored in a leaf btree node), so that the delete operation will make some space for deleting the file stored in non-leaf btree node. Reported-by:
Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.39+ Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
[ Upstream commit 8479eba7 ] Commit 4167e9b2 ("mm: remove GFP_THISNODE") removed the GFP_THISNODE flag combination due to confusing semantics. It noted that alloc_misplaced_dst_page() was one such user after changes made by commit e97ca8e5 ("mm: fix GFP_THISNODE callers and clarify"). Unfortunately when GFP_THISNODE was removed, users of alloc_misplaced_dst_page() started waking kswapd and entering direct reclaim because the wrong GFP flags are cleared. The consequence is that workloads that used to fit into memory now get reclaimed which is addressed by this patch. The problem can be demonstrated with "mutilate" that exercises memcached which is software dedicated to memory object caching. The configuration uses 80% of memory and is run 3 times for varying numbers of clients. The results on a 4-socket NUMA box are mutilate 4.4.0 4.4.0 vanilla numaswap-v1 Hmean 1 8394.71 ( 0.00%) 8395.32 ( 0.01%) Hmean 4 30024.62 ( 0.00%) 34513.54 ( 14.95%) Hmean 7 32821.08 ( 0.00%) 70542.96 (114.93%) Hmean 12 55229.67 ( 0.00%) 93866.34 ( 69.96%) Hmean 21 39438.96 ( 0.00%) 85749.21 (117.42%) Hmean 30 37796.10 ( 0.00%) 50231.49 ( 32.90%) Hmean 47 18070.91 ( 0.00%) 38530.13 (113.22%) The metric is queries/second with the more the better. The results are way outside of the noise and the reason for the improvement is obvious from some of the vmstats 4.4.0 4.4.0 vanillanumaswap-v1r1 Minor Faults 1929399272 2146148218 Major Faults 19746529 3567 Swap Ins 57307366 9913 Swap Outs 50623229 17094 Allocation stalls 35909 443 DMA allocs 0 0 DMA32 allocs 72976349 170567396 Normal allocs 5306640898 5310651252 Movable allocs 0 0 Direct pages scanned 404130893 799577 Kswapd pages scanned 160230174 0 Kswapd pages reclaimed 55928786 0 Direct pages reclaimed 1843936 41921 Page writes file 2391 0 Page writes anon 50623229 17094 The vanilla kernel is swapping like crazy with large amounts of direct reclaim and kswapd activity. The figures are aggregate but it's known that the bad activity is throughout the entire test. Note that simple streaming anon/file memory consumers also see this problem but it's not as obvious. In those cases, kswapd is awake when it should not be. As there are at least two reclaim-related bugs out there, it's worth spelling out the user-visible impact. This patch only addresses bugs related to excessive reclaim on NUMA hardware when the working set is larger than a NUMA node. There is a bug related to high kswapd CPU usage but the reports are against laptops and other UMA hardware and is not addressed by this patch. Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.1+] Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
[ Upstream commit ad33bb04 ] pmd_trans_unstable()/pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() were introduced to locklessy (but atomically) detect when a pmd is a regular (stable) pmd or when the pmd is unstable and can infinitely transition from pmd_none() and pmd_trans_huge() from under us, while only holding the mmap_sem for reading (for writing not). While holding the mmap_sem only for reading, MADV_DONTNEED can run from under us and so before we can assume the pmd to be a regular stable pmd we need to compare it against pmd_none() and pmd_trans_huge() in an atomic way, with pmd_trans_unstable(). The old pmd_trans_huge() left a tiny window for a race. Useful applications are unlikely to notice the difference as doing MADV_DONTNEED concurrently with a page fault would lead to undefined behavior. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tidy up comment grammar/layout] Signed-off-by:
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by:
Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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