- 11 Oct, 2016 40 commits
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Petr Mladek authored
Nothing currently prevents a work from queuing for a kthread worker when it is already running on another one. This means that the work might run in parallel on more than one worker. Also some operations are not reliable, e.g. flush. This problem will be even more visible after we add kthread_cancel_work() function. It will only have "work" as the parameter and will use worker->lock to synchronize with others. Well, normally this is not a problem because the API users are sane. But bugs might happen and users also might be crazy. This patch adds a warning when we try to insert the work for another worker. It does not fully prevent the misuse because it would make the code much more complicated without a big benefit. It adds the same warning also into kthread_flush_work() instead of the repeated attempts to get the right lock. A side effect is that one needs to explicitly reinitialize the work if it must be queued into another worker. This is needed, for example, when the worker is stopped and started again. It is a bit inconvenient. But it looks like a good compromise between the stability and complexity. I have double checked all existing users of the kthread worker API and they all seems to initialize the work after the worker gets started. Just for completeness, the patch adds a check that the work is not already in a queue. The patch also puts all the checks into a separate function. It will be reused when implementing delayed works. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-8-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.comSigned-off-by:
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Petr Mladek authored
The current kthread worker users call flush() and stop() explicitly. This function does the same plus it frees the kthread_worker struct in one call. It is supposed to be used together with kthread_create_worker*() that allocates struct kthread_worker. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-7-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.comSigned-off-by:
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Petr Mladek authored
Kthread workers are currently created using the classic kthread API, namely kthread_run(). kthread_worker_fn() is passed as the @threadfn parameter. This patch defines kthread_create_worker() and kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() functions that hide implementation details. They enforce using kthread_worker_fn() for the main thread. But I doubt that there are any plans to create any alternative. In fact, I think that we do not want any alternative main thread because it would be hard to support consistency with the rest of the kthread worker API. The naming and function of kthread_create_worker() is inspired by the workqueues API like the rest of the kthread worker API. The kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() variant is motivated by the original kthread_create_on_cpu(). Note that we need to bind per-CPU kthread workers already when they are created. It makes the life easier. kthread_bind() could not be used later for an already running worker. This patch does _not_ convert existing kthread workers. The kthread worker API need more improvements first, e.g. a function to destroy the worker. IMPORTANT: kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() allows to use any format of the worker name, in compare with kthread_create_on_cpu(). The good thing is that it is more generic. The bad thing is that most users will need to pass the cpu number in two parameters, e.g. kthread_create_worker_on_cpu(cpu, "helper/%d", cpu). To be honest, the main motivation was to avoid the need for an empty va_list. The only legal way was to create a helper function that would be called with an empty list. Other attempts caused compilation warnings or even errors on different architectures. There were also other alternatives, for example, using #define or splitting __kthread_create_worker(). The used solution looked like the least ugly. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-6-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.comSigned-off-by:
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Acked-by:
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Petr Mladek authored
kthread_create_on_node() implements a bunch of logic to create the kthread. It is already called by kthread_create_on_cpu(). We are going to extend the kthread worker API and will need to call kthread_create_on_node() with va_list args there. This patch does only a refactoring and does not modify the existing behavior. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-5-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.comSigned-off-by:
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Acked-by:
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Petr Mladek authored
kthread_create_on_cpu() was added by the commit 2a1d4460 ("kthread: Implement park/unpark facility"). It is currently used only when enabling new CPU. For this purpose, the newly created kthread has to be parked. The CPU binding is a bit tricky. The kthread is parked when the CPU has not been allowed yet. And the CPU is bound when the kthread is unparked. The function would be useful for more per-CPU kthreads, e.g. bnx2fc_thread, fcoethread. For this purpose, the newly created kthread should stay in the uninterruptible state. This patch moves the parking into smpboot. It binds the thread already when created. Then the function might be used universally. Also the behavior is consistent with kthread_create() and kthread_create_on_node(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-4-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.comSigned-off-by:
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Reviewed-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Petr Mladek authored
A good practice is to prefix the names of functions by the name of the subsystem. The kthread worker API is a mix of classic kthreads and workqueues. Each worker has a dedicated kthread. It runs a generic function that process queued works. It is implemented as part of the kthread subsystem. This patch renames the existing kthread worker API to use the corresponding name from the workqueues API prefixed by kthread_: __init_kthread_worker() -> __kthread_init_worker() init_kthread_worker() -> kthread_init_worker() init_kthread_work() -> kthread_init_work() insert_kthread_work() -> kthread_insert_work() queue_kthread_work() -> kthread_queue_work() flush_kthread_work() -> kthread_flush_work() flush_kthread_worker() -> kthread_flush_worker() Note that the names of DEFINE_KTHREAD_WORK*() macros stay as they are. It is common that the "DEFINE_" prefix has precedence over the subsystem names. Note that INIT() macros and init() functions use different naming scheme. There is no good solution. There are several reasons for this solution: + "init" in the function names stands for the verb "initialize" aka "initialize worker". While "INIT" in the macro names stands for the noun "INITIALIZER" aka "worker initializer". + INIT() macros are used only in DEFINE() macros + init() functions are used close to the other kthread() functions. It looks much better if all the functions use the same scheme. + There will be also kthread_destroy_worker() that will be used close to kthread_cancel_work(). It is related to the init() function. Again it looks better if all functions use the same naming scheme. + there are several precedents for such init() function names, e.g. amd_iommu_init_device(), free_area_init_node(), jump_label_init_type(), regmap_init_mmio_clk(), + It is not an argument but it was inconsistent even before. [arnd@arndb.de: fix linux-next merge conflict] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160908135724.1311726-1-arnd@arndb.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-3-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.comSuggested-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Petr Mladek authored
Patch series "kthread: Kthread worker API improvements" The intention of this patchset is to make it easier to manipulate and maintain kthreads. Especially, I want to replace all the custom main cycles with a generic one. Also I want to make the kthreads sleep in a consistent state in a common place when there is no work. This patch (of 11): A good practice is to prefix the names of functions by the name of the subsystem. This patch fixes the name of probe_kthread_data(). The other wrong functions names are part of the kthread worker API and will be fixed separately. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-2-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.comSigned-off-by:
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Suggested-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by:
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mathieu Maret authored
Vim, with the omnicppcomplete(#1) plugin, can do code completion using information build by ctags. Add flags needed by omnicppcomplete(#2) to have completion on member of structure. 1: https://github.com/vim-scripts/omnicppcomplete 2: https://github.com/vim-scripts/OmniCppComplete/blob/master/doc/omnicppcomplete.txt#L93 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160830191546.4469-1-mathieu.maret@gmail.comSigned-off-by:
Mathieu Maret <mathieu.maret@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Catalin Marinas authored
Some of the kmemleak_*() callbacks in memblock, bootmem, CMA convert a physical address to a virtual one using __va(). However, such physical addresses may sometimes be located in highmem and using __va() is incorrect, leading to inconsistent object tracking in kmemleak. The following functions have been added to the kmemleak API and they take a physical address as the object pointer. They only perform the corresponding action if the address has a lowmem mapping: kmemleak_alloc_phys kmemleak_free_part_phys kmemleak_not_leak_phys kmemleak_ignore_phys The affected calling places have been updated to use the new kmemleak API. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471531432-16503-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.comSigned-off-by:
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reported-by:
Vignesh R <vigneshr@ti.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Thomas Garnier authored
KASLR memory randomization can randomize the base of the physical memory mapping (PAGE_OFFSET), vmalloc (VMALLOC_START) and vmemmap (VMEMMAP_START). Adding these variables on VMCOREINFO so tools can easily identify the base of each memory section. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471531632-23003-1-git-send-email-thgarnie@google.comSigned-off-by:
Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com> Acked-by:
Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com> Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Eugene Surovegin <surovegin@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nikolay Borisov authored
In CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernel a softlockup was observed while the for loop in exit_sem. Apparently it's possible for the loop to take quite a long time and it doesn't have a scheduling point in it. Since the codes is executing under an rcu read section this may also cause rcu stalls, which in turn block synchronize_rcu operations, which more or less de-stabilises the whole system. Fix this by introducing a cond_resched() at the beginning of the loop. So this patch fixes the following: NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#10 stuck for 23s! [httpd:18119] CPU: 10 PID: 18119 Comm: httpd Tainted: G O 4.4.20-clouder2 #6 Hardware name: Supermicro X10DRi/X10DRi, BIOS 1.1 04/14/2015 task: ffff88348d695280 ti: ffff881c95550000 task.ti: ffff881c95550000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81614bc7>] [<ffffffff81614bc7>] _raw_spin_lock+0x17/0x30 RSP: 0018:ffff881c95553e40 EFLAGS: 00000246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff883161b1eea8 RCX: 000000000000000d RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 000000000000000e RDI: ffff883161b1eea4 RBP: ffff881c95553ea0 R08: ffff881c95553e68 R09: ffff883fef376f88 R10: ffff881fffb58c20 R11: ffffea0072556600 R12: ffff883161b1eea0 R13: ffff88348d695280 R14: ffff883dec427000 R15: ffff8831621672a0 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff881fffb40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f3b3723e020 CR3: 0000000001c0a000 CR4: 00000000001406e0 Call Trace: ? exit_sem+0x7c/0x280 do_exit+0x338/0xb40 do_group_exit+0x43/0xd0 SyS_exit_group+0x14/0x20 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x16/0x6e Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475154992-6363-1-git-send-email-kernel@kyup.comSigned-off-by:
Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com> Cc: Herton R. Krzesinski <herton@redhat.com> Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Davidlohr Bueso authored
Blocked tasks queued in q_senders waiting for their message to fit in the queue are blindly awoken every time we think there's a remote chance this might happen. This could cause numerous (and expensive -- thundering herd-ish) bogus wakeups if the queue is still really full. Adding to the scheduling cost/overhead, there's also the fact that we need to take the ipc object lock and requeue ourselves in the q_senders list. By keeping track of the blocked sender's message size, we can know previously if the wakeup ought to occur or not. Otherwise, to maintain the current wakeup order we just move it to the tail. This is exactly what occurs right now if the sender needs to go back to sleep. The case of EIDRM is left completely untouched, as we need to wakeup all the tasks, and shouldn't be playing games in the first place. This patch was seen to save on the 'msgctl10' ltp testcase ~15% in context switches (avg out of ten runs). Although these tests are really about functionality (as opposed to performance), is does show the direct benefits of the optimization. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469748819-19484-6-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.netSigned-off-by:
Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Davidlohr Bueso authored
... 'tis annoying. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469748819-19484-4-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.netSigned-off-by:
Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Davidlohr Bueso authored
Currently the use of wake_qs in sysv msg queues are only for the receiver tasks that are blocked on the queue. But blocked sender tasks (due to queue size constraints) still are awoken with the ipc object lock held, which can be a problem particularly for small sized queues and far from gracious for -rt (just like it was for the receiver side). The paths that actually wakeup a sender are obviously related to when we are either getting rid of the queue or after (some) space is freed-up after a receiver takes the msg (msgrcv). Furthermore, with the exception of msgrcv, we can always piggy-back on expunge_all that has its own tasks lined-up for waking. Finally, upon unlinking the message, it should be no problem delaying the wakeups a bit until after we've released the lock. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469748819-19484-3-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.netSigned-off-by:
Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior authored
This patch moves the wakeup_process() invocation so it is not done under the ipc global lock by making use of a lockless wake_q. With this change, the waiter is woken up once the message has been assigned and it does not need to loop on SMP if the message points to NULL. In the signal case we still need to check the pointer under the lock to verify the state. This change should also avoid the introduction of preempt_disable() in -RT which avoids a busy-loop which pools for the NULL -> !NULL change if the waiter has a higher priority compared to the waker. By making use of wake_qs, the logic of sysv msg queues is greatly simplified (and very well suited as we can batch lockless wakeups), particularly around the lockless receive algorithm. This has been tested with Manred's pmsg-shared tool on a "AMD A10-7800 Radeon R7, 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G": test | before | after | diff -----------------|------------|------------|---------- pmsg-shared 8 60 | 19,347,422 | 30,442,191 | + ~57.34 % pmsg-shared 4 60 | 21,367,197 | 35,743,458 | + ~67.28 % pmsg-shared 2 60 | 22,884,224 | 24,278,200 | + ~6.09 % Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469748819-19484-2-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.netSigned-off-by:
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Manfred Spraul authored
Commit 6d07b68c ("ipc/sem.c: optimize sem_lock()") introduced a race: sem_lock has a fast path that allows parallel simple operations. There are two reasons why a simple operation cannot run in parallel: - a non-simple operations is ongoing (sma->sem_perm.lock held) - a complex operation is sleeping (sma->complex_count != 0) As both facts are stored independently, a thread can bypass the current checks by sleeping in the right positions. See below for more details (or kernel bugzilla 105651). The patch fixes that by creating one variable (complex_mode) that tracks both reasons why parallel operations are not possible. The patch also updates stale documentation regarding the locking. With regards to stable kernels: The patch is required for all kernels that include the commit 6d07b68c ("ipc/sem.c: optimize sem_lock()") (3.10?) The alternative is to revert the patch that introduced the race. The patch is safe for backporting, i.e. it makes no assumptions about memory barriers in spin_unlock_wait(). Background: Here is the race of the current implementation: Thread A: (simple op) - does the first "sma->complex_count == 0" test Thread B: (complex op) - does sem_lock(): This includes an array scan. But the scan can't find Thread A, because Thread A does not own sem->lock yet. - the thread does the operation, increases complex_count, drops sem_lock, sleeps Thread A: - spin_lock(&sem->lock), spin_is_locked(sma->sem_perm.lock) - sleeps before the complex_count test Thread C: (complex op) - does sem_lock (no array scan, complex_count==1) - wakes up Thread B. - decrements complex_count Thread A: - does the complex_count test Bug: Now both thread A and thread C operate on the same array, without any synchronization. Fixes: 6d07b68c ("ipc/sem.c: optimize sem_lock()") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469123695-5661-1-git-send-email-manfred@colorfullife.com Reported-by: <felixh@informatik.uni-bremen.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <1vier1@web.de> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.10+] Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alexander Potapenko authored
There's no point in collecting coverage from lib/stackdepot.c, as it is not a function of syscall inputs. Disabling kcov instrumentation for that file will reduce the coverage noise level. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474640972-104131-1-git-send-email-glider@google.comSigned-off-by:
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Acked-by:
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Cc: syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rob Herring authored
As of Android N, SECCOMP is required. Without it, we will get mediaextractor error: E /system/bin/mediaextractor: libminijail: prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP, SECCOMP_MODE_FILTER): Invalid argument Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160908185934.18098-3-robh@kernel.orgSigned-off-by:
Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Acked-by:
John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org> Cc: Dmitry Shmidt <dimitrysh@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rob Herring authored
Android won't boot without SELinux enabled, so make it the default. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160908185934.18098-2-robh@kernel.orgSigned-off-by:
Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rob Herring authored
CONFIG_MD is in recommended, but other dependent options like DM_CRYPT and DM_VERITY options are in base. The result is the options in base don't get enabled when applying both base and recommended fragments. Move all the options to recommended. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160908185934.18098-1-robh@kernel.orgSigned-off-by:
Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Acked-by:
John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org> Cc: Dmitry Shmidt <dimitrysh@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Borislav Petkov authored
Option is long gone, see commit 5d9efa7e ("ipv6: Remove privacy config option.") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160811170340.9859-1-bp@alien8.deSigned-off-by:
Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Relay avoids calling wake_up_interruptible() for doing the wakeup of readers/consumers, waiting for the generation of new data, from the context of a process which produced the data. This is apparently done to prevent the possibility of a deadlock in case Scheduler itself is is generating data for the relay, after acquiring rq->lock. The following patch used a timer (to be scheduled at next jiffy), for delegating the wakeup to another context. commit 7c9cb383 Author: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@comcast.net> Date: Wed May 9 02:34:01 2007 -0700 relay: use plain timer instead of delayed work relay doesn't need to use schedule_delayed_work() for waking readers when a simple timer will do. Scheduling a plain timer, at next jiffies boundary, to do the wakeup causes a significant wakeup latency for the Userspace client, which makes relay less suitable for the high-frequency low-payload use cases where the data gets generated at a very high rate, like multiple sub buffers getting filled within a milli second. Moreover the timer is re-scheduled on every newly produced sub buffer so the timer keeps getting pushed out if sub buffers are filled in a very quick succession (less than a jiffy gap between filling of 2 sub buffers). As a result relay runs out of sub buffers to store the new data. By using irq_work it is ensured that wakeup of userspace client, blocked in the poll call, is done at earliest (through self IPI or next timer tick) enabling it to always consume the data in time. Also this makes relay consistent with printk & ring buffers (trace), as they too use irq_work for deferred wake up of readers. [arnd@arndb.de: select CONFIG_IRQ_WORK] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160912154035.3222156-1-arnd@arndb.de [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472906487-1559-1-git-send-email-akash.goel@intel.comSigned-off-by:
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
Akash Goel <akash.goel@intel.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Maciej S. Szmigiero authored
CONFIG_NO_HZ currently only sets the default value of dynticks config so if PPS kernel consumer needs periodic timer ticks it should depend on !CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON instead of !CONFIG_NO_HZ. Otherwise it is possible to enable it even on tickless system which has CONFIG_NO_HZ not set and CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE (or CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL) set. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/57E2B769.50202@maciej.szmigiero.nameSigned-off-by:
Maciej S. Szmigiero <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name> Acked-by:
Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Hidehiro Kawai authored
Daniel Walker reported problems which happens when crash_kexec_post_notifiers kernel option is enabled (https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/24/44). In that case, smp_send_stop() is called before entering kdump routines which assume other CPUs are still online. As the result, kdump routines fail to save other CPUs' registers. Additionally for MIPS OCTEON, it misses to stop the watchdog timer. To fix this problem, call a new kdump friendly function, crash_smp_send_stop(), instead of the smp_send_stop() when crash_kexec_post_notifiers is enabled. crash_smp_send_stop() is a weak function, and it just call smp_send_stop(). Architecture codes should override it so that kdump can work appropriately. This patch provides MIPS version. Fixes: f06e5153 (kernel/panic.c: add "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" option) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160810080950.11028.28000.stgit@sysi4-13.yrl.intra.hitachi.co.jpSigned-off-by:
Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Reported-by:
Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com> Cc: Xunlei Pang <xpang@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Cc: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> Cc: "Steven J. Hill" <steven.hill@cavium.com> Cc: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Hidehiro Kawai authored
Daniel Walker reported problems which happens when crash_kexec_post_notifiers kernel option is enabled (https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/24/44). In that case, smp_send_stop() is called before entering kdump routines which assume other CPUs are still online. As the result, for x86, kdump routines fail to save other CPUs' registers and disable virtualization extensions. To fix this problem, call a new kdump friendly function, crash_smp_send_stop(), instead of the smp_send_stop() when crash_kexec_post_notifiers is enabled. crash_smp_send_stop() is a weak function, and it just call smp_send_stop(). Architecture codes should override it so that kdump can work appropriately. This patch only provides x86-specific version. For Xen's PV kernel, just keep the current behavior. NOTES: - Right solution would be to place crash_smp_send_stop() before __crash_kexec() invocation in all cases and remove smp_send_stop(), but we can't do that until all architectures implement own crash_smp_send_stop() - crash_smp_send_stop()-like work is still needed by machine_crash_shutdown() because crash_kexec() can be called without entering panic() Fixes: f06e5153 (kernel/panic.c: add "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" option) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160810080948.11028.15344.stgit@sysi4-13.yrl.intra.hitachi.co.jpSigned-off-by:
Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Reported-by:
Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com> Cc: Xunlei Pang <xpang@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Cc: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> Cc: "Steven J. Hill" <steven.hill@cavium.com> Cc: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mauricio Faria de Oliveira authored
Use the DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN attribute for the dma_map_sg() call of the nvme driver that returns BLK_MQ_RQ_QUEUE_BUSY (not for BLK_MQ_RQ_QUEUE_ERROR). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470092390-25451-4-git-send-email-mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.comSigned-off-by:
Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by:
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mauricio Faria de Oliveira authored
Add support for the DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN attribute on powerpc iommu code. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470092390-25451-3-git-send-email-mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.comSigned-off-by:
Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mauricio Faria de Oliveira authored
Introduce the DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN attribute, and document it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470092390-25451-2-git-send-email-mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.comSigned-off-by:
Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jason Cooper authored
All call sites for randomize_range have been updated to use the much simpler and more robust randomize_addr(). Remove the now unnecessary code. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160803233913.32511-8-jason@lakedaemon.netSigned-off-by:
Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net> Acked-by:
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jason Cooper authored
Currently, all callers to randomize_range() set the length to 0 and calculate end by adding a constant to the start address. We can simplify the API to remove a bunch of needless checks and variables. Use the new randomize_addr(start, range) call to set the requested address. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160803233913.32511-7-jason@lakedaemon.netSigned-off-by:
Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net> Acked-by:
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jason Cooper authored
Currently, all callers to randomize_range() set the length to 0 and calculate end by adding a constant to the start address. We can simplify the API to remove a bunch of needless checks and variables. Use the new randomize_addr(start, range) call to set the requested address. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160803233913.32511-6-jason@lakedaemon.netSigned-off-by:
Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net> Acked-by:
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jason Cooper authored
Currently, all callers to randomize_range() set the length to 0 and calculate end by adding a constant to the start address. We can simplify the API to remove a bunch of needless checks and variables. Use the new randomize_addr(start, range) call to set the requested address. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160803233913.32511-5-jason@lakedaemon.netSigned-off-by:
Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net> Acked-by:
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by:
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "Russell King - ARM Linux" <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jason Cooper authored
Currently, all callers to randomize_range() set the length to 0 and calculate end by adding a constant to the start address. We can simplify the API to remove a bunch of needless checks and variables. Use the new randomize_addr(start, range) call to set the requested address. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160803233913.32511-4-jason@lakedaemon.netSigned-off-by:
Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net> Acked-by:
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "Russell King - ARM Linux" <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jason Cooper authored
Currently, all callers to randomize_range() set the length to 0 and calculate end by adding a constant to the start address. We can simplify the API to remove a bunch of needless checks and variables. Use the new randomize_addr(start, range) call to set the requested address. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160803233913.32511-3-jason@lakedaemon.netSigned-off-by:
Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net> Acked-by:
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jason Cooper authored
To date, all callers of randomize_range() have set the length to 0, and check for a zero return value. For the current callers, the only way to get zero returned is if end <= start. Since they are all adding a constant to the start address, this is unnecessary. We can remove a bunch of needless checks by simplifying the API to do just what everyone wants, return an address between [start, start + range). While we're here, s/get_random_int/get_random_long/. No current call site is adversely affected by get_random_int(), since all current range requests are < UINT_MAX. However, we should match caller expectations to avoid coming up short (ha!) in the future. All current callers to randomize_range() chose to use the start address if randomize_range() failed. Therefore, we simplify things by just returning the start address on error. randomize_range() will be removed once all callers have been converted over to randomize_addr(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160803233913.32511-2-jason@lakedaemon.netSigned-off-by:
Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net> Acked-by:
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: "Roberts, William C" <william.c.roberts@intel.com> Cc: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com> Cc: Jeffrey Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com> Cc: Daniel Cashman <dcashman@android.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alexandre Bounine authored
Fix coccinelle warning about duplicating existing memdup_user function. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160811151737.20140-1-alexandre.bounine@idt.com Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/11/29Signed-off-by:
Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> Reported-by:
kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Andre van Herk <andre.van.herk@prodrive-technologies.com> Cc: Barry Wood <barry.wood@idt.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ales Novak authored
On __ptrace_detach(), called from do_exit()->exit_notify()-> forget_original_parent()->exit_ptrace(), the TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE in thread->flags of the tracee is not cleared up. This results in the tracehook_report_syscall_* being called (though there's no longer a tracer listening to that) upon its further syscalls. Example scenario - attach "strace" to a running process and kill it (the strace) with SIGKILL. You'll see that the syscall trace hooks are still being called. The clearing of this flag should be moved from ptrace_detach() to __ptrace_detach(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472759493-20554-1-git-send-email-alnovak@suse.czSigned-off-by:
Ales Novak <alnovak@suse.cz> Acked-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) authored
This is a patch that provides behavior that is more consistent, and probably less surprising to users. I consider the change optional, and welcome opinions about whether it should be applied. By default, pipes are created with a capacity of 64 kiB. However, /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size may be set smaller than this value. In this scenario, an unprivileged user could thus create a pipe whose initial capacity exceeds the limit. Therefore, it seems logical to cap the initial pipe capacity according to the value of pipe-max-size. The test program shown earlier in this patch series can be used to demonstrate the effect of the change brought about with this patch: # cat /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size 1048576 # sudo -u mtk ./test_F_SETPIPE_SZ 1 Initial pipe capacity: 65536 # echo 10000 > /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size # cat /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size 16384 # sudo -u mtk ./test_F_SETPIPE_SZ 1 Initial pipe capacity: 16384 # ./test_F_SETPIPE_SZ 1 Initial pipe capacity: 65536 The last two executions of 'test_F_SETPIPE_SZ' show that pipe-max-size caps the initial allocation for a new pipe for unprivileged users, but not for privileged users. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/31dc7064-2a17-9c5b-1df1-4e3012ee992c@gmail.comSigned-off-by:
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Cc: <socketpair@gmail.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) authored
This is an optional patch, to provide a small performance improvement. Alter account_pipe_buffers() so that it returns the new value in user->pipe_bufs. This means that we can refactor too_many_pipe_buffers_soft() and too_many_pipe_buffers_hard() to avoid the costs of repeated use of atomic_long_read() to get the value user->pipe_bufs. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/93e5f193-1e5e-3e1f-3a20-eae79b7e1310@gmail.comSigned-off-by:
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Cc: <socketpair@gmail.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) authored
The limit checking in alloc_pipe_info() (used by pipe(2) and when opening a FIFO) has the following problems: (1) When checking capacity required for the new pipe, the checks against the limit in /proc/sys/fs/pipe-user-pages-{soft,hard} are made against existing consumption, and exclude the memory required for the new pipe capacity. As a consequence: (1) the memory allocation throttling provided by the soft limit does not kick in quite as early as it should, and (2) the user can overrun the hard limit. (2) As currently implemented, accounting and checking against the limits is done as follows: (a) Test whether the user has exceeded the limit. (b) Make new pipe buffer allocation. (c) Account new allocation against the limits. This is racey. Multiple processes may pass point (a) simultaneously, and then allocate pipe buffers that are accounted for only in step (c). The race means that the user's pipe buffer allocation could be pushed over the limit (by an arbitrary amount, depending on how unlucky we were in the race). [Thanks to Vegard Nossum for spotting this point, which I had missed.] This patch addresses the above problems as follows: * Alter the checks against limits to include the memory required for the new pipe. * Re-order the accounting step so that it precedes the buffer allocation. If the accounting step determines that a limit has been reached, revert the accounting and cause the operation to fail. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8ff3e9f9-23f6-510c-644f-8e70cd1c0bd9@gmail.comSigned-off-by:
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Cc: <socketpair@gmail.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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