- 31 Oct, 2019 4 commits
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Dmitry Monakhov authored
There is a race window where quota was redirted once we drop dq_list_lock inside dqput(), but before we grab dquot->dq_lock inside dquot_release() TASK1 TASK2 (chowner) ->dqput() we_slept: spin_lock(&dq_list_lock) if (dquot_dirty(dquot)) { spin_unlock(&dq_list_lock); dquot->dq_sb->dq_op->write_dquot(dquot); goto we_slept if (test_bit(DQ_ACTIVE_B, &dquot->dq_flags)) { spin_unlock(&dq_list_lock); dquot->dq_sb->dq_op->release_dquot(dquot); dqget() mark_dquot_dirty() dqput() goto we_slept; } So dquot dirty quota will be released by TASK1, but on next we_sleept loop we detect this and call ->write_dquot() for it. XFSTEST: https://github.com/dmonakhov/xfstests/commit/440a80d4cbb39e9234df4d7240aee1d551c36107 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191031103920.3919-2-dmonakhov@openvz.org CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmtrmonakhov@yandex-team.ru> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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Dmitry Monakhov authored
Write only quotas which are dirty at entry. XFSTEST: https://github.com/dmonakhov/xfstests/commit/b10ad23566a5bf75832a6f500e1236084083cddc Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191031103920.3919-1-dmonakhov@openvz.org CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmtrmonakhov@yandex-team.ru> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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Chengguang Xu authored
Currently we set *count to num(value 0) in the failure of block allocation in ext2_try_to_allocate(). Without reservation, we reuse *count(value 0) to retry block allocation and wrong *count will cause only allocating maximum 1 block even though having sufficent free blocks in that block group. Finally, it probably cause significant fragmentation. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191026090721.23794-1-cgxu519@mykernel.netSigned-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@mykernel.net> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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Jeff Mahoney authored
Since commit d0a5b995 (vfs: Add IOP_XATTR inode operations flag) extended attributes haven't worked on the root directory in reiserfs. This is due to reiserfs conditionally setting the sb->s_xattrs handler array depending on whether it located or create the internal privroot directory. It necessarily does this after the root inode is already read in. The IOP_XATTR flag is set during inode initialization, so it never gets set on the root directory. This commit unconditionally assigns sb->s_xattrs and clears IOP_XATTR on internal inodes. The old return values due to the conditional assignment are handled via open_xa_root, which now returns EOPNOTSUPP as the VFS would have done. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191024143127.17509-1-jeffm@suse.com CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: d0a5b995 ("vfs: Add IOP_XATTR inode operations flag") Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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- 24 Oct, 2019 1 commit
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Chengguang Xu authored
Currently, we do not check memory allocation result for ei->i_block_alloc_info in ioctl, this patch checks it and returns error in failure case. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191023135643.28837-1-cgxu519@mykernel.netSigned-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@mykernel.net> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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- 22 Oct, 2019 1 commit
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Chengguang Xu authored
Fix missing brelse of bitmap_bh in the case of retry. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191022091738.9160-1-cgxu519@mykernel.netSigned-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@mykernel.net> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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- 21 Oct, 2019 1 commit
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Chengguang Xu authored
Set block num to original *count in a case of retrying allocation in case num < *count Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191020232326.84881-1-cgxu519@mykernel.netSigned-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@mykernel.net> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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- 17 Oct, 2019 1 commit
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Chengguang Xu authored
It's not a functinal change, it's just for keeping consistent coding style. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191010130924.17697-1-cgxu519@mykernel.netSigned-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@mykernel.net> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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- 08 Oct, 2019 1 commit
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Chengguang Xu authored
Check quota type in early stage so we can avoid many unncessary operations when the type is wrong. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191008145059.21402-1-cgxu519@mykernel.netSigned-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@mykernel.net> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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- 04 Oct, 2019 2 commits
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Chengguang Xu authored
Code cleanup for hash bits calculation by calling ilog2(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190923135223.27674-1-cgxu519@zoho.com.cnSigned-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@zoho.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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Chengguang Xu authored
It is meaningless to increase DQST_LOOKUPS number while iterating over dirty/inuse list, so just avoid it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190926083408.4269-1-cgxu519@zoho.com.cnSigned-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@zoho.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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- 03 Oct, 2019 3 commits
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Eric Sandeen authored
Today, put_compat_statfs64() disallows nearly any field value over 2^32 if f_bsize is only 32 bits, but that makes no sense. compat_statfs64 is there for the explicit purpose of providing 64-bit fields for f_files, f_ffree, etc. And f_bsize is always only 32 bits. As a result, 32-bit userspace gets -EOVERFLOW for i.e. large file counts even with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 set. In reality, only f_bsize and f_frsize can legitimately overflow (fields like f_type and f_namelen should never be large), so test only those fields. This bug was discussed at length some time ago, and this is the proposal Al suggested at https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/8/6/640. It seemed to get dropped amid the discussion of other related changes, but this part seems obviously correct on its own, so I've picked it up and sent it, for expediency. Fixes: 64d2ab32 ("vfs: fix put_compat_statfs64() does not handle errors") Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/danielt/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull kgdb update from Daniel Thompson: "This is just a single patch adding a new reviewer for kgdb. New reviewers will be a big help so I decided to consider this to be a fix! I'm looking forward to working more closely with Doug" * tag 'kgdb-5.4-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/danielt/linux: MAINTAINERS: kgdb: Add myself as a reviewer for kgdb/kdb
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Douglas Anderson authored
I'm interested in kdb / kgdb and have sent various fixes over the years. I'd like to get CCed on patches so I can be aware of them and also help review. Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
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- 02 Oct, 2019 5 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
Randy Dunlap reports on the sparse list that sparse warns about this expression: of_irq->percpu ? free_percpu_irq(of_irq->irq, clkevt) : free_irq(of_irq->irq, clkevt); and honestly, sparse is correct to warn. The return type of free_percpu_irq() is 'void', while free_irq() returns a 'const void *' that is the devname argument passed in to the request_irq(). You can't mix a void type with a non-void types in a conditional expression according to the C standard. It so happens that gcc seems to accept it - and the resulting type of the expression is void - but there's really no reason for the kernel to have this kind of non-standard expression with no real upside. The natural way to write that expression is with an if-statement: if (of_irq->percpu) free_percpu_irq(of_irq->irq, clkevt); else free_irq(of_irq->irq, clkevt); which is more legible anyway. I'm not sure why that timer-of code seems to have this odd pattern. It does the same at allocation time, but at least there the types match, and it makes sense as an expression. Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull timer fix from Ingo Molnar: "Fix a broadcast-timer handling race that can result in spuriously and indefinitely delayed hrtimers and even RCU stalls if the system is otherwise quiet" * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: tick: broadcast-hrtimer: Fix a race in bc_set_next
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull membarrier fix from Ingo Molnar: "Fix broken locking within membarrier_private_expedited()" * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: membarrier: Fix RCU locking bug caused by faulty merge
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull erofs fixes from Gao Xiang: "Three patches to address regressions due to recent cleanups, mainly found by stress test on latest mainline kernel (no more regression out compared with older kernels for more than a week) One additional patch updates sub-entries in MAINTAINERS. Summary: - Fix error handling in erofs_read_superblock - Fix locking in erofs_get_meta_page - Fix inplace behavior due to decompression frontend cleanup - Update sub-entries in MAINTAINERS in order to better blame" * tag 'erofs-for-5.4-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs: erofs: fix mis-inplace determination related with noio chain erofs: fix erofs_get_meta_page locking due to a cleanup MAINTAINERS: erofs: complete sub-entries for erofs erofs: fix return value check in erofs_read_superblock()
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Borislav Petkov authored
On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 10:14:40AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The previous state of the file didn't have that 0xa at the end, so you get that > > > -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_bootloader_randomness); > \ No newline at end of file > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_bootloader_randomness); > > which is "the '-' line doesn't have a newline, the '+' line does" marker. Aaha, that makes total sense, thanks for explaining. Oh well, let's fix it then so that people don't scratch heads like me. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 01 Oct, 2019 1 commit
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Peter Zijlstra authored
The following commit: 227a4aad ("sched/membarrier: Fix p->mm->membarrier_state racy load") got fat fingered by me when merging it with other patches. It meant to move the RCU section out of the for loop but ended up doing it partially, leaving a superfluous rcu_read_lock() inside, causing havok. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 227a4aad ("sched/membarrier: Fix p->mm->membarrier_state racy load") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191001085033.GP4519@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.netSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 30 Sep, 2019 20 commits
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Gao Xiang authored
Fix a recent cleanup patch. noio (bypass) chain is handled asynchronously against submit chain, therefore inplace I/O or pagevec cannot be applied to such pages. Add detailed comment for this as well. Fixes: 97e86a85 ("staging: erofs: tidy up decompression frontend") Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190922100434.229340-1-gaoxiang25@huawei.comSigned-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
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Gao Xiang authored
After doing more drop_caches stress test on our products, I found the mistake introduced by a very recent cleanup [1]. The current rule is that "erofs_get_meta_page" should be returned with page locked (although it's mostly unnecessary for read-only fs after pages are PG_uptodate), but a fix should be done for this. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190904020912.63925-26-gaoxiang25@huawei.com Fixes: 618f40ea ("erofs: use read_cache_page_gfp for erofs_get_meta_page") Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190921184355.149928-1-gaoxiang25@huawei.comSigned-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
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Gao Xiang authored
Add a formal git tree and missing files for erofs after moving out of staging for everyone to blame in order for better improvement. Acked-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190919062838.106423-1-gaoxiang25@huawei.comSigned-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
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Wei Yongjun authored
In case of error, the function read_mapping_page() returns ERR_PTR() not NULL. The NULL test in the return value check should be replaced with IS_ERR(). Fixes: fe7c2423 ("erofs: use read_mapping_page instead of sb_bread") Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190918083033.47780-1-weiyongjun1@huawei.comSigned-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
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Linus Torvalds authored
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull btrfs fixes from David Sterba: "A bunch of fixes that accumulated in recent weeks, mostly material for stable. Summary: - fix for regression from 5.3 that prevents to use balance convert with single profile - qgroup fixes: rescan race, accounting leak with multiple writers, potential leak after io failure recovery - fix for use after free in relocation (reported by KASAN) - other error handling fixups" * tag 'for-5.4-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux: btrfs: qgroup: Fix reserved data space leak if we have multiple reserve calls btrfs: qgroup: Fix the wrong target io_tree when freeing reserved data space btrfs: Fix a regression which we can't convert to SINGLE profile btrfs: relocation: fix use-after-free on dead relocation roots Btrfs: fix race setting up and completing qgroup rescan workers Btrfs: fix missing error return if writeback for extent buffer never started btrfs: adjust dirty_metadata_bytes after writeback failure of extent buffer Btrfs: fix selftests failure due to uninitialized i_mode in test inodes
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git://github.com/c-sky/csky-linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull csky updates from Guo Ren: "This round of csky subsystem just some fixups: - Fix mb() synchronization problem - Fix dma_alloc_coherent with PAGE_SO attribute - Fix cache_op failed when cross memory ZONEs - Optimize arch_sync_dma_for_cpu/device with dma_inv_range - Fix ioremap function losing - Fix arch_get_unmapped_area() implementation - Fix defer cache flush for 610 - Support kernel non-aligned access - Fix 610 vipt cache flush mechanism - Fix add zero_fp fixup perf backtrace panic - Move static keyword to the front of declaration - Fix csky_pmu.max_period assignment - Use generic free_initrd_mem() - entry: Remove unneeded need_resched() loop" * tag 'csky-for-linus-5.4-rc1' of git://github.com/c-sky/csky-linux: csky: Move static keyword to the front of declaration csky: entry: Remove unneeded need_resched() loop csky: Fixup csky_pmu.max_period assignment csky: Fixup add zero_fp fixup perf backtrace panic csky: Use generic free_initrd_mem() csky: Fixup 610 vipt cache flush mechanism csky: Support kernel non-aligned access csky: Fixup defer cache flush for 610 csky: Fixup arch_get_unmapped_area() implementation csky: Fixup ioremap function losing csky: Optimize arch_sync_dma_for_cpu/device with dma_inv_range csky/dma: Fixup cache_op failed when cross memory ZONEs csky: Fixup dma_alloc_coherent with PAGE_SO attribute csky: Fixup mb() synchronization problem
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/socLinus Torvalds authored
Pull ARM SoC fixes from Olof Johansson: "A few fixes that have trickled in through the merge window: - Video fixes for OMAP due to panel-dpi driver removal - Clock fixes for OMAP that broke no-idle quirks + nfsroot on DRA7 - Fixing arch version on ASpeed ast2500 - Two fixes for reset handling on ARM SCMI" * tag 'armsoc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc: ARM: aspeed: ast2500 is ARMv6K reset: reset-scmi: add missing handle initialisation firmware: arm_scmi: reset: fix reset_state assignment in scmi_domain_reset bus: ti-sysc: Remove unpaired sysc_clkdm_deny_idle() ARM: dts: logicpd-som-lv: Fix i2c2 and i2c3 Pin mux ARM: dts: am3517-evm: Fix missing video ARM: dts: logicpd-torpedo-baseboard: Fix missing video ARM: omap2plus_defconfig: Fix missing video bus: ti-sysc: Fix handling of invalid clocks bus: ti-sysc: Fix clock handling for no-idle quirks
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-traceLinus Torvalds authored
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt: "A few more tracing fixes: - Fix a buffer overflow by checking nr_args correctly in probes - Fix a warning that is reported by clang - Fix a possible memory leak in error path of filter processing - Fix the selftest that checks for failures, but wasn't failing - Minor clean up on call site output of a memory trace event" * tag 'trace-v5.4-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: selftests/ftrace: Fix same probe error test mm, tracing: Print symbol name for call_site in trace events tracing: Have error path in predicate_parse() free its allocated memory tracing: Fix clang -Wint-in-bool-context warnings in IF_ASSIGN macro tracing/probe: Fix to check the difference of nr_args before adding probe
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ulfh/mmcLinus Torvalds authored
Pull more MMC updates from Ulf Hansson: "A couple more updates/fixes for MMC: - sdhci-pci: Add Genesys Logic GL975x support - sdhci-tegra: Recover loss in throughput for DMA - sdhci-of-esdhc: Fix DMA bug" * tag 'mmc-v5.4-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ulfh/mmc: mmc: host: sdhci-pci: Add Genesys Logic GL975x support mmc: tegra: Implement ->set_dma_mask() mmc: sdhci: Let drivers define their DMA mask mmc: sdhci-of-esdhc: set DMA snooping based on DMA coherence mmc: sdhci: improve ADMA error reporting
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Krzysztof Wilczynski authored
Move the static keyword to the front of declaration of csky_pmu_of_device_ids, and resolve the following compiler warning that can be seen when building with warnings enabled (W=1): arch/csky/kernel/perf_event.c:1340:1: warning: ‘static’ is not at beginning of declaration [-Wold-style-declaration] Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wilczynski <kw@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
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Valentin Schneider authored
Since the enabling and disabling of IRQs within preempt_schedule_irq() is contained in a need_resched() loop, we don't need the outer arch code loop. Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-miscLinus Torvalds authored
Pull Documentation/process update from Greg KH: "Here are two small Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst file updates that missed my previous char/misc pull request. The first one adds an Intel representative for the process, and the second one cleans up the text a bit more when it comes to how the disclosure rules work, as it was a bit confusing to some companies" * tag 'char-misc-5.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: Documentation/process: Clarify disclosure rules Documentation/process: Volunteer as the ambassador for Intel
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro: "A couple of misc patches" * 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: afs dynroot: switch to simple_dir_operations fs/handle.c - fix up kerneldoc
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git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
Pull more cifs updates from Steve French: "Fixes from the recent SMB3 Test events and Storage Developer Conference (held the last two weeks). Here are nine smb3 patches including an important patch for debugging traces with wireshark, with three patches marked for stable. Additional fixes from last week to better handle some newly discovered reparse points, and a fix the create/mkdir path for setting the mode more atomically (in SMB3 Create security descriptor context), and one for path name processing are still being tested so are not included here" * tag '5.4-rc-smb3-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6: CIFS: Fix oplock handling for SMB 2.1+ protocols smb3: missing ACL related flags smb3: pass mode bits into create calls smb3: Add missing reparse tags CIFS: fix max ea value size fs/cifs/sess.c: Remove set but not used variable 'capabilities' fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c: Make SMB2_notify_init static smb3: fix leak in "open on server" perf counter smb3: allow decryption keys to be dumped by admin for debugging
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Mao Han authored
The csky_pmu.max_period has type u64, and BIT() can only return 32 bits unsigned long on C-SKY. The initialization for max_period will be incorrect when count_width is bigger than 32. Use BIT_ULL() Signed-off-by: Mao Han <han_mao@c-sky.com> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <ren_guo@c-sky.com>
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Guo Ren authored
We need set fp zero to let backtrace know the end. The patch fixup perf callchain panic problem, because backtrace didn't know what is the end of fp. Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <ren_guo@c-sky.com> Reported-by: Mao Han <han_mao@c-sky.com>
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Mike Rapoport authored
The csky implementation of free_initrd_mem() is an open-coded version of free_reserved_area() without poisoning. Remove it and make csky use the generic version of free_initrd_mem(). Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge active entropy generation updates. This is admittedly partly "for discussion". We need to have a way forward for the boot time deadlocks where user space ends up waiting for more entropy, but no entropy is forthcoming because the system is entirely idle just waiting for something to happen. While this was triggered by what is arguably a user space bug with GDM/gnome-session asking for secure randomness during early boot, when they didn't even need any such truly secure thing, the issue ends up being that our "getrandom()" interface is prone to that kind of confusion, because people don't think very hard about whether they want to block for sufficient amounts of entropy. The approach here-in is to decide to not just passively wait for entropy to happen, but to start actively collecting it if it is missing. This is not necessarily always possible, but if the architecture has a CPU cycle counter, there is a fair amount of noise in the exact timings of reasonably complex loads. We may end up tweaking the load and the entropy estimates, but this should be at least a reasonable starting point. As part of this, we also revert the revert of the ext4 IO pattern improvement that ended up triggering the reported lack of external entropy. * getrandom() active entropy waiting: Revert "Revert "ext4: make __ext4_get_inode_loc plug"" random: try to actively add entropy rather than passively wait for it
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Linus Torvalds authored
This reverts commit 72dbcf72. Instead of waiting forever for entropy that may just not happen, we now try to actively generate entropy when required, and are thus hopefully avoiding the problem that caused the nice ext4 IO pattern fix to be reverted. So revert the revert. Cc: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Cc: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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