- 11 Apr, 2019 1 commit
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Takashi Iwai authored
This reverts commit feb68902. The fix attempt was incorrect, leading to the mutex deadlock through the close of OSS sequencer client. The proper fix needs more consideration, so let's revert it now. Fixes: feb68902 ("ALSA: seq: Protect in-kernel ioctl calls with mutex") Reported-by: syzbot+47ded6c0f23016cde310@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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- 10 Apr, 2019 2 commits
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Takashi Iwai authored
Avoid old school C style but do plain and clear way. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Takashi Iwai authored
Just a minor refactoring to use the standard goto for error paths in snd_timer_open() instead of open code. The first mutex_lock() is moved to the beginning of the function to make the code clearer. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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- 09 Apr, 2019 6 commits
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Takashi Iwai authored
The snd_seq_ioctl_get_subscription() retrieves the port subscriber information as a pointer, while the object isn't protected, hence it may be deleted before the actual reference. This race was spotted by syzkaller and may lead to a UAF. The fix is simply copying the data in the lookup function that performs in the rwsem to protect against the deletion. Reported-by: syzbot+9437020c82413d00222d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Takashi Iwai authored
ALSA OSS sequencer calls the ioctl function indirectly via snd_seq_kernel_client_ctl(). While we already applied the protection against races between the normal ioctls and writes via the client's ioctl_mutex, this code path was left untouched. And this seems to be the cause of still remaining some rare UAF as spontaneously triggered by syzkaller. For the sake of robustness, wrap the ioctl_mutex also for the call via snd_seq_kernel_client_ctl(), too. Reported-by: syzbot+e4c8abb920efa77bace9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Takashi Iwai authored
spin_lock_irqsave() is used unnecessarily in various places in sequencer core code although it's pretty obvious that the context is sleepable. Remove irqsave and use the plain spin_lock_irq() in such places for simplicity. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Takashi Iwai authored
In a few places in sequencer core, we temporarily unlock / re-lock the pool spin lock while waiting for the allocation in the blocking mode. There spin_unlock_irq() / spin_lock_irq() pairs are called while initially spin_lock_irqsave() is used (and spin_lock_irqrestore() at the end of the function again). This is likely OK for now, but it's a bit confusing and error-prone. This patch replaces these temporary relocking lines with the irqsave variant to make the lock/unlock sequence more consistently. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Takashi Iwai authored
Use kvmalloc() for allocating cell pools since the pool size can be relatively small that may be covered better by slab. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Takashi Iwai authored
This is essentially a revert of the commit a7588c89 ("ALSA: timer: Check ack_list emptiness instead of bit flag"). The intended change by the commit turns out to be insufficient, as snd_timer_close*() always calls snd_timer_stop() that deletes the ack_list beforehand. In theory, we can change the behavior of snd_timer_stop() to sync the pending ack_list, but this will become a deadlock for the callback like sequencer that calls again snd_timer_stop() from itself. So, reverting the change is a more straightforward solution. Fixes: a7588c89 ("ALSA: timer: Check ack_list emptiness instead of bit flag") Reported-by: syzbot+58813d77154713f4de15@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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- 03 Apr, 2019 1 commit
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Christina Quast authored
chip->ioport is dereferenced in two places, but the struct is defined as follows: struct mychip { struct snd_card *card; struct pci_dev *pci; unsigned long port; int irq; }; Signed-off-by: Christina Quast <cquast@hanoverdisplays.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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- 28 Mar, 2019 1 commit
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Takashi Iwai authored
Pull yet another ALSA core timer fixes and cleanups. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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- 27 Mar, 2019 6 commits
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Takashi Iwai authored
alloc_pages_exact() is more suitable choice for allocating the sound buffers, as it doesn't need to align with power-of-two. Along with the conversion, we can drop __GFP_COMP as well. The patch also replace the error messages to be more explicit. Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Takashi Iwai authored
snd_malloc_pages() and snd_free_pages() are merely thin wrappers of the standard page allocator / free functions. Even the arguments are compatible with some standard helpers, so there is little merit of keeping these wrappers. This patch replaces the all existing callers of snd_malloc_pages() and snd_free_pages() with the direct calls of the standard helper functions. In this version, we use a recently introduced one, alloc_pages_exact(), which suits better than the old snd_malloc_pages() implementation for our purposes. Then we can avoid the waste of pages by alignment to power-of-two. Since alloc_pages_exact() does split pages, we need no longer __GFP_COMP flag; or better to say, we must not pass __GFP_COMP to alloc_pages_exact(). So the former unconditional addition of __GFP_COMP flag in snd_malloc_pages() is dropped, as well as in most other places. Reviewed-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Takashi Iwai authored
snd_timer_close() is supposed to close the timer instance and sync with the deactivation of pending actions. However, there are still some overlooked cases: - It calls snd_timer_stop() at the beginning, but some other might re-trigger the timer right after that. - snd_timer_stop() calls del_timer_sync() only when all belonging instances are closed. If multiple instances were assigned to a timer object and one is closed, the timer is still running. Then the pending action assigned to this timer might be left. Actually either of the above is the likely cause of the reported syzkaller UAF. This patch plug these holes by introducing SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_DEAD flag. This is set at the beginning of snd_timer_close(), and the flag is checked at snd_timer_start*() and else, so that no longer new action is left after snd_timer_close(). Reported-by: syzbot+d5136d4d3240cbe45a2a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Takashi Iwai authored
For checking the pending timer instance that is still left on the timer object that is being closed, we set/clear a bit flag SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_CALLBACK around the call of callbacks. This can be simplified by replace with the list_empty() call for ti->ack_list. This covers the existence more comprehensively and safely. A gratis bonus is that we can get rid of SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_CALLBACK bit flag definition as well. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Takashi Iwai authored
When a card is under disconnection, we bail out immediately at each timer interrupt or tasklet. This might leave some items left in ack list. For a better integration of the upcoming change to check ack_list emptiness, clear out the whole list upon the emergency exit route. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Takashi Iwai authored
The timer core has two almost identical code for processing callbacks: once in snd_timer_interrupt() for fast callbacks and another in snd_timer_tasklet() for delayed callbacks. Let's unify them. In the new version, the resolution is read from ti->resolution at each call, and this must be fine; ti->resolution is set in the preparation step in snd_timer_interrupt(). Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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- 26 Mar, 2019 1 commit
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Takashi Iwai authored
It's a feature request for the ancient sutff, but it's still valid; the loading of a GUS-patch isn't available via hwdep device although it's supported over OSS sequencer. The only missing piece is the call of snd_soundfont_load_guspatch() in synth emux hwdep code. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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- 25 Mar, 2019 1 commit
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Timo Wischer authored
Currently snd_aloop supports only S16 and S32 audio sample formats. With this patch the S24 formats are also supported. Signed-off-by: Timo Wischer <twischer@de.adit-jv.com> Reviewed-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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- 18 Mar, 2019 5 commits
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Takashi Sakamoto authored
In kernel API of Linux FireWire subsystem, handlers of isochronous receive (IR) context can get context headers as an argument of callback. When 4 byte header is used, the context header includes isochronous packet header for each packet. When 8 byte header is used, it includes isochronous cycle as well. ALSA IEC 61883-1/6 engine uses 4 byte header, and computes isochronous cycle from the cycle of interrupt. The usage of 8 byte header can obsolete the computation. Furthermore, this change works well for a case that a series of packet in one interrupt includes skipped isochronous cycle, This commit uses 8 byte header to handle isochronous cycle. Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Takashi Sakamoto authored
This commit adds support for MOTU 8pre FireWire, which was shipped 2007 and nowadays already discontinued. Userspace applications can transmit and receive PCM frames and MIDI messages for this model via ALSA PCM interface and RawMidi/Sequencer interfaces. Like the other models of MOTU FireWire series, this model has many quirks in its CIP. At first, data channels for two pairs of optical interfaces. At lower sampling transmission frequency, i.e. 44.1 and 48.0 kHz, one pair is available for ADAT data, thus 8 data chunks are transferred by CIP. At middle sampling transmission frequency, i.e. 88.2 and 96.0 kHz, two pairs are available to keep 8 chunks for ADAT data, thus CIP still includes 8 data chunks. Apart from data chunks for optical interface, CIP includes fixed number of data chunks. In tx stream, two chunks for status message, eight chunks for samples from analog 1-8 input, two chunks for mix-return. In rx stream, two chunks for control message, two chunks for main 1-2 output, two chunks for phone 1-2 output, two chunks for dummy 1-2. CIP header in tx stream includes quirks for its dbs and dbc fields. The value of dbs field is fixed to 0x13, against its actual size. The value of dbc field is firstly updated to 0x07 from zero, then it's incremented continuously according to actual number of data h blocks. Finally, the model has own bits to disable frame fetch. This commit uses several options to absorb the above quirks. $ python2 crpp < /sys/bus/firewire/devices/fw1/config_rom ROM header and bus information block ----------------------------------------------------------------- 400 0410b57d bus_info_length 4, crc_length 16, crc 46461 404 31333934 bus_name "1394" 408 20001000 irmc 0, cmc 0, isc 1, bmc 0, cyc_clk_acc 0, max_rec 1 (4) 40c 0001f200 company_id 0001f2 | 410 00083dfb device_id 0000083dfb | EUI-64 0001f20000083dfb root directory ----------------------------------------------------------------- 414 0004c65c directory_length 4, crc 50780 418 030001f2 vendor 41c 0c0083c0 node capabilities per IEEE 1394 420 8d000006 --> eui-64 leaf at 438 424 d1000001 --> unit directory at 428 unit directory at 428 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 428 0003991c directory_length 3, crc 39196 42c 120001f2 specifier id 430 1300000f version 434 17103800 model eui-64 leaf at 438 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 438 00022681 leaf_length 2, crc 9857 43c 0001f200 company_id 0001f2 | 440 00083dfb device_id 0000083dfb | EUI-64 0001f20000083dfb Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Takashi Iwai authored
Back-merge the current devel branch for further development. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Colin Ian King authored
The function snd_opl3_drum_switch declaration in the header file has the order of the two arguments on_off and vel swapped when compared to the definition arguments of vel and on_off. Fix this by swapping them around to match the definition. This error predates the git history, so no idea when this error was introduced. Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Jaroslav Kysela authored
Another machine which does not like the power saving (noise): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1689623 Also, reorder the Lenovo C50 entry to keep the table sorted. Reported-by: hs.guimaraes@outlook.com Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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- 17 Mar, 2019 15 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuildLinus Torvalds authored
Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - add more Build-Depends to Debian source package - prefix header search paths with $(srctree)/ - make modpost show verbose section mismatch warnings - avoid hard-coded CROSS_COMPILE for h8300 - fix regression for Debian make-kpkg command - add semantic patch to detect missing put_device() - fix some warnings of 'make deb-pkg' - optimize NOSTDINC_FLAGS evaluation - add warnings about redundant generic-y - clean up Makefiles and scripts * tag 'kbuild-v5.1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: kconfig: remove stale lxdialog/.gitignore kbuild: force all architectures except um to include mandatory-y kbuild: warn redundant generic-y Revert "modsign: Abort modules_install when signing fails" kbuild: Make NOSTDINC_FLAGS a simply expanded variable kbuild: deb-pkg: avoid implicit effects coccinelle: semantic code search for missing put_device() kbuild: pkg: grep include/config/auto.conf instead of $KCONFIG_CONFIG kbuild: deb-pkg: introduce is_enabled and if_enabled_echo to builddeb kbuild: deb-pkg: add CONFIG_ prefix to kernel config options kbuild: add workaround for Debian make-kpkg kbuild: source include/config/auto.conf instead of ${KCONFIG_CONFIG} unicore32: simplify linker script generation for decompressor h8300: use cc-cross-prefix instead of hardcoding h8300-unknown-linux- kbuild: move archive command to scripts/Makefile.lib modpost: always show verbose warning for section mismatch ia64: prefix header search path with $(srctree)/ libfdt: prefix header search paths with $(srctree)/ deb-pkg: generate correct build dependencies
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull x86 asm updates from Thomas Gleixner: "Two cleanup patches removing dead conditionals and unused code" * 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/asm: Remove unused __constant_c_x_memset() macro and inlines x86/asm: Remove dead __GNUC__ conditionals
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull perf fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "Three fixes for the fallout from the TSX errata workaround: - Prevent memory corruption caused by a unchecked out of bound array index. - Two trivial fixes to address compiler warnings" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf/x86/intel: Make dev_attr_allow_tsx_force_abort static perf/x86: Fixup typo in stub functions perf/x86/intel: Fix memory corruption
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull xen fix from Juergen Gross: "A fix for a Xen bug introduced by David's series for excluding ballooned pages in vmcores" * tag 'for-linus-5.1b-rc1b-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: xen/balloon: Fix mapping PG_offline pages to user space
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git://github.com/martinetd/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull 9p updates from Dominique Martinet: "Here is a 9p update for 5.1; there honestly hasn't been much. Two fixes (leak on invalid mount argument and possible deadlock on i_size update on 32bit smp) and a fall-through warning cleanup" * tag '9p-for-5.1' of git://github.com/martinetd/linux: 9p/net: fix memory leak in p9_client_create 9p: use inode->i_lock to protect i_size_write() under 32-bit 9p: mark expected switch fall-through
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kbuild test robot authored
Fixes: 400816f6 ("perf/x86/intel: Implement support for TSX Force Abort") Signed-off-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: kbuild-all@01.org Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190313184243.GA10820@lkp-sb-ep06
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Takashi Sakamoto authored
Current ALSA firewire-motu driver uses the value of 'model' field of unit directory in configuration ROM for modalias for MOTU FireWire models. However, as long as I checked, Pre8 and 828mk3(Hybrid) have the same value for the field (=0x100800). unit | version | model --------------- | --------- | ---------- 828mkII | 0x000003 | 0x101800 Traveler | 0x000009 | 0x107800 Pre8 | 0x00000f | 0x100800 <- 828mk3(FW) | 0x000015 | 0x106800 AudioExpress | 0x000033 | 0x104800 828mk3(Hybrid) | 0x000035 | 0x100800 <- When updating firmware for MOTU 8pre FireWire from v1.0.0 to v1.0.3, I got change of the value from 0x100800 to 0x103800. On the other hand, the value of 'version' field is fixed to 0x00000f. As a quick glance, the higher 12 bits of the value of 'version' field represent firmware version, while the lower 12 bits is unknown. By induction, the value of 'version' field represents actual model. This commit changes modalias to match the value of 'version' field, instead of 'model' field. For degug, long name of added sound card includes hexadecimal value of 'model' field. Fixes: 6c5e1ac0 ("ALSA: firewire-motu: add support for Motu Traveler") Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.19+ Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Masahiro Yamada authored
When this .gitignore was added, lxdialog was an independent hostprogs-y. Now that all objects in lxdialog/ are directly linked to mconf, the lxdialog is no longer generated. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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Masahiro Yamada authored
Currently, every arch/*/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild explicitly includes the common Kbuild.asm file. Factor out the duplicated include directives to scripts/Makefile.asm-generic so that no architecture would opt out of the mandatory-y mechanism. um is not forced to include mandatory-y since it is a very exceptional case which does not support UAPI. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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Masahiro Yamada authored
The generic-y is redundant under the following condition: - arch has its own implementation - the same header is added to generated-y - the same header is added to mandatory-y If a redundant generic-y is found, the warning like follows is displayed: scripts/Makefile.asm-generic:20: redundant generic-y found in arch/arm/include/asm/Kbuild: timex.h I fixed up arch Kbuild files found by this. Suggested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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Douglas Anderson authored
This reverts commit caf6fe91. The commit was fine but is no longer needed as of commit 3a2429e1 ("kbuild: change if_changed_rule for multi-line recipe"). Let's go back to using ";" to be consistent. For some discussion, see: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAK7LNASde0Q9S5GKeQiWhArfER4S4wL1=R_FW8q0++_X3T5=hQ@mail.gmail.comSigned-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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Douglas Anderson authored
During a simple no-op (nothing changed) build I saw 39 invocations of the C compiler with the argument "-print-file-name=include". We don't need to call the C compiler 39 times for this--one time will suffice. Let's change NOSTDINC_FLAGS to a simply expanded variable to avoid this since there doesn't appear to be any reason it should be recursively expanded. On my build this shaved ~400 ms off my "no-op" build. Note that the recursive expansion seems to date back to the (really old) commit e8f5bdb0 ("[PATCH] Makefile include path ordering"). It's a little unclear to me if the point of that patch was to switch the variable to be recursively expanded (which it did) or to avoid directly assigning to NOSTDINC_FLAGS (AKA to switch to +=) because someone else (out of tree?) was setting it. I presume later since if the only goal was to switch to recursive expansion the patch would have just removed the ":". Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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Arseny Maslennikov authored
* The man page for dpkg-source(1) notes: > -b, --build directory [format-specific-parameters] > Build a source package (--build since dpkg 1.17.14). > <...> > > dpkg-source will build the source package with the first > format found in this ordered list: the format indicated > with the --format command line option, the format > indicated in debian/source/format, “1.0”. The fallback > to “1.0” is deprecated and will be removed at some point > in the future, you should always document the desired > source format in debian/source/format. See section > SOURCE PACKAGE FORMATS for an extensive description of > the various source package formats. Thus it would be more foolproof to explicitly use 1.0 (as we always did) than to rely on dpkg-source's defaults. * In a similar vein, debian/rules is not made executable by mkdebian, and dpkg-source warns about that but still silently fixes the file. Let's be explicit once again. Signed-off-by: Arseny Maslennikov <ar@cs.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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Wen Yang authored
The of_find_device_by_node() takes a reference to the underlying device structure, we should release that reference. The implementation of this semantic code search is: In a function, for a local variable returned by calling of_find_device_by_node(), a, if it is released by a function such as put_device()/of_dev_put()/platform_device_put() after the last use, it is considered that there is no reference leak; b, if it is passed back to the caller via dev_get_drvdata()/platform_get_drvdata()/get_device(), etc., the reference will be released in other functions, and the current function also considers that there is no reference leak; c, for the rest of the situation, the current function should release the reference by calling put_device, this code search will report the corresponding error message. By using this semantic code search, we have found some object reference leaks, such as: commit 11907e9d ("ASoC: fsl-asoc-card: fix object reference leaks in fsl_asoc_card_probe") commit a12085d1 ("mtd: rawnand: atmel: fix possible object reference leak") commit 11493f26 ("mtd: rawnand: jz4780: fix possible object reference leak") There are still dozens of reference leaks in the current kernel code. Further, for the case of b, the object returned to other functions may also have a reference leak, we will continue to develop other cocci scripts to further check the reference leak. Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang99@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Reviewed-by: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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- 16 Mar, 2019 1 commit
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull pidfd system call from Christian Brauner: "This introduces the ability to use file descriptors from /proc/<pid>/ as stable handles on struct pid. Even if a pid is recycled the handle will not change. For a start these fds can be used to send signals to the processes they refer to. With the ability to use /proc/<pid> fds as stable handles on struct pid we can fix a long-standing issue where after a process has exited its pid can be reused by another process. If a caller sends a signal to a reused pid it will end up signaling the wrong process. With this patchset we enable a variety of use cases. One obvious example is that we can now safely delegate an important part of process management - sending signals - to processes other than the parent of a given process by sending file descriptors around via scm rights and not fearing that the given process will have been recycled in the meantime. It also allows for easy testing whether a given process is still alive or not by sending signal 0 to a pidfd which is quite handy. There has been some interest in this feature e.g. from systems management (systemd, glibc) and container managers. I have requested and gotten comments from glibc to make sure that this syscall is suitable for their needs as well. In the future I expect it to take on most other pid-based signal syscalls. But such features are left for the future once they are needed. This has been sitting in linux-next for quite a while and has not caused any issues. It comes with selftests which verify basic functionality and also test that a recycled pid cannot be signaled via a pidfd. Jon has written about a prior version of this patchset. It should cover the basic functionality since not a lot has changed since then: https://lwn.net/Articles/773459/ The commit message for the syscall itself is extensively documenting the syscall, including it's functionality and extensibility" * tag 'pidfd-v5.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux: selftests: add tests for pidfd_send_signal() signal: add pidfd_send_signal() syscall
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