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  3. 12 Jun, 2020 3 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'locking-kcsan-2020-06-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · b791d1bd
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull the Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer (KCSAN) is a dynamic race detector,
  which relies on compile-time instrumentation, and uses a
  watchpoint-based sampling approach to detect races.

  The feature was under development for quite some time and has already
  found legitimate bugs.

  Unfortunately it comes with a limitation, which was only understood
  late in the development cycle:

     It requires an up to date CLANG-11 compiler

  CLANG-11 is not yet released (scheduled for June), but it's the only
  compiler today which handles the kernel requirements and especially
  the annotations of functions to exclude them from KCSAN
  instrumentation correctly.

  These annotations really need to work so that low level entry code and
  especially int3 text poke handling can be completely isolated.

  A detailed discussion of the requirements and compiler issues can be
  found here:

    https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CANpmjNMTsY_8241bS7=XAfqvZHFLrVEkv_uM4aDUWE_kh3Rvbw@mail.gmail.com/

  We came to the conclusion that trying to work around compiler
  limitations and bugs again would end up in a major trainwreck, so
  requiring a working compiler seemed to be the best choice.

  For Continous Integration purposes the compiler restriction is
  manageable and that's where most xxSAN reports come from.

  For a change this limitation might make GCC people actually look at
  their bugs. Some issues with CSAN in GCC are 7 years old and one has
  been 'fixed' 3 years ago with a half baken solution which 'solved' the
  reported issue but not the underlying problem.

  The KCSAN developers also ponder to use a GCC plugin to become
  independent, but that's not something which will show up in a few
  days.

  Blocking KCSAN until wide spread compiler support is available is not
  a really good alternative because the continuous growth of lockless
  optimizations in the kernel demands proper tooling support"

* tag 'locking-kcsan-2020-06-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (76 commits)
  compiler_types.h, kasan: Use __SANITIZE_ADDRESS__ instead of CONFIG_KASAN to decide inlining
  compiler.h: Move function attributes to compiler_types.h
  compiler.h: Avoid nested statement expression in data_race()
  compiler.h: Remove data_race() and unnecessary checks from {READ,WRITE}_ONCE()
  kcsan: Update Documentation to change supported compilers
  kcsan: Remove 'noinline' from __no_kcsan_or_inline
  kcsan: Pass option tsan-instrument-read-before-write to Clang
  kcsan: Support distinguishing volatile accesses
  kcsan: Restrict supported compilers
  kcsan: Avoid inserting __tsan_func_entry/exit if possible
  ubsan, kcsan: Don't combine sanitizer with kcov on clang
  objtool, kcsan: Add kcsan_disable_current() and kcsan_enable_current_nowarn()
  kcsan: Add __kcsan_{enable,disable}_current() variants
  checkpatch: Warn about data_race() without comment
  kcsan: Use GFP_ATOMIC under spin lock
  Improve KCSAN documentation a bit
  kcsan: Make reporting aware of KCSAN tests
  kcsan: Fix function matching in report
  kcsan: Change data_race() to no longer require marking racing accesses
  kcsan: Move kcsan_{disable,enable}_current() to kcsan-checks.h
  ...
      b791d1bd
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'locking-urgent-2020-06-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 9716e57a
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull atomics rework from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Peter Zijlstras rework of atomics and fallbacks. This solves two
  problems:

   1) Compilers uninline small atomic_* static inline functions which
      can expose them to instrumentation.

   2) The instrumentation of atomic primitives was done at the
      architecture level while composites or fallbacks were provided at
      the generic level. As a result there are no uninstrumented
      variants of the fallbacks.

  Both issues were in the way of fully isolating fragile entry code
  pathes and especially the text poke int3 handler which is prone to an
  endless recursion problem when anything in that code path is about to
  be instrumented. This was always a problem, but got elevated due to
  the new batch mode updates of tracing.

  The solution is to mark the functions __always_inline and to flip the
  fallback and instrumentation so the non-instrumented variants are at
  the architecture level and the instrumentation is done in generic
  code.

  The latter introduces another fallback variant which will go away once
  all architectures have been moved over to arch_atomic_*"

* tag 'locking-urgent-2020-06-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  locking/atomics: Flip fallbacks and instrumentation
  asm-generic/atomic: Use __always_inline for fallback wrappers
      9716e57a
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) · b1a62749
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull updates from Andrew Morton:
 "A few fixes and stragglers.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm/memory-failure, ocfs2,
  lib/lzo, misc"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
  amdgpu: a NULL ->mm does not mean a thread is a kthread
  lib/lzo: fix ambiguous encoding bug in lzo-rle
  ocfs2: fix build failure when TCP/IP is disabled
  mm/memory-failure: send SIGBUS(BUS_MCEERR_AR) only to current thread
  mm/memory-failure: prioritize prctl(PR_MCE_KILL) over vm.memory_failure_early_kill
      b1a62749
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