- 04 Dec, 2015 7 commits
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Josh Poimboeuf authored
Calling set_memory_rw() and set_memory_ro() for every iteration of the loop in klp_write_object_relocations() is messy, inefficient, and error-prone. Change all the read-only pages to read-write before the loop and convert them back to read-only again afterwards. Suggested-by:
Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by:
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Jiri Kosina authored
As agreed with Rusty, we're taking a current module-next pile through livepatching.git, as it contains solely patches that are pre-requisity for module page protection cleanups in livepatching. Rusty will be restarting module-next from scratch. Signed-off-by: -
Miroslav Benes authored
Currently, percpu symbols from .data..percpu ELF section of a module are not copied over and stored in final symtab array of struct module. Consequently such symbol cannot be returned via kallsyms API (for example kallsyms_lookup_name). This can be especially confusing when the percpu symbol is exported. Only its __ksymtab et al. are present in its symtab. The culprit is in layout_and_allocate() function where SHF_ALLOC flag is dropped for .data..percpu section. There is in fact no need to copy the section to final struct module, because kernel module loader allocates extra percpu section by itself. Unfortunately only symbols from SHF_ALLOC sections are copied due to a check in is_core_symbol(). The patch changes is_core_symbol() function to copy over also percpu symbols (their st_shndx points to .data..percpu ELF section). We do it only if CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL is set to be consistent with the rest of the function (ELF section is SHF_ALLOC but !SHF_EXECINSTR). Finally elf_type() returns type 'a' for a percpu symbol because its address is absolute. Signed-off-by:
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by:
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Rusty Russell authored
Modules have three sections: text, rodata and writable data. The code handled the case where these overlapped, however they never can: debug_align() ensures they are always page-aligned. This is why we got away with manually traversing the pages in set_all_modules_text_rw() without rounding. We create three helper functions: frob_text(), frob_rodata() and frob_writable_data(). We then call these explicitly at every point, so it's clear what we're doing. We also expose module_enable_ro() and module_disable_ro() for livepatch to use. Reviewed-by:
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Rusty Russell authored
Makes it easier to handle init vs core cleanly, though the change is fairly invasive across random architectures. It simplifies the rbtree code immediately, however, while keeping the core data together in the same cachline (now iff the rbtree code is enabled). Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by:
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Rusty Russell authored
An exact mapping would be within_module_core(), but at this stage (MODULE_STATE_GOING) the init section is empty, and this is clearer. Reviewed-by:
Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Josh Poimboeuf authored
When setting a module's RO and NX permissions, set_section_ro_nx() is used, but when clearing them, unset_module_{init,core}_ro_nx() are used. The unset functions don't have the same checks the set function has for partial page protections. It's probably harmless, but it's still confusingly asymmetrical. Instead, use the same logic to do both. Also add some new set_module_{init,core}_ro_nx() helper functions for more symmetry with the unset functions. Signed-off-by:
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- 03 Dec, 2015 3 commits
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Chris J Arges authored
The following directory structure will allow for cases when the same function name exists in a single object. /sys/kernel/livepatch/<patch>/<object>/<function,sympos> The sympos number corresponds to the nth occurrence of the symbol name in kallsyms for the patched object. An example of patching multiple symbols can be found here: https://github.com/dynup/kpatch/issues/493Signed-off-by:
Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com> Reviewed-by:
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Chris J Arges authored
In cases of duplicate symbols, sympos will be used to disambiguate instead of val. By default sympos will be 0, and patching will only succeed if the symbol is unique. Specifying a positive value will ensure that occurrence of the symbol in kallsyms for the patched object will be used for patching if it is valid. For external relocations sympos is not supported. Remove klp_verify_callback, klp_verify_args and klp_verify_vmlinux_symbol as they are no longer used. From the klp_reloc structure remove val, as it can be refactored as a local variable in klp_write_object_relocations. Signed-off-by:
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Chris J Arges authored
Currently, patching objects with duplicate symbol names fail because the creation of the sysfs function directory collides with the previous attempt. Appending old_addr to the function name is problematic as it reveals the address of the function being patch to a normal user. Using the symbol's occurrence in kallsyms to postfix the function name in the sysfs directory solves the issue of having consistent unique names and ensuring that the address is not exposed to a normal user. In addition, using the symbol position as the user's method to disambiguate symbols instead of addr allows for disambiguating symbols in modules as well for both function addresses and for relocs. This also simplifies much of the code. Special handling for kASLR is no longer needed and can be removed. The klp_find_verify_func_addr function can be replaced by klp_find_object_symbol, and klp_verify_vmlinux_symbol and its callback can be removed completely. In cases of duplicate symbols, old_sympos will be used to disambiguate instead of old_addr. By default old_sympos will be 0, and patching will only succeed if the symbol is unique. Specifying a positive value will ensure that occurrence of the symbol in kallsyms for the patched object will be used for patching if it is valid. In addition, make old_addr an internal structure field not to be specified by the user. Finally, remove klp_find_verify_func_addr as it can be replaced by klp_find_object_symbol directly. Support for symbol position disambiguation for relocations is added in the next patch in this series. Signed-off-by:
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- 25 Nov, 2015 5 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro: "A couple of fixes for sendfile lockups caught by Dmitry + a fix for ancient sysvfs symlink breakage" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: vfs: Avoid softlockups with sendfile(2) vfs: Make sendfile(2) killable even better fix sysvfs symlinks
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git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds authored
Pull more block layer fixes from Jens Axboe: "I wasn't going to send off a new pull before next week, but the blk flush fix from Jan from the other day introduced a regression. It's rare enough not to have hit during testing, since it requires both a device that rejects the first flush, and bad timing while it does that. But since someone did hit it, let's get the revert into 4.4-rc3 so we don't have a released rc with that known issue. Apart from that revert, three other fixes: - From Christoph, a fix for a missing unmap in NVMe request preparation. - An NVMe fix from Nishanth that fixes data corruption on powerpc. - Also from Christoph, fix a list_del() attempt on blk-mq that didn't have a matching list_add() at timer start" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: Revert "blk-flush: Queue through IO scheduler when flush not required" block: fix blk_abort_request for blk-mq drivers nvme: add missing unmaps in nvme_queue_rq NVMe: default to 4k device page size -
Jens Axboe authored
This reverts commit 1b2ff19e. Jan writes: -- Thanks for report! After some investigation I found out we allocate elevator specific data in __get_request() only for non-flush requests. And this is actually required since the flush machinery uses the space in struct request for something else. Doh. So my patch is just wrong and not easy to fix since at the time __get_request() is called we are not sure whether the flush machinery will be used in the end. Jens, please revert 1b2ff19e. Thanks! I'm somewhat surprised that you can reliably hit the race where flushing gets disabled for the device just while the request is in flight. But I guess during boot it makes some sense. -- So let's just revert it, we can fix the queue run manually after the fact. This race is rare enough that it didn't trigger in testing, it requires the specific disable-while-in-flight scenario to trigger.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds authored
Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini: "Bug fixes for all architectures. Nothing really stands out" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (21 commits) KVM: nVMX: remove incorrect vpid check in nested invvpid emulation arm64: kvm: report original PAR_EL1 upon panic arm64: kvm: avoid %p in __kvm_hyp_panic KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Trust the LR state for HW IRQs KVM: arm/arm64: arch_timer: Preserve physical dist. active state on LR.active KVM: arm/arm64: Fix preemptible timer active state crazyness arm64: KVM: Add workaround for Cortex-A57 erratum 834220 arm64: KVM: Fix AArch32 to AArch64 register mapping ARM/arm64: KVM: test properly for a PTE's uncachedness KVM: s390: fix wrong lookup of VCPUs by array index KVM: s390: avoid memory overwrites on emergency signal injection KVM: Provide function for VCPU lookup by id KVM: s390: fix pfmf intercept handler KVM: s390: enable SIMD only when no VCPUs were created KVM: x86: request interrupt window when IRQ chip is split KVM: x86: set KVM_REQ_EVENT on local interrupt request from user space KVM: x86: split kvm_vcpu_ready_for_interrupt_injection out of dm_request_for_irq_injection KVM: x86: fix interrupt window handling in split IRQ chip case MIPS: KVM: Uninit VCPU in vcpu_create error path MIPS: KVM: Fix CACHE immediate offset sign extension ...
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Haozhong Zhang authored
This patch removes the vpid check when emulating nested invvpid instruction of type all-contexts invalidation. The existing code is incorrect because: (1) According to Intel SDM Vol 3, Section "INVVPID - Invalidate Translations Based on VPID", invvpid instruction does not check vpid in the invvpid descriptor when its type is all-contexts invalidation. (2) According to the same document, invvpid of type all-contexts invalidation does not require there is an active VMCS, so/and get_vmcs12() in the existing code may result in a NULL-pointer dereference. In practice, it can crash both KVM itself and L1 hypervisors that use invvpid (e.g. Xen). Signed-off-by:Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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- 24 Nov, 2015 21 commits
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Christoph Hellwig authored
We only added the request to the request list for the !blk-mq case, so we should only delete it in that case as well. Signed-off-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by:
Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
When we fail various metadata related operations in nvme_queue_rq we need to unmap the data SGL. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Nishanth Aravamudan authored
We received a bug report recently when DDW (64-bit direct DMA on Power) is not enabled for NVMe devices. In that case, we fall back to 32-bit DMA via the IOMMU, which is always done via 4K TCEs (Translation Control Entries). The NVMe device driver, though, assumes that the DMA alignment for the PRP entries will match the device's page size, and that the DMA aligment matches the kernel's page aligment. On Power, the the IOMMU page size, as mentioned above, can be 4K, while the device can have a page size of 8K, while the kernel has a page size of 64K. This eventually trips the BUG_ON in nvme_setup_prps(), as we have a 'dma_len' that is a multiple of 4K but not 8K (e.g., 0xF000). In this particular case of page sizes, we clearly want to use the IOMMU's page size in the driver. And generally, the NVMe driver in this function should be using the IOMMU's page size for the default device page size, rather than the kernel's page size. There is not currently an API to obtain the IOMMU's page size across all architectures and in the interest of a stop-gap fix to this functional issue, default the NVMe device page size to 4K, with the intent of adding such an API and implementation across all architectures in the next merge window. With the functionally equivalent v3 of this patch, our hardware test exerciser survives when using 32-bit DMA; without the patch, the kernel will BUG within a few minutes. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc at linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: -
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dmLinus Torvalds authored
Pull device mapper fixes from Mike Snitzer: "Two fixes for 4.4-rc1's DM ioctl changes that introduced the potential for infinite recursion on ioctl (with DM multipath). And four stable fixes: - A DM thin-provisioning fix to restore 'error_if_no_space' setting when a thin-pool is made writable again (after having been out of space). - A DM thin-provisioning fix to properly advertise discard support for thin volumes that are stacked on a thin-pool whose underlying data device doesn't support discards. - A DM ioctl fix to allow ctrl-c to break out of an ioctl retry loop when DM multipath is configured to 'queue_if_no_path'. - A DM crypt fix for a possible hang on dm-crypt device removal" * tag 'dm-4.4-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: dm thin: fix regression in advertised discard limits dm crypt: fix a possible hang due to race condition on exit dm mpath: fix infinite recursion in ioctl when no paths and !queue_if_no_path dm: do not reuse dm_blk_ioctl block_device input as local variable dm: fix ioctl retry termination with signal dm thin: restore requested 'error_if_no_space' setting on OODS to WRITE transition -
Eric Dumazet authored
I got a crash during a "perf top" session that was caused by a race in __task_pid_nr_ns() : pid_nr_ns() was inlined, but apparently compiler chose to read task->pids[type].pid twice, and the pid->level dereference crashed because we got a NULL pointer at the second read : if (pid && ns->level <= pid->level) { // CRASH Just use RCU API properly to solve this race, and not worry about "perf top" crashing hosts :( get_task_pid() can benefit from same fix. Signed-off-by:Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Paolo Bonzini authored
Merge tag 'kvm-arm-for-v4.4-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into kvm-master KVM/ARM Fixes for v4.4-rc3. Includes some timer fixes, properly unmapping PTEs, an errata fix, and two tweaks to the EL2 panic code.
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git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds authored
Pull block layer fixes from Jens Axboe: "A round of fixes/updates for the current series. This looks a little bigger than it is, but that's mainly because we pushed the lightnvm enabled null_blk change out of the merge window so it could be updated a bit. The rest of the volume is also mostly lightnvm. In particular: - Lightnvm. Various fixes, additions, updates from Matias and Javier, as well as from Wenwei Tao. - NVMe: - Fix for potential arithmetic overflow from Keith. - Also from Keith, ensure that we reap pending completions from a completion queue before deleting it. Fixes kernel crashes when resetting a device with IO pending. - Various little lightnvm related tweaks from Matias. - Fixup flushes to go through the IO scheduler, for the cases where a flush is not required. Fixes a case in CFQ where we would be idling and not see this request, hence not break the idling. From Jan Kara. - Use list_{first,prev,next} in elevator.c for cleaner code. From Gelian Tang. - Fix for a warning trigger on btrfs and raid on single queue blk-mq devices, where we would flush plug callbacks with preemption disabled. From me. - A mac partition validation fix from Kees Cook. - Two merge fixes from Ming, marked stable. A third part is adding a new warning so we'll notice this quicker in the future, if we screw up the accounting. - Cleanup of thread name/creation in mtip32xx from Rasmus Villemoes" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (32 commits) blk-merge: warn if figured out segment number is bigger than nr_phys_segments blk-merge: fix blk_bio_segment_split block: fix segment split blk-mq: fix calling unplug callbacks with preempt disabled mac: validate mac_partition is within sector mtip32xx: use formatting capability of kthread_create_on_node NVMe: reap completion entries when deleting queue lightnvm: add free and bad lun info to show luns lightnvm: keep track of block counts nvme: lightnvm: use admin queues for admin cmds lightnvm: missing free on init error lightnvm: wrong return value and redundant free null_blk: do not del gendisk with lightnvm null_blk: use device addressing mode null_blk: use ppa_cache pool NVMe: Fix possible arithmetic overflow for max segments blk-flush: Queue through IO scheduler when flush not required null_blk: register as a LightNVM device elevator: use list_{first,prev,next}_entry lightnvm: cleanup queue before target removal ... -
Mark Rutland authored
If we call __kvm_hyp_panic while a guest context is active, we call __restore_sysregs before acquiring the system register values for the panic, in the process throwing away the PAR_EL1 value at the point of the panic. This patch modifies __kvm_hyp_panic to stash the PAR_EL1 value prior to restoring host register values, enabling us to report the original values at the point of the panic. Acked-by:
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
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Mark Rutland authored
Currently __kvm_hyp_panic uses %p for values which are not pointers, such as the ESR value. This can confusingly lead to "(null)" being printed for the value. Use %x instead, and only use %p for host pointers. Signed-off-by:
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Christoffer Dall authored
We were probing the physial distributor state for the active state of a HW virtual IRQ, because we had seen evidence that the LR state was not cleared when the guest deactivated a virtual interrupted. However, this issue turned out to be a software bug in the GIC, which was solved by: 84aab5e68c2a5e1e18d81ae8308c3ce25d501b29 (KVM: arm/arm64: arch_timer: Preserve physical dist. active state on LR.active, 2015-11-24) Therefore, get rid of the complexities and just look at the LR. Reviewed-by:
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Christoffer Dall authored
We were incorrectly removing the active state from the physical distributor on the timer interrupt when the timer output level was deasserted. We shouldn't be doing this without considering the virtual interrupt's active state, because the architecture requires that when an LR has the HW bit set and the pending or active bits set, then the physical interrupt must also have the corresponding bits set. This addresses an issue where we have been observing an inconsistency between the LR state and the physical distributor state where the LR state was active and the physical distributor was not active, which shouldn't happen. Reviewed-by:
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Christoffer Dall authored
We were setting the physical active state on the GIC distributor in a preemptible section, which could cause us to set the active state on different physical CPU from the one we were actually going to run on, hacoc ensues. Since we are no longer descheduling/scheduling soft timers in the flush/sync timer functions, simply moving the timer flush into a non-preemptible section. Reviewed-by:
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Marc Zyngier authored
Cortex-A57 parts up to r1p2 can misreport Stage 2 translation faults when a Stage 1 permission fault or device alignment fault should have been reported. This patch implements the workaround (which is to validate that the Stage-1 translation actually succeeds) by using code patching. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by:
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Marc Zyngier authored
When running a 32bit guest under a 64bit hypervisor, the ARMv8 architecture defines a mapping of the 32bit registers in the 64bit space. This includes banked registers that are being demultiplexed over the 64bit ones. On exceptions caused by an operation involving a 32bit register, the HW exposes the register number in the ESR_EL2 register. It was so far understood that SW had to distinguish between AArch32 and AArch64 accesses (based on the current AArch32 mode and register number). It turns out that I misinterpreted the ARM ARM, and the clue is in D1.20.1: "For some exceptions, the exception syndrome given in the ESR_ELx identifies one or more register numbers from the issued instruction that generated the exception. Where the exception is taken from an Exception level using AArch32 these register numbers give the AArch64 view of the register." Which means that the HW is already giving us the translated version, and that we shouldn't try to interpret it at all (for example, doing an MMIO operation from the IRQ mode using the LR register leads to very unexpected behaviours). The fix is thus not to perform a call to vcpu_reg32() at all from vcpu_reg(), and use whatever register number is supplied directly. The only case we need to find out about the mapping is when we actively generate a register access, which only occurs when injecting a fault in a guest. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by:
Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Ard Biesheuvel authored
The open coded tests for checking whether a PTE maps a page as uncached use a flawed '(pte_val(xxx) & CONST) != CONST' pattern, which is not guaranteed to work since the type of a mapping is not a set of mutually exclusive bits For HYP mappings, the type is an index into the MAIR table (i.e, the index itself does not contain any information whatsoever about the type of the mapping), and for stage-2 mappings it is a bit field where normal memory and device types are defined as follows: #define MT_S2_NORMAL 0xf #define MT_S2_DEVICE_nGnRE 0x1 I.e., masking *and* comparing with the latter matches on the former, and we have been getting lucky merely because the S2 device mappings also have the PTE_UXN bit set, or we would misidentify memory mappings as device mappings. Since the unmap_range() code path (which contains one instance of the flawed test) is used both for HYP mappings and stage-2 mappings, and considering the difference between the two, it is non-trivial to fix this by rewriting the tests in place, as it would involve passing down the type of mapping through all the functions. However, since HYP mappings and stage-2 mappings both deal with host physical addresses, we can simply check whether the mapping is backed by memory that is managed by the host kernel, and only perform the D-cache maintenance if this is the case. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Tested-by:
Pavel Fedin <p.fedin@samsung.com> Reviewed-by:
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Ming Lei authored
We had seen lots of reports of this kind issue, so add one warnning in blk-merge, then it can be triggered easily and avoid to depend on warning/bug from drivers. Signed-off-by:
Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by:
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Ming Lei authored
Commit bdced438(block: setup bi_phys_segments after splitting) introduces function of computing bio->bi_phys_segments during bio splitting. Unfortunately both bio->bi_seg_front_size and bio->bi_seg_back_size arn't computed, so too many physical segments may be obtained for one request since both the two are used to check if one segment across two bios can be possible. This patch fixes the issue by computing the two variables in blk_bio_segment_split(). Fixes: bdced438(block: setup bi_phys_segments after splitting) Reported-by:
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Reported-by:
Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Tested-by:
Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by:
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Ming Lei authored
Inside blk_bio_segment_split(), previous bvec pointer(bvprvp) always points to the iterator local variable, which is obviously wrong, so fix it by pointing to the local variable of 'bvprv'. Fixes: 5014c311(block: fix bogus compiler warnings in blk-merge.c) Cc: stable@kernel.org #4.3 Reported-by:
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Jan Kara authored
The following test program from Dmitry can cause softlockups or RCU stalls as it copies 1GB from tmpfs into eventfd and we don't have any scheduling point at that path in sendfile(2) implementation: int r1 = eventfd(0, 0); int r2 = memfd_create("", 0); unsigned long n = 1<<30; fallocate(r2, 0, 0, n); sendfile(r1, r2, 0, n); Add cond_resched() into __splice_from_pipe() to fix the problem. CC: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Jan Kara authored
Commit 296291cd (mm: make sendfile(2) killable) fixed an issue where sendfile(2) was doing a lot of tiny writes into a filesystem and thus was unkillable for a long time. However sendfile(2) can be (mis)used to issue lots of writes into arbitrary file descriptor such as evenfd or similar special file descriptors which never hit the standard filesystem write path and thus are still unkillable. E.g. the following example from Dmitry burns CPU for ~16s on my test system without possibility to be killed: int r1 = eventfd(0, 0); int r2 = memfd_create("", 0); unsigned long n = 1<<30; fallocate(r2, 0, 0, n); sendfile(r1, r2, 0, n); There are actually quite a few tests for pending signals in sendfile code however we data to write is always available none of them seems to trigger. So fix the problem by adding a test for pending signal into splice_from_pipe_next() also before the loop waiting for pipe buffers to be available. This should fix all the lockup issues with sendfile of the do-ton-of-tiny-writes nature. CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by:
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
The thing got broken back in 2002 - sysvfs does *not* have inline symlinks; even short ones have bodies stored in the first block of file. sysv_symlink() handles that correctly; unfortunately, attempting to look an existing symlink up will end up confusing them for inline symlinks, and interpret the block number containing the body as the body itself. Nobody has noticed until now, which says something about the level of testing sysvfs gets ;-/ Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # all of them, not that anyone cared Signed-off-by:
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- 23 Nov, 2015 3 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge tag 'linux-kselftest-4.4-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest Pull kselftest fixes from Shuah Khan: "This update consists of one minor documentation fix and a fix to an existing test" * tag 'linux-kselftest-4.4-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest: selftests/seccomp: Get page size from sysconf tools:testing/selftests: fix typo in futex/README
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Mike Snitzer authored
When establishing a thin device's discard limits we cannot rely on the underlying thin-pool device's discard capabilities (which are inherited from the thin-pool's underlying data device) given that DM thin devices must provide discard support even when the thin-pool's underlying data device doesn't support discards. Users were exposed to this thin device discard limits regression if their thin-pool's underlying data device does _not_ support discards. This regression caused all upper-layers that called the blkdev_issue_discard() interface to not be able to issue discards to thin devices (because discard_granularity was 0). This regression wasn't caught earlier because the device-mapper-test-suite's extensive 'thin-provisioning' discard tests are only ever performed against thin-pool's with data devices that support discards. Fix is to have thin_io_hints() test the pool's 'discard_enabled' feature rather than inferring whether or not a thin device's discard support should be enabled by looking at the thin-pool's discard_granularity. Fixes: 21607670 ("dm thin: disable discard support for thin devices if pool's is disabled") Reported-by:
Mike Gerber <mike@sprachgewalt.de> Signed-off-by:
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.1+
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- 22 Nov, 2015 1 commit
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge slub bulk allocator updates from Andrew Morton: "This missed the merge window because I was waiting for some repairs to come in. Nothing actually uses the bulk allocator yet and the changes to other code paths are pretty small. And the net guys are waiting for this so they can start merging the client code" More comments from Jesper Dangaard Brouer: "The kmem_cache_alloc_bulk() call, in mm/slub.c, were included in previous kernel. The present version contains a bug. Vladimir Davydov noticed it contained a bug, when kernel is compiled with CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM (see commit 03ec0ed5: "slub: fix kmem cgroup bug in kmem_cache_alloc_bulk"). Plus the mem cgroup counterpart in kmem_cache_free_bulk() were missing (see commit 03374518 "slub: add missing kmem cgroup support to kmem_cache_free_bulk"). I don't consider the fix stable-material because there are no in-tree users of the API. But with known bugs (for memcg) I cannot start using the API in the net-tree" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: slab/slub: adjust kmem_cache_alloc_bulk API slub: add missing kmem cgroup support to kmem_cache_free_bulk slub: fix kmem cgroup bug in kmem_cache_alloc_bulk slub: optimize bulk slowpath free by detached freelist slub: support for bulk free with SLUB freelists
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