- 11 Aug, 2016 8 commits
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Andy Lutomirski authored
On my Dell XPS 13 9350 with firmware 1.4.4 and SGX on, if I boot Fedora 24's grub2-efi off a hard disk, my first 1MB of RAM looks like: efi: mem00: [Runtime Data |RUN| | | | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000fff] (0MB) efi: mem01: [Boot Data | | | | | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x0000000000001000-0x0000000000027fff] (0MB) efi: mem02: [Loader Data | | | | | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x0000000000028000-0x0000000000029fff] (0MB) efi: mem03: [Reserved | | | | | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x000000000002a000-0x000000000002bfff] (0MB) efi: mem04: [Runtime Data |RUN| | | | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x000000000002c000-0x000000000002cfff] (0MB) efi: mem05: [Loader Data | | | | | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x000000000002d000-0x000000000002dfff] (0MB) efi: mem06: [Conventional Memory| | | | | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x000000000002e000-0x0000000000057fff] (0MB) efi: mem07: [Reserved | | | | | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x0000000000058000-0x0000000000058fff] (0MB) efi: mem08: [Conventional Memory| | | | | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x0000000000059000-0x000000000009ffff] (0MB) My EBDA is at 0x2c000, which blocks off everything from 0x2c000 and up, and my trampoline is 0x6000 bytes (6 pages), so it doesn't fit in the loader data range at 0x28000. Without this patch, it panics due to a failure to allocate the trampoline. With this patch, it works: [ +0.001744] Base memory trampoline at [ffff880000001000] 1000 size 24576 Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com> Cc: Matt Fleming <mfleming@suse.de> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/998c77b3bf709f3dfed85cb30701ed1a5d8a438b.1470821230.git.luto@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Andy Lutomirski authored
If reserve_real_mode() fails, panicing immediately means we're doomed. Make it safe to try more than once to allocate the trampoline: - Degrade a failure from panic() to pr_info(). (If we make it to setup_real_mode() without reserving the trampoline, we'll panic them.) - Factor out helpers so that platform code can supply a specific address to try. - Warn if reserve_real_mode() is called after we're done with the memblock allocator. If that were to happen, we would behave unpredictably. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com> Cc: Matt Fleming <mfleming@suse.de> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/876e383038f3e9971aa72fd20a4f5da05f9d193d.1470821230.git.luto@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Andy Lutomirski authored
There's no need to run setup_real_mode() as early as we run it. Defer it to the same early_initcall that sets up the page permissions for the real mode code. This should be a code size reduction. More importantly, it give us a longer window in which we can allocate the real mode trampoline. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com> Cc: Matt Fleming <mfleming@suse.de> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fd62f0da4f79357695e9bf3e365623736b05f119.1470821230.git.luto@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Andy Lutomirski authored
The initialization process for trampoline_cr4_features and mmu_cr4_features was confusing. The intent is for mmu_cr4_features and *trampoline_cr4_features to stay in sync, but trampoline_cr4_features is NULL until setup_real_mode() runs. The old code synchronized *trampoline_cr4_features *twice*, once in setup_real_mode() and once in setup_arch(). It also initialized mmu_cr4_features in setup_real_mode(), which causes the actual value of mmu_cr4_features to potentially depend on when setup_real_mode() is called. With this patch, mmu_cr4_features is initialized directly in setup_arch(), and *trampoline_cr4_features is synchronized to mmu_cr4_features when the trampoline is set up. After this patch, it should be safe to defer setup_real_mode(). Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com> Cc: Matt Fleming <mfleming@suse.de> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d48a263f9912389b957dd495a7127b009259ffe0.1470821230.git.luto@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Andy Lutomirski authored
reserve_bios_regions() is a quirk that reserves memory that we might otherwise think is available. There's no need to run it so early, and running it before we have the memory map initialized with its non-quirky inputs makes it hard to make reserve_bios_regions() more intelligent. Move it right after we populate the memblock state. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com> Cc: Matt Fleming <mfleming@suse.de> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/59f58618911005c799c6c9979ce6ae4881d907c2.1470821230.git.luto@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Aaron Lu authored
Since commit: 52aec330 ("x86/tlb: replace INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR by CALL_FUNCTION_VECTOR") the TLB remote shootdown is done through call function vector. That commit didn't take care of irq_tlb_count, which a later commit: fd0f5869 ("x86: Distinguish TLB shootdown interrupts from other functions call interrupts") ... tried to fix. The fix assumes every increase of irq_tlb_count has a corresponding increase of irq_call_count. So the irq_call_count is always bigger than irq_tlb_count and we could substract irq_tlb_count from irq_call_count. Unfortunately this is not true for the smp_call_function_single() case. The IPI is only sent if the target CPU's call_single_queue is empty when adding a csd into it in generic_exec_single. That means if two threads are both adding flush tlb csds to the same CPU's call_single_queue, only one IPI is sent. In other words, the irq_call_count is incremented by 1 but irq_tlb_count is incremented by 2. Over time, irq_tlb_count will be bigger than irq_call_count and the substract will produce a very large irq_call_count value due to overflow. Considering that: 1) it's not worth to send more IPIs for the sake of accurate counting of irq_call_count in generic_exec_single(); 2) it's not easy to tell if the call function interrupt is for TLB shootdown in __smp_call_function_single_interrupt(). Not to exclude TLB shootdown from call function count seems to be the simplest fix and this patch just does that. This bug was found by LKP's cyclic performance regression tracking recently with the vm-scalability test suite. I have bisected to commit: 3dec0ba0 ("mm/rmap: share the i_mmap_rwsem") This commit didn't do anything wrong but revealed the irq_call_count problem. IIUC, the commit makes rwc->remap_one in rmap_walk_file concurrent with multiple threads. When remap_one is try_to_unmap_one(), then multiple threads could queue flush TLB to the same CPU but only one IPI will be sent. Since the commit was added in Linux v3.19, the counting problem only shows up from v3.19 onwards. Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160811074430.GA18163@aaronlu.sh.intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Dave Hansen authored
A recent patch changed the format of a swap PTE. The comment explaining the format of the swap PTE is wrong about the bits used for the swap type field. Amusingly, the ASCII art and the patch description are correct, but the comment itself is wrong. As I was looking at this, I also noticed that the SWP_OFFSET_FIRST_BIT has an off-by-one error. This does not really hurt anything. It just wasted a bit of space in the PTE, giving us 2^59 bytes of addressable space in our swapfiles instead of 2^60. But, it doesn't match with the comments, and it wastes a bit of space, so fix it. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Fixes: 00839ee3 ("x86/mm: Move swap offset/type up in PTE to work around erratum") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160810172325.E56AD7DA@viggo.jf.intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Nicolas Iooss authored
debug_putstr() is used to output strings without using printf-like formatting but debug_putstr(v) is defined as early_printk(v) in arch/x86/lib/kaslr.c. This makes clang reports the following warning when building with -Wformat-security: arch/x86/lib/kaslr.c:57:15: warning: format string is not a string literal (potentially insecure) [-Wformat-security] debug_putstr(purpose); ^~~~~~~ Fix this by using "%s" in early_printk(). Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160806102039.27221-1-nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 10 Aug, 2016 11 commits
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Dave Hansen authored
The Memory Protection Keys "rights register" (PKRU) is XSAVE-managed, and is saved/restored along with the FPU state. When kernel code accesses FPU regsisters, it does a delicate dance with preempt. Otherwise, the context switching code can get confused as to whether the most up-to-date state is in the registers themselves or in the XSAVE buffer. But, PKRU is not a normal FPU register. Using it does not generate the normal device-not-available (#NM) exceptions which means we can not manage it lazily, and the kernel completley disallows using lazy mode when it is enabled. The dance with preempt *only* occurs when managing the FPU lazily. Since we never manage PKRU lazily, we do not have to do the dance with preempt; we can access it directly. Doing it this way saves a ton of complicated code (and is faster too). Further, the XSAVES reenabling failed to patch a bit of code in fpu__xfeature_set_state() the checked for compacted buffers. That check caused fpu__xfeature_set_state() to silently refuse to work when the kernel is using compacted XSAVE buffers. This broke execute-only and future pkey_mprotect() support when using compact XSAVE buffers. But, removing fpu__xfeature_set_state() gets rid of this issue, in addition to the nice cleanup and speedup. This fixes the same thing as a fix that Sai posted: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/25/637 The fix that he posted is a much more obviously correct, but I think we should just do this instead. Reported-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com> Cc: Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Yu-Cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160727232040.7D060DAD@viggo.jf.intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Valdis Kletnieks authored
Building an X86_64 kernel with W=1 throws a total of 9,948 lines of warnings of this form for both 32-bit and 64-bit syscall tables. Given that the entire rest of the build for my config only generates 8,375 lines of output, this is a big reduction in the warnings generated. The warnings follow this pattern: ./arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_32.h:885:21: warning: initialized field overwritten [-Woverride-init] __SYSCALL_I386(379, compat_sys_pwritev2, ) ^ arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:13:46: note: in definition of macro '__SYSCALL_I386' #define __SYSCALL_I386(nr, sym, qual) [nr] = sym, ^~~ ./arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_32.h:885:21: note: (near initialization for 'ia32_sys_call_table[379]') __SYSCALL_I386(379, compat_sys_pwritev2, ) ^ arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:13:46: note: in definition of macro '__SYSCALL_I386' #define __SYSCALL_I386(nr, sym, qual) [nr] = sym, Since we intentionally build the syscall tables this way, ignore that one warning in the two files. Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7464.1470021890@turing-police.cc.vt.eduSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Mike Travis authored
The latest UV kernel support panics when RHEL7 kexec's the kdump kernel to make a dumpfile. This patch fixes the problem by turning off all UV support if NUMA is off. Tested-by: Frank Ramsay <framsay@sgi.com> Tested-by: John Estabrook <estabrook@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com> Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Cc: Andrew Banman <abanman@sgi.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160801184050.577755634@asylum.americas.sgi.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Mike Travis authored
There are some circumstances where the UV4 BIOS cannot provide the correct Proximity Node values to associate with specific Sockets and Physical Nodes. The decision was made to remove these values from BIOS and for the kernel to get these values from the standard ACPI tables. Tested-by: Frank Ramsay <framsay@sgi.com> Tested-by: John Estabrook <estabrook@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com> Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Cc: Andrew Banman <abanman@sgi.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160801184050.414210079@asylum.americas.sgi.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Mike Travis authored
Save the uv_systab::size field before doing the iounmap() of the struct pointer, to avoid a NULL dereference crash. Tested-by: Frank Ramsay <framsay@sgi.com> Tested-by: John Estabrook <estabrook@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com> Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Cc: Andrew Banman <abanman@sgi.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160801184050.250424783@asylum.americas.sgi.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Mike Travis authored
The UV4 Socket IDs are not guaranteed to equate to Node values which can cause the GAM (Global Addressable Memory) table lookups to fail. Fix this by using an independent index into the GAM table instead of the Socket ID to reference the base address. Tested-by: Frank Ramsay <framsay@sgi.com> Tested-by: John Estabrook <estabrook@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com> Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Cc: Andrew Banman <abanman@sgi.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160801184050.048755337@asylum.americas.sgi.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Borislav Petkov authored
Clarify why exactly RF cannot be restored properly by SYSRET to avoid confusion. No functionality change. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160803171429.GA2590@nazgul.tnicSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior authored
There's a subtle preemption race on UP kernels: Usually current->mm (and therefore mm->pgd) stays the same during the lifetime of a task so it does not matter if a task gets preempted during the read and write of the CR3. But then, there is this scenario on x86-UP: TaskA is in do_exit() and exit_mm() sets current->mm = NULL followed by: -> mmput() -> exit_mmap() -> tlb_finish_mmu() -> tlb_flush_mmu() -> tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly() -> tlb_flush() -> flush_tlb_mm_range() -> __flush_tlb_up() -> __flush_tlb() -> __native_flush_tlb() At this point current->mm is NULL but current->active_mm still points to the "old" mm. Let's preempt taskA _after_ native_read_cr3() by taskB. TaskB has its own mm so CR3 has changed. Now preempt back to taskA. TaskA has no ->mm set so it borrows taskB's mm and so CR3 remains unchanged. Once taskA gets active it continues where it was interrupted and that means it writes its old CR3 value back. Everything is fine because userland won't need its memory anymore. Now the fun part: Let's preempt taskA one more time and get back to taskB. This time switch_mm() won't do a thing because oldmm (->active_mm) is the same as mm (as per context_switch()). So we remain with a bad CR3 / PGD and return to userland. The next thing that happens is handle_mm_fault() with an address for the execution of its code in userland. handle_mm_fault() realizes that it has a PTE with proper rights so it returns doing nothing. But the CPU looks at the wrong PGD and insists that something is wrong and faults again. And again. And one more time… This pagefault circle continues until the scheduler gets tired of it and puts another task on the CPU. It gets little difficult if the task is a RT task with a high priority. The system will either freeze or it gets fixed by the software watchdog thread which usually runs at RT-max prio. But waiting for the watchdog will increase the latency of the RT task which is no good. Fix this by disabling preemption across the critical code section. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470404259-26290-1-git-send-email-bigeasy@linutronix.de [ Prettified the changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Thomas Garnier authored
Default implementation expects 6 pages maximum are needed for low page allocations. If KASLR memory randomization is enabled, the worse case of e820 layout would require 12 pages (no large pages). It is due to the PUD level randomization and the variable e820 memory layout. This bug was found while doing extensive testing of KASLR memory randomization on different type of hardware. Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com> Cc: Aleksey Makarov <aleksey.makarov@linaro.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Fixes: 021182e5 ("Enable KASLR for physical mapping memory regions") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470762665-88032-2-git-send-email-thgarnie@google.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Thomas Garnier authored
Initialize KASLR memory randomization after max_pfn is initialized. Also ensure the size is rounded up. It could create problems on machines with more than 1Tb of memory on certain random addresses. Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com> Cc: Aleksey Makarov <aleksey.makarov@linaro.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Fixes: 021182e5 ("Enable KASLR for physical mapping memory regions") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470762665-88032-1-git-send-email-thgarnie@google.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Alexander Potapenko authored
Dmitry Vyukov has reported unexpected KASAN stackdepot growth: https://github.com/google/kasan/issues/36 ... which is caused by the APIC handlers not being present in .irqentry.text: When building with CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER=y or CONFIG_KASAN=y, put the APIC interrupt handlers into the .irqentry.text section. This is needed because both KASAN and function graph tracer use __irqentry_text_start and __irqentry_text_end to determine whether a function is an IRQ entry point. Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Cc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com Cc: kcc@google.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468575763-144889-1-git-send-email-glider@google.com [ Minor edits. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- 09 Aug, 2016 14 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
This reverts commit 874f9c7d. Geert Uytterhoeven reports: "This change seems to have an (unintendent?) side-effect. Before, pr_*() calls without a trailing newline characters would be printed with a newline character appended, both on the console and in the output of the dmesg command. After this commit, no new line character is appended, and the output of the next pr_*() call of the same type may be appended, like in: - Truncating RAM at 0x0000000040000000-0x00000000c0000000 to -0x0000000070000000 - Ignoring RAM at 0x0000000200000000-0x0000000240000000 (!CONFIG_HIGHMEM) + Truncating RAM at 0x0000000040000000-0x00000000c0000000 to -0x0000000070000000Ignoring RAM at 0x0000000200000000-0x0000000240000000 (!CONFIG_HIGHMEM)" Joe Perches says: "No, that is not intentional. The newline handling code inside vprintk_emit is a bit involved and for now I suggest a revert until this has all the same behavior as earlier" Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Requested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-traceLinus Torvalds authored
Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt: "Fix tick_stop tracepoint symbols for user export. Luiz Capitulino noticed that the tick_stop tracepoint wasn't being parsed properly by the tracing user space tools. This was due to the TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() being set to a define, when it should have been set to the enum itself. The define was of the MASK that used the BIT to shift. The BIT was the enum and by adding that, everything gets converted nicely. The MASK is still kept just in case it gets converted to an enum in the future" * tag 'trace-v4.8-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: tracing: Fix tick_stop tracepoint symbols for user export
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge tag 'gcc-plugin-infrastructure-v4.8-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux Pull gcc plugin improvements from Kees Cook: "Several fixes/improvements for the gcc plugin infrastructure: - fix a problem with gcc plugins interfering with cc-option tests. - abort more gracefully when gcc plugin headers or compiler support is missing. - improve the gcc plugin rule generation to be more dynamic, pass arguments, and build from subdirectories" * tag 'gcc-plugin-infrastructure-v4.8-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: gcc-plugins: Add support for plugin subdirectories gcc-plugins: Automate make rule generation gcc-plugins: Add support for passing plugin arguments gcc-plugins: abort builds cleanly when not supported kbuild: no gcc-plugins during cc-option tests
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v4.8-3' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dvhart/linux-platform-drivers-x86 Pull x86 platform driver update from Darren Hart: "dell-wmi: ignore battery remove/insert event" * tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v4.8-3' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dvhart/linux-platform-drivers-x86: dell-wmi: Ignore WMI event 0xe00e
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git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull drm fixes from Dave Airlie: "This contains a bunch of amdgpu fixes, and some i915 regression fixes. It also contains some fixes for an older regression with some EDID changes and some 6bpc panels. Then there are the lockdep, cirrus and rcar-du regression fixes from this window" * tag 'drm-fixes-for-4.8-rc2' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: drm/cirrus: Fix NULL pointer dereference when registering the fbdev drm/edid: Set 8 bpc color depth for displays with "DFP 1.x compliant TMDS". drm/i915/dp: Revert "drm/i915/dp: fall back to 18 bpp when sink capability is unknown" drm/edid: Add 6 bpc quirk for display AEO model 0. drm: Paper over locking inversion after registration rework drm: rcar-du: Link HDMI encoder with bridge drm/ttm: Wait for a BO to become idle before unbinding it from GTT drm/i915/fbdev: Check for the framebuffer before use drm/amdgpu: update golden setting of polaris10 drm/amdgpu: update golden setting of stoney drm/amdgpu: update golden setting of polaris11 drm/amdgpu: update golden setting of carrizo drm/amdgpu: update golden setting of iceland drm/amd/amdgpu: change pptable output format from ASCII to binary drm/amdgpu/ci: add mullins to default case for smc ucode drm/amdgpu/gmc7: add missing mullins case drm/i915: Never fully mask the the EI up rps interrupt on SNB/IVB drm/i915: Wait up to 3ms for the pcu to ack the cdclk change request on SKL
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Brian King authored
Commit b195d5e2 ("ipr: Wait to do async scan until scsi host is initialized") fixed async scan for ipr, but broke sync scan for ipr. This fixes sync scan back up. Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reported-and-tested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vladimir Davydov authored
To distinguish non-slab pages charged to kmemcg we mark them PageKmemcg, which sets page->_mapcount to -512. Currently, we set/clear PageKmemcg in __alloc_pages_nodemask()/free_pages_prepare() for any page allocated with __GFP_ACCOUNT, including those that aren't actually charged to any cgroup, i.e. allocated from the root cgroup context. To avoid overhead in case cgroups are not used, we only do that if memcg_kmem_enabled() is true. The latter is set iff there are kmem-enabled memory cgroups (online or offline). The root cgroup is not considered kmem-enabled. As a result, if a page is allocated with __GFP_ACCOUNT for the root cgroup when there are kmem-enabled memory cgroups and is freed after all kmem-enabled memory cgroups were removed, e.g. # no memory cgroups has been created yet, create one mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test # run something allocating pages with __GFP_ACCOUNT, e.g. # a program using pipe dmesg | tail # remove the memory cgroup rmdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test we'll get bad page state bug complaining about page->_mapcount != -1: BUG: Bad page state in process swapper/0 pfn:1fd945c page:ffffea007f651700 count:0 mapcount:-511 mapping: (null) index:0x0 flags: 0x1000000000000000() To avoid that, let's mark with PageKmemcg only those pages that are actually charged to and hence pin a non-root memory cgroup. Fixes: 4949148a ("mm: charge/uncharge kmemcg from generic page allocator paths") Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) authored
The symbols used in the tick_stop tracepoint were not being converted properly into integers in the trace_stop format file. Instead we had this: print fmt: "success=%d dependency=%s", REC->success, __print_symbolic(REC->dependency, { 0, "NONE" }, { (1 << TICK_DEP_BIT_POSIX_TIMER), "POSIX_TIMER" }, { (1 << TICK_DEP_BIT_PERF_EVENTS), "PERF_EVENTS" }, { (1 << TICK_DEP_BIT_SCHED), "SCHED" }, { (1 << TICK_DEP_BIT_CLOCK_UNSTABLE), "CLOCK_UNSTABLE" }) User space tools have no idea how to parse "TICK_DEP_BIT_SCHED" or the other symbols used to do the bit shifting. The reason is that the conversion was done with using the TICK_DEP_MASK_* symbols which are just macros that convert to the BIT shift itself (with the exception of NONE, which was converted properly, because it doesn't use bits, and is defined as zero). The TICK_DEP_BIT_* needs to be denoted by TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() in order to have this properly converted for user space tools to parse this event. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Fixes: e6e6cc22 ("nohz: Use enum code for tick stop failure tracing message") Reported-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Tested-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Boris Brezillon authored
cirrus_modeset_init() is initializing/registering the emulated fbdev and, since commit c61b93fe ("drm/atomic: Fix remaining places where !funcs->best_encoder is valid"), DRM internals can access/test some of the fields in mode_config->funcs as part of the fbdev registration process. Make sure dev->mode_config.funcs is properly set to avoid dereferencing a NULL pointer. Reported-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com> Reported-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> Fixes: c61b93fe ("drm/atomic: Fix remaining places where !funcs->best_encoder is valid") Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Emese Revfy authored
This adds support for building more complex gcc plugins that live in a subdirectory instead of just in a single source file. Reported-by: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu> Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> [kees: clarified commit message] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Emese Revfy authored
There's no reason to repeat the same names in the Makefile when the .so files have already been listed. The .o list can be generated from them. Reported-by: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu> Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> [kees: clarified commit message] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Emese Revfy authored
The latent_entropy plugin needs to pass arguments, so this adds the support. Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Kees Cook authored
When the compiler doesn't support gcc plugins (either due to missing headers or too old a version), report the problem and abort the build instead of emitting a warning and letting the build founder with arcane compiler errors. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Emese Revfy authored
The gcc-plugins arguments should not be included when performing cc-option tests. Steps to reproduce: 1) make mrproper 2) make defconfig 3) enable GCC_PLUGINS, GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY 4) enable FUNCTION_TRACER (it will select other options as well) 5) make && make modules Build errors: MODPOST 18 modules ERROR: "__fentry__" [net/netfilter/xt_nat.ko] undefined! ERROR: "__fentry__" [net/netfilter/xt_mark.ko] undefined! ERROR: "__fentry__" [net/netfilter/xt_addrtype.ko] undefined! ERROR: "__fentry__" [net/netfilter/xt_LOG.ko] undefined! ERROR: "__fentry__" [net/netfilter/nf_nat_sip.ko] undefined! ERROR: "__fentry__" [net/netfilter/nf_nat_irc.ko] undefined! ERROR: "__fentry__" [net/netfilter/nf_nat_ftp.ko] undefined! ERROR: "__fentry__" [net/netfilter/nf_nat.ko] undefined! Reported-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> [kees: renamed variable, clarified commit message] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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- 08 Aug, 2016 7 commits
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Mario Kleiner authored
According to E-EDID spec 1.3, table 3.9, a digital video sink with the "DFP 1.x compliant TMDS" bit set is "signal compatible with VESA DFP 1.x TMDS CRGB, 1 pixel / clock, up to 8 bits / color MSB aligned". For such displays, the DFP spec 1.0, section 3.10 "EDID support" says: "If the DFP monitor only supports EDID 1.X (1.1, 1.2, etc.) without extensions, the host will make the following assumptions: 1. 24-bit MSB-aligned RGB TFT 2. DE polarity is active high 3. H and V syncs are active high 4. Established CRT timings will be used 5. Dithering will not be enabled on the host" So if we don't know the bit depth of the display from additional colorimetry info we should assume 8 bpc / 24 bpp by default. This patch adds info->bpc = 8 assignement for that case. Signed-off-by: Mario Kleiner <mario.kleiner.de@gmail.com> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Mario Kleiner authored
This reverts commit 013dd9e0 ("drm/i915/dp: fall back to 18 bpp when sink capability is unknown") This commit introduced a regression into stable kernels, as it reduces output color depth to 6 bpc for any video sink connected to a Displayport connector if that sink doesn't report a specific color depth via EDID, or if our EDID parser doesn't actually recognize the proper bpc from EDID. Affected are active DisplayPort->VGA converters and active DisplayPort->DVI converters. Both should be able to handle 8 bpc, but are degraded to 6 bpc with this patch. The reverted commit was meant to fix Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105331 A followup patch implements a fix for that specific bug, which is caused by a faulty EDID of the affected DP panel by adding a new EDID quirk for that panel. DP 18 bpp fallback handling and other improvements to DP sink bpc detection will be handled for future kernels in a separate series of patches. Please backport to stable. Signed-off-by: Mario Kleiner <mario.kleiner.de@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Mario Kleiner authored
Bugzilla https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105331 reports that the "AEO model 0" display is driven with 8 bpc without dithering by default, which looks bad because that panel is apparently a 6 bpc DP panel with faulty EDID. A fix for this was made by commit 013dd9e0 ("drm/i915/dp: fall back to 18 bpp when sink capability is unknown"). That commit triggers new regressions in precision for DP->DVI and DP->VGA displays. A patch is out to revert that commit, but it will revert video output for the AEO model 0 panel to 8 bpc without dithering. The EDID 1.3 of that panel, as decoded from the xrandr output attached to that bugzilla bug report, is somewhat faulty, and beyond other problems also sets the "DFP 1.x compliant TMDS" bit, which according to DFP spec means to drive the panel with 8 bpc and no dithering in absence of other colorimetry information. Try to make the original bug reporter happy despite the faulty EDID by adding a quirk to mark that panel as 6 bpc, so 6 bpc output with dithering creates a nice picture. Tested by injecting the edid from the fdo bug into a DP connector via drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware and verifying the 6 bpc + dithering is selected. This patch should be backported to stable. Signed-off-by: Mario Kleiner <mario.kleiner.de@gmail.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull lkdtm update from Kees Cook: "Fix rebuild problem with LKDTM's rodata test" [ This, and the usercopy branch, both came in before the merge window closed, but ended up in my 'need to look more' queue and thus got merged only after rc1 was out ] * tag 'lkdtm-v4.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: lkdtm: Fix targets for objcopy usage lkdtm: fix false positive warning from -Wmaybe-uninitialized
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull usercopy protection from Kees Cook: "Tbhis implements HARDENED_USERCOPY verification of copy_to_user and copy_from_user bounds checking for most architectures on SLAB and SLUB" * tag 'usercopy-v4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: mm: SLUB hardened usercopy support mm: SLAB hardened usercopy support s390/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy sparc/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy powerpc/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy ia64/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy arm64/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy ARM: uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy x86/uaccess: Enable hardened usercopy mm: Hardened usercopy mm: Implement stack frame object validation mm: Add is_migrate_cma_page
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Linus Torvalds authored
When I initially added the unsafe_[get|put]_user() helpers in commit 5b24a7a2 ("Add 'unsafe' user access functions for batched accesses"), I made the mistake of modeling the interface on our traditional __[get|put]_user() functions, which return zero on success, or -EFAULT on failure. That interface is fairly easy to use, but it's actually fairly nasty for good code generation, since it essentially forces the caller to check the error value for each access. In particular, since the error handling is already internally implemented with an exception handler, and we already use "asm goto" for various other things, we could fairly easily make the error cases just jump directly to an error label instead, and avoid the need for explicit checking after each operation. So switch the interface to pass in an error label, rather than checking the error value in the caller. Best do it now before we start growing more users (the signal handling code in particular would be a good place to use the new interface). So rather than if (unsafe_get_user(x, ptr)) ... handle error .. the interface is now unsafe_get_user(x, ptr, label); where an error during the user mode fetch will now just cause a jump to 'label' in the caller. Right now the actual _implementation_ of this all still ends up being a "if (err) goto label", and does not take advantage of any exception label tricks, but for "unsafe_put_user()" in particular it should be fairly straightforward to convert to using the exception table model. Note that "unsafe_get_user()" is much harder to convert to a clever exception table model, because current versions of gcc do not allow the use of "asm goto" (for the exception) with output values (for the actual value to be fetched). But that is hopefully not a limitation in the long term. [ Also note that it might be a good idea to switch unsafe_get_user() to actually _return_ the value it fetches from user space, but this commit only changes the error handling semantics ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andreas Ziegler authored
In commit 874f9c7d ("printk: create pr_<level> functions"), new pr_level defines were added to printk.c. These new defines are guarded by an #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK - however, there is already a surrounding #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK starting a lot earlier in line 249 which means the newly introduced #ifdef is unnecessary. Let's remove it to avoid confusion. Signed-off-by: Andreas Ziegler <andreas.ziegler@fau.de> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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