1. 08 Feb, 2016 1 commit
  2. 25 Jan, 2016 2 commits
    • Richard Guy Briggs's avatar
      audit: log failed attempts to change audit_pid configuration · 935c9e7f
      Richard Guy Briggs authored
      Failed attempts to change the audit_pid configuration are not presently
      logged.  One case is an attempt to starve an old auditd by starting up
      a new auditd when the old one is still alive and active.  The other
      case is an attempt to orphan a new auditd when an old auditd shuts
      down.
      
      Log both as AUDIT_CONFIG_CHANGE messages with failure result.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRichard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
      935c9e7f
    • Richard Guy Briggs's avatar
      audit: stop an old auditd being starved out by a new auditd · 133e1e5a
      Richard Guy Briggs authored
      Nothing prevents a new auditd starting up and replacing a valid
      audit_pid when an old auditd is still running, effectively starving out
      the old auditd since audit_pid no longer points to the old valid
      auditd.
      
      If no message to auditd has been attempted since auditd died
      unnaturally or got killed, audit_pid will still indicate it is alive.
      There isn't an easy way to detect if an old auditd is still running on
      the existing audit_pid other than attempting to send a message to see
      if it fails.  An -ECONNREFUSED almost certainly means it disappeared
      and can be replaced.  Other errors are not so straightforward and may
      indicate transient problems that will resolve themselves and the old
      auditd will recover.  Yet others will likely need manual intervention
      for which a new auditd will not solve the problem.
      
      Send a new message type (AUDIT_REPLACE) to the old auditd containing a
      u32 with the PID of the new auditd.  If the audit replace message
      succeeds (or doesn't fail with certainty), fail to register the new
      auditd and return an error (-EEXIST).
      
      This is expected to make the patch preventing an old auditd orphaning a
      new auditd redundant.
      
      V3: Switch audit message type from 1000 to 1300 block.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRichard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
      133e1e5a
  3. 13 Jan, 2016 7 commits
  4. 10 Jan, 2016 1 commit
  5. 09 Jan, 2016 4 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi · eac6f76a
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull SCSI fix from James Bottomley:
       "A single fix for machines with pages > 4k (PPC mostly).
      
        There's a bug in our optimal transfer size code where we don't account
        for pages > 4k and can set the transfer size to be less than the page
        size causing nasty failures"
      
      * tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi:
        sd: Reject optimal transfer length smaller than page size
      eac6f76a
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'pci-v4.4-fixes-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci · c0cb1393
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull PCI fixlet from Bjorn Helgaas:
       "This marks the TI DRA7xx host bridge driver as broken.  Apparently it
        has never worked without some additional out-of-tree code, so I'm
        going to mark it broken now and remove it completely next cycle unless
        it's fixed"
      
      * tag 'pci-v4.4-fixes-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci:
        PCI: dra7xx: Mark driver as broken
      c0cb1393
    • Michal Hocko's avatar
      vmstat: allocate vmstat_wq before it is used · 751e5f5c
      Michal Hocko authored
      kernel test robot has reported the following crash:
      
        BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000100
        IP: [<c1074df6>] __queue_work+0x26/0x390
        *pdpt = 0000000000000000 *pde = f000ff53f000ff53 *pde = f000ff53f000ff53
        Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT PREEMPT SMP SMP
        CPU: 0 PID: 24 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 4.4.0-rc4-00139-g373ccbe5 #1
        Workqueue: events vmstat_shepherd
        task: cb684600 ti: cb7ba000 task.ti: cb7ba000
        EIP: 0060:[<c1074df6>] EFLAGS: 00010046 CPU: 0
        EIP is at __queue_work+0x26/0x390
        EAX: 00000046 EBX: cbb37800 ECX: cbb37800 EDX: 00000000
        ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00000000 EBP: cb7bbe68 ESP: cb7bbe38
         DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
        CR0: 8005003b CR2: 00000100 CR3: 01fd5000 CR4: 000006b0
        Stack:
        Call Trace:
          __queue_delayed_work+0xa1/0x160
          queue_delayed_work_on+0x36/0x60
          vmstat_shepherd+0xad/0xf0
          process_one_work+0x1aa/0x4c0
          worker_thread+0x41/0x440
          kthread+0xb0/0xd0
          ret_from_kernel_thread+0x21/0x40
      
      The reason is that start_shepherd_timer schedules the shepherd work item
      which uses vmstat_wq (vmstat_shepherd) before setup_vmstat allocates
      that workqueue so if the further initialization takes more than HZ we
      might end up scheduling on a NULL vmstat_wq.  This is really unlikely
      but not impossible.
      
      Fixes: 373ccbe5 ("mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to discover memory reclaim doesn't make any progress")
      Reported-by: default avatarkernel test robot <ying.huang@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      751e5f5c
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc · 44d8a7d5
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull ARM SoC fixes from Arnd Bergmann:
       "This is the final small set of ARM SoC bug fixes for linux-4.4, almost
        all regressions:
      
        OMAP:
         - data corruption on the Nokia N900 flash
      
        Allwinner:
         - Two defconfig change to get USB working again
      
        ARM Versatile:
         - Interrupt numbers gone bad after an older bug fix
      
        Nomadik:
         - Crashes from incorrect L2 cache settings
      
        VIA vt8500:
         - SD/MMC support on WM8650 never worked"
      
      * tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc:
        dts: vt8500: Add SDHC node to DTS file for WM8650
        ARM: Fix broken USB support in multi_v7_defconfig for sunxi devices
        ARM: versatile: fix MMC/SD interrupt assignment
        ARM: nomadik: set latencies to 8 cycles
        ARM: OMAP2+: Fix onenand rate detection to avoid filesystem corruption
        ARM: Fix broken USB support in sunxi_defconfig
      44d8a7d5
  6. 08 Jan, 2016 15 commits
  7. 07 Jan, 2016 10 commits