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* bpf: Add kconfig knob for disabling unpriv bpf by defaultDaniel Borkmann2022-04-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit 08389d888287c3823f80b0216766b71e17f0aba5 upstream. Add a kconfig knob which allows for unprivileged bpf to be disabled by default. If set, the knob sets /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_bpf_disabled to value of 2. This still allows a transition of 2 -> {0,1} through an admin. Similarly, this also still keeps 1 -> {1} behavior intact, so that once set to permanently disabled, it cannot be undone aside from a reboot. We've also added extra2 with max of 2 for the procfs handler, so that an admin still has a chance to toggle between 0 <-> 2. Either way, as an additional alternative, applications can make use of CAP_BPF that we added a while ago. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/74ec548079189e4e4dffaeb42b8987bb3c852eee.1620765074.git.daniel@iogearbox.net [fllinden@amazon.com: backported to 4.9] Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden <fllinden@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth via sysctlArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2022-04-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The default remains 127, which is good for most cases, and not even hit most of the time, but then for some cases, as reported by Brendan, 1024+ deep frames are appearing on the radar for things like groovy, ruby. And in some workloads putting a _lower_ cap on this may make sense. One that is per event still needs to be put in place tho. The new file is: # cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack 127 Chaging it: # echo 256 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack # cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack 256 But as soon as there is some event using callchains we get: # echo 512 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack -bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy # Because we only allocate the callchain percpu data structures when there is a user, which allows for changing the max easily, its just a matter of having no callchain users at that point. Reported-and-Tested-by: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160426002928.GB16708@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Chatur27 <jasonbright2709@gmail.com> Change-Id: Ic34ecdb4cc1e61257a2926062aa23c960dbd3b8f
* sysctl: enable strict writesKees Cook2017-01-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SYSCTL_WRITES_WARN was added in commit f4aacea2f5d1 ("sysctl: allow for strict write position handling"), and released in v3.16 in August of 2014. Since then I can find only 1 instance of non-zero offset writing[1], and it was fixed immediately in CRIU[2]. As such, it appears safe to flip this to the strict state now. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q="when%20file%20position%20was%20not%200" [2] http://lists.openvz.org/pipermail/criu/2015-April/019819.html Change-Id: Ibf8d46fa34fa9fd4df3527dc4dfc3e3d31b2f7e0 Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Git-commit: 41662f5cc55335807d39404371cfcbb1909304c4 Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git Signed-off-by: Olav Haugan <ohaugan@codeaurora.org>
* Merge remote-tracking branch 'msm4.4/tmp-da9a92f' into msm-4.4Runmin Wang2016-10-28
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literal loads with move-immediates arm64: introduce mov_q macro to move a constant into a 64-bit register arm64: kernel: perform relocation processing from ID map arm64: kernel: use literal for relocated address of __secondary_switched arm64: kernel: don't export local symbols from head.S arm64: simplify kernel segment mapping granularity arm64: cover the .head.text section in the .text segment mapping arm64: move early boot code to the .init segment arm64: use 'segment' rather than 'chunk' to describe mapped kernel regions arm64: mm: Mark .rodata as RO Linux 4.4.16 ovl: verify upper dentry before unlink and rename drm/i915: Revert DisplayPort fast link training feature tmpfs: fix regression hang in fallocate undo tmpfs: don't undo fallocate past its last page crypto: qat - make qat_asym_algs.o depend on asn1 headers xen/acpi: allow xen-acpi-processor driver to load on Xen 4.7 File names with trailing period or space need special case conversion cifs: dynamic allocation of ntlmssp blob Fix reconnect to not defer smb3 session reconnect long after socket reconnect 53c700: fix BUG on untagged commands s390: fix test_fp_ctl inline assembly contraints scsi: fix race between simultaneous decrements of ->host_failed ovl: verify upper dentry in ovl_remove_and_whiteout() ovl: Copy up underlying inode's ->i_mode to overlay inode ARM: mvebu: fix HW I/O coherency related deadlocks ARM: dts: armada-38x: fix MBUS_ID for crypto SRAM on Armada 385 Linksys ARM: sunxi/dt: make the CHIP inherit from allwinner,sun5i-a13 ALSA: hda: add AMD Stoney PCI ID with proper driver caps ALSA: hda - fix use-after-free after module unload ALSA: ctl: Stop notification after disconnection ALSA: pcm: Free chmap at PCM free callback, too ALSA: hda/realtek - add new pin definition in alc225 pin quirk table ALSA: hda - fix read before array start ALSA: hda - Add PCI ID for Kabylake-H ALSA: hda/realtek: Add Lenovo L460 to docking unit fixup ALSA: timer: Fix negative queue usage by racy accesses ALSA: echoaudio: Fix memory allocation ALSA: au88x0: Fix calculation in vortex_wtdma_bufshift() ALSA: hda / realtek - add two more Thinkpad IDs (5050,5053) for tpt460 fixup ALSA: hda - Fix the headset mic jack detection on Dell machine ALSA: dummy: Fix a use-after-free at closing hwmon: (dell-smm) Cache fan_type() calls and change fan detection hwmon: (dell-smm) Disallow fan_type() calls on broken machines hwmon: (dell-smm) Restrict fan control and serial number to CAP_SYS_ADMIN by default tty/vt/keyboard: fix OOB access in do_compute_shiftstate() tty: vt: Fix soft lockup in fbcon cursor blink timer. iio:ad7266: Fix probe deferral for vref iio:ad7266: Fix support for optional regulators iio:ad7266: Fix broken regulator error handling iio: accel: kxsd9: fix the usage of spi_w8r8() staging: iio: accel: fix error check iio: hudmidity: hdc100x: fix incorrect shifting and scaling iio: humidity: hdc100x: fix IIO_TEMP channel reporting iio: humidity: hdc100x: correct humidity integration time mask iio: proximity: as3935: fix buffer stack trashing iio: proximity: as3935: remove triggered buffer processing iio: proximity: as3935: correct IIO_CHAN_INFO_RAW output iio: light apds9960: Add the missing dev.parent iio:st_pressure: fix sampling gains (bring inline with ABI) iio: Fix error handling in iio_trigger_attach_poll_func xen/balloon: Fix declared-but-not-defined warning perf/x86: Fix undefined shift on 32-bit kernels memory: omap-gpmc: Fix omap gpmc EXTRADELAY timing drm/vmwgfx: Fix error paths when mapping framebuffer drm/vmwgfx: Delay pinning fbdev framebuffer until after mode set drm/vmwgfx: Check pin count before attempting to move a buffer drm/vmwgfx: Work around mode set failure in 2D VMs drm/vmwgfx: Add an option to change assumed FB bpp drm/ttm: Make ttm_bo_mem_compat available drm: atmel-hlcdc: actually disable scaling when no scaling is required drm: make drm_atomic_set_mode_prop_for_crtc() more reliable drm: add missing drm_mode_set_crtcinfo call drm/i915: Update CDCLK_FREQ register on BDW after changing cdclk frequency drm/i915: Update ifdeffery for mutex->owner drm/i915: Refresh cached DP port register value on resume drm/i915/ilk: Don't disable SSC source if it's in use drm/nouveau/disp/sor/gf119: select correct sor when poking training pattern drm/nouveau: fix for disabled fbdev emulation drm/nouveau/fbcon: fix out-of-bounds memory accesses drm/nouveau/gr/gf100-: update sm error decoding from gk20a nvgpu headers drm/nouveau/disp/sor/gf119: both links use the same training register virtio_balloon: fix PFN format for virtio-1 drm/dp/mst: Always clear proposed vcpi table for port. drm/amdkfd: destroy dbgmgr in notifier release drm/amdkfd: unbind only existing processes ubi: Make recover_peb power cut aware drm/amdgpu/gfx7: fix broken condition check drm/radeon: fix asic initialization for virtualized environments btrfs: account for non-CoW'd blocks in btrfs_abort_transaction percpu: fix synchronization between synchronous map extension and chunk destruction percpu: fix synchronization between chunk->map_extend_work and chunk destruction af_unix: fix hard linked sockets on overlay vfs: add d_real_inode() helper arm64: Rework valid_user_regs ipmi: Remove smi_msg from waiting_rcv_msgs list before handle_one_recv_msg() drm/mgag200: Black screen fix for G200e rev 4 iommu/amd: Fix unity mapping initialization race iommu/vt-d: Enable QI on all IOMMUs before setting root entry iommu/arm-smmu: Wire up map_sg for arm-smmu-v3 base: make module_create_drivers_dir race-free tracing: Handle NULL formats in hold_module_trace_bprintk_format() HID: multitouch: enable palm rejection for Windows Precision Touchpad HID: hiddev: validate num_values for HIDIOCGUSAGES, HIDIOCSUSAGES commands HID: elo: kill not flush the work KVM: nVMX: VMX instructions: fix segment checks when L1 is in long mode. kvm: Fix irq route entries exceeding KVM_MAX_IRQ_ROUTES KEYS: potential uninitialized variable ARCv2: LLSC: software backoff is NOT needed starting HS2.1c ARCv2: Check for LL-SC livelock only if LLSC is enabled ipv6: Fix mem leak in rt6i_pcpu cdc_ncm: workaround for EM7455 "silent" data interface net_sched: fix mirrored packets checksum packet: Use symmetric hash for PACKET_FANOUT_HASH. sched/fair: Fix cfs_rq avg tracking underflow UBIFS: Implement ->migratepage() mm: Export migrate_page_move_mapping and migrate_page_copy MIPS: KVM: Fix modular KVM under QEMU ARM: 8579/1: mm: Fix definition of pmd_mknotpresent ARM: 8578/1: mm: ensure pmd_present only checks the valid bit ARM: imx6ul: Fix Micrel PHY mask NFS: Fix another OPEN_DOWNGRADE bug make nfs_atomic_open() call d_drop() on all ->open_context() errors. nfsd: check permissions when setting ACLs posix_acl: Add set_posix_acl nfsd: Extend the mutex holding region around in nfsd4_process_open2() nfsd: Always lock state exclusively. nfsd4/rpc: move backchannel create logic into rpc code writeback: use higher precision calculation in domain_dirty_limits() thermal: cpu_cooling: fix improper order during initialization uvc: Forward compat ioctls to their handlers directly Revert "gpiolib: Split GPIO flags parsing and GPIO configuration" x86/amd_nb: Fix boot crash on non-AMD systems kprobes/x86: Clear TF bit in fault on single-stepping x86, build: copy ldlinux.c32 to image.iso locking/static_key: Fix concurrent static_key_slow_inc() locking/qspinlock: Fix spin_unlock_wait() some more locking/ww_mutex: Report recursive ww_mutex locking early of: irq: fix of_irq_get[_byname]() kernel-doc of: fix autoloading due to broken modalias with no 'compatible' mnt: If fs_fully_visible fails call put_filesystem. mnt: Account for MS_RDONLY in fs_fully_visible mnt: fs_fully_visible test the proper mount for MNT_LOCKED usb: common: otg-fsm: add license to usb-otg-fsm USB: EHCI: declare hostpc register as zero-length array usb: dwc2: fix regression on big-endian PowerPC/ARM systems powerpc/tm: Always reclaim in start_thread() for exec() class syscalls powerpc/pseries: Fix IBM_ARCH_VEC_NRCORES_OFFSET since POWER8NVL was added powerpc/pseries: Fix PCI config address for DDW powerpc/iommu: Remove the dependency on EEH struct in DDW mechanism IB/mlx4: Properly initialize GRH TClass and FlowLabel in AHs IB/cm: Fix a recently introduced locking bug EDAC, sb_edac: Fix rank lookup on Broadwell mac80211: Fix mesh estab_plinks counting in STA removal case mac80211_hwsim: Add missing check for HWSIM_ATTR_SIGNAL mac80211: mesh: flush mesh paths unconditionally mac80211: fix fast_tx header alignment Linux 4.4.15 usb: dwc3: exynos: Fix deferred probing storm. usb: host: ehci-tegra: Grab the correct UTMI pads reset usb: gadget: fix spinlock dead lock in gadgetfs USB: mos7720: delete parport xhci: Fix handling timeouted commands on hosts in weird states. USB: xhci: Add broken streams quirk for Frescologic device id 1009 usb: xhci-plat: properly handle probe deferral for devm_clk_get() xhci: Cleanup only when releasing primary hcd usb: musb: host: correct cppi dma channel for isoch transfer usb: musb: Ensure rx reinit occurs for shared_fifo endpoints usb: musb: Stop bulk endpoint while queue is rotated usb: musb: only restore devctl when session was set in backup usb: quirks: Add no-lpm quirk for Acer C120 LED Projector usb: quirks: Fix sorting USB: uas: Fix slave queue_depth not being set crypto: user - re-add size check for CRYPTO_MSG_GETALG crypto: ux500 - memmove the right size crypto: vmx - Increase priority of aes-cbc cipher AX.25: Close socket connection on session completion bpf: try harder on clones when writing into skb net: alx: Work around the DMA RX overflow issue net: macb: fix default configuration for GMAC on AT91 neigh: Explicitly declare RCU-bh read side critical section in neigh_xmit() bpf, perf: delay release of BPF prog after grace period sock_diag: do not broadcast raw socket destruction Bridge: Fix ipv6 mc snooping if bridge has no ipv6 address ipmr/ip6mr: Initialize the last assert time of mfc entries. netem: fix a use after free esp: Fix ESN generation under UDP encapsulation sit: correct IP protocol used in ipip6_err net: Don't forget pr_fmt on net_dbg_ratelimited for CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG net_sched: fix pfifo_head_drop behavior vs backlog sdcardfs: Truncate packages_gid.list on overflow UPSTREAM: cdc_ncm: do not call usbnet_link_change from cdc_ncm_bind BACKPORT: proc: add /proc/<pid>/timerslack_ns interface BACKPORT: timer: convert timer_slack_ns from unsigned long to u64 netfilter: xt_quota2: make quota2_log work well Revert "usb: gadget: prevent change of Host MAC address of 'usb0' interface" BACKPORT: PM / sleep: Go direct_complete if driver has no callbacks ANDROID: base-cfg: enable UID_CPUTIME UPSTREAM: USB: usbfs: fix potential infoleak in devio UPSTREAM: ALSA: timer: Fix leak in events via snd_timer_user_ccallback UPSTREAM: ALSA: timer: Fix leak in events via snd_timer_user_tinterrupt UPSTREAM: ALSA: timer: Fix leak in SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_PARAMS ANDROID: configs: remove unused configs ANDROID: cpu: send KOBJ_ONLINE event when enabling cpus ANDROID: dm verity fec: initialize recursion level ANDROID: dm verity fec: fix RS block calculation Linux 4.4.14 netfilter: x_tables: introduce and use xt_copy_counters_from_user netfilter: x_tables: do compat validation via translate_table netfilter: x_tables: xt_compat_match_from_user doesn't need a retval netfilter: ip6_tables: simplify translate_compat_table args netfilter: ip_tables: simplify translate_compat_table args netfilter: arp_tables: simplify translate_compat_table args netfilter: x_tables: don't reject valid target size on some architectures netfilter: x_tables: validate all offsets and sizes in a rule netfilter: x_tables: check for bogus target offset netfilter: x_tables: check standard target size too netfilter: x_tables: add compat version of xt_check_entry_offsets netfilter: x_tables: assert minimum target size netfilter: x_tables: kill check_entry helper netfilter: x_tables: add and use xt_check_entry_offsets netfilter: x_tables: validate targets of jumps netfilter: x_tables: don't move to non-existent next rule drm/core: Do not preserve framebuffer on rmfb, v4. crypto: qat - fix adf_ctl_drv.c:undefined reference to adf_init_pf_wq netfilter: x_tables: fix unconditional helper netfilter: x_tables: make sure e->next_offset covers remaining blob size netfilter: x_tables: validate e->target_offset early MIPS: Fix 64k page support for 32 bit kernels. sparc64: Fix return from trap window fill crashes. sparc: Harden signal return frame checks. sparc64: Take ctx_alloc_lock properly in hugetlb_setup(). sparc64: Reduce TLB flushes during hugepte changes sparc/PCI: Fix for panic while enabling SR-IOV sparc64: Fix sparc64_set_context stack handling. sparc64: Fix numa node distance initialization sparc64: Fix bootup regressions on some Kconfig combinations. sparc: Fix system call tracing register handling. fix d_walk()/non-delayed __d_free() race sched: panic on corrupted stack end proc: prevent stacking filesystems on top x86/entry/traps: Don't force in_interrupt() to return true in IST handlers wext: Fix 32 bit iwpriv compatibility issue with 64 bit Kernel ecryptfs: forbid opening files without mmap handler memcg: add RCU locking around css_for_each_descendant_pre() in memcg_offline_kmem() parisc: Fix pagefault crash in unaligned __get_user() call pinctrl: mediatek: fix dual-edge code defect powerpc/pseries: Add POWER8NVL support to ibm,client-architecture-support call powerpc: Use privileged SPR number for MMCR2 powerpc: Fix definition of SIAR and SDAR registers powerpc/pseries/eeh: Handle RTAS delay requests in configure_bridge arm64: mm: always take dirty state from new pte in ptep_set_access_flags arm64: Provide "model name" in /proc/cpuinfo for PER_LINUX32 tasks crypto: ccp - Fix AES XTS error for request sizes above 4096 crypto: public_key: select CRYPTO_AKCIPHER irqchip/gic-v3: Fix ICC_SGI1R_EL1.INTID decoding mask s390/bpf: reduce maximum program size to 64 KB s390/bpf: fix recache skb->data/hlen for skb_vlan_push/pop gpio: bcm-kona: fix bcm_kona_gpio_reset() warnings ARM: fix PTRACE_SETVFPREGS on SMP systems ALSA: hda/realtek: Add T560 docking unit fixup ALSA: hda/realtek - Add support for new codecs ALC700/ALC701/ALC703 ALSA: hda/realtek - ALC256 speaker noise issue ALSA: hda - Fix headset mic detection problem for Dell machine ALSA: hda - Add PCI ID for Kabylake KVM: irqfd: fix NULL pointer dereference in kvm_irq_map_gsi KVM: x86: fix OOPS after invalid KVM_SET_DEBUGREGS vxlan, gre, geneve: Set a large MTU on ovs-created tunnel devices geneve: Relax MTU constraints vxlan: Relax MTU constraints ipv6: Skip XFRM lookup if dst_entry in socket cache is valid l2tp: fix configuration passed to setup_udp_tunnel_sock() bridge: Don't insert unnecessary local fdb entry on changing mac address tcp: record TLP and ER timer stats in v6 stats vxlan: Accept user specified MTU value when create new vxlan link team: don't call netdev_change_features under team->lock sfc: on MC reset, clear PIO buffer linkage in TXQs bpf, inode: disallow userns mounts uapi glibc compat: fix compilation when !__USE_MISC in glibc udp: prevent skbs lingering in tunnel socket queues bpf: Use mount_nodev not mount_ns to mount the bpf filesystem tuntap: correctly wake up process during uninit switchdev: pass pointer to fib_info instead of copy tipc: fix nametable publication field in nl compat netlink: Fix dump skb leak/double free tipc: check nl sock before parsing nested attributes scsi: Add QEMU CD-ROM to VPD Inquiry Blacklist scsi_lib: correctly retry failed zero length REQ_TYPE_FS commands cs-etm: associating output packet with CPU they executed on cs-etm: removing unecessary structure field cs-etm: account for each trace buffer in the queue cs-etm: avoid casting variable perf tools: fixing Makefile problems perf tools: new naming convention for openCSD perf scripts: Add python scripts for CoreSight traces perf tools: decoding capailitity for CoreSight traces perf symbols: Check before overwriting build_id perf tools: pushing driver configuration down to the kernel perf tools: add infrastructure for PMU specific configuration coresight: etm-perf: incorporating sink definition from the cmd line coresight: adding sink parameter to function coresight_build_path() perf: passing struct perf_event to function setup_aux() perf/core: adding PMU driver specific configuration perf tools: adding coresight etm PMU record capabilities perf tools: making coresight PMU listable coresight: tmc: implementing TMC-ETR AUX space API coresight: Add support for Juno platform coresight: Handle build path error coresight: Fix erroneous memset in tmc_read_unprepare_etr coresight: Fix tmc_read_unprepare_etr coresight: Fix NULL pointer dereference in _coresight_build_path ANDROID: dm verity fec: add missing release from fec_ktype ANDROID: dm verity fec: limit error correction recursion ANDROID: restrict access to perf events FROMLIST: security,perf: Allow further restriction of perf_event_open BACKPORT: perf tools: Document the perf sysctls Revert "armv6 dcc tty driver" Revert "arm: dcc_tty: fix armv6 dcc tty build failure" ARM64: Ignore Image-dtb from git point of view arm64: add option to build Image-dtb ANDROID: usb: gadget: f_midi: set fi->f to NULL when free f_midi function Linux 4.4.13 xfs: handle dquot buffer readahead in log recovery correctly xfs: print name of verifier if it fails xfs: skip stale inodes in xfs_iflush_cluster xfs: fix inode validity check in xfs_iflush_cluster xfs: xfs_iflush_cluster fails to abort on error xfs: Don't wrap growfs AGFL indexes xfs: disallow rw remount on fs with unknown ro-compat features gcov: disable tree-loop-im to reduce stack usage scripts/package/Makefile: rpmbuild add support of RPMOPTS dma-debug: avoid spinlock recursion when disabling dma-debug PM / sleep: Handle failures in device_suspend_late() consistently ext4: silence UBSAN in ext4_mb_init() ext4: address UBSAN warning in mb_find_order_for_block() ext4: fix oops on corrupted filesystem ext4: clean up error handling when orphan list is corrupted ext4: fix hang when processing corrupted orphaned inode list drm/imx: Match imx-ipuv3-crtc components using device node in platform data drm/i915: Don't leave old junk in ilk active watermarks on readout drm/atomic: Verify connector->funcs != NULL when clearing states drm/fb_helper: Fix references to dev->mode_config.num_connector drm/i915/fbdev: Fix num_connector references in intel_fb_initial_config() drm/amdgpu: Fix hdmi deep color support. drm/amdgpu: use drm_mode_vrefresh() rather than mode->vrefresh drm/vmwgfx: Fix order of operation drm/vmwgfx: use vmw_cmd_dx_cid_check for query commands. drm/vmwgfx: Enable SVGA_3D_CMD_DX_SET_PREDICATION drm/gma500: Fix possible out of bounds read sunrpc: fix stripping of padded MIC tokens xen: use same main loop for counting and remapping pages xen/events: Don't move disabled irqs powerpc/eeh: Restore initial state in eeh_pe_reset_and_recover() Revert "powerpc/eeh: Fix crash in eeh_add_device_early() on Cell" powerpc/eeh: Don't report error in eeh_pe_reset_and_recover() powerpc/book3s64: Fix branching to OOL handlers in relocatable kernel pipe: limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes QE-UART: add "fsl,t1040-ucc-uart" to of_device_id wait/ptrace: assume __WALL if the child is traced mm: use phys_addr_t for reserve_bootmem_region() arguments media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32: fix missing reserved field copy in put_v4l2_create32 PCI: Disable all BAR sizing for devices with non-compliant BARs pinctrl: exynos5440: Use off-stack memory for pinctrl_gpio_range clk: bcm2835: divider value has to be 1 or more clk: bcm2835: pll_off should only update CM_PLL_ANARST clk: at91: fix check of clk_register() returned value clk: bcm2835: Fix PLL poweron cpuidle: Fix cpuidle_state_is_coupled() argument in cpuidle_enter() cpuidle: Indicate when a device has been unregistered PM / Runtime: Fix error path in pm_runtime_force_resume() mfd: intel_soc_pmic_core: Terminate panel control GPIO lookup table correctly mfd: intel-lpss: Save register context on suspend hwmon: (ads7828) Enable internal reference aacraid: Fix for KDUMP driver hang aacraid: Fix for aac_command_thread hang aacraid: Relinquish CPU during timeout wait rtlwifi: pci: use dev_kfree_skb_irq instead of kfree_skb in rtl_pci_reset_trx_ring rtlwifi: Fix logic error in enter/exit power-save mode rtlwifi: btcoexist: Implement antenna selection rtlwifi: rtl8723be: Add antenna select module parameter hwrng: exynos - Fix unbalanced PM runtime put on timeout error path ath5k: Change led pin configuration for compaq c700 laptop ath10k: fix kernel panic, move arvifs list head init before htt init ath10k: fix rx_channel during hw reconfigure ath10k: fix firmware assert in monitor mode ath10k: fix debugfs pktlog_filter write ath9k: Fix LED polarity for some Mini PCI AR9220 MB92 cards. ath9k: Add a module parameter to invert LED polarity. ARM: dts: imx35: restore existing used clock enumeration ARM: dts: exynos: Add interrupt line to MAX8997 PMIC on exynos4210-trats ARM: dts: at91: fix typo in sama5d2 PIN_PD24 description ARM: mvebu: fix GPIO config on the Linksys boards Input: uinput - handle compat ioctl for UI_SET_PHYS ASoC: ak4642: Enable cache usage to fix crashes on resume affs: fix remount failure when there are no options changed MIPS: VDSO: Build with `-fno-strict-aliasing' MIPS: lib: Mark intrinsics notrace MIPS: Build microMIPS VDSO for microMIPS kernels MIPS: Fix sigreturn via VDSO on microMIPS kernel MIPS: ptrace: Prevent writes to read-only FCSR bits MIPS: ptrace: Fix FP context restoration FCSR regression MIPS: Disable preemption during prctl(PR_SET_FP_MODE, ...) MIPS: Prevent "restoration" of MSA context in non-MSA kernels MIPS: Fix MSA ld_*/st_* asm macros to use PTR_ADDU MIPS: Use copy_s.fmt rather than copy_u.fmt MIPS: Loongson-3: Reserve 32MB for RS780E integrated GPU MIPS: Reserve nosave data for hibernation MIPS: ath79: make bootconsole wait for both THRE and TEMT MIPS: Sync icache & dcache in set_pte_at MIPS: Handle highmem pages in __update_cache MIPS: Flush highmem pages in __flush_dcache_page MIPS: Fix watchpoint restoration MIPS: Fix uapi include in exported asm/siginfo.h MIPS: Fix siginfo.h to use strict posix types MIPS: Avoid using unwind_stack() with usermode MIPS: Don't unwind to user mode with EVA MIPS: MSA: Fix a link error on `_init_msa_upper' with older GCC MIPS: math-emu: Fix jalr emulation when rd == $0 MIPS64: R6: R2 emulation bugfix coresight: etb10: adjust read pointer only when needed coresight: configuring ETF in FIFO mode when acting as link coresight: tmc: implementing TMC-ETF AUX space API coresight: moving struct cs_buffers to header file coresight: tmc: keep track of memory width coresight: tmc: make sysFS and Perf mode mutually exclusive coresight: tmc: dump system memory content only when needed coresight: tmc: adding mode of operation for link/sinks coresight: tmc: getting rid of multiple read access coresight: tmc: allocating memory when needed coresight: tmc: making prepare/unprepare functions generic coresight: tmc: splitting driver in ETB/ETF and ETR components coresight: tmc: cleaning up header file coresight: tmc: introducing new header file coresight: tmc: clearly define number of transfers per burst coresight: tmc: re-implementing tmc_read_prepare/unprepare() functions coresight: tmc: waiting for TMCReady bit before programming coresight: tmc: modifying naming convention coresight: tmc: adding sysFS management entries coresight: etm4x: add tracer ID for A72 Maia processor. coresight: etb10: fixing the right amount of words to read coresight: stm: adding driver for CoreSight STM component coresight: adding path for STM device coresight: etm4x: modify q_support type coresight: no need to do the forced type conversion coresight: removing gratuitous boot time log messages coresight: etb10: splitting sysFS "status" entry coresight: moving coresight_simple_func() to header file coresight: etm4x: implementing the perf PMU API coresight: etm4x: implementing user/kernel mode tracing coresight: etm4x: moving etm_drvdata::enable to atomic field coresight: etm4x: unlocking tracers in default arch init coresight: etm4x: splitting etmv4 default configuration coresight: etm4x: splitting struct etmv4_drvdata coresight: etm4x: adding config and traceid registers coresight: etm4x: moving sysFS entries to a dedicated file stm class: Support devices that override software assigned masters stm class: Remove unnecessary pointer increment stm class: Fix stm device initialization order stm class: Do not leak the chrdev in error path stm class: Remove a pointless line stm class: stm_heartbeat: Make nr_devs parameter read-only stm class: dummy_stm: Make nr_dummies parameter read-only MAINTAINERS: Add a git tree for the stm class perf/ring_buffer: Document AUX API usage perf/core: Free AUX pages in unmap path perf/ring_buffer: Refuse to begin AUX transaction after rb->aux_mmap_count drops perf auxtrace: Add perf_evlist pointer to *info_priv_size() perf session: Simplify tool stubs perf inject: Hit all DSOs for AUX data in JIT and other cases perf tools: tracepoint_error() can receive e=NULL, robustify it perf evlist: Make perf_evlist__open() open evsels with their cpus and threads (like perf record does) perf evsel: Introduce disable() method perf cpumap: Auto initialize cpu__max_{node,cpu} drivers/hwtracing: make coresight-etm-perf.c explicitly non-modular drivers/hwtracing: make coresight-* explicitly non-modular coresight: introducing a global trace ID function coresight: etm-perf: new PMU driver for ETM tracers coresight: etb10: implementing AUX API coresight: etb10: adding operation mode for sink->enable() coresight: etb10: moving to local atomic operations coresight: etm3x: implementing perf_enable/disable() API coresight: etm3x: implementing user/kernel mode tracing coresight: etm3x: consolidating initial config coresight: etm3x: changing default trace configuration coresight: etm3x: set progbit to stop trace collection coresight: etm3x: adding operation mode for etm_enable() coresight: etm3x: splitting struct etm_drvdata coresight: etm3x: unlocking tracers in default arch init coresight: etm3x: moving sysFS entries to dedicated file coresight: etm3x: moving etm_readl/writel to header file coresight: moving PM runtime operations to core framework coresight: add API to get sink from path coresight: associating path with session rather than tracer coresight: etm4x: Check every parameter used by dma_xx_coherent. coresight: "DEVICE_ATTR_RO" should defined as static. coresight: implementing 'cpu_id()' API coresight: removing bind/unbind options from sysfs coresight: remove csdev's link from topology coresight: release reference taken by 'bus_find_device()' coresight: coresight_unregister() function cleanup coresight: fixing lockdep error coresight: fixing indentation problem coresight: Fix a typo in Kconfig coresight: checking for NULL string in coresight_name_match() perf/core: Disable the event on a truncated AUX record perf/core: Don't leak event in the syscall error path perf/core: Fix perf_sched_count derailment stm class: dummy_stm: Add link callback for fault injection stm class: Plug stm device's unlink callback stm class: Fix a race in unlinking stm class: Fix unbalanced module/device refcounting stm class: Guard output assignment against concurrency stm class: Fix unlocking braino in the error path stm class: Add heartbeat stm source device stm class: dummy_stm: Create multiple devices stm class: Support devices with multiple instances stm class: Use driver's packet callback return value stm class: Prevent user-controllable allocations stm class: Fix link list locking stm class: Fix locking in unbinding policy path stm class: Select CONFIG_SRCU stm class: Hide STM-specific options if STM is disabled perf: Synchronously free aux pages in case of allocation failure Linux 4.4.12 kbuild: move -Wunused-const-variable to W=1 warning level Revert "scsi: fix soft lockup in scsi_remove_target() on module removal" scsi: Add intermediate STARGET_REMOVE state to scsi_target_state hpfs: implement the show_options method hpfs: fix remount failure when there are no options changed UBI: Fix static volume checks when Fastmap is used SIGNAL: Move generic copy_siginfo() to signal.h thunderbolt: Fix double free of drom buffer IB/srp: Fix a debug kernel crash ALSA: hda - Fix headset mic detection problem for one Dell machine ALSA: hda/realtek - Add support for ALC295/ALC3254 ALSA: hda - Fix headphone noise on Dell XPS 13 9360 ALSA: hda/realtek - New codecs support for ALC234/ALC274/ALC294 mcb: Fixed bar number assignment for the gdd clk: bcm2835: add locking to pll*_on/off methods locking,qspinlock: Fix spin_is_locked() and spin_unlock_wait() serial: samsung: Reorder the sequence of clock control when call s3c24xx_serial_set_termios() serial: 8250_mid: recognize interrupt source in handler serial: 8250_mid: use proper bar for DNV platform serial: 8250_pci: fix divide error bug if baud rate is 0 Fix OpenSSH pty regression on close tty/serial: atmel: fix hardware handshake selection TTY: n_gsm, fix false positive WARN_ON tty: vt, return error when con_startup fails xen/x86: actually allocate legacy interrupts on PV guests KVM: x86: mask CPUID(0xD,0x1).EAX against host value MIPS: KVM: Fix timer IRQ race when writing CP0_Compare MIPS: KVM: Fix timer IRQ race when freezing timer KVM: x86: fix ordering of cr0 initialization code in vmx_cpu_reset KVM: MTRR: remove MSR 0x2f8 staging: comedi: das1800: fix possible NULL dereference usb: gadget: udc: core: Fix argument of dev_err() in usb_gadget_map_request() USB: leave LPM alone if possible when binding/unbinding interface drivers usb: misc: usbtest: fix pattern tests for scatterlists. usb: f_mass_storage: test whether thread is running before starting another usb: gadget: f_fs: Fix EFAULT generation for async read operations USB: serial: option: add even more ZTE device ids USB: serial: option: add more ZTE device ids USB: serial: option: add support for Cinterion PH8 and AHxx USB: serial: io_edgeport: fix memory leaks in probe error path USB: serial: io_edgeport: fix memory leaks in attach error path USB: serial: quatech2: fix use-after-free in probe error path USB: serial: keyspan: fix use-after-free in probe error path USB: serial: mxuport: fix use-after-free in probe error path mei: bus: call mei_cl_read_start under device lock mei: amthif: discard not read messages mei: fix NULL dereferencing during FW initiated disconnection Bluetooth: vhci: Fix race at creating hci device Bluetooth: vhci: purge unhandled skbs Bluetooth: vhci: fix open_timeout vs. hdev race mmc: sdhci-pci: Remove MMC_CAP_BUS_WIDTH_TEST for Intel controllers mmc: longer timeout for long read time quirk dell-rbtn: Ignore ACPI notifications if device is suspended ACPI / osi: Fix an issue that acpi_osi=!* cannot disable ACPICA internal strings mmc: sdhci-acpi: Remove MMC_CAP_BUS_WIDTH_TEST for Intel controllers mmc: mmc: Fix partition switch timeout for some eMMCs can: fix handling of unmodifiable configuration options irqchip/gic-v3: Configure all interrupts as non-secure Group-1 irqchip/gic: Ensure ordering between read of INTACK and shared data Input: pwm-beeper - fix - scheduling while atomic mfd: omap-usb-tll: Fix scheduling while atomic BUG sched/loadavg: Fix loadavg artifacts on fully idle and on fully loaded systems clk: qcom: msm8916: Fix crypto clock flags crypto: sun4i-ss - Replace spinlock_bh by spin_lock_irq{save|restore} crypto: talitos - fix ahash algorithms registration crypto: caam - fix caam_jr_alloc() ret code ring-buffer: Prevent overflow of size in ring_buffer_resize() ring-buffer: Use long for nr_pages to avoid overflow failures asix: Fix offset calculation in asix_rx_fixup() causing slow transmissions fs/cifs: correctly to anonymous authentication for the NTLM(v2) authentication fs/cifs: correctly to anonymous authentication for the NTLM(v1) authentication fs/cifs: correctly to anonymous authentication for the LANMAN authentication fs/cifs: correctly to anonymous authentication via NTLMSSP remove directory incorrectly tries to set delete on close on non-empty directories kvm: arm64: Fix EC field in inject_abt64 arm/arm64: KVM: Enforce Break-Before-Make on Stage-2 page tables arm64: cpuinfo: Missing NULL terminator in compat_hwcap_str arm64: Implement pmdp_set_access_flags() for hardware AF/DBM arm64: Implement ptep_set_access_flags() for hardware AF/DBM arm64: Ensure pmd_present() returns false after pmd_mknotpresent() arm64: Fix typo in the pmdp_huge_get_and_clear() definition ext4: iterate over buffer heads correctly in move_extent_per_page() perf test: Fix build of BPF and LLVM on older glibc libraries perf/core: Fix perf_event_open() vs. execve() race perf/x86/intel/pt: Generate PMI in the STOP region as well Btrfs: don't use src fd for printk UPSTREAM: mac80211: fix "warning: ‘target_metric’ may be used uninitialized" Revert "drivers: power: use 'current' instead of 'get_current()'" cpufreq: interactive: drop cpufreq_{get,put}_global_kobject func calls Revert "cpufreq: interactive: build fixes for 4.4" xt_qtaguid: Fix panic caused by processing non-full socket. fiq_debugger: Add fiq_debugger.disable option UPSTREAM: procfs: fixes pthread cross-thread naming if !PR_DUMPABLE FROMLIST: wlcore: Disable filtering in AP role Revert "drivers: power: Add watchdog timer to catch drivers which lockup during suspend." fiq_debugger: Add option to apply uart overlay by FIQ_DEBUGGER_UART_OVERLAY Revert "Recreate asm/mach/mmc.h include file" Revert "ARM: Add 'card_present' state to mmc_platfrom_data" usb: dual-role: make stub functions inline Revert "mmc: Add status IRQ and status callback function to mmc platform data" quick selinux support for tracefs Revert "hid-multitouch: Filter collections by application usage." Revert "HID: steelseries: validate output report details" xt_qtaguid: Fix panic caused by synack processing Revert "mm: vmscan: Add a debug file for shrinkers" Revert "SELinux: Enable setting security contexts on rootfs inodes." Revert "SELinux: build fix for 4.1" fuse: Add support for d_canonical_path vfs: change d_canonical_path to take two paths android: recommended.cfg: remove CONFIG_UID_STAT netfilter: xt_qtaguid: seq_printf fixes Revert "misc: uidstat: Adding uid stat driver to collect network statistics." Revert "net: activity_stats: Add statistics for network transmission activity" Revert "net: activity_stats: Stop using obsolete create_proc_read_entry api" Revert "misc: uidstat: avoid create_stat() race and blockage." Revert "misc: uidstat: Remove use of obsolete create_proc_read_entry api" Revert "misc seq_printf fixes for 4.4" Revert "misc: uid_stat: Include linux/atomic.h instead of asm/atomic.h" Revert "net: socket ioctl to reset connections matching local address" Revert "net: fix iterating over hashtable in tcp_nuke_addr()" Revert "net: fix crash in tcp_nuke_addr()" Revert "Don't kill IPv4 sockets when killing IPv6 sockets was requested." Revert "tcp: Fix IPV6 module build errors" android: base-cfg: remove CONFIG_SWITCH Revert "switch: switch class and GPIO drivers." Revert "drivers: switch: remove S_IWUSR from dev_attr" ANDROID: base-cfg: enable CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT BACKPORT: selinux: restrict kernel module loading android: base-cfg: enable CONFIG_QUOTA Conflicts: Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_interactive.c drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Makefile drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.c drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x.h drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-priv.h drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-stm.c drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc.c drivers/mmc/core/core.c include/linux/coresight-stm.h include/linux/coresight.h include/linux/msm_mdp.h include/uapi/linux/coresight-stm.h kernel/events/core.c kernel/sched/fair.c net/Makefile net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c net/ipv4/tcp.c net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c net/netfilter/xt_quota2.c sound/core/pcm.c Change-Id: I17aa0002815014e9bddc47e67769a53c15768a99 Signed-off-by: Runmin Wang <runminw@codeaurora.org>
| * FROMLIST: security,perf: Allow further restriction of perf_event_openJeff Vander Stoep2016-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When kernel.perf_event_open is set to 3 (or greater), disallow all access to performance events by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN. Add a Kconfig symbol CONFIG_SECURITY_PERF_EVENTS_RESTRICT that makes this value the default. This is based on a similar feature in grsecurity (CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PERF_HARDEN). This version doesn't include making the variable read-only. It also allows enabling further restriction at run-time regardless of whether the default is changed. https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/11/587 Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Bug: 29054680 Change-Id: Iff5bff4fc1042e85866df9faa01bce8d04335ab8
| * BACKPORT: perf tools: Document the perf sysctlsBen Hutchings2016-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | perf_event_paranoid was only documented in source code and a perf error message. Copy the documentation from the error message to Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt. perf_cpu_time_max_percent was already documented but missing from the list at the top, so add it there. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160119213515.GG2637@decadent.org.uk [ Remove reference to external Documentation file, provide info inline, as before ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Bug: 29054680 Change-Id: I13e73cfb2ad761c94762d0c8196df7725abdf5c5
* | FROMLIST: security,perf: Allow further restriction of perf_event_openJeff Vander Stoep2016-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When kernel.perf_event_open is set to 3 (or greater), disallow all access to performance events by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN. Add a Kconfig symbol CONFIG_SECURITY_PERF_EVENTS_RESTRICT that makes this value the default. This is based on a similar feature in grsecurity (CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PERF_HARDEN). This version doesn't include making the variable read-only. It also allows enabling further restriction at run-time regardless of whether the default is changed. https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/11/587 Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Git-repo: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common.git Git-commit: 012b0adcf7299f6509d4984cf46ee11e6eaed4e4 [d-cagle@codeaurora.org: Resolve trivial merge conflicts] Signed-off-by: Dennis Cagle <d-cagle@codeaurora.org> Bug: 29054680 Change-Id: Iff5bff4fc1042e85866df9faa01bce8d04335ab8
* | BACKPORT: perf tools: Document the perf sysctlsBen Hutchings2016-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | perf_event_paranoid was only documented in source code and a perf error message. Copy the documentation from the error message to Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160119213515.GG2637@decadent.org.uk [ Remove reference to external Documentation file, provide info inline, as before ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Bug: 29054680 Change-Id: I13e73cfb2ad761c94762d0c8196df7725abdf5c5 Git-repo: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common.git Git-commit: b79154b8f7702f6e8a56ce9f1355f841cec16c37 [d-cagle@codeaurora.org: Resolve trivial merge conflicts] Signed-off-by: Dennis Cagle <d-cagle@codeaurora.org>
* | sysctl: add boot_reason and cold_boot sysctl entries for arm64David Collins2016-03-01
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | Define boot_reason and cold_boot variables in the arm64 version of setup.c so that arm64 targets can export the boot_reason and cold_boot sysctl entries. This feature is required by the qpnp-power-on driver. Change-Id: Id2d4ff5b8caa2e6a35d4ac61e338963d602c8b84 Signed-off-by: David Collins <collinsd@codeaurora.org> [osvaldob: resolved trival merge conflicts] Signed-off-by: Osvaldo Banuelos <osvaldob@codeaurora.org>
* kernel/watchdog.c: perform all-CPU backtrace in case of hard lockupJiri Kosina2015-11-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In many cases of hardlockup reports, it's actually not possible to know why it triggered, because the CPU that got stuck is usually waiting on a resource (with IRQs disabled) in posession of some other CPU is holding. IOW, we are often looking at the stacktrace of the victim and not the actual offender. Introduce sysctl / cmdline parameter that makes it possible to have hardlockup detector perform all-CPU backtrace. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* coredump: use from_kuid/kgid when formatting corenameNicolas Iooss2015-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When adding __printf attribute to cn_printf, gcc reports some issues: fs/coredump.c:213:5: warning: format '%d' expects argument of type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'kuid_t' [-Wformat=] err = cn_printf(cn, "%d", cred->uid); ^ fs/coredump.c:217:5: warning: format '%d' expects argument of type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'kgid_t' [-Wformat=] err = cn_printf(cn, "%d", cred->gid); ^ These warnings come from the fact that the value of uid/gid needs to be extracted from the kuid_t/kgid_t structure before being used as an integer. More precisely, cred->uid and cred->gid need to be converted to either user-namespace uid/gid or to init_user_ns uid/gid. Use init_user_ns in order not to break existing ABI, and document this in Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt. While at it, format uid and gid values with %u instead of %d because uid_t/__kernel_uid32_t and gid_t/__kernel_gid32_t are unsigned int. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* watchdog: add watchdog_cpumask sysctl to assist nohzChris Metcalf2015-06-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change the default behavior of watchdog so it only runs on the housekeeping cores when nohz_full is enabled at build and boot time. Allow modifying the set of cores the watchdog is currently running on with a new kernel.watchdog_cpumask sysctl. In the current system, the watchdog subsystem runs a periodic timer that schedules the watchdog kthread to run. However, nohz_full cores are designed to allow userspace application code running on those cores to have 100% access to the CPU. So the watchdog system prevents the nohz_full application code from being able to run the way it wants to, thus the motivation to suppress the watchdog on nohz_full cores, which this patchset provides by default. However, if we disable the watchdog globally, then the housekeeping cores can't benefit from the watchdog functionality. So we allow disabling it only on some cores. See Documentation/lockup-watchdogs.txt for more information. [jhubbard@nvidia.com: fix a watchdog crash in some configurations] Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Doc/sysctl/kernel.txt: document threads-maxHeinrich Schuchardt2015-04-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | File /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max controls the maximum number of threads that can be created using fork(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo, per Guenter] Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* watchdog: enable the new user interface of the watchdog mechanismUlrich Obergfell2015-04-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the current user interface of the watchdog mechanism it is only possible to disable or enable both lockup detectors at the same time. This series introduces new kernel parameters and changes the semantics of some existing kernel parameters, so that the hard lockup detector and the soft lockup detector can be disabled or enabled individually. With this series applied, the user interface is as follows. - parameters in /proc/sys/kernel . soft_watchdog This is a new parameter to control and examine the run state of the soft lockup detector. . nmi_watchdog The semantics of this parameter have changed. It can now be used to control and examine the run state of the hard lockup detector. . watchdog This parameter is still available to control the run state of both lockup detectors at the same time. If this parameter is examined, it shows the logical OR of soft_watchdog and nmi_watchdog. . watchdog_thresh The semantics of this parameter are not affected by the patch. - kernel command line parameters . nosoftlockup The semantics of this parameter have changed. It can now be used to disable the soft lockup detector at boot time. . nmi_watchdog=0 or nmi_watchdog=1 Disable or enable the hard lockup detector at boot time. The patch introduces '=1' as a new option. . nowatchdog The semantics of this parameter are not affected by the patch. It is still available to disable both lockup detectors at boot time. Also, remove the proc_dowatchdog() function which is no longer needed. [dzickus@redhat.com: wrote changelog] [dzickus@redhat.com: update documentation for kernel params and sysctl] Signed-off-by: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* livepatch: kernel: add TAINT_LIVEPATCHSeth Jennings2014-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a new taint flag to indicate when the kernel or a kernel module has been live patched. This will provide a clean indication in bug reports that live patching was used. Additionally, if the crash occurs in a live patched function, the live patch module will appear beside the patched function in the backtrace. Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* ipc/msg: increase MSGMNI, remove scalingManfred Spraul2014-12-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SysV can be abused to allocate locked kernel memory. For most systems, a small limit doesn't make sense, see the discussion with regards to SHMMAX. Therefore: increase MSGMNI to the maximum supported. And: If we ignore the risk of locking too much memory, then an automatic scaling of MSGMNI doesn't make sense. Therefore the logic can be removed. The code preserves auto_msgmni to avoid breaking any user space applications that expect that the value exists. Notes: 1) If an administrator must limit the memory allocations, then he can set MSGMNI as necessary. Or he can disable sysv entirely (as e.g. done by Android). 2) MSGMAX and MSGMNB are intentionally not increased, as these values are used to control latency vs. throughput: If MSGMNB is large, then msgsnd() just returns and more messages can be queued before a task switch to a task that calls msgrcv() is forced. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kernel: add panic_on_warnPrarit Bhargava2014-12-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There have been several times where I have had to rebuild a kernel to cause a panic when hitting a WARN() in the code in order to get a crash dump from a system. Sometimes this is easy to do, other times (such as in the case of a remote admin) it is not trivial to send new images to the user. A much easier method would be a switch to change the WARN() over to a panic. This makes debugging easier in that I can now test the actual image the WARN() was seen on and I do not have to engage in remote debugging. This patch adds a panic_on_warn kernel parameter and /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_warn calls panic() in the warn_slowpath_common() path. The function will still print out the location of the warning. An example of the panic_on_warn output: The first line below is from the WARN_ON() to output the WARN_ON()'s location. After that the panic() output is displayed. WARNING: CPU: 30 PID: 11698 at /home/prarit/dummy_module/dummy-module.c:25 init_dummy+0x1f/0x30 [dummy_module]() Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ... CPU: 30 PID: 11698 Comm: insmod Tainted: G W OE 3.17.0+ #57 Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600CP/S2600CP, BIOS RMLSDP.86I.00.29.D696.1311111329 11/11/2013 0000000000000000 000000008e3f87df ffff88080f093c38 ffffffff81665190 0000000000000000 ffffffff818aea3d ffff88080f093cb8 ffffffff8165e2ec ffffffff00000008 ffff88080f093cc8 ffff88080f093c68 000000008e3f87df Call Trace: [<ffffffff81665190>] dump_stack+0x46/0x58 [<ffffffff8165e2ec>] panic+0xd0/0x204 [<ffffffffa038e05f>] ? init_dummy+0x1f/0x30 [dummy_module] [<ffffffff81076b90>] warn_slowpath_common+0xd0/0xd0 [<ffffffffa038e040>] ? dummy_greetings+0x40/0x40 [dummy_module] [<ffffffff81076c8a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffffa038e05f>] init_dummy+0x1f/0x30 [dummy_module] [<ffffffff81002144>] do_one_initcall+0xd4/0x210 [<ffffffff811b52c2>] ? __vunmap+0xc2/0x110 [<ffffffff810f8889>] load_module+0x16a9/0x1b30 [<ffffffff810f3d30>] ? store_uevent+0x70/0x70 [<ffffffff810f49b9>] ? copy_module_from_fd.isra.44+0x129/0x180 [<ffffffff810f8ec6>] SyS_finit_module+0xa6/0xd0 [<ffffffff8166cf29>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17 Successfully tested by me. hpa said: There is another very valid use for this: many operators would rather a machine shuts down than being potentially compromised either functionally or security-wise. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Acked-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* coredump: add %i/%I in core_pattern to report the tid of the crashed threadOleg Nesterov2014-10-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | format_corename() can only pass the leader's pid to the core handler, but there is no simple way to figure out which thread originated the coredump. As Jan explains, this also means that there is no simple way to create the backtrace of the crashed process: As programs are mostly compiled with implicit gcc -fomit-frame-pointer one needs program's .eh_frame section (equivalently PT_GNU_EH_FRAME segment) or .debug_frame section. .debug_frame usually is present only in separate debug info files usually not even installed on the system. While .eh_frame is a part of the executable/library (and it is even always mapped for C++ exceptions unwinding) it no longer has to be present anywhere on the disk as the program could be upgraded in the meantime and the running instance has its executable file already unlinked from disk. One possibility is to echo 0x3f >/proc/*/coredump_filter and dump all the file-backed memory including the executable's .eh_frame section. But that can create huge core files, for example even due to mmapped data files. Other possibility would be to read .eh_frame from /proc/PID/mem at the core_pattern handler time of the core dump. For the backtrace one needs to read the register state first which can be done from core_pattern handler: ptrace(PTRACE_SEIZE, tid, 0, PTRACE_O_TRACEEXIT) close(0); // close pipe fd to resume the sleeping dumper waitpid(); // should report EXIT PTRACE_GETREGS or other requests The remaining problem is how to get the 'tid' value of the crashed thread. It could be read from the first NT_PRSTATUS note of the core file but that makes the core_pattern handler complicated. Unfortunately %t is already used so this patch uses %i/%I. Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (https://github.com/abrt/abrt/wiki/overview) is experimenting with this. It is using the elfutils (https://fedorahosted.org/elfutils/) unwinder for generating the backtraces. Apart from not needing matching executables as mentioned above, another advantage is that we can get the backtrace without saving the core (which might be quite large) to disk. [mmilata@redhat.com: final paragraph of changelog] Signed-off-by: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com> Cc: Martin Milata <mmilata@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* panic: add TAINT_SOFTLOCKUPJosh Hunt2014-08-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This taint flag will be set if the system has ever entered a softlockup state. Similar to TAINT_WARN it is useful to know whether or not the system has been in a softlockup state when debugging. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: apply the taint before calling panic()] Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* kernel/watchdog.c: print traces for all cpus on lockup detectionAaron Tomlin2014-06-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A 'softlockup' is defined as a bug that causes the kernel to loop in kernel mode for more than a predefined period to time, without giving other tasks a chance to run. Currently, upon detection of this condition by the per-cpu watchdog task, debug information (including a stack trace) is sent to the system log. On some occasions, we have observed that the "victim" rather than the actual "culprit" (i.e. the owner/holder of the contended resource) is reported to the user. Often this information has proven to be insufficient to assist debugging efforts. To avoid loss of useful debug information, for architectures which support NMI, this patch makes it possible to improve soft lockup reporting. This is accomplished by issuing an NMI to each cpu to obtain a stack trace. If NMI is not supported we just revert back to the old method. A sysctl and boot-time parameter is available to toggle this feature. [dzickus@redhat.com: add CONFIG_SMP in certain areas] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: additional CONFIG_SMP=n optimisations] [mq@suse.cz: fix warning] Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Moskyto Matejka <mq@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sysctl: allow for strict write position handlingKees Cook2014-06-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When writing to a sysctl string, each write, regardless of VFS position, begins writing the string from the start. This means the contents of the last write to the sysctl controls the string contents instead of the first: open("/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe", O_WRONLY) = 1 write(1, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"..., 4096) = 4096 write(1, "/bin/true", 9) = 9 close(1) = 0 $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe /bin/true Expected behaviour would be to have the sysctl be "AAAA..." capped at maxlen (in this case KMOD_PATH_LEN: 256), instead of truncating to the contents of the second write. Similarly, multiple short writes would not append to the sysctl. The old behavior is unlike regular POSIX files enough that doing audits of software that interact with sysctls can end up in unexpected or dangerous situations. For example, "as long as the input starts with a trusted path" turns out to be an insufficient filter, as what must also happen is for the input to be entirely contained in a single write syscall -- not a common consideration, especially for high level tools. This provides kernel.sysctl_writes_strict as a way to make this behavior act in a less surprising manner for strings, and disallows non-zero file position when writing numeric sysctls (similar to what is already done when reading from non-zero file positions). For now, the default (0) is to warn about non-zero file position use, but retain the legacy behavior. Setting this to -1 disables the warning, and setting this to 1 enables the file position respecting behavior. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: move misplaced hunk, per Randy] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* hung_task: check the value of "sysctl_hung_task_timeout_sec"Liu Hua2014-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As sysctl_hung_task_timeout_sec is unsigned long, when this value is larger then LONG_MAX/HZ, the function schedule_timeout_interruptible in watchdog will return immediately without sleep and with print : schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff83 and then the funtion watchdog will call schedule_timeout_interruptible again and again. The screen will be filled with "schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff83" This patch does some check and correction in sysctl, to let the function schedule_timeout_interruptible allways get the valid parameter. Signed-off-by: Liu Hua <sdu.liu@huawei.com> Tested-by: Satoru Takeuchi <satoru.takeuchi@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.4+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2014-04-06
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux Pull module updates from Rusty Russell: "Nothing major: the stricter permissions checking for sysfs broke a staging driver; fix included. Greg KH said he'd take the patch but hadn't as the merge window opened, so it's included here to avoid breaking build" * tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: staging: fix up speakup kobject mode Use 'E' instead of 'X' for unsigned module taint flag. VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS: stricter checking for sysfs perms. kallsyms: fix percpu vars on x86-64 with relocation. kallsyms: generalize address range checking module: LLVMLinux: Remove unused function warning from __param_check macro Fix: module signature vs tracepoints: add new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE module: remove MODULE_GENERIC_TABLE module: allow multiple calls to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() per module module: use pr_cont
| * Fix: module signature vs tracepoints: add new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULEMathieu Desnoyers2014-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Users have reported being unable to trace non-signed modules loaded within a kernel supporting module signature. This is caused by tracepoint.c:tracepoint_module_coming() refusing to take into account tracepoints sitting within force-loaded modules (TAINT_FORCED_MODULE). The reason for this check, in the first place, is that a force-loaded module may have a struct module incompatible with the layout expected by the kernel, and can thus cause a kernel crash upon forced load of that module on a kernel with CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS=y. Tracepoints, however, specifically accept TAINT_OOT_MODULE and TAINT_CRAP, since those modules do not lead to the "very likely system crash" issue cited above for force-loaded modules. With kernels having CONFIG_MODULE_SIG=y (signed modules), a non-signed module is tainted re-using the TAINT_FORCED_MODULE taint flag. Unfortunately, this means that Tracepoints treat that module as a force-loaded module, and thus silently refuse to consider any tracepoint within this module. Since an unsigned module does not fit within the "very likely system crash" category of tainting, add a new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE taint flag to specifically address this taint behavior, and accept those modules within Tracepoints. We use the letter 'X' as a taint flag character for a module being loaded that doesn't know how to sign its name (proposed by Steven Rostedt). Also add the missing 'O' entry to trace event show_module_flags() list for the sake of completeness. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> NAKed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* | Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2014-03-31
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar: "Bigger changes: - sched/idle restructuring: they are WIP preparation for deeper integration between the scheduler and idle state selection, by Nicolas Pitre. - add NUMA scheduling pseudo-interleaving, by Rik van Riel. - optimize cgroup context switches, by Peter Zijlstra. - RT scheduling enhancements, by Thomas Gleixner. The rest is smaller changes, non-urgnt fixes and cleanups" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (68 commits) sched: Clean up the task_hot() function sched: Remove double calculation in fix_small_imbalance() sched: Fix broken setscheduler() sparc64, sched: Remove unused sparc64_multi_core sched: Remove unused mc_capable() and smt_capable() sched/numa: Move task_numa_free() to __put_task_struct() sched/fair: Fix endless loop in idle_balance() sched/core: Fix endless loop in pick_next_task() sched/fair: Push down check for high priority class task into idle_balance() sched/rt: Fix picking RT and DL tasks from empty queue trace: Replace hardcoding of 19 with MAX_NICE sched: Guarantee task priority in pick_next_task() sched/idle: Remove stale old file sched: Put rq's sched_avg under CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED cpuidle/arm64: Remove redundant cpuidle_idle_call() cpuidle/powernv: Remove redundant cpuidle_idle_call() sched, nohz: Exclude isolated cores from load balancing sched: Fix select_task_rq_fair() description comments workqueue: Replace hardcoding of -20 and 19 with MIN_NICE and MAX_NICE sys: Replace hardcoding of -20 and 19 with MIN_NICE and MAX_NICE ...
| * | Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core, to resolve conflictsIngo Molnar2014-02-02
| |\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: kernel/sysctl.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| * | sched/numa, mm: Remove p->numa_migrate_deferredRik van Riel2014-01-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Excessive migration of pages can hurt the performance of workloads that span multiple NUMA nodes. However, it turns out that the p->numa_migrate_deferred knob is a really big hammer, which does reduce migration rates, but does not actually help performance. Now that the second stage of the automatic numa balancing code has stabilized, it is time to replace the simplistic migration deferral code with something smarter. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390860228-21539-2-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* | | Merge branch 'core/urgent' into core/lockingIngo Molnar2014-02-27
|\ \ \ | |_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | It's not really a regression fix, so move it to the v3.15 queue. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| * | hung_task/Documentation: Fix hung_task_warnings descriptionAaron Tomlin2014-01-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Improve the documentation on hung_task_warnings. Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-xepjnxzummfDlg9lvhh7Rlzc@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* | | Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2014-01-31
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull core debug changes from Ingo Molnar: "This contains mostly kernel debugging related updates: - make hung_task detection more configurable to distros - add final bits for x86 UV NMI debugging, with related KGDB changes - update the mailing-list of MAINTAINERS entries I'm involved with" * 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: hung_task: Display every hung task warning sysctl: Add neg_one as a standard constraint x86/uv/nmi, kgdb/kdb: Fix UV NMI handler when KDB not configured x86/uv/nmi: Fix Sparse warnings kgdb/kdb: Fix no KDB config problem MAINTAINERS: Restore "L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" entries
| * | hung_task: Display every hung task warningAaron Tomlin2014-01-25
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When khungtaskd detects hung tasks, it prints out backtraces from a number of those tasks. Limiting the number of backtraces being printed out can result in the user not seeing the information necessary to debug the issue. The hung_task_warnings sysctl controls this feature. This patch makes it possible for hung_task_warnings to accept a special value to print an unlimited number of backtraces when khungtaskd detects hung tasks. The special value is -1. To use this value it is necessary to change types from ulong to int. Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: oleg@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390239253-24030-3-git-send-email-atomlin@redhat.com [ Build warning fix. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* / kexec: add sysctl to disable kexec_loadKees Cook2014-01-23
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For general-purpose (i.e. distro) kernel builds it makes sense to build with CONFIG_KEXEC to allow end users to choose what kind of things they want to do with kexec. However, in the face of trying to lock down a system with such a kernel, there needs to be a way to disable kexec_load (much like module loading can be disabled). Without this, it is too easy for the root user to modify kernel memory even when CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM and modules_disabled are set. With this change, it is still possible to load an image for use later, then disable kexec_load so the image (or lack of image) can't be altered. The intention is for using this in environments where "perfect" enforcement is hard. Without a verified boot, along with verified modules, and along with verified kexec, this is trying to give a system a better chance to defend itself (or at least grow the window of discoverability) against attack in the face of a privilege escalation. In my mind, I consider several boot scenarios: 1) Verified boot of read-only verified root fs loading fd-based verification of kexec images. 2) Secure boot of writable root fs loading signed kexec images. 3) Regular boot loading kexec (e.g. kcrash) image early and locking it. 4) Regular boot with no control of kexec image at all. 1 and 2 don't exist yet, but will soon once the verified kexec series has landed. 4 is the state of things now. The gap between 2 and 4 is too large, so this change creates scenario 3, a middle-ground above 4 when 2 and 1 are not possible for a system. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sched/numa: Drop sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count sysctlWanpeng Li2013-12-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit 887c290e (sched/numa: Decide whether to favour task or group weights based on swap candidate relationships) drop the check against sysctl_numa_balancing_settle_count, this patch remove the sysctl. Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386833006-6600-1-git-send-email-liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* vsprintf: check real user/group id for %pKRyan Mallon2013-11-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some setuid binaries will allow reading of files which have read permission by the real user id. This is problematic with files which use %pK because the file access permission is checked at open() time, but the kptr_restrict setting is checked at read() time. If a setuid binary opens a %pK file as an unprivileged user, and then elevates permissions before reading the file, then kernel pointer values may be leaked. This happens for example with the setuid pppd application on Ubuntu 12.04: $ head -1 /proc/kallsyms 00000000 T startup_32 $ pppd file /proc/kallsyms pppd: In file /proc/kallsyms: unrecognized option 'c1000000' This will only leak the pointer value from the first line, but other setuid binaries may leak more information. Fix this by adding a check that in addition to the current process having CAP_SYSLOG, that effective user and group ids are equal to the real ids. If a setuid binary reads the contents of a file which uses %pK then the pointer values will be printed as NULL if the real user is unprivileged. Update the sysctl documentation to reflect the changes, and also correct the documentation to state the kptr_restrict=0 is the default. This is a only temporary solution to the issue. The correct solution is to do the permission check at open() time on files, and to replace %pK with a function which checks the open() time permission. %pK uses in printk should be removed since no sane permission check can be done, and instead protected by using dmesg_restrict. Signed-off-by: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@gmail.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sched/numa: Skip some page migrations after a shared faultRik van Riel2013-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Shared faults can lead to lots of unnecessary page migrations, slowing down the system, and causing private faults to hit the per-pgdat migration ratelimit. This patch adds sysctl numa_balancing_migrate_deferred, which specifies how many shared page migrations to skip unconditionally, after each page migration that is skipped because it is a shared fault. This reduces the number of page migrations back and forth in shared fault situations. It also gives a strong preference to the tasks that are already running where most of the memory is, and to moving the other tasks to near the memory. Testing this with a much higher scan rate than the default still seems to result in fewer page migrations than before. Memory seems to be somewhat better consolidated than previously, with multi-instance specjbb runs on a 4 node system. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-62-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched/numa: Remove the numa_balancing_scan_period_reset sysctlMel Gorman2013-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With scan rate adaptions based on whether the workload has properly converged or not there should be no need for the scan period reset hammer. Get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-60-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched/numa: Favour moving tasks towards the preferred nodeMel Gorman2013-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch favours moving tasks towards NUMA node that recorded a higher number of NUMA faults during active load balancing. Ideally this is self-reinforcing as the longer the task runs on that node, the more faults it should incur causing task_numa_placement to keep the task running on that node. In reality a big weakness is that the nodes CPUs can be overloaded and it would be more efficient to queue tasks on an idle node and migrate to the new node. This would require additional smarts in the balancer so for now the balancer will simply prefer to place the task on the preferred node for a PTE scans which is controlled by the numa_balancing_settle_count sysctl. Once the settle_count number of scans has complete the schedule is free to place the task on an alternative node if the load is imbalanced. [srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com: Fixed statistics] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ Tunable and use higher faults instead of preferred. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-23-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched/numa: Set the scan rate proportional to the memory usage of the task ↵Mel Gorman2013-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | being scanned The NUMA PTE scan rate is controlled with a combination of the numa_balancing_scan_period_min, numa_balancing_scan_period_max and numa_balancing_scan_size. This scan rate is independent of the size of the task and as an aside it is further complicated by the fact that numa_balancing_scan_size controls how many pages are marked pte_numa and not how much virtual memory is scanned. In combination, it is almost impossible to meaningfully tune the min and max scan periods and reasoning about performance is complex when the time to complete a full scan is is partially a function of the tasks memory size. This patch alters the semantic of the min and max tunables to be about tuning the length time it takes to complete a scan of a tasks occupied virtual address space. Conceptually this is a lot easier to understand. There is a "sanity" check to ensure the scan rate is never extremely fast based on the amount of virtual memory that should be scanned in a second. The default of 2.5G seems arbitrary but it is to have the maximum scan rate after the patch roughly match the maximum scan rate before the patch was applied. On a similar note, numa_scan_period is in milliseconds and not jiffies. Properly placed pages slow the scanning rate but adding 10 jiffies to numa_scan_period means that the rate scanning slows depends on HZ which is confusing. Get rid of the jiffies_to_msec conversion and treat it as ms. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-18-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* mm: numa: Document automatic NUMA balancing sysctlsMel Gorman2013-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-3-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* coredump: add new %P variable in core_patternStéphane Graber2013-09-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new %P variable to be used in core_pattern. This variable contains the global PID (PID in the init namespace) as %p contains the PID in the current namespace which isn't always what we want. The main use for this is to make it easier to handle crashes that happened within a container. With that new variables it's possible to have the crashes dumped into the container or forwarded to the host with the right PID (from the host's point of view). Signed-off-by: Stéphane Graber <stgraber@ubuntu.com> Reported-by: Hans Feldt <hans.feldt@ericsson.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* perf: Drop sample rate when sampling is too slowDave Hansen2013-06-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch keeps track of how long perf's NMI handler is taking, and also calculates how many samples perf can take a second. If the sample length times the expected max number of samples exceeds a configurable threshold, it drops the sample rate. This way, we don't have a runaway sampling process eating up the CPU. This patch can tend to drop the sample rate down to level where perf doesn't work very well. *BUT* the alternative is that my system hangs because it spends all of its time handling NMIs. I'll take a busted performance tool over an entire system that's busted and undebuggable any day. BTW, my suspicion is that there's still an underlying bug here. Using the HPET instead of the TSC is definitely a contributing factor, but I suspect there are some other things going on. But, I can't go dig down on a bug like that with my machine hanging all the time. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> [ Prettified it a bit. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* watchdog: Remove softlockup_thresh from DocumentationLi Zefan2013-05-28
| | | | | | | | | | The old softlockup detector has been replaced with new lockup detector long ago. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51959687.9090305@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* watchdog: Document watchdog_thresh sysctlLi Zefan2013-05-28
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51959678.6000802@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt: document /proc/sys/shmallCarlos Alberto Lopez Perez2013-01-04
| | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <clopez@igalia.com> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* ipc: add sysctl to specify desired next object idStanislav Kinsbursky2013-01-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add 3 new variables and sysctls to tune them (by one "next_id" variable for messages, semaphores and shared memory respectively). This variable can be used to set desired id for next allocated IPC object. By default it's equal to -1 and old behaviour is preserved. If this variable is non-negative, then desired idr will be extracted from it and used as a start value to search for free IDR slot. Notes: 1) this patch doesn't guarantee that the new object will have desired id. So it's up to user space how to handle new object with wrong id. 2) After a sucessful id allocation attempt, "next_id" will be set back to -1 (if it was non-negative). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* coredump: add support for %d=__get_dumpable() in core nameOleg Nesterov2012-10-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some coredump handlers want to create a core file in a way compatible with standard behavior. Standard behavior with fs.suid_dumpable = 2 is to create core file with uid=gid=0. However, there was no way for coredump handler to know that the process being dumped was suid'ed. This patch adds the new %d specifier for format_corename() which simply reports __get_dumpable(mm->flags), this is compatible with /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable we already have. Addresses https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=787135 Developed during a discussion with Denys Vlasenko. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Cc: Alex Kelly <alex.page.kelly@gmail.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc@redhat.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Documentation: add missing tainted bits to Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txtLarry Finger2012-02-06
| | | | | | | | Two of the bits in the tainted flag are not documented. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sysctl: add the kernel.ns_last_pid controlPavel Emelyanov2012-01-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The sysctl works on the current task's pid namespace, getting and setting its last_pid field. Writing is allowed for CAP_SYS_ADMIN-capable tasks thus making it possible to create a task with desired pid value. This ability is required badly for the checkpoint/restore in userspace. This approach suits all the parties for now. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* x86: Panic on detection of stack overflowMitsuo Hayasaka2011-12-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, messages are just output on the detection of stack overflow, which is not sufficient for systems that need a high reliability. This is because in general the overflow may corrupt data, and the additional corruption may occur due to reading them unless systems stop. This patch adds the sysctl parameter kernel.panic_on_stackoverflow and causes a panic when detecting the overflows of kernel, IRQ and exception stacks except user stack according to the parameter. It is disabled by default. Signed-off-by: Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com> Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111129060836.11076.12323.stgit@ltc219.sdl.hitachi.co.jp Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* kernel/sysctl.c: add cap_last_cap to /proc/sys/kernelDan Ballard2011-10-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Userspace needs to know the highest valid capability of the running kernel, which right now cannot reliably be retrieved from the header files only. The fact that this value cannot be determined properly right now creates various problems for libraries compiled on newer header files which are run on older kernels. They assume capabilities are available which actually aren't. libcap-ng is one example. And we ran into the same problem with systemd too. Now the capability is exported in /proc/sys/kernel/cap_last_cap. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make cap_last_cap const, per Ulrich] Signed-off-by: Dan Ballard <dan@mindstab.net> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@akkadia.org> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>