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Nicolas Pitre d3fc425e81 kbuild: make sure autoksyms.h exists early
Some people are able to trigger a race where autoksyms.h is used before
its empty version is even created.  Let's create it at the same time as
the directory holding it is created.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-12-01 10:19:22 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 04e36857d6 Merge branch 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull kbuild fixes from Michal Marek:
 "Here are some regression fixes for kbuild:

   - modversion support for exported asm symbols (Nick Piggin). The
     affected architectures need separate patches adding
     asm-prototypes.h.

   - fix rebuilds of lib-ksyms.o (Nick Piggin)

   - -fno-PIE builds (Sebastian Siewior and Borislav Petkov). This is
     not a kernel regression, but one of the Debian gcc package.
     Nevertheless, it's quite annoying, so I think it should go into
     mainline and stable now"

* 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kbuild: Steal gcc's pie from the very beginning
  kbuild: be more careful about matching preprocessed asm ___EXPORT_SYMBOL
  x86/kexec: add -fno-PIE
  scripts/has-stack-protector: add -fno-PIE
  kbuild: add -fno-PIE
  kbuild: modversions for EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asm
  kbuild: prevent lib-ksyms.o rebuilds
2016-11-18 16:45:21 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 015ed9433b Merge branch 'maybe-uninitialized' (patches from Arnd)
Merge fixes for -Wmaybe-uninitialized from Arnd Bergmann:
 "It took a while for some patches to make it into mainline through
  maintainer trees, but the 28-patch series is now reduced to 10, with
  one tiny patch added at the end.

  Aside from patches that are no longer required, I did these changes
  compared to version 1:

   - Dropped "iio: maxim_thermocouple: detect invalid storage size in
     read()", which is currently in linux-next as commit 32cb7d27e6.
     This is the only remaining warning I see for a couple of corner
     cases (kbuild bot reports it on blackfin, kernelci bot and arm-soc
     bot both report it on arm64)

   - Dropped "brcmfmac: avoid maybe-uninitialized warning in
     brcmf_cfg80211_start_ap", which is currently in net/master merge
     pending.

   - Dropped two x86 patches, "x86: math-emu: possible uninitialized
     variable use" and "x86: mark target address as output in 'insb'
     asm" as they do not seem to trigger for a default build, and I got
     no feedback on them. Both of these are ancient issues and seem
     harmless, I will send them again to the x86 maintainers once the
     rest is merged.

   - Dropped "rbd: false-postive gcc-4.9 -Wmaybe-uninitialized" based on
     feedback from Ilya Dryomov, who already has a different fix queued
     up for v4.10. The kbuild bot reports this as a warning for xtensa.

   - Replaced "crypto: aesni: avoid -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning" with
     a simpler patch, this one always triggers but my first solution
     would not be safe for linux-4.9 any more at this point. I'll follow
     up with the larger patch as a cleanup for 4.10.

   - Replaced "dib0700: fix nec repeat handling" with a better one,
     contributed by Sean Young"

* -Wmaybe-uninitialized fixes:
  Kbuild: enable -Wmaybe-uninitialized warnings by default
  pcmcia: fix return value of soc_pcmcia_regulator_set
  infiniband: shut up a maybe-uninitialized warning
  crypto: aesni: shut up -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning
  rc: print correct variable for z8f0811
  dib0700: fix nec repeat handling
  s390: pci: don't print uninitialized data for debugging
  nios2: fix timer initcall return value
  x86: apm: avoid uninitialized data
  NFSv4.1: work around -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning
  Kbuild: enable -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning for "make W=1"
2016-11-11 10:03:01 -08:00
Arnd Bergmann 4324cb23f4 Kbuild: enable -Wmaybe-uninitialized warnings by default
Previously the warnings were added back at the W=1 level and above, this
now turns them on again by default, assuming that we have addressed all
warnings and again have a clean build for v4.10.

I found a number of new warnings in linux-next already and submitted
bugfixes for those.  Hopefully they are caught by the 0day builder in
the future as soon as this patch is merged.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-11-11 08:45:08 -08:00
Arnd Bergmann a76bcf557e Kbuild: enable -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning for "make W=1"
Traditionally, we have always had warnings about uninitialized variables
enabled, as this is part of -Wall, and generally a good idea [1], but it
also always produced false positives, mainly because this is a variation
of the halting problem and provably impossible to get right in all cases
[2].

Various people have identified cases that are particularly bad for false
positives, and in commit e74fc973b6 ("Turn off -Wmaybe-uninitialized
when building with -Os"), I turned off the warning for any build that
was done with CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE.  This drastically reduced the number
of false positive warnings in the default build but unfortunately had
the side effect of turning the warning off completely in 'allmodconfig'
builds, which in turn led to a lot of warnings (both actual bugs, and
remaining false positives) to go in unnoticed.

With commit 877417e6ff ("Kbuild: change CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
definition") enabled the warning again for allmodconfig builds in v4.7
and in v4.8-rc1, I had finally managed to address all warnings I get in
an ARM allmodconfig build and most other maybe-uninitialized warnings
for ARM randconfig builds.

However, commit 6e8d666e92 ("Disable "maybe-uninitialized" warning
globally") was merged at the same time and disabled it completely for
all configurations, because of false-positive warnings on x86 that I had
not addressed until then.  This caused a lot of actual bugs to get
merged into mainline, and I sent several dozen patches for these during
the v4.9 development cycle.  Most of these are actual bugs, some are for
correct code that is safe because it is only called under external
constraints that make it impossible to run into the case that gcc sees,
and in a few cases gcc is just stupid and finds something that can
obviously never happen.

I have now done a few thousand randconfig builds on x86 and collected
all patches that I needed to address every single warning I got (I can
provide the combined patch for the other warnings if anyone is
interested), so I hope we can get the warning back and let people catch
the actual bugs earlier.

This reverts the change to disable the warning completely and for now
brings it back at the "make W=1" level, so we can get it merged into
mainline without introducing false positives.  A follow-up patch enables
it on all levels unless some configuration option turns it off because
of false-positives.

Link: https://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=232 [1]
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Better_Uninitialized_Warnings [2]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-11-11 08:45:08 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan eef06b82f1 scripts/bloat-o-meter: fix SIGPIPE
Fix piping output to a program which quickly exits (read: head -n1)

	$ ./scripts/bloat-o-meter ../vmlinux-000 ../obj/vmlinux | head -n1
	add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 9/60 up/down: 124/-305 (-181)
	close failed in file object destructor:
	sys.excepthook is missing
	lost sys.stderr

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161028204618.GA29923@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-11-11 08:12:37 -08:00
Nicholas Piggin cc6acc11ca kbuild: be more careful about matching preprocessed asm ___EXPORT_SYMBOL
The CRC code for asm exports grabs the preprocessed asm, finds the
___EXPORT_SYMBOL and turns those into EXPORT_SYMBOL in a C program
that can be preprocessed and parsed to create the CRC signatures from
the type.

The existing regex matching and replacement is too strict, and doesn't
deal well with whitespace among other things. The line
" EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym)" in a .S file would not match due to initial
whitespace, for example, which resulted in x86's ___preempt_schedule
failing to get CRCs.

Reported-by: Philip Müller <philm@manjaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2016-11-09 22:29:53 +01:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 82031ea29e scripts/has-stack-protector: add -fno-PIE
Adding -no-PIE to the fstack protector check. -no-PIE was introduced
before -fstack-protector so there is no need for a runtime check.

Without it the build stops:
|Cannot use CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG: -fstack-protector-strong available but compiler is broken

due to -mcmodel=kernel + -fPIE if -fPIE is enabled by default.

Tagging it stable so it is possible to compile recent stable kernels as
well.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2016-11-09 22:28:05 +01:00
Nicholas Piggin 4efca4ed05 kbuild: modversions for EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asm
Allow architectures to create asm/asm-prototypes.h file that
provides C prototypes for exported asm functions, which enables
proper CRC versions to be generated for them.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2016-11-01 16:20:17 +01:00
Kees Cook 58bea4144d latent_entropy: Fix wrong gcc code generation with 64 bit variables
The stack frame size could grow too large when the plugin used long long
on 32-bit architectures when the given function had too many basic blocks.

The gcc warning was:

drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_ebda.c: In function 'ibmphp_access_ebda':
drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_ebda.c:409:1: warning: the frame size of 1108 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]

This switches latent_entropy from u64 to unsigned long.

Thanks to PaX Team and Emese Revfy for the patch.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2016-10-31 11:30:41 -07:00
Kees Cook da7389ac6c gcc-plugins: Export symbols needed by gcc
This explicitly exports symbols that gcc expects from plugins.

Based on code from Emese Revfy.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2016-10-31 10:40:13 -07:00
Nicholas Piggin 989cea5c14 kbuild: prevent lib-ksyms.o rebuilds
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2016-10-22 21:49:30 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 9ffc66941d This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot time as
 possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in CPU operation
 (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences, SMP ordering,
 thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).
 
 At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example for
 how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals.
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Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook:
 "This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
  extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot
  time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in
  CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences,
  SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).

  At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example
  for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals"

* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy
  gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin
2016-10-15 10:03:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 50cff89837 Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull misc kbuild changes from Michal Marek:
 "Just a few patches on the kbuild.git#misc branch this time:

   - New Coccinelle patch by Nicholas Mc Guire
   - Existing patch fixes by Julia Lawall
   - Minor comment fix by Markus Elfring"

* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  Coccinelle: flag conditions with no effect
  scripts/coccicheck: Update reference for the corresponding documentation
  Coccinelle: pm_runtime: ensure relevance of pm_runtime reports
  Coccinelle: limit memdup_user transformation to GFP_KERNEL case
2016-10-14 15:03:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 84d69848c9 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:

 - EXPORT_SYMBOL for asm source by Al Viro.

   This does bring a regression, because genksyms no longer generates
   checksums for these symbols (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS). Nick Piggin is
   working on a patch to fix this.

   Plus, we are talking about functions like strcpy(), which rarely
   change prototypes.

 - Fixes for PPC fallout of the above by Stephen Rothwell and Nick
   Piggin

 - fixdep speedup by Alexey Dobriyan.

 - preparatory work by Nick Piggin to allow architectures to build with
   -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections

 - CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES support by Stephen Rothwell

 - fix for filenames with colons in the initramfs source by me.

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (22 commits)
  initramfs: Escape colons in depfile
  ppc: there is no clear_pages to export
  powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs
  kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections
  kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile
  kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination
  kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r
  kbuild: Regenerate genksyms lexer
  kbuild: genksyms fix for typeof handling
  fixdep: faster CONFIG_ search
  ia64: move exports to definitions
  sparc32: debride memcpy.S a bit
  [sparc] unify 32bit and 64bit string.h
  sparc: move exports to definitions
  ppc: move exports to definitions
  arm: move exports to definitions
  s390: move exports to definitions
  m68k: move exports to definitions
  alpha: move exports to actual definitions
  x86: move exports to actual definitions
  ...
2016-10-14 14:26:58 -07:00
Mathieu Maret d0c75f33f0 scripts/tags.sh: enable code completion in VIM
Vim, with the omnicppcomplete(#1) plugin, can do code completion using
information build by ctags.  Add flags needed by omnicppcomplete(#2) to
have completion on member of structure.

1: https://github.com/vim-scripts/omnicppcomplete
2: https://github.com/vim-scripts/OmniCppComplete/blob/master/doc/omnicppcomplete.txt#L93

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160830191546.4469-1-mathieu.maret@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Maret <mathieu.maret@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
Joe Perches 459cf0ae5d checkpatch: improve the octal permissions tests
The function calls with octal permissions commonly span multiple lines.
The current test is line oriented and fails to find some matches.

Make the test use the $stat variable instead of the $line variable to span
multiple lines.

Also add a few functions to the known functions with permissions list.

Move the SYMBOLIC_PERMS test to a separate section to find all the S_<FOO>
permissions in any form not just those that have specific function names.

This can now find and fix permissions uses like:
     .mode = S_<FOO> | S_<BAR>;

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b51bab60530912aae4ac420119d465c5b206f19f.1475030406.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tested-by: Ramiro Oliveira <roliveir@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:31 -07:00
Joe Perches ca0d8929e7 checkpatch: add warning for unnamed function definition arguments
Function definitions without identifiers like
	 int foo(int)
are not preferred.  Emit a warning when they occur.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/94fe6378504745991b650f48fc92bb4648f25706.1474925354.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:31 -07:00
Joe Perches 5207649b7b checkpatch: improve MACRO_ARG_PRECEDENCE test
It is possible for a multiple line macro definition to have a false positive
report when an argument is used on a line after a continuation \.

This line might have a leading '+' as the initial character that could be
confused by checkpatch as an operator.

Avoid the leading character on multiple line macro definitions.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/60229d13399f9b6509db5a32e30d4c16951a60cd.1473836073.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:31 -07:00
Joe Perches 9192d41a3f checkpatch: add --strict test for precedence challenged macro arguments
Add a test for macro arguents that have a non-comma leading or trailing
operator where the argument isn't parenthesized to avoid possible precedence
issues.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/47715508972f8d786f435e583ff881dbeee3a114.1473745855.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:30 -07:00
Joe Perches f59b64bffe checkpatch: add --strict test for macro argument reuse
If a macro argument is used multiple times in the macro definition, the
macro argument may have an unexpected side-effect.

Add a test (MACRO_ARG_REUSE) for that condition which is only
emitted with command-line option --strict.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b6d67a87cafcafd15499e91780dc63b15dec0aa0.1473744906.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:30 -07:00
Joe Perches af207524a4 checkpatch: improve the block comment * alignment test
An "uninitialized value" is emitted when a block comment starts on
the same line as a statement.

Fix this and make the test use a little fewer cpu cycles too.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3c9993320c2182d37f53ac540878cfef59c3f62d.1473365956.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Charlemagne Lasse <charlemagnelasse@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:30 -07:00
Joe Perches 0616efa45a checkpatch: speed up checking for filenames in sections marked obsolete
Adding -f to the get_maintainer.pl invocation means git isn't invoked
by get_maintainer.pl for known filenames.

This reduces the overall time to run checkpatch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/22991e3a295aeb399b43af0478b6e5809106ccee.1472684066.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:30 -07:00
Joe Perches 15c03cfeab const_structs.checkpatch: add frequently used from Julia Lawall's list
Using const is generally a good idea.

Julia Lawall has created a list of always const and almost always const
structs in the kernel sources.

Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/28/95

Add the most frequently used (> 50 cases) that are almost always or
always const.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1e16020f8027654db0095bbfbcc11da51025365c.1472664220.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:30 -07:00
Joe Perches bf1fa1dae6 checkpatch: externalize the structs that should be const
Make it easier to add new structs that should be const.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e5a8da43e7c11525bafbda1ca69a8323614dd942.1472664220.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:30 -07:00
Joe Perches f333195d41 checkpatch: don't test for prefer ether_addr_<foo>
< sigh > Comment these tests out.

These are just too enticing to people that don't verify that
both source and dest addresses really must be __aligned(2).

It helps make Dan Carpenter happy too.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dc32ec66d24647f4cdf824c8dfbbc59aa7ce7b7d.1472665676.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg <gvrose8192@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:30 -07:00
Joe Perches 08eb9b8016 checkpatch: test multiple line block comment alignment
Warn when block comments are not aligned on the *

/*
 * block comment, no warning
 */

/*
  * block comment, emit warning
  */

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/edb57bd330adfe024b95ec2a807d4aa7f0c8b112.1472261299.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:30 -07:00
Joe Perches f90774e1fd checkpatch: look for symbolic permissions and suggest octal instead
S_<FOO> uses should be avoided where octal is more intelligible.

Linus didst say:

: It's *much* easier to parse and understand the octal numbers, while the
: symbolic macro names are just random line noise and hard as hell to
: understand.  You really have to think about it.
:
: So we should rather go the other way: convert existing bad symbolic
: permission bit macro use to just use the octal numbers.
:
: The symbolic names are good for the *other* bits (ie sticky bit, and the
: inode mode _type_ numbers etc), but for the permission bits, the symbolic
: names are just insane crap.  Nobody sane should ever use them.  Not in the
: kernel, not in user space.
(http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFw5v23T-zvDZp-MmD_EYxF8WbafwwB59934FV7g21uMGQ@mail.gmail.com)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7232ef011d05a92f4caa86a5e9830d87966a2eaf.1470180926.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:30 -07:00
Joe Perches 85b0ee18bb checkpatch: see if modified files are marked obsolete in MAINTAINERS
Use get_maintainer to check the status of individual files.  If
"obsolete", suggest leaving the files alone.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7ceaa510dc9d2df05ec4b456baed7bb1415550b3.1471889575.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:30 -07:00
Nicholas Mc Guire c8990359d4 Coccinelle: flag conditions with no effect
Report code constructs where the if and else branch are functionally
identical. In cases where this is intended it really should be
documented - most reported cases probably are bugs.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2016-10-11 09:57:17 +02:00
Markus Elfring 1e01892e7a scripts/coccicheck: Update reference for the corresponding documentation
Use the current name (in a comment at the beginning of this script) for
the file which was converted to the documentation format "reStructuredText"
in August 2016.

Fixes: 4b9033a334 ("docs: sphinxify coccinelle.txt and add it to dev-tools")
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2016-10-11 09:50:43 +02:00
Emese Revfy 38addce8b6 gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin
This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot time as
possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in CPU operation
(due to runtime data differences, hardware differences, SMP ordering,
thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).

At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example for
how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals.

The need for very-early boot entropy tends to be very architecture or
system design specific, so this plugin is more suited for those sorts
of special cases. The existing kernel RNG already attempts to extract
entropy from reliable runtime variation, but this plugin takes the idea to
a logical extreme by permuting a global variable based on any variation
in code execution (e.g. a different value (and permutation function)
is used to permute the global based on loop count, case statement,
if/then/else branching, etc).

To do this, the plugin starts by inserting a local variable in every
marked function. The plugin then adds logic so that the value of this
variable is modified by randomly chosen operations (add, xor and rol) and
random values (gcc generates separate static values for each location at
compile time and also injects the stack pointer at runtime). The resulting
value depends on the control flow path (e.g., loops and branches taken).

Before the function returns, the plugin mixes this local variable into
the latent_entropy global variable. The value of this global variable
is added to the kernel entropy pool in do_one_initcall() and _do_fork(),
though it does not credit any bytes of entropy to the pool; the contents
of the global are just used to mix the pool.

Additionally, the plugin can pre-initialize arrays with build-time
random contents, so that two different kernel builds running on identical
hardware will not have the same starting values.

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
[kees: expanded commit message and code comments]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2016-10-10 14:51:44 -07:00
Joe Perches 470164572d spelling.txt: "modeled" is spelt correctly
No need to correct the correct.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472490791.3425.38.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
Chris Metcalf 6727ad9e20 nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus
When doing an nmi backtrace of many cores, most of which are idle, the
output is a little overwhelming and very uninformative.  Suppress
messages for cpus that are idling when they are interrupted and just
emit one line, "NMI backtrace for N skipped: idling at pc 0xNNN".

We do this by grouping all the cpuidle code together into a new
.cpuidle.text section, and then checking the address of the interrupted
PC to see if it lies within that section.

This commit suitably tags x86 and tile idle routines, and only adds in
the minimal framework for other architectures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472487169-14923-5-git-send-email-cmetcalf@mellanox.com
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> [arm]
Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 95107b30be This release cycle is rather small. Just a few fixes to tracing.
The big change is the addition of the hwlat tracer. It not only detects
 SMIs, but also other latency that's caused by the hardware. I have detected
 some latency from large boxes having bus contention.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This release cycle is rather small.  Just a few fixes to tracing.

  The big change is the addition of the hwlat tracer. It not only
  detects SMIs, but also other latency that's caused by the hardware. I
  have detected some latency from large boxes having bus contention"

* tag 'trace-v4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Call traceoff trigger after event is recorded
  ftrace/scripts: Add helper script to bisect function tracing problem functions
  tracing: Have max_latency be defined for HWLAT_TRACER as well
  tracing: Add NMI tracing in hwlat detector
  tracing: Have hwlat trace migrate across tracing_cpumask CPUs
  tracing: Add documentation for hwlat_detector tracer
  tracing: Added hardware latency tracer
  ftrace: Access ret_stack->subtime only in the function profiler
  function_graph: Handle TRACE_BPUTS in print_graph_comment
  tracing/uprobe: Drop isdigit() check in create_trace_uprobe
2016-10-06 11:48:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e46cae4418 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux
Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
 "The new features and main improvements in this merge for v4.9

   - Support for the UBSAN sanitizer

   - Set HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS, it improves the code in some
     places

   - Improvements for the in-kernel fpu code, in particular the overhead
     for multiple consecutive in kernel fpu users is recuded

   - Add a SIMD implementation for the RAID6 gen and xor operations

   - Add RAID6 recovery based on the XC instruction

   - The PCI DMA flush logic has been improved to increase the speed of
     the map / unmap operations

   - The time synchronization code has seen some updates

  And bug fixes all over the place"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (48 commits)
  s390/con3270: fix insufficient space padding
  s390/con3270: fix use of uninitialised data
  MAINTAINERS: update DASD maintainer
  s390/cio: fix accidental interrupt enabling during resume
  s390/dasd: add missing \n to end of dev_err messages
  s390/config: Enable config options for Docker
  s390/dasd: make query host access interruptible
  s390/dasd: fix panic during offline processing
  s390/dasd: fix hanging offline processing
  s390/pci_dma: improve lazy flush for unmap
  s390/pci_dma: split dma_update_trans
  s390/pci_dma: improve map_sg
  s390/pci_dma: simplify dma address calculation
  s390/pci_dma: remove dma address range check
  iommu/s390: simplify registration of I/O address translation parameters
  s390: migrate exception table users off module.h and onto extable.h
  s390: export header for CLP ioctl
  s390/vmur: fix irq pointer dereference in int handler
  s390/dasd: add missing KOBJ_CHANGE event for unformatted devices
  s390: enable UBSAN
  ...
2016-10-04 14:05:52 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 02bafd96f3 This is the documentation update pull for the 4.9 merge window.
The Sphinx transition is still creating a fair amount of work.  Here we
 have a number of fixes and, importantly, a proper PDF output solution,
 thanks to Jani Nikula, Mauro Carvalho Chehab and Markus Heiser.
 
 I've started a couple of new books: a driver API book (based on the old
 device-drivers.tmpl) and a development tools book.  Both are meant to show
 how we can integrate together our existing documentation into a more
 coherent and accessible whole.  It involves moving some stuff around and
 formatting changes, but, I think, the results are worth it.  The good news
 is that most of our existing Documentation/*.txt files are *almost* in RST
 format already; the amount of messing around required is minimal.
 
 And, of course, there's the usual set of updates, typo fixes, and more.
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Merge tag 'docs-4.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "This is the documentation update pull for the 4.9 merge window.

  The Sphinx transition is still creating a fair amount of work. Here we
  have a number of fixes and, importantly, a proper PDF output solution,
  thanks to Jani Nikula, Mauro Carvalho Chehab and Markus Heiser.

  I've started a couple of new books: a driver API book (based on the
  old device-drivers.tmpl) and a development tools book. Both are meant
  to show how we can integrate together our existing documentation into
  a more coherent and accessible whole. It involves moving some stuff
  around and formatting changes, but, I think, the results are worth it.
  The good news is that most of our existing Documentation/*.txt files
  are *almost* in RST format already; the amount of messing around
  required is minimal.

  And, of course, there's the usual set of updates, typo fixes, and
  more"

* tag 'docs-4.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (120 commits)
  URL changed for Linux Foundation TAB
  dax : Fix documentation with respect to struct pages
  iio: Documentation: Correct the path used to create triggers.
  docs: Remove space-before-label guidance from CodingStyle
  docs-rst: add inter-document cross references
  Documentation/email-clients.txt: convert it to ReST markup
  Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: reorder based on timestamp
  Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: Add dates for online docs
  Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: get rid of broken docs
  Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: move in-kernel docs
  Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: remove more legacy references
  Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: add two published books
  Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: sort books per publication date
  Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: adjust LDD references
  Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: some improvements on the ReST output
  Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: Consistent indenting: 4 spaces
  Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: Add 4 paper/book references
  Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: Improve layouting of book list
  Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: Remove offline or outdated entries
  docs: Clean up bare :: lines
  ...
2016-10-04 13:54:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 7a53eea1f7 Char/Misc driver update for 4.9-rc1
Here's the "big" char and misc driver update for 4.9-rc1.
 
 Lots of little things here, all over the driver tree for subsystems that
 flow through me.  Nothing major that I can discern, full details are in
 the shortlog.
 
 All have been in the linux-next tree with no reported issues.
 
 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'char-misc-4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here's the "big" char and misc driver update for 4.9-rc1.

  Lots of little things here, all over the driver tree for subsystems
  that flow through me. Nothing major that I can discern, full details
  are in the shortlog.

  All have been in the linux-next tree with no reported issues"

* tag 'char-misc-4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (144 commits)
  drivers/misc/hpilo: Changes to support new security states in iLO5 FW
  at25: fix debug and error messaging
  misc/genwqe: ensure zero initialization
  vme: fake: remove unexpected unlock in fake_master_set()
  vme: fake: mark symbols static where possible
  spmi: pmic-arb: Return an error code if sanity check fails
  Drivers: hv: get rid of id in struct vmbus_channel
  Drivers: hv: make VMBus bus ids persistent
  mcb: Add a dma_device to mcb_device
  mcb: Enable PCI bus mastering by default
  mei: stop the stall timer worker if not needed
  clk: probe common clock drivers earlier
  vme: fake: fix build for 64-bit dma_addr_t
  ttyprintk: Neaten and simplify printing
  mei: me: add kaby point device ids
  coresight: tmc: mark symbols static where possible
  coresight: perf: deal with error condition properly
  Drivers: hv: hv_util: Avoid dynamic allocation in time synch
  fpga manager: Add hardware dependency to Zynq driver
  Drivers: hv: utils: Support TimeSync version 4.0 protocol samples.
  ...
2016-10-03 19:57:49 -07:00
Julia Lawall d97629f168 Coccinelle: pm_runtime: ensure relevance of pm_runtime reports
pm_runtime.cocci starts with one rule that searches for a variety of
functions calls, followed by various rules that report errors.  Previously,
the only connection between the first rule and the rest was to check that
the first rule had matched somewhere.  Change the rules to propagate a
position from the first rule to the others, to make sure that the sites
reported on are the same as the sites that were identified as having the
relevant functions.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2016-10-01 23:03:41 +02:00
Julia Lawall 43d96390d5 Coccinelle: limit memdup_user transformation to GFP_KERNEL case
Memdup_user encapsulates a memory allocation with the flag GFP_KERNEL, so
only allow this flag in the original code.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2016-10-01 23:03:09 +02:00
Dmitry Vyukov e436fd61a8 scripts/recordmcount.c: account for .softirqentry.text
be7635e728 ("arch, ftrace: for KASAN put hard/soft IRQ entries into
separate sections") added .softirqentry.text section, but it was not added
to recordmcount.  So functions in the section are untracable.  Add the
section to scripts/recordmcount.c and scripts/recordmcount.pl.

Fixes: be7635e728 ("arch, ftrace: for KASAN put hard/soft IRQ entries into separate sections")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474902626-73468-1-git-send-email-dvyukov@google.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Acked-by: Steve Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[4.6+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-09-28 16:19:02 -07:00
Michal Marek 590abbdd27 initramfs: Escape colons in depfile
Special characters are problematic in depfiles, but we can fix colons
easily.

Reported-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2016-09-23 10:35:32 +02:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 951dbf500a ftrace/scripts: Add helper script to bisect function tracing problem functions
Every so often, with a special config or a architecture change, running
function or function_graph tracing can cause the machien to hard reboot,
crash, or simply hard lockup. There's some functions in the function graph
tracer that can not be traced otherwise it causes the function tracer to
recurse before the recursion protection mechanisms are in place.

When this occurs, using the dynamic ftrace featuer that allows limiting what
actually gets traced can be used to bisect down to the problem function.
This adds a script that helps with this process in the scripts/tracing
directory, called ftrace-bisect.sh

The set up is to read all the functions that can be traced from
available_filter_functions into a file (full_file). Then run this script
passing it the full_file and a "test_file" and "non_test_file", where the
test_file will be add to set_ftrace_filter. What ftarce_bisect.sh does, is
to copy half of the functions in full_file into the test_file and the other
half into the non_test_file. This way, one can cat the test_file into the
set_ftrace_filter functions and only test the functions that are in that
file. If it works, then we run the process again after copying non_test_file
to full_file and repeating the process. If the system crashed, then the bad
function is in the test_file and after a reboot, the test_file becomes the
new full_file in the next iteration.

When we get down to a single function in the full_file, then
ftrace_bisect.sh will report that as the bad function.

Full documentation of how to use this simple script is within the script
file itself.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160920100716.131d3647@gandalf.local.home

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-09-21 13:56:55 -04:00
Christian Borntraeger 725c4d22bb ubsan: allow to disable the null sanitizer
Some architectures use a hardware defined structure at address zero.
Checking for a null pointer will result in many ubsan reports.
Allow users to disable the null sanitizer.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2016-09-20 14:26:08 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 7fadce0d60 scripts/faddr2line: improve on base path filtering a bit
Due to our compiler include directives, the build pathnames for header
files often end up being of the form "$srcdir/./include/linux/xyz.h",
which ends up having that extra "." path component after the build base
in it.

Teach faddr2line to skip that too, to make code generated in inline
functions in header files match the filename for the regular C files.

Rabin Vincent pointed out that I can't make a stricter regexp match by
using the " at " prefix for the pathname, because that ends up being
locale-dependent.  But this does require that the path match be preceded
by a space, to make it a bit more strict (that matters mainly if we
didn't find any base_dir at all, and we only end up with the "./" part
of the match)

Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-09-19 14:49:08 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf 67326666e2 scripts: add script for translating stack dump function offsets
addr2line doesn't work with KASLR addresses.  Add a basic addr2line
wrapper script which takes the 'func+offset/size' format as input.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-09-19 12:00:30 -07:00
Nicholas Piggin fbe6e37dab kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile
Allow architectures to create arch/xxx/Makefile.postlink with targets
for vmlinux, modules.ko, and clean, which will be invoked after final
linking of vmlinux and modules.

powerpc will use this to check vmlinux linker relocations for sanity,
and may use it to fix up alternate instruction patch branch addresses.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2016-09-09 10:47:00 +02:00
Stephen Rothwell a5967db9af kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r
ld -r is an incremental link used to create built-in.o files in build
subdirectories. It produces relocatable object files containing all
its input files, and these are are then pulled together and relocated
in the final link. Aside from the bloat, this constrains the final
link relocations, which has bitten large powerpc builds with
unresolvable relocations in the final link.

Alan Modra has recommended the kernel use thin archives for linking.
This is an alternative and means that the linker has more information
available to it when it links the kernel.

This patch enables a config option architectures can select, which
causes all built-in.o files to be built as thin archives. built-in.o
files in subdirectories do not get symbol table or index attached,
which improves speed and size. The final link pass creates a
built-in.o archive in the root output directory which includes the
symbol table and index. The linker then uses takes this file to link.

The --whole-archive linker option is required, because the linker now
has visibility to every individual object file, and it will otherwise
just completely avoid including those without external references
(consider a file with EXPORT_SYMBOL or initcall or hardware exceptions
as its only entry points). The traditional built works "by luck" as
built-in.o files are large enough that they're going to get external
references. However this optimisation is unpredictable for the kernel
(due to above external references), ineffective at culling unused, and
costly because the .o files have to be searched for references.
Superior alternatives for link-time culling should be used instead.

Build characteristics for inclink vs thinarc, on a small powerpc64le
pseries VM with a modest .config:

                                  inclink       thinarc
sizes
vmlinux                        15 618 680    15 625 028
sum of all built-in.o          56 091 808     1 054 334
sum excluding root built-in.o                   151 430

find -name built-in.o | xargs rm ; time make vmlinux
real                              22.772s       21.143s
user                              13.280s       13.430s
sys                                4.310s        2.750s

- Final kernel pulled in only about 6K more, which shows how
  ineffective the object file culling is.
- Build performance looks improved due to less pagecache activity.
  On IO constrained systems it could be a bigger win.
- Build size saving is significant.

Side note, the toochain understands archives, so there's some tricks,
$ ar t built-in.o          # list all files you linked with
$ size built-in.o          # and their sizes
$ objdump -d built-in.o    # disassembly (unrelocated) with filenames

Implementation by sfr, minor tweaks by npiggin.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2016-09-09 10:31:19 +02:00
Jonathan Corbet 5219f18aaf docs: Special-case function-pointer parameters in kernel-doc
Add yet another regex to kernel-doc to trap @param() references separately
and not produce corrupt RST markup.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-06 08:02:49 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet ef00028b20 docs: make kernel-doc handle varargs properly
As far as I can tell, the handling of "..." arguments has never worked
right, so any documentation provided was ignored in favor of "variable
arguments."  This makes kernel-doc handle "@...:" as documented.  It does
*not* fix spots in kerneldoc comments that don't follow that convention,
but they are no more broken than before.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-09-06 08:02:19 -06:00