There is a race window where quota was redirted once we drop dq_list_lock inside dqput(),
but before we grab dquot->dq_lock inside dquot_release()
TASK1 TASK2 (chowner)
->dqput()
we_slept:
spin_lock(&dq_list_lock)
if (dquot_dirty(dquot)) {
spin_unlock(&dq_list_lock);
dquot->dq_sb->dq_op->write_dquot(dquot);
goto we_slept
if (test_bit(DQ_ACTIVE_B, &dquot->dq_flags)) {
spin_unlock(&dq_list_lock);
dquot->dq_sb->dq_op->release_dquot(dquot);
dqget()
mark_dquot_dirty()
dqput()
goto we_slept;
}
So dquot dirty quota will be released by TASK1, but on next we_sleept loop
we detect this and call ->write_dquot() for it.
XFSTEST: 440a80d4cb
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191031103920.3919-2-dmonakhov@openvz.org
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmtrmonakhov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Currently we set *count to num(value 0) in the failure
of block allocation in ext2_try_to_allocate(). Without
reservation, we reuse *count(value 0) to retry block
allocation and wrong *count will cause only allocating
maximum 1 block even though having sufficent free blocks
in that block group. Finally, it probably cause significant
fragmentation.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191026090721.23794-1-cgxu519@mykernel.net
Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@mykernel.net>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Since commit d0a5b995a3 (vfs: Add IOP_XATTR inode operations flag)
extended attributes haven't worked on the root directory in reiserfs.
This is due to reiserfs conditionally setting the sb->s_xattrs handler
array depending on whether it located or create the internal privroot
directory. It necessarily does this after the root inode is already
read in. The IOP_XATTR flag is set during inode initialization, so
it never gets set on the root directory.
This commit unconditionally assigns sb->s_xattrs and clears IOP_XATTR on
internal inodes. The old return values due to the conditional assignment
are handled via open_xa_root, which now returns EOPNOTSUPP as the VFS
would have done.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191024143127.17509-1-jeffm@suse.com
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d0a5b995a3 ("vfs: Add IOP_XATTR inode operations flag")
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Currently, we do not check memory allocation
result for ei->i_block_alloc_info in ioctl,
this patch checks it and returns error in
failure case.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191023135643.28837-1-cgxu519@mykernel.net
Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@mykernel.net>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
It is meaningless to increase DQST_LOOKUPS number while iterating
over dirty/inuse list, so just avoid it.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190926083408.4269-1-cgxu519@zoho.com.cn
Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@zoho.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Today, put_compat_statfs64() disallows nearly any field value over
2^32 if f_bsize is only 32 bits, but that makes no sense.
compat_statfs64 is there for the explicit purpose of providing 64-bit
fields for f_files, f_ffree, etc. And f_bsize is always only 32 bits.
As a result, 32-bit userspace gets -EOVERFLOW for i.e. large file
counts even with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 set.
In reality, only f_bsize and f_frsize can legitimately overflow
(fields like f_type and f_namelen should never be large), so test
only those fields.
This bug was discussed at length some time ago, and this is the proposal
Al suggested at https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/8/6/640. It seemed to get
dropped amid the discussion of other related changes, but this
part seems obviously correct on its own, so I've picked it up and
sent it, for expediency.
Fixes: 64d2ab32ef ("vfs: fix put_compat_statfs64() does not handle errors")
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is just a single patch adding a new reviewer for kgdb. New reviewers
will be a big help so I decided to consider this to be a fix!
I'm looking forward to working more closely with Doug.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
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Merge tag 'kgdb-5.4-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/danielt/linux
Pull kgdb update from Daniel Thompson:
"This is just a single patch adding a new reviewer for kgdb. New
reviewers will be a big help so I decided to consider this to be a
fix!
I'm looking forward to working more closely with Doug"
* tag 'kgdb-5.4-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/danielt/linux:
MAINTAINERS: kgdb: Add myself as a reviewer for kgdb/kdb
I'm interested in kdb / kgdb and have sent various fixes over the
years. I'd like to get CCed on patches so I can be aware of them and
also help review.
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Randy Dunlap reports on the sparse list that sparse warns about this
expression:
of_irq->percpu ? free_percpu_irq(of_irq->irq, clkevt) :
free_irq(of_irq->irq, clkevt);
and honestly, sparse is correct to warn. The return type of
free_percpu_irq() is 'void', while free_irq() returns a 'const void *'
that is the devname argument passed in to the request_irq().
You can't mix a void type with a non-void types in a conditional
expression according to the C standard. It so happens that gcc seems to
accept it - and the resulting type of the expression is void - but
there's really no reason for the kernel to have this kind of
non-standard expression with no real upside.
The natural way to write that expression is with an if-statement:
if (of_irq->percpu)
free_percpu_irq(of_irq->irq, clkevt);
else
free_irq(of_irq->irq, clkevt);
which is more legible anyway.
I'm not sure why that timer-of code seems to have this odd pattern. It
does the same at allocation time, but at least there the types match,
and it makes sense as an expression.
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull timer fix from Ingo Molnar:
"Fix a broadcast-timer handling race that can result in spuriously and
indefinitely delayed hrtimers and even RCU stalls if the system is
otherwise quiet"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
tick: broadcast-hrtimer: Fix a race in bc_set_next
- Resolve 3 regressions due to recent cleanups:
Fix error handling due to avoiding sb_bread in erofs_read_superblock;
Fix locking in erofs_get_meta_page;
Fix mis-inplace behavior due to decompression frontend cleanup.
- Update sub-entries in MAINTAINERS in order to better blame.
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Merge tag 'erofs-for-5.4-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs
Pull erofs fixes from Gao Xiang:
"Three patches to address regressions due to recent cleanups, mainly
found by stress test on latest mainline kernel (no more regression out
compared with older kernels for more than a week)
One additional patch updates sub-entries in MAINTAINERS.
Summary:
- Fix error handling in erofs_read_superblock
- Fix locking in erofs_get_meta_page
- Fix inplace behavior due to decompression frontend cleanup
- Update sub-entries in MAINTAINERS in order to better blame"
* tag 'erofs-for-5.4-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs:
erofs: fix mis-inplace determination related with noio chain
erofs: fix erofs_get_meta_page locking due to a cleanup
MAINTAINERS: erofs: complete sub-entries for erofs
erofs: fix return value check in erofs_read_superblock()
On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 10:14:40AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The previous state of the file didn't have that 0xa at the end, so you get that
>
>
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_bootloader_randomness);
> \ No newline at end of file
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_bootloader_randomness);
>
> which is "the '-' line doesn't have a newline, the '+' line does" marker.
Aaha, that makes total sense, thanks for explaining. Oh well, let's fix
it then so that people don't scratch heads like me.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The following commit:
227a4aadc7 ("sched/membarrier: Fix p->mm->membarrier_state racy load")
got fat fingered by me when merging it with other patches. It meant to move
the RCU section out of the for loop but ended up doing it partially, leaving
a superfluous rcu_read_lock() inside, causing havok.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 227a4aadc7 ("sched/membarrier: Fix p->mm->membarrier_state racy load")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191001085033.GP4519@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fix a recent cleanup patch. noio (bypass) chain is
handled asynchronously against submit chain, therefore
inplace I/O or pagevec cannot be applied to such pages.
Add detailed comment for this as well.
Fixes: 97e86a858b ("staging: erofs: tidy up decompression frontend")
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190922100434.229340-1-gaoxiang25@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
After doing more drop_caches stress test on
our products, I found the mistake introduced by
a very recent cleanup [1].
The current rule is that "erofs_get_meta_page"
should be returned with page locked (although
it's mostly unnecessary for read-only fs after
pages are PG_uptodate), but a fix should be
done for this.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190904020912.63925-26-gaoxiang25@huawei.com
Fixes: 618f40ea02 ("erofs: use read_cache_page_gfp for erofs_get_meta_page")
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190921184355.149928-1-gaoxiang25@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
Add a formal git tree and missing files for erofs
after moving out of staging for everyone to blame
in order for better improvement.
Acked-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190919062838.106423-1-gaoxiang25@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
In case of error, the function read_mapping_page() returns
ERR_PTR() not NULL. The NULL test in the return value check
should be replaced with IS_ERR().
Fixes: fe7c242357 ("erofs: use read_mapping_page instead of sb_bread")
Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190918083033.47780-1-weiyongjun1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
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Merge tag 'for-5.4-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux
Pull btrfs fixes from David Sterba:
"A bunch of fixes that accumulated in recent weeks, mostly material for
stable.
Summary:
- fix for regression from 5.3 that prevents to use balance convert
with single profile
- qgroup fixes: rescan race, accounting leak with multiple writers,
potential leak after io failure recovery
- fix for use after free in relocation (reported by KASAN)
- other error handling fixups"
* tag 'for-5.4-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux:
btrfs: qgroup: Fix reserved data space leak if we have multiple reserve calls
btrfs: qgroup: Fix the wrong target io_tree when freeing reserved data space
btrfs: Fix a regression which we can't convert to SINGLE profile
btrfs: relocation: fix use-after-free on dead relocation roots
Btrfs: fix race setting up and completing qgroup rescan workers
Btrfs: fix missing error return if writeback for extent buffer never started
btrfs: adjust dirty_metadata_bytes after writeback failure of extent buffer
Btrfs: fix selftests failure due to uninitialized i_mode in test inodes
A few fixes that have trickled in through the merge window:
- Video fixes for OMAP due to panel-dpi driver removal
- Clock fixes for OMAP that broke no-idle quirks + nfsroot on DRA7
- Fixing arch version on ASpeed ast2500
- Two fixes for reset handling on ARM SCMI
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Merge tag 'armsoc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc
Pull ARM SoC fixes from Olof Johansson:
"A few fixes that have trickled in through the merge window:
- Video fixes for OMAP due to panel-dpi driver removal
- Clock fixes for OMAP that broke no-idle quirks + nfsroot on DRA7
- Fixing arch version on ASpeed ast2500
- Two fixes for reset handling on ARM SCMI"
* tag 'armsoc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc:
ARM: aspeed: ast2500 is ARMv6K
reset: reset-scmi: add missing handle initialisation
firmware: arm_scmi: reset: fix reset_state assignment in scmi_domain_reset
bus: ti-sysc: Remove unpaired sysc_clkdm_deny_idle()
ARM: dts: logicpd-som-lv: Fix i2c2 and i2c3 Pin mux
ARM: dts: am3517-evm: Fix missing video
ARM: dts: logicpd-torpedo-baseboard: Fix missing video
ARM: omap2plus_defconfig: Fix missing video
bus: ti-sysc: Fix handling of invalid clocks
bus: ti-sysc: Fix clock handling for no-idle quirks
- Fixed a buffer overflow by checking nr_args correctly in probes
- Fixed a warning that is reported by clang
- Fixed a possible memory leak in error path of filter processing
- Fixed the selftest that checks for failures, but wasn't failing
- Minor clean up on call site output of a memory trace event
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.4-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
"A few more tracing fixes:
- Fix a buffer overflow by checking nr_args correctly in probes
- Fix a warning that is reported by clang
- Fix a possible memory leak in error path of filter processing
- Fix the selftest that checks for failures, but wasn't failing
- Minor clean up on call site output of a memory trace event"
* tag 'trace-v5.4-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
selftests/ftrace: Fix same probe error test
mm, tracing: Print symbol name for call_site in trace events
tracing: Have error path in predicate_parse() free its allocated memory
tracing: Fix clang -Wint-in-bool-context warnings in IF_ASSIGN macro
tracing/probe: Fix to check the difference of nr_args before adding probe
Move the static keyword to the front of declaration of
csky_pmu_of_device_ids, and resolve the following compiler
warning that can be seen when building with warnings
enabled (W=1):
arch/csky/kernel/perf_event.c:1340:1: warning:
‘static’ is not at beginning of declaration [-Wold-style-declaration]
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wilczynski <kw@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Since the enabling and disabling of IRQs within preempt_schedule_irq()
is contained in a need_resched() loop, we don't need the outer arch
code loop.
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Here are 2 small Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst
file updates that missed my previous char/misc pull request for 5.4-rc1.
The first one adds an Intel representative for the process, and the
second one cleans up the text a bit more when it comes to how the
disclosure rules work, as it was a bit confusing to some companies.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'char-misc-5.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull Documentation/process update from Greg KH:
"Here are two small Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst
file updates that missed my previous char/misc pull request.
The first one adds an Intel representative for the process, and the
second one cleans up the text a bit more when it comes to how the
disclosure rules work, as it was a bit confusing to some companies"
* tag 'char-misc-5.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc:
Documentation/process: Clarify disclosure rules
Documentation/process: Volunteer as the ambassador for Intel
Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
"A couple of misc patches"
* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
afs dynroot: switch to simple_dir_operations
fs/handle.c - fix up kerneldoc
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Merge tag '5.4-rc-smb3-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6
Pull more cifs updates from Steve French:
"Fixes from the recent SMB3 Test events and Storage Developer
Conference (held the last two weeks).
Here are nine smb3 patches including an important patch for debugging
traces with wireshark, with three patches marked for stable.
Additional fixes from last week to better handle some newly discovered
reparse points, and a fix the create/mkdir path for setting the mode
more atomically (in SMB3 Create security descriptor context), and one
for path name processing are still being tested so are not included
here"
* tag '5.4-rc-smb3-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
CIFS: Fix oplock handling for SMB 2.1+ protocols
smb3: missing ACL related flags
smb3: pass mode bits into create calls
smb3: Add missing reparse tags
CIFS: fix max ea value size
fs/cifs/sess.c: Remove set but not used variable 'capabilities'
fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c: Make SMB2_notify_init static
smb3: fix leak in "open on server" perf counter
smb3: allow decryption keys to be dumped by admin for debugging
The csky_pmu.max_period has type u64, and BIT() can only return
32 bits unsigned long on C-SKY. The initialization for max_period
will be incorrect when count_width is bigger than 32.
Use BIT_ULL()
Signed-off-by: Mao Han <han_mao@c-sky.com>
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <ren_guo@c-sky.com>
We need set fp zero to let backtrace know the end. The patch fixup perf
callchain panic problem, because backtrace didn't know what is the end
of fp.
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <ren_guo@c-sky.com>
Reported-by: Mao Han <han_mao@c-sky.com>
The csky implementation of free_initrd_mem() is an open-coded version of
free_reserved_area() without poisoning.
Remove it and make csky use the generic version of free_initrd_mem().
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Merge active entropy generation updates.
This is admittedly partly "for discussion". We need to have a way
forward for the boot time deadlocks where user space ends up waiting for
more entropy, but no entropy is forthcoming because the system is
entirely idle just waiting for something to happen.
While this was triggered by what is arguably a user space bug with
GDM/gnome-session asking for secure randomness during early boot, when
they didn't even need any such truly secure thing, the issue ends up
being that our "getrandom()" interface is prone to that kind of
confusion, because people don't think very hard about whether they want
to block for sufficient amounts of entropy.
The approach here-in is to decide to not just passively wait for entropy
to happen, but to start actively collecting it if it is missing. This
is not necessarily always possible, but if the architecture has a CPU
cycle counter, there is a fair amount of noise in the exact timings of
reasonably complex loads.
We may end up tweaking the load and the entropy estimates, but this
should be at least a reasonable starting point.
As part of this, we also revert the revert of the ext4 IO pattern
improvement that ended up triggering the reported lack of external
entropy.
* getrandom() active entropy waiting:
Revert "Revert "ext4: make __ext4_get_inode_loc plug""
random: try to actively add entropy rather than passively wait for it
This reverts commit 72dbcf7215.
Instead of waiting forever for entropy that may just not happen, we now
try to actively generate entropy when required, and are thus hopefully
avoiding the problem that caused the nice ext4 IO pattern fix to be
reverted.
So revert the revert.
Cc: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
For 5.3 we had to revert a nice ext4 IO pattern improvement, because it
caused a bootup regression due to lack of entropy at bootup together
with arguably broken user space that was asking for secure random
numbers when it really didn't need to.
See commit 72dbcf7215 (Revert "ext4: make __ext4_get_inode_loc plug").
This aims to solve the issue by actively generating entropy noise using
the CPU cycle counter when waiting for the random number generator to
initialize. This only works when you have a high-frequency time stamp
counter available, but that's the case on all modern x86 CPU's, and on
most other modern CPU's too.
What we do is to generate jitter entropy from the CPU cycle counter
under a somewhat complex load: calling the scheduler while also
guaranteeing a certain amount of timing noise by also triggering a
timer.
I'm sure we can tweak this, and that people will want to look at other
alternatives, but there's been a number of papers written on jitter
entropy, and this should really be fairly conservative by crediting one
bit of entropy for every timer-induced jump in the cycle counter. Not
because the timer itself would be all that unpredictable, but because
the interaction between the timer and the loop is going to be.
Even if (and perhaps particularly if) the timer actually happens on
another CPU, the cacheline interaction between the loop that reads the
cycle counter and the timer itself firing is going to add perturbations
to the cycle counter values that get mixed into the entropy pool.
As Thomas pointed out, with a modern out-of-order CPU, even quite simple
loops show a fair amount of hard-to-predict timing variability even in
the absense of external interrupts. But this tries to take that further
by actually having a fairly complex interaction.
This is not going to solve the entropy issue for architectures that have
no CPU cycle counter, but it's not clear how (and if) that is solvable,
and the hardware in question is largely starting to be irrelevant. And
by doing this we can at least avoid some of the even more contentious
approaches (like making the entropy waiting time out in order to avoid
the possibly unbounded waiting).
Cc: Ahmed Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@opentech.at>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@gmail.com>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes for omap variants
Few fixes for ti-sysc interconnect target module driver for no-idle
quirks that caused nfsroot to fail on some dra7 boards.
And let's fixes to get LCD working again for logicpd board that got
broken a while back with removal of panel-dpi driver. We need to now
use generic CONFIG_DRM_PANEL_SIMPLE instead.
* tag 'fixes-5.4-merge-window' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap:
bus: ti-sysc: Remove unpaired sysc_clkdm_deny_idle()
ARM: dts: logicpd-som-lv: Fix i2c2 and i2c3 Pin mux
ARM: dts: am3517-evm: Fix missing video
ARM: dts: logicpd-torpedo-baseboard: Fix missing video
ARM: omap2plus_defconfig: Fix missing video
bus: ti-sysc: Fix handling of invalid clocks
bus: ti-sysc: Fix clock handling for no-idle quirks
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/pull-1568819401-72461@atomide.com
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Couple of fixes: one in scmi reset driver initialising missed scmi handle
and an other in scmi reset API implementation fixing the assignment of
reset state
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Merge tag 'scmi-fixes-5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sudeep.holla/linux into arm/fixes
ARM SCMI fixes for v5.4
Couple of fixes: one in scmi reset driver initialising missed scmi handle
and an other in scmi reset API implementation fixing the assignment of
reset state
* tag 'scmi-fixes-5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sudeep.holla/linux:
reset: reset-scmi: add missing handle initialisation
firmware: arm_scmi: reset: fix reset_state assignment in scmi_domain_reset
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190918142139.GA4370@bogus
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
- Complete the reworks to interoperate with powerpc dynamic huge page sizes
- Fix a crash due to missed accounting for the powerpc 'struct
page'-memmap mapping granularity.
- Fix badblock initialization for volatile (DRAM emulated) pmem ranges.
- Stop triggering request_key() notifications to userspace when
NVDIMM-security is disabled / not present.
- Miscellaneous small fixups.
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Merge tag 'libnvdimm-fixes-5.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm
More libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
- Complete the reworks to interoperate with powerpc dynamic huge page
sizes
- Fix a crash due to missed accounting for the powerpc 'struct
page'-memmap mapping granularity
- Fix badblock initialization for volatile (DRAM emulated) pmem ranges
- Stop triggering request_key() notifications to userspace when
NVDIMM-security is disabled / not present
- Miscellaneous small fixups
* tag 'libnvdimm-fixes-5.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
libnvdimm/region: Enable MAP_SYNC for volatile regions
libnvdimm: prevent nvdimm from requesting key when security is disabled
libnvdimm/region: Initialize bad block for volatile namespaces
libnvdimm/nfit_test: Fix acpi_handle redefinition
libnvdimm/altmap: Track namespace boundaries in altmap
libnvdimm: Fix endian conversion issues
libnvdimm/dax: Pick the right alignment default when creating dax devices
powerpc/book3s64: Export has_transparent_hugepage() related functions.
Pull thermal SoC updates from Eduardo Valentin:
"This is a really small pull in the midst of a lot of pending patches.
We are in the middle of restructuring how we are maintaining the
thermal subsystem, as per discussion in our last LPC. For now, I am
sending just some changes that were pending in my tree. Looking
forward to get a more streamlined process in the next merge window"
* 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/evalenti/linux-soc-thermal:
thermal: db8500: Rewrite to be a pure OF sensor
thermal: db8500: Use dev helper variable
thermal: db8500: Finalize device tree conversion
thermal: thermal_mmio: remove some dead code
Pull more i2c updates from Wolfram Sang:
- make Lenovo Yoga C630 boot now that the dependencies are merged
- restore BlockProcessCall for i801, accidently removed in this merge
window
- a bugfix for the riic driver
- an improvement to the slave-eeprom driver which should have been in
the first pull request but sadly got lost in the process
* 'i2c/for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux:
i2c: slave-eeprom: Add read only mode
i2c: i801: Bring back Block Process Call support for certain platforms
i2c: riic: Clear NACK in tend isr
i2c: qcom-geni: Disable DMA processing on the Lenovo Yoga C630
A couple of fixes for the AMD IOMMU driver have piled up:
* Some fixes for the reworked IO page-table which caused memory
leaks or did not allow to downgrade mappings under some
conditions.
* Locking fixes to fix a couple of possible races around
accessing 'struct protection_domain'. The races got introduced
when the dma-ops path became lock-less in the fast-path.
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Merge tag 'iommu-fixes-5.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu
Pull iommu fixes from Joerg Roedel:
"A couple of fixes for the AMD IOMMU driver have piled up:
- Some fixes for the reworked IO page-table which caused memory leaks
or did not allow to downgrade mappings under some conditions.
- Locking fixes to fix a couple of possible races around accessing
'struct protection_domain'. The races got introduced when the
dma-ops path became lock-less in the fast-path"
* tag 'iommu-fixes-5.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu:
iommu/amd: Lock code paths traversing protection_domain->dev_list
iommu/amd: Lock dev_data in attach/detach code paths
iommu/amd: Check for busy devices earlier in attach_device()
iommu/amd: Take domain->lock for complete attach/detach path
iommu/amd: Remove amd_iommu_devtable_lock
iommu/amd: Remove domain->updated
iommu/amd: Wait for completion of IOTLB flush in attach_device
iommu/amd: Unmap all L7 PTEs when downgrading page-sizes
iommu/amd: Introduce first_pte_l7() helper
iommu/amd: Fix downgrading default page-sizes in alloc_pte()
iommu/amd: Fix pages leak in free_pagetable()
The role of the contact list provided by the disclosing party and how it
affects the disclosure process and the ability to include experts into
the development process is not really well explained.
Neither is it entirely clear when the disclosing party will be informed
about the fact that a developer who is not covered by an employer NDA needs
to be brought in and disclosed.
Explain the role of the contact list and the information policy along with
an eventual conflict resolution better.
Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1909251028390.10825@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
1) Sanity check URB networking device parameters to avoid divide by
zero, from Oliver Neukum.
2) Disable global multicast filter in NCSI, otherwise LLDP and IPV6
don't work properly. Longer term this needs a better fix tho. From
Vijay Khemka.
3) Small fixes to selftests (use ping when ping6 is not present, etc.)
from David Ahern.
4) Bring back rt_uses_gateway member of struct rtable, it's semantics
were not well understood and trying to remove it broke things. From
David Ahern.
5) Move usbnet snaity checking, ignore endpoints with invalid
wMaxPacketSize. From Bjørn Mork.
6) Missing Kconfig deps for sja1105 driver, from Mao Wenan.
7) Various small fixes to the mlx5 DR steering code, from Alaa Hleihel,
Alex Vesker, and Yevgeny Kliteynik
8) Missing CAP_NET_RAW checks in various places, from Ori Nimron.
9) Fix crash when removing sch_cbs entry while offloading is enabled,
from Vinicius Costa Gomes.
10) Signedness bug fixes, generally in looking at the result given by
of_get_phy_mode() and friends. From Dan Crapenter.
11) Disable preemption around BPF_PROG_RUN() calls, from Eric Dumazet.
12) Don't create VRF ipv6 rules if ipv6 is disabled, from David Ahern.
13) Fix quantization code in tcp_bbr, from Kevin Yang.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (127 commits)
net: tap: clean up an indentation issue
nfp: abm: fix memory leak in nfp_abm_u32_knode_replace
tcp: better handle TCP_USER_TIMEOUT in SYN_SENT state
sk_buff: drop all skb extensions on free and skb scrubbing
tcp_bbr: fix quantization code to not raise cwnd if not probing bandwidth
mlxsw: spectrum_flower: Fail in case user specifies multiple mirror actions
Documentation: Clarify trap's description
mlxsw: spectrum: Clear VLAN filters during port initialization
net: ena: clean up indentation issue
NFC: st95hf: clean up indentation issue
net: phy: micrel: add Asym Pause workaround for KSZ9021
net: socionext: ave: Avoid using netdev_err() before calling register_netdev()
ptp: correctly disable flags on old ioctls
lib: dimlib: fix help text typos
net: dsa: microchip: Always set regmap stride to 1
nfp: flower: fix memory leak in nfp_flower_spawn_vnic_reprs
nfp: flower: prevent memory leak in nfp_flower_spawn_phy_reprs
net/sched: Set default of CONFIG_NET_TC_SKB_EXT to N
vrf: Do not attempt to create IPv6 mcast rule if IPv6 is disabled
net: sched: sch_sfb: don't call qdisc_put() while holding tree lock
...
Merge hugepage allocation updates from David Rientjes:
"We (mostly Linus, Andrea, and myself) have been discussing offlist how
to implement a sane default allocation strategy for hugepages on NUMA
platforms.
With these reverts in place, the page allocator will happily allocate
a remote hugepage immediately rather than try to make a local hugepage
available. This incurs a substantial performance degradation when
memory compaction would have otherwise made a local hugepage
available.
This series reverts those reverts and attempts to propose a more sane
default allocation strategy specifically for hugepages. Andrea
acknowledges this is likely to fix the swap storms that he originally
reported that resulted in the patches that removed __GFP_THISNODE from
hugepage allocations.
The immediate goal is to return 5.3 to the behavior the kernel has
implemented over the past several years so that remote hugepages are
not immediately allocated when local hugepages could have been made
available because the increased access latency is untenable.
The next goal is to introduce a sane default allocation strategy for
hugepages allocations in general regardless of the configuration of
the system so that we prevent thrashing of local memory when
compaction is unlikely to succeed and can prefer remote hugepages over
remote native pages when the local node is low on memory."
Note on timing: this reverts the hugepage VM behavior changes that got
introduced fairly late in the 5.3 cycle, and that fixed a huge
performance regression for certain loads that had been around since
4.18.
Andrea had this note:
"The regression of 4.18 was that it was taking hours to start a VM
where 3.10 was only taking a few seconds, I reported all the details
on lkml when it was finally tracked down in August 2018.
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20180820032640.9896-2-aarcange@redhat.com/
__GFP_THISNODE in MADV_HUGEPAGE made the above enterprise vfio
workload degrade like in the "current upstream" above. And it still
would have been that bad as above until 5.3-rc5"
where the bad behavior ends up happening as you fill up a local node,
and without that change, you'd get into the nasty swap storm behavior
due to compaction working overtime to make room for more memory on the
nodes.
As a result 5.3 got the two performance fix reverts in rc5.
However, David Rientjes then noted that those performance fixes in turn
regressed performance for other loads - although not quite to the same
degree. He suggested reverting the reverts and instead replacing them
with two small changes to how hugepage allocations are done (patch
descriptions rephrased by me):
- "avoid expensive reclaim when compaction may not succeed": just admit
that the allocation failed when you're trying to allocate a huge-page
and compaction wasn't successful.
- "allow hugepage fallback to remote nodes when madvised": when that
node-local huge-page allocation failed, retry without forcing the
local node.
but by then I judged it too late to replace the fixes for a 5.3 release.
So 5.3 was released with behavior that harked back to the pre-4.18 logic.
But now we're in the merge window for 5.4, and we can see if this
alternate model fixes not just the horrendous swap storm behavior, but
also restores the performance regression that the late reverts caused.
Fingers crossed.
* emailed patches from David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>:
mm, page_alloc: allow hugepage fallback to remote nodes when madvised
mm, page_alloc: avoid expensive reclaim when compaction may not succeed
Revert "Revert "Revert "mm, thp: consolidate THP gfp handling into alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask""
Revert "Revert "mm, thp: restore node-local hugepage allocations""
Dmitry Monakhov