linux-stable.git, branch v3.2.19 Linux kernel stable tree Linux 3.2.19 2012-05-30T23:44:12+00:00 Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk 2012-05-30T23:44:12+00:00 563b3269570396946bc2b08e078c6556f9029a95 






x86, relocs: Add jiffies and jiffies_64 to the relative whitelist
2012-05-30T23:44:10+00:00

H. Peter Anvin
hpa@zytor.com

2012-05-24T14:01:38+00:00

a4a79515880b12f91cb95bf216075805e3f876cf

commit ea17e7414bc62e8d3bde8d08e3df1d921c518c17 upstream.

The symbol jiffies is created in the linker script as an alias to
jiffies_64.  Unfortunately this is done outside any section, and
apparently GNU ld 2.21 doesn't carry the section with it, so we end up
with an absolute symbol and therefore a broken kernel.

Add jiffies and jiffies_64 to the whitelist.

The most disturbing bit with this discovery is that it shows that we
have had multiple linker bugs in this area crossing multiple
generations, and have been silently building bad kernels for some time.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120524171604.0d98284f3affc643e9714470@canb.auug.org.au
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>





commit ea17e7414bc62e8d3bde8d08e3df1d921c518c17 upstream.

The symbol jiffies is created in the linker script as an alias to
jiffies_64.  Unfortunately this is done outside any section, and
apparently GNU ld 2.21 doesn't carry the section with it, so we end up
with an absolute symbol and therefore a broken kernel.

Add jiffies and jiffies_64 to the whitelist.

The most disturbing bit with this discovery is that it shows that we
have had multiple linker bugs in this area crossing multiple
generations, and have been silently building bad kernels for some time.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120524171604.0d98284f3affc643e9714470@canb.auug.org.au
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>







x86-32, relocs: Whitelist more symbols for ld bug workaround
2012-05-30T23:44:09+00:00

H. Peter Anvin
hpa@zytor.com

2012-05-23T21:02:34+00:00

41799aef7b2cb022b60738b8641eff9ea02c6561

commit fd952815307f0f272bf49fd364a7fd2f9992bc42 upstream.

As noted in checkin:

a3e854d95 x86, relocs: Workaround for binutils 2.22.52.0.1 section bug

ld version 2.22.52.0.[12] can incorrectly promote relative symbols to
absolute, if the output section they appear in is otherwise empty.

Since checkin:

6520fe55 x86, realmode: 16-bit real-mode code support for relocs tool

we actually check for this and error out rather than silently creating
a kernel which will malfunction if relocated.

Ingo found a configuration in which __start_builtin_fw triggered the
warning.

Go through the linker script sources and look for more symbols that
could plausibly get bogusly promoted to absolute, and add them to the
whitelist.

In general, if the following error triggers:

	Invalid absolute R_386_32 relocation: <symbol>

... then we should verify that <symbol> is really meant to be
relocated, and add it and any related symbols manually to the S_REL
regexp.

Please note that 6520fe55 does not introduce the error, only the check
for the error -- without 6520fe55 this version of ld will simply
produce a corrupt kernel if CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set on x86-32.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>





commit fd952815307f0f272bf49fd364a7fd2f9992bc42 upstream.

As noted in checkin:

a3e854d95 x86, relocs: Workaround for binutils 2.22.52.0.1 section bug

ld version 2.22.52.0.[12] can incorrectly promote relative symbols to
absolute, if the output section they appear in is otherwise empty.

Since checkin:

6520fe55 x86, realmode: 16-bit real-mode code support for relocs tool

we actually check for this and error out rather than silently creating
a kernel which will malfunction if relocated.

Ingo found a configuration in which __start_builtin_fw triggered the
warning.

Go through the linker script sources and look for more symbols that
could plausibly get bogusly promoted to absolute, and add them to the
whitelist.

In general, if the following error triggers:

	Invalid absolute R_386_32 relocation: <symbol>

... then we should verify that <symbol> is really meant to be
relocated, and add it and any related symbols manually to the S_REL
regexp.

Please note that 6520fe55 does not introduce the error, only the check
for the error -- without 6520fe55 this version of ld will simply
produce a corrupt kernel if CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set on x86-32.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>







x86, relocs: Build clean fix
2012-05-30T23:44:09+00:00

Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com

2012-05-21T17:51:24+00:00

53f3be9ee6a1cc93d2332274598e22f66fcb56c3

commit b2d668da9307c4c163dd603d2bb3cadb10f9fd37 upstream.

relocs was not cleaned up when "make clean" is issued. This
patch fixes the issue.

Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337622684-6834-1-git-send-email-jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>





commit b2d668da9307c4c163dd603d2bb3cadb10f9fd37 upstream.

relocs was not cleaned up when "make clean" is issued. This
patch fixes the issue.

Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337622684-6834-1-git-send-email-jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>







x86, relocs: When printing an error, say relative or absolute
2012-05-30T23:44:08+00:00

H. Peter Anvin
hpa@linux.intel.com

2012-05-18T16:52:01+00:00

cd88adf8add21ce1c73cbf665e80244c44c05d98

commit 24ab82bd9bf18f3efc69a131d73577940941e1b7 upstream.

When the relocs tool throws an error, let the error message say if it
is an absolute or relative symbol.  This should make it a lot more
clear what action the programmer needs to take and should help us find
the reason if additional symbol bugs show up.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>





commit 24ab82bd9bf18f3efc69a131d73577940941e1b7 upstream.

When the relocs tool throws an error, let the error message say if it
is an absolute or relative symbol.  This should make it a lot more
clear what action the programmer needs to take and should help us find
the reason if additional symbol bugs show up.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>







x86, relocs: Workaround for binutils 2.22.52.0.1 section bug
2012-05-30T23:44:08+00:00

H. Peter Anvin
hpa@linux.intel.com

2012-05-18T07:24:09+00:00

5a3270a97b38858a41c17a5e40a4a03492976047

commit a3e854d95a76862cd37937e0b0438f540536771a upstream.

GNU ld 2.22.52.0.1 has a bug that it blindly changes symbols from
section-relative to absolute if they are in a section of zero length.
This turns the symbols __init_begin and __init_end into absolute
symbols.  Let the relocs program know that those should be treated as
relative symbols.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>





commit a3e854d95a76862cd37937e0b0438f540536771a upstream.

GNU ld 2.22.52.0.1 has a bug that it blindly changes symbols from
section-relative to absolute if they are in a section of zero length.
This turns the symbols __init_begin and __init_end into absolute
symbols.  Let the relocs program know that those should be treated as
relative symbols.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>







x86, realmode: 16-bit real-mode code support for relocs tool
2012-05-30T23:44:08+00:00

H. Peter Anvin
hpa@linux.intel.com

2012-05-08T18:22:24+00:00

b352fc61e3aaa363ab92560187ee994fb6a3e27d

commit 6520fe5564acf07ade7b18a1272db1184835c487 upstream.

A new option is added to the relocs tool called '--realmode'.
This option causes the generation of 16-bit segment relocations
and 32-bit linear relocations for the real-mode code. When
the real-mode code is moved to the low-memory during kernel
initialization, these relocation entries can be used to
relocate the code properly.

In the assembly code 16-bit segment relocations must be relative
to the 'real_mode_seg' absolute symbol. Linear relocations must be
relative to a symbol prefixed with 'pa_'.

16-bit segment relocation is used to load cs:ip in 16-bit code.
Linear relocations are used in the 32-bit code for relocatable
data references. They are declared in the linker script of the
real-mode code.

The relocs tool is moved to arch/x86/tools/relocs.c, and added new
target archscripts that can be used to build scripts needed building
an architecture.  be compiled before building the arch/x86 tree.

[ hpa: accelerating this because it detects invalid absolute
  relocations, a serious bug in binutils 2.22.52.0.x which currently
  produces bad kernels. ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336501366-28617-2-git-send-email-jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust context (no archheaders; no insn_sanity)
 - Expand put_unaligned_le32()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>





commit 6520fe5564acf07ade7b18a1272db1184835c487 upstream.

A new option is added to the relocs tool called '--realmode'.
This option causes the generation of 16-bit segment relocations
and 32-bit linear relocations for the real-mode code. When
the real-mode code is moved to the low-memory during kernel
initialization, these relocation entries can be used to
relocate the code properly.

In the assembly code 16-bit segment relocations must be relative
to the 'real_mode_seg' absolute symbol. Linear relocations must be
relative to a symbol prefixed with 'pa_'.

16-bit segment relocation is used to load cs:ip in 16-bit code.
Linear relocations are used in the 32-bit code for relocatable
data references. They are declared in the linker script of the
real-mode code.

The relocs tool is moved to arch/x86/tools/relocs.c, and added new
target archscripts that can be used to build scripts needed building
an architecture.  be compiled before building the arch/x86 tree.

[ hpa: accelerating this because it detects invalid absolute
  relocations, a serious bug in binutils 2.22.52.0.x which currently
  produces bad kernels. ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336501366-28617-2-git-send-email-jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust context (no archheaders; no insn_sanity)
 - Expand put_unaligned_le32()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>







i2c: davinci: Free requested IRQ in remove
2012-05-30T23:44:07+00:00

Marcus Folkesson
marcus.folkesson@gmail.com

2012-05-03T13:56:36+00:00

9afc65d564540a06a81379630b91e4bc2afb57ad

commit 9868a060ccf769c08ec378a9829137e272e9a92c upstream.

The freed IRQ is not necessary the one requested in probe.
Even if it was, with two or more i2c-controllers it will fails anyway.

Signed-off-by: Marcus Folkesson <marcus.folkesson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>





commit 9868a060ccf769c08ec378a9829137e272e9a92c upstream.

The freed IRQ is not necessary the one requested in probe.
Even if it was, with two or more i2c-controllers it will fails anyway.

Signed-off-by: Marcus Folkesson <marcus.folkesson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>







i2c: tegra: notify transfer-complete after clearing status.
2012-05-30T23:44:07+00:00

Laxman Dewangan
ldewangan@nvidia.com

2012-05-07T06:46:19+00:00

a31f2d4c2c85fdd2fb3ae84c9081b0762ea14457

commit c889e91d2cc22123f20f40dde0c0a91856a20eea upstream.

The notification of the transfer complete by calling complete()
should be done after clearing all interrupt status.
This avoids the race condition of misconfigure the i2c controller
in multi-core environment.

Signed-off-by: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>





commit c889e91d2cc22123f20f40dde0c0a91856a20eea upstream.

The notification of the transfer complete by calling complete()
should be done after clearing all interrupt status.
This avoids the race condition of misconfigure the i2c controller
in multi-core environment.

Signed-off-by: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>







Avoid beyond bounds copy while caching ACL
2012-05-30T23:44:06+00:00

Sachin Prabhu
sprabhu@redhat.com

2012-04-17T13:36:40+00:00

b7d52ac86a9753520a696af25d333e3451eeae92

commit 5794d21ef4639f0e33440927bb903f9598c21e92 upstream.

When attempting to cache ACLs returned from the server, if the bitmap
size + the ACL size is greater than a PAGE_SIZE but the ACL size itself
is smaller than a PAGE_SIZE, we can read past the buffer page boundary.

Signed-off-by: Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Jian Li <jiali@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>





commit 5794d21ef4639f0e33440927bb903f9598c21e92 upstream.

When attempting to cache ACLs returned from the server, if the bitmap
size + the ACL size is greater than a PAGE_SIZE but the ACL size itself
is smaller than a PAGE_SIZE, we can read past the buffer page boundary.

Signed-off-by: Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Jian Li <jiali@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>