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<title>metag/uaccess: Check access_ok in strncpy_from_user</title>
<updated>2017-05-25T13:44:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-02T18:41:06+00:00</published>
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commit 3a158a62da0673db918b53ac1440845a5b64fd90 upstream.

The metag implementation of strncpy_from_user() doesn't validate the src
pointer, which could allow reading of arbitrary kernel memory. Add a
short access_ok() check to prevent that.

Its still possible for it to read across the user/kernel boundary, but
it will invariably reach a NUL character after only 9 bytes, leaking
only a static kernel address being loaded into D0Re0 at the beginning of
__start, which is acceptable for the immediate fix.

Reported-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3a158a62da0673db918b53ac1440845a5b64fd90 upstream.

The metag implementation of strncpy_from_user() doesn't validate the src
pointer, which could allow reading of arbitrary kernel memory. Add a
short access_ok() check to prevent that.

Its still possible for it to read across the user/kernel boundary, but
it will invariably reach a NUL character after only 9 bytes, leaking
only a static kernel address being loaded into D0Re0 at the beginning of
__start, which is acceptable for the immediate fix.

Reported-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>metag/uaccess: Fix access_ok()</title>
<updated>2017-05-25T13:44:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-28T09:50:26+00:00</published>
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commit 8a8b56638bcac4e64cccc88bf95a0f9f4b19a2fb upstream.

The __user_bad() macro used by access_ok() has a few corner cases
noticed by Al Viro where it doesn't behave correctly:

 - The kernel range check has off by 1 errors which permit access to the
   first and last byte of the kernel mapped range.

 - The kernel range check ends at LINCORE_BASE rather than
   META_MEMORY_LIMIT, which is ineffective when the kernel is in global
   space (an extremely uncommon configuration).

There are a couple of other shortcomings here too:

 - Access to the whole of the other address space is permitted (i.e. the
   global half of the address space when the kernel is in local space).
   This isn't ideal as it could theoretically still contain privileged
   mappings set up by the bootloader.

 - The size argument is unused, permitting user copies which start on
   valid pages at the end of the user address range and cross the
   boundary into the kernel address space (e.g. addr = 0x3ffffff0, size
   &gt; 0x10).

It isn't very convenient to add size checks when disallowing certain
regions, and it seems far safer to be sure and explicit about what
userland is able to access, so invert the logic to allow certain regions
instead, and fix the off by 1 errors and missing size checks. This also
allows the get_fs() == KERNEL_DS check to be more easily optimised into
the user address range case.

We now have 3 such allowed regions:

 - The user address range (incorporating the get_fs() == KERNEL_DS
   check).

 - NULL (some kernel code expects this to work, and we'll always catch
   the fault anyway).

 - The core code memory region.

Fixes: 373cd784d0fc ("metag: Memory handling")
Reported-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 8a8b56638bcac4e64cccc88bf95a0f9f4b19a2fb upstream.

The __user_bad() macro used by access_ok() has a few corner cases
noticed by Al Viro where it doesn't behave correctly:

 - The kernel range check has off by 1 errors which permit access to the
   first and last byte of the kernel mapped range.

 - The kernel range check ends at LINCORE_BASE rather than
   META_MEMORY_LIMIT, which is ineffective when the kernel is in global
   space (an extremely uncommon configuration).

There are a couple of other shortcomings here too:

 - Access to the whole of the other address space is permitted (i.e. the
   global half of the address space when the kernel is in local space).
   This isn't ideal as it could theoretically still contain privileged
   mappings set up by the bootloader.

 - The size argument is unused, permitting user copies which start on
   valid pages at the end of the user address range and cross the
   boundary into the kernel address space (e.g. addr = 0x3ffffff0, size
   &gt; 0x10).

It isn't very convenient to add size checks when disallowing certain
regions, and it seems far safer to be sure and explicit about what
userland is able to access, so invert the logic to allow certain regions
instead, and fix the off by 1 errors and missing size checks. This also
allows the get_fs() == KERNEL_DS check to be more easily optimised into
the user address range case.

We now have 3 such allowed regions:

 - The user address range (incorporating the get_fs() == KERNEL_DS
   check).

 - NULL (some kernel code expects this to work, and we'll always catch
   the fault anyway).

 - The core code memory region.

Fixes: 373cd784d0fc ("metag: Memory handling")
Reported-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>metag/usercopy: Zero rest of buffer from copy_from_user</title>
<updated>2017-04-12T10:41:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-31T10:14:02+00:00</published>
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commit 563ddc1076109f2b3f88e6d355eab7b6fd4662cb upstream.

Currently we try to zero the destination for a failed read from userland
in fixup code in the usercopy.c macros. The rest of the destination
buffer is then zeroed from __copy_user_zeroing(), which is used for both
copy_from_user() and __copy_from_user().

Unfortunately we fail to zero in the fixup code as D1Ar1 is set to 0
before the fixup code entry labels, and __copy_from_user() shouldn't even
be zeroing the rest of the buffer.

Move the zeroing out into copy_from_user() and rename
__copy_user_zeroing() to raw_copy_from_user() since it no longer does
any zeroing. This also conveniently matches the name needed for
RAW_COPY_USER support in a later patch.

Fixes: 373cd784d0fc ("metag: Memory handling")
Reported-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 563ddc1076109f2b3f88e6d355eab7b6fd4662cb upstream.

Currently we try to zero the destination for a failed read from userland
in fixup code in the usercopy.c macros. The rest of the destination
buffer is then zeroed from __copy_user_zeroing(), which is used for both
copy_from_user() and __copy_from_user().

Unfortunately we fail to zero in the fixup code as D1Ar1 is set to 0
before the fixup code entry labels, and __copy_from_user() shouldn't even
be zeroing the rest of the buffer.

Move the zeroing out into copy_from_user() and rename
__copy_user_zeroing() to raw_copy_from_user() since it no longer does
any zeroing. This also conveniently matches the name needed for
RAW_COPY_USER support in a later patch.

Fixes: 373cd784d0fc ("metag: Memory handling")
Reported-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>metag: Only define atomic_dec_if_positive conditionally</title>
<updated>2016-10-07T20:35:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-07T17:40:59+00:00</published>
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The definition of atomic_dec_if_positive() assumes that
atomic_sub_if_positive() exists, which is only the case if
metag specific atomics are used. This results in the following
build error when trying to build metag1_defconfig.

kernel/ucount.c: In function 'dec_ucount':
kernel/ucount.c:211: error:
	implicit declaration of function 'atomic_sub_if_positive'

Moving the definition of atomic_dec_if_positive() into the metag
conditional code fixes the problem.

Fixes: 6006c0d8ce94 ("metag: Atomics, locks and bitops")
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.9.x-
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The definition of atomic_dec_if_positive() assumes that
atomic_sub_if_positive() exists, which is only the case if
metag specific atomics are used. This results in the following
build error when trying to build metag1_defconfig.

kernel/ucount.c: In function 'dec_ucount':
kernel/ucount.c:211: error:
	implicit declaration of function 'atomic_sub_if_positive'

Moving the definition of atomic_dec_if_positive() into the metag
conditional code fixes the problem.

Fixes: 6006c0d8ce94 ("metag: Atomics, locks and bitops")
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.9.x-
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>metag: copy_from_user() should zero the destination on access_ok() failure</title>
<updated>2016-09-13T21:49:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-19T02:08:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8ae95ed4ae5fc7c3391ed668b2014c9e2079533b'/>
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Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'metag-for-v4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag</title>
<updated>2016-08-05T12:58:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-05T12:58:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=755b20f49220683bc2469f4d956dee39101440aa'/>
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Pull metag architecture updates from James Hogan:
 "Just a few minor fixes:

   - Fix another incorrect inline asm register constraint, which has
     been lying quietly for 5 and a half years before finally causing
     build breakage during this merge window.

   - Removal of duplicated KERN_INFO from Joe Perches

   - Typo fixes from Andrea Gelmini"

* tag 'metag-for-v4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag:
  metag: Fix __cmpxchg_u32 asm constraint for CMP
  metag: Remove duplicate KERN_&lt;LEVEL&gt; prefix
  metag: Fix typos
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Pull metag architecture updates from James Hogan:
 "Just a few minor fixes:

   - Fix another incorrect inline asm register constraint, which has
     been lying quietly for 5 and a half years before finally causing
     build breakage during this merge window.

   - Removal of duplicated KERN_INFO from Joe Perches

   - Typo fixes from Andrea Gelmini"

* tag 'metag-for-v4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag:
  metag: Fix __cmpxchg_u32 asm constraint for CMP
  metag: Remove duplicate KERN_&lt;LEVEL&gt; prefix
  metag: Fix typos
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>metag: Fix __cmpxchg_u32 asm constraint for CMP</title>
<updated>2016-08-04T16:59:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-04T16:36:08+00:00</published>
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The LNKGET based atomic sequence in __cmpxchg_u32 has slightly incorrect
constraints for the return value which under certain circumstances can
allow an address unit register to be used as the first operand of a CMP
instruction. This isn't a valid instruction however as the encodings
only allow a data unit to be specified. This would result in an
assembler error like the following:

  Error: failed to assemble instruction: "CMP A0.2,D0Ar6"

Fix by changing the constraint from "=&amp;da" (assigned, early clobbered,
data or address unit register) to "=&amp;d" (data unit register only).

The constraint for the second operand, "bd" (an op2 register where op1
is a data unit register and the instruction supports O2R) is already
correct assuming the first operand is a data unit register.

Other cases of CMP in inline asm have had their constraints checked, and
appear to all be fine.

Fixes: 6006c0d8ce94 ("metag: Atomics, locks and bitops")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.9.x-
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The LNKGET based atomic sequence in __cmpxchg_u32 has slightly incorrect
constraints for the return value which under certain circumstances can
allow an address unit register to be used as the first operand of a CMP
instruction. This isn't a valid instruction however as the encodings
only allow a data unit to be specified. This would result in an
assembler error like the following:

  Error: failed to assemble instruction: "CMP A0.2,D0Ar6"

Fix by changing the constraint from "=&amp;da" (assigned, early clobbered,
data or address unit register) to "=&amp;d" (data unit register only).

The constraint for the second operand, "bd" (an op2 register where op1
is a data unit register and the instruction supports O2R) is already
correct assuming the first operand is a data unit register.

Other cases of CMP in inline asm have had their constraints checked, and
appear to all be fine.

Fixes: 6006c0d8ce94 ("metag: Atomics, locks and bitops")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.9.x-
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-07-25T19:41:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-25T19:41:29+00:00</published>
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The locking tree was busier in this cycle than the usual pattern - a
  couple of major projects happened to coincide.

  The main changes are:

   - implement the atomic_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}() API natively
     across all SMP architectures (Peter Zijlstra)

   - add atomic_fetch_{inc/dec}() as well, using the generic primitives
     (Davidlohr Bueso)

   - optimize various aspects of rwsems (Jason Low, Davidlohr Bueso,
     Waiman Long)

   - optimize smp_cond_load_acquire() on arm64 and implement LSE based
     atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,andnot,or,xor}{,_relaxed,_acquire,_release}()
     on arm64 (Will Deacon)

   - introduce smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep() and fix various barrier
     mis-uses and bugs (Peter Zijlstra)

   - after discovering ancient spin_unlock_wait() barrier bugs in its
     implementation and usage, strengthen its semantics and update/fix
     usage sites (Peter Zijlstra)

   - optimize mutex_trylock() fastpath (Peter Zijlstra)

   - ... misc fixes and cleanups"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (67 commits)
  locking/atomic: Introduce inc/dec variants for the atomic_fetch_$op() API
  locking/barriers, arch/arm64: Implement LDXR+WFE based smp_cond_load_acquire()
  locking/static_keys: Fix non static symbol Sparse warning
  locking/qspinlock: Use __this_cpu_dec() instead of full-blown this_cpu_dec()
  locking/atomic, arch/tile: Fix tilepro build
  locking/atomic, arch/m68k: Remove comment
  locking/atomic, arch/arc: Fix build
  locking/Documentation: Clarify limited control-dependency scope
  locking/atomic, arch/rwsem: Employ atomic_long_fetch_add()
  locking/atomic, arch/qrwlock: Employ atomic_fetch_add_acquire()
  locking/atomic, arch/mips: Convert to _relaxed atomics
  locking/atomic, arch/alpha: Convert to _relaxed atomics
  locking/atomic: Remove the deprecated atomic_{set,clear}_mask() functions
  locking/atomic: Remove linux/atomic.h:atomic_fetch_or()
  locking/atomic: Implement atomic{,64,_long}_fetch_{add,sub,and,andnot,or,xor}{,_relaxed,_acquire,_release}()
  locking/atomic: Fix atomic64_relaxed() bits
  locking/atomic, arch/xtensa: Implement atomic_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}()
  locking/atomic, arch/x86: Implement atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}()
  locking/atomic, arch/tile: Implement atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}()
  locking/atomic, arch/sparc: Implement atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}()
  ...
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The locking tree was busier in this cycle than the usual pattern - a
  couple of major projects happened to coincide.

  The main changes are:

   - implement the atomic_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}() API natively
     across all SMP architectures (Peter Zijlstra)

   - add atomic_fetch_{inc/dec}() as well, using the generic primitives
     (Davidlohr Bueso)

   - optimize various aspects of rwsems (Jason Low, Davidlohr Bueso,
     Waiman Long)

   - optimize smp_cond_load_acquire() on arm64 and implement LSE based
     atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,andnot,or,xor}{,_relaxed,_acquire,_release}()
     on arm64 (Will Deacon)

   - introduce smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep() and fix various barrier
     mis-uses and bugs (Peter Zijlstra)

   - after discovering ancient spin_unlock_wait() barrier bugs in its
     implementation and usage, strengthen its semantics and update/fix
     usage sites (Peter Zijlstra)

   - optimize mutex_trylock() fastpath (Peter Zijlstra)

   - ... misc fixes and cleanups"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (67 commits)
  locking/atomic: Introduce inc/dec variants for the atomic_fetch_$op() API
  locking/barriers, arch/arm64: Implement LDXR+WFE based smp_cond_load_acquire()
  locking/static_keys: Fix non static symbol Sparse warning
  locking/qspinlock: Use __this_cpu_dec() instead of full-blown this_cpu_dec()
  locking/atomic, arch/tile: Fix tilepro build
  locking/atomic, arch/m68k: Remove comment
  locking/atomic, arch/arc: Fix build
  locking/Documentation: Clarify limited control-dependency scope
  locking/atomic, arch/rwsem: Employ atomic_long_fetch_add()
  locking/atomic, arch/qrwlock: Employ atomic_fetch_add_acquire()
  locking/atomic, arch/mips: Convert to _relaxed atomics
  locking/atomic, arch/alpha: Convert to _relaxed atomics
  locking/atomic: Remove the deprecated atomic_{set,clear}_mask() functions
  locking/atomic: Remove linux/atomic.h:atomic_fetch_or()
  locking/atomic: Implement atomic{,64,_long}_fetch_{add,sub,and,andnot,or,xor}{,_relaxed,_acquire,_release}()
  locking/atomic: Fix atomic64_relaxed() bits
  locking/atomic, arch/xtensa: Implement atomic_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}()
  locking/atomic, arch/x86: Implement atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}()
  locking/atomic, arch/tile: Implement atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}()
  locking/atomic, arch/sparc: Implement atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>metag: Fix typos</title>
<updated>2016-07-15T08:55:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Gelmini</name>
<email>andrea.gelmini@gelma.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-21T11:58:38+00:00</published>
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Fix typos in metag architecture.

[james.hogan@imgtec.com: squashed patches and fixed "detailed"]

Signed-off-by: Andrea Gelmini &lt;andrea.gelmini@gelma.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
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Fix typos in metag architecture.

[james.hogan@imgtec.com: squashed patches and fixed "detailed"]

Signed-off-by: Andrea Gelmini &lt;andrea.gelmini@gelma.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
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<title>tree wide: get rid of __GFP_REPEAT for order-0 allocations part I</title>
<updated>2016-06-25T00:23:52+00:00</updated>
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<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
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<published>2016-06-24T21:48:47+00:00</published>
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This is the third version of the patchset previously sent [1].  I have
basically only rebased it on top of 4.7-rc1 tree and dropped "dm: get
rid of superfluous gfp flags" which went through dm tree.  I am sending
it now because it is tree wide and chances for conflicts are reduced
considerably when we want to target rc2.  I plan to send the next step
and rename the flag and move to a better semantic later during this
release cycle so we will have a new semantic ready for 4.8 merge window
hopefully.

Motivation:

While working on something unrelated I've checked the current usage of
__GFP_REPEAT in the tree.  It seems that a majority of the usage is and
always has been bogus because __GFP_REPEAT has always been about costly
high order allocations while we are using it for order-0 or very small
orders very often.  It seems that a big pile of them is just a
copy&amp;paste when a code has been adopted from one arch to another.

I think it makes some sense to get rid of them because they are just
making the semantic more unclear.  Please note that GFP_REPEAT is
documented as

* __GFP_REPEAT: Try hard to allocate the memory, but the allocation attempt

* _might_ fail.  This depends upon the particular VM implementation.
  while !costly requests have basically nofail semantic.  So one could
  reasonably expect that order-0 request with __GFP_REPEAT will not loop
  for ever.  This is not implemented right now though.

I would like to move on with __GFP_REPEAT and define a better semantic
for it.

  $ git grep __GFP_REPEAT origin/master | wc -l
  111
  $ git grep __GFP_REPEAT | wc -l
  36

So we are down to the third after this patch series.  The remaining
places really seem to be relying on __GFP_REPEAT due to large allocation
requests.  This still needs some double checking which I will do later
after all the simple ones are sorted out.

I am touching a lot of arch specific code here and I hope I got it right
but as a matter of fact I even didn't compile test for some archs as I
do not have cross compiler for them.  Patches should be quite trivial to
review for stupid compile mistakes though.  The tricky parts are usually
hidden by macro definitions and thats where I would appreciate help from
arch maintainers.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461849846-27209-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org

This patch (of 19):

__GFP_REPEAT has a rather weak semantic but since it has been introduced
around 2.6.12 it has been ignored for low order allocations.  Yet we
have the full kernel tree with its usage for apparently order-0
allocations.  This is really confusing because __GFP_REPEAT is
explicitly documented to allow allocation failures which is a weaker
semantic than the current order-0 has (basically nofail).

Let's simply drop __GFP_REPEAT from those places.  This would allow to
identify place which really need allocator to retry harder and formulate
a more specific semantic for what the flag is supposed to do actually.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464599699-30131-2-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Liqin &lt;liqin.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.com&gt; [for tile]
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: John Crispin &lt;blogic@openwrt.org&gt;
Cc: Lennox Wu &lt;lennox.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This is the third version of the patchset previously sent [1].  I have
basically only rebased it on top of 4.7-rc1 tree and dropped "dm: get
rid of superfluous gfp flags" which went through dm tree.  I am sending
it now because it is tree wide and chances for conflicts are reduced
considerably when we want to target rc2.  I plan to send the next step
and rename the flag and move to a better semantic later during this
release cycle so we will have a new semantic ready for 4.8 merge window
hopefully.

Motivation:

While working on something unrelated I've checked the current usage of
__GFP_REPEAT in the tree.  It seems that a majority of the usage is and
always has been bogus because __GFP_REPEAT has always been about costly
high order allocations while we are using it for order-0 or very small
orders very often.  It seems that a big pile of them is just a
copy&amp;paste when a code has been adopted from one arch to another.

I think it makes some sense to get rid of them because they are just
making the semantic more unclear.  Please note that GFP_REPEAT is
documented as

* __GFP_REPEAT: Try hard to allocate the memory, but the allocation attempt

* _might_ fail.  This depends upon the particular VM implementation.
  while !costly requests have basically nofail semantic.  So one could
  reasonably expect that order-0 request with __GFP_REPEAT will not loop
  for ever.  This is not implemented right now though.

I would like to move on with __GFP_REPEAT and define a better semantic
for it.

  $ git grep __GFP_REPEAT origin/master | wc -l
  111
  $ git grep __GFP_REPEAT | wc -l
  36

So we are down to the third after this patch series.  The remaining
places really seem to be relying on __GFP_REPEAT due to large allocation
requests.  This still needs some double checking which I will do later
after all the simple ones are sorted out.

I am touching a lot of arch specific code here and I hope I got it right
but as a matter of fact I even didn't compile test for some archs as I
do not have cross compiler for them.  Patches should be quite trivial to
review for stupid compile mistakes though.  The tricky parts are usually
hidden by macro definitions and thats where I would appreciate help from
arch maintainers.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461849846-27209-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org

This patch (of 19):

__GFP_REPEAT has a rather weak semantic but since it has been introduced
around 2.6.12 it has been ignored for low order allocations.  Yet we
have the full kernel tree with its usage for apparently order-0
allocations.  This is really confusing because __GFP_REPEAT is
explicitly documented to allow allocation failures which is a weaker
semantic than the current order-0 has (basically nofail).

Let's simply drop __GFP_REPEAT from those places.  This would allow to
identify place which really need allocator to retry harder and formulate
a more specific semantic for what the flag is supposed to do actually.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464599699-30131-2-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Liqin &lt;liqin.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.com&gt; [for tile]
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: John Crispin &lt;blogic@openwrt.org&gt;
Cc: Lennox Wu &lt;lennox.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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