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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/powerpc/include/asm, branch v4.0</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: fix memory corruption by pnv_alloc_idle_core_states</title>
<updated>2015-04-01T01:05:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Stancek</name>
<email>jstancek@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-31T16:11:46+00:00</published>
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Space allocated for paca is based off nr_cpu_ids,
but pnv_alloc_idle_core_states() iterates paca with
cpu_nr_cores()*threads_per_core, which is using NR_CPUS.

This causes pnv_alloc_idle_core_states() to write over memory,
which is outside of paca array and may later lead to various panics.

Fixes: 7cba160ad789 (powernv/cpuidle: Redesign idle states management)
Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek &lt;jstancek@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Space allocated for paca is based off nr_cpu_ids,
but pnv_alloc_idle_core_states() iterates paca with
cpu_nr_cores()*threads_per_core, which is using NR_CPUS.

This causes pnv_alloc_idle_core_states() to write over memory,
which is outside of paca array and may later lead to various panics.

Fixes: 7cba160ad789 (powernv/cpuidle: Redesign idle states management)
Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek &lt;jstancek@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/powernv: Fixes for hypervisor doorbell handling</title>
<updated>2015-03-20T03:51:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-19T08:29:01+00:00</published>
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Since we can now use hypervisor doorbells for host IPIs, this makes
sure we clear the host IPI flag when taking a doorbell interrupt, and
clears any pending doorbell IPI in pnv_smp_cpu_kill_self() (as we
already do for IPIs sent via the XICS interrupt controller).  Otherwise
if there did happen to be a leftover pending doorbell interrupt for
an offline CPU thread for any reason, it would prevent that thread from
going into a power-saving mode; it would instead keep waking up because
of the interrupt.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Since we can now use hypervisor doorbells for host IPIs, this makes
sure we clear the host IPI flag when taking a doorbell interrupt, and
clears any pending doorbell IPI in pnv_smp_cpu_kill_self() (as we
already do for IPIs sent via the XICS interrupt controller).  Otherwise
if there did happen to be a leftover pending doorbell interrupt for
an offline CPU thread for any reason, it would prevent that thread from
going into a power-saving mode; it would instead keep waking up because
of the interrupt.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/iommu: Remove IOMMU device references via bus notifier</title>
<updated>2015-03-04T02:19:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nishanth Aravamudan</name>
<email>nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-21T19:00:50+00:00</published>
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After d905c5df9aef ("PPC: POWERNV: move iommu_add_device earlier"), the
refcnt on the kobject backing the IOMMU group for a PCI device is
elevated by each call to pci_dma_dev_setup_pSeriesLP() (via
set_iommu_table_base_and_group). When we go to dlpar a multi-function
PCI device out:

        iommu_reconfig_notifier -&gt;
                iommu_free_table -&gt;
                        iommu_group_put
                        BUG_ON(tbl-&gt;it_group)

We trip this BUG_ON, because there are still references on the table, so
it is not freed. Fix this by moving the powernv bus notifier to common
code and calling it for both powernv and pseries.

Fixes: d905c5df9aef ("PPC: POWERNV: move iommu_add_device earlier")
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan &lt;nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nishanth Aravamudan &lt;nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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After d905c5df9aef ("PPC: POWERNV: move iommu_add_device earlier"), the
refcnt on the kobject backing the IOMMU group for a PCI device is
elevated by each call to pci_dma_dev_setup_pSeriesLP() (via
set_iommu_table_base_and_group). When we go to dlpar a multi-function
PCI device out:

        iommu_reconfig_notifier -&gt;
                iommu_free_table -&gt;
                        iommu_group_put
                        BUG_ON(tbl-&gt;it_group)

We trip this BUG_ON, because there are still references on the table, so
it is not freed. Fix this by moving the powernv bus notifier to common
code and calling it for both powernv and pseries.

Fixes: d905c5df9aef ("PPC: POWERNV: move iommu_add_device earlier")
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan &lt;nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nishanth Aravamudan &lt;nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Re-enable dynticks</title>
<updated>2015-02-23T03:52:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Clarke</name>
<email>pc@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-20T17:13:33+00:00</published>
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Implement arch_irq_work_has_interrupt() for powerpc

Commit 9b01f5bf3 introduced a dependency on "IRQ work self-IPIs" for
full dynamic ticks to be enabled, by expecting architectures to
implement a suitable arch_irq_work_has_interrupt() routine.

Several arches have implemented this routine, including x86 (3010279f)
and arm (09f6edd4), but powerpc was omitted.

This patch implements this routine for powerpc.

The symptom, at boot (on powerpc systems) with "nohz_full=&lt;CPU list&gt;"
is displayed:

     NO_HZ: Can't run full dynticks because arch doesn't support irq work self-IPIs

after this patch:

     NO_HZ: Full dynticks CPUs: &lt;CPU list&gt;.

Tested against 3.19.

powerpc implements "IRQ work self-IPIs" by setting the decrementer to 1 in
arch_irq_work_raise(), which causes a decrementer exception on the next
timebase tick. We then handle the work in __timer_interrupt().

CC: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul A. Clarke &lt;pc@us.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Flesh out change log, fix ws &amp; include guards, remove include of processor.h]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Implement arch_irq_work_has_interrupt() for powerpc

Commit 9b01f5bf3 introduced a dependency on "IRQ work self-IPIs" for
full dynamic ticks to be enabled, by expecting architectures to
implement a suitable arch_irq_work_has_interrupt() routine.

Several arches have implemented this routine, including x86 (3010279f)
and arm (09f6edd4), but powerpc was omitted.

This patch implements this routine for powerpc.

The symptom, at boot (on powerpc systems) with "nohz_full=&lt;CPU list&gt;"
is displayed:

     NO_HZ: Can't run full dynticks because arch doesn't support irq work self-IPIs

after this patch:

     NO_HZ: Full dynticks CPUs: &lt;CPU list&gt;.

Tested against 3.19.

powerpc implements "IRQ work self-IPIs" by setting the decrementer to 1 in
arch_irq_work_raise(), which causes a decrementer exception on the next
timebase tick. We then handle the work in __timer_interrupt().

CC: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul A. Clarke &lt;pc@us.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Flesh out change log, fix ws &amp; include guards, remove include of processor.h]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers</title>
<updated>2015-02-17T01:56:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-17T00:00:18+00:00</published>
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We've replaced remap_file_pages(2) implementation with emulation.  Nobody
creates non-linear mapping anymore.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&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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We've replaced remap_file_pages(2) implementation with emulation.  Nobody
creates non-linear mapping anymore.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'char-misc-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc</title>
<updated>2015-02-15T18:48:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-15T18:48:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4ba63072b998cc31515cc6305c25f3b808b50c01'/>
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Pull char / misc patches from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big char/misc driver update for 3.20-rc1.

  Lots of little things in here, all described in the changelog.
  Nothing major or unusual, except maybe the binder selinux stuff, which
  was all acked by the proper selinux people and they thought it best to
  come through this tree.

  All of this has been in linux-next with no reported issues for a while"

* tag 'char-misc-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (90 commits)
  coresight: fix function etm_writel_cp14() parameter order
  coresight-etm: remove check for unknown Kconfig macro
  coresight: fixing CPU hwid lookup in device tree
  coresight: remove the unnecessary function coresight_is_bit_set()
  coresight: fix the debug AMBA bus name
  coresight: remove the extra spaces
  coresight: fix the link between orphan connection and newly added device
  coresight: remove the unnecessary replicator property
  coresight: fix the replicator subtype value
  pdfdocs: Fix 'make pdfdocs' failure for 'uio-howto.tmpl'
  mcb: Fix error path of mcb_pci_probe
  virtio/console: verify device has config space
  ti-st: clean up data types (fix harmless memory corruption)
  mei: me: release hw from reset only during the reset flow
  mei: mask interrupt set bit on clean reset bit
  extcon: max77693: Constify struct regmap_config
  extcon: adc-jack: Release IIO channel on driver remove
  extcon: Remove duplicated include from extcon-class.c
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: hv_process_timer_expiration() can be static
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: serialize Offer and Rescind offer
  ...
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Pull char / misc patches from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big char/misc driver update for 3.20-rc1.

  Lots of little things in here, all described in the changelog.
  Nothing major or unusual, except maybe the binder selinux stuff, which
  was all acked by the proper selinux people and they thought it best to
  come through this tree.

  All of this has been in linux-next with no reported issues for a while"

* tag 'char-misc-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (90 commits)
  coresight: fix function etm_writel_cp14() parameter order
  coresight-etm: remove check for unknown Kconfig macro
  coresight: fixing CPU hwid lookup in device tree
  coresight: remove the unnecessary function coresight_is_bit_set()
  coresight: fix the debug AMBA bus name
  coresight: remove the extra spaces
  coresight: fix the link between orphan connection and newly added device
  coresight: remove the unnecessary replicator property
  coresight: fix the replicator subtype value
  pdfdocs: Fix 'make pdfdocs' failure for 'uio-howto.tmpl'
  mcb: Fix error path of mcb_pci_probe
  virtio/console: verify device has config space
  ti-st: clean up data types (fix harmless memory corruption)
  mei: me: release hw from reset only during the reset flow
  mei: mask interrupt set bit on clean reset bit
  extcon: max77693: Constify struct regmap_config
  extcon: adc-jack: Release IIO channel on driver remove
  extcon: Remove duplicated include from extcon-class.c
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: hv_process_timer_expiration() can be static
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: serialize Offer and Rescind offer
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2015-02-13T17:55:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-13T17:55:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b9085bcbf5f43adf60533f9b635b2e7faeed0fe9'/>
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Pull KVM update from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Fairly small update, but there are some interesting new features.

  Common:
     Optional support for adding a small amount of polling on each HLT
     instruction executed in the guest (or equivalent for other
     architectures).  This can improve latency up to 50% on some
     scenarios (e.g. O_DSYNC writes or TCP_RR netperf tests).  This
     also has to be enabled manually for now, but the plan is to
     auto-tune this in the future.

  ARM/ARM64:
     The highlights are support for GICv3 emulation and dirty page
     tracking

  s390:
     Several optimizations and bugfixes.  Also a first: a feature
     exposed by KVM (UUID and long guest name in /proc/sysinfo) before
     it is available in IBM's hypervisor! :)

  MIPS:
     Bugfixes.

  x86:
     Support for PML (page modification logging, a new feature in
     Broadwell Xeons that speeds up dirty page tracking), nested
     virtualization improvements (nested APICv---a nice optimization),
     usual round of emulation fixes.

     There is also a new option to reduce latency of the TSC deadline
     timer in the guest; this needs to be tuned manually.

     Some commits are common between this pull and Catalin's; I see you
     have already included his tree.

  Powerpc:
     Nothing yet.

     The KVM/PPC changes will come in through the PPC maintainers,
     because I haven't received them yet and I might end up being
     offline for some part of next week"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (130 commits)
  KVM: ia64: drop kvm.h from installed user headers
  KVM: x86: fix build with !CONFIG_SMP
  KVM: x86: emulate: correct page fault error code for NoWrite instructions
  KVM: Disable compat ioctl for s390
  KVM: s390: add cpu model support
  KVM: s390: use facilities and cpu_id per KVM
  KVM: s390/CPACF: Choose crypto control block format
  s390/kernel: Update /proc/sysinfo file with Extended Name and UUID
  KVM: s390: reenable LPP facility
  KVM: s390: floating irqs: fix user triggerable endless loop
  kvm: add halt_poll_ns module parameter
  kvm: remove KVM_MMIO_SIZE
  KVM: MIPS: Don't leak FPU/DSP to guest
  KVM: MIPS: Disable HTW while in guest
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested posted interrupt processing
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested virtual interrupt delivery
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested apic register virtualization
  KVM: nVMX: Make nested control MSRs per-cpu
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested virtualize x2apic mode
  KVM: nVMX: Prepare for using hardware MSR bitmap
  ...
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Pull KVM update from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Fairly small update, but there are some interesting new features.

  Common:
     Optional support for adding a small amount of polling on each HLT
     instruction executed in the guest (or equivalent for other
     architectures).  This can improve latency up to 50% on some
     scenarios (e.g. O_DSYNC writes or TCP_RR netperf tests).  This
     also has to be enabled manually for now, but the plan is to
     auto-tune this in the future.

  ARM/ARM64:
     The highlights are support for GICv3 emulation and dirty page
     tracking

  s390:
     Several optimizations and bugfixes.  Also a first: a feature
     exposed by KVM (UUID and long guest name in /proc/sysinfo) before
     it is available in IBM's hypervisor! :)

  MIPS:
     Bugfixes.

  x86:
     Support for PML (page modification logging, a new feature in
     Broadwell Xeons that speeds up dirty page tracking), nested
     virtualization improvements (nested APICv---a nice optimization),
     usual round of emulation fixes.

     There is also a new option to reduce latency of the TSC deadline
     timer in the guest; this needs to be tuned manually.

     Some commits are common between this pull and Catalin's; I see you
     have already included his tree.

  Powerpc:
     Nothing yet.

     The KVM/PPC changes will come in through the PPC maintainers,
     because I haven't received them yet and I might end up being
     offline for some part of next week"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (130 commits)
  KVM: ia64: drop kvm.h from installed user headers
  KVM: x86: fix build with !CONFIG_SMP
  KVM: x86: emulate: correct page fault error code for NoWrite instructions
  KVM: Disable compat ioctl for s390
  KVM: s390: add cpu model support
  KVM: s390: use facilities and cpu_id per KVM
  KVM: s390/CPACF: Choose crypto control block format
  s390/kernel: Update /proc/sysinfo file with Extended Name and UUID
  KVM: s390: reenable LPP facility
  KVM: s390: floating irqs: fix user triggerable endless loop
  kvm: add halt_poll_ns module parameter
  kvm: remove KVM_MMIO_SIZE
  KVM: MIPS: Don't leak FPU/DSP to guest
  KVM: MIPS: Disable HTW while in guest
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested posted interrupt processing
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested virtual interrupt delivery
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested apic register virtualization
  KVM: nVMX: Make nested control MSRs per-cpu
  KVM: nVMX: Enable nested virtualize x2apic mode
  KVM: nVMX: Prepare for using hardware MSR bitmap
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct</title>
<updated>2015-02-13T02:54:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-12T23:01:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f56141e3e2d9aabf7e6b89680ab572c2cdbb2a24'/>
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<content type='text'>
If an attacker can cause a controlled kernel stack overflow, overwriting
the restart block is a very juicy exploit target.  This is because the
restart_block is held in the same memory allocation as the kernel stack.

Moving the restart block to struct task_struct prevents this exploit by
making the restart_block harder to locate.

Note that there are other fields in thread_info that are also easy
targets, at least on some architectures.

It's also a decent simplification, since the restart code is more or less
identical on all architectures.

[james.hogan@imgtec.com: metag: align thread_info::supervisor_stack]
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt;
Cc: Steven Miao &lt;realmz6@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Liqin &lt;liqin.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Lennox Wu &lt;lennox.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&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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If an attacker can cause a controlled kernel stack overflow, overwriting
the restart block is a very juicy exploit target.  This is because the
restart_block is held in the same memory allocation as the kernel stack.

Moving the restart block to struct task_struct prevents this exploit by
making the restart_block harder to locate.

Note that there are other fields in thread_info that are also easy
targets, at least on some architectures.

It's also a decent simplification, since the restart code is more or less
identical on all architectures.

[james.hogan@imgtec.com: metag: align thread_info::supervisor_stack]
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt;
Cc: Steven Miao &lt;realmz6@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Liqin &lt;liqin.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Lennox Wu &lt;lennox.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&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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<entry>
<title>mm: remove remaining references to NUMA hinting bits and helpers</title>
<updated>2015-02-13T02:54:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-12T22:58:32+00:00</published>
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This patch removes the NUMA PTE bits and associated helpers.  As a
side-effect it increases the maximum possible swap space on x86-64.

One potential source of problems is races between the marking of PTEs
PROT_NONE, NUMA hinting faults and migration.  It must be guaranteed that
a PTE being protected is not faulted in parallel, seen as a pte_none and
corrupting memory.  The base case is safe but transhuge has problems in
the past due to an different migration mechanism and a dependance on page
lock to serialise migrations and warrants a closer look.

task_work hinting update			parallel fault
------------------------			--------------
change_pmd_range
  change_huge_pmd
    __pmd_trans_huge_lock
      pmdp_get_and_clear
						__handle_mm_fault
						pmd_none
						  do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page
						  read? pmd_lock blocks until hinting complete, fail !pmd_none test
						  write? __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page acquires pmd_lock, checks pmd_none
      pmd_modify
      set_pmd_at

task_work hinting update			parallel migration
------------------------			------------------
change_pmd_range
  change_huge_pmd
    __pmd_trans_huge_lock
      pmdp_get_and_clear
						__handle_mm_fault
						  do_huge_pmd_numa_page
						    migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page
						    pmd_lock waits for updates to complete, recheck pmd_same
      pmd_modify
      set_pmd_at

Both of those are safe and the case where a transhuge page is inserted
during a protection update is unchanged.  The case where two processes try
migrating at the same time is unchanged by this series so should still be
ok.  I could not find a case where we are accidentally depending on the
PTE not being cleared and flushed.  If one is missed, it'll manifest as
corruption problems that start triggering shortly after this series is
merged and only happen when NUMA balancing is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&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 patch removes the NUMA PTE bits and associated helpers.  As a
side-effect it increases the maximum possible swap space on x86-64.

One potential source of problems is races between the marking of PTEs
PROT_NONE, NUMA hinting faults and migration.  It must be guaranteed that
a PTE being protected is not faulted in parallel, seen as a pte_none and
corrupting memory.  The base case is safe but transhuge has problems in
the past due to an different migration mechanism and a dependance on page
lock to serialise migrations and warrants a closer look.

task_work hinting update			parallel fault
------------------------			--------------
change_pmd_range
  change_huge_pmd
    __pmd_trans_huge_lock
      pmdp_get_and_clear
						__handle_mm_fault
						pmd_none
						  do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page
						  read? pmd_lock blocks until hinting complete, fail !pmd_none test
						  write? __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page acquires pmd_lock, checks pmd_none
      pmd_modify
      set_pmd_at

task_work hinting update			parallel migration
------------------------			------------------
change_pmd_range
  change_huge_pmd
    __pmd_trans_huge_lock
      pmdp_get_and_clear
						__handle_mm_fault
						  do_huge_pmd_numa_page
						    migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page
						    pmd_lock waits for updates to complete, recheck pmd_same
      pmd_modify
      set_pmd_at

Both of those are safe and the case where a transhuge page is inserted
during a protection update is unchanged.  The case where two processes try
migrating at the same time is unchanged by this series so should still be
ok.  I could not find a case where we are accidentally depending on the
PTE not being cleared and flushed.  If one is missed, it'll manifest as
corruption problems that start triggering shortly after this series is
merged and only happen when NUMA balancing is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: add p[te|md] protnone helpers for use by NUMA balancing</title>
<updated>2015-02-13T02:54:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-12T22:58:19+00:00</published>
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This is a preparatory patch that introduces protnone helpers for automatic
NUMA balancing.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&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 a preparatory patch that introduces protnone helpers for automatic
NUMA balancing.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
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