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<title>nbd: fix max number of supported devs</title>
<updated>2019-10-11T16:35:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Christie</name>
<email>mchristi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-04T19:10:06+00:00</published>
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commit e9e006f5fcf2bab59149cb38a48a4817c1b538b4 upstream.

This fixes a bug added in 4.10 with commit:

commit 9561a7ade0c205bc2ee035a2ac880478dcc1a024
Author: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Date:   Tue Nov 22 14:04:40 2016 -0500

    nbd: add multi-connection support

that limited the number of devices to 256. Before the patch we could
create 1000s of devices, but the patch switched us from using our
own thread to using a work queue which has a default limit of 256
active works.

The problem is that our recv_work function sits in a loop until
disconnection but only handles IO for one connection. The work is
started when the connection is started/restarted, but if we end up
creating 257 or more connections, the queue_work call just queues
connection257+'s recv_work and that waits for connection 1 - 256's
recv_work to be disconnected and that work instance completing.

Instead of reverting back to kthreads, this has us allocate a
workqueue_struct per device, so we can block in the work.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie &lt;mchristi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit e9e006f5fcf2bab59149cb38a48a4817c1b538b4 upstream.

This fixes a bug added in 4.10 with commit:

commit 9561a7ade0c205bc2ee035a2ac880478dcc1a024
Author: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Date:   Tue Nov 22 14:04:40 2016 -0500

    nbd: add multi-connection support

that limited the number of devices to 256. Before the patch we could
create 1000s of devices, but the patch switched us from using our
own thread to using a work queue which has a default limit of 256
active works.

The problem is that our recv_work function sits in a loop until
disconnection but only handles IO for one connection. The work is
started when the connection is started/restarted, but if we end up
creating 257 or more connections, the queue_work call just queues
connection257+'s recv_work and that waits for connection 1 - 256's
recv_work to be disconnected and that work instance completing.

Instead of reverting back to kthreads, this has us allocate a
workqueue_struct per device, so we can block in the work.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie &lt;mchristi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>pktcdvd: remove warning on attempting to register non-passthrough dev</title>
<updated>2019-10-07T17:01:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-22T16:01:05+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit eb09b3cc464d2c3bbde9a6648603c8d599ea8582 ]

Anatoly reports that he gets the below warning when booting -git on
a sparc64 box on debian unstable:

...
[   13.352975] aes_sparc64: Using sparc64 aes opcodes optimized AES
implementation
[   13.428002] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   13.428081] WARNING: CPU: 21 PID: 586 at
drivers/block/pktcdvd.c:2597 pkt_setup_dev+0x2e4/0x5a0 [pktcdvd]
[   13.428147] Attempt to register a non-SCSI queue
[   13.428184] Modules linked in: pktcdvd libdes cdrom aes_sparc64
n2_rng md5_sparc64 sha512_sparc64 rng_core sha256_sparc64 flash
sha1_sparc64 ip_tables x_tables ipv6 crc_ccitt nf_defrag_ipv6 autofs4
ext4 crc16 mbcache jbd2 raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy
async_pq async_xor xor async_tx raid6_pq raid1 raid0 multipath linear
md_mod crc32c_sparc64
[   13.428452] CPU: 21 PID: 586 Comm: pktsetup Not tainted
5.3.0-10169-g574cc4539762 #1234
[   13.428507] Call Trace:
[   13.428542]  [00000000004635c0] __warn+0xc0/0x100
[   13.428582]  [0000000000463634] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x34/0x60
[   13.428626]  [000000001045b244] pkt_setup_dev+0x2e4/0x5a0 [pktcdvd]
[   13.428674]  [000000001045ccf4] pkt_ctl_ioctl+0x94/0x220 [pktcdvd]
[   13.428724]  [00000000006b95c8] do_vfs_ioctl+0x628/0x6e0
[   13.428764]  [00000000006b96c8] ksys_ioctl+0x48/0x80
[   13.428803]  [00000000006b9714] sys_ioctl+0x14/0x40
[   13.428847]  [0000000000406294] linux_sparc_syscall+0x34/0x44
[   13.428890] irq event stamp: 4181
[   13.428924] hardirqs last  enabled at (4189): [&lt;00000000004e0a74&gt;]
console_unlock+0x634/0x6c0
[   13.428984] hardirqs last disabled at (4196): [&lt;00000000004e0540&gt;]
console_unlock+0x100/0x6c0
[   13.429048] softirqs last  enabled at (3978): [&lt;0000000000b2e2d8&gt;]
__do_softirq+0x498/0x520
[   13.429110] softirqs last disabled at (3967): [&lt;000000000042cfb4&gt;]
do_softirq_own_stack+0x34/0x60
[   13.429172] ---[ end trace 2220ca468f32967d ]---
[   13.430018] pktcdvd: setup of pktcdvd device failed
[   13.455589] des_sparc64: Using sparc64 des opcodes optimized DES
implementation
[   13.515334] camellia_sparc64: Using sparc64 camellia opcodes
optimized CAMELLIA implementation
[   13.522856] pktcdvd: setup of pktcdvd device failed
[   13.529327] pktcdvd: setup of pktcdvd device failed
[   13.532932] pktcdvd: setup of pktcdvd device failed
[   13.536165] pktcdvd: setup of pktcdvd device failed
[   13.539372] pktcdvd: setup of pktcdvd device failed
[   13.542834] pktcdvd: setup of pktcdvd device failed
[   13.546536] pktcdvd: setup of pktcdvd device failed
[   15.431071] XFS (dm-0): Mounting V5 Filesystem
...

Apparently debian auto-attaches any cdrom like device to pktcdvd, which
can lead to the above warning. There's really no reason to warn for this
situation, kill it.

Reported-by: Anatoly Pugachev &lt;matorola@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit eb09b3cc464d2c3bbde9a6648603c8d599ea8582 ]

Anatoly reports that he gets the below warning when booting -git on
a sparc64 box on debian unstable:

...
[   13.352975] aes_sparc64: Using sparc64 aes opcodes optimized AES
implementation
[   13.428002] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   13.428081] WARNING: CPU: 21 PID: 586 at
drivers/block/pktcdvd.c:2597 pkt_setup_dev+0x2e4/0x5a0 [pktcdvd]
[   13.428147] Attempt to register a non-SCSI queue
[   13.428184] Modules linked in: pktcdvd libdes cdrom aes_sparc64
n2_rng md5_sparc64 sha512_sparc64 rng_core sha256_sparc64 flash
sha1_sparc64 ip_tables x_tables ipv6 crc_ccitt nf_defrag_ipv6 autofs4
ext4 crc16 mbcache jbd2 raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy
async_pq async_xor xor async_tx raid6_pq raid1 raid0 multipath linear
md_mod crc32c_sparc64
[   13.428452] CPU: 21 PID: 586 Comm: pktsetup Not tainted
5.3.0-10169-g574cc4539762 #1234
[   13.428507] Call Trace:
[   13.428542]  [00000000004635c0] __warn+0xc0/0x100
[   13.428582]  [0000000000463634] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x34/0x60
[   13.428626]  [000000001045b244] pkt_setup_dev+0x2e4/0x5a0 [pktcdvd]
[   13.428674]  [000000001045ccf4] pkt_ctl_ioctl+0x94/0x220 [pktcdvd]
[   13.428724]  [00000000006b95c8] do_vfs_ioctl+0x628/0x6e0
[   13.428764]  [00000000006b96c8] ksys_ioctl+0x48/0x80
[   13.428803]  [00000000006b9714] sys_ioctl+0x14/0x40
[   13.428847]  [0000000000406294] linux_sparc_syscall+0x34/0x44
[   13.428890] irq event stamp: 4181
[   13.428924] hardirqs last  enabled at (4189): [&lt;00000000004e0a74&gt;]
console_unlock+0x634/0x6c0
[   13.428984] hardirqs last disabled at (4196): [&lt;00000000004e0540&gt;]
console_unlock+0x100/0x6c0
[   13.429048] softirqs last  enabled at (3978): [&lt;0000000000b2e2d8&gt;]
__do_softirq+0x498/0x520
[   13.429110] softirqs last disabled at (3967): [&lt;000000000042cfb4&gt;]
do_softirq_own_stack+0x34/0x60
[   13.429172] ---[ end trace 2220ca468f32967d ]---
[   13.430018] pktcdvd: setup of pktcdvd device failed
[   13.455589] des_sparc64: Using sparc64 des opcodes optimized DES
implementation
[   13.515334] camellia_sparc64: Using sparc64 camellia opcodes
optimized CAMELLIA implementation
[   13.522856] pktcdvd: setup of pktcdvd device failed
[   13.529327] pktcdvd: setup of pktcdvd device failed
[   13.532932] pktcdvd: setup of pktcdvd device failed
[   13.536165] pktcdvd: setup of pktcdvd device failed
[   13.539372] pktcdvd: setup of pktcdvd device failed
[   13.542834] pktcdvd: setup of pktcdvd device failed
[   13.546536] pktcdvd: setup of pktcdvd device failed
[   15.431071] XFS (dm-0): Mounting V5 Filesystem
...

Apparently debian auto-attaches any cdrom like device to pktcdvd, which
can lead to the above warning. There's really no reason to warn for this
situation, kill it.

Reported-by: Anatoly Pugachev &lt;matorola@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>nbd: add missing config put</title>
<updated>2019-10-05T13:11:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Christie</name>
<email>mchristi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-13T16:39:51+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 887e975c4172d0d5670c39ead2f18ba1e4ec8133 ]

Fix bug added with the patch:

commit 8f3ea35929a0806ad1397db99a89ffee0140822a
Author: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Date:   Mon Jul 16 12:11:35 2018 -0400

    nbd: handle unexpected replies better

where if the timeout handler runs when the completion path is and we fail
to grab the mutex in the timeout handler we will leave a config reference
and cannot free the config later.

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie &lt;mchristi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 887e975c4172d0d5670c39ead2f18ba1e4ec8133 ]

Fix bug added with the patch:

commit 8f3ea35929a0806ad1397db99a89ffee0140822a
Author: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Date:   Mon Jul 16 12:11:35 2018 -0400

    nbd: handle unexpected replies better

where if the timeout handler runs when the completion path is and we fail
to grab the mutex in the timeout handler we will leave a config reference
and cannot free the config later.

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie &lt;mchristi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>loop: Add LOOP_SET_DIRECT_IO to compat ioctl</title>
<updated>2019-10-05T13:11:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alessio Balsini</name>
<email>balsini@android.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-07T00:48:28+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit fdbe4eeeb1aac219b14f10c0ed31ae5d1123e9b8 ]

Enabling Direct I/O with loop devices helps reducing memory usage by
avoiding double caching.  32 bit applications running on 64 bits systems
are currently not able to request direct I/O because is missing from the
lo_compat_ioctl.

This patch fixes the compatibility issue mentioned above by exporting
LOOP_SET_DIRECT_IO as additional lo_compat_ioctl() entry.
The input argument for this ioctl is a single long converted to a 1-bit
boolean, so compatibility is preserved.

Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alessio Balsini &lt;balsini@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit fdbe4eeeb1aac219b14f10c0ed31ae5d1123e9b8 ]

Enabling Direct I/O with loop devices helps reducing memory usage by
avoiding double caching.  32 bit applications running on 64 bits systems
are currently not able to request direct I/O because is missing from the
lo_compat_ioctl.

This patch fixes the compatibility issue mentioned above by exporting
LOOP_SET_DIRECT_IO as additional lo_compat_ioctl() entry.
The input argument for this ioctl is a single long converted to a 1-bit
boolean, so compatibility is preserved.

Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alessio Balsini &lt;balsini@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>floppy: fix usercopy direction</title>
<updated>2019-09-21T05:19:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-26T22:03:48+00:00</published>
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commit 52f6f9d74f31078964ca1574f7bb612da7877ac8 upstream.

As sparse points out, these two copy_from_user() should actually be
copy_to_user().

Fixes: 229b53c9bf4e ("take floppy compat ioctls to sodding floppy.c")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Alexander Popov &lt;alex.popov@linux.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha &lt;mojha@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 52f6f9d74f31078964ca1574f7bb612da7877ac8 upstream.

As sparse points out, these two copy_from_user() should actually be
copy_to_user().

Fixes: 229b53c9bf4e ("take floppy compat ioctls to sodding floppy.c")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Alexander Popov &lt;alex.popov@linux.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha &lt;mojha@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>rbd: restore zeroing past the overlap when reading from parent</title>
<updated>2019-08-28T10:34:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ilya Dryomov</name>
<email>idryomov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-27T14:45:10+00:00</published>
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The parent image is read only up to the overlap point, the rest of
the buffer should be zeroed.  This snuck in because as it turns out
the overlap test case has not been triggering this code path for
a while now.

Fixes: a9b67e69949d ("rbd: replace obj_req-&gt;tried_parent with obj_req-&gt;read_state")
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jason Dillaman &lt;dillaman@redhat.com&gt;
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The parent image is read only up to the overlap point, the rest of
the buffer should be zeroed.  This snuck in because as it turns out
the overlap test case has not been triggering this code path for
a while now.

Fixes: a9b67e69949d ("rbd: replace obj_req-&gt;tried_parent with obj_req-&gt;read_state")
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jason Dillaman &lt;dillaman@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2019-08-19T23:17:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-19T23:17:59+00:00</published>
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Pull kernel thread signal handling fix from Eric Biederman:
 "I overlooked the fact that kernel threads are created with all signals
  set to SIG_IGN, and accidentally caused a regression in cifs and drbd
  when replacing force_sig with send_sig.

  This is my fix for that regression. I add a new function
  allow_kernel_signal which allows kernel threads to receive signals
  sent from the kernel, but continues to ignore all signals sent from
  userspace. This ensures the user space interface for cifs and drbd
  remain the same.

  These kernel threads depend on blocking networking calls which block
  until something is received or a signal is pending. Making receiving
  of signals somewhat necessary for these kernel threads.

  Perhaps someday we can cleanup those interfaces and remove
  allow_kernel_signal. If not allow_kernel_signal is pretty trivial and
  clearly documents what is going on so I don't think we will mind
  carrying it"

* 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  signal: Allow cifs and drbd to receive their terminating signals
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Pull kernel thread signal handling fix from Eric Biederman:
 "I overlooked the fact that kernel threads are created with all signals
  set to SIG_IGN, and accidentally caused a regression in cifs and drbd
  when replacing force_sig with send_sig.

  This is my fix for that regression. I add a new function
  allow_kernel_signal which allows kernel threads to receive signals
  sent from the kernel, but continues to ignore all signals sent from
  userspace. This ensures the user space interface for cifs and drbd
  remain the same.

  These kernel threads depend on blocking networking calls which block
  until something is received or a signal is pending. Making receiving
  of signals somewhat necessary for these kernel threads.

  Perhaps someday we can cleanup those interfaces and remove
  allow_kernel_signal. If not allow_kernel_signal is pretty trivial and
  clearly documents what is going on so I don't think we will mind
  carrying it"

* 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  signal: Allow cifs and drbd to receive their terminating signals
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal: Allow cifs and drbd to receive their terminating signals</title>
<updated>2019-08-19T11:34:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-16T17:33:54+00:00</published>
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My recent to change to only use force_sig for a synchronous events
wound up breaking signal reception cifs and drbd.  I had overlooked
the fact that by default kthreads start out with all signals set to
SIG_IGN.  So a change I thought was safe turned out to have made it
impossible for those kernel thread to catch their signals.

Reverting the work on force_sig is a bad idea because what the code
was doing was very much a misuse of force_sig.  As the way force_sig
ultimately allowed the signal to happen was to change the signal
handler to SIG_DFL.  Which after the first signal will allow userspace
to send signals to these kernel threads.  At least for
wake_ack_receiver in drbd that does not appear actively wrong.

So correct this problem by adding allow_kernel_signal that will allow
signals whose siginfo reports they were sent by the kernel through,
but will not allow userspace generated signals, and update cifs and
drbd to call allow_kernel_signal in an appropriate place so that their
thread can receive this signal.

Fixing things this way ensures that userspace won't be able to send
signals and cause problems, that it is clear which signals the
threads are expecting to receive, and it guarantees that nothing
else in the system will be affected.

This change was partly inspired by similar cifs and drbd patches that
added allow_signal.

Reported-by: ronnie sahlberg &lt;ronniesahlberg@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Christoph Böhmwalder &lt;christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com&gt;
Tested-by: Christoph Böhmwalder &lt;christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com&gt;
Cc: Steve French &lt;smfrench@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Philipp Reisner &lt;philipp.reisner@linbit.com&gt;
Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@ACULAB.COM&gt;
Fixes: 247bc9470b1e ("cifs: fix rmmod regression in cifs.ko caused by force_sig changes")
Fixes: 72abe3bcf091 ("signal/cifs: Fix cifs_put_tcp_session to call send_sig instead of force_sig")
Fixes: fee109901f39 ("signal/drbd: Use send_sig not force_sig")
Fixes: 3cf5d076fb4d ("signal: Remove task parameter from force_sig")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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My recent to change to only use force_sig for a synchronous events
wound up breaking signal reception cifs and drbd.  I had overlooked
the fact that by default kthreads start out with all signals set to
SIG_IGN.  So a change I thought was safe turned out to have made it
impossible for those kernel thread to catch their signals.

Reverting the work on force_sig is a bad idea because what the code
was doing was very much a misuse of force_sig.  As the way force_sig
ultimately allowed the signal to happen was to change the signal
handler to SIG_DFL.  Which after the first signal will allow userspace
to send signals to these kernel threads.  At least for
wake_ack_receiver in drbd that does not appear actively wrong.

So correct this problem by adding allow_kernel_signal that will allow
signals whose siginfo reports they were sent by the kernel through,
but will not allow userspace generated signals, and update cifs and
drbd to call allow_kernel_signal in an appropriate place so that their
thread can receive this signal.

Fixing things this way ensures that userspace won't be able to send
signals and cause problems, that it is clear which signals the
threads are expecting to receive, and it guarantees that nothing
else in the system will be affected.

This change was partly inspired by similar cifs and drbd patches that
added allow_signal.

Reported-by: ronnie sahlberg &lt;ronniesahlberg@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Christoph Böhmwalder &lt;christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com&gt;
Tested-by: Christoph Böhmwalder &lt;christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com&gt;
Cc: Steve French &lt;smfrench@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Philipp Reisner &lt;philipp.reisner@linbit.com&gt;
Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@ACULAB.COM&gt;
Fixes: 247bc9470b1e ("cifs: fix rmmod regression in cifs.ko caused by force_sig changes")
Fixes: 72abe3bcf091 ("signal/cifs: Fix cifs_put_tcp_session to call send_sig instead of force_sig")
Fixes: fee109901f39 ("signal/drbd: Use send_sig not force_sig")
Fixes: 3cf5d076fb4d ("signal: Remove task parameter from force_sig")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>xen/blkback: fix memory leaks</title>
<updated>2019-08-12T14:18:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wenwen Wang</name>
<email>wenwen@cs.uga.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-11T17:23:22+00:00</published>
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In read_per_ring_refs(), after 'req' and related memory regions are
allocated, xen_blkif_map() is invoked to map the shared frame, irq, and
etc. However, if this mapping process fails, no cleanup is performed,
leading to memory leaks. To fix this issue, invoke the cleanup before
returning the error.

Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné &lt;roger.pau@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang &lt;wenwen@cs.uga.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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In read_per_ring_refs(), after 'req' and related memory regions are
allocated, xen_blkif_map() is invoked to map the shared frame, irq, and
etc. However, if this mapping process fails, no cleanup is performed,
leading to memory leaks. To fix this issue, invoke the cleanup before
returning the error.

Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné &lt;roger.pau@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang &lt;wenwen@cs.uga.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>loop: set PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO for the worker thread</title>
<updated>2019-08-08T16:12:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-08T15:17:01+00:00</published>
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A deadlock with this stacktrace was observed.

The loop thread does a GFP_KERNEL allocation, it calls into dm-bufio
shrinker and the shrinker depends on I/O completion in the dm-bufio
subsystem.

In order to fix the deadlock (and other similar ones), we set the flag
PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO at loop thread entry.

PID: 474    TASK: ffff8813e11f4600  CPU: 10  COMMAND: "kswapd0"
   #0 [ffff8813dedfb938] __schedule at ffffffff8173f405
   #1 [ffff8813dedfb990] schedule at ffffffff8173fa27
   #2 [ffff8813dedfb9b0] schedule_timeout at ffffffff81742fec
   #3 [ffff8813dedfba60] io_schedule_timeout at ffffffff8173f186
   #4 [ffff8813dedfbaa0] bit_wait_io at ffffffff8174034f
   #5 [ffff8813dedfbac0] __wait_on_bit at ffffffff8173fec8
   #6 [ffff8813dedfbb10] out_of_line_wait_on_bit at ffffffff8173ff81
   #7 [ffff8813dedfbb90] __make_buffer_clean at ffffffffa038736f [dm_bufio]
   #8 [ffff8813dedfbbb0] __try_evict_buffer at ffffffffa0387bb8 [dm_bufio]
   #9 [ffff8813dedfbbd0] dm_bufio_shrink_scan at ffffffffa0387cc3 [dm_bufio]
  #10 [ffff8813dedfbc40] shrink_slab at ffffffff811a87ce
  #11 [ffff8813dedfbd30] shrink_zone at ffffffff811ad778
  #12 [ffff8813dedfbdc0] kswapd at ffffffff811ae92f
  #13 [ffff8813dedfbec0] kthread at ffffffff810a8428
  #14 [ffff8813dedfbf50] ret_from_fork at ffffffff81745242

  PID: 14127  TASK: ffff881455749c00  CPU: 11  COMMAND: "loop1"
   #0 [ffff88272f5af228] __schedule at ffffffff8173f405
   #1 [ffff88272f5af280] schedule at ffffffff8173fa27
   #2 [ffff88272f5af2a0] schedule_preempt_disabled at ffffffff8173fd5e
   #3 [ffff88272f5af2b0] __mutex_lock_slowpath at ffffffff81741fb5
   #4 [ffff88272f5af330] mutex_lock at ffffffff81742133
   #5 [ffff88272f5af350] dm_bufio_shrink_count at ffffffffa03865f9 [dm_bufio]
   #6 [ffff88272f5af380] shrink_slab at ffffffff811a86bd
   #7 [ffff88272f5af470] shrink_zone at ffffffff811ad778
   #8 [ffff88272f5af500] do_try_to_free_pages at ffffffff811adb34
   #9 [ffff88272f5af590] try_to_free_pages at ffffffff811adef8
  #10 [ffff88272f5af610] __alloc_pages_nodemask at ffffffff811a09c3
  #11 [ffff88272f5af710] alloc_pages_current at ffffffff811e8b71
  #12 [ffff88272f5af760] new_slab at ffffffff811f4523
  #13 [ffff88272f5af7b0] __slab_alloc at ffffffff8173a1b5
  #14 [ffff88272f5af880] kmem_cache_alloc at ffffffff811f484b
  #15 [ffff88272f5af8d0] do_blockdev_direct_IO at ffffffff812535b3
  #16 [ffff88272f5afb00] __blockdev_direct_IO at ffffffff81255dc3
  #17 [ffff88272f5afb30] xfs_vm_direct_IO at ffffffffa01fe3fc [xfs]
  #18 [ffff88272f5afb90] generic_file_read_iter at ffffffff81198994
  #19 [ffff88272f5afc50] __dta_xfs_file_read_iter_2398 at ffffffffa020c970 [xfs]
  #20 [ffff88272f5afcc0] lo_rw_aio at ffffffffa0377042 [loop]
  #21 [ffff88272f5afd70] loop_queue_work at ffffffffa0377c3b [loop]
  #22 [ffff88272f5afe60] kthread_worker_fn at ffffffff810a8a0c
  #23 [ffff88272f5afec0] kthread at ffffffff810a8428
  #24 [ffff88272f5aff50] ret_from_fork at ffffffff81745242

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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A deadlock with this stacktrace was observed.

The loop thread does a GFP_KERNEL allocation, it calls into dm-bufio
shrinker and the shrinker depends on I/O completion in the dm-bufio
subsystem.

In order to fix the deadlock (and other similar ones), we set the flag
PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO at loop thread entry.

PID: 474    TASK: ffff8813e11f4600  CPU: 10  COMMAND: "kswapd0"
   #0 [ffff8813dedfb938] __schedule at ffffffff8173f405
   #1 [ffff8813dedfb990] schedule at ffffffff8173fa27
   #2 [ffff8813dedfb9b0] schedule_timeout at ffffffff81742fec
   #3 [ffff8813dedfba60] io_schedule_timeout at ffffffff8173f186
   #4 [ffff8813dedfbaa0] bit_wait_io at ffffffff8174034f
   #5 [ffff8813dedfbac0] __wait_on_bit at ffffffff8173fec8
   #6 [ffff8813dedfbb10] out_of_line_wait_on_bit at ffffffff8173ff81
   #7 [ffff8813dedfbb90] __make_buffer_clean at ffffffffa038736f [dm_bufio]
   #8 [ffff8813dedfbbb0] __try_evict_buffer at ffffffffa0387bb8 [dm_bufio]
   #9 [ffff8813dedfbbd0] dm_bufio_shrink_scan at ffffffffa0387cc3 [dm_bufio]
  #10 [ffff8813dedfbc40] shrink_slab at ffffffff811a87ce
  #11 [ffff8813dedfbd30] shrink_zone at ffffffff811ad778
  #12 [ffff8813dedfbdc0] kswapd at ffffffff811ae92f
  #13 [ffff8813dedfbec0] kthread at ffffffff810a8428
  #14 [ffff8813dedfbf50] ret_from_fork at ffffffff81745242

  PID: 14127  TASK: ffff881455749c00  CPU: 11  COMMAND: "loop1"
   #0 [ffff88272f5af228] __schedule at ffffffff8173f405
   #1 [ffff88272f5af280] schedule at ffffffff8173fa27
   #2 [ffff88272f5af2a0] schedule_preempt_disabled at ffffffff8173fd5e
   #3 [ffff88272f5af2b0] __mutex_lock_slowpath at ffffffff81741fb5
   #4 [ffff88272f5af330] mutex_lock at ffffffff81742133
   #5 [ffff88272f5af350] dm_bufio_shrink_count at ffffffffa03865f9 [dm_bufio]
   #6 [ffff88272f5af380] shrink_slab at ffffffff811a86bd
   #7 [ffff88272f5af470] shrink_zone at ffffffff811ad778
   #8 [ffff88272f5af500] do_try_to_free_pages at ffffffff811adb34
   #9 [ffff88272f5af590] try_to_free_pages at ffffffff811adef8
  #10 [ffff88272f5af610] __alloc_pages_nodemask at ffffffff811a09c3
  #11 [ffff88272f5af710] alloc_pages_current at ffffffff811e8b71
  #12 [ffff88272f5af760] new_slab at ffffffff811f4523
  #13 [ffff88272f5af7b0] __slab_alloc at ffffffff8173a1b5
  #14 [ffff88272f5af880] kmem_cache_alloc at ffffffff811f484b
  #15 [ffff88272f5af8d0] do_blockdev_direct_IO at ffffffff812535b3
  #16 [ffff88272f5afb00] __blockdev_direct_IO at ffffffff81255dc3
  #17 [ffff88272f5afb30] xfs_vm_direct_IO at ffffffffa01fe3fc [xfs]
  #18 [ffff88272f5afb90] generic_file_read_iter at ffffffff81198994
  #19 [ffff88272f5afc50] __dta_xfs_file_read_iter_2398 at ffffffffa020c970 [xfs]
  #20 [ffff88272f5afcc0] lo_rw_aio at ffffffffa0377042 [loop]
  #21 [ffff88272f5afd70] loop_queue_work at ffffffffa0377c3b [loop]
  #22 [ffff88272f5afe60] kthread_worker_fn at ffffffff810a8a0c
  #23 [ffff88272f5afec0] kthread at ffffffff810a8428
  #24 [ffff88272f5aff50] ret_from_fork at ffffffff81745242

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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