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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>random: mix rdrand with entropy sent in from userspace</title>
<updated>2018-11-20T18:05:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-15T03:55:57+00:00</published>
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commit 81e69df38e2911b642ec121dec319fad2a4782f3 upstream.

Fedora has integrated the jitter entropy daemon to work around slow
boot problems, especially on VM's that don't support virtio-rng:

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1572944

It's understandable why they did this, but the Jitter entropy daemon
works fundamentally on the principle: "the CPU microarchitecture is
**so** complicated and we can't figure it out, so it *must* be
random".  Yes, it uses statistical tests to "prove" it is secure, but
AES_ENCRYPT(NSA_KEY, COUNTER++) will also pass statistical tests with
flying colors.

So if RDRAND is available, mix it into entropy submitted from
userspace.  It can't hurt, and if you believe the NSA has backdoored
RDRAND, then they probably have enough details about the Intel
microarchitecture that they can reverse engineer how the Jitter
entropy daemon affects the microarchitecture, and attack its output
stream.  And if RDRAND is in fact an honest DRNG, it will immeasurably
improve on what the Jitter entropy daemon might produce.

This also provides some protection against someone who is able to read
or set the entropy seed file.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 81e69df38e2911b642ec121dec319fad2a4782f3 upstream.

Fedora has integrated the jitter entropy daemon to work around slow
boot problems, especially on VM's that don't support virtio-rng:

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1572944

It's understandable why they did this, but the Jitter entropy daemon
works fundamentally on the principle: "the CPU microarchitecture is
**so** complicated and we can't figure it out, so it *must* be
random".  Yes, it uses statistical tests to "prove" it is secure, but
AES_ENCRYPT(NSA_KEY, COUNTER++) will also pass statistical tests with
flying colors.

So if RDRAND is available, mix it into entropy submitted from
userspace.  It can't hurt, and if you believe the NSA has backdoored
RDRAND, then they probably have enough details about the Intel
microarchitecture that they can reverse engineer how the Jitter
entropy daemon affects the microarchitecture, and attack its output
stream.  And if RDRAND is in fact an honest DRNG, it will immeasurably
improve on what the Jitter entropy daemon might produce.

This also provides some protection against someone who is able to read
or set the entropy seed file.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>random: add interrupt callback to VMBus IRQ handler</title>
<updated>2016-11-20T01:16:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephan Mueller</name>
<email>smueller@chronox.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-02T06:14:34+00:00</published>
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commit 4b44f2d18a330565227a7348844493c59366171e upstream.

The Hyper-V Linux Integration Services use the VMBus implementation for
communication with the Hypervisor. VMBus registers its own interrupt
handler that completely bypasses the common Linux interrupt handling.
This implies that the interrupt entropy collector is not triggered.

This patch adds the interrupt entropy collection callback into the VMBus
interrupt handler function.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller &lt;stephan.mueller@atsec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller &lt;smueller@chronox.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 4b44f2d18a330565227a7348844493c59366171e upstream.

The Hyper-V Linux Integration Services use the VMBus implementation for
communication with the Hypervisor. VMBus registers its own interrupt
handler that completely bypasses the common Linux interrupt handling.
This implies that the interrupt entropy collector is not triggered.

This patch adds the interrupt entropy collection callback into the VMBus
interrupt handler function.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller &lt;stephan.mueller@atsec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller &lt;smueller@chronox.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>random: print a warning for the first ten uninitialized random users</title>
<updated>2016-11-20T01:16:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-13T14:10:51+00:00</published>
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commit 9b4d008787f864f17d008c9c15bbe8a0f7e2fc24 upstream.

Since systemd is consistently using /dev/urandom before it is
initialized, we can't see the other potentially dangerous users of
/dev/urandom immediately after boot.  So print the first ten such
complaints instead.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 9b4d008787f864f17d008c9c15bbe8a0f7e2fc24 upstream.

Since systemd is consistently using /dev/urandom before it is
initialized, we can't see the other potentially dangerous users of
/dev/urandom immediately after boot.  So print the first ten such
complaints instead.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>random: add and use memzero_explicit() for clearing data</title>
<updated>2014-11-05T11:43:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>dborkman@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-27T03:16:35+00:00</published>
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commit d4c5efdb97773f59a2b711754ca0953f24516739 upstream.

zatimend has reported that in his environment (3.16/gcc4.8.3/corei7)
memset() calls which clear out sensitive data in extract_{buf,entropy,
entropy_user}() in random driver are being optimized away by gcc.

Add a helper memzero_explicit() (similarly as explicit_bzero() variants)
that can be used in such cases where a variable with sensitive data is
being cleared out in the end. Other use cases might also be in crypto
code. [ I have put this into lib/string.c though, as it's always built-in
and doesn't need any dependencies then. ]

Fixes kernel bugzilla: 82041

Reported-by: zatimend@hotmail.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
[ kamal: backport to 3.13-stable: one more memzero_explicit in extract_buf() ]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa &lt;kamal@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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commit d4c5efdb97773f59a2b711754ca0953f24516739 upstream.

zatimend has reported that in his environment (3.16/gcc4.8.3/corei7)
memset() calls which clear out sensitive data in extract_{buf,entropy,
entropy_user}() in random driver are being optimized away by gcc.

Add a helper memzero_explicit() (similarly as explicit_bzero() variants)
that can be used in such cases where a variable with sensitive data is
being cleared out in the end. Other use cases might also be in crypto
code. [ I have put this into lib/string.c though, as it's always built-in
and doesn't need any dependencies then. ]

Fixes kernel bugzilla: 82041

Reported-by: zatimend@hotmail.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
[ kamal: backport to 3.13-stable: one more memzero_explicit in extract_buf() ]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa &lt;kamal@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>random: check for increase of entropy_count because of signed conversion</title>
<updated>2014-07-19T05:42:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hannes Frederic Sowa</name>
<email>hannes@stressinduktion.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-18T21:26:41+00:00</published>
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The expression entropy_count -= ibytes &lt;&lt; (ENTROPY_SHIFT + 3) could
actually increase entropy_count if during assignment of the unsigned
expression on the RHS (mind the -=) we reduce the value modulo
2^width(int) and assign it to entropy_count. Trinity found this.

[ Commit modified by tytso to add an additional safety check for a
  negative entropy_count -- which should never happen, and to also add
  an additional paranoia check to prevent overly large count values to
  be passed into urandom_read().  ]

Reported-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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The expression entropy_count -= ibytes &lt;&lt; (ENTROPY_SHIFT + 3) could
actually increase entropy_count if during assignment of the unsigned
expression on the RHS (mind the -=) we reduce the value modulo
2^width(int) and assign it to entropy_count. Trinity found this.

[ Commit modified by tytso to add an additional safety check for a
  negative entropy_count -- which should never happen, and to also add
  an additional paranoia check to prevent overly large count values to
  be passed into urandom_read().  ]

Reported-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random</title>
<updated>2014-06-18T00:23:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-18T00:23:14+00:00</published>
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Pull randomness bugfix from Ted Ts'o:
 "random: fix entropy accounting bug introduced in v3.15"

* tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random:
  random: fix nasty entropy accounting bug
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Pull randomness bugfix from Ted Ts'o:
 "random: fix entropy accounting bug introduced in v3.15"

* tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random:
  random: fix nasty entropy accounting bug
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>random: fix nasty entropy accounting bug</title>
<updated>2014-06-16T01:04:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-16T01:04:32+00:00</published>
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Commit 0fb7a01af5b0 "random: simplify accounting code", introduced in
v3.15, has a very nasty accounting problem when the entropy pool has
has fewer bytes of entropy than the number of requested reserved
bytes.  In that case, "have_bytes - reserved" goes negative, and since
size_t is unsigned, the expression:

       ibytes = min_t(size_t, ibytes, have_bytes - reserved);

... does not do the right thing.  This is rather bad, because it
defeats the catastrophic reseeding feature in the
xfer_secondary_pool() path.

It also can cause the "BUG: spinlock trylock failure on UP" for some
kernel configurations when prandom_reseed() calls get_random_bytes()
in the early init, since when the entropy count gets corrupted,
credit_entropy_bits() erroneously believes that the nonblocking pool
has been fully initialized (when in fact it is not), and so it calls
prandom_reseed(true) recursively leading to the spinlock BUG.

The logic is *not* the same it was originally, but in the cases where
it matters, the behavior is the same, and the resulting code is
hopefully easier to read and understand.

Fixes: 0fb7a01af5b0 "random: simplify accounting code"
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Greg Price &lt;price@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org  #v3.15
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Commit 0fb7a01af5b0 "random: simplify accounting code", introduced in
v3.15, has a very nasty accounting problem when the entropy pool has
has fewer bytes of entropy than the number of requested reserved
bytes.  In that case, "have_bytes - reserved" goes negative, and since
size_t is unsigned, the expression:

       ibytes = min_t(size_t, ibytes, have_bytes - reserved);

... does not do the right thing.  This is rather bad, because it
defeats the catastrophic reseeding feature in the
xfer_secondary_pool() path.

It also can cause the "BUG: spinlock trylock failure on UP" for some
kernel configurations when prandom_reseed() calls get_random_bytes()
in the early init, since when the entropy count gets corrupted,
credit_entropy_bits() erroneously believes that the nonblocking pool
has been fully initialized (when in fact it is not), and so it calls
prandom_reseed(true) recursively leading to the spinlock BUG.

The logic is *not* the same it was originally, but in the cases where
it matters, the behavior is the same, and the resulting code is
hopefully easier to read and understand.

Fixes: 0fb7a01af5b0 "random: simplify accounting code"
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Greg Price &lt;price@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org  #v3.15
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>random: convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table</title>
<updated>2014-06-06T23:08:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-06T21:37:58+00:00</published>
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This typedef is unnecessary and should just be removed.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.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 typedef is unnecessary and should just be removed.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.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>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.16/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block into next</title>
<updated>2014-06-02T16:29:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-02T16:29:34+00:00</published>
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Pull block core updates from Jens Axboe:
 "It's a big(ish) round this time, lots of development effort has gone
  into blk-mq in the last 3 months.  Generally we're heading to where
  3.16 will be a feature complete and performant blk-mq.  scsi-mq is
  progressing nicely and will hopefully be in 3.17.  A nvme port is in
  progress, and the Micron pci-e flash driver, mtip32xx, is converted
  and will be sent in with the driver pull request for 3.16.

  This pull request contains:

   - Lots of prep and support patches for scsi-mq have been integrated.
     All from Christoph.

   - API and code cleanups for blk-mq from Christoph.

   - Lots of good corner case and error handling cleanup fixes for
     blk-mq from Ming Lei.

   - A flew of blk-mq updates from me:

     * Provide strict mappings so that the driver can rely on the CPU
       to queue mapping.  This enables optimizations in the driver.

     * Provided a bitmap tagging instead of percpu_ida, which never
       really worked well for blk-mq.  percpu_ida relies on the fact
       that we have a lot more tags available than we really need, it
       fails miserably for cases where we exhaust (or are close to
       exhausting) the tag space.

     * Provide sane support for shared tag maps, as utilized by scsi-mq

     * Various fixes for IO timeouts.

     * API cleanups, and lots of perf tweaks and optimizations.

   - Remove 'buffer' from struct request.  This is ancient code, from
     when requests were always virtually mapped.  Kill it, to reclaim
     some space in struct request.  From me.

   - Remove 'magic' from blk_plug.  Since we store these on the stack
     and since we've never caught any actual bugs with this, lets just
     get rid of it.  From me.

   - Only call part_in_flight() once for IO completion, as includes two
     atomic reads.  Hopefully we'll get a better implementation soon, as
     the part IO stats are now one of the more expensive parts of doing
     IO on blk-mq.  From me.

   - File migration of block code from {mm,fs}/ to block/.  This
     includes bio.c, bio-integrity.c, bounce.c, and ioprio.c.  From me,
     from a discussion on lkml.

  That should describe the meat of the pull request.  Also has various
  little fixes and cleanups from Dave Jones, Shaohua Li, Duan Jiong,
  Fengguang Wu, Fabian Frederick, Randy Dunlap, Robert Elliott, and Sam
  Bradshaw"

* 'for-3.16/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (100 commits)
  blk-mq: push IPI or local end_io decision to __blk_mq_complete_request()
  blk-mq: remember to start timeout handler for direct queue
  block: ensure that the timer is always added
  blk-mq: blk_mq_unregister_hctx() can be static
  blk-mq: make the sysfs mq/ layout reflect current mappings
  blk-mq: blk_mq_tag_to_rq should handle flush request
  block: remove dead code in scsi_ioctl:blk_verify_command
  blk-mq: request initialization optimizations
  block: add queue flag for disabling SG merging
  block: remove 'magic' from struct blk_plug
  blk-mq: remove alloc_hctx and free_hctx methods
  blk-mq: add file comments and update copyright notices
  blk-mq: remove blk_mq_alloc_request_pinned
  blk-mq: do not use blk_mq_alloc_request_pinned in blk_mq_map_request
  blk-mq: remove blk_mq_wait_for_tags
  blk-mq: initialize request in __blk_mq_alloc_request
  blk-mq: merge blk_mq_alloc_reserved_request into blk_mq_alloc_request
  blk-mq: add helper to insert requests from irq context
  blk-mq: remove stale comment for blk_mq_complete_request()
  blk-mq: allow non-softirq completions
  ...
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Pull block core updates from Jens Axboe:
 "It's a big(ish) round this time, lots of development effort has gone
  into blk-mq in the last 3 months.  Generally we're heading to where
  3.16 will be a feature complete and performant blk-mq.  scsi-mq is
  progressing nicely and will hopefully be in 3.17.  A nvme port is in
  progress, and the Micron pci-e flash driver, mtip32xx, is converted
  and will be sent in with the driver pull request for 3.16.

  This pull request contains:

   - Lots of prep and support patches for scsi-mq have been integrated.
     All from Christoph.

   - API and code cleanups for blk-mq from Christoph.

   - Lots of good corner case and error handling cleanup fixes for
     blk-mq from Ming Lei.

   - A flew of blk-mq updates from me:

     * Provide strict mappings so that the driver can rely on the CPU
       to queue mapping.  This enables optimizations in the driver.

     * Provided a bitmap tagging instead of percpu_ida, which never
       really worked well for blk-mq.  percpu_ida relies on the fact
       that we have a lot more tags available than we really need, it
       fails miserably for cases where we exhaust (or are close to
       exhausting) the tag space.

     * Provide sane support for shared tag maps, as utilized by scsi-mq

     * Various fixes for IO timeouts.

     * API cleanups, and lots of perf tweaks and optimizations.

   - Remove 'buffer' from struct request.  This is ancient code, from
     when requests were always virtually mapped.  Kill it, to reclaim
     some space in struct request.  From me.

   - Remove 'magic' from blk_plug.  Since we store these on the stack
     and since we've never caught any actual bugs with this, lets just
     get rid of it.  From me.

   - Only call part_in_flight() once for IO completion, as includes two
     atomic reads.  Hopefully we'll get a better implementation soon, as
     the part IO stats are now one of the more expensive parts of doing
     IO on blk-mq.  From me.

   - File migration of block code from {mm,fs}/ to block/.  This
     includes bio.c, bio-integrity.c, bounce.c, and ioprio.c.  From me,
     from a discussion on lkml.

  That should describe the meat of the pull request.  Also has various
  little fixes and cleanups from Dave Jones, Shaohua Li, Duan Jiong,
  Fengguang Wu, Fabian Frederick, Randy Dunlap, Robert Elliott, and Sam
  Bradshaw"

* 'for-3.16/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (100 commits)
  blk-mq: push IPI or local end_io decision to __blk_mq_complete_request()
  blk-mq: remember to start timeout handler for direct queue
  block: ensure that the timer is always added
  blk-mq: blk_mq_unregister_hctx() can be static
  blk-mq: make the sysfs mq/ layout reflect current mappings
  blk-mq: blk_mq_tag_to_rq should handle flush request
  block: remove dead code in scsi_ioctl:blk_verify_command
  blk-mq: request initialization optimizations
  block: add queue flag for disabling SG merging
  block: remove 'magic' from struct blk_plug
  blk-mq: remove alloc_hctx and free_hctx methods
  blk-mq: add file comments and update copyright notices
  blk-mq: remove blk_mq_alloc_request_pinned
  blk-mq: do not use blk_mq_alloc_request_pinned in blk_mq_map_request
  blk-mq: remove blk_mq_wait_for_tags
  blk-mq: initialize request in __blk_mq_alloc_request
  blk-mq: merge blk_mq_alloc_reserved_request into blk_mq_alloc_request
  blk-mq: add helper to insert requests from irq context
  blk-mq: remove stale comment for blk_mq_complete_request()
  blk-mq: allow non-softirq completions
  ...
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<title>random: fix BUG_ON caused by accounting simplification</title>
<updated>2014-05-17T02:18:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-17T01:40:41+00:00</published>
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Commit ee1de406ba6eb1 ("random: simplify accounting logic") simplified
things too much, in that it allows the following to trigger an
overflow that results in a BUG_ON crash:

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/zero bs=67108707 count=1

Thanks to Peter Zihlstra for discovering the crash, and Hannes
Frederic for analyizing the root cause.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reported-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Price &lt;price@mit.edu&gt;
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Commit ee1de406ba6eb1 ("random: simplify accounting logic") simplified
things too much, in that it allows the following to trigger an
overflow that results in a BUG_ON crash:

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/zero bs=67108707 count=1

Thanks to Peter Zihlstra for discovering the crash, and Hannes
Frederic for analyizing the root cause.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reported-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Price &lt;price@mit.edu&gt;
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