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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>cifs: fix dentry refcount leak when opening a FIFO on lookup</title>
<updated>2012-03-12T19:31:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-23T14:37:45+00:00</published>
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commit 5bccda0ebc7c0331b81ac47d39e4b920b198b2cd upstream.

The cifs code will attempt to open files on lookup under certain
circumstances. What happens though if we find that the file we opened
was actually a FIFO or other special file?

Currently, the open filehandle just ends up being leaked leading to
a dentry refcount mismatch and oops on umount. Fix this by having the
code close the filehandle on the server if it turns out not to be a
regular file. While we're at it, change this spaghetti if statement
into a switch too.

Reported-by: CAI Qian &lt;caiqian@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: CAI Qian &lt;caiqian@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Shirish Pargaonkar &lt;shirishpargaonkar@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;smfrench@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 5bccda0ebc7c0331b81ac47d39e4b920b198b2cd upstream.

The cifs code will attempt to open files on lookup under certain
circumstances. What happens though if we find that the file we opened
was actually a FIFO or other special file?

Currently, the open filehandle just ends up being leaked leading to
a dentry refcount mismatch and oops on umount. Fix this by having the
code close the filehandle on the server if it turns out not to be a
regular file. While we're at it, change this spaghetti if statement
into a switch too.

Reported-by: CAI Qian &lt;caiqian@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: CAI Qian &lt;caiqian@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Shirish Pargaonkar &lt;shirishpargaonkar@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;smfrench@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>aio: wake up waiters when freeing unused kiocbs</title>
<updated>2012-03-12T19:31:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Moyer</name>
<email>jmoyer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-05T22:59:12+00:00</published>
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commit 880641bb9da2473e9ecf6c708d993b29928c1b3c upstream.

Bart Van Assche reported a hung fio process when either hot-removing
storage or when interrupting the fio process itself.  The (pruned) call
trace for the latter looks like so:

  fio             D 0000000000000001     0  6849   6848 0x00000004
   ffff880092541b88 0000000000000046 ffff880000000000 ffff88012fa11dc0
   ffff88012404be70 ffff880092541fd8 ffff880092541fd8 ffff880092541fd8
   ffff880128b894d0 ffff88012404be70 ffff880092541b88 000000018106f24d
  Call Trace:
    schedule+0x3f/0x60
    io_schedule+0x8f/0xd0
    wait_for_all_aios+0xc0/0x100
    exit_aio+0x55/0xc0
    mmput+0x2d/0x110
    exit_mm+0x10d/0x130
    do_exit+0x671/0x860
    do_group_exit+0x44/0xb0
    get_signal_to_deliver+0x218/0x5a0
    do_signal+0x65/0x700
    do_notify_resume+0x65/0x80
    int_signal+0x12/0x17

The problem lies with the allocation batching code.  It will
opportunistically allocate kiocbs, and then trim back the list of iocbs
when there is not enough room in the completion ring to hold all of the
events.

In the case above, what happens is that the pruning back of events ends
up freeing up the last active request and the context is marked as dead,
so it is thus responsible for waking up waiters.  Unfortunately, the
code does not check for this condition, so we end up with a hung task.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Tested-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 880641bb9da2473e9ecf6c708d993b29928c1b3c upstream.

Bart Van Assche reported a hung fio process when either hot-removing
storage or when interrupting the fio process itself.  The (pruned) call
trace for the latter looks like so:

  fio             D 0000000000000001     0  6849   6848 0x00000004
   ffff880092541b88 0000000000000046 ffff880000000000 ffff88012fa11dc0
   ffff88012404be70 ffff880092541fd8 ffff880092541fd8 ffff880092541fd8
   ffff880128b894d0 ffff88012404be70 ffff880092541b88 000000018106f24d
  Call Trace:
    schedule+0x3f/0x60
    io_schedule+0x8f/0xd0
    wait_for_all_aios+0xc0/0x100
    exit_aio+0x55/0xc0
    mmput+0x2d/0x110
    exit_mm+0x10d/0x130
    do_exit+0x671/0x860
    do_group_exit+0x44/0xb0
    get_signal_to_deliver+0x218/0x5a0
    do_signal+0x65/0x700
    do_notify_resume+0x65/0x80
    int_signal+0x12/0x17

The problem lies with the allocation batching code.  It will
opportunistically allocate kiocbs, and then trim back the list of iocbs
when there is not enough room in the completion ring to hold all of the
events.

In the case above, what happens is that the pruning back of events ends
up freeing up the last active request and the context is marked as dead,
so it is thus responsible for waking up waiters.  Unfortunately, the
code does not check for this condition, so we end up with a hung task.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Tested-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>regset: Prevent null pointer reference on readonly regsets</title>
<updated>2012-03-12T19:31:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-02T18:43:48+00:00</published>
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commit c8e252586f8d5de906385d8cf6385fee289a825e upstream.

The regset common infrastructure assumed that regsets would always
have .get and .set methods, but not necessarily .active methods.
Unfortunately people have since written regsets without .set methods.

Rather than putting in stub functions everywhere, handle regsets with
null .get or .set methods explicitly.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@hack.frob.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c8e252586f8d5de906385d8cf6385fee289a825e upstream.

The regset common infrastructure assumed that regsets would always
have .get and .set methods, but not necessarily .active methods.
Unfortunately people have since written regsets without .set methods.

Rather than putting in stub functions everywhere, handle regsets with
null .get or .set methods explicitly.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@hack.frob.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>autofs: work around unhappy compat problem on x86-64</title>
<updated>2012-03-12T19:31:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Kent</name>
<email>raven@themaw.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-22T12:45:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=cebf41113cb3be7113732039c7c22ef00decd6c0'/>
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commit a32744d4abae24572eff7269bc17895c41bd0085 upstream.

When the autofs protocol version 5 packet type was added in commit
5c0a32fc2cd0 ("autofs4: add new packet type for v5 communications"), it
obvously tried quite hard to be word-size agnostic, and uses explicitly
sized fields that are all correctly aligned.

However, with the final "char name[NAME_MAX+1]" array at the end, the
actual size of the structure ends up being not very well defined:
because the struct isn't marked 'packed', doing a "sizeof()" on it will
align the size of the struct up to the biggest alignment of the members
it has.

And despite all the members being the same, the alignment of them is
different: a "__u64" has 4-byte alignment on x86-32, but native 8-byte
alignment on x86-64.  And while 'NAME_MAX+1' ends up being a nice round
number (256), the name[] array starts out a 4-byte aligned.

End result: the "packed" size of the structure is 300 bytes: 4-byte, but
not 8-byte aligned.

As a result, despite all the fields being in the same place on all
architectures, sizeof() will round up that size to 304 bytes on
architectures that have 8-byte alignment for u64.

Note that this is *not* a problem for 32-bit compat mode on POWER, since
there __u64 is 8-byte aligned even in 32-bit mode.  But on x86, 32-bit
and 64-bit alignment is different for 64-bit entities, and as a result
the structure that has exactly the same layout has different sizes.

So on x86-64, but no other architecture, we will just subtract 4 from
the size of the structure when running in a compat task.  That way we
will write the properly sized packet that user mode expects.

Not pretty.  Sadly, this very subtle, and unnecessary, size difference
has been encoded in user space that wants to read packets of *exactly*
the right size, and will refuse to touch anything else.

Reported-and-tested-by: Thomas Meyer &lt;thomas@m3y3r.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Nieder &lt;jrnieder@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit a32744d4abae24572eff7269bc17895c41bd0085 upstream.

When the autofs protocol version 5 packet type was added in commit
5c0a32fc2cd0 ("autofs4: add new packet type for v5 communications"), it
obvously tried quite hard to be word-size agnostic, and uses explicitly
sized fields that are all correctly aligned.

However, with the final "char name[NAME_MAX+1]" array at the end, the
actual size of the structure ends up being not very well defined:
because the struct isn't marked 'packed', doing a "sizeof()" on it will
align the size of the struct up to the biggest alignment of the members
it has.

And despite all the members being the same, the alignment of them is
different: a "__u64" has 4-byte alignment on x86-32, but native 8-byte
alignment on x86-64.  And while 'NAME_MAX+1' ends up being a nice round
number (256), the name[] array starts out a 4-byte aligned.

End result: the "packed" size of the structure is 300 bytes: 4-byte, but
not 8-byte aligned.

As a result, despite all the fields being in the same place on all
architectures, sizeof() will round up that size to 304 bytes on
architectures that have 8-byte alignment for u64.

Note that this is *not* a problem for 32-bit compat mode on POWER, since
there __u64 is 8-byte aligned even in 32-bit mode.  But on x86, 32-bit
and 64-bit alignment is different for 64-bit entities, and as a result
the structure that has exactly the same layout has different sizes.

So on x86-64, but no other architecture, we will just subtract 4 from
the size of the structure when running in a compat task.  That way we
will write the properly sized packet that user mode expects.

Not pretty.  Sadly, this very subtle, and unnecessary, size difference
has been encoded in user space that wants to read packets of *exactly*
the right size, and will refuse to touch anything else.

Reported-and-tested-by: Thomas Meyer &lt;thomas@m3y3r.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Nieder &lt;jrnieder@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>epoll: limit paths</title>
<updated>2012-03-01T00:31:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Baron</name>
<email>jbaron@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-13T01:17:43+00:00</published>
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commit 28d82dc1c4edbc352129f97f4ca22624d1fe61de upstream.

The current epoll code can be tickled to run basically indefinitely in
both loop detection path check (on ep_insert()), and in the wakeup paths.
The programs that tickle this behavior set up deeply linked networks of
epoll file descriptors that cause the epoll algorithms to traverse them
indefinitely.  A couple of these sample programs have been previously
posted in this thread: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/25/297.

To fix the loop detection path check algorithms, I simply keep track of
the epoll nodes that have been already visited.  Thus, the loop detection
becomes proportional to the number of epoll file descriptor and links.
This dramatically decreases the run-time of the loop check algorithm.  In
one diabolical case I tried it reduced the run-time from 15 mintues (all
in kernel time) to .3 seconds.

Fixing the wakeup paths could be done at wakeup time in a similar manner
by keeping track of nodes that have already been visited, but the
complexity is harder, since there can be multiple wakeups on different
cpus...Thus, I've opted to limit the number of possible wakeup paths when
the paths are created.

This is accomplished, by noting that the end file descriptor points that
are found during the loop detection pass (from the newly added link), are
actually the sources for wakeup events.  I keep a list of these file
descriptors and limit the number and length of these paths that emanate
from these 'source file descriptors'.  In the current implemetation I
allow 1000 paths of length 1, 500 of length 2, 100 of length 3, 50 of
length 4 and 10 of length 5.  Note that it is sufficient to check the
'source file descriptors' reachable from the newly added link, since no
other 'source file descriptors' will have newly added links.  This allows
us to check only the wakeup paths that may have gotten too long, and not
re-check all possible wakeup paths on the system.

In terms of the path limit selection, I think its first worth noting that
the most common case for epoll, is probably the model where you have 1
epoll file descriptor that is monitoring n number of 'source file
descriptors'.  In this case, each 'source file descriptor' has a 1 path of
length 1.  Thus, I believe that the limits I'm proposing are quite
reasonable and in fact may be too generous.  Thus, I'm hoping that the
proposed limits will not prevent any workloads that currently work to
fail.

In terms of locking, I have extended the use of the 'epmutex' to all
epoll_ctl add and remove operations.  Currently its only used in a subset
of the add paths.  I need to hold the epmutex, so that we can correctly
traverse a coherent graph, to check the number of paths.  I believe that
this additional locking is probably ok, since its in the setup/teardown
paths, and doesn't affect the running paths, but it certainly is going to
add some extra overhead.  Also, worth noting is that the epmuex was
recently added to the ep_ctl add operations in the initial path loop
detection code using the argument that it was not on a critical path.

Another thing to note here, is the length of epoll chains that is allowed.
Currently, eventpoll.c defines:

/* Maximum number of nesting allowed inside epoll sets */
#define EP_MAX_NESTS 4

This basically means that I am limited to a graph depth of 5 (EP_MAX_NESTS
+ 1).  However, this limit is currently only enforced during the loop
check detection code, and only when the epoll file descriptors are added
in a certain order.  Thus, this limit is currently easily bypassed.  The
newly added check for wakeup paths, stricly limits the wakeup paths to a
length of 5, regardless of the order in which ep's are linked together.
Thus, a side-effect of the new code is a more consistent enforcement of
the graph depth.

Thus far, I've tested this, using the sample programs previously
mentioned, which now either return quickly or return -EINVAL.  I've also
testing using the piptest.c epoll tester, which showed no difference in
performance.  I've also created a number of different epoll networks and
tested that they behave as expectded.

I believe this solves the original diabolical test cases, while still
preserving the sane epoll nesting.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Nelson Elhage &lt;nelhage@ksplice.com&gt;
Cc: Davide Libenzi &lt;davidel@xmailserver.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 28d82dc1c4edbc352129f97f4ca22624d1fe61de upstream.

The current epoll code can be tickled to run basically indefinitely in
both loop detection path check (on ep_insert()), and in the wakeup paths.
The programs that tickle this behavior set up deeply linked networks of
epoll file descriptors that cause the epoll algorithms to traverse them
indefinitely.  A couple of these sample programs have been previously
posted in this thread: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/25/297.

To fix the loop detection path check algorithms, I simply keep track of
the epoll nodes that have been already visited.  Thus, the loop detection
becomes proportional to the number of epoll file descriptor and links.
This dramatically decreases the run-time of the loop check algorithm.  In
one diabolical case I tried it reduced the run-time from 15 mintues (all
in kernel time) to .3 seconds.

Fixing the wakeup paths could be done at wakeup time in a similar manner
by keeping track of nodes that have already been visited, but the
complexity is harder, since there can be multiple wakeups on different
cpus...Thus, I've opted to limit the number of possible wakeup paths when
the paths are created.

This is accomplished, by noting that the end file descriptor points that
are found during the loop detection pass (from the newly added link), are
actually the sources for wakeup events.  I keep a list of these file
descriptors and limit the number and length of these paths that emanate
from these 'source file descriptors'.  In the current implemetation I
allow 1000 paths of length 1, 500 of length 2, 100 of length 3, 50 of
length 4 and 10 of length 5.  Note that it is sufficient to check the
'source file descriptors' reachable from the newly added link, since no
other 'source file descriptors' will have newly added links.  This allows
us to check only the wakeup paths that may have gotten too long, and not
re-check all possible wakeup paths on the system.

In terms of the path limit selection, I think its first worth noting that
the most common case for epoll, is probably the model where you have 1
epoll file descriptor that is monitoring n number of 'source file
descriptors'.  In this case, each 'source file descriptor' has a 1 path of
length 1.  Thus, I believe that the limits I'm proposing are quite
reasonable and in fact may be too generous.  Thus, I'm hoping that the
proposed limits will not prevent any workloads that currently work to
fail.

In terms of locking, I have extended the use of the 'epmutex' to all
epoll_ctl add and remove operations.  Currently its only used in a subset
of the add paths.  I need to hold the epmutex, so that we can correctly
traverse a coherent graph, to check the number of paths.  I believe that
this additional locking is probably ok, since its in the setup/teardown
paths, and doesn't affect the running paths, but it certainly is going to
add some extra overhead.  Also, worth noting is that the epmuex was
recently added to the ep_ctl add operations in the initial path loop
detection code using the argument that it was not on a critical path.

Another thing to note here, is the length of epoll chains that is allowed.
Currently, eventpoll.c defines:

/* Maximum number of nesting allowed inside epoll sets */
#define EP_MAX_NESTS 4

This basically means that I am limited to a graph depth of 5 (EP_MAX_NESTS
+ 1).  However, this limit is currently only enforced during the loop
check detection code, and only when the epoll file descriptors are added
in a certain order.  Thus, this limit is currently easily bypassed.  The
newly added check for wakeup paths, stricly limits the wakeup paths to a
length of 5, regardless of the order in which ep's are linked together.
Thus, a side-effect of the new code is a more consistent enforcement of
the graph depth.

Thus far, I've tested this, using the sample programs previously
mentioned, which now either return quickly or return -EINVAL.  I've also
testing using the piptest.c epoll tester, which showed no difference in
performance.  I've also created a number of different epoll networks and
tested that they behave as expectded.

I believe this solves the original diabolical test cases, while still
preserving the sane epoll nesting.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Nelson Elhage &lt;nelhage@ksplice.com&gt;
Cc: Davide Libenzi &lt;davidel@xmailserver.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>epoll: ep_unregister_pollwait() can use the freed pwq-&gt;whead</title>
<updated>2012-03-01T00:31:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-24T19:07:29+00:00</published>
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commit 971316f0503a5c50633d07b83b6db2f15a3a5b00 upstream.

signalfd_cleanup() ensures that -&gt;signalfd_wqh is not used, but
this is not enough. eppoll_entry-&gt;whead still points to the memory
we are going to free, ep_unregister_pollwait()-&gt;remove_wait_queue()
is obviously unsafe.

Change ep_poll_callback(POLLFREE) to set eppoll_entry-&gt;whead = NULL,
change ep_unregister_pollwait() to check pwq-&gt;whead != NULL under
rcu_read_lock() before remove_wait_queue(). We add the new helper,
ep_remove_wait_queue(), for this.

This works because sighand_cachep is SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU and because
-&gt;signalfd_wqh is initialized in sighand_ctor(), not in copy_sighand.
ep_unregister_pollwait()-&gt;remove_wait_queue() can play with already
freed and potentially reused -&gt;sighand, but this is fine. This memory
must have the valid -&gt;signalfd_wqh until rcu_read_unlock().

Reported-by: Maxime Bizon &lt;mbizon@freebox.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 971316f0503a5c50633d07b83b6db2f15a3a5b00 upstream.

signalfd_cleanup() ensures that -&gt;signalfd_wqh is not used, but
this is not enough. eppoll_entry-&gt;whead still points to the memory
we are going to free, ep_unregister_pollwait()-&gt;remove_wait_queue()
is obviously unsafe.

Change ep_poll_callback(POLLFREE) to set eppoll_entry-&gt;whead = NULL,
change ep_unregister_pollwait() to check pwq-&gt;whead != NULL under
rcu_read_lock() before remove_wait_queue(). We add the new helper,
ep_remove_wait_queue(), for this.

This works because sighand_cachep is SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU and because
-&gt;signalfd_wqh is initialized in sighand_ctor(), not in copy_sighand.
ep_unregister_pollwait()-&gt;remove_wait_queue() can play with already
freed and potentially reused -&gt;sighand, but this is fine. This memory
must have the valid -&gt;signalfd_wqh until rcu_read_unlock().

Reported-by: Maxime Bizon &lt;mbizon@freebox.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>epoll: introduce POLLFREE to flush -&gt;signalfd_wqh before kfree()</title>
<updated>2012-03-01T00:31:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-24T19:07:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7741374fa2e5b7fa48f674bdbac6e1d5edf55c5a'/>
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commit d80e731ecab420ddcb79ee9d0ac427acbc187b4b upstream.

This patch is intentionally incomplete to simplify the review.
It ignores ep_unregister_pollwait() which plays with the same wqh.
See the next change.

epoll assumes that the EPOLL_CTL_ADD'ed file controls everything
f_op-&gt;poll() needs. In particular it assumes that the wait queue
can't go away until eventpoll_release(). This is not true in case
of signalfd, the task which does EPOLL_CTL_ADD uses its -&gt;sighand
which is not connected to the file.

This patch adds the special event, POLLFREE, currently only for
epoll. It expects that init_poll_funcptr()'ed hook should do the
necessary cleanup. Perhaps it should be defined as EPOLLFREE in
eventpoll.

__cleanup_sighand() is changed to do wake_up_poll(POLLFREE) if
-&gt;signalfd_wqh is not empty, we add the new signalfd_cleanup()
helper.

ep_poll_callback(POLLFREE) simply does list_del_init(task_list).
This make this poll entry inconsistent, but we don't care. If you
share epoll fd which contains our sigfd with another process you
should blame yourself. signalfd is "really special". I simply do
not know how we can define the "right" semantics if it used with
epoll.

The main problem is, epoll calls signalfd_poll() once to establish
the connection with the wait queue, after that signalfd_poll(NULL)
returns the different/inconsistent results depending on who does
EPOLL_CTL_MOD/signalfd_read/etc. IOW: apart from sigmask, signalfd
has nothing to do with the file, it works with the current thread.

In short: this patch is the hack which tries to fix the symptoms.
It also assumes that nobody can take tasklist_lock under epoll
locks, this seems to be true.

Note:

	- we do not have wake_up_all_poll() but wake_up_poll()
	  is fine, poll/epoll doesn't use WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE.

	- signalfd_cleanup() uses POLLHUP along with POLLFREE,
	  we need a couple of simple changes in eventpoll.c to
	  make sure it can't be "lost".

Reported-by: Maxime Bizon &lt;mbizon@freebox.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d80e731ecab420ddcb79ee9d0ac427acbc187b4b upstream.

This patch is intentionally incomplete to simplify the review.
It ignores ep_unregister_pollwait() which plays with the same wqh.
See the next change.

epoll assumes that the EPOLL_CTL_ADD'ed file controls everything
f_op-&gt;poll() needs. In particular it assumes that the wait queue
can't go away until eventpoll_release(). This is not true in case
of signalfd, the task which does EPOLL_CTL_ADD uses its -&gt;sighand
which is not connected to the file.

This patch adds the special event, POLLFREE, currently only for
epoll. It expects that init_poll_funcptr()'ed hook should do the
necessary cleanup. Perhaps it should be defined as EPOLLFREE in
eventpoll.

__cleanup_sighand() is changed to do wake_up_poll(POLLFREE) if
-&gt;signalfd_wqh is not empty, we add the new signalfd_cleanup()
helper.

ep_poll_callback(POLLFREE) simply does list_del_init(task_list).
This make this poll entry inconsistent, but we don't care. If you
share epoll fd which contains our sigfd with another process you
should blame yourself. signalfd is "really special". I simply do
not know how we can define the "right" semantics if it used with
epoll.

The main problem is, epoll calls signalfd_poll() once to establish
the connection with the wait queue, after that signalfd_poll(NULL)
returns the different/inconsistent results depending on who does
EPOLL_CTL_MOD/signalfd_read/etc. IOW: apart from sigmask, signalfd
has nothing to do with the file, it works with the current thread.

In short: this patch is the hack which tries to fix the symptoms.
It also assumes that nobody can take tasklist_lock under epoll
locks, this seems to be true.

Note:

	- we do not have wake_up_all_poll() but wake_up_poll()
	  is fine, poll/epoll doesn't use WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE.

	- signalfd_cleanup() uses POLLHUP along with POLLFREE,
	  we need a couple of simple changes in eventpoll.c to
	  make sure it can't be "lost".

Reported-by: Maxime Bizon &lt;mbizon@freebox.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>NFSv4: fix server_scope memory leak</title>
<updated>2012-03-01T00:30:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Weston Andros Adamson</name>
<email>dros@netapp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-16T16:17:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8ed3fe820fe9cf267d39d86cb76e4064cdf82da3'/>
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commit abe9a6d57b4544ac208401f9c0a4262814db2be4 upstream.

server_scope would never be freed if nfs4_check_cl_exchange_flags() returned
non-zero

Signed-off-by: Weston Andros Adamson &lt;dros@netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit abe9a6d57b4544ac208401f9c0a4262814db2be4 upstream.

server_scope would never be freed if nfs4_check_cl_exchange_flags() returned
non-zero

Signed-off-by: Weston Andros Adamson &lt;dros@netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>NFSv4: Ensure we throw out bad delegation stateids on NFS4ERR_BAD_STATEID</title>
<updated>2012-03-01T00:30:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Trond Myklebust</name>
<email>Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-09T20:31:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0cea513e395f2a2d4dd650eeae8a1c08a7425296'/>
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commit b9f9a03150969e4bd9967c20bce67c4de769058f upstream.

To ensure that we don't just reuse the bad delegation when we attempt to
recover the nfs4_state that received the bad stateid error.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b9f9a03150969e4bd9967c20bce67c4de769058f upstream.

To ensure that we don't just reuse the bad delegation when we attempt to
recover the nfs4_state that received the bad stateid error.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>NFSv4: Fix an Oops in the NFSv4 getacl code</title>
<updated>2012-03-01T00:30:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Trond Myklebust</name>
<email>Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-03T23:30:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4a818b4288d5a897b0e928dd0cd1e1e29501159f'/>
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commit 331818f1c468a24e581aedcbe52af799366a9dfe upstream.

Commit bf118a342f10dafe44b14451a1392c3254629a1f (NFSv4: include bitmap
in nfsv4 get acl data) introduces the 'acl_scratch' page for the case
where we may need to decode multi-page data. However it fails to take
into account the fact that the variable may be NULL (for the case where
we're not doing multi-page decode), and it also attaches it to the
encoding xdr_stream rather than the decoding one.

The immediate result is an Oops in nfs4_xdr_enc_getacl due to the
call to page_address() with a NULL page pointer.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Adamson &lt;andros@netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 331818f1c468a24e581aedcbe52af799366a9dfe upstream.

Commit bf118a342f10dafe44b14451a1392c3254629a1f (NFSv4: include bitmap
in nfsv4 get acl data) introduces the 'acl_scratch' page for the case
where we may need to decode multi-page data. However it fails to take
into account the fact that the variable may be NULL (for the case where
we're not doing multi-page decode), and it also attaches it to the
encoding xdr_stream rather than the decoding one.

The immediate result is an Oops in nfs4_xdr_enc_getacl due to the
call to page_address() with a NULL page pointer.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Adamson &lt;andros@netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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