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<title>x86/mce: Fix siginfo_t-&gt;si_addr value for non-recoverable memory faults</title>
<updated>2012-08-09T15:22:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tony Luck</name>
<email>tony.luck@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-11T17:20:47+00:00</published>
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commit 6751ed65dc6642af64f7b8a440a75563c8aab7ae upstream.

In commit dad1743e5993f1 ("x86/mce: Only restart instruction after machine
check recovery if it is safe") we fixed mce_notify_process() to force a
signal to the current process if it was not restartable (RIPV bit not
set in MCG_STATUS). But doing it here means that the process doesn't
get told the virtual address of the fault via siginfo_t-&gt;si_addr. This
would prevent application level recovery from the fault.

Make a new MF_MUST_KILL flag bit for memory_failure() et al. to use so
that we will provide the right information with the signal.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;borislav.petkov@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6751ed65dc6642af64f7b8a440a75563c8aab7ae upstream.

In commit dad1743e5993f1 ("x86/mce: Only restart instruction after machine
check recovery if it is safe") we fixed mce_notify_process() to force a
signal to the current process if it was not restartable (RIPV bit not
set in MCG_STATUS). But doing it here means that the process doesn't
get told the virtual address of the fault via siginfo_t-&gt;si_addr. This
would prevent application level recovery from the fault.

Make a new MF_MUST_KILL flag bit for memory_failure() et al. to use so
that we will provide the right information with the signal.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;borislav.petkov@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2012-06-01T17:34:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-01T17:34:35+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs changes from Al Viro.
 "A lot of misc stuff.  The obvious groups:
   * Miklos' atomic_open series; kills the damn abuse of
     -&gt;d_revalidate() by NFS, which was the major stumbling block for
     all work in that area.
   * ripping security_file_mmap() and dealing with deadlocks in the
     area; sanitizing the neighborhood of vm_mmap()/vm_munmap() in
     general.
   * -&gt;encode_fh() switched to saner API; insane fake dentry in
     mm/cleancache.c gone.
   * assorted annotations in fs (endianness, __user)
   * parts of Artem's -&gt;s_dirty work (jff2 and reiserfs parts)
   * -&gt;update_time() work from Josef.
   * other bits and pieces all over the place.

  Normally it would've been in two or three pull requests, but
  signal.git stuff had eaten a lot of time during this cycle ;-/"

Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt (the
'truncate_range' inode method was removed by the VM changes, the VFS
update adds an 'update_time()' method), and in fs/btrfs/ulist.[ch] (due
to sparse fix added twice, with other changes nearby).

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (95 commits)
  nfs: don't open in -&gt;d_revalidate
  vfs: retry last component if opening stale dentry
  vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): don't throw away file on error
  vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): inline __dentry_open()
  vfs: do_dentry_open(): don't put filp
  vfs: split __dentry_open()
  vfs: do_last() common post lookup
  vfs: do_last(): add audit_inode before open
  vfs: do_last(): only return EISDIR for O_CREAT
  vfs: do_last(): check LOOKUP_DIRECTORY
  vfs: do_last(): make ENOENT exit RCU safe
  vfs: make follow_link check RCU safe
  vfs: do_last(): use inode variable
  vfs: do_last(): inline walk_component()
  vfs: do_last(): make exit RCU safe
  vfs: split do_lookup()
  Btrfs: move over to use -&gt;update_time
  fs: introduce inode operation -&gt;update_time
  reiserfs: get rid of resierfs_sync_super
  reiserfs: mark the superblock as dirty a bit later
  ...
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Pull vfs changes from Al Viro.
 "A lot of misc stuff.  The obvious groups:
   * Miklos' atomic_open series; kills the damn abuse of
     -&gt;d_revalidate() by NFS, which was the major stumbling block for
     all work in that area.
   * ripping security_file_mmap() and dealing with deadlocks in the
     area; sanitizing the neighborhood of vm_mmap()/vm_munmap() in
     general.
   * -&gt;encode_fh() switched to saner API; insane fake dentry in
     mm/cleancache.c gone.
   * assorted annotations in fs (endianness, __user)
   * parts of Artem's -&gt;s_dirty work (jff2 and reiserfs parts)
   * -&gt;update_time() work from Josef.
   * other bits and pieces all over the place.

  Normally it would've been in two or three pull requests, but
  signal.git stuff had eaten a lot of time during this cycle ;-/"

Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt (the
'truncate_range' inode method was removed by the VM changes, the VFS
update adds an 'update_time()' method), and in fs/btrfs/ulist.[ch] (due
to sparse fix added twice, with other changes nearby).

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (95 commits)
  nfs: don't open in -&gt;d_revalidate
  vfs: retry last component if opening stale dentry
  vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): don't throw away file on error
  vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): inline __dentry_open()
  vfs: do_dentry_open(): don't put filp
  vfs: split __dentry_open()
  vfs: do_last() common post lookup
  vfs: do_last(): add audit_inode before open
  vfs: do_last(): only return EISDIR for O_CREAT
  vfs: do_last(): check LOOKUP_DIRECTORY
  vfs: do_last(): make ENOENT exit RCU safe
  vfs: make follow_link check RCU safe
  vfs: do_last(): use inode variable
  vfs: do_last(): inline walk_component()
  vfs: do_last(): make exit RCU safe
  vfs: split do_lookup()
  Btrfs: move over to use -&gt;update_time
  fs: introduce inode operation -&gt;update_time
  reiserfs: get rid of resierfs_sync_super
  reiserfs: mark the superblock as dirty a bit later
  ...
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<entry>
<title>switch aio and shm to do_mmap_pgoff(), make do_mmap() static</title>
<updated>2012-06-01T14:37:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-31T00:08:42+00:00</published>
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after all, 0 bytes and 0 pages is the same thing...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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after all, 0 bytes and 0 pages is the same thing...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: fix slab-&gt;page flags corruption</title>
<updated>2012-05-29T23:22:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pravin B Shelar</name>
<email>pshelar@nicira.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-29T22:06:49+00:00</published>
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Transparent huge pages can change page-&gt;flags (PG_compound_lock) without
taking Slab lock.  Since THP can not break slab pages we can safely access
compound page without taking compound lock.

Specifically this patch fixes a race between compound_unlock() and slab
functions which perform page-flags updates.  This can occur when
get_page()/put_page() is called on a page from slab.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment text, fix comment layout, fix label indenting]
Reported-by: Amey Bhide &lt;abhide@nicira.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar &lt;pshelar@nicira.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&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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Transparent huge pages can change page-&gt;flags (PG_compound_lock) without
taking Slab lock.  Since THP can not break slab pages we can safely access
compound page without taking compound lock.

Specifically this patch fixes a race between compound_unlock() and slab
functions which perform page-flags updates.  This can occur when
get_page()/put_page() is called on a page from slab.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment text, fix comment layout, fix label indenting]
Reported-by: Amey Bhide &lt;abhide@nicira.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar &lt;pshelar@nicira.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&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/fs: remove truncate_range</title>
<updated>2012-05-29T23:22:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-29T22:06:41+00:00</published>
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Remove vmtruncate_range(), and remove the truncate_range method from
struct inode_operations: only tmpfs ever supported it, and tmpfs has now
converted over to using the fallocate method of file_operations.

Update Documentation accordingly, adding (setlease and) fallocate lines.
And while we're in mm.h, remove duplicate declarations of shmem_lock() and
shmem_file_setup(): everyone is now using the ones in shmem_fs.h.

Based-on-patch-by: Cong Wang &lt;amwang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Cong Wang &lt;amwang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&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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Remove vmtruncate_range(), and remove the truncate_range method from
struct inode_operations: only tmpfs ever supported it, and tmpfs has now
converted over to using the fallocate method of file_operations.

Update Documentation accordingly, adding (setlease and) fallocate lines.
And while we're in mm.h, remove duplicate declarations of shmem_lock() and
shmem_file_setup(): everyone is now using the ones in shmem_fs.h.

Based-on-patch-by: Cong Wang &lt;amwang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Cong Wang &lt;amwang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&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>vm: remove 'nr_accounted' calculations from the unmap_vmas() interfaces</title>
<updated>2012-05-06T21:05:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-06T20:54:06+00:00</published>
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The VM accounting makes no sense at this level, and half of the callers
didn't ever actually use the end result.  The only time we want to
unaccount the memory is when we actually remove the vma, so do the
accounting at that point instead.

This simplifies the interfaces (no need to pass down that silly page
counter to functions that really don't care), and also makes it much
more obvious what is actually going on: we do vm_[un]acct_memory() when
adding or removing the vma, not on random page walking.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The VM accounting makes no sense at this level, and half of the callers
didn't ever actually use the end result.  The only time we want to
unaccount the memory is when we actually remove the vma, so do the
accounting at that point instead.

This simplifies the interfaces (no need to pass down that silly page
counter to functions that really don't care), and also makes it much
more obvious what is actually going on: we do vm_[un]acct_memory() when
adding or removing the vma, not on random page walking.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vm: simplify unmap_vmas() calling convention</title>
<updated>2012-05-06T20:52:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-06T20:43:15+00:00</published>
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None of the callers want to pass in 'zap_details', and it doesn't even
make sense for the case of actually unmapping vma's.  So remove the
argument, and clean up the interface.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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None of the callers want to pass in 'zap_details', and it doesn't even
make sense for the case of actually unmapping vma's.  So remove the
argument, and clean up the interface.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kill mm argument of vm_munmap()</title>
<updated>2012-04-21T05:58:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-21T01:57:04+00:00</published>
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it's always current-&gt;mm

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it's always current-&gt;mm

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>VM: add "vm_mmap()" helper function</title>
<updated>2012-04-21T00:29:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-21T00:13:58+00:00</published>
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This continues the theme started with vm_brk() and vm_munmap():
vm_mmap() does the same thing as do_mmap(), but additionally does the
required VM locking.

This uninlines (and rewrites it to be clearer) do_mmap(), which sadly
duplicates it in mm/mmap.c and mm/nommu.c.  But that way we don't have
to export our internal do_mmap_pgoff() function.

Some day we hopefully don't have to export do_mmap() either, if all
modular users can become the simpler vm_mmap() instead.  We're actually
very close to that already, with the notable exception of the (broken)
use in i810, and a couple of stragglers in binfmt_elf.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This continues the theme started with vm_brk() and vm_munmap():
vm_mmap() does the same thing as do_mmap(), but additionally does the
required VM locking.

This uninlines (and rewrites it to be clearer) do_mmap(), which sadly
duplicates it in mm/mmap.c and mm/nommu.c.  But that way we don't have
to export our internal do_mmap_pgoff() function.

Some day we hopefully don't have to export do_mmap() either, if all
modular users can become the simpler vm_mmap() instead.  We're actually
very close to that already, with the notable exception of the (broken)
use in i810, and a couple of stragglers in binfmt_elf.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>VM: add "vm_munmap()" helper function</title>
<updated>2012-04-21T00:29:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-20T23:20:01+00:00</published>
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Like the vm_brk() function, this is the same as "do_munmap()", except it
does the VM locking for the caller.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Like the vm_brk() function, this is the same as "do_munmap()", except it
does the VM locking for the caller.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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