linux-stable.git/include/linux, branch linux-3.6.y

tmpfs: fix shared mempolicy leak

2012-12-17T17:26:50+00:00

commit 18a2f371f5edf41810f6469cb9be39931ef9deb9 upstream.

This fixes a regression in 3.7-rc, which has since gone into stable.

Commit 00442ad04a5e ("mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount
imbalance in alloc_pages_vma()") changed get_vma_policy() to raise the
refcount on a shmem shared mempolicy; whereas shmem_alloc_page() went
on expecting alloc_page_vma() to drop the refcount it had acquired.
This deserves a rework: but for now fix the leak in shmem_alloc_page().

Hugh: shmem_swapin() did not need a fix, but surely it's clearer to use
the same refcounting there as in shmem_alloc_page(), delete its onstack
mempolicy, and the strange mpol_cond_copy() and __mpol_cond_copy() -
those were invented to let swapin_readahead() make an unknown number of
calls to alloc_pages_vma() with one mempolicy; but since 00442ad04a5e,
alloc_pages_vma() has kept refcount in balance, so now no problem.

Reported-and-tested-by: Tommi Rantala 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

memcg: fix hotplugged memory zone oops

2012-11-26T20:14:18+00:00

commit bea8c150a7efbc0f204e709b7274fe273f55e0d3 upstream.

When MEMCG is configured on (even when it's disabled by boot option),
when adding or removing a page to/from its lru list, the zone pointer
used for stats updates is nowadays taken from the struct lruvec.  (On
many configurations, calculating zone from page is slower.)

But we have no code to update all the lruvecs (per zone, per memcg) when
a memory node is hotadded.  Here's an extract from the oops which
results when running numactl to bind a program to a newly onlined node:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000f60
  IP:  __mod_zone_page_state+0x9/0x60
  Pid: 1219, comm: numactl Not tainted 3.6.0-rc5+ #180 Bochs Bochs
  Process numactl (pid: 1219, threadinfo ffff880039abc000, task ffff8800383c4ce0)
  Call Trace:
    __pagevec_lru_add_fn+0xdf/0x140
    pagevec_lru_move_fn+0xb1/0x100
    __pagevec_lru_add+0x1c/0x30
    lru_add_drain_cpu+0xa3/0x130
    lru_add_drain+0x2f/0x40
   ...

The natural solution might be to use a memcg callback whenever memory is
hotadded; but that solution has not been scoped out, and it happens that
we do have an easy location at which to update lruvec->zone.  The lruvec
pointer is discovered either by mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec() or by
mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(), and both of those do know the right zone.

So check and set lruvec->zone in those; and remove the inadequate
attempt to set lruvec->zone from lruvec_init(), which is called before
NODE_DATA(node) has been allocated in such cases.

Ah, there was one exceptionr.  For no particularly good reason,
mem_cgroup_force_empty_list() has its own code for deciding lruvec.
Change it to use the standard mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec() and
mem_cgroup_get_lru_size() too.  In fact it was already safe against such
an oops (the lru lists in danger could only be empty), but we're better
proofed against future changes this way.

I've marked this for stable (3.6) since we introduced the problem in 3.5
(now closed to stable); but I have no idea if this is the only fix
needed to get memory hotadd working with memcg in 3.6, and received no
answer when I enquired twice before.

Reported-by: Tang Chen 
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Cc: Wen Congyang 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ptp: update adjfreq callback description

2012-11-26T20:14:07+00:00

commit 87f4d7c1d36f44b0822053b7e5dedc31fdd0ab99 upstream.

This patch updates the adjfreq callback description to include a note that the
delta in ppb is always relative to the base frequency, and not to the current
frequency of the hardware clock.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller 
CC: Richard Cochran 
CC: John Stultz 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

libceph: check for invalid mapping

2012-11-05T08:56:50+00:00

commit d63b77f4c552cc3a20506871046ab0fcbc332609 upstream.

If we encounter an invalid (e.g., zeroed) mapping, return an error
and avoid a divide by zero.

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil 
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

efi: Defer freeing boot services memory until after ACPI init

2012-10-31T17:10:31+00:00

commit 785107923a83d8456bbd8564e288a24d84109a46 upstream.

Some new ACPI 5.0 tables reference resources stored in boot services
memory, so keep that memory around until we have ACPI and can extract
data from it.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/baaa6d44bdc4eb0c58e5d1b4ccd2c729f854ac55.1348876882.git.josh@joshtriplett.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Matt Fleming 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86, mm: Trim memory in memblock to be page aligned

2012-10-31T17:09:56+00:00

commit 6ede1fd3cb404c0016de6ac529df46d561bd558b upstream.

We will not map partial pages, so need to make sure memblock
allocation will not allocate those bytes out.

Also we will use for_each_mem_pfn_range() to loop to map memory
range to keep them consistent.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAE9FiQVZirvaBMFYRfXMmWEcHbKSicQEHz4VAwUv0xFCk51ZNw@mail.gmail.com
Acked-by: Jacob Shin 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vlan: don't deliver frames for unknown vlans to protocols

2012-10-28T17:56:17+00:00

[ Upstream commit 48cc32d38a52d0b68f91a171a8d00531edc6a46e ]

6a32e4f9dd9219261f8856f817e6655114cfec2f made the vlan code skip marking
vlan-tagged frames for not locally configured vlans as PACKET_OTHERHOST if
there was an rx_handler, as the rx_handler could cause the frame to be received
on a different (virtual) vlan-capable interface where that vlan might be
configured.

As rx_handlers do not necessarily return RX_HANDLER_ANOTHER, this could cause
frames for unknown vlans to be delivered to the protocol stack as if they had
been received untagged.

For example, if an ipv6 router advertisement that's tagged for a locally not
configured vlan is received on an interface with macvlan interfaces attached,
macvlan's rx_handler returns RX_HANDLER_PASS after delivering the frame to the
macvlan interfaces, which caused it to be passed to the protocol stack, leading
to ipv6 addresses for the announced prefix being configured even though those
are completely unusable on the underlying interface.

The fix moves marking as PACKET_OTHERHOST after the rx_handler so the
rx_handler, if there is one, sees the frame unchanged, but afterwards,
before the frame is delivered to the protocol stack, it gets marked whether
there is an rx_handler or not.

Signed-off-by: Florian Zumbiehl 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: remove skb recycling

2012-10-28T17:56:16+00:00

[ Upstream commits acb600def2110b1310466c0e485c0d26299898ae
  and 66eef59f22275002f621ff9d951886b513d011b3. ]

Over time, skb recycling infrastructure got litle interest and
many bugs. Generic rx path skb allocation is now using page
fragments for efficient GRO / TCP coalescing, and recyling
a tx skb for rx path is not worth the pain.

Last identified bug is that fat skbs can be recycled
and it can endup using high order pages after few iterations.

With help from Maxime Bizon, who pointed out that commit
87151b8689d (net: allow pskb_expand_head() to get maximum tailroom)
introduced this regression for recycled skbs.

Instead of fixing this bug, lets remove skb recycling.

Drivers wanting really hot skbs should use build_skb() anyway,
to allocate/populate sk_buff right before netif_receive_skb()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Maxime Bizon 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

netlink: add reference of module in netlink_dump_start

2012-10-28T17:56:16+00:00

[ Upstream commit 6dc878a8ca39e93f70c42f3dd7260bde10c1e0f1 ]

I get a panic when I use ss -a and rmmod inet_diag at the
same time.

It's because netlink_dump uses inet_diag_dump which belongs to module
inet_diag.

I search the codes and find many modules have the same problem.  We
need to add a reference to the module which the cb->dump belongs to.

Thanks for all help from Stephen,Jan,Eric,Steffen and Pablo.

Change From v3:
change netlink_dump_start to inline,suggestion from Pablo and
Eric.

Change From v2:
delete netlink_dump_done,and call module_put in netlink_dump
and netlink_sock_destruct.

Signed-off-by: Gao feng 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mtd: nand: allow NAND_NO_SUBPAGE_WRITE to be set from driver

2012-10-21T16:32:42+00:00

commit bf7a01bf7987b63b121d572b240c132ec44129c4 upstream.

The NAND_CHIPOPTIONS_MSK has limited utility and is causing real bugs. It
silently masks off at least one flag that might be set by the driver
(NAND_NO_SUBPAGE_WRITE). This breaks the GPMI NAND driver and possibly
others.

Really, as long as driver writers exercise a small amount of care with
NAND_* options, this mask is not necessary at all; it was only here to
prevent certain options from accidentally being set by the driver. But the
original thought turns out to be a bad idea occasionally. Thus, kill it.

Note, this patch fixes some major gpmi-nand breakage.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris 
Tested-by: Huang Shijie 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy 
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 


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