linux-stable.git/include/linux, branch v3.4.32

efi: Make 'efi_enabled' a function to query EFI facilities

2013-02-14T18:48:53+00:00

commit 83e68189745ad931c2afd45d8ee3303929233e7f upstream.

Originally 'efi_enabled' indicated whether a kernel was booted from
EFI firmware. Over time its semantics have changed, and it now
indicates whether or not we are booted on an EFI machine with
bit-native firmware, e.g. 64-bit kernel with 64-bit firmware.

The immediate motivation for this patch is the bug report at,

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557

which details how running a platform driver on an EFI machine that is
designed to run under BIOS can cause the machine to become
bricked. Also, the following report,

    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121

details how running said driver can also cause Machine Check
Exceptions. Drivers need a new means of detecting whether they're
running on an EFI machine, as sadly the expression,

    if (!efi_enabled)

hasn't been a sufficient condition for quite some time.

Users actually want to query 'efi_enabled' for different reasons -
what they really want access to is the list of available EFI
facilities.

For instance, the x86 reboot code needs to know whether it can invoke
the ResetSystem() function provided by the EFI runtime services, while
the ACPI OSL code wants to know whether the EFI config tables were
mapped successfully. There are also checks in some of the platform
driver code to simply see if they're running on an EFI machine (which
would make it a bad idea to do BIOS-y things).

This patch is a prereq for the samsung-laptop fix patch.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming 
Cc: David Airlie 
Cc: Corentin Chary 
Cc: Matthew Garrett 
Cc: Dave Jiang 
Cc: Olof Johansson 
Cc: Peter Jones 
Cc: Colin Ian King 
Cc: Steve Langasek 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

usb: Using correct way to clear usb3.0 device's remote wakeup feature.

2013-02-11T16:47:20+00:00

commit 54a3ac0c9e5b7213daa358ce74d154352657353a upstream.

Usb3.0 device defines function remote wakeup which is only for interface
recipient rather than device recipient. This is different with usb2.0 device's
remote wakeup feature which is defined for device recipient. According usb3.0
spec 9.4.5, the function remote wakeup can be modified by the SetFeature()
requests using the FUNCTION_SUSPEND feature selector. This patch is to use
correct way to disable usb3.0 device's function remote wakeup after suspend
error and resuming.

This should be backported to kernels as old as 3.4, that contain the
commit 623bef9e03a60adc623b09673297ca7a1cdfb367 "USB/xhci: Enable remote
wakeup for USB3 devices."

Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu 
Signed-off-by: Sarah Sharp 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ptrace: introduce signal_wake_up_state() and ptrace_signal_wake_up()

2013-01-28T04:47:43+00:00

commit 910ffdb18a6408e14febbb6e4b6840fd2c928c82 upstream.

Cleanup and preparation for the next change.

signal_wake_up(resume => true) is overused. None of ptrace/jctl callers
actually want to wakeup a TASK_WAKEKILL task, but they can't specify the
necessary mask.

Turn signal_wake_up() into signal_wake_up_state(state), reintroduce
signal_wake_up() as a trivial helper, and add ptrace_signal_wake_up()
which adds __TASK_TRACED.

This way ptrace_signal_wake_up() can work "inside" ptrace_request()
even if the tracee doesn't have the TASK_WAKEKILL bit set.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

libceph: remove 'osdtimeout' option

2013-01-17T16:51:20+00:00

This would reset a connection with any OSD that had an outstanding
request that was taking more than N seconds.  The idea was that if the
OSD was buggy, the client could compensate by resending the request.

In reality, this only served to hide server bugs, and we haven't
actually seen such a bug in quite a while.  Moreover, the userspace
client code never did this.

More importantly, often the request is taking a long time because the
OSD is trying to recover, or overloaded, and killing the connection
and retrying would only make the situation worse by giving the OSD
more work to do.

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil 
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder 
(cherry picked from commit 83aff95eb9d60aff5497e9f44a2ae906b86d8e88)
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

PCI: Reduce Ricoh 0xe822 SD card reader base clock frequency to 50MHz

2013-01-11T17:07:16+00:00

commit 812089e01b9f65f90fc8fc670d8cce72a0e01fbb upstream.

Otherwise it fails like this on cards like the Transcend 16GB SDHC card:

    mmc0: new SDHC card at address b368
    mmcblk0: mmc0:b368 SDC   15.0 GiB
    mmcblk0: error -110 sending status command, retrying
    mmcblk0: error -84 transferring data, sector 0, nr 8, cmd response 0x900, card status 0xb0

Tested on my Lenovo x200 laptop.

[bhelgaas: changelog]
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas 
Acked-by: Chris Ball 
CC: Manoj Iyer 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tcp: implement RFC 5961 4.2

2013-01-11T17:07:15+00:00

[ Upstream commit 0c24604b68fc7810d429d6c3657b6f148270e528 ]

Implement the RFC 5691 mitigation against Blind
Reset attack using SYN bit.

Section 4.2 of RFC 5961 advises to send a Challenge ACK and drop
incoming packet, instead of resetting the session.

Add a new SNMP counter to count number of challenge acks sent
in response to SYN packets.
(netstat -s | grep TCPSYNChallenge)

Remove obsolete TCPAbortOnSyn, since we no longer abort a TCP session
because of a SYN flag.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Kiran Kumar Kella 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tcp: implement RFC 5961 3.2

2013-01-11T17:07:14+00:00

[ Upstream commit 282f23c6ee343126156dd41218b22ece96d747e3 ]

Implement the RFC 5691 mitigation against Blind
Reset attack using RST bit.

Idea is to validate incoming RST sequence,
to match RCV.NXT value, instead of previouly accepted
window : (RCV.NXT <= SEG.SEQ < RCV.NXT+RCV.WND)

If sequence is in window but not an exact match, send
a "challenge ACK", so that the other part can resend an
RST with the appropriate sequence.

Add a new sysctl, tcp_challenge_ack_limit, to limit
number of challenge ACK sent per second.

Add a new SNMP counter to count number of challenge acks sent.
(netstat -s | grep TCPChallengeACK)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Kiran Kumar Kella 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

freezer: add missing mb's to freezer_count() and freezer_should_skip()

2013-01-11T17:06:58+00:00

commit dd67d32dbc5de299d70cc9e10c6c1e29ffa56b92 upstream.

A task is considered frozen enough between freezer_do_not_count() and
freezer_count() and freezers use freezer_should_skip() to test this
condition.  This supposedly works because freezer_count() always calls
try_to_freezer() after clearing %PF_FREEZER_SKIP.

However, there currently is nothing which guarantees that
freezer_count() sees %true freezing() after clearing %PF_FREEZER_SKIP
when freezing is in progress, and vice-versa.  A task can escape the
freezing condition in effect by freezer_count() seeing !freezing() and
freezer_should_skip() seeing %PF_FREEZER_SKIP.

This patch adds smp_mb()'s to freezer_count() and
freezer_should_skip() such that either %true freezing() is visible to
freezer_count() or !PF_FREEZER_SKIP is visible to
freezer_should_skip().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: Fix PageHead when !CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED

2013-01-11T17:06:48+00:00

commit ad4b3fb7ff9940bcdb1e4cd62bd189d10fa636ba upstream.

Unfortunately with !CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED, (!PageHead) is false, and
(PageHead) is true, for tail pages.  If this is indeed the intended
behavior, which I doubt because it breaks cache cleaning on some ARM
systems, then the nomenclature is highly problematic.

This patch makes sure PageHead is only true for head pages and PageTail
is only true for tail pages, and neither is true for non-compound pages.

[ This buglet seems ancient - seems to have been introduced back in Apr
  2008 in commit 6a1e7f777f61: "pageflags: convert to the use of new
  macros".  And the reason nobody noticed is because the PageHead()
  tests are almost all about just sanity-checking, and only used on
  pages that are actual page heads.  The fact that the old code returned
  true for tail pages too was thus not really noticeable.   - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall 
Acked-by:  Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Steve Capper 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

exec: do not leave bprm->interp on stack

2013-01-11T17:06:30+00:00

commit b66c5984017533316fd1951770302649baf1aa33 upstream.

If a series of scripts are executed, each triggering module loading via
unprintable bytes in the script header, kernel stack contents can leak
into the command line.

Normally execution of binfmt_script and binfmt_misc happens recursively.
However, when modules are enabled, and unprintable bytes exist in the
bprm->buf, execution will restart after attempting to load matching
binfmt modules.  Unfortunately, the logic in binfmt_script and
binfmt_misc does not expect to get restarted.  They leave bprm->interp
pointing to their local stack.  This means on restart bprm->interp is
left pointing into unused stack memory which can then be copied into the
userspace argv areas.

After additional study, it seems that both recursion and restart remains
the desirable way to handle exec with scripts, misc, and modules.  As
such, we need to protect the changes to interp.

This changes the logic to require allocation for any changes to the
bprm->interp.  To avoid adding a new kmalloc to every exec, the default
value is left as-is.  Only when passing through binfmt_script or
binfmt_misc does an allocation take place.

For a proof of concept, see DoTest.sh from:

   http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2012/LinuxKernelBinfmtScriptStackDataDisclosure/

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Cc: halfdog 
Cc: P J P 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman