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<entry>
<title>workqueue: implicit ordered attribute should be overridable</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T15:33:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-23T12:36:15+00:00</published>
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commit 0a94efb5acbb6980d7c9ab604372d93cd507e4d8 upstream.

5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be
ordered") automatically enabled ordered attribute for unbound
workqueues w/ max_active == 1.  Because ordered workqueues reject
max_active and some attribute changes, this implicit ordered mode
broke cases where the user creates an unbound workqueue w/ max_active
== 1 and later explicitly changes the related attributes.

This patch distinguishes explicit and implicit ordered setting and
overrides from attribute changes if implict.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be ordered")
Cc: Holger Hoffstätte &lt;holger@applied-asynchrony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0a94efb5acbb6980d7c9ab604372d93cd507e4d8 upstream.

5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be
ordered") automatically enabled ordered attribute for unbound
workqueues w/ max_active == 1.  Because ordered workqueues reject
max_active and some attribute changes, this implicit ordered mode
broke cases where the user creates an unbound workqueue w/ max_active
== 1 and later explicitly changes the related attributes.

This patch distinguishes explicit and implicit ordered setting and
overrides from attribute changes if implict.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be ordered")
Cc: Holger Hoffstätte &lt;holger@applied-asynchrony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net/mlx5e: Add field select to MTPPS register</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T15:33:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eugenia Emantayev</name>
<email>eugenia@mellanox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-25T13:09:34+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit fa3676885e3b5be1edfa1b2cc775e20a45b34a19 ]

In order to mark relevant fields while setting the MTPPS register
add field select. Otherwise it can cause a misconfiguration in
firmware.

Fixes: ee7f12205abc ('net/mlx5e: Implement 1PPS support')
Signed-off-by: Eugenia Emantayev &lt;eugenia@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed &lt;saeedm@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit fa3676885e3b5be1edfa1b2cc775e20a45b34a19 ]

In order to mark relevant fields while setting the MTPPS register
add field select. Otherwise it can cause a misconfiguration in
firmware.

Fixes: ee7f12205abc ('net/mlx5e: Implement 1PPS support')
Signed-off-by: Eugenia Emantayev &lt;eugenia@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed &lt;saeedm@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net/mlx5: Fix mlx5_ifc_mtpps_reg_bits structure size</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T15:33:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eugenia Emantayev</name>
<email>eugenia@mellanox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-25T12:11:26+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0b794ffae7afa7c4e5accac8791c4b78e8d080ce ]

Fix miscalculation in reserved_at_1a0 field.

Fixes: ee7f12205abc ('net/mlx5e: Implement 1PPS support')
Signed-off-by: Eugenia Emantayev &lt;eugenia@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed &lt;saeedm@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0b794ffae7afa7c4e5accac8791c4b78e8d080ce ]

Fix miscalculation in reserved_at_1a0 field.

Fixes: ee7f12205abc ('net/mlx5e: Implement 1PPS support')
Signed-off-by: Eugenia Emantayev &lt;eugenia@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed &lt;saeedm@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>blk-mq: Create hctx for each present CPU</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T15:33:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-26T10:20:57+00:00</published>
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commit 4b855ad37194f7bdbb200ce7a1c7051fecb56a08 upstream.

Currently we only create hctx for online CPUs, which can lead to a lot
of churn due to frequent soft offline / online operations.  Instead
allocate one for each present CPU to avoid this and dramatically simplify
the code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Keith Busch &lt;keith.busch@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170626102058.10200-3-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko &lt;oleksandr@natalenko.name&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 4b855ad37194f7bdbb200ce7a1c7051fecb56a08 upstream.

Currently we only create hctx for online CPUs, which can lead to a lot
of churn due to frequent soft offline / online operations.  Instead
allocate one for each present CPU to avoid this and dramatically simplify
the code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Keith Busch &lt;keith.busch@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170626102058.10200-3-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko &lt;oleksandr@natalenko.name&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuset: fix a deadlock due to incomplete patching of cpusets_enabled()</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T15:33:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dima Zavin</name>
<email>dmitriyz@waymo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-02T20:32:18+00:00</published>
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commit 89affbf5d9ebb15c6460596822e8857ea2f9e735 upstream.

In codepaths that use the begin/retry interface for reading
mems_allowed_seq with irqs disabled, there exists a race condition that
stalls the patch process after only modifying a subset of the
static_branch call sites.

This problem manifested itself as a deadlock in the slub allocator,
inside get_any_partial.  The loop reads mems_allowed_seq value (via
read_mems_allowed_begin), performs the defrag operation, and then
verifies the consistency of mem_allowed via the read_mems_allowed_retry
and the cookie returned by xxx_begin.

The issue here is that both begin and retry first check if cpusets are
enabled via cpusets_enabled() static branch.  This branch can be
rewritted dynamically (via cpuset_inc) if a new cpuset is created.  The
x86 jump label code fully synchronizes across all CPUs for every entry
it rewrites.  If it rewrites only one of the callsites (specifically the
one in read_mems_allowed_retry) and then waits for the
smp_call_function(do_sync_core) to complete while a CPU is inside the
begin/retry section with IRQs off and the mems_allowed value is changed,
we can hang.

This is because begin() will always return 0 (since it wasn't patched
yet) while retry() will test the 0 against the actual value of the seq
counter.

The fix is to use two different static keys: one for begin
(pre_enable_key) and one for retry (enable_key).  In cpuset_inc(), we
first bump the pre_enable key to ensure that cpuset_mems_allowed_begin()
always return a valid seqcount if are enabling cpusets.  Similarly, when
disabling cpusets via cpuset_dec(), we first ensure that callers of
cpuset_mems_allowed_retry() will start ignoring the seqcount value
before we let cpuset_mems_allowed_begin() return 0.

The relevant stack traces of the two stuck threads:

  CPU: 1 PID: 1415 Comm: mkdir Tainted: G L  4.9.36-00104-g540c51286237 #4
  Hardware name: Default string Default string/Hardware, BIOS 4.29.1-20170526215256 05/26/2017
  task: ffff8817f9c28000 task.stack: ffffc9000ffa4000
  RIP: smp_call_function_many+0x1f9/0x260
  Call Trace:
    smp_call_function+0x3b/0x70
    on_each_cpu+0x2f/0x90
    text_poke_bp+0x87/0xd0
    arch_jump_label_transform+0x93/0x100
    __jump_label_update+0x77/0x90
    jump_label_update+0xaa/0xc0
    static_key_slow_inc+0x9e/0xb0
    cpuset_css_online+0x70/0x2e0
    online_css+0x2c/0xa0
    cgroup_apply_control_enable+0x27f/0x3d0
    cgroup_mkdir+0x2b7/0x420
    kernfs_iop_mkdir+0x5a/0x80
    vfs_mkdir+0xf6/0x1a0
    SyS_mkdir+0xb7/0xe0
    entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x18/0xad

  ...

  CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: init Tainted: G L  4.9.36-00104-g540c51286237 #4
  Hardware name: Default string Default string/Hardware, BIOS 4.29.1-20170526215256 05/26/2017
  task: ffff8818087c0000 task.stack: ffffc90000030000
  RIP: int3+0x39/0x70
  Call Trace:
    &lt;#DB&gt; ? ___slab_alloc+0x28b/0x5a0
    &lt;EOE&gt; ? copy_process.part.40+0xf7/0x1de0
    __slab_alloc.isra.80+0x54/0x90
    copy_process.part.40+0xf7/0x1de0
    copy_process.part.40+0xf7/0x1de0
    kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x8a/0x280
    copy_process.part.40+0xf7/0x1de0
    _do_fork+0xe7/0x6c0
    _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2d/0x60
    trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x136/0x1d0
    entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x5/0xad
    do_syscall_64+0x27/0x350
    SyS_clone+0x19/0x20
    do_syscall_64+0x60/0x350
    entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170731040113.14197-1-dmitriyz@waymo.com
Fixes: 46e700abc44c ("mm, page_alloc: remove unnecessary taking of a seqlock when cpusets are disabled")
Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin &lt;dmitriyz@waymo.com&gt;
Reported-by: Cliff Spradlin &lt;cspradlin@waymo.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Christopher Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Li Zefan &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&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 89affbf5d9ebb15c6460596822e8857ea2f9e735 upstream.

In codepaths that use the begin/retry interface for reading
mems_allowed_seq with irqs disabled, there exists a race condition that
stalls the patch process after only modifying a subset of the
static_branch call sites.

This problem manifested itself as a deadlock in the slub allocator,
inside get_any_partial.  The loop reads mems_allowed_seq value (via
read_mems_allowed_begin), performs the defrag operation, and then
verifies the consistency of mem_allowed via the read_mems_allowed_retry
and the cookie returned by xxx_begin.

The issue here is that both begin and retry first check if cpusets are
enabled via cpusets_enabled() static branch.  This branch can be
rewritted dynamically (via cpuset_inc) if a new cpuset is created.  The
x86 jump label code fully synchronizes across all CPUs for every entry
it rewrites.  If it rewrites only one of the callsites (specifically the
one in read_mems_allowed_retry) and then waits for the
smp_call_function(do_sync_core) to complete while a CPU is inside the
begin/retry section with IRQs off and the mems_allowed value is changed,
we can hang.

This is because begin() will always return 0 (since it wasn't patched
yet) while retry() will test the 0 against the actual value of the seq
counter.

The fix is to use two different static keys: one for begin
(pre_enable_key) and one for retry (enable_key).  In cpuset_inc(), we
first bump the pre_enable key to ensure that cpuset_mems_allowed_begin()
always return a valid seqcount if are enabling cpusets.  Similarly, when
disabling cpusets via cpuset_dec(), we first ensure that callers of
cpuset_mems_allowed_retry() will start ignoring the seqcount value
before we let cpuset_mems_allowed_begin() return 0.

The relevant stack traces of the two stuck threads:

  CPU: 1 PID: 1415 Comm: mkdir Tainted: G L  4.9.36-00104-g540c51286237 #4
  Hardware name: Default string Default string/Hardware, BIOS 4.29.1-20170526215256 05/26/2017
  task: ffff8817f9c28000 task.stack: ffffc9000ffa4000
  RIP: smp_call_function_many+0x1f9/0x260
  Call Trace:
    smp_call_function+0x3b/0x70
    on_each_cpu+0x2f/0x90
    text_poke_bp+0x87/0xd0
    arch_jump_label_transform+0x93/0x100
    __jump_label_update+0x77/0x90
    jump_label_update+0xaa/0xc0
    static_key_slow_inc+0x9e/0xb0
    cpuset_css_online+0x70/0x2e0
    online_css+0x2c/0xa0
    cgroup_apply_control_enable+0x27f/0x3d0
    cgroup_mkdir+0x2b7/0x420
    kernfs_iop_mkdir+0x5a/0x80
    vfs_mkdir+0xf6/0x1a0
    SyS_mkdir+0xb7/0xe0
    entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x18/0xad

  ...

  CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: init Tainted: G L  4.9.36-00104-g540c51286237 #4
  Hardware name: Default string Default string/Hardware, BIOS 4.29.1-20170526215256 05/26/2017
  task: ffff8818087c0000 task.stack: ffffc90000030000
  RIP: int3+0x39/0x70
  Call Trace:
    &lt;#DB&gt; ? ___slab_alloc+0x28b/0x5a0
    &lt;EOE&gt; ? copy_process.part.40+0xf7/0x1de0
    __slab_alloc.isra.80+0x54/0x90
    copy_process.part.40+0xf7/0x1de0
    copy_process.part.40+0xf7/0x1de0
    kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x8a/0x280
    copy_process.part.40+0xf7/0x1de0
    _do_fork+0xe7/0x6c0
    _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2d/0x60
    trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x136/0x1d0
    entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x5/0xad
    do_syscall_64+0x27/0x350
    SyS_clone+0x19/0x20
    do_syscall_64+0x60/0x350
    entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170731040113.14197-1-dmitriyz@waymo.com
Fixes: 46e700abc44c ("mm, page_alloc: remove unnecessary taking of a seqlock when cpusets are disabled")
Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin &lt;dmitriyz@waymo.com&gt;
Reported-by: Cliff Spradlin &lt;cspradlin@waymo.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Christopher Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Li Zefan &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&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>
<title>mm, mprotect: flush TLB if potentially racing with a parallel reclaim leaving stale TLB entries</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T15:33:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-02T20:31:52+00:00</published>
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commit 3ea277194daaeaa84ce75180ec7c7a2075027a68 upstream.

Nadav Amit identified a theoritical race between page reclaim and
mprotect due to TLB flushes being batched outside of the PTL being held.

He described the race as follows:

        CPU0                            CPU1
        ----                            ----
                                        user accesses memory using RW PTE
                                        [PTE now cached in TLB]
        try_to_unmap_one()
        ==&gt; ptep_get_and_clear()
        ==&gt; set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending()
                                        mprotect(addr, PROT_READ)
                                        ==&gt; change_pte_range()
                                        ==&gt; [ PTE non-present - no flush ]

                                        user writes using cached RW PTE
        ...

        try_to_unmap_flush()

The same type of race exists for reads when protecting for PROT_NONE and
also exists for operations that can leave an old TLB entry behind such
as munmap, mremap and madvise.

For some operations like mprotect, it's not necessarily a data integrity
issue but it is a correctness issue as there is a window where an
mprotect that limits access still allows access.  For munmap, it's
potentially a data integrity issue although the race is massive as an
munmap, mmap and return to userspace must all complete between the
window when reclaim drops the PTL and flushes the TLB.  However, it's
theoritically possible so handle this issue by flushing the mm if
reclaim is potentially currently batching TLB flushes.

Other instances where a flush is required for a present pte should be ok
as either the page lock is held preventing parallel reclaim or a page
reference count is elevated preventing a parallel free leading to
corruption.  In the case of page_mkclean there isn't an obvious path
that userspace could take advantage of without using the operations that
are guarded by this patch.  Other users such as gup as a race with
reclaim looks just at PTEs.  huge page variants should be ok as they
don't race with reclaim.  mincore only looks at PTEs.  userfault also
should be ok as if a parallel reclaim takes place, it will either fault
the page back in or read some of the data before the flush occurs
triggering a fault.

Note that a variant of this patch was acked by Andy Lutomirski but this
was for the x86 parts on top of his PCID work which didn't make the 4.13
merge window as expected.  His ack is dropped from this version and
there will be a follow-on patch on top of PCID that will include his
ack.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170717155523.emckq2esjro6hf3z@suse.de
Reported-by: Nadav Amit &lt;nadav.amit@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.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 3ea277194daaeaa84ce75180ec7c7a2075027a68 upstream.

Nadav Amit identified a theoritical race between page reclaim and
mprotect due to TLB flushes being batched outside of the PTL being held.

He described the race as follows:

        CPU0                            CPU1
        ----                            ----
                                        user accesses memory using RW PTE
                                        [PTE now cached in TLB]
        try_to_unmap_one()
        ==&gt; ptep_get_and_clear()
        ==&gt; set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending()
                                        mprotect(addr, PROT_READ)
                                        ==&gt; change_pte_range()
                                        ==&gt; [ PTE non-present - no flush ]

                                        user writes using cached RW PTE
        ...

        try_to_unmap_flush()

The same type of race exists for reads when protecting for PROT_NONE and
also exists for operations that can leave an old TLB entry behind such
as munmap, mremap and madvise.

For some operations like mprotect, it's not necessarily a data integrity
issue but it is a correctness issue as there is a window where an
mprotect that limits access still allows access.  For munmap, it's
potentially a data integrity issue although the race is massive as an
munmap, mmap and return to userspace must all complete between the
window when reclaim drops the PTL and flushes the TLB.  However, it's
theoritically possible so handle this issue by flushing the mm if
reclaim is potentially currently batching TLB flushes.

Other instances where a flush is required for a present pte should be ok
as either the page lock is held preventing parallel reclaim or a page
reference count is elevated preventing a parallel free leading to
corruption.  In the case of page_mkclean there isn't an obvious path
that userspace could take advantage of without using the operations that
are guarded by this patch.  Other users such as gup as a race with
reclaim looks just at PTEs.  huge page variants should be ok as they
don't race with reclaim.  mincore only looks at PTEs.  userfault also
should be ok as if a parallel reclaim takes place, it will either fault
the page back in or read some of the data before the flush occurs
triggering a fault.

Note that a variant of this patch was acked by Andy Lutomirski but this
was for the x86 parts on top of his PCID work which didn't make the 4.13
merge window as expected.  His ack is dropped from this version and
there will be a follow-on patch on top of PCID that will include his
ack.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170717155523.emckq2esjro6hf3z@suse.de
Reported-by: Nadav Amit &lt;nadav.amit@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.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>
<title>NFSv4: Fix EXCHANGE_ID corrupt verifier issue</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T15:33:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Trond Myklebust</name>
<email>trond.myklebust@primarydata.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-01T20:02:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=870a2401cc91586f1c87f6311f87a3bc8f53b1d2'/>
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commit fd40559c8657418385e42f797e0b04bfc0add748 upstream.

The verifier is allocated on the stack, but the EXCHANGE_ID RPC call was
changed to be asynchronous by commit 8d89bd70bc939. If we interrrupt
the call to rpc_wait_for_completion_task(), we can therefore end up
transmitting random stack contents in lieu of the verifier.

Fixes: 8d89bd70bc939 ("NFS setup async exchange_id")
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@primarydata.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker &lt;Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit fd40559c8657418385e42f797e0b04bfc0add748 upstream.

The verifier is allocated on the stack, but the EXCHANGE_ID RPC call was
changed to be asynchronous by commit 8d89bd70bc939. If we interrrupt
the call to rpc_wait_for_completion_task(), we can therefore end up
transmitting random stack contents in lieu of the verifier.

Fixes: 8d89bd70bc939 ("NFS setup async exchange_id")
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@primarydata.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker &lt;Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dentry name snapshots</title>
<updated>2017-08-06T16:21:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-07T18:51:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=75791420f2942f47f4fb5626110723668feea9a7'/>
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commit 49d31c2f389acfe83417083e1208422b4091cd9e upstream.

take_dentry_name_snapshot() takes a safe snapshot of dentry name;
if the name is a short one, it gets copied into caller-supplied
structure, otherwise an extra reference to external name is grabbed
(those are never modified).  In either case the pointer to stable
string is stored into the same structure.

dentry must be held by the caller of take_dentry_name_snapshot(),
but may be freely dropped afterwards - the snapshot will stay
until destroyed by release_dentry_name_snapshot().

Intended use:
	struct name_snapshot s;

	take_dentry_name_snapshot(&amp;s, dentry);
	...
	access s.name
	...
	release_dentry_name_snapshot(&amp;s);

Replaces fsnotify_oldname_...(), gets used in fsnotify to obtain the name
to pass down with event.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 49d31c2f389acfe83417083e1208422b4091cd9e upstream.

take_dentry_name_snapshot() takes a safe snapshot of dentry name;
if the name is a short one, it gets copied into caller-supplied
structure, otherwise an extra reference to external name is grabbed
(those are never modified).  In either case the pointer to stable
string is stored into the same structure.

dentry must be held by the caller of take_dentry_name_snapshot(),
but may be freely dropped afterwards - the snapshot will stay
until destroyed by release_dentry_name_snapshot().

Intended use:
	struct name_snapshot s;

	take_dentry_name_snapshot(&amp;s, dentry);
	...
	access s.name
	...
	release_dentry_name_snapshot(&amp;s);

Replaces fsnotify_oldname_...(), gets used in fsnotify to obtain the name
to pass down with event.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>writeback: rework wb_[dec|inc]_stat family of functions</title>
<updated>2017-07-27T22:10:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nikolay Borisov</name>
<email>nborisov@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-12T21:37:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2541b3c861bc58ac4e01edfa4bb035421ff23501'/>
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commit 3e8f399da490e6ac20a3cfd6aa404c9aa961a9a2 upstream.

Currently the writeback statistics code uses a percpu counters to hold
various statistics.  Furthermore we have 2 families of functions - those
which disable local irq and those which doesn't and whose names begin
with double underscore.  However, they both end up calling
__add_wb_stats which in turn calls percpu_counter_add_batch which is
already irq-safe.

Exploiting this fact allows to eliminated the __wb_* functions since
they don't add any further protection than we already have.
Furthermore, refactor the wb_* function to call __add_wb_stat directly
without the irq-disabling dance.  This will likely result in better
runtime of code which deals with modifying the stat counters.

While at it also document why percpu_counter_add_batch is in fact
preempt and irq-safe since at least 3 people got confused.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498029937-27293-1-git-send-email-nborisov@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov &lt;nborisov@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&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: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3e8f399da490e6ac20a3cfd6aa404c9aa961a9a2 upstream.

Currently the writeback statistics code uses a percpu counters to hold
various statistics.  Furthermore we have 2 families of functions - those
which disable local irq and those which doesn't and whose names begin
with double underscore.  However, they both end up calling
__add_wb_stats which in turn calls percpu_counter_add_batch which is
already irq-safe.

Exploiting this fact allows to eliminated the __wb_* functions since
they don't add any further protection than we already have.
Furthermore, refactor the wb_* function to call __add_wb_stat directly
without the irq-disabling dance.  This will likely result in better
runtime of code which deals with modifying the stat counters.

While at it also document why percpu_counter_add_batch is in fact
preempt and irq-safe since at least 3 people got confused.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498029937-27293-1-git-send-email-nborisov@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov &lt;nborisov@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&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: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>percpu_counter: Rename __percpu_counter_add to percpu_counter_add_batch</title>
<updated>2017-07-27T22:10:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nikolay Borisov</name>
<email>nborisov@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-20T18:01:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=60958be79d5845e2e00f81cd256443e376194b0f'/>
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commit 104b4e5139fe384431ac11c3b8a6cf4a529edf4a upstream.

Currently, percpu_counter_add is a wrapper around __percpu_counter_add
which is preempt safe due to explicit calls to preempt_disable.  Given
how __ prefix is used in percpu related interfaces, the naming
unfortunately creates the false sense that __percpu_counter_add is
less safe than percpu_counter_add.  In terms of context-safety,
they're equivalent.  The only difference is that the __ version takes
a batch parameter.

Make this a bit more explicit by just renaming __percpu_counter_add to
percpu_counter_add_batch.

This patch doesn't cause any functional changes.

tj: Minor updates to patch description for clarity.  Cosmetic
    indentation updates.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov &lt;nborisov@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Cc: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 104b4e5139fe384431ac11c3b8a6cf4a529edf4a upstream.

Currently, percpu_counter_add is a wrapper around __percpu_counter_add
which is preempt safe due to explicit calls to preempt_disable.  Given
how __ prefix is used in percpu related interfaces, the naming
unfortunately creates the false sense that __percpu_counter_add is
less safe than percpu_counter_add.  In terms of context-safety,
they're equivalent.  The only difference is that the __ version takes
a batch parameter.

Make this a bit more explicit by just renaming __percpu_counter_add to
percpu_counter_add_batch.

This patch doesn't cause any functional changes.

tj: Minor updates to patch description for clarity.  Cosmetic
    indentation updates.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov &lt;nborisov@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Cc: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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