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<title>mm: numa: return the number of base pages altered by protection changes</title>
<updated>2013-12-08T15:29:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-12T23:08:32+00:00</published>
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commit 72403b4a0fbdf433c1fe0127e49864658f6f6468 upstream.

Commit 0255d4918480 ("mm: Account for a THP NUMA hinting update as one
PTE update") was added to account for the number of PTE updates when
marking pages prot_numa.  task_numa_work was using the old return value
to track how much address space had been updated.  Altering the return
value causes the scanner to do more work than it is configured or
documented to in a single unit of work.

This patch reverts that commit and accounts for the number of THP
updates separately in vmstat.  It is up to the administrator to
interpret the pair of values correctly.  This is a straight-forward
operation and likely to only be of interest when actively debugging NUMA
balancing problems.

The impact of this patch is that the NUMA PTE scanner will scan slower
when THP is enabled and workloads may converge slower as a result.  On
the flip size system CPU usage should be lower than recent tests
reported.  This is an illustrative example of a short single JVM specjbb
test

specjbb
                       3.12.0                3.12.0
                      vanilla      acctupdates
TPut 1      26143.00 (  0.00%)     25747.00 ( -1.51%)
TPut 7     185257.00 (  0.00%)    183202.00 ( -1.11%)
TPut 13    329760.00 (  0.00%)    346577.00 (  5.10%)
TPut 19    442502.00 (  0.00%)    460146.00 (  3.99%)
TPut 25    540634.00 (  0.00%)    549053.00 (  1.56%)
TPut 31    512098.00 (  0.00%)    519611.00 (  1.47%)
TPut 37    461276.00 (  0.00%)    474973.00 (  2.97%)
TPut 43    403089.00 (  0.00%)    414172.00 (  2.75%)

              3.12.0      3.12.0
             vanillaacctupdates
User         5169.64     5184.14
System        100.45       80.02
Elapsed       252.75      251.85

Performance is similar but note the reduction in system CPU time.  While
this showed a performance gain, it will not be universal but at least
it'll be behaving as documented.  The vmstats are obviously different but
here is an obvious interpretation of them from mmtests.

                                3.12.0      3.12.0
                               vanillaacctupdates
NUMA page range updates        1408326    11043064
NUMA huge PMD updates                0       21040
NUMA PTE updates               1408326      291624

"NUMA page range updates" == nr_pte_updates and is the value returned to
the NUMA pte scanner.  NUMA huge PMD updates were the number of THP
updates which in combination can be used to calculate how many ptes were
updated from userspace.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reported-by: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.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: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 72403b4a0fbdf433c1fe0127e49864658f6f6468 upstream.

Commit 0255d4918480 ("mm: Account for a THP NUMA hinting update as one
PTE update") was added to account for the number of PTE updates when
marking pages prot_numa.  task_numa_work was using the old return value
to track how much address space had been updated.  Altering the return
value causes the scanner to do more work than it is configured or
documented to in a single unit of work.

This patch reverts that commit and accounts for the number of THP
updates separately in vmstat.  It is up to the administrator to
interpret the pair of values correctly.  This is a straight-forward
operation and likely to only be of interest when actively debugging NUMA
balancing problems.

The impact of this patch is that the NUMA PTE scanner will scan slower
when THP is enabled and workloads may converge slower as a result.  On
the flip size system CPU usage should be lower than recent tests
reported.  This is an illustrative example of a short single JVM specjbb
test

specjbb
                       3.12.0                3.12.0
                      vanilla      acctupdates
TPut 1      26143.00 (  0.00%)     25747.00 ( -1.51%)
TPut 7     185257.00 (  0.00%)    183202.00 ( -1.11%)
TPut 13    329760.00 (  0.00%)    346577.00 (  5.10%)
TPut 19    442502.00 (  0.00%)    460146.00 (  3.99%)
TPut 25    540634.00 (  0.00%)    549053.00 (  1.56%)
TPut 31    512098.00 (  0.00%)    519611.00 (  1.47%)
TPut 37    461276.00 (  0.00%)    474973.00 (  2.97%)
TPut 43    403089.00 (  0.00%)    414172.00 (  2.75%)

              3.12.0      3.12.0
             vanillaacctupdates
User         5169.64     5184.14
System        100.45       80.02
Elapsed       252.75      251.85

Performance is similar but note the reduction in system CPU time.  While
this showed a performance gain, it will not be universal but at least
it'll be behaving as documented.  The vmstats are obviously different but
here is an obvious interpretation of them from mmtests.

                                3.12.0      3.12.0
                               vanillaacctupdates
NUMA page range updates        1408326    11043064
NUMA huge PMD updates                0       21040
NUMA PTE updates               1408326      291624

"NUMA page range updates" == nr_pte_updates and is the value returned to
the NUMA pte scanner.  NUMA huge PMD updates were the number of THP
updates which in combination can be used to calculate how many ptes were
updated from userspace.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reported-by: Alex Thorlton &lt;athorlton@sgi.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.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: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>clockevents: Add module refcount</title>
<updated>2013-12-08T15:29:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-25T20:31:49+00:00</published>
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commit ccf33d6880f39a35158fff66db13000ae4943fac upstream.

We want to be able to remove clockevent modules as well. Add a
refcount so we don't remove a module with an active clock event
device.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Magnus Damm &lt;magnus.damm@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130425143436.307435149@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit ccf33d6880f39a35158fff66db13000ae4943fac upstream.

We want to be able to remove clockevent modules as well. Add a
refcount so we don't remove a module with an active clock event
device.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Magnus Damm &lt;magnus.damm@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130425143436.307435149@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>clockevents: Get rid of the notifier chain</title>
<updated>2013-12-08T15:29:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-25T20:31:47+00:00</published>
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commit 7172a286ced0c1f4f239a0fa09db54ed37d3ead2 upstream.

7+ years and still a single user. Kill it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Magnus Damm &lt;magnus.damm@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130425143436.098520211@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 7172a286ced0c1f4f239a0fa09db54ed37d3ead2 upstream.

7+ years and still a single user. Kill it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Magnus Damm &lt;magnus.damm@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130425143436.098520211@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: push reasm skb through instead of original frag skbs</title>
<updated>2013-12-08T15:29:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Pirko</name>
<email>jiri@resnulli.us</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-06T16:52:20+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6aafeef03b9d9ecf255f3a80ed85ee070260e1ae ]

Pushing original fragments through causes several problems. For example
for matching, frags may not be matched correctly. Take following
example:

&lt;example&gt;
On HOSTA do:
ip6tables -I INPUT -p icmpv6 -j DROP
ip6tables -I INPUT -p icmpv6 -m icmp6 --icmpv6-type 128 -j ACCEPT

and on HOSTB you do:
ping6 HOSTA -s2000    (MTU is 1500)

Incoming echo requests will be filtered out on HOSTA. This issue does
not occur with smaller packets than MTU (where fragmentation does not happen)
&lt;/example&gt;

As was discussed previously, the only correct solution seems to be to use
reassembled skb instead of separete frags. Doing this has positive side
effects in reducing sk_buff by one pointer (nfct_reasm) and also the reams
dances in ipvs and conntrack can be removed.

Future plan is to remove net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c
entirely and use code in net/ipv6/reassembly.c instead.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner &lt;mleitner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6aafeef03b9d9ecf255f3a80ed85ee070260e1ae ]

Pushing original fragments through causes several problems. For example
for matching, frags may not be matched correctly. Take following
example:

&lt;example&gt;
On HOSTA do:
ip6tables -I INPUT -p icmpv6 -j DROP
ip6tables -I INPUT -p icmpv6 -m icmp6 --icmpv6-type 128 -j ACCEPT

and on HOSTB you do:
ping6 HOSTA -s2000    (MTU is 1500)

Incoming echo requests will be filtered out on HOSTA. This issue does
not occur with smaller packets than MTU (where fragmentation does not happen)
&lt;/example&gt;

As was discussed previously, the only correct solution seems to be to use
reassembled skb instead of separete frags. Doing this has positive side
effects in reducing sk_buff by one pointer (nfct_reasm) and also the reams
dances in ipvs and conntrack can be removed.

Future plan is to remove net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c
entirely and use code in net/ipv6/reassembly.c instead.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner &lt;mleitner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>inet: fix addr_len/msg-&gt;msg_namelen assignment in recv_error and rxpmtu functions</title>
<updated>2013-12-08T15:29:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hannes Frederic Sowa</name>
<email>hannes@stressinduktion.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-22T23:46:12+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 85fbaa75037d0b6b786ff18658ddf0b4014ce2a4 ]

Commit bceaa90240b6019ed73b49965eac7d167610be69 ("inet: prevent leakage
of uninitialized memory to user in recv syscalls") conditionally updated
addr_len if the msg_name is written to. The recv_error and rxpmtu
functions relied on the recvmsg functions to set up addr_len before.

As this does not happen any more we have to pass addr_len to those
functions as well and set it to the size of the corresponding sockaddr
length.

This broke traceroute and such.

Fixes: bceaa90240b6 ("inet: prevent leakage of uninitialized memory to user in recv syscalls")
Reported-by: Brad Spengler &lt;spender@grsecurity.net&gt;
Reported-by: Tom Labanowski
Cc: mpb &lt;mpb.mail@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 85fbaa75037d0b6b786ff18658ddf0b4014ce2a4 ]

Commit bceaa90240b6019ed73b49965eac7d167610be69 ("inet: prevent leakage
of uninitialized memory to user in recv syscalls") conditionally updated
addr_len if the msg_name is written to. The recv_error and rxpmtu
functions relied on the recvmsg functions to set up addr_len before.

As this does not happen any more we have to pass addr_len to those
functions as well and set it to the size of the corresponding sockaddr
length.

This broke traceroute and such.

Fixes: bceaa90240b6 ("inet: prevent leakage of uninitialized memory to user in recv syscalls")
Reported-by: Brad Spengler &lt;spender@grsecurity.net&gt;
Reported-by: Tom Labanowski
Cc: mpb &lt;mpb.mail@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: rework recvmsg handler msg_name and msg_namelen logic</title>
<updated>2013-12-08T15:29:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hannes Frederic Sowa</name>
<email>hannes@stressinduktion.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-21T02:14:22+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f3d3342602f8bcbf37d7c46641cb9bca7618eb1c ]

This patch now always passes msg-&gt;msg_namelen as 0. recvmsg handlers must
set msg_namelen to the proper size &lt;= sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage)
to return msg_name to the user.

This prevents numerous uninitialized memory leaks we had in the
recvmsg handlers and makes it harder for new code to accidentally leak
uninitialized memory.

Optimize for the case recvfrom is called with NULL as address. We don't
need to copy the address at all, so set it to NULL before invoking the
recvmsg handler. We can do so, because all the recvmsg handlers must
cope with the case a plain read() is called on them. read() also sets
msg_name to NULL.

Also document these changes in include/linux/net.h as suggested by David
Miller.

Changes since RFC:

Set msg-&gt;msg_name = NULL if user specified a NULL in msg_name but had a
non-null msg_namelen in verify_iovec/verify_compat_iovec. This doesn't
affect sendto as it would bail out earlier while trying to copy-in the
address. It also more naturally reflects the logic by the callers of
verify_iovec.

With this change in place I could remove "
if (!uaddr || msg_sys-&gt;msg_namelen == 0)
	msg-&gt;msg_name = NULL
".

This change does not alter the user visible error logic as we ignore
msg_namelen as long as msg_name is NULL.

Also remove two unnecessary curly brackets in ___sys_recvmsg and change
comments to netdev style.

Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit f3d3342602f8bcbf37d7c46641cb9bca7618eb1c ]

This patch now always passes msg-&gt;msg_namelen as 0. recvmsg handlers must
set msg_namelen to the proper size &lt;= sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage)
to return msg_name to the user.

This prevents numerous uninitialized memory leaks we had in the
recvmsg handlers and makes it harder for new code to accidentally leak
uninitialized memory.

Optimize for the case recvfrom is called with NULL as address. We don't
need to copy the address at all, so set it to NULL before invoking the
recvmsg handler. We can do so, because all the recvmsg handlers must
cope with the case a plain read() is called on them. read() also sets
msg_name to NULL.

Also document these changes in include/linux/net.h as suggested by David
Miller.

Changes since RFC:

Set msg-&gt;msg_name = NULL if user specified a NULL in msg_name but had a
non-null msg_namelen in verify_iovec/verify_compat_iovec. This doesn't
affect sendto as it would bail out earlier while trying to copy-in the
address. It also more naturally reflects the logic by the callers of
verify_iovec.

With this change in place I could remove "
if (!uaddr || msg_sys-&gt;msg_namelen == 0)
	msg-&gt;msg_name = NULL
".

This change does not alter the user visible error logic as we ignore
msg_namelen as long as msg_name is NULL.

Also remove two unnecessary curly brackets in ___sys_recvmsg and change
comments to netdev style.

Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>random32: fix off-by-one in seeding requirement</title>
<updated>2013-12-08T15:29:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>dborkman@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-11T11:20:32+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 51c37a70aaa3f95773af560e6db3073520513912 ]

For properly initialising the Tausworthe generator [1], we have
a strict seeding requirement, that is, s1 &gt; 1, s2 &gt; 7, s3 &gt; 15.

Commit 697f8d0348 ("random32: seeding improvement") introduced
a __seed() function that imposes boundary checks proposed by the
errata paper [2] to properly ensure above conditions.

However, we're off by one, as the function is implemented as:
"return (x &lt; m) ? x + m : x;", and called with __seed(X, 1),
__seed(X, 7), __seed(X, 15). Thus, an unwanted seed of 1, 7, 15
would be possible, whereas the lower boundary should actually
be of at least 2, 8, 16, just as GSL does. Fix this, as otherwise
an initialization with an unwanted seed could have the effect
that Tausworthe's PRNG properties cannot not be ensured.

Note that this PRNG is *not* used for cryptography in the kernel.

 [1] http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/myftp/papers/tausme.ps
 [2] http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/myftp/papers/tausme2.ps

Joint work with Hannes Frederic Sowa.

Fixes: 697f8d0348a6 ("random32: seeding improvement")
Cc: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Cc: Florian Weimer &lt;fweimer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 51c37a70aaa3f95773af560e6db3073520513912 ]

For properly initialising the Tausworthe generator [1], we have
a strict seeding requirement, that is, s1 &gt; 1, s2 &gt; 7, s3 &gt; 15.

Commit 697f8d0348 ("random32: seeding improvement") introduced
a __seed() function that imposes boundary checks proposed by the
errata paper [2] to properly ensure above conditions.

However, we're off by one, as the function is implemented as:
"return (x &lt; m) ? x + m : x;", and called with __seed(X, 1),
__seed(X, 7), __seed(X, 15). Thus, an unwanted seed of 1, 7, 15
would be possible, whereas the lower boundary should actually
be of at least 2, 8, 16, just as GSL does. Fix this, as otherwise
an initialization with an unwanted seed could have the effect
that Tausworthe's PRNG properties cannot not be ensured.

Note that this PRNG is *not* used for cryptography in the kernel.

 [1] http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/myftp/papers/tausme.ps
 [2] http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/myftp/papers/tausme2.ps

Joint work with Hannes Frederic Sowa.

Fixes: 697f8d0348a6 ("random32: seeding improvement")
Cc: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Cc: Florian Weimer &lt;fweimer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa &lt;hannes@stressinduktion.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>netfilter: nf_conntrack: use RCU safe kfree for conntrack extensions</title>
<updated>2013-12-04T18:57:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Kubecek</name>
<email>mkubecek@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-11T08:17:27+00:00</published>
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commit c13a84a830a208fb3443628773c8ca0557773cc7 upstream.

Commit 68b80f11 (netfilter: nf_nat: fix RCU races) introduced
RCU protection for freeing extension data when reallocation
moves them to a new location. We need the same protection when
freeing them in nf_ct_ext_free() in order to prevent a
use-after-free by other threads referencing a NAT extension data
via bysource list.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c13a84a830a208fb3443628773c8ca0557773cc7 upstream.

Commit 68b80f11 (netfilter: nf_nat: fix RCU races) introduced
RCU protection for freeing extension data when reallocation
moves them to a new location. We need the same protection when
freeing them in nf_ct_ext_free() in order to prevent a
use-after-free by other threads referencing a NAT extension data
via bysource list.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek &lt;mkubecek@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>tracing: Allow events to have NULL strings</title>
<updated>2013-12-04T18:57:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-26T14:22:54+00:00</published>
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commit 4e58e54754dc1fec21c3a9e824bc108b05fdf46e upstream.

If an TRACE_EVENT() uses __assign_str() or __get_str on a NULL pointer
then the following oops will happen:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at   (null)
IP: [&lt;c127a17b&gt;] strlen+0x10/0x1a
*pde = 00000000 ^M
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 3.13.0-rc1-test+ #2
Hardware name:                  /DG965MQ, BIOS MQ96510J.86A.0372.2006.0605.1717 06/05/2006^M
task: f5cde9f0 ti: f5e5e000 task.ti: f5e5e000
EIP: 0060:[&lt;c127a17b&gt;] EFLAGS: 00210046 CPU: 1
EIP is at strlen+0x10/0x1a
EAX: 00000000 EBX: c2472da8 ECX: ffffffff EDX: c2472da8
ESI: c1c5e5fc EDI: 00000000 EBP: f5e5fe84 ESP: f5e5fe80
 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
CR0: 8005003b CR2: 00000000 CR3: 01f32000 CR4: 000007d0
Stack:
 f5f18b90 f5e5feb8 c10687a8 0759004f 00000005 00000005 00000005 00200046
 00000002 00000000 c1082a93 f56c7e28 c2472da8 c1082a93 f5e5fee4 c106bc61^M
 00000000 c1082a93 00000000 00000000 00000001 00200046 00200082 00000000
Call Trace:
 [&lt;c10687a8&gt;] ftrace_raw_event_lock+0x39/0xc0
 [&lt;c1082a93&gt;] ? ktime_get+0x29/0x69
 [&lt;c1082a93&gt;] ? ktime_get+0x29/0x69
 [&lt;c106bc61&gt;] lock_release+0x57/0x1a5
 [&lt;c1082a93&gt;] ? ktime_get+0x29/0x69
 [&lt;c10824dd&gt;] read_seqcount_begin.constprop.7+0x4d/0x75
 [&lt;c1082a93&gt;] ? ktime_get+0x29/0x69^M
 [&lt;c1082a93&gt;] ktime_get+0x29/0x69
 [&lt;c108a46a&gt;] __tick_nohz_idle_enter+0x1e/0x426
 [&lt;c10690e8&gt;] ? lock_release_holdtime.part.19+0x48/0x4d
 [&lt;c10bc184&gt;] ? time_hardirqs_off+0xe/0x28
 [&lt;c1068c82&gt;] ? trace_hardirqs_off_caller+0x3f/0xaf
 [&lt;c108a8cb&gt;] tick_nohz_idle_enter+0x59/0x62
 [&lt;c1079242&gt;] cpu_startup_entry+0x64/0x192
 [&lt;c102299c&gt;] start_secondary+0x277/0x27c
Code: 90 89 c6 89 d0 88 c4 ac 38 e0 74 09 84 c0 75 f7 be 01 00 00 00 89 f0 48 5e 5d c3 55 89 e5 57 66 66 66 66 90 83 c9 ff 89 c7 31 c0 &lt;f2&gt; ae f7 d1 8d 41 ff 5f 5d c3 55 89 e5 57 66 66 66 66 90 31 ff
EIP: [&lt;c127a17b&gt;] strlen+0x10/0x1a SS:ESP 0068:f5e5fe80
CR2: 0000000000000000
---[ end trace 01bc47bf519ec1b2 ]---

New tracepoints have been added that have allowed for NULL pointers
being assigned to strings. To fix this, change the TRACE_EVENT() code
to check for NULL and if it is, it will assign "(null)" to it instead
(similar to what glibc printf does).

Reported-by: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah.kh@samsung.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jovi Zhangwei &lt;jovi.zhangwei@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAGdX0WFeEuy+DtpsJzyzn0343qEEjLX97+o1VREFkUEhndC+5Q@mail.gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/528D6972.9010702@samsung.com
Fixes: 9cbf117662e2 ("tracing/events: provide string with undefined size support")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 4e58e54754dc1fec21c3a9e824bc108b05fdf46e upstream.

If an TRACE_EVENT() uses __assign_str() or __get_str on a NULL pointer
then the following oops will happen:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at   (null)
IP: [&lt;c127a17b&gt;] strlen+0x10/0x1a
*pde = 00000000 ^M
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 3.13.0-rc1-test+ #2
Hardware name:                  /DG965MQ, BIOS MQ96510J.86A.0372.2006.0605.1717 06/05/2006^M
task: f5cde9f0 ti: f5e5e000 task.ti: f5e5e000
EIP: 0060:[&lt;c127a17b&gt;] EFLAGS: 00210046 CPU: 1
EIP is at strlen+0x10/0x1a
EAX: 00000000 EBX: c2472da8 ECX: ffffffff EDX: c2472da8
ESI: c1c5e5fc EDI: 00000000 EBP: f5e5fe84 ESP: f5e5fe80
 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
CR0: 8005003b CR2: 00000000 CR3: 01f32000 CR4: 000007d0
Stack:
 f5f18b90 f5e5feb8 c10687a8 0759004f 00000005 00000005 00000005 00200046
 00000002 00000000 c1082a93 f56c7e28 c2472da8 c1082a93 f5e5fee4 c106bc61^M
 00000000 c1082a93 00000000 00000000 00000001 00200046 00200082 00000000
Call Trace:
 [&lt;c10687a8&gt;] ftrace_raw_event_lock+0x39/0xc0
 [&lt;c1082a93&gt;] ? ktime_get+0x29/0x69
 [&lt;c1082a93&gt;] ? ktime_get+0x29/0x69
 [&lt;c106bc61&gt;] lock_release+0x57/0x1a5
 [&lt;c1082a93&gt;] ? ktime_get+0x29/0x69
 [&lt;c10824dd&gt;] read_seqcount_begin.constprop.7+0x4d/0x75
 [&lt;c1082a93&gt;] ? ktime_get+0x29/0x69^M
 [&lt;c1082a93&gt;] ktime_get+0x29/0x69
 [&lt;c108a46a&gt;] __tick_nohz_idle_enter+0x1e/0x426
 [&lt;c10690e8&gt;] ? lock_release_holdtime.part.19+0x48/0x4d
 [&lt;c10bc184&gt;] ? time_hardirqs_off+0xe/0x28
 [&lt;c1068c82&gt;] ? trace_hardirqs_off_caller+0x3f/0xaf
 [&lt;c108a8cb&gt;] tick_nohz_idle_enter+0x59/0x62
 [&lt;c1079242&gt;] cpu_startup_entry+0x64/0x192
 [&lt;c102299c&gt;] start_secondary+0x277/0x27c
Code: 90 89 c6 89 d0 88 c4 ac 38 e0 74 09 84 c0 75 f7 be 01 00 00 00 89 f0 48 5e 5d c3 55 89 e5 57 66 66 66 66 90 83 c9 ff 89 c7 31 c0 &lt;f2&gt; ae f7 d1 8d 41 ff 5f 5d c3 55 89 e5 57 66 66 66 66 90 31 ff
EIP: [&lt;c127a17b&gt;] strlen+0x10/0x1a SS:ESP 0068:f5e5fe80
CR2: 0000000000000000
---[ end trace 01bc47bf519ec1b2 ]---

New tracepoints have been added that have allowed for NULL pointers
being assigned to strings. To fix this, change the TRACE_EVENT() code
to check for NULL and if it is, it will assign "(null)" to it instead
(similar to what glibc printf does).

Reported-by: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah.kh@samsung.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jovi Zhangwei &lt;jovi.zhangwei@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAGdX0WFeEuy+DtpsJzyzn0343qEEjLX97+o1VREFkUEhndC+5Q@mail.gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/528D6972.9010702@samsung.com
Fixes: 9cbf117662e2 ("tracing/events: provide string with undefined size support")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ACPI / hotplug: Fix conflicted PCI bridge notify handlers</title>
<updated>2013-12-04T18:57:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Toshi Kani</name>
<email>toshi.kani@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-20T13:25:34+00:00</published>
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commit ca499fc87ed945094d952da0eb7eea7dbeb1feec upstream.

The PCI host bridge scan handler installs its own notify handler,
handle_hotplug_event_root(), by itself.  Nevertheless, the ACPI
hotplug framework also installs the common notify handler,
acpi_hotplug_notify_cb(), for PCI root bridges.  This causes
acpi_hotplug_notify_cb() to call _OST method with unsupported
error as hotplug.enabled is not set.

To address this issue, introduce hotplug.ignore flag, which
indicates that the scan handler installs its own notify handler by
itself.  The ACPI hotplug framework does not install the common
notify handler when this flag is set.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hp.com&gt;
[rjw: Changed the name of the new flag]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit ca499fc87ed945094d952da0eb7eea7dbeb1feec upstream.

The PCI host bridge scan handler installs its own notify handler,
handle_hotplug_event_root(), by itself.  Nevertheless, the ACPI
hotplug framework also installs the common notify handler,
acpi_hotplug_notify_cb(), for PCI root bridges.  This causes
acpi_hotplug_notify_cb() to call _OST method with unsupported
error as hotplug.enabled is not set.

To address this issue, introduce hotplug.ignore flag, which
indicates that the scan handler installs its own notify handler by
itself.  The ACPI hotplug framework does not install the common
notify handler when this flag is set.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hp.com&gt;
[rjw: Changed the name of the new flag]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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