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<title>tcp: implement RFC 5961 4.2</title>
<updated>2013-01-16T01:13:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-17T01:41:30+00:00</published>
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[ 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 &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kiran Kumar Kella &lt;kkiran@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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[ 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 &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kiran Kumar Kella &lt;kkiran@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tcp: implement RFC 5961 3.2</title>
<updated>2013-01-16T01:13:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-17T08:13:05+00:00</published>
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[ 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 &lt;= SEG.SEQ &lt; 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 &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kiran Kumar Kella &lt;kkiran@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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[ 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 &lt;= SEG.SEQ &lt; 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 &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kiran Kumar Kella &lt;kkiran@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>inet: Fix kmemleak in tcp_v4/6_syn_recv_sock and dccp_v4/6_request_recv_sock</title>
<updated>2013-01-16T01:13:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Paasch</name>
<email>christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-14T04:07:58+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e337e24d6624e74a558aa69071e112a65f7b5758 ]

If in either of the above functions inet_csk_route_child_sock() or
__inet_inherit_port() fails, the newsk will not be freed:

unreferenced object 0xffff88022e8a92c0 (size 1592):
  comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294946244 (age 726.160s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    0a 01 01 01 0a 01 01 02 00 00 00 00 a7 cc 16 00  ................
    02 00 03 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [&lt;ffffffff8153d190&gt;] kmemleak_alloc+0x21/0x3e
    [&lt;ffffffff810ab3e7&gt;] kmem_cache_alloc+0xb5/0xc5
    [&lt;ffffffff8149b65b&gt;] sk_prot_alloc.isra.53+0x2b/0xcd
    [&lt;ffffffff8149b784&gt;] sk_clone_lock+0x16/0x21e
    [&lt;ffffffff814d711a&gt;] inet_csk_clone_lock+0x10/0x7b
    [&lt;ffffffff814ebbc3&gt;] tcp_create_openreq_child+0x21/0x481
    [&lt;ffffffff814e8fa5&gt;] tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock+0x3a/0x23b
    [&lt;ffffffff814ec5ba&gt;] tcp_check_req+0x29f/0x416
    [&lt;ffffffff814e8e10&gt;] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x161/0x2bc
    [&lt;ffffffff814eb917&gt;] tcp_v4_rcv+0x6c9/0x701
    [&lt;ffffffff814cea9f&gt;] ip_local_deliver_finish+0x70/0xc4
    [&lt;ffffffff814cec20&gt;] ip_local_deliver+0x4e/0x7f
    [&lt;ffffffff814ce9f8&gt;] ip_rcv_finish+0x1fc/0x233
    [&lt;ffffffff814cee68&gt;] ip_rcv+0x217/0x267
    [&lt;ffffffff814a7bbe&gt;] __netif_receive_skb+0x49e/0x553
    [&lt;ffffffff814a7cc3&gt;] netif_receive_skb+0x50/0x82

This happens, because sk_clone_lock initializes sk_refcnt to 2, and thus
a single sock_put() is not enough to free the memory. Additionally, things
like xfrm, memcg, cookie_values,... may have been initialized.
We have to free them properly.

This is fixed by forcing a call to tcp_done(), ending up in
inet_csk_destroy_sock, doing the final sock_put(). tcp_done() is necessary,
because it ends up doing all the cleanup on xfrm, memcg, cookie_values,
xfrm,...

Before calling tcp_done, we have to set the socket to SOCK_DEAD, to
force it entering inet_csk_destroy_sock. To avoid the warning in
inet_csk_destroy_sock, inet_num has to be set to 0.
As inet_csk_destroy_sock does a dec on orphan_count, we first have to
increase it.

Calling tcp_done() allows us to remove the calls to
tcp_clear_xmit_timer() and tcp_cleanup_congestion_control().

A similar approach is taken for dccp by calling dccp_done().

This is in the kernel since 093d282321 (tproxy: fix hash locking issue
when using port redirection in __inet_inherit_port()), thus since
version &gt;= 2.6.37.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch &lt;christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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[ Upstream commit e337e24d6624e74a558aa69071e112a65f7b5758 ]

If in either of the above functions inet_csk_route_child_sock() or
__inet_inherit_port() fails, the newsk will not be freed:

unreferenced object 0xffff88022e8a92c0 (size 1592):
  comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294946244 (age 726.160s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    0a 01 01 01 0a 01 01 02 00 00 00 00 a7 cc 16 00  ................
    02 00 03 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [&lt;ffffffff8153d190&gt;] kmemleak_alloc+0x21/0x3e
    [&lt;ffffffff810ab3e7&gt;] kmem_cache_alloc+0xb5/0xc5
    [&lt;ffffffff8149b65b&gt;] sk_prot_alloc.isra.53+0x2b/0xcd
    [&lt;ffffffff8149b784&gt;] sk_clone_lock+0x16/0x21e
    [&lt;ffffffff814d711a&gt;] inet_csk_clone_lock+0x10/0x7b
    [&lt;ffffffff814ebbc3&gt;] tcp_create_openreq_child+0x21/0x481
    [&lt;ffffffff814e8fa5&gt;] tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock+0x3a/0x23b
    [&lt;ffffffff814ec5ba&gt;] tcp_check_req+0x29f/0x416
    [&lt;ffffffff814e8e10&gt;] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x161/0x2bc
    [&lt;ffffffff814eb917&gt;] tcp_v4_rcv+0x6c9/0x701
    [&lt;ffffffff814cea9f&gt;] ip_local_deliver_finish+0x70/0xc4
    [&lt;ffffffff814cec20&gt;] ip_local_deliver+0x4e/0x7f
    [&lt;ffffffff814ce9f8&gt;] ip_rcv_finish+0x1fc/0x233
    [&lt;ffffffff814cee68&gt;] ip_rcv+0x217/0x267
    [&lt;ffffffff814a7bbe&gt;] __netif_receive_skb+0x49e/0x553
    [&lt;ffffffff814a7cc3&gt;] netif_receive_skb+0x50/0x82

This happens, because sk_clone_lock initializes sk_refcnt to 2, and thus
a single sock_put() is not enough to free the memory. Additionally, things
like xfrm, memcg, cookie_values,... may have been initialized.
We have to free them properly.

This is fixed by forcing a call to tcp_done(), ending up in
inet_csk_destroy_sock, doing the final sock_put(). tcp_done() is necessary,
because it ends up doing all the cleanup on xfrm, memcg, cookie_values,
xfrm,...

Before calling tcp_done, we have to set the socket to SOCK_DEAD, to
force it entering inet_csk_destroy_sock. To avoid the warning in
inet_csk_destroy_sock, inet_num has to be set to 0.
As inet_csk_destroy_sock does a dec on orphan_count, we first have to
increase it.

Calling tcp_done() allows us to remove the calls to
tcp_clear_xmit_timer() and tcp_cleanup_congestion_control().

A similar approach is taken for dccp by calling dccp_done().

This is in the kernel since 093d282321 (tproxy: fix hash locking issue
when using port redirection in __inet_inherit_port()), thus since
version &gt;= 2.6.37.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch &lt;christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ftrace: Do not function trace inlined functions</title>
<updated>2013-01-16T01:13:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-12T20:22:41+00:00</published>
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commit 45959ee7aa645815a5ce303a0ea1e48a21e67c6a upstream.

When gcc inlines a function, it does not mark it with the mcount
prologue, which in turn means that inlined functions are not traced
by the function tracer. But if CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING is set, then
gcc is allowed not to inline a function that is marked inline.

Depending on the options and the compiler, a function may or may
not be traced by the function tracer, depending on whether gcc
decides to inline a function or not. This has caused several
problems in the pass becaues gcc is not always consistent with
what it decides to inline between different gcc versions.

Some places should not be traced (like paravirt native_* functions)
and these are mostly marked as inline. When gcc decides not to
inline the function, and if that function should not be traced, then
the ftrace function tracer will suddenly break when it use to work
fine. This becomes even harder to debug when different versions of
gcc will not inline that function, making the same kernel and config
work for some gcc versions and not work for others.

By making all functions marked inline to not be traced will remove
the ambiguity that gcc adds when it comes to tracing functions marked
inline. All gcc versions will be consistent with what functions are
traced and having volatile working code will be removed.

Note, only the inline macro when CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING is set needs
to have notrace added, as the attribute __always_inline will force
the function to be inlined and then not traced.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 45959ee7aa645815a5ce303a0ea1e48a21e67c6a upstream.

When gcc inlines a function, it does not mark it with the mcount
prologue, which in turn means that inlined functions are not traced
by the function tracer. But if CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING is set, then
gcc is allowed not to inline a function that is marked inline.

Depending on the options and the compiler, a function may or may
not be traced by the function tracer, depending on whether gcc
decides to inline a function or not. This has caused several
problems in the pass becaues gcc is not always consistent with
what it decides to inline between different gcc versions.

Some places should not be traced (like paravirt native_* functions)
and these are mostly marked as inline. When gcc decides not to
inline the function, and if that function should not be traced, then
the ftrace function tracer will suddenly break when it use to work
fine. This becomes even harder to debug when different versions of
gcc will not inline that function, making the same kernel and config
work for some gcc versions and not work for others.

By making all functions marked inline to not be traced will remove
the ambiguity that gcc adds when it comes to tracing functions marked
inline. All gcc versions will be consistent with what functions are
traced and having volatile working code will be removed.

Note, only the inline macro when CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING is set needs
to have notrace added, as the attribute __always_inline will force
the function to be inlined and then not traced.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mac80211: introduce IEEE80211_HW_TEARDOWN_AGGR_ON_BAR_FAIL</title>
<updated>2013-01-16T01:13:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stanislaw Gruszka</name>
<email>sgruszka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-03T11:56:33+00:00</published>
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commit 5b632fe85ec82e5c43740b52e74c66df50a37db3 upstream.

Commit f0425beda4d404a6e751439b562100b902ba9c98 "mac80211: retry sending
failed BAR frames later instead of tearing down aggr" caused regression
on rt2x00 hardware (connection hangs). This regression was fixed by
commit be03d4a45c09ee5100d3aaaedd087f19bc20d01 "rt2x00: Don't let
mac80211 send a BAR when an AMPDU subframe fails". But the latter
commit caused yet another problem reported in
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42828#c22

After long discussion in this thread:
http://mid.gmane.org/20121018075615.GA18212@redhat.com
and testing various alternative solutions, which failed on one or other
setup, we have no other good fix for the issues like just revert both
mentioned earlier commits.

To do not affect other hardware which benefit from commit
f0425beda4d404a6e751439b562100b902ba9c98, instead of reverting it,
introduce flag that when used will restore mac80211 behaviour before
the commit.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka &lt;sgruszka@redhat.com&gt;
[replaced link with mid.gmane.org that has message-id]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 5b632fe85ec82e5c43740b52e74c66df50a37db3 upstream.

Commit f0425beda4d404a6e751439b562100b902ba9c98 "mac80211: retry sending
failed BAR frames later instead of tearing down aggr" caused regression
on rt2x00 hardware (connection hangs). This regression was fixed by
commit be03d4a45c09ee5100d3aaaedd087f19bc20d01 "rt2x00: Don't let
mac80211 send a BAR when an AMPDU subframe fails". But the latter
commit caused yet another problem reported in
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42828#c22

After long discussion in this thread:
http://mid.gmane.org/20121018075615.GA18212@redhat.com
and testing various alternative solutions, which failed on one or other
setup, we have no other good fix for the issues like just revert both
mentioned earlier commits.

To do not affect other hardware which benefit from commit
f0425beda4d404a6e751439b562100b902ba9c98, instead of reverting it,
introduce flag that when used will restore mac80211 behaviour before
the commit.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka &lt;sgruszka@redhat.com&gt;
[replaced link with mid.gmane.org that has message-id]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: limit mmu_gather batching to fix soft lockups on !CONFIG_PREEMPT</title>
<updated>2013-01-16T01:13:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-04T23:35:12+00:00</published>
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commit 53a59fc67f97374758e63a9c785891ec62324c81 upstream.

Since commit e303297e6c3a ("mm: extended batches for generic
mmu_gather") we are batching pages to be freed until either
tlb_next_batch cannot allocate a new batch or we are done.

This works just fine most of the time but we can get in troubles with
non-preemptible kernel (CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE or CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY)
on large machines where too aggressive batching might lead to soft
lockups during process exit path (exit_mmap) because there are no
scheduling points down the free_pages_and_swap_cache path and so the
freeing can take long enough to trigger the soft lockup.

The lockup is harmless except when the system is setup to panic on
softlockup which is not that unusual.

The simplest way to work around this issue is to limit the maximum
number of batches in a single mmu_gather.  10k of collected pages should
be safe to prevent from soft lockups (we would have 2ms for one) even if
they are all freed without an explicit scheduling point.

This patch doesn't add any new explicit scheduling points because it
relies on zap_pmd_range during page tables zapping which calls
cond_resched per PMD.

The following lockup has been reported for 3.0 kernel with a huge
process (in order of hundreds gigs but I do know any more details).

  BUG: soft lockup - CPU#56 stuck for 22s! [kernel:31053]
  Modules linked in: af_packet nfs lockd fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl sunrpc mptctl mptbase autofs4 binfmt_misc dm_round_robin dm_multipath bonding cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave pcc_cpufreq mperf microcode fuse loop osst sg sd_mod crc_t10dif st qla2xxx scsi_transport_fc scsi_tgt netxen_nic i7core_edac iTCO_wdt joydev e1000e serio_raw pcspkr edac_core iTCO_vendor_support acpi_power_meter rtc_cmos hpwdt hpilo button container usbhid hid dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log linear uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore usb_common scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh dm_snapshot pcnet32 mii edd dm_mod raid1 ext3 mbcache jbd fan thermal processor thermal_sys hwmon cciss scsi_mod
  Supported: Yes
  CPU 56
  Pid: 31053, comm: kernel Not tainted 3.0.31-0.9-default #1 HP ProLiant DL580 G7
  RIP: 0010:  _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x8/0x10
  RSP: 0018:ffff883ec1037af0  EFLAGS: 00000206
  RAX: 0000000000000e00 RBX: ffffea01a0817e28 RCX: ffff88803ffd9e80
  RDX: 0000000000000200 RSI: 0000000000000206 RDI: 0000000000000206
  RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff887ec724a400
  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: dead000000200200 R12: ffffffff8144c26e
  R13: 0000000000000030 R14: 0000000000000297 R15: 000000000000000e
  FS:  00007ed834282700(0000) GS:ffff88c03f200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
  CR2: 000000000068b240 CR3: 0000003ec13c5000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  Process kernel (pid: 31053, threadinfo ffff883ec1036000, task ffff883ebd5d4100)
  Call Trace:
    release_pages+0xc5/0x260
    free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x9d/0xc0
    tlb_flush_mmu+0x5c/0x80
    tlb_finish_mmu+0xe/0x50
    exit_mmap+0xbd/0x120
    mmput+0x49/0x120
    exit_mm+0x122/0x160
    do_exit+0x17a/0x430
    do_group_exit+0x3d/0xb0
    get_signal_to_deliver+0x247/0x480
    do_signal+0x71/0x1b0
    do_notify_resume+0x98/0xb0
    int_signal+0x12/0x17
  DWARF2 unwinder stuck at int_signal+0x12/0x17

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&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: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 53a59fc67f97374758e63a9c785891ec62324c81 upstream.

Since commit e303297e6c3a ("mm: extended batches for generic
mmu_gather") we are batching pages to be freed until either
tlb_next_batch cannot allocate a new batch or we are done.

This works just fine most of the time but we can get in troubles with
non-preemptible kernel (CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE or CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY)
on large machines where too aggressive batching might lead to soft
lockups during process exit path (exit_mmap) because there are no
scheduling points down the free_pages_and_swap_cache path and so the
freeing can take long enough to trigger the soft lockup.

The lockup is harmless except when the system is setup to panic on
softlockup which is not that unusual.

The simplest way to work around this issue is to limit the maximum
number of batches in a single mmu_gather.  10k of collected pages should
be safe to prevent from soft lockups (we would have 2ms for one) even if
they are all freed without an explicit scheduling point.

This patch doesn't add any new explicit scheduling points because it
relies on zap_pmd_range during page tables zapping which calls
cond_resched per PMD.

The following lockup has been reported for 3.0 kernel with a huge
process (in order of hundreds gigs but I do know any more details).

  BUG: soft lockup - CPU#56 stuck for 22s! [kernel:31053]
  Modules linked in: af_packet nfs lockd fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl sunrpc mptctl mptbase autofs4 binfmt_misc dm_round_robin dm_multipath bonding cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave pcc_cpufreq mperf microcode fuse loop osst sg sd_mod crc_t10dif st qla2xxx scsi_transport_fc scsi_tgt netxen_nic i7core_edac iTCO_wdt joydev e1000e serio_raw pcspkr edac_core iTCO_vendor_support acpi_power_meter rtc_cmos hpwdt hpilo button container usbhid hid dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log linear uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore usb_common scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh dm_snapshot pcnet32 mii edd dm_mod raid1 ext3 mbcache jbd fan thermal processor thermal_sys hwmon cciss scsi_mod
  Supported: Yes
  CPU 56
  Pid: 31053, comm: kernel Not tainted 3.0.31-0.9-default #1 HP ProLiant DL580 G7
  RIP: 0010:  _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x8/0x10
  RSP: 0018:ffff883ec1037af0  EFLAGS: 00000206
  RAX: 0000000000000e00 RBX: ffffea01a0817e28 RCX: ffff88803ffd9e80
  RDX: 0000000000000200 RSI: 0000000000000206 RDI: 0000000000000206
  RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff887ec724a400
  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: dead000000200200 R12: ffffffff8144c26e
  R13: 0000000000000030 R14: 0000000000000297 R15: 000000000000000e
  FS:  00007ed834282700(0000) GS:ffff88c03f200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
  CR2: 000000000068b240 CR3: 0000003ec13c5000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  Process kernel (pid: 31053, threadinfo ffff883ec1036000, task ffff883ebd5d4100)
  Call Trace:
    release_pages+0xc5/0x260
    free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x9d/0xc0
    tlb_flush_mmu+0x5c/0x80
    tlb_finish_mmu+0xe/0x50
    exit_mmap+0xbd/0x120
    mmput+0x49/0x120
    exit_mm+0x122/0x160
    do_exit+0x17a/0x430
    do_group_exit+0x3d/0xb0
    get_signal_to_deliver+0x247/0x480
    do_signal+0x71/0x1b0
    do_notify_resume+0x98/0xb0
    int_signal+0x12/0x17
  DWARF2 unwinder stuck at int_signal+0x12/0x17

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&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: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<title>mm: Fix PageHead when !CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED</title>
<updated>2013-01-16T01:13:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoffer Dall</name>
<email>cdall@cs.columbia.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-21T18:03:50+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;cdall@cs.columbia.edu&gt;
Acked-by:  Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;Will.Deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Steve Capper &lt;Steve.Capper@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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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 &lt;cdall@cs.columbia.edu&gt;
Acked-by:  Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;Will.Deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Steve Capper &lt;Steve.Capper@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>PCI: Reduce Ricoh 0xe822 SD card reader base clock frequency to 50MHz</title>
<updated>2013-01-16T01:13:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-01T20:37:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fb7e3f1041cc0cce482e001d62bd9a32f9e7b689'/>
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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 &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Ball &lt;cjb@laptop.org&gt;
CC: Manoj Iyer &lt;manoj.iyer@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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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 &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Ball &lt;cjb@laptop.org&gt;
CC: Manoj Iyer &lt;manoj.iyer@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hpsa: gen8plus Smart Array IDs</title>
<updated>2013-01-03T03:33:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Miller</name>
<email>mike.miller@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-20T21:05:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fa1dd81ceffee58d0340a48c593ec5474e8e4f84'/>
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commit fe0c9610bb68dd0aad1017456f5e3c31264d70c2 upstream.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit fe0c9610bb68dd0aad1017456f5e3c31264d70c2 upstream.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>exec: do not leave bprm-&gt;interp on stack</title>
<updated>2013-01-03T03:33:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-20T23:05:16+00:00</published>
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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-&gt;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-&gt;interp
pointing to their local stack.  This means on restart bprm-&gt;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-&gt;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 &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: halfdog &lt;me@halfdog.net&gt;
Cc: P J P &lt;ppandit@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander 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;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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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-&gt;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-&gt;interp
pointing to their local stack.  This means on restart bprm-&gt;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-&gt;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 &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: halfdog &lt;me@halfdog.net&gt;
Cc: P J P &lt;ppandit@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander 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;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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