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<title>mm: memcontrol: fix cgroup creation failure after many small jobs</title>
<updated>2016-08-16T07:30:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-20T22:44:57+00:00</published>
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commit 73f576c04b9410ed19660f74f97521bee6e1c546 upstream.

The memory controller has quite a bit of state that usually outlives the
cgroup and pins its CSS until said state disappears.  At the same time
it imposes a 16-bit limit on the CSS ID space to economically store IDs
in the wild.  Consequently, when we use cgroups to contain frequent but
small and short-lived jobs that leave behind some page cache, we quickly
run into the 64k limitations of outstanding CSSs.  Creating a new cgroup
fails with -ENOSPC while there are only a few, or even no user-visible
cgroups in existence.

Although pinning CSSs past cgroup removal is common, there are only two
instances that actually need an ID after a cgroup is deleted: cache
shadow entries and swapout records.

Cache shadow entries reference the ID weakly and can deal with the CSS
having disappeared when it's looked up later.  They pose no hurdle.

Swap-out records do need to pin the css to hierarchically attribute
swapins after the cgroup has been deleted; though the only pages that
remain swapped out after offlining are tmpfs/shmem pages.  And those
references are under the user's control, so they are manageable.

This patch introduces a private 16-bit memcg ID and switches swap and
cache shadow entries over to using that.  This ID can then be recycled
after offlining when the CSS remains pinned only by objects that don't
specifically need it.

This script demonstrates the problem by faulting one cache page in a new
cgroup and deleting it again:

  set -e
  mkdir -p pages
  for x in `seq 128000`; do
    [ $((x % 1000)) -eq 0 ] &amp;&amp; echo $x
    mkdir /cgroup/foo
    echo $$ &gt;/cgroup/foo/cgroup.procs
    echo trex &gt;pages/$x
    echo $$ &gt;/cgroup/cgroup.procs
    rmdir /cgroup/foo
  done

When run on an unpatched kernel, we eventually run out of possible IDs
even though there are no visible cgroups:

  [root@ham ~]# ./cssidstress.sh
  [...]
  65000
  mkdir: cannot create directory '/cgroup/foo': No space left on device

After this patch, the IDs get released upon cgroup destruction and the
cache and css objects get released once memory reclaim kicks in.

[hannes@cmpxchg.org: init the IDR]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160621154601.GA22431@cmpxchg.org
Fixes: b2052564e66d ("mm: memcontrol: continue cache reclaim from offlined groups")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160617162516.GD19084@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reported-by: John Garcia &lt;john.garcia@mesosphere.io&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nikolay Borisov &lt;kernel@kyup.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: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 73f576c04b9410ed19660f74f97521bee6e1c546 upstream.

The memory controller has quite a bit of state that usually outlives the
cgroup and pins its CSS until said state disappears.  At the same time
it imposes a 16-bit limit on the CSS ID space to economically store IDs
in the wild.  Consequently, when we use cgroups to contain frequent but
small and short-lived jobs that leave behind some page cache, we quickly
run into the 64k limitations of outstanding CSSs.  Creating a new cgroup
fails with -ENOSPC while there are only a few, or even no user-visible
cgroups in existence.

Although pinning CSSs past cgroup removal is common, there are only two
instances that actually need an ID after a cgroup is deleted: cache
shadow entries and swapout records.

Cache shadow entries reference the ID weakly and can deal with the CSS
having disappeared when it's looked up later.  They pose no hurdle.

Swap-out records do need to pin the css to hierarchically attribute
swapins after the cgroup has been deleted; though the only pages that
remain swapped out after offlining are tmpfs/shmem pages.  And those
references are under the user's control, so they are manageable.

This patch introduces a private 16-bit memcg ID and switches swap and
cache shadow entries over to using that.  This ID can then be recycled
after offlining when the CSS remains pinned only by objects that don't
specifically need it.

This script demonstrates the problem by faulting one cache page in a new
cgroup and deleting it again:

  set -e
  mkdir -p pages
  for x in `seq 128000`; do
    [ $((x % 1000)) -eq 0 ] &amp;&amp; echo $x
    mkdir /cgroup/foo
    echo $$ &gt;/cgroup/foo/cgroup.procs
    echo trex &gt;pages/$x
    echo $$ &gt;/cgroup/cgroup.procs
    rmdir /cgroup/foo
  done

When run on an unpatched kernel, we eventually run out of possible IDs
even though there are no visible cgroups:

  [root@ham ~]# ./cssidstress.sh
  [...]
  65000
  mkdir: cannot create directory '/cgroup/foo': No space left on device

After this patch, the IDs get released upon cgroup destruction and the
cache and css objects get released once memory reclaim kicks in.

[hannes@cmpxchg.org: init the IDR]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160621154601.GA22431@cmpxchg.org
Fixes: b2052564e66d ("mm: memcontrol: continue cache reclaim from offlined groups")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160617162516.GD19084@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reported-by: John Garcia &lt;john.garcia@mesosphere.io&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nikolay Borisov &lt;kernel@kyup.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: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>devpts: clean up interface to pty drivers</title>
<updated>2016-08-16T07:30:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-16T22:16:07+00:00</published>
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commit 67245ff332064c01b760afa7a384ccda024bfd24 upstream.

This gets rid of the horrible notion of having that

    struct inode *ptmx_inode

be the linchpin of the interface between the pty code and devpts.

By de-emphasizing the ptmx inode, a lot of things actually get cleaner,
and we will have a much saner way forward.  In particular, this will
allow us to associate with any particular devpts instance at open-time,
and not be artificially tied to one particular ptmx inode.

The patch itself is actually fairly straightforward, and apart from some
locking and return path cleanups it's pretty mechanical:

 - the interfaces that devpts exposes all take "struct pts_fs_info *"
   instead of "struct inode *ptmx_inode" now.

   NOTE! The "struct pts_fs_info" thing is a completely opaque structure
   as far as the pty driver is concerned: it's still declared entirely
   internally to devpts. So the pty code can't actually access it in any
   way, just pass it as a "cookie" to the devpts code.

 - the "look up the pts fs info" is now a single clear operation, that
   also does the reference count increment on the pts superblock.

   So "devpts_add/del_ref()" is gone, and replaced by a "lookup and get
   ref" operation (devpts_get_ref(inode)), along with a "put ref" op
   (devpts_put_ref()).

 - the pty master "tty-&gt;driver_data" field now contains the pts_fs_info,
   not the ptmx inode.

 - because we don't care about the ptmx inode any more as some kind of
   base index, the ref counting can now drop the inode games - it just
   gets the ref on the superblock.

 - the pts_fs_info now has a back-pointer to the super_block. That's so
   that we can easily look up the information we actually need. Although
   quite often, the pts fs info was actually all we wanted, and not having
   to look it up based on some magical inode makes things more
   straightforward.

In particular, now that "devpts_get_ref(inode)" operation should really
be the *only* place we need to look up what devpts instance we're
associated with, and we do it exactly once, at ptmx_open() time.

The other side of this is that one ptmx node could now be associated
with multiple different devpts instances - you could have a single
/dev/ptmx node, and then have multiple mount namespaces with their own
instances of devpts mounted on /dev/pts/.  And that's all perfectly sane
in a model where we just look up the pts instance at open time.

This will eventually allow us to get rid of our odd single-vs-multiple
pts instance model, but this patch in itself changes no semantics, only
an internal binding model.

Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Cc: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jarno &lt;aurelien@aurel32.net&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jann@thejh.net&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Weimer &lt;fw@deneb.enyo.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Francesco Ruggeri &lt;fruggeri@arista.com&gt;
Cc: "Herton R. Krzesinski" &lt;herton@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 67245ff332064c01b760afa7a384ccda024bfd24 upstream.

This gets rid of the horrible notion of having that

    struct inode *ptmx_inode

be the linchpin of the interface between the pty code and devpts.

By de-emphasizing the ptmx inode, a lot of things actually get cleaner,
and we will have a much saner way forward.  In particular, this will
allow us to associate with any particular devpts instance at open-time,
and not be artificially tied to one particular ptmx inode.

The patch itself is actually fairly straightforward, and apart from some
locking and return path cleanups it's pretty mechanical:

 - the interfaces that devpts exposes all take "struct pts_fs_info *"
   instead of "struct inode *ptmx_inode" now.

   NOTE! The "struct pts_fs_info" thing is a completely opaque structure
   as far as the pty driver is concerned: it's still declared entirely
   internally to devpts. So the pty code can't actually access it in any
   way, just pass it as a "cookie" to the devpts code.

 - the "look up the pts fs info" is now a single clear operation, that
   also does the reference count increment on the pts superblock.

   So "devpts_add/del_ref()" is gone, and replaced by a "lookup and get
   ref" operation (devpts_get_ref(inode)), along with a "put ref" op
   (devpts_put_ref()).

 - the pty master "tty-&gt;driver_data" field now contains the pts_fs_info,
   not the ptmx inode.

 - because we don't care about the ptmx inode any more as some kind of
   base index, the ref counting can now drop the inode games - it just
   gets the ref on the superblock.

 - the pts_fs_info now has a back-pointer to the super_block. That's so
   that we can easily look up the information we actually need. Although
   quite often, the pts fs info was actually all we wanted, and not having
   to look it up based on some magical inode makes things more
   straightforward.

In particular, now that "devpts_get_ref(inode)" operation should really
be the *only* place we need to look up what devpts instance we're
associated with, and we do it exactly once, at ptmx_open() time.

The other side of this is that one ptmx node could now be associated
with multiple different devpts instances - you could have a single
/dev/ptmx node, and then have multiple mount namespaces with their own
instances of devpts mounted on /dev/pts/.  And that's all perfectly sane
in a model where we just look up the pts instance at open time.

This will eventually allow us to get rid of our odd single-vs-multiple
pts instance model, but this patch in itself changes no semantics, only
an internal binding model.

Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Cc: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jarno &lt;aurelien@aurel32.net&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jann@thejh.net&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Weimer &lt;fw@deneb.enyo.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Francesco Ruggeri &lt;fruggeri@arista.com&gt;
Cc: "Herton R. Krzesinski" &lt;herton@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>vmlinux.lds: account for destructor sections</title>
<updated>2016-08-10T09:49:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Vyukov</name>
<email>dvyukov@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-14T19:07:29+00:00</published>
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commit e41f501d391265ff568f3e49d6128cc30856a36f upstream.

If CONFIG_KASAN is enabled and gcc is configured with
--disable-initfini-array and/or gold linker is used, gcc emits
.ctors/.dtors and .text.startup/.text.exit sections instead of
.init_array/.fini_array.  .dtors section is not explicitly accounted in
the linker script and messes vvar/percpu layout.

We want:
  ffffffff822bfd80 D _edata
  ffffffff822c0000 D __vvar_beginning_hack
  ffffffff822c0000 A __vvar_page
  ffffffff822c0080 0000000000000098 D vsyscall_gtod_data
  ffffffff822c1000 A __init_begin
  ffffffff822c1000 D init_per_cpu__irq_stack_union
  ffffffff822c1000 A __per_cpu_load
  ffffffff822d3000 D init_per_cpu__gdt_page

We got:
  ffffffff8279a600 D _edata
  ffffffff8279b000 A __vvar_page
  ffffffff8279c000 A __init_begin
  ffffffff8279c000 D init_per_cpu__irq_stack_union
  ffffffff8279c000 A __per_cpu_load
  ffffffff8279e000 D __vvar_beginning_hack
  ffffffff8279e080 0000000000000098 D vsyscall_gtod_data
  ffffffff827ae000 D init_per_cpu__gdt_page

This happens because __vvar_page and .vvar get different addresses in
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S:

	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
	__vvar_page = .;

	.vvar : AT(ADDR(.vvar) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
		/* work around gold bug 13023 */
		__vvar_beginning_hack = .;

Discard .dtors/.fini_array/.text.exit, since we don't call dtors.
Merge .text.startup into init text.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467386363-120030-1-git-send-email-dvyukov@google.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.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: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit e41f501d391265ff568f3e49d6128cc30856a36f upstream.

If CONFIG_KASAN is enabled and gcc is configured with
--disable-initfini-array and/or gold linker is used, gcc emits
.ctors/.dtors and .text.startup/.text.exit sections instead of
.init_array/.fini_array.  .dtors section is not explicitly accounted in
the linker script and messes vvar/percpu layout.

We want:
  ffffffff822bfd80 D _edata
  ffffffff822c0000 D __vvar_beginning_hack
  ffffffff822c0000 A __vvar_page
  ffffffff822c0080 0000000000000098 D vsyscall_gtod_data
  ffffffff822c1000 A __init_begin
  ffffffff822c1000 D init_per_cpu__irq_stack_union
  ffffffff822c1000 A __per_cpu_load
  ffffffff822d3000 D init_per_cpu__gdt_page

We got:
  ffffffff8279a600 D _edata
  ffffffff8279b000 A __vvar_page
  ffffffff8279c000 A __init_begin
  ffffffff8279c000 D init_per_cpu__irq_stack_union
  ffffffff8279c000 A __per_cpu_load
  ffffffff8279e000 D __vvar_beginning_hack
  ffffffff8279e080 0000000000000098 D vsyscall_gtod_data
  ffffffff827ae000 D init_per_cpu__gdt_page

This happens because __vvar_page and .vvar get different addresses in
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S:

	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
	__vvar_page = .;

	.vvar : AT(ADDR(.vvar) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
		/* work around gold bug 13023 */
		__vvar_beginning_hack = .;

Discard .dtors/.fini_array/.text.exit, since we don't call dtors.
Merge .text.startup into init text.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467386363-120030-1-git-send-email-dvyukov@google.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.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: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>x86/quirks: Add early quirk to reset Apple AirPort card</title>
<updated>2016-08-10T09:49:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lukas Wunner</name>
<email>lukas@wunner.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-12T10:31:53+00:00</published>
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commit abb2bafd295fe962bbadc329dbfb2146457283ac upstream.

The EFI firmware on Macs contains a full-fledged network stack for
downloading OS X images from osrecovery.apple.com. Unfortunately
on Macs introduced 2011 and 2012, EFI brings up the Broadcom 4331
wireless card on every boot and leaves it enabled even after
ExitBootServices has been called. The card continues to assert its IRQ
line, causing spurious interrupts if the IRQ is shared. It also corrupts
memory by DMAing received packets, allowing for remote code execution
over the air. This only stops when a driver is loaded for the wireless
card, which may be never if the driver is not installed or blacklisted.

The issue seems to be constrained to the Broadcom 4331. Chris Milsted
has verified that the newer Broadcom 4360 built into the MacBookPro11,3
(2013/2014) does not exhibit this behaviour. The chances that Apple will
ever supply a firmware fix for the older machines appear to be zero.

The solution is to reset the card on boot by writing to a reset bit in
its mmio space. This must be done as an early quirk and not as a plain
vanilla PCI quirk to successfully combat memory corruption by DMAed
packets: Matthew Garrett found out in 2012 that the packets are written
to EfiBootServicesData memory (http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/11235.html).
This type of memory is made available to the page allocator by
efi_free_boot_services(). Plain vanilla PCI quirks run much later, in
subsys initcall level. In-between a time window would be open for memory
corruption. Random crashes occurring in this time window and attributed
to DMAed packets have indeed been observed in the wild by Chris
Bainbridge.

When Matthew Garrett analyzed the memory corruption issue in 2012, he
sought to fix it with a grub quirk which transitions the card to D3hot:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?id=9d34bb85da56

This approach does not help users with other bootloaders and while it
may prevent DMAed packets, it does not cure the spurious interrupts
emanating from the card. Unfortunately the card's mmio space is
inaccessible in D3hot, so to reset it, we have to undo the effect of
Matthew's grub patch and transition the card back to D0.

Note that the quirk takes a few shortcuts to reduce the amount of code:
The size of BAR 0 and the location of the PM capability is identical
on all affected machines and therefore hardcoded. Only the address of
BAR 0 differs between models. Also, it is assumed that the BCMA core
currently mapped is the 802.11 core. The EFI driver seems to always take
care of this.

Michael Büsch, Bjorn Helgaas and Matt Fleming contributed feedback
towards finding the best solution to this problem.

The following should be a comprehensive list of affected models:
    iMac13,1        2012  21.5"       [Root Port 00:1c.3 = 8086:1e16]
    iMac13,2        2012  27"         [Root Port 00:1c.3 = 8086:1e16]
    Macmini5,1      2011  i5 2.3 GHz  [Root Port 00:1c.1 = 8086:1c12]
    Macmini5,2      2011  i5 2.5 GHz  [Root Port 00:1c.1 = 8086:1c12]
    Macmini5,3      2011  i7 2.0 GHz  [Root Port 00:1c.1 = 8086:1c12]
    Macmini6,1      2012  i5 2.5 GHz  [Root Port 00:1c.1 = 8086:1e12]
    Macmini6,2      2012  i7 2.3 GHz  [Root Port 00:1c.1 = 8086:1e12]
    MacBookPro8,1   2011  13"         [Root Port 00:1c.1 = 8086:1c12]
    MacBookPro8,2   2011  15"         [Root Port 00:1c.1 = 8086:1c12]
    MacBookPro8,3   2011  17"         [Root Port 00:1c.1 = 8086:1c12]
    MacBookPro9,1   2012  15"         [Root Port 00:1c.1 = 8086:1e12]
    MacBookPro9,2   2012  13"         [Root Port 00:1c.1 = 8086:1e12]
    MacBookPro10,1  2012  15"         [Root Port 00:1c.1 = 8086:1e12]
    MacBookPro10,2  2012  13"         [Root Port 00:1c.1 = 8086:1e12]

For posterity, spurious interrupts caused by the Broadcom 4331 wireless
card resulted in splats like this (stacktrace omitted):

    irq 17: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
    handlers:
    [&lt;ffffffff81374370&gt;] pcie_isr
    [&lt;ffffffffc0704550&gt;] sdhci_irq [sdhci] threaded [&lt;ffffffffc07013c0&gt;] sdhci_thread_irq [sdhci]
    [&lt;ffffffffc0a0b960&gt;] azx_interrupt [snd_hda_codec]
    Disabling IRQ #17

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79301
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111781
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728916
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895951#c16
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1009819
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1098621
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149632#c5
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1279130
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332732
Tested-by: Konstantin Simanov &lt;k.simanov@stlk.ru&gt;        # [MacBookPro8,1]
Tested-by: Lukas Wunner &lt;lukas@wunner.de&gt;                # [MacBookPro9,1]
Tested-by: Bryan Paradis &lt;bryan.paradis@gmail.com&gt;       # [MacBookPro9,2]
Tested-by: Andrew Worsley &lt;amworsley@gmail.com&gt;          # [MacBookPro10,1]
Tested-by: Chris Bainbridge &lt;chris.bainbridge@gmail.com&gt; # [MacBookPro10,2]
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner &lt;lukas@wunner.de&gt;
Acked-by: Rafał Miłecki &lt;zajec5@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Milsted &lt;cmilsted@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Buesch &lt;m@bues.ch&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/48d0972ac82a53d460e5fce77a07b2560db95203.1465690253.git.lukas@wunner.de
[ Did minor readability edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit abb2bafd295fe962bbadc329dbfb2146457283ac upstream.

The EFI firmware on Macs contains a full-fledged network stack for
downloading OS X images from osrecovery.apple.com. Unfortunately
on Macs introduced 2011 and 2012, EFI brings up the Broadcom 4331
wireless card on every boot and leaves it enabled even after
ExitBootServices has been called. The card continues to assert its IRQ
line, causing spurious interrupts if the IRQ is shared. It also corrupts
memory by DMAing received packets, allowing for remote code execution
over the air. This only stops when a driver is loaded for the wireless
card, which may be never if the driver is not installed or blacklisted.

The issue seems to be constrained to the Broadcom 4331. Chris Milsted
has verified that the newer Broadcom 4360 built into the MacBookPro11,3
(2013/2014) does not exhibit this behaviour. The chances that Apple will
ever supply a firmware fix for the older machines appear to be zero.

The solution is to reset the card on boot by writing to a reset bit in
its mmio space. This must be done as an early quirk and not as a plain
vanilla PCI quirk to successfully combat memory corruption by DMAed
packets: Matthew Garrett found out in 2012 that the packets are written
to EfiBootServicesData memory (http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/11235.html).
This type of memory is made available to the page allocator by
efi_free_boot_services(). Plain vanilla PCI quirks run much later, in
subsys initcall level. In-between a time window would be open for memory
corruption. Random crashes occurring in this time window and attributed
to DMAed packets have indeed been observed in the wild by Chris
Bainbridge.

When Matthew Garrett analyzed the memory corruption issue in 2012, he
sought to fix it with a grub quirk which transitions the card to D3hot:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?id=9d34bb85da56

This approach does not help users with other bootloaders and while it
may prevent DMAed packets, it does not cure the spurious interrupts
emanating from the card. Unfortunately the card's mmio space is
inaccessible in D3hot, so to reset it, we have to undo the effect of
Matthew's grub patch and transition the card back to D0.

Note that the quirk takes a few shortcuts to reduce the amount of code:
The size of BAR 0 and the location of the PM capability is identical
on all affected machines and therefore hardcoded. Only the address of
BAR 0 differs between models. Also, it is assumed that the BCMA core
currently mapped is the 802.11 core. The EFI driver seems to always take
care of this.

Michael Büsch, Bjorn Helgaas and Matt Fleming contributed feedback
towards finding the best solution to this problem.

The following should be a comprehensive list of affected models:
    iMac13,1        2012  21.5"       [Root Port 00:1c.3 = 8086:1e16]
    iMac13,2        2012  27"         [Root Port 00:1c.3 = 8086:1e16]
    Macmini5,1      2011  i5 2.3 GHz  [Root Port 00:1c.1 = 8086:1c12]
    Macmini5,2      2011  i5 2.5 GHz  [Root Port 00:1c.1 = 8086:1c12]
    Macmini5,3      2011  i7 2.0 GHz  [Root Port 00:1c.1 = 8086:1c12]
    Macmini6,1      2012  i5 2.5 GHz  [Root Port 00:1c.1 = 8086:1e12]
    Macmini6,2      2012  i7 2.3 GHz  [Root Port 00:1c.1 = 8086:1e12]
    MacBookPro8,1   2011  13"         [Root Port 00:1c.1 = 8086:1c12]
    MacBookPro8,2   2011  15"         [Root Port 00:1c.1 = 8086:1c12]
    MacBookPro8,3   2011  17"         [Root Port 00:1c.1 = 8086:1c12]
    MacBookPro9,1   2012  15"         [Root Port 00:1c.1 = 8086:1e12]
    MacBookPro9,2   2012  13"         [Root Port 00:1c.1 = 8086:1e12]
    MacBookPro10,1  2012  15"         [Root Port 00:1c.1 = 8086:1e12]
    MacBookPro10,2  2012  13"         [Root Port 00:1c.1 = 8086:1e12]

For posterity, spurious interrupts caused by the Broadcom 4331 wireless
card resulted in splats like this (stacktrace omitted):

    irq 17: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
    handlers:
    [&lt;ffffffff81374370&gt;] pcie_isr
    [&lt;ffffffffc0704550&gt;] sdhci_irq [sdhci] threaded [&lt;ffffffffc07013c0&gt;] sdhci_thread_irq [sdhci]
    [&lt;ffffffffc0a0b960&gt;] azx_interrupt [snd_hda_codec]
    Disabling IRQ #17

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79301
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111781
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728916
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895951#c16
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1009819
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1098621
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149632#c5
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1279130
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332732
Tested-by: Konstantin Simanov &lt;k.simanov@stlk.ru&gt;        # [MacBookPro8,1]
Tested-by: Lukas Wunner &lt;lukas@wunner.de&gt;                # [MacBookPro9,1]
Tested-by: Bryan Paradis &lt;bryan.paradis@gmail.com&gt;       # [MacBookPro9,2]
Tested-by: Andrew Worsley &lt;amworsley@gmail.com&gt;          # [MacBookPro10,1]
Tested-by: Chris Bainbridge &lt;chris.bainbridge@gmail.com&gt; # [MacBookPro10,2]
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner &lt;lukas@wunner.de&gt;
Acked-by: Rafał Miłecki &lt;zajec5@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Milsted &lt;cmilsted@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Buesch &lt;m@bues.ch&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/48d0972ac82a53d460e5fce77a07b2560db95203.1465690253.git.lukas@wunner.de
[ Did minor readability edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drm/ttm: Make ttm_bo_mem_compat available</title>
<updated>2016-07-27T16:47:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sinclair Yeh</name>
<email>syeh@vmware.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-29T19:58:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6c42c30a3d4535be17fe50be6fa549bd95dd415f'/>
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commit 94477bff390aa4612d2332c8abafaae0a13d6923 upstream.

There are cases where it is desired to see if a proposed placement
is compatible with a buffer object before calling ttm_bo_validate().

Signed-off-by: Sinclair Yeh &lt;syeh@vmware.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Hellstrom &lt;thellstrom@vmware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 94477bff390aa4612d2332c8abafaae0a13d6923 upstream.

There are cases where it is desired to see if a proposed placement
is compatible with a buffer object before calling ttm_bo_validate().

Signed-off-by: Sinclair Yeh &lt;syeh@vmware.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Hellstrom &lt;thellstrom@vmware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: add d_real_inode() helper</title>
<updated>2016-07-27T16:47:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-20T20:13:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c65170792047969e2b129dbf6cdc633503a4087d'/>
<id>c65170792047969e2b129dbf6cdc633503a4087d</id>
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commit a118084432d642eeccb961c7c8cc61525a941fcb upstream.

Needed by the following fix.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit a118084432d642eeccb961c7c8cc61525a941fcb upstream.

Needed by the following fix.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net_sched: fix mirrored packets checksum</title>
<updated>2016-07-27T16:47:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>WANG Cong</name>
<email>xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-30T17:15:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2832302fc90bbf2d99a449481a9bb6ee1a5eacc7'/>
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[ Upstream commit 82a31b9231f02d9c1b7b290a46999d517b0d312a ]

Similar to commit 9b368814b336 ("net: fix bridge multicast packet checksum validation")
we need to fixup the checksum for CHECKSUM_COMPLETE when
pushing skb on RX path. Otherwise we get similar splats.

Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;jhs@mojatatu.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Herbert &lt;tom@herbertland.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;jhs@mojatatu.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 82a31b9231f02d9c1b7b290a46999d517b0d312a ]

Similar to commit 9b368814b336 ("net: fix bridge multicast packet checksum validation")
we need to fixup the checksum for CHECKSUM_COMPLETE when
pushing skb on RX path. Otherwise we get similar splats.

Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;jhs@mojatatu.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Herbert &lt;tom@herbertland.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;jhs@mojatatu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>packet: Use symmetric hash for PACKET_FANOUT_HASH.</title>
<updated>2016-07-27T16:47:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-01T20:07:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=424848bd9895979e2758156ca99e317a3c2d5804'/>
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[ Upstream commit eb70db8756717b90c01ccc765fdefc4dd969fc74 ]

People who use PACKET_FANOUT_HASH want a symmetric hash, meaning that
they want packets going in both directions on a flow to hash to the
same bucket.

The core kernel SKB hash became non-symmetric when the ipv6 flow label
and other entities were incorporated into the standard flow hash order
to increase entropy.

But there are no users of PACKET_FANOUT_HASH who want an assymetric
hash, they all want a symmetric one.

Therefore, use the flow dissector to compute a flat symmetric hash
over only the protocol, addresses and ports.  This hash does not get
installed into and override the normal skb hash, so this change has
no effect whatsoever on the rest of the stack.

Reported-by: Eric Leblond &lt;eric@regit.org&gt;
Tested-by: Eric Leblond &lt;eric@regit.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 eb70db8756717b90c01ccc765fdefc4dd969fc74 ]

People who use PACKET_FANOUT_HASH want a symmetric hash, meaning that
they want packets going in both directions on a flow to hash to the
same bucket.

The core kernel SKB hash became non-symmetric when the ipv6 flow label
and other entities were incorporated into the standard flow hash order
to increase entropy.

But there are no users of PACKET_FANOUT_HASH who want an assymetric
hash, they all want a symmetric one.

Therefore, use the flow dissector to compute a flat symmetric hash
over only the protocol, addresses and ports.  This hash does not get
installed into and override the normal skb hash, so this change has
no effect whatsoever on the rest of the stack.

Reported-by: Eric Leblond &lt;eric@regit.org&gt;
Tested-by: Eric Leblond &lt;eric@regit.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nfsd4/rpc: move backchannel create logic into rpc code</title>
<updated>2016-07-27T16:47:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>J. Bruce Fields</name>
<email>bfields@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-16T21:03:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=58e9e70ab997977776ab7b2d6b6ca3d8802d52b4'/>
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commit d50039ea5ee63c589b0434baa5ecf6e5075bb6f9 upstream.

Also simplify the logic a bit.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;trondmy@primarydata.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d50039ea5ee63c589b0434baa5ecf6e5075bb6f9 upstream.

Also simplify the logic a bit.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;trondmy@primarydata.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/static_key: Fix concurrent static_key_slow_inc()</title>
<updated>2016-07-27T16:47:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-21T16:52:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=71ef2c1131e7c380fa3a3ff2d5040b057c77fbc0'/>
<id>71ef2c1131e7c380fa3a3ff2d5040b057c77fbc0</id>
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commit 4c5ea0a9cd02d6aa8adc86e100b2a4cff8d614ff upstream.

The following scenario is possible:

    CPU 1                                   CPU 2
    static_key_slow_inc()
     atomic_inc_not_zero()
      -&gt; key.enabled == 0, no increment
     jump_label_lock()
     atomic_inc_return()
      -&gt; key.enabled == 1 now
                                            static_key_slow_inc()
                                             atomic_inc_not_zero()
                                              -&gt; key.enabled == 1, inc to 2
                                             return
                                            ** static key is wrong!
     jump_label_update()
     jump_label_unlock()

Testing the static key at the point marked by (**) will follow the
wrong path for jumps that have not been patched yet.  This can
actually happen when creating many KVM virtual machines with userspace
LAPIC emulation; just run several copies of the following program:

    #include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
    #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
    #include &lt;sys/ioctl.h&gt;
    #include &lt;linux/kvm.h&gt;

    int main(void)
    {
        for (;;) {
            int kvmfd = open("/dev/kvm", O_RDONLY);
            int vmfd = ioctl(kvmfd, KVM_CREATE_VM, 0);
            close(ioctl(vmfd, KVM_CREATE_VCPU, 1));
            close(vmfd);
            close(kvmfd);
        }
        return 0;
    }

Every KVM_CREATE_VCPU ioctl will attempt a static_key_slow_inc() call.
The static key's purpose is to skip NULL pointer checks and indeed one
of the processes eventually dereferences NULL.

As explained in the commit that introduced the bug:

  706249c222f6 ("locking/static_keys: Rework update logic")

jump_label_update() needs key.enabled to be true.  The solution adopted
here is to temporarily make key.enabled == -1, and use go down the
slow path when key.enabled &lt;= 0.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: 706249c222f6 ("locking/static_keys: Rework update logic")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466527937-69798-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
[ Small stylistic edits to the changelog and the code. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 4c5ea0a9cd02d6aa8adc86e100b2a4cff8d614ff upstream.

The following scenario is possible:

    CPU 1                                   CPU 2
    static_key_slow_inc()
     atomic_inc_not_zero()
      -&gt; key.enabled == 0, no increment
     jump_label_lock()
     atomic_inc_return()
      -&gt; key.enabled == 1 now
                                            static_key_slow_inc()
                                             atomic_inc_not_zero()
                                              -&gt; key.enabled == 1, inc to 2
                                             return
                                            ** static key is wrong!
     jump_label_update()
     jump_label_unlock()

Testing the static key at the point marked by (**) will follow the
wrong path for jumps that have not been patched yet.  This can
actually happen when creating many KVM virtual machines with userspace
LAPIC emulation; just run several copies of the following program:

    #include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
    #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
    #include &lt;sys/ioctl.h&gt;
    #include &lt;linux/kvm.h&gt;

    int main(void)
    {
        for (;;) {
            int kvmfd = open("/dev/kvm", O_RDONLY);
            int vmfd = ioctl(kvmfd, KVM_CREATE_VM, 0);
            close(ioctl(vmfd, KVM_CREATE_VCPU, 1));
            close(vmfd);
            close(kvmfd);
        }
        return 0;
    }

Every KVM_CREATE_VCPU ioctl will attempt a static_key_slow_inc() call.
The static key's purpose is to skip NULL pointer checks and indeed one
of the processes eventually dereferences NULL.

As explained in the commit that introduced the bug:

  706249c222f6 ("locking/static_keys: Rework update logic")

jump_label_update() needs key.enabled to be true.  The solution adopted
here is to temporarily make key.enabled == -1, and use go down the
slow path when key.enabled &lt;= 0.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: 706249c222f6 ("locking/static_keys: Rework update logic")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466527937-69798-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
[ Small stylistic edits to the changelog and the code. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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