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<title>kdb: Fix pager search for multi-line strings</title>
<updated>2020-10-29T09:08:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Thompson</name>
<email>daniel.thompson@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-09T14:17:08+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d081a6e353168f15e63eb9e9334757f20343319f ]

Currently using forward search doesn't handle multi-line strings correctly.
The search routine replaces line breaks with \0 during the search and, for
regular searches ("help | grep Common\n"), there is code after the line
has been discarded or printed to replace the break character.

However during a pager search ("help\n" followed by "/Common\n") when the
string is matched we will immediately return to normal output and the code
that should restore the \n becomes unreachable. Fix this by restoring the
replaced character when we disable the search mode and update the comment
accordingly.

Fixes: fb6daa7520f9d ("kdb: Provide forward search at more prompt")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200909141708.338273-1-daniel.thompson@linaro.org
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit d081a6e353168f15e63eb9e9334757f20343319f ]

Currently using forward search doesn't handle multi-line strings correctly.
The search routine replaces line breaks with \0 during the search and, for
regular searches ("help | grep Common\n"), there is code after the line
has been discarded or printed to replace the break character.

However during a pager search ("help\n" followed by "/Common\n") when the
string is matched we will immediately return to normal output and the code
that should restore the \n becomes unreachable. Fix this by restoring the
replaced character when we disable the search mode and update the comment
accordingly.

Fixes: fb6daa7520f9d ("kdb: Provide forward search at more prompt")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200909141708.338273-1-daniel.thompson@linaro.org
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kdb: Switch to use safer dbg_io_ops over console APIs</title>
<updated>2020-06-26T14:40:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sumit Garg</name>
<email>sumit.garg@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-04T10:01:19+00:00</published>
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In kgdb context, calling console handlers aren't safe due to locks used
in those handlers which could in turn lead to a deadlock. Although, using
oops_in_progress increases the chance to bypass locks in most console
handlers but it might not be sufficient enough in case a console uses
more locks (VT/TTY is good example).

Currently when a driver provides both polling I/O and a console then kdb
will output using the console. We can increase robustness by using the
currently active polling I/O driver (which should be lockless) instead
of the corresponding console. For several common cases (e.g. an
embedded system with a single serial port that is used both for console
output and debugger I/O) this will result in no console handler being
used.

In order to achieve this we need to reverse the order of preference to
use dbg_io_ops (uses polling I/O mode) over console APIs. So we just
store "struct console" that represents debugger I/O in dbg_io_ops and
while emitting kdb messages, skip console that matches dbg_io_ops
console in order to avoid duplicate messages. After this change,
"is_console" param becomes redundant and hence removed.

Suggested-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg &lt;sumit.garg@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1591264879-25920-5-git-send-email-sumit.garg@linaro.org
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
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In kgdb context, calling console handlers aren't safe due to locks used
in those handlers which could in turn lead to a deadlock. Although, using
oops_in_progress increases the chance to bypass locks in most console
handlers but it might not be sufficient enough in case a console uses
more locks (VT/TTY is good example).

Currently when a driver provides both polling I/O and a console then kdb
will output using the console. We can increase robustness by using the
currently active polling I/O driver (which should be lockless) instead
of the corresponding console. For several common cases (e.g. an
embedded system with a single serial port that is used both for console
output and debugger I/O) this will result in no console handler being
used.

In order to achieve this we need to reverse the order of preference to
use dbg_io_ops (uses polling I/O mode) over console APIs. So we just
store "struct console" that represents debugger I/O in dbg_io_ops and
while emitting kdb messages, skip console that matches dbg_io_ops
console in order to avoid duplicate messages. After this change,
"is_console" param becomes redundant and hence removed.

Suggested-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg &lt;sumit.garg@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1591264879-25920-5-git-send-email-sumit.garg@linaro.org
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kdb: Make kdb_printf() console handling more robust</title>
<updated>2020-06-25T11:04:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sumit Garg</name>
<email>sumit.garg@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-04T10:01:18+00:00</published>
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While rounding up CPUs via NMIs, its possible that a rounded up CPU
maybe holding a console port lock leading to kgdb master CPU stuck in
a deadlock during invocation of console write operations. A similar
deadlock could also be possible while using synchronous breakpoints.

So in order to avoid such a deadlock, set oops_in_progress to encourage
the console drivers to disregard their internal spin locks: in the
current calling context the risk of deadlock is a bigger problem than
risks due to re-entering the console driver. We operate directly on
oops_in_progress rather than using bust_spinlocks() because the calls
bust_spinlocks() makes on exit are not appropriate for this calling
context.

Suggested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg &lt;sumit.garg@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1591264879-25920-4-git-send-email-sumit.garg@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
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While rounding up CPUs via NMIs, its possible that a rounded up CPU
maybe holding a console port lock leading to kgdb master CPU stuck in
a deadlock during invocation of console write operations. A similar
deadlock could also be possible while using synchronous breakpoints.

So in order to avoid such a deadlock, set oops_in_progress to encourage
the console drivers to disregard their internal spin locks: in the
current calling context the risk of deadlock is a bigger problem than
risks due to re-entering the console driver. We operate directly on
oops_in_progress rather than using bust_spinlocks() because the calls
bust_spinlocks() makes on exit are not appropriate for this calling
context.

Suggested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg &lt;sumit.garg@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1591264879-25920-4-git-send-email-sumit.garg@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kdb: Check status of console prior to invoking handlers</title>
<updated>2020-06-25T11:04:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sumit Garg</name>
<email>sumit.garg@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-04T10:01:17+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Check if a console is enabled prior to invoking corresponding write
handler.

Suggested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg &lt;sumit.garg@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1591264879-25920-3-git-send-email-sumit.garg@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
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Check if a console is enabled prior to invoking corresponding write
handler.

Suggested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg &lt;sumit.garg@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1591264879-25920-3-git-send-email-sumit.garg@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kdb: Re-factor kdb_printf() message write code</title>
<updated>2020-06-25T11:04:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sumit Garg</name>
<email>sumit.garg@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-04T10:01:16+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Re-factor kdb_printf() message write code in order to avoid duplication
of code and thereby increase readability.

Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg &lt;sumit.garg@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1591264879-25920-2-git-send-email-sumit.garg@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
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Re-factor kdb_printf() message write code in order to avoid duplication
of code and thereby increase readability.

Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg &lt;sumit.garg@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1591264879-25920-2-git-send-email-sumit.garg@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>maccess: rename probe_kernel_{read,write} to copy_{from,to}_kernel_nofault</title>
<updated>2020-06-17T17:57:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-17T07:37:53+00:00</published>
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Better describe what these functions do.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Better describe what these functions do.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel: rename show_stack_loglvl() =&gt; show_stack()</title>
<updated>2020-06-09T16:39:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Safonov</name>
<email>dima@arista.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-09T04:32:29+00:00</published>
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Now the last users of show_stack() got converted to use an explicit log
level, show_stack_loglvl() can drop it's redundant suffix and become once
again well known show_stack().

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-51-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Now the last users of show_stack() got converted to use an explicit log
level, show_stack_loglvl() can drop it's redundant suffix and become once
again well known show_stack().

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-51-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kdb: don't play with console_loglevel</title>
<updated>2020-06-09T16:39:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Safonov</name>
<email>dima@arista.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-09T04:32:19+00:00</published>
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Print the stack trace with KERN_EMERG - it should be always visible.

Playing with console_loglevel is a bad idea as there may be more messages
printed than wanted.  Also the stack trace might be not printed at all if
printk() was deferred and console_loglevel was raised back before the
trace got flushed.

Unfortunately, after rebasing on commit 2277b492582d ("kdb: Fix stack
crawling on 'running' CPUs that aren't the master"), kdb_show_stack() uses
now kdb_dump_stack_on_cpu(), which for now won't be converted as it uses
dump_stack() instead of show_stack().

Convert for now the branch that uses show_stack() and remove
console_loglevel exercise from that case.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Jason Wessel &lt;jason.wessel@windriver.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-48-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Print the stack trace with KERN_EMERG - it should be always visible.

Playing with console_loglevel is a bad idea as there may be more messages
printed than wanted.  Also the stack trace might be not printed at all if
printk() was deferred and console_loglevel was raised back before the
trace got flushed.

Unfortunately, after rebasing on commit 2277b492582d ("kdb: Fix stack
crawling on 'running' CPUs that aren't the master"), kdb_show_stack() uses
now kdb_dump_stack_on_cpu(), which for now won't be converted as it uses
dump_stack() instead of show_stack().

Convert for now the branch that uses show_stack() and remove
console_loglevel exercise from that case.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov &lt;dima@arista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Jason Wessel &lt;jason.wessel@windriver.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200418201944.482088-48-dima@arista.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kdb: Remove the misfeature 'KDBFLAGS'</title>
<updated>2020-06-02T14:15:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wei Li</name>
<email>liwei391@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-21T07:21:25+00:00</published>
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Currently, 'KDBFLAGS' is an internal variable of kdb, it is combined
by 'KDBDEBUG' and state flags. It will be shown only when 'KDBDEBUG'
is set, and the user can define an environment variable named 'KDBFLAGS'
too. These are puzzling indeed.

After communication with Daniel, it seems that 'KDBFLAGS' is a misfeature.
So let's replace 'KDBFLAGS' with 'KDBDEBUG' to just show the value we
wrote into. After this modification, we can use `md4c1 kdb_flags` instead,
to observe the state flags.

Suggested-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wei Li &lt;liwei391@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200521072125.21103-1-liwei391@huawei.com
[daniel.thompson@linaro.org: Make kdb_flags unsigned to avoid arithmetic
right shift]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
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Currently, 'KDBFLAGS' is an internal variable of kdb, it is combined
by 'KDBDEBUG' and state flags. It will be shown only when 'KDBDEBUG'
is set, and the user can define an environment variable named 'KDBFLAGS'
too. These are puzzling indeed.

After communication with Daniel, it seems that 'KDBFLAGS' is a misfeature.
So let's replace 'KDBFLAGS' with 'KDBDEBUG' to just show the value we
wrote into. After this modification, we can use `md4c1 kdb_flags` instead,
to observe the state flags.

Suggested-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wei Li &lt;liwei391@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200521072125.21103-1-liwei391@huawei.com
[daniel.thompson@linaro.org: Make kdb_flags unsigned to avoid arithmetic
right shift]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kdb: Cleanup math with KDB_CMD_HISTORY_COUNT</title>
<updated>2020-06-02T14:15:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Douglas Anderson</name>
<email>dianders@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-07T23:11:46+00:00</published>
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From code inspection the math in handle_ctrl_cmd() looks super sketchy
because it subjects -1 from cmdptr and then does a "%
KDB_CMD_HISTORY_COUNT".  It turns out that this code works because
"cmdptr" is unsigned and KDB_CMD_HISTORY_COUNT is a nice power of 2.
Let's make this a little less sketchy.

This patch should be a no-op.

Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507161125.1.I2cce9ac66e141230c3644b8174b6c15d4e769232@changeid
Reviewed-by: Sumit Garg &lt;sumit.garg@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
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From code inspection the math in handle_ctrl_cmd() looks super sketchy
because it subjects -1 from cmdptr and then does a "%
KDB_CMD_HISTORY_COUNT".  It turns out that this code works because
"cmdptr" is unsigned and KDB_CMD_HISTORY_COUNT is a nice power of 2.
Let's make this a little less sketchy.

This patch should be a no-op.

Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507161125.1.I2cce9ac66e141230c3644b8174b6c15d4e769232@changeid
Reviewed-by: Sumit Garg &lt;sumit.garg@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
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