linux-stable.git/kernel/panic.c, branch v3.16.40

x86/panic: replace smp_send_stop() with kdump friendly version in panic path

2017-02-23T03:54:11+00:00

commit 0ee59413c967c35a6dd2dbdab605b4cd42025ee5 upstream.

Daniel Walker reported problems which happens when
crash_kexec_post_notifiers kernel option is enabled
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/24/44).

In that case, smp_send_stop() is called before entering kdump routines
which assume other CPUs are still online.  As the result, for x86, kdump
routines fail to save other CPUs' registers and disable virtualization
extensions.

To fix this problem, call a new kdump friendly function,
crash_smp_send_stop(), instead of the smp_send_stop() when
crash_kexec_post_notifiers is enabled.  crash_smp_send_stop() is a weak
function, and it just call smp_send_stop().  Architecture codes should
override it so that kdump can work appropriately.  This patch only
provides x86-specific version.

For Xen's PV kernel, just keep the current behavior.

NOTES:

- Right solution would be to place crash_smp_send_stop() before
  __crash_kexec() invocation in all cases and remove smp_send_stop(), but
  we can't do that until all architectures implement own
  crash_smp_send_stop()

- crash_smp_send_stop()-like work is still needed by
  machine_crash_shutdown() because crash_kexec() can be called without
  entering panic()

Fixes: f06e5153f4ae (kernel/panic.c: add "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" option)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160810080948.11028.15344.stgit@sysi4-13.yrl.intra.hitachi.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai 
Reported-by: Daniel Walker 
Cc: Dave Young 
Cc: Baoquan He 
Cc: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: Eric Biederman 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Daniel Walker 
Cc: Xunlei Pang 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: David Vrabel 
Cc: Toshi Kani 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: David Daney 
Cc: Aaro Koskinen 
Cc: "Steven J. Hill" 
Cc: Corey Minyard 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

printk: do cond_resched() between lines while outputting to consoles

2016-02-02T19:09:51+00:00

commit 8d91f8b15361dfb438ab6eb3b319e2ded43458ff upstream.

@console_may_schedule tracks whether console_sem was acquired through
lock or trylock.  If the former, we're inside a sleepable context and
console_conditional_schedule() performs cond_resched().  This allows
console drivers which use console_lock for synchronization to yield
while performing time-consuming operations such as scrolling.

However, the actual console outputting is performed while holding
irq-safe logbuf_lock, so console_unlock() clears @console_may_schedule
before starting outputting lines.  Also, only a few drivers call
console_conditional_schedule() to begin with.  This means that when a
lot of lines need to be output by console_unlock(), for example on a
console registration, the task doing console_unlock() may not yield for
a long time on a non-preemptible kernel.

If this happens with a slow console devices, for example a serial
console, the outputting task may occupy the cpu for a very long time.
Long enough to trigger softlockup and/or RCU stall warnings, which in
turn pile more messages, sometimes enough to trigger the next cycle of
warnings incapacitating the system.

Fix it by making console_unlock() insert cond_resched() between lines if
@console_may_schedule.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Reported-by: Calvin Owens 
Acked-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Dave Jones 
Cc: Kyle McMartin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques

kernel/panic.c: turn off locks debug before releasing console lock

2016-02-02T19:09:51+00:00

commit 7625b3a0007decf2b135cb47ca67abc78a7b1bc1 upstream.

Commit 08d78658f393 ("panic: release stale console lock to always get the
logbuf printed out") introduced an unwanted bad unlock balance report when
panic() is called directly and not from OOPS (e.g.  from out_of_memory()).
The difference is that in case of OOPS we disable locks debug in
oops_enter() and on direct panic call nobody does that.

Fixes: 08d78658f393 ("panic: release stale console lock to always get the logbuf printed out")
Reported-by: kernel test robot 
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov 
Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Baoquan He 
Cc: Prarit Bhargava 
Cc: Xie XiuQi 
Cc: Seth Jennings 
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Petr Mladek 
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques

panic: release stale console lock to always get the logbuf printed out

2016-02-02T19:09:50+00:00

commit 08d78658f393fefaa2e6507ea052c6f8ef4002a2 upstream.

In some cases we may end up killing the CPU holding the console lock
while still having valuable data in logbuf. E.g. I'm observing the
following:

- A crash is happening on one CPU and console_unlock() is being called on
  some other.

- console_unlock() tries to print out the buffer before releasing the lock
  and on slow console it takes time.

- in the meanwhile crashing CPU does lots of printk()-s with valuable data
  (which go to the logbuf) and sends IPIs to all other CPUs.

- console_unlock() finishes printing previous chunk and enables interrupts
  before trying to print out the rest, the CPU catches the IPI and never
  releases console lock.

This is not the only possible case: in VT/fb subsystems we have many other
console_lock()/console_unlock() users.  Non-masked interrupts (or
receiving NMI in case of extreme slowness) will have the same result.
Getting the whole console buffer printed out on crash should be top
priority.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment text]
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov 
Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Baoquan He 
Cc: Prarit Bhargava 
Cc: Xie XiuQi 
Cc: Seth Jennings 
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques

kernel/panic.c: add "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" option for kdump after panic_notifers

2014-06-06T23:08:12+00:00

Add a "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" boot option to run kdump after
running panic_notifiers and dump kmsg.  This can help rare situations
where kdump fails because of unstable crashed kernel or hardware failure
(memory corruption on critical data/code), or the 2nd kernel is already
broken by the 1st kernel (it's a broken behavior, but who can guarantee
that the "crashed" kernel works correctly?).

Usage: add "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" to kernel boot option.

Note that this actually increases risks of the failure of kdump.  This
option should be set only if you worry about the rare case of kdump
failure rather than increasing the chance of success.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Acked-by: Motohiro Kosaki 
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: Eric Biederman 
Cc: Yoshihiro YUNOMAE 
Cc: Satoru MORIYA 
Cc: Tomoki Sekiyama 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/panic.c: display reason at end + pr_emerg

2014-04-07T23:36:08+00:00

Currently, booting without initrd specified on 80x25 screen gives a call
trace followed by atkbd : Spurious ACK.  Original message ("VFS: Unable
to mount root fs") is not available.  Of course this could happen in
other situations...

This patch displays panic reason after call trace which could help lot
of people even if it's not the very last line on screen.

Also, convert all panic.c printk(KERN_EMERG to pr_emerg(

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: missed a couple of pr_ conversions]
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux

2014-04-06T16:38:07+00:00

Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
 "Nothing major: the stricter permissions checking for sysfs broke a
  staging driver; fix included.  Greg KH said he'd take the patch but
  hadn't as the merge window opened, so it's included here to avoid
  breaking build"

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  staging: fix up speakup kobject mode
  Use 'E' instead of 'X' for unsigned module taint flag.
  VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS: stricter checking for sysfs perms.
  kallsyms: fix percpu vars on x86-64 with relocation.
  kallsyms: generalize address range checking
  module: LLVMLinux: Remove unused function warning from __param_check macro
  Fix: module signature vs tracepoints: add new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
  module: remove MODULE_GENERIC_TABLE
  module: allow multiple calls to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() per module
  module: use pr_cont

Merge branch 'x86-asmlinkage-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2014-03-31T21:13:25+00:00

Pull x86 LTO changes from Peter Anvin:
 "More infrastructure work in preparation for link-time optimization
  (LTO).  Most of these changes is to make sure symbols accessed from
  assembly code are properly marked as visible so the linker doesn't
  remove them.

  My understanding is that the changes to support LTO are still not
  upstream in binutils, but are on the way there.  This patchset should
  conclude the x86-specific changes, and remaining patches to actually
  enable LTO will be fed through the Kbuild tree (other than keeping up
  with changes to the x86 code base, of course), although not
  necessarily in this merge window"

* 'x86-asmlinkage-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (25 commits)
  Kbuild, lto: Handle basic LTO in modpost
  Kbuild, lto: Disable LTO for asm-offsets.c
  Kbuild, lto: Add a gcc-ld script to let run gcc as ld
  Kbuild, lto: add ld-version and ld-ifversion macros
  Kbuild, lto: Drop .number postfixes in modpost
  Kbuild, lto, workaround: Don't warn for initcall_reference in modpost
  lto: Disable LTO for sys_ni
  lto: Handle LTO common symbols in module loader
  lto, workaround: Add workaround for initcall reordering
  lto: Make asmlinkage __visible
  x86, lto: Disable LTO for the x86 VDSO
  initconst, x86: Fix initconst mistake in ts5500 code
  initconst: Fix initconst mistake in dcdbas
  asmlinkage: Make trace_hardirqs_on/off_caller visible
  asmlinkage, x86: Fix 32bit memcpy for LTO
  asmlinkage Make __stack_chk_failed and memcmp visible
  asmlinkage: Mark rwsem functions that can be called from assembler asmlinkage
  asmlinkage: Make main_extable_sort_needed visible
  asmlinkage, mutex: Mark __visible
  asmlinkage: Make trace_hardirq visible
  ...

Use 'E' instead of 'X' for unsigned module taint flag.

2014-03-31T04:22:43+00:00

Takashi Iwai  says:
> The letter 'X' has been already used for SUSE kernels for very long
> time, to indicate the external supported modules.  Can the new flag be
> changed to another letter for avoiding conflict...?
> (BTW, we also use 'N' for "no support", too.)

Note: this code should be cleaned up, so we don't have such maps in
three places!

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

Rename TAINT_UNSAFE_SMP to TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC

2014-03-20T23:28:09+00:00

Rename TAINT_UNSAFE_SMP to TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, so we can repurpose
the flag to encompass a wider range of pushing the CPU beyond its
warrany.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140226154949.GA770@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin