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<title>__ptrace_may_access() should not deny sub-threads</title>
<updated>2015-07-04T02:48:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Grondona</name>
<email>mgrondona@llnl.gov</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-11T21:24:31+00:00</published>
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commit 73af963f9f3036dffed55c3a2898598186db1045 upstream.

__ptrace_may_access() checks get_dumpable/ptrace_has_cap/etc if task !=
current, this can can lead to surprising results.

For example, a sub-thread can't readlink("/proc/self/exe") if the
executable is not readable.  setup_new_exec()-&gt;would_dump() notices that
inode_permission(MAY_READ) fails and then it does
set_dumpable(suid_dumpable).  After that get_dumpable() fails.

(It is not clear why proc_pid_readlink() checks get_dumpable(), perhaps we
could add PTRACE_MODE_NODUMPABLE)

Change __ptrace_may_access() to use same_thread_group() instead of "task
== current".  Any security check is pointless when the tasks share the
same -&gt;mm.

Signed-off-by: Mark Grondona &lt;mgrondona@llnl.gov&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Woodard &lt;woodard@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.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 73af963f9f3036dffed55c3a2898598186db1045 upstream.

__ptrace_may_access() checks get_dumpable/ptrace_has_cap/etc if task !=
current, this can can lead to surprising results.

For example, a sub-thread can't readlink("/proc/self/exe") if the
executable is not readable.  setup_new_exec()-&gt;would_dump() notices that
inode_permission(MAY_READ) fails and then it does
set_dumpable(suid_dumpable).  After that get_dumpable() fails.

(It is not clear why proc_pid_readlink() checks get_dumpable(), perhaps we
could add PTRACE_MODE_NODUMPABLE)

Change __ptrace_may_access() to use same_thread_group() instead of "task
== current".  Any security check is pointless when the tasks share the
same -&gt;mm.

Signed-off-by: Mark Grondona &lt;mgrondona@llnl.gov&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Woodard &lt;woodard@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.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>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Have filter check for balanced ops</title>
<updated>2015-06-29T19:08:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-15T21:50:25+00:00</published>
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commit 2cf30dc180cea808077f003c5116388183e54f9e upstream.

When the following filter is used it causes a warning to trigger:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
 # echo "((dev==1)blocks==2)" &gt; events/ext4/ext4_truncate_exit/filter
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
 # cat events/ext4/ext4_truncate_exit/filter
((dev==1)blocks==2)
^
parse_error: No error

 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1223 at kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c:1640 replace_preds+0x3c5/0x990()
 Modules linked in: bnep lockd grace bluetooth  ...
 CPU: 3 PID: 1223 Comm: bash Tainted: G        W       4.1.0-rc3-test+ #450
 Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF/339A, BIOS K01 v02.05 05/07/2012
  0000000000000668 ffff8800c106bc98 ffffffff816ed4f9 ffff88011ead0cf0
  0000000000000000 ffff8800c106bcd8 ffffffff8107fb07 ffffffff8136b46c
  ffff8800c7d81d48 ffff8800d4c2bc00 ffff8800d4d4f920 00000000ffffffea
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff816ed4f9&gt;] dump_stack+0x4c/0x6e
  [&lt;ffffffff8107fb07&gt;] warn_slowpath_common+0x97/0xe0
  [&lt;ffffffff8136b46c&gt;] ? _kstrtoull+0x2c/0x80
  [&lt;ffffffff8107fb6a&gt;] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
  [&lt;ffffffff81159065&gt;] replace_preds+0x3c5/0x990
  [&lt;ffffffff811596b2&gt;] create_filter+0x82/0xb0
  [&lt;ffffffff81159944&gt;] apply_event_filter+0xd4/0x180
  [&lt;ffffffff81152bbf&gt;] event_filter_write+0x8f/0x120
  [&lt;ffffffff811db2a8&gt;] __vfs_write+0x28/0xe0
  [&lt;ffffffff811dda43&gt;] ? __sb_start_write+0x53/0xf0
  [&lt;ffffffff812e51e0&gt;] ? security_file_permission+0x30/0xc0
  [&lt;ffffffff811dc408&gt;] vfs_write+0xb8/0x1b0
  [&lt;ffffffff811dc72f&gt;] SyS_write+0x4f/0xb0
  [&lt;ffffffff816f5217&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x6a
 ---[ end trace e11028bd95818dcd ]---

Worse yet, reading the error message (the filter again) it says that
there was no error, when there clearly was. The issue is that the
code that checks the input does not check for balanced ops. That is,
having an op between a closed parenthesis and the next token.

This would only cause a warning, and fail out before doing any real
harm, but it should still not caues a warning, and the error reported
should work:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
 # echo "((dev==1)blocks==2)" &gt; events/ext4/ext4_truncate_exit/filter
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
 # cat events/ext4/ext4_truncate_exit/filter
((dev==1)blocks==2)
^
parse_error: Meaningless filter expression

And give no kernel warning.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150615175025.7e809215@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Tested-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[ luis: backported to 3.16:
  - unconditionally decrement cnt as the OP_NOT logic was introduced only
    by e12c09cf3087 ("tracing: Add NOT to filtering logic") ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 2cf30dc180cea808077f003c5116388183e54f9e upstream.

When the following filter is used it causes a warning to trigger:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
 # echo "((dev==1)blocks==2)" &gt; events/ext4/ext4_truncate_exit/filter
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
 # cat events/ext4/ext4_truncate_exit/filter
((dev==1)blocks==2)
^
parse_error: No error

 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1223 at kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c:1640 replace_preds+0x3c5/0x990()
 Modules linked in: bnep lockd grace bluetooth  ...
 CPU: 3 PID: 1223 Comm: bash Tainted: G        W       4.1.0-rc3-test+ #450
 Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF/339A, BIOS K01 v02.05 05/07/2012
  0000000000000668 ffff8800c106bc98 ffffffff816ed4f9 ffff88011ead0cf0
  0000000000000000 ffff8800c106bcd8 ffffffff8107fb07 ffffffff8136b46c
  ffff8800c7d81d48 ffff8800d4c2bc00 ffff8800d4d4f920 00000000ffffffea
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff816ed4f9&gt;] dump_stack+0x4c/0x6e
  [&lt;ffffffff8107fb07&gt;] warn_slowpath_common+0x97/0xe0
  [&lt;ffffffff8136b46c&gt;] ? _kstrtoull+0x2c/0x80
  [&lt;ffffffff8107fb6a&gt;] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
  [&lt;ffffffff81159065&gt;] replace_preds+0x3c5/0x990
  [&lt;ffffffff811596b2&gt;] create_filter+0x82/0xb0
  [&lt;ffffffff81159944&gt;] apply_event_filter+0xd4/0x180
  [&lt;ffffffff81152bbf&gt;] event_filter_write+0x8f/0x120
  [&lt;ffffffff811db2a8&gt;] __vfs_write+0x28/0xe0
  [&lt;ffffffff811dda43&gt;] ? __sb_start_write+0x53/0xf0
  [&lt;ffffffff812e51e0&gt;] ? security_file_permission+0x30/0xc0
  [&lt;ffffffff811dc408&gt;] vfs_write+0xb8/0x1b0
  [&lt;ffffffff811dc72f&gt;] SyS_write+0x4f/0xb0
  [&lt;ffffffff816f5217&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x6a
 ---[ end trace e11028bd95818dcd ]---

Worse yet, reading the error message (the filter again) it says that
there was no error, when there clearly was. The issue is that the
code that checks the input does not check for balanced ops. That is,
having an op between a closed parenthesis and the next token.

This would only cause a warning, and fail out before doing any real
harm, but it should still not caues a warning, and the error reported
should work:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
 # echo "((dev==1)blocks==2)" &gt; events/ext4/ext4_truncate_exit/filter
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
 # cat events/ext4/ext4_truncate_exit/filter
((dev==1)blocks==2)
^
parse_error: Meaningless filter expression

And give no kernel warning.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150615175025.7e809215@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Tested-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[ luis: backported to 3.16:
  - unconditionally decrement cnt as the OP_NOT logic was introduced only
    by e12c09cf3087 ("tracing: Add NOT to filtering logic") ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ring-buffer-benchmark: Fix the wrong sched_priority of producer</title>
<updated>2015-06-22T23:55:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wang Long</name>
<email>long.wanglong@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-10T08:12:37+00:00</published>
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commit 108029323910c5dd1ef8fa2d10da1ce5fbce6e12 upstream.

The producer should be used producer_fifo as its sched_priority,
so correct it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433923957-67842-1-git-send-email-long.wanglong@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: Wang Long &lt;long.wanglong@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 108029323910c5dd1ef8fa2d10da1ce5fbce6e12 upstream.

The producer should be used producer_fifo as its sched_priority,
so correct it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433923957-67842-1-git-send-email-long.wanglong@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: Wang Long &lt;long.wanglong@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>revert "softirq: Add support for triggering softirq work on softirqs"</title>
<updated>2015-05-17T16:51:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-14T22:32:06+00:00</published>
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commit fc21c0cff2f425891b28ff6fb6b03b325c977428 upstream.

This commit was incomplete in that code to remove items from the per-cpu
lists was missing and never acquired a user in the 5 years it has been in
the tree.  We're going to implement what it seems to try to archive in a
simpler way, and this code is in the way of doing so.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Pan Xinhui &lt;xinhuix.pan@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit fc21c0cff2f425891b28ff6fb6b03b325c977428 upstream.

This commit was incomplete in that code to remove items from the per-cpu
lists was missing and never acquired a user in the 5 years it has been in
the tree.  We're going to implement what it seems to try to archive in a
simpler way, and this code is in the way of doing so.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Pan Xinhui &lt;xinhuix.pan@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ksoftirqd: Enable IRQs and call cond_resched() before poking RCU</title>
<updated>2015-05-06T19:56:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Calvin Owens</name>
<email>calvinowens@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-13T21:16:18+00:00</published>
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commit 28423ad283d5348793b0c45cc9b1af058e776fd6 upstream.

While debugging an issue with excessive softirq usage, I encountered the
following note in commit 3e339b5dae24a706 ("softirq: Use hotplug thread
infrastructure"):

    [ paulmck: Call rcu_note_context_switch() with interrupts enabled. ]

...but despite this note, the patch still calls RCU with IRQs disabled.

This seemingly innocuous change caused a significant regression in softirq
CPU usage on the sending side of a large TCP transfer (~1 GB/s): when
introducing 0.01% packet loss, the softirq usage would jump to around 25%,
spiking as high as 50%. Before the change, the usage would never exceed 5%.

Moving the call to rcu_note_context_switch() after the cond_sched() call,
as it was originally before the hotplug patch, completely eliminated this
problem.

Signed-off-by: Calvin Owens &lt;calvinowens@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;mgalbraith@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 28423ad283d5348793b0c45cc9b1af058e776fd6 upstream.

While debugging an issue with excessive softirq usage, I encountered the
following note in commit 3e339b5dae24a706 ("softirq: Use hotplug thread
infrastructure"):

    [ paulmck: Call rcu_note_context_switch() with interrupts enabled. ]

...but despite this note, the patch still calls RCU with IRQs disabled.

This seemingly innocuous change caused a significant regression in softirq
CPU usage on the sending side of a large TCP transfer (~1 GB/s): when
introducing 0.01% packet loss, the softirq usage would jump to around 25%,
spiking as high as 50%. Before the change, the usage would never exceed 5%.

Moving the call to rcu_note_context_switch() after the cond_sched() call,
as it was originally before the hotplug patch, completely eliminated this
problem.

Signed-off-by: Calvin Owens &lt;calvinowens@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;mgalbraith@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ptrace: fix race between ptrace_resume() and wait_task_stopped()</title>
<updated>2015-05-06T19:56:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-16T19:47:29+00:00</published>
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commit b72c186999e689cb0b055ab1c7b3cd8fffbeb5ed upstream.

ptrace_resume() is called when the tracee is still __TASK_TRACED.  We set
tracee-&gt;exit_code and then wake_up_state() changes tracee-&gt;state.  If the
tracer's sub-thread does wait() in between, task_stopped_code(ptrace =&gt; T)
wrongly looks like another report from tracee.

This confuses debugger, and since wait_task_stopped() clears -&gt;exit_code
the tracee can miss a signal.

Test-case:

	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/wait.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/ptrace.h&gt;
	#include &lt;pthread.h&gt;
	#include &lt;assert.h&gt;

	int pid;

	void *waiter(void *arg)
	{
		int stat;

		for (;;) {
			assert(pid == wait(&amp;stat));
			assert(WIFSTOPPED(stat));
			if (WSTOPSIG(stat) == SIGHUP)
				continue;

			assert(WSTOPSIG(stat) == SIGCONT);
			printf("ERR! extra/wrong report:%x\n", stat);
		}
	}

	int main(void)
	{
		pthread_t thread;

		pid = fork();
		if (!pid) {
			assert(ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0,0,0) == 0);
			for (;;)
				kill(getpid(), SIGHUP);
		}

		assert(pthread_create(&amp;thread, NULL, waiter, NULL) == 0);

		for (;;)
			ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, pid, 0, SIGCONT);

		return 0;
	}

Note for stable: the bug is very old, but without 9899d11f6544 "ptrace:
ensure arch_ptrace/ptrace_request can never race with SIGKILL" the fix
should use lock_task_sighand(child).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Pavel Labath &lt;labath@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Pavel Labath &lt;labath@google.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 b72c186999e689cb0b055ab1c7b3cd8fffbeb5ed upstream.

ptrace_resume() is called when the tracee is still __TASK_TRACED.  We set
tracee-&gt;exit_code and then wake_up_state() changes tracee-&gt;state.  If the
tracer's sub-thread does wait() in between, task_stopped_code(ptrace =&gt; T)
wrongly looks like another report from tracee.

This confuses debugger, and since wait_task_stopped() clears -&gt;exit_code
the tracee can miss a signal.

Test-case:

	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/wait.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/ptrace.h&gt;
	#include &lt;pthread.h&gt;
	#include &lt;assert.h&gt;

	int pid;

	void *waiter(void *arg)
	{
		int stat;

		for (;;) {
			assert(pid == wait(&amp;stat));
			assert(WIFSTOPPED(stat));
			if (WSTOPSIG(stat) == SIGHUP)
				continue;

			assert(WSTOPSIG(stat) == SIGCONT);
			printf("ERR! extra/wrong report:%x\n", stat);
		}
	}

	int main(void)
	{
		pthread_t thread;

		pid = fork();
		if (!pid) {
			assert(ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0,0,0) == 0);
			for (;;)
				kill(getpid(), SIGHUP);
		}

		assert(pthread_create(&amp;thread, NULL, waiter, NULL) == 0);

		for (;;)
			ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, pid, 0, SIGCONT);

		return 0;
	}

Note for stable: the bug is very old, but without 9899d11f6544 "ptrace:
ensure arch_ptrace/ptrace_request can never race with SIGKILL" the fix
should use lock_task_sighand(child).

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Pavel Labath &lt;labath@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Pavel Labath &lt;labath@google.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>ring-buffer: Replace this_cpu_*() with __this_cpu_*()</title>
<updated>2015-05-06T19:56:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-17T14:40:38+00:00</published>
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commit 80a9b64e2c156b6523e7a01f2ba6e5d86e722814 upstream.

It has come to my attention that this_cpu_read/write are horrible on
architectures other than x86. Worse yet, they actually disable
preemption or interrupts! This caused some unexpected tracing results
on ARM.

   101.356868: preempt_count_add &lt;-ring_buffer_lock_reserve
   101.356870: preempt_count_sub &lt;-ring_buffer_lock_reserve

The ring_buffer_lock_reserve has recursion protection that requires
accessing a per cpu variable. But since preempt_disable() is traced, it
too got traced while accessing the variable that is suppose to prevent
recursion like this.

The generic version of this_cpu_read() and write() are:

 #define this_cpu_generic_read(pcp)					\
 ({	typeof(pcp) ret__;						\
	preempt_disable();						\
	ret__ = *this_cpu_ptr(&amp;(pcp));					\
	preempt_enable();						\
	ret__;								\
 })

 #define this_cpu_generic_to_op(pcp, val, op)				\
 do {									\
	unsigned long flags;						\
	raw_local_irq_save(flags);					\
	*__this_cpu_ptr(&amp;(pcp)) op val;					\
	raw_local_irq_restore(flags);					\
 } while (0)

Which is unacceptable for locations that know they are within preempt
disabled or interrupt disabled locations.

Paul McKenney stated that __this_cpu_() versions produce much better code on
other architectures than this_cpu_() does, if we know that the call is done in
a preempt disabled location.

I also changed the recursive_unlock() to use two local variables instead
of accessing the per_cpu variable twice.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150317114411.GE3589@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150317104038.312e73d1@gandalf.local.home

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-Koenig &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-Koenig &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 80a9b64e2c156b6523e7a01f2ba6e5d86e722814 upstream.

It has come to my attention that this_cpu_read/write are horrible on
architectures other than x86. Worse yet, they actually disable
preemption or interrupts! This caused some unexpected tracing results
on ARM.

   101.356868: preempt_count_add &lt;-ring_buffer_lock_reserve
   101.356870: preempt_count_sub &lt;-ring_buffer_lock_reserve

The ring_buffer_lock_reserve has recursion protection that requires
accessing a per cpu variable. But since preempt_disable() is traced, it
too got traced while accessing the variable that is suppose to prevent
recursion like this.

The generic version of this_cpu_read() and write() are:

 #define this_cpu_generic_read(pcp)					\
 ({	typeof(pcp) ret__;						\
	preempt_disable();						\
	ret__ = *this_cpu_ptr(&amp;(pcp));					\
	preempt_enable();						\
	ret__;								\
 })

 #define this_cpu_generic_to_op(pcp, val, op)				\
 do {									\
	unsigned long flags;						\
	raw_local_irq_save(flags);					\
	*__this_cpu_ptr(&amp;(pcp)) op val;					\
	raw_local_irq_restore(flags);					\
 } while (0)

Which is unacceptable for locations that know they are within preempt
disabled or interrupt disabled locations.

Paul McKenney stated that __this_cpu_() versions produce much better code on
other architectures than this_cpu_() does, if we know that the call is done in
a preempt disabled location.

I also changed the recursive_unlock() to use two local variables instead
of accessing the per_cpu variable twice.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150317114411.GE3589@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150317104038.312e73d1@gandalf.local.home

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-Koenig &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-Koenig &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>move d_rcu from overlapping d_child to overlapping d_alias</title>
<updated>2015-04-29T08:34:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-26T23:19:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6637ecd306a94a03dd5b8e4e8d3f260d9877c5b0'/>
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commit 946e51f2bf37f1656916eb75bd0742ba33983c28 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
[hujianyang: Backported to 3.10 refer to the work of Ben Hutchings in 3.2:
 - Apply name changes in all the different places we use d_alias and d_child
 - Move the WARN_ON() in __d_free() to d_free() as we don't have dentry_free()]
Signed-off-by: hujianyang &lt;hujianyang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 946e51f2bf37f1656916eb75bd0742ba33983c28 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
[hujianyang: Backported to 3.10 refer to the work of Ben Hutchings in 3.2:
 - Apply name changes in all the different places we use d_alias and d_child
 - Move the WARN_ON() in __d_free() to d_free() as we don't have dentry_free()]
Signed-off-by: hujianyang &lt;hujianyang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>console: Fix console name size mismatch</title>
<updated>2015-04-19T08:10:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Hurley</name>
<email>peter@hurleysoftware.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-01T15:11:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=391f1c610abe2db94c3e5c7ae20528ebf9ed682f'/>
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commit 30a22c215a0007603ffc08021f2e8b64018517dd upstream.

commit 6ae9200f2cab7 ("enlarge console.name") increased the storage
for the console name to 16 bytes, but not the corresponding
struct console_cmdline::name storage. Console names longer than
8 bytes cause read beyond end-of-string and failure to match
console; I'm not sure if there are other unexpected consequences.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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commit 30a22c215a0007603ffc08021f2e8b64018517dd upstream.

commit 6ae9200f2cab7 ("enlarge console.name") increased the storage
for the console name to 16 bytes, but not the corresponding
struct console_cmdline::name storage. Console names longer than
8 bytes cause read beyond end-of-string and failure to match
console; I'm not sure if there are other unexpected consequences.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley &lt;peter@hurleysoftware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Fix irq_work 'tail' recursion</title>
<updated>2015-04-13T12:02:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-19T17:03:11+00:00</published>
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commit d525211f9d1be8b523ec7633f080f2116f5ea536 upstream.

Vince reported a watchdog lockup like:

	[&lt;ffffffff8115e114&gt;] perf_tp_event+0xc4/0x210
	[&lt;ffffffff810b4f8a&gt;] perf_trace_lock+0x12a/0x160
	[&lt;ffffffff810b7f10&gt;] lock_release+0x130/0x260
	[&lt;ffffffff816c7474&gt;] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x24/0x40
	[&lt;ffffffff8107bb4d&gt;] do_send_sig_info+0x5d/0x80
	[&lt;ffffffff811f69df&gt;] send_sigio_to_task+0x12f/0x1a0
	[&lt;ffffffff811f71ce&gt;] send_sigio+0xae/0x100
	[&lt;ffffffff811f72b7&gt;] kill_fasync+0x97/0xf0
	[&lt;ffffffff8115d0b4&gt;] perf_event_wakeup+0xd4/0xf0
	[&lt;ffffffff8115d103&gt;] perf_pending_event+0x33/0x60
	[&lt;ffffffff8114e3fc&gt;] irq_work_run_list+0x4c/0x80
	[&lt;ffffffff8114e448&gt;] irq_work_run+0x18/0x40
	[&lt;ffffffff810196af&gt;] smp_trace_irq_work_interrupt+0x3f/0xc0
	[&lt;ffffffff816c99bd&gt;] trace_irq_work_interrupt+0x6d/0x80

Which is caused by an irq_work generating new irq_work and therefore
not allowing forward progress.

This happens because processing the perf irq_work triggers another
perf event (tracepoint stuff) which in turn generates an irq_work ad
infinitum.

Avoid this by raising the recursion counter in the irq_work -- which
effectively disables all software events (including tracepoints) from
actually triggering again.

Reported-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Tested-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150219170311.GH21418@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
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 d525211f9d1be8b523ec7633f080f2116f5ea536 upstream.

Vince reported a watchdog lockup like:

	[&lt;ffffffff8115e114&gt;] perf_tp_event+0xc4/0x210
	[&lt;ffffffff810b4f8a&gt;] perf_trace_lock+0x12a/0x160
	[&lt;ffffffff810b7f10&gt;] lock_release+0x130/0x260
	[&lt;ffffffff816c7474&gt;] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x24/0x40
	[&lt;ffffffff8107bb4d&gt;] do_send_sig_info+0x5d/0x80
	[&lt;ffffffff811f69df&gt;] send_sigio_to_task+0x12f/0x1a0
	[&lt;ffffffff811f71ce&gt;] send_sigio+0xae/0x100
	[&lt;ffffffff811f72b7&gt;] kill_fasync+0x97/0xf0
	[&lt;ffffffff8115d0b4&gt;] perf_event_wakeup+0xd4/0xf0
	[&lt;ffffffff8115d103&gt;] perf_pending_event+0x33/0x60
	[&lt;ffffffff8114e3fc&gt;] irq_work_run_list+0x4c/0x80
	[&lt;ffffffff8114e448&gt;] irq_work_run+0x18/0x40
	[&lt;ffffffff810196af&gt;] smp_trace_irq_work_interrupt+0x3f/0xc0
	[&lt;ffffffff816c99bd&gt;] trace_irq_work_interrupt+0x6d/0x80

Which is caused by an irq_work generating new irq_work and therefore
not allowing forward progress.

This happens because processing the perf irq_work triggers another
perf event (tracepoint stuff) which in turn generates an irq_work ad
infinitum.

Avoid this by raising the recursion counter in the irq_work -- which
effectively disables all software events (including tracepoints) from
actually triggering again.

Reported-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Tested-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150219170311.GH21418@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
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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