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<title>uprobes: Fix handle_swbp() vs. unregister() + register() race once more</title>
<updated>2018-12-13T08:22:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Parri</name>
<email>andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com</email>
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<published>2018-11-22T16:10:31+00:00</published>
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commit 09d3f015d1e1b4fee7e9bbdcf54201d239393391 upstream.

Commit:

  142b18ddc8143 ("uprobes: Fix handle_swbp() vs unregister() + register() race")

added the UPROBE_COPY_INSN flag, and corresponding smp_wmb() and smp_rmb()
memory barriers, to ensure that handle_swbp() uses fully-initialized
uprobes only.

However, the smp_rmb() is mis-placed: this barrier should be placed
after handle_swbp() has tested for the flag, thus guaranteeing that
(program-order) subsequent loads from the uprobe can see the initial
stores performed by prepare_uprobe().

Move the smp_rmb() accordingly.  Also amend the comments associated
to the two memory barriers to indicate their actual locations.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri &lt;andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 142b18ddc8143 ("uprobes: Fix handle_swbp() vs unregister() + register() race")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181122161031.15179-1-andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com
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 09d3f015d1e1b4fee7e9bbdcf54201d239393391 upstream.

Commit:

  142b18ddc8143 ("uprobes: Fix handle_swbp() vs unregister() + register() race")

added the UPROBE_COPY_INSN flag, and corresponding smp_wmb() and smp_rmb()
memory barriers, to ensure that handle_swbp() uses fully-initialized
uprobes only.

However, the smp_rmb() is mis-placed: this barrier should be placed
after handle_swbp() has tested for the flag, thus guaranteeing that
(program-order) subsequent loads from the uprobe can see the initial
stores performed by prepare_uprobe().

Move the smp_rmb() accordingly.  Also amend the comments associated
to the two memory barriers to indicate their actual locations.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri &lt;andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 142b18ddc8143 ("uprobes: Fix handle_swbp() vs unregister() + register() race")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181122161031.15179-1-andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com
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>
<title>kdb: use memmove instead of overlapping memcpy</title>
<updated>2018-12-13T08:22:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-02T14:59:40+00:00</published>
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commit 2cf2f0d5b91fd1b06a6ae260462fc7945ea84add upstream.

gcc discovered that the memcpy() arguments in kdbnearsym() overlap, so
we should really use memmove(), which is defined to handle that correctly:

In function 'memcpy',
    inlined from 'kdbnearsym' at /git/arm-soc/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:132:4:
/git/arm-soc/include/linux/string.h:353:9: error: '__builtin_memcpy' accessing 792 bytes at offsets 0 and 8 overlaps 784 bytes at offset 8 [-Werror=restrict]
  return __builtin_memcpy(p, q, size);

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel &lt;jason.wessel@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 2cf2f0d5b91fd1b06a6ae260462fc7945ea84add upstream.

gcc discovered that the memcpy() arguments in kdbnearsym() overlap, so
we should really use memmove(), which is defined to handle that correctly:

In function 'memcpy',
    inlined from 'kdbnearsym' at /git/arm-soc/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:132:4:
/git/arm-soc/include/linux/string.h:353:9: error: '__builtin_memcpy' accessing 792 bytes at offsets 0 and 8 overlaps 784 bytes at offset 8 [-Werror=restrict]
  return __builtin_memcpy(p, q, size);

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel &lt;jason.wessel@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kdb: Use strscpy with destination buffer size</title>
<updated>2018-12-01T08:47:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Prarit Bhargava</name>
<email>prarit@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-20T12:59:14+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c2b94c72d93d0929f48157eef128c4f9d2e603ce ]

gcc 8.1.0 warns with:

kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c: In function ‘kallsyms_symbol_next’:
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:239:4: warning: ‘strncpy’ specified bound depends on the length of the source argument [-Wstringop-overflow=]
     strncpy(prefix_name, name, strlen(name)+1);
     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:239:31: note: length computed here

Use strscpy() with the destination buffer size, and use ellipses when
displaying truncated symbols.

v2: Use strscpy()

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Toppins &lt;jtoppins@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wessel &lt;jason.wessel@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.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 c2b94c72d93d0929f48157eef128c4f9d2e603ce ]

gcc 8.1.0 warns with:

kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c: In function ‘kallsyms_symbol_next’:
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:239:4: warning: ‘strncpy’ specified bound depends on the length of the source argument [-Wstringop-overflow=]
     strncpy(prefix_name, name, strlen(name)+1);
     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c:239:31: note: length computed here

Use strscpy() with the destination buffer size, and use ellipses when
displaying truncated symbols.

v2: Use strscpy()

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Toppins &lt;jtoppins@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wessel &lt;jason.wessel@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>printk: Fix panic caused by passing log_buf_len to command line</title>
<updated>2018-11-22T06:32:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>He Zhe</name>
<email>zhe.he@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-29T16:45:50+00:00</published>
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commit 277fcdb2cfee38ccdbe07e705dbd4896ba0c9930 upstream.

log_buf_len_setup does not check input argument before passing it to
simple_strtoull. The argument would be a NULL pointer if "log_buf_len",
without its value, is set in command line and thus causes the following
panic.

PANIC: early exception 0xe3 IP 10:ffffffffaaeacd0d error 0 cr2 0x0
[    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.19.0-rc4-yocto-standard+ #1
[    0.000000] RIP: 0010:_parse_integer_fixup_radix+0xd/0x70
...
[    0.000000] Call Trace:
[    0.000000]  simple_strtoull+0x29/0x70
[    0.000000]  memparse+0x26/0x90
[    0.000000]  log_buf_len_setup+0x17/0x22
[    0.000000]  do_early_param+0x57/0x8e
[    0.000000]  parse_args+0x208/0x320
[    0.000000]  ? rdinit_setup+0x30/0x30
[    0.000000]  parse_early_options+0x29/0x2d
[    0.000000]  ? rdinit_setup+0x30/0x30
[    0.000000]  parse_early_param+0x36/0x4d
[    0.000000]  setup_arch+0x336/0x99e
[    0.000000]  start_kernel+0x6f/0x4ee
[    0.000000]  x86_64_start_reservations+0x24/0x26
[    0.000000]  x86_64_start_kernel+0x6f/0x72
[    0.000000]  secondary_startup_64+0xa4/0xb0

This patch adds a check to prevent the panic.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1538239553-81805-1-git-send-email-zhe.he@windriver.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: He Zhe &lt;zhe.he@windriver.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 277fcdb2cfee38ccdbe07e705dbd4896ba0c9930 upstream.

log_buf_len_setup does not check input argument before passing it to
simple_strtoull. The argument would be a NULL pointer if "log_buf_len",
without its value, is set in command line and thus causes the following
panic.

PANIC: early exception 0xe3 IP 10:ffffffffaaeacd0d error 0 cr2 0x0
[    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.19.0-rc4-yocto-standard+ #1
[    0.000000] RIP: 0010:_parse_integer_fixup_radix+0xd/0x70
...
[    0.000000] Call Trace:
[    0.000000]  simple_strtoull+0x29/0x70
[    0.000000]  memparse+0x26/0x90
[    0.000000]  log_buf_len_setup+0x17/0x22
[    0.000000]  do_early_param+0x57/0x8e
[    0.000000]  parse_args+0x208/0x320
[    0.000000]  ? rdinit_setup+0x30/0x30
[    0.000000]  parse_early_options+0x29/0x2d
[    0.000000]  ? rdinit_setup+0x30/0x30
[    0.000000]  parse_early_param+0x36/0x4d
[    0.000000]  setup_arch+0x336/0x99e
[    0.000000]  start_kernel+0x6f/0x4ee
[    0.000000]  x86_64_start_reservations+0x24/0x26
[    0.000000]  x86_64_start_kernel+0x6f/0x72
[    0.000000]  secondary_startup_64+0xa4/0xb0

This patch adds a check to prevent the panic.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1538239553-81805-1-git-send-email-zhe.he@windriver.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: He Zhe &lt;zhe.he@windriver.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>kbuild: fix kernel/bounds.c 'W=1' warning</title>
<updated>2018-11-22T06:32:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-30T22:07:32+00:00</published>
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commit 6a32c2469c3fbfee8f25bcd20af647326650a6cf upstream.

Building any configuration with 'make W=1' produces a warning:

kernel/bounds.c:16:6: warning: no previous prototype for 'foo' [-Wmissing-prototypes]

When also passing -Werror, this prevents us from building any other files.
Nobody ever calls the function, but we can't make it 'static' either
since we want the compiler output.

Calling it 'main' instead however avoids the warning, because gcc
does not insist on having a declaration for main.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181005083313.2088252-1-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reported-by: Kieran Bingham &lt;kieran.bingham+renesas@ideasonboard.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham &lt;kieran.bingham+renesas@ideasonboard.com&gt;
Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@ACULAB.COM&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&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 6a32c2469c3fbfee8f25bcd20af647326650a6cf upstream.

Building any configuration with 'make W=1' produces a warning:

kernel/bounds.c:16:6: warning: no previous prototype for 'foo' [-Wmissing-prototypes]

When also passing -Werror, this prevents us from building any other files.
Nobody ever calls the function, but we can't make it 'static' either
since we want the compiler output.

Calling it 'main' instead however avoids the warning, because gcc
does not insist on having a declaration for main.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181005083313.2088252-1-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reported-by: Kieran Bingham &lt;kieran.bingham+renesas@ideasonboard.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham &lt;kieran.bingham+renesas@ideasonboard.com&gt;
Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@ACULAB.COM&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&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>signal: Always deliver the kernel's SIGKILL and SIGSTOP to a pid namespace init</title>
<updated>2018-11-22T06:32:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-03T18:02:46+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3597dfe01d12f570bc739da67f857fd222a3ea66 ]

Instead of playing whack-a-mole and changing SEND_SIG_PRIV to
SEND_SIG_FORCED throughout the kernel to ensure a pid namespace init
gets signals sent by the kernel, stop allowing a pid namespace init to
ignore SIGKILL or SIGSTOP sent by the kernel.  A pid namespace init is
only supposed to be able to ignore signals sent from itself and
children with SIG_DFL.

Fixes: 921cf9f63089 ("signals: protect cinit from unblocked SIG_DFL signals")
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 3597dfe01d12f570bc739da67f857fd222a3ea66 ]

Instead of playing whack-a-mole and changing SEND_SIG_PRIV to
SEND_SIG_FORCED throughout the kernel to ensure a pid namespace init
gets signals sent by the kernel, stop allowing a pid namespace init to
ignore SIGKILL or SIGSTOP sent by the kernel.  A pid namespace init is
only supposed to be able to ignore signals sent from itself and
children with SIG_DFL.

Fixes: 921cf9f63089 ("signals: protect cinit from unblocked SIG_DFL signals")
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kprobes: Return error if we fail to reuse kprobe instead of BUG_ON()</title>
<updated>2018-11-22T06:32:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-11T10:20:40+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 819319fc93461c07b9cdb3064f154bd8cfd48172 ]

Make reuse_unused_kprobe() to return error code if
it fails to reuse unused kprobe for optprobe instead
of calling BUG_ON().

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy &lt;anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David S . Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Naveen N . Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153666124040.21306.14150398706331307654.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 819319fc93461c07b9cdb3064f154bd8cfd48172 ]

Make reuse_unused_kprobe() to return error code if
it fails to reuse unused kprobe for optprobe instead
of calling BUG_ON().

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy &lt;anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David S . Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Naveen N . Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153666124040.21306.14150398706331307654.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/lockdep: Fix debug_locks off performance problem</title>
<updated>2018-11-22T06:32:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Waiman Long</name>
<email>longman@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-19T01:45:17+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9506a7425b094d2f1d9c877ed5a78f416669269b ]

It was found that when debug_locks was turned off because of a problem
found by the lockdep code, the system performance could drop quite
significantly when the lock_stat code was also configured into the
kernel. For instance, parallel kernel build time on a 4-socket x86-64
server nearly doubled.

Further analysis into the cause of the slowdown traced back to the
frequent call to debug_locks_off() from the __lock_acquired() function
probably due to some inconsistent lockdep states with debug_locks
off. The debug_locks_off() function did an unconditional atomic xchg
to write a 0 value into debug_locks which had already been set to 0.
This led to severe cacheline contention in the cacheline that held
debug_locks.  As debug_locks is being referenced in quite a few different
places in the kernel, this greatly slow down the system performance.

To prevent that trashing of debug_locks cacheline, lock_acquired()
and lock_contended() now checks the state of debug_locks before
proceeding. The debug_locks_off() function is also modified to check
debug_locks before calling __debug_locks_off().

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1539913518-15598-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 9506a7425b094d2f1d9c877ed5a78f416669269b ]

It was found that when debug_locks was turned off because of a problem
found by the lockdep code, the system performance could drop quite
significantly when the lock_stat code was also configured into the
kernel. For instance, parallel kernel build time on a 4-socket x86-64
server nearly doubled.

Further analysis into the cause of the slowdown traced back to the
frequent call to debug_locks_off() from the __lock_acquired() function
probably due to some inconsistent lockdep states with debug_locks
off. The debug_locks_off() function did an unconditional atomic xchg
to write a 0 value into debug_locks which had already been set to 0.
This led to severe cacheline contention in the cacheline that held
debug_locks.  As debug_locks is being referenced in quite a few different
places in the kernel, this greatly slow down the system performance.

To prevent that trashing of debug_locks cacheline, lock_acquired()
and lock_contended() now checks the state of debug_locks before
proceeding. The debug_locks_off() function is also modified to check
debug_locks before calling __debug_locks_off().

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1539913518-15598-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Fix throttle_list starvation with low CFS quota</title>
<updated>2018-11-10T15:39:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Phil Auld</name>
<email>pauld@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-08T14:36:40+00:00</published>
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commit baa9be4ffb55876923dc9716abc0a448e510ba30 upstream.

With a very low cpu.cfs_quota_us setting, such as the minimum of 1000,
distribute_cfs_runtime may not empty the throttled_list before it runs
out of runtime to distribute. In that case, due to the change from
c06f04c7048 to put throttled entries at the head of the list, later entries
on the list will starve.  Essentially, the same X processes will get pulled
off the list, given CPU time and then, when expired, get put back on the
head of the list where distribute_cfs_runtime will give runtime to the same
set of processes leaving the rest.

Fix the issue by setting a bit in struct cfs_bandwidth when
distribute_cfs_runtime is running, so that the code in throttle_cfs_rq can
decide to put the throttled entry on the tail or the head of the list.  The
bit is set/cleared by the callers of distribute_cfs_runtime while they hold
cfs_bandwidth-&gt;lock.

This is easy to reproduce with a handful of CPU consumers. I use 'crash' on
the live system. In some cases you can simply look at the throttled list and
see the later entries are not changing:

  crash&gt; list cfs_rq.throttled_list -H 0xffff90b54f6ade40 -s cfs_rq.runtime_remaining | paste - - | awk '{print $1"  "$4}' | pr -t -n3
    1     ffff90b56cb2d200  -976050
    2     ffff90b56cb2cc00  -484925
    3     ffff90b56cb2bc00  -658814
    4     ffff90b56cb2ba00  -275365
    5     ffff90b166a45600  -135138
    6     ffff90b56cb2da00  -282505
    7     ffff90b56cb2e000  -148065
    8     ffff90b56cb2fa00  -872591
    9     ffff90b56cb2c000  -84687
   10     ffff90b56cb2f000  -87237
   11     ffff90b166a40a00  -164582

  crash&gt; list cfs_rq.throttled_list -H 0xffff90b54f6ade40 -s cfs_rq.runtime_remaining | paste - - | awk '{print $1"  "$4}' | pr -t -n3
    1     ffff90b56cb2d200  -994147
    2     ffff90b56cb2cc00  -306051
    3     ffff90b56cb2bc00  -961321
    4     ffff90b56cb2ba00  -24490
    5     ffff90b166a45600  -135138
    6     ffff90b56cb2da00  -282505
    7     ffff90b56cb2e000  -148065
    8     ffff90b56cb2fa00  -872591
    9     ffff90b56cb2c000  -84687
   10     ffff90b56cb2f000  -87237
   11     ffff90b166a40a00  -164582

Sometimes it is easier to see by finding a process getting starved and looking
at the sched_info:

  crash&gt; task ffff8eb765994500 sched_info
  PID: 7800   TASK: ffff8eb765994500  CPU: 16  COMMAND: "cputest"
    sched_info = {
      pcount = 8,
      run_delay = 697094208,
      last_arrival = 240260125039,
      last_queued = 240260327513
    },
  crash&gt; task ffff8eb765994500 sched_info
  PID: 7800   TASK: ffff8eb765994500  CPU: 16  COMMAND: "cputest"
    sched_info = {
      pcount = 8,
      run_delay = 697094208,
      last_arrival = 240260125039,
      last_queued = 240260327513
    },

Signed-off-by: Phil Auld &lt;pauld@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&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;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c06f04c70489 ("sched: Fix potential near-infinite distribute_cfs_runtime() loop")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181008143639.GA4019@pauld.bos.csb
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 baa9be4ffb55876923dc9716abc0a448e510ba30 upstream.

With a very low cpu.cfs_quota_us setting, such as the minimum of 1000,
distribute_cfs_runtime may not empty the throttled_list before it runs
out of runtime to distribute. In that case, due to the change from
c06f04c7048 to put throttled entries at the head of the list, later entries
on the list will starve.  Essentially, the same X processes will get pulled
off the list, given CPU time and then, when expired, get put back on the
head of the list where distribute_cfs_runtime will give runtime to the same
set of processes leaving the rest.

Fix the issue by setting a bit in struct cfs_bandwidth when
distribute_cfs_runtime is running, so that the code in throttle_cfs_rq can
decide to put the throttled entry on the tail or the head of the list.  The
bit is set/cleared by the callers of distribute_cfs_runtime while they hold
cfs_bandwidth-&gt;lock.

This is easy to reproduce with a handful of CPU consumers. I use 'crash' on
the live system. In some cases you can simply look at the throttled list and
see the later entries are not changing:

  crash&gt; list cfs_rq.throttled_list -H 0xffff90b54f6ade40 -s cfs_rq.runtime_remaining | paste - - | awk '{print $1"  "$4}' | pr -t -n3
    1     ffff90b56cb2d200  -976050
    2     ffff90b56cb2cc00  -484925
    3     ffff90b56cb2bc00  -658814
    4     ffff90b56cb2ba00  -275365
    5     ffff90b166a45600  -135138
    6     ffff90b56cb2da00  -282505
    7     ffff90b56cb2e000  -148065
    8     ffff90b56cb2fa00  -872591
    9     ffff90b56cb2c000  -84687
   10     ffff90b56cb2f000  -87237
   11     ffff90b166a40a00  -164582

  crash&gt; list cfs_rq.throttled_list -H 0xffff90b54f6ade40 -s cfs_rq.runtime_remaining | paste - - | awk '{print $1"  "$4}' | pr -t -n3
    1     ffff90b56cb2d200  -994147
    2     ffff90b56cb2cc00  -306051
    3     ffff90b56cb2bc00  -961321
    4     ffff90b56cb2ba00  -24490
    5     ffff90b166a45600  -135138
    6     ffff90b56cb2da00  -282505
    7     ffff90b56cb2e000  -148065
    8     ffff90b56cb2fa00  -872591
    9     ffff90b56cb2c000  -84687
   10     ffff90b56cb2f000  -87237
   11     ffff90b166a40a00  -164582

Sometimes it is easier to see by finding a process getting starved and looking
at the sched_info:

  crash&gt; task ffff8eb765994500 sched_info
  PID: 7800   TASK: ffff8eb765994500  CPU: 16  COMMAND: "cputest"
    sched_info = {
      pcount = 8,
      run_delay = 697094208,
      last_arrival = 240260125039,
      last_queued = 240260327513
    },
  crash&gt; task ffff8eb765994500 sched_info
  PID: 7800   TASK: ffff8eb765994500  CPU: 16  COMMAND: "cputest"
    sched_info = {
      pcount = 8,
      run_delay = 697094208,
      last_arrival = 240260125039,
      last_queued = 240260327513
    },

Signed-off-by: Phil Auld &lt;pauld@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&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;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c06f04c70489 ("sched: Fix potential near-infinite distribute_cfs_runtime() loop")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181008143639.GA4019@pauld.bos.csb
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>/proc/iomem: only expose physical resource addresses to privileged users</title>
<updated>2018-11-10T15:39:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-14T19:05:37+00:00</published>
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commit 51d7b120418e99d6b3bf8df9eb3cc31e8171dee4 upstream.

In commit c4004b02f8e5b ("x86: remove the kernel code/data/bss resources
from /proc/iomem") I was hoping to remove the phyiscal kernel address
data from /proc/iomem entirely, but that had to be reverted because some
system programs actually use it.

This limits all the detailed resource information to properly
credentialed users instead.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn &lt;salyzyn@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 51d7b120418e99d6b3bf8df9eb3cc31e8171dee4 upstream.

In commit c4004b02f8e5b ("x86: remove the kernel code/data/bss resources
from /proc/iomem") I was hoping to remove the phyiscal kernel address
data from /proc/iomem entirely, but that had to be reverted because some
system programs actually use it.

This limits all the detailed resource information to properly
credentialed users instead.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn &lt;salyzyn@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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