linux-stable.git/kernel, branch v3.18.63

alarmtimer: don't rate limit one-shot timers

2017-07-27T22:03:29+00:00

Commit ff86bf0c65f1 ("alarmtimer: Rate limit periodic intervals") sets a
minimum bound on the alarm timer interval.  This minimum bound shouldn't
be applied if the interval is 0.  Otherwise, one-shot timers will be
converted into periodic ones.

Fixes: ff86bf0c65f1 ("alarmtimer: Rate limit periodic intervals")
Reported-by: Ben Fennema 
Signed-off-by: Greg Hackmann 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John Stultz 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Fix kmemleak in instance_rmdir

2017-07-27T22:03:29+00:00

commit db9108e054700c96322b0f0028546aa4e643cf0b upstream.

Hit the kmemleak when executing instance_rmdir, it forgot releasing
mem of tracing_cpumask. With this fix, the warn does not appear any
more.

unreferenced object 0xffff93a8dfaa7c18 (size 8):
  comm "mkdir", pid 1436, jiffies 4294763622 (age 9134.308s)
  hex dump (first 8 bytes):
    ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff                          ........
  backtrace:
    [] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0
    [] __kmalloc_node+0xf1/0x280
    [] alloc_cpumask_var_node+0x23/0x30
    [] alloc_cpumask_var+0xe/0x10
    [] instance_mkdir+0x90/0x240
    [] tracefs_syscall_mkdir+0x40/0x70
    [] vfs_mkdir+0x109/0x1b0
    [] SyS_mkdir+0xd0/0x100
    [] do_syscall_64+0x67/0x150
    [] return_from_SYSCALL_64+0x0/0x6a
    [] 0xffffffffffffffff

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1500546969-12594-1-git-send-email-chuhu@redhat.com

Fixes: ccfe9e42e451 ("tracing: Make tracing_cpumask available for all instances")
Signed-off-by: Chunyu Hu 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "perf/core: Drop kernel samples even though :u is specified"

2017-07-27T22:03:28+00:00

commit 6a8a75f3235724c5941a33e287b2f98966ad14c5 upstream.

This reverts commit cc1582c231ea041fbc68861dfaf957eaf902b829.

This commit introduced a regression that broke rr-project, which uses sampling
events to receive a signal on overflow (but does not care about the contents
of the sample). These signals are critical to the correct operation of rr.

There's been some back and forth about how to fix it - but to not keep
applications in limbo queue up a revert.

Reported-by: Kyle Huey 
Acked-by: Kyle Huey 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Jin Yao 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170628105600.GC5981@leverpostej
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Use SOFTIRQ_OFFSET for softirq dectection for more accurate results

2017-07-21T06:12:23+00:00

commit c59f29cb144a6a0dfac16ede9dc8eafc02dc56ca upstream.

The 's' flag is supposed to indicate that a softirq is running. This
can be detected by testing the preempt_count with SOFTIRQ_OFFSET.

The current code tests the preempt_count with SOFTIRQ_MASK, which
would be true even when softirqs are disabled but not serving a
softirq.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481300417-3564-1-git-send-email-pkondeti@codeaurora.org

Signed-off-by: Pavankumar Kondeti 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/topology: Fix overlapping sched_group_mask

2017-07-21T06:12:23+00:00

commit 73bb059f9b8a00c5e1bf2f7ca83138c05d05e600 upstream.

The point of sched_group_mask is to select those CPUs from
sched_group_cpus that can actually arrive at this balance domain.

The current code gets it wrong, as can be readily demonstrated with a
topology like:

  node   0   1   2   3
    0:  10  20  30  20
    1:  20  10  20  30
    2:  30  20  10  20
    3:  20  30  20  10

Where (for example) domain 1 on CPU1 ends up with a mask that includes
CPU0:

  [] CPU1 attaching sched-domain:
  []  domain 0: span 0-2 level NUMA
  []   groups: 1 (mask: 1), 2, 0
  []   domain 1: span 0-3 level NUMA
  []    groups: 0-2 (mask: 0-2) (cpu_capacity: 3072), 0,2-3 (cpu_capacity: 3072)

This causes sched_balance_cpu() to compute the wrong CPU and
consequently should_we_balance() will terminate early resulting in
missed load-balance opportunities.

The fixed topology looks like:

  [] CPU1 attaching sched-domain:
  []  domain 0: span 0-2 level NUMA
  []   groups: 1 (mask: 1), 2, 0
  []   domain 1: span 0-3 level NUMA
  []    groups: 0-2 (mask: 1) (cpu_capacity: 3072), 0,2-3 (cpu_capacity: 3072)

(note: this relies on OVERLAP domains to always have children, this is
 true because the regular topology domains are still here -- this is
 before degenerate trimming)

Debugged-by: Lauro Ramos Venancio 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: e3589f6c81e4 ("sched: Allow for overlapping sched_domain spans")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/topology: Optimize build_group_mask()

2017-07-21T06:12:23+00:00

commit f32d782e31bf079f600dcec126ed117b0577e85c upstream.

The group mask is always used in intersection with the group CPUs. So,
when building the group mask, we don't have to care about CPUs that are
not part of the group.

Signed-off-by: Lauro Ramos Venancio 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: lwang@redhat.com
Cc: riel@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1492717903-5195-2-git-send-email-lvenanci@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kernel/extable.c: mark core_kernel_text notrace

2017-07-21T06:12:22+00:00

commit c0d80ddab89916273cb97114889d3f337bc370ae upstream.

core_kernel_text is used by MIPS in its function graph trace processing,
so having this method traced leads to an infinite set of recursive calls
such as:

  Call Trace:
     ftrace_return_to_handler+0x50/0x128
     core_kernel_text+0x10/0x1b8
     prepare_ftrace_return+0x6c/0x114
     ftrace_graph_caller+0x20/0x44
     return_to_handler+0x10/0x30
     return_to_handler+0x0/0x30
     return_to_handler+0x0/0x30
     ftrace_ops_no_ops+0x114/0x1bc
     core_kernel_text+0x10/0x1b8
     core_kernel_text+0x10/0x1b8
     core_kernel_text+0x10/0x1b8
     ftrace_ops_no_ops+0x114/0x1bc
     core_kernel_text+0x10/0x1b8
     prepare_ftrace_return+0x6c/0x114
     ftrace_graph_caller+0x20/0x44
     (...)

Mark the function notrace to avoid it being traced.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498028607-6765-1-git-send-email-marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com
Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski 
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Meyer 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Daniel Borkmann 
Cc: Paul Gortmaker 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing/kprobes: Allow to create probe with a module name starting with a digit

2017-07-15T08:14:39+00:00

commit 9e52b32567126fe146f198971364f68d3bc5233f upstream.

Always try to parse an address, since kstrtoul() will safely fail when
given a symbol as input. If that fails (which will be the case for a
symbol), try to parse a symbol instead.

This allows creating a probe such as:

    p:probe/vlan_gro_receive 8021q:vlan_gro_receive+0

Which is necessary for this command to work:

    perf probe -m 8021q -a vlan_gro_receive

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fd72d666f45b114e2c5b9cf7e27b91de1ec966f1.1498122881.git.sd@queasysnail.net

Fixes: 413d37d1e ("tracing: Add kprobe-based event tracer")
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysctl: enable strict writes

2017-07-05T12:35:14+00:00

commit 41662f5cc55335807d39404371cfcbb1909304c4 upstream.

SYSCTL_WRITES_WARN was added in commit f4aacea2f5d1 ("sysctl: allow for
strict write position handling"), and released in v3.16 in August of
2014.  Since then I can find only 1 instance of non-zero offset
writing[1], and it was fixed immediately in CRIU[2].  As such, it
appears safe to flip this to the strict state now.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q="when%20file%20position%20was%20not%200"
[2] http://lists.openvz.org/pipermail/criu/2015-April/019819.html

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Sumit Semwal 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

signal: Only reschedule timers on signals timers have sent

2017-06-29T07:12:23+00:00

commit 57db7e4a2d92c2d3dfbca4ef8057849b2682436b upstream.

Thomas Gleixner  wrote:
> The CRIU support added a 'feature' which allows a user space task to send
> arbitrary (kernel) signals to itself. The changelog says:
>
>   The kernel prevents sending of siginfo with positive si_code, because
>   these codes are reserved for kernel.  I think we can allow a task to
>   send such a siginfo to itself.  This operation should not be dangerous.
>
> Quite contrary to that claim, it turns out that it is outright dangerous
> for signals with info->si_code == SI_TIMER. The following code sequence in
> a user space task allows to crash the kernel:
>
>    id = timer_create(CLOCK_XXX, ..... signo = SIGX);
>    timer_set(id, ....);
>    info->si_signo = SIGX;
>    info->si_code = SI_TIMER:
>    info->_sifields._timer._tid = id;
>    info->_sifields._timer._sys_private = 2;
>    rt_[tg]sigqueueinfo(..., SIGX, info);
>    sigemptyset(&sigset);
>    sigaddset(&sigset, SIGX);
>    rt_sigtimedwait(sigset, info);
>
> For timers based on CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID this
> results in a kernel crash because sigwait() dequeues the signal and the
> dequeue code observes:
>
>   info->si_code == SI_TIMER && info->_sifields._timer._sys_private != 0
>
> which triggers the following callchain:
>
>  do_schedule_next_timer() -> posix_cpu_timer_schedule() -> arm_timer()
>
> arm_timer() executes a list_add() on the timer, which is already armed via
> the timer_set() syscall. That's a double list add which corrupts the posix
> cpu timer list. As a consequence the kernel crashes on the next operation
> touching the posix cpu timer list.
>
> Posix clocks which are internally implemented based on hrtimers are not
> affected by this because hrtimer_start() can handle already armed timers
> nicely, but it's a reliable way to trigger the WARN_ON() in
> hrtimer_forward(), which complains about calling that function on an
> already armed timer.

This problem has existed since the posix timer code was merged into
2.5.63. A few releases earlier in 2.5.60 ptrace gained the ability to
inject not just a signal (which linux has supported since 1.0) but the
full siginfo of a signal.

The core problem is that the code will reschedule in response to
signals getting dequeued not just for signals the timers sent but
for other signals that happen to a si_code of SI_TIMER.

Avoid this confusion by testing to see if the queued signal was
preallocated as all timer signals are preallocated, and so far
only the timer code preallocates signals.

Move the check for if a timer needs to be rescheduled up into
collect_signal where the preallocation check must be performed,
and pass the result back to dequeue_signal where the code reschedules
timers.   This makes it clear why the code cares about preallocated
timers.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner 
History Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
Reference: 66dd34ad31e5 ("signal: allow to send any siginfo to itself")
Reference: 1669ce53e2ff ("Add PTRACE_GETSIGINFO and PTRACE_SETSIGINFO")
Fixes: db8b50ba75f2 ("[PATCH] POSIX clocks & timers")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman