linux-stable.git/kernel, branch v3.4.28

wake_up_process() should be never used to wakeup a TASK_STOPPED/TRACED task

2013-01-28T04:47:43+00:00

commit 9067ac85d533651b98c2ff903182a20cbb361fcb upstream.

wake_up_process() should never wakeup a TASK_STOPPED/TRACED task.
Change it to use TASK_NORMAL and add the WARN_ON().

TASK_ALL has no other users, probably can be killed.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ptrace: ensure arch_ptrace/ptrace_request can never race with SIGKILL

2013-01-28T04:47:43+00:00

commit 9899d11f654474d2d54ea52ceaa2a1f4db3abd68 upstream.

putreg() assumes that the tracee is not running and pt_regs_access() can
safely play with its stack.  However a killed tracee can return from
ptrace_stop() to the low-level asm code and do RESTORE_REST, this means
that debugger can actually read/modify the kernel stack until the tracee
does SAVE_REST again.

set_task_blockstep() can race with SIGKILL too and in some sense this
race is even worse, the very fact the tracee can be woken up breaks the
logic.

As Linus suggested we can clear TASK_WAKEKILL around the arch_ptrace()
call, this ensures that nobody can ever wakeup the tracee while the
debugger looks at it.  Not only this fixes the mentioned problems, we
can do some cleanups/simplifications in arch_ptrace() paths.

Probably ptrace_unfreeze_traced() needs more callers, for example it
makes sense to make the tracee killable for oom-killer before
access_process_vm().

While at it, add the comment into may_ptrace_stop() to explain why
ptrace_stop() still can't rely on SIGKILL and signal_pending_state().

Reported-by: Salman Qazi 
Reported-by: Suleiman Souhlal 
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ptrace: introduce signal_wake_up_state() and ptrace_signal_wake_up()

2013-01-28T04:47:43+00:00

commit 910ffdb18a6408e14febbb6e4b6840fd2c928c82 upstream.

Cleanup and preparation for the next change.

signal_wake_up(resume => true) is overused. None of ptrace/jctl callers
actually want to wakeup a TASK_WAKEKILL task, but they can't specify the
necessary mask.

Turn signal_wake_up() into signal_wake_up_state(state), reintroduce
signal_wake_up() as a trivial helper, and add ptrace_signal_wake_up()
which adds __TASK_TRACED.

This way ptrace_signal_wake_up() can work "inside" ptrace_request()
even if the tracee doesn't have the TASK_WAKEKILL bit set.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ftrace: Be first to run code modification on modules

2013-01-28T04:47:42+00:00

commit c1bf08ac26e92122faab9f6c32ea8aba94612dae upstream.

If some other kernel subsystem has a module notifier, and adds a kprobe
to a ftrace mcount point (now that kprobes work on ftrace points),
when the ftrace notifier runs it will fail and disable ftrace, as well
as kprobes that are attached to ftrace points.

Here's the error:

 WARNING: at kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1618 ftrace_bug+0x239/0x280()
 Hardware name: Bochs
 Modules linked in: fat(+) stap_56d28a51b3fe546293ca0700b10bcb29__8059(F) nfsv4 auth_rpcgss nfs dns_resolver fscache xt_nat iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack lockd sunrpc ppdev parport_pc parport microcode virtio_net i2c_piix4 drm_kms_helper ttm drm i2c_core [last unloaded: bid_shared]
 Pid: 8068, comm: modprobe Tainted: GF            3.7.0-0.rc8.git0.1.fc19.x86_64 #1
 Call Trace:
  [] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
  [] ? __probe_kernel_read+0x46/0x70
  [] ? 0xffffffffa017ffff
  [] ? 0xffffffffa017ffff
  [] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
  [] ftrace_bug+0x239/0x280
  [] ftrace_process_locs+0x376/0x520
  [] ftrace_module_notify+0x47/0x50
  [] notifier_call_chain+0x4d/0x70
  [] __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x58/0x80
  [] blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x16/0x20
  [] sys_init_module+0x73/0x220
  [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
 ---[ end trace 9ef46351e53bbf80 ]---
 ftrace failed to modify [] init_once+0x0/0x20 [fat]
  actual: cc:bb:d2:4b:e1

A kprobe was added to the init_once() function in the fat module on load.
But this happened before ftrace could have touched the code. As ftrace
didn't run yet, the kprobe system had no idea it was a ftrace point and
simply added a breakpoint to the code (0xcc in the cc:bb:d2:4b:e1).

Then when ftrace went to modify the location from a call to mcount/fentry
into a nop, it didn't see a call op, but instead it saw the breakpoint op
and not knowing what to do with it, ftrace shut itself down.

The solution is to simply give the ftrace module notifier the max priority.
This should have been done regardless, as the core code ftrace modification
also happens very early on in boot up. This makes the module modification
closer to core modification.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130107140333.593683061@goodmis.org

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Reported-by: Frank Ch. Eigler 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: Fix race between integrity check and readers

2013-01-17T16:50:51+00:00

commit 9366c1ba13fbc41bdb57702e75ca4382f209c82f upstream.

The function rb_check_pages() was added to make sure the ring buffer's
pages were sane. This check is done when the ring buffer size is modified
as well as when the iterator is released (closing the "trace" file),
as that was considered a non fast path and a good place to do a sanity
check.

The problem is that the check does not have any locks around it.
If one process were to read the trace file, and another were to read
the raw binary file, the check could happen while the reader is reading
the file.

The issues with this is that the check requires to clear the HEAD page
before doing the full check and it restores it afterward. But readers
require the HEAD page to exist before it can read the buffer, otherwise
it gives a nasty warning and disables the buffer.

By adding the reader lock around the check, this keeps the race from
happening.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cgroup: remove incorrect dget/dput() pair in cgroup_create_dir()

2013-01-11T17:06:58+00:00

commit 175431635ec09b1d1bba04979b006b99e8305a83 upstream.

cgroup_create_dir() does weird dancing with dentry refcnt.  On
success, it gets and then puts it achieving nothing.  On failure, it
puts but there isn't no matching get anywhere leading to the following
oops if cgroup_create_file() fails for whatever reason.

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  kernel BUG at /work/os/work/fs/dcache.c:552!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
  Modules linked in:
  CPU 2
  Pid: 697, comm: mkdir Not tainted 3.7.0-rc4-work+ #3 Bochs Bochs
  RIP: 0010:[]  [] dput+0x1dc/0x1e0
  RSP: 0018:ffff88001a3ebef8  EFLAGS: 00010246
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88000e5b1ef8 RCX: 0000000000000403
  RDX: 0000000000000303 RSI: 2000000000000000 RDI: ffff88000e5b1f58
  RBP: ffff88001a3ebf18 R08: ffffffff82c76960 R09: 0000000000000001
  R10: ffff880015022080 R11: ffd9bed70f48a041 R12: 00000000ffffffea
  R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff88000e5b1f58 R15: 00007fff57656d60
  FS:  00007ff05fcb3800(0000) GS:ffff88001fd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 00000000004046f0 CR3: 000000001315f000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  Process mkdir (pid: 697, threadinfo ffff88001a3ea000, task ffff880015022080)
  Stack:
   ffff88001a3ebf48 00000000ffffffea 0000000000000001 0000000000000000
   ffff88001a3ebf38 ffffffff811cc889 0000000000000001 ffff88000e5b1ef8
   ffff88001a3ebf68 ffffffff811d1fc9 ffff8800198d7f18 ffff880019106ef8
  Call Trace:
   [] done_path_create+0x19/0x50
   [] sys_mkdirat+0x59/0x80
   [] sys_mkdir+0x19/0x20
   [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  Code: 00 48 8d 90 18 01 00 00 48 89 93 c0 00 00 00 4c 89 a0 18 01 00 00 48 8b 83 a0 00 00 00 83 80 28 01 00 00 01 e8 e6 6f a0 00 eb 92 <0f> 0b 66 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 49 89 fe 41
  RIP  [] dput+0x1dc/0x1e0
   RSP 
  ---[ end trace 1277bcfd9561ddb0 ]---

Fix it by dropping the unnecessary dget/dput() pair.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Li Zefan 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

genirq: Always force thread affinity

2013-01-11T17:06:56+00:00

commit 04aa530ec04f61875b99c12721162e2964e3318c upstream.

Sankara reported that the genirq core code fails to adjust the
affinity of an interrupt thread in several cases:

 1) On request/setup_irq() the call to setup_affinity() happens before
    the new action is registered, so the new thread is not notified.

 2) For secondary shared interrupts nothing notifies the new thread to
    change its affinity.

 3) Interrupts which have the IRQ_NO_BALANCE flag set are not moving
    the thread either.

Fix this by setting the thread affinity flag right on thread creation
time. This ensures that under all circumstances the thread moves to
the right place. Requires a check in irq_thread_check_affinity for an
existing affinity mask (CONFIG_CPU_MASK_OFFSTACK=y)

Reported-and-tested-by: Sankara Muthukrishnan 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1209041738200.2754@ionos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

rcu: Fix batch-limit size problem

2012-12-17T18:37:46+00:00

commit 878d7439d0f45a95869e417576774673d1fa243f upstream.

Commit 29c00b4a1d9e27 (rcu: Add event-tracing for RCU callback
invocation) added a regression in rcu_do_batch()

Under stress, RCU is supposed to allow to process all items in queue,
instead of a batch of 10 items (blimit), but an integer overflow makes
the effective limit being 1.  So, unless there is frequent idle periods
(during which RCU ignores batch limits), RCU can be forced into a
state where it cannot keep up with the callback-generation rate,
eventually resulting in OOM.

This commit therefore converts a few variables in rcu_do_batch() from
int to long to fix this problem, along with the module parameters
controlling the batch limits.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ftrace: Clear bits properly in reset_iter_read()

2012-12-17T18:37:46+00:00

commit 70f77b3f7ec010ff9624c1f2e39a81babc9e2429 upstream.

There is a typo here where '&' is used instead of '|' and it turns the
statement into a noop.  The original code is equivalent to:

	iter->flags &= ~((1 << 2) & (1 << 4));

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120609161027.GD6488@elgon.mountain

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

workqueue: convert BUG_ON()s in __queue_delayed_work() to WARN_ON_ONCE()s

2012-12-17T18:37:43+00:00

commit fc4b514f2727f74a4587c31db87e0e93465518c3 upstream.

8852aac25e ("workqueue: mod_delayed_work_on() shouldn't queue timer on
0 delay") unexpectedly uncovered a very nasty abuse of delayed_work in
megaraid - it allocated work_struct, casted it to delayed_work and
then pass that into queue_delayed_work().

Previously, this was okay because 0 @delay short-circuited to
queue_work() before doing anything with delayed_work.  8852aac25e
moved 0 @delay test into __queue_delayed_work() after sanity check on
delayed_work making megaraid trigger BUG_ON().

Although megaraid is already fixed by c1d390d8e6 ("megaraid: fix
BUG_ON() from incorrect use of delayed work"), this patch converts
BUG_ON()s in __queue_delayed_work() to WARN_ON_ONCE()s so that such
abusers, if there are more, trigger warning but don't crash the
machine.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Xiaotian Feng 
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman