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<title>linux-stable.git/kernel, branch v4.19.84</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>cpu/speculation: Uninline and export CPU mitigations helpers</title>
<updated>2019-11-12T18:21:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tyler Hicks</name>
<email>tyhicks@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-04T11:22:02+00:00</published>
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commit 731dc9df975a5da21237a18c3384f811a7a41cc6 upstream.

A kernel module may need to check the value of the "mitigations=" kernel
command line parameter as part of its setup when the module needs
to perform software mitigations for a CPU flaw.

Uninline and export the helper functions surrounding the cpu_mitigations
enum to allow for their usage from a module.

Lastly, privatize the enum and cpu_mitigations variable since the value of
cpu_mitigations can be checked with the exported helper functions.

Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks &lt;tyhicks@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 731dc9df975a5da21237a18c3384f811a7a41cc6 upstream.

A kernel module may need to check the value of the "mitigations=" kernel
command line parameter as part of its setup when the module needs
to perform software mitigations for a CPU flaw.

Uninline and export the helper functions surrounding the cpu_mitigations
enum to allow for their usage from a module.

Lastly, privatize the enum and cpu_mitigations variable since the value of
cpu_mitigations can be checked with the exported helper functions.

Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks &lt;tyhicks@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Fix -Wunused-but-set-variable warnings</title>
<updated>2019-11-12T18:20:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qian Cai</name>
<email>cai@lca.pw</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-20T18:40:55+00:00</published>
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commit 763a9ec06c409dcde2a761aac4bb83ff3938e0b3 upstream.

Commit:

   de53fd7aedb1 ("sched/fair: Fix low cpu usage with high throttling by removing expiration of cpu-local slices")

introduced a few compilation warnings:

  kernel/sched/fair.c: In function '__refill_cfs_bandwidth_runtime':
  kernel/sched/fair.c:4365:6: warning: variable 'now' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
  kernel/sched/fair.c: In function 'start_cfs_bandwidth':
  kernel/sched/fair.c:4992:6: warning: variable 'overrun' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]

Also, __refill_cfs_bandwidth_runtime() does no longer update the
expiration time, so fix the comments accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Qian Cai &lt;cai@lca.pw&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chiluk &lt;chiluk+linux@indeed.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: pauld@redhat.com
Fixes: de53fd7aedb1 ("sched/fair: Fix low cpu usage with high throttling by removing expiration of cpu-local slices")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1566326455-8038-1-git-send-email-cai@lca.pw
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 763a9ec06c409dcde2a761aac4bb83ff3938e0b3 upstream.

Commit:

   de53fd7aedb1 ("sched/fair: Fix low cpu usage with high throttling by removing expiration of cpu-local slices")

introduced a few compilation warnings:

  kernel/sched/fair.c: In function '__refill_cfs_bandwidth_runtime':
  kernel/sched/fair.c:4365:6: warning: variable 'now' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
  kernel/sched/fair.c: In function 'start_cfs_bandwidth':
  kernel/sched/fair.c:4992:6: warning: variable 'overrun' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]

Also, __refill_cfs_bandwidth_runtime() does no longer update the
expiration time, so fix the comments accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Qian Cai &lt;cai@lca.pw&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chiluk &lt;chiluk+linux@indeed.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: pauld@redhat.com
Fixes: de53fd7aedb1 ("sched/fair: Fix low cpu usage with high throttling by removing expiration of cpu-local slices")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1566326455-8038-1-git-send-email-cai@lca.pw
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>
<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Fix low cpu usage with high throttling by removing expiration of cpu-local slices</title>
<updated>2019-11-12T18:20:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Chiluk</name>
<email>chiluk+linux@indeed.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-23T16:44:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=502bd151448c2c76a927b26783e5538875c534ff'/>
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commit de53fd7aedb100f03e5d2231cfce0e4993282425 upstream.

It has been observed, that highly-threaded, non-cpu-bound applications
running under cpu.cfs_quota_us constraints can hit a high percentage of
periods throttled while simultaneously not consuming the allocated
amount of quota. This use case is typical of user-interactive non-cpu
bound applications, such as those running in kubernetes or mesos when
run on multiple cpu cores.

This has been root caused to cpu-local run queue being allocated per cpu
bandwidth slices, and then not fully using that slice within the period.
At which point the slice and quota expires. This expiration of unused
slice results in applications not being able to utilize the quota for
which they are allocated.

The non-expiration of per-cpu slices was recently fixed by
'commit 512ac999d275 ("sched/fair: Fix bandwidth timer clock drift
condition")'. Prior to that it appears that this had been broken since
at least 'commit 51f2176d74ac ("sched/fair: Fix unlocked reads of some
cfs_b-&gt;quota/period")' which was introduced in v3.16-rc1 in 2014. That
added the following conditional which resulted in slices never being
expired.

if (cfs_rq-&gt;runtime_expires != cfs_b-&gt;runtime_expires) {
	/* extend local deadline, drift is bounded above by 2 ticks */
	cfs_rq-&gt;runtime_expires += TICK_NSEC;

Because this was broken for nearly 5 years, and has recently been fixed
and is now being noticed by many users running kubernetes
(https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/67577) it is my opinion
that the mechanisms around expiring runtime should be removed
altogether.

This allows quota already allocated to per-cpu run-queues to live longer
than the period boundary. This allows threads on runqueues that do not
use much CPU to continue to use their remaining slice over a longer
period of time than cpu.cfs_period_us. However, this helps prevent the
above condition of hitting throttling while also not fully utilizing
your cpu quota.

This theoretically allows a machine to use slightly more than its
allotted quota in some periods. This overflow would be bounded by the
remaining quota left on each per-cpu runqueueu. This is typically no
more than min_cfs_rq_runtime=1ms per cpu. For CPU bound tasks this will
change nothing, as they should theoretically fully utilize all of their
quota in each period. For user-interactive tasks as described above this
provides a much better user/application experience as their cpu
utilization will more closely match the amount they requested when they
hit throttling. This means that cpu limits no longer strictly apply per
period for non-cpu bound applications, but that they are still accurate
over longer timeframes.

This greatly improves performance of high-thread-count, non-cpu bound
applications with low cfs_quota_us allocation on high-core-count
machines. In the case of an artificial testcase (10ms/100ms of quota on
80 CPU machine), this commit resulted in almost 30x performance
improvement, while still maintaining correct cpu quota restrictions.
That testcase is available at https://github.com/indeedeng/fibtest.

Fixes: 512ac999d275 ("sched/fair: Fix bandwidth timer clock drift condition")
Signed-off-by: Dave Chiluk &lt;chiluk+linux@indeed.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld &lt;pauld@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: John Hammond &lt;jhammond@indeed.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Kyle Anderson &lt;kwa@yelp.com&gt;
Cc: Gabriel Munos &lt;gmunoz@netflix.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Oskolkov &lt;posk@posk.io&gt;
Cc: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Brendan Gregg &lt;bgregg@netflix.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1563900266-19734-2-git-send-email-chiluk+linux@indeed.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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commit de53fd7aedb100f03e5d2231cfce0e4993282425 upstream.

It has been observed, that highly-threaded, non-cpu-bound applications
running under cpu.cfs_quota_us constraints can hit a high percentage of
periods throttled while simultaneously not consuming the allocated
amount of quota. This use case is typical of user-interactive non-cpu
bound applications, such as those running in kubernetes or mesos when
run on multiple cpu cores.

This has been root caused to cpu-local run queue being allocated per cpu
bandwidth slices, and then not fully using that slice within the period.
At which point the slice and quota expires. This expiration of unused
slice results in applications not being able to utilize the quota for
which they are allocated.

The non-expiration of per-cpu slices was recently fixed by
'commit 512ac999d275 ("sched/fair: Fix bandwidth timer clock drift
condition")'. Prior to that it appears that this had been broken since
at least 'commit 51f2176d74ac ("sched/fair: Fix unlocked reads of some
cfs_b-&gt;quota/period")' which was introduced in v3.16-rc1 in 2014. That
added the following conditional which resulted in slices never being
expired.

if (cfs_rq-&gt;runtime_expires != cfs_b-&gt;runtime_expires) {
	/* extend local deadline, drift is bounded above by 2 ticks */
	cfs_rq-&gt;runtime_expires += TICK_NSEC;

Because this was broken for nearly 5 years, and has recently been fixed
and is now being noticed by many users running kubernetes
(https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/67577) it is my opinion
that the mechanisms around expiring runtime should be removed
altogether.

This allows quota already allocated to per-cpu run-queues to live longer
than the period boundary. This allows threads on runqueues that do not
use much CPU to continue to use their remaining slice over a longer
period of time than cpu.cfs_period_us. However, this helps prevent the
above condition of hitting throttling while also not fully utilizing
your cpu quota.

This theoretically allows a machine to use slightly more than its
allotted quota in some periods. This overflow would be bounded by the
remaining quota left on each per-cpu runqueueu. This is typically no
more than min_cfs_rq_runtime=1ms per cpu. For CPU bound tasks this will
change nothing, as they should theoretically fully utilize all of their
quota in each period. For user-interactive tasks as described above this
provides a much better user/application experience as their cpu
utilization will more closely match the amount they requested when they
hit throttling. This means that cpu limits no longer strictly apply per
period for non-cpu bound applications, but that they are still accurate
over longer timeframes.

This greatly improves performance of high-thread-count, non-cpu bound
applications with low cfs_quota_us allocation on high-core-count
machines. In the case of an artificial testcase (10ms/100ms of quota on
80 CPU machine), this commit resulted in almost 30x performance
improvement, while still maintaining correct cpu quota restrictions.
That testcase is available at https://github.com/indeedeng/fibtest.

Fixes: 512ac999d275 ("sched/fair: Fix bandwidth timer clock drift condition")
Signed-off-by: Dave Chiluk &lt;chiluk+linux@indeed.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld &lt;pauld@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: John Hammond &lt;jhammond@indeed.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Kyle Anderson &lt;kwa@yelp.com&gt;
Cc: Gabriel Munos &lt;gmunoz@netflix.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Oskolkov &lt;posk@posk.io&gt;
Cc: Cong Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Brendan Gregg &lt;bgregg@netflix.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1563900266-19734-2-git-send-email-chiluk+linux@indeed.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix "gfp_t" format for synthetic events</title>
<updated>2019-11-10T10:27:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhengjun Xing</name>
<email>zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-18T01:20:34+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9fa8c9c647be624e91b09ecffa7cd97ee0600b40 ]

In the format of synthetic events, the "gfp_t" is shown as "signed:1",
but in fact the "gfp_t" is "unsigned", should be shown as "signed:0".

The issue can be reproduced by the following commands:

echo 'memlatency u64 lat; unsigned int order; gfp_t gfp_flags; int migratetype' &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/synthetic_events
cat  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/synthetic/memlatency/format

name: memlatency
ID: 2233
format:
        field:unsigned short common_type;       offset:0;       size:2; signed:0;
        field:unsigned char common_flags;       offset:2;       size:1; signed:0;
        field:unsigned char common_preempt_count;       offset:3;       size:1; signed:0;
        field:int common_pid;   offset:4;       size:4; signed:1;

        field:u64 lat;  offset:8;       size:8; signed:0;
        field:unsigned int order;       offset:16;      size:4; signed:0;
        field:gfp_t gfp_flags;  offset:24;      size:4; signed:1;
        field:int migratetype;  offset:32;      size:4; signed:1;

print fmt: "lat=%llu, order=%u, gfp_flags=%x, migratetype=%d", REC-&gt;lat, REC-&gt;order, REC-&gt;gfp_flags, REC-&gt;migratetype

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191018012034.6404-1-zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com

Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zhengjun Xing &lt;zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 9fa8c9c647be624e91b09ecffa7cd97ee0600b40 ]

In the format of synthetic events, the "gfp_t" is shown as "signed:1",
but in fact the "gfp_t" is "unsigned", should be shown as "signed:0".

The issue can be reproduced by the following commands:

echo 'memlatency u64 lat; unsigned int order; gfp_t gfp_flags; int migratetype' &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/synthetic_events
cat  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/synthetic/memlatency/format

name: memlatency
ID: 2233
format:
        field:unsigned short common_type;       offset:0;       size:2; signed:0;
        field:unsigned char common_flags;       offset:2;       size:1; signed:0;
        field:unsigned char common_preempt_count;       offset:3;       size:1; signed:0;
        field:int common_pid;   offset:4;       size:4; signed:1;

        field:u64 lat;  offset:8;       size:8; signed:0;
        field:unsigned int order;       offset:16;      size:4; signed:0;
        field:gfp_t gfp_flags;  offset:24;      size:4; signed:1;
        field:int migratetype;  offset:32;      size:4; signed:1;

print fmt: "lat=%llu, order=%u, gfp_flags=%x, migratetype=%d", REC-&gt;lat, REC-&gt;order, REC-&gt;gfp_flags, REC-&gt;migratetype

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191018012034.6404-1-zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com

Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zhengjun Xing &lt;zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Initialize iter-&gt;seq after zeroing in tracing_read_pipe()</title>
<updated>2019-11-06T12:06:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Mladek</name>
<email>pmladek@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-11T14:21:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=394c90d9ce136394cc346694296433ec94110d80'/>
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[ Upstream commit d303de1fcf344ff7c15ed64c3f48a991c9958775 ]

A customer reported the following softlockup:

[899688.160002] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [test.sh:16464]
[899688.160002] CPU: 0 PID: 16464 Comm: test.sh Not tainted 4.12.14-6.23-azure #1 SLE12-SP4
[899688.160002] RIP: 0010:up_write+0x1a/0x30
[899688.160002] Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks
[899688.160002] RIP: 0010:up_write+0x1a/0x30
[899688.160002] RSP: 0018:ffffa86784d4fde8 EFLAGS: 00000257 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff12
[899688.160002] RAX: ffffffff970fea00 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000000
[899688.160002] RDX: ffffffff00000001 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: ffffffff970fea00
[899688.160002] RBP: ffffffffffffffff R08: ffffffffffffffff R09: 0000000000000000
[899688.160002] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8b59014720d8
[899688.160002] R13: ffff8b59014720c0 R14: ffff8b5901471090 R15: ffff8b5901470000
[899688.160002]  tracing_read_pipe+0x336/0x3c0
[899688.160002]  __vfs_read+0x26/0x140
[899688.160002]  vfs_read+0x87/0x130
[899688.160002]  SyS_read+0x42/0x90
[899688.160002]  do_syscall_64+0x74/0x160

It caught the process in the middle of trace_access_unlock(). There is
no loop. So, it must be looping in the caller tracing_read_pipe()
via the "waitagain" label.

Crashdump analyze uncovered that iter-&gt;seq was completely zeroed
at this point, including iter-&gt;seq.seq.size. It means that
print_trace_line() was never able to print anything and
there was no forward progress.

The culprit seems to be in the code:

	/* reset all but tr, trace, and overruns */
	memset(&amp;iter-&gt;seq, 0,
	       sizeof(struct trace_iterator) -
	       offsetof(struct trace_iterator, seq));

It was added by the commit 53d0aa773053ab182877 ("ftrace:
add logic to record overruns"). It was v2.6.27-rc1.
It was the time when iter-&gt;seq looked like:

     struct trace_seq {
	unsigned char		buffer[PAGE_SIZE];
	unsigned int		len;
     };

There was no "size" variable and zeroing was perfectly fine.

The solution is to reinitialize the structure after or without
zeroing.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191011142134.11997-1-pmladek@suse.com

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit d303de1fcf344ff7c15ed64c3f48a991c9958775 ]

A customer reported the following softlockup:

[899688.160002] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [test.sh:16464]
[899688.160002] CPU: 0 PID: 16464 Comm: test.sh Not tainted 4.12.14-6.23-azure #1 SLE12-SP4
[899688.160002] RIP: 0010:up_write+0x1a/0x30
[899688.160002] Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks
[899688.160002] RIP: 0010:up_write+0x1a/0x30
[899688.160002] RSP: 0018:ffffa86784d4fde8 EFLAGS: 00000257 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff12
[899688.160002] RAX: ffffffff970fea00 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000000
[899688.160002] RDX: ffffffff00000001 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: ffffffff970fea00
[899688.160002] RBP: ffffffffffffffff R08: ffffffffffffffff R09: 0000000000000000
[899688.160002] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8b59014720d8
[899688.160002] R13: ffff8b59014720c0 R14: ffff8b5901471090 R15: ffff8b5901470000
[899688.160002]  tracing_read_pipe+0x336/0x3c0
[899688.160002]  __vfs_read+0x26/0x140
[899688.160002]  vfs_read+0x87/0x130
[899688.160002]  SyS_read+0x42/0x90
[899688.160002]  do_syscall_64+0x74/0x160

It caught the process in the middle of trace_access_unlock(). There is
no loop. So, it must be looping in the caller tracing_read_pipe()
via the "waitagain" label.

Crashdump analyze uncovered that iter-&gt;seq was completely zeroed
at this point, including iter-&gt;seq.seq.size. It means that
print_trace_line() was never able to print anything and
there was no forward progress.

The culprit seems to be in the code:

	/* reset all but tr, trace, and overruns */
	memset(&amp;iter-&gt;seq, 0,
	       sizeof(struct trace_iterator) -
	       offsetof(struct trace_iterator, seq));

It was added by the commit 53d0aa773053ab182877 ("ftrace:
add logic to record overruns"). It was v2.6.27-rc1.
It was the time when iter-&gt;seq looked like:

     struct trace_seq {
	unsigned char		buffer[PAGE_SIZE];
	unsigned int		len;
     };

There was no "size" variable and zeroing was perfectly fine.

The solution is to reinitialize the structure after or without
zeroing.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191011142134.11997-1-pmladek@suse.com

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/vtime: Fix guest/system mis-accounting on task switch</title>
<updated>2019-11-06T12:06:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-25T21:42:42+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 68e7a4d66b0ce04bf18ff2ffded5596ab3618585 ]

vtime_account_system() assumes that the target task to account cputime
to is always the current task. This is most often true indeed except on
task switch where we call:

	vtime_common_task_switch(prev)
		vtime_account_system(prev)

Here prev is the scheduling-out task where we account the cputime to. It
doesn't match current that is already the scheduling-in task at this
stage of the context switch.

So we end up checking the wrong task flags to determine if we are
accounting guest or system time to the previous task.

As a result the wrong task is used to check if the target is running in
guest mode. We may then spuriously account or leak either system or
guest time on task switch.

Fix this assumption and also turn vtime_guest_enter/exit() to use the
task passed in parameter as well to avoid future similar issues.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpengli@tencent.com&gt;
Fixes: 2a42eb9594a1 ("sched/cputime: Accumulate vtime on top of nsec clocksource")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190925214242.21873-1-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 68e7a4d66b0ce04bf18ff2ffded5596ab3618585 ]

vtime_account_system() assumes that the target task to account cputime
to is always the current task. This is most often true indeed except on
task switch where we call:

	vtime_common_task_switch(prev)
		vtime_account_system(prev)

Here prev is the scheduling-out task where we account the cputime to. It
doesn't match current that is already the scheduling-in task at this
stage of the context switch.

So we end up checking the wrong task flags to determine if we are
accounting guest or system time to the previous task.

As a result the wrong task is used to check if the target is running in
guest mode. We may then spuriously account or leak either system or
guest time on task switch.

Fix this assumption and also turn vtime_guest_enter/exit() to use the
task passed in parameter as well to avoid future similar issues.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpengli@tencent.com&gt;
Fixes: 2a42eb9594a1 ("sched/cputime: Accumulate vtime on top of nsec clocksource")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190925214242.21873-1-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix race in perf_trace_buf initialization</title>
<updated>2019-10-29T08:20:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Prateek Sood</name>
<email>prsood@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-15T06:17:25+00:00</published>
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commit 6b1340cc00edeadd52ebd8a45171f38c8de2a387 upstream.

A race condition exists while initialiazing perf_trace_buf from
perf_trace_init() and perf_kprobe_init().

      CPU0                                        CPU1
perf_trace_init()
  mutex_lock(&amp;event_mutex)
    perf_trace_event_init()
      perf_trace_event_reg()
        total_ref_count == 0
	buf = alloc_percpu()
        perf_trace_buf[i] = buf
        tp_event-&gt;class-&gt;reg() //fails       perf_kprobe_init()
	goto fail                              perf_trace_event_init()
                                                 perf_trace_event_reg()
        fail:
	  total_ref_count == 0

                                                   total_ref_count == 0
                                                   buf = alloc_percpu()
                                                   perf_trace_buf[i] = buf
                                                   tp_event-&gt;class-&gt;reg()
                                                   total_ref_count++

          free_percpu(perf_trace_buf[i])
          perf_trace_buf[i] = NULL

Any subsequent call to perf_trace_event_reg() will observe total_ref_count &gt; 0,
causing the perf_trace_buf to be always NULL. This can result in perf_trace_buf
getting accessed from perf_trace_buf_alloc() without being initialized. Acquiring
event_mutex in perf_kprobe_init() before calling perf_trace_event_init() should
fix this race.

The race caused the following bug:

 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000003106f2003c
 Mem abort info:
   ESR = 0x96000045
   Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
   SET = 0, FnV = 0
   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
 Data abort info:
   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000045
   CM = 0, WnR = 1
 user pgtable: 4k pages, 39-bit VAs, pgdp = ffffffc034b9b000
 [0000003106f2003c] pgd=0000000000000000, pud=0000000000000000
 Internal error: Oops: 96000045 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 Process syz-executor (pid: 18393, stack limit = 0xffffffc093190000)
 pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO)
 pc : __memset+0x20/0x1ac
 lr : memset+0x3c/0x50
 sp : ffffffc09319fc50

  __memset+0x20/0x1ac
  perf_trace_buf_alloc+0x140/0x1a0
  perf_trace_sys_enter+0x158/0x310
  syscall_trace_enter+0x348/0x7c0
  el0_svc_common+0x11c/0x368
  el0_svc_handler+0x12c/0x198
  el0_svc+0x8/0xc

Ramdumps showed the following:
  total_ref_count = 3
  perf_trace_buf = (
      0x0 -&gt; NULL,
      0x0 -&gt; NULL,
      0x0 -&gt; NULL,
      0x0 -&gt; NULL)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1571120245-4186-1-git-send-email-prsood@codeaurora.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: e12f03d7031a9 ("perf/core: Implement the 'perf_kprobe' PMU")
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Prateek Sood &lt;prsood@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6b1340cc00edeadd52ebd8a45171f38c8de2a387 upstream.

A race condition exists while initialiazing perf_trace_buf from
perf_trace_init() and perf_kprobe_init().

      CPU0                                        CPU1
perf_trace_init()
  mutex_lock(&amp;event_mutex)
    perf_trace_event_init()
      perf_trace_event_reg()
        total_ref_count == 0
	buf = alloc_percpu()
        perf_trace_buf[i] = buf
        tp_event-&gt;class-&gt;reg() //fails       perf_kprobe_init()
	goto fail                              perf_trace_event_init()
                                                 perf_trace_event_reg()
        fail:
	  total_ref_count == 0

                                                   total_ref_count == 0
                                                   buf = alloc_percpu()
                                                   perf_trace_buf[i] = buf
                                                   tp_event-&gt;class-&gt;reg()
                                                   total_ref_count++

          free_percpu(perf_trace_buf[i])
          perf_trace_buf[i] = NULL

Any subsequent call to perf_trace_event_reg() will observe total_ref_count &gt; 0,
causing the perf_trace_buf to be always NULL. This can result in perf_trace_buf
getting accessed from perf_trace_buf_alloc() without being initialized. Acquiring
event_mutex in perf_kprobe_init() before calling perf_trace_event_init() should
fix this race.

The race caused the following bug:

 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000003106f2003c
 Mem abort info:
   ESR = 0x96000045
   Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
   SET = 0, FnV = 0
   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
 Data abort info:
   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000045
   CM = 0, WnR = 1
 user pgtable: 4k pages, 39-bit VAs, pgdp = ffffffc034b9b000
 [0000003106f2003c] pgd=0000000000000000, pud=0000000000000000
 Internal error: Oops: 96000045 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 Process syz-executor (pid: 18393, stack limit = 0xffffffc093190000)
 pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO)
 pc : __memset+0x20/0x1ac
 lr : memset+0x3c/0x50
 sp : ffffffc09319fc50

  __memset+0x20/0x1ac
  perf_trace_buf_alloc+0x140/0x1a0
  perf_trace_sys_enter+0x158/0x310
  syscall_trace_enter+0x348/0x7c0
  el0_svc_common+0x11c/0x368
  el0_svc_handler+0x12c/0x198
  el0_svc+0x8/0xc

Ramdumps showed the following:
  total_ref_count = 3
  perf_trace_buf = (
      0x0 -&gt; NULL,
      0x0 -&gt; NULL,
      0x0 -&gt; NULL,
      0x0 -&gt; NULL)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1571120245-4186-1-git-send-email-prsood@codeaurora.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: e12f03d7031a9 ("perf/core: Implement the 'perf_kprobe' PMU")
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Prateek Sood &lt;prsood@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/aux: Fix AUX output stopping</title>
<updated>2019-10-29T08:20:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Shishkin</name>
<email>alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-22T07:39:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=96202569b9fe58f6a2e73f6ace593fdd02b030c3'/>
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commit f3a519e4add93b7b31a6616f0b09635ff2e6a159 upstream.

Commit:

  8a58ddae2379 ("perf/core: Fix exclusive events' grouping")

allows CAP_EXCLUSIVE events to be grouped with other events. Since all
of those also happen to be AUX events (which is not the case the other
way around, because arch/s390), this changes the rules for stopping the
output: the AUX event may not be on its PMU's context any more, if it's
grouped with a HW event, in which case it will be on that HW event's
context instead. If that's the case, munmap() of the AUX buffer can't
find and stop the AUX event, potentially leaving the last reference with
the atomic context, which will then end up freeing the AUX buffer. This
will then trip warnings:

Fix this by using the context's PMU context when looking for events
to stop, instead of the event's PMU context.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&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: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&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@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191022073940.61814-1-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.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 f3a519e4add93b7b31a6616f0b09635ff2e6a159 upstream.

Commit:

  8a58ddae2379 ("perf/core: Fix exclusive events' grouping")

allows CAP_EXCLUSIVE events to be grouped with other events. Since all
of those also happen to be AUX events (which is not the case the other
way around, because arch/s390), this changes the rules for stopping the
output: the AUX event may not be on its PMU's context any more, if it's
grouped with a HW event, in which case it will be on that HW event's
context instead. If that's the case, munmap() of the AUX buffer can't
find and stop the AUX event, potentially leaving the last reference with
the atomic context, which will then end up freeing the AUX buffer. This
will then trip warnings:

Fix this by using the context's PMU context when looking for events
to stop, instead of the event's PMU context.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&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: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&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@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191022073940.61814-1-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
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>perf/hw_breakpoint: Fix arch_hw_breakpoint use-before-initialization</title>
<updated>2019-10-17T20:45:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark-PK Tsai</name>
<email>mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-06T06:01:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0603d82bcae4a2dea38aac120cc9a32f4a98a310'/>
<id>0603d82bcae4a2dea38aac120cc9a32f4a98a310</id>
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commit 310aa0a25b338b3100c94880c9a69bec8ce8c3ae upstream.

If we disable the compiler's auto-initialization feature, if
-fplugin-arg-structleak_plugin-byref or -ftrivial-auto-var-init=pattern
are disabled, arch_hw_breakpoint may be used before initialization after:

  9a4903dde2c86 ("perf/hw_breakpoint: Split attribute parse and commit")

On our ARM platform, the struct step_ctrl in arch_hw_breakpoint, which
used to be zero-initialized by kzalloc(), may be used in
arch_install_hw_breakpoint() without initialization.

Signed-off-by: Mark-PK Tsai &lt;mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alix Wu &lt;alix.wu@mediatek.com&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: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: YJ Chiang &lt;yj.chiang@mediatek.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190906060115.9460-1-mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com
[ Minor edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Doug Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 310aa0a25b338b3100c94880c9a69bec8ce8c3ae upstream.

If we disable the compiler's auto-initialization feature, if
-fplugin-arg-structleak_plugin-byref or -ftrivial-auto-var-init=pattern
are disabled, arch_hw_breakpoint may be used before initialization after:

  9a4903dde2c86 ("perf/hw_breakpoint: Split attribute parse and commit")

On our ARM platform, the struct step_ctrl in arch_hw_breakpoint, which
used to be zero-initialized by kzalloc(), may be used in
arch_install_hw_breakpoint() without initialization.

Signed-off-by: Mark-PK Tsai &lt;mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alix Wu &lt;alix.wu@mediatek.com&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: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: YJ Chiang &lt;yj.chiang@mediatek.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190906060115.9460-1-mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com
[ Minor edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Doug Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Get trace_array reference for available_tracers files</title>
<updated>2019-10-17T20:45:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-11T22:19:17+00:00</published>
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commit 194c2c74f5532e62c218adeb8e2b683119503907 upstream.

As instances may have different tracers available, we need to look at the
trace_array descriptor that shows the list of the available tracers for the
instance. But there's a race between opening the file and an admin
deleting the instance. The trace_array_get() needs to be called before
accessing the trace_array.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 607e2ea167e56 ("tracing: Set up infrastructure to allow tracers for instances")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 194c2c74f5532e62c218adeb8e2b683119503907 upstream.

As instances may have different tracers available, we need to look at the
trace_array descriptor that shows the list of the available tracers for the
instance. But there's a race between opening the file and an admin
deleting the instance. The trace_array_get() needs to be called before
accessing the trace_array.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 607e2ea167e56 ("tracing: Set up infrastructure to allow tracers for instances")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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