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<title>rxrpc: Fix handling of an unsupported token type in rxrpc_read()</title>
<updated>2021-01-23T14:36:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-12T15:23:51+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d52e419ac8b50c8bef41b398ed13528e75d7ad48 ]

Clang static analysis reports the following:

net/rxrpc/key.c:657:11: warning: Assigned value is garbage or undefined
                toksize = toksizes[tok++];
                        ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

rxrpc_read() contains two consecutive loops.  The first loop calculates the
token sizes and stores the results in toksizes[] and the second one uses
the array.  When there is an error in identifying the token in the first
loop, the token is skipped, no change is made to the toksizes[] array.
When the same error happens in the second loop, the token is not skipped.
This will cause the toksizes[] array to be out of step and will overrun
past the calculated sizes.

Fix this by making both loops log a message and return an error in this
case.  This should only happen if a new token type is incompletely
implemented, so it should normally be impossible to trigger this.

Fixes: 9a059cd5ca7d ("rxrpc: Downgrade the BUG() for unsupported token type in rxrpc_read()")
Reported-by: Tom Rix &lt;trix@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tom Rix &lt;trix@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161046503122.2445787.16714129930607546635.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit d52e419ac8b50c8bef41b398ed13528e75d7ad48 ]

Clang static analysis reports the following:

net/rxrpc/key.c:657:11: warning: Assigned value is garbage or undefined
                toksize = toksizes[tok++];
                        ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

rxrpc_read() contains two consecutive loops.  The first loop calculates the
token sizes and stores the results in toksizes[] and the second one uses
the array.  When there is an error in identifying the token in the first
loop, the token is skipped, no change is made to the toksizes[] array.
When the same error happens in the second loop, the token is not skipped.
This will cause the toksizes[] array to be out of step and will overrun
past the calculated sizes.

Fix this by making both loops log a message and return an error in this
case.  This should only happen if a new token type is incompletely
implemented, so it should normally be impossible to trigger this.

Fixes: 9a059cd5ca7d ("rxrpc: Downgrade the BUG() for unsupported token type in rxrpc_read()")
Reported-by: Tom Rix &lt;trix@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tom Rix &lt;trix@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161046503122.2445787.16714129930607546635.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rxrpc: Fix server keyring leak</title>
<updated>2020-10-14T07:46:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-02T13:04:51+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 38b1dc47a35ba14c3f4472138ea56d014c2d609b ]

If someone calls setsockopt() twice to set a server key keyring, the first
keyring is leaked.

Fix it to return an error instead if the server key keyring is already set.

Fixes: 17926a79320a ("[AF_RXRPC]: Provide secure RxRPC sockets for use by userspace and kernel both")
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 38b1dc47a35ba14c3f4472138ea56d014c2d609b ]

If someone calls setsockopt() twice to set a server key keyring, the first
keyring is leaked.

Fix it to return an error instead if the server key keyring is already set.

Fixes: 17926a79320a ("[AF_RXRPC]: Provide secure RxRPC sockets for use by userspace and kernel both")
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rxrpc: Downgrade the BUG() for unsupported token type in rxrpc_read()</title>
<updated>2020-10-14T07:46:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-08T21:09:04+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9a059cd5ca7d9c5c4ca5a6e755cf72f230176b6a ]

If rxrpc_read() (which allows KEYCTL_READ to read a key), sees a token of a
type it doesn't recognise, it can BUG in a couple of places, which is
unnecessary as it can easily get back to userspace.

Fix this to print an error message instead.

Fixes: 99455153d067 ("RxRPC: Parse security index 5 keys (Kerberos 5)")
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 9a059cd5ca7d9c5c4ca5a6e755cf72f230176b6a ]

If rxrpc_read() (which allows KEYCTL_READ to read a key), sees a token of a
type it doesn't recognise, it can BUG in a couple of places, which is
unnecessary as it can easily get back to userspace.

Fix this to print an error message instead.

Fixes: 99455153d067 ("RxRPC: Parse security index 5 keys (Kerberos 5)")
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rxrpc: Fix rxkad token xdr encoding</title>
<updated>2020-10-14T07:46:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Dionne</name>
<email>marc.dionne@auristor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-04T17:01:24+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 56305118e05b2db8d0395bba640ac9a3aee92624 ]

The session key should be encoded with just the 8 data bytes and
no length; ENCODE_DATA precedes it with a 4 byte length, which
confuses some existing tools that try to parse this format.

Add an ENCODE_BYTES macro that does not include a length, and use
it for the key.  Also adjust the expected length.

Note that commit 774521f353e1d ("rxrpc: Fix an assertion in
rxrpc_read()") had fixed a BUG by changing the length rather than
fixing the encoding.  The original length was correct.

Fixes: 99455153d067 ("RxRPC: Parse security index 5 keys (Kerberos 5)")
Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 56305118e05b2db8d0395bba640ac9a3aee92624 ]

The session key should be encoded with just the 8 data bytes and
no length; ENCODE_DATA precedes it with a 4 byte length, which
confuses some existing tools that try to parse this format.

Add an ENCODE_BYTES macro that does not include a length, and use
it for the key.  Also adjust the expected length.

Note that commit 774521f353e1d ("rxrpc: Fix an assertion in
rxrpc_read()") had fixed a BUG by changing the length rather than
fixing the encoding.  The original length was correct.

Fixes: 99455153d067 ("RxRPC: Parse security index 5 keys (Kerberos 5)")
Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rxrpc: Fix sendmsg() returning EPIPE due to recvmsg() returning ENODATA</title>
<updated>2020-07-31T14:43:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-20T11:41:46+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 639f181f0ee20d3249dbc55f740f0167267180f0 ]

rxrpc_sendmsg() returns EPIPE if there's an outstanding error, such as if
rxrpc_recvmsg() indicating ENODATA if there's nothing for it to read.

Change rxrpc_recvmsg() to return EAGAIN instead if there's nothing to read
as this particular error doesn't get stored in -&gt;sk_err by the networking
core.

Also change rxrpc_sendmsg() so that it doesn't fail with delayed receive
errors (there's no way for it to report which call, if any, the error was
caused by).

Fixes: 17926a79320a ("[AF_RXRPC]: Provide secure RxRPC sockets for use by userspace and kernel both")
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 639f181f0ee20d3249dbc55f740f0167267180f0 ]

rxrpc_sendmsg() returns EPIPE if there's an outstanding error, such as if
rxrpc_recvmsg() indicating ENODATA if there's nothing for it to read.

Change rxrpc_recvmsg() to return EAGAIN instead if there's nothing to read
as this particular error doesn't get stored in -&gt;sk_err by the networking
core.

Also change rxrpc_sendmsg() so that it doesn't fail with delayed receive
errors (there's no way for it to report which call, if any, the error was
caused by).

Fixes: 17926a79320a ("[AF_RXRPC]: Provide secure RxRPC sockets for use by userspace and kernel both")
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rxrpc: check return value of skb_to_sgvec always</title>
<updated>2018-04-13T17:50:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-04T02:16:24+00:00</published>
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commit 89a5ea99662505d2d61f2a3030a6896c2cb3cdb0 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[natechancellor: backport to 4.4]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 89a5ea99662505d2d61f2a3030a6896c2cb3cdb0 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[natechancellor: backport to 4.4]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rxrpc: Fix several cases where a padded len isn't checked in ticket decode</title>
<updated>2017-06-29T10:48:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-14T23:12:24+00:00</published>
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commit 5f2f97656ada8d811d3c1bef503ced266fcd53a0 upstream.

This fixes CVE-2017-7482.

When a kerberos 5 ticket is being decoded so that it can be loaded into an
rxrpc-type key, there are several places in which the length of a
variable-length field is checked to make sure that it's not going to
overrun the available data - but the data is padded to the nearest
four-byte boundary and the code doesn't check for this extra.  This could
lead to the size-remaining variable wrapping and the data pointer going
over the end of the buffer.

Fix this by making the various variable-length data checks use the padded
length.

Reported-by: 石磊 &lt;shilei-c@360.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.c.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 5f2f97656ada8d811d3c1bef503ced266fcd53a0 upstream.

This fixes CVE-2017-7482.

When a kerberos 5 ticket is being decoded so that it can be loaded into an
rxrpc-type key, there are several places in which the length of a
variable-length field is checked to make sure that it's not going to
overrun the available data - but the data is padded to the nearest
four-byte boundary and the code doesn't check for this extra.  This could
lead to the size-remaining variable wrapping and the data pointer going
over the end of the buffer.

Fix this by making the various variable-length data checks use the padded
length.

Reported-by: 石磊 &lt;shilei-c@360.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.c.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: rename SOCK_ASYNC_NOSPACE and SOCK_ASYNC_WAITDATA</title>
<updated>2015-12-01T20:45:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-30T04:03:10+00:00</published>
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This patch is a cleanup to make following patch easier to
review.

Goal is to move SOCK_ASYNC_NOSPACE and SOCK_ASYNC_WAITDATA
from (struct socket)-&gt;flags to a (struct socket_wq)-&gt;flags
to benefit from RCU protection in sock_wake_async()

To ease backports, we rename both constants.

Two new helpers, sk_set_bit(int nr, struct sock *sk)
and sk_clear_bit(int net, struct sock *sk) are added so that
following patch can change their implementation.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch is a cleanup to make following patch easier to
review.

Goal is to move SOCK_ASYNC_NOSPACE and SOCK_ASYNC_WAITDATA
from (struct socket)-&gt;flags to a (struct socket_wq)-&gt;flags
to benefit from RCU protection in sock_wake_async()

To ease backports, we rename both constants.

Two new helpers, sk_set_bit(int nr, struct sock *sk)
and sk_clear_bit(int net, struct sock *sk) are added so that
following patch can change their implementation.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rxrpc: Correctly handle ack at end of client call transmit phase</title>
<updated>2015-11-24T22:14:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-24T14:41:59+00:00</published>
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Normally, the transmit phase of a client call is implicitly ack'd by the
reception of the first data packet of the response being received.
However, if a security negotiation happens, the transmit phase, if it is
entirely contained in a single packet, may get an ack packet in response
and then may get aborted due to security negotiation failure.

Because the client has shifted state to RXRPC_CALL_CLIENT_AWAIT_REPLY due
to having transmitted all the data, the code that handles processing of the
received ack packet doesn't note the hard ack the data packet.

The following abort packet in the case of security negotiation failure then
incurs an assertion failure when it tries to drain the Tx queue because the
hard ack state is out of sync (hard ack means the packets have been
processed and can be discarded by the sender; a soft ack means that the
packets are received but could still be discarded and rerequested by the
receiver).

To fix this, we should record the hard ack we received for the ack packet.

The assertion failure looks like:

	RxRPC: Assertion failed
	1 &lt;= 0 is false
	0x1 &lt;= 0x0 is false
	------------[ cut here ]------------
	kernel BUG at ../net/rxrpc/ar-ack.c:431!
	...
	RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffffa006857b&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffffa006857b&gt;] rxrpc_rotate_tx_window+0xbc/0x131 [af_rxrpc]
	...

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Normally, the transmit phase of a client call is implicitly ack'd by the
reception of the first data packet of the response being received.
However, if a security negotiation happens, the transmit phase, if it is
entirely contained in a single packet, may get an ack packet in response
and then may get aborted due to security negotiation failure.

Because the client has shifted state to RXRPC_CALL_CLIENT_AWAIT_REPLY due
to having transmitted all the data, the code that handles processing of the
received ack packet doesn't note the hard ack the data packet.

The following abort packet in the case of security negotiation failure then
incurs an assertion failure when it tries to drain the Tx queue because the
hard ack state is out of sync (hard ack means the packets have been
processed and can be discarded by the sender; a soft ack means that the
packets are received but could still be discarded and rerequested by the
receiver).

To fix this, we should record the hard ack we received for the ack packet.

The assertion failure looks like:

	RxRPC: Assertion failed
	1 &lt;= 0 is false
	0x1 &lt;= 0x0 is false
	------------[ cut here ]------------
	kernel BUG at ../net/rxrpc/ar-ack.c:431!
	...
	RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffffa006857b&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffffa006857b&gt;] rxrpc_rotate_tx_window+0xbc/0x131 [af_rxrpc]
	...

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd</title>
<updated>2015-11-07T01:50:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@techsingularity.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-07T00:28:21+00:00</published>
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__GFP_WAIT has been used to identify atomic context in callers that hold
spinlocks or are in interrupts.  They are expected to be high priority and
have access one of two watermarks lower than "min" which can be referred
to as the "atomic reserve".  __GFP_HIGH users get access to the first
lower watermark and can be called the "high priority reserve".

Over time, callers had a requirement to not block when fallback options
were available.  Some have abused __GFP_WAIT leading to a situation where
an optimisitic allocation with a fallback option can access atomic
reserves.

This patch uses __GFP_ATOMIC to identify callers that are truely atomic,
cannot sleep and have no alternative.  High priority users continue to use
__GFP_HIGH.  __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM identifies callers that can sleep and
are willing to enter direct reclaim.  __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to identify
callers that want to wake kswapd for background reclaim.  __GFP_WAIT is
redefined as a caller that is willing to enter direct reclaim and wake
kswapd for background reclaim.

This patch then converts a number of sites

o __GFP_ATOMIC is used by callers that are high priority and have memory
  pools for those requests. GFP_ATOMIC uses this flag.

o Callers that have a limited mempool to guarantee forward progress clear
  __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM but keep __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. bio allocations fall
  into this category where kswapd will still be woken but atomic reserves
  are not used as there is a one-entry mempool to guarantee progress.

o Callers that are checking if they are non-blocking should use the
  helper gfpflags_allow_blocking() where possible. This is because
  checking for __GFP_WAIT as was done historically now can trigger false
  positives. Some exceptions like dm-crypt.c exist where the code intent
  is clearer if __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is used instead of the helper due to
  flag manipulations.

o Callers that built their own GFP flags instead of starting with GFP_KERNEL
  and friends now also need to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.

The first key hazard to watch out for is callers that removed __GFP_WAIT
and was depending on access to atomic reserves for inconspicuous reasons.
In some cases it may be appropriate for them to use __GFP_HIGH.

The second key hazard is callers that assembled their own combination of
GFP flags instead of starting with something like GFP_KERNEL.  They may
now wish to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.  It's almost certainly harmless
if it's missed in most cases as other activity will wake kswapd.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vitaly Wool &lt;vitalywool@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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__GFP_WAIT has been used to identify atomic context in callers that hold
spinlocks or are in interrupts.  They are expected to be high priority and
have access one of two watermarks lower than "min" which can be referred
to as the "atomic reserve".  __GFP_HIGH users get access to the first
lower watermark and can be called the "high priority reserve".

Over time, callers had a requirement to not block when fallback options
were available.  Some have abused __GFP_WAIT leading to a situation where
an optimisitic allocation with a fallback option can access atomic
reserves.

This patch uses __GFP_ATOMIC to identify callers that are truely atomic,
cannot sleep and have no alternative.  High priority users continue to use
__GFP_HIGH.  __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM identifies callers that can sleep and
are willing to enter direct reclaim.  __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to identify
callers that want to wake kswapd for background reclaim.  __GFP_WAIT is
redefined as a caller that is willing to enter direct reclaim and wake
kswapd for background reclaim.

This patch then converts a number of sites

o __GFP_ATOMIC is used by callers that are high priority and have memory
  pools for those requests. GFP_ATOMIC uses this flag.

o Callers that have a limited mempool to guarantee forward progress clear
  __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM but keep __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. bio allocations fall
  into this category where kswapd will still be woken but atomic reserves
  are not used as there is a one-entry mempool to guarantee progress.

o Callers that are checking if they are non-blocking should use the
  helper gfpflags_allow_blocking() where possible. This is because
  checking for __GFP_WAIT as was done historically now can trigger false
  positives. Some exceptions like dm-crypt.c exist where the code intent
  is clearer if __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is used instead of the helper due to
  flag manipulations.

o Callers that built their own GFP flags instead of starting with GFP_KERNEL
  and friends now also need to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.

The first key hazard to watch out for is callers that removed __GFP_WAIT
and was depending on access to atomic reserves for inconspicuous reasons.
In some cases it may be appropriate for them to use __GFP_HIGH.

The second key hazard is callers that assembled their own combination of
GFP flags instead of starting with something like GFP_KERNEL.  They may
now wish to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.  It's almost certainly harmless
if it's missed in most cases as other activity will wake kswapd.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vitaly Wool &lt;vitalywool@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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