<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux.git/drivers/misc, branch v4.12-rc5</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'char-misc-4.12-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc</title>
<updated>2017-06-11T18:29:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-11T18:29:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=9cd9cb0ba3e9e55120d25be3a45ffafd299b1b14'/>
<id>9cd9cb0ba3e9e55120d25be3a45ffafd299b1b14</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull char/misc driver fixes from Greg KH:
 "Here are some small driver fixes for 4.12-rc5. Nothing major here,
  just some small bugfixes found by people testing, and a MAINTAINERS
  file update for the genwqe driver.

  All have been in linux-next with no reported issues"

[ The cxl driver fix came in through the powerpc tree earlier ]

* tag 'char-misc-4.12-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc:
  cxl: Avoid double free_irq() for psl,slice interrupts
  mei: make sysfs modalias format similar as uevent modalias
  drivers: char: mem: Fix wraparound check to allow mappings up to the end
  MAINTAINERS: Change maintainer of genwqe driver
  goldfish_pipe: use GFP_ATOMIC under spin lock
  firmware: vpd: do not leak kobjects
  firmware: vpd: avoid potential use-after-free when destroying section
  firmware: vpd: do not leave freed section attributes to the list
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull char/misc driver fixes from Greg KH:
 "Here are some small driver fixes for 4.12-rc5. Nothing major here,
  just some small bugfixes found by people testing, and a MAINTAINERS
  file update for the genwqe driver.

  All have been in linux-next with no reported issues"

[ The cxl driver fix came in through the powerpc tree earlier ]

* tag 'char-misc-4.12-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc:
  cxl: Avoid double free_irq() for psl,slice interrupts
  mei: make sysfs modalias format similar as uevent modalias
  drivers: char: mem: Fix wraparound check to allow mappings up to the end
  MAINTAINERS: Change maintainer of genwqe driver
  goldfish_pipe: use GFP_ATOMIC under spin lock
  firmware: vpd: do not leak kobjects
  firmware: vpd: avoid potential use-after-free when destroying section
  firmware: vpd: do not leave freed section attributes to the list
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.12-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2017-06-09T16:44:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-09T16:44:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=a92f63cd13776e35d3ccb63187d1d95ab16f24a5'/>
<id>a92f63cd13776e35d3ccb63187d1d95ab16f24a5</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 "Mostly fairly minor, of note are:

   - Fix percpu allocations to be NUMA aware

   - Limit 4k page size config to 64TB virtual address space

   - Avoid needlessly restoring FP and vector registers

  Thanks to Aneesh Kumar K.V, Breno Leitao, Christophe Leroy, Frederic
  Barrat, Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Bringmann, Nicholas Piggin,
  Vaibhav Jain"

* tag 'powerpc-4.12-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/book3s64: Move PPC_DT_CPU_FTRs and enable it by default
  powerpc/mm/4k: Limit 4k page size config to 64TB virtual address space
  cxl: Fix error path on bad ioctl
  powerpc/perf: Fix Power9 test_adder fields
  powerpc/numa: Fix percpu allocations to be NUMA aware
  cxl: Avoid double free_irq() for psl,slice interrupts
  powerpc/kernel: Initialize load_tm on task creation
  powerpc/kernel: Fix FP and vector register restoration
  powerpc/64: Reclaim CPU_FTR_SUBCORE
  powerpc/hotplug-mem: Fix missing endian conversion of aa_index
  powerpc/sysdev/simple_gpio: Fix oops in gpio save_regs function
  powerpc/spufs: Fix coredump of SPU contexts
  powerpc/64s: Add dt_cpu_ftrs boot time setup option
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 "Mostly fairly minor, of note are:

   - Fix percpu allocations to be NUMA aware

   - Limit 4k page size config to 64TB virtual address space

   - Avoid needlessly restoring FP and vector registers

  Thanks to Aneesh Kumar K.V, Breno Leitao, Christophe Leroy, Frederic
  Barrat, Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Bringmann, Nicholas Piggin,
  Vaibhav Jain"

* tag 'powerpc-4.12-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  powerpc/book3s64: Move PPC_DT_CPU_FTRs and enable it by default
  powerpc/mm/4k: Limit 4k page size config to 64TB virtual address space
  cxl: Fix error path on bad ioctl
  powerpc/perf: Fix Power9 test_adder fields
  powerpc/numa: Fix percpu allocations to be NUMA aware
  cxl: Avoid double free_irq() for psl,slice interrupts
  powerpc/kernel: Initialize load_tm on task creation
  powerpc/kernel: Fix FP and vector register restoration
  powerpc/64: Reclaim CPU_FTR_SUBCORE
  powerpc/hotplug-mem: Fix missing endian conversion of aa_index
  powerpc/sysdev/simple_gpio: Fix oops in gpio save_regs function
  powerpc/spufs: Fix coredump of SPU contexts
  powerpc/64s: Add dt_cpu_ftrs boot time setup option
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cxl: Avoid double free_irq() for psl,slice interrupts</title>
<updated>2017-06-09T09:30:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vaibhav Jain</name>
<email>vaibhav@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-02T16:56:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ed45509b550488f6a71a4b6cc5b12265e8c1f85d'/>
<id>ed45509b550488f6a71a4b6cc5b12265e8c1f85d</id>
<content type='text'>
During an eeh call to cxl_remove can result in double free_irq of
psl,slice interrupts. This can happen if perst_reloads_same_image == 1
and call to cxl_configure_adapter() fails during slot_reset
callback. In such a case we see a kernel oops with following back-trace:

Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
Call Trace:
  free_irq+0x88/0xd0 (unreliable)
  cxl_unmap_irq+0x20/0x40 [cxl]
  cxl_native_release_psl_irq+0x78/0xd8 [cxl]
  pci_deconfigure_afu+0xac/0x110 [cxl]
  cxl_remove+0x104/0x210 [cxl]
  pci_device_remove+0x6c/0x110
  device_release_driver_internal+0x204/0x2e0
  pci_stop_bus_device+0xa0/0xd0
  pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device+0x28/0x40
  pci_hp_remove_devices+0xb0/0x150
  pci_hp_remove_devices+0x68/0x150
  eeh_handle_normal_event+0x140/0x580
  eeh_handle_event+0x174/0x360
  eeh_event_handler+0x1e8/0x1f0

This patch fixes the issue of double free_irq by checking that
variables that hold the virqs (err_hwirq, serr_hwirq, psl_virq) are
not '0' before un-mapping and resetting these variables to '0' when
they are un-mapped.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain &lt;vaibhav@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
During an eeh call to cxl_remove can result in double free_irq of
psl,slice interrupts. This can happen if perst_reloads_same_image == 1
and call to cxl_configure_adapter() fails during slot_reset
callback. In such a case we see a kernel oops with following back-trace:

Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
Call Trace:
  free_irq+0x88/0xd0 (unreliable)
  cxl_unmap_irq+0x20/0x40 [cxl]
  cxl_native_release_psl_irq+0x78/0xd8 [cxl]
  pci_deconfigure_afu+0xac/0x110 [cxl]
  cxl_remove+0x104/0x210 [cxl]
  pci_device_remove+0x6c/0x110
  device_release_driver_internal+0x204/0x2e0
  pci_stop_bus_device+0xa0/0xd0
  pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device+0x28/0x40
  pci_hp_remove_devices+0xb0/0x150
  pci_hp_remove_devices+0x68/0x150
  eeh_handle_normal_event+0x140/0x580
  eeh_handle_event+0x174/0x360
  eeh_event_handler+0x1e8/0x1f0

This patch fixes the issue of double free_irq by checking that
variables that hold the virqs (err_hwirq, serr_hwirq, psl_virq) are
not '0' before un-mapping and resetting these variables to '0' when
they are un-mapped.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain &lt;vaibhav@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cxl: Fix error path on bad ioctl</title>
<updated>2017-06-08T10:42:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Barrat</name>
<email>fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-06T09:43:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=cec422c11caeeccae709e9942058b6b644ce434c'/>
<id>cec422c11caeeccae709e9942058b6b644ce434c</id>
<content type='text'>
Fix error path if we can't copy user structure on CXL_IOCTL_START_WORK
ioctl. We shouldn't unlock the context status mutex as it was not
locked (yet).

Fixes: 0712dc7e73e5 ("cxl: Fix issues when unmapping contexts")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.19+
Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat &lt;fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vaibhav Jain &lt;vaibhav@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan &lt;andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Fix error path if we can't copy user structure on CXL_IOCTL_START_WORK
ioctl. We shouldn't unlock the context status mutex as it was not
locked (yet).

Fixes: 0712dc7e73e5 ("cxl: Fix issues when unmapping contexts")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.19+
Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat &lt;fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vaibhav Jain &lt;vaibhav@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan &lt;andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cxl: Avoid double free_irq() for psl,slice interrupts</title>
<updated>2017-06-06T09:09:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vaibhav Jain</name>
<email>vaibhav@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-02T16:56:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b3aa20ba2ba8072b73bd799605b8c98927b7056c'/>
<id>b3aa20ba2ba8072b73bd799605b8c98927b7056c</id>
<content type='text'>
During an eeh call to cxl_remove can result in double free_irq of
psl,slice interrupts. This can happen if perst_reloads_same_image == 1
and call to cxl_configure_adapter() fails during slot_reset
callback. In such a case we see a kernel oops with following back-trace:

Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
Call Trace:
  free_irq+0x88/0xd0 (unreliable)
  cxl_unmap_irq+0x20/0x40 [cxl]
  cxl_native_release_psl_irq+0x78/0xd8 [cxl]
  pci_deconfigure_afu+0xac/0x110 [cxl]
  cxl_remove+0x104/0x210 [cxl]
  pci_device_remove+0x6c/0x110
  device_release_driver_internal+0x204/0x2e0
  pci_stop_bus_device+0xa0/0xd0
  pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device+0x28/0x40
  pci_hp_remove_devices+0xb0/0x150
  pci_hp_remove_devices+0x68/0x150
  eeh_handle_normal_event+0x140/0x580
  eeh_handle_event+0x174/0x360
  eeh_event_handler+0x1e8/0x1f0

This patch fixes the issue of double free_irq by checking that
variables that hold the virqs (err_hwirq, serr_hwirq, psl_virq) are
not '0' before un-mapping and resetting these variables to '0' when
they are un-mapped.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain &lt;vaibhav@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan &lt;andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Frederic Barrat &lt;fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
During an eeh call to cxl_remove can result in double free_irq of
psl,slice interrupts. This can happen if perst_reloads_same_image == 1
and call to cxl_configure_adapter() fails during slot_reset
callback. In such a case we see a kernel oops with following back-trace:

Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
Call Trace:
  free_irq+0x88/0xd0 (unreliable)
  cxl_unmap_irq+0x20/0x40 [cxl]
  cxl_native_release_psl_irq+0x78/0xd8 [cxl]
  pci_deconfigure_afu+0xac/0x110 [cxl]
  cxl_remove+0x104/0x210 [cxl]
  pci_device_remove+0x6c/0x110
  device_release_driver_internal+0x204/0x2e0
  pci_stop_bus_device+0xa0/0xd0
  pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device+0x28/0x40
  pci_hp_remove_devices+0xb0/0x150
  pci_hp_remove_devices+0x68/0x150
  eeh_handle_normal_event+0x140/0x580
  eeh_handle_event+0x174/0x360
  eeh_event_handler+0x1e8/0x1f0

This patch fixes the issue of double free_irq by checking that
variables that hold the virqs (err_hwirq, serr_hwirq, psl_virq) are
not '0' before un-mapping and resetting these variables to '0' when
they are un-mapped.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain &lt;vaibhav@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan &lt;andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Frederic Barrat &lt;fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mei: make sysfs modalias format similar as uevent modalias</title>
<updated>2017-06-03T10:10:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pratyush Anand</name>
<email>panand@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-29T19:08:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6f9193ec044a8f72d8b6ae94a5c4ab6e8b0f00ca'/>
<id>6f9193ec044a8f72d8b6ae94a5c4ab6e8b0f00ca</id>
<content type='text'>
modprobe is not able to resolve sysfs modalias for mei devices.

 # cat
/sys/class/watchdog/watchdog0/device/watchdog/watchdog0/device/modalias
mei::05b79a6f-4628-4d7f-899d-a91514cb32ab:
 # modprobe --set-version 4.9.6-200.fc25.x86_64 -R
mei::05b79a6f-4628-4d7f-899d-a91514cb32ab:
modprobe: FATAL: Module mei::05b79a6f-4628-4d7f-899d-a91514cb32ab: not
found in directory /lib/modules/4.9.6-200.fc25.x86_64
 # cat /lib/modules/4.9.6-200.fc25.x86_64/modules.alias | grep
05b79a6f-4628-4d7f-899d-a91514cb32ab
alias mei:*:05b79a6f-4628-4d7f-899d-a91514cb32ab:*:* mei_wdt

commit b26864cad1c9 ("mei: bus: add client protocol
version to the device alias"), however sysfs modalias
is still in formmat mei:S:uuid:*.

This patch equates format of uevent and sysfs modalias so that modprobe
is able to resolve the aliases.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; 4.7+
Fixes: commit b26864cad1c9 ("mei: bus: add client protocol version to the device alias")
Signed-off-by: Pratyush Anand &lt;panand@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler &lt;tomas.winkler@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
modprobe is not able to resolve sysfs modalias for mei devices.

 # cat
/sys/class/watchdog/watchdog0/device/watchdog/watchdog0/device/modalias
mei::05b79a6f-4628-4d7f-899d-a91514cb32ab:
 # modprobe --set-version 4.9.6-200.fc25.x86_64 -R
mei::05b79a6f-4628-4d7f-899d-a91514cb32ab:
modprobe: FATAL: Module mei::05b79a6f-4628-4d7f-899d-a91514cb32ab: not
found in directory /lib/modules/4.9.6-200.fc25.x86_64
 # cat /lib/modules/4.9.6-200.fc25.x86_64/modules.alias | grep
05b79a6f-4628-4d7f-899d-a91514cb32ab
alias mei:*:05b79a6f-4628-4d7f-899d-a91514cb32ab:*:* mei_wdt

commit b26864cad1c9 ("mei: bus: add client protocol
version to the device alias"), however sysfs modalias
is still in formmat mei:S:uuid:*.

This patch equates format of uevent and sysfs modalias so that modprobe
is able to resolve the aliases.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; 4.7+
Fixes: commit b26864cad1c9 ("mei: bus: add client protocol version to the device alias")
Signed-off-by: Pratyush Anand &lt;panand@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler &lt;tomas.winkler@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sgi-xp: Use designated initializers</title>
<updated>2017-05-28T17:22:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-05T05:07:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=234041dfe5ca83d5c8122ec1999eaf3f00335d7b'/>
<id>234041dfe5ca83d5c8122ec1999eaf3f00335d7b</id>
<content type='text'>
Prepare to mark sensitive kernel structures for randomization by making
sure they're using designated initializers. In this case, no initializers
are needed (they can be NULL initialized and callers adjusted to check
for NULL, which is more efficient than an indirect call).

Cc: Robin Holt &lt;robinmholt@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Prepare to mark sensitive kernel structures for randomization by making
sure they're using designated initializers. In this case, no initializers
are needed (they can be NULL initialized and callers adjusted to check
for NULL, which is more efficient than an indirect call).

Cc: Robin Holt &lt;robinmholt@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>misc: pci_endpoint_test: select CRC32</title>
<updated>2017-05-16T21:05:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tobias Regnery</name>
<email>tobias.regnery@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-09T11:52:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=a20cfc1cde76047657045fc5976834f57422a8c5'/>
<id>a20cfc1cde76047657045fc5976834f57422a8c5</id>
<content type='text'>
There is the following link error with CONFIG_PCI_ENDPOINT_TEST=y and
CONFIG_CRC32=m:

drivers/built-in.o: In function 'pci_endpoint_test_ioctl':
pci_endpoint_test.c:(.text+0xf1251): undefined reference to 'crc32_le'
pci_endpoint_test.c:(.text+0xf1322): undefined reference to 'crc32_le'
pci_endpoint_test.c:(.text+0xf13b2): undefined reference to 'crc32_le'
pci_endpoint_test.c:(.text+0xf141e): undefined reference to 'crc32_le'

Fix this by selecting CRC32 in the PCI_ENDPOINT_TEST kconfig entry.

Fixes: 2c156ac71c6b ("misc: Add host side PCI driver for PCI test function device")
Signed-off-by: Tobias Regnery &lt;tobias.regnery@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
There is the following link error with CONFIG_PCI_ENDPOINT_TEST=y and
CONFIG_CRC32=m:

drivers/built-in.o: In function 'pci_endpoint_test_ioctl':
pci_endpoint_test.c:(.text+0xf1251): undefined reference to 'crc32_le'
pci_endpoint_test.c:(.text+0xf1322): undefined reference to 'crc32_le'
pci_endpoint_test.c:(.text+0xf13b2): undefined reference to 'crc32_le'
pci_endpoint_test.c:(.text+0xf141e): undefined reference to 'crc32_le'

Fix this by selecting CRC32 in the PCI_ENDPOINT_TEST kconfig entry.

Fixes: 2c156ac71c6b ("misc: Add host side PCI driver for PCI test function device")
Signed-off-by: Tobias Regnery &lt;tobias.regnery@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'hwparam-20170420' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2017-05-11T02:13:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-11T02:13:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=291b38a7565b41676cafd1b4052315a94d9c8977'/>
<id>291b38a7565b41676cafd1b4052315a94d9c8977</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull hw lockdown support from David Howells:
 "Annotation of module parameters that configure hardware resources
  including ioports, iomem addresses, irq lines and dma channels.

  This allows a future patch to prohibit the use of such module
  parameters to prevent that hardware from being abused to gain access
  to the running kernel image as part of locking the kernel down under
  UEFI secure boot conditions.

  Annotations are made by changing:

        module_param(n, t, p)
        module_param_named(n, v, t, p)
        module_param_array(n, t, m, p)

  to:

        module_param_hw(n, t, hwtype, p)
        module_param_hw_named(n, v, t, hwtype, p)
        module_param_hw_array(n, t, hwtype, m, p)

  where the module parameter refers to a hardware setting

  hwtype specifies the type of the resource being configured. This can
  be one of:

        ioport          Module parameter configures an I/O port
        iomem           Module parameter configures an I/O mem address
        ioport_or_iomem Module parameter could be either (runtime set)
        irq             Module parameter configures an I/O port
        dma             Module parameter configures a DMA channel
        dma_addr        Module parameter configures a DMA buffer address
        other           Module parameter configures some other value

  Note that the hwtype is compile checked, but not currently stored (the
  lockdown code probably won't require it). It is, however, there for
  future use.

  A bonus is that the hwtype can also be used for grepping.

  The intention is for the kernel to ignore or reject attempts to set
  annotated module parameters if lockdown is enabled. This applies to
  options passed on the boot command line, passed to insmod/modprobe or
  direct twiddling in /sys/module/ parameter files.

  The module initialisation then needs to handle the parameter not being
  set, by (1) giving an error, (2) probing for a value or (3) using a
  reasonable default.

  What I can't do is just reject a module out of hand because it may
  take a hardware setting in the module parameters. Some important
  modules, some ipmi stuff for instance, both probe for hardware and
  allow hardware to be manually specified; if the driver is aborts with
  any error, you don't get any ipmi hardware.

  Further, trying to do this entirely in the module initialisation code
  doesn't protect against sysfs twiddling.

  [!] Note that in and of itself, this series of patches should have no
      effect on the the size of the kernel or code execution - that is
      left to a patch in the next series to effect. It does mark
      annotated kernel parameters with a KERNEL_PARAM_FL_HWPARAM flag in
      an already existing field"

* tag 'hwparam-20170420' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs: (38 commits)
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in sound/pci/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in sound/oss/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in sound/isa/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in sound/drivers/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in fs/pstore/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/watchdog/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/video/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/tty/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/staging/vme/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/staging/speakup/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/staging/media/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/scsi/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/pcmcia/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/pci/hotplug/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/parport/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/wireless/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/wan/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/irda/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/hamradio/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/ethernet/
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull hw lockdown support from David Howells:
 "Annotation of module parameters that configure hardware resources
  including ioports, iomem addresses, irq lines and dma channels.

  This allows a future patch to prohibit the use of such module
  parameters to prevent that hardware from being abused to gain access
  to the running kernel image as part of locking the kernel down under
  UEFI secure boot conditions.

  Annotations are made by changing:

        module_param(n, t, p)
        module_param_named(n, v, t, p)
        module_param_array(n, t, m, p)

  to:

        module_param_hw(n, t, hwtype, p)
        module_param_hw_named(n, v, t, hwtype, p)
        module_param_hw_array(n, t, hwtype, m, p)

  where the module parameter refers to a hardware setting

  hwtype specifies the type of the resource being configured. This can
  be one of:

        ioport          Module parameter configures an I/O port
        iomem           Module parameter configures an I/O mem address
        ioport_or_iomem Module parameter could be either (runtime set)
        irq             Module parameter configures an I/O port
        dma             Module parameter configures a DMA channel
        dma_addr        Module parameter configures a DMA buffer address
        other           Module parameter configures some other value

  Note that the hwtype is compile checked, but not currently stored (the
  lockdown code probably won't require it). It is, however, there for
  future use.

  A bonus is that the hwtype can also be used for grepping.

  The intention is for the kernel to ignore or reject attempts to set
  annotated module parameters if lockdown is enabled. This applies to
  options passed on the boot command line, passed to insmod/modprobe or
  direct twiddling in /sys/module/ parameter files.

  The module initialisation then needs to handle the parameter not being
  set, by (1) giving an error, (2) probing for a value or (3) using a
  reasonable default.

  What I can't do is just reject a module out of hand because it may
  take a hardware setting in the module parameters. Some important
  modules, some ipmi stuff for instance, both probe for hardware and
  allow hardware to be manually specified; if the driver is aborts with
  any error, you don't get any ipmi hardware.

  Further, trying to do this entirely in the module initialisation code
  doesn't protect against sysfs twiddling.

  [!] Note that in and of itself, this series of patches should have no
      effect on the the size of the kernel or code execution - that is
      left to a patch in the next series to effect. It does mark
      annotated kernel parameters with a KERNEL_PARAM_FL_HWPARAM flag in
      an already existing field"

* tag 'hwparam-20170420' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs: (38 commits)
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in sound/pci/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in sound/oss/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in sound/isa/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in sound/drivers/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in fs/pstore/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/watchdog/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/video/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/tty/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/staging/vme/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/staging/speakup/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/staging/media/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/scsi/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/pcmcia/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/pci/hotplug/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/parport/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/wireless/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/wan/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/irda/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/hamradio/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/ethernet/
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost</title>
<updated>2017-05-10T18:33:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-10T18:33:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c44b59430393c38873fd933333d945f426857a59'/>
<id>c44b59430393c38873fd933333d945f426857a59</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin:
 "Fixes, cleanups, performance

  A bunch of changes to virtio, most affecting virtio net. Also ptr_ring
  batched zeroing - first of batching enhancements that seems ready."

* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost:
  s390/virtio: change maintainership
  tools/virtio: fix spelling mistake: "wakeus" -&gt; "wakeups"
  virtio_net: tidy a couple debug statements
  ptr_ring: support testing different batching sizes
  ringtest: support test specific parameters
  ptr_ring: batch ring zeroing
  virtio: virtio_driver doc
  virtio_net: don't reset twice on XDP on/off
  virtio_net: fix support for small rings
  virtio_net: reduce alignment for buffers
  virtio_net: rework mergeable buffer handling
  virtio_net: allow specifying context for rx
  virtio: allow extra context per descriptor
  tools/virtio: fix build breakage
  virtio: add context flag to find vqs
  virtio: wrap find_vqs
  ringtest: fix an assert statement
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin:
 "Fixes, cleanups, performance

  A bunch of changes to virtio, most affecting virtio net. Also ptr_ring
  batched zeroing - first of batching enhancements that seems ready."

* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost:
  s390/virtio: change maintainership
  tools/virtio: fix spelling mistake: "wakeus" -&gt; "wakeups"
  virtio_net: tidy a couple debug statements
  ptr_ring: support testing different batching sizes
  ringtest: support test specific parameters
  ptr_ring: batch ring zeroing
  virtio: virtio_driver doc
  virtio_net: don't reset twice on XDP on/off
  virtio_net: fix support for small rings
  virtio_net: reduce alignment for buffers
  virtio_net: rework mergeable buffer handling
  virtio_net: allow specifying context for rx
  virtio: allow extra context per descriptor
  tools/virtio: fix build breakage
  virtio: add context flag to find vqs
  virtio: wrap find_vqs
  ringtest: fix an assert statement
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
</feed>
