linux.git/include/linux, branch v4.12-rc7

Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2017-06-25T18:59:19+00:00

Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A few fixes for timekeeping and timers:

   - Plug a subtle race due to a missing READ_ONCE() in the timekeeping
     code where reloading of a pointer results in an inconsistent
     callback argument being supplied to the clocksource->read function.

   - Correct the CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW sub-nanosecond accounting in the
     time keeping core code, to prevent a possible discontuity.

   - Apply a similar fix to the arm64 vdso clock_gettime()
     implementation

   - Add missing includes to clocksource drivers, which relied on
     indirect includes which fails in certain configs.

   - Use the proper iomem pointer for read/iounmap in a probe function"

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  arm64/vdso: Fix nsec handling for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW
  time: Fix CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW sub-nanosecond accounting
  time: Fix clock->read(clock) race around clocksource changes
  clocksource: Explicitly include linux/clocksource.h when needed
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Fix read and iounmap of incorrect variable

slub: make sysfs file removal asynchronous

2017-06-23T23:15:55+00:00

Commit bf5eb3de3847 ("slub: separate out sysfs_slab_release() from
sysfs_slab_remove()") made slub sysfs file removals synchronous to
kmem_cache shutdown.

Unfortunately, this created a possible ABBA deadlock between slab_mutex
and sysfs draining mechanism triggering the following lockdep warning.

  ======================================================
  [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
  4.10.0-test+ #48 Not tainted
  -------------------------------------------------------
  rmmod/1211 is trying to acquire lock:
   (s_active#120){++++.+}, at: [] kernfs_remove+0x23/0x40

  but task is already holding lock:
   (slab_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [] kmem_cache_destroy+0x41/0x2d0

  which lock already depends on the new lock.

  the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

  -> #1 (slab_mutex){+.+.+.}:
	 lock_acquire+0xf6/0x1f0
	 __mutex_lock+0x75/0x950
	 mutex_lock_nested+0x1b/0x20
	 slab_attr_store+0x75/0xd0
	 sysfs_kf_write+0x45/0x60
	 kernfs_fop_write+0x13c/0x1c0
	 __vfs_write+0x28/0x120
	 vfs_write+0xc8/0x1e0
	 SyS_write+0x49/0xa0
	 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xc2

  -> #0 (s_active#120){++++.+}:
	 __lock_acquire+0x10ed/0x1260
	 lock_acquire+0xf6/0x1f0
	 __kernfs_remove+0x254/0x320
	 kernfs_remove+0x23/0x40
	 sysfs_remove_dir+0x51/0x80
	 kobject_del+0x18/0x50
	 __kmem_cache_shutdown+0x3e6/0x460
	 kmem_cache_destroy+0x1fb/0x2d0
	 kvm_exit+0x2d/0x80 [kvm]
	 vmx_exit+0x19/0xa1b [kvm_intel]
	 SyS_delete_module+0x198/0x1f0
	 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xc2

  other info that might help us debug this:

   Possible unsafe locking scenario:

	 CPU0                    CPU1
	 ----                    ----
    lock(slab_mutex);
				 lock(s_active#120);
				 lock(slab_mutex);
    lock(s_active#120);

   *** DEADLOCK ***

  2 locks held by rmmod/1211:
   #0:  (cpu_hotplug.dep_map){++++++}, at: [] get_online_cpus+0x37/0x80
   #1:  (slab_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [] kmem_cache_destroy+0x41/0x2d0

  stack backtrace:
  CPU: 3 PID: 1211 Comm: rmmod Not tainted 4.10.0-test+ #48
  Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF/339A, BIOS K01 v02.05 05/07/2012
  Call Trace:
   print_circular_bug+0x1be/0x210
   __lock_acquire+0x10ed/0x1260
   lock_acquire+0xf6/0x1f0
   __kernfs_remove+0x254/0x320
   kernfs_remove+0x23/0x40
   sysfs_remove_dir+0x51/0x80
   kobject_del+0x18/0x50
   __kmem_cache_shutdown+0x3e6/0x460
   kmem_cache_destroy+0x1fb/0x2d0
   kvm_exit+0x2d/0x80 [kvm]
   vmx_exit+0x19/0xa1b [kvm_intel]
   SyS_delete_module+0x198/0x1f0
   ? SyS_delete_module+0x5/0x1f0
   entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xc2

It'd be the cleanest to deal with the issue by removing sysfs files
without holding slab_mutex before the rest of shutdown; however, given
the current code structure, it is pretty difficult to do so.

This patch punts sysfs file removal to a work item.  Before commit
bf5eb3de3847, the removal was punted to a RCU delayed work item which is
executed after release.  Now, we're punting to a different work item on
shutdown which still maintains the goal removing the sysfs files earlier
when destroying kmem_caches.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170620204512.GI21326@htj.duckdns.org
Fixes: bf5eb3de3847 ("slub: separate out sysfs_slab_release() from sysfs_slab_remove()")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2017-06-22T05:15:00+00:00

Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "This contains a set of fixes for xen-blkback by way of Konrad, and a
  performance regression fix for blk-mq for shared tags.

  The latter could account for as much as a 50x reduction in
  performance, with the test case from the user with 500 name spaces. A
  more realistic setup on my end with 32 drives showed a 3.5x drop. The
  fix has been thoroughly tested before being committed"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  blk-mq: fix performance regression with shared tags
  xen-blkback: don't leak stack data via response ring
  xen/blkback: don't use xen_blkif_get() in xen-blkback kthread
  xen/blkback: don't free be structure too early
  xen/blkback: fix disconnect while I/Os in flight

blk-mq: fix performance regression with shared tags

2017-06-21T16:17:49+00:00

If we have shared tags enabled, then every IO completion will trigger
a full loop of every queue belonging to a tag set, and every hardware
queue for each of those queues, even if nothing needs to be done.
This causes a massive performance regression if you have a lot of
shared devices.

Instead of doing this huge full scan on every IO, add an atomic
counter to the main queue that tracks how many hardware queues have
been marked as needing a restart. With that, we can avoid looking for
restartable queues, if we don't have to.

Max reports that this restores performance. Before this patch, 4K
IOPS was limited to 22-23K IOPS. With the patch, we are running at
950-970K IOPS.

Fixes: 6d8c6c0f97ad ("blk-mq: Restart a single queue if tag sets are shared")
Reported-by: Max Gurtovoy 
Tested-by: Max Gurtovoy 
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche 
Tested-by: Bart Van Assche 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

time: Fix CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW sub-nanosecond accounting

2017-06-20T08:41:50+00:00

Due to how the MONOTONIC_RAW accumulation logic was handled,
there is the potential for a 1ns discontinuity when we do
accumulations. This small discontinuity has for the most part
gone un-noticed, but since ARM64 enabled CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW
in their vDSO clock_gettime implementation, we've seen failures
with the inconsistency-check test in kselftest.

This patch addresses the issue by using the same sub-ns
accumulation handling that CLOCK_MONOTONIC uses, which avoids
the issue for in-kernel users.

Since the ARM64 vDSO implementation has its own clock_gettime
calculation logic, this patch reduces the frequency of errors,
but failures are still seen. The ARM64 vDSO will need to be
updated to include the sub-nanosecond xtime_nsec values in its
calculation for this issue to be completely fixed.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz 
Tested-by: Daniel Mentz 
Cc: Prarit Bhargava 
Cc: Kevin Brodsky 
Cc: Richard Cochran 
Cc: Stephen Boyd 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: "stable #4 . 8+" 
Cc: Miroslav Lichvar 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496965462-20003-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

time: Fix clock->read(clock) race around clocksource changes

2017-06-20T08:41:50+00:00

In tests, which excercise switching of clocksources, a NULL
pointer dereference can be observed on AMR64 platforms in the
clocksource read() function:

u64 clocksource_mmio_readl_down(struct clocksource *c)
{
	return ~(u64)readl_relaxed(to_mmio_clksrc(c)->reg) & c->mask;
}

This is called from the core timekeeping code via:

	cycle_now = tkr->read(tkr->clock);

tkr->read is the cached tkr->clock->read() function pointer.
When the clocksource is changed then tkr->clock and tkr->read
are updated sequentially. The code above results in a sequential
load operation of tkr->read and tkr->clock as well.

If the store to tkr->clock hits between the loads of tkr->read
and tkr->clock, then the old read() function is called with the
new clock pointer. As a consequence the read() function
dereferences a different data structure and the resulting 'reg'
pointer can point anywhere including NULL.

This problem was introduced when the timekeeping code was
switched over to use struct tk_read_base. Before that, it was
theoretically possible as well when the compiler decided to
reload clock in the code sequence:

     now = tk->clock->read(tk->clock);

Add a helper function which avoids the issue by reading
tk_read_base->clock once into a local variable clk and then issue
the read function via clk->read(clk). This guarantees that the
read() function always gets the proper clocksource pointer handed
in.

Since there is now no use for the tkr.read pointer, this patch
also removes it, and to address stopping the fast timekeeper
during suspend/resume, it introduces a dummy clocksource to use
rather then just a dummy read function.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Prarit Bhargava 
Cc: Richard Cochran 
Cc: Stephen Boyd 
Cc: stable 
Cc: Miroslav Lichvar 
Cc: Daniel Mentz 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496965462-20003-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas

2017-06-19T13:50:20+00:00

Stack guard page is a useful feature to reduce a risk of stack smashing
into a different mapping. We have been using a single page gap which
is sufficient to prevent having stack adjacent to a different mapping.
But this seems to be insufficient in the light of the stack usage in
userspace. E.g. glibc uses as large as 64kB alloca() in many commonly
used functions. Others use constructs liks gid_t buffer[NGROUPS_MAX]
which is 256kB or stack strings with MAX_ARG_STRLEN.

This will become especially dangerous for suid binaries and the default
no limit for the stack size limit because those applications can be
tricked to consume a large portion of the stack and a single glibc call
could jump over the guard page. These attacks are not theoretical,
unfortunatelly.

Make those attacks less probable by increasing the stack guard gap
to 1MB (on systems with 4k pages; but make it depend on the page size
because systems with larger base pages might cap stack allocations in
the PAGE_SIZE units) which should cover larger alloca() and VLA stack
allocations. It is obviously not a full fix because the problem is
somehow inherent, but it should reduce attack space a lot.

One could argue that the gap size should be configurable from userspace,
but that can be done later when somebody finds that the new 1MB is wrong
for some special case applications.  For now, add a kernel command line
option (stack_guard_gap) to specify the stack gap size (in page units).

Implementation wise, first delete all the old code for stack guard page:
because although we could get away with accounting one extra page in a
stack vma, accounting a larger gap can break userspace - case in point,
a program run with "ulimit -S -v 20000" failed when the 1MB gap was
counted for RLIMIT_AS; similar problems could come with RLIMIT_MLOCK
and strict non-overcommit mode.

Instead of keeping gap inside the stack vma, maintain the stack guard
gap as a gap between vmas: using vm_start_gap() in place of vm_start
(or vm_end_gap() in place of vm_end if VM_GROWSUP) in just those few
places which need to respect the gap - mainly arch_get_unmapped_area(),
and and the vma tree's subtree_gap support for that.

Original-patch-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Original-patch-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Tested-by: Helge Deller  # parisc
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'configfs-for-4.12' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/configfs

2017-06-16T09:45:47+00:00

Pull configfs updates from Christoph Hellwig:
 "A fix from Nic for a race seen in production (including a stable tag).

  And while I'm sending you this I'm also sneaking in a trivial new
  helper from Bart so that we don't need inter-tree dependencies for the
  next merge window"

* tag 'configfs-for-4.12' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/configfs:
  configfs: Introduce config_item_get_unless_zero()
  configfs: Fix race between create_link and configfs_rmdir

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2017-06-16T08:26:10+00:00

Pull block layer fix from Jens Axboe:
 "Just a single fix this week, fixing a regression introduced in this
  release.

  When we put the final reference to the queue, we may need to block.
  Ensure that we can safely do so. From Bart"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  block: Fix a blk_exit_rl() regression

Merge branch 'dmi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging

2017-06-16T08:13:06+00:00

Pull dmi fixes from Jean Delvare.

* 'dmi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging:
  firmware: dmi_scan: Check DMI structure length
  firmware: dmi: Fix permissions of product_family
  firmware: dmi_scan: Make dmi_walk and dmi_walk_early return real error codes
  firmware: dmi_scan: Look for SMBIOS 3 entry point first