linux.git/kernel/sysctl.c, branch v3.18-rc2

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

2014-10-13T13:44:12+00:00

Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - changes related to No-CBs CPUs and NO_HZ_FULL

   - RCU-tasks implementation

   - torture-test updates

   - miscellaneous fixes

   - locktorture updates

   - RCU documentation updates"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (81 commits)
  workqueue: Use cond_resched_rcu_qs macro
  workqueue: Add quiescent state between work items
  locktorture: Cleanup header usage
  locktorture: Cannot hold read and write lock
  locktorture: Fix __acquire annotation for spinlock irq
  locktorture: Support rwlocks
  rcu: Eliminate deadlock between CPU hotplug and expedited grace periods
  locktorture: Document boot/module parameters
  rcutorture: Rename rcutorture_runnable parameter
  locktorture: Add test scenario for rwsem_lock
  locktorture: Add test scenario for mutex_lock
  locktorture: Make torture scripting account for new _runnable name
  locktorture: Introduce torture context
  locktorture: Support rwsems
  locktorture: Add infrastructure for torturing read locks
  torture: Address race in module cleanup
  locktorture: Make statistics generic
  locktorture: Teach about lock debugging
  locktorture: Support mutexes
  locktorture: Add documentation
  ...

mm: remove noisy remainder of the scan_unevictable interface

2014-10-10T02:25:55+00:00

The deprecation warnings for the scan_unevictable interface triggers by
scripts doing `sysctl -a | grep something else'.  This is annoying and not
helpful.

The interface has been defunct since 264e56d8247e ("mm: disable user
interface to manually rescue unevictable pages"), which was in 2011, and
there haven't been any reports of usecases for it, only reports that the
deprecation warnings are annying.  It's unlikely that anybody is using
this interface specifically at this point, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

rcutorture: Rename rcutorture_runnable parameter

2014-09-16T20:41:44+00:00

This commit changes rcutorture_runnable to torture_runnable, which is
consistent with the names of the other parameters and is a bit shorter
as well.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

mm, hugetlb: remove hugetlb_zero and hugetlb_infinity

2014-08-07T01:01:19+00:00

They are unnecessary: "zero" can be used in place of "hugetlb_zero" and
passing extra2 == NULL is equivalent to infinity.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Reviewed-by: Luiz Capitulino 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/watchdog.c: print traces for all cpus on lockup detection

2014-06-23T23:47:44+00:00

A 'softlockup' is defined as a bug that causes the kernel to loop in
kernel mode for more than a predefined period to time, without giving
other tasks a chance to run.

Currently, upon detection of this condition by the per-cpu watchdog
task, debug information (including a stack trace) is sent to the system
log.

On some occasions, we have observed that the "victim" rather than the
actual "culprit" (i.e.  the owner/holder of the contended resource) is
reported to the user.  Often this information has proven to be
insufficient to assist debugging efforts.

To avoid loss of useful debug information, for architectures which
support NMI, this patch makes it possible to improve soft lockup
reporting.  This is accomplished by issuing an NMI to each cpu to obtain
a stack trace.

If NMI is not supported we just revert back to the old method.  A sysctl
and boot-time parameter is available to toggle this feature.

[dzickus@redhat.com: add CONFIG_SMP in certain areas]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: additional CONFIG_SMP=n optimisations]
[mq@suse.cz: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin 
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Mateusz Guzik 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Jan Moskyto Matejka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, pcp: allow restoring percpu_pagelist_fraction default

2014-06-23T23:47:43+00:00

Oleg reports a division by zero error on zero-length write() to the
percpu_pagelist_fraction sysctl:

    divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
    CPU: 1 PID: 9142 Comm: badarea_io Not tainted 3.15.0-rc2-vm-nfs+ #19
    Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
    task: ffff8800d5aeb6e0 ti: ffff8800d87a2000 task.ti: ffff8800d87a2000
    RIP: 0010: percpu_pagelist_fraction_sysctl_handler+0x84/0x120
    RSP: 0018:ffff8800d87a3e78  EFLAGS: 00010246
    RAX: 0000000000000f89 RBX: ffff88011f7fd000 RCX: 0000000000000000
    RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000010
    RBP: ffff8800d87a3e98 R08: ffffffff81d002c8 R09: ffff8800d87a3f50
    R10: 000000000000000b R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000060
    R13: ffffffff81c3c3e0 R14: ffffffff81cfddf8 R15: ffff8801193b0800
    FS:  00007f614f1e9740(0000) GS:ffff88011f440000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
    CR2: 00007f614f1fa000 CR3: 00000000d9291000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
    Call Trace:
      proc_sys_call_handler+0xb3/0xc0
      proc_sys_write+0x14/0x20
      vfs_write+0xba/0x1e0
      SyS_write+0x46/0xb0
      tracesys+0xe1/0xe6

However, if the percpu_pagelist_fraction sysctl is set by the user, it
is also impossible to restore it to the kernel default since the user
cannot write 0 to the sysctl.

This patch allows the user to write 0 to restore the default behavior.
It still requires a fraction equal to or larger than 8, however, as
stated by the documentation for sanity.  If a value in the range [1, 7]
is written, the sysctl will return EINVAL.

This successfully solves the divide by zero issue at the same time.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Reported-by: Oleg Drokin 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next

2014-06-19T17:50:07+00:00

Pull sparc fixes from David Miller:
 "Sparc sparse fixes from Sam Ravnborg"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next: (67 commits)
  sparc64: fix sparse warnings in int_64.c
  sparc64: fix sparse warning in ftrace.c
  sparc64: fix sparse warning in kprobes.c
  sparc64: fix sparse warning in kgdb_64.c
  sparc64: fix sparse warnings in compat_audit.c
  sparc64: fix sparse warnings in init_64.c
  sparc64: fix sparse warnings in aes_glue.c
  sparc: fix sparse warnings in smp_32.c + smp_64.c
  sparc64: fix sparse warnings in perf_event.c
  sparc64: fix sparse warnings in kprobes.c
  sparc64: fix sparse warning in tsb.c
  sparc64: clean up compat_sigset_t.seta handling
  sparc64: fix sparse "Should it be static?" warnings in signal32.c
  sparc64: fix sparse warnings in sys_sparc32.c
  sparc64: fix sparse warning in pci.c
  sparc64: fix sparse warnings in smp_64.c
  sparc64: fix sparse warning in prom_64.c
  sparc64: fix sparse warning in btext.c
  sparc64: fix sparse warnings in sys_sparc_64.c + unaligned_64.c
  sparc64: fix sparse warning in process_64.c
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2014-06-12T21:27:40+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Seccomp BPF filters can now be JIT'd, from Alexei Starovoitov.

 2) Multiqueue support in xen-netback and xen-netfront, from Andrew J
    Benniston.

 3) Allow tweaking of aggregation settings in cdc_ncm driver, from Bjørn
    Mork.

 4) BPF now has a "random" opcode, from Chema Gonzalez.

 5) Add more BPF documentation and improve test framework, from Daniel
    Borkmann.

 6) Support TCP fastopen over ipv6, from Daniel Lee.

 7) Add software TSO helper functions and use them to support software
    TSO in mvneta and mv643xx_eth drivers.  From Ezequiel Garcia.

 8) Support software TSO in fec driver too, from Nimrod Andy.

 9) Add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT driver, from Florian Fainelli.

10) Handle broadcasts more gracefully over macvlan when there are large
    numbers of interfaces configured, from Herbert Xu.

11) Allow more control over fwmark used for non-socket based responses,
    from Lorenzo Colitti.

12) Do TCP congestion window limiting based upon measurements, from Neal
    Cardwell.

13) Support busy polling in SCTP, from Neal Horman.

14) Allow RSS key to be configured via ethtool, from Venkata Duvvuru.

15) Bridge promisc mode handling improvements from Vlad Yasevich.

16) Don't use inetpeer entries to implement ID generation any more, it
    performs poorly, from Eric Dumazet.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1522 commits)
  rtnetlink: fix userspace API breakage for iproute2 < v3.9.0
  tcp: fixing TLP's FIN recovery
  net: fec: Add software TSO support
  net: fec: Add Scatter/gather support
  net: fec: Increase buffer descriptor entry number
  net: fec: Factorize feature setting
  net: fec: Enable IP header hardware checksum
  net: fec: Factorize the .xmit transmit function
  bridge: fix compile error when compiling without IPv6 support
  bridge: fix smatch warning / potential null pointer dereference
  via-rhine: fix full-duplex with autoneg disable
  bnx2x: Enlarge the dorq threshold for VFs
  bnx2x: Check for UNDI in uncommon branch
  bnx2x: Fix 1G-baseT link
  bnx2x: Fix link for KR with swapped polarity lane
  sctp: Fix sk_ack_backlog wrap-around problem
  net/core: Add VF link state control policy
  net/fsl: xgmac_mdio is dependent on OF_MDIO
  net/fsl: Make xgmac_mdio read error message useful
  net_sched: drr: warn when qdisc is not work conserving
  ...

sysctl: convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table

2014-06-06T23:08:16+00:00

This typedef is unnecessary and should just be removed.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sysctl: allow for strict write position handling

2014-06-06T23:08:13+00:00

When writing to a sysctl string, each write, regardless of VFS position,
begins writing the string from the start.  This means the contents of
the last write to the sysctl controls the string contents instead of the
first:

  open("/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe", O_WRONLY)   = 1
  write(1, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"..., 4096) = 4096
  write(1, "/bin/true", 9)                = 9
  close(1)                                = 0

  $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe
  /bin/true

Expected behaviour would be to have the sysctl be "AAAA..." capped at
maxlen (in this case KMOD_PATH_LEN: 256), instead of truncating to the
contents of the second write.  Similarly, multiple short writes would
not append to the sysctl.

The old behavior is unlike regular POSIX files enough that doing audits
of software that interact with sysctls can end up in unexpected or
dangerous situations.  For example, "as long as the input starts with a
trusted path" turns out to be an insufficient filter, as what must also
happen is for the input to be entirely contained in a single write
syscall -- not a common consideration, especially for high level tools.

This provides kernel.sysctl_writes_strict as a way to make this behavior
act in a less surprising manner for strings, and disallows non-zero file
position when writing numeric sysctls (similar to what is already done
when reading from non-zero file positions).  For now, the default (0) is
to warn about non-zero file position use, but retain the legacy
behavior.  Setting this to -1 disables the warning, and setting this to
1 enables the file position respecting behavior.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: move misplaced hunk, per Randy]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds