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<title>Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-09-03T16:30:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-03T16:30:40+00:00</published>
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Pull timer fix from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A single fix for a thinko in the raw timekeeper update which causes
  clock MONOTONIC_RAW to run with erratically increased frequency"

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  time: Fix ktime_get_raw() incorrect base accumulation
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Pull timer fix from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A single fix for a thinko in the raw timekeeper update which causes
  clock MONOTONIC_RAW to run with erratically increased frequency"

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  time: Fix ktime_get_raw() incorrect base accumulation
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-09-03T16:23:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-03T16:23:23+00:00</published>
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Pull perf fixes from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Prevent a potential inconistency in the perf user space access which
   might lead to evading sanity checks.

 - Prevent perf recording function trace entries twice

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf/ftrace: Fix double traces of perf on ftrace:function
  perf/core: Fix potential double-fetch bug
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Pull perf fixes from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Prevent a potential inconistency in the perf user space access which
   might lead to evading sanity checks.

 - Prevent perf recording function trace entries twice

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf/ftrace: Fix double traces of perf on ftrace:function
  perf/core: Fix potential double-fetch bug
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2017-09-01T19:49:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-01T19:49:03+00:00</published>
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Fix handling of pinned BPF map nodes in hash of maps, from Daniel
    Borkmann.

 2) IPSEC ESP error paths leak memory, from Steffen Klassert.

 3) We need an RCU grace period before freeing fib6_node objects, from
    Wei Wang.

 4) Must check skb_put_padto() return value in HSR driver, from FLorian
    Fainelli.

 5) Fix oops on PHY probe failure in ftgmac100 driver, from Andrew
    Jeffery.

 6) Fix infinite loop in UDP queue when using SO_PEEK_OFF, from Eric
    Dumazet.

 7) Use after free when tcf_chain_destroy() called multiple times, from
    Jiri Pirko.

 8) Fix KSZ DSA tag layer multiple free of SKBS, from Florian Fainelli.

 9) Fix leak of uninitialized memory in sctp_get_sctp_info(),
    inet_diag_msg_sctpladdrs_fill() and inet_diag_msg_sctpaddrs_fill().
    From Stefano Brivio.

10) L2TP tunnel refcount fixes from Guillaume Nault.

11) Don't leak UDP secpath in udp_set_dev_scratch(), from Yossi
    Kauperman.

12) Revert a PHY layer change wrt. handling of PHY_HALTED state in
    phy_stop_machine(), it causes regressions for multiple people. From
    Florian Fainelli.

13) When packets are sent out of br0 we have to clear the
    offload_fwdq_mark value.

14) Several NULL pointer deref fixes in packet schedulers when their
    -&gt;init() routine fails. From Nikolay Aleksandrov.

15) Aquantium devices cannot checksum offload correctly when the packet
    is &lt;= 60 bytes. From Pavel Belous.

16) Fix vnet header access past end of buffer in AF_PACKET, from
    Benjamin Poirier.

17) Double free in probe error paths of nfp driver, from Dan Carpenter.

18) QOS capability not checked properly in DCB init paths of mlx5
    driver, from Huy Nguyen.

19) Fix conflicts between firmware load failure and health_care timer in
    mlx5, also from Huy Nguyen.

20) Fix dangling page pointer when DMA mapping errors occur in mlx5,
    from Eran Ben ELisha.

21) -&gt;ndo_setup_tc() in bnxt_en driver doesn't count rings properly,
    from Michael Chan.

22) Missing MSIX vector free in bnxt_en, also from Michael Chan.

23) Refcount leak in xfrm layer when using sk_policy, from Lorenzo
    Colitti.

24) Fix copy of uninitialized data in qlge driver, from Arnd Bergmann.

25) bpf_setsockopts() erroneously always returns -EINVAL even on
    success. Fix from Yuchung Cheng.

26) tipc_rcv() needs to linearize the SKB before parsing the inner
    headers, from Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan.

27) Fix deadlock between link status updates and link removal in netvsc
    driver, from Stephen Hemminger.

28) Missed locking of page fragment handling in ESP output, from Steffen
    Klassert.

29) Fix refcnt leak in ebpf congestion control code, from Sabrina
    Dubroca.

30) sxgbe_probe_config_dt() doesn't check devm_kzalloc()'s return value,
    from Christophe Jaillet.

31) Fix missing ipv6 rx_dst_cookie update when rx_dst is updated during
    early demux, from Paolo Abeni.

32) Several info leaks in xfrm_user layer, from Mathias Krause.

33) Fix out of bounds read in cxgb4 driver, from Stefano Brivio.

34) Properly propagate obsolete state of route upwards in ipv6 so that
    upper holders like xfrm can see it. From Xin Long.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (118 commits)
  udp: fix secpath leak
  bridge: switchdev: Clear forward mark when transmitting packet
  mlxsw: spectrum: Forbid linking to devices that have uppers
  wl1251: add a missing spin_lock_init()
  Revert "net: phy: Correctly process PHY_HALTED in phy_stop_machine()"
  net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Fix number of CFP entries for BCM7278
  kcm: do not attach PF_KCM sockets to avoid deadlock
  sch_tbf: fix two null pointer dereferences on init failure
  sch_sfq: fix null pointer dereference on init failure
  sch_netem: avoid null pointer deref on init failure
  sch_fq_codel: avoid double free on init failure
  sch_cbq: fix null pointer dereferences on init failure
  sch_hfsc: fix null pointer deref and double free on init failure
  sch_hhf: fix null pointer dereference on init failure
  sch_multiq: fix double free on init failure
  sch_htb: fix crash on init failure
  net/mlx5e: Fix CQ moderation mode not set properly
  net/mlx5e: Fix inline header size for small packets
  net/mlx5: E-Switch, Unload the representors in the correct order
  net/mlx5e: Properly resolve TC offloaded ipv6 vxlan tunnel source address
  ...
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Fix handling of pinned BPF map nodes in hash of maps, from Daniel
    Borkmann.

 2) IPSEC ESP error paths leak memory, from Steffen Klassert.

 3) We need an RCU grace period before freeing fib6_node objects, from
    Wei Wang.

 4) Must check skb_put_padto() return value in HSR driver, from FLorian
    Fainelli.

 5) Fix oops on PHY probe failure in ftgmac100 driver, from Andrew
    Jeffery.

 6) Fix infinite loop in UDP queue when using SO_PEEK_OFF, from Eric
    Dumazet.

 7) Use after free when tcf_chain_destroy() called multiple times, from
    Jiri Pirko.

 8) Fix KSZ DSA tag layer multiple free of SKBS, from Florian Fainelli.

 9) Fix leak of uninitialized memory in sctp_get_sctp_info(),
    inet_diag_msg_sctpladdrs_fill() and inet_diag_msg_sctpaddrs_fill().
    From Stefano Brivio.

10) L2TP tunnel refcount fixes from Guillaume Nault.

11) Don't leak UDP secpath in udp_set_dev_scratch(), from Yossi
    Kauperman.

12) Revert a PHY layer change wrt. handling of PHY_HALTED state in
    phy_stop_machine(), it causes regressions for multiple people. From
    Florian Fainelli.

13) When packets are sent out of br0 we have to clear the
    offload_fwdq_mark value.

14) Several NULL pointer deref fixes in packet schedulers when their
    -&gt;init() routine fails. From Nikolay Aleksandrov.

15) Aquantium devices cannot checksum offload correctly when the packet
    is &lt;= 60 bytes. From Pavel Belous.

16) Fix vnet header access past end of buffer in AF_PACKET, from
    Benjamin Poirier.

17) Double free in probe error paths of nfp driver, from Dan Carpenter.

18) QOS capability not checked properly in DCB init paths of mlx5
    driver, from Huy Nguyen.

19) Fix conflicts between firmware load failure and health_care timer in
    mlx5, also from Huy Nguyen.

20) Fix dangling page pointer when DMA mapping errors occur in mlx5,
    from Eran Ben ELisha.

21) -&gt;ndo_setup_tc() in bnxt_en driver doesn't count rings properly,
    from Michael Chan.

22) Missing MSIX vector free in bnxt_en, also from Michael Chan.

23) Refcount leak in xfrm layer when using sk_policy, from Lorenzo
    Colitti.

24) Fix copy of uninitialized data in qlge driver, from Arnd Bergmann.

25) bpf_setsockopts() erroneously always returns -EINVAL even on
    success. Fix from Yuchung Cheng.

26) tipc_rcv() needs to linearize the SKB before parsing the inner
    headers, from Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan.

27) Fix deadlock between link status updates and link removal in netvsc
    driver, from Stephen Hemminger.

28) Missed locking of page fragment handling in ESP output, from Steffen
    Klassert.

29) Fix refcnt leak in ebpf congestion control code, from Sabrina
    Dubroca.

30) sxgbe_probe_config_dt() doesn't check devm_kzalloc()'s return value,
    from Christophe Jaillet.

31) Fix missing ipv6 rx_dst_cookie update when rx_dst is updated during
    early demux, from Paolo Abeni.

32) Several info leaks in xfrm_user layer, from Mathias Krause.

33) Fix out of bounds read in cxgb4 driver, from Stefano Brivio.

34) Properly propagate obsolete state of route upwards in ipv6 so that
    upper holders like xfrm can see it. From Xin Long.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (118 commits)
  udp: fix secpath leak
  bridge: switchdev: Clear forward mark when transmitting packet
  mlxsw: spectrum: Forbid linking to devices that have uppers
  wl1251: add a missing spin_lock_init()
  Revert "net: phy: Correctly process PHY_HALTED in phy_stop_machine()"
  net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Fix number of CFP entries for BCM7278
  kcm: do not attach PF_KCM sockets to avoid deadlock
  sch_tbf: fix two null pointer dereferences on init failure
  sch_sfq: fix null pointer dereference on init failure
  sch_netem: avoid null pointer deref on init failure
  sch_fq_codel: avoid double free on init failure
  sch_cbq: fix null pointer dereferences on init failure
  sch_hfsc: fix null pointer deref and double free on init failure
  sch_hhf: fix null pointer dereference on init failure
  sch_multiq: fix double free on init failure
  sch_htb: fix crash on init failure
  net/mlx5e: Fix CQ moderation mode not set properly
  net/mlx5e: Fix inline header size for small packets
  net/mlx5: E-Switch, Unload the representors in the correct order
  net/mlx5e: Properly resolve TC offloaded ipv6 vxlan tunnel source address
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm, uprobes: fix multiple free of -&gt;uprobes_state.xol_area</title>
<updated>2017-08-31T23:33:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-31T23:15:26+00:00</published>
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Commit 7c051267931a ("mm, fork: make dup_mmap wait for mmap_sem for
write killable") made it possible to kill a forking task while it is
waiting to acquire its -&gt;mmap_sem for write, in dup_mmap().

However, it was overlooked that this introduced an new error path before
the new mm_struct's -&gt;uprobes_state.xol_area has been set to NULL after
being copied from the old mm_struct by the memcpy in dup_mm().  For a
task that has previously hit a uprobe tracepoint, this resulted in the
'struct xol_area' being freed multiple times if the task was killed at
just the right time while forking.

Fix it by setting -&gt;uprobes_state.xol_area to NULL in mm_init() rather
than in uprobe_dup_mmap().

With CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS=y, the bug can be reproduced by the same C
program given by commit 2b7e8665b4ff ("fork: fix incorrect fput of
-&gt;exe_file causing use-after-free"), provided that a uprobe tracepoint
has been set on the fork_thread() function.  For example:

    $ gcc reproducer.c -o reproducer -lpthread
    $ nm reproducer | grep fork_thread
    0000000000400719 t fork_thread
    $ echo "p $PWD/reproducer:0x719" &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events
    $ echo 1 &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/uprobes/enable
    $ ./reproducer

Here is the use-after-free reported by KASAN:

    BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in uprobe_clear_state+0x1c4/0x200
    Read of size 8 at addr ffff8800320a8b88 by task reproducer/198

    CPU: 1 PID: 198 Comm: reproducer Not tainted 4.13.0-rc7-00015-g36fde05f3fb5 #255
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-20170228_101828-anatol 04/01/2014
    Call Trace:
     dump_stack+0xdb/0x185
     print_address_description+0x7e/0x290
     kasan_report+0x23b/0x350
     __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x19/0x20
     uprobe_clear_state+0x1c4/0x200
     mmput+0xd6/0x360
     do_exit+0x740/0x1670
     do_group_exit+0x13f/0x380
     get_signal+0x597/0x17d0
     do_signal+0x99/0x1df0
     exit_to_usermode_loop+0x166/0x1e0
     syscall_return_slowpath+0x258/0x2c0
     entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0xbc/0xbe

    ...

    Allocated by task 199:
     save_stack_trace+0x1b/0x20
     kasan_kmalloc+0xfc/0x180
     kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xf3/0x330
     __create_xol_area+0x10f/0x780
     uprobe_notify_resume+0x1674/0x2210
     exit_to_usermode_loop+0x150/0x1e0
     prepare_exit_to_usermode+0x14b/0x180
     retint_user+0x8/0x20

    Freed by task 199:
     save_stack_trace+0x1b/0x20
     kasan_slab_free+0xa8/0x1a0
     kfree+0xba/0x210
     uprobe_clear_state+0x151/0x200
     mmput+0xd6/0x360
     copy_process.part.8+0x605f/0x65d0
     _do_fork+0x1a5/0xbd0
     SyS_clone+0x19/0x20
     do_syscall_64+0x22f/0x660
     return_from_SYSCALL_64+0x0/0x7a

Note: without KASAN, you may instead see a "Bad page state" message, or
simply a general protection fault.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170830033303.17927-1-ebiggers3@gmail.com
Fixes: 7c051267931a ("mm, fork: make dup_mmap wait for mmap_sem for write killable")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;    [4.7+]
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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Commit 7c051267931a ("mm, fork: make dup_mmap wait for mmap_sem for
write killable") made it possible to kill a forking task while it is
waiting to acquire its -&gt;mmap_sem for write, in dup_mmap().

However, it was overlooked that this introduced an new error path before
the new mm_struct's -&gt;uprobes_state.xol_area has been set to NULL after
being copied from the old mm_struct by the memcpy in dup_mm().  For a
task that has previously hit a uprobe tracepoint, this resulted in the
'struct xol_area' being freed multiple times if the task was killed at
just the right time while forking.

Fix it by setting -&gt;uprobes_state.xol_area to NULL in mm_init() rather
than in uprobe_dup_mmap().

With CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS=y, the bug can be reproduced by the same C
program given by commit 2b7e8665b4ff ("fork: fix incorrect fput of
-&gt;exe_file causing use-after-free"), provided that a uprobe tracepoint
has been set on the fork_thread() function.  For example:

    $ gcc reproducer.c -o reproducer -lpthread
    $ nm reproducer | grep fork_thread
    0000000000400719 t fork_thread
    $ echo "p $PWD/reproducer:0x719" &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events
    $ echo 1 &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/uprobes/enable
    $ ./reproducer

Here is the use-after-free reported by KASAN:

    BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in uprobe_clear_state+0x1c4/0x200
    Read of size 8 at addr ffff8800320a8b88 by task reproducer/198

    CPU: 1 PID: 198 Comm: reproducer Not tainted 4.13.0-rc7-00015-g36fde05f3fb5 #255
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-20170228_101828-anatol 04/01/2014
    Call Trace:
     dump_stack+0xdb/0x185
     print_address_description+0x7e/0x290
     kasan_report+0x23b/0x350
     __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x19/0x20
     uprobe_clear_state+0x1c4/0x200
     mmput+0xd6/0x360
     do_exit+0x740/0x1670
     do_group_exit+0x13f/0x380
     get_signal+0x597/0x17d0
     do_signal+0x99/0x1df0
     exit_to_usermode_loop+0x166/0x1e0
     syscall_return_slowpath+0x258/0x2c0
     entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0xbc/0xbe

    ...

    Allocated by task 199:
     save_stack_trace+0x1b/0x20
     kasan_kmalloc+0xfc/0x180
     kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xf3/0x330
     __create_xol_area+0x10f/0x780
     uprobe_notify_resume+0x1674/0x2210
     exit_to_usermode_loop+0x150/0x1e0
     prepare_exit_to_usermode+0x14b/0x180
     retint_user+0x8/0x20

    Freed by task 199:
     save_stack_trace+0x1b/0x20
     kasan_slab_free+0xa8/0x1a0
     kfree+0xba/0x210
     uprobe_clear_state+0x151/0x200
     mmput+0xd6/0x360
     copy_process.part.8+0x605f/0x65d0
     _do_fork+0x1a5/0xbd0
     SyS_clone+0x19/0x20
     do_syscall_64+0x22f/0x660
     return_from_SYSCALL_64+0x0/0x7a

Note: without KASAN, you may instead see a "Bad page state" message, or
simply a general protection fault.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170830033303.17927-1-ebiggers3@gmail.com
Fixes: 7c051267931a ("mm, fork: make dup_mmap wait for mmap_sem for write killable")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;    [4.7+]
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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel/kthread.c: kthread_worker: don't hog the cpu</title>
<updated>2017-08-31T23:33:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shaohua Li</name>
<email>shli@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-31T23:15:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=22cf8bc6cb0d48c6d31da8eccbd4201ab9b0c4c6'/>
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If the worker thread continues getting work, it will hog the cpu and rcu
stall complains.  Make it a good citizen.  This is triggered in a loop
block device test.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5de0a179b3184e1a2183fc503448b0269f24d75b.1503697127.git.shli@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&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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If the worker thread continues getting work, it will hog the cpu and rcu
stall complains.  Make it a good citizen.  This is triggered in a loop
block device test.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5de0a179b3184e1a2183fc503448b0269f24d75b.1503697127.git.shli@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.13-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup</title>
<updated>2017-08-29T18:16:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-29T18:16:21+00:00</published>
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Pull cgroup fix from Tejun Heo:
 "A late but obvious fix for cgroup.

  I broke the 'cpuset.memory_pressure' file a long time ago (v4.4) by
  accidentally deleting its file index, which made it a duplicate of the
  'cpuset.memory_migrate' file. Spotted and fixed by Waiman"

* 'for-4.13-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cpuset: Fix incorrect memory_pressure control file mapping
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Pull cgroup fix from Tejun Heo:
 "A late but obvious fix for cgroup.

  I broke the 'cpuset.memory_pressure' file a long time ago (v4.4) by
  accidentally deleting its file index, which made it a duplicate of the
  'cpuset.memory_migrate' file. Spotted and fixed by Waiman"

* 'for-4.13-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cpuset: Fix incorrect memory_pressure control file mapping
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/ftrace: Fix double traces of perf on ftrace:function</title>
<updated>2017-08-29T11:29:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhou Chengming</name>
<email>zhouchengming1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-25T13:49:37+00:00</published>
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When running perf on the ftrace:function tracepoint, there is a bug
which can be reproduced by:

  perf record -e ftrace:function -a sleep 20 &amp;
  perf record -e ftrace:function ls
  perf script

              ls 10304 [005]   171.853235: ftrace:function:
  perf_output_begin
              ls 10304 [005]   171.853237: ftrace:function:
  perf_output_begin
              ls 10304 [005]   171.853239: ftrace:function:
  task_tgid_nr_ns
              ls 10304 [005]   171.853240: ftrace:function:
  task_tgid_nr_ns
              ls 10304 [005]   171.853242: ftrace:function:
  __task_pid_nr_ns
              ls 10304 [005]   171.853244: ftrace:function:
  __task_pid_nr_ns

We can see that all the function traces are doubled.

The problem is caused by the inconsistency of the register
function perf_ftrace_event_register() with the probe function
perf_ftrace_function_call(). The former registers one probe
for every perf_event. And the latter handles all perf_events
on the current cpu. So when two perf_events on the current cpu,
the traces of them will be doubled.

So this patch adds an extra parameter "event" for perf_tp_event,
only send sample data to this event when it's not NULL.

Signed-off-by: Zhou Chengming &lt;zhouchengming1@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&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: acme@kernel.org
Cc: alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Cc: huawei.libin@huawei.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503668977-12526-1-git-send-email-zhouchengming1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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When running perf on the ftrace:function tracepoint, there is a bug
which can be reproduced by:

  perf record -e ftrace:function -a sleep 20 &amp;
  perf record -e ftrace:function ls
  perf script

              ls 10304 [005]   171.853235: ftrace:function:
  perf_output_begin
              ls 10304 [005]   171.853237: ftrace:function:
  perf_output_begin
              ls 10304 [005]   171.853239: ftrace:function:
  task_tgid_nr_ns
              ls 10304 [005]   171.853240: ftrace:function:
  task_tgid_nr_ns
              ls 10304 [005]   171.853242: ftrace:function:
  __task_pid_nr_ns
              ls 10304 [005]   171.853244: ftrace:function:
  __task_pid_nr_ns

We can see that all the function traces are doubled.

The problem is caused by the inconsistency of the register
function perf_ftrace_event_register() with the probe function
perf_ftrace_function_call(). The former registers one probe
for every perf_event. And the latter handles all perf_events
on the current cpu. So when two perf_events on the current cpu,
the traces of them will be doubled.

So this patch adds an extra parameter "event" for perf_tp_event,
only send sample data to this event when it's not NULL.

Signed-off-by: Zhou Chengming &lt;zhouchengming1@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&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: acme@kernel.org
Cc: alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Cc: huawei.libin@huawei.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503668977-12526-1-git-send-email-zhouchengming1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Fix potential double-fetch bug</title>
<updated>2017-08-29T11:26:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Meng Xu</name>
<email>mengxu.gatech@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-23T21:07:50+00:00</published>
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While examining the kernel source code, I found a dangerous operation that
could turn into a double-fetch situation (a race condition bug) where the same
userspace memory region are fetched twice into kernel with sanity checks after
the first fetch while missing checks after the second fetch.

  1. The first fetch happens in line 9573 get_user(size, &amp;uattr-&gt;size).

  2. Subsequently the 'size' variable undergoes a few sanity checks and
     transformations (line 9577 to 9584).

  3. The second fetch happens in line 9610 copy_from_user(attr, uattr, size)

  4. Given that 'uattr' can be fully controlled in userspace, an attacker can
     race condition to override 'uattr-&gt;size' to arbitrary value (say, 0xFFFFFFFF)
     after the first fetch but before the second fetch. The changed value will be
     copied to 'attr-&gt;size'.

  5. There is no further checks on 'attr-&gt;size' until the end of this function,
     and once the function returns, we lose the context to verify that 'attr-&gt;size'
     conforms to the sanity checks performed in step 2 (line 9577 to 9584).

  6. My manual analysis shows that 'attr-&gt;size' is not used elsewhere later,
     so, there is no working exploit against it right now. However, this could
     easily turns to an exploitable one if careless developers start to use
     'attr-&gt;size' later.

To fix this, override 'attr-&gt;size' from the second fetch to the one from the
first fetch, regardless of what is actually copied in.

In this way, it is assured that 'attr-&gt;size' is consistent with the checks
performed after the first fetch.

Signed-off-by: Meng Xu &lt;mengxu.gatech@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Cc: meng.xu@gatech.edu
Cc: sanidhya@gatech.edu
Cc: taesoo@gatech.edu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503522470-35531-1-git-send-email-meng.xu@gatech.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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While examining the kernel source code, I found a dangerous operation that
could turn into a double-fetch situation (a race condition bug) where the same
userspace memory region are fetched twice into kernel with sanity checks after
the first fetch while missing checks after the second fetch.

  1. The first fetch happens in line 9573 get_user(size, &amp;uattr-&gt;size).

  2. Subsequently the 'size' variable undergoes a few sanity checks and
     transformations (line 9577 to 9584).

  3. The second fetch happens in line 9610 copy_from_user(attr, uattr, size)

  4. Given that 'uattr' can be fully controlled in userspace, an attacker can
     race condition to override 'uattr-&gt;size' to arbitrary value (say, 0xFFFFFFFF)
     after the first fetch but before the second fetch. The changed value will be
     copied to 'attr-&gt;size'.

  5. There is no further checks on 'attr-&gt;size' until the end of this function,
     and once the function returns, we lose the context to verify that 'attr-&gt;size'
     conforms to the sanity checks performed in step 2 (line 9577 to 9584).

  6. My manual analysis shows that 'attr-&gt;size' is not used elsewhere later,
     so, there is no working exploit against it right now. However, this could
     easily turns to an exploitable one if careless developers start to use
     'attr-&gt;size' later.

To fix this, override 'attr-&gt;size' from the second fetch to the one from the
first fetch, regardless of what is actually copied in.

In this way, it is assured that 'attr-&gt;size' is consistent with the checks
performed after the first fetch.

Signed-off-by: Meng Xu &lt;mengxu.gatech@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Cc: meng.xu@gatech.edu
Cc: sanidhya@gatech.edu
Cc: taesoo@gatech.edu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503522470-35531-1-git-send-email-meng.xu@gatech.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Minor page waitqueue cleanups</title>
<updated>2017-08-27T20:55:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-27T20:55:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=3510ca20ece0150af6b10c77a74ff1b5c198e3e2'/>
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<content type='text'>
Tim Chen and Kan Liang have been battling a customer load that shows
extremely long page wakeup lists.  The cause seems to be constant NUMA
migration of a hot page that is shared across a lot of threads, but the
actual root cause for the exact behavior has not been found.

Tim has a patch that batches the wait list traversal at wakeup time, so
that we at least don't get long uninterruptible cases where we traverse
and wake up thousands of processes and get nasty latency spikes.  That
is likely 4.14 material, but we're still discussing the page waitqueue
specific parts of it.

In the meantime, I've tried to look at making the page wait queues less
expensive, and failing miserably.  If you have thousands of threads
waiting for the same page, it will be painful.  We'll need to try to
figure out the NUMA balancing issue some day, in addition to avoiding
the excessive spinlock hold times.

That said, having tried to rewrite the page wait queues, I can at least
fix up some of the braindamage in the current situation. In particular:

 (a) we don't want to continue walking the page wait list if the bit
     we're waiting for already got set again (which seems to be one of
     the patterns of the bad load).  That makes no progress and just
     causes pointless cache pollution chasing the pointers.

 (b) we don't want to put the non-locking waiters always on the front of
     the queue, and the locking waiters always on the back.  Not only is
     that unfair, it means that we wake up thousands of reading threads
     that will just end up being blocked by the writer later anyway.

Also add a comment about the layout of 'struct wait_page_key' - there is
an external user of it in the cachefiles code that means that it has to
match the layout of 'struct wait_bit_key' in the two first members.  It
so happens to match, because 'struct page *' and 'unsigned long *' end
up having the same values simply because the page flags are the first
member in struct page.

Cc: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Christopher Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Tim Chen and Kan Liang have been battling a customer load that shows
extremely long page wakeup lists.  The cause seems to be constant NUMA
migration of a hot page that is shared across a lot of threads, but the
actual root cause for the exact behavior has not been found.

Tim has a patch that batches the wait list traversal at wakeup time, so
that we at least don't get long uninterruptible cases where we traverse
and wake up thousands of processes and get nasty latency spikes.  That
is likely 4.14 material, but we're still discussing the page waitqueue
specific parts of it.

In the meantime, I've tried to look at making the page wait queues less
expensive, and failing miserably.  If you have thousands of threads
waiting for the same page, it will be painful.  We'll need to try to
figure out the NUMA balancing issue some day, in addition to avoiding
the excessive spinlock hold times.

That said, having tried to rewrite the page wait queues, I can at least
fix up some of the braindamage in the current situation. In particular:

 (a) we don't want to continue walking the page wait list if the bit
     we're waiting for already got set again (which seems to be one of
     the patterns of the bad load).  That makes no progress and just
     causes pointless cache pollution chasing the pointers.

 (b) we don't want to put the non-locking waiters always on the front of
     the queue, and the locking waiters always on the back.  Not only is
     that unfair, it means that we wake up thousands of reading threads
     that will just end up being blocked by the writer later anyway.

Also add a comment about the layout of 'struct wait_page_key' - there is
an external user of it in the cachefiles code that means that it has to
match the layout of 'struct wait_bit_key' in the two first members.  It
so happens to match, because 'struct page *' and 'unsigned long *' end
up having the same values simply because the page flags are the first
member in struct page.

Cc: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Christopher Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-08-26T16:02:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-26T16:02:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=0adb8f3d312966bd3e712248b48098ce086d03bd'/>
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Pull timer fix from Ingo Molnar:
 "Fix a timer granularity handling race+bug, which would manifest itself
  by spuriously increasing timeouts of some timers (from 1 jiffy to ~500
  jiffies in the worst case measured) in certain nohz states"

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  timers: Fix excessive granularity of new timers after a nohz idle
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Pull timer fix from Ingo Molnar:
 "Fix a timer granularity handling race+bug, which would manifest itself
  by spuriously increasing timeouts of some timers (from 1 jiffy to ~500
  jiffies in the worst case measured) in certain nohz states"

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  timers: Fix excessive granularity of new timers after a nohz idle
</pre>
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