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<title>linux.git/kernel, branch v5.6-rc4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'block-5.6-2020-02-28' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2020-02-28T19:43:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-28T19:43:30+00:00</published>
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Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe:

 - Passthrough insertion fix (Ming)

 - Kill off some unused arguments (John)

 - blktrace RCU fix (Jan)

 - Dead fields removal for null_blk (Dongli)

 - NVMe polled IO fix (Bijan)

* tag 'block-5.6-2020-02-28' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  nvme-pci: Hold cq_poll_lock while completing CQEs
  blk-mq: Remove some unused function arguments
  null_blk: remove unused fields in 'nullb_cmd'
  blktrace: Protect q-&gt;blk_trace with RCU
  blk-mq: insert passthrough request into hctx-&gt;dispatch directly
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Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe:

 - Passthrough insertion fix (Ming)

 - Kill off some unused arguments (John)

 - blktrace RCU fix (Jan)

 - Dead fields removal for null_blk (Dongli)

 - NVMe polled IO fix (Bijan)

* tag 'block-5.6-2020-02-28' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  nvme-pci: Hold cq_poll_lock while completing CQEs
  blk-mq: Remove some unused function arguments
  null_blk: remove unused fields in 'nullb_cmd'
  blktrace: Protect q-&gt;blk_trace with RCU
  blk-mq: insert passthrough request into hctx-&gt;dispatch directly
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pm-5.6-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2020-02-28T16:49:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-28T16:49:52+00:00</published>
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Pull power management fixes from Rafael Wysocki:
 "Fix a recent cpufreq initialization regression (Rafael Wysocki),
  revert a devfreq commit that made incompatible changes and broke user
  land on some systems (Orson Zhai), drop a stale reference to a
  document that has gone away recently (Jonathan Neuschäfer), and fix a
  typo in a hibernation code comment (Alexandre Belloni)"

* tag 'pm-5.6-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  cpufreq: Fix policy initialization for internal governor drivers
  Revert "PM / devfreq: Modify the device name as devfreq(X) for sysfs"
  PM / hibernate: fix typo "reserverd_size" -&gt; "reserved_size"
  Documentation: power: Drop reference to interface.rst
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Pull power management fixes from Rafael Wysocki:
 "Fix a recent cpufreq initialization regression (Rafael Wysocki),
  revert a devfreq commit that made incompatible changes and broke user
  land on some systems (Orson Zhai), drop a stale reference to a
  document that has gone away recently (Jonathan Neuschäfer), and fix a
  typo in a hibernation code comment (Alexandre Belloni)"

* tag 'pm-5.6-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  cpufreq: Fix policy initialization for internal governor drivers
  Revert "PM / devfreq: Modify the device name as devfreq(X) for sysfs"
  PM / hibernate: fix typo "reserverd_size" -&gt; "reserved_size"
  Documentation: power: Drop reference to interface.rst
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'pm-sleep' and 'pm-devfreq'</title>
<updated>2020-02-28T10:00:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-28T10:00:50+00:00</published>
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* pm-sleep:
  PM / hibernate: fix typo "reserverd_size" -&gt; "reserved_size"
  Documentation: power: Drop reference to interface.rst

* pm-devfreq:
  Revert "PM / devfreq: Modify the device name as devfreq(X) for sysfs"
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* pm-sleep:
  PM / hibernate: fix typo "reserverd_size" -&gt; "reserved_size"
  Documentation: power: Drop reference to interface.rst

* pm-devfreq:
  Revert "PM / devfreq: Modify the device name as devfreq(X) for sysfs"
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'audit-pr-20200226' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit</title>
<updated>2020-02-27T19:01:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-27T19:01:22+00:00</published>
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Pull audit fixes from Paul Moore:
 "Two fixes for problems found by syzbot:

   - Moving audit filter structure fields into a union caused some
     problems in the code which populates that filter structure.

     We keep the union (that idea is a good one), but we are fixing the
     code so that it doesn't needlessly set fields in the union and mess
     up the error handling.

   - The audit_receive_msg() function wasn't validating user input as
     well as it should in all cases, we add the necessary checks"

* tag 'audit-pr-20200226' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit:
  audit: always check the netlink payload length in audit_receive_msg()
  audit: fix error handling in audit_data_to_entry()
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Pull audit fixes from Paul Moore:
 "Two fixes for problems found by syzbot:

   - Moving audit filter structure fields into a union caused some
     problems in the code which populates that filter structure.

     We keep the union (that idea is a good one), but we are fixing the
     code so that it doesn't needlessly set fields in the union and mess
     up the error handling.

   - The audit_receive_msg() function wasn't validating user input as
     well as it should in all cases, we add the necessary checks"

* tag 'audit-pr-20200226' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit:
  audit: always check the netlink payload length in audit_receive_msg()
  audit: fix error handling in audit_data_to_entry()
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v5.6-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2020-02-26T18:34:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-26T18:34:42+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing and bootconfig updates:
 "Fixes and changes to bootconfig before it goes live in a release.

  Change in API of bootconfig (before it comes live in a release):
  - Have a magic value "BOOTCONFIG" in initrd to know a bootconfig
    exists
  - Set CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG to 'n' by default
  - Show error if "bootconfig" on cmdline but not compiled in
  - Prevent redefining the same value
  - Have a way to append values
  - Added a SELECT BLK_DEV_INITRD to fix a build failure

  Synthetic event fixes:
  - Switch to raw_smp_processor_id() for recording CPU value in preempt
    section. (No care for what the value actually is)
  - Fix samples always recording u64 values
  - Fix endianess
  - Check number of values matches number of fields
  - Fix a printing bug

  Fix of trace_printk() breaking postponed start up tests

  Make a function static that is only used in a single file"

* tag 'trace-v5.6-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  bootconfig: Fix CONFIG_BOOTTIME_TRACING dependency issue
  bootconfig: Add append value operator support
  bootconfig: Prohibit re-defining value on same key
  bootconfig: Print array as multiple commands for legacy command line
  bootconfig: Reject subkey and value on same parent key
  tools/bootconfig: Remove unneeded error message silencer
  bootconfig: Add bootconfig magic word for indicating bootconfig explicitly
  bootconfig: Set CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG=n by default
  tracing: Clear trace_state when starting trace
  bootconfig: Mark boot_config_checksum() static
  tracing: Disable trace_printk() on post poned tests
  tracing: Have synthetic event test use raw_smp_processor_id()
  tracing: Fix number printing bug in print_synth_event()
  tracing: Check that number of vals matches number of synth event fields
  tracing: Make synth_event trace functions endian-correct
  tracing: Make sure synth_event_trace() example always uses u64
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Pull tracing and bootconfig updates:
 "Fixes and changes to bootconfig before it goes live in a release.

  Change in API of bootconfig (before it comes live in a release):
  - Have a magic value "BOOTCONFIG" in initrd to know a bootconfig
    exists
  - Set CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG to 'n' by default
  - Show error if "bootconfig" on cmdline but not compiled in
  - Prevent redefining the same value
  - Have a way to append values
  - Added a SELECT BLK_DEV_INITRD to fix a build failure

  Synthetic event fixes:
  - Switch to raw_smp_processor_id() for recording CPU value in preempt
    section. (No care for what the value actually is)
  - Fix samples always recording u64 values
  - Fix endianess
  - Check number of values matches number of fields
  - Fix a printing bug

  Fix of trace_printk() breaking postponed start up tests

  Make a function static that is only used in a single file"

* tag 'trace-v5.6-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  bootconfig: Fix CONFIG_BOOTTIME_TRACING dependency issue
  bootconfig: Add append value operator support
  bootconfig: Prohibit re-defining value on same key
  bootconfig: Print array as multiple commands for legacy command line
  bootconfig: Reject subkey and value on same parent key
  tools/bootconfig: Remove unneeded error message silencer
  bootconfig: Add bootconfig magic word for indicating bootconfig explicitly
  bootconfig: Set CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG=n by default
  tracing: Clear trace_state when starting trace
  bootconfig: Mark boot_config_checksum() static
  tracing: Disable trace_printk() on post poned tests
  tracing: Have synthetic event test use raw_smp_processor_id()
  tracing: Fix number printing bug in print_synth_event()
  tracing: Check that number of vals matches number of synth event fields
  tracing: Make synth_event trace functions endian-correct
  tracing: Make sure synth_event_trace() example always uses u64
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal: avoid double atomic counter increments for user accounting</title>
<updated>2020-02-26T17:54:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-24T20:47:14+00:00</published>
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When queueing a signal, we increment both the users count of pending
signals (for RLIMIT_SIGPENDING tracking) and we increment the refcount
of the user struct itself (because we keep a reference to the user in
the signal structure in order to correctly account for it when freeing).

That turns out to be fairly expensive, because both of them are atomic
updates, and particularly under extreme signal handling pressure on big
machines, you can get a lot of cache contention on the user struct.
That can then cause horrid cacheline ping-pong when you do these
multiple accesses.

So change the reference counting to only pin the user for the _first_
pending signal, and to unpin it when the last pending signal is
dequeued.  That means that when a user sees a lot of concurrent signal
queuing - which is the only situation when this matters - the only
atomic access needed is generally the 'sigpending' count update.

This was noticed because of a particularly odd timing artifact on a
dual-socket 96C/192T Cascade Lake platform: when you get into bad
contention, on that machine for some reason seems to be much worse when
the contention happens in the upper 32-byte half of the cacheline.

As a result, the kernel test robot will-it-scale 'signal1' benchmark had
an odd performance regression simply due to random alignment of the
'struct user_struct' (and pointed to a completely unrelated and
apparently nonsensical commit for the regression).

Avoiding the double increments (and decrements on the dequeueing side,
of course) makes for much less contention and hugely improved
performance on that will-it-scale microbenchmark.

Quoting Feng Tang:

 "It makes a big difference, that the performance score is tripled! bump
  from original 17000 to 54000. Also the gap between 5.0-rc6 and
  5.0-rc6+Jiri's patch is reduced to around 2%"

[ The "2% gap" is the odd cacheline placement difference on that
  platform: under the extreme contention case, the effect of which half
  of the cacheline was hot was 5%, so with the reduced contention the
  odd timing artifact is reduced too ]

It does help in the non-contended case too, but is not nearly as
noticeable.

Reported-and-tested-by: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Huang, Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Philip Li &lt;philip.li@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi.kleen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When queueing a signal, we increment both the users count of pending
signals (for RLIMIT_SIGPENDING tracking) and we increment the refcount
of the user struct itself (because we keep a reference to the user in
the signal structure in order to correctly account for it when freeing).

That turns out to be fairly expensive, because both of them are atomic
updates, and particularly under extreme signal handling pressure on big
machines, you can get a lot of cache contention on the user struct.
That can then cause horrid cacheline ping-pong when you do these
multiple accesses.

So change the reference counting to only pin the user for the _first_
pending signal, and to unpin it when the last pending signal is
dequeued.  That means that when a user sees a lot of concurrent signal
queuing - which is the only situation when this matters - the only
atomic access needed is generally the 'sigpending' count update.

This was noticed because of a particularly odd timing artifact on a
dual-socket 96C/192T Cascade Lake platform: when you get into bad
contention, on that machine for some reason seems to be much worse when
the contention happens in the upper 32-byte half of the cacheline.

As a result, the kernel test robot will-it-scale 'signal1' benchmark had
an odd performance regression simply due to random alignment of the
'struct user_struct' (and pointed to a completely unrelated and
apparently nonsensical commit for the regression).

Avoiding the double increments (and decrements on the dequeueing side,
of course) makes for much less contention and hugely improved
performance on that will-it-scale microbenchmark.

Quoting Feng Tang:

 "It makes a big difference, that the performance score is tripled! bump
  from original 17000 to 54000. Also the gap between 5.0-rc6 and
  5.0-rc6+Jiri's patch is reduced to around 2%"

[ The "2% gap" is the odd cacheline placement difference on that
  platform: under the extreme contention case, the effect of which half
  of the cacheline was hot was 5%, so with the reduced contention the
  odd timing artifact is reduced too ]

It does help in the non-contended case too, but is not nearly as
noticeable.

Reported-and-tested-by: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Huang, Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Philip Li &lt;philip.li@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi.kleen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bootconfig: Fix CONFIG_BOOTTIME_TRACING dependency issue</title>
<updated>2020-02-26T00:07:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-25T14:36:41+00:00</published>
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Since commit d8a953ddde5e ("bootconfig: Set CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG=n by
default") also changed the CONFIG_BOOTTIME_TRACING to select
CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG to show the boot-time tracing on the menu,
it introduced wrong dependencies with BLK_DEV_INITRD as below.

WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for BOOT_CONFIG
  Depends on [n]: BLK_DEV_INITRD [=n]
  Selected by [y]:
  - BOOTTIME_TRACING [=y] &amp;&amp; TRACING_SUPPORT [=y] &amp;&amp; FTRACE [=y] &amp;&amp; TRACING [=y]

This makes the CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG selects CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD to
fix this error and make CONFIG_BOOTTIME_TRACING=n by default, so
that both boot-time tracing and boot configuration off but those
appear on the menu list.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158264140162.23842.11237423518607465535.stgit@devnote2

Fixes: d8a953ddde5e ("bootconfig: Set CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG=n by default")
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Compiled-tested-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Since commit d8a953ddde5e ("bootconfig: Set CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG=n by
default") also changed the CONFIG_BOOTTIME_TRACING to select
CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG to show the boot-time tracing on the menu,
it introduced wrong dependencies with BLK_DEV_INITRD as below.

WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for BOOT_CONFIG
  Depends on [n]: BLK_DEV_INITRD [=n]
  Selected by [y]:
  - BOOTTIME_TRACING [=y] &amp;&amp; TRACING_SUPPORT [=y] &amp;&amp; FTRACE [=y] &amp;&amp; TRACING [=y]

This makes the CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG selects CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD to
fix this error and make CONFIG_BOOTTIME_TRACING=n by default, so
that both boot-time tracing and boot configuration off but those
appear on the menu list.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158264140162.23842.11237423518607465535.stgit@devnote2

Fixes: d8a953ddde5e ("bootconfig: Set CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG=n by default")
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Compiled-tested-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>blktrace: Protect q-&gt;blk_trace with RCU</title>
<updated>2020-02-25T15:40:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-06T14:28:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c780e86dd48ef6467a1146cf7d0fe1e05a635039'/>
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KASAN is reporting that __blk_add_trace() has a use-after-free issue
when accessing q-&gt;blk_trace. Indeed the switching of block tracing (and
thus eventual freeing of q-&gt;blk_trace) is completely unsynchronized with
the currently running tracing and thus it can happen that the blk_trace
structure is being freed just while __blk_add_trace() works on it.
Protect accesses to q-&gt;blk_trace by RCU during tracing and make sure we
wait for the end of RCU grace period when shutting down tracing. Luckily
that is rare enough event that we can afford that. Note that postponing
the freeing of blk_trace to an RCU callback should better be avoided as
it could have unexpected user visible side-effects as debugfs files
would be still existing for a short while block tracing has been shut
down.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205711
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Reported-by: Tristan Madani &lt;tristmd@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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KASAN is reporting that __blk_add_trace() has a use-after-free issue
when accessing q-&gt;blk_trace. Indeed the switching of block tracing (and
thus eventual freeing of q-&gt;blk_trace) is completely unsynchronized with
the currently running tracing and thus it can happen that the blk_trace
structure is being freed just while __blk_add_trace() works on it.
Protect accesses to q-&gt;blk_trace by RCU during tracing and make sure we
wait for the end of RCU grace period when shutting down tracing. Luckily
that is rare enough event that we can afford that. Note that postponing
the freeing of blk_trace to an RCU callback should better be avoided as
it could have unexpected user visible side-effects as debugfs files
would be still existing for a short while block tracing has been shut
down.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205711
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Reported-by: Tristan Madani &lt;tristmd@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>audit: always check the netlink payload length in audit_receive_msg()</title>
<updated>2020-02-24T21:38:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Moore</name>
<email>paul@paul-moore.com</email>
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<published>2020-02-24T21:38:57+00:00</published>
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This patch ensures that we always check the netlink payload length
in audit_receive_msg() before we take any action on the payload
itself.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: syzbot+399c44bf1f43b8747403@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+e4b12d8d202701f08b6d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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This patch ensures that we always check the netlink payload length
in audit_receive_msg() before we take any action on the payload
itself.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: syzbot+399c44bf1f43b8747403@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+e4b12d8d202701f08b6d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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<title>audit: fix error handling in audit_data_to_entry()</title>
<updated>2020-02-23T01:36:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Moore</name>
<email>paul@paul-moore.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-23T01:36:47+00:00</published>
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Commit 219ca39427bf ("audit: use union for audit_field values since
they are mutually exclusive") combined a number of separate fields in
the audit_field struct into a single union.  Generally this worked
just fine because they are generally mutually exclusive.
Unfortunately in audit_data_to_entry() the overlap can be a problem
when a specific error case is triggered that causes the error path
code to attempt to cleanup an audit_field struct and the cleanup
involves attempting to free a stored LSM string (the lsm_str field).
Currently the code always has a non-NULL value in the
audit_field.lsm_str field as the top of the for-loop transfers a
value into audit_field.val (both .lsm_str and .val are part of the
same union); if audit_data_to_entry() fails and the audit_field
struct is specified to contain a LSM string, but the
audit_field.lsm_str has not yet been properly set, the error handling
code will attempt to free the bogus audit_field.lsm_str value that
was set with audit_field.val at the top of the for-loop.

This patch corrects this by ensuring that the audit_field.val is only
set when needed (it is cleared when the audit_field struct is
allocated with kcalloc()).  It also corrects a few other issues to
ensure that in case of error the proper error code is returned.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 219ca39427bf ("audit: use union for audit_field values since they are mutually exclusive")
Reported-by: syzbot+1f4d90ead370d72e450b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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Commit 219ca39427bf ("audit: use union for audit_field values since
they are mutually exclusive") combined a number of separate fields in
the audit_field struct into a single union.  Generally this worked
just fine because they are generally mutually exclusive.
Unfortunately in audit_data_to_entry() the overlap can be a problem
when a specific error case is triggered that causes the error path
code to attempt to cleanup an audit_field struct and the cleanup
involves attempting to free a stored LSM string (the lsm_str field).
Currently the code always has a non-NULL value in the
audit_field.lsm_str field as the top of the for-loop transfers a
value into audit_field.val (both .lsm_str and .val are part of the
same union); if audit_data_to_entry() fails and the audit_field
struct is specified to contain a LSM string, but the
audit_field.lsm_str has not yet been properly set, the error handling
code will attempt to free the bogus audit_field.lsm_str value that
was set with audit_field.val at the top of the for-loop.

This patch corrects this by ensuring that the audit_field.val is only
set when needed (it is cleared when the audit_field struct is
allocated with kcalloc()).  It also corrects a few other issues to
ensure that in case of error the proper error code is returned.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 219ca39427bf ("audit: use union for audit_field values since they are mutually exclusive")
Reported-by: syzbot+1f4d90ead370d72e450b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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