linux.git/lib, branch v3.19-rc2

Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux

2014-12-19T04:55:41+00:00

Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
 "The exciting thing here is the getting rid of stop_machine on module
  removal.  This is possible by using a simple atomic_t for the counter,
  rather than our fancy per-cpu counter: it turns out that no one is
  doing a module increment per net packet, so the slowdown should be in
  the noise"

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  param: do not set store func without write perm
  params: cleanup sysfs allocation
  kernel:module Fix coding style errors and warnings.
  module: Remove stop_machine from module unloading
  module: Replace module_ref with atomic_t refcnt
  lib/bug: Use RCU list ops for module_bug_list
  module: Unlink module with RCU synchronizing instead of stop_machine
  module: Wait for RCU synchronizing before releasing a module

lib/show_mem.c: add cma reserved information

2014-12-19T03:08:10+00:00

Add cma reserved information which is currently shown as a part of total
reserved only.  This patch is continuation of our previous cma patches
related to this.

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/20/64
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/22/383

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove hopefully-unneeded ifdefs]
Signed-off-by: Vishnu Pratap Singh 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Xishi Qiu 
Cc: Pintu Kumar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'char-misc-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

2014-12-15T00:43:47+00:00

Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big char/misc driver update for 3.19-rc1

  Lots of little things all over the place in different drivers, and a
  new subsystem, "coresight" has been added.  Full details are in the
  shortlog"

* tag 'char-misc-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (73 commits)
  parport: parport_pc, do not remove parent devices early
  spmi: Remove shutdown/suspend/resume kernel-doc
  carma-fpga-program: drop videobuf dependency
  carma-fpga: drop videobuf dependency
  carma-fpga-program.c: fix compile errors
  i8k: Fix temperature bug handling in i8k_get_temp()
  cxl: Name interrupts in /proc/interrupt
  CXL: Return error to PSL if IRQ demultiplexing fails & print clearer warning
  coresight-replicator: remove .owner field for driver
  coresight: fixed comments in coresight.h
  coresight: fix typo in comment in coresight-priv.h
  coresight: bindings for coresight drivers
  coresight: Adding ABI documentation
  w1: support auto-load of w1_bq27000 module.
  w1: avoid potential u16 overflow
  cn: verify msg->len before making callback
  mei: export fw status registers through sysfs
  mei: read and print all six FW status registers
  mei: txe: add cherrytrail device id
  mei: kill cached host and me csr values
  ...

Merge tag 'driver-core-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2014-12-15T00:10:09+00:00

Pull driver core update from Greg KH:
 "Here's the set of driver core patches for 3.19-rc1.

  They are dominated by the removal of the .owner field in platform
  drivers.  They touch a lot of files, but they are "simple" changes,
  just removing a line in a structure.

  Other than that, a few minor driver core and debugfs changes.  There
  are some ath9k patches coming in through this tree that have been
  acked by the wireless maintainers as they relied on the debugfs
  changes.

  Everything has been in linux-next for a while"

* tag 'driver-core-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (324 commits)
  Revert "ath: ath9k: use debugfs_create_devm_seqfile() helper for seq_file entries"
  fs: debugfs: add forward declaration for struct device type
  firmware class: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "vunmap"
  firmware loader: fix hung task warning dump
  devcoredump: provide a one-way disable function
  device: Add dev__once variants
  ath: ath9k: use debugfs_create_devm_seqfile() helper for seq_file entries
  ath: use seq_file api for ath9k debugfs files
  debugfs: add helper function to create device related seq_file
  drivers/base: cacheinfo: remove noisy error boot message
  Revert "core: platform: add warning if driver has no owner"
  drivers: base: support cpu cache information interface to userspace via sysfs
  drivers: base: add cpu_device_create to support per-cpu devices
  topology: replace custom attribute macros with standard DEVICE_ATTR*
  cpumask: factor out show_cpumap into separate helper function
  driver core: Fix unbalanced device reference in drivers_probe
  driver core: fix race with userland in device_add()
  sysfs/kernfs: make read requests on pre-alloc files use the buffer.
  sysfs/kernfs: allow attributes to request write buffer be pre-allocated.
  fs: sysfs: return EGBIG on write if offset is larger than file size
  ...

lib/decompress.c: consistency of compress formats for kernel image

2014-12-13T20:42:52+00:00

Magic number of compress formats for kernel image is defined by two bytes.
 These numbers are written in hexadecimal number, nevertheless magic
number for only gunzip is written in octal number.  The formats should be
consistent for readability.  Therefore, magic numbers for gunzip are also
defined by hexadecimal number.

Signed-off-by: Haesung Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

decompress_bunzip2: off by one in get_next_block()

2014-12-13T20:42:52+00:00

"origPtr" is used as an offset into the bd->dbuf[] array.  That array is
allocated in start_bunzip() and has "bd->dbufSize" number of elements so
the test here should be >= instead of >.

Later we check "origPtr" again before using it as an offset so I don't
know if this bug can be triggered in real life.

Fixes: bc22c17e12c1 ('bzip2/lzma: library support for gzip, bzip2 and lzma decompression')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
Cc: Alain Knaff 
Cc: Yinghai Lu 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fault-inject: add ratelimit option

2014-12-13T20:42:52+00:00

Current debug levels are not optimal.  Especially if one want to provoke
big numbers of faults(broken device simulator) then any verbose level will
produce giant numbers of identical logging messages.  Let's add ratelimit
parameter for that purpose.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov 
Acked-by: Akinobu Mita 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

syscalls: implement execveat() system call

2014-12-13T20:42:51+00:00

This patchset adds execveat(2) for x86, and is derived from Meredydd
Luff's patch from Sept 2012 (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/11/528).

The primary aim of adding an execveat syscall is to allow an
implementation of fexecve(3) that does not rely on the /proc filesystem,
at least for executables (rather than scripts).  The current glibc version
of fexecve(3) is implemented via /proc, which causes problems in sandboxed
or otherwise restricted environments.

Given the desire for a /proc-free fexecve() implementation, HPA suggested
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/11/556) that an execveat(2) syscall would be
an appropriate generalization.

Also, having a new syscall means that it can take a flags argument without
back-compatibility concerns.  The current implementation just defines the
AT_EMPTY_PATH and AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flags, but other flags could be
added in future -- for example, flags for new namespaces (as suggested at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/11/474).

Related history:
 - https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/27/123 is an example of someone
   realizing that fexecve() is likely to fail in a chroot environment.
 - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514043 covered
   documenting the /proc requirement of fexecve(3) in its manpage, to
   "prevent other people from wasting their time".
 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=241609 described a
   problem where a process that did setuid() could not fexecve()
   because it no longer had access to /proc/self/fd; this has since
   been fixed.

This patch (of 4):

Add a new execveat(2) system call.  execveat() is to execve() as openat()
is to open(): it takes a file descriptor that refers to a directory, and
resolves the filename relative to that.

In addition, if the filename is empty and AT_EMPTY_PATH is specified,
execveat() executes the file to which the file descriptor refers.  This
replicates the functionality of fexecve(), which is a system call in other
UNIXen, but in Linux glibc it depends on opening "/proc/self/fd/" (and
so relies on /proc being mounted).

The filename fed to the executed program as argv[0] (or the name of the
script fed to a script interpreter) will be of the form "/dev/fd/"
(for an empty filename) or "/dev/fd//", effectively
reflecting how the executable was found.  This does however mean that
execution of a script in a /proc-less environment won't work; also, script
execution via an O_CLOEXEC file descriptor fails (as the file will not be
accessible after exec).

Based on patches by Meredydd Luff.

Signed-off-by: David Drysdale 
Cc: Meredydd Luff 
Cc: Shuah Khan 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Rich Felker 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Michael Kerrisk 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/page_owner: keep track of page owners

2014-12-13T20:42:48+00:00

This is the page owner tracking code which is introduced so far ago.  It
is resident on Andrew's tree, though, nobody tried to upstream so it
remain as is.  Our company uses this feature actively to debug memory leak
or to find a memory hogger so I decide to upstream this feature.

This functionality help us to know who allocates the page.  When
allocating a page, we store some information about allocation in extra
memory.  Later, if we need to know status of all pages, we can get and
analyze it from this stored information.

In previous version of this feature, extra memory is statically defined in
struct page, but, in this version, extra memory is allocated outside of
struct page.  It enables us to turn on/off this feature at boottime
without considerable memory waste.

Although we already have tracepoint for tracing page allocation/free,
using it to analyze page owner is rather complex.  We need to enlarge the
trace buffer for preventing overlapping until userspace program launched.
And, launched program continually dump out the trace buffer for later
analysis and it would change system behaviour with more possibility rather
than just keeping it in memory, so bad for debug.

Moreover, we can use page_owner feature further for various purposes.  For
example, we can use it for fragmentation statistics implemented in this
patch.  And, I also plan to implement some CMA failure debugging feature
using this interface.

I'd like to give the credit for all developers contributed this feature,
but, it's not easy because I don't know exact history.  Sorry about that.
Below is people who has "Signed-off-by" in the patches in Andrew's tree.

Contributor:
Alexander Nyberg 
Mel Gorman 
Dave Hansen 
Minchan Kim 
Michal Nazarewicz 
Andrew Morton 
Jungsoo Son 

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz 
Cc: Jungsoo Son 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

lib: bitmap: add alignment offset for bitmap_find_next_zero_area()

2014-12-13T20:42:46+00:00

Add a bitmap_find_next_zero_area_off() function which works like
bitmap_find_next_zero_area() function except it allows an offset to be
specified when alignment is checked.  This lets caller request a bit such
that its number plus the offset is aligned according to the mask.

[gregory.0xf0@gmail.com: Retrieved from https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/6254/ and updated documentation]
Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz 
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park 
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski 
Signed-off-by: Gregory Fong 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Kukjin Kim 
Cc: Laurent Pinchart 
Cc: Laura Abbott 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds