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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2017-08-01T05:36:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-01T05:36:42+00:00</published>
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Handle notifier registry failures properly in tun/tap driver, from
    Tonghao Zhang.

 2) Fix bpf verifier handling of subtraction bounds and add a testcase
    for this, from Edward Cree.

 3) Increase reset timeout in ftgmac100 driver, from Ben Herrenschmidt.

 4) Fix use after free in prd_retire_rx_blk_timer_exired() in AF_PACKET,
    from Cong Wang.

 5) Fix SElinux regression due to recent UDP optimizations, from Paolo
    Abeni.

 6) We accidently increment IPSTATS_MIB_FRAGFAILS in the ipv6 code
    paths, fix from Stefano Brivio.

 7) Fix some mem leaks in dccp, from Xin Long.

 8) Adjust MDIO_BUS kconfig deps to avoid build errors, from Arnd
    Bergmann.

 9) Mac address length check and buffer size fixes from Cong Wang.

10) Don't leak sockets in ipv6 udp early demux, from Paolo Abeni.

11) Fix return value when copy_from_user() fails in
    bpf_prog_get_info_by_fd(), from Daniel Borkmann.

12) Handle PHY_HALTED properly in phy library state machine, from
    Florian Fainelli.

13) Fix OOPS in fib_sync_down_dev(), from Ido Schimmel.

14) Fix truesize calculation in virtio_net which led to performance
    regressions, from Michael S Tsirkin.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (76 commits)
  samples/bpf: fix bpf tunnel cleanup
  udp6: fix jumbogram reception
  ppp: Fix a scheduling-while-atomic bug in del_chan
  Revert "net: bcmgenet: Remove init parameter from bcmgenet_mii_config"
  virtio_net: fix truesize for mergeable buffers
  mv643xx_eth: fix of_irq_to_resource() error check
  MAINTAINERS: Add more files to the PHY LIBRARY section
  ipv4: fib: Fix NULL pointer deref during fib_sync_down_dev()
  net: phy: Correctly process PHY_HALTED in phy_stop_machine()
  sunhme: fix up GREG_STAT and GREG_IMASK register offsets
  bpf: fix bpf_prog_get_info_by_fd to dump correct xlated_prog_len
  tcp: avoid bogus gcc-7 array-bounds warning
  net: tc35815: fix spelling mistake: "Intterrupt" -&gt; "Interrupt"
  bpf: don't indicate success when copy_from_user fails
  udp6: fix socket leak on early demux
  net: thunderx: Fix BGX transmit stall due to underflow
  Revert "vhost: cache used event for better performance"
  team: use a larger struct for mac address
  net: check dev-&gt;addr_len for dev_set_mac_address()
  phy: bcm-ns-usb3: fix MDIO_BUS dependency
  ...
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Handle notifier registry failures properly in tun/tap driver, from
    Tonghao Zhang.

 2) Fix bpf verifier handling of subtraction bounds and add a testcase
    for this, from Edward Cree.

 3) Increase reset timeout in ftgmac100 driver, from Ben Herrenschmidt.

 4) Fix use after free in prd_retire_rx_blk_timer_exired() in AF_PACKET,
    from Cong Wang.

 5) Fix SElinux regression due to recent UDP optimizations, from Paolo
    Abeni.

 6) We accidently increment IPSTATS_MIB_FRAGFAILS in the ipv6 code
    paths, fix from Stefano Brivio.

 7) Fix some mem leaks in dccp, from Xin Long.

 8) Adjust MDIO_BUS kconfig deps to avoid build errors, from Arnd
    Bergmann.

 9) Mac address length check and buffer size fixes from Cong Wang.

10) Don't leak sockets in ipv6 udp early demux, from Paolo Abeni.

11) Fix return value when copy_from_user() fails in
    bpf_prog_get_info_by_fd(), from Daniel Borkmann.

12) Handle PHY_HALTED properly in phy library state machine, from
    Florian Fainelli.

13) Fix OOPS in fib_sync_down_dev(), from Ido Schimmel.

14) Fix truesize calculation in virtio_net which led to performance
    regressions, from Michael S Tsirkin.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (76 commits)
  samples/bpf: fix bpf tunnel cleanup
  udp6: fix jumbogram reception
  ppp: Fix a scheduling-while-atomic bug in del_chan
  Revert "net: bcmgenet: Remove init parameter from bcmgenet_mii_config"
  virtio_net: fix truesize for mergeable buffers
  mv643xx_eth: fix of_irq_to_resource() error check
  MAINTAINERS: Add more files to the PHY LIBRARY section
  ipv4: fib: Fix NULL pointer deref during fib_sync_down_dev()
  net: phy: Correctly process PHY_HALTED in phy_stop_machine()
  sunhme: fix up GREG_STAT and GREG_IMASK register offsets
  bpf: fix bpf_prog_get_info_by_fd to dump correct xlated_prog_len
  tcp: avoid bogus gcc-7 array-bounds warning
  net: tc35815: fix spelling mistake: "Intterrupt" -&gt; "Interrupt"
  bpf: don't indicate success when copy_from_user fails
  udp6: fix socket leak on early demux
  net: thunderx: Fix BGX transmit stall due to underflow
  Revert "vhost: cache used event for better performance"
  team: use a larger struct for mac address
  net: check dev-&gt;addr_len for dev_set_mac_address()
  phy: bcm-ns-usb3: fix MDIO_BUS dependency
  ...
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<entry>
<title>lib: test_rhashtable: Fix KASAN warning</title>
<updated>2017-07-25T19:35:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Phil Sutter</name>
<email>phil@nwl.cc</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-25T11:36:21+00:00</published>
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I forgot one spot when introducing struct test_obj_val.

Fixes: e859afe1ee0c5 ("lib: test_rhashtable: fix for large entry counts")
Reported by: kernel test robot &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter &lt;phil@nwl.cc&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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I forgot one spot when introducing struct test_obj_val.

Fixes: e859afe1ee0c5 ("lib: test_rhashtable: fix for large entry counts")
Reported by: kernel test robot &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter &lt;phil@nwl.cc&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lib: test_rhashtable: fix for large entry counts</title>
<updated>2017-07-24T21:13:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Phil Sutter</name>
<email>phil@nwl.cc</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-21T14:51:31+00:00</published>
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During concurrent access testing, threadfunc() concatenated thread ID
and object index to create a unique key like so:

| tdata-&gt;objs[i].value = (tdata-&gt;id &lt;&lt; 16) | i;

This breaks if a user passes an entries parameter of 64k or higher,
since 'i' might use more than 16 bits then. Effectively, this will lead
to duplicate keys in the table.

Fix the problem by introducing a struct holding object and thread ID and
using that as key instead of a single integer type field.

Fixes: f4a3e90ba5739 ("rhashtable-test: extend to test concurrency")
Reported by: Manuel Messner &lt;mm@skelett.io&gt;
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter &lt;phil@nwl.cc&gt;
Acked-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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During concurrent access testing, threadfunc() concatenated thread ID
and object index to create a unique key like so:

| tdata-&gt;objs[i].value = (tdata-&gt;id &lt;&lt; 16) | i;

This breaks if a user passes an entries parameter of 64k or higher,
since 'i' might use more than 16 bits then. Effectively, this will lead
to duplicate keys in the table.

Fix the problem by introducing a struct holding object and thread ID and
using that as key instead of a single integer type field.

Fixes: f4a3e90ba5739 ("rhashtable-test: extend to test concurrency")
Reported by: Manuel Messner &lt;mm@skelett.io&gt;
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter &lt;phil@nwl.cc&gt;
Acked-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>uuid: fix incorrect uuid_equal conversion in test_uuid_test</title>
<updated>2017-07-21T07:38:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-20T07:54:03+00:00</published>
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Fixes: df33767d ("uuid: hoist helpers uuid_equal() and uuid_copy() from xfs")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;xiaolong.ye@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Fixes: df33767d ("uuid: hoist helpers uuid_equal() and uuid_copy() from xfs")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;xiaolong.ye@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random</title>
<updated>2017-07-15T19:44:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-15T19:44:02+00:00</published>
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Pull random updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Add wait_for_random_bytes() and get_random_*_wait() functions so that
  callers can more safely get random bytes if they can block until the
  CRNG is initialized.

  Also print a warning if get_random_*() is called before the CRNG is
  initialized. By default, only one single-line warning will be printed
  per boot. If CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM is defined, then a
  warning will be printed for each function which tries to get random
  bytes before the CRNG is initialized. This can get spammy for certain
  architecture types, so it is not enabled by default"

* tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random:
  random: reorder READ_ONCE() in get_random_uXX
  random: suppress spammy warnings about unseeded randomness
  random: warn when kernel uses unseeded randomness
  net/route: use get_random_int for random counter
  net/neighbor: use get_random_u32 for 32-bit hash random
  rhashtable: use get_random_u32 for hash_rnd
  ceph: ensure RNG is seeded before using
  iscsi: ensure RNG is seeded before use
  cifs: use get_random_u32 for 32-bit lock random
  random: add get_random_{bytes,u32,u64,int,long,once}_wait family
  random: add wait_for_random_bytes() API
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Pull random updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Add wait_for_random_bytes() and get_random_*_wait() functions so that
  callers can more safely get random bytes if they can block until the
  CRNG is initialized.

  Also print a warning if get_random_*() is called before the CRNG is
  initialized. By default, only one single-line warning will be printed
  per boot. If CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM is defined, then a
  warning will be printed for each function which tries to get random
  bytes before the CRNG is initialized. This can get spammy for certain
  architecture types, so it is not enabled by default"

* tag 'random_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random:
  random: reorder READ_ONCE() in get_random_uXX
  random: suppress spammy warnings about unseeded randomness
  random: warn when kernel uses unseeded randomness
  net/route: use get_random_int for random counter
  net/neighbor: use get_random_u32 for 32-bit hash random
  rhashtable: use get_random_u32 for hash_rnd
  ceph: ensure RNG is seeded before using
  iscsi: ensure RNG is seeded before use
  cifs: use get_random_u32 for 32-bit lock random
  random: add get_random_{bytes,u32,u64,int,long,once}_wait family
  random: add wait_for_random_bytes() API
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<entry>
<title>random: suppress spammy warnings about unseeded randomness</title>
<updated>2017-07-15T16:19:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-08T08:16:59+00:00</published>
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Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting a fully
seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can result in dmesg
getting spammed for a surprisingly long time.  This is really bad from
a security perspective, and so architecture maintainers really need to
do what they can to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is
booted.  However, users can't do anything actionble to address this,
and spamming the kernel messages log will only just annoy people.

For developers who want to work on improving this situation,
CONFIG_WARN_UNSEEDED_RANDOM has been renamed to
CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM.  By default the kernel will always
print the first use of unseeded randomness.  This way, hopefully the
security obsessed will be happy that there is _some_ indication when
the kernel boots there may be a potential issue with that architecture
or subarchitecture.  To see all uses of unseeded randomness,
developers can enable CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Unfortunately, on some models of some architectures getting a fully
seeded CRNG is extremely difficult, and so this can result in dmesg
getting spammed for a surprisingly long time.  This is really bad from
a security perspective, and so architecture maintainers really need to
do what they can to get the CRNG seeded sooner after the system is
booted.  However, users can't do anything actionble to address this,
and spamming the kernel messages log will only just annoy people.

For developers who want to work on improving this situation,
CONFIG_WARN_UNSEEDED_RANDOM has been renamed to
CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM.  By default the kernel will always
print the first use of unseeded randomness.  This way, hopefully the
security obsessed will be happy that there is _some_ indication when
the kernel boots there may be a potential issue with that architecture
or subarchitecture.  To see all uses of unseeded randomness,
developers can enable CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kmod: add test driver to stress test the module loader</title>
<updated>2017-07-14T22:05:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis R. Rodriguez</name>
<email>mcgrof@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-14T21:50:08+00:00</published>
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This adds a new stress test driver for kmod: the kernel module loader.
The new stress test driver, test_kmod, is only enabled as a module right
now.  It should be possible to load this as built-in and load tests
early (refer to the force_init_test module parameter), however since a
lot of test can get a system out of memory fast we leave this disabled
for now.

Using a system with 1024 MiB of RAM can *easily* get your kernel OOM
fast with this test driver.

The test_kmod driver exposes API knobs for us to fine tune simple
request_module() and get_fs_type() calls.  Since these API calls only
allow each one parameter a test driver for these is rather simple.
Other factors that can help out test driver though are the number of
calls we issue and knowing current limitations of each.  This exposes
configuration as much as possible through userspace to be able to build
tests directly from userspace.

Since it allows multiple misc devices its will eventually (once we add a
knob to let us create new devices at will) also be possible to perform
more tests in parallel, provided you have enough memory.

We only enable tests we know work as of right now.

Demo screenshots:

 # tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh
kmod_test_0001_driver: OK! - loading kmod test
kmod_test_0001_driver: OK! - Return value: 256 (MODULE_NOT_FOUND), expected MODULE_NOT_FOUND
kmod_test_0001_fs: OK! - loading kmod test
kmod_test_0001_fs: OK! - Return value: -22 (-EINVAL), expected -EINVAL
kmod_test_0002_driver: OK! - loading kmod test
kmod_test_0002_driver: OK! - Return value: 256 (MODULE_NOT_FOUND), expected MODULE_NOT_FOUND
kmod_test_0002_fs: OK! - loading kmod test
kmod_test_0002_fs: OK! - Return value: -22 (-EINVAL), expected -EINVAL
kmod_test_0003: OK! - loading kmod test
kmod_test_0003: OK! - Return value: 0 (SUCCESS), expected SUCCESS
kmod_test_0004: OK! - loading kmod test
kmod_test_0004: OK! - Return value: 0 (SUCCESS), expected SUCCESS
kmod_test_0005: OK! - loading kmod test
kmod_test_0005: OK! - Return value: 0 (SUCCESS), expected SUCCESS
kmod_test_0006: OK! - loading kmod test
kmod_test_0006: OK! - Return value: 0 (SUCCESS), expected SUCCESS
kmod_test_0005: OK! - loading kmod test
kmod_test_0005: OK! - Return value: 0 (SUCCESS), expected SUCCESS
kmod_test_0006: OK! - loading kmod test
kmod_test_0006: OK! - Return value: 0 (SUCCESS), expected SUCCESS
XXX: add test restult for 0007
Test completed

You can also request for specific tests:

 # tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh -t 0001
kmod_test_0001_driver: OK! - loading kmod test
kmod_test_0001_driver: OK! - Return value: 256 (MODULE_NOT_FOUND), expected MODULE_NOT_FOUND
kmod_test_0001_fs: OK! - loading kmod test
kmod_test_0001_fs: OK! - Return value: -22 (-EINVAL), expected -EINVAL
Test completed

Lastly, the current available number of tests:

 # tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help
Usage: tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh [ -t &lt;4-number-digit&gt; ]
Valid tests: 0001-0009

0001 - Simple test - 1 thread  for empty string
0002 - Simple test - 1 thread  for modules/filesystems that do not exist
0003 - Simple test - 1 thread  for get_fs_type() only
0004 - Simple test - 2 threads for get_fs_type() only
0005 - multithreaded tests with default setup - request_module() only
0006 - multithreaded tests with default setup - get_fs_type() only
0007 - multithreaded tests with default setup test request_module() and get_fs_type()
0008 - multithreaded - push kmod_concurrent over max_modprobes for request_module()
0009 - multithreaded - push kmod_concurrent over max_modprobes for get_fs_type()

The following test cases currently fail, as such they are not currently
enabled by default:

 # tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh -t 0008
 # tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh -t 0009

To be sure to run them as intended please unload both of the modules:

  o test_module
  o xfs

And ensure they are not loaded on your system prior to testing them.  If
you use these paritions for your rootfs you can change the default test
driver used for get_fs_type() by exporting it into your environment.  For
example of other test defaults you can override refer to kmod.sh
allow_user_defaults().

Behind the scenes this is how we fine tune at a test case prior to
hitting a trigger to run it:

cat /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_kmod0/config
echo -n "2" &gt; /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_kmod0/config_test_case
echo -n "ext4" &gt; /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_kmod0/config_test_fs
echo -n "80" &gt; /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_kmod0/config_num_threads
cat /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_kmod0/config
echo -n "1" &gt; /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_kmod0/config_num_threads

Finally to trigger:

echo -n "1" &gt; /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_kmod0/trigger_config

The kmod.sh script uses the above constructs to build different test cases.

A bit of interpretation of the current failures follows, first two
premises:

a) When request_module() is used userspace figures out an optimized
   version of module order for us.  Once it finds the modules it needs, as
   per depmod symbol dep map, it will finit_module() the respective
   modules which are needed for the original request_module() request.

b) We have an optimization in place whereby if a kernel uses
   request_module() on a module already loaded we never bother userspace
   as the module already is loaded.  This is all handled by kernel/kmod.c.

A few things to consider to help identify root causes of issues:

0) kmod 19 has a broken heuristic for modules being assumed to be
   built-in to your kernel and will return 0 even though request_module()
   failed.  Upgrade to a newer version of kmod.

1) A get_fs_type() call for "xfs" will request_module() for "fs-xfs",
   not for "xfs".  The optimization in kernel described in b) fails to
   catch if we have a lot of consecutive get_fs_type() calls.  The reason
   is the optimization in place does not look for aliases.  This means two
   consecutive get_fs_type() calls will bump kmod_concurrent, whereas
   request_module() will not.

This one explanation why test case 0009 fails at least once for
get_fs_type().

2) If a module fails to load --- for whatever reason (kmod_concurrent
   limit reached, file not yet present due to rootfs switch, out of
   memory) we have a period of time during which module request for the
   same name either with request_module() or get_fs_type() will *also*
   fail to load even if the file for the module is ready.

This explains why *multiple* NULLs are possible on test 0009.

3) finit_module() consumes quite a bit of memory.

4) Filesystems typically also have more dependent modules than other
   modules, its important to note though that even though a get_fs_type()
   call does not incur additional kmod_concurrent bumps, since userspace
   loads dependencies it finds it needs via finit_module_fd(), it *will*
   take much more memory to load a module with a lot of dependencies.

Because of 3) and 4) we will easily run into out of memory failures with
certain tests.  For instance test 0006 fails on qemu with 1024 MiB of RAM.
It panics a box after reaping all userspace processes and still not
having enough memory to reap.

[arnd@arndb.de: add dependencies for test module]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170630154834.3689272-1-arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170628223155.26472-3-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.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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This adds a new stress test driver for kmod: the kernel module loader.
The new stress test driver, test_kmod, is only enabled as a module right
now.  It should be possible to load this as built-in and load tests
early (refer to the force_init_test module parameter), however since a
lot of test can get a system out of memory fast we leave this disabled
for now.

Using a system with 1024 MiB of RAM can *easily* get your kernel OOM
fast with this test driver.

The test_kmod driver exposes API knobs for us to fine tune simple
request_module() and get_fs_type() calls.  Since these API calls only
allow each one parameter a test driver for these is rather simple.
Other factors that can help out test driver though are the number of
calls we issue and knowing current limitations of each.  This exposes
configuration as much as possible through userspace to be able to build
tests directly from userspace.

Since it allows multiple misc devices its will eventually (once we add a
knob to let us create new devices at will) also be possible to perform
more tests in parallel, provided you have enough memory.

We only enable tests we know work as of right now.

Demo screenshots:

 # tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh
kmod_test_0001_driver: OK! - loading kmod test
kmod_test_0001_driver: OK! - Return value: 256 (MODULE_NOT_FOUND), expected MODULE_NOT_FOUND
kmod_test_0001_fs: OK! - loading kmod test
kmod_test_0001_fs: OK! - Return value: -22 (-EINVAL), expected -EINVAL
kmod_test_0002_driver: OK! - loading kmod test
kmod_test_0002_driver: OK! - Return value: 256 (MODULE_NOT_FOUND), expected MODULE_NOT_FOUND
kmod_test_0002_fs: OK! - loading kmod test
kmod_test_0002_fs: OK! - Return value: -22 (-EINVAL), expected -EINVAL
kmod_test_0003: OK! - loading kmod test
kmod_test_0003: OK! - Return value: 0 (SUCCESS), expected SUCCESS
kmod_test_0004: OK! - loading kmod test
kmod_test_0004: OK! - Return value: 0 (SUCCESS), expected SUCCESS
kmod_test_0005: OK! - loading kmod test
kmod_test_0005: OK! - Return value: 0 (SUCCESS), expected SUCCESS
kmod_test_0006: OK! - loading kmod test
kmod_test_0006: OK! - Return value: 0 (SUCCESS), expected SUCCESS
kmod_test_0005: OK! - loading kmod test
kmod_test_0005: OK! - Return value: 0 (SUCCESS), expected SUCCESS
kmod_test_0006: OK! - loading kmod test
kmod_test_0006: OK! - Return value: 0 (SUCCESS), expected SUCCESS
XXX: add test restult for 0007
Test completed

You can also request for specific tests:

 # tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh -t 0001
kmod_test_0001_driver: OK! - loading kmod test
kmod_test_0001_driver: OK! - Return value: 256 (MODULE_NOT_FOUND), expected MODULE_NOT_FOUND
kmod_test_0001_fs: OK! - loading kmod test
kmod_test_0001_fs: OK! - Return value: -22 (-EINVAL), expected -EINVAL
Test completed

Lastly, the current available number of tests:

 # tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh --help
Usage: tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh [ -t &lt;4-number-digit&gt; ]
Valid tests: 0001-0009

0001 - Simple test - 1 thread  for empty string
0002 - Simple test - 1 thread  for modules/filesystems that do not exist
0003 - Simple test - 1 thread  for get_fs_type() only
0004 - Simple test - 2 threads for get_fs_type() only
0005 - multithreaded tests with default setup - request_module() only
0006 - multithreaded tests with default setup - get_fs_type() only
0007 - multithreaded tests with default setup test request_module() and get_fs_type()
0008 - multithreaded - push kmod_concurrent over max_modprobes for request_module()
0009 - multithreaded - push kmod_concurrent over max_modprobes for get_fs_type()

The following test cases currently fail, as such they are not currently
enabled by default:

 # tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh -t 0008
 # tools/testing/selftests/kmod/kmod.sh -t 0009

To be sure to run them as intended please unload both of the modules:

  o test_module
  o xfs

And ensure they are not loaded on your system prior to testing them.  If
you use these paritions for your rootfs you can change the default test
driver used for get_fs_type() by exporting it into your environment.  For
example of other test defaults you can override refer to kmod.sh
allow_user_defaults().

Behind the scenes this is how we fine tune at a test case prior to
hitting a trigger to run it:

cat /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_kmod0/config
echo -n "2" &gt; /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_kmod0/config_test_case
echo -n "ext4" &gt; /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_kmod0/config_test_fs
echo -n "80" &gt; /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_kmod0/config_num_threads
cat /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_kmod0/config
echo -n "1" &gt; /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_kmod0/config_num_threads

Finally to trigger:

echo -n "1" &gt; /sys/devices/virtual/misc/test_kmod0/trigger_config

The kmod.sh script uses the above constructs to build different test cases.

A bit of interpretation of the current failures follows, first two
premises:

a) When request_module() is used userspace figures out an optimized
   version of module order for us.  Once it finds the modules it needs, as
   per depmod symbol dep map, it will finit_module() the respective
   modules which are needed for the original request_module() request.

b) We have an optimization in place whereby if a kernel uses
   request_module() on a module already loaded we never bother userspace
   as the module already is loaded.  This is all handled by kernel/kmod.c.

A few things to consider to help identify root causes of issues:

0) kmod 19 has a broken heuristic for modules being assumed to be
   built-in to your kernel and will return 0 even though request_module()
   failed.  Upgrade to a newer version of kmod.

1) A get_fs_type() call for "xfs" will request_module() for "fs-xfs",
   not for "xfs".  The optimization in kernel described in b) fails to
   catch if we have a lot of consecutive get_fs_type() calls.  The reason
   is the optimization in place does not look for aliases.  This means two
   consecutive get_fs_type() calls will bump kmod_concurrent, whereas
   request_module() will not.

This one explanation why test case 0009 fails at least once for
get_fs_type().

2) If a module fails to load --- for whatever reason (kmod_concurrent
   limit reached, file not yet present due to rootfs switch, out of
   memory) we have a period of time during which module request for the
   same name either with request_module() or get_fs_type() will *also*
   fail to load even if the file for the module is ready.

This explains why *multiple* NULLs are possible on test 0009.

3) finit_module() consumes quite a bit of memory.

4) Filesystems typically also have more dependent modules than other
   modules, its important to note though that even though a get_fs_type()
   call does not incur additional kmod_concurrent bumps, since userspace
   loads dependencies it finds it needs via finit_module_fd(), it *will*
   take much more memory to load a module with a lot of dependencies.

Because of 3) and 4) we will easily run into out of memory failures with
certain tests.  For instance test 0006 fails on qemu with 1024 MiB of RAM.
It panics a box after reaping all userspace processes and still not
having enough memory to reap.

[arnd@arndb.de: add dependencies for test module]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170630154834.3689272-1-arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170628223155.26472-3-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.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>
<title>fault-inject: simplify access check for fail-nth</title>
<updated>2017-07-14T22:05:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Akinobu Mita</name>
<email>akinobu.mita@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-14T21:49:57+00:00</published>
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The fail-nth file is created with 0666 and the access is permitted if
and only if the task is current.

This file is owned by the currnet user.  So we can create it with 0644
and allow the owner to write it.  This enables to watch the status of
task-&gt;fail_nth from another processes.

[akinobu.mita@gmail.com: don't convert unsigned type value as signed int]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1492444483-9239-1-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com
[akinobu.mita@gmail.com: avoid unwanted data race to task-&gt;fail_nth]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1499962492-8931-1-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1491490561-10485-5-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita &lt;akinobu.mita@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&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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The fail-nth file is created with 0666 and the access is permitted if
and only if the task is current.

This file is owned by the currnet user.  So we can create it with 0644
and allow the owner to write it.  This enables to watch the status of
task-&gt;fail_nth from another processes.

[akinobu.mita@gmail.com: don't convert unsigned type value as signed int]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1492444483-9239-1-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com
[akinobu.mita@gmail.com: avoid unwanted data race to task-&gt;fail_nth]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1499962492-8931-1-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1491490561-10485-5-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita &lt;akinobu.mita@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>lib/atomic64_test.c: add a test that atomic64_inc_not_zero() returns an int</title>
<updated>2017-07-14T22:05:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-14T21:49:41+00:00</published>
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atomic64_inc_not_zero() returns a "truth value" which in C is
traditionally an int.  That means callers are likely to expect the
result will fit in an int.

If an implementation returns a "true" value which does not fit in an
int, then there's a possibility that callers will truncate it when they
store it in an int.

In fact this happened in practice, see commit 966d2b04e070
("percpu-refcount: fix reference leak during percpu-atomic transition").

So add a test that the result fits in an int, even when the input
doesn't.  This catches the case where an implementation just passes the
non-zero input value out as the result.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1499775133-1231-1-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Douglas Miller &lt;dougmill@linux.vnet.ibm.com&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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atomic64_inc_not_zero() returns a "truth value" which in C is
traditionally an int.  That means callers are likely to expect the
result will fit in an int.

If an implementation returns a "true" value which does not fit in an
int, then there's a possibility that callers will truncate it when they
store it in an int.

In fact this happened in practice, see commit 966d2b04e070
("percpu-refcount: fix reference leak during percpu-atomic transition").

So add a test that the result fits in an int, even when the input
doesn't.  This catches the case where an implementation just passes the
non-zero input value out as the result.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1499775133-1231-1-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Douglas Miller &lt;dougmill@linux.vnet.ibm.com&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>writeback: rework wb_[dec|inc]_stat family of functions</title>
<updated>2017-07-12T23:26:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nikolay Borisov</name>
<email>nborisov@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-12T21:37:51+00:00</published>
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Currently the writeback statistics code uses a percpu counters to hold
various statistics.  Furthermore we have 2 families of functions - those
which disable local irq and those which doesn't and whose names begin
with double underscore.  However, they both end up calling
__add_wb_stats which in turn calls percpu_counter_add_batch which is
already irq-safe.

Exploiting this fact allows to eliminated the __wb_* functions since
they don't add any further protection than we already have.
Furthermore, refactor the wb_* function to call __add_wb_stat directly
without the irq-disabling dance.  This will likely result in better
runtime of code which deals with modifying the stat counters.

While at it also document why percpu_counter_add_batch is in fact
preempt and irq-safe since at least 3 people got confused.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498029937-27293-1-git-send-email-nborisov@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov &lt;nborisov@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&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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Currently the writeback statistics code uses a percpu counters to hold
various statistics.  Furthermore we have 2 families of functions - those
which disable local irq and those which doesn't and whose names begin
with double underscore.  However, they both end up calling
__add_wb_stats which in turn calls percpu_counter_add_batch which is
already irq-safe.

Exploiting this fact allows to eliminated the __wb_* functions since
they don't add any further protection than we already have.
Furthermore, refactor the wb_* function to call __add_wb_stat directly
without the irq-disabling dance.  This will likely result in better
runtime of code which deals with modifying the stat counters.

While at it also document why percpu_counter_add_batch is in fact
preempt and irq-safe since at least 3 people got confused.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498029937-27293-1-git-send-email-nborisov@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov &lt;nborisov@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&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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