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<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2018-03-23T01:48:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-23T01:48:43+00:00</published>
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Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "13 fixes"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;:
  mm, thp: do not cause memcg oom for thp
  mm/vmscan: wake up flushers for legacy cgroups too
  Revert "mm: page_alloc: skip over regions of invalid pfns where possible"
  mm/shmem: do not wait for lock_page() in shmem_unused_huge_shrink()
  mm/thp: do not wait for lock_page() in deferred_split_scan()
  mm/khugepaged.c: convert VM_BUG_ON() to collapse fail
  x86/mm: implement free pmd/pte page interfaces
  mm/vmalloc: add interfaces to free unmapped page table
  h8300: remove extraneous __BIG_ENDIAN definition
  hugetlbfs: check for pgoff value overflow
  lockdep: fix fs_reclaim warning
  MAINTAINERS: update Mark Fasheh's e-mail
  mm/mempolicy.c: avoid use uninitialized preferred_node
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Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "13 fixes"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;:
  mm, thp: do not cause memcg oom for thp
  mm/vmscan: wake up flushers for legacy cgroups too
  Revert "mm: page_alloc: skip over regions of invalid pfns where possible"
  mm/shmem: do not wait for lock_page() in shmem_unused_huge_shrink()
  mm/thp: do not wait for lock_page() in deferred_split_scan()
  mm/khugepaged.c: convert VM_BUG_ON() to collapse fail
  x86/mm: implement free pmd/pte page interfaces
  mm/vmalloc: add interfaces to free unmapped page table
  h8300: remove extraneous __BIG_ENDIAN definition
  hugetlbfs: check for pgoff value overflow
  lockdep: fix fs_reclaim warning
  MAINTAINERS: update Mark Fasheh's e-mail
  mm/mempolicy.c: avoid use uninitialized preferred_node
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<entry>
<title>mm/vmalloc: add interfaces to free unmapped page table</title>
<updated>2018-03-23T00:07:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Toshi Kani</name>
<email>toshi.kani@hpe.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-22T23:17:20+00:00</published>
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On architectures with CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP set, ioremap() may
create pud/pmd mappings.  A kernel panic was observed on arm64 systems
with Cortex-A75 in the following steps as described by Hanjun Guo.

 1. ioremap a 4K size, valid page table will build,
 2. iounmap it, pte0 will set to 0;
 3. ioremap the same address with 2M size, pgd/pmd is unchanged,
    then set the a new value for pmd;
 4. pte0 is leaked;
 5. CPU may meet exception because the old pmd is still in TLB,
    which will lead to kernel panic.

This panic is not reproducible on x86.  INVLPG, called from iounmap,
purges all levels of entries associated with purged address on x86.  x86
still has memory leak.

The patch changes the ioremap path to free unmapped page table(s) since
doing so in the unmap path has the following issues:

 - The iounmap() path is shared with vunmap(). Since vmap() only
   supports pte mappings, making vunmap() to free a pte page is an
   overhead for regular vmap users as they do not need a pte page freed
   up.

 - Checking if all entries in a pte page are cleared in the unmap path
   is racy, and serializing this check is expensive.

 - The unmap path calls free_vmap_area_noflush() to do lazy TLB purges.
   Clearing a pud/pmd entry before the lazy TLB purges needs extra TLB
   purge.

Add two interfaces, pud_free_pmd_page() and pmd_free_pte_page(), which
clear a given pud/pmd entry and free up a page for the lower level
entries.

This patch implements their stub functions on x86 and arm64, which work
as workaround.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo in pmd_free_pte_page() stub]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180314180155.19492-2-toshi.kani@hpe.com
Fixes: e61ce6ade404e ("mm: change ioremap to set up huge I/O mappings")
Reported-by: Lei Li &lt;lious.lilei@hisilicon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Wang Xuefeng &lt;wxf.wang@hisilicon.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Hanjun Guo &lt;guohanjun@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Chintan Pandya &lt;cpandya@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.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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On architectures with CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP set, ioremap() may
create pud/pmd mappings.  A kernel panic was observed on arm64 systems
with Cortex-A75 in the following steps as described by Hanjun Guo.

 1. ioremap a 4K size, valid page table will build,
 2. iounmap it, pte0 will set to 0;
 3. ioremap the same address with 2M size, pgd/pmd is unchanged,
    then set the a new value for pmd;
 4. pte0 is leaked;
 5. CPU may meet exception because the old pmd is still in TLB,
    which will lead to kernel panic.

This panic is not reproducible on x86.  INVLPG, called from iounmap,
purges all levels of entries associated with purged address on x86.  x86
still has memory leak.

The patch changes the ioremap path to free unmapped page table(s) since
doing so in the unmap path has the following issues:

 - The iounmap() path is shared with vunmap(). Since vmap() only
   supports pte mappings, making vunmap() to free a pte page is an
   overhead for regular vmap users as they do not need a pte page freed
   up.

 - Checking if all entries in a pte page are cleared in the unmap path
   is racy, and serializing this check is expensive.

 - The unmap path calls free_vmap_area_noflush() to do lazy TLB purges.
   Clearing a pud/pmd entry before the lazy TLB purges needs extra TLB
   purge.

Add two interfaces, pud_free_pmd_page() and pmd_free_pte_page(), which
clear a given pud/pmd entry and free up a page for the lower level
entries.

This patch implements their stub functions on x86 and arm64, which work
as workaround.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo in pmd_free_pte_page() stub]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180314180155.19492-2-toshi.kani@hpe.com
Fixes: e61ce6ade404e ("mm: change ioremap to set up huge I/O mappings")
Reported-by: Lei Li &lt;lious.lilei@hisilicon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Wang Xuefeng &lt;wxf.wang@hisilicon.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Hanjun Guo &lt;guohanjun@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Chintan Pandya &lt;cpandya@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.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>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2018-03-22T21:10:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-22T21:10:29+00:00</published>
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Always validate XFRM esn replay attribute, from Florian Westphal.

 2) Fix RCU read lock imbalance in xfrm_get_tos(), from Xin Long.

 3) Don't try to get firmware dump if not loaded in iwlwifi, from Shaul
    Triebitz.

 4) Fix BPF helpers to deal with SCTP GSO SKBs properly, from Daniel
    Axtens.

 5) Fix some interrupt handling issues in e1000e driver, from Benjamin
    Poitier.

 6) Use strlcpy() in several ethtool get_strings methods, from Florian
    Fainelli.

 7) Fix rhlist dup insertion, from Paul Blakey.

 8) Fix SKB leak in netem packet scheduler, from Alexey Kodanev.

 9) Fix driver unload crash when link is up in smsc911x, from Jeremy
    Linton.

10) Purge out invalid socket types in l2tp_tunnel_create(), from Eric
    Dumazet.

11) Need to purge the write queue when TCP connections are aborted,
    otherwise userspace using MSG_ZEROCOPY can't close the fd. From
    Soheil Hassas Yeganeh.

12) Fix double free in error path of team driver, from Arkadi
    Sharshevsky.

13) Filter fixes for hv_netvsc driver, from Stephen Hemminger.

14) Fix non-linear packet access in ipv6 ndisc code, from Lorenzo
    Bianconi.

15) Properly filter out unsupported feature flags in macvlan driver,
    from Shannon Nelson.

16) Don't request loading the diag module for a protocol if the protocol
    itself is not even registered. From Xin Long.

17) If datagram connect fails in ipv6, make sure the socket state is
    consistent afterwards. From Paolo Abeni.

18) Use after free in qed driver, from Dan Carpenter.

19) If received ipv4 PMTU is less than the min pmtu, lock the mtu in the
    entry. From Sabrina Dubroca.

20) Fix sleep in atomic in tg3 driver, from Jonathan Toppins.

21) Fix vlan in vlan untagging in some situations, from Toshiaki Makita.

22) Fix double SKB free in genlmsg_mcast(). From Nicolas Dichtel.

23) Fix NULL derefs in error paths of tcf_*_init(), from Davide Caratti.

24) Unbalanced PM runtime calls in FEC driver, from Florian Fainelli.

25) Memory leak in gemini driver, from Igor Pylypiv.

26) IDR leaks in error paths of tcf_*_init() functions, from Davide
    Caratti.

27) Need to use GFP_ATOMIC in seg6_build_state(), from David Lebrun.

28) Missing dev_put() in error path of macsec_newlink(), from Dan
    Carpenter.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (201 commits)
  macsec: missing dev_put() on error in macsec_newlink()
  net: dsa: Fix functional dsa-loop dependency on FIXED_PHY
  hv_netvsc: common detach logic
  hv_netvsc: change GPAD teardown order on older versions
  hv_netvsc: use RCU to fix concurrent rx and queue changes
  hv_netvsc: disable NAPI before channel close
  net/ipv6: Handle onlink flag with multipath routes
  ppp: avoid loop in xmit recursion detection code
  ipv6: sr: fix NULL pointer dereference when setting encap source address
  ipv6: sr: fix scheduling in RCU when creating seg6 lwtunnel state
  net: aquantia: driver version bump
  net: aquantia: Implement pci shutdown callback
  net: aquantia: Allow live mac address changes
  net: aquantia: Add tx clean budget and valid budget handling logic
  net: aquantia: Change inefficient wait loop on fw data reads
  net: aquantia: Fix a regression with reset on old firmware
  net: aquantia: Fix hardware reset when SPI may rarely hangup
  s390/qeth: on channel error, reject further cmd requests
  s390/qeth: lock read device while queueing next buffer
  s390/qeth: when thread completes, wake up all waiters
  ...
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Always validate XFRM esn replay attribute, from Florian Westphal.

 2) Fix RCU read lock imbalance in xfrm_get_tos(), from Xin Long.

 3) Don't try to get firmware dump if not loaded in iwlwifi, from Shaul
    Triebitz.

 4) Fix BPF helpers to deal with SCTP GSO SKBs properly, from Daniel
    Axtens.

 5) Fix some interrupt handling issues in e1000e driver, from Benjamin
    Poitier.

 6) Use strlcpy() in several ethtool get_strings methods, from Florian
    Fainelli.

 7) Fix rhlist dup insertion, from Paul Blakey.

 8) Fix SKB leak in netem packet scheduler, from Alexey Kodanev.

 9) Fix driver unload crash when link is up in smsc911x, from Jeremy
    Linton.

10) Purge out invalid socket types in l2tp_tunnel_create(), from Eric
    Dumazet.

11) Need to purge the write queue when TCP connections are aborted,
    otherwise userspace using MSG_ZEROCOPY can't close the fd. From
    Soheil Hassas Yeganeh.

12) Fix double free in error path of team driver, from Arkadi
    Sharshevsky.

13) Filter fixes for hv_netvsc driver, from Stephen Hemminger.

14) Fix non-linear packet access in ipv6 ndisc code, from Lorenzo
    Bianconi.

15) Properly filter out unsupported feature flags in macvlan driver,
    from Shannon Nelson.

16) Don't request loading the diag module for a protocol if the protocol
    itself is not even registered. From Xin Long.

17) If datagram connect fails in ipv6, make sure the socket state is
    consistent afterwards. From Paolo Abeni.

18) Use after free in qed driver, from Dan Carpenter.

19) If received ipv4 PMTU is less than the min pmtu, lock the mtu in the
    entry. From Sabrina Dubroca.

20) Fix sleep in atomic in tg3 driver, from Jonathan Toppins.

21) Fix vlan in vlan untagging in some situations, from Toshiaki Makita.

22) Fix double SKB free in genlmsg_mcast(). From Nicolas Dichtel.

23) Fix NULL derefs in error paths of tcf_*_init(), from Davide Caratti.

24) Unbalanced PM runtime calls in FEC driver, from Florian Fainelli.

25) Memory leak in gemini driver, from Igor Pylypiv.

26) IDR leaks in error paths of tcf_*_init() functions, from Davide
    Caratti.

27) Need to use GFP_ATOMIC in seg6_build_state(), from David Lebrun.

28) Missing dev_put() in error path of macsec_newlink(), from Dan
    Carpenter.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (201 commits)
  macsec: missing dev_put() on error in macsec_newlink()
  net: dsa: Fix functional dsa-loop dependency on FIXED_PHY
  hv_netvsc: common detach logic
  hv_netvsc: change GPAD teardown order on older versions
  hv_netvsc: use RCU to fix concurrent rx and queue changes
  hv_netvsc: disable NAPI before channel close
  net/ipv6: Handle onlink flag with multipath routes
  ppp: avoid loop in xmit recursion detection code
  ipv6: sr: fix NULL pointer dereference when setting encap source address
  ipv6: sr: fix scheduling in RCU when creating seg6 lwtunnel state
  net: aquantia: driver version bump
  net: aquantia: Implement pci shutdown callback
  net: aquantia: Allow live mac address changes
  net: aquantia: Add tx clean budget and valid budget handling logic
  net: aquantia: Change inefficient wait loop on fw data reads
  net: aquantia: Fix a regression with reset on old firmware
  net: aquantia: Fix hardware reset when SPI may rarely hangup
  s390/qeth: on channel error, reject further cmd requests
  s390/qeth: lock read device while queueing next buffer
  s390/qeth: when thread completes, wake up all waiters
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>test_bpf: Fix testing with CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON=y on other arches</title>
<updated>2018-03-20T22:04:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo</name>
<email>cascardo@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-20T12:58:51+00:00</published>
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Function bpf_fill_maxinsns11 is designed to not be able to be JITed on
x86_64. So, it fails when CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON=y, and
commit 09584b406742 ("bpf: fix selftests/bpf test_kmod.sh failure when
CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON=y") makes sure that failure is detected on that
case.

However, it does not fail on other architectures, which have a different
JIT compiler design. So, test_bpf has started to fail to load on those.

After this fix, test_bpf loads fine on both x86_64 and ppc64el.

Fixes: 09584b406742 ("bpf: fix selftests/bpf test_kmod.sh failure when CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON=y")
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo &lt;cascardo@canonical.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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Function bpf_fill_maxinsns11 is designed to not be able to be JITed on
x86_64. So, it fails when CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON=y, and
commit 09584b406742 ("bpf: fix selftests/bpf test_kmod.sh failure when
CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON=y") makes sure that failure is detected on that
case.

However, it does not fail on other architectures, which have a different
JIT compiler design. So, test_bpf has started to fail to load on those.

After this fix, test_bpf loads fine on both x86_64 and ppc64el.

Fixes: 09584b406742 ("bpf: fix selftests/bpf test_kmod.sh failure when CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON=y")
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo &lt;cascardo@canonical.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.16-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu</title>
<updated>2018-03-19T21:48:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-19T21:48:35+00:00</published>
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Pull percpu fixes from Tejun Heo:
 "Late percpu pull request for v4.16-rc6.

   - percpu allocator pool replenishing no longer triggers OOM or
     warning messages.

     Also, the alloc interface now understands __GFP_NORETRY and
     __GFP_NOWARN. This is to allow avoiding OOMs from userland
     triggered actions like bpf map creation.

     Also added cond_resched() in alloc loop.

   - perpcu allocation now can be interrupted by kill sigs to avoid
     deadlocking OOM killer.

   - Added Dennis Zhou as a co-maintainer.

     He has rewritten the area map allocator, understands most of the
     code base and has been responsive for all bug reports"

* 'for-4.16-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu_ref: Update doc to dissuade users from depending on internal RCU grace periods
  mm: Allow to kill tasks doing pcpu_alloc() and waiting for pcpu_balance_workfn()
  percpu: include linux/sched.h for cond_resched()
  percpu: add a schedule point in pcpu_balance_workfn()
  percpu: allow select gfp to be passed to underlying allocators
  percpu: add __GFP_NORETRY semantics to the percpu balancing path
  percpu: match chunk allocator declarations with definitions
  percpu: add Dennis Zhou as a percpu co-maintainer
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Pull percpu fixes from Tejun Heo:
 "Late percpu pull request for v4.16-rc6.

   - percpu allocator pool replenishing no longer triggers OOM or
     warning messages.

     Also, the alloc interface now understands __GFP_NORETRY and
     __GFP_NOWARN. This is to allow avoiding OOMs from userland
     triggered actions like bpf map creation.

     Also added cond_resched() in alloc loop.

   - perpcu allocation now can be interrupted by kill sigs to avoid
     deadlocking OOM killer.

   - Added Dennis Zhou as a co-maintainer.

     He has rewritten the area map allocator, understands most of the
     code base and has been responsive for all bug reports"

* 'for-4.16-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu_ref: Update doc to dissuade users from depending on internal RCU grace periods
  mm: Allow to kill tasks doing pcpu_alloc() and waiting for pcpu_balance_workfn()
  percpu: include linux/sched.h for cond_resched()
  percpu: add a schedule point in pcpu_balance_workfn()
  percpu: allow select gfp to be passed to underlying allocators
  percpu: add __GFP_NORETRY semantics to the percpu balancing path
  percpu: match chunk allocator declarations with definitions
  percpu: add Dennis Zhou as a percpu co-maintainer
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>percpu_ref: Update doc to dissuade users from depending on internal RCU grace periods</title>
<updated>2018-03-19T17:09:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-14T19:45:12+00:00</published>
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percpu_ref internally uses sched-RCU to implement the percpu -&gt; atomic
mode switching and the documentation suggested that this could be
depended upon.  This doesn't seem like a good idea.

* percpu_ref uses sched-RCU which has different grace periods regular
  RCU.  Users may combine percpu_ref with regular RCU usage and
  incorrectly believe that regular RCU grace periods are performed by
  percpu_ref.  This can lead to, for example, use-after-free due to
  premature freeing.

* percpu_ref has a grace period when switching from percpu to atomic
  mode.  It doesn't have one between the last put and release.  This
  distinction is subtle and can lead to surprising bugs.

* percpu_ref allows starting in and switching to atomic mode manually
  for debugging and other purposes.  This means that there may not be
  any grace periods from kill to release.

This patch makes it clear that the grace periods are percpu_ref's
internal implementation detail and can't be depended upon by the
users.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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percpu_ref internally uses sched-RCU to implement the percpu -&gt; atomic
mode switching and the documentation suggested that this could be
depended upon.  This doesn't seem like a good idea.

* percpu_ref uses sched-RCU which has different grace periods regular
  RCU.  Users may combine percpu_ref with regular RCU usage and
  incorrectly believe that regular RCU grace periods are performed by
  percpu_ref.  This can lead to, for example, use-after-free due to
  premature freeing.

* percpu_ref has a grace period when switching from percpu to atomic
  mode.  It doesn't have one between the last put and release.  This
  distinction is subtle and can lead to surprising bugs.

* percpu_ref allows starting in and switching to atomic mode manually
  for debugging and other purposes.  This means that there may not be
  any grace periods from kill to release.

This patch makes it clear that the grace periods are percpu_ref's
internal implementation detail and can't be depended upon by the
users.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>btree: avoid variable-length allocations</title>
<updated>2018-03-14T23:55:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joern Engel</name>
<email>joern@purestorage.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-13T18:36:49+00:00</published>
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geo-&gt;keylen cannot be larger than 4.  So we might as well make
fixed-size allocations.

Given the one remaining user, geo-&gt;keylen cannot even be larger than 1.
Logfs used to have 64bit and 128bit keys, tcm_qla2xxx only has 32bit
keys.  But let's not break the code if we don't have to.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel &lt;joern@purestorage.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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geo-&gt;keylen cannot be larger than 4.  So we might as well make
fixed-size allocations.

Given the one remaining user, geo-&gt;keylen cannot even be larger than 1.
Logfs used to have 64bit and 128bit keys, tcm_qla2xxx only has 32bit
keys.  But let's not break the code if we don't have to.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel &lt;joern@purestorage.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lib/test_kmod.c: fix limit check on number of test devices created</title>
<updated>2018-03-10T00:40:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis R. Rodriguez</name>
<email>mcgrof@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-09T23:51:20+00:00</published>
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As reported by Dan the parentheses is in the wrong place, and since
unlikely() call returns either 0 or 1 it's never less than zero.  The
second issue is that signed integer overflows like "INT_MAX + 1" are
undefined behavior.

Since num_test_devs represents the number of devices, we want to stop
prior to hitting the max, and not rely on the wrap arround at all.  So
just cap at num_test_devs + 1, prior to assigning a new device.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180224030046.24238-1-mcgrof@kernel.org
Fixes: d9c6a72d6fa2 ("kmod: add test driver to stress test the module loader")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.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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As reported by Dan the parentheses is in the wrong place, and since
unlikely() call returns either 0 or 1 it's never less than zero.  The
second issue is that signed integer overflows like "INT_MAX + 1" are
undefined behavior.

Since num_test_devs represents the number of devices, we want to stop
prior to hitting the max, and not rely on the wrap arround at all.  So
just cap at num_test_devs + 1, prior to assigning a new device.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180224030046.24238-1-mcgrof@kernel.org
Fixes: d9c6a72d6fa2 ("kmod: add test driver to stress test the module loader")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.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>lib/bug.c: exclude non-BUG/WARN exceptions from report_bug()</title>
<updated>2018-03-10T00:40:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-09T23:51:02+00:00</published>
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Commit b8347c219649 ("x86/debug: Handle warnings before the notifier
chain, to fix KGDB crash") changed the ordering of fixups, and did not
take into account the case of x86 processing non-WARN() and non-BUG()
exceptions.  This would lead to output of a false BUG line with no other
information.

In the case of a refcount exception, it would be immediately followed by
the refcount WARN(), producing very strange double-"cut here":

  lkdtm: attempting bad refcount_inc() overflow
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  Kernel BUG at 0000000065f29de5 [verbose debug info unavailable]
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  refcount_t overflow at lkdtm_REFCOUNT_INC_OVERFLOW+0x6b/0x90 in cat[3065], uid/euid: 0/0
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3065 at kernel/panic.c:657 refcount_error_report+0x9a/0xa4
  ...

In the prior ordering, exceptions were searched first:

   do_trap_no_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, int trapnr, char *str,
   ...
                if (fixup_exception(regs, trapnr))
                        return 0;

  -               if (fixup_bug(regs, trapnr))
  -                       return 0;
  -

As a result, fixup_bugs()'s is_valid_bugaddr() didn't take into account
needing to search the exception list first, since that had already
happened.

So, instead of searching the exception list twice (once in
is_valid_bugaddr() and then again in fixup_exception()), just add a
simple sanity check to report_bug() that will immediately bail out if a
BUG() (or WARN()) entry is not found.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180301225934.GA34350@beast
Fixes: b8347c219649 ("x86/debug: Handle warnings before the notifier chain, to fix KGDB crash")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard.weinberger@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.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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Commit b8347c219649 ("x86/debug: Handle warnings before the notifier
chain, to fix KGDB crash") changed the ordering of fixups, and did not
take into account the case of x86 processing non-WARN() and non-BUG()
exceptions.  This would lead to output of a false BUG line with no other
information.

In the case of a refcount exception, it would be immediately followed by
the refcount WARN(), producing very strange double-"cut here":

  lkdtm: attempting bad refcount_inc() overflow
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  Kernel BUG at 0000000065f29de5 [verbose debug info unavailable]
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  refcount_t overflow at lkdtm_REFCOUNT_INC_OVERFLOW+0x6b/0x90 in cat[3065], uid/euid: 0/0
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3065 at kernel/panic.c:657 refcount_error_report+0x9a/0xa4
  ...

In the prior ordering, exceptions were searched first:

   do_trap_no_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, int trapnr, char *str,
   ...
                if (fixup_exception(regs, trapnr))
                        return 0;

  -               if (fixup_bug(regs, trapnr))
  -                       return 0;
  -

As a result, fixup_bugs()'s is_valid_bugaddr() didn't take into account
needing to search the exception list first, since that had already
happened.

So, instead of searching the exception list twice (once in
is_valid_bugaddr() and then again in fixup_exception()), just add a
simple sanity check to report_bug() that will immediately bail out if a
BUG() (or WARN()) entry is not found.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180301225934.GA34350@beast
Fixes: b8347c219649 ("x86/debug: Handle warnings before the notifier chain, to fix KGDB crash")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard.weinberger@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.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>
<title>bug: use %pB in BUG and stack protector failure</title>
<updated>2018-03-10T00:40:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-09T23:50:59+00:00</published>
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The BUG and stack protector reports were still using a raw %p.  This
changes it to %pB for more meaningful output.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180301225704.GA34198@beast
Fixes: ad67b74d2469 ("printk: hash addresses printed with %p")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard.weinberger@gmail.com&gt;,
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.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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The BUG and stack protector reports were still using a raw %p.  This
changes it to %pB for more meaningful output.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180301225704.GA34198@beast
Fixes: ad67b74d2469 ("printk: hash addresses printed with %p")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard.weinberger@gmail.com&gt;,
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.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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