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<title>Merge tag 'pidfd-v5.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux</title>
<updated>2019-03-16T20:47:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-16T20:47:14+00:00</published>
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Pull pidfd system call from Christian Brauner:
 "This introduces the ability to use file descriptors from /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/
  as stable handles on struct pid. Even if a pid is recycled the handle
  will not change. For a start these fds can be used to send signals to
  the processes they refer to.

  With the ability to use /proc/&lt;pid&gt; fds as stable handles on struct
  pid we can fix a long-standing issue where after a process has exited
  its pid can be reused by another process. If a caller sends a signal
  to a reused pid it will end up signaling the wrong process.

  With this patchset we enable a variety of use cases. One obvious
  example is that we can now safely delegate an important part of
  process management - sending signals - to processes other than the
  parent of a given process by sending file descriptors around via scm
  rights and not fearing that the given process will have been recycled
  in the meantime. It also allows for easy testing whether a given
  process is still alive or not by sending signal 0 to a pidfd which is
  quite handy.

  There has been some interest in this feature e.g. from systems
  management (systemd, glibc) and container managers. I have requested
  and gotten comments from glibc to make sure that this syscall is
  suitable for their needs as well. In the future I expect it to take on
  most other pid-based signal syscalls. But such features are left for
  the future once they are needed.

  This has been sitting in linux-next for quite a while and has not
  caused any issues. It comes with selftests which verify basic
  functionality and also test that a recycled pid cannot be signaled via
  a pidfd.

  Jon has written about a prior version of this patchset. It should
  cover the basic functionality since not a lot has changed since then:

      https://lwn.net/Articles/773459/

  The commit message for the syscall itself is extensively documenting
  the syscall, including it's functionality and extensibility"

* tag 'pidfd-v5.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  selftests: add tests for pidfd_send_signal()
  signal: add pidfd_send_signal() syscall
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Pull pidfd system call from Christian Brauner:
 "This introduces the ability to use file descriptors from /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/
  as stable handles on struct pid. Even if a pid is recycled the handle
  will not change. For a start these fds can be used to send signals to
  the processes they refer to.

  With the ability to use /proc/&lt;pid&gt; fds as stable handles on struct
  pid we can fix a long-standing issue where after a process has exited
  its pid can be reused by another process. If a caller sends a signal
  to a reused pid it will end up signaling the wrong process.

  With this patchset we enable a variety of use cases. One obvious
  example is that we can now safely delegate an important part of
  process management - sending signals - to processes other than the
  parent of a given process by sending file descriptors around via scm
  rights and not fearing that the given process will have been recycled
  in the meantime. It also allows for easy testing whether a given
  process is still alive or not by sending signal 0 to a pidfd which is
  quite handy.

  There has been some interest in this feature e.g. from systems
  management (systemd, glibc) and container managers. I have requested
  and gotten comments from glibc to make sure that this syscall is
  suitable for their needs as well. In the future I expect it to take on
  most other pid-based signal syscalls. But such features are left for
  the future once they are needed.

  This has been sitting in linux-next for quite a while and has not
  caused any issues. It comes with selftests which verify basic
  functionality and also test that a recycled pid cannot be signaled via
  a pidfd.

  Jon has written about a prior version of this patchset. It should
  cover the basic functionality since not a lot has changed since then:

      https://lwn.net/Articles/773459/

  The commit message for the syscall itself is extensively documenting
  the syscall, including it's functionality and extensibility"

* tag 'pidfd-v5.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  selftests: add tests for pidfd_send_signal()
  signal: add pidfd_send_signal() syscall
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'devdax-for-5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2019-03-16T20:05:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-16T20:05:32+00:00</published>
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Pull device-dax updates from Dan Williams:
 "New device-dax infrastructure to allow persistent memory and other
  "reserved" / performance differentiated memories, to be assigned to
  the core-mm as "System RAM".

  Some users want to use persistent memory as additional volatile
  memory. They are willing to cope with potential performance
  differences, for example between DRAM and 3D Xpoint, and want to use
  typical Linux memory management apis rather than a userspace memory
  allocator layered over an mmap() of a dax file. The administration
  model is to decide how much Persistent Memory (pmem) to use as System
  RAM, create a device-dax-mode namespace of that size, and then assign
  it to the core-mm. The rationale for device-dax is that it is a
  generic memory-mapping driver that can be layered over any "special
  purpose" memory, not just pmem. On subsequent boots udev rules can be
  used to restore the memory assignment.

  One implication of using pmem as RAM is that mlock() no longer keeps
  data off persistent media. For this reason it is recommended to enable
  NVDIMM Security (previously merged for 5.0) to encrypt pmem contents
  at rest. We considered making this recommendation an actively enforced
  requirement, but in the end decided to leave it as a distribution /
  administrator policy to allow for emulation and test environments that
  lack security capable NVDIMMs.

  Summary:

   - Replace the /sys/class/dax device model with /sys/bus/dax, and
     include a compat driver so distributions can opt-in to the new ABI.

   - Allow for an alternative driver for the device-dax address-range

   - Introduce the 'kmem' driver to hotplug / assign a device-dax
     address-range to the core-mm.

   - Arrange for the device-dax target-node to be onlined so that the
     newly added memory range can be uniquely referenced by numa apis"

NOTE! I'm not entirely happy with the whole "PMEM as RAM" model because
we currently have special - and very annoying rules in the kernel about
accessing PMEM only with the "MC safe" accessors, because machine checks
inside the regular repeat string copy functions can be fatal in some
(not described) circumstances.

And apparently the PMEM modules can cause that a lot more than regular
RAM.  The argument is that this happens because PMEM doesn't necessarily
get scrubbed at boot like RAM does, but that is planned to be added for
the user space tooling.

Quoting Dan from another email:
 "The exposure can be reduced in the volatile-RAM case by scanning for
  and clearing errors before it is onlined as RAM. The userspace tooling
  for that can be in place before v5.1-final. There's also runtime
  notifications of errors via acpi_nfit_uc_error_notify() from
  background scrubbers on the DIMM devices. With that mechanism the
  kernel could proactively clear newly discovered poison in the volatile
  case, but that would be additional development more suitable for v5.2.

  I understand the concern, and the need to highlight this issue by
  tapping the brakes on feature development, but I don't see PMEM as RAM
  making the situation worse when the exposure is also there via DAX in
  the PMEM case. Volatile-RAM is arguably a safer use case since it's
  possible to repair pages where the persistent case needs active
  application coordination"

* tag 'devdax-for-5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  device-dax: "Hotplug" persistent memory for use like normal RAM
  mm/resource: Let walk_system_ram_range() search child resources
  mm/memory-hotplug: Allow memory resources to be children
  mm/resource: Move HMM pr_debug() deeper into resource code
  mm/resource: Return real error codes from walk failures
  device-dax: Add a 'modalias' attribute to DAX 'bus' devices
  device-dax: Add a 'target_node' attribute
  device-dax: Auto-bind device after successful new_id
  acpi/nfit, device-dax: Identify differentiated memory with a unique numa-node
  device-dax: Add /sys/class/dax backwards compatibility
  device-dax: Add support for a dax override driver
  device-dax: Move resource pinning+mapping into the common driver
  device-dax: Introduce bus + driver model
  device-dax: Start defining a dax bus model
  device-dax: Remove multi-resource infrastructure
  device-dax: Kill dax_region base
  device-dax: Kill dax_region ida
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Pull device-dax updates from Dan Williams:
 "New device-dax infrastructure to allow persistent memory and other
  "reserved" / performance differentiated memories, to be assigned to
  the core-mm as "System RAM".

  Some users want to use persistent memory as additional volatile
  memory. They are willing to cope with potential performance
  differences, for example between DRAM and 3D Xpoint, and want to use
  typical Linux memory management apis rather than a userspace memory
  allocator layered over an mmap() of a dax file. The administration
  model is to decide how much Persistent Memory (pmem) to use as System
  RAM, create a device-dax-mode namespace of that size, and then assign
  it to the core-mm. The rationale for device-dax is that it is a
  generic memory-mapping driver that can be layered over any "special
  purpose" memory, not just pmem. On subsequent boots udev rules can be
  used to restore the memory assignment.

  One implication of using pmem as RAM is that mlock() no longer keeps
  data off persistent media. For this reason it is recommended to enable
  NVDIMM Security (previously merged for 5.0) to encrypt pmem contents
  at rest. We considered making this recommendation an actively enforced
  requirement, but in the end decided to leave it as a distribution /
  administrator policy to allow for emulation and test environments that
  lack security capable NVDIMMs.

  Summary:

   - Replace the /sys/class/dax device model with /sys/bus/dax, and
     include a compat driver so distributions can opt-in to the new ABI.

   - Allow for an alternative driver for the device-dax address-range

   - Introduce the 'kmem' driver to hotplug / assign a device-dax
     address-range to the core-mm.

   - Arrange for the device-dax target-node to be onlined so that the
     newly added memory range can be uniquely referenced by numa apis"

NOTE! I'm not entirely happy with the whole "PMEM as RAM" model because
we currently have special - and very annoying rules in the kernel about
accessing PMEM only with the "MC safe" accessors, because machine checks
inside the regular repeat string copy functions can be fatal in some
(not described) circumstances.

And apparently the PMEM modules can cause that a lot more than regular
RAM.  The argument is that this happens because PMEM doesn't necessarily
get scrubbed at boot like RAM does, but that is planned to be added for
the user space tooling.

Quoting Dan from another email:
 "The exposure can be reduced in the volatile-RAM case by scanning for
  and clearing errors before it is onlined as RAM. The userspace tooling
  for that can be in place before v5.1-final. There's also runtime
  notifications of errors via acpi_nfit_uc_error_notify() from
  background scrubbers on the DIMM devices. With that mechanism the
  kernel could proactively clear newly discovered poison in the volatile
  case, but that would be additional development more suitable for v5.2.

  I understand the concern, and the need to highlight this issue by
  tapping the brakes on feature development, but I don't see PMEM as RAM
  making the situation worse when the exposure is also there via DAX in
  the PMEM case. Volatile-RAM is arguably a safer use case since it's
  possible to repair pages where the persistent case needs active
  application coordination"

* tag 'devdax-for-5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  device-dax: "Hotplug" persistent memory for use like normal RAM
  mm/resource: Let walk_system_ram_range() search child resources
  mm/memory-hotplug: Allow memory resources to be children
  mm/resource: Move HMM pr_debug() deeper into resource code
  mm/resource: Return real error codes from walk failures
  device-dax: Add a 'modalias' attribute to DAX 'bus' devices
  device-dax: Add a 'target_node' attribute
  device-dax: Auto-bind device after successful new_id
  acpi/nfit, device-dax: Identify differentiated memory with a unique numa-node
  device-dax: Add /sys/class/dax backwards compatibility
  device-dax: Add support for a dax override driver
  device-dax: Move resource pinning+mapping into the common driver
  device-dax: Introduce bus + driver model
  device-dax: Start defining a dax bus model
  device-dax: Remove multi-resource infrastructure
  device-dax: Kill dax_region base
  device-dax: Kill dax_region ida
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2019-03-15T22:00:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-15T22:00:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=636deed6c0bc137a7c4f4a97ae1fcf0ad75323da'/>
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:
   - some cleanups
   - direct physical timer assignment
   - cache sanitization for 32-bit guests

  s390:
   - interrupt cleanup
   - introduction of the Guest Information Block
   - preparation for processor subfunctions in cpu models

  PPC:
   - bug fixes and improvements, especially related to machine checks
     and protection keys

  x86:
   - many, many cleanups, including removing a bunch of MMU code for
     unnecessary optimizations
   - AVIC fixes

  Generic:
   - memcg accounting"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (147 commits)
  kvm: vmx: fix formatting of a comment
  KVM: doc: Document the life cycle of a VM and its resources
  MAINTAINERS: Add KVM selftests to existing KVM entry
  Revert "KVM/MMU: Flush tlb directly in the kvm_zap_gfn_range()"
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add count cache flush parameters to kvmppc_get_cpu_char()
  KVM: PPC: Fix compilation when KVM is not enabled
  KVM: Minor cleanups for kvm_main.c
  KVM: s390: add debug logging for cpu model subfunctions
  KVM: s390: implement subfunction processor calls
  arm64: KVM: Fix architecturally invalid reset value for FPEXC32_EL2
  KVM: arm/arm64: Remove unused timer variable
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Improve KVM reference counting
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix build failure without IOMMU support
  Revert "KVM: Eliminate extra function calls in kvm_get_dirty_log_protect()"
  x86: kvmguest: use TSC clocksource if invariant TSC is exposed
  KVM: Never start grow vCPU halt_poll_ns from value below halt_poll_ns_grow_start
  KVM: Expose the initial start value in grow_halt_poll_ns() as a module parameter
  KVM: grow_halt_poll_ns() should never shrink vCPU halt_poll_ns
  KVM: x86/mmu: Consolidate kvm_mmu_zap_all() and kvm_mmu_zap_mmio_sptes()
  KVM: x86/mmu: WARN if zapping a MMIO spte results in zapping children
  ...
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:
   - some cleanups
   - direct physical timer assignment
   - cache sanitization for 32-bit guests

  s390:
   - interrupt cleanup
   - introduction of the Guest Information Block
   - preparation for processor subfunctions in cpu models

  PPC:
   - bug fixes and improvements, especially related to machine checks
     and protection keys

  x86:
   - many, many cleanups, including removing a bunch of MMU code for
     unnecessary optimizations
   - AVIC fixes

  Generic:
   - memcg accounting"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (147 commits)
  kvm: vmx: fix formatting of a comment
  KVM: doc: Document the life cycle of a VM and its resources
  MAINTAINERS: Add KVM selftests to existing KVM entry
  Revert "KVM/MMU: Flush tlb directly in the kvm_zap_gfn_range()"
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add count cache flush parameters to kvmppc_get_cpu_char()
  KVM: PPC: Fix compilation when KVM is not enabled
  KVM: Minor cleanups for kvm_main.c
  KVM: s390: add debug logging for cpu model subfunctions
  KVM: s390: implement subfunction processor calls
  arm64: KVM: Fix architecturally invalid reset value for FPEXC32_EL2
  KVM: arm/arm64: Remove unused timer variable
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Improve KVM reference counting
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix build failure without IOMMU support
  Revert "KVM: Eliminate extra function calls in kvm_get_dirty_log_protect()"
  x86: kvmguest: use TSC clocksource if invariant TSC is exposed
  KVM: Never start grow vCPU halt_poll_ns from value below halt_poll_ns_grow_start
  KVM: Expose the initial start value in grow_halt_poll_ns() as a module parameter
  KVM: grow_halt_poll_ns() should never shrink vCPU halt_poll_ns
  KVM: x86/mmu: Consolidate kvm_mmu_zap_all() and kvm_mmu_zap_mmio_sptes()
  KVM: x86/mmu: WARN if zapping a MMIO spte results in zapping children
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools/testing/selftests/proc/proc-pid-vm.c: test with vsyscall in mind</title>
<updated>2019-03-14T21:36:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-13T18:44:29+00:00</published>
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: selftests: proc: proc-pid-vm
: ========================================
: proc-pid-vm: proc-pid-vm.c:277: main: Assertion `rv == strlen(buf0)' failed.
: Aborted

Because the vsyscall mapping is enabled.  Read from vsyscall page to tell
if vsyscall is being used.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190307183204.GA11405@avx2
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190219094722.GB28258@shao2-debian
Fixes: 34aab6bec23e7e9 ("proc: test /proc/*/maps, smaps, smaps_rollup, statm")
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;rong.a.chen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@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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: selftests: proc: proc-pid-vm
: ========================================
: proc-pid-vm: proc-pid-vm.c:277: main: Assertion `rv == strlen(buf0)' failed.
: Aborted

Because the vsyscall mapping is enabled.  Read from vsyscall page to tell
if vsyscall is being used.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190307183204.GA11405@avx2
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190219094722.GB28258@shao2-debian
Fixes: 34aab6bec23e7e9 ("proc: test /proc/*/maps, smaps, smaps_rollup, statm")
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;rong.a.chen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2019-03-12T17:39:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-12T17:39:53+00:00</published>
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Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few misc things

 - the rest of MM

-  remove flex_arrays, replace with new simple radix-tree implementation

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (38 commits)
  Drop flex_arrays
  sctp: convert to genradix
  proc: commit to genradix
  generic radix trees
  selinux: convert to kvmalloc
  md: convert to kvmalloc
  openvswitch: convert to kvmalloc
  of: fix kmemleak crash caused by imbalance in early memory reservation
  mm: memblock: update comments and kernel-doc
  memblock: split checks whether a region should be skipped to a helper function
  memblock: remove memblock_{set,clear}_region_flags
  memblock: drop memblock_alloc_*_nopanic() variants
  memblock: memblock_alloc_try_nid: don't panic
  treewide: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
  swiotlb: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
  init/main: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
  mm/percpu: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
  sparc: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
  ia64: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
  arch: don't memset(0) memory returned by memblock_alloc()
  ...
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Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few misc things

 - the rest of MM

-  remove flex_arrays, replace with new simple radix-tree implementation

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (38 commits)
  Drop flex_arrays
  sctp: convert to genradix
  proc: commit to genradix
  generic radix trees
  selinux: convert to kvmalloc
  md: convert to kvmalloc
  openvswitch: convert to kvmalloc
  of: fix kmemleak crash caused by imbalance in early memory reservation
  mm: memblock: update comments and kernel-doc
  memblock: split checks whether a region should be skipped to a helper function
  memblock: remove memblock_{set,clear}_region_flags
  memblock: drop memblock_alloc_*_nopanic() variants
  memblock: memblock_alloc_try_nid: don't panic
  treewide: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
  swiotlb: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
  init/main: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
  mm/percpu: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
  sparc: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
  ia64: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
  arch: don't memset(0) memory returned by memblock_alloc()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools/testing/selftests/sysctl/sysctl.sh: add tests for &gt;32-bit values written to 32-bit integers</title>
<updated>2019-03-12T17:04:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zev Weiss</name>
<email>zev@bewilderbeest.net</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-12T06:27:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=fec52486682f7b3af2ffc28bcacc6e2ad6f7e1e6'/>
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Patch series "sysctl: fix range-checking in do_proc_dointvec_minmax_conv()", v2.

After being left with an unusable system after a typo executing
something like 'echo $((1&lt;&lt;24)) &gt; /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count', I found
that do_proc_dointvec_minmax_conv() was missing a check to ensure that
the converted value actually fits in an int.

The first of the following patches enhances the sysctl selftest such
that it detects this problem; the second provides a minimal fix
(suitable for -stable) such that the selftest passes.  The third patch
then performs a more thorough refactoring to eliminate the code
duplication that led to the bug in the first place (maintaining the
passing status of the selftest).

This patch (of 3):

At present this exposes a bug in do_proc_dointvec_minmax_conv() (it
fails to check for values that are too wide to fit in an int).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190207123426.9202-2-zev@bewilderbeest.net
Signed-off-by: Zev Weiss &lt;zev@bewilderbeest.net&gt;
Cc: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Brendan Higgins &lt;brendanhiggins@google.com&gt;
Cc: Iurii Zaikin &lt;yzaikin@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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Patch series "sysctl: fix range-checking in do_proc_dointvec_minmax_conv()", v2.

After being left with an unusable system after a typo executing
something like 'echo $((1&lt;&lt;24)) &gt; /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count', I found
that do_proc_dointvec_minmax_conv() was missing a check to ensure that
the converted value actually fits in an int.

The first of the following patches enhances the sysctl selftest such
that it detects this problem; the second provides a minimal fix
(suitable for -stable) such that the selftest passes.  The third patch
then performs a more thorough refactoring to eliminate the code
duplication that led to the bug in the first place (maintaining the
passing status of the selftest).

This patch (of 3):

At present this exposes a bug in do_proc_dointvec_minmax_conv() (it
fails to check for values that are too wide to fit in an int).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190207123426.9202-2-zev@bewilderbeest.net
Signed-off-by: Zev Weiss &lt;zev@bewilderbeest.net&gt;
Cc: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Brendan Higgins &lt;brendanhiggins@google.com&gt;
Cc: Iurii Zaikin &lt;yzaikin@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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2019-03-12T00:01:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-12T00:01:32+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6cdfa54cd22984ae785b0d496b53405d6da9ad1d'/>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "The biggest change for this release is in the histogram code:

   - Add "onchange(var)" histogram handler that executes a action when
     $var changes.

   - Add new "snapshot()" action for histogram handlers, that causes a
     snapshot of the ring buffer when triggered. ie.
     onchange(var).snapshot() will trigger a snapshot if var changes.

   - Add alternative for "trace()" action. Currently, to trigger a
     synthetic event, the name of that event is used as the handler
     name, which is inconsistent with the other actions.
     onchange(var).synthetic(param) where it can now be
     onchange(var).trace(synthetic, param). The older method will still
     be allowed, as long as the synthetic events do not overlap with
     other handler names.

   - The histogram documentation at testcases were updated for the new
     changes.

  Outside of the histogram code, we have:

   - Added a quicker way to enable set_ftrace_filter files, that will
     make it much quicker to bisect tracing a function that shouldn't be
     traced and crashes the kernel. (You can echo in numbers to
     set_ftrace_filter, and it will select the corresponding function
     that is in available_filter_functions).

   - Some better displaying of the tracing data (and more information
     was added).

  The rest are small fixes and more clean ups to the code"

* tag 'trace-v5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (37 commits)
  tracing: Use strncpy instead of memcpy when copying comm in trace.c
  tracing: Use strncpy instead of memcpy when copying comm for hist triggers
  tracing: Use strncpy instead of memcpy for string keys in hist triggers
  tracing: Use str_has_prefix() in synth_event_create()
  x86/ftrace: Fix warning and considate ftrace_jmp_replace() and ftrace_call_replace()
  tracing/perf: Use strndup_user() instead of buggy open-coded version
  doc: trace: Fix documentation for uprobe_profile
  tracing: Fix spelling mistake: "analagous" -&gt; "analogous"
  tracing: Comment why cond_snapshot is checked outside of max_lock protection
  tracing: Add hist trigger action 'expected fail' test case
  tracing: Add alternative synthetic event trace action test case
  tracing: Add hist trigger onchange() handler test case
  tracing: Add hist trigger snapshot() action test case
  tracing: Add SPDX license GPL-2.0 license identifier to inter-event testcases
  tracing: Add alternative synthetic event trace action syntax
  tracing: Add hist trigger onchange() handler Documentation
  tracing: Add hist trigger onchange() handler
  tracing: Add hist trigger snapshot() action Documentation
  tracing: Add hist trigger snapshot() action
  tracing: Add conditional snapshot
  ...
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "The biggest change for this release is in the histogram code:

   - Add "onchange(var)" histogram handler that executes a action when
     $var changes.

   - Add new "snapshot()" action for histogram handlers, that causes a
     snapshot of the ring buffer when triggered. ie.
     onchange(var).snapshot() will trigger a snapshot if var changes.

   - Add alternative for "trace()" action. Currently, to trigger a
     synthetic event, the name of that event is used as the handler
     name, which is inconsistent with the other actions.
     onchange(var).synthetic(param) where it can now be
     onchange(var).trace(synthetic, param). The older method will still
     be allowed, as long as the synthetic events do not overlap with
     other handler names.

   - The histogram documentation at testcases were updated for the new
     changes.

  Outside of the histogram code, we have:

   - Added a quicker way to enable set_ftrace_filter files, that will
     make it much quicker to bisect tracing a function that shouldn't be
     traced and crashes the kernel. (You can echo in numbers to
     set_ftrace_filter, and it will select the corresponding function
     that is in available_filter_functions).

   - Some better displaying of the tracing data (and more information
     was added).

  The rest are small fixes and more clean ups to the code"

* tag 'trace-v5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (37 commits)
  tracing: Use strncpy instead of memcpy when copying comm in trace.c
  tracing: Use strncpy instead of memcpy when copying comm for hist triggers
  tracing: Use strncpy instead of memcpy for string keys in hist triggers
  tracing: Use str_has_prefix() in synth_event_create()
  x86/ftrace: Fix warning and considate ftrace_jmp_replace() and ftrace_call_replace()
  tracing/perf: Use strndup_user() instead of buggy open-coded version
  doc: trace: Fix documentation for uprobe_profile
  tracing: Fix spelling mistake: "analagous" -&gt; "analogous"
  tracing: Comment why cond_snapshot is checked outside of max_lock protection
  tracing: Add hist trigger action 'expected fail' test case
  tracing: Add alternative synthetic event trace action test case
  tracing: Add hist trigger onchange() handler test case
  tracing: Add hist trigger snapshot() action test case
  tracing: Add SPDX license GPL-2.0 license identifier to inter-event testcases
  tracing: Add alternative synthetic event trace action syntax
  tracing: Add hist trigger onchange() handler Documentation
  tracing: Add hist trigger onchange() handler
  tracing: Add hist trigger snapshot() action Documentation
  tracing: Add hist trigger snapshot() action
  tracing: Add conditional snapshot
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools: mark 'test_vmalloc.sh' executable</title>
<updated>2019-03-11T17:10:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-11T17:10:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6bc3fe8e7e172d5584e529a04cf9eec946428768'/>
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Several of these scripts have come in as old-fashioned patches, and in
the process lost the executable bit.  In most cases it doesn't matter,
since the test infrastructure will explicitly execute them using the
proper shell interpreter, but at least in the case of the new vmalloc
test, the lack of execurable bit caused the test to fail with

    ./run_vmtests: line 217: ./test_vmalloc.sh: Permission denied

because of the lacking exectuable permissions bit.

This patch fixes that up.

NOTE! A simple script to look for non-executable scripts in the kernel,
something like

    git ls-files --stage -- '*.sh' |
        grep 100644 |
        cut -f2 |
        xargs grep -l '#!'

will show that there's a lot of other files that _look_ like executable
shell scripts, but don't have the executable bit set.  I considered just
scripting them all to be executable, but since it looks like the common
pattern is to not really require it, I'm just doing the minimal fix as
pointed out by the kernel test robot.

Fixes: a05ef00c9790 ("selftests/vm: add script helper for CONFIG_TEST_VMALLOC_MODULE")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;rong.a.chen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Several of these scripts have come in as old-fashioned patches, and in
the process lost the executable bit.  In most cases it doesn't matter,
since the test infrastructure will explicitly execute them using the
proper shell interpreter, but at least in the case of the new vmalloc
test, the lack of execurable bit caused the test to fail with

    ./run_vmtests: line 217: ./test_vmalloc.sh: Permission denied

because of the lacking exectuable permissions bit.

This patch fixes that up.

NOTE! A simple script to look for non-executable scripts in the kernel,
something like

    git ls-files --stage -- '*.sh' |
        grep 100644 |
        cut -f2 |
        xargs grep -l '#!'

will show that there's a lot of other files that _look_ like executable
shell scripts, but don't have the executable bit set.  I considered just
scripting them all to be executable, but since it looks like the common
pattern is to not really require it, I'm just doing the minimal fix as
pointed out by the kernel test robot.

Fixes: a05ef00c9790 ("selftests/vm: add script helper for CONFIG_TEST_VMALLOC_MODULE")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;rong.a.chen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2019-03-11T15:54:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-11T15:54:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8f49a658b4ea1d0205068da76b7c8c844817dc44'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
 "First batch of fixes in the new merge window:

   1) Double dst_cache free in act_tunnel_key, from Wenxu.

   2) Avoid NULL deref in IN_DEV_MFORWARD() by failing early in the
      ip_route_input_rcu() path, from Paolo Abeni.

   3) Fix appletalk compile regression, from Arnd Bergmann.

   4) If SLAB objects reach the TCP sendpage method we are in serious
      trouble, so put a debugging check there. From Vasily Averin.

   5) Memory leak in hsr layer, from Mao Wenan.

   6) Only test GSO type on GSO packets, from Willem de Bruijn.

   7) Fix crash in xsk_diag_put_umem(), from Eric Dumazet.

   8) Fix VNIC mailbox length in nfp, from Dirk van der Merwe.

   9) Fix race in ipv4 route exception handling, from Xin Long.

  10) Missing DMA memory barrier in hns3 driver, from Jian Shen.

  11) Use after free in __tcf_chain_put(), from Vlad Buslov.

  12) Handle inet_csk_reqsk_queue_add() failures, from Guillaume Nault.

  13) Return value correction when ip_mc_may_pull() fails, from Eric
      Dumazet.

  14) Use after free in x25_device_event(), also from Eric"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (72 commits)
  gro_cells: make sure device is up in gro_cells_receive()
  vxlan: test dev-&gt;flags &amp; IFF_UP before calling gro_cells_receive()
  net/x25: fix use-after-free in x25_device_event()
  isdn: mISDNinfineon: fix potential NULL pointer dereference
  net: hns3: fix to stop multiple HNS reset due to the AER changes
  ip: fix ip_mc_may_pull() return value
  net: keep refcount warning in reqsk_free()
  net: stmmac: Avoid one more sometimes uninitialized Clang warning
  net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Set correct interface mode for CPU/DSA ports
  rxrpc: Fix client call queueing, waiting for channel
  tcp: handle inet_csk_reqsk_queue_add() failures
  net: ethernet: sun: Zero initialize class in default case in niu_add_ethtool_tcam_entry
  8139too : Add support for U.S. Robotics USR997901A 10/100 Cardbus NIC
  fou, fou6: avoid uninit-value in gue_err() and gue6_err()
  net: sched: fix potential use-after-free in __tcf_chain_put()
  vhost: silence an unused-variable warning
  vsock/virtio: fix kernel panic from virtio_transport_reset_no_sock
  connector: fix unsafe usage of -&gt;real_parent
  vxlan: do not need BH again in vxlan_cleanup()
  net: hns3: add dma_rmb() for rx description
  ...
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
 "First batch of fixes in the new merge window:

   1) Double dst_cache free in act_tunnel_key, from Wenxu.

   2) Avoid NULL deref in IN_DEV_MFORWARD() by failing early in the
      ip_route_input_rcu() path, from Paolo Abeni.

   3) Fix appletalk compile regression, from Arnd Bergmann.

   4) If SLAB objects reach the TCP sendpage method we are in serious
      trouble, so put a debugging check there. From Vasily Averin.

   5) Memory leak in hsr layer, from Mao Wenan.

   6) Only test GSO type on GSO packets, from Willem de Bruijn.

   7) Fix crash in xsk_diag_put_umem(), from Eric Dumazet.

   8) Fix VNIC mailbox length in nfp, from Dirk van der Merwe.

   9) Fix race in ipv4 route exception handling, from Xin Long.

  10) Missing DMA memory barrier in hns3 driver, from Jian Shen.

  11) Use after free in __tcf_chain_put(), from Vlad Buslov.

  12) Handle inet_csk_reqsk_queue_add() failures, from Guillaume Nault.

  13) Return value correction when ip_mc_may_pull() fails, from Eric
      Dumazet.

  14) Use after free in x25_device_event(), also from Eric"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (72 commits)
  gro_cells: make sure device is up in gro_cells_receive()
  vxlan: test dev-&gt;flags &amp; IFF_UP before calling gro_cells_receive()
  net/x25: fix use-after-free in x25_device_event()
  isdn: mISDNinfineon: fix potential NULL pointer dereference
  net: hns3: fix to stop multiple HNS reset due to the AER changes
  ip: fix ip_mc_may_pull() return value
  net: keep refcount warning in reqsk_free()
  net: stmmac: Avoid one more sometimes uninitialized Clang warning
  net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Set correct interface mode for CPU/DSA ports
  rxrpc: Fix client call queueing, waiting for channel
  tcp: handle inet_csk_reqsk_queue_add() failures
  net: ethernet: sun: Zero initialize class in default case in niu_add_ethtool_tcam_entry
  8139too : Add support for U.S. Robotics USR997901A 10/100 Cardbus NIC
  fou, fou6: avoid uninit-value in gue_err() and gue6_err()
  net: sched: fix potential use-after-free in __tcf_chain_put()
  vhost: silence an unused-variable warning
  vsock/virtio: fix kernel panic from virtio_transport_reset_no_sock
  connector: fix unsafe usage of -&gt;real_parent
  vxlan: do not need BH again in vxlan_cleanup()
  net: hns3: add dma_rmb() for rx description
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next-tpm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security</title>
<updated>2019-03-11T00:37:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-11T00:37:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5af7f115886f7ec193171e2e49b8000ddd1e7147'/>
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Pull tpm updates from James Morris:

 - Clean up the transmission flow

   Cleaned up the whole transmission flow. Locking of the chip is now
   done in the level of tpm_try_get_ops() and tpm_put_ops() instead
   taking the chip lock inside tpm_transmit(). The nested calls inside
   tpm_transmit(), used with the resource manager, have been refactored
   out.

   Should make easier to perform more complex transactions with the TPM
   without making the subsystem a bigger mess (e.g. encrypted channel
   patches by James Bottomley).

 - PPI 1.3 support

   TPM PPI 1.3 introduces an additional optional command parameter that
   may be needed for some commands. Display the parameter if the command
   requires such a parameter. Only command 23 (SetPCRBanks) needs one.

   The PPI request file will show output like this then:

      # echo "23 16" &gt; request
      # cat request
      23 16

      # echo "5" &gt; request
      # cat request
      5

 - Extend all PCR banks in IMA

   Instead of static PCR banks array, the array of available PCR banks
   is now allocated dynamically. The digests sizes are determined
   dynamically using a probe PCR read without relying crypto's static
   list of hash algorithms.

   This should finally make sealing of measurements in IMA safe and
   secure.

 - TPM 2.0 selftests

   Added a test suite to tools/testing/selftests/tpm2 previously outside
   of the kernel tree: https://github.com/jsakkine-intel/tpm2-scripts

* 'next-tpm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (37 commits)
  tpm/ppi: Enable submission of optional command parameter for PPI 1.3
  tpm/ppi: Possibly show command parameter if TPM PPI 1.3 is used
  tpm/ppi: Display up to 101 operations as define for version 1.3
  tpm/ppi: rename TPM_PPI_REVISION_ID to TPM_PPI_REVISION_ID_1
  tpm/ppi: pass function revision ID to tpm_eval_dsm()
  tpm: pass an array of tpm_extend_digest structures to tpm_pcr_extend()
  KEYS: trusted: explicitly use tpm_chip structure from tpm_default_chip()
  tpm: move tpm_chip definition to include/linux/tpm.h
  tpm: retrieve digest size of unknown algorithms with PCR read
  tpm: rename and export tpm2_digest and tpm2_algorithms
  tpm: dynamically allocate the allocated_banks array
  tpm: remove @flags from tpm_transmit()
  tpm: take TPM chip power gating out of tpm_transmit()
  tpm: introduce tpm_chip_start() and tpm_chip_stop()
  tpm: remove TPM_TRANSMIT_UNLOCKED flag
  tpm: use tpm_try_get_ops() in tpm-sysfs.c.
  tpm: remove @space from tpm_transmit()
  tpm: move TPM space code out of tpm_transmit()
  tpm: move tpm_validate_commmand() to tpm2-space.c
  tpm: clean up tpm_try_transmit() error handling flow
  ...
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Pull tpm updates from James Morris:

 - Clean up the transmission flow

   Cleaned up the whole transmission flow. Locking of the chip is now
   done in the level of tpm_try_get_ops() and tpm_put_ops() instead
   taking the chip lock inside tpm_transmit(). The nested calls inside
   tpm_transmit(), used with the resource manager, have been refactored
   out.

   Should make easier to perform more complex transactions with the TPM
   without making the subsystem a bigger mess (e.g. encrypted channel
   patches by James Bottomley).

 - PPI 1.3 support

   TPM PPI 1.3 introduces an additional optional command parameter that
   may be needed for some commands. Display the parameter if the command
   requires such a parameter. Only command 23 (SetPCRBanks) needs one.

   The PPI request file will show output like this then:

      # echo "23 16" &gt; request
      # cat request
      23 16

      # echo "5" &gt; request
      # cat request
      5

 - Extend all PCR banks in IMA

   Instead of static PCR banks array, the array of available PCR banks
   is now allocated dynamically. The digests sizes are determined
   dynamically using a probe PCR read without relying crypto's static
   list of hash algorithms.

   This should finally make sealing of measurements in IMA safe and
   secure.

 - TPM 2.0 selftests

   Added a test suite to tools/testing/selftests/tpm2 previously outside
   of the kernel tree: https://github.com/jsakkine-intel/tpm2-scripts

* 'next-tpm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (37 commits)
  tpm/ppi: Enable submission of optional command parameter for PPI 1.3
  tpm/ppi: Possibly show command parameter if TPM PPI 1.3 is used
  tpm/ppi: Display up to 101 operations as define for version 1.3
  tpm/ppi: rename TPM_PPI_REVISION_ID to TPM_PPI_REVISION_ID_1
  tpm/ppi: pass function revision ID to tpm_eval_dsm()
  tpm: pass an array of tpm_extend_digest structures to tpm_pcr_extend()
  KEYS: trusted: explicitly use tpm_chip structure from tpm_default_chip()
  tpm: move tpm_chip definition to include/linux/tpm.h
  tpm: retrieve digest size of unknown algorithms with PCR read
  tpm: rename and export tpm2_digest and tpm2_algorithms
  tpm: dynamically allocate the allocated_banks array
  tpm: remove @flags from tpm_transmit()
  tpm: take TPM chip power gating out of tpm_transmit()
  tpm: introduce tpm_chip_start() and tpm_chip_stop()
  tpm: remove TPM_TRANSMIT_UNLOCKED flag
  tpm: use tpm_try_get_ops() in tpm-sysfs.c.
  tpm: remove @space from tpm_transmit()
  tpm: move TPM space code out of tpm_transmit()
  tpm: move tpm_validate_commmand() to tpm2-space.c
  tpm: clean up tpm_try_transmit() error handling flow
  ...
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</content>
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