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2010-10-15sysctl: min/max bounds are optionalEric Dumazet
sysctl check complains with a WARN() when proc_doulongvec_minmax() or proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax() are used by a vector of longs (with more than one element), with no min or max value specified. This is unexpected, given we had a bug on this min/max handling :) Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-14hrtimer: Preserve timer state in remove_hrtimer()Salman Qazi
The race is described as follows: CPU X CPU Y remove_hrtimer // state & QUEUED == 0 timer->state = CALLBACK unlock timer base timer->f(n) //very long hrtimer_start lock timer base remove_hrtimer // no effect hrtimer_enqueue timer->state = CALLBACK | QUEUED unlock timer base hrtimer_start lock timer base remove_hrtimer mode = INACTIVE // CALLBACK bit lost! switch_hrtimer_base CALLBACK bit not set: timer->base changes to a different CPU. lock this CPU's timer base The bug was introduced with commit ca109491f (hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes) in 2.6.29 [ tglx: Feed new state via local variable and add a comment. ] Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20101012142351.8485.21823.stgit@dungbeetle.mtv.corp.google.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-10-12ring-buffer: Fix typo of time extends per pageSteven Rostedt
Time stamps for the ring buffer are created by the difference between two events. Each page of the ring buffer holds a full 64 bit timestamp. Each event has a 27 bit delta stamp from the last event. The unit of time is nanoseconds, so 27 bits can hold ~134 milliseconds. If two events happen more than 134 milliseconds apart, a time extend is inserted to add more bits for the delta. The time extend has 59 bits, which is good for ~18 years. Currently the time extend is committed separately from the event. If an event is discarded before it is committed, due to filtering, the time extend still exists. If all events are being filtered, then after ~134 milliseconds a new time extend will be added to the buffer. This can only happen till the end of the page. Since each page holds a full timestamp, there is no reason to add a time extend to the beginning of a page. Time extends can only fill a page that has actual data at the beginning, so there is no fear that time extends will fill more than a page without any data. When reading an event, a loop is made to skip over time extends since they are only used to maintain the time stamp and are never given to the caller. As a paranoid check to prevent the loop running forever, with the knowledge that time extends may only fill a page, a check is made that tests the iteration of the loop, and if the iteration is more than the number of time extends that can fit in a page a warning is printed and the ring buffer is disabled (all of ftrace is also disabled with it). There is another event type that is called a TIMESTAMP which can hold 64 bits of data in the theoretical case that two events happen 18 years apart. This code has not been implemented, but the name of this event exists, as well as the structure for it. The size of a TIMESTAMP is 16 bytes, where as a time extend is only 8 bytes. The macro used to calculate how many time extends can fit on a page used the TIMESTAMP size instead of the time extend size cutting the amount in half. The following test case can easily trigger the warning since we only need to have half the page filled with time extends to trigger the warning: # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ # echo function > current_tracer # echo 'common_pid < 0' > events/ftrace/function/filter # echo > trace # echo 1 > trace_marker # sleep 120 # cat trace Enabling the function tracer and then setting the filter to only trace functions where the process id is negative (no events), then clearing the trace buffer to ensure that we have nothing in the buffer, then write to trace_marker to add an event to the beginning of a page, sleep for 2 minutes (only 35 seconds is probably needed, but this guarantees the bug), and then finally reading the trace which will trigger the bug. This patch fixes the typo and prevents the false positive of that warning. Reported-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-10-12perf: Fix incorrect copy_from_user() usageJohn Blackwood
perf events: repair incorrect use of copy_from_user This makes the perf_event_period() return 0 instead of -EFAULT on success. Signed-off-by: John Blackwood<john.blackwood@ccur.com> Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100928220311.GA18145@tsunami.ccur.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-07Merge branch 'hwpoison-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 * 'hwpoison-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: HWPOISON: Stop shrinking at right page count HWPOISON: Report correct address granuality for AO huge page errors HWPOISON: Copy si_addr_lsb to user page-types.c: fix name of unpoison interface
2010-10-07sysctl: fix min/max handling in __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax()Eric Dumazet
When proc_doulongvec_minmax() is used with an array of longs, and no min/max check requested (.extra1 or .extra2 being NULL), we dereference a NULL pointer for the second element of the array. Noticed while doing some changes in network stack for the "16TB problem" Fix is to not change min & max pointers in __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(), so that all elements of the vector share an unique min/max limit, like proc_dointvec_minmax(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-07HWPOISON: Copy si_addr_lsb to userAndi Kleen
The original hwpoison code added a new siginfo field si_addr_lsb to pass the granuality of the fault address to user space. Unfortunately this field was never copied to user space. Fix this here. I added explicit checks for the MCEERR codes to avoid having to patch all potential callers to initialize the field. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2010-10-05Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: rcu: rcu_read_lock_bh_held(): disabling irqs also disables bh generic-ipi: Fix deadlock in __smp_call_function_single
2010-10-05modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption raceLinus Torvalds
With all the recent module loading cleanups, we've minimized the code that sits under module_mutex, fixing various deadlocks and making it possible to do most of the module loading in parallel. However, that whole conversion totally missed the rather obscure code that adds a new module to the list for BUG() handling. That code was doubly obscure because (a) the code itself lives in lib/bugs.c (for dubious reasons) and (b) it gets called from the architecture-specific "module_finalize()" rather than from generic code. Calling it from arch-specific code makes no sense what-so-ever to begin with, and is now actively wrong since that code isn't protected by the module loading lock any more. So this commit moves the "module_bug_{finalize,cleanup}()" calls away from the arch-specific code, and into the generic code - and in the process protects it with the module_mutex so that the list operations are now safe. Future fixups: - move the module list handling code into kernel/module.c where it belongs. - get rid of 'module_bug_list' and just use the regular list of modules (called 'modules' - imagine that) that we already create and maintain for other reasons. Reported-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-01kfifo: fix scatterlist usageIra W. Snyder
The kfifo_dma family of functions use sg_mark_end() on the last element in their scatterlist. This forces use of a fresh scatterlist for each DMA operation, which makes recycling a single scatterlist impossible. Change the behavior of the kfifo_dma functions to match the usage of the dma_map_sg function. This means that users must respect the returned nents value. The sample code is updated to reflect the change. This bug is trivial to cause: call kfifo_dma_in_prepare() such that it prepares a scatterlist with a single entry comprising the whole fifo. This is the case when you map the entirety of a newly created empty fifo. This causes the setup_sgl() function to mark the first scatterlist entry as the end of the chain, no matter what comes after it. Afterwards, add and remove some data from the fifo such that another call to kfifo_dma_in_prepare() will create two scatterlist entries. It returns nents=2. However, due to the previous sg_mark_end() call, sg_is_last() will now return true for the first scatterlist element. This causes the sample code to print a single scatterlist element when it should print two. By removing the call to sg_mark_end(), we make the API as similar as possible to the DMA mapping API. All users are required to respect the returned nents. Signed-off-by: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu> Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-23rmap: fix walk during forkAndrea Arcangeli
The below bug in fork led to the rmap walk finding the parent huge-pmd twice instead of just once, because the anon_vma_chain objects of the child vma still point to the vma->vm_mm of the parent. The patch fixes it by making the rmap walk accurate during fork. It's not a big deal normally but it worth being accurate considering the cost is the same. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-21Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Fix nohz balance kick sched: Fix user time incorrectly accounted as system time on 32-bit
2010-09-21Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: hw breakpoints: Fix pid namespace bug x86: Fix instruction breakpoint encoding oprofile: Add Support for Intel CPU Family 6 / Model 22 (Intel Celeron 540) kprobes: Fix Kconfig dependency
2010-09-21sched: Fix nohz balance kickSuresh Siddha
There's a situation where the nohz balancer will try to wake itself: cpu-x is idle which is also ilb_cpu got a scheduler tick during idle and the nohz_kick_needed() in trigger_load_balance() checks for rq_x->nr_running which might not be zero (because of someone waking a task on this rq etc) and this leads to the situation of the cpu-x sending a kick to itself. And this can cause a lockup. Avoid this by not marking ourself eligible for kicking. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1284400941.2684.19.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-17hw breakpoints: Fix pid namespace bugMatt Helsley
Hardware breakpoints can't be registered within pid namespaces because tsk->pid is passed rather than the pid in the current namespace. (See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17281 ) This is a quick fix demonstrating the problem but is not the best method of solving the problem since passing pids internally is not the best way to avoid pid namespace bugs. Subsequent patches will show a better solution. Much thanks to Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> for doing the bulk of the work finding this bug. Reported-by: Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org> Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: 2.6.33-2.6.35 <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <f63454af09fb1915717251570423eb9ddd338340.1284407762.git.matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-09-16Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: add documentation
2010-09-15sched: Fix user time incorrectly accounted as system time on 32-bitStanislaw Gruszka
We have 32-bit variable overflow possibility when multiply in task_times() and thread_group_times() functions. When the overflow happens then the scaled utime value becomes erroneously small and the scaled stime becomes i erroneously big. Reported here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633037 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16559 Reported-by: Michael Chapman <redhat-bugzilla@very.puzzling.org> Reported-by: Ciriaco Garcia de Celis <sysman@etherpilot.com> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # 2.6.32.19+ (partially) and 2.6.33+ LKML-Reference: <20100914143513.GB8415@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-14compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok()H. Peter Anvin
compat_alloc_user_space() expects the caller to independently call access_ok() to verify the returned area. A missing call could introduce problems on some architectures. This patch incorporates the access_ok() check into compat_alloc_user_space() and also adds a sanity check on the length. The existing compat_alloc_user_space() implementations are renamed arch_compat_alloc_user_space() and are used as part of the implementation of the new global function. This patch assumes NULL will cause __get_user()/__put_user() to either fail or access userspace on all architectures. This should be followed by checking the return value of compat_access_user_space() for NULL in the callers, at which time the access_ok() in the callers can also be removed. Reported-by: Ben Hawkes <hawkes@sota.gen.nz> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
2010-09-13sched: Improve latencies under load by decreasing minimum scheduling granularityIngo Molnar
Mathieu reported bad latencies with make -j10 kind of kbuild workloads - which is mostly caused by us scheduling with a too coarse granularity. Reduce the minimum granularity some more, to make sure we can meet the latency target. I got the following results (make -j10 kbuild load, average of 3 runs): vanilla: maximum latency: 38278.9 µs average latency: 7730.1 µs patched: maximum latency: 22702.1 µs average latency: 6684.8 µs Mathieu also measured it: | | * wakeup-latency.c (SIGEV_THREAD) with make -j10 | | - Mainline 2.6.35.2 kernel | | maximum latency: 45762.1 µs | average latency: 7348.6 µs | | - With only Peter's smaller min_gran (shown below): | | maximum latency: 29100.6 µs | average latency: 6684.1 µs | Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <AANLkTi=8m4g01wZPacySoF7U0PevTNVgJoZZrHiUD-pN@mail.gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-13workqueue: add documentationTejun Heo
Update copyright notice and add Documentation/workqueue.txt. Randy Dunlap, Dave Chinner: misc fixes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-By: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2010-09-11Merge branch 'pm-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6 * 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6: PM / Hibernate: Avoid hitting OOM during preallocation of memory PM QoS: Correct pr_debug() misuse and improve parameter checks PM: Prevent waiting forever on asynchronous resume after failing suspend
2010-09-11PM / Hibernate: Avoid hitting OOM during preallocation of memoryRafael J. Wysocki
There is a problem in hibernate_preallocate_memory() that it calls preallocate_image_memory() with an argument that may be greater than the total number of available non-highmem memory pages. If that's the case, the OOM condition is guaranteed to trigger, which in turn can cause significant slowdown to occur during hibernation. To avoid that, make preallocate_image_memory() adjust its argument before calling preallocate_image_pages(), so that the total number of saveable non-highem pages left is not less than the minimum size of a hibernation image. Change hibernate_preallocate_memory() to try to allocate from highmem if the number of pages allocated by preallocate_image_memory() is too low. Modify free_unnecessary_pages() to take all possible memory allocation patterns into account. Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Tested-by: M. Vefa Bicakci <bicave@superonline.com>
2010-09-11Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, tsc: Fix a preemption leak in restore_sched_clock_state() sched: Move sched_avg_update() to update_cpu_load()
2010-09-10PM QoS: Correct pr_debug() misuse and improve parameter checksmark gross
Correct some pr_debug() misuse and add a stronger parameter check to pm_qos_write() for the ASCII hex value case. Thanks to Dan Carpenter for pointing out the problem! Signed-off-by: mark gross <markgross@thegnar.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2010-09-10generic-ipi: Fix deadlock in __smp_call_function_singleHeiko Carstens
Just got my 6 way machine to a state where cpu 0 is in an endless loop within __smp_call_function_single. All other cpus are idle. The call trace on cpu 0 looks like this: __smp_call_function_single scheduler_tick update_process_times tick_sched_timer __run_hrtimer hrtimer_interrupt clock_comparator_work do_extint ext_int_handler ----> timer irq cpu_idle __smp_call_function_single() got called from nohz_balancer_kick() (inlined) with the remote cpu being 1, wait being 0 and the per cpu variable remote_sched_softirq_cb (call_single_data) of the current cpu (0). Then it loops forever when it tries to grab the lock of the call_single_data, since it is already locked and enqueued on cpu 0. My theory how this could have happened: for some reason the scheduler decided to call __smp_call_function_single() on it's own cpu, and sends an IPI to itself. The interrupt stays pending since IRQs are disabled. If then the hypervisor schedules the cpu away it might happen that upon rescheduling both the IPI and the timer IRQ are pending. If then interrupts are enabled again it depends which one gets scheduled first. If the timer interrupt gets delivered first we end up with the local deadlock as seen in the calltrace above. Let's make __smp_call_function_single() check if the target cpu is the current cpu and execute the function immediately just like smp_call_function_single does. That should prevent at least the scenario described here. It might also be that the scheduler is not supposed to call __smp_call_function_single with the remote cpu being the current cpu, but that is a different issue. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <20100910114729.GB2827@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-10Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing: t_start: reset FTRACE_ITER_HASH in case of seek/pread perf symbols: Fix multiple initialization of symbol system perf: Fix CPU hotplug perf, trace: Fix module leak tracing/kprobe: Fix handling of C-unlike argument names tracing/kprobes: Fix handling of argument names perf probe: Fix handling of arguments names perf probe: Fix return probe support tracing/kprobe: Fix a memory leak in error case tracing: Do not allow llseek to set_ftrace_filter
2010-09-10tracing: t_start: reset FTRACE_ITER_HASH in case of seek/preadChris Wright
Be sure to avoid entering t_show() with FTRACE_ITER_HASH set without having properly started the iterator to iterate the hash. This case is degenerate and, as discovered by Robert Swiecki, can cause t_hash_show() to misuse a pointer. This causes a NULL ptr deref with possible security implications. Tracked as CVE-2010-3079. Cc: Robert Swiecki <swiecki@google.com> Cc: Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-10swap: revert special hibernation allocationHugh Dickins
Please revert 2.6.36-rc commit d2997b1042ec150616c1963b5e5e919ffd0b0ebf "hibernation: freeze swap at hibernation". It complicated matters by adding a second swap allocation path, just for hibernation; without in any way fixing the issue that it was intended to address - page reclaim after fixing the hibernation image might free swap from a page already imaged as swapcache, letting its swap be reallocated to store a different page of the image: resulting in data corruption if the imaged page were freed as clean then swapped back in. Pages freed to si->swap_map were still in danger of being reallocated by the alternative allocation path. I guess it inadvertently fixed slow SSD swap allocation for hibernation, as reported by Nigel Cunningham: by missing out the discards that occur on the usual swap allocation path; but that was unintentional, and needs a separate fix. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> Cc: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gmail.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-10kernel/groups.c: fix integer overflow in groups_searchJerome Marchand
gid_t is a unsigned int. If group_info contains a gid greater than MAX_INT, groups_search() function may look on the wrong side of the search tree. This solves some unfair "permission denied" problems. Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-10cgroups: fix API thinkoMichael S. Tsirkin
Add cgroup_attach_task_all() The existing cgroup_attach_task_current_cg() API is called by a thread to attach another thread to all of its cgroups; this is unsuitable for cases where a privileged task wants to attach itself to the cgroups of a less privileged one, since the call must be made from the context of the target task. This patch adds a more generic cgroup_attach_task_all() API that allows both the source task and to-be-moved task to be specified. cgroup_attach_task_current_cg() becomes a specialization of the more generic new function. [menage@google.com: rewrote changelog] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: address reviewer comments] Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Tested-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com> Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-10gcov: fix null-pointer dereference for certain module typesPeter Oberparleiter
The gcov-kernel infrastructure expects that each object file is loaded only once. This may not be true, e.g. when loading multiple kernel modules which are linked to the same object file. As a result, loading such kernel modules will result in incorrect gcov results while unloading will cause a null-pointer dereference. This patch fixes these problems by changing the gcov-kernel infrastructure so that multiple profiling data sets can be associated with one debugfs entry. It applies to 2.6.36-rc1. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reported-by: Werner Spies <werner.spies@thalesgroup.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-09sched: Move sched_avg_update() to update_cpu_load()Suresh Siddha
Currently sched_avg_update() (which updates rt_avg stats in the rq) is getting called from scale_rt_power() (in the load balance context) which doesn't take rq->lock. Fix it by moving the sched_avg_update() to more appropriate update_cpu_load() where the CFS load gets updated as well. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1282596171.2694.3.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-09perf: Fix CPU hotplugPeter Zijlstra
Since we have UP_PREPARE, we should also have UP_CANCELED. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-09perf, trace: Fix module leakLi Zefan
Commit 1c024eca (perf, trace: Optimize tracepoints by using per-tracepoint-per-cpu hlist to track events) caused a module refcount leak. Reported-And-Tested-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4C7E1F12.8030304@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-08Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: gcc-4.6: kernel/*: Fix unused but set warnings mutex: Fix annotations to include it in kernel-locking docbook pid: make setpgid() system call use RCU read-side critical section MAINTAINERS: Add RCU's public git tree
2010-09-08Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf, x86: Try to handle unknown nmis with an enabled PMU perf, x86: Fix handle_irq return values perf, x86: Fix accidentally ack'ing a second event on intel perf counter oprofile, x86: fix init_sysfs() function stub lockup_detector: Sync touch_*_watchdog back to old semantics tracing: Fix a race in function profile oprofile, x86: fix init_sysfs error handling perf_events: Fix time tracking for events with pid != -1 and cpu != -1 perf: Initialize callchains roots's childen hits oprofile: fix crash when accessing freed task structs
2010-09-08tracing/kprobe: Fix handling of C-unlike argument namesMasami Hiramatsu
Check the argument name whether it is invalid (not C-like symbol name). This makes event format simple. Reported-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> LKML-Reference: <20100827113912.22882.62313.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-09-08tracing/kprobes: Fix handling of argument namesMasami Hiramatsu
Set "argN" name for each argument automatically if it has no specified name. Since dynamic trace event(kprobe_events) accepts special characters for its argument, its format can show those special characters (e.g. '$', '%', '+'). However, perf can't parse those format because of the character (especially '%') mess up the format. This sets "argX" name for those arguments if user omitted the argument names. E.g. # echo 'p do_fork %ax IP=%ip $stack' > tracing/kprobe_events # cat tracing/kprobe_events p:kprobes/p_do_fork_0 do_fork arg1=%ax IP=%ip arg3=$stack Reported-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> LKML-Reference: <20100827113906.22882.59312.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-09-08tracing/kprobe: Fix a memory leak in error caseMasami Hiramatsu
Fix a memory leak which happens when a field name conflicts with others. In error case, free_trace_probe() will free all arguments until nr_args, so this increments nr_args the begining of the loop instead of the end. Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> LKML-Reference: <20100827113846.22882.12670.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-09-08tracing: Do not allow llseek to set_ftrace_filterSteven Rostedt
Reading the file set_ftrace_filter does three things. 1) shows whether or not filters are set for the function tracer 2) shows what functions are set for the function tracer 3) shows what triggers are set on any functions 3 is independent from 1 and 2. The way this file currently works is that it is a state machine, and as you read it, it may change state. But this assumption breaks when you use lseek() on the file. The state machine gets out of sync and the t_show() may use the wrong pointer and cause a kernel oops. Luckily, this will only kill the app that does the lseek, but the app dies while holding a mutex. This prevents anyone else from using the set_ftrace_filter file (or any other function tracing file for that matter). A real fix for this is to rewrite the code, but that is too much for a -rc release or stable. This patch simply disables llseek on the set_ftrace_filter() file for now, and we can do the proper fix for the next major release. Reported-by: Robert Swiecki <swiecki@google.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com> Cc: Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com> Cc: vendor-sec@lst.de Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-07Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: use zalloc_cpumask_var() for gcwq->mayday_mask workqueue: fix GCWQ_DISASSOCIATED initialization workqueue: Add a workqueue chapter to the tracepoint docbook workqueue: fix cwq->nr_active underflow workqueue: improve destroy_workqueue() debuggability workqueue: mark lock acquisition on worker_maybe_bind_and_lock() workqueue: annotate lock context change workqueue: free rescuer on destroy_workqueue
2010-09-05gcc-4.6: kernel/*: Fix unused but set warningsAndi Kleen
No real bugs I believe, just some dead code. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-03mutex: Fix annotations to include it in kernel-locking docbookRandy Dunlap
Fix kernel-doc notation in linux/mutex.h and kernel/mutex.c, then add these 2 files to the kernel-locking docbook as the Mutex API reference chapter. Add one API function to mutex-design.txt and correct a typo in that file. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> LKML-Reference: <20100902154816.6cc2f9ad.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-01lockup_detector: Sync touch_*_watchdog back to old semanticsDon Zickus
During my rewrite, the semantics of touch_nmi_watchdog and touch_softlockup_watchdog changed enough to break some drivers (mostly over preemptable regions). These are cases where long delays on one CPU (due to print_delay for example) can cause long delays on other CPUs - so we must 'touch' the nmi_watchdog flag of those other CPUs as well. This change brings those touch_*_watchdog() functions back in line with to how they used to work. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com LKML-Reference: <1283310009-22168-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-01pid: make setpgid() system call use RCU read-side critical sectionPaul E. McKenney
[ 23.584719] [ 23.584720] =================================================== [ 23.585059] [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] [ 23.585176] --------------------------------------------------- [ 23.585176] kernel/pid.c:419 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! [ 23.585176] [ 23.585176] other info that might help us debug this: [ 23.585176] [ 23.585176] [ 23.585176] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1 [ 23.585176] 1 lock held by rc.sysinit/728: [ 23.585176] #0: (tasklist_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8104771f>] sys_setpgid+0x5f/0x193 [ 23.585176] [ 23.585176] stack backtrace: [ 23.585176] Pid: 728, comm: rc.sysinit Not tainted 2.6.36-rc2 #2 [ 23.585176] Call Trace: [ 23.585176] [<ffffffff8105b436>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0x99/0xa2 [ 23.585176] [<ffffffff8104c324>] find_task_by_pid_ns+0x50/0x6a [ 23.585176] [<ffffffff8104c35b>] find_task_by_vpid+0x1d/0x1f [ 23.585176] [<ffffffff81047727>] sys_setpgid+0x67/0x193 [ 23.585176] [<ffffffff810029eb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 24.959669] type=1400 audit(1282938522.956:4): avc: denied { module_request } for pid=766 comm="hwclock" kmod="char-major-10-135" scontext=system_u:system_r:hwclock_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:kernel_t:s0 tclas It turns out that the setpgid() system call fails to enter an RCU read-side critical section before doing a PID-to-task_struct translation. This commit therefore does rcu_read_lock() before the translation, and also does rcu_read_unlock() after the last use of the returned pointer. Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2010-08-31tracing: Fix a race in function profileLi Zefan
While we are reading trace_stat/functionX and someone just disabled function_profile at that time, we can trigger this: divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ... EIP is at function_stat_show+0x90/0x230 ... This fix just takes the ftrace_profile_lock and checks if rec->counter is 0. If it's 0, we know the profile buffer has been reset. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org LKML-Reference: <4C723644.4040708@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-08-31workqueue: use zalloc_cpumask_var() for gcwq->mayday_maskTejun Heo
alloc_mayday_mask() was using alloc_cpumask_var() making gcwq->mayday_mask contain garbage after initialization on CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y configurations. This combined with the previously fixed GCWQ_DISASSOCIATED initialization bug could make rescuers fall into infinite loop trying to bind to an offline cpu. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
2010-08-31workqueue: fix GCWQ_DISASSOCIATED initializationTejun Heo
init_workqueues() incorrectly marks workqueues for all possible CPUs associated. Combined with mayday_mask initialization bug, this can make rescuers keep trying to bind to an offline gcwq indefinitely. Fix init_workqueues() such that only online CPUs have their gcwqs have GCWQ_DISASSOCIATED cleared. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>
2010-08-30perf_events: Fix time tracking for events with pid != -1 and cpu != -1Stephane Eranian
Per-thread events with a cpu filter, i.e., cpu != -1, were not reporting correct timings when the thread never ran on the monitored cpu. The time enabled was reported as a negative value. This patch fixes the problem by updating tstamp_stopped, tstamp_running in event_sched_out() for events with filters and which are marked as INACTIVE. The function group_sched_out() is modified to systematically call into event_sched_out() to avoid duplicating the timing adjustment code twice. With the patch, I now get: $ task_cpu -i -e unhalted_core_cycles,unhalted_core_cycles noploop 2 noploop for 2 seconds CPU0 0 unhalted_core_cycles (ena=1,991,136,594, run=0) CPU0 0 unhalted_core_cycles (ena=1,991,136,594, run=0) CPU1 0 unhalted_core_cycles (ena=1,991,136,594, run=0) CPU1 0 unhalted_core_cycles (ena=1,991,136,594, run=0) CPU2 0 unhalted_core_cycles (ena=1,991,136,594, run=0) CPU2 0 unhalted_core_cycles (ena=1,991,136,594, run=0) CPU3 4,747,990,931 unhalted_core_cycles (ena=1,991,136,594, run=1,991,136,594) CPU3 4,747,990,931 unhalted_core_cycles (ena=1,991,136,594, run=1,991,136,594) Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@gmail.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: davem@davemloft.net Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: perfmon2-devel@lists.sf.net Cc: eranian@google.com LKML-Reference: <4c76802d.aae9d80a.115d.70fe@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-28Merge branch 'pm-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6 * 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6: PM QoS: Fix inline documentation. PM QoS: Fix kzalloc() parameters swapped in pm_qos_power_open()