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Linus Torvalds
aa16cd8d12 Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of 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:
  futex: Handle futex value corruption gracefully
  futex: Handle user space corruption gracefully
  futex_lock_pi() key refcnt fix
  softlockup: Add sched_clock_tick() to avoid kernel warning on kgdb resume
2010-02-04 16:07:41 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
59647b6ac3 futex: Handle futex value corruption gracefully
The WARN_ON in lookup_pi_state which complains about a mismatch
between pi_state->owner->pid and the pid which we retrieved from the
user space futex is completely bogus.

The code just emits the warning and then continues despite the fact
that it detected an inconsistent state of the futex. A conveniant way
for user space to spam the syslog.

Replace the WARN_ON by a consistency check. If the values do not match
return -EINVAL and let user space deal with the mess it created.

This also fixes the missing task_pid_vnr() when we compare the
pi_state->owner pid with the futex value.

Reported-by: Jermome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
2010-02-03 15:13:22 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
51246bfd18 futex: Handle user space corruption gracefully
If the owner of a PI futex dies we fix up the pi_state and set
pi_state->owner to NULL. When a malicious or just sloppy programmed
user space application sets the futex value to 0 e.g. by calling
pthread_mutex_init(), then the futex can be acquired again. A new
waiter manages to enqueue itself on the pi_state w/o damage, but on
unlock the kernel dereferences pi_state->owner and oopses.

Prevent this by checking pi_state->owner in the unlock path. If
pi_state->owner is not current we know that user space manipulated the
futex value. Ignore the mess and return -EINVAL.

This catches the above case and also the case where a task hijacks the
futex by setting the tid value and then tries to unlock it.

Reported-by: Jermome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
2010-02-03 15:13:22 +01:00
Mikael Pettersson
5ecb01cfdf futex_lock_pi() key refcnt fix
This fixes a futex key reference count bug in futex_lock_pi(),
where a key's reference count is incremented twice but decremented
only once, causing the backing object to not be released.

If the futex is created in a temporary file in an ext3 file system,
this bug causes the file's inode to become an "undead" orphan,
which causes an oops from a BUG_ON() in ext3_put_super() when the
file system is unmounted. glibc's test suite is known to trigger this,
see <http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14256>.

The bug is a regression from 2.6.28-git3, namely Peter Zijlstra's
38d47c1b70 "[PATCH] futex: rely on
get_user_pages() for shared futexes". That commit made get_futex_key()
also increment the reference count of the futex key, and updated its
callers to decrement the key's reference count before returning.
Unfortunately the normal exit path in futex_lock_pi() wasn't corrected:
the reference count is incremented by get_futex_key() and queue_lock(),
but the normal exit path only decrements once, via unqueue_me_pi().
The fix is to put_futex_key() after unqueue_me_pi(), since 2.6.31
this is easily done by 'goto out_put_key' rather than 'goto out'.

Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
2010-02-03 15:13:22 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
c80d292f13 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6:
  kernel/cred.c: use kmem_cache_free
2010-02-02 18:12:22 -08:00
Li Zefan
4528fd0595 cgroups: fix to return errno in a failure path
In cgroup_create(), if alloc_css_id() returns failure, the errno is not
propagated to userspace, so mkdir will fail silently.

To trigger this bug, we mount blkio (or memory subsystem), and create more
then 65534 cgroups.  (The number of cgroups is limited to 65535 if a
subsystem has use_id == 1)

 # mount -t cgroup -o blkio xxx /mnt
 # for ((i = 0; i < 65534; i++)); do mkdir /mnt/$i; done
 # mkdir /mnt/65534
 (should return ENOSPC)
 #

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-02-02 18:11:22 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
bc173f7092 kfifo: fix kernel-doc notation
Fix kfifo kernel-doc warnings:

Warning(kernel/kfifo.c:361): No description found for parameter 'total'
Warning(kernel/kfifo.c:402): bad line:  @ @lenout: pointer to output variable with copied data
Warning(kernel/kfifo.c:412): No description found for parameter 'lenout'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-02-02 18:11:21 -08:00
Julia Lawall
b8a1d37c5f kernel/cred.c: use kmem_cache_free
Free memory allocated using kmem_cache_zalloc using kmem_cache_free rather
than kfree.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression x,E,c;
@@

 x = \(kmem_cache_alloc\|kmem_cache_zalloc\|kmem_cache_alloc_node\)(c,...)
 ... when != x = E
     when != &x
?-kfree(x)
+kmem_cache_free(c,x)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-02-03 10:21:57 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
e20da89130 Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of 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:
  lockdep: Fix check_usage_backwards() error message
2010-02-01 10:45:26 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
834db333ed Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of 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, hw_breakpoint, kgdb: Do not take mutex for kernel debugger
  x86, hw_breakpoints, kgdb: Fix kgdb to use hw_breakpoint API
  hw_breakpoints: Release the bp slot if arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings() fails.
  perf: Ignore perf.data.old
  perf report: Fix segmentation fault when running with '-g none'
2010-02-01 10:45:00 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
8ea85c2817 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of 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: Correct printk whitespace in warning from cpu down task check
  sched: Fix incorrect sanity check
  sched: Fix fork vs hotplug vs cpuset namespaces
2010-02-01 10:44:36 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
bdd8466783 Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  clocksource: Prevent potential kgdb dead lock
2010-02-01 10:44:06 -08:00
Jason Wessel
d6ad3e286d softlockup: Add sched_clock_tick() to avoid kernel warning on kgdb resume
When CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK is set, sched_clock() gets
the time from hardware such as the TSC on x86. In this
configuration kgdb will report a softlock warning message on
resuming or detaching from a debug session.

Sequence of events in the problem case:

 1) "cpu sched clock" and "hardware time" are at 100 sec prior
    to a call to kgdb_handle_exception()

 2) Debugger waits in kgdb_handle_exception() for 80 sec and on
    exit the following is called ...  touch_softlockup_watchdog() -->
    __raw_get_cpu_var(touch_timestamp) = 0;

 3) "cpu sched clock" = 100s (it was not updated, because the
    interrupt was disabled in kgdb) but the "hardware time" = 180 sec

 4) The first timer interrupt after resuming from
    kgdb_handle_exception updates the watchdog from the "cpu sched clock"

update_process_times() { ...  run_local_timers() -->
softlockup_tick() --> check (touch_timestamp == 0) (it is "YES"
here, we have set "touch_timestamp = 0" at kgdb) -->
__touch_softlockup_watchdog() ***(A)--> reset "touch_timestamp"
to "get_timestamp()" (Here, the "touch_timestamp" will still be
set to 100s.)  ...

    scheduler_tick() ***(B)--> sched_clock_tick() (update "cpu sched
    clock" to "hardware time" = 180s) ...  }

 5) The Second timer interrupt handler appears to have a large
    jump and trips the softlockup warning.

update_process_times() { ...  run_local_timers() -->
softlockup_tick() --> "cpu sched clock" - "touch_timestamp" =
180s-100s > 60s --> printk "soft lockup error messages" ...  }

note: ***(A) reset "touch_timestamp" to
"get_timestamp(this_cpu)"

Why is "touch_timestamp" 100 sec, instead of 180 sec?

When CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK is set, the call trace of
get_timestamp() is:

get_timestamp(this_cpu)
 -->cpu_clock(this_cpu)
 -->sched_clock_cpu(this_cpu)
 -->__update_sched_clock(sched_clock_data, now)

The __update_sched_clock() function uses the GTOD tick value to
create a window to normalize the "now" values.  So if "now"
value is too big for sched_clock_data, it will be ignored.

The fix is to invoke sched_clock_tick() to update "cpu sched
clock" in order to recover from this state.  This is done by
introducing the function touch_softlockup_watchdog_sync(). This
allows kgdb to request that the sched clock is updated when the
watchdog thread runs the first time after a resume from kgdb.

[yong.zhang0@gmail.com: Use per cpu instead of an array]
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <Dongdong.Deng@windriver.com>
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
LKML-Reference: <1264631124-4837-2-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-01 08:22:32 +01:00
Jason Wessel
5352ae638e perf, hw_breakpoint, kgdb: Do not take mutex for kernel debugger
This patch fixes the regression in functionality where the
kernel debugger and the perf API do not nicely share hw
breakpoint reservations.

The kernel debugger cannot use any mutex_lock() calls because it
can start the kernel running from an invalid context.

A mutex free version of the reservation API needed to get
created for the kernel debugger to safely update hw breakpoint
reservations.

The possibility for a breakpoint reservation to be concurrently
processed at the time that kgdb interrupts the system is
improbable. Should this corner case occur the end user is
warned, and the kernel debugger will prohibit updating the
hardware breakpoint reservations.

Any time the kernel debugger reserves a hardware breakpoint it
will be a system wide reservation.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
LKML-Reference: <1264719883-7285-3-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-30 08:42:21 +01:00
Jason Wessel
cc0967490c x86, hw_breakpoints, kgdb: Fix kgdb to use hw_breakpoint API
In the 2.6.33 kernel, the hw_breakpoint API is now used for the
performance event counters.  The hw_breakpoint_handler() now
consumes the hw breakpoints that were previously set by kgdb
arch specific code.  In order for kgdb to work in conjunction
with this core API change, kgdb must use some of the low level
functions of the hw_breakpoint API to install, uninstall, and
deal with hw breakpoint reservations.

The kgdb core required a change to call kgdb_disable_hw_debug
anytime a slave cpu enters kgdb_wait() in order to keep all the
hw breakpoints in sync as well as to prevent hitting a hw
breakpoint while kgdb is active.

During the architecture specific initialization of kgdb, it will
pre-allocate 4 disabled (struct perf event **) structures.  Kgdb
will use these to manage the capabilities for the 4 hw
breakpoint registers, per cpu.  Right now the hw_breakpoint API
does not have a way to ask how many breakpoints are available,
on each CPU so it is possible that the install of a breakpoint
might fail when kgdb restores the system to the run state.  The
intent of this patch is to first get the basic functionality of
hw breakpoints working and leave it to the person debugging the
kernel to understand what hw breakpoints are in use and what
restrictions have been imposed as a result.  Breakpoint
constraints will be dealt with in a future patch.

While atomic, the x86 specific kgdb code will call
arch_uninstall_hw_breakpoint() and arch_install_hw_breakpoint()
to manage the cpu specific hw breakpoints.

The net result of these changes allow kgdb to use the same pool
of hw_breakpoints that are used by the perf event API, but
neither knows about future reservations for the available hw
breakpoint slots.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
LKML-Reference: <1264719883-7285-2-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-30 08:42:20 +01:00
Mahesh Salgaonkar
b23ff0e933 hw_breakpoints: Release the bp slot if arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings() fails.
On a given architecture, when hardware breakpoint registration fails
due to un-supported access type (read/write/execute), we lose the bp
slot since register_perf_hw_breakpoint() does not release the bp slot
on failure.
Hence, any subsequent hardware breakpoint registration starts failing
with 'no space left on device' error.

This patch introduces error handling in register_perf_hw_breakpoint()
function and releases bp slot on error.

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100121125516.GA32521@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-01-28 14:15:51 +01:00
Frans Pop
9d3cfc4c1d sched: Correct printk whitespace in warning from cpu down task check
Due to an incorrect line break the output currently contains tabs.
Also remove trailing space.

The actual output that logcheck sent me looked like this:
 Task events/1 (pid = 10) is on cpu 1^I^I^I^I(state = 1, flags = 84208040)

After this patch it becomes:
 Task events/1 (pid = 10) is on cpu 1 (state = 1, flags = 84208040)

Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendilplanet.nl>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <201001251456.34996.elendil@planet.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-28 06:59:55 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
11854247e2 sched: Fix incorrect sanity check
We moved to migrate on wakeup, which means that sleeping tasks could
still be present on offline cpus. Amend the check to only test running
tasks.

Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-28 06:59:51 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov
48d5067417 lockdep: Fix check_usage_backwards() error message
Lockdep has found the real bug, but the output doesn't look right to me:

> =========================================================
> [ INFO: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected ]
> 2.6.33-rc5 #77
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> emacs/1609 just changed the state of lock:
>  (&(&tty->ctrl_lock)->rlock){+.....}, at: [<ffffffff8127c648>] tty_fasync+0xe8/0x190
> but this lock took another, HARDIRQ-unsafe lock in the past:
>  (&(&sighand->siglock)->rlock){-.....}

"HARDIRQ-unsafe" and "this lock took another" looks wrong, afaics.

>   ... key      at: [<ffffffff81c054a4>] __key.46539+0x0/0x8
>   ... acquired at:
>    [<ffffffff81089af6>] __lock_acquire+0x1056/0x15a0
>    [<ffffffff8108a0df>] lock_acquire+0x9f/0x120
>    [<ffffffff81423012>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x52/0x90
>    [<ffffffff8127c1be>] __proc_set_tty+0x3e/0x150
>    [<ffffffff8127e01d>] tty_open+0x51d/0x5e0

The stack-trace shows that this lock (ctrl_lock) was taken under
->siglock (which is hopefully irq-safe).

This is a clear typo in check_usage_backwards() where we tell the print a
fancy routine we're forwards.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100126181641.GA10460@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-27 08:34:02 +01:00
Mike Frysinger
0368897034 tracing/documentation: Cover new frame pointer semantics
Update the graph tracer examples to cover the new frame pointer semantics
(in terms of passing it along).  Move the HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST docs
out of the Kconfig, into the right place, and expand on the details.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
LKML-Reference: <1264165967-18938-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-26 17:00:39 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
3c05d74827 ring-buffer: Check for end of page in iterator
If the iterator comes to an empty page for some reason, or if
the page is emptied by a consuming read. The iterator code currently
does not check if the iterator is pass the contents, and may
return a false entry.

This patch adds a check to the ring buffer iterator to test if the
current page has been completely read and sets the iterator to the
next page if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-26 16:14:08 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
492a74f421 ring-buffer: Check if ring buffer iterator has stale data
Usually reads of the ring buffer is performed by a single task.
There are two types of reads from the ring buffer.

One is a consuming read which will consume the entry that was read
and the next read will be the entry that follows.

The other is an iterator that will let the user read the contents of
the ring buffer without modifying it. When an iterator is allocated,
writes to the ring buffer are disabled to protect the iterator.

The problem exists when consuming reads happen while an iterator is
allocated. Specifically, the kind of read that swaps out an entire
page (used by splice) and replaces it with a new read. If the iterator
is on the page that is swapped out, then the next read may read
from this swapped out page and return garbage.

This patch adds a check when reading the iterator to make sure that
the iterator contents are still valid. If a consuming read has taken
place, the iterator is reset.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-26 16:09:30 -05:00
Thomas Gleixner
7b7422a566 clocksource: Prevent potential kgdb dead lock
commit 0f8e8ef7 (clocksource: Simplify clocksource watchdog resume
logic) introduced a potential kgdb dead lock. When the kernel is
stopped by kgdb inside code which holds watchdog_lock then kgdb dead
locks in clocksource_resume_watchdog().

clocksource_resume_watchdog() is called from kbdg via
clocksource_touch_watchdog() to avoid that the clock source watchdog
marks TSC unstable after the kernel has been stopped.

Solve this by replacing spin_lock with a spin_trylock and just return
in case the lock is held. Not resetting the watchdog might result in
TSC becoming marked unstable, but that's an acceptable penalty for
using kgdb.

The timekeeping is anyway easily screwed up by kgdb when the system
uses either jiffies or a clock source which wraps in short intervals
(e.g. pm_timer wraps about every 4.6s), so we really do not have to
worry about that occasional TSC marked unstable side effect.

The second caller of clocksource_resume_watchdog() is
clocksource_resume(). The trylock is safe here as well because the
system is UP at this point, interrupts are disabled and nothing else
can hold watchdog_lock().

Reported-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264480000-6997-4-git-send-email-jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-01-26 14:53:16 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
74bf4076f2 tracing: Prevent kernel oops with corrupted buffer
If the contents of the ftrace ring buffer gets corrupted and the trace
file is read, it could create a kernel oops (usualy just killing the user
task thread). This is caused by the checking of the pid in the buffer.
If the pid is negative, it still references the cmdline cache array,
which could point to an invalid address.

The simple fix is to test for negative PIDs.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-25 15:11:53 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
f6760aa024 Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  clockevent: Don't remove broadcast device when cpu is dead
2010-01-24 10:38:07 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
b8be634e01 Merge git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/mtd-2.6.33
* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/mtd-2.6.33:
  mtd: tests: fix read, speed and stress tests on NOR flash
  mtd: Really add ARM pismo support
  kmsg_dump: Dump on crash_kexec as well
2010-01-24 10:31:34 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra
fabf318e5e sched: Fix fork vs hotplug vs cpuset namespaces
There are a number of issues:

1) TASK_WAKING vs cgroup_clone (cpusets)

copy_process():

  sched_fork()
    child->state = TASK_WAKING; /* waiting for wake_up_new_task() */
  if (current->nsproxy != p->nsproxy)
     ns_cgroup_clone()
       cgroup_clone()
         mutex_lock(inode->i_mutex)
         mutex_lock(cgroup_mutex)
         cgroup_attach_task()
	   ss->can_attach()
           ss->attach() [ -> cpuset_attach() ]
             cpuset_attach_task()
               set_cpus_allowed_ptr();
                 while (child->state == TASK_WAKING)
                   cpu_relax();
will deadlock the system.


2) cgroup_clone (cpusets) vs copy_process

So even if the above would work we still have:

copy_process():

  if (current->nsproxy != p->nsproxy)
     ns_cgroup_clone()
       cgroup_clone()
         mutex_lock(inode->i_mutex)
         mutex_lock(cgroup_mutex)
         cgroup_attach_task()
	   ss->can_attach()
           ss->attach() [ -> cpuset_attach() ]
             cpuset_attach_task()
               set_cpus_allowed_ptr();
  ...

  p->cpus_allowed = current->cpus_allowed

over-writing the modified cpus_allowed.


3) fork() vs hotplug

  if we unplug the child's cpu after the sanity check when the child
  gets attached to the task_list but before wake_up_new_task() shit
  will meet with fan.

Solve all these issues by moving fork cpu selection into
wake_up_new_task().

Reported-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1264106190.4283.1314.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-01-21 23:25:31 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
e80b135985 Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of 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: Add support for the ANY bit
  perf: Change the is_software_event() definition
  perf: Honour event state for aux stream data
  perf: Fix perf_event_do_pending() fallback callsite
  perf kmem: Print usage help for unknown commands
  perf kmem: Increase "Hit" column length
  hw-breakpoints, perf: Fix broken mmiotrace due to dr6 by reference change
  perf timechart: Use tid not pid for COMM change
2010-01-21 08:50:04 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra
22e190851f perf: Honour event state for aux stream data
Anton reported that perf record kept receiving events even after calling
ioctl(PERF_EVENT_IOC_DISABLE). It turns out that FORK,COMM and MMAP
events didn't respect the disabled state and kept flowing in.

Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1263459187.4244.265.camel@laptop>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-21 13:40:40 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
fe432200ab perf: Fix perf_event_do_pending() fallback callsite
Paul questioned the context in which we should call
perf_event_do_pending(). After looking at that I found that it should be
called from IRQ context these days, however the fallback call-site is
placed in softirq context. Ammend this by placing the callback in the IRQ
timer path.

Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1263374859.4244.192.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-21 13:40:39 +01:00
Yong Zhang
6d558c3ac9 sched: Reassign prev and switch_count when reacquire_kernel_lock() fail
Assume A->B schedule is processing, if B have acquired BKL before and it
need reschedule this time. Then on B's context, it will go to
need_resched_nonpreemptible for reschedule. But at this time, prev and
switch_count are related to A. It's wrong and will lead to incorrect
scheduler statistics.

Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <2674af741001102238w7b0ddcadref00d345e2181d11@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-21 13:39:04 +01:00
Mike Galbraith
50b926e439 sched: Fix vmark regression on big machines
SD_PREFER_SIBLING is set at the CPU domain level if power saving isn't
enabled, leading to many cache misses on large machines as we traverse
looking for an idle shared cache to wake to.  Change the enabler of
select_idle_sibling() to SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES, and enable same at the
sibling domain level.

Reported-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1262612696.15495.15.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-21 13:39:03 +01:00
Xiaotian Feng
ea9d8e3f45 clockevent: Don't remove broadcast device when cpu is dead
Marc reported that the BUG_ON in clockevents_notify() triggers on his
system. This happens because the kernel tries to remove an active
clock event device (used for broadcasting) from the device list.

The handling of devices which can be used as per cpu device and as a
global broadcast device is suboptimal.

The simplest solution for now (and for stable) is to check whether the
device is used as global broadcast device, but this needs to be
revisited.

[ tglx: restored the cpuweight check and massaged the changelog ]

Reported-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1262834564-13033-1-git-send-email-dfeng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-01-18 14:44:50 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
2a8249daf6 Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of 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:
  futexes: Remove rw parameter from get_futex_key()
2010-01-16 12:31:30 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6ccc347b69 Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing/filters: Add comment for match callbacks
  tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_FULL filter matching for PTR_STRING
  tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_MIDDLE_ONLY filter matching
  lib: Introduce strnstr()
  tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_END_ONLY filter matching
  tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_FRONT_ONLY filter matching
  ftrace: Fix MATCH_END_ONLY function filter
  tracing/x86: Derive arch from bits argument in recordmcount.pl
  ring-buffer: Add rb_list_head() wrapper around new reader page next field
  ring-buffer: Wrap a list.next reference with rb_list_head()
2010-01-16 12:27:25 -08:00
David John
af2422c42c smp_call_function_any(): pass the node value to cpumask_of_node()
The change in acpi_cpufreq to use smp_call_function_any causes a warning
when it is called since the function erroneously passes the cpu id to
cpumask_of_node rather than the node that the cpu is on.  Fix this.

cpumask_of_node(3): node > nr_node_ids(1)
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.33-rc3-00097-g2c1f189 #223
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff81028bb3>] cpumask_of_node+0x23/0x58
 [<ffffffff81061f51>] smp_call_function_any+0x65/0xfa
 [<ffffffff810160d1>] ? do_drv_read+0x0/0x2f
 [<ffffffff81015fba>] get_cur_val+0xb0/0x102
 [<ffffffff81016080>] get_cur_freq_on_cpu+0x74/0xc5
 [<ffffffff810168a7>] acpi_cpufreq_cpu_init+0x417/0x515
 [<ffffffff81562ce9>] ? __down_write+0xb/0xd
 [<ffffffff8148055e>] cpufreq_add_dev+0x278/0x922

Signed-off-by: David John <davidjon@xenontk.org>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-16 12:15:39 -08:00
Andi Kleen
5dab600e6a kfifo: document everywhere that size has to be power of two
On my first try using them I missed that the fifos need to be power of
two, resulting in a runtime bug.  Document that requirement everywhere
(and fix one grammar bug)

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-16 12:15:38 -08:00
Andi Kleen
a5b9e2c106 kfifo: add kfifo_out_peek
In some upcoming code it's useful to peek into a FIFO without permanentely
removing data.  This patch implements a new kfifo_out_peek() to do this.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-16 12:15:38 -08:00
Andi Kleen
64ce1037c5 kfifo: sanitize *_user error handling
Right now for kfifo_*_user it's not easily possible to distingush between
a user copy failing and the FIFO not containing enough data.  The problem
is that both conditions are multiplexed into the same return code.

Avoid this by moving the "copy length" into a separate output parameter
and only return 0/-EFAULT in the main return value.

I didn't fully adapt the weird "record" variants, those seem
to be unused anyways and were rather messy (should they be just removed?)

I would appreciate some double checking if I did all the conversions
correctly.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-16 12:15:38 -08:00
Andi Kleen
8ecc295153 kfifo: use void * pointers for user buffers
The pointers to user buffers are currently unsigned char *, which requires
a lot of casting in the caller for any non-char typed buffers.  Use void *
instead.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-16 12:15:38 -08:00
Li Zefan
d1303dd1d6 tracing/filters: Add comment for match callbacks
We should be clear on 2 things:

- the length parameter of a match callback includes
  tailing '\0'.

- the string to be searched might not be NULL-terminated.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B4E8770.7000608@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-14 22:38:14 -05:00
Li Zefan
16da27a8bc tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_FULL filter matching for PTR_STRING
MATCH_FULL matching for PTR_STRING is not working correctly:

  # echo 'func == vt' > events/bkl/lock_kernel/filter
  # echo 1 > events/bkl/lock_kernel/enable
  ...
  # cat trace
   Xorg-1484  [000]  1973.392586: lock_kernel: ... func=vt_ioctl()
    gpm-1402  [001]  1974.027740: lock_kernel: ... func=vt_ioctl()

We should pass to regex.match(..., len) the length (including '\0')
of the source string instead of the length of the pattern string.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B4E8763.5070707@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-14 22:38:12 -05:00
Li Zefan
b2af211f28 tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_MIDDLE_ONLY filter matching
The @str might not be NULL-terminated if it's of type
DYN_STRING or STATIC_STRING, so we should use strnstr()
instead of strstr().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B4E8753.2000102@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-14 22:38:11 -05:00
Li Zefan
a3291c14ec tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_END_ONLY filter matching
For '*foo' pattern, we should allow any string ending with
'foo', but event filtering incorrectly disallows strings
like bar_foo_foo:

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B4E8735.6070604@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-14 22:38:07 -05:00
Li Zefan
285caad415 tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_FRONT_ONLY filter matching
MATCH_FRONT_ONLY actually is a full matching:

  # ./perf record -R -f -a -e lock:lock_acquire \
	--filter 'name ~rcu_*' sleep 1
  # ./perf trace
  (no output)

We should pass the length of the pattern string to strncmp().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B4E8721.5090301@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-14 22:38:05 -05:00
Li Zefan
751e9983ee ftrace: Fix MATCH_END_ONLY function filter
For '*foo' pattern, we should allow any string ending with
'foo', but ftrace filter incorrectly disallows strings
like bar_foo_foo:

  # echo '*io' > set_ftrace_filter
  # cat set_ftrace_filter | grep 'req_bio_endio'
  # cat available_filter_functions | grep 'req_bio_endio'
  req_bio_endio

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B4E870E.6060607@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-14 22:38:03 -05:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
7485d0d375 futexes: Remove rw parameter from get_futex_key()
Currently, futexes have two problem:

A) The current futex code doesn't handle private file mappings properly.

get_futex_key() uses PageAnon() to distinguish file and
anon, which can cause the following bad scenario:

  1) thread-A call futex(private-mapping, FUTEX_WAIT), it
     sleeps on file mapping object.
  2) thread-B writes a variable and it makes it cow.
  3) thread-B calls futex(private-mapping, FUTEX_WAKE), it
     wakes up blocked thread on the anonymous page. (but it's nothing)

B) Current futex code doesn't handle zero page properly.

Read mode get_user_pages() can return zero page, but current
futex code doesn't handle it at all. Then, zero page makes
infinite loop internally.

The solution is to use write mode get_user_page() always for
page lookup. It prevents the lookup of both file page of private
mappings and zero page.

Performance concerns:

Probaly very little, because glibc always initialize variables
for futex before to call futex(). It means glibc users never see
the overhead of this patch.

Compatibility concerns:

This patch has few compatibility issues. After this patch,
FUTEX_WAIT require writable access to futex variables (read-only
mappings makes EFAULT). But practically it's not a problem,
glibc always initalizes variables for futexes explicitly - nobody
uses read-only mappings.

Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100105162633.45A2.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-13 09:17:36 +01:00
Andi Kleen
b45c6e76bc kernel/signal.c: fix kernel information leak with print-fatal-signals=1
When print-fatal-signals is enabled it's possible to dump any memory
reachable by the kernel to the log by simply jumping to that address from
user space.

Or crash the system if there's some hardware with read side effects.

The fatal signals handler will dump 16 bytes at the execution address,
which is fully controlled by ring 3.

In addition when something jumps to a unmapped address there will be up to
16 additional useless page faults, which might be potentially slow (and at
least is not very efficient)

Fortunately this option is off by default and only there on i386.

But fix it by checking for kernel addresses and also stopping when there's
a page fault.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-11 09:34:05 -08:00
Dave Anderson
bd4f490a07 cgroups: fix 2.6.32 regression causing BUG_ON() in cgroup_diput()
The LTP cgroup test suite generates a "kernel BUG at kernel/cgroup.c:790!"
here in cgroup_diput():

                 /*
                  * if we're getting rid of the cgroup, refcount should ensure
                  * that there are no pidlists left.
                  */
                 BUG_ON(!list_empty(&cgrp->pidlists));

The cgroup pidlist rework in 2.6.32 generates the BUG_ON, which is caused
when pidlist_array_load() calls cgroup_pidlist_find():

(1) if a matching cgroup_pidlist is found, it down_write's the mutex of the
     pre-existing cgroup_pidlist, and increments its use_count.
(2) if no matching cgroup_pidlist is found, then a new one is allocated, it
     down_write's its mutex, and the use_count is set to 0.
(3) the matching, or new, cgroup_pidlist gets returned back to pidlist_array_load(),
     which increments its use_count -- regardless whether new or pre-existing --
     and up_write's the mutex.

So if a matching list is ever encountered by cgroup_pidlist_find() during
the life of a cgroup directory, it results in an inflated use_count value,
preventing it from ever getting released by cgroup_release_pid_array().
Then if the directory is subsequently removed, cgroup_diput() hits the
BUG_ON() when it finds that the directory's cgroup is still populated with
a pidlist.

The patch simply removes the use_count increment when a matching pidlist
is found by cgroup_pidlist_find(), because it gets bumped by the calling
pidlist_array_load() function while still protected by the list's mutex.

Signed-off-by: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-11 09:34:05 -08:00
Masami Hiramatsu
8767ba2796 kmod: fix resource leak in call_usermodehelper_pipe()
Fix resource (write-pipe file) leak in call_usermodehelper_pipe().

When call_usermodehelper_exec() fails, write-pipe file is opened and
call_usermodehelper_pipe() just returns an error.  Since it is hard for
caller to determine whether the error occured when opening the pipe or
executing the helper, the caller cannot close the pipe by themselves.

I've found this resoruce leak when testing coredump.  You can check how
the resource leaks as below;

$ echo "|nocommand" > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
$ ulimit -c unlimited
$ while [ 1 ]; do ./segv; done &> /dev/null &
$ cat /proc/meminfo (<- repeat it)

where segv.c is;
//-----
int main () {
        char *p = 0;
        *p = 1;
}
//-----

This patch closes write-pipe file if call_usermodehelper_exec() failed.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-11 09:34:04 -08:00