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<title>exec/ptrace: fix get_dumpable() incorrect tests</title>
<updated>2013-11-29T18:50:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-12T23:11:17+00:00</published>
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commit d049f74f2dbe71354d43d393ac3a188947811348 upstream.

The get_dumpable() return value is not boolean.  Most users of the
function actually want to be testing for non-SUID_DUMP_USER(1) rather than
SUID_DUMP_DISABLE(0).  The SUID_DUMP_ROOT(2) is also considered a
protected state.  Almost all places did this correctly, excepting the two
places fixed in this patch.

Wrong logic:
    if (dumpable == SUID_DUMP_DISABLE) { /* be protective */ }
        or
    if (dumpable == 0) { /* be protective */ }
        or
    if (!dumpable) { /* be protective */ }

Correct logic:
    if (dumpable != SUID_DUMP_USER) { /* be protective */ }
        or
    if (dumpable != 1) { /* be protective */ }

Without this patch, if the system had set the sysctl fs/suid_dumpable=2, a
user was able to ptrace attach to processes that had dropped privileges to
that user.  (This may have been partially mitigated if Yama was enabled.)

The macros have been moved into the file that declares get/set_dumpable(),
which means things like the ia64 code can see them too.

CVE-2013-2929

Reported-by: Vasily Kulikov &lt;segoon@openwall.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d049f74f2dbe71354d43d393ac3a188947811348 upstream.

The get_dumpable() return value is not boolean.  Most users of the
function actually want to be testing for non-SUID_DUMP_USER(1) rather than
SUID_DUMP_DISABLE(0).  The SUID_DUMP_ROOT(2) is also considered a
protected state.  Almost all places did this correctly, excepting the two
places fixed in this patch.

Wrong logic:
    if (dumpable == SUID_DUMP_DISABLE) { /* be protective */ }
        or
    if (dumpable == 0) { /* be protective */ }
        or
    if (!dumpable) { /* be protective */ }

Correct logic:
    if (dumpable != SUID_DUMP_USER) { /* be protective */ }
        or
    if (dumpable != 1) { /* be protective */ }

Without this patch, if the system had set the sysctl fs/suid_dumpable=2, a
user was able to ptrace attach to processes that had dropped privileges to
that user.  (This may have been partially mitigated if Yama was enabled.)

The macros have been moved into the file that declares get/set_dumpable(),
which means things like the ia64 code can see them too.

CVE-2013-2929

Reported-by: Vasily Kulikov &lt;segoon@openwall.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>mm, show_mem: suppress page counts in non-blockable contexts</title>
<updated>2013-10-13T22:42:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Rientjes</name>
<email>rientjes@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-29T22:06:11+00:00</published>
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commit 4b59e6c4730978679b414a8da61514a2518da512 upstream.

On large systems with a lot of memory, walking all RAM to determine page
types may take a half second or even more.

In non-blockable contexts, the page allocator will emit a page allocation
failure warning unless __GFP_NOWARN is specified.  In such contexts, irqs
are typically disabled and such a lengthy delay may even result in NMI
watchdog timeouts.

To fix this, suppress the page walk in such contexts when printing the
page allocation failure warning.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Xishi Qiu &lt;qiuxishi@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 4b59e6c4730978679b414a8da61514a2518da512 upstream.

On large systems with a lot of memory, walking all RAM to determine page
types may take a half second or even more.

In non-blockable contexts, the page allocator will emit a page allocation
failure warning unless __GFP_NOWARN is specified.  In such contexts, irqs
are typically disabled and such a lengthy delay may even result in NMI
watchdog timeouts.

To fix this, suppress the page walk in such contexts when printing the
page allocation failure warning.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Xishi Qiu &lt;qiuxishi@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Wrong asm register contraints in the kvm implementation</title>
<updated>2013-05-08T02:51:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephan Schreiber</name>
<email>info@fs-driver.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-19T22:27:12+00:00</published>
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commit de53e9caa4c6149ef4a78c2f83d7f5b655848767 upstream.

The Linux Kernel contains some inline assembly source code which has
wrong asm register constraints in arch/ia64/kvm/vtlb.c.

I observed this on Kernel 3.2.35 but it is also true on the most
recent Kernel 3.9-rc1.

File arch/ia64/kvm/vtlb.c:

u64 guest_vhpt_lookup(u64 iha, u64 *pte)
{
	u64 ret;
	struct thash_data *data;

	data = __vtr_lookup(current_vcpu, iha, D_TLB);
	if (data != NULL)
		thash_vhpt_insert(current_vcpu, data-&gt;page_flags,
			data-&gt;itir, iha, D_TLB);

	asm volatile (
			"rsm psr.ic|psr.i;;"
			"srlz.d;;"
			"ld8.s r9=[%1];;"
			"tnat.nz p6,p7=r9;;"
			"(p6) mov %0=1;"
			"(p6) mov r9=r0;"
			"(p7) extr.u r9=r9,0,53;;"
			"(p7) mov %0=r0;"
			"(p7) st8 [%2]=r9;;"
			"ssm psr.ic;;"
			"srlz.d;;"
			"ssm psr.i;;"
			"srlz.d;;"
			: "=r"(ret) : "r"(iha), "r"(pte):"memory");

	return ret;
}

The list of output registers is
			: "=r"(ret) : "r"(iha), "r"(pte):"memory");
The constraint "=r" means that the GCC has to maintain that these vars
are in registers and contain valid info when the program flow leaves
the assembly block (output registers).
But "=r" also means that GCC can put them in registers that are used
as input registers. Input registers are iha, pte on the example.
If the predicate p7 is true, the 8th assembly instruction
			"(p7) mov %0=r0;"
is the first one which writes to a register which is maintained by the
register constraints; it sets %0. %0 means the first register operand;
it is ret here.
This instruction might overwrite the %2 register (pte) which is needed
by the next instruction:
			"(p7) st8 [%2]=r9;;"
Whether it really happens depends on how GCC decides what registers it
uses and how it optimizes the code.

The attached patch  fixes the register operand constraints in
arch/ia64/kvm/vtlb.c.
The register constraints should be
			: "=&amp;r"(ret) : "r"(iha), "r"(pte):"memory");
The &amp; means that GCC must not use any of the input registers to place
this output register in.

This is Debian bug#702639
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702639).

The patch is applicable on Kernel 3.9-rc1, 3.2.35 and many other versions.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Schreiber &lt;info@fs-driver.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit de53e9caa4c6149ef4a78c2f83d7f5b655848767 upstream.

The Linux Kernel contains some inline assembly source code which has
wrong asm register constraints in arch/ia64/kvm/vtlb.c.

I observed this on Kernel 3.2.35 but it is also true on the most
recent Kernel 3.9-rc1.

File arch/ia64/kvm/vtlb.c:

u64 guest_vhpt_lookup(u64 iha, u64 *pte)
{
	u64 ret;
	struct thash_data *data;

	data = __vtr_lookup(current_vcpu, iha, D_TLB);
	if (data != NULL)
		thash_vhpt_insert(current_vcpu, data-&gt;page_flags,
			data-&gt;itir, iha, D_TLB);

	asm volatile (
			"rsm psr.ic|psr.i;;"
			"srlz.d;;"
			"ld8.s r9=[%1];;"
			"tnat.nz p6,p7=r9;;"
			"(p6) mov %0=1;"
			"(p6) mov r9=r0;"
			"(p7) extr.u r9=r9,0,53;;"
			"(p7) mov %0=r0;"
			"(p7) st8 [%2]=r9;;"
			"ssm psr.ic;;"
			"srlz.d;;"
			"ssm psr.i;;"
			"srlz.d;;"
			: "=r"(ret) : "r"(iha), "r"(pte):"memory");

	return ret;
}

The list of output registers is
			: "=r"(ret) : "r"(iha), "r"(pte):"memory");
The constraint "=r" means that the GCC has to maintain that these vars
are in registers and contain valid info when the program flow leaves
the assembly block (output registers).
But "=r" also means that GCC can put them in registers that are used
as input registers. Input registers are iha, pte on the example.
If the predicate p7 is true, the 8th assembly instruction
			"(p7) mov %0=r0;"
is the first one which writes to a register which is maintained by the
register constraints; it sets %0. %0 means the first register operand;
it is ret here.
This instruction might overwrite the %2 register (pte) which is needed
by the next instruction:
			"(p7) st8 [%2]=r9;;"
Whether it really happens depends on how GCC decides what registers it
uses and how it optimizes the code.

The attached patch  fixes the register operand constraints in
arch/ia64/kvm/vtlb.c.
The register constraints should be
			: "=&amp;r"(ret) : "r"(iha), "r"(pte):"memory");
The &amp; means that GCC must not use any of the input registers to place
this output register in.

This is Debian bug#702639
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702639).

The patch is applicable on Kernel 3.9-rc1, 3.2.35 and many other versions.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Schreiber &lt;info@fs-driver.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Wrong asm register contraints in the futex implementation</title>
<updated>2013-05-08T02:51:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephan Schreiber</name>
<email>info@fs-driver.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-19T22:22:27+00:00</published>
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commit 136f39ddc53db3bcee2befbe323a56d4fbf06da8 upstream.

The Linux Kernel contains some inline assembly source code which has
wrong asm register constraints in arch/ia64/include/asm/futex.h.

I observed this on Kernel 3.2.23 but it is also true on the most
recent Kernel 3.9-rc1.

File arch/ia64/include/asm/futex.h:

static inline int
futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(u32 *uval, u32 __user *uaddr,
			      u32 oldval, u32 newval)
{
	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uaddr, sizeof(u32)))
		return -EFAULT;

	{
		register unsigned long r8 __asm ("r8");
		unsigned long prev;
		__asm__ __volatile__(
			"	mf;;					\n"
			"	mov %0=r0				\n"
			"	mov ar.ccv=%4;;				\n"
			"[1:]	cmpxchg4.acq %1=[%2],%3,ar.ccv		\n"
			"	.xdata4 \"__ex_table\", 1b-., 2f-.	\n"
			"[2:]"
			: "=r" (r8), "=r" (prev)
			: "r" (uaddr), "r" (newval),
			  "rO" ((long) (unsigned) oldval)
			: "memory");
		*uval = prev;
		return r8;
	}
}

The list of output registers is
			: "=r" (r8), "=r" (prev)
The constraint "=r" means that the GCC has to maintain that these vars
are in registers and contain valid info when the program flow leaves
the assembly block (output registers).
But "=r" also means that GCC can put them in registers that are used
as input registers. Input registers are uaddr, newval, oldval on the
example.
The second assembly instruction
			"	mov %0=r0				\n"
is the first one which writes to a register; it sets %0 to 0. %0 means
the first register operand; it is r8 here. (The r0 is read-only and
always 0 on the Itanium; it can be used if an immediate zero value is
needed.)
This instruction might overwrite one of the other registers which are
still needed.
Whether it really happens depends on how GCC decides what registers it
uses and how it optimizes the code.

The objdump utility can give us disassembly.
The futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() function is inline, so we have to
look for a module that uses the funtion. This is the
cmpxchg_futex_value_locked() function in
kernel/futex.c:

static int cmpxchg_futex_value_locked(u32 *curval, u32 __user *uaddr,
				      u32 uval, u32 newval)
{
	int ret;

	pagefault_disable();
	ret = futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(curval, uaddr, uval, newval);
	pagefault_enable();

	return ret;
}

Now the disassembly. At first from the Kernel package 3.2.23 which has
been compiled with GCC 4.4, remeber this Kernel seemed to work:
objdump -d linux-3.2.23/debian/build/build_ia64_none_mckinley/kernel/futex.o

0000000000000230 &lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked&gt;:
      230:	0b 18 80 1b 18 21 	[MMI]       adds r3=3168,r13;;
      236:	80 40 0d 00 42 00 	            adds r8=40,r3
      23c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      240:	0b 50 00 10 10 10 	[MMI]       ld4 r10=[r8];;
      246:	90 08 28 00 42 00 	            adds r9=1,r10
      24c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      250:	09 00 00 00 01 00 	[MMI]       nop.m 0x0
      256:	00 48 20 20 23 00 	            st4 [r8]=r9
      25c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      260:	08 10 80 06 00 21 	[MMI]       adds r2=32,r3
      266:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.m 0x0
      26c:	02 08 f1 52       	            extr.u r16=r33,0,61
      270:	05 40 88 00 08 e0 	[MLX]       addp4 r8=r34,r0
      276:	ff ff 0f 00 00 e0 	            movl r15=0xfffffffbfff;;
      27c:	f1 f7 ff 65
      280:	09 70 00 04 18 10 	[MMI]       ld8 r14=[r2]
      286:	00 00 00 02 00 c0 	            nop.m 0x0
      28c:	f0 80 1c d0       	            cmp.ltu p6,p7=r15,r16;;
      290:	08 40 fc 1d 09 3b 	[MMI]       cmp.eq p8,p9=-1,r14
      296:	00 00 00 02 00 40 	            nop.m 0x0
      29c:	e1 08 2d d0       	            cmp.ltu p10,p11=r14,r33
      2a0:	56 01 10 00 40 10 	[BBB] (p10) br.cond.spnt.few 2e0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xb0&gt;
      2a6:	02 08 00 80 21 03 	      (p08) br.cond.dpnt.few 2b0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0x80&gt;
      2ac:	40 00 00 41       	      (p06) br.cond.spnt.few 2e0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xb0&gt;
      2b0:	0a 00 00 00 22 00 	[MMI]       mf;;
      2b6:	80 00 00 00 42 00 	            mov r8=r0
      2bc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0
      2c0:	0b 00 20 40 2a 04 	[MMI]       mov.m ar.ccv=r8;;
      2c6:	10 1a 85 22 20 00 	            cmpxchg4.acq r33=[r33],r35,ar.ccv
      2cc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2d0:	10 00 84 40 90 11 	[MIB]       st4 [r32]=r33
      2d6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.i 0x0
      2dc:	20 00 00 40       	            br.few 2f0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xc0&gt;
      2e0:	09 40 c8 f9 ff 27 	[MMI]       mov r8=-14
      2e6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.m 0x0
      2ec:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2f0:	0b 58 20 1a 19 21 	[MMI]       adds r11=3208,r13;;
      2f6:	20 01 2c 20 20 00 	            ld4 r18=[r11]
      2fc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      300:	0b 88 fc 25 3f 23 	[MMI]       adds r17=-1,r18;;
      306:	00 88 2c 20 23 00 	            st4 [r11]=r17
      30c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      310:	11 00 00 00 01 00 	[MIB]       nop.m 0x0
      316:	00 00 00 02 00 80 	            nop.i 0x0
      31c:	08 00 84 00       	            br.ret.sptk.many b0;;

The lines
      2b0:	0a 00 00 00 22 00 	[MMI]       mf;;
      2b6:	80 00 00 00 42 00 	            mov r8=r0
      2bc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0
      2c0:	0b 00 20 40 2a 04 	[MMI]       mov.m ar.ccv=r8;;
      2c6:	10 1a 85 22 20 00 	            cmpxchg4.acq r33=[r33],r35,ar.ccv
      2cc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
are the instructions of the assembly block.
The line
      2b6:	80 00 00 00 42 00 	            mov r8=r0
sets the r8 register to 0 and after that
      2c0:	0b 00 20 40 2a 04 	[MMI]       mov.m ar.ccv=r8;;
prepares the 'oldvalue' for the cmpxchg but it takes it from r8. This
is wrong.
What happened here is what I explained above: An input register is
overwritten which is still needed.
The register operand constraints in futex.h are wrong.

(The problem doesn't occur when the Kernel is compiled with GCC 4.6.)

The attached patch fixes the register operand constraints in futex.h.
The code after patching of it:

static inline int
futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(u32 *uval, u32 __user *uaddr,
			      u32 oldval, u32 newval)
{
	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uaddr, sizeof(u32)))
		return -EFAULT;

	{
		register unsigned long r8 __asm ("r8") = 0;
		unsigned long prev;
		__asm__ __volatile__(
			"	mf;;					\n"
			"	mov ar.ccv=%4;;				\n"
			"[1:]	cmpxchg4.acq %1=[%2],%3,ar.ccv		\n"
			"	.xdata4 \"__ex_table\", 1b-., 2f-.	\n"
			"[2:]"
			: "+r" (r8), "=&amp;r" (prev)
			: "r" (uaddr), "r" (newval),
			  "rO" ((long) (unsigned) oldval)
			: "memory");
		*uval = prev;
		return r8;
	}
}

I also initialized the 'r8' var with the C programming language.
The _asm qualifier on the definition of the 'r8' var forces GCC to use
the r8 processor register for it.
I don't believe that we should use inline assembly for zeroing out a
local variable.
The constraint is
"+r" (r8)
what means that it is both an input register and an output register.
Note that the page fault handler will modify the r8 register which
will be the return value of the function.
The real fix is
"=&amp;r" (prev)
The &amp; means that GCC must not use any of the input registers to place
this output register in.

Patched the Kernel 3.2.23 and compiled it with GCC4.4:

0000000000000230 &lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked&gt;:
      230:	0b 18 80 1b 18 21 	[MMI]       adds r3=3168,r13;;
      236:	80 40 0d 00 42 00 	            adds r8=40,r3
      23c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      240:	0b 50 00 10 10 10 	[MMI]       ld4 r10=[r8];;
      246:	90 08 28 00 42 00 	            adds r9=1,r10
      24c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      250:	09 00 00 00 01 00 	[MMI]       nop.m 0x0
      256:	00 48 20 20 23 00 	            st4 [r8]=r9
      25c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      260:	08 10 80 06 00 21 	[MMI]       adds r2=32,r3
      266:	20 12 01 10 40 00 	            addp4 r34=r34,r0
      26c:	02 08 f1 52       	            extr.u r16=r33,0,61
      270:	05 40 00 00 00 e1 	[MLX]       mov r8=r0
      276:	ff ff 0f 00 00 e0 	            movl r15=0xfffffffbfff;;
      27c:	f1 f7 ff 65
      280:	09 70 00 04 18 10 	[MMI]       ld8 r14=[r2]
      286:	00 00 00 02 00 c0 	            nop.m 0x0
      28c:	f0 80 1c d0       	            cmp.ltu p6,p7=r15,r16;;
      290:	08 40 fc 1d 09 3b 	[MMI]       cmp.eq p8,p9=-1,r14
      296:	00 00 00 02 00 40 	            nop.m 0x0
      29c:	e1 08 2d d0       	            cmp.ltu p10,p11=r14,r33
      2a0:	56 01 10 00 40 10 	[BBB] (p10) br.cond.spnt.few 2e0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xb0&gt;
      2a6:	02 08 00 80 21 03 	      (p08) br.cond.dpnt.few 2b0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0x80&gt;
      2ac:	40 00 00 41       	      (p06) br.cond.spnt.few 2e0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xb0&gt;
      2b0:	0b 00 00 00 22 00 	[MMI]       mf;;
      2b6:	00 10 81 54 08 00 	            mov.m ar.ccv=r34
      2bc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2c0:	09 58 8c 42 11 10 	[MMI]       cmpxchg4.acq r11=[r33],r35,ar.ccv
      2c6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.m 0x0
      2cc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2d0:	10 00 2c 40 90 11 	[MIB]       st4 [r32]=r11
      2d6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.i 0x0
      2dc:	20 00 00 40       	            br.few 2f0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xc0&gt;
      2e0:	09 40 c8 f9 ff 27 	[MMI]       mov r8=-14
      2e6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.m 0x0
      2ec:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2f0:	0b 88 20 1a 19 21 	[MMI]       adds r17=3208,r13;;
      2f6:	30 01 44 20 20 00 	            ld4 r19=[r17]
      2fc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      300:	0b 90 fc 27 3f 23 	[MMI]       adds r18=-1,r19;;
      306:	00 90 44 20 23 00 	            st4 [r17]=r18
      30c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      310:	11 00 00 00 01 00 	[MIB]       nop.m 0x0
      316:	00 00 00 02 00 80 	            nop.i 0x0
      31c:	08 00 84 00       	            br.ret.sptk.many b0;;

Much better.
There is a
      270:	05 40 00 00 00 e1 	[MLX]       mov r8=r0
which was generated by C code r8 = 0. Below
      2b6:	00 10 81 54 08 00 	            mov.m ar.ccv=r34
what means that oldval is no longer overwritten.

This is Debian bug#702641
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702641).

The patch is applicable on Kernel 3.9-rc1, 3.2.23 and many other versions.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Schreiber &lt;info@fs-driver.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 136f39ddc53db3bcee2befbe323a56d4fbf06da8 upstream.

The Linux Kernel contains some inline assembly source code which has
wrong asm register constraints in arch/ia64/include/asm/futex.h.

I observed this on Kernel 3.2.23 but it is also true on the most
recent Kernel 3.9-rc1.

File arch/ia64/include/asm/futex.h:

static inline int
futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(u32 *uval, u32 __user *uaddr,
			      u32 oldval, u32 newval)
{
	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uaddr, sizeof(u32)))
		return -EFAULT;

	{
		register unsigned long r8 __asm ("r8");
		unsigned long prev;
		__asm__ __volatile__(
			"	mf;;					\n"
			"	mov %0=r0				\n"
			"	mov ar.ccv=%4;;				\n"
			"[1:]	cmpxchg4.acq %1=[%2],%3,ar.ccv		\n"
			"	.xdata4 \"__ex_table\", 1b-., 2f-.	\n"
			"[2:]"
			: "=r" (r8), "=r" (prev)
			: "r" (uaddr), "r" (newval),
			  "rO" ((long) (unsigned) oldval)
			: "memory");
		*uval = prev;
		return r8;
	}
}

The list of output registers is
			: "=r" (r8), "=r" (prev)
The constraint "=r" means that the GCC has to maintain that these vars
are in registers and contain valid info when the program flow leaves
the assembly block (output registers).
But "=r" also means that GCC can put them in registers that are used
as input registers. Input registers are uaddr, newval, oldval on the
example.
The second assembly instruction
			"	mov %0=r0				\n"
is the first one which writes to a register; it sets %0 to 0. %0 means
the first register operand; it is r8 here. (The r0 is read-only and
always 0 on the Itanium; it can be used if an immediate zero value is
needed.)
This instruction might overwrite one of the other registers which are
still needed.
Whether it really happens depends on how GCC decides what registers it
uses and how it optimizes the code.

The objdump utility can give us disassembly.
The futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() function is inline, so we have to
look for a module that uses the funtion. This is the
cmpxchg_futex_value_locked() function in
kernel/futex.c:

static int cmpxchg_futex_value_locked(u32 *curval, u32 __user *uaddr,
				      u32 uval, u32 newval)
{
	int ret;

	pagefault_disable();
	ret = futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(curval, uaddr, uval, newval);
	pagefault_enable();

	return ret;
}

Now the disassembly. At first from the Kernel package 3.2.23 which has
been compiled with GCC 4.4, remeber this Kernel seemed to work:
objdump -d linux-3.2.23/debian/build/build_ia64_none_mckinley/kernel/futex.o

0000000000000230 &lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked&gt;:
      230:	0b 18 80 1b 18 21 	[MMI]       adds r3=3168,r13;;
      236:	80 40 0d 00 42 00 	            adds r8=40,r3
      23c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      240:	0b 50 00 10 10 10 	[MMI]       ld4 r10=[r8];;
      246:	90 08 28 00 42 00 	            adds r9=1,r10
      24c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      250:	09 00 00 00 01 00 	[MMI]       nop.m 0x0
      256:	00 48 20 20 23 00 	            st4 [r8]=r9
      25c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      260:	08 10 80 06 00 21 	[MMI]       adds r2=32,r3
      266:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.m 0x0
      26c:	02 08 f1 52       	            extr.u r16=r33,0,61
      270:	05 40 88 00 08 e0 	[MLX]       addp4 r8=r34,r0
      276:	ff ff 0f 00 00 e0 	            movl r15=0xfffffffbfff;;
      27c:	f1 f7 ff 65
      280:	09 70 00 04 18 10 	[MMI]       ld8 r14=[r2]
      286:	00 00 00 02 00 c0 	            nop.m 0x0
      28c:	f0 80 1c d0       	            cmp.ltu p6,p7=r15,r16;;
      290:	08 40 fc 1d 09 3b 	[MMI]       cmp.eq p8,p9=-1,r14
      296:	00 00 00 02 00 40 	            nop.m 0x0
      29c:	e1 08 2d d0       	            cmp.ltu p10,p11=r14,r33
      2a0:	56 01 10 00 40 10 	[BBB] (p10) br.cond.spnt.few 2e0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xb0&gt;
      2a6:	02 08 00 80 21 03 	      (p08) br.cond.dpnt.few 2b0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0x80&gt;
      2ac:	40 00 00 41       	      (p06) br.cond.spnt.few 2e0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xb0&gt;
      2b0:	0a 00 00 00 22 00 	[MMI]       mf;;
      2b6:	80 00 00 00 42 00 	            mov r8=r0
      2bc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0
      2c0:	0b 00 20 40 2a 04 	[MMI]       mov.m ar.ccv=r8;;
      2c6:	10 1a 85 22 20 00 	            cmpxchg4.acq r33=[r33],r35,ar.ccv
      2cc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2d0:	10 00 84 40 90 11 	[MIB]       st4 [r32]=r33
      2d6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.i 0x0
      2dc:	20 00 00 40       	            br.few 2f0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xc0&gt;
      2e0:	09 40 c8 f9 ff 27 	[MMI]       mov r8=-14
      2e6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.m 0x0
      2ec:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2f0:	0b 58 20 1a 19 21 	[MMI]       adds r11=3208,r13;;
      2f6:	20 01 2c 20 20 00 	            ld4 r18=[r11]
      2fc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      300:	0b 88 fc 25 3f 23 	[MMI]       adds r17=-1,r18;;
      306:	00 88 2c 20 23 00 	            st4 [r11]=r17
      30c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      310:	11 00 00 00 01 00 	[MIB]       nop.m 0x0
      316:	00 00 00 02 00 80 	            nop.i 0x0
      31c:	08 00 84 00       	            br.ret.sptk.many b0;;

The lines
      2b0:	0a 00 00 00 22 00 	[MMI]       mf;;
      2b6:	80 00 00 00 42 00 	            mov r8=r0
      2bc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0
      2c0:	0b 00 20 40 2a 04 	[MMI]       mov.m ar.ccv=r8;;
      2c6:	10 1a 85 22 20 00 	            cmpxchg4.acq r33=[r33],r35,ar.ccv
      2cc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
are the instructions of the assembly block.
The line
      2b6:	80 00 00 00 42 00 	            mov r8=r0
sets the r8 register to 0 and after that
      2c0:	0b 00 20 40 2a 04 	[MMI]       mov.m ar.ccv=r8;;
prepares the 'oldvalue' for the cmpxchg but it takes it from r8. This
is wrong.
What happened here is what I explained above: An input register is
overwritten which is still needed.
The register operand constraints in futex.h are wrong.

(The problem doesn't occur when the Kernel is compiled with GCC 4.6.)

The attached patch fixes the register operand constraints in futex.h.
The code after patching of it:

static inline int
futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(u32 *uval, u32 __user *uaddr,
			      u32 oldval, u32 newval)
{
	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, uaddr, sizeof(u32)))
		return -EFAULT;

	{
		register unsigned long r8 __asm ("r8") = 0;
		unsigned long prev;
		__asm__ __volatile__(
			"	mf;;					\n"
			"	mov ar.ccv=%4;;				\n"
			"[1:]	cmpxchg4.acq %1=[%2],%3,ar.ccv		\n"
			"	.xdata4 \"__ex_table\", 1b-., 2f-.	\n"
			"[2:]"
			: "+r" (r8), "=&amp;r" (prev)
			: "r" (uaddr), "r" (newval),
			  "rO" ((long) (unsigned) oldval)
			: "memory");
		*uval = prev;
		return r8;
	}
}

I also initialized the 'r8' var with the C programming language.
The _asm qualifier on the definition of the 'r8' var forces GCC to use
the r8 processor register for it.
I don't believe that we should use inline assembly for zeroing out a
local variable.
The constraint is
"+r" (r8)
what means that it is both an input register and an output register.
Note that the page fault handler will modify the r8 register which
will be the return value of the function.
The real fix is
"=&amp;r" (prev)
The &amp; means that GCC must not use any of the input registers to place
this output register in.

Patched the Kernel 3.2.23 and compiled it with GCC4.4:

0000000000000230 &lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked&gt;:
      230:	0b 18 80 1b 18 21 	[MMI]       adds r3=3168,r13;;
      236:	80 40 0d 00 42 00 	            adds r8=40,r3
      23c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      240:	0b 50 00 10 10 10 	[MMI]       ld4 r10=[r8];;
      246:	90 08 28 00 42 00 	            adds r9=1,r10
      24c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      250:	09 00 00 00 01 00 	[MMI]       nop.m 0x0
      256:	00 48 20 20 23 00 	            st4 [r8]=r9
      25c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      260:	08 10 80 06 00 21 	[MMI]       adds r2=32,r3
      266:	20 12 01 10 40 00 	            addp4 r34=r34,r0
      26c:	02 08 f1 52       	            extr.u r16=r33,0,61
      270:	05 40 00 00 00 e1 	[MLX]       mov r8=r0
      276:	ff ff 0f 00 00 e0 	            movl r15=0xfffffffbfff;;
      27c:	f1 f7 ff 65
      280:	09 70 00 04 18 10 	[MMI]       ld8 r14=[r2]
      286:	00 00 00 02 00 c0 	            nop.m 0x0
      28c:	f0 80 1c d0       	            cmp.ltu p6,p7=r15,r16;;
      290:	08 40 fc 1d 09 3b 	[MMI]       cmp.eq p8,p9=-1,r14
      296:	00 00 00 02 00 40 	            nop.m 0x0
      29c:	e1 08 2d d0       	            cmp.ltu p10,p11=r14,r33
      2a0:	56 01 10 00 40 10 	[BBB] (p10) br.cond.spnt.few 2e0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xb0&gt;
      2a6:	02 08 00 80 21 03 	      (p08) br.cond.dpnt.few 2b0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0x80&gt;
      2ac:	40 00 00 41       	      (p06) br.cond.spnt.few 2e0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xb0&gt;
      2b0:	0b 00 00 00 22 00 	[MMI]       mf;;
      2b6:	00 10 81 54 08 00 	            mov.m ar.ccv=r34
      2bc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2c0:	09 58 8c 42 11 10 	[MMI]       cmpxchg4.acq r11=[r33],r35,ar.ccv
      2c6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.m 0x0
      2cc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2d0:	10 00 2c 40 90 11 	[MIB]       st4 [r32]=r11
      2d6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.i 0x0
      2dc:	20 00 00 40       	            br.few 2f0
&lt;cmpxchg_futex_value_locked+0xc0&gt;
      2e0:	09 40 c8 f9 ff 27 	[MMI]       mov r8=-14
      2e6:	00 00 00 02 00 00 	            nop.m 0x0
      2ec:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      2f0:	0b 88 20 1a 19 21 	[MMI]       adds r17=3208,r13;;
      2f6:	30 01 44 20 20 00 	            ld4 r19=[r17]
      2fc:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      300:	0b 90 fc 27 3f 23 	[MMI]       adds r18=-1,r19;;
      306:	00 90 44 20 23 00 	            st4 [r17]=r18
      30c:	00 00 04 00       	            nop.i 0x0;;
      310:	11 00 00 00 01 00 	[MIB]       nop.m 0x0
      316:	00 00 00 02 00 80 	            nop.i 0x0
      31c:	08 00 84 00       	            br.ret.sptk.many b0;;

Much better.
There is a
      270:	05 40 00 00 00 e1 	[MLX]       mov r8=r0
which was generated by C code r8 = 0. Below
      2b6:	00 10 81 54 08 00 	            mov.m ar.ccv=r34
what means that oldval is no longer overwritten.

This is Debian bug#702641
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702641).

The patch is applicable on Kernel 3.9-rc1, 3.2.23 and many other versions.

Signed-off-by: Stephan Schreiber &lt;info@fs-driver.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fix initialization of CMCI/CMCP interrupts</title>
<updated>2013-05-08T02:51:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tony Luck</name>
<email>tony.luck@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-20T17:30:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=5bf457bc84549a0f0a9a499bf9d823f222a5484f'/>
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commit d303e9e98fce56cdb3c6f2ac92f626fc2bd51c77 upstream.

Back 2010 during a revamp of the irq code some initializations
were moved from ia64_mca_init() to ia64_mca_late_init() in

	commit c75f2aa13f5b268aba369b5dc566088b5194377c
	Cannot use register_percpu_irq() from ia64_mca_init()

But this was hideously wrong. First of all these initializations
are now down far too late. Specifically after all the other cpus
have been brought up and initialized their own CMC vectors from
smp_callin(). Also ia64_mca_late_init() may be called from any cpu
so the line:
	ia64_mca_cmc_vector_setup();       /* Setup vector on BSP */
is generally not executed on the BSP, and so the CMC vector isn't
setup at all on that processor.

Make use of the arch_early_irq_init() hook to get this code executed
at just the right moment: not too early, not too late.

Reported-by: Fred Hartnett &lt;fred.hartnett@hp.com&gt;
Tested-by: Fred Hartnett &lt;fred.hartnett@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d303e9e98fce56cdb3c6f2ac92f626fc2bd51c77 upstream.

Back 2010 during a revamp of the irq code some initializations
were moved from ia64_mca_init() to ia64_mca_late_init() in

	commit c75f2aa13f5b268aba369b5dc566088b5194377c
	Cannot use register_percpu_irq() from ia64_mca_init()

But this was hideously wrong. First of all these initializations
are now down far too late. Specifically after all the other cpus
have been brought up and initialized their own CMC vectors from
smp_callin(). Also ia64_mca_late_init() may be called from any cpu
so the line:
	ia64_mca_cmc_vector_setup();       /* Setup vector on BSP */
is generally not executed on the BSP, and so the CMC vector isn't
setup at all on that processor.

Make use of the arch_early_irq_init() hook to get this code executed
at just the right moment: not too early, not too late.

Reported-by: Fred Hartnett &lt;fred.hartnett@hp.com&gt;
Tested-by: Fred Hartnett &lt;fred.hartnett@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ia64: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop</title>
<updated>2012-10-12T20:38:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paul.mckenney@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-24T20:22:13+00:00</published>
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commit 93482f4ef1093f5961a63359a34612183d6beea0 upstream.

Traditionally, the entire idle task served as an RCU quiescent state.
But when RCU read side critical sections started appearing within the
idle loop, this traditional strategy became untenable.  The fix was to
create new RCU APIs named rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit(), which
must be called by each architecture's idle loop so that RCU can tell
when it is safe to ignore a given idle CPU.

Unfortunately, this fix was never applied to ia64, a shortcoming remedied
by this commit.

Reported by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 93482f4ef1093f5961a63359a34612183d6beea0 upstream.

Traditionally, the entire idle task served as an RCU quiescent state.
But when RCU read side critical sections started appearing within the
idle loop, this traditional strategy became untenable.  The fix was to
create new RCU APIs named rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit(), which
must be called by each architecture's idle loop so that RCU can tell
when it is safe to ignore a given idle CPU.

Unfortunately, this fix was never applied to ia64, a shortcoming remedied
by this commit.

Reported by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>random: remove rand_initialize_irq()</title>
<updated>2012-08-15T15:10:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-15T00:27:52+00:00</published>
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commit c5857ccf293968348e5eb4ebedc68074de3dcda6 upstream.

With the new interrupt sampling system, we are no longer using the
timer_rand_state structure in the irq descriptor, so we can stop
initializing it now.

[ Merged in fixes from Sedat to find some last missing references to
  rand_initialize_irq() ]

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c5857ccf293968348e5eb4ebedc68074de3dcda6 upstream.

With the new interrupt sampling system, we are no longer using the
timer_rand_state structure in the irq descriptor, so we can stop
initializing it now.

[ Merged in fixes from Sedat to find some last missing references to
  rand_initialize_irq() ]

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Redefine ATOMIC_INIT and ATOMIC64_INIT to drop the casts</title>
<updated>2012-08-15T15:10:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tony Luck</name>
<email>tony.luck@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-26T17:55:26+00:00</published>
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commit a119365586b0130dfea06457f584953e0ff6481d upstream.

The following build error occured during a ia64 build with
swap-over-NFS patches applied.

net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: initializer element is not constant
net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: (near initialization for 'memalloc_socks')
net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: initializer element is not constant

This is identical to a parisc build error. Fengguang Wu, Mel Gorman
and James Bottomley did all the legwork to track the root cause of
the problem. This fix and entire commit log is shamelessly copied
from them with one extra detail to change a dubious runtime use of
ATOMIC_INIT() to atomic_set() in drivers/char/mspec.c

Dave Anglin says:
&gt; Here is the line in sock.i:
&gt;
&gt; struct static_key memalloc_socks = ((struct static_key) { .enabled =
&gt; ((atomic_t) { (0) }) });

The above line contains two compound literals.  It also uses a designated
initializer to initialize the field enabled.  A compound literal is not a
constant expression.

The location of the above statement isn't fully clear, but if a compound
literal occurs outside the body of a function, the initializer list must
consist of constant expressions.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit a119365586b0130dfea06457f584953e0ff6481d upstream.

The following build error occured during a ia64 build with
swap-over-NFS patches applied.

net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: initializer element is not constant
net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: (near initialization for 'memalloc_socks')
net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: initializer element is not constant

This is identical to a parisc build error. Fengguang Wu, Mel Gorman
and James Bottomley did all the legwork to track the root cause of
the problem. This fix and entire commit log is shamelessly copied
from them with one extra detail to change a dubious runtime use of
ATOMIC_INIT() to atomic_set() in drivers/char/mspec.c

Dave Anglin says:
&gt; Here is the line in sock.i:
&gt;
&gt; struct static_key memalloc_socks = ((struct static_key) { .enabled =
&gt; ((atomic_t) { (0) }) });

The above line contains two compound literals.  It also uses a designated
initializer to initialize the field enabled.  A compound literal is not a
constant expression.

The location of the above statement isn't fully clear, but if a compound
literal occurs outside the body of a function, the initializer list must
consist of constant expressions.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>IA64: Add cmpxchg.h to exported userspace headers</title>
<updated>2012-06-09T15:36:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>maximilian attems</name>
<email>max@stro.at</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-16T07:46:30+00:00</published>
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commit 98e4cff73a18af27f0d40d0b0d37f105dfc1994a upstream.

Fixes klibc build on ia64 after 85f8f7759e418c814ee2ceacf73eddb9bed39492.

Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: maximilian attems &lt;max@stro.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 98e4cff73a18af27f0d40d0b0d37f105dfc1994a upstream.

Fixes klibc build on ia64 after 85f8f7759e418c814ee2ceacf73eddb9bed39492.

Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: maximilian attems &lt;max@stro.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: ia64: fix build due to typo</title>
<updated>2012-05-09T10:53:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Avi Kivity</name>
<email>avi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-18T16:23:50+00:00</published>
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s/kcm/kvm/.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
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s/kcm/kvm/.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
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