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<title>modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race</title>
<updated>2010-10-05T18:29:27+00:00</updated>
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<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2010-10-05T18:29:27+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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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 &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer</title>
<updated>2010-08-18T01:07:43+00:00</updated>
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<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2010-08-17T22:52:56+00:00</published>
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Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles
correctly on ARM:

arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type

This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for
the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to.  This is
because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to
copy_strings_kernel().  A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename
pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel().

do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv
or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as
const should be fine.

Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match.

This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles
correctly on ARM:

arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type

This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for
the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to.  This is
because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to
copy_strings_kernel().  A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename
pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel().

do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv
or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as
const should be fine.

Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match.

This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Mark arguments to certain syscalls as being const</title>
<updated>2010-08-13T23:53:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2010-08-11T10:26:22+00:00</published>
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Mark arguments to certain system calls as being const where they should be but
aren't.  The list includes:

 (*) The filename arguments of various stat syscalls, execve(), various utimes
     syscalls and some mount syscalls.

 (*) The filename arguments of some syscall helpers relating to the above.

 (*) The buffer argument of various write syscalls.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Mark arguments to certain system calls as being const where they should be but
aren't.  The list includes:

 (*) The filename arguments of various stat syscalls, execve(), various utimes
     syscalls and some mount syscalls.

 (*) The filename arguments of some syscall helpers relating to the above.

 (*) The buffer argument of various write syscalls.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2010-08-06T16:30:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-06T16:30:52+00:00</published>
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* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (162 commits)
  tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex
  perf: expose event__process function
  perf events: Fix mmap offset determination
  perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period
  perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t
  perf tools: Don't keep unreferenced maps when unmaps are detected
  perf session: Invalidate last_match when removing threads from rb_tree
  perf session: Free the ref_reloc_sym memory at the right place
  x86,mmiotrace: Add support for tracing STOS instruction
  perf, sched migration: Librarize task states and event headers helpers
  perf, sched migration: Librarize the GUI class
  perf, sched migration: Make the GUI class client agnostic
  perf, sched migration: Make it vertically scrollable
  perf, sched migration: Parameterize cpu height and spacing
  perf, sched migration: Fix key bindings
  perf, sched migration: Ignore unhandled task states
  perf, sched migration: Handle ignored migrate out events
  perf: New migration tool overview
  tracing: Drop cpparg() macro
  perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in Makefile and drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
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* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (162 commits)
  tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex
  perf: expose event__process function
  perf events: Fix mmap offset determination
  perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period
  perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t
  perf tools: Don't keep unreferenced maps when unmaps are detected
  perf session: Invalidate last_match when removing threads from rb_tree
  perf session: Free the ref_reloc_sym memory at the right place
  x86,mmiotrace: Add support for tracing STOS instruction
  perf, sched migration: Librarize task states and event headers helpers
  perf, sched migration: Librarize the GUI class
  perf, sched migration: Make the GUI class client agnostic
  perf, sched migration: Make it vertically scrollable
  perf, sched migration: Parameterize cpu height and spacing
  perf, sched migration: Fix key bindings
  perf, sched migration: Ignore unhandled task states
  perf, sched migration: Handle ignored migrate out events
  perf: New migration tool overview
  tracing: Drop cpparg() macro
  perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in Makefile and drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
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<title>Merge branch 'master' into for-next</title>
<updated>2010-08-04T13:14:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
<email>jkosina@suse.cz</email>
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<published>2010-08-04T13:14:38+00:00</published>
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<title>Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core</title>
<updated>2010-07-21T19:43:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
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<published>2010-07-21T19:43:03+00:00</published>
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Merge reason: Pick up the latest perf fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Merge reason: Pick up the latest perf fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<title>lmb: rename to memblock</title>
<updated>2010-07-14T07:14:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yinghai Lu</name>
<email>yinghai@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-12T04:36:09+00:00</published>
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via following scripts

      FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

      sed -i \
        -e 's/lmb/memblock/g' \
        -e 's/LMB/MEMBLOCK/g' \
        $FILES

      for N in $(find . -name lmb.[ch]); do
        M=$(echo $N | sed 's/lmb/memblock/g')
        mv $N $M
      done

and remove some wrong change like lmbench and dlmb etc.

also move memblock.c from lib/ to mm/

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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via following scripts

      FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

      sed -i \
        -e 's/lmb/memblock/g' \
        -e 's/LMB/MEMBLOCK/g' \
        $FILES

      for N in $(find . -name lmb.[ch]); do
        M=$(echo $N | sed 's/lmb/memblock/g')
        mv $N $M
      done

and remove some wrong change like lmbench and dlmb etc.

also move memblock.c from lib/ to mm/

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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<title>Merge commit 'v2.6.35-rc3' into perf/core</title>
<updated>2010-06-18T08:53:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
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<published>2010-06-18T08:53:12+00:00</published>
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Merge reason: Go from -rc1 base to -rc3 base, merge in fixes.
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Merge reason: Go from -rc1 base to -rc3 base, merge in fixes.
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<entry>
<title>fix typos concerning "precedence"</title>
<updated>2010-06-17T09:31:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uwe Kleine-König</name>
<email>u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de</email>
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<published>2010-06-17T07:42:20+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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<title>perf: Convert perf_event to local_t</title>
<updated>2010-06-09T09:12:37+00:00</updated>
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<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
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<published>2010-05-21T12:43:08+00:00</published>
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Since now all modification to event-&gt;count (and -&gt;prev_count
and -&gt;period_left) are local to a cpu, change then to local64_t so we
avoid the LOCK'ed ops.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;new-submission&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Since now all modification to event-&gt;count (and -&gt;prev_count
and -&gt;period_left) are local to a cpu, change then to local64_t so we
avoid the LOCK'ed ops.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;new-submission&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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