linux-toradex.git/arch/x86, branch v3.4.16

xen/x86: don't corrupt %eip when returning from a signal handler

2012-10-28T17:14:13+00:00

commit a349e23d1cf746f8bdc603dcc61fae9ee4a695f6 upstream.

In 32 bit guests, if a userspace process has %eax == -ERESTARTSYS
(-512) or -ERESTARTNOINTR (-513) when it is interrupted by an event
/and/ the process has a pending signal then %eip (and %eax) are
corrupted when returning to the main process after handling the
signal.  The application may then crash with SIGSEGV or a SIGILL or it
may have subtly incorrect behaviour (depending on what instruction it
returned to).

The occurs because handle_signal() is incorrectly thinking that there
is a system call that needs to restarted so it adjusts %eip and %eax
to re-execute the system call instruction (even though user space had
not done a system call).

If %eax == -514 (-ERESTARTNOHAND (-514) or -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK
(-516) then handle_signal() only corrupted %eax (by setting it to
-EINTR).  This may cause the application to crash or have incorrect
behaviour.

handle_signal() assumes that regs->orig_ax >= 0 means a system call so
any kernel entry point that is not for a system call must push a
negative value for orig_ax.  For example, for physical interrupts on
bare metal the inverse of the vector is pushed and page_fault() sets
regs->orig_ax to -1, overwriting the hardware provided error code.

xen_hypervisor_callback() was incorrectly pushing 0 for orig_ax
instead of -1.

Classic Xen kernels pushed %eax which works as %eax cannot be both
non-negative and -RESTARTSYS (etc.), but using -1 is consistent with
other non-system call entry points and avoids some of the tests in
handle_signal().

There were similar bugs in xen_failsafe_callback() of both 32 and
64-bit guests. If the fault was corrected and the normal return path
was used then 0 was incorrectly pushed as the value for orig_ax.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel 
Acked-by: Jan Beulich 
Acked-by: Ian Campbell 
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86: Exclude E820_RESERVED regions and memory holes above 4 GB from direct mapping.

2012-10-28T17:14:13+00:00

commit 1bbbbe779aabe1f0768c2bf8f8c0a5583679b54a upstream.

On systems with very large memory (1 TB in our case), BIOS may report a
reserved region or a hole in the E820 map, even above the 4 GB range. Exclude
these from the direct mapping.

[ hpa: this should be done not just for > 4 GB but for everything above the legacy
  region (1 MB), at the very least.  That, however, turns out to require significant
  restructuring.  That work is well underway, but is not suitable for rc/stable. ]

Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1319145326-13902-1-git-send-email-jacob.shin@amd.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

oprofile, x86: Fix wrapping bug in op_x86_get_ctrl()

2012-10-28T17:14:13+00:00

commit 44009105081b51417f311f4c3be0061870b6b8ed upstream.

The "event" variable is a u16 so the shift will always wrap to zero
making the line a no-op.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

xen/bootup: allow read_tscp call for Xen PV guests.

2012-10-21T16:27:59+00:00

commit cd0608e71e9757f4dae35bcfb4e88f4d1a03a8ab upstream.

The hypervisor will trap it. However without this patch,
we would crash as the .read_tscp is set to NULL. This patch
fixes it and sets it to the native_read_tscp call.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

xen/bootup: allow {read|write}_cr8 pvops call.

2012-10-21T16:27:58+00:00

commit 1a7bbda5b1ab0e02622761305a32dc38735b90b2 upstream.

We actually do not do anything about it. Just return a default
value of zero and if the kernel tries to write anything but 0
we BUG_ON.

This fixes the case when an user tries to suspend the machine
and it blows up in save_processor_state b/c 'read_cr8' is set
to NULL and we get:

kernel BUG at /home/konrad/ssd/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:100!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
Pid: 2687, comm: init.late Tainted: G           O 3.6.0upstream-00002-gac264ac-dirty #4 Bochs Bochs
RIP: e030:[]  [] save_processor_state+0x212/0x270

.. snip..
Call Trace:
 [] do_suspend_lowlevel+0xf/0xac
 [] ? x86_acpi_suspend_lowlevel+0x10c/0x150
 [] acpi_suspend_enter+0x57/0xd5

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

efi: initialize efi.runtime_version to make query_variable_info/update_capsule workable

2012-10-12T20:38:57+00:00

commit d6cf86d8f23253225fe2a763d627ecf7dfee9dae upstream.

A value of efi.runtime_version is checked before calling
update_capsule()/query_variable_info() as follows.
But it isn't initialized anywhere.


static efi_status_t virt_efi_query_variable_info(u32 attr,
                                                 u64 *storage_space,
                                                 u64 *remaining_space,
                                                 u64 *max_variable_size)
{
        if (efi.runtime_version < EFI_2_00_SYSTEM_TABLE_REVISION)
                return EFI_UNSUPPORTED;


This patch initializes a value of efi.runtime_version at boot time.

Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi 
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett 
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming 
Signed-off-by: Ivan Hu 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

efi: Build EFI stub with EFI-appropriate options

2012-10-12T20:38:57+00:00

commit 9dead5bbb825d7c25c0400e61de83075046322d0 upstream.

We can't assume the presence of the red zone while we're still in a boot
services environment, so we should build with -fno-red-zone to avoid
problems. Change the size of wchar at the same time to make string handling
simpler.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett 
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming 
Acked-by: Josh Boyer 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: thp: fix pmd_present for split_huge_page and PROT_NONE with THP

2012-10-12T20:38:51+00:00

commit 027ef6c87853b0a9df53175063028edb4950d476 upstream.

In many places !pmd_present has been converted to pmd_none.  For pmds
that's equivalent and pmd_none is quicker so using pmd_none is better.

However (unless we delete pmd_present) we should provide an accurate
pmd_present too.  This will avoid the risk of code thinking the pmd is non
present because it's under __split_huge_page_map, see the pmd_mknotpresent
there and the comment above it.

If the page has been mprotected as PROT_NONE, it would also lead to a
pmd_present false negative in the same way as the race with
split_huge_page.

Because the PSE bit stays on at all times (both during split_huge_page and
when the _PAGE_PROTNONE bit get set), we could only check for the PSE bit,
but checking the PROTNONE bit too is still good to remember pmd_present
must always keep PROT_NONE into account.

This explains a not reproducible BUG_ON that was seldom reported on the
lists.

The same issue is in pmd_large, it would go wrong with both PROT_NONE and
if it races with split_huge_page.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kbuild: Fix gcc -x syntax

2012-10-12T20:38:37+00:00

commit b1e0d8b70fa31821ebca3965f2ef8619d7c5e316 upstream.

The correct syntax for gcc -x is "gcc -x assembler", not
"gcc -xassembler". Even though the latter happens to work, the former
is what is documented in the manual page and thus what gcc wrappers
such as icecream do expect.

This isn't a cosmetic change. The missing space prevents icecream from
recognizing compilation tasks it can't handle, leading to silent kernel
miscompilations.

Besides me, credits go to Michael Matz and Dirk Mueller for
investigating the miscompilation issue and tracking it down to this
incorrect -x parameter syntax.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Bernhard Walle 
Cc: Michal Marek 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/alternatives: Fix p6 nops on non-modular kernels

2012-10-07T15:32:29+00:00

commit cb09cad44f07044d9810f18f6f9a6a6f3771f979 upstream.

Probably a leftover from the early days of self-patching, p6nops
are marked __initconst_or_module, which causes them to be
discarded in a non-modular kernel.  If something later triggers
patching, it will overwrite kernel code with garbage.

Reported-by: Tomas Racek 
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity 
Cc: Michael Tokarev 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti 
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Anthony Liguori 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5034AE84.90708@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Ben Jencks 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman