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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/pstore, branch v6.5</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pstore-v6.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2023-06-28T04:21:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-28T04:21:32+00:00</published>
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Pull pstore updates from Kees Cook:

 - Check for out-of-memory condition (Jiasheng Jiang)

 - Convert to platform remove callback returning void (Uwe Kleine-König)

* tag 'pstore-v6.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  pstore/ram: Add check for kstrdup
  pstore/ram: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
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Pull pstore updates from Kees Cook:

 - Check for out-of-memory condition (Jiasheng Jiang)

 - Convert to platform remove callback returning void (Uwe Kleine-König)

* tag 'pstore-v6.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  pstore/ram: Add check for kstrdup
  pstore/ram: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
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<entry>
<title>pstore/ram: Add check for kstrdup</title>
<updated>2023-06-14T18:52:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiasheng Jiang</name>
<email>jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-14T09:37:33+00:00</published>
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Add check for the return value of kstrdup() and return the error
if it fails in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

Fixes: e163fdb3f7f8 ("pstore/ram: Regularize prz label allocation lifetime")
Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang &lt;jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230614093733.36048-1-jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn
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Add check for the return value of kstrdup() and return the error
if it fails in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

Fixes: e163fdb3f7f8 ("pstore/ram: Regularize prz label allocation lifetime")
Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang &lt;jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230614093733.36048-1-jiasheng@iscas.ac.cn
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>init: improve the name_to_dev_t interface</title>
<updated>2023-06-05T16:56:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-31T12:55:24+00:00</published>
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name_to_dev_t has a very misleading name, that doesn't make clear
it should only be used by the early init code, and also has a bad
calling convention that doesn't allow returning different kinds of
errors.  Rename it to early_lookup_bdev to make the use case clear,
and return an errno, where -EINVAL means the string could not be
parsed, and -ENODEV means it the string was valid, but there was
no device found for it.

Also stub out the whole call for !CONFIG_BLOCK as all the non-block
root cases are always covered in the caller.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531125535.676098-14-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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name_to_dev_t has a very misleading name, that doesn't make clear
it should only be used by the early init code, and also has a bad
calling convention that doesn't allow returning different kinds of
errors.  Rename it to early_lookup_bdev to make the use case clear,
and return an errno, where -EINVAL means the string could not be
parsed, and -ENODEV means it the string was valid, but there was
no device found for it.

Also stub out the whole call for !CONFIG_BLOCK as all the non-block
root cases are always covered in the caller.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531125535.676098-14-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>pstore/ram: Convert to platform remove callback returning void</title>
<updated>2023-05-10T21:06:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uwe Kleine-König</name>
<email>u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-01T12:00:00+00:00</published>
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The .remove() callback for a platform driver returns an int which makes
many driver authors wrongly assume it's possible to do error handling by
returning an error code. However the value returned is (mostly) ignored
and this typically results in resource leaks. To improve here there is a
quest to make the remove callback return void. In the first step of this
quest all drivers are converted to .remove_new() which already returns
void.

Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove
callback to the void returning variant.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli &lt;gpiccoli@igalia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230401120000.2487153-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de
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The .remove() callback for a platform driver returns an int which makes
many driver authors wrongly assume it's possible to do error handling by
returning an error code. However the value returned is (mostly) ignored
and this typically results in resource leaks. To improve here there is a
quest to make the remove callback return void. In the first step of this
quest all drivers are converted to .remove_new() which already returns
void.

Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove
callback to the void returning variant.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli &lt;gpiccoli@igalia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230401120000.2487153-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pstore-v6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2023-04-28T00:03:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-28T00:03:40+00:00</published>
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Pull pstore update from Kees Cook:

 - Revert pmsg_lock back to a normal mutex (John Stultz)

* tag 'pstore-v6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  pstore: Revert pmsg_lock back to a normal mutex
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Pull pstore update from Kees Cook:

 - Revert pmsg_lock back to a normal mutex (John Stultz)

* tag 'pstore-v6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  pstore: Revert pmsg_lock back to a normal mutex
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>driver core: class: remove module * from class_create()</title>
<updated>2023-03-17T14:16:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-13T18:18:35+00:00</published>
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The module pointer in class_create() never actually did anything, and it
shouldn't have been requred to be set as a parameter even if it did
something.  So just remove it and fix up all callers of the function in
the kernel tree at the same time.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires &lt;benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313181843.1207845-4-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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The module pointer in class_create() never actually did anything, and it
shouldn't have been requred to be set as a parameter even if it did
something.  So just remove it and fix up all callers of the function in
the kernel tree at the same time.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires &lt;benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313181843.1207845-4-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>pstore: Revert pmsg_lock back to a normal mutex</title>
<updated>2023-03-08T23:00:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Stultz</name>
<email>jstultz@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-08T20:40:43+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 76d62f24db07f22ccf9bc18ca793c27d4ebef721.

So while priority inversion on the pmsg_lock is an occasional
problem that an rt_mutex would help with, in uses where logging
is writing to pmsg heavily from multiple threads, the pmsg_lock
can be heavily contended.

After this change landed, it was reported that cases where the
mutex locking overhead was commonly adding on the order of 10s
of usecs delay had suddenly jumped to ~msec delay with rtmutex.

It seems the slight differences in the locks under this level
of contention causes the normal mutexes to utilize the spinning
optimizations, while the rtmutexes end up in the sleeping
slowpath (which allows additional threads to pile on trying
to take the lock).

In this case, it devolves to a worse case senerio where the lock
acquisition and scheduling overhead dominates, and each thread
is waiting on the order of ~ms to do ~us of work.

Obviously, having tons of threads all contending on a single
lock for logging is non-optimal, so the proper fix is probably
reworking pstore pmsg to have per-cpu buffers so we don't have
contention.

Additionally, Steven Rostedt has provided some furhter
optimizations for rtmutexes that improves the rtmutex spinning
path, but at least in my testing, I still see the test tripping
into the sleeping path on rtmutexes while utilizing the spinning
path with mutexes.

But in the short term, lets revert the change to the rt_mutex
and go back to normal mutexes to avoid a potentially major
performance regression. And we can work on optimizations to both
rtmutexes and finer-grained locking for pstore pmsg in the
future.

Cc: Wei Wang &lt;wvw@google.com&gt;
Cc: Midas Chien&lt;midaschieh@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Chunhui Li (李春辉)" &lt;chunhui.li@mediatek.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Anton Vorontsov &lt;anton@enomsg.org&gt;
Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" &lt;gpiccoli@igalia.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Fixes: 76d62f24db07 ("pstore: Switch pmsg_lock to an rt_mutex to avoid priority inversion")
Reported-by: "Chunhui Li (李春辉)" &lt;chunhui.li@mediatek.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;jstultz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230308204043.2061631-1-jstultz@google.com
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This reverts commit 76d62f24db07f22ccf9bc18ca793c27d4ebef721.

So while priority inversion on the pmsg_lock is an occasional
problem that an rt_mutex would help with, in uses where logging
is writing to pmsg heavily from multiple threads, the pmsg_lock
can be heavily contended.

After this change landed, it was reported that cases where the
mutex locking overhead was commonly adding on the order of 10s
of usecs delay had suddenly jumped to ~msec delay with rtmutex.

It seems the slight differences in the locks under this level
of contention causes the normal mutexes to utilize the spinning
optimizations, while the rtmutexes end up in the sleeping
slowpath (which allows additional threads to pile on trying
to take the lock).

In this case, it devolves to a worse case senerio where the lock
acquisition and scheduling overhead dominates, and each thread
is waiting on the order of ~ms to do ~us of work.

Obviously, having tons of threads all contending on a single
lock for logging is non-optimal, so the proper fix is probably
reworking pstore pmsg to have per-cpu buffers so we don't have
contention.

Additionally, Steven Rostedt has provided some furhter
optimizations for rtmutexes that improves the rtmutex spinning
path, but at least in my testing, I still see the test tripping
into the sleeping path on rtmutexes while utilizing the spinning
path with mutexes.

But in the short term, lets revert the change to the rt_mutex
and go back to normal mutexes to avoid a potentially major
performance regression. And we can work on optimizations to both
rtmutexes and finer-grained locking for pstore pmsg in the
future.

Cc: Wei Wang &lt;wvw@google.com&gt;
Cc: Midas Chien&lt;midaschieh@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Chunhui Li (李春辉)" &lt;chunhui.li@mediatek.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Anton Vorontsov &lt;anton@enomsg.org&gt;
Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" &lt;gpiccoli@igalia.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Fixes: 76d62f24db07 ("pstore: Switch pmsg_lock to an rt_mutex to avoid priority inversion")
Reported-by: "Chunhui Li (李春辉)" &lt;chunhui.li@mediatek.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;jstultz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230308204043.2061631-1-jstultz@google.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pstore-v6.2-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2022-12-23T19:55:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-23T19:55:54+00:00</published>
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Pull pstore fixes from Kees Cook:

 - Switch pmsg_lock to an rt_mutex to avoid priority inversion (John
   Stultz)

 - Correctly assign mem_type property (Luca Stefani)

* tag 'pstore-v6.2-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  pstore: Properly assign mem_type property
  pstore: Make sure CONFIG_PSTORE_PMSG selects CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES
  pstore: Switch pmsg_lock to an rt_mutex to avoid priority inversion
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Pull pstore fixes from Kees Cook:

 - Switch pmsg_lock to an rt_mutex to avoid priority inversion (John
   Stultz)

 - Correctly assign mem_type property (Luca Stefani)

* tag 'pstore-v6.2-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  pstore: Properly assign mem_type property
  pstore: Make sure CONFIG_PSTORE_PMSG selects CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES
  pstore: Switch pmsg_lock to an rt_mutex to avoid priority inversion
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>pstore: Properly assign mem_type property</title>
<updated>2022-12-23T18:34:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luca Stefani</name>
<email>luca@osomprivacy.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-22T13:10:49+00:00</published>
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If mem-type is specified in the device tree
it would end up overriding the record_size
field instead of populating mem_type.

As record_size is currently parsed after the
improper assignment with default size 0 it
continued to work as expected regardless of the
value found in the device tree.

Simply changing the target field of the struct
is enough to get mem-type working as expected.

Fixes: 9d843e8fafc7 ("pstore: Add mem_type property DT parsing support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luca Stefani &lt;luca@osomprivacy.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221222131049.286288-1-luca@osomprivacy.com
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If mem-type is specified in the device tree
it would end up overriding the record_size
field instead of populating mem_type.

As record_size is currently parsed after the
improper assignment with default size 0 it
continued to work as expected regardless of the
value found in the device tree.

Simply changing the target field of the struct
is enough to get mem-type working as expected.

Fixes: 9d843e8fafc7 ("pstore: Add mem_type property DT parsing support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luca Stefani &lt;luca@osomprivacy.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221222131049.286288-1-luca@osomprivacy.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>pstore: Make sure CONFIG_PSTORE_PMSG selects CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES</title>
<updated>2022-12-23T18:33:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Stultz</name>
<email>jstultz@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-21T05:18:55+00:00</published>
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In commit 76d62f24db07 ("pstore: Switch pmsg_lock to an rt_mutex
to avoid priority inversion") I changed a lock to an rt_mutex.

However, its possible that CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES is not enabled,
which then results in a build failure, as the 0day bot detected:
  https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/202212211244.TwzWZD3H-lkp@intel.com/

Thus this patch changes CONFIG_PSTORE_PMSG to select
CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES, which ensures the build will not fail.

Cc: Wei Wang &lt;wvw@google.com&gt;
Cc: Midas Chien&lt;midaschieh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Connor O'Brien &lt;connoro@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Anton Vorontsov &lt;anton@enomsg.org&gt;
Cc: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Fixes: 76d62f24db07 ("pstore: Switch pmsg_lock to an rt_mutex to avoid priority inversion")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;jstultz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221221051855.15761-1-jstultz@google.com
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In commit 76d62f24db07 ("pstore: Switch pmsg_lock to an rt_mutex
to avoid priority inversion") I changed a lock to an rt_mutex.

However, its possible that CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES is not enabled,
which then results in a build failure, as the 0day bot detected:
  https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/202212211244.TwzWZD3H-lkp@intel.com/

Thus this patch changes CONFIG_PSTORE_PMSG to select
CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES, which ensures the build will not fail.

Cc: Wei Wang &lt;wvw@google.com&gt;
Cc: Midas Chien&lt;midaschieh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Connor O'Brien &lt;connoro@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Anton Vorontsov &lt;anton@enomsg.org&gt;
Cc: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Fixes: 76d62f24db07 ("pstore: Switch pmsg_lock to an rt_mutex to avoid priority inversion")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;jstultz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221221051855.15761-1-jstultz@google.com
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