linux-toradex.git/include/linux, branch v3.2.32

mempolicy: fix a race in shared_policy_replace()

2012-10-17T02:49:58+00:00

commit b22d127a39ddd10d93deee3d96e643657ad53a49 upstream.

shared_policy_replace() use of sp_alloc() is unsafe.  1) sp_node cannot
be dereferenced if sp->lock is not held and 2) another thread can modify
sp_node between spin_unlock for allocating a new sp node and next
spin_lock.  The bug was introduced before 2.6.12-rc2.

Kosaki's original patch for this problem was to allocate an sp node and
policy within shared_policy_replace and initialise it when the lock is
reacquired.  I was not keen on this approach because it partially
duplicates sp_alloc().  As the paths were sp->lock is taken are not that
performance critical this patch converts sp->lock to sp->mutex so it can
sleep when calling sp_alloc().

[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: Original patch]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Josh Boyer 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

serial: set correct baud_base for EXSYS EX-41092 Dual 16950

2012-10-17T02:49:01+00:00

commit 26e8220adb0aec43b7acafa0f1431760eee28522 upstream.

Apparently the same card model has two IDs, so this patch
complements the commit 39aced68d664291db3324d0fcf0985ab5626aac2
adding the missing one.

Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

xfrm_user: ensure user supplied esn replay window is valid

2012-10-10T02:31:25+00:00

[ Upstream commit ecd7918745234e423dd87fcc0c077da557909720 ]

The current code fails to ensure that the netlink message actually
contains as many bytes as the header indicates. If a user creates a new
state or updates an existing one but does not supply the bytes for the
whole ESN replay window, the kernel copies random heap bytes into the
replay bitmap, the ones happen to follow the XFRMA_REPLAY_ESN_VAL
netlink attribute. This leads to following issues:

1. The replay window has random bits set confusing the replay handling
   code later on.

2. A malicious user could use this flaw to leak up to ~3.5kB of heap
   memory when she has access to the XFRM netlink interface (requires
   CAP_NET_ADMIN).

Known users of the ESN replay window are strongSwan and Steffen's
iproute2 patch (). The latter
uses the interface with a bitmap supplied while the former does not.
strongSwan is therefore prone to run into issue 1.

To fix both issues without breaking existing userland allow using the
XFRMA_REPLAY_ESN_VAL netlink attribute with either an empty bitmap or a
fully specified one. For the former case we initialize the in-kernel
bitmap with zero, for the latter we copy the user supplied bitmap. For
state updates the full bitmap must be supplied.

To prevent overflows in the bitmap length calculation the maximum size
of bmp_len is limited to 128 by this patch -- resulting in a maximum
replay window of 4096 packets. This should be sufficient for all real
life scenarios (RFC 4303 recommends a default replay window size of 64).

Cc: Steffen Klassert 
Cc: Martin Willi 
Cc: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

HID: fix return value of hidraw_report_event() when !CONFIG_HIDRAW

2012-10-10T02:31:16+00:00

commit d6d7c873529abd622897cad5e36f1fd7d82f5110 upstream.

Commit b6787242f327 ("HID: hidraw: add proper error handling to raw event
reporting") forgot to update the static inline version of
hidraw_report_event() for the case when CONFIG_HIDRAW is unset. Fix that
up.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

HID: hidraw: add proper error handling to raw event reporting

2012-10-10T02:31:16+00:00

commit b6787242f32700377d3da3b8d788ab3928bab849 upstream.

If kmemdup() in hidraw_report_event() fails, we are not propagating
this fact properly.

Let hidraw_report_event() and hid_report_raw_event() return an error
value to the caller.

Reported-by: Oliver Neukum 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

vfs: dcache: use DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED instead of DCACHE_DISCONNECTED in d_kill()

2012-10-10T02:30:48+00:00

commit b161dfa6937ae46d50adce8a7c6b12233e96e7bd upstream.

IBM reported a soft lockup after applying the fix for the rename_lock
deadlock.  Commit c83ce989cb5f ("VFS: Fix the nfs sillyrename regression
in kernel 2.6.38") was found to be the culprit.

The nfs sillyrename fix used DCACHE_DISCONNECTED to indicate that the
dentry was killed.  This flag can be set on non-killed dentries too,
which results in infinite retries when trying to traverse the dentry
tree.

This patch introduces a separate flag: DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED, which is
only set in d_kill() and makes try_to_ascend() test only this flag.

IBM reported successful test results with this patch.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Cc: Trond Myklebust 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

mm/ia64: fix a memory block size bug

2012-10-10T02:30:45+00:00

commit 05cf96398e1b6502f9e191291b715c7463c9d5dd upstream.

I found following definition in include/linux/memory.h, in my IA64
platform, SECTION_SIZE_BITS is equal to 32, and MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE
will be 0.

  #define MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE     (1 << SECTION_SIZE_BITS)

Because MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE is int type and length of 32bits,
so MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE(1 << 32) will will equal to 0.
Actually when SECTION_SIZE_BITS >= 31, MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE will be wrong.
This will cause wrong system memory infomation in sysfs.
I think it should be:

  #define MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE     (1UL << SECTION_SIZE_BITS)

And "echo offline > memory0/state" will cause following call trace:

  kernel BUG at mm/memory_hotplug.c:885!
  sh[6455]: bugcheck! 0 [1]
  Pid: 6455, CPU 0, comm:                   sh
  psr : 0000101008526030 ifs : 8000000000000fa4 ip  : []    Not tainted (3.6.0-rc1)
  ip is at offline_pages+0x210/0xee0
  Call Trace:
    show_stack+0x80/0xa0
    show_regs+0x640/0x920
    die+0x190/0x2c0
    die_if_kernel+0x50/0x80
    ia64_bad_break+0x3d0/0x6e0
    ia64_native_leave_kernel+0x0/0x270
    offline_pages+0x210/0xee0
    alloc_pages_current+0x180/0x2a0

Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu 
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

SUNRPC: Fix a UDP transport regression

2012-09-19T14:05:17+00:00

commit f39c1bfb5a03e2d255451bff05be0d7255298fa4 upstream.

Commit 43cedbf0e8dfb9c5610eb7985d5f21263e313802 (SUNRPC: Ensure that
we grab the XPRT_LOCK before calling xprt_alloc_slot) is causing
hangs in the case of NFS over UDP mounts.

Since neither the UDP or the RDMA transport mechanism use dynamic slot
allocation, we can skip grabbing the socket lock for those transports.
Add a new rpc_xprt_op to allow switching between the TCP and UDP/RDMA
case.

Note that the NFSv4.1 back channel assigns the slot directly
through rpc_run_bc_task, so we can ignore that case.

Reported-by: Dick Streefland 
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

kobject: fix oops with "input0: bad kobj_uevent_env content in show_uevent()"

2012-09-19T14:05:16+00:00

commit 60e233a56609fd963c59e99bd75c663d63fa91b6 upstream.

Fengguang Wu  writes:

> After the __devinit* removal series, I can still get kernel panic in
> show_uevent(). So there are more sources of bug..
>
> Debug patch:
>
> @@ -343,8 +343,11 @@ static ssize_t show_uevent(struct device
>                 goto out;
>
>         /* copy keys to file */
> -       for (i = 0; i < env->envp_idx; i++)
> +       dev_err(dev, "uevent %d env[%d]: %s/.../%s\n", env->buflen, env->envp_idx, top_kobj->name, dev->kobj.name);
> +       for (i = 0; i < env->envp_idx; i++) {
> +               printk(KERN_ERR "uevent %d env[%d]: %s\n", (int)count, i, env->envp[i]);
>                 count += sprintf(&buf[count], "%s\n", env->envp[i]);
> +       }
>
> Oops message, the env[] is again not properly initilized:
>
> [   44.068623] input input0: uevent 61 env[805306368]: input0/.../input0
> [   44.069552] uevent 0 env[0]: (null)

This is a completely different CONFIG_HOTPLUG problem, only
demonstrating another reason why CONFIG_HOTPLUG should go away.  I had a
hard time trying to disable it anyway ;-)

The problem this time is lots of code assuming that a call to
add_uevent_var() will guarantee that env->buflen > 0.  This is not true
if CONFIG_HOTPLUG is unset.  So things like this end up overwriting
env->envp_idx because the array index is -1:

	if (add_uevent_var(env, "MODALIAS="))
		return -ENOMEM;
        len = input_print_modalias(&env->buf[env->buflen - 1],
				   sizeof(env->buf) - env->buflen,
				   dev, 0);

Don't know what the best action is, given that there seem to be a *lot*
of this around the kernel.  This patch "fixes" the problem for me, but I
don't know if it can be considered an appropriate fix.

[ It is the correct fix for now, for 3.7 forcing CONFIG_HOTPLUG to
always be on is the longterm fix, but it's too late for 3.6 and older
kernels to resolve this that way - gregkh ]

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu 
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork 
Tested-by: Fengguang Wu 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

NFS: Fix the initialisation of the readdir 'cookieverf' array

2012-09-19T14:05:06+00:00

commit c3f52af3e03013db5237e339c817beaae5ec9e3a upstream.

When the NFS_COOKIEVERF helper macro was converted into a static
inline function in commit 99fadcd764 (nfs: convert NFS_*(inode)
helpers to static inline), we broke the initialisation of the
readdir cookies, since that depended on doing a memset with an
argument of 'sizeof(NFS_COOKIEVERF(inode))' which therefore
changed from sizeof(be32 cookieverf[2]) to sizeof(be32 *).

At this point, NFS_COOKIEVERF seems to be more of an obfuscation
than a helper, so the best thing would be to just get rid of it.

Also see: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46881

Reported-by: Andi Kleen 
Reported-by: David Binderman 
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings