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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>workqueue: implicit ordered attribute should be overridable</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T16:09:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-23T12:36:15+00:00</published>
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commit 0a94efb5acbb6980d7c9ab604372d93cd507e4d8 upstream.

5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be
ordered") automatically enabled ordered attribute for unbound
workqueues w/ max_active == 1.  Because ordered workqueues reject
max_active and some attribute changes, this implicit ordered mode
broke cases where the user creates an unbound workqueue w/ max_active
== 1 and later explicitly changes the related attributes.

This patch distinguishes explicit and implicit ordered setting and
overrides from attribute changes if implict.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be ordered")
Cc: Holger Hoffstätte &lt;holger@applied-asynchrony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0a94efb5acbb6980d7c9ab604372d93cd507e4d8 upstream.

5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be
ordered") automatically enabled ordered attribute for unbound
workqueues w/ max_active == 1.  Because ordered workqueues reject
max_active and some attribute changes, this implicit ordered mode
broke cases where the user creates an unbound workqueue w/ max_active
== 1 and later explicitly changes the related attributes.

This patch distinguishes explicit and implicit ordered setting and
overrides from attribute changes if implict.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be ordered")
Cc: Holger Hoffstätte &lt;holger@applied-asynchrony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal: protect SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE from unintentional clearing.</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T16:08:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jamie Iles</name>
<email>jamie.iles@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-11T00:57:54+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2d39b3cd34e6d323720d4c61bd714f5ae202c022 ]

Since commit 00cd5c37afd5 ("ptrace: permit ptracing of /sbin/init") we
can now trace init processes.  init is initially protected with
SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE which will prevent fatal signals such as SIGSTOP, but
there are a number of paths during tracing where SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE can
be implicitly cleared.

This can result in init becoming stoppable/killable after tracing.  For
example, running:

  while true; do kill -STOP 1; done &amp;
  strace -p 1

and then stopping strace and the kill loop will result in init being
left in state TASK_STOPPED.  Sending SIGCONT to init will resume it, but
init will now respond to future SIGSTOP signals rather than ignoring
them.

Make sure that when setting SIGNAL_STOP_CONTINUED/SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED
that we don't clear SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104122017.25047-1-jamie.iles@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles &lt;jamie.iles@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&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: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 2d39b3cd34e6d323720d4c61bd714f5ae202c022 ]

Since commit 00cd5c37afd5 ("ptrace: permit ptracing of /sbin/init") we
can now trace init processes.  init is initially protected with
SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE which will prevent fatal signals such as SIGSTOP, but
there are a number of paths during tracing where SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE can
be implicitly cleared.

This can result in init becoming stoppable/killable after tracing.  For
example, running:

  while true; do kill -STOP 1; done &amp;
  strace -p 1

and then stopping strace and the kill loop will result in init being
left in state TASK_STOPPED.  Sending SIGCONT to init will resume it, but
init will now respond to future SIGSTOP signals rather than ignoring
them.

Make sure that when setting SIGNAL_STOP_CONTINUED/SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED
that we don't clear SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170104122017.25047-1-jamie.iles@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles &lt;jamie.iles@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&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: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, slab: make sure that KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE will fit into MAX_ORDER</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T16:08:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-11T00:57:27+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit bb1107f7c6052c863692a41f78c000db792334bf ]

Andrey Konovalov has reported the following warning triggered by the
syzkaller fuzzer.

  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 9935 at mm/page_alloc.c:3511 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x159c/0x1e20
  Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...
  CPU: 1 PID: 9935 Comm: syz-executor0 Not tainted 4.9.0-rc7+ #34
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
  Call Trace:
    __alloc_pages_slowpath mm/page_alloc.c:3511
    __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x159c/0x1e20 mm/page_alloc.c:3781
    alloc_pages_current+0x1c7/0x6b0 mm/mempolicy.c:2072
    alloc_pages include/linux/gfp.h:469
    kmalloc_order+0x1f/0x70 mm/slab_common.c:1015
    kmalloc_order_trace+0x1f/0x160 mm/slab_common.c:1026
    kmalloc_large include/linux/slab.h:422
    __kmalloc+0x210/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:3723
    kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:495
    ep_write_iter+0x167/0xb50 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:664
    new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:499
    __vfs_write+0x483/0x760 fs/read_write.c:512
    vfs_write+0x170/0x4e0 fs/read_write.c:560
    SYSC_write fs/read_write.c:607
    SyS_write+0xfb/0x230 fs/read_write.c:599
    entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xc2

The issue is caused by a lack of size check for the request size in
ep_write_iter which should be fixed.  It, however, points to another
problem, that SLUB defines KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE too large because the its
KMALLOC_SHIFT_MAX is (MAX_ORDER + PAGE_SHIFT) which means that the
resulting page allocator request might be MAX_ORDER which is too large
(see __alloc_pages_slowpath).

The same applies to the SLOB allocator which allows even larger sizes.
Make sure that they are capped properly and never request more than
MAX_ORDER order.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161220130659.16461-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&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: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit bb1107f7c6052c863692a41f78c000db792334bf ]

Andrey Konovalov has reported the following warning triggered by the
syzkaller fuzzer.

  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 9935 at mm/page_alloc.c:3511 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x159c/0x1e20
  Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...
  CPU: 1 PID: 9935 Comm: syz-executor0 Not tainted 4.9.0-rc7+ #34
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
  Call Trace:
    __alloc_pages_slowpath mm/page_alloc.c:3511
    __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x159c/0x1e20 mm/page_alloc.c:3781
    alloc_pages_current+0x1c7/0x6b0 mm/mempolicy.c:2072
    alloc_pages include/linux/gfp.h:469
    kmalloc_order+0x1f/0x70 mm/slab_common.c:1015
    kmalloc_order_trace+0x1f/0x160 mm/slab_common.c:1026
    kmalloc_large include/linux/slab.h:422
    __kmalloc+0x210/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:3723
    kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:495
    ep_write_iter+0x167/0xb50 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:664
    new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:499
    __vfs_write+0x483/0x760 fs/read_write.c:512
    vfs_write+0x170/0x4e0 fs/read_write.c:560
    SYSC_write fs/read_write.c:607
    SyS_write+0xfb/0x230 fs/read_write.c:599
    entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xc2

The issue is caused by a lack of size check for the request size in
ep_write_iter which should be fixed.  It, however, points to another
problem, that SLUB defines KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE too large because the its
KMALLOC_SHIFT_MAX is (MAX_ORDER + PAGE_SHIFT) which means that the
resulting page allocator request might be MAX_ORDER which is too large
(see __alloc_pages_slowpath).

The same applies to the SLOB allocator which allows even larger sizes.
Make sure that they are capped properly and never request more than
MAX_ORDER order.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161220130659.16461-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&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: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, mprotect: flush TLB if potentially racing with a parallel reclaim leaving stale TLB entries</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T16:08:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-02T20:31:52+00:00</published>
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commit 3ea277194daaeaa84ce75180ec7c7a2075027a68 upstream.

Stable note for 4.4: The upstream patch patches madvise(MADV_FREE) but 4.4
	does not have support for that feature. The changelog is left
	as-is but the hunk related to madvise is omitted from the backport.

Nadav Amit identified a theoritical race between page reclaim and
mprotect due to TLB flushes being batched outside of the PTL being held.

He described the race as follows:

        CPU0                            CPU1
        ----                            ----
                                        user accesses memory using RW PTE
                                        [PTE now cached in TLB]
        try_to_unmap_one()
        ==&gt; ptep_get_and_clear()
        ==&gt; set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending()
                                        mprotect(addr, PROT_READ)
                                        ==&gt; change_pte_range()
                                        ==&gt; [ PTE non-present - no flush ]

                                        user writes using cached RW PTE
        ...

        try_to_unmap_flush()

The same type of race exists for reads when protecting for PROT_NONE and
also exists for operations that can leave an old TLB entry behind such
as munmap, mremap and madvise.

For some operations like mprotect, it's not necessarily a data integrity
issue but it is a correctness issue as there is a window where an
mprotect that limits access still allows access.  For munmap, it's
potentially a data integrity issue although the race is massive as an
munmap, mmap and return to userspace must all complete between the
window when reclaim drops the PTL and flushes the TLB.  However, it's
theoritically possible so handle this issue by flushing the mm if
reclaim is potentially currently batching TLB flushes.

Other instances where a flush is required for a present pte should be ok
as either the page lock is held preventing parallel reclaim or a page
reference count is elevated preventing a parallel free leading to
corruption.  In the case of page_mkclean there isn't an obvious path
that userspace could take advantage of without using the operations that
are guarded by this patch.  Other users such as gup as a race with
reclaim looks just at PTEs.  huge page variants should be ok as they
don't race with reclaim.  mincore only looks at PTEs.  userfault also
should be ok as if a parallel reclaim takes place, it will either fault
the page back in or read some of the data before the flush occurs
triggering a fault.

Note that a variant of this patch was acked by Andy Lutomirski but this
was for the x86 parts on top of his PCID work which didn't make the 4.13
merge window as expected.  His ack is dropped from this version and
there will be a follow-on patch on top of PCID that will include his
ack.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170717155523.emckq2esjro6hf3z@suse.de
Reported-by: Nadav Amit &lt;nadav.amit@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&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 3ea277194daaeaa84ce75180ec7c7a2075027a68 upstream.

Stable note for 4.4: The upstream patch patches madvise(MADV_FREE) but 4.4
	does not have support for that feature. The changelog is left
	as-is but the hunk related to madvise is omitted from the backport.

Nadav Amit identified a theoritical race between page reclaim and
mprotect due to TLB flushes being batched outside of the PTL being held.

He described the race as follows:

        CPU0                            CPU1
        ----                            ----
                                        user accesses memory using RW PTE
                                        [PTE now cached in TLB]
        try_to_unmap_one()
        ==&gt; ptep_get_and_clear()
        ==&gt; set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending()
                                        mprotect(addr, PROT_READ)
                                        ==&gt; change_pte_range()
                                        ==&gt; [ PTE non-present - no flush ]

                                        user writes using cached RW PTE
        ...

        try_to_unmap_flush()

The same type of race exists for reads when protecting for PROT_NONE and
also exists for operations that can leave an old TLB entry behind such
as munmap, mremap and madvise.

For some operations like mprotect, it's not necessarily a data integrity
issue but it is a correctness issue as there is a window where an
mprotect that limits access still allows access.  For munmap, it's
potentially a data integrity issue although the race is massive as an
munmap, mmap and return to userspace must all complete between the
window when reclaim drops the PTL and flushes the TLB.  However, it's
theoritically possible so handle this issue by flushing the mm if
reclaim is potentially currently batching TLB flushes.

Other instances where a flush is required for a present pte should be ok
as either the page lock is held preventing parallel reclaim or a page
reference count is elevated preventing a parallel free leading to
corruption.  In the case of page_mkclean there isn't an obvious path
that userspace could take advantage of without using the operations that
are guarded by this patch.  Other users such as gup as a race with
reclaim looks just at PTEs.  huge page variants should be ok as they
don't race with reclaim.  mincore only looks at PTEs.  userfault also
should be ok as if a parallel reclaim takes place, it will either fault
the page back in or read some of the data before the flush occurs
triggering a fault.

Note that a variant of this patch was acked by Andy Lutomirski but this
was for the x86 parts on top of his PCID work which didn't make the 4.13
merge window as expected.  His ack is dropped from this version and
there will be a follow-on patch on top of PCID that will include his
ack.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170717155523.emckq2esjro6hf3z@suse.de
Reported-by: Nadav Amit &lt;nadav.amit@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>pstore: Allow prz to control need for locking</title>
<updated>2017-08-07T02:19:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Fernandes</name>
<email>joelaf@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-20T07:34:01+00:00</published>
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commit 663deb47880f2283809669563c5a52ac7c6aef1a upstream.

In preparation of not locking at all for certain buffers depending on if
there's contention, make locking optional depending on the initialization
of the prz.

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
[kees: moved locking flag into prz instead of via caller arguments]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 663deb47880f2283809669563c5a52ac7c6aef1a upstream.

In preparation of not locking at all for certain buffers depending on if
there's contention, make locking optional depending on the initialization
of the prz.

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
[kees: moved locking flag into prz instead of via caller arguments]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Make file credentials available to the seqfile interfaces</title>
<updated>2017-08-07T02:19:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-14T18:22:00+00:00</published>
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commit 34dbbcdbf63360661ff7bda6c5f52f99ac515f92 upstream.

A lot of seqfile users seem to be using things like %pK that uses the
credentials of the current process, but that is actually completely
wrong for filesystem interfaces.

The unix semantics for permission checking files is to check permissions
at _open_ time, not at read or write time, and that is not just a small
detail: passing off stdin/stdout/stderr to a suid application and making
the actual IO happen in privileged context is a classic exploit
technique.

So if we want to be able to look at permissions at read time, we need to
use the file open credentials, not the current ones.  Normal file
accesses can just use "f_cred" (or any of the helper functions that do
that, like file_ns_capable()), but the seqfile interfaces do not have
any such options.

It turns out that seq_file _does_ save away the user_ns information of
the file, though.  Since user_ns is just part of the full credential
information, replace that special case with saving off the cred pointer
instead, and suddenly seq_file has all the permission information it
needs.

[sumits: this is used in Ubuntu as a fix for CVE-2015-8944]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal &lt;sumit.semwal@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 34dbbcdbf63360661ff7bda6c5f52f99ac515f92 upstream.

A lot of seqfile users seem to be using things like %pK that uses the
credentials of the current process, but that is actually completely
wrong for filesystem interfaces.

The unix semantics for permission checking files is to check permissions
at _open_ time, not at read or write time, and that is not just a small
detail: passing off stdin/stdout/stderr to a suid application and making
the actual IO happen in privileged context is a classic exploit
technique.

So if we want to be able to look at permissions at read time, we need to
use the file open credentials, not the current ones.  Normal file
accesses can just use "f_cred" (or any of the helper functions that do
that, like file_ns_capable()), but the seqfile interfaces do not have
any such options.

It turns out that seq_file _does_ save away the user_ns information of
the file, though.  Since user_ns is just part of the full credential
information, replace that special case with saving off the cred pointer
instead, and suddenly seq_file has all the permission information it
needs.

[sumits: this is used in Ubuntu as a fix for CVE-2015-8944]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal &lt;sumit.semwal@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dentry name snapshots</title>
<updated>2017-08-07T02:19:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-07T18:51:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=407669f2c9fe9f32aeb39f715d748fe456718aac'/>
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commit 49d31c2f389acfe83417083e1208422b4091cd9e upstream.

take_dentry_name_snapshot() takes a safe snapshot of dentry name;
if the name is a short one, it gets copied into caller-supplied
structure, otherwise an extra reference to external name is grabbed
(those are never modified).  In either case the pointer to stable
string is stored into the same structure.

dentry must be held by the caller of take_dentry_name_snapshot(),
but may be freely dropped afterwards - the snapshot will stay
until destroyed by release_dentry_name_snapshot().

Intended use:
	struct name_snapshot s;

	take_dentry_name_snapshot(&amp;s, dentry);
	...
	access s.name
	...
	release_dentry_name_snapshot(&amp;s);

Replaces fsnotify_oldname_...(), gets used in fsnotify to obtain the name
to pass down with event.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 49d31c2f389acfe83417083e1208422b4091cd9e upstream.

take_dentry_name_snapshot() takes a safe snapshot of dentry name;
if the name is a short one, it gets copied into caller-supplied
structure, otherwise an extra reference to external name is grabbed
(those are never modified).  In either case the pointer to stable
string is stored into the same structure.

dentry must be held by the caller of take_dentry_name_snapshot(),
but may be freely dropped afterwards - the snapshot will stay
until destroyed by release_dentry_name_snapshot().

Intended use:
	struct name_snapshot s;

	take_dentry_name_snapshot(&amp;s, dentry);
	...
	access s.name
	...
	release_dentry_name_snapshot(&amp;s);

Replaces fsnotify_oldname_...(), gets used in fsnotify to obtain the name
to pass down with event.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: phy: Do not perform software reset for Generic PHY</title>
<updated>2017-08-07T02:19:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Fainelli</name>
<email>f.fainelli@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-05T20:34:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=71a165f6397df07a06ce643de5c2dbae29bd3cfb'/>
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commit 0878fff1f42c18e448ab5b8b4f6a3eb32365b5b6 upstream.

The Generic PHY driver is a catch-all PHY driver and it should preserve
whatever prior initialization has been done by boot loader or firmware
agents. For specific PHY device configuration it is expected that a
specialized PHY driver would take over that role.

Resetting the generic PHY was a bad idea that has lead to several
complaints and downstream workarounds e.g: in OpenWrt/LEDE so restore
the behavior prior to 87aa9f9c61ad ("net: phy: consolidate PHY
reset in phy_init_hw()").

Reported-by: Felix Fietkau &lt;nbd@nbd.name&gt;
Fixes: 87aa9f9c61ad ("net: phy: consolidate PHY reset in phy_init_hw()")
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir &lt;amit.pundir@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0878fff1f42c18e448ab5b8b4f6a3eb32365b5b6 upstream.

The Generic PHY driver is a catch-all PHY driver and it should preserve
whatever prior initialization has been done by boot loader or firmware
agents. For specific PHY device configuration it is expected that a
specialized PHY driver would take over that role.

Resetting the generic PHY was a bad idea that has lead to several
complaints and downstream workarounds e.g: in OpenWrt/LEDE so restore
the behavior prior to 87aa9f9c61ad ("net: phy: consolidate PHY
reset in phy_init_hw()").

Reported-by: Felix Fietkau &lt;nbd@nbd.name&gt;
Fixes: 87aa9f9c61ad ("net: phy: consolidate PHY reset in phy_init_hw()")
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir &lt;amit.pundir@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>pstore: Make spinlock per zone instead of global</title>
<updated>2017-08-07T02:19:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Fernandes</name>
<email>joelaf@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-20T07:34:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=08408f7ae5cdc7b8ef439f29b8d3dff9f1389c25'/>
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commit 109704492ef637956265ec2eb72ae7b3b39eb6f4 upstream.

Currently pstore has a global spinlock for all zones. Since the zones
are independent and modify different areas of memory, there's no need
to have a global lock, so we should use a per-zone lock as introduced
here. Also, when ramoops's ftrace use-case has a FTRACE_PER_CPU flag
introduced later, which splits the ftrace memory area into a single zone
per CPU, it will eliminate the need for locking. In preparation for this,
make the locking optional.

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
[kees: updated commit message]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 109704492ef637956265ec2eb72ae7b3b39eb6f4 upstream.

Currently pstore has a global spinlock for all zones. Since the zones
are independent and modify different areas of memory, there's no need
to have a global lock, so we should use a per-zone lock as introduced
here. Also, when ramoops's ftrace use-case has a FTRACE_PER_CPU flag
introduced later, which splits the ftrace memory area into a single zone
per CPU, it will eliminate the need for locking. In preparation for this,
make the locking optional.

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
[kees: updated commit message]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfio: New external user group/file match</title>
<updated>2017-07-27T22:06:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Williamson</name>
<email>alex.williamson@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-28T19:50:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=3457c0459496d028a4f47167a8b8871671abdeda'/>
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commit 5d6dee80a1e94cc284d03e06d930e60e8d3ecf7d upstream.

At the point where the kvm-vfio pseudo device wants to release its
vfio group reference, we can't always acquire a new reference to make
that happen.  The group can be in a state where we wouldn't allow a
new reference to be added.  This new helper function allows a caller
to match a file to a group to facilitate this.  Given a file and
group, report if they match.  Thus the caller needs to already have a
group reference to match to the file.  This allows the deletion of a
group without acquiring a new reference.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 5d6dee80a1e94cc284d03e06d930e60e8d3ecf7d upstream.

At the point where the kvm-vfio pseudo device wants to release its
vfio group reference, we can't always acquire a new reference to make
that happen.  The group can be in a state where we wouldn't allow a
new reference to be added.  This new helper function allows a caller
to match a file to a group to facilitate this.  Given a file and
group, report if they match.  Thus the caller needs to already have a
group reference to match to the file.  This allows the deletion of a
group without acquiring a new reference.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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