linux-toradex.git/include, branch v3.2.36

hpsa: gen8plus Smart Array IDs

2013-01-03T03:33:54+00:00

commit fe0c9610bb68dd0aad1017456f5e3c31264d70c2 upstream.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

exec: do not leave bprm->interp on stack

2013-01-03T03:33:45+00:00

commit b66c5984017533316fd1951770302649baf1aa33 upstream.

If a series of scripts are executed, each triggering module loading via
unprintable bytes in the script header, kernel stack contents can leak
into the command line.

Normally execution of binfmt_script and binfmt_misc happens recursively.
However, when modules are enabled, and unprintable bytes exist in the
bprm->buf, execution will restart after attempting to load matching
binfmt modules.  Unfortunately, the logic in binfmt_script and
binfmt_misc does not expect to get restarted.  They leave bprm->interp
pointing to their local stack.  This means on restart bprm->interp is
left pointing into unused stack memory which can then be copied into the
userspace argv areas.

After additional study, it seems that both recursion and restart remains
the desirable way to handle exec with scripts, misc, and modules.  As
such, we need to protect the changes to interp.

This changes the logic to require allocation for any changes to the
bprm->interp.  To avoid adding a new kmalloc to every exec, the default
value is left as-is.  Only when passing through binfmt_script or
binfmt_misc does an allocation take place.

For a proof of concept, see DoTest.sh from:

   http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2012/LinuxKernelBinfmtScriptStackDataDisclosure/

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Cc: halfdog 
Cc: P J P 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

mm: add kmap_to_page()

2013-01-03T03:32:57+00:00

This is extracted from Mel Gorman's commit 5a178119b0fb ('mm: add
support for direct_IO to highmem pages') upstream.

Required to backport commit b9cdc88df8e6 ('virtio: 9p: correctly pass
physical address to userspace for high pages').

Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

freezer: add missing mb's to freezer_count() and freezer_should_skip()

2013-01-03T03:32:56+00:00

commit dd67d32dbc5de299d70cc9e10c6c1e29ffa56b92 upstream.

A task is considered frozen enough between freezer_do_not_count() and
freezer_count() and freezers use freezer_should_skip() to test this
condition.  This supposedly works because freezer_count() always calls
try_to_freezer() after clearing %PF_FREEZER_SKIP.

However, there currently is nothing which guarantees that
freezer_count() sees %true freezing() after clearing %PF_FREEZER_SKIP
when freezing is in progress, and vice-versa.  A task can escape the
freezing condition in effect by freezer_count() seeing !freezing() and
freezer_should_skip() seeing %PF_FREEZER_SKIP.

This patch adds smp_mb()'s to freezer_count() and
freezer_should_skip() such that either %true freezing() is visible to
freezer_count() or !PF_FREEZER_SKIP is visible to
freezer_should_skip().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust context and indentation
 - freezer_do_not_count() and freezer_count() are no-ops for kernel tasks]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

cgroup: cgroup_subsys->fork() should be called after the task is added to css_set

2013-01-03T03:32:56+00:00

commit 5edee61edeaaebafe584f8fb7074c1ef4658596b upstream.

cgroup core has a bug which violates a basic rule about event
notifications - when a new entity needs to be added, you add that to
the notification list first and then make the new entity conform to
the current state.  If done in the reverse order, an event happening
inbetween will be lost.

cgroup_subsys->fork() is invoked way before the new task is added to
the css_set.  Currently, cgroup_freezer is the only user of ->fork()
and uses it to make new tasks conform to the current state of the
freezer.  If FROZEN state is requested while fork is in progress
between cgroup_fork_callbacks() and cgroup_post_fork(), the child
could escape freezing - the cgroup isn't frozen when ->fork() is
called and the freezer couldn't see the new task on the css_set.

This patch moves cgroup_subsys->fork() invocation to
cgroup_post_fork() after the new task is added to the css_set.
cgroup_fork_callbacks() is removed.

Because now a task may be migrated during cgroup_subsys->fork(),
freezer_fork() is updated so that it adheres to the usual RCU locking
and the rather pointless comment on why locking can be different there
is removed (if it doesn't make anything simpler, why even bother?).

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust context
 - Iterate over first CGROUP_BUILTIN_SUBSYS_COUNT elements of subsys
 - cgroup_subsys::fork takes cgroup_subsys pointer as first parameter]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

tmpfs: fix shared mempolicy leak

2013-01-03T03:32:54+00:00

commit 18a2f371f5edf41810f6469cb9be39931ef9deb9 upstream.

This fixes a regression in 3.7-rc, which has since gone into stable.

Commit 00442ad04a5e ("mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount
imbalance in alloc_pages_vma()") changed get_vma_policy() to raise the
refcount on a shmem shared mempolicy; whereas shmem_alloc_page() went
on expecting alloc_page_vma() to drop the refcount it had acquired.
This deserves a rework: but for now fix the leak in shmem_alloc_page().

Hugh: shmem_swapin() did not need a fix, but surely it's clearer to use
the same refcounting there as in shmem_alloc_page(), delete its onstack
mempolicy, and the strange mpol_cond_copy() and __mpol_cond_copy() -
those were invented to let swapin_readahead() make an unknown number of
calls to alloc_pages_vma() with one mempolicy; but since 00442ad04a5e,
alloc_pages_vma() has kept refcount in balance, so now no problem.

Reported-and-tested-by: Tommi Rantala 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

ptp: update adjfreq callback description

2012-12-06T11:20:18+00:00

commit 87f4d7c1d36f44b0822053b7e5dedc31fdd0ab99 upstream.

This patch updates the adjfreq callback description to include a note that the
delta in ppb is always relative to the base frequency, and not to the current
frequency of the hardware clock.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller 
CC: Richard Cochran 
CC: John Stultz 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

xen/mmu: Use Xen specific TLB flush instead of the generic one.

2012-11-16T16:47:03+00:00

commit 95a7d76897c1e7243d4137037c66d15cbf2cce76 upstream.

As Mukesh explained it, the MMUEXT_TLB_FLUSH_ALL allows the
hypervisor to do a TLB flush on all active vCPUs. If instead
we were using the generic one (which ends up being xen_flush_tlb)
we end up making the MMUEXT_TLB_FLUSH_LOCAL hypercall. But
before we make that hypercall the kernel will IPI all of the
vCPUs (even those that were asleep from the hypervisor
perspective). The end result is that we needlessly wake them
up and do a TLB flush when we can just let the hypervisor
do it correctly.

This patch gives around 50% speed improvement when migrating
idle guest's from one host to another.

Oracle-bug: 14630170

Tested-by:  Jingjie Jiang 
Suggested-by:  Mukesh Rathor 
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

mac80211: verify that skb data is present

2012-11-16T16:46:58+00:00

commit 9b395bc3be1cebf0144a127c7e67d56dbdac0930 upstream.

A number of places in the mesh code don't check that
the frame data is present and in the skb header when
trying to access. Add those checks and the necessary
pskb_may_pull() calls. This prevents accessing data
that doesn't actually exist.

To do this, export ieee80211_get_mesh_hdrlen() to be
able to use it in mac80211.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

rtnetlink: Fix problem with buffer allocation

2012-11-16T16:46:52+00:00

commit 115c9b81928360d769a76c632bae62d15206a94a upstream.

Implement a new netlink attribute type IFLA_EXT_MASK.  The mask
is a 32 bit value that can be used to indicate to the kernel that
certain extended ifinfo values are requested by the user application.
At this time the only mask value defined is RTEXT_FILTER_VF to
indicate that the user wants the ifinfo dump to send information
about the VFs belonging to the interface.

This patch fixes a bug in which certain applications do not have
large enough buffers to accommodate the extra information returned
by the kernel with large numbers of SR-IOV virtual functions.
Those applications will not send the new netlink attribute with
the interface info dump request netlink messages so they will
not get unexpectedly large request buffers returned by the kernel.

Modifies the rtnl_calcit function to traverse the list of net
devices and compute the minimum buffer size that can hold the
info dumps of all matching devices based upon the filter passed
in via the new netlink attribute filter mask.  If no filter
mask is sent then the buffer allocation defaults to NLMSG_GOODSIZE.

With this change it is possible to add yet to be defined netlink
attributes to the dump request which should make it fairly extensible
in the future.

Signed-off-by: Greg Rose 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: drop the change in do_setlink() that reverts
 commit f18da14565819ba43b8321237e2426a2914cc2ef, which we never applied]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings