linux-toradex.git/include, branch v3.8.2

pstore: Avoid deadlock in panic and emergency-restart path

2013-03-03T22:03:38+00:00

commit 9f244e9cfd70c7c0f82d3c92ce772ab2a92d9f64 upstream.

[Issue]

When pstore is in panic and emergency-restart paths, it may be blocked
in those paths because it simply takes spin_lock.

This is an example scenario which pstore may hang up in a panic path:

 - cpuA grabs psinfo->buf_lock
 - cpuB panics and calls smp_send_stop
 - smp_send_stop sends IRQ to cpuA
 - after 1 second, cpuB gives up on cpuA and sends an NMI instead
 - cpuA is now in an NMI handler while still holding buf_lock
 - cpuB is deadlocked

This case may happen if a firmware has a bug and
cpuA is stuck talking with it more than one second.

Also, this is a similar scenario in an emergency-restart path:

 - cpuA grabs psinfo->buf_lock and stucks in a firmware
 - cpuB kicks emergency-restart via either sysrq-b or hangcheck timer.
   And then, cpuB is deadlocked by taking psinfo->buf_lock again.

[Solution]

This patch avoids the deadlocking issues in both panic and emergency_restart
paths by introducing a function, is_non_blocking_path(), to check if a cpu
can be blocked in current path.

With this patch, pstore is not blocked even if another cpu has
taken a spin_lock, in those paths by changing from spin_lock_irqsave
to spin_trylock_irqsave.

In addition, according to a comment of emergency_restart() in kernel/sys.c,
spin_lock shouldn't be taken in an emergency_restart path to avoid
deadlock. This patch fits the comment below.


/**
 *      emergency_restart - reboot the system
 *
 *      Without shutting down any hardware or taking any locks
 *      reboot the system.  This is called when we know we are in
 *      trouble so this is our best effort to reboot.  This is
 *      safe to call in interrupt context.
 */
void emergency_restart(void)


Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi 
Acked-by: Don Zickus 
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck 
Cc: CAI Qian 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

xen-blkfront: drop the use of llist_for_each_entry_safe

2013-03-03T22:03:35+00:00

commit f84adf4921ae3115502f44ff467b04bf2f88cf04 upstream.

Replace llist_for_each_entry_safe with a while loop.

llist_for_each_entry_safe can trigger a bug in GCC 4.1, so it's best
to remove it and use a while loop and do the deletion manually.

Specifically this bug can be triggered by hot-unplugging a disk, either
by doing xm block-detach or by save/restore cycle.

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffffffffff0
IP: [] blkif_free+0x63/0x130 [xen_blkfront]
The crash call trace is:
	...
bad_area_nosemaphore+0x13/0x20
do_page_fault+0x25e/0x4b0
page_fault+0x25/0x30
? blkif_free+0x63/0x130 [xen_blkfront]
blkfront_resume+0x46/0xa0 [xen_blkfront]
xenbus_dev_resume+0x6c/0x140
pm_op+0x192/0x1b0
device_resume+0x82/0x1e0
dpm_resume+0xc9/0x1a0
dpm_resume_end+0x15/0x30
do_suspend+0x117/0x1e0

When drilling down to the assembler code, on newer GCC it does
.L29:
        cmpq    $-16, %r12      #, persistent_gnt check
        je      .L30    	#, out of the loop
.L25:
	... code in the loop
        testq   %r13, %r13      # n
        je      .L29    	#, back to the top of the loop
        cmpq    $-16, %r12      #, persistent_gnt check
        movq    16(%r12), %r13  # .node.next, n
        jne     .L25    	#,	back to the top of the loop
.L30:

While on GCC 4.1, it is:
L78:
	... code in the loop
	testq   %r13, %r13      # n
        je      .L78    #,	back to the top of the loop
        movq    16(%rbx), %r13  # .node.next, n
        jmp     .L78    #,	back to the top of the loop

Which basically means that the exit loop condition instead of
being:

	&(pos)->member != NULL;

is:
	;

which makes the loop unbound.

Since xen-blkfront is the only user of the llist_for_each_entry_safe
macro remove it from llist.h.

Orabug: 16263164
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

quota: autoload the quota_v2 module for QFMT_VFS_V1 quota format

2013-03-03T22:03:32+00:00

commit c3ad83d9efdfe6a86efd44945a781f00c879b7b4 upstream.

Otherwise, ext4 file systems with the quota featured enable will get a
very confusing "No such process" error message if the quota code is
built as a module and the quota_v2 module has not been loaded.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino 
Acked-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vlan: adjust vlan_set_encap_proto() for its callers

2013-02-28T13:38:41+00:00

[ Upstream commit da8c87241c26aac81a64c7e4d21d438a33018f4e ]

There are two places to call vlan_set_encap_proto():
vlan_untag() and __pop_vlan_tci().

vlan_untag() assumes skb->data points after mac addr, otherwise
the following code

        vhdr = (struct vlan_hdr *) skb->data;
        vlan_tci = ntohs(vhdr->h_vlan_TCI);
        __vlan_hwaccel_put_tag(skb, vlan_tci);

        skb_pull_rcsum(skb, VLAN_HLEN);

won't be correct. But __pop_vlan_tci() assumes points _before_
mac addr.

In vlan_set_encap_proto(), it looks for some magic L2 value
after mac addr:

        rawp = skb->data;
        if (*(unsigned short *) rawp == 0xFFFF)
	...

Therefore __pop_vlan_tci() is obviously wrong.

A quick fix is avoiding using skb->data in vlan_set_encap_proto(),
use 'vhdr+1' is always correct in both cases.

Signed-off-by: Cong Wang 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Jesse Gross 
Acked-by: Jesse Gross 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ipv4: fix error handling in icmp_protocol.

2013-02-28T13:38:41+00:00

[ Upstream commit 5b0520425e5ea81ba95ec486dd6bbb59a09fff0e ]

Now we handle icmp errors in each transport protocol's err_handler,
for icmp protocols, that is ping_err. Since this handler only care
of those icmp errors triggered by echo request, errors triggered
by echo reply(which sent by kernel) are sliently ignored.

So wrap ping_err() with icmp_err() to deal with those icmp errors.

Signed-off-by: Li Wei 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ipv6: use a stronger hash for tcp

2013-02-28T13:38:41+00:00

[ Upstream commit 08dcdbf6a7b9d14c2302c5bd0c5390ddf122f664 ]

It looks like its possible to open thousands of TCP IPv6
sessions on a server, all landing in a single slot of TCP hash
table. Incoming packets have to lookup sockets in a very
long list.

We should hash all bits from foreign IPv6 addresses, using
a salt and hash mix, not a simple XOR.

inet6_ehashfn() can also separately use the ports, instead
of xoring them.

Reported-by: Neal Cardwell 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Yuchung Cheng 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ipv6: fix race condition regarding dst->expires and dst->from.

2013-02-28T13:38:40+00:00

[ Upstream commit ecd9883724b78cc72ed92c98bcb1a46c764fff21 ]

Eric Dumazet wrote:
| Some strange crashes happen in rt6_check_expired(), with access
| to random addresses.
|
| At first glance, it looks like the RTF_EXPIRES and
| stuff added in commit 1716a96101c49186b
| (ipv6: fix problem with expired dst cache)
| are racy : same dst could be manipulated at the same time
| on different cpus.
|
| At some point, our stack believes rt->dst.from contains a dst pointer,
| while its really a jiffie value (as rt->dst.expires shares the same area
| of memory)
|
| rt6_update_expires() should be fixed, or am I missing something ?
|
| CC Neil because of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892060

Because we do not have any locks for dst_entry, we cannot change
essential structure in the entry; e.g., we cannot change reference
to other entity.

To fix this issue, split 'from' and 'expires' field in dst_entry
out of union.  Once it is 'from' is assigned in the constructor,
keep the reference until the very last stage of the life time of
the object.

Of course, it is unsafe to change 'from', so make rt6_set_from simple
just for fresh entries.

Reported-by: Eric Dumazet 
Reported-by: Neil Horman 
CC: Gao Feng 
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki 
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet 
Reported-by: Steinar H. Gunderson 
Reviewed-by: Neil Horman 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

net: fix a compile error when SOCK_REFCNT_DEBUG is enabled

2013-02-28T13:38:40+00:00

[ Upstream commit dec34fb0f5b7873de45132a84a3af29e61084a6b ]

When SOCK_REFCNT_DEBUG is enabled, below build error is met:

kernel/sysctl_binary.o: In function `sk_refcnt_debug_release':
include/net/sock.h:1025: multiple definition of `sk_refcnt_debug_release'
kernel/sysctl.o:include/net/sock.h:1025: first defined here
kernel/audit.o: In function `sk_refcnt_debug_release':
include/net/sock.h:1025: multiple definition of `sk_refcnt_debug_release'
kernel/sysctl.o:include/net/sock.h:1025: first defined here
make[1]: *** [kernel/built-in.o] Error 1
make: *** [kernel] Error 2

So we decide to make sk_refcnt_debug_release static to eliminate
the error.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fb: Yet another band-aid for fixing lockdep mess

2013-02-28T13:38:39+00:00

commit e93a9a868792ad71cdd09d75e5a02d8067473c4e upstream.

I've still got lockdep warnings even after Alan's patch, and it seems that
yet more band aids are required to paper over similar paths for
unbind_con_driver() and unregister_con_driver().  After this hack, lockdep
warnings are finally gone.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fb: rework locking to fix lock ordering on takeover

2013-02-28T13:38:39+00:00

commit 50e244cc793d511b86adea24972f3a7264cae114 upstream.

Adjust the console layer to allow a take over call where the caller
already holds the locks.  Make the fb layer lock in order.

This is partly a band aid, the fb layer is terminally confused about the
locking rules it uses for its notifiers it seems.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove stray non-ascii char, tidy comment]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export do_take_over_console()]
[airlied: cleanup another non-ascii char]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox 
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek 
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman