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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>tree wide: use kvfree() than conditional kfree()/vfree()</title>
<updated>2016-01-23T01:02:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tetsuo Handa</name>
<email>penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp</email>
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<published>2016-01-22T23:11:02+00:00</published>
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There are many locations that do

  if (memory_was_allocated_by_vmalloc)
    vfree(ptr);
  else
    kfree(ptr);

but kvfree() can handle both kmalloc()ed memory and vmalloc()ed memory
using is_vmalloc_addr().  Unless callers have special reasons, we can
replace this branch with kvfree().  Please check and reply if you found
problems.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;andreas.dilger@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Drokin &lt;oleg.drokin@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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There are many locations that do

  if (memory_was_allocated_by_vmalloc)
    vfree(ptr);
  else
    kfree(ptr);

but kvfree() can handle both kmalloc()ed memory and vmalloc()ed memory
using is_vmalloc_addr().  Unless callers have special reasons, we can
replace this branch with kvfree().  Please check and reply if you found
problems.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;andreas.dilger@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Drokin &lt;oleg.drokin@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipc/sem.c: update/correct memory barriers</title>
<updated>2015-08-14T22:56:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Manfred Spraul</name>
<email>manfred@colorfullife.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-14T22:35:10+00:00</published>
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sem_lock() did not properly pair memory barriers:

!spin_is_locked() and spin_unlock_wait() are both only control barriers.
The code needs an acquire barrier, otherwise the cpu might perform read
operations before the lock test.

As no primitive exists inside &lt;include/spinlock.h&gt; and since it seems
noone wants another primitive, the code creates a local primitive within
ipc/sem.c.

With regards to -stable:

The change of sem_wait_array() is a bugfix, the change to sem_lock() is a
nop (just a preprocessor redefinition to improve the readability).  The
bugfix is necessary for all kernels that use sem_wait_array() (i.e.:
starting from 3.10).

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[3.10+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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sem_lock() did not properly pair memory barriers:

!spin_is_locked() and spin_unlock_wait() are both only control barriers.
The code needs an acquire barrier, otherwise the cpu might perform read
operations before the lock test.

As no primitive exists inside &lt;include/spinlock.h&gt; and since it seems
noone wants another primitive, the code creates a local primitive within
ipc/sem.c.

With regards to -stable:

The change of sem_wait_array() is a bugfix, the change to sem_lock() is a
nop (just a preprocessor redefinition to improve the readability).  The
bugfix is necessary for all kernels that use sem_wait_array() (i.e.:
starting from 3.10).

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[3.10+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipc,sem: remove uneeded sem_undo_list lock usage in exit_sem()</title>
<updated>2015-08-14T22:56:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herton R. Krzesinski</name>
<email>herton@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-14T22:35:05+00:00</published>
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After we acquire the sma-&gt;sem_perm lock in exit_sem(), we are protected
against a racing IPC_RMID operation.  Also at that point, we are the last
user of sem_undo_list.  Therefore it isn't required that we acquire or use
ulp-&gt;lock.

Signed-off-by: Herton R. Krzesinski &lt;herton@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
CC: Aristeu Rozanski &lt;aris@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Jeffery &lt;djeffery@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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After we acquire the sma-&gt;sem_perm lock in exit_sem(), we are protected
against a racing IPC_RMID operation.  Also at that point, we are the last
user of sem_undo_list.  Therefore it isn't required that we acquire or use
ulp-&gt;lock.

Signed-off-by: Herton R. Krzesinski &lt;herton@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
CC: Aristeu Rozanski &lt;aris@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Jeffery &lt;djeffery@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipc,sem: fix use after free on IPC_RMID after a task using same semaphore set exits</title>
<updated>2015-08-14T22:56:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herton R. Krzesinski</name>
<email>herton@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-14T22:35:02+00:00</published>
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The current semaphore code allows a potential use after free: in
exit_sem we may free the task's sem_undo_list while there is still
another task looping through the same semaphore set and cleaning the
sem_undo list at freeary function (the task called IPC_RMID for the same
semaphore set).

For example, with a test program [1] running which keeps forking a lot
of processes (which then do a semop call with SEM_UNDO flag), and with
the parent right after removing the semaphore set with IPC_RMID, and a
kernel built with CONFIG_SLAB, CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG and
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK, you can easily see something like the following
in the kernel log:

   Slab corruption (Not tainted): kmalloc-64 start=ffff88003b45c1c0, len=64
   000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 00 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b  kkkkkkkk.kkkkkkk
   010: ff ff ff ff 6b 6b 6b 6b ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ....kkkk........
   Prev obj: start=ffff88003b45c180, len=64
   000: 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 5a 5a 5a 5a  .....N......ZZZZ
   010: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff c0 fb 01 37 00 88 ff ff  ...........7....
   Next obj: start=ffff88003b45c200, len=64
   000: 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 5a 5a 5a 5a  .....N......ZZZZ
   010: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 68 29 a7 3c 00 88 ff ff  ........h).&lt;....
   BUG: spinlock wrong CPU on CPU#2, test/18028
   general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
   Modules linked in: 8021q mrp garp stp llc nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables binfmt_misc ppdev input_leds joydev parport_pc parport floppy serio_raw virtio_balloon virtio_rng virtio_console virtio_net iosf_mbi crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel pcspkr qxl ttm drm_kms_helper drm snd_hda_codec_generic i2c_piix4 snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hda_core snd_hwdep snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore crc32c_intel virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio pata_acpi ata_generic [last unloaded: speedstep_lib]
   CPU: 2 PID: 18028 Comm: test Not tainted 4.2.0-rc5+ #1
   Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.8.1-20150318_183358- 04/01/2014
   RIP: spin_dump+0x53/0xc0
   Call Trace:
     spin_bug+0x30/0x40
     do_raw_spin_unlock+0x71/0xa0
     _raw_spin_unlock+0xe/0x10
     freeary+0x82/0x2a0
     ? _raw_spin_lock+0xe/0x10
     semctl_down.clone.0+0xce/0x160
     ? __do_page_fault+0x19a/0x430
     ? __audit_syscall_entry+0xa8/0x100
     SyS_semctl+0x236/0x2c0
     ? syscall_trace_leave+0xde/0x130
     entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x71
   Code: 8b 80 88 03 00 00 48 8d 88 60 05 00 00 48 c7 c7 a0 2c a4 81 31 c0 65 8b 15 eb 40 f3 7e e8 08 31 68 00 4d 85 e4 44 8b 4b 08 74 5e &lt;45&gt; 8b 84 24 88 03 00 00 49 8d 8c 24 60 05 00 00 8b 53 04 48 89
   RIP  [&lt;ffffffff810d6053&gt;] spin_dump+0x53/0xc0
    RSP &lt;ffff88003750fd68&gt;
   ---[ end trace 783ebb76612867a0 ]---
   NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 22s! [test:18053]
   Modules linked in: 8021q mrp garp stp llc nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables binfmt_misc ppdev input_leds joydev parport_pc parport floppy serio_raw virtio_balloon virtio_rng virtio_console virtio_net iosf_mbi crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel pcspkr qxl ttm drm_kms_helper drm snd_hda_codec_generic i2c_piix4 snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hda_core snd_hwdep snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore crc32c_intel virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio pata_acpi ata_generic [last unloaded: speedstep_lib]
   CPU: 3 PID: 18053 Comm: test Tainted: G      D         4.2.0-rc5+ #1
   Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.8.1-20150318_183358- 04/01/2014
   RIP: native_read_tsc+0x0/0x20
   Call Trace:
     ? delay_tsc+0x40/0x70
     __delay+0xf/0x20
     do_raw_spin_lock+0x96/0x140
     _raw_spin_lock+0xe/0x10
     sem_lock_and_putref+0x11/0x70
     SYSC_semtimedop+0x7bf/0x960
     ? handle_mm_fault+0xbf6/0x1880
     ? dequeue_task_fair+0x79/0x4a0
     ? __do_page_fault+0x19a/0x430
     ? kfree_debugcheck+0x16/0x40
     ? __do_page_fault+0x19a/0x430
     ? __audit_syscall_entry+0xa8/0x100
     ? do_audit_syscall_entry+0x66/0x70
     ? syscall_trace_enter_phase1+0x139/0x160
     SyS_semtimedop+0xe/0x10
     SyS_semop+0x10/0x20
     entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x71
   Code: 47 10 83 e8 01 85 c0 89 47 10 75 08 65 48 89 3d 1f 74 ff 7e c9 c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 e8 87 17 04 00 66 90 c9 c3 0f 1f 00 &lt;55&gt; 48 89 e5 0f 31 89 c1 48 89 d0 48 c1 e0 20 89 c9 48 09 c8 c9
   Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks

I wasn't able to trigger any badness on a recent kernel without the
proper config debugs enabled, however I have softlockup reports on some
kernel versions, in the semaphore code, which are similar as above (the
scenario is seen on some servers running IBM DB2 which uses semaphore
syscalls).

The patch here fixes the race against freeary, by acquiring or waiting
on the sem_undo_list lock as necessary (exit_sem can race with freeary,
while freeary sets un-&gt;semid to -1 and removes the same sem_undo from
list_proc or when it removes the last sem_undo).

After the patch I'm unable to reproduce the problem using the test case
[1].

[1] Test case used below:

    #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
    #include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;
    #include &lt;sys/ipc.h&gt;
    #include &lt;sys/sem.h&gt;
    #include &lt;sys/wait.h&gt;
    #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
    #include &lt;time.h&gt;
    #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
    #include &lt;errno.h&gt;

    #define NSEM 1
    #define NSET 5

    int sid[NSET];

    void thread()
    {
            struct sembuf op;
            int s;
            uid_t pid = getuid();

            s = rand() % NSET;
            op.sem_num = pid % NSEM;
            op.sem_op = 1;
            op.sem_flg = SEM_UNDO;

            semop(sid[s], &amp;op, 1);
            exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
    }

    void create_set()
    {
            int i, j;
            pid_t p;
            union {
                    int val;
                    struct semid_ds *buf;
                    unsigned short int *array;
                    struct seminfo *__buf;
            } un;

            /* Create and initialize semaphore set */
            for (i = 0; i &lt; NSET; i++) {
                    sid[i] = semget(IPC_PRIVATE , NSEM, 0644 | IPC_CREAT);
                    if (sid[i] &lt; 0) {
                            perror("semget");
                            exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
                    }
            }
            un.val = 0;
            for (i = 0; i &lt; NSET; i++) {
                    for (j = 0; j &lt; NSEM; j++) {
                            if (semctl(sid[i], j, SETVAL, un) &lt; 0)
                                    perror("semctl");
                    }
            }

            /* Launch threads that operate on semaphore set */
            for (i = 0; i &lt; NSEM * NSET * NSET; i++) {
                    p = fork();
                    if (p &lt; 0)
                            perror("fork");
                    if (p == 0)
                            thread();
            }

            /* Free semaphore set */
            for (i = 0; i &lt; NSET; i++) {
                    if (semctl(sid[i], NSEM, IPC_RMID))
                            perror("IPC_RMID");
            }

            /* Wait for forked processes to exit */
            while (wait(NULL)) {
                    if (errno == ECHILD)
                            break;
            };
    }

    int main(int argc, char **argv)
    {
            pid_t p;

            srand(time(NULL));

            while (1) {
                    p = fork();
                    if (p &lt; 0) {
                            perror("fork");
                            exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
                    }
                    if (p == 0) {
                            create_set();
                            goto end;
                    }

                    /* Wait for forked processes to exit */
                    while (wait(NULL)) {
                            if (errno == ECHILD)
                                    break;
                    };
            }
    end:
            return 0;
    }

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use normal comment layout]
Signed-off-by: Herton R. Krzesinski &lt;herton@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
CC: Aristeu Rozanski &lt;aris@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Jeffery &lt;djeffery@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.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;
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The current semaphore code allows a potential use after free: in
exit_sem we may free the task's sem_undo_list while there is still
another task looping through the same semaphore set and cleaning the
sem_undo list at freeary function (the task called IPC_RMID for the same
semaphore set).

For example, with a test program [1] running which keeps forking a lot
of processes (which then do a semop call with SEM_UNDO flag), and with
the parent right after removing the semaphore set with IPC_RMID, and a
kernel built with CONFIG_SLAB, CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG and
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK, you can easily see something like the following
in the kernel log:

   Slab corruption (Not tainted): kmalloc-64 start=ffff88003b45c1c0, len=64
   000: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 00 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b  kkkkkkkk.kkkkkkk
   010: ff ff ff ff 6b 6b 6b 6b ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  ....kkkk........
   Prev obj: start=ffff88003b45c180, len=64
   000: 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 5a 5a 5a 5a  .....N......ZZZZ
   010: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff c0 fb 01 37 00 88 ff ff  ...........7....
   Next obj: start=ffff88003b45c200, len=64
   000: 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 5a 5a 5a 5a  .....N......ZZZZ
   010: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 68 29 a7 3c 00 88 ff ff  ........h).&lt;....
   BUG: spinlock wrong CPU on CPU#2, test/18028
   general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
   Modules linked in: 8021q mrp garp stp llc nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables binfmt_misc ppdev input_leds joydev parport_pc parport floppy serio_raw virtio_balloon virtio_rng virtio_console virtio_net iosf_mbi crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel pcspkr qxl ttm drm_kms_helper drm snd_hda_codec_generic i2c_piix4 snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hda_core snd_hwdep snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore crc32c_intel virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio pata_acpi ata_generic [last unloaded: speedstep_lib]
   CPU: 2 PID: 18028 Comm: test Not tainted 4.2.0-rc5+ #1
   Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.8.1-20150318_183358- 04/01/2014
   RIP: spin_dump+0x53/0xc0
   Call Trace:
     spin_bug+0x30/0x40
     do_raw_spin_unlock+0x71/0xa0
     _raw_spin_unlock+0xe/0x10
     freeary+0x82/0x2a0
     ? _raw_spin_lock+0xe/0x10
     semctl_down.clone.0+0xce/0x160
     ? __do_page_fault+0x19a/0x430
     ? __audit_syscall_entry+0xa8/0x100
     SyS_semctl+0x236/0x2c0
     ? syscall_trace_leave+0xde/0x130
     entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x71
   Code: 8b 80 88 03 00 00 48 8d 88 60 05 00 00 48 c7 c7 a0 2c a4 81 31 c0 65 8b 15 eb 40 f3 7e e8 08 31 68 00 4d 85 e4 44 8b 4b 08 74 5e &lt;45&gt; 8b 84 24 88 03 00 00 49 8d 8c 24 60 05 00 00 8b 53 04 48 89
   RIP  [&lt;ffffffff810d6053&gt;] spin_dump+0x53/0xc0
    RSP &lt;ffff88003750fd68&gt;
   ---[ end trace 783ebb76612867a0 ]---
   NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 22s! [test:18053]
   Modules linked in: 8021q mrp garp stp llc nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables binfmt_misc ppdev input_leds joydev parport_pc parport floppy serio_raw virtio_balloon virtio_rng virtio_console virtio_net iosf_mbi crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel pcspkr qxl ttm drm_kms_helper drm snd_hda_codec_generic i2c_piix4 snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hda_core snd_hwdep snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore crc32c_intel virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio pata_acpi ata_generic [last unloaded: speedstep_lib]
   CPU: 3 PID: 18053 Comm: test Tainted: G      D         4.2.0-rc5+ #1
   Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.8.1-20150318_183358- 04/01/2014
   RIP: native_read_tsc+0x0/0x20
   Call Trace:
     ? delay_tsc+0x40/0x70
     __delay+0xf/0x20
     do_raw_spin_lock+0x96/0x140
     _raw_spin_lock+0xe/0x10
     sem_lock_and_putref+0x11/0x70
     SYSC_semtimedop+0x7bf/0x960
     ? handle_mm_fault+0xbf6/0x1880
     ? dequeue_task_fair+0x79/0x4a0
     ? __do_page_fault+0x19a/0x430
     ? kfree_debugcheck+0x16/0x40
     ? __do_page_fault+0x19a/0x430
     ? __audit_syscall_entry+0xa8/0x100
     ? do_audit_syscall_entry+0x66/0x70
     ? syscall_trace_enter_phase1+0x139/0x160
     SyS_semtimedop+0xe/0x10
     SyS_semop+0x10/0x20
     entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x71
   Code: 47 10 83 e8 01 85 c0 89 47 10 75 08 65 48 89 3d 1f 74 ff 7e c9 c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 e8 87 17 04 00 66 90 c9 c3 0f 1f 00 &lt;55&gt; 48 89 e5 0f 31 89 c1 48 89 d0 48 c1 e0 20 89 c9 48 09 c8 c9
   Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks

I wasn't able to trigger any badness on a recent kernel without the
proper config debugs enabled, however I have softlockup reports on some
kernel versions, in the semaphore code, which are similar as above (the
scenario is seen on some servers running IBM DB2 which uses semaphore
syscalls).

The patch here fixes the race against freeary, by acquiring or waiting
on the sem_undo_list lock as necessary (exit_sem can race with freeary,
while freeary sets un-&gt;semid to -1 and removes the same sem_undo from
list_proc or when it removes the last sem_undo).

After the patch I'm unable to reproduce the problem using the test case
[1].

[1] Test case used below:

    #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
    #include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;
    #include &lt;sys/ipc.h&gt;
    #include &lt;sys/sem.h&gt;
    #include &lt;sys/wait.h&gt;
    #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
    #include &lt;time.h&gt;
    #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
    #include &lt;errno.h&gt;

    #define NSEM 1
    #define NSET 5

    int sid[NSET];

    void thread()
    {
            struct sembuf op;
            int s;
            uid_t pid = getuid();

            s = rand() % NSET;
            op.sem_num = pid % NSEM;
            op.sem_op = 1;
            op.sem_flg = SEM_UNDO;

            semop(sid[s], &amp;op, 1);
            exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
    }

    void create_set()
    {
            int i, j;
            pid_t p;
            union {
                    int val;
                    struct semid_ds *buf;
                    unsigned short int *array;
                    struct seminfo *__buf;
            } un;

            /* Create and initialize semaphore set */
            for (i = 0; i &lt; NSET; i++) {
                    sid[i] = semget(IPC_PRIVATE , NSEM, 0644 | IPC_CREAT);
                    if (sid[i] &lt; 0) {
                            perror("semget");
                            exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
                    }
            }
            un.val = 0;
            for (i = 0; i &lt; NSET; i++) {
                    for (j = 0; j &lt; NSEM; j++) {
                            if (semctl(sid[i], j, SETVAL, un) &lt; 0)
                                    perror("semctl");
                    }
            }

            /* Launch threads that operate on semaphore set */
            for (i = 0; i &lt; NSEM * NSET * NSET; i++) {
                    p = fork();
                    if (p &lt; 0)
                            perror("fork");
                    if (p == 0)
                            thread();
            }

            /* Free semaphore set */
            for (i = 0; i &lt; NSET; i++) {
                    if (semctl(sid[i], NSEM, IPC_RMID))
                            perror("IPC_RMID");
            }

            /* Wait for forked processes to exit */
            while (wait(NULL)) {
                    if (errno == ECHILD)
                            break;
            };
    }

    int main(int argc, char **argv)
    {
            pid_t p;

            srand(time(NULL));

            while (1) {
                    p = fork();
                    if (p &lt; 0) {
                            perror("fork");
                            exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
                    }
                    if (p == 0) {
                            create_set();
                            goto end;
                    }

                    /* Wait for forked processes to exit */
                    while (wait(NULL)) {
                            if (errno == ECHILD)
                                    break;
                    };
            }
    end:
            return 0;
    }

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use normal comment layout]
Signed-off-by: Herton R. Krzesinski &lt;herton@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
CC: Aristeu Rozanski &lt;aris@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Jeffery &lt;djeffery@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.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;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipc: rename ipc_obtain_object</title>
<updated>2015-07-01T02:44:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Davidlohr Bueso</name>
<email>dave@stgolabs.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-30T21:58:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=55b7ae50167efc9b1c4f8fb60a99478cd46a82f7'/>
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...  to ipc_obtain_object_idr, which is more meaningful and makes the code
slightly easier to follow.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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...  to ipc_obtain_object_idr, which is more meaningful and makes the code
slightly easier to follow.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipc: remove use of seq_printf return value</title>
<updated>2015-04-15T23:35:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-15T23:17:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=7f032d6ef6154868a2a5d5f6b2c3f8587292196c'/>
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The seq_printf return value, because it's frequently misused,
will eventually be converted to void.

See: commit 1f33c41c03da ("seq_file: Rename seq_overflow() to
     seq_has_overflowed() and make public")

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The seq_printf return value, because it's frequently misused,
will eventually be converted to void.

See: commit 1f33c41c03da ("seq_file: Rename seq_overflow() to
     seq_has_overflowed() and make public")

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipc,sem: use current-&gt;state helpers</title>
<updated>2015-02-17T22:34:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Davidlohr Bueso</name>
<email>dave@stgolabs.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-17T21:47:55+00:00</published>
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Call __set_current_state() instead of assigning the new state directly.
These interfaces also aid CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP environments, keeping
track of who changed the state.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Call __set_current_state() instead of assigning the new state directly.
These interfaces also aid CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP environments, keeping
track of who changed the state.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipc/sem.c: change memory barrier in sem_lock() to smp_rmb()</title>
<updated>2014-12-13T20:42:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Manfred Spraul</name>
<email>manfred@colorfullife.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-13T00:58:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=2e094abfd1f29a08a60523b42d4508281b8dee0e'/>
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When I fixed bugs in the sem_lock() logic, I was more conservative than
necessary.  Therefore it is safe to replace the smp_mb() with smp_rmb().
And: With smp_rmb(), semop() syscalls are up to 10% faster.

The race we must protect against is:

	sem-&gt;lock is free
	sma-&gt;complex_count = 0
	sma-&gt;sem_perm.lock held by thread B

thread A:

A: spin_lock(&amp;sem-&gt;lock)

			B: sma-&gt;complex_count++; (now 1)
			B: spin_unlock(&amp;sma-&gt;sem_perm.lock);

A: spin_is_locked(&amp;sma-&gt;sem_perm.lock);
A: XXXXX memory barrier
A: if (sma-&gt;complex_count == 0)

Thread A must read the increased complex_count value, i.e. the read must
not be reordered with the read of sem_perm.lock done by spin_is_locked().

Since it's about ordering of reads, smp_rmb() is sufficient.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: update sem_lock() comment, from Davidlohr]
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When I fixed bugs in the sem_lock() logic, I was more conservative than
necessary.  Therefore it is safe to replace the smp_mb() with smp_rmb().
And: With smp_rmb(), semop() syscalls are up to 10% faster.

The race we must protect against is:

	sem-&gt;lock is free
	sma-&gt;complex_count = 0
	sma-&gt;sem_perm.lock held by thread B

thread A:

A: spin_lock(&amp;sem-&gt;lock)

			B: sma-&gt;complex_count++; (now 1)
			B: spin_unlock(&amp;sma-&gt;sem_perm.lock);

A: spin_is_locked(&amp;sma-&gt;sem_perm.lock);
A: XXXXX memory barrier
A: if (sma-&gt;complex_count == 0)

Thread A must read the increased complex_count value, i.e. the read must
not be reordered with the read of sem_perm.lock done by spin_is_locked().

Since it's about ordering of reads, smp_rmb() is sufficient.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: update sem_lock() comment, from Davidlohr]
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipc/sem.c: fully initialize sem_array before making it visible</title>
<updated>2014-12-03T17:36:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Manfred Spraul</name>
<email>manfred@colorfullife.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-02T23:59:34+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
ipc_addid() makes a new ipc identifier visible to everyone.  New objects
start as locked, so that the caller can complete the initialization
after the call.  Within struct sem_array, at least sma-&gt;sem_base and
sma-&gt;sem_nsems are accessed without any locks, therefore this approach
doesn't work.

Thus: Move the ipc_addid() to the end of the initialization.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Reported-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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ipc_addid() makes a new ipc identifier visible to everyone.  New objects
start as locked, so that the caller can complete the initialization
after the call.  Within struct sem_array, at least sma-&gt;sem_base and
sma-&gt;sem_nsems are accessed without any locks, therefore this approach
doesn't work.

Thus: Move the ipc_addid() to the end of the initialization.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Reported-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipc/sem.c: add a printk_once for semctl(GETNCNT/GETZCNT)</title>
<updated>2014-06-06T23:08:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Manfred Spraul</name>
<email>manfred@colorfullife.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-06T21:37:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=9b44ee2eef124885d407a5f59bbd7a72634a05ba'/>
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The actual Linux implementation for semctl(GETNCNT) and semctl(GETZCNT)
always (since 0.99.10) reported a thread as sleeping on all semaphores
that are listed in the semop() call.

The documented behavior (both in the Linux man page and in the Single
Unix Specification) is that a task should be reported on exactly one
semaphore: The semaphore that caused the thread to got to sleep.

This patch adds a pr_info_once() that is triggered if a thread hits the
relevant case.

The code triggers slightly too often, otherwise it would be necessary to
replicate the old code.  As there are no known users of GETNCNT or
GETZCNT, this is done to prevent unnecessary bloat.

The task that triggered is reported with name (tsk-&gt;comm) and pid.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;davidlohr@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The actual Linux implementation for semctl(GETNCNT) and semctl(GETZCNT)
always (since 0.99.10) reported a thread as sleeping on all semaphores
that are listed in the semop() call.

The documented behavior (both in the Linux man page and in the Single
Unix Specification) is that a task should be reported on exactly one
semaphore: The semaphore that caused the thread to got to sleep.

This patch adds a pr_info_once() that is triggered if a thread hits the
relevant case.

The code triggers slightly too often, otherwise it would be necessary to
replicate the old code.  As there are no known users of GETNCNT or
GETZCNT, this is done to prevent unnecessary bloat.

The task that triggered is reported with name (tsk-&gt;comm) and pid.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul &lt;manfred@colorfullife.com&gt;
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;davidlohr@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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