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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux</title>
<updated>2015-11-09T23:53:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2015-11-09T23:53:39+00:00</published>
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Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
 "Nothing exciting, minor tweaks and cleanups"

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  scripts: [modpost] add new sections to white list
  modpost: Add flag -E for making section mismatches fatal
  params: don't ignore the rest of cmdline if parse_one() fails
  modpost: abort if a module symbol is too long
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Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
 "Nothing exciting, minor tweaks and cleanups"

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  scripts: [modpost] add new sections to white list
  modpost: Add flag -E for making section mismatches fatal
  params: don't ignore the rest of cmdline if parse_one() fails
  modpost: abort if a module symbol is too long
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<title>module: export param_free_charp()</title>
<updated>2015-11-07T01:50:42+00:00</updated>
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<name>Dan Streetman</name>
<email>ddstreet@ieee.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-07T00:29:12+00:00</published>
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Change the param_free_charp() function from static to exported.

It is used by zswap in the next patch ("zswap: use charp for zswap param
strings").

Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman &lt;ddstreet@ieee.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Seth Jennings &lt;sjennings@variantweb.net&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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Change the param_free_charp() function from static to exported.

It is used by zswap in the next patch ("zswap: use charp for zswap param
strings").

Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman &lt;ddstreet@ieee.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Seth Jennings &lt;sjennings@variantweb.net&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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<title>params: don't ignore the rest of cmdline if parse_one() fails</title>
<updated>2015-08-26T01:06:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-26T00:12:34+00:00</published>
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parse_args() just aborts after it hits an error, so other args
at the same initcall level are simply ignored. This can lead to
other hard-to-understand problems, for example my testing machine
panics during the boot if I pass "locktorture.verbose=true".

Change parse_args() to save the err code for return and continue.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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parse_args() just aborts after it hits an error, so other args
at the same initcall level are simply ignored. This can lead to
other hard-to-understand problems, for example my testing machine
panics during the boot if I pass "locktorture.verbose=true".

Change parse_args() to save the err code for return and continue.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux</title>
<updated>2015-07-01T17:49:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-01T17:49:25+00:00</published>
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Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
 "Main excitement here is Peter Zijlstra's lockless rbtree optimization
  to speed module address lookup.  He found some abusers of the module
  lock doing that too.

  A little bit of parameter work here too; including Dan Streetman's
  breaking up the big param mutex so writing a parameter can load
  another module (yeah, really).  Unfortunately that broke the usual
  suspects, !CONFIG_MODULES and !CONFIG_SYSFS, so those fixes were
  appended too"

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (26 commits)
  modules: only use mod-&gt;param_lock if CONFIG_MODULES
  param: fix module param locks when !CONFIG_SYSFS.
  rcu: merge fix for Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE()
  module: add per-module param_lock
  module: make perm const
  params: suppress unused variable error, warn once just in case code changes.
  modules: clarify CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS help, suggest 'N'.
  kernel/module.c: avoid ifdefs for sig_enforce declaration
  kernel/workqueue.c: remove ifdefs over wq_power_efficient
  kernel/params.c: export param_ops_bool_enable_only
  kernel/params.c: generalize bool_enable_only
  kernel/module.c: use generic module param operaters for sig_enforce
  kernel/params: constify struct kernel_param_ops uses
  sysfs: tightened sysfs permission checks
  module: Rework module_addr_{min,max}
  module: Use __module_address() for module_address_lookup()
  module: Make the mod_tree stuff conditional on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
  module: Optimize __module_address() using a latched RB-tree
  rbtree: Implement generic latch_tree
  seqlock: Introduce raw_read_seqcount_latch()
  ...
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Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
 "Main excitement here is Peter Zijlstra's lockless rbtree optimization
  to speed module address lookup.  He found some abusers of the module
  lock doing that too.

  A little bit of parameter work here too; including Dan Streetman's
  breaking up the big param mutex so writing a parameter can load
  another module (yeah, really).  Unfortunately that broke the usual
  suspects, !CONFIG_MODULES and !CONFIG_SYSFS, so those fixes were
  appended too"

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (26 commits)
  modules: only use mod-&gt;param_lock if CONFIG_MODULES
  param: fix module param locks when !CONFIG_SYSFS.
  rcu: merge fix for Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE()
  module: add per-module param_lock
  module: make perm const
  params: suppress unused variable error, warn once just in case code changes.
  modules: clarify CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS help, suggest 'N'.
  kernel/module.c: avoid ifdefs for sig_enforce declaration
  kernel/workqueue.c: remove ifdefs over wq_power_efficient
  kernel/params.c: export param_ops_bool_enable_only
  kernel/params.c: generalize bool_enable_only
  kernel/module.c: use generic module param operaters for sig_enforce
  kernel/params: constify struct kernel_param_ops uses
  sysfs: tightened sysfs permission checks
  module: Rework module_addr_{min,max}
  module: Use __module_address() for module_address_lookup()
  module: Make the mod_tree stuff conditional on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
  module: Optimize __module_address() using a latched RB-tree
  rbtree: Implement generic latch_tree
  seqlock: Introduce raw_read_seqcount_latch()
  ...
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<title>modules: only use mod-&gt;param_lock if CONFIG_MODULES</title>
<updated>2015-06-28T05:20:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Rothwell</name>
<email>sfr@canb.auug.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-26T03:19:19+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>param: fix module param locks when !CONFIG_SYSFS.</title>
<updated>2015-06-28T05:16:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-25T21:14:38+00:00</published>
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As Dan Streetman points out, the entire point of locking for is to
stop sysfs accesses, so they're elided entirely in the !SYSFS case.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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As Dan Streetman points out, the entire point of locking for is to
stop sysfs accesses, so they're elided entirely in the !SYSFS case.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>module: add per-module param_lock</title>
<updated>2015-06-23T05:57:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Streetman</name>
<email>ddstreet@ieee.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-16T20:48:52+00:00</published>
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Add a "param_lock" mutex to each module, and update params.c to use
the correct built-in or module mutex while locking kernel params.
Remove the kparam_block_sysfs_r/w() macros, replace them with direct
calls to kernel_param_[un]lock(module).

The kernel param code currently uses a single mutex to protect
modification of any and all kernel params.  While this generally works,
there is one specific problem with it; a module callback function
cannot safely load another module, i.e. with request_module() or even
with indirect calls such as crypto_has_alg().  If the module to be
loaded has any of its params configured (e.g. with a /etc/modprobe.d/*
config file), then the attempt will result in a deadlock between the
first module param callback waiting for modprobe, and modprobe trying to
lock the single kernel param mutex to set the new module's param.

This fixes that by using per-module mutexes, so that each individual module
is protected against concurrent changes in its own kernel params, but is
not blocked by changes to other module params.  All built-in modules
continue to use the built-in mutex, since they will always be loaded at
runtime and references (e.g. request_module(), crypto_has_alg()) to them
will never cause load-time param changing.

This also simplifies the interface used by modules to block sysfs access
to their params; while there are currently functions to block and unblock
sysfs param access which are split up by read and write and expect a single
kernel param to be passed, their actual operation is identical and applies
to all params, not just the one passed to them; they simply lock and unlock
the global param mutex.  They are replaced with direct calls to
kernel_param_[un]lock(THIS_MODULE), which locks THIS_MODULE's param_lock, or
if the module is built-in, it locks the built-in mutex.

Suggested-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman &lt;ddstreet@ieee.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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Add a "param_lock" mutex to each module, and update params.c to use
the correct built-in or module mutex while locking kernel params.
Remove the kparam_block_sysfs_r/w() macros, replace them with direct
calls to kernel_param_[un]lock(module).

The kernel param code currently uses a single mutex to protect
modification of any and all kernel params.  While this generally works,
there is one specific problem with it; a module callback function
cannot safely load another module, i.e. with request_module() or even
with indirect calls such as crypto_has_alg().  If the module to be
loaded has any of its params configured (e.g. with a /etc/modprobe.d/*
config file), then the attempt will result in a deadlock between the
first module param callback waiting for modprobe, and modprobe trying to
lock the single kernel param mutex to set the new module's param.

This fixes that by using per-module mutexes, so that each individual module
is protected against concurrent changes in its own kernel params, but is
not blocked by changes to other module params.  All built-in modules
continue to use the built-in mutex, since they will always be loaded at
runtime and references (e.g. request_module(), crypto_has_alg()) to them
will never cause load-time param changing.

This also simplifies the interface used by modules to block sysfs access
to their params; while there are currently functions to block and unblock
sysfs param access which are split up by read and write and expect a single
kernel param to be passed, their actual operation is identical and applies
to all params, not just the one passed to them; they simply lock and unlock
the global param mutex.  They are replaced with direct calls to
kernel_param_[un]lock(THIS_MODULE), which locks THIS_MODULE's param_lock, or
if the module is built-in, it locks the built-in mutex.

Suggested-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman &lt;ddstreet@ieee.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>module: make perm const</title>
<updated>2015-06-23T05:57:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Streetman</name>
<email>ddstreet@ieee.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-16T20:47:52+00:00</published>
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Change the struct kernel_param.perm field to a const, as it should never
be changed.

Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman &lt;ddstreet@ieee.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt; (cut from larger patch)
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Change the struct kernel_param.perm field to a const, as it should never
be changed.

Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman &lt;ddstreet@ieee.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt; (cut from larger patch)
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<title>params: suppress unused variable error, warn once just in case code changes.</title>
<updated>2015-06-23T05:57:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-16T20:46:52+00:00</published>
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It shouldn't fail due to OOM (it's boot time), and already warns if we
get two identical names.  But you never know what the future holds, and
WARN_ON_ONCE() keeps gcc happy with minimal code.

Reported-by: Louis Langholtz &lt;lou_langholtz@me.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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It shouldn't fail due to OOM (it's boot time), and already warns if we
get two identical names.  But you never know what the future holds, and
WARN_ON_ONCE() keeps gcc happy with minimal code.

Reported-by: Louis Langholtz &lt;lou_langholtz@me.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>kernel/params.c: export param_ops_bool_enable_only</title>
<updated>2015-05-28T02:02:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis R. Rodriguez</name>
<email>mcgrof@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-27T01:39:39+00:00</published>
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This will grant access to this helper to code built as modules.

Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Seth Forshee &lt;seth.forshee@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;mcgrof@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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This will grant access to this helper to code built as modules.

Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Seth Forshee &lt;seth.forshee@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;mcgrof@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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