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<title>linux-toradex.git/kernel, branch v3.17-rc5</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branches 'locking-urgent-for-linus' and 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2014-09-13T21:22:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-13T21:22:12+00:00</published>
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Pull futex and timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A oneliner bugfix for the jinxed futex code:

   - Drop hash bucket lock in the error exit path.  I really could slap
     myself for intruducing that bug while fixing all the other horror
     in that code three month ago ...

  and the timer department is not too proud about the following fixes:

   - Deal with a long standing rounding bug in the timeval to jiffies
     conversion.  It's a real issue and this fix fell through the cracks
     for quite some time.

   - Another round of alarmtimer fixes.  Finally this code gets used
     more widely and the subtle issues hidden for quite some time are
     noticed and fixed.  Nothing really exciting, just the itty bitty
     details which bite the serious users here and there"

* 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  futex: Unlock hb-&gt;lock in futex_wait_requeue_pi() error path

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  alarmtimer: Lock k_itimer during timer callback
  alarmtimer: Do not signal SIGEV_NONE timers
  alarmtimer: Return relative times in timer_gettime
  jiffies: Fix timeval conversion to jiffies
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Pull futex and timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A oneliner bugfix for the jinxed futex code:

   - Drop hash bucket lock in the error exit path.  I really could slap
     myself for intruducing that bug while fixing all the other horror
     in that code three month ago ...

  and the timer department is not too proud about the following fixes:

   - Deal with a long standing rounding bug in the timeval to jiffies
     conversion.  It's a real issue and this fix fell through the cracks
     for quite some time.

   - Another round of alarmtimer fixes.  Finally this code gets used
     more widely and the subtle issues hidden for quite some time are
     noticed and fixed.  Nothing really exciting, just the itty bitty
     details which bite the serious users here and there"

* 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  futex: Unlock hb-&gt;lock in futex_wait_requeue_pi() error path

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  alarmtimer: Lock k_itimer during timer callback
  alarmtimer: Do not signal SIGEV_NONE timers
  alarmtimer: Return relative times in timer_gettime
  jiffies: Fix timeval conversion to jiffies
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>alarmtimer: Lock k_itimer during timer callback</title>
<updated>2014-09-12T20:59:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Larocque</name>
<email>rlarocque@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-10T01:31:05+00:00</published>
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Locks the k_itimer's it_lock member when handling the alarm timer's
expiry callback.

The regular posix timers defined in posix-timers.c have this lock held
during timout processing because their callbacks are routed through
posix_timer_fn().  The alarm timers follow a different path, so they
ought to grab the lock somewhere else.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sharvil Nanavati &lt;sharvil@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Larocque &lt;rlarocque@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
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Locks the k_itimer's it_lock member when handling the alarm timer's
expiry callback.

The regular posix timers defined in posix-timers.c have this lock held
during timout processing because their callbacks are routed through
posix_timer_fn().  The alarm timers follow a different path, so they
ought to grab the lock somewhere else.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sharvil Nanavati &lt;sharvil@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Larocque &lt;rlarocque@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>alarmtimer: Do not signal SIGEV_NONE timers</title>
<updated>2014-09-12T20:59:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Larocque</name>
<email>rlarocque@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-10T01:31:04+00:00</published>
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Avoids sending a signal to alarm timers created with sigev_notify set to
SIGEV_NONE by checking for that special case in the timeout callback.

The regular posix timers avoid sending signals to SIGEV_NONE timers by
not scheduling any callbacks for them in the first place.  Although it
would be possible to do something similar for alarm timers, it's simpler
to handle this as a special case in the timeout.

Prior to this patch, the alarm timer would ignore the sigev_notify value
and try to deliver signals to the process anyway.  Even worse, the
sanity check for the value of sigev_signo is skipped when SIGEV_NONE was
specified, so the signal number could be bogus.  If sigev_signo was an
unitialized value (as it often would be if SIGEV_NONE is used), then
it's hard to predict which signal will be sent.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sharvil Nanavati &lt;sharvil@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Larocque &lt;rlarocque@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
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Avoids sending a signal to alarm timers created with sigev_notify set to
SIGEV_NONE by checking for that special case in the timeout callback.

The regular posix timers avoid sending signals to SIGEV_NONE timers by
not scheduling any callbacks for them in the first place.  Although it
would be possible to do something similar for alarm timers, it's simpler
to handle this as a special case in the timeout.

Prior to this patch, the alarm timer would ignore the sigev_notify value
and try to deliver signals to the process anyway.  Even worse, the
sanity check for the value of sigev_signo is skipped when SIGEV_NONE was
specified, so the signal number could be bogus.  If sigev_signo was an
unitialized value (as it often would be if SIGEV_NONE is used), then
it's hard to predict which signal will be sent.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sharvil Nanavati &lt;sharvil@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Larocque &lt;rlarocque@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>alarmtimer: Return relative times in timer_gettime</title>
<updated>2014-09-12T20:59:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Larocque</name>
<email>rlarocque@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-10T01:31:03+00:00</published>
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Returns the time remaining for an alarm timer, rather than the time at
which it is scheduled to expire.  If the timer has already expired or it
is not currently scheduled, the it_value's members are set to zero.

This new behavior matches that of the other posix-timers and the POSIX
specifications.

This is a change in user-visible behavior, and may break existing
applications.  Hopefully, few users rely on the old incorrect behavior.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sharvil Nanavati &lt;sharvil@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Larocque &lt;rlarocque@google.com&gt;
[jstultz: minor style tweak]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
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Returns the time remaining for an alarm timer, rather than the time at
which it is scheduled to expire.  If the timer has already expired or it
is not currently scheduled, the it_value's members are set to zero.

This new behavior matches that of the other posix-timers and the POSIX
specifications.

This is a change in user-visible behavior, and may break existing
applications.  Hopefully, few users rely on the old incorrect behavior.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sharvil Nanavati &lt;sharvil@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Larocque &lt;rlarocque@google.com&gt;
[jstultz: minor style tweak]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>jiffies: Fix timeval conversion to jiffies</title>
<updated>2014-09-12T20:59:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Hunter</name>
<email>ahh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-04T21:17:16+00:00</published>
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timeval_to_jiffies tried to round a timeval up to an integral number
of jiffies, but the logic for doing so was incorrect: intervals
corresponding to exactly N jiffies would become N+1. This manifested
itself particularly repeatedly stopping/starting an itimer:

setitimer(ITIMER_PROF, &amp;val, NULL);
setitimer(ITIMER_PROF, NULL, &amp;val);

would add a full tick to val, _even if it was exactly representable in
terms of jiffies_ (say, the result of a previous rounding.)  Doing
this repeatedly would cause unbounded growth in val.  So fix the math.

Here's what was wrong with the conversion: we essentially computed
(eliding seconds)

jiffies = usec  * (NSEC_PER_USEC/TICK_NSEC)

by using scaling arithmetic, which took the best approximation of
NSEC_PER_USEC/TICK_NSEC with denominator of 2^USEC_JIFFIE_SC =
x/(2^USEC_JIFFIE_SC), and computed:

jiffies = (usec * x) &gt;&gt; USEC_JIFFIE_SC

and rounded this calculation up in the intermediate form (since we
can't necessarily exactly represent TICK_NSEC in usec.) But the
scaling arithmetic is a (very slight) *over*approximation of the true
value; that is, instead of dividing by (1 usec/ 1 jiffie), we
effectively divided by (1 usec/1 jiffie)-epsilon (rounding
down). This would normally be fine, but we want to round timeouts up,
and we did so by adding 2^USEC_JIFFIE_SC - 1 before the shift; this
would be fine if our division was exact, but dividing this by the
slightly smaller factor was equivalent to adding just _over_ 1 to the
final result (instead of just _under_ 1, as desired.)

In particular, with HZ=1000, we consistently computed that 10000 usec
was 11 jiffies; the same was true for any exact multiple of
TICK_NSEC.

We could possibly still round in the intermediate form, adding
something less than 2^USEC_JIFFIE_SC - 1, but easier still is to
convert usec-&gt;nsec, round in nanoseconds, and then convert using
time*spec*_to_jiffies.  This adds one constant multiplication, and is
not observably slower in microbenchmarks on recent x86 hardware.

Tested: the following program:

int main() {
  struct itimerval zero = {{0, 0}, {0, 0}};
  /* Initially set to 10 ms. */
  struct itimerval initial = zero;
  initial.it_interval.tv_usec = 10000;
  setitimer(ITIMER_PROF, &amp;initial, NULL);
  /* Save and restore several times. */
  for (size_t i = 0; i &lt; 10; ++i) {
    struct itimerval prev;
    setitimer(ITIMER_PROF, &amp;zero, &amp;prev);
    /* on old kernels, this goes up by TICK_USEC every iteration */
    printf("previous value: %ld %ld %ld %ld\n",
           prev.it_interval.tv_sec, prev.it_interval.tv_usec,
           prev.it_value.tv_sec, prev.it_value.tv_usec);
    setitimer(ITIMER_PROF, &amp;prev, NULL);
  }
    return 0;
}

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Aaron Jacobs &lt;jacobsa@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Hunter &lt;ahh@google.com&gt;
[jstultz: Tweaked to apply to 3.17-rc]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
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timeval_to_jiffies tried to round a timeval up to an integral number
of jiffies, but the logic for doing so was incorrect: intervals
corresponding to exactly N jiffies would become N+1. This manifested
itself particularly repeatedly stopping/starting an itimer:

setitimer(ITIMER_PROF, &amp;val, NULL);
setitimer(ITIMER_PROF, NULL, &amp;val);

would add a full tick to val, _even if it was exactly representable in
terms of jiffies_ (say, the result of a previous rounding.)  Doing
this repeatedly would cause unbounded growth in val.  So fix the math.

Here's what was wrong with the conversion: we essentially computed
(eliding seconds)

jiffies = usec  * (NSEC_PER_USEC/TICK_NSEC)

by using scaling arithmetic, which took the best approximation of
NSEC_PER_USEC/TICK_NSEC with denominator of 2^USEC_JIFFIE_SC =
x/(2^USEC_JIFFIE_SC), and computed:

jiffies = (usec * x) &gt;&gt; USEC_JIFFIE_SC

and rounded this calculation up in the intermediate form (since we
can't necessarily exactly represent TICK_NSEC in usec.) But the
scaling arithmetic is a (very slight) *over*approximation of the true
value; that is, instead of dividing by (1 usec/ 1 jiffie), we
effectively divided by (1 usec/1 jiffie)-epsilon (rounding
down). This would normally be fine, but we want to round timeouts up,
and we did so by adding 2^USEC_JIFFIE_SC - 1 before the shift; this
would be fine if our division was exact, but dividing this by the
slightly smaller factor was equivalent to adding just _over_ 1 to the
final result (instead of just _under_ 1, as desired.)

In particular, with HZ=1000, we consistently computed that 10000 usec
was 11 jiffies; the same was true for any exact multiple of
TICK_NSEC.

We could possibly still round in the intermediate form, adding
something less than 2^USEC_JIFFIE_SC - 1, but easier still is to
convert usec-&gt;nsec, round in nanoseconds, and then convert using
time*spec*_to_jiffies.  This adds one constant multiplication, and is
not observably slower in microbenchmarks on recent x86 hardware.

Tested: the following program:

int main() {
  struct itimerval zero = {{0, 0}, {0, 0}};
  /* Initially set to 10 ms. */
  struct itimerval initial = zero;
  initial.it_interval.tv_usec = 10000;
  setitimer(ITIMER_PROF, &amp;initial, NULL);
  /* Save and restore several times. */
  for (size_t i = 0; i &lt; 10; ++i) {
    struct itimerval prev;
    setitimer(ITIMER_PROF, &amp;zero, &amp;prev);
    /* on old kernels, this goes up by TICK_USEC every iteration */
    printf("previous value: %ld %ld %ld %ld\n",
           prev.it_interval.tv_sec, prev.it_interval.tv_usec,
           prev.it_value.tv_sec, prev.it_value.tv_usec);
    setitimer(ITIMER_PROF, &amp;prev, NULL);
  }
    return 0;
}

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Aaron Jacobs &lt;jacobsa@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Hunter &lt;ahh@google.com&gt;
[jstultz: Tweaked to apply to 3.17-rc]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>futex: Unlock hb-&gt;lock in futex_wait_requeue_pi() error path</title>
<updated>2014-09-12T20:04:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-11T21:44:35+00:00</published>
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futex_wait_requeue_pi() calls futex_wait_setup(). If
futex_wait_setup() succeeds it returns with hb-&gt;lock held and
preemption disabled. Now the sanity check after this does:

        if (match_futex(&amp;q.key, &amp;key2)) {
	   	ret = -EINVAL;
		goto out_put_keys;
	}

which releases the keys but does not release hb-&gt;lock.

So we happily return to user space with hb-&gt;lock held and therefor
preemption disabled.

Unlock hb-&gt;lock before taking the exit route.

Reported-by: Dave "Trinity" Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darren Hart &lt;dvhart@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1409112318500.4178@nanos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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futex_wait_requeue_pi() calls futex_wait_setup(). If
futex_wait_setup() succeeds it returns with hb-&gt;lock held and
preemption disabled. Now the sanity check after this does:

        if (match_futex(&amp;q.key, &amp;key2)) {
	   	ret = -EINVAL;
		goto out_put_keys;
	}

which releases the keys but does not release hb-&gt;lock.

So we happily return to user space with hb-&gt;lock held and therefor
preemption disabled.

Unlock hb-&gt;lock before taking the exit route.

Reported-by: Dave "Trinity" Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darren Hart &lt;dvhart@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1409112318500.4178@nanos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kcmp: fix standard comparison bug</title>
<updated>2014-09-10T22:42:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rasmus Villemoes</name>
<email>linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-09T21:51:01+00:00</published>
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The C operator &lt;= defines a perfectly fine total ordering on the set of
values representable in a long.  However, unlike its namesake in the
integers, it is not translation invariant, meaning that we do not have
"b &lt;= c" iff "a+b &lt;= a+c" for all a,b,c.

This means that it is always wrong to try to boil down the relationship
between two longs to a question about the sign of their difference,
because the resulting relation [a LEQ b iff a-b &lt;= 0] is neither
anti-symmetric or transitive.  The former is due to -LONG_MIN==LONG_MIN
(take any two a,b with a-b = LONG_MIN; then a LEQ b and b LEQ a, but a !=
b).  The latter can either be seen observing that x LEQ x+1 for all x,
implying x LEQ x+1 LEQ x+2 ...  LEQ x-1 LEQ x; or more directly with the
simple example a=LONG_MIN, b=0, c=1, for which a-b &lt; 0, b-c &lt; 0, but a-c &gt;
0.

Note that it makes absolutely no difference that a transmogrying bijection
has been applied before the comparison is done.  In fact, had the
obfuscation not been done, one could probably not observe the bug
(assuming all values being compared always lie in one half of the address
space, the mathematical value of a-b is always representable in a long).
As it stands, one can easily obtain three file descriptors exhibiting the
non-transitivity of kcmp().

Side note 1: I can't see that ensuring the MSB of the multiplier is
set serves any purpose other than obfuscating the obfuscating code.

Side note 2:
#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
#include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
#include &lt;string.h&gt;
#include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
#include &lt;assert.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/syscall.h&gt;

enum kcmp_type {
        KCMP_FILE,
        KCMP_VM,
        KCMP_FILES,
        KCMP_FS,
        KCMP_SIGHAND,
        KCMP_IO,
        KCMP_SYSVSEM,
        KCMP_TYPES,
};
pid_t pid;

int kcmp(pid_t pid1, pid_t pid2, int type,
	 unsigned long idx1, unsigned long idx2)
{
	return syscall(SYS_kcmp, pid1, pid2, type, idx1, idx2);
}
int cmp_fd(int fd1, int fd2)
{
	int c = kcmp(pid, pid, KCMP_FILE, fd1, fd2);
	if (c &lt; 0) {
		perror("kcmp");
		exit(1);
	}
	assert(0 &lt;= c &amp;&amp; c &lt; 3);
	return c;
}
int cmp_fdp(const void *a, const void *b)
{
	static const int normalize[] = {0, -1, 1};
	return normalize[cmp_fd(*(int*)a, *(int*)b)];
}
#define MAX 100 /* This is plenty; I've seen it trigger for MAX==3 */
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	int r, s, count = 0;
	int REL[3] = {0,0,0};
	int fd[MAX];
	pid = getpid();
	while (count &lt; MAX) {
		r = open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY);
		if (r &lt; 0)
			break;
		fd[count++] = r;
	}
	printf("opened %d file descriptors\n", count);
	for (r = 0; r &lt; count; ++r) {
		for (s = r+1; s &lt; count; ++s) {
			REL[cmp_fd(fd[r], fd[s])]++;
		}
	}
	printf("== %d\t&lt; %d\t&gt; %d\n", REL[0], REL[1], REL[2]);
	qsort(fd, count, sizeof(fd[0]), cmp_fdp);
	memset(REL, 0, sizeof(REL));

	for (r = 0; r &lt; count; ++r) {
		for (s = r+1; s &lt; count; ++s) {
			REL[cmp_fd(fd[r], fd[s])]++;
		}
	}
	printf("== %d\t&lt; %d\t&gt; %d\n", REL[0], REL[1], REL[2]);
	return (REL[0] + REL[2] != 0);
}

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
"Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.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 C operator &lt;= defines a perfectly fine total ordering on the set of
values representable in a long.  However, unlike its namesake in the
integers, it is not translation invariant, meaning that we do not have
"b &lt;= c" iff "a+b &lt;= a+c" for all a,b,c.

This means that it is always wrong to try to boil down the relationship
between two longs to a question about the sign of their difference,
because the resulting relation [a LEQ b iff a-b &lt;= 0] is neither
anti-symmetric or transitive.  The former is due to -LONG_MIN==LONG_MIN
(take any two a,b with a-b = LONG_MIN; then a LEQ b and b LEQ a, but a !=
b).  The latter can either be seen observing that x LEQ x+1 for all x,
implying x LEQ x+1 LEQ x+2 ...  LEQ x-1 LEQ x; or more directly with the
simple example a=LONG_MIN, b=0, c=1, for which a-b &lt; 0, b-c &lt; 0, but a-c &gt;
0.

Note that it makes absolutely no difference that a transmogrying bijection
has been applied before the comparison is done.  In fact, had the
obfuscation not been done, one could probably not observe the bug
(assuming all values being compared always lie in one half of the address
space, the mathematical value of a-b is always representable in a long).
As it stands, one can easily obtain three file descriptors exhibiting the
non-transitivity of kcmp().

Side note 1: I can't see that ensuring the MSB of the multiplier is
set serves any purpose other than obfuscating the obfuscating code.

Side note 2:
#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
#include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
#include &lt;string.h&gt;
#include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
#include &lt;assert.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/syscall.h&gt;

enum kcmp_type {
        KCMP_FILE,
        KCMP_VM,
        KCMP_FILES,
        KCMP_FS,
        KCMP_SIGHAND,
        KCMP_IO,
        KCMP_SYSVSEM,
        KCMP_TYPES,
};
pid_t pid;

int kcmp(pid_t pid1, pid_t pid2, int type,
	 unsigned long idx1, unsigned long idx2)
{
	return syscall(SYS_kcmp, pid1, pid2, type, idx1, idx2);
}
int cmp_fd(int fd1, int fd2)
{
	int c = kcmp(pid, pid, KCMP_FILE, fd1, fd2);
	if (c &lt; 0) {
		perror("kcmp");
		exit(1);
	}
	assert(0 &lt;= c &amp;&amp; c &lt; 3);
	return c;
}
int cmp_fdp(const void *a, const void *b)
{
	static const int normalize[] = {0, -1, 1};
	return normalize[cmp_fd(*(int*)a, *(int*)b)];
}
#define MAX 100 /* This is plenty; I've seen it trigger for MAX==3 */
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	int r, s, count = 0;
	int REL[3] = {0,0,0};
	int fd[MAX];
	pid = getpid();
	while (count &lt; MAX) {
		r = open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY);
		if (r &lt; 0)
			break;
		fd[count++] = r;
	}
	printf("opened %d file descriptors\n", count);
	for (r = 0; r &lt; count; ++r) {
		for (s = r+1; s &lt; count; ++s) {
			REL[cmp_fd(fd[r], fd[s])]++;
		}
	}
	printf("== %d\t&lt; %d\t&gt; %d\n", REL[0], REL[1], REL[2]);
	qsort(fd, count, sizeof(fd[0]), cmp_fdp);
	memset(REL, 0, sizeof(REL));

	for (r = 0; r &lt; count; ++r) {
		for (s = r+1; s &lt; count; ++s) {
			REL[cmp_fd(fd[r], fd[s])]++;
		}
	}
	printf("== %d\t&lt; %d\t&gt; %d\n", REL[0], REL[1], REL[2]);
	return (REL[0] + REL[2] != 0);
}

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
"Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.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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<entry>
<title>kernel/printk/printk.c: fix faulty logic in the case of recursive printk</title>
<updated>2014-09-10T22:42:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Patrick Palka</name>
<email>patrick@parcs.ath.cx</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-09T21:50:48+00:00</published>
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We shouldn't set text_len in the code path that detects printk recursion
because text_len corresponds to the length of the string inside textbuf.
A few lines down from the line

    text_len = strlen(recursion_msg);

is the line

    text_len += vscnprintf(text + text_len, ...);

So if printk detects recursion, it sets text_len to 29 (the length of
recursion_msg) and logs an error.  Then the message supplied by the
caller of printk is stored inside textbuf but offset by 29 bytes.  This
means that the output of the recursive call to printk will contain 29
bytes of garbage in front of it.

This defect is caused by commit 458df9fd4815 ("printk: remove separate
printk_sched buffers and use printk buf instead") which turned the line

    text_len = vscnprintf(text, ...);

into

    text_len += vscnprintf(text + text_len, ...);

To fix this, this patch avoids setting text_len when logging the printk
recursion error.  This patch also marks unlikely() the branch leading up
to this code.

Fixes: 458df9fd4815b478 ("printk: remove separate printk_sched buffers and use printk buf instead")
Signed-off-by: Patrick Palka &lt;patrick@parcs.ath.cx&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&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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<pre>
We shouldn't set text_len in the code path that detects printk recursion
because text_len corresponds to the length of the string inside textbuf.
A few lines down from the line

    text_len = strlen(recursion_msg);

is the line

    text_len += vscnprintf(text + text_len, ...);

So if printk detects recursion, it sets text_len to 29 (the length of
recursion_msg) and logs an error.  Then the message supplied by the
caller of printk is stored inside textbuf but offset by 29 bytes.  This
means that the output of the recursive call to printk will contain 29
bytes of garbage in front of it.

This defect is caused by commit 458df9fd4815 ("printk: remove separate
printk_sched buffers and use printk buf instead") which turned the line

    text_len = vscnprintf(text, ...);

into

    text_len += vscnprintf(text + text_len, ...);

To fix this, this patch avoids setting text_len when logging the printk
recursion error.  This patch also marks unlikely() the branch leading up
to this code.

Fixes: 458df9fd4815b478 ("printk: remove separate printk_sched buffers and use printk buf instead")
Signed-off-by: Patrick Palka &lt;patrick@parcs.ath.cx&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&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>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.17-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup</title>
<updated>2014-09-08T03:20:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-08T03:20:16+00:00</published>
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Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:
 "This pull request includes Alban's patch to disallow '\n' in cgroup
  names.

  Two other patches from Li to fix a possible oops when cgroup
  destruction races against other file operations and one from Vivek to
  fix a unified hierarchy devel behavior"

* 'for-3.17-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroup: check cgroup liveliness before unbreaking kernfs
  cgroup: delay the clearing of cgrp-&gt;kn-&gt;priv
  cgroup: Display legacy cgroup files on default hierarchy
  cgroup: reject cgroup names with '\n'
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<pre>
Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:
 "This pull request includes Alban's patch to disallow '\n' in cgroup
  names.

  Two other patches from Li to fix a possible oops when cgroup
  destruction races against other file operations and one from Vivek to
  fix a unified hierarchy devel behavior"

* 'for-3.17-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroup: check cgroup liveliness before unbreaking kernfs
  cgroup: delay the clearing of cgrp-&gt;kn-&gt;priv
  cgroup: Display legacy cgroup files on default hierarchy
  cgroup: reject cgroup names with '\n'
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.17-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2014-09-07T18:57:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-07T18:57:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=6fef37c9a7f15eb18d726e845f1bdff5809bd3f8'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull ACPI and power management fixes from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These are regression fixes (ACPI sysfs, ACPI video, suspend test),
  ACPI cpuidle deadlock fix, missing runtime validation of ACPI _DSD
  output, a fix and a new CPU ID for the RAPL driver, new blacklist
  entry for the ACPI EC driver and a couple of trivial cleanups
  (intel_pstate and generic PM domains).

  Specifics:

   - Fix for recently broken test_suspend= command line argument (Rafael
     Wysocki).

   - Fixes for regressions related to the ACPI video driver caused by
     switching the default to native backlight handling in 3.16 from
     Hans de Goede.

   - Fix for a sysfs attribute of ACPI device objects that returns stale
     values sometimes due to the fact that they are cached instead of
     executing the appropriate method (_SUN) every time (broken in
     3.14).  From Yasuaki Ishimatsu.

   - Fix for a deadlock between cpuidle_lock and cpu_hotplug.lock in the
     ACPI processor driver from Jiri Kosina.

   - Runtime output validation for the ACPI _DSD device configuration
     object missing from the support for it that has been introduced
     recently.  From Mika Westerberg.

   - Fix for an unuseful and misleading RAPL (Running Average Power
     Limit) domain detection message in the RAPL driver from Jacob Pan.

   - New Intel Haswell CPU ID for the RAPL driver from Jason Baron.

   - New Clevo W350etq blacklist entry for the ACPI EC driver from Lan
     Tianyu.

   - Cleanup for the intel_pstate driver and the core generic PM domains
     code from Gabriele Mazzotta and Geert Uytterhoeven"

* tag 'pm+acpi-3.17-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  ACPI / cpuidle: fix deadlock between cpuidle_lock and cpu_hotplug.lock
  ACPI / scan: not cache _SUN value in struct acpi_device_pnp
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Remove unneeded variable
  powercap / RAPL: change domain detection message
  powercap / RAPL: add support for CPU model 0x3f
  PM / domains: Make generic_pm_domain.name const
  PM / sleep: Fix test_suspend= command line option
  ACPI / EC: Add msi quirk for Clevo W350etq
  ACPI / video: Disable native_backlight on HP ENVY 15 Notebook PC
  ACPI / video: Add a disable_native_backlight quirk
  ACPI / video: Fix use_native_backlight selection logic
  ACPICA: ACPI 5.1: Add support for runtime validation of _DSD package.
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Pull ACPI and power management fixes from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These are regression fixes (ACPI sysfs, ACPI video, suspend test),
  ACPI cpuidle deadlock fix, missing runtime validation of ACPI _DSD
  output, a fix and a new CPU ID for the RAPL driver, new blacklist
  entry for the ACPI EC driver and a couple of trivial cleanups
  (intel_pstate and generic PM domains).

  Specifics:

   - Fix for recently broken test_suspend= command line argument (Rafael
     Wysocki).

   - Fixes for regressions related to the ACPI video driver caused by
     switching the default to native backlight handling in 3.16 from
     Hans de Goede.

   - Fix for a sysfs attribute of ACPI device objects that returns stale
     values sometimes due to the fact that they are cached instead of
     executing the appropriate method (_SUN) every time (broken in
     3.14).  From Yasuaki Ishimatsu.

   - Fix for a deadlock between cpuidle_lock and cpu_hotplug.lock in the
     ACPI processor driver from Jiri Kosina.

   - Runtime output validation for the ACPI _DSD device configuration
     object missing from the support for it that has been introduced
     recently.  From Mika Westerberg.

   - Fix for an unuseful and misleading RAPL (Running Average Power
     Limit) domain detection message in the RAPL driver from Jacob Pan.

   - New Intel Haswell CPU ID for the RAPL driver from Jason Baron.

   - New Clevo W350etq blacklist entry for the ACPI EC driver from Lan
     Tianyu.

   - Cleanup for the intel_pstate driver and the core generic PM domains
     code from Gabriele Mazzotta and Geert Uytterhoeven"

* tag 'pm+acpi-3.17-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  ACPI / cpuidle: fix deadlock between cpuidle_lock and cpu_hotplug.lock
  ACPI / scan: not cache _SUN value in struct acpi_device_pnp
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Remove unneeded variable
  powercap / RAPL: change domain detection message
  powercap / RAPL: add support for CPU model 0x3f
  PM / domains: Make generic_pm_domain.name const
  PM / sleep: Fix test_suspend= command line option
  ACPI / EC: Add msi quirk for Clevo W350etq
  ACPI / video: Disable native_backlight on HP ENVY 15 Notebook PC
  ACPI / video: Add a disable_native_backlight quirk
  ACPI / video: Fix use_native_backlight selection logic
  ACPICA: ACPI 5.1: Add support for runtime validation of _DSD package.
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