linux-toradex.git/kernel, branch v4.9.35 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules time: Fix CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW sub-nanosecond accounting 2017-06-29T11:00:30+00:00 John Stultz john.stultz@linaro.org 2017-06-08T23:44:21+00:00 a53bfdda06ac114c42796b4193aee10a8108bca1 commit 3d88d56c5873f6eebe23e05c3da701960146b801 upstream. Due to how the MONOTONIC_RAW accumulation logic was handled, there is the potential for a 1ns discontinuity when we do accumulations. This small discontinuity has for the most part gone un-noticed, but since ARM64 enabled CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW in their vDSO clock_gettime implementation, we've seen failures with the inconsistency-check test in kselftest. This patch addresses the issue by using the same sub-ns accumulation handling that CLOCK_MONOTONIC uses, which avoids the issue for in-kernel users. Since the ARM64 vDSO implementation has its own clock_gettime calculation logic, this patch reduces the frequency of errors, but failures are still seen. The ARM64 vDSO will need to be updated to include the sub-nanosecond xtime_nsec values in its calculation for this issue to be completely fixed. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Tested-by: Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@google.com> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@linaro.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496965462-20003-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 3d88d56c5873f6eebe23e05c3da701960146b801 upstream.

Due to how the MONOTONIC_RAW accumulation logic was handled,
there is the potential for a 1ns discontinuity when we do
accumulations. This small discontinuity has for the most part
gone un-noticed, but since ARM64 enabled CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW
in their vDSO clock_gettime implementation, we've seen failures
with the inconsistency-check test in kselftest.

This patch addresses the issue by using the same sub-ns
accumulation handling that CLOCK_MONOTONIC uses, which avoids
the issue for in-kernel users.

Since the ARM64 vDSO implementation has its own clock_gettime
calculation logic, this patch reduces the frequency of errors,
but failures are still seen. The ARM64 vDSO will need to be
updated to include the sub-nanosecond xtime_nsec values in its
calculation for this issue to be completely fixed.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@google.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@linaro.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496965462-20003-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
time: Fix clock->read(clock) race around clocksource changes 2017-06-29T11:00:30+00:00 John Stultz john.stultz@linaro.org 2017-06-08T23:44:20+00:00 02a37ccd6347897b9227c8ff7f11526321ec2048 commit ceea5e3771ed2378668455fa21861bead7504df5 upstream. In tests, which excercise switching of clocksources, a NULL pointer dereference can be observed on AMR64 platforms in the clocksource read() function: u64 clocksource_mmio_readl_down(struct clocksource *c) { return ~(u64)readl_relaxed(to_mmio_clksrc(c)->reg) & c->mask; } This is called from the core timekeeping code via: cycle_now = tkr->read(tkr->clock); tkr->read is the cached tkr->clock->read() function pointer. When the clocksource is changed then tkr->clock and tkr->read are updated sequentially. The code above results in a sequential load operation of tkr->read and tkr->clock as well. If the store to tkr->clock hits between the loads of tkr->read and tkr->clock, then the old read() function is called with the new clock pointer. As a consequence the read() function dereferences a different data structure and the resulting 'reg' pointer can point anywhere including NULL. This problem was introduced when the timekeeping code was switched over to use struct tk_read_base. Before that, it was theoretically possible as well when the compiler decided to reload clock in the code sequence: now = tk->clock->read(tk->clock); Add a helper function which avoids the issue by reading tk_read_base->clock once into a local variable clk and then issue the read function via clk->read(clk). This guarantees that the read() function always gets the proper clocksource pointer handed in. Since there is now no use for the tkr.read pointer, this patch also removes it, and to address stopping the fast timekeeper during suspend/resume, it introduces a dummy clocksource to use rather then just a dummy read function. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@linaro.org> Cc: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> Cc: Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496965462-20003-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit ceea5e3771ed2378668455fa21861bead7504df5 upstream.

In tests, which excercise switching of clocksources, a NULL
pointer dereference can be observed on AMR64 platforms in the
clocksource read() function:

u64 clocksource_mmio_readl_down(struct clocksource *c)
{
	return ~(u64)readl_relaxed(to_mmio_clksrc(c)->reg) & c->mask;
}

This is called from the core timekeeping code via:

	cycle_now = tkr->read(tkr->clock);

tkr->read is the cached tkr->clock->read() function pointer.
When the clocksource is changed then tkr->clock and tkr->read
are updated sequentially. The code above results in a sequential
load operation of tkr->read and tkr->clock as well.

If the store to tkr->clock hits between the loads of tkr->read
and tkr->clock, then the old read() function is called with the
new clock pointer. As a consequence the read() function
dereferences a different data structure and the resulting 'reg'
pointer can point anywhere including NULL.

This problem was introduced when the timekeeping code was
switched over to use struct tk_read_base. Before that, it was
theoretically possible as well when the compiler decided to
reload clock in the code sequence:

     now = tk->clock->read(tk->clock);

Add a helper function which avoids the issue by reading
tk_read_base->clock once into a local variable clk and then issue
the read function via clk->read(clk). This guarantees that the
read() function always gets the proper clocksource pointer handed
in.

Since there is now no use for the tkr.read pointer, this patch
also removes it, and to address stopping the fast timekeeper
during suspend/resume, it introduces a dummy clocksource to use
rather then just a dummy read function.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <stephen.boyd@linaro.org>
Cc: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496965462-20003-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
signal: Only reschedule timers on signals timers have sent 2017-06-29T11:00:29+00:00 Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com 2017-06-13T09:31:16+00:00 f719f20abe2a52fff61ffc3b230308279b841475 commit 57db7e4a2d92c2d3dfbca4ef8057849b2682436b upstream. Thomas Gleixner wrote: > The CRIU support added a 'feature' which allows a user space task to send > arbitrary (kernel) signals to itself. The changelog says: > > The kernel prevents sending of siginfo with positive si_code, because > these codes are reserved for kernel. I think we can allow a task to > send such a siginfo to itself. This operation should not be dangerous. > > Quite contrary to that claim, it turns out that it is outright dangerous > for signals with info->si_code == SI_TIMER. The following code sequence in > a user space task allows to crash the kernel: > > id = timer_create(CLOCK_XXX, ..... signo = SIGX); > timer_set(id, ....); > info->si_signo = SIGX; > info->si_code = SI_TIMER: > info->_sifields._timer._tid = id; > info->_sifields._timer._sys_private = 2; > rt_[tg]sigqueueinfo(..., SIGX, info); > sigemptyset(&sigset); > sigaddset(&sigset, SIGX); > rt_sigtimedwait(sigset, info); > > For timers based on CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID this > results in a kernel crash because sigwait() dequeues the signal and the > dequeue code observes: > > info->si_code == SI_TIMER && info->_sifields._timer._sys_private != 0 > > which triggers the following callchain: > > do_schedule_next_timer() -> posix_cpu_timer_schedule() -> arm_timer() > > arm_timer() executes a list_add() on the timer, which is already armed via > the timer_set() syscall. That's a double list add which corrupts the posix > cpu timer list. As a consequence the kernel crashes on the next operation > touching the posix cpu timer list. > > Posix clocks which are internally implemented based on hrtimers are not > affected by this because hrtimer_start() can handle already armed timers > nicely, but it's a reliable way to trigger the WARN_ON() in > hrtimer_forward(), which complains about calling that function on an > already armed timer. This problem has existed since the posix timer code was merged into 2.5.63. A few releases earlier in 2.5.60 ptrace gained the ability to inject not just a signal (which linux has supported since 1.0) but the full siginfo of a signal. The core problem is that the code will reschedule in response to signals getting dequeued not just for signals the timers sent but for other signals that happen to a si_code of SI_TIMER. Avoid this confusion by testing to see if the queued signal was preallocated as all timer signals are preallocated, and so far only the timer code preallocates signals. Move the check for if a timer needs to be rescheduled up into collect_signal where the preallocation check must be performed, and pass the result back to dequeue_signal where the code reschedules timers. This makes it clear why the code cares about preallocated timers. Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> History Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git Reference: 66dd34ad31e5 ("signal: allow to send any siginfo to itself") Reference: 1669ce53e2ff ("Add PTRACE_GETSIGINFO and PTRACE_SETSIGINFO") Fixes: db8b50ba75f2 ("[PATCH] POSIX clocks & timers") Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 57db7e4a2d92c2d3dfbca4ef8057849b2682436b upstream.

Thomas Gleixner  wrote:
> The CRIU support added a 'feature' which allows a user space task to send
> arbitrary (kernel) signals to itself. The changelog says:
>
>   The kernel prevents sending of siginfo with positive si_code, because
>   these codes are reserved for kernel.  I think we can allow a task to
>   send such a siginfo to itself.  This operation should not be dangerous.
>
> Quite contrary to that claim, it turns out that it is outright dangerous
> for signals with info->si_code == SI_TIMER. The following code sequence in
> a user space task allows to crash the kernel:
>
>    id = timer_create(CLOCK_XXX, ..... signo = SIGX);
>    timer_set(id, ....);
>    info->si_signo = SIGX;
>    info->si_code = SI_TIMER:
>    info->_sifields._timer._tid = id;
>    info->_sifields._timer._sys_private = 2;
>    rt_[tg]sigqueueinfo(..., SIGX, info);
>    sigemptyset(&sigset);
>    sigaddset(&sigset, SIGX);
>    rt_sigtimedwait(sigset, info);
>
> For timers based on CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID this
> results in a kernel crash because sigwait() dequeues the signal and the
> dequeue code observes:
>
>   info->si_code == SI_TIMER && info->_sifields._timer._sys_private != 0
>
> which triggers the following callchain:
>
>  do_schedule_next_timer() -> posix_cpu_timer_schedule() -> arm_timer()
>
> arm_timer() executes a list_add() on the timer, which is already armed via
> the timer_set() syscall. That's a double list add which corrupts the posix
> cpu timer list. As a consequence the kernel crashes on the next operation
> touching the posix cpu timer list.
>
> Posix clocks which are internally implemented based on hrtimers are not
> affected by this because hrtimer_start() can handle already armed timers
> nicely, but it's a reliable way to trigger the WARN_ON() in
> hrtimer_forward(), which complains about calling that function on an
> already armed timer.

This problem has existed since the posix timer code was merged into
2.5.63. A few releases earlier in 2.5.60 ptrace gained the ability to
inject not just a signal (which linux has supported since 1.0) but the
full siginfo of a signal.

The core problem is that the code will reschedule in response to
signals getting dequeued not just for signals the timers sent but
for other signals that happen to a si_code of SI_TIMER.

Avoid this confusion by testing to see if the queued signal was
preallocated as all timer signals are preallocated, and so far
only the timer code preallocates signals.

Move the check for if a timer needs to be rescheduled up into
collect_signal where the preallocation check must be performed,
and pass the result back to dequeue_signal where the code reschedules
timers.   This makes it clear why the code cares about preallocated
timers.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
History Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
Reference: 66dd34ad31e5 ("signal: allow to send any siginfo to itself")
Reference: 1669ce53e2ff ("Add PTRACE_GETSIGINFO and PTRACE_SETSIGINFO")
Fixes: db8b50ba75f2 ("[PATCH] POSIX clocks & timers")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
alarmtimer: Rate limit periodic intervals 2017-06-24T05:11:17+00:00 Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de 2017-05-30T21:15:35+00:00 04651048c79a789827239d335225a6bd785ac16a commit ff86bf0c65f14346bf2440534f9ba5ac232c39a0 upstream. The alarmtimer code has another source of potentially rearming itself too fast. Interval timers with a very samll interval have a similar CPU hog effect as the previously fixed overflow issue. The reason is that alarmtimers do not implement the normal protection against this kind of problem which the other posix timer use: timer expires -> queue signal -> deliver signal -> rearm timer This scheme brings the rearming under scheduler control and prevents permanently firing timers which hog the CPU. Bringing this scheme to the alarm timer code is a major overhaul because it lacks all the necessary mechanisms completely. So for a quick fix limit the interval to one jiffie. This is not problematic in practice as alarmtimers are usually backed by an RTC for suspend which have 1 second resolution. It could be therefor argued that the resolution of this clock should be set to 1 second in general, but that's outside the scope of this fix. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com> Cc: syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530211655.896767100@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit ff86bf0c65f14346bf2440534f9ba5ac232c39a0 upstream.

The alarmtimer code has another source of potentially rearming itself too
fast. Interval timers with a very samll interval have a similar CPU hog
effect as the previously fixed overflow issue.

The reason is that alarmtimers do not implement the normal protection
against this kind of problem which the other posix timer use:

  timer expires -> queue signal -> deliver signal -> rearm timer

This scheme brings the rearming under scheduler control and prevents
permanently firing timers which hog the CPU.

Bringing this scheme to the alarm timer code is a major overhaul because it
lacks all the necessary mechanisms completely.

So for a quick fix limit the interval to one jiffie. This is not
problematic in practice as alarmtimers are usually backed by an RTC for
suspend which have 1 second resolution. It could be therefor argued that
the resolution of this clock should be set to 1 second in general, but
that's outside the scope of this fix.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530211655.896767100@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
alarmtimer: Prevent overflow of relative timers 2017-06-24T05:11:17+00:00 Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de 2017-05-30T21:15:34+00:00 8ee7f06f4dcaad729ecd7562b10b9a816f99ae70 commit f4781e76f90df7aec400635d73ea4c35ee1d4765 upstream. Andrey reported a alartimer related RCU stall while fuzzing the kernel with syzkaller. The reason for this is an overflow in ktime_add() which brings the resulting time into negative space and causes immediate expiry of the timer. The following rearm with a small interval does not bring the timer back into positive space due to the same issue. This results in a permanent firing alarmtimer which hogs the CPU. Use ktime_add_safe() instead which detects the overflow and clamps the result to KTIME_SEC_MAX. Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com> Cc: syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530211655.802921648@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit f4781e76f90df7aec400635d73ea4c35ee1d4765 upstream.

Andrey reported a alartimer related RCU stall while fuzzing the kernel with
syzkaller.

The reason for this is an overflow in ktime_add() which brings the
resulting time into negative space and causes immediate expiry of the
timer. The following rearm with a small interval does not bring the timer
back into positive space due to the same issue.

This results in a permanent firing alarmtimer which hogs the CPU.

Use ktime_add_safe() instead which detects the overflow and clamps the
result to KTIME_SEC_MAX.

Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170530211655.802921648@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
genirq: Release resources in __setup_irq() error path 2017-06-24T05:11:17+00:00 Heiner Kallweit hkallweit1@gmail.com 2017-06-10T22:38:36+00:00 766283254b672293fa39b5cecd6a5f86efd75127 commit fa07ab72cbb0d843429e61bf179308aed6cbe0dd upstream. In case __irq_set_trigger() fails the resources requested via irq_request_resources() are not released. Add the missing release call into the error handling path. Fixes: c1bacbae8192 ("genirq: Provide irq_request/release_resources chip callbacks") Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/655538f5-cb20-a892-ff15-fbd2dd1fa4ec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit fa07ab72cbb0d843429e61bf179308aed6cbe0dd upstream.

In case __irq_set_trigger() fails the resources requested via
irq_request_resources() are not released.

Add the missing release call into the error handling path.

Fixes: c1bacbae8192 ("genirq: Provide irq_request/release_resources chip callbacks")
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/655538f5-cb20-a892-ff15-fbd2dd1fa4ec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
sched/core: Idle_task_exit() shouldn't use switch_mm_irqs_off() 2017-06-24T05:11:17+00:00 Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org 2017-06-09T18:49:15+00:00 8a48b7eace4d9a12363de9583e70e279e5fce536 commit 252d2a4117bc181b287eeddf848863788da733ae upstream. idle_task_exit() can be called with IRQs on x86 on and therefore should use switch_mm(), not switch_mm_irqs_off(). This doesn't seem to cause any problems right now, but it will confuse my upcoming TLB flush changes. Nonetheless, I think it should be backported because it's trivial. There won't be any meaningful performance impact because idle_task_exit() is only used when offlining a CPU. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: f98db6013c55 ("sched/core: Add switch_mm_irqs_off() and use it in the scheduler") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ca3d1a9fa93a0b49f5a8ff729eda3640fb6abdf9.1497034141.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 252d2a4117bc181b287eeddf848863788da733ae upstream.

idle_task_exit() can be called with IRQs on x86 on and therefore
should use switch_mm(), not switch_mm_irqs_off().

This doesn't seem to cause any problems right now, but it will
confuse my upcoming TLB flush changes.  Nonetheless, I think it
should be backported because it's trivial.  There won't be any
meaningful performance impact because idle_task_exit() is only
used when offlining a CPU.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: f98db6013c55 ("sched/core: Add switch_mm_irqs_off() and use it in the scheduler")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ca3d1a9fa93a0b49f5a8ff729eda3640fb6abdf9.1497034141.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/watchdog: prevent false hardlockup on overloaded system 2017-06-17T04:41:57+00:00 Don Zickus dzickus@redhat.com 2017-01-24T23:17:53+00:00 b13b3b706a9dc03dd1a1c31f8268cd5193c1858c [ Upstream commit b94f51183b0617e7b9b4fb4137d4cf1cab7547c2 ] On an overloaded system, it is possible that a change in the watchdog threshold can be delayed long enough to trigger a false positive. This can easily be achieved by having a cpu spinning indefinitely on a task, while another cpu updates watchdog threshold. What happens is while trying to park the watchdog threads, the hrtimers on the other cpus trigger and reprogram themselves with the new slower watchdog threshold. Meanwhile, the nmi watchdog is still programmed with the old faster threshold. Because the one cpu is blocked, it prevents the thread parking on the other cpus from completing, which is needed to shutdown the nmi watchdog and reprogram it correctly. As a result, a false positive from the nmi watchdog is reported. Fix this by setting a park_in_progress flag to block all lockups until the parking is complete. Fix provided by Ulrich Obergfell. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/park_in_progress/watchdog_park_in_progress/] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481041033-192236-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
[ Upstream commit b94f51183b0617e7b9b4fb4137d4cf1cab7547c2 ]

On an overloaded system, it is possible that a change in the watchdog
threshold can be delayed long enough to trigger a false positive.

This can easily be achieved by having a cpu spinning indefinitely on a
task, while another cpu updates watchdog threshold.

What happens is while trying to park the watchdog threads, the hrtimers
on the other cpus trigger and reprogram themselves with the new slower
watchdog threshold.  Meanwhile, the nmi watchdog is still programmed
with the old faster threshold.

Because the one cpu is blocked, it prevents the thread parking on the
other cpus from completing, which is needed to shutdown the nmi watchdog
and reprogram it correctly.  As a result, a false positive from the nmi
watchdog is reported.

Fix this by setting a park_in_progress flag to block all lockups until
the parking is complete.

Fix provided by Ulrich Obergfell.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/park_in_progress/watchdog_park_in_progress/]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481041033-192236-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/watchdog.c: move shared definitions to nmi.h 2017-06-17T04:41:57+00:00 Babu Moger babu.moger@oracle.com 2016-12-14T23:06:21+00:00 0ce66ee6aec12f38ab6992233e92b9960b55e0c6 [ Upstream commit 249e52e35580fcfe5dad53a7dcd7c1252788749c ] Patch series "Clean up watchdog handlers", v2. This is an attempt to cleanup watchdog handlers. Right now, kernel/watchdog.c implements both softlockup and hardlockup detectors. Softlockup code is generic. Hardlockup code is arch specific. Some architectures don't use hardlockup detectors. They use their own watchdog detectors. To make both these combination work, we have numerous #ifdefs in kernel/watchdog.c. We are trying here to make these handlers independent of each other. Also provide an interface for architectures to implement their own handlers. watchdog_nmi_enable and watchdog_nmi_disable will be defined as weak such that architectures can override its definitions. Thanks to Don Zickus for his suggestions. Here are our previous discussions http://www.spinics.net/lists/sparclinux/msg16543.html http://www.spinics.net/lists/sparclinux/msg16441.html This patch (of 3): Move shared macros and definitions to nmi.h so that watchdog.c, new file watchdog_hld.c or any other architecture specific handler can use those definitions. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478034826-43888-2-git-send-email-babu.moger@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com> Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com> Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Josh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
[ Upstream commit 249e52e35580fcfe5dad53a7dcd7c1252788749c ]

Patch series "Clean up watchdog handlers", v2.

This is an attempt to cleanup watchdog handlers.  Right now,
kernel/watchdog.c implements both softlockup and hardlockup detectors.
Softlockup code is generic.  Hardlockup code is arch specific.  Some
architectures don't use hardlockup detectors.  They use their own
watchdog detectors.  To make both these combination work, we have
numerous #ifdefs in kernel/watchdog.c.

We are trying here to make these handlers independent of each other.
Also provide an interface for architectures to implement their own
handlers.  watchdog_nmi_enable and watchdog_nmi_disable will be defined
as weak such that architectures can override its definitions.

Thanks to Don Zickus for his suggestions.
Here are our previous discussions
http://www.spinics.net/lists/sparclinux/msg16543.html
http://www.spinics.net/lists/sparclinux/msg16441.html

This patch (of 3):

Move shared macros and definitions to nmi.h so that watchdog.c, new file
watchdog_hld.c or any other architecture specific handler can use those
definitions.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478034826-43888-2-git-send-email-babu.moger@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Josh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/watchdog.c: move hardlockup detector to separate file 2017-06-17T04:41:57+00:00 Babu Moger babu.moger@oracle.com 2016-12-14T23:06:24+00:00 b969a240448bfd8e6b0fb180a405e5cc881bf503 [ Upstream commit 73ce0511c43686095efd2f65ef564aab952e07bc ] Separate hardlockup code from watchdog.c and move it to watchdog_hld.c. It is mostly straight forward. Remove everything inside CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTORS. This code will go to file watchdog_hld.c. Also update the makefile accordigly. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478034826-43888-3-git-send-email-babu.moger@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com> Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com> Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Josh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
[ Upstream commit 73ce0511c43686095efd2f65ef564aab952e07bc ]

Separate hardlockup code from watchdog.c and move it to watchdog_hld.c.
It is mostly straight forward.  Remove everything inside
CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTORS.  This code will go to file watchdog_hld.c.
Also update the makefile accordigly.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478034826-43888-3-git-send-email-babu.moger@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Josh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>