The function calls with octal permissions commonly span multiple lines.
The current test is line oriented and fails to find some matches.
Make the test use the $stat variable instead of the $line variable to span
multiple lines.
Also add a few functions to the known functions with permissions list.
Move the SYMBOLIC_PERMS test to a separate section to find all the S_<FOO>
permissions in any form not just those that have specific function names.
This can now find and fix permissions uses like:
.mode = S_<FOO> | S_<BAR>;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b51bab60530912aae4ac420119d465c5b206f19f.1475030406.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tested-by: Ramiro Oliveira <roliveir@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It is possible for a multiple line macro definition to have a false positive
report when an argument is used on a line after a continuation \.
This line might have a leading '+' as the initial character that could be
confused by checkpatch as an operator.
Avoid the leading character on multiple line macro definitions.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/60229d13399f9b6509db5a32e30d4c16951a60cd.1473836073.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a test for macro arguents that have a non-comma leading or trailing
operator where the argument isn't parenthesized to avoid possible precedence
issues.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/47715508972f8d786f435e583ff881dbeee3a114.1473745855.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If a macro argument is used multiple times in the macro definition, the
macro argument may have an unexpected side-effect.
Add a test (MACRO_ARG_REUSE) for that condition which is only
emitted with command-line option --strict.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b6d67a87cafcafd15499e91780dc63b15dec0aa0.1473744906.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
An "uninitialized value" is emitted when a block comment starts on
the same line as a statement.
Fix this and make the test use a little fewer cpu cycles too.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3c9993320c2182d37f53ac540878cfef59c3f62d.1473365956.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Charlemagne Lasse <charlemagnelasse@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adding -f to the get_maintainer.pl invocation means git isn't invoked
by get_maintainer.pl for known filenames.
This reduces the overall time to run checkpatch.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/22991e3a295aeb399b43af0478b6e5809106ccee.1472684066.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Using const is generally a good idea.
Julia Lawall has created a list of always const and almost always const
structs in the kernel sources.
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/28/95
Add the most frequently used (> 50 cases) that are almost always or
always const.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1e16020f8027654db0095bbfbcc11da51025365c.1472664220.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make it easier to add new structs that should be const.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e5a8da43e7c11525bafbda1ca69a8323614dd942.1472664220.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
< sigh > Comment these tests out.
These are just too enticing to people that don't verify that
both source and dest addresses really must be __aligned(2).
It helps make Dan Carpenter happy too.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dc32ec66d24647f4cdf824c8dfbbc59aa7ce7b7d.1472665676.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg <gvrose8192@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
S_<FOO> uses should be avoided where octal is more intelligible.
Linus didst say:
: It's *much* easier to parse and understand the octal numbers, while the
: symbolic macro names are just random line noise and hard as hell to
: understand. You really have to think about it.
:
: So we should rather go the other way: convert existing bad symbolic
: permission bit macro use to just use the octal numbers.
:
: The symbolic names are good for the *other* bits (ie sticky bit, and the
: inode mode _type_ numbers etc), but for the permission bits, the symbolic
: names are just insane crap. Nobody sane should ever use them. Not in the
: kernel, not in user space.
(http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFw5v23T-zvDZp-MmD_EYxF8WbafwwB59934FV7g21uMGQ@mail.gmail.com)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7232ef011d05a92f4caa86a5e9830d87966a2eaf.1470180926.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use get_maintainer to check the status of individual files. If
"obsolete", suggest leaving the files alone.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7ceaa510dc9d2df05ec4b456baed7bb1415550b3.1471889575.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Today there are platforms with many CPUs (up to 4K). Trying to boot only
part of the CPUs may result in too long string.
For example lets take NPS platform that is part of arch/arc. This
platform have SMP system with 256 cores each with 16 HW threads (SMT
machine) where HW thread appears as CPU to the kernel. In this example
there is total of 4K CPUs. When one tries to boot only part of the HW
threads from each core the string representing the map may be long... For
example if for sake of performance we decided to boot only first half of
HW threads of each core the map will look like:
0-7,16-23,32-39,...,4080-4087
This patch introduce new syntax to accommodate with such use case. I
added an optional postfix to a range of CPUs which will choose according
to given modulo the desired range of reminders i.e.:
<cpus range>:sed_size/group_size
For example, above map can be described in new syntax like this:
0-4095:8/16
Note that this patch is backward compatible with current syntax.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rework documentation]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473579629-4283-1-git-send-email-noamca@mellanox.com
Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamca@mellanox.com>
Cc: David Decotigny <decot@googlers.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Pan Xinhui <xinhui@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Set "overflow" bit upon encountering it instead of postponing to the end
of the conversion. Somehow gcc unwedges itself and generates better code:
$ ./scripts/bloat-o-meter ../vmlinux-000 ../obj/vmlinux
_parse_integer 177 139 -38
Inspired by patch from Zhaoxiu Zeng.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160826221920.GA1909@p183.telecom.by
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make isdigit into a simple range checking inline function:
return '0' <= c && c <= '9';
This code is 1 branch, not 2 because any reasonable compiler can
optimize this code into SUB+CMP, so the code
while (isdigit((c = *s++)))
...
remains 1 branch per iteration HOWEVER it suddenly doesn't do table
lookup priming cacheline nobody cares about.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160826190047.GA12536@p183.telecom.by
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The strncpy_from_user() accessor is effectively a copy_from_user()
specialised to copy strings, terminating early at a NUL byte if possible.
In other respects it is identical, and can be used to copy an arbitrarily
large buffer from userspace into the kernel. Conceptually, it exposes a
similar attack surface.
As with copy_from_user(), we check the destination range when the kernel
is built with KASAN, but unlike copy_from_user() we do not check the
destination buffer when using HARDENED_USERCOPY. As strncpy_from_user()
calls get_user() in a loop, we must call check_object_size() explicitly.
This patch adds this instrumentation to strncpy_from_user(), per the same
rationale as with the regular copy_from_user(). In the absence of
hardened usercopy this will have no impact as the instrumentation expands
to an empty static inline function.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472221903-31181-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are four cases I can see where we could end up with a NULL 'slot' in
radix_tree_next_slot(). This unit test exercises all four of them, making
sure that if in the future we have an unsafe path through
radix_tree_next_slot(), we'll catch it.
Here are details on the four cases:
1) radix_tree_iter_retry() via a non-tagged iteration like
radix_tree_for_each_slot(). In this case we currently aren't seeing a bug
because radix_tree_iter_retry() sets
iter->next_index = iter->index;
which means that in in the else case in radix_tree_next_slot(), 'count' is
zero, so we skip over the while() loop and effectively just return NULL
without ever dereferencing 'slot'.
2) radix_tree_iter_retry() via tagged iteration like
radix_tree_for_each_tagged(). This case was giving us NULL pointer
dereferences in testing, and was fixed with this commit:
commit 3cb9185c67 ("radix-tree: fix radix_tree_iter_retry() for tagged
iterators.")
This fix doesn't explicitly check for 'slot' being NULL, though, it works
around the NULL pointer dereference by instead zeroing iter->tags in
radix_tree_iter_retry(), which makes us bail out of the if() case in
radix_tree_next_slot() before we dereference 'slot'.
3) radix_tree_iter_next() via via a non-tagged iteration like
radix_tree_for_each_slot(). This currently happens in shmem_tag_pins()
and shmem_partial_swap_usage().
As with non-tagged iteration, 'count' in the else case of
radix_tree_next_slot() is zero, so we skip over the while() loop and
effectively just return NULL without ever dereferencing 'slot'.
4) radix_tree_iter_next() via tagged iteration like
radix_tree_for_each_tagged(). This happens in shmem_wait_for_pins().
radix_tree_iter_next() zeros out iter->tags, so we end up exiting
radix_tree_next_slot() here:
if (flags & RADIX_TREE_ITER_TAGGED) {
void *canon = slot;
iter->tags >>= 1;
if (unlikely(!iter->tags))
return NULL;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160815194237.25967-3-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are four cases I can see where we could end up with a NULL 'slot' in
radix_tree_next_slot(). Yet radix_tree_next_slot() never actually checks
whether 'slot' is NULL. It just happens that for the cases where 'slot'
is NULL, some other combination of factors prevents us from dereferencing
it.
It would be very easy for someone to unwittingly change one of these
factors without realizing that we are implicitly depending on it to save
us from a NULL pointer dereference.
Add a comment documenting the things that allow 'slot' to be safely passed
as NULL to radix_tree_next_slot().
Here are details on the four cases:
1) radix_tree_iter_retry() via a non-tagged iteration like
radix_tree_for_each_slot(). In this case we currently aren't seeing a bug
because radix_tree_iter_retry() sets
iter->next_index = iter->index;
which means that in in the else case in radix_tree_next_slot(), 'count' is
zero, so we skip over the while() loop and effectively just return NULL
without ever dereferencing 'slot'.
2) radix_tree_iter_retry() via tagged iteration like
radix_tree_for_each_tagged(). This case was giving us NULL pointer
dereferences in testing, and was fixed with this commit:
commit 3cb9185c67 ("radix-tree: fix radix_tree_iter_retry() for tagged
iterators.")
This fix doesn't explicitly check for 'slot' being NULL, though, it works
around the NULL pointer dereference by instead zeroing iter->tags in
radix_tree_iter_retry(), which makes us bail out of the if() case in
radix_tree_next_slot() before we dereference 'slot'.
3) radix_tree_iter_next() via via a non-tagged iteration like
radix_tree_for_each_slot(). This currently happens in shmem_tag_pins()
and shmem_partial_swap_usage().
As with non-tagged iteration, 'count' in the else case of
radix_tree_next_slot() is zero, so we skip over the while() loop and
effectively just return NULL without ever dereferencing 'slot'.
4) radix_tree_iter_next() via tagged iteration like
radix_tree_for_each_tagged(). This happens in shmem_wait_for_pins().
radix_tree_iter_next() zeros out iter->tags, so we end up exiting
radix_tree_next_slot() here:
if (flags & RADIX_TREE_ITER_TAGGED) {
void *canon = slot;
iter->tags >>= 1;
if (unlikely(!iter->tags))
return NULL;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160815194237.25967-2-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The select(2) syscall performs a kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL) where size grows
with the number of fds passed. We had a customer report page allocation
failures of order-4 for this allocation. This is a costly order, so it might
easily fail, as the VM expects such allocation to have a lower-order fallback.
Such trivial fallback is vmalloc(), as the memory doesn't have to be physically
contiguous and the allocation is temporary for the duration of the syscall
only. There were some concerns, whether this would have negative impact on the
system by exposing vmalloc() to userspace. Although an excessive use of vmalloc
can cause some system wide performance issues - TLB flushes etc. - a large
order allocation is not for free either and an excessive reclaim/compaction can
have a similar effect. Also note that the size is effectively limited by
RLIMIT_NOFILE which defaults to 1024 on the systems I checked. That means the
bitmaps will fit well within single page and thus the vmalloc() fallback could
be only excercised for processes where root allows a higher limit.
Note that the poll(2) syscall seems to use a linked list of order-0 pages, so
it doesn't need this kind of fallback.
[eric.dumazet@gmail.com: fix failure path logic]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use proper type for size]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160927084536.5923-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
After much discussion, it seems that the fallocate feature flag
FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE maps nicely to SCSI WRITE SAME; and the feature
FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE maps nicely to the devices that have been whitelisted
for zeroing SCSI UNMAP. Punch still requires that FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE is
set. A length that goes past the end of the device will be clamped to the
device size if KEEP_SIZE is set; or will return -EINVAL if not. Both
start and length must be aligned to the device's logical block size.
Since the semantics of fallocate are fairly well established already, wire
up the two pieces. The other fallocate variants (collapse range, insert
range, and allocate blocks) are not supported.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147518379992.22791.8849838163218235007.stgit@birch.djwong.org
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> # tweaked header
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make sure that the offset and length arguments that we're using to
construct WRITE SAME and DISCARD requests are actually aligned to the
logical block size. Failure to do this causes other errors in other parts
of the block layer or the SCSI layer because disks don't support partial
logical block writes.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147518379026.22791.4437508871355153928.stgit@birch.djwong.org
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> # tweaked header
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "fallocate for block devices", v11.
This is a patchset to fix page cache coherency with BLKZEROOUT and
implement fallocate for block devices.
The first patch is a fix to the existing BLKZEROOUT ioctl to invalidate
the page cache if the zeroing command to the underlying device succeeds.
Without this patch we still have the pagecache coherence bug that's been
in the kernel forever.
The second patch changes the internal block device functions to reject
attempts to discard or zeroout that are not aligned to the logical block
size. Previously, we only checked that the start/len parameters were
512-byte aligned, which caused kernel BUG_ONs for unaligned IOs to 4k-LBA
devices.
The third patch creates an fallocate handler for block devices, wires up
the FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE flag to zeroing-discard, and connects
FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE to write-same so that we can have a consistent
fallocate interface between files and block devices. It also allows the
combination of PUNCH_HOLE and NO_HIDE_STALE to invoke non-zeroing discard.
Test cases for the new block device fallocate are now in xfstests as
generic/349-351.
This patch (of 3):
Invalidate the page cache (as a regular O_DIRECT write would do) to avoid
returning stale cache contents at a later time.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147518378313.22791.16649519283678515021.stgit@birch.djwong.org
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In the dlm_migrate_request_handler(), when `ret' is -EEXIST, the mle
should be freed, otherwise the memory will be leaked.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/71604351584F6A4EBAE558C676F37CA4A3D3522A@H3CMLB12-EX.srv.huawei-3com.com
Signed-off-by: Guozhonghua <guozhonghua@h3c.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@versity.com>
Cc: Eric Ren <zren@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
it actually worked only when requested area ended on the page boundary...
Reported-by: Marco Grassi <marco.gra@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
1) Netfilter list handling fix, from Linus.
2) RXRPC/AFS bug fixes from David Howells (oops on call to serviceless
endpoints, build warnings, missing notifications, etc.) From David
Howells.
3) Kernel log message missing newlines, from Colin Ian King.
4) Don't enter direct reclaim in netlink dumps, the idea is to use a
high order allocation first and fallback quickly to a 0-order
allocation if such a high-order one cannot be done cheaply and
without reclaim. From Eric Dumazet.
5) Fix firmware download errors in btusb bluetooth driver, from Ethan
Hsieh.
6) Missing Kconfig deps for QCOM_EMAC, from Geert Uytterhoeven.
7) Fix MDIO_XGENE dup Kconfig entry. From Laura Abbott.
8) Constrain ipv6 rtr_solicits sysctl values properly, from Maciej
Żenczykowski.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (65 commits)
netfilter: Fix slab corruption.
be2net: Enable VF link state setting for BE3
be2net: Fix TX stats for TSO packets
be2net: Update Copyright string in be_hw.h
be2net: NCSI FW section should be properly updated with ethtool for BE3
be2net: Provide an alternate way to read pf_num for BEx chips
wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc: Fix size used in dma_free_coherent()
net: macb: NULL out phydev after removing mdio bus
xen-netback: make sure that hashes are not send to unaware frontends
Fixing a bug in team driver due to incorrect 'unsigned int' to 'int' conversion
MAINTAINERS: add myself as a maintainer of xen-netback
ipv6 addrconf: disallow rtr_solicits < -1
Bluetooth: btusb: Fix atheros firmware download error
drivers: net: phy: Correct duplicate MDIO_XGENE entry
ethernet: qualcomm: QCOM_EMAC should depend on HAS_DMA and HAS_IOMEM
net: ethernet: mediatek: remove hwlro property in the device tree
net: ethernet: mediatek: get hw lro capability by the chip id instead of by the dtsi
net: ethernet: mediatek: get the chip id by ETHDMASYS registers
net: bgmac: Fix errant feature flag check
netlink: do not enter direct reclaim from netlink_dump()
...
Use the correct pattern for singly linked list insertion and
deletion. We can also calculate the list head outside of the
mutex.
Fixes: e3b37f11e6 ("netfilter: replace list_head with single linked list")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@bytheb.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/netfilter/core.c | 108 ++++++++++++++++-----------------------------------
1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)
Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
">rename2() work from Miklos + current_time() from Deepa"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
fs: Replace current_fs_time() with current_time()
fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME_SEC with current_time() for inode timestamps
fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() for inode timestamps
fs: proc: Delete inode time initializations in proc_alloc_inode()
vfs: Add current_time() api
vfs: add note about i_op->rename changes to porting
fs: rename "rename2" i_op to "rename"
vfs: remove unused i_op->rename
fs: make remaining filesystems use .rename2
libfs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE in simple_rename()
fs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE for local filesystems
ncpfs: fix unused variable warning
NAND:
* Add the infrastructure to automate NAND timings configuration
* Provide a generic DT property to maximize ECC strength
* Some refactoring in the core bad block table handling, to help with
improving some of the logic in error cases.
* Minor cleanups and fixes
MTD:
* Add APIs for handling page pairing; this is necessary for reliably
supporting MLC and TLC NAND flash, where paired-page disturbance affects
reliability. Upper layers (e.g., UBI) should make use of these in the near
future.
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Merge tag 'for-linus-20161008' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd
Pull MTD updates from Brian Norris:
"I've not been very active this cycle, so these are mostly from Boris,
for the NAND flash subsystem.
NAND:
- Add the infrastructure to automate NAND timings configuration
- Provide a generic DT property to maximize ECC strength
- Some refactoring in the core bad block table handling, to help with
improving some of the logic in error cases.
- Minor cleanups and fixes
MTD:
- Add APIs for handling page pairing; this is necessary for reliably
supporting MLC and TLC NAND flash, where paired-page disturbance
affects reliability. Upper layers (e.g., UBI) should make use of
these in the near future"
* tag 'for-linus-20161008' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (35 commits)
mtd: nand: fix trivial spelling error
mtdpart: Propagate _get/put_device()
mtd: nand: Provide nand_cleanup() function to free NAND related resources
mtd: Kill the OF_MTD Kconfig option
mtd: nand: mxc: Test CONFIG_OF instead of CONFIG_OF_MTD
mtd: nand: Fix nand_command_lp() for 8bits opcodes
mtd: nand: sunxi: Support ECC maximization
mtd: nand: Support maximizing ECC when using software BCH
mtd: nand: Add an option to maximize the ECC strength
mtd: nand: mxc: Add timing setup for v2 controllers
mtd: nand: mxc: implement onfi get/set features
mtd: nand: sunxi: switch from manual to automated timing config
mtd: nand: automate NAND timings selection
mtd: nand: Expose data interface for ONFI mode 0
mtd: nand: Add function to convert ONFI mode to data_interface
mtd: nand: convert ONFI mode into data interface
mtd: nand: Introduce nand_data_interface
mtd: nand: Create a NAND reset function
mtd: nand: remove unnecessary 'extern' from function declarations
MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer entry for Ingenic JZ4780 NAND driver
...
Pull vfs xattr updates from Al Viro:
"xattr stuff from Andreas
This completes the switch to xattr_handler ->get()/->set() from
->getxattr/->setxattr/->removexattr"
* 'work.xattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
vfs: Remove {get,set,remove}xattr inode operations
xattr: Stop calling {get,set,remove}xattr inode operations
vfs: Check for the IOP_XATTR flag in listxattr
xattr: Add __vfs_{get,set,remove}xattr helpers
libfs: Use IOP_XATTR flag for empty directory handling
vfs: Use IOP_XATTR flag for bad-inode handling
vfs: Add IOP_XATTR inode operations flag
vfs: Move xattr_resolve_name to the front of fs/xattr.c
ecryptfs: Switch to generic xattr handlers
sockfs: Get rid of getxattr iop
sockfs: getxattr: Fail with -EOPNOTSUPP for invalid attribute names
kernfs: Switch to generic xattr handlers
hfs: Switch to generic xattr handlers
jffs2: Remove jffs2_{get,set,remove}xattr macros
xattr: Remove unnecessary NULL attribute name check
Pull crypto updates from Herbert Xu:
"Here is the crypto update for 4.9:
API:
- The crypto engine code now supports hashes.
Algorithms:
- Allow keys >= 2048 bits in FIPS mode for RSA.
Drivers:
- Memory overwrite fix for vmx ghash.
- Add support for building ARM sha1-neon in Thumb2 mode.
- Reenable ARM ghash-ce code by adding import/export.
- Reenable img-hash by adding import/export.
- Add support for multiple cores in omap-aes.
- Add little-endian support for sha1-powerpc.
- Add Cavium HWRNG driver for ThunderX SoC"
* 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (137 commits)
crypto: caam - treat SGT address pointer as u64
crypto: ccp - Make syslog errors human-readable
crypto: ccp - clean up data structure
crypto: vmx - Ensure ghash-generic is enabled
crypto: testmgr - add guard to dst buffer for ahash_export
crypto: caam - Unmap region obtained by of_iomap
crypto: sha1-powerpc - little-endian support
crypto: gcm - Fix IV buffer size in crypto_gcm_setkey
crypto: vmx - Fix memory corruption caused by p8_ghash
crypto: ghash-generic - move common definitions to a new header file
crypto: caam - fix sg dump
hwrng: omap - Only fail if pm_runtime_get_sync returns < 0
crypto: omap-sham - shrink the internal buffer size
crypto: omap-sham - add support for export/import
crypto: omap-sham - convert driver logic to use sgs for data xmit
crypto: omap-sham - change the DMA threshold value to a define
crypto: omap-sham - add support functions for sg based data handling
crypto: omap-sham - rename sgl to sgl_tmp for deprecation
crypto: omap-sham - align algorithms on word offset
crypto: omap-sham - add context export/import stubs
...
This includes a bug fix for a bad memory access during workqueue
cleanup, which can happen while shutting down the dlm networking
layer.
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Merge tag 'dlm-4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/teigland/linux-dlm
Pull dlm fix from David Teigland:
"This includes a bug fix for a bad memory access during workqueue
cleanup, which can happen while shutting down the dlm networking
layer"
* tag 'dlm-4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/teigland/linux-dlm:
dlm: free workqueues after the connections
with maintenance operations offloaded to userspace (Douglas Fuller,
Mike Christie and myself). Another block device bullet is a series
fixing up layering error paths (myself).
On the filesystem side, we've got patches that improve our handling of
buffered vs dio write races (Neil Brown) and a few assorted fixes from
Zheng. Also included a couple of random cleanups and a minor CRUSH
update.
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Merge tag 'ceph-for-4.9-rc1' of git://github.com/ceph/ceph-client
Pull Ceph updates from Ilya Dryomov:
"The big ticket item here is support for rbd exclusive-lock feature,
with maintenance operations offloaded to userspace (Douglas Fuller,
Mike Christie and myself). Another block device bullet is a series
fixing up layering error paths (myself).
On the filesystem side, we've got patches that improve our handling of
buffered vs dio write races (Neil Brown) and a few assorted fixes from
Zheng. Also included a couple of random cleanups and a minor CRUSH
update"
* tag 'ceph-for-4.9-rc1' of git://github.com/ceph/ceph-client: (39 commits)
crush: remove redundant local variable
crush: don't normalize input of crush_ln iteratively
libceph: ceph_build_auth() doesn't need ceph_auth_build_hello()
libceph: use CEPH_AUTH_UNKNOWN in ceph_auth_build_hello()
ceph: fix description for rsize and rasize mount options
rbd: use kmalloc_array() in rbd_header_from_disk()
ceph: use list_move instead of list_del/list_add
ceph: handle CEPH_SESSION_REJECT message
ceph: avoid accessing / when mounting a subpath
ceph: fix mandatory flock check
ceph: remove warning when ceph_releasepage() is called on dirty page
ceph: ignore error from invalidate_inode_pages2_range() in direct write
ceph: fix error handling of start_read()
rbd: add rbd_obj_request_error() helper
rbd: img_data requests don't own their page array
rbd: don't call rbd_osd_req_format_read() for !img_data requests
rbd: rework rbd_img_obj_exists_submit() error paths
rbd: don't crash or leak on errors in rbd_img_obj_parent_read_full_callback()
rbd: move bumping img_request refcount into rbd_obj_request_submit()
rbd: mark the original request as done if stat request fails
...
Pull splice fixups from Al Viro:
"A couple of fixups for interaction of pipe-backed iov_iter with
O_DIRECT reads + constification of a couple of primitives in uio.h
missed by previous rounds.
Kudos to davej - his fuzzing has caught those bugs"
* 'work.splice_read' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
[btrfs] fix check_direct_IO() for non-iovec iterators
constify iov_iter_count() and iter_is_iovec()
fix ITER_PIPE interaction with direct_IO
Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
"Assorted misc bits and pieces.
There are several single-topic branches left after this (rename2
series from Miklos, current_time series from Deepa Dinamani, xattr
series from Andreas, uaccess stuff from from me) and I'd prefer to
send those separately"
* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (39 commits)
proc: switch auxv to use of __mem_open()
hpfs: support FIEMAP
cifs: get rid of unused arguments of CIFSSMBWrite()
posix_acl: uapi header split
posix_acl: xattr representation cleanups
fs/aio.c: eliminate redundant loads in put_aio_ring_file
fs/internal.h: add const to ns_dentry_operations declaration
compat: remove compat_printk()
fs/buffer.c: make __getblk_slow() static
proc: unsigned file descriptors
fs/file: more unsigned file descriptors
fs: compat: remove redundant check of nr_segs
cachefiles: Fix attempt to read i_blocks after deleting file [ver #2]
cifs: don't use memcpy() to copy struct iov_iter
get rid of separate multipage fault-in primitives
fs: Avoid premature clearing of capabilities
fs: Give dentry to inode_change_ok() instead of inode
fuse: Propagate dentry down to inode_change_ok()
ceph: Propagate dentry down to inode_change_ok()
xfs: Propagate dentry down to inode_change_ok()
...
Pull ARM pcmcia updates from Russell King:
"These updates lay the foundations for more generic soc_common PCMCIA
support, which will result in several of the board specific drivers
being elimated.
As the dependencies for this are complex, the preliminary work is
being submitted now, with the remainder scheduled for the next merge
window"
* 'pcmcia' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
pcmcia: soc_common: add driver-data pointer
pcmcia: soc_common: add support for voltage sense GPIOs
pcmcia: soc_common: constify pcmcia_low_level ops pointer
pcmcia: soc_common: switch to a per-socket cpufreq notifier
pcmcia: soc_common: add support for Vcc and Vpp regulators
pcmcia: soc_common: add CF socket state helper
pcmcia: soc_common: restore previous socket state on error
pcmcia: soc_common: add support for reset and bus enable GPIOs
pcmcia: soc_common: request legacy detect GPIO with active low
pcmcia: soc_common: ignore invalid interrupts
pcmcia: soc_common: switch to using gpio_descs
pcmcia: soc_common: use devm_gpio_request_one()
Pull protection keys syscall interface from Thomas Gleixner:
"This is the final step of Protection Keys support which adds the
syscalls so user space can actually allocate keys and protect memory
areas with them. Details and usage examples can be found in the
documentation.
The mm side of this has been acked by Mel"
* 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/pkeys: Update documentation
x86/mm/pkeys: Do not skip PKRU register if debug registers are not used
x86/pkeys: Fix pkeys build breakage for some non-x86 arches
x86/pkeys: Add self-tests
x86/pkeys: Allow configuration of init_pkru
x86/pkeys: Default to a restrictive init PKRU
pkeys: Add details of system call use to Documentation/
generic syscalls: Wire up memory protection keys syscalls
x86: Wire up protection keys system calls
x86/pkeys: Allocation/free syscalls
x86/pkeys: Make mprotect_key() mask off additional vm_flags
mm: Implement new pkey_mprotect() system call
x86/pkeys: Add fault handling for PF_PK page fault bit
Pull x86 updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A pile of regression fixes and updates:
- address the fallout of the patches which made the cpuid - nodeid
relation permanent: Handling of invalid APIC ids and preventing
pointless warning messages.
- force eager FPU when protection keys are enabled. Protection keys
are not generating FPU exceptions so they cannot work with the lazy
FPU mechanism.
- prevent force migration of interrupts which are not part of the CPU
vector domain.
- handle the fact that APIC ids are not updated in the ACPI/MADT
tables on physical CPU hotplug
- remove bash-isms from syscall table generator script
- use the hypervisor supplied APIC frequency when running on VMware"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/pkeys: Make protection keys an "eager" feature
x86/apic: Prevent pointless warning messages
x86/acpi: Prevent LAPIC id 0xff from being accounted
arch/x86: Handle non enumerated CPU after physical hotplug
x86/unwind: Fix oprofile module link error
x86/vmware: Skip lapic calibration on VMware
x86/syscalls: Remove bash-isms in syscall table generator
x86/irq: Prevent force migration of irqs which are not in the vector domain
looking for duplicate ->iov_base makes sense only for
iovec-backed iterators; for kvec-backed ones it's pointless,
for bvec-backed ones it's pointless and broken on 32bit (we
walk through an array of struct bio_vec accessing them as if
they were struct iovec; works by accident on 64bit, but on
32bit it'll blow up) and for pipe-backed ones it's pointless
and ends up oopsing.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
by making sure we call iov_iter_advance() on original
iov_iter even if direct_IO (done on its copy) has returned 0.
It's a no-op for old iov_iter flavours and does the right thing
(== truncation of the stuff we'd allocated, but not filled) in
ITER_PIPE case. Failures (e.g. -EIO) get caught and dealt with
by cleanup in generic_file_read_iter().
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull perf tooling updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- handle uretprobe placement proper on little endian PPC64
- fix buffer handling in libtraceevent
- add a missing pointer derefence in perf probe
- fix the build of host tools in cross builds
- fix Intel PT timestamp handling
- synchronize memcpy, cpufeatures and bpf headers with the kernel headers
- support for vendor supplied JSON files describing PMU events
- a new set of tool tips
- initial work for clang/llvm support
- address some style issues found by cppcheck
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (35 commits)
tools build: Add feature detection for g++
tools build: Support compiling C++ source file
perf top/report: Add tips about a list option
perf report/top: Add a tip about system-wide collection from all CPUs
perf report/top: Add a tip about source line numbers with overhead
tools: Synchronize tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
tools: Synchronize tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
perf bench mem: Sync memcpy assembly sources with the kernel
perf jevents: Fix Intel JSON fixed counter conversions
tools lib traceevent: Fix kbuffer_read_at_offset()
perf intel-pt: Fix MTC timestamp calculation for large MTC periods
perf intel-pt: Fix estimated timestamps for cycle-accurate mode
perf uretprobe ppc64le: Fix probe location
perf pmu-events: Add Skylake frontend MSR support
perf pmu-events: Fix fixed counters on Intel
perf tools: Make alias matching case-insensitive
perf tools: Allow period= in perf stat CPU event descriptions.
perf tools: Add README for info on parsing JSON/map files
perf list jevents: Add support for event list topics
perf list: Support long jevents descriptions
...
Pull scheduler fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A revert of a commit which pointelessly widened a preempt disabled
section which in turn caused might_sleep() to trigger.
The patch intended to prevent usage of smp_processor_id() in
preemptible context, but the usage in that case is fine because the
thread is pinned on a single cpu and therefore cannot be migrated off"
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
Revert "sched/core: Do not use smp_processor_id() with preempt enabled in smpboot_thread_fn()"
Pull irq fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Two small kerneldoc fixes from Julia Lawall"
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
irqchip/metag-ext: Improve function-level documentation
irqchip/vic: Improve function-level documentation
Pull timer fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A single fix for a regression introduced in 4.8 which causes the
trace/perf clock to return random nonsense if CONFIG_DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
is set"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
timekeeping: Fix __ktime_get_fast_ns() regression
Merge my system logging cleanups, triggered by the broken '\n' patches.
The line continuation handling has been broken basically forever, and
the code to handle the system log records was both confusing and
dubious. And it would do entirely the wrong thing unless you always had
a terminating newline, partly because it couldn't actually see whether a
message was marked KERN_CONT or not (but partly because the LOG_CONT
handling in the recording code was rather confusing too).
This re-introduces a real semantically meaningful KERN_CONT, and fixes
the few places I noticed where it was missing. There are probably more
missing cases, since KERN_CONT hasn't actually had any semantic meaning
for at least four years (other than the checkpatch meaning of "no log
level necessary, this is a continuation line").
This also allows the combination of KERN_CONT and a log level. In that
case the log level will be ignored if the merging with a previous line
is successful, but if a new record is needed, that new record will now
get the right log level.
That also means that you can at least in theory combine KERN_CONT with
the "pr_info()" style helpers, although any use of pr_fmt() prefixing
would make that just result in a mess, of course (the prefix would end
up in the middle of a continuing line).
* printk-cleanups:
printk: make reading the kernel log flush pending lines
printk: re-organize log_output() to be more legible
printk: split out core logging code into helper function
printk: reinstate KERN_CONT for printing continuation lines
