By design notifiers can be registerd once only, 2nd register attempt
called by mistake silently corrupts notifiers list.
A few years ago I investigated described problem, the host was power
cycled because of notifier list corruption. I've prepared this patch
and applied it to the OpenVZ kernel and sent this patch but nobody
commented on it. Later it helped us to detect a similar problem in the
OpenVz kernel.
Mistakes with notifier registration can happen for example during
subsystem initialization from different namespaces, or because of a lost
unregister in the roll-back path on initialization failures.
The proposed check cannot prevent the described problem, however it
allows us to detect its reason quickly without coredump analysis.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/04127e71-4782-9bbb-fe5a-7c01e93a99b0@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
NOTIFY_STOP_MASK (0x8000) has only one bit set and there is no need to
compare output of "ret & NOTIFY_STOP_MASK" to NOTIFY_STOP_MASK. We just
need to make sure the output is non-zero, that's it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/88ee58264a2bfab1c97ffc8ac753e25f55f57c10.1483593065.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull x86 asm changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest changes in this cycle were:
- Revamp, simplify (and in some cases fix) Time Stamp Counter (TSC)
primitives. (Andy Lutomirski)
- Add new, comprehensible entry and exit handlers written in C.
(Andy Lutomirski)
- vm86 mode cleanups and fixes. (Brian Gerst)
- 32-bit compat code cleanups. (Brian Gerst)
The amount of simplification in low level assembly code is already
palpable:
arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S | 130 +----
arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S | 197 ++-----
but more simplifications are planned.
There's also the usual laudry mix of low level changes - see the
changelog for details"
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (83 commits)
x86/asm: Drop repeated macro of X86_EFLAGS_AC definition
x86/asm/msr: Make wrmsrl() a function
x86/asm/delay: Introduce an MWAITX-based delay with a configurable timer
x86/asm: Add MONITORX/MWAITX instruction support
x86/traps: Weaken context tracking entry assertions
x86/asm/tsc: Add rdtscll() merge helper
selftests/x86: Add syscall_nt selftest
selftests/x86: Disable sigreturn_64
x86/vdso: Emit a GNU hash
x86/entry: Remove do_notify_resume(), syscall_trace_leave(), and their TIF masks
x86/entry/32: Migrate to C exit path
x86/entry/32: Remove 32-bit syscall audit optimizations
x86/vm86: Rename vm86->v86flags and v86mask
x86/vm86: Rename vm86->vm86_info to user_vm86
x86/vm86: Clean up vm86.h includes
x86/vm86: Move the vm86 IRQ definitions to vm86.h
x86/vm86: Use the normal pt_regs area for vm86
x86/vm86: Eliminate 'struct kernel_vm86_struct'
x86/vm86: Move fields from 'struct kernel_vm86_struct' to 'struct vm86'
x86/vm86: Move vm86 fields out of 'thread_struct'
...
Low-level arch entries often call notify_die(), and it's easy for
arch code to fail to exit an RCU quiescent state first. Assert
that we're not quiescent in notify_die().
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1f5fe6c23d5b432a23267102f2d72b787d80fdd8.1435952415.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
SRCU is not necessary to be compiled by default in all cases. For tinification
efforts not compiling SRCU unless necessary is desirable.
The current patch tries to make compiling SRCU optional by introducing a new
Kconfig option CONFIG_SRCU which is selected when any of the components making
use of SRCU are selected.
If we do not select CONFIG_SRCU, srcu.o will not be compiled at all.
text data bss dec hex filename
2007 0 0 2007 7d7 kernel/rcu/srcu.o
Size of arch/powerpc/boot/zImage changes from
text data bss dec hex filename
831552 64180 23944 919676 e087c arch/powerpc/boot/zImage : before
829504 64180 23952 917636 e0084 arch/powerpc/boot/zImage : after
so the savings are about ~2000 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
CC: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
CC: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: resolve conflict due to removal of arch/ia64/kvm/Kconfig. ]
Use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL macro to protect functions from
kprobes instead of __kprobes annotation in notifier.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140417081835.26341.56128.stgit@ltc230.yrl.intra.hitachi.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
(Trivial patch.)
If the code is looking at the RCU-protected pointer itself, but not
dereferencing it, the rcu_dereference() functions can be downgraded
to rcu_access_pointer(). This commit makes this downgrade in
__blocking_notifier_call_chain() which simply compares the RCU-protected
pointer against NULL with no dereferencing.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The changed files were only including linux/module.h for the
EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure, and nothing else. Revector them
onto the isolated export header for faster compile times.
Nothing to see here but a whole lot of instances of:
-#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/export.h>
This commit is only changing the kernel dir; next targets
will probably be mm, fs, the arch dirs, etc.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
It is not necessary to share the same notifier.h.
This patch already moves register_reboot_notifier() and
unregister_reboot_notifier() from kernel/notifier.c to kernel/sys.c.
[amwang@redhat.com: make allyesconfig succeed on ppc64]
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kprobes already has an extensive list of annotations for functions
that should not be instrumented. Add notrace annotations to these
functions as well.
This is particularly useful for functions called by the NMI path.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
- unbreak ia64 (and powerpc) where function pointers dont
point at code but at data (reported by Tony Luck)
[ mingo@elte.hu: various cleanups ]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
during some development we suspected a case where we left something
in a notifier chain that was from a module that was unloaded already...
and that sort of thing is rather hard to track down.
This patch adds a very simple sanity check (which isn't all that
expensive) to make sure the notifier we're about to call is
actually from either the kernel itself of from a still-loaded
module, avoiding a hard-to-chase-down crash.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The enhancement as asked for by Yasunori: if msgmni is set to a negative
value, register it back into the ipcns notifier chain.
A new interface has been added to the notification mechanism:
notifier_chain_cond_register() registers a notifier block only if not already
registered. With that new interface we avoid taking care of the states
changes in procfs.
Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Every file should include the headers containing the prototypes for its global
functions (in this case {,un}register_reboot_notifier()).
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is separate notifier header, but no separate notifier .c file.
Extract notifier code out of kernel/sys.c which will remain for
misc syscalls I hope. Merge kernel/die_notifier.c into kernel/notifier.c.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
