kernel/linux.git/Documentation/fault-injection, branch v5.10.258

debugfs: fix error when writing negative value to atomic_t debugfs file

2023-01-14T09:15:19+00:00

[ Upstream commit d472cf797c4e268613dbce5ec9b95d0bcae19ecb ] The simple attribute files do not accept a negative value since the commit 488dac0c9237 ("libfs: fix error cast of negative value in simple_attr_write()"), so we have to use a 64-bit value to write a negative value for a debugfs file created by debugfs_create_atomic_t(). This restores the previous behaviour by introducing DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE_SIGNED for a signed value. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220919172418.45257-4-akinobu.mita@gmail.com Fixes: 488dac0c9237 ("libfs: fix error cast of negative value in simple_attr_write()") Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita Reported-by: Zhao Gongyi Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Wei Yongjun Cc: Yicong Yang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

docs: fault-injection: fix non-working usage of negative values

2023-01-14T09:15:19+00:00

[ Upstream commit 005747526d4f3c2ec995891e95cb7625161022f9 ] Fault injection uses debugfs in a way that the provided values via sysfs are interpreted as u64. Providing negative numbers results in an error: /sys/kernel/debug/fail_function# echo -1 > times sh: write error: Invalid argument Update the docs and examples to use "printf %#x " in these cases. For "retval", reword the paragraph a little and fix a typo. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210603125841.27436-1-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Stable-dep-of: d472cf797c4e ("debugfs: fix error when writing negative value to atomic_t debugfs file") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

lkdtm: replace SCSI_DISPATCH_CMD with SCSI_QUEUE_RQ

2021-09-15T07:50:42+00:00

[ Upstream commit d1f278da6b11585f05b2755adfc8851cbf14a1ec ] When scsi_dispatch_cmd was moved to scsi_lib.c and made static, some compilers (i.e., at least gcc 8.4.0) decided to compile this inline. This is a problem for lkdtm.ko, which inserted a kprobe on this function for the SCSI_DISPATCH_CMD crashpoint. Move this crashpoint one function up the call chain to scsi_queue_rq. Though this is also a static function, it should never be inlined because it is assigned as a structure entry. Therefore, kprobe_register should always be able to find it. Fixes: 82042a2cdb55 ("scsi: move scsi_dispatch_cmd to scsi_lib.c") Acked-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Kevin Mitchell Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210819022940.561875-2-kevmitch@arista.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Merge tag 'docs-5.10-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2020-10-24T00:13:53+00:00

Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes" * tag 'docs-5.10-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: docs: Add two missing entries in vm sysctl index docs/vm: trivial fixes to several spelling mistakes docs: submitting-patches: describe preserving review/test tags Documentation: Chinese translation of Documentation/arm64/hugetlbpage.rst Documentation: x86: fix a missing word in x86_64/mm.rst. docs: driver-api: remove a duplicated index entry docs: lkdtm: Modernize and improve details docs: deprecated.rst: Expand str*cpy() replacement notes docs/cpu-load: format the example code.

docs: lkdtm: Modernize and improve details

2020-10-21T21:10:30+00:00

The details on using LKDTM were overly obscure. Modernize the details and expand examples to better illustrate how to use the interfaces. Additionally add missing SPDX header. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201015224559.2137489-1-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

lib, include/linux: add usercopy failure capability

2020-10-16T18:11:22+00:00

Patch series "add fault injection to user memory access", v3. The goal of this series is to improve testing of fault-tolerance in usages of user memory access functions, by adding support for fault injection. syzkaller/syzbot are using the existing fault injection modes and will use this particular feature also. The first patch adds failure injection capability for usercopy functions. The second changes usercopy functions to use this new failure capability (copy_from_user, ...). The third patch adds get/put/clear_user failures to x86. This patch (of 3): Add a failure injection capability to improve testing of fault-tolerance in usages of user memory access functions. Add CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_USERCOPY to enable faults in usercopy functions. The should_fail_usercopy function is to be called by these functions (copy_from_user, get_user, ...) in order to fail or not. Signed-off-by: Albert van der Linde Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Akinobu Mita Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Al Viro Cc: Andrey Konovalov Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Marco Elver Cc: Christoph Hellwig Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200831171733.955393-1-alinde@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200831171733.955393-2-alinde@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

nvme: rename and document nvme_end_request

2020-08-21T23:14:28+00:00

nvme_end_request is a bit misnamed, as it wraps around the blk_mq_complete_* API. It's semantics also are non-trivial, so give it a more descriptive name and add a comment explaining the semantics. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: rename generic_make_request to submit_bio_noacct

2020-07-01T13:27:24+00:00

generic_make_request has always been very confusingly misnamed, so rename it to submit_bio_noacct to make it clear that it is submit_bio minus accounting and a few checks. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

docs: add some directories to the main documentation index

2019-07-15T14:03:03+00:00

The contents of those directories were orphaned at the documentation body. While those directories could likely be moved to be inside some guide, I'm opting to just adding their indexes to the main one, removing the :orphan: and adding the SPDX header. For the drivers, the rationale is that the documentation contains a mix of Kernelspace, uAPI and admin-guide. So, better to keep them on separate directories, as we've be doing with similar subsystem-specific docs that were not split yet. For the others, well... I'm too lazy to do the move. Also, it seems to make sense to keep at least some of those at the main dir (like kbuild, for example). In any case, a latter patch could do the move. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

Merge tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2019-07-09T19:34:26+00:00

Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs: - A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with other trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on the wings that, I think, will go to you directly later on. - A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos, and one on Spectre vulnerabilities. - Various improvements to the build system, including automatic markup of function() references because some people, for reasons I will never understand, were of the opinion that :c:func:``function()`` is unattractive and not fun to type. - We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4. - Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (129 commits) docs: automarkup.py: ignore exceptions when seeking for xrefs docs: Move binderfs to admin-guide Disable Sphinx SmartyPants in HTML output doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irq docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code Doc : doc-guide : Fix a typo platform: x86: get rid of a non-existent document Add the RCU docs to the core-api manual Documentation: RCU: Add TOC tree hooks Documentation: RCU: Rename txt files to rst Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU UP systems to reST Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU linked list to reST Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU basic concepts to reST docs: filesystems: Remove uneeded .rst extension on toctables scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix out-of-tree build docs: zh_CN: submitting-drivers.rst: Remove a duplicated Documentation/ Documentation: PGP: update for newer HW devices Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre Documentation: platform: Delete x86-laptop-drivers.txt docs: Note that :c:func: should no longer be used ...