kernel/linux.git/Documentation, branch v4.4.139

lib/vsprintf: Remove atomic-unsafe support for %pCr

2018-07-03T09:21:27+00:00

commit 666902e42fd8344b923c02dc5b0f37948ff4f225 upstream. "%pCr" formats the current rate of a clock, and calls clk_get_rate(). The latter obtains a mutex, hence it must not be called from atomic context. Remove support for this rarely-used format, as vsprintf() (and e.g. printk()) must be callable from any context. Any remaining out-of-tree users will start seeing the clock's name printed instead of its rate. Reported-by: Jia-Ju Bai Fixes: 900cca2944254edd ("lib/vsprintf: add %pC{,n,r} format specifiers for clocks") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1527845302-12159-5-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be To: Jia-Ju Bai To: Jonathan Corbet To: Michael Turquette To: Stephen Boyd To: Zhang Rui To: Eduardo Valentin To: Eric Anholt To: Stefan Wahren To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-clk@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.1+ Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

netdev-FAQ: clarify DaveM's position for stable backports

2018-06-13T14:15:28+00:00

[ Upstream commit 75d4e704fa8d2cf33ff295e5b441317603d7f9fd ] Per discussion with David at netconf 2018, let's clarify DaveM's position of handling stable backports in netdev-FAQ. This is important for people relying on upstream -stable releases. Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

dm thin: fix documentation relative to low water mark threshold

2018-05-30T05:48:53+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9b28a1102efc75d81298198166ead87d643a29ce ] Fixes: 1. The use of "exceeds" when the opposite of exceeds, falls below, was meant. 2. Properly speaking, a table can not exceed a threshold. It emphasizes the important point, which is that it is the userspace daemon's responsibility to check for low free space when a device is resumed, since it won't get a special event indicating low free space in that situation. Signed-off-by: mulhern Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

s390: introduce CPU alternatives

2018-04-29T05:50:02+00:00

[ Upstream commit 686140a1a9c41d85a4212a1c26d671139b76404b ] Implement CPU alternatives, which allows to optionally patch newer instructions at runtime, based on CPU facilities availability. A new kernel boot parameter "noaltinstr" disables patching. Current implementation is derived from x86 alternatives. Although ideal instructions padding (when altinstr is longer then oldinstr) is added at compile time, and no oldinstr nops optimization has to be done at runtime. Also couple of compile time sanity checks are done: 1. oldinstr and altinstr must be <= 254 bytes long, 2. oldinstr and altinstr must not have an odd length. alternative(oldinstr, altinstr, facility); alternative_2(oldinstr, altinstr1, facility1, altinstr2, facility2); Both compile time and runtime padding consists of either 6/4/2 bytes nop or a jump (brcl) + 2 bytes nop filler if padding is longer then 6 bytes. .altinstructions and .altinstr_replacement sections are part of __init_begin : __init_end region and are freed after initialization. Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Documentation: pinctrl: palmas: Add ti,palmas-powerhold-override property definition

2018-04-08T09:52:01+00:00

commit 0ea66f76ba17a4b229caaadd77de694111b21769 upstream. GPIO7 is configured in POWERHOLD mode which has higher priority over DEV_ON bit and keeps the PMIC supplies on even after the DEV_ON bit is turned off. This property enables driver to over ride the POWERHOLD value to GPIO7 so as to turn off the PMIC in power off scenarios. Signed-off-by: Keerthy Acked-by: Rob Herring Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij Cc: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs/proc: Stop trying to report thread stacks

2018-04-08T09:52:00+00:00

commit b18cb64ead400c01bf1580eeba330ace51f8087d upstream. This reverts more of: b76437579d13 ("procfs: mark thread stack correctly in proc//maps") ... which was partially reverted by: 65376df58217 ("proc: revert /proc//maps [stack:TID] annotation") Originally, /proc/PID/task/TID/maps was the same as /proc/TID/maps. In current kernels, /proc/PID/maps (or /proc/TID/maps even for threads) shows "[stack]" for VMAs in the mm's stack address range. In contrast, /proc/PID/task/TID/maps uses KSTK_ESP to guess the target thread's stack's VMA. This is racy, probably returns garbage and, on arches with CONFIG_TASK_INFO_IN_THREAD=y, is also crash-prone: KSTK_ESP is not safe to use on tasks that aren't known to be running ordinary process-context kernel code. This patch removes the difference and just shows "[stack]" for VMAs in the mm's stack range. This is IMO much more sensible -- the actual "stack" address really is treated specially by the VM code, and the current thread stack isn't even well-defined for programs that frequently switch stacks on their own. Reported-by: Jann Horn Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Al Viro Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux API Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Tycho Andersen Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3e678474ec14e0a0ec34c611016753eea2e1b8ba.1475257877.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/paravirt: Remove 'noreplace-paravirt' cmdline option

2018-02-25T10:03:54+00:00

(cherry picked from commit 12c69f1e94c89d40696e83804dd2f0965b5250cd) The 'noreplace-paravirt' option disables paravirt patching, leaving the original pv indirect calls in place. That's highly incompatible with retpolines, unless we want to uglify paravirt even further and convert the paravirt calls to retpolines. As far as I can tell, the option doesn't seem to be useful for much other than introducing surprising corner cases and making the kernel vulnerable to Spectre v2. It was probably a debug option from the early paravirt days. So just remove it. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Ashok Raj Cc: Greg KH Cc: Jun Nakajima Cc: Tim Chen Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Asit Mallick Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jason Baron Cc: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Alok Kataria Cc: Arjan Van De Ven Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Dan Williams Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180131041333.2x6blhxirc2kclrq@treble Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse [jwang: chery pick to 4.4] Signed-off-by: Jack Wang Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Documentation: Document array_index_nospec

2018-02-25T10:03:53+00:00

(cherry picked from commit f84a56f73dddaeac1dba8045b007f742f61cd2da) Document the rationale and usage of the new array_index_nospec() helper. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: alan@linux.intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/151727413645.33451.15878817161436755393.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse [jwang: cherry pick to 4.4] Signed-off-by: Jack Wang Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: correct documentation for grpid mount option

2018-02-22T14:45:00+00:00

commit 9f0372488cc9243018a812e8cfbf27de650b187b upstream. The grpid option is currently described as being the same as nogrpid. Signed-off-by: Ernesto A. Fernández Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

arm: spear13xx: Fix dmas cells

2018-02-22T14:44:59+00:00

commit cdd10409914184c7eee5ae3e11beb890c9c16c61 upstream. The "dmas" cells for the designware DMA controller need to have only 3 properties apart from the phandle: request line, src master and destination master. But the commit 6e8887f60f60 updated it incorrectly while moving from platform code to DT. Fix it. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+ Fixes: 6e8887f60f60 ("ARM: SPEAr13xx: Pass generic DW DMAC platform data from DT") Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman