kernel/linux.git/lib, branch v3.12.17

mm: do not walk all of system memory during show_mem

2014-03-12T12:25:42+00:00

commit c78e93630d15b5f5774213aad9bdc9f52473a89b upstream. It has been reported on very large machines that show_mem is taking almost 5 minutes to display information. This is a serious problem if there is an OOM storm. The bulk of the cost is in show_mem doing a very expensive PFN walk to give us the following information Total RAM: Also available as totalram_pages Highmem pages: Also available as totalhigh_pages Reserved pages: Can be inferred from the zone structure Shared pages: PFN walk required Unshared pages: PFN walk required Quick pages: Per-cpu walk required Only the shared/unshared pages requires a full PFN walk but that information is useless. It is also inaccurate as page pins of unshared pages would be accounted for as shared. Even if the information was accurate, I'm struggling to think how the shared/unshared information could be useful for debugging OOM conditions. Maybe it was useful before rmap existed when reclaiming shared pages was costly but it is less relevant today. The PFN walk could be optimised a bit but why bother as the information is useless. This patch deletes the PFN walker and infers the total RAM, highmem and reserved pages count from struct zone. It omits the shared/unshared page usage on the grounds that it is useless. It also corrects the reporting of HighMem as HighMem/MovableOnly as ZONE_MOVABLE has similar problems to HighMem with respect to lowmem/highmem exhaustion. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: David Rientjes Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

x86, hweight: Fix BUG when booting with CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL=y

2014-02-20T19:08:01+00:00

commit 6583327c4dd55acbbf2a6f25e775b28b3abf9a42 upstream. Commit d61931d89b, "x86: Add optimized popcnt variants" introduced compile flag -fcall-saved-rdi for lib/hweight.c. When combined with options -fprofile-arcs and -O2, this flag causes gcc to generate broken constructor code. As a result, a 64 bit x86 kernel compiled with CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL=y prints message "gcov: could not create file" and runs into sproadic BUGs during boot. The gcc people indicate that these kinds of problems are endemic when using ad hoc calling conventions. It is therefore best to treat any file compiled with ad hoc calling conventions as an isolated environment and avoid things like profiling or coverage analysis, since those subsystems assume a "normal" calling conventions. This patch avoids the bug by excluding lib/hweight.o from coverage profiling. Reported-by: Meelis Roos Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/52F3A30C.7050205@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

iscsi-target: Fix connection reset hang with percpu_ida_alloc

2014-02-13T21:50:19+00:00

commit 555b270e25b0279b98083518a85f4b1da144a181 upstream. This patch addresses a bug where connection reset would hang indefinately once percpu_ida_alloc() was starved for tags, due to the fact that it always assumed uninterruptible sleep mode. So now make percpu_ida_alloc() check for signal_pending_state() for making interruptible sleep optional, and convert iscsit_allocate_cmd() to set TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE for GFP_KERNEL, or TASK_RUNNING for GFP_ATOMIC. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Kent Overstreet Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

percpu_ida: Make percpu_ida_alloc + callers accept task state bitmask

2014-02-13T21:50:19+00:00

commit 6f6b5d1ec56acdeab0503d2b823f6f88a0af493e upstream. This patch changes percpu_ida_alloc() + callers to accept task state bitmask for prepare_to_wait() for code like target/iscsi that needs it for interruptible sleep, that is provided in a subsequent patch. It now expects TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE when the caller is able to sleep waiting for a new tag, or TASK_RUNNING when the caller cannot sleep, and is forced to return a negative value when no tags are available. v2 changes: - Include blk-mq + tcm_fc + vhost/scsi + target/iscsi changes - Drop signal_pending_state() call v3 changes: - Only call prepare_to_wait() + finish_wait() when != TASK_RUNNING (PeterZ) Reported-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

random32: fix off-by-one in seeding requirement

2013-12-08T15:29:11+00:00

[ Upstream commit 51c37a70aaa3f95773af560e6db3073520513912 ] For properly initialising the Tausworthe generator [1], we have a strict seeding requirement, that is, s1 > 1, s2 > 7, s3 > 15. Commit 697f8d0348 ("random32: seeding improvement") introduced a __seed() function that imposes boundary checks proposed by the errata paper [2] to properly ensure above conditions. However, we're off by one, as the function is implemented as: "return (x < m) ? x + m : x;", and called with __seed(X, 1), __seed(X, 7), __seed(X, 15). Thus, an unwanted seed of 1, 7, 15 would be possible, whereas the lower boundary should actually be of at least 2, 8, 16, just as GSL does. Fix this, as otherwise an initialization with an unwanted seed could have the effect that Tausworthe's PRNG properties cannot not be ensured. Note that this PRNG is *not* used for cryptography in the kernel. [1] http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/myftp/papers/tausme.ps [2] http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/myftp/papers/tausme2.ps Joint work with Hannes Frederic Sowa. Fixes: 697f8d0348a6 ("random32: seeding improvement") Cc: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Florian Weimer Cc: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vsprintf: check real user/group id for %pK

2013-12-04T19:05:12+00:00

commit 312b4e226951f707e120b95b118cbc14f3d162b2 upstream. Some setuid binaries will allow reading of files which have read permission by the real user id. This is problematic with files which use %pK because the file access permission is checked at open() time, but the kptr_restrict setting is checked at read() time. If a setuid binary opens a %pK file as an unprivileged user, and then elevates permissions before reading the file, then kernel pointer values may be leaked. This happens for example with the setuid pppd application on Ubuntu 12.04: $ head -1 /proc/kallsyms 00000000 T startup_32 $ pppd file /proc/kallsyms pppd: In file /proc/kallsyms: unrecognized option 'c1000000' This will only leak the pointer value from the first line, but other setuid binaries may leak more information. Fix this by adding a check that in addition to the current process having CAP_SYSLOG, that effective user and group ids are equal to the real ids. If a setuid binary reads the contents of a file which uses %pK then the pointer values will be printed as NULL if the real user is unprivileged. Update the sysctl documentation to reflect the changes, and also correct the documentation to state the kptr_restrict=0 is the default. This is a only temporary solution to the issue. The correct solution is to do the permission check at open() time on files, and to replace %pK with a function which checks the open() time permission. %pK uses in printk should be removed since no sane permission check can be done, and instead protected by using dmesg_restrict. Signed-off-by: Ryan Mallon Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Joe Perches Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

lib/scatterlist.c: don't flush_kernel_dcache_page on slab page

2013-10-31T23:58:13+00:00

Commit b1adaf65ba03 ("[SCSI] block: add sg buffer copy helper functions") introduces two sg buffer copy helpers, and calls flush_kernel_dcache_page() on pages in SG list after these pages are written to. Unfortunately, the commit may introduce a potential bug: - Before sending some SCSI commands, kmalloc() buffer may be passed to block layper, so flush_kernel_dcache_page() can see a slab page finally - According to cachetlb.txt, flush_kernel_dcache_page() is only called on "a user page", which surely can't be a slab page. - ARCH's implementation of flush_kernel_dcache_page() may use page mapping information to do optimization so page_mapping() will see the slab page, then VM_BUG_ON() is triggered. Aaro Koskinen reported the bug on ARM/kirkwood when DEBUG_VM is enabled, and this patch fixes the bug by adding test of '!PageSlab(miter->page)' before calling flush_kernel_dcache_page(). Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Reported-by: Aaro Koskinen Tested-by: Simon Baatz Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Aaro Koskinen Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Cc: FUJITA Tomonori Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: [3.2+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Kconfig: make KOBJECT_RELEASE debugging require timer debugging

2013-10-29T15:33:36+00:00

Without the timer debugging, the delayed kobject release will just result in undebuggable oopses if it triggers any latent bugs. That doesn't actually help debugging at all. So make DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE depend on DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS to avoid having people enable one without the other. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

percpu_refcount: export symbols

2013-10-17T04:35:53+00:00

Export the interface to be used within modules. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjorling Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kobject: show debug info on delayed kobject release

2013-10-10T20:56:52+00:00

Useful for locating buggy drivers on kernel oops. It may add dozens of new lines to boot dmesg. DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE is hopefully only enabled in debug kernels (like maybe the Fedora rawhide one, or at developers), so being a bit more verbose is likely ok. Acked-by: Russell King Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds