starfive-tech/linux.git/Documentation/admin-guide, branch visionfive_v1_5.13

clocksource: Retry clock read if long delays detected

2021-07-14T15:06:36+00:00

[ Upstream commit db3a34e17433de2390eb80d436970edcebd0ca3e ] When the clocksource watchdog marks a clock as unstable, this might be due to that clock being unstable or it might be due to delays that happen to occur between the reads of the two clocks. Yes, interrupts are disabled across those two reads, but there are no shortage of things that can delay interrupts-disabled regions of code ranging from SMI handlers to vCPU preemption. It would be good to have some indication as to why the clock was marked unstable. Therefore, re-read the watchdog clock on either side of the read from the clock under test. If the watchdog clock shows an excessive time delta between its pair of reads, the reads are retried. The maximum number of retries is specified by a new kernel boot parameter clocksource.max_cswd_read_retries, which defaults to three, that is, up to four reads, one initial and up to three retries. If more than one retry was required, a message is printed on the console (the occasional single retry is expected behavior, especially in guest OSes). If the maximum number of retries is exceeded, the clock under test will be marked unstable. However, the probability of this happening due to various sorts of delays is quite small. In addition, the reason (clock-read delays) for the unstable marking will be apparent. Reported-by: Chris Mason Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Feng Tang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210527190124.440372-1-paulmck@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Merge tag 'net-5.13-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2021-05-27T03:44:49+00:00

Pull networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski: "Networking fixes for 5.13-rc4, including fixes from bpf, netfilter, can and wireless trees. Notably including fixes for the recently announced "FragAttacks" WiFi vulnerabilities. Rather large batch, touching some core parts of the stack, too, but nothing hair-raising. Current release - regressions: - tipc: make node link identity publish thread safe - dsa: felix: re-enable TAS guard band mode - stmmac: correct clocks enabled in stmmac_vlan_rx_kill_vid() - stmmac: fix system hang if change mac address after interface ifdown Current release - new code bugs: - mptcp: avoid OOB access in setsockopt() - bpf: Fix nested bpf_bprintf_prepare with more per-cpu buffers - ethtool: stats: fix a copy-paste error - init correct array size Previous releases - regressions: - sched: fix packet stuck problem for lockless qdisc - net: really orphan skbs tied to closing sk - mlx4: fix EEPROM dump support - bpf: fix alu32 const subreg bound tracking on bitwise operations - bpf: fix mask direction swap upon off reg sign change - bpf, offload: reorder offload callback 'prepare' in verifier - stmmac: Fix MAC WoL not working if PHY does not support WoL - packetmmap: fix only tx timestamp on request - tipc: skb_linearize the head skb when reassembling msgs Previous releases - always broken: - mac80211: address recent "FragAttacks" vulnerabilities - mac80211: do not accept/forward invalid EAPOL frames - mptcp: avoid potential error message floods - bpf, ringbuf: deny reserve of buffers larger than ringbuf to prevent out of buffer writes - bpf: forbid trampoline attach for functions with variable arguments - bpf: add deny list of functions to prevent inf recursion of tracing programs - tls splice: check SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK instead of MSG_DONTWAIT - can: isotp: prevent race between isotp_bind() and isotp_setsockopt() - netfilter: nft_set_pipapo_avx2: Add irq_fpu_usable() check, fallback to non-AVX2 version Misc: - bpf: add kconfig knob for disabling unpriv bpf by default" * tag 'net-5.13-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (172 commits) net: phy: Document phydev::dev_flags bits allocation mptcp: validate 'id' when stopping the ADD_ADDR retransmit timer mptcp: avoid error message on infinite mapping mptcp: drop unconditional pr_warn on bad opt mptcp: avoid OOB access in setsockopt() nfp: update maintainer and mailing list addresses net: mvpp2: add buffer header handling in RX bnx2x: Fix missing error code in bnx2x_iov_init_one() net: zero-initialize tc skb extension on allocation net: hns: Fix kernel-doc sctp: fix the proc_handler for sysctl encap_port sctp: add the missing setting for asoc encap_port bpf, selftests: Adjust few selftest result_unpriv outcomes bpf: No need to simulate speculative domain for immediates bpf: Fix mask direction swap upon off reg sign change bpf: Wrap aux data inside bpf_sanitize_info container bpf: Fix BPF_LSM kconfig symbol dependency selftests/bpf: Add test for l3 use of bpf_redirect_peer bpftool: Add sock_release help info for cgroup attach/prog load command net: dsa: microchip: enable phy errata workaround on 9567 ...

docs: admin-guide: update description for kernel.modprobe sysctl

2021-05-15T02:41:32+00:00

When I added CONFIG_MODPROBE_PATH, I neglected to update Documentation/. It's still true that this defaults to /sbin/modprobe, but now via a level of indirection. So document that the kernel might have been built with something other than /sbin/modprobe as the initial value. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210420125324.1246826-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk Fixes: 17652f4240f7a ("modules: add CONFIG_MODPROBE_PATH") Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jessica Yu Cc: Luis Chamberlain Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf

2021-05-11T23:05:56+00:00

Daniel Borkmann says: ==================== pull-request: bpf 2021-05-11 The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net* tree. We've added 13 non-merge commits during the last 8 day(s) which contain a total of 21 files changed, 817 insertions(+), 382 deletions(-). The main changes are: 1) Fix multiple ringbuf bugs in particular to prevent writable mmap of read-only pages, from Andrii Nakryiko & Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo. 2) Fix verifier alu32 known-const subregister bound tracking for bitwise operations and/or/xor, from Daniel Borkmann. 3) Reject trampoline attachment for functions with variable arguments, and also add a deny list of other forbidden functions, from Jiri Olsa. 4) Fix nested bpf_bprintf_prepare() calls used by various helpers by switching to per-CPU buffers, from Florent Revest. 5) Fix kernel compilation with BTF debug info on ppc64 due to pahole missing TCP-CC functions like cubictcp_init, from Martin KaFai Lau. 6) Add a kconfig entry to provide an option to disallow unprivileged BPF by default, from Daniel Borkmann. 7) Fix libbpf compilation for older libelf when GELF_ST_VISIBILITY() macro is not available, from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. 8) Migrate test_tc_redirect to test_progs framework as prep work for upcoming skb_change_head() fix & selftest, from Jussi Maki. 9) Fix a libbpf segfault in add_dummy_ksym_var() if BTF is not present, from Ian Rogers. 10) Fix tx_only micro-benchmark in xdpsock BPF sample with proper frame size, from Magnus Karlsson. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

bpf: Add kconfig knob for disabling unpriv bpf by default

2021-05-11T20:56:16+00:00

Add a kconfig knob which allows for unprivileged bpf to be disabled by default. If set, the knob sets /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_bpf_disabled to value of 2. This still allows a transition of 2 -> {0,1} through an admin. Similarly, this also still keeps 1 -> {1} behavior intact, so that once set to permanently disabled, it cannot be undone aside from a reboot. We've also added extra2 with max of 2 for the procfs handler, so that an admin still has a chance to toggle between 0 <-> 2. Either way, as an additional alternative, applications can make use of CAP_BPF that we added a while ago. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/74ec548079189e4e4dffaeb42b8987bb3c852eee.1620765074.git.daniel@iogearbox.net

Merge branch 'master' into next

2021-05-08T11:12:55+00:00

Merge master back into next, this allows us to resolve some conflicts in arch/powerpc/Kconfig, and also re-sort the symbols under config PPC so that they are in alphabetical order again.

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-05-07T07:34:51+00:00

Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton: "This is everything else from -mm for this merge window. 90 patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (cleanups and slub), alpha, procfs, sysctl, misc, core-kernel, bitmap, lib, compat, checkpatch, epoll, isofs, nilfs2, hpfs, exit, fork, kexec, gcov, panic, delayacct, gdb, resource, selftests, async, initramfs, ipc, drivers/char, and spelling" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (90 commits) mm: fix typos in comments mm: fix typos in comments treewide: remove editor modelines and cruft ipc/sem.c: spelling fix fs: fat: fix spelling typo of values kernel/sys.c: fix typo kernel/up.c: fix typo kernel/user_namespace.c: fix typos kernel/umh.c: fix some spelling mistakes include/linux/pgtable.h: few spelling fixes mm/slab.c: fix spelling mistake "disired" -> "desired" scripts/spelling.txt: add "overflw" scripts/spelling.txt: Add "diabled" typo scripts/spelling.txt: add "overlfow" arm: print alloc free paths for address in registers mm/vmalloc: remove vwrite() mm: remove xlate_dev_kmem_ptr() drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good mm: fix some typos and code style problems ipc/sem.c: mundane typo fixes ...

drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good

2021-05-07T07:26:34+00:00

Patch series "drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good". Exploring /dev/kmem and /dev/mem in the context of memory hot(un)plug and memory ballooning, I started questioning the existence of /dev/kmem. Comparing it with the /proc/kcore implementation, it does not seem to be able to deal with things like a) Pages unmapped from the direct mapping (e.g., to be used by secretmem) -> kern_addr_valid(). virt_addr_valid() is not sufficient. b) Special cases like gart aperture memory that is not to be touched -> mem_pfn_is_ram() Unless I am missing something, it's at least broken in some cases and might fault/crash the machine. Looks like its existence has been questioned before in 2005 and 2010 [1], after ~11 additional years, it might make sense to revive the discussion. CONFIG_DEVKMEM is only enabled in a single defconfig (on purpose or by mistake?). All distributions disable it: in Ubuntu it has been disabled for more than 10 years, in Debian since 2.6.31, in Fedora at least starting with FC3, in RHEL starting with RHEL4, in SUSE starting from 15sp2, and OpenSUSE has it disabled as well. 1) /dev/kmem was popular for rootkits [2] before it got disabled basically everywhere. Ubuntu documents [3] "There is no modern user of /dev/kmem any more beyond attackers using it to load kernel rootkits.". RHEL documents in a BZ [5] "it served no practical purpose other than to serve as a potential security problem or to enable binary module drivers to access structures/functions they shouldn't be touching" 2) /proc/kcore is a decent interface to have a controlled way to read kernel memory for debugging puposes. (will need some extensions to deal with memory offlining/unplug, memory ballooning, and poisoned pages, though) 3) It might be useful for corner case debugging [1]. KDB/KGDB might be a better fit, especially, to write random memory; harder to shoot yourself into the foot. 4) "Kernel Memory Editor" [4] hasn't seen any updates since 2000 and seems to be incompatible with 64bit [1]. For educational purposes, /proc/kcore might be used to monitor value updates -- or older kernels can be used. 5) It's broken on arm64, and therefore, completely disabled there. Looks like it's essentially unused and has been replaced by better suited interfaces for individual tasks (/proc/kcore, KDB/KGDB). Let's just remove it. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/147901/ [2] https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10505 [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features#A.2Fdev.2Fkmem_disabled [4] https://sourceforge.net/projects/kme/ [5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=154796 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-2-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Kees Cook Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "Alexander A. Klimov" Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Alexandre Belloni Cc: Andrew Lunn Cc: Andrey Zhizhikin Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Brian Cain Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: Corentin Labbe Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Greentime Hu Cc: Gregory Clement Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: huang ying Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: James Troup Cc: Jiaxun Yang Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski Cc: Kuninori Morimoto Cc: Liviu Dudau Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck Cc: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Mikulas Patocka Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Niklas Schnelle Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: "Pavel Machek (CIP)" Cc: Pavel Machek Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" Cc: Pierre Morel Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Rob Herring Cc: Russell King Cc: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Sebastian Hesselbarth Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Stefan Kristiansson Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Sudeep Holla Cc: Theodore Dubois Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Viresh Kumar Cc: William Cohen Cc: Xiaoming Ni Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

init/initramfs.c: do unpacking asynchronously

2021-05-07T07:26:33+00:00

Patch series "background initramfs unpacking, and CONFIG_MODPROBE_PATH", v3. These two patches are independent, but better-together. The second is a rather trivial patch that simply allows the developer to change "/sbin/modprobe" to something else - e.g. the empty string, so that all request_module() during early boot return -ENOENT early, without even spawning a usermode helper, needlessly synchronizing with the initramfs unpacking. The first patch delegates decompressing the initramfs to a worker thread, allowing do_initcalls() in main.c to proceed to the device_ and late_ initcalls without waiting for that decompression (and populating of rootfs) to finish. Obviously, some of those later calls may rely on the initramfs being available, so I've added synchronization points in the firmware loader and usermodehelper paths - there might be other places that would need this, but so far no one has been able to think of any places I have missed. There's not much to win if most of the functionality needed during boot is only available as modules. But systems with a custom-made .config and initramfs can boot faster, partly due to utilizing more than one cpu earlier, partly by avoiding known-futile modprobe calls (which would still trigger synchronization with the initramfs unpacking, thus eliminating most of the first benefit). This patch (of 2): Most of the boot process doesn't actually need anything from the initramfs, until of course PID1 is to be executed. So instead of doing the decompressing and populating of the initramfs synchronously in populate_rootfs() itself, push that off to a worker thread. This is primarily motivated by an embedded ppc target, where unpacking even the rather modest sized initramfs takes 0.6 seconds, which is long enough that the external watchdog becomes unhappy that it doesn't get attention soon enough. By doing the initramfs decompression in a worker thread, we get to do the device_initcalls and hence start petting the watchdog much sooner. Normal desktops might benefit as well. On my mostly stock Ubuntu kernel, my initramfs is a 26M xz-compressed blob, decompressing to around 126M. That takes almost two seconds: [ 0.201454] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs... [ 1.976633] Freeing initrd memory: 29416K Before this patch, these lines occur consecutively in dmesg. With this patch, the timestamps on these two lines is roughly the same as above, but with 172 lines inbetween - so more than one cpu has been kept busy doing work that would otherwise only happen after the populate_rootfs() finished. Should one of the initcalls done after rootfs_initcall time (i.e., device_ and late_ initcalls) need something from the initramfs (say, a kernel module or a firmware blob), it will simply wait for the initramfs unpacking to be done before proceeding, which should in theory make this completely safe. But if some driver pokes around in the filesystem directly and not via one of the official kernel interfaces (i.e. request_firmware*(), call_usermodehelper*) that theory may not hold - also, I certainly might have missed a spot when sprinkling wait_for_initramfs(). So there is an escape hatch in the form of an initramfs_async= command line parameter. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210313212528.2956377-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210313212528.2956377-2-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Jessica Yu Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Nick Desaulniers Cc: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.13-mw0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux

2021-05-06T16:24:18+00:00

Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt: - Support for the memtest= kernel command-line argument. - Support for building the kernel with FORTIFY_SOURCE. - Support for generic clockevent broadcasts. - Support for the buildtar build target. - Some build system cleanups to pass more LLVM-friendly arguments. - Support for kprobes. - A rearranged kernel memory map, the first part of supporting sv48 systems. - Improvements to kexec, along with support for kdump and crash kernels. - An alternatives-based errata framework, along with support for handling a pair of errata that manifest on some SiFive designs (including the HiFive Unmatched). - Support for XIP. - A device tree for the Microchip PolarFire ICICLE SoC and associated dev board. ... along with a bunch of cleanups. There are already a handful of fixes on the list so there will likely be a part 2. * tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.13-mw0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (45 commits) RISC-V: Always define XIP_FIXUP riscv: Remove 32b kernel mapping from page table dump riscv: Fix 32b kernel build with CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL=y RISC-V: Fix error code returned by riscv_hartid_to_cpuid() RISC-V: Enable Microchip PolarFire ICICLE SoC RISC-V: Initial DTS for Microchip ICICLE board dt-bindings: riscv: microchip: Add YAML documentation for the PolarFire SoC RISC-V: Add Microchip PolarFire SoC kconfig option RISC-V: enable XIP RISC-V: Add crash kernel support RISC-V: Add kdump support RISC-V: Improve init_resources() RISC-V: Add kexec support RISC-V: Add EM_RISCV to kexec UAPI header riscv: vdso: fix and clean-up Makefile riscv/mm: Use BUG_ON instead of if condition followed by BUG. riscv/kprobe: fix kernel panic when invoking sys_read traced by kprobe riscv: Set ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX if MMU riscv: module: Create module allocations without exec permissions riscv: bpf: Avoid breaking W^X ...