pm24.git/kernel, branch v4.4-rc3

pidns: fix NULL dereference in __task_pid_nr_ns()

2015-11-24T20:03:55Z

I got a crash during a "perf top" session that was caused by a race in __task_pid_nr_ns() : pid_nr_ns() was inlined, but apparently compiler chose to read task->pids[type].pid twice, and the pid->level dereference crashed because we got a NULL pointer at the second read : if (pid && ns->level <= pid->level) { // CRASH Just use RCU API properly to solve this race, and not worry about "perf top" crashing hosts :( get_task_pid() can benefit from same fix. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/panic.c: turn off locks debug before releasing console lock

2015-11-21T00:17:32Z

Commit 08d78658f393 ("panic: release stale console lock to always get the logbuf printed out") introduced an unwanted bad unlock balance report when panic() is called directly and not from OOPS (e.g. from out_of_memory()). The difference is that in case of OOPS we disable locks debug in oops_enter() and on direct panic call nobody does that. Fixes: 08d78658f393 ("panic: release stale console lock to always get the logbuf printed out") Reported-by: kernel test robot Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Xie XiuQi Cc: Seth Jennings Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/signal.c: unexport sigsuspend()

2015-11-21T00:17:32Z

sigsuspend() is nowhere used except in signal.c itself, so we can mark it static do not pollute the global namespace. But this patch is more than a boring cleanup patch, it fixes a real issue on UserModeLinux. UML has a special console driver to display ttys using xterm, or other terminal emulators, on the host side. Vegard reported that sometimes UML is unable to spawn a xterm and he's facing the following warning: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 908 at include/linux/thread_info.h:128 sigsuspend+0xab/0xc0() It turned out that this warning makes absolutely no sense as the UML xterm code calls sigsuspend() on the host side, at least it tries. But as the kernel itself offers a sigsuspend() symbol the linker choose this one instead of the glibc wrapper. Interestingly this code used to work since ever but always blocked signals on the wrong side. Some recent kernel change made the WARN_ON() trigger and uncovered the bug. It is a wonderful example of how much works by chance on computers. :-) Fixes: 68f3f16d9ad0f1 ("new helper: sigsuspend()") Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger Reported-by: Vegard Nossum Tested-by: Vegard Nossum Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: [3.5+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching

2015-11-19T20:16:12Z

Pull livepatching fix from Jiri Kosina: "A fix for module handling in case kASLR has been enabled, from Zhou Chengming" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching: livepatch: x86: fix relocation computation with kASLR

Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2015-11-15T17:36:24Z

Pull perf updates from Thomas Gleixner: "Mostly updates to the perf tool plus two fixes to the kernel core code: - Handle tracepoint filters correctly for inherited events (Peter Zijlstra) - Prevent a deadlock in perf_lock_task_context (Paul McKenney) - Add missing newlines to some pr_err() calls (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) - Print full source file paths when using 'perf annotate --print-line --full-paths' (Michael Petlan) - Fix 'perf probe -d' when just one out of uprobes and kprobes is enabled (Wang Nan) - Add compiler.h to list.h to fix 'make perf-tar-src-pkg' generated tarballs, i.e. out of tree building (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) - Add the llvm-src-base.c and llvm-src-kbuild.c files, generated by the 'perf test' LLVM entries, when running it in-tree, to .gitignore (Yunlong Song) - libbpf error reporting improvements, using a strerror interface to more precisely tell the user about problems with the provided scriptlet, be it in C or as a ready made object file (Wang Nan) - Do not be case sensitive when searching for matching 'perf test' entries (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) - Inform the user about objdump failures in 'perf annotate' (Andi Kleen) - Improve the LLVM 'perf test' entry, introduce a new ones for BPF and kbuild tests to check the environment used by clang to compile .c scriptlets (Wang Nan)" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits) perf/x86/intel/rapl: Remove the unused RAPL_EVENT_DESC() macro tools include: Add compiler.h to list.h perf probe: Verify parameters in two functions perf session: Add missing newlines to some pr_err() calls perf annotate: Support full source file paths for srcline fix perf test: Add llvm-src-base.c and llvm-src-kbuild.c to .gitignore perf: Fix inherited events vs. tracepoint filters perf: Disable IRQs across RCU RS CS that acquires scheduler lock perf test: Do not be case sensitive when searching for matching tests perf test: Add 'perf test BPF' perf test: Enhance the LLVM tests: add kbuild test perf test: Enhance the LLVM test: update basic BPF test program perf bpf: Improve BPF related error messages perf tools: Make fetch_kernel_version() publicly available bpf tools: Add new API bpf_object__get_kversion() bpf tools: Improve libbpf error reporting perf probe: Cleanup find_perf_probe_point_from_map to reduce redundancy perf annotate: Inform the user about objdump failures in --stdio perf stat: Make stat options global perf sched latency: Fix thread pid reuse issue ...

Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2015-11-15T17:35:33Z

Pull scheduler fix from Thomas Gleixner: "A single fix to prevent math underflow in the numa balancing code" * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/numa: Fix math underflow in task_tick_numa()

Merge branches 'irq-urgent-for-linus' and 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2015-11-15T17:30:48Z

Pull irq and timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner: - An irq regression fix to restore the wakeup behaviour of chained interrupts. - A timer fix for a long standing race versus timers scheduled on a target cpu which got exposed by recent changes in the workqueue implementation. * 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: genirq/PM: Restore system wake up from chained interrupts * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: timers: Use proper base migration in add_timer_on()

Merge tag 'trace-v4.4-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2015-11-13T00:22:54Z

Pull trace cleanups from Steven Rostedt: "This contains three more clean up patches. One patch is needed to make tracing work without debugfs now that tracing uses its own tracefs. The second is removing an unused variable. The third is fixing a warning about unused variables when MAX_TRACER is not configured. Note, this warning shows up in gcc 6.0, but does not show up in gcc 4.9, as it seems that gcc does not complain about constants not being used" * tag 'trace-v4.4-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: tracing: #ifdef out uses of max trace when CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE is not set tracing: Remove unused ftrace_cpu_disabled per cpu variable tracing: Make tracing work when debugfs is not configured in

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

2015-11-12T22:34:06Z

Pull second batch of kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini: "Four changes: - x86: work around two nasty cases where a benign exception occurs while another is being delivered. The endless stream of exceptions causes an infinite loop in the processor, which not even NMIs or SMIs can interrupt; in the virt case, there is no possibility to exit to the host either. - x86: support for Skylake per-guest TSC rate. Long supported by AMD, the patches mostly move things from there to common arch/x86/kvm/ code. - generic: remove local_irq_save/restore from the guest entry and exit paths when context tracking is enabled. The patches are a few months old, but we discussed them again at kernel summit. Andy will pick up from here and, in 4.5, try to remove it from the user entry/exit paths. - PPC: Two bug fixes, see merge commit 370289756becc for details" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (21 commits) KVM: x86: rename update_db_bp_intercept to update_bp_intercept KVM: svm: unconditionally intercept #DB KVM: x86: work around infinite loop in microcode when #AC is delivered context_tracking: avoid irq_save/irq_restore on guest entry and exit context_tracking: remove duplicate enabled check KVM: VMX: Dump TSC multiplier in dump_vmcs() KVM: VMX: Use a scaled host TSC for guest readings of MSR_IA32_TSC KVM: VMX: Setup TSC scaling ratio when a vcpu is loaded KVM: VMX: Enable and initialize VMX TSC scaling KVM: x86: Use the correct vcpu's TSC rate to compute time scale KVM: x86: Move TSC scaling logic out of call-back read_l1_tsc() KVM: x86: Move TSC scaling logic out of call-back adjust_tsc_offset() KVM: x86: Replace call-back compute_tsc_offset() with a common function KVM: x86: Replace call-back set_tsc_khz() with a common function KVM: x86: Add a common TSC scaling function KVM: x86: Add a common TSC scaling ratio field in kvm_vcpu_arch KVM: x86: Collect information for setting TSC scaling ratio KVM: x86: declare a few variables as __read_mostly KVM: x86: merge handle_mmio_page_fault and handle_mmio_page_fault_common KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't dynamically split core when already split ...

livepatch: x86: fix relocation computation with kASLR

2015-11-11T16:36:04Z

With kASLR enabled, old_addr provided by patch module is being shifted accrodingly so that the symbol lookups work. To have module relocations handled properly as well, the same transformation needs to be perfomed on relocation address information. [jkosina@suse.cz: extended / reworded changelog a bit] Reported-by: Cyril B. Signed-off-by: Zhou Chengming Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina