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Pull /dev/random fixes from Ted Ts'o:
"Fix some bugs in the /dev/random driver which causes getrandom(2) to
unblock earlier than designed.
Thanks to Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero for pointing this out
to me"
* tag 'random_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random:
random: add new ioctl RNDRESEEDCRNG
random: crng_reseed() should lock the crng instance that it is modifying
random: set up the NUMA crng instances after the CRNG is fully initialized
random: use a different mixing algorithm for add_device_randomness()
random: fix crng_ready() test
Pull libnvdimm fixes from Dan Williams:
"A regression fix, new unit test infrastructure and a build fix:
- Regression fix addressing support for the new NVDIMM label storage
area access commands (_LSI, _LSR, and _LSW).
The Intel specific version of these commands communicated the
"Device Locked" status on the label-storage-information command.
However, these new commands (standardized in ACPI 6.2) communicate
the "Device Locked" status on the label-storage-read command, and
the driver was missing the indication.
Reading from locked persistent memory is similar to reading
unmapped PCI memory space, returns all 1's.
- Unit test infrastructure is added to regression test the "Device
Locked" detection failure.
- A build fix is included to allow the "of_pmem" driver to be built
as a module and translate an Open Firmware described device to its
local numa node"
* 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
MAINTAINERS: Add backup maintainers for libnvdimm and DAX
device-dax: allow MAP_SYNC to succeed
Revert "libnvdimm, of_pmem: workaround OF_NUMA=n build error"
libnvdimm, of_pmem: use dev_to_node() instead of of_node_to_nid()
tools/testing/nvdimm: enable labels for nfit_test.1 dimms
tools/testing/nvdimm: fix missing newline in nfit_test_dimm 'handle' attribute
tools/testing/nvdimm: support nfit_test_dimm attributes under nfit_test.1
tools/testing/nvdimm: allow custom error code injection
libnvdimm, dimm: handle EACCES failures from label reads
Add a new ioctl which forces the the crng to be reseeded.
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Pull sound fixes from Takashi Iwai:
"A few small fixes:
- a fix for the NULL-dereference in rawmidi compat ioctls, triggered
by fuzzer
- HD-audio Realtek codec quirks, a VIA controller fixup
- a long-standing bug fix in LINE6 MIDI"
* tag 'sound-4.17-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound:
ALSA: rawmidi: Fix missing input substream checks in compat ioctls
ALSA: hda/realtek - adjust the location of one mic
ALSA: hda/realtek - set PINCFG_HEADSET_MIC to parse_flags
ALSA: hda - New VIA controller suppor no-snoop path
ALSA: line6: Use correct endpoint type for midi output
Adding additional maintainers to libnvdimm related code and DAX.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Fixes: 1e7f583af67b ("random: make /dev/urandom scalable for silly...")
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 4.8+
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Pull watchdog fixes from Wim Van Sebroeck:
- fall-through fixes
- MAINTAINER change for hpwdt
- renesas-wdt: Add support for WDIOF_CARDRESET
- aspeed: set bootstatus during probe
* tag 'linux-watchdog-4.17-rc2' of git://www.linux-watchdog.org/linux-watchdog:
aspeed: watchdog: Set bootstatus during probe
watchdog: renesas-wdt: Add support for WDIOF_CARDRESET
watchdog: wafer5823wdt: Mark expected switch fall-through
watchdog: w83977f_wdt: Mark expected switch fall-through
watchdog: sch311x_wdt: Mark expected switch fall-through
watchdog: hpwdt: change maintainer.
Some rawmidi compat ioctls lack of the input substream checks
(although they do check only for rfile->output). This many eventually
lead to an Oops as NULL substream is passed to the rawmidi core
functions.
Fix it by adding the proper checks before each function call.
The bug was spotted by syzkaller.
Reported-by: syzbot+f7a0348affc3b67bc617@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
MAP_SYNC is a nop for device-dax. Allow MAP_SYNC to succeed on device-dax
to eliminate special casing between device-dax and fs-dax as to when the
flag can be specified. Device-dax users already implicitly assume that they do
not need to call fsync(), and this enables them to explicitly check for this
capability.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: b6fb293f2497 ("mm: Define MAP_SYNC and VM_SYNC flags")
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Until the primary_crng is fully initialized, don't initialize the NUMA
crng nodes. Otherwise users of /dev/urandom on NUMA systems before
the CRNG is fully initialized can get very bad quality randomness. Of
course everyone should move to getrandom(2) where this won't be an
issue, but there's a lot of legacy code out there. This related to
CVE-2018-1108.
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Fixes: 1e7f583af67b ("random: make /dev/urandom scalable for silly...")
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 4.8+
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Pull Kselftest fix from Shuah Khan:
"A fix from Michael Ellerman to not run dnotify_test by default to
prevent Kselftest running forever"
* tag 'linux-kselftest-4.17-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest:
selftests/filesystems: Don't run dnotify_test by default
Check the aspeed timeout status register to see if the system has booted
from the secondary boot source. If so, set the watchdog device
bootstatus flag for "Card previously reset the CPU."
Signed-off-by: Eddie James <eajames@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
There are two front mics on this machine, if we don't adjust the
location for one of them, they will have the same mixer name,
pulseaudio can't handle this situation.
After applying this FIXUP, they will have different mixer name,
then pulseaudio can handle them correctly.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Hui Wang <hui.wang@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
With commit df3f126482db ("libnvdimm, of_pmem: use dev_to_node() instead
of of_node_to_nid()") it is now possible to allow of_pmem to be built as
a module as originally implemented.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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