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Pull NTB fixes from Jon Mason:
"NTB bug fixes to address the modinfo in ntb_perf, a couple of bugs in
the NTB transport QP calculations, skx doorbells, and sleeping in
ntb_async_tx_submit"
* tag 'ntb-4.12-bugfixes' of git://github.com/jonmason/ntb:
ntb: no sleep in ntb_async_tx_submit
ntb: ntb_hw_intel: Skylake doorbells should be 32bits, not 64bits
ntb_transport: fix bug calculating num_qps_mw
ntb_transport: fix qp count bug
NTB: ntb_test: fix bug printing ntb_perf results
ntb: Correct modinfo usage statement for ntb_perf
Do not sleep in ntb_async_tx_submit, which could deadlock.
This reverts commit "8c874cc140d667f84ae4642bb5b5e0d6396d2ca4"
Fixes: 8c874cc140d6 ("NTB: Address out of DMA descriptor issue with NTB")
Reported-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Allen Hubbe <Allen.Hubbe@dell.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>
Stack guard page is a useful feature to reduce a risk of stack smashing
into a different mapping. We have been using a single page gap which
is sufficient to prevent having stack adjacent to a different mapping.
But this seems to be insufficient in the light of the stack usage in
userspace. E.g. glibc uses as large as 64kB alloca() in many commonly
used functions. Others use constructs liks gid_t buffer[NGROUPS_MAX]
which is 256kB or stack strings with MAX_ARG_STRLEN.
This will become especially dangerous for suid binaries and the default
no limit for the stack size limit because those applications can be
tricked to consume a large portion of the stack and a single glibc call
could jump over the guard page. These attacks are not theoretical,
unfortunatelly.
Make those attacks less probable by increasing the stack guard gap
to 1MB (on systems with 4k pages; but make it depend on the page size
because systems with larger base pages might cap stack allocations in
the PAGE_SIZE units) which should cover larger alloca() and VLA stack
allocations. It is obviously not a full fix because the problem is
somehow inherent, but it should reduce attack space a lot.
One could argue that the gap size should be configurable from userspace,
but that can be done later when somebody finds that the new 1MB is wrong
for some special case applications. For now, add a kernel command line
option (stack_guard_gap) to specify the stack gap size (in page units).
Implementation wise, first delete all the old code for stack guard page:
because although we could get away with accounting one extra page in a
stack vma, accounting a larger gap can break userspace - case in point,
a program run with "ulimit -S -v 20000" failed when the 1MB gap was
counted for RLIMIT_AS; similar problems could come with RLIMIT_MLOCK
and strict non-overcommit mode.
Instead of keeping gap inside the stack vma, maintain the stack guard
gap as a gap between vmas: using vm_start_gap() in place of vm_start
(or vm_end_gap() in place of vm_end if VM_GROWSUP) in just those few
places which need to respect the gap - mainly arch_get_unmapped_area(),
and and the vma tree's subtree_gap support for that.
Original-patch-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Original-patch-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> # parisc
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fixing doorbell register length to 32bits per spec. On Skylake NTB, the
doorbell registers are 32bit write only registers. The source for the
doorbell is a 64bit register that shows the interrupt bits.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Fixes: 783dfa6cc41b ("ntb: Adding Skylake Xeon NTB support")
Acked-by: Allen Hubbe <Allen.Hubbe@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>
Pull ARM SoC fixes from Olof Johansson:
"Stream of fixes has slowed down, only a few this week:
- Some DT fixes for Allwinner platforms, and addition of a clock to
the R_CCU clock controller that had been missed.
- A couple of small DT fixes for am335x-sl50"
* tag 'armsoc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc:
arm64: allwinner: a64: Add PLL_PERIPH0 clock to the R_CCU
ARM: sunxi: h3-h5: Add PLL_PERIPH0 clock to the R_CCU
ARM: dts: am335x-sl50: Fix cannot claim requested pins for spi0
ARM: dts: am335x-sl50: Fix card detect pin for mmc1
arm64: allwinner: h5: Remove syslink to shared DTSI
ARM: sunxi: h3/h5: fix the compatible of R_CCU
A divide by zero error occurs if qp_count is less than mw_count because
num_qps_mw is calculated to be zero. The calculation appears to be
incorrect.
The requirement is for num_qps_mw to be set to qp_count / mw_count
with any remainder divided among the earlier mws.
For example, if mw_count is 5 and qp_count is 12 then mws 0 and 1
will have 3 qps per window and mws 2 through 4 will have 2 qps per window.
Thus, when mw_num < qp_count % mw_count, num_qps_mw is 1 higher
than when mw_num >= qp_count.
Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Fixes: e26a5843f7f5 ("NTB: Split ntb_hw_intel and ntb_transport drivers")
Acked-by: Allen Hubbe <Allen.Hubbe@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>
Pull virtio bugfix from Michael Tsirkin:
"It turns out balloon does not handle IOMMUs correctly. We should fix
that at some point, for now let's just disable this configuration"
* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost:
virtio_balloon: disable VIOMMU support
Allwinner fixes for 4.12
A few fixes around the PRCM support that got in 4.12 with a wrong
compatible, and a missing clock in the binding.
* tag 'sunxi-fixes-for-4.12' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sunxi/linux:
arm64: allwinner: a64: Add PLL_PERIPH0 clock to the R_CCU
ARM: sunxi: h3-h5: Add PLL_PERIPH0 clock to the R_CCU
arm64: allwinner: h5: Remove syslink to shared DTSI
ARM: sunxi: h3/h5: fix the compatible of R_CCU
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
In cases where there are more mw's than spads/2-2, the mw count gets
reduced to match the limitation. ntb_transport also tries to ensure that
there are fewer qps than mws but uses the full mw count instead of
the reduced one. When this happens, the math in
'ntb_transport_setup_qp_mw' will get confused and result in a kernel
paging request bug.
This patch fixes the bug by reducing qp_count to the reduced mw count
instead of the full mw count.
Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Fixes: e26a5843f7f5 ("NTB: Split ntb_hw_intel and ntb_transport drivers")
Acked-by: Allen Hubbe <Allen.Hubbe@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>
Pull i2c fixes from Wolfram Sang:
"Two driver bugfixes"
* 'i2c/for-current-fixed' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux:
i2c: ismt: fix wrong device address when unmap the data buffer
i2c: rcar: use correct length when unmapping DMA
virtio balloon bypasses the DMA API entirely so does not support the
VIOMMU right now. It's not clear we need that support, for now let's
just make sure we don't pretend to support it.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
Fixes: 1a937693993f ("virtio: new feature to detect IOMMU device quirk")
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Two fixes for am335x-sl50 to fix a boot time error
for claiming SPI pins, and to fix a SDIO card detect
pin for production version of the device.
* tag 'omap-for-v4.12/fixes-sl50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap:
ARM: dts: am335x-sl50: Fix cannot claim requested pins for spi0
ARM: dts: am335x-sl50: Fix card detect pin for mmc1
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>