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On non-EFI systems, it wasn't possible to test the platform firmware
loader because it will have never set "checked_fw" during __init.
Instead, allow the test code to override this check. Additionally split
the declarations into a private symbol namespace so there is greater
enforcement of the symbol visibility.
Fixes: 548193cba2a7 ("test_firmware: add support for firmware_request_platform")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200909225354.3118328-1-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fix kernel-doc warning in <linux/device.h>:
../include/linux/device.h:613: warning: Function parameter or member 'em_pd' not described in 'device'
Fixes: 1bc138c62295 ("PM / EM: add support for other devices than CPUs in Energy Model")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d97f40ad-3033-703a-c3cb-2843ce0f6371@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
__kobject_del() is called from two places, in one where kobj is dereferenced
before and thus can't be NULL, and in the other the NULL check is done before
call. Drop unneeded conditional in __kobject_del().
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200803083520.5460-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit fixes two issues:
1. The lockdep warning reported by Dong Aisheng <dongas86@gmail.com> [1].
It is a warning about a cycle (dpm_list_mtx --> kn->active#3 --> fw_lock)
that was introduced when device-link devices were added to expose device
link information in sysfs.
The patch that "introduced" this cycle can't be reverted because it's fixes
a real SRCU issue and also ensures that the device-link device is deleted
as soon as the device-link is deleted. This is important to avoid sysfs
name collisions if the device-link is create again immediately (this can
happen a lot with deferred probing).
2. Inconsistency in grabbing device_pm_lock() during device link deletion
Some device link deletion code paths grab device_pm_lock(), while others
don't. The device_pm_lock() is grabbed during device_link_add() because it
checks if the supplier is in the dpm_list and also reorders the dpm_list.
However, when a device link is deleted, it does not do either of those and
therefore device_pm_lock() is not necessary. Dropping the device_pm_lock()
in all the device link deletion paths removes the inconsistency in locking.
Thanks to Stephen Boyd for helping me understand the lockdep splat.
Fixes: 843e600b8a2b ("driver core: Fix sleeping in invalid context during device link deletion")
[1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAA+hA=S4eAreb7vo69LAXSk2t5=DEKNxHaiY1wSpk4xTp9urLg@mail.gmail.com/
Reported-by: Dong Aisheng <dongas86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Tested-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200901184445.1736658-1-saravanak@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
When changing the document related to kernel security workflow, notify
the security mailing list as its concerned by this.
Cc: <security@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200827182029.3458-1-krzk@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
dev_err_probe() prepends the message with an error code. Let's make it
more readable by translating the code to a more recognisable symbol.
Fixes: a787e5400a1c ("driver core: add device probe log helper")
Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ea3f973e4708919573026fdce52c264db147626d.1598630856.git.mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The '#ifdef MODULE' check in the original commit does not work as intended.
The code under the check is not built at all if CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y. Fix this
by using a correct check.
Fixes: 275678e7a9be ("debugfs: Check module state before warning in {full/open}_proxy_open()")
Signed-off-by: Vladis Dronov <vdronov@redhat.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200811150129.53343-1-vdronov@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The commit 079ad2fb4bf9 ("kobject: Avoid premature parent object freeing in
kobject_cleanup()") inadvertently dropped a possibility to call kobject_del()
with NULL pointer. Restore the old behaviour.
Fixes: 079ad2fb4bf9 ("kobject: Avoid premature parent object freeing in kobject_cleanup()")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@gmx.com>
Cc: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200803082706.65347-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
vfree() is being called on paged buffer allocated
using alloc_page() and mapped using vmap().
Freeing of pages in vfree() relies on nr_pages of
struct vm_struct. vmap() does not update nr_pages.
It can lead to memory leaks.
Fixes: ddaf29fd9bb6 ("firmware: Free temporary page table after vmapping")
Signed-off-by: Prateek Sood <prsood@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1597957070-27185-1-git-send-email-prsood@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
- Add perf support for emitting extended registers for power10.
- A fix for CPU hotplug on pseries, where on large/loaded systems we
may not wait long enough for the CPU to be offlined, leading to
crashes.
- Addition of a raw cputable entry for Power10, which is not required
to boot, but is required to make our PMU setup work correctly in
guests.
- Three fixes for the recent changes on 32-bit Book3S to move modules
into their own segment for strict RWX.
- A fix for a recent change in our powernv PCI code that could lead to
crashes.
- A change to our perf interrupt accounting to avoid soft lockups when
using some events, found by syzkaller.
- A change in the way we handle power loss events from the hypervisor
on pseries. We no longer immediately shut down if we're told we're
running on a UPS.
- A few other minor fixes.
Thanks to Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andreas Schwab, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T
Sudhakar, Athira Rajeev, Christophe Leroy, Frederic Barrat, Greg Kurz,
Kajol Jain, Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Neuling, Michael Roth,
Nageswara R Sastry, Oliver O'Halloran, Thiago Jung Bauermann,
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, Vasant Hegde.
* tag 'powerpc-5.9-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Move cpumask file to top folder of hv-24x7 driver
powerpc/32s: Fix module loading failure when VMALLOC_END is over 0xf0000000
powerpc/pseries: Do not initiate shutdown when system is running on UPS
powerpc/perf: Fix soft lockups due to missed interrupt accounting
powerpc/powernv/pci: Fix possible crash when releasing DMA resources
powerpc/pseries/hotplug-cpu: wait indefinitely for vCPU death
powerpc/32s: Fix is_module_segment() when MODULES_VADDR is defined
powerpc/kasan: Fix KASAN_SHADOW_START on BOOK3S_32
powerpc/fixmap: Fix the size of the early debug area
powerpc/pkeys: Fix build error with PPC_MEM_KEYS disabled
powerpc/kernel: Cleanup machine check function declarations
powerpc: Add POWER10 raw mode cputable entry
powerpc/perf: Add extended regs support for power10 platform
powerpc/perf: Add support for outputting extended regs in perf intr_regs
powerpc: Fix P10 PVR revision in /proc/cpuinfo for SMT4 cores
Pull x86 fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A single fix for x86 which removes the RDPID usage from the paranoid
entry path and unconditionally uses LSL to retrieve the CPU number.
RDPID depends on MSR_TSX_AUX. KVM has an optmization to avoid
expensive MRS read/writes on VMENTER/EXIT. It caches the MSR values
and restores them either when leaving the run loop, on preemption or
when going out to user space. MSR_TSX_AUX is part of that lazy MSR
set, so after writing the guest value and before the lazy restore any
exception using the paranoid entry will read the guest value and use
it as CPU number to retrieve the GSBASE value for the current CPU when
FSGSBASE is enabled. As RDPID is only used in that particular entry
path, there is no reason to burden VMENTER/EXIT with two extra MSR
writes. Remove the RDPID optimization, which is not even backed by
numbers from the paranoid entry path instead"
* tag 'x86-urgent-2020-08-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/entry/64: Do not use RDPID in paranoid entry to accomodate KVM
Commit 792f73f747b8 ("powerpc/hv-24x7: Add sysfs files inside hv-24x7
device to show cpumask") added cpumask file as part of hv-24x7 driver
inside the interface folder. The cpumask file is supposed to be in the
top folder of the PMU driver in order to make hotplug work.
This patch fixes that issue and creates new group 'cpumask_attr_group'
to add cpumask file and make sure it added in top folder.
command:# cat /sys/devices/hv_24x7/cpumask
0
Fixes: 792f73f747b8 ("powerpc/hv-24x7: Add sysfs files inside hv-24x7 device to show cpumask")
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821080610.123997-1-kjain@linux.ibm.com
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