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The function of_find_node_by_path() acquires a reference to the node
returned by it and that reference needs to be dropped by its caller.
su_get_type() doesn't do that. The match node are used as an identifier
to compare against the current node, so we can directly drop the refcount
after getting the node from the path as it is not used as pointer.
Fix this by use a single variable and drop the refcount right after
of_find_node_by_path().
Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
While checking boot log from SPARC qemu, I saw that the "ARCH: sunxx"
information was split on two different line.
This patchs merge both line together.
In the meantime, thoses information need to be printed via pr_info
since printk print them by default via the warning loglevel.
Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe@baylibre.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
GNU linker's -z common-page-size's default value is based on the target
architecture. arch/sparc/vdso/Makefile sets it to the architecture
default, which is implicit and redundant. Drop it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181206191231.192355-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pull SCSI fixes from James Bottomley:
"Four obvious bug fixes. The vmw_pscsi is so old that it's amazing
no-one noticed before now"
* tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi:
scsi: storvsc: Fix a race in sub-channel creation that can cause panic
scsi: vmw_pscsi: Rearrange code to avoid multiple calls to free_irq during unload
scsi: libiscsi: Fix NULL pointer dereference in iscsi_eh_session_reset
scsi: lpfc: fix block guard enablement on SLI3 adapters
Pull ARC fixes/updates from Vineet Gupta
- Missing reads{x}()/writes{x}() getting in the way of some drivers [Jose Abreu]
- Builds defaulting to ARCv2 ISA based configsa [Kevin Hilman]
- Misc fixes
* tag 'arc-4.20-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc:
ARC: io.h: Implement reads{x}()/writes{x}()
ARC: change defconfig defaults to ARCv2
arc: [devboards] Add support of NFSv3 ACL
ARC: mm: fix uninitialised signal code in do_page_fault
ARC: [plat-hsdk] Enable DW APB GPIO support
ARCv2: boot log unaligned access in use
ARC: IOC: panic if kernel was started with previously enabled IOC
ARC: remove redundant 'default n' from Kconfig
We can concurrently try to open the same sub-channel from 2 paths:
path #1: vmbus_onoffer() -> vmbus_process_offer() -> handle_sc_creation().
path #2: storvsc_probe() -> storvsc_connect_to_vsp() ->
-> storvsc_channel_init() -> handle_multichannel_storage() ->
-> vmbus_are_subchannels_present() -> handle_sc_creation().
They conflict with each other, but it was not an issue before the recent
commit ae6935ed7d42 ("vmbus: split ring buffer allocation from open"),
because at the beginning of vmbus_open() we checked newchannel->state so
only one path could succeed, and the other would return with -EINVAL.
After ae6935ed7d42, the failing path frees the channel's ringbuffer by
vmbus_free_ring(), and this causes a panic later.
Commit ae6935ed7d42 itself is good, and it just reveals the longstanding
race. We can resolve the issue by removing path #2, i.e. removing the
second vmbus_are_subchannels_present() in handle_multichannel_storage().
BTW, the comment "Check to see if sub-channels have already been created"
in handle_multichannel_storage() is incorrect: when we unload the driver,
we first close the sub-channel(s) and then close the primary channel, next
the host sends rescind-offer message(s) so primary->sc_list will become
empty. This means the first vmbus_are_subchannels_present() in
handle_multichannel_storage() is never useful.
Fixes: ae6935ed7d42 ("vmbus: split ring buffer allocation from open")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
This is a full revert of ac5b2c18911f ("mm: thp: relax __GFP_THISNODE for
MADV_HUGEPAGE mappings") and a partial revert of 89c83fb539f9 ("mm, thp:
consolidate THP gfp handling into alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask").
By not setting __GFP_THISNODE, applications can allocate remote hugepages
when the local node is fragmented or low on memory when either the thp
defrag setting is "always" or the vma has been madvised with
MADV_HUGEPAGE.
Remote access to hugepages often has much higher latency than local pages
of the native page size. On Haswell, ac5b2c18911f was shown to have a
13.9% access regression after this commit for binaries that remap their
text segment to be backed by transparent hugepages.
The intent of ac5b2c18911f is to address an issue where a local node is
low on memory or fragmented such that a hugepage cannot be allocated. In
every scenario where this was described as a fix, there is abundant and
unfragmented remote memory available to allocate from, even with a greater
access latency.
If remote memory is also low or fragmented, not setting __GFP_THISNODE was
also measured on Haswell to have a 40% regression in allocation latency.
Restore __GFP_THISNODE for thp allocations.
Fixes: ac5b2c18911f ("mm: thp: relax __GFP_THISNODE for MADV_HUGEPAGE mappings")
Fixes: 89c83fb539f9 ("mm, thp: consolidate THP gfp handling into alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask")
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some ARC CPU's do not support unaligned loads/stores. Currently, generic
implementation of reads{b/w/l}()/writes{b/w/l}() is being used with ARC.
This can lead to misfunction of some drivers as generic functions do a
plain dereference of a pointer that can be unaligned.
Let's use {get/put}_unaligned() helpers instead of plain dereference of
pointer in order to fix. The helpers allow to get and store data from an
unaligned address whilst preserving the CPU internal alignment.
According to [1], the use of these helpers are costly in terms of
performance so we added an initial check for a buffer already aligned so
that the usage of the helpers can be avoided, when possible.
[1] Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt
Cc: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Cc: Joao Pinto <jpinto@synopsys.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Tested-by: Vitor Soares <soares@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Jose Abreu <joabreu@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Currently pvscsi_remove calls free_irq more than once as
pvscsi_release_resources and __pvscsi_shutdown both call
pvscsi_shutdown_intr. This results in a 'Trying to free already-free IRQ'
warning and stack trace. To solve the problem pvscsi_shutdown_intr has been
moved out of pvscsi_release_resources.
Signed-off-by: Cathy Avery <cavery@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ewan D. Milne <emilne@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe:
"A bit earlier in the week as usual, but there's a fix here that should
go in sooner rather than later.
Under a combination of circumstance, the direct issue path in blk-mq
could corrupt data. This wasn't easy to hit, but the ones that are
affected by it, seem to hit it pretty easily. Full explanation in the
patch. None of the regular filesystem and storage testing has
triggered it, even though it's been around since 4.19-rc1.
Outside of that, whitelist trim tweak for certain Samsung devices for
libata"
* tag 'for-linus-20181205' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
blk-mq: fix corruption with direct issue
libata: whitelist all SAMSUNG MZ7KM* solid-state disks
Change the default defconfig (used with 'make defconfig') to the ARCv2
nsim_hs_defconfig, and also switch the default Kconfig ISA selection to
ARCv2.
This allows several default defconfigs (e.g. make defconfig, make
allnoconfig, make tinyconfig) to all work with ARCv2 by default.
Note since we change default architecture from ARCompact to ARCv2
it's required to explicitly mention architecture type in ARCompact
defconfigs otherwise ARCv2 will be implied and binaries will be
generated for ARCv2.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.4.x
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
This commit addresses NULL pointer dereference in iscsi_eh_session_reset.
Reference should not be made to session->leadconn when session->state is
set to ISCSI_STATE_TERMINATE.
Signed-off-by: Fred Herard <fred.herard@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Pull btrfs fix from David Sterba:
"A patch in 4.19 introduced a sanity check that was too strict and a
filesystem cannot be mounted.
This happens for filesystems with more than 10 devices and has been
reported by a few users so we need the fix to propagate to stable"
* tag 'for-4.20-rc5-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux:
btrfs: tree-checker: Don't check max block group size as current max chunk size limit is unreliable
If we attempt a direct issue to a SCSI device, and it returns BUSY, then
we queue the request up normally. However, the SCSI layer may have
already setup SG tables etc for this particular command. If we later
merge with this request, then the old tables are no longer valid. Once
we issue the IO, we only read/write the original part of the request,
not the new state of it.
This causes data corruption, and is most often noticed with the file
system complaining about the just read data being invalid:
[ 235.934465] EXT4-fs error (device sda1): ext4_iget:4831: inode #7142: comm dpkg-query: bad extra_isize 24937 (inode size 256)
because most of it is garbage...
This doesn't happen from the normal issue path, as we will simply defer
the request to the hardware queue dispatch list if we fail. Once it's on
the dispatch list, we never merge with it.
Fix this from the direct issue path by flagging the request as
REQ_NOMERGE so we don't change the size of it before issue.
See also:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201685
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Fixes: 6ce3dd6eec1 ("blk-mq: issue directly if hw queue isn't busy in case of 'none'")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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