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Pull locking fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"A paravirt UP-patching fix, and an I2C MUX driver lockdep warning fix"
* 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
locking/pvqspinlock/x86: Use LOCK_PREFIX in __pv_queued_spin_unlock() assembly code
i2c/mux, locking/core: Annotate the nested rt_mutex usage
locking/rtmutex: Allow specifying a subclass for nested locking
Pull EFI fix from Ingo Molnar:
"An UEFI variables fix for SEV guests"
* 'efi-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/efi: Access EFI MMIO data as unencrypted when SEV is active
The LOCK_PREFIX macro should be used in the __raw_callee_save___pv_queued_spin_unlock()
assembly code, so that the lock prefix can be patched out on UP systems.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1531858560-21547-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
SEV guest fails to update the UEFI runtime variables stored in the
flash.
The following commit:
1379edd59673 ("x86/efi: Access EFI data as encrypted when SEV is active")
unconditionally maps all the UEFI runtime data as 'encrypted' (C=1).
When SEV is active the UEFI runtime data marked as EFI_MEMORY_MAPPED_IO
should be mapped as 'unencrypted' so that both guest and hypervisor can
access the data.
Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.15.x
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 1379edd59673 ("x86/efi: Access EFI data as encrypted ...")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180720012846.23560-2-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
If an i2c topology has instances of nested muxes, then a lockdep splat
is produced when when i2c_parent_lock_bus() is called. Here is an
example:
============================================
WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
--------------------------------------------
insmod/68159 is trying to acquire lock:
(i2c_register_adapter#2){+.+.}, at: i2c_parent_lock_bus+0x32/0x50 [i2c_mux]
but task is already holding lock:
(i2c_register_adapter#2){+.+.}, at: i2c_parent_lock_bus+0x32/0x50 [i2c_mux]
other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0
----
lock(i2c_register_adapter#2);
lock(i2c_register_adapter#2);
*** DEADLOCK ***
May be due to missing lock nesting notation
1 lock held by insmod/68159:
#0: (i2c_register_adapter#2){+.+.}, at: i2c_parent_lock_bus+0x32/0x50 [i2c_mux]
stack backtrace:
CPU: 13 PID: 68159 Comm: insmod Tainted: G O
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x67/0x98
__lock_acquire+0x162e/0x1780
lock_acquire+0xba/0x200
rt_mutex_lock+0x44/0x60
i2c_parent_lock_bus+0x32/0x50 [i2c_mux]
i2c_parent_lock_bus+0x3e/0x50 [i2c_mux]
i2c_smbus_xfer+0xf0/0x700
i2c_smbus_read_byte+0x42/0x70
my2c_init+0xa2/0x1000 [my2c]
do_one_initcall+0x51/0x192
do_init_module+0x62/0x216
load_module+0x20f9/0x2b50
SYSC_init_module+0x19a/0x1c0
SyS_init_module+0xe/0x10
do_syscall_64+0x6c/0x1a0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x42/0xb7
Reported-by: John Sperbeck <jsperbeck@google.com>
Tested-by: John Sperbeck <jsperbeck@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Deepa Dinamani <deepadinamani@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Chang <dpf@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180720083914.1950-3-peda@axentia.se
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull ext4 fixes from Ted Ts'o:
"Some miscellaneous ext4 fixes for 4.18; one fix is for a regression
introduced in 4.18-rc4.
Sorry for the late-breaking pull. I was originally going to wait for
the next merge window, but Eric Whitney found a regression introduced
in 4.18-rc4, so I decided to push out the regression plus the other
fixes now. (The other commits have been baking in linux-next since
early July)"
* tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: fix check to prevent initializing reserved inodes
ext4: check for allocation block validity with block group locked
ext4: fix inline data updates with checksums enabled
ext4: clear mmp sequence number when remounting read-only
ext4: fix false negatives *and* false positives in ext4_check_descriptors()
Pull ARM SoC fixes from Olof Johansson:
- Fix interrupt type on ethernet switch for i.MX-based RDU2
- GPC on i.MX exposed too large a register window which resulted in
userspace being able to crash the machine.
- Fixup of bad merge resolution moving GPIO DT nodes under pinctrl on
droid4.
* tag 'armsoc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc:
ARM: dts: imx6: RDU2: fix irq type for mv88e6xxx switch
soc: imx: gpc: restrict register range for regmap access
ARM: dts: omap4-droid4: fix dts w.r.t. pwm
Needed for annotating rt_mutex locks.
Tested-by: John Sperbeck <jsperbeck@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Deepa Dinamani <deepadinamani@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Chang <dpf@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180720083914.1950-2-peda@axentia.se
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Anatoly Trosinenko reports that a corrupted squashfs image can cause a
kernel oops. It turns out that squashfs can end up being confused about
negative fragment lengths.
The regular squashfs_read_data() does check for negative lengths, but
squashfs_read_metadata() did not, and the fragment size code just
blindly trusted the on-disk value. Fix both the fragment parsing and
the metadata reading code.
Reported-by: Anatoly Trosinenko <anatoly.trosinenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 8844618d8aa7: "ext4: only look at the bg_flags field if it is
valid" will complain if block group zero does not have the
EXT4_BG_INODE_ZEROED flag set. Unfortunately, this is not correct,
since a freshly created file system has this flag cleared. It gets
almost immediately after the file system is mounted read-write --- but
the following somewhat unlikely sequence will end up triggering a
false positive report of a corrupted file system:
mkfs.ext4 /dev/vdc
mount -o ro /dev/vdc /vdc
mount -o remount,rw /dev/vdc
Instead, when initializing the inode table for block group zero, test
to make sure that itable_unused count is not too large, since that is
the case that will result in some or all of the reserved inodes
getting cleared.
This fixes the failures reported by Eric Whiteney when running
generic/230 and generic/231 in the the nojournal test case.
Fixes: 8844618d8aa7 ("ext4: only look at the bg_flags field if it is valid")
Reported-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Pull x86 fix from Ingo Molnar:
"A single fix for a MCE-polling regression, which prevented the
disabling of polling"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/MCE: Remove min interval polling limitation
i.MX fixes for 4.18, round 4:
- A fix for i.MX6 RDU2 board on the wrong IRQ type of Marvell switch,
which might result in a race condition in the interrupt handler and
cause the OS to miss all future events.
* tag 'imx-fixes-4.18-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shawnguo/linux:
ARM: dts: imx6: RDU2: fix irq type for mv88e6xxx switch
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
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