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Pull s390 fixes from Martin Schwidefsky:
- four patches to get the new cputime code in shape for s390
- add the new statx system call
- a few bug fixes
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux:
s390: wire up statx system call
KVM: s390: Fix guest migration for huge guests resulting in panic
s390/ipl: always use load normal for CCW-type re-IPL
s390/timex: micro optimization for tod_to_ns
s390/cputime: provide archicture specific cputime_to_nsecs
s390/cputime: reset all accounting fields on fork
s390/cputime: remove last traces of cputime_t
s390: fix in-kernel program checks
s390/crypt: fix missing unlock in ctr_paes_crypt on error path
Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
- a fix for the kexec/purgatory regression which was introduced in the
merge window via an innocent sparse fix. We could have reverted that
commit, but on deeper inspection it turned out that the whole
machinery is neither documented nor robust. So a proper cleanup was
done instead
- the fix for the TLB flush issue which was discovered recently
- a simple typo fix for a reboot quirk
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/tlb: Fix tlb flushing when lguest clears PGE
kexec, x86/purgatory: Unbreak it and clean it up
x86/reboot/quirks: Fix typo in ASUS EeeBook X205TA reboot quirk
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Pull irq fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
- a workaround for a GIC erratum
- a missing stub function for CONFIG_IRQDOMAIN=n
- fixes for a couple of type inconsistencies
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
irqchip/crossbar: Fix incorrect type of register size
irqchip/gicv3-its: Add workaround for QDF2400 ITS erratum 0065
irqdomain: Add empty irq_domain_check_msi_remap
irqchip/crossbar: Fix incorrect type of local variables
Fengguang reported random corruptions from various locations on x86-32
after commits d2852a224050 ("arch: add ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY config") and
9d876e79df6a ("bpf: fix unlocking of jited image when module ronx not set")
that uses the former. While x86-32 doesn't have a JIT like x86_64, the
bpf_prog_lock_ro() and bpf_prog_unlock_ro() got enabled due to
ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY, whereas Fengguang's test kernel doesn't have module
support built in and therefore never had the DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX setting
enabled.
After investigating the crashes further, it turned out that using
set_memory_ro() and set_memory_rw() didn't have the desired effect, for
example, setting the pages as read-only on x86-32 would still let
probe_kernel_write() succeed without error. This behavior would manifest
itself in situations where the vmalloc'ed buffer was accessed prior to
set_memory_*() such as in case of bpf_prog_alloc(). In cases where it
wasn't, the page attribute changes seemed to have taken effect, leading to
the conclusion that a TLB invalidate didn't happen. Moreover, it turned out
that this issue reproduced with qemu in "-cpu kvm64" mode, but not for
"-cpu host". When the issue occurs, change_page_attr_set_clr() did trigger
a TLB flush as expected via __flush_tlb_all() through cpa_flush_range(),
though.
There are 3 variants for issuing a TLB flush: invpcid_flush_all() (depends
on CPU feature bits X86_FEATURE_INVPCID, X86_FEATURE_PGE), cr4 based flush
(depends on X86_FEATURE_PGE), and cr3 based flush. For "-cpu host" case in
my setup, the flush used invpcid_flush_all() variant, whereas for "-cpu
kvm64", the flush was cr4 based. Switching the kvm64 case to cr3 manually
worked fine, and further investigating the cr4 one turned out that
X86_CR4_PGE bit was not set in cr4 register, meaning the
__native_flush_tlb_global_irq_disabled() wrote cr4 twice with the same
value instead of clearing X86_CR4_PGE in the first write to trigger the
flush.
It turned out that X86_CR4_PGE was cleared from cr4 during init from
lguest_arch_host_init() via adjust_pge(). The X86_FEATURE_PGE bit is also
cleared from there due to concerns of using PGE in guest kernel that can
lead to hard to trace bugs (see bff672e630a0 ("lguest: documentation V:
Host") in init()). The CPU feature bits are cleared in dynamic
boot_cpu_data, but they never propagated to __flush_tlb_all() as it uses
static_cpu_has() instead of boot_cpu_has() for testing which variant of TLB
flushing to use, meaning they still used the old setting of the host
kernel.
Clearing via setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_PGE) so this would propagate
to static_cpu_has() checks is too late at this point as sections have been
patched already, so for now, it seems reasonable to switch back to
boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PGE) as it was prior to commit c109bf95992b
("x86/cpufeature: Remove cpu_has_pge"). This lets the TLB flush trigger via
cr3 as originally intended, properly makes the new page attributes visible
and thus fixes the crashes seen by Fengguang.
Fixes: c109bf95992b ("x86/cpufeature: Remove cpu_has_pge")
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: bp@suse.de
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: lkp@01.org
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernrl.org/r/20170301125426.l4nf65rx4wahohyl@wfg-t540p.sh.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/25c41ad9eca164be4db9ad84f768965b7eb19d9e.1489191673.git.daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
While we can technically not run huge page guests right now, we can
setup a guest with huge pages. Trying to migrate it will trigger a
VM_BUG_ON and, if the kernel is not configured to panic on a BUG, it
will happily try to work on non-existing page table entries.
With this patch, we always return "dirty" if we encounter a large page
when migrating. This at least fixes the immediate problem until we
have proper handling for both kind of pages.
Fixes: 15f36eb ("KVM: s390: Add proper dirty bitmap support to S390 kvm.")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.16+
Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Pull KVM fixes from Radim Krčmář:
"ARM updates from Marc Zyngier:
- vgic updates:
- Honour disabling the ITS
- Don't deadlock when deactivating own interrupts via MMIO
- Correctly expose the lact of IRQ/FIQ bypass on GICv3
- I/O virtualization:
- Make KVM_CAP_NR_MEMSLOTS big enough for large guests with many
PCIe devices
- General bug fixes:
- Gracefully handle exception generated with syndroms that the host
doesn't understand
- Properly invalidate TLBs on VHE systems
x86:
- improvements in emulation of VMCLEAR, VMX MSR bitmaps, and VCPU
reset
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: nVMX: do not warn when MSR bitmap address is not backed
KVM: arm64: Increase number of user memslots to 512
KVM: arm/arm64: Remove KVM_PRIVATE_MEM_SLOTS definition that are unused
KVM: arm/arm64: Enable KVM_CAP_NR_MEMSLOTS on arm/arm64
KVM: Add documentation for KVM_CAP_NR_MEMSLOTS
KVM: arm/arm64: VGIC: Fix command handling while ITS being disabled
arm64: KVM: Survive unknown traps from guests
arm: KVM: Survive unknown traps from guests
KVM: arm/arm64: Let vcpu thread modify its own active state
KVM: nVMX: reset nested_run_pending if the vCPU is going to be reset
kvm: nVMX: VMCLEAR should not cause the vCPU to shut down
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v3: Don't pretend to support IRQ/FIQ bypass
arm64: KVM: VHE: Clear HCR_TGE when invalidating guest TLBs
Pull irqchip/irqdomain updates for 4.11-rc2 from Marc Zyngier
- irqchip/crossbar: Some type tidying up
- irqchip/gicv3-its: Workaround for a Qualcomm erratum
- irqdomain: Compile for for systems that don't use CONFIG_IRQ_DOMAIN
Fixed up minor conflict in the crossbar driver.
The purgatory code defines global variables which are referenced via a
symbol lookup in the kexec code (core and arch).
A recent commit addressing sparse warnings made these static and thereby
broke kexec_file.
Why did this happen? Simply because the whole machinery is undocumented and
lacks any form of forward declarations. The variable names are unspecific
and lack a prefix, so adding forward declarations creates shadow variables
in the core code. Aside of that the code relies on magic constants and
duplicate struct definitions with no way to ensure that these things stay
in sync. The section placement of the purgatory variables happened by
chance and not by design.
Unbreak kexec and cleanup the mess:
- Add proper forward declarations and document the usage
- Use common struct definition
- Use the proper common defines instead of magic constants
- Add a purgatory_ prefix to have a proper name space
- Use ARRAY_SIZE() instead of a homebrewn reimplementation
- Add proper sections to the purgatory variables [ From Mike ]
Fixes: 72042a8c7b01 ("x86/purgatory: Make functions and variables static")
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <<efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1703101315140.3681@nanos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
commit 14890678687c ("s390/ipl: use load normal for LPAR re-ipl")
missed to convert one code path to use load normal semantics for
re-IPL. Convert the missing code path as well.
Fixes: 14890678687c ("s390/ipl: use load normal for LPAR re-ipl")
Reported-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Pull extable.h fix from Paul Gortmaker:
"Fixup for arch/score after extable.h introduction.
It seems that Guenter is the only one on the planet doing builds for
arch/score -- we don't have compile coverage for it in linux-next or
in the kbuild-bot either. Guenter couldn't even recall where he got
his toolchain, but was kind enough to share it with me so I could
validate this change and also add arch/score to my build coverage.
I sat on this a bit in case there was any other fallout in other arch
dirs, but since this still seems to be the only one, I might as well
send it on its way"
* tag 'extable-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
score: Fix implicit includes now failing build after extable change
KVM/ARM updates for v4.11-rc2
vgic updates:
- Honour disabling the ITS
- Don't deadlock when deactivating own interrupts via MMIO
- Correctly expose the lact of IRQ/FIQ bypass on GICv3
I/O virtualization:
- Make KVM_CAP_NR_MEMSLOTS big enough for large guests with
many PCIe devices
General bug fixes:
- Gracefully handle exception generated with syndroms that
the host doesn't understand
- Properly invalidate TLBs on VHE systems
The max and entry variables are unsigned according to the dt-bindings.
Fix following 3 sparse issues (-Wtypesign):
drivers/irqchip/irq-crossbar.c:222:52: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different signedness)
drivers/irqchip/irq-crossbar.c:222:52: expected unsigned int [usertype] *out_value
drivers/irqchip/irq-crossbar.c:222:52: got int *<noident>
drivers/irqchip/irq-crossbar.c:245:56: warning: incorrect type in argument 4 (different signedness)
drivers/irqchip/irq-crossbar.c:245:56: expected unsigned int [usertype] *out_value
drivers/irqchip/irq-crossbar.c:245:56: got int *<noident>
drivers/irqchip/irq-crossbar.c:263:56: warning: incorrect type in argument 4 (different signedness)
drivers/irqchip/irq-crossbar.c:263:56: expected unsigned int [usertype] *out_value
drivers/irqchip/irq-crossbar.c:263:56: got int *<noident>
Signed-off-by: Franck Demathieu <fdemathieu@gmail.com>
Cc: marc.zyngier@arm.com
Cc: jason@lakedaemon.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170223094855.6546-1-fdemathieu@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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