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Pull ARM fix from Russell King:
"Just one fix this time around, for the late commit in the merge window
that triggered a problem with qemu. Qemu is apparently also going to
receive a fix for the discovered issue"
* 'fixes' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
ARM: avoid faulting on qemu
Pull i2c fixes from Wolfram Sang:
"Here are two bugfixes for I2C, fixing a memleak in the core and irq
allocation for i801.
Also three bugfixes for the at24 eeprom driver which Bartosz collected
while taking over maintainership for this driver"
* 'i2c/for-current' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux:
eeprom: at24: check at24_read/write arguments
eeprom: at24: fix reading from 24MAC402/24MAC602
eeprom: at24: correctly set the size for at24mac402
i2c: i2c-boardinfo: fix memory leaks on devinfo
i2c: i801: Fix Failed to allocate irq -2147483648 error
When qemu starts a kernel in a bare environment, the default SCR has
the AW and FW bits clear, which means that the kernel can't modify
the PSR A or PSR F bits, and means that FIQs and imprecise aborts are
always masked.
When running uboot under qemu, the AW and FW SCR bits are set, and the
kernel functions normally - and this is how real hardware behaves.
Fix this for qemu by ignoring the FIQ bit.
Fixes: 8bafae202c82 ("ARM: BUG if jumping to usermode address in kernel mode")
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Pull hwmon fixes from Guenter Roeck:
"Fixes:
- Drop reference to obsolete maintainer tree
- Fix overflow bug in pmbus driver
- Fix SMBUS timeout problem in jc42 driver
For the SMBUS timeout handling, we had a brief discussion if this
should be considered a bug fix or a feature. Peter says "it fixes real
problems where the application misbehave due to faulty content when
reading from an eeprom", and he needs the patch in his company's v4.14
images. This is good enough for me and warrants backport to stable
kernels"
* tag 'hwmon-for-linus-v4.15-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging:
hwmon: (jc42) optionally try to disable the SMBUS timeout
hwmon: (pmbus) Use 64bit math for DIRECT format values
hwmon: Drop reference to Jean's tree
Please consider pulling the following fixes for v4.15. While it doesn't
fix any regression introduced in the v4.15 merge window, we have a
feature in at24 since linux v4.8 - reading the mac address block from
at24mac series - which turned out to be not working.
This pull request contains changes that fix it together with a patch
that hardens the read and write argument sanitization with
out-of-bounds checks that were missing.
Detect if we are returning to usermode via the normal kernel exit paths
but the saved PSR value indicates that we are in kernel mode. This
could occur due to corrupted stack state, which has been observed with
"ftracetest".
This ensures that we catch the problem case before we get to user code.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Pull NFS client fixes from Anna Schumaker:
"These patches fix a problem with compiling using an old version of
gcc, and also fix up error handling in the SUNRPC layer.
- NFSv4: Ensure gcc 4.4.4 can compile initialiser for
"invalid_stateid"
- SUNRPC: Allow connect to return EHOSTUNREACH
- SUNRPC: Handle ENETDOWN errors"
* tag 'nfs-for-4.15-2' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/anna/linux-nfs:
SUNRPC: Handle ENETDOWN errors
SUNRPC: Allow connect to return EHOSTUNREACH
NFSv4: Ensure gcc 4.4.4 can compile initialiser for "invalid_stateid"
With a nxp,se97 chip on an atmel sama5d31 board, the I2C adapter driver
is not always capable of avoiding the 25-35 ms timeout as specified by
the SMBUS protocol. This may cause silent corruption of the last bit of
any transfer, e.g. a one is read instead of a zero if the sensor chip
times out. This also affects the eeprom half of the nxp-se97 chip, where
this silent corruption was originally noticed. Other I2C adapters probably
suffer similar issues, e.g. bit-banging comes to mind as risky...
The SMBUS register in the nxp chip is not a standard Jedec register, but
it is not special to the nxp chips either, at least the atmel chips
have the same mechanism. Therefore, do not special case this on the
manufacturer, it is opt-in via the device property anyway.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.9+
Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Currently when an error occurs devinfo is still allocated but is
unused when the error exit paths break out of the for-loop. Fix
this by kfree'ing devinfo to avoid the leak.
Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1416590 ("Resource Leak")
Fixes: 4124c4eba402 ("i2c: allow attaching IRQ resources to i2c_board_info")
Fixes: 0daaf99d8424 ("i2c: copy device properties when using i2c_register_board_info()")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
So far we completely rely on the caller to provide valid arguments.
To be on the safe side perform an own sanity check.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Currently, for ARM kernels with CONFIG_ARM_LPAE and
CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX enabled, the 2MiB pages mapping the
kernel code and rodata are writable. They are marked read-only in
a software bit (L_PMD_SECT_RDONLY) but the hardware read-only bit
is not set (PMD_SECT_AP2).
For user mappings, the logic that propagates the software bit
to the hardware bit is in set_pmd_at(); but for the kernel,
section_update() writes the PMDs directly, skipping this logic.
The fix is to set PMD_SECT_AP2 for read-only sections in
section_update(), at the same time as L_PMD_SECT_RDONLY.
Fixes: 1e3479225acb ("ARM: 8275/1: mm: fix PMD_SECT_RDONLY undeclared compile error")
Signed-off-by: Philip Derrin <philip@cog.systems>
Reported-by: Neil Dick <neil@cog.systems>
Tested-by: Neil Dick <neil@cog.systems>
Tested-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Pull xfs fixes from Darrick Wong:
"Here are some bug fixes for 4.15-rc2.
- fix memory leaks that appeared after removing ifork inline data
buffer
- recover deferred rmap update log items in correct order
- fix memory leaks when buffer construction fails
- fix memory leaks when bmbt is corrupt
- fix some uninitialized variables and math problems in the quota
scrubber
- add some omitted attribution tags on the log replay commit
- fix some UBSAN complaints about integer overflows with large sparse
files
- implement an effective inode mode check in online fsck
- fix log's inability to retry quota item writeout due to transient
errors"
* tag 'xfs-4.15-fixes-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux:
xfs: Properly retry failed dquot items in case of error during buffer writeback
xfs: scrub inode mode properly
xfs: remove unused parameter from xfs_writepage_map
xfs: ubsan fixes
xfs: calculate correct offset in xfs_scrub_quota_item
xfs: fix uninitialized variable in xfs_scrub_quota
xfs: fix leaks on corruption errors in xfs_bmap.c
xfs: fortify xfs_alloc_buftarg error handling
xfs: log recovery should replay deferred ops in order
xfs: always free inline data before resetting inode fork during ifree
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>