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Pull parisc fixes from Helge Deller:
- Many small fixes to show the real physical addresses of devices
instead of hashed addresses.
- One important fix to unbreak 32-bit SMP support: We forgot to 16-byte
align the spinlocks in the assembler code.
- Qemu support: The host will get a chance to sleep when the parisc
guest is idle. We use the same mechanism as the power architecture by
overlaying the "or %r10,%r10,%r10" instruction which is simply a nop
on real hardware.
* 'parisc-4.15-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
parisc: qemu idle sleep support
parisc: Fix alignment of pa_tlb_lock in assembly on 32-bit SMP kernel
parisc: Show unhashed EISA EEPROM address
parisc: Show unhashed HPA of Dino chip
parisc: Show initial kernel memory layout unhashed
parisc: Show unhashed hardware inventory
Pull apparmor fix from John Johansen:
"This fixes a regression when the kernel feature set is reported as
supporting mount and policy is pinned to a feature set that does not
support mount mediation"
* tag 'apparmor-pr-2018-01-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jj/linux-apparmor:
apparmor: fix regression in mount mediation when feature set is pinned
Add qemu idle sleep support when running under qemu with SeaBIOS PDC
firmware.
Like the power architecture we use the "or" assembler instructions,
which translate to nops on real hardware, to indicate that qemu shall
idle sleep.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9+
Pull LED fix from Jacek Anaszewski:
"The commit 2b83ff96f51d for 4.15-rc6, which was fixing LED brightness
setting after clearing delay_off broke the behavior on any alteration
of delay_on{off} properties, due to use of a LED core helper that does
too much for this particular case"
* tag 'led_fixes_for_4.15-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/j.anaszewski/linux-leds:
leds: core: Fix regression caused by commit 2b83ff96f51d
When the mount code was refactored for Labels it was not correctly
updated to check whether policy supported mediation of the mount
class. This causes a regression when the kernel feature set is
reported as supporting mount and policy is pinned to a feature set
that does not support mount mediation.
BugLink: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=882697#41
Fixes: 2ea3ffb7782a ("apparmor: add mount mediation")
Reported-by: Fabian Grünbichler <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Qemu for PARISC reported on a 32bit SMP parisc kernel strange failures
about "Not-handled unaligned insn 0x0e8011d6 and 0x0c2011c9."
Those opcodes evaluate to the ldcw() assembly instruction which requires
(on 32bit) an alignment of 16 bytes to ensure atomicity.
As it turns out, qemu is correct and in our assembly code in entry.S and
pacache.S we don't pay attention to the required alignment.
This patch fixes the problem by aligning the lock offset in assembly
code in the same manner as we do in our C-code.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.0+
Pull MTD bugfix from Richard Weinberger:
"A single fix for the pxa3xx NAND driver"
* tag 'for-linus-20180107' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd:
mtd: nand: pxa3xx: Fix READOOB implementation
Commit 2b83ff96f51d ("led: core: Fix brightness setting when setting delay_off=0")
replaced del_timer_sync(&led_cdev->blink_timer) with led_stop_software_blink()
in led_blink_set(), which additionally clears LED_BLINK_SW flag as well as
zeroes blink_delay_on and blink_delay_off properties of the struct led_classdev.
Cleansing of the latter ones wasn't required to fix the original issue but
wasn't considered harmful. It nonetheless turned out to be so in case when
pointer to one or both props is passed to led_blink_set() like in the
ledtrig-timer.c. In such cases zeroes are passed later in delay_on and/or
delay_off arguments to led_blink_setup(), which results either in stopping
the software blinking or setting blinking frequency always to 1Hz.
Avoid using led_stop_software_blink() and add a single call required
to clear LED_BLINK_SW flag, which was the only needed modification to
fix the original issue.
Fixes 2b83ff96f51d ("led: core: Fix brightness setting when setting delay_off=0")
Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>
Fixes: ad67b74d2469d9b8 ("printk: hash addresses printed with %p")
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro:
- untangle sys_close() abuses in xt_bpf
- deal with register_shrinker() failures in sget()
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
fix "netfilter: xt_bpf: Fix XT_BPF_MODE_FD_PINNED mode of 'xt_bpf_info_v1'"
sget(): handle failures of register_shrinker()
mm,vmscan: Make unregister_shrinker() no-op if register_shrinker() failed.
In the current driver, OOB bytes are accessed in raw mode, and when a
page access is done with NDCR_SPARE_EN set and NDCR_ECC_EN cleared, the
driver must read the whole spare area (64 bytes in case of a 2k page,
16 bytes for a 512 page). The driver was only reading the free OOB
bytes, which was leaving some unread data in the FIFO and was somehow
leading to a timeout.
We could patch the driver to read ->spare_size + ->ecc_size instead of
just ->spare_size when READOOB is requested, but we'd better make
in-band and OOB accesses consistent.
Since the driver is always accessing in-band data in non-raw mode (with
the ECC engine enabled), we should also access OOB data in this mode.
That's particularly useful when using the BCH engine because in this
mode the free OOB bytes are also ECC protected.
Fixes: 43bcfd2bb24a ("mtd: nand: pxa3xx: Add driver-specific ECC BCH support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Sean Nyekjær <sean.nyekjaer@prevas.dk>
Tested-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Tested-by: Sean Nyekjaer <sean.nyekjaer@prevas.dk>
Acked-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A couple of fixlets for x86:
- Fix the ESPFIX double fault handling for 5-level pagetables
- Fix the commandline parsing for 'apic=' on 32bit systems and update
documentation
- Make zombie stack traces reliable
- Fix kexec with stack canary
- Fix the delivery mode for APICs which was missed when the x86
vector management was converted to single target delivery. Caused a
regression due to the broken hardware which ignores affinity
settings in lowest prio delivery mode.
- Unbreak modules when AMD memory encryption is enabled
- Remove an unused parameter of prepare_switch_to"
* 'x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/apic: Switch all APICs to Fixed delivery mode
x86/apic: Update the 'apic=' description of setting APIC driver
x86/apic: Avoid wrong warning when parsing 'apic=' in X86-32 case
x86-32: Fix kexec with stack canary (CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR)
x86: Remove unused parameter of prepare_switch_to
x86/stacktrace: Make zombie stack traces reliable
x86/mm: Unbreak modules that use the DMA API
x86/build: Make isoimage work on Debian
x86/espfix/64: Fix espfix double-fault handling on 5-level systems
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