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Pull dmaengine fix from Vinod Koul:
"One small fix for stm32-dmamux fixing buffer overflow"
* tag 'dmaengine-fix-4.16-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vkoul/slave-dma:
dmaengine: stm32-dmamux: fix a potential buffer overflow
Pull x86 and PTI fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Misc fixes:
- fix EFI pagetables freeing
- fix vsyscall pagetable setting on Xen PV guests
- remove ancient CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE=y - x86 is TSO again
- fix two binutils (ld) development version related incompatibilities
- clean up breakpoint handling
- fix an x86 self-test"
* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/entry/64: Don't use IST entry for #BP stack
x86/efi: Free efi_pgd with free_pages()
x86/vsyscall/64: Use proper accessor to update P4D entry
x86/cpu: Remove the CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE=y quirk
x86/boot/64: Verify alignment of the LOAD segment
x86/build/64: Force the linker to use 2MB page size
selftests/x86/ptrace_syscall: Fix for yet more glibc interference
The bitfield dma_inuse is allocated of size dma_requests bits, thus a
valid bit address is from 0 to (dma_requests - 1).
When find_first_zero_bit() fails, it returns dma_requests as invalid
address.
Using such address for the following set_bit() is incorrect and, if
dma_requests is a multiple of BITS_PER_LONG, it will cause a buffer
overflow.
Currently this driver is only used in DT stm32h743.dtsi where a safe value
dma_requests=16 is not triggering the buffer overflow.
Fixed by checking the return value of find_first_zero_bit() _before_
using it.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Borneo <borneo.antonio@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pierre-Yves MORDRET <pierre-yves.mordret@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Pull timer fix from Ingo Molnar:
"Make posix clock ID usage Spectre-safe"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
posix-timers: Protect posix clock array access against speculation
There's nothing IST-worthy about #BP/int3. We don't allow kprobes
in the small handful of places in the kernel that run at CPL0 with
an invalid stack, and 32-bit kernels have used normal interrupt
gates for #BP forever.
Furthermore, we don't allow kprobes in places that have usergs while
in kernel mode, so "paranoid" is also unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Two sched debug output related fixes: a console output fix and
formatting fixes"
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/debug: Adjust newlines for better alignment
sched/debug: Fix per-task line continuation for console output
The clockid argument of clockid_to_kclock() comes straight from user space
via various syscalls and is used as index into the posix_clocks array.
Protect it against spectre v1 array out of bounds speculation. Remove the
redundant check for !posix_clock[id] as this is another source for
speculation and does not provide any advantage over the return
posix_clock[id] path which returns NULL in that case anyway.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1802151718320.1296@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
The efi_pgd is allocated as PGD_ALLOCATION_ORDER pages and therefore must
also be freed as PGD_ALLOCATION_ORDER pages with free_pages().
Fixes: d9e9a6418065 ("x86/mm/pti: Allocate a separate user PGD")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1521746333-19593-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
Pull x86/pti updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Yet another pile of melted spectrum related updates:
- Drop native vsyscall support finally as it causes more trouble than
benefit.
- Make microcode loading more robust. There were a few issues
especially related to late loading which are now surfacing because
late loading of the IB* microcodes addressing spectre issues has
become more widely used.
- Simplify and robustify the syscall handling in the entry code
- Prevent kprobes on the entry trampoline code which lead to kernel
crashes when the probe hits before CR3 is updated
- Don't check microcode versions when running on hypervisors as they
are considered as lying anyway.
- Fix the 32bit objtool build and a coment typo"
* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/kprobes: Fix kernel crash when probing .entry_trampoline code
x86/pti: Fix a comment typo
x86/microcode: Synchronize late microcode loading
x86/microcode: Request microcode on the BSP
x86/microcode/intel: Look into the patch cache first
x86/microcode: Do not upload microcode if CPUs are offline
x86/microcode/intel: Writeback and invalidate caches before updating microcode
x86/microcode/intel: Check microcode revision before updating sibling threads
x86/microcode: Get rid of struct apply_microcode_ctx
x86/spectre_v2: Don't check microcode versions when running under hypervisors
x86/vsyscall/64: Drop "native" vsyscalls
x86/entry/64/compat: Save one instruction in entry_INT80_compat()
x86/entry: Do not special-case clone(2) in compat entry
x86/syscalls: Use COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros for x86-only compat syscalls
x86/syscalls: Use proper syscall definition for sys_ioperm()
x86/entry: Remove stale syscall prototype
x86/syscalls/32: Simplify $entry == $compat entries
objtool: Fix 32-bit build
Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Misc kernel side fixes.
Generic:
- cgroup events counting fix
x86:
- Intel PMU truncated-parameter fix
- RDPMC fix
- API naming fix/rename
- uncore driver big-hardware PCI enumeration fix
- uncore driver filter constraint fix"
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf/cgroup: Fix child event counting bug
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix multi-domain PCI CHA enumeration bug on Skylake servers
perf/x86/intel: Rename confusing 'freerunning PEBS' API and implementation to 'large PEBS'
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Add missing filter constraint for SKX CHA event
perf/x86/intel: Don't accidentally clear high bits in bdw_limit_period()
perf/x86/intel: Disable userspace RDPMC usage for large PEBS
Scheduler debug stats include newlines that display out of alignment
when prefixed by timestamps. For example, the dmesg utility:
% echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger
% dmesg
...
[ 83.124251]
runnable tasks:
S task PID tree-key switches prio wait-time
sum-exec sum-sleep
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the same time, some syslog utilities (like rsyslog by default) don't
like the additional newlines control characters, saving lines like this
to /var/log/messages:
Mar 16 16:02:29 localhost kernel: #012runnable tasks:#012 S task PID tree-key ...
^^^^ ^^^^
Clean these up by moving newline characters to their own SEQ_printf
invocation. This leaves the /proc/sched_debug unchanged, but brings the
entire output into alignment when prefixed:
% echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger
% dmesg
...
[ 62.410368] runnable tasks:
[ 62.410368] S task PID tree-key switches prio wait-time sum-exec sum-sleep
[ 62.410369] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ 62.410369] I kworker/u12:0 5 1932.215593 332 120 0.000000 3.621252 0.000000 0 0 /
and no escaped control characters from rsyslog in /var/log/messages:
Mar 16 16:15:06 localhost kernel: runnable tasks:
Mar 16 16:15:06 localhost kernel: S task PID tree-key ...
Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1521484555-8620-3-git-send-email-joe.lawrence@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:
"Two commits to fix the following subtle cgroup2 behavior bugs:
- cpu.max was rejecting config when it shouldn't
- thread mode enable was allowed when it shouldn't"
* 'for-4.16-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
cgroup: fix rule checking for threaded mode switching
sched, cgroup: Don't reject lower cpu.max on ancestors
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