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Doing a
prctl(PR_SET_MM, PR_SET_MM_AUXV, addr, 1);
will copy 1 byte from userspace to (quite big) on-stack array
and then stash everything to mm->saved_auxv.
AT_NULL terminator will be inserted at the very end.
/proc/*/auxv handler will find that AT_NULL terminator
and copy original stack contents to userspace.
This devious scheme requires CAP_SYS_RESOURCE.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull irq fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of irqchip updates:
- Make the GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER configuration correct
- Add a missing DT compatible string for the Ingenic driver
- Remove the pointless debugfs_file pointer from struct irqdomain"
* tag 'irq-urgent-2021-03-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
irqchip/ingenic: Add support for the JZ4760
dt-bindings/irq: Add compatible string for the JZ4760B
irqchip: Do not blindly select CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER
ARM: ep93xx: Select GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER directly
irqdomain: Remove debugfs_file from struct irq_domain
Pull timer fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A single fix in for hrtimers to prevent an interrupt storm caused by
the lack of reevaluation of the timers which expire in softirq context
under certain circumstances, e.g. when the clock was set"
* tag 'timers-urgent-2021-03-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
hrtimer: Update softirq_expires_next correctly after __hrtimer_get_next_event()
Pull irqchip fixes from Marc Zyngier:
- More compatible strings for the Ingenic irqchip (introducing the
JZ4760B SoC)
- Select GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER on the ARM ep93xx platform
- Drop all GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER selections from the irqchip
Kconfig, now relying on the architecture to get it right
- Drop the debugfs_file field from struct irq_domain, now that
debugfs can track things on its own
Pull scheduler fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of scheduler updates:
- Prevent a NULL pointer dereference in the migration_stop_cpu()
mechanims
- Prevent self concurrency of affine_move_task()
- Small fixes and cleanups related to task migration/affinity setting
- Ensure that sync_runqueues_membarrier_state() is invoked on the
current CPU when it is in the cpu mask"
* tag 'sched-urgent-2021-03-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/membarrier: fix missing local execution of ipi_sync_rq_state()
sched: Simplify set_affinity_pending refcounts
sched: Fix affine_move_task() self-concurrency
sched: Optimize migration_cpu_stop()
sched: Collate affine_move_task() stoppers
sched: Simplify migration_cpu_stop()
sched: Fix migration_cpu_stop() requeueing
hrtimer_force_reprogram() and hrtimer_interrupt() invokes
__hrtimer_get_next_event() to find the earliest expiry time of hrtimer
bases. __hrtimer_get_next_event() does not update
cpu_base::[softirq_]_expires_next to preserve reprogramming logic. That
needs to be done at the callsites.
hrtimer_force_reprogram() updates cpu_base::softirq_expires_next only when
the first expiring timer is a softirq timer and the soft interrupt is not
activated. That's wrong because cpu_base::softirq_expires_next is left
stale when the first expiring timer of all bases is a timer which expires
in hard interrupt context. hrtimer_interrupt() does never update
cpu_base::softirq_expires_next which is wrong too.
That becomes a problem when clock_settime() sets CLOCK_REALTIME forward and
the first soft expiring timer is in the CLOCK_REALTIME_SOFT base. Setting
CLOCK_REALTIME forward moves the clock MONOTONIC based expiry time of that
timer before the stale cpu_base::softirq_expires_next.
cpu_base::softirq_expires_next is cached to make the check for raising the
soft interrupt fast. In the above case the soft interrupt won't be raised
until clock monotonic reaches the stale cpu_base::softirq_expires_next
value. That's incorrect, but what's worse it that if the softirq timer
becomes the first expiring timer of all clock bases after the hard expiry
timer has been handled the reprogramming of the clockevent from
hrtimer_interrupt() will result in an interrupt storm. That happens because
the reprogramming does not use cpu_base::softirq_expires_next, it uses
__hrtimer_get_next_event() which returns the actual expiry time. Once clock
MONOTONIC reaches cpu_base::softirq_expires_next the soft interrupt is
raised and the storm subsides.
Change the logic in hrtimer_force_reprogram() to evaluate the soft and hard
bases seperately, update softirq_expires_next and handle the case when a
soft expiring timer is the first of all bases by comparing the expiry times
and updating the required cpu base fields. Split this functionality into a
separate function to be able to use it in hrtimer_interrupt() as well
without copy paste.
Fixes: 5da70160462e ("hrtimer: Implement support for softirq based hrtimers")
Reported-by: Mikael Beckius <mikael.beckius@windriver.com>
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Mikael Beckius <mikael.beckius@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210223160240.27518-1-anna-maria@linutronix.de
Since commit a85a6c86c25b ("driver core: platform: Clarify that IRQ 0
is invalid"), having a linux-irq with number 0 will trigger a WARN()
when calling platform_get_irq*() to retrieve that linux-irq.
Since [devm_]irq_alloc_desc allocs a single irq and since irq 0 is not used
on some systems, it can return 0, triggering that WARN(). This happens
e.g. on Intel Bay Trail and Cherry Trail devices using the LPE audio engine
for HDMI audio:
0 is an invalid IRQ number
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 472 at drivers/base/platform.c:238 platform_get_irq_optional+0x108/0x180
Modules linked in: snd_hdmi_lpe_audio(+) ...
Call Trace:
platform_get_irq+0x17/0x30
hdmi_lpe_audio_probe+0x4a/0x6c0 [snd_hdmi_lpe_audio]
---[ end trace ceece38854223a0b ]---
Change the 'from' parameter passed to __[devm_]irq_alloc_descs() by the
[devm_]irq_alloc_desc macros from 0 to 1, so that these macros will no
longer return 0.
Fixes: a85a6c86c25b ("driver core: platform: Clarify that IRQ 0 is invalid")
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201221185647.226146-1-hdegoede@redhat.com
Add support for the interrupt controller found in the JZ4760 SoC, which
works exactly like the one in the JZ4770.
Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210307172014.73481-2-paul@crapouillou.net
Pull objtool fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A single objtool fix to handle the PUSHF/POPF validation correctly for
the paravirt changes which modified arch_local_irq_restore not to use
popf"
* tag 'objtool-urgent-2021-03-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
objtool,x86: Fix uaccess PUSHF/POPF validation
The function sync_runqueues_membarrier_state() should copy the
membarrier state from the @mm received as parameter to each runqueue
currently running tasks using that mm.
However, the use of smp_call_function_many() skips the current runqueue,
which is unintended. Replace by a call to on_each_cpu_mask().
Fixes: 227a4aadc75b ("sched/membarrier: Fix p->mm->membarrier_state racy load")
Reported-by: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.4.x+
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/74F1E842-4A84-47BF-B6C2-5407DFDD4A4A@gmail.com
When MSI_FLAG_ACTIVATE_EARLY is set (which is the case for PCI),
__msi_domain_alloc_irqs() performs the activation of the interrupt (which
in the case of PCI results in the endpoint being programmed) as soon as the
interrupt is allocated.
But it appears that this is only done for the first vector, introducing an
inconsistent behaviour for PCI Multi-MSI.
Fix it by iterating over the number of vectors allocated to each MSI
descriptor. This is easily achieved by introducing a new
"for_each_msi_vector" iterator, together with a tiny bit of refactoring.
Fixes: f3b0946d629c ("genirq/msi: Make sure PCI MSIs are activated early")
Reported-by: Shameer Kolothum <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Shameer Kolothum <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210123122759.1781359-1-maz@kernel.org
Add the ingenic,jz4760b-intc compatible string with a fallback to the
ingenic,jz4760-intc compatible string.
Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210307172014.73481-1-paul@crapouillou.net
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