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Pull perf tools fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
- Revert "perf map: Fix dso->nsinfo refcounting", this makes 'perf top'
abort, uncovering a design flaw on how namespace information is kept.
The fix for that is more than we can do right now, leave it for the
next merge window.
- Split --dump-raw-trace by AUX records for ARM's CoreSight, fixing up
the decoding of some records.
- Fix PMU alias matching.
Thanks to James Clark and John Garry for these fixes.
* tag 'perf-tools-fixes-for-v5.14-2021-08-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux:
Revert "perf map: Fix dso->nsinfo refcounting"
perf pmu: Fix alias matching
perf cs-etm: Split --dump-raw-trace by AUX records
Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
- Don't use r30 in VDSO code, to avoid breaking existing Go lang
programs.
- Change an export symbol to allow non-GPL modules to use spinlocks
again.
Thanks to Paul Menzel, and Srikar Dronamraju.
* tag 'powerpc-5.14-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
powerpc/vdso: Don't use r30 to avoid breaking Go lang
powerpc/pseries: Fix regression while building external modules
This makes 'perf top' abort in some cases, and the right fix will
involve surgery that is too much to do at this stage, so revert for now
and fix it in the next merge window.
This reverts commit 2d6b74baa7147251c30a46c4996e8cc224aa2dc5.
Cc: Riccardo Mancini <rickyman7@gmail.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Krister Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pull xfs fixes from Darrick Wong:
"This contains a bunch of bug fixes in XFS.
Dave and I have been busy the last couple of weeks to find and fix as
many log recovery bugs as we can find; here are the results so far. Go
fstests -g recoveryloop! ;)
- Fix a number of coordination bugs relating to cache flushes for
metadata writeback, cache flushes for multi-buffer log writes, and
FUA writes for single-buffer log writes
- Fix a bug with incorrect replay of attr3 blocks
- Fix unnecessary stalls when flushing logs to disk
- Fix spoofing problems when recovering realtime bitmap blocks"
* tag 'xfs-5.14-fixes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux:
xfs: prevent spoofing of rtbitmap blocks when recovering buffers
xfs: limit iclog tail updates
xfs: need to see iclog flags in tracing
xfs: Enforce attr3 buffer recovery order
xfs: logging the on disk inode LSN can make it go backwards
xfs: avoid unnecessary waits in xfs_log_force_lsn()
xfs: log forces imply data device cache flushes
xfs: factor out forced iclog flushes
xfs: fix ordering violation between cache flushes and tail updates
xfs: fold __xlog_state_release_iclog into xlog_state_release_iclog
xfs: external logs need to flush data device
xfs: flush data dev on external log write
The Go runtime uses r30 for some special value called 'g'. It assumes
that value will remain unchanged even when calling VDSO functions.
Although r30 is non-volatile across function calls, the callee is free
to use it, as long as the callee saves the value and restores it before
returning.
It used to be true by accident that the VDSO didn't use r30, because the
VDSO was hand-written asm. When we switched to building the VDSO from C
the compiler started using r30, at least in some builds, leading to
crashes in Go. eg:
~/go/src$ ./all.bash
Building Go cmd/dist using /usr/lib/go-1.16. (go1.16.2 linux/ppc64le)
Building Go toolchain1 using /usr/lib/go-1.16.
go build os/exec: /usr/lib/go-1.16/pkg/tool/linux_ppc64le/compile: signal: segmentation fault
go build reflect: /usr/lib/go-1.16/pkg/tool/linux_ppc64le/compile: signal: segmentation fault
go tool dist: FAILED: /usr/lib/go-1.16/bin/go install -gcflags=-l -tags=math_big_pure_go compiler_bootstrap bootstrap/cmd/...: exit status 1
There are patches in flight to fix Go[1], but until they are released
and widely deployed we can workaround it in the VDSO by avoiding use of
r30.
Note this only works with GCC, clang does not support -ffixed-rN.
1: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/328110
Fixes: ab037dd87a2f ("powerpc/vdso: Switch VDSO to generic C implementation.")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.11+
Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Tested-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210729131244.2595519-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Commit c47a5599eda324ba ("perf tools: Fix pattern matching for same
substring in different PMU type"), may have fixed some alias matching,
but has broken some others.
Firstly it cannot handle the simple scenario of PMU name in form
pmu_name{digits} - it can only handle pmu_name_{digits}.
Secondly it cannot handle more complex matching in the case where we
have multiple tokens. In this scenario, the code failed to realise that
we may examine multiple substrings in the PMU name.
Fix in two ways:
- Change perf_pmu__valid_suffix() to accept a PMU name without '_' in the
suffix
- Only pay attention to perf_pmu__valid_suffix() for the final token
Also add const qualifiers as necessary to avoid casting.
Fixes: c47a5599eda324ba ("perf tools: Fix pattern matching for same substring in different PMU type")
Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1626793819-79090-1-git-send-email-john.garry@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pull cifs fixes from Steve French:
"Three cifs/smb3 fixes, including two for stable, and a fix for an
fallocate problem noticed by Clang"
* tag '5.14-rc3-smb3-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
cifs: add missing parsing of backupuid
smb3: rc uninitialized in one fallocate path
SMB3: fix readpage for large swap cache
While reviewing the buffer item recovery code, the thought occurred to
me: in V5 filesystems we use log sequence number (LSN) tracking to avoid
replaying older metadata updates against newer log items. However, we
use the magic number of the ondisk buffer to find the LSN of the ondisk
metadata, which means that if an attacker can control the layout of the
realtime device precisely enough that the start of an rt bitmap block
matches the magic and UUID of some other kind of block, they can control
the purported LSN of that spoofed block and thereby break log replay.
Since realtime bitmap and summary blocks don't have headers at all, we
have no way to tell if a block really should be replayed. The best we
can do is replay unconditionally and hope for the best.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
With commit c9f3401313a5 ("powerpc: Always enable queued spinlocks for
64s, disable for others") CONFIG_PPC_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS is always
enabled on ppc64le, external modules that use spinlock APIs are
failing.
ERROR: modpost: GPL-incompatible module XXX.ko uses GPL-only symbol 'shared_processor'
Before the above commit, modules were able to build without any
issues. Also this problem is not seen on other architectures. This
problem can be workaround if CONFIG_UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK is enabled in
the config. However CONFIG_UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK is not enabled by
default and only enabled in certain conditions like
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCKS is set in the kernel config.
#include <linux/module.h>
spinlock_t spLock;
static int __init spinlock_test_init(void)
{
spin_lock_init(&spLock);
spin_lock(&spLock);
spin_unlock(&spLock);
return 0;
}
static void __exit spinlock_test_exit(void)
{
printk("spinlock_test unloaded\n");
}
module_init(spinlock_test_init);
module_exit(spinlock_test_exit);
MODULE_DESCRIPTION ("spinlock_test");
MODULE_LICENSE ("non-GPL");
MODULE_AUTHOR ("Srikar Dronamraju");
Given that spin locks are one of the basic facilities for module code,
this effectively makes it impossible to build/load almost any non GPL
modules on ppc64le.
This was first reported at https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/11172
Currently shared_processor is exported as GPL only symbol.
Fix this for parity with other architectures by exposing
shared_processor to non-GPL modules too.
Fixes: 14c73bd344da ("powerpc/vcpu: Assume dedicated processors as non-preempt")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.5+
Reported-by: marc.c.dionne@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210729060449.292780-1-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Currently --dump-raw-trace skips queueing and splitting buffers because
of an early exit condition in cs_etm__process_auxtrace_info(). Once
that is removed we can print the split data by using the queues
and searching for split buffers with the same reference as the
one that is currently being processed.
This keeps the same behaviour of dumping in file order when an AUXTRACE
event appears, rather than moving trace dump to where AUX records are in
the file.
There will be a newline and size printout for each fragment. For example
this buffer is comprised of two AUX records, but was printed as one:
0 0 0x8098 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE size: 0xa0 offset: 0 ref: 0x491a4dfc52fc0e6e idx: 0 t
. ... CoreSight ETM Trace data: size 160 bytes
Idx:0; ID:10; I_ASYNC : Alignment Synchronisation.
Idx:12; ID:10; I_TRACE_INFO : Trace Info.; INFO=0x0 { CC.0 }
Idx:17; ID:10; I_ADDR_L_64IS0 : Address, Long, 64 bit, IS0.; Addr=0x0000000000000000;
Idx:80; ID:10; I_ASYNC : Alignment Synchronisation.
Idx:92; ID:10; I_TRACE_INFO : Trace Info.; INFO=0x0 { CC.0 }
Idx:97; ID:10; I_ADDR_L_64IS0 : Address, Long, 64 bit, IS0.; Addr=0xFFFFDE2AD3FD76D4;
But is now printed as two fragments:
0 0 0x8098 [0x30]: PERF_RECORD_AUXTRACE size: 0xa0 offset: 0 ref: 0x491a4dfc52fc0e6e idx: 0 t
. ... CoreSight ETM Trace data: size 80 bytes
Idx:0; ID:10; I_ASYNC : Alignment Synchronisation.
Idx:12; ID:10; I_TRACE_INFO : Trace Info.; INFO=0x0 { CC.0 }
Idx:17; ID:10; I_ADDR_L_64IS0 : Address, Long, 64 bit, IS0.; Addr=0x0000000000000000;
. ... CoreSight ETM Trace data: size 80 bytes
Idx:80; ID:10; I_ASYNC : Alignment Synchronisation.
Idx:92; ID:10; I_TRACE_INFO : Trace Info.; INFO=0x0 { CC.0 }
Idx:97; ID:10; I_ADDR_L_64IS0 : Address, Long, 64 bit, IS0.; Addr=0xFFFFDE2AD3FD76D4;
Decoding errors that appeared in problematic files are now not present,
for example:
Idx:808; ID:1c; I_BAD_SEQUENCE : Invalid Sequence in packet.[I_ASYNC]
...
PKTP_ETMV4I_0016 : 0x0014 (OCSD_ERR_INVALID_PCKT_HDR) [Invalid packet header]; TrcIdx=822
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Al Grant <al.grant@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Branislav Rankov <branislav.rankov@arm.com>
Cc: Denis Nikitin <denik@chromium.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210624164303.28632-3-james.clark@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pull networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski:
"Networking fixes for 5.14-rc4, including fixes from bpf, can, WiFi
(mac80211) and netfilter trees.
Current release - regressions:
- mac80211: fix starting aggregation sessions on mesh interfaces
Current release - new code bugs:
- sctp: send pmtu probe only if packet loss in Search Complete state
- bnxt_en: add missing periodic PHC overflow check
- devlink: fix phys_port_name of virtual port and merge error
- hns3: change the method of obtaining default ptp cycle
- can: mcba_usb_start(): add missing urb->transfer_dma initialization
Previous releases - regressions:
- set true network header for ECN decapsulation
- mlx5e: RX, avoid possible data corruption w/ relaxed ordering and
LRO
- phy: re-add check for PHY_BRCM_DIS_TXCRXC_NOENRGY on the BCM54811
PHY
- sctp: fix return value check in __sctp_rcv_asconf_lookup
Previous releases - always broken:
- bpf:
- more spectre corner case fixes, introduce a BPF nospec
instruction for mitigating Spectre v4
- fix OOB read when printing XDP link fdinfo
- sockmap: fix cleanup related races
- mac80211: fix enabling 4-address mode on a sta vif after assoc
- can:
- raw: raw_setsockopt(): fix raw_rcv panic for sock UAF
- j1939: j1939_session_deactivate(): clarify lifetime of session
object, avoid UAF
- fix number of identical memory leaks in USB drivers
- tipc:
- do not blindly write skb_shinfo frags when doing decryption
- fix sleeping in tipc accept routine"
* tag 'net-5.14-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (91 commits)
gve: Update MAINTAINERS list
can: esd_usb2: fix memory leak
can: ems_usb: fix memory leak
can: usb_8dev: fix memory leak
can: mcba_usb_start(): add missing urb->transfer_dma initialization
can: hi311x: fix a signedness bug in hi3110_cmd()
MAINTAINERS: add Yasushi SHOJI as reviewer for the Microchip CAN BUS Analyzer Tool driver
bpf: Fix leakage due to insufficient speculative store bypass mitigation
bpf: Introduce BPF nospec instruction for mitigating Spectre v4
sis900: Fix missing pci_disable_device() in probe and remove
net: let flow have same hash in two directions
nfc: nfcsim: fix use after free during module unload
tulip: windbond-840: Fix missing pci_disable_device() in probe and remove
sctp: fix return value check in __sctp_rcv_asconf_lookup
nfc: s3fwrn5: fix undefined parameter values in dev_err()
net/mlx5: Fix mlx5_vport_tbl_attr chain from u16 to u32
net/mlx5e: Fix nullptr in mlx5e_hairpin_get_mdev()
net/mlx5: Unload device upon firmware fatal error
net/mlx5e: Fix page allocation failure for ptp-RQ over SF
net/mlx5e: Fix page allocation failure for trap-RQ over SF
...
We lost parsing of backupuid in the switch to new mount API.
Add it back.
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.11+
Reported-by: Xiaoli Feng <xifeng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
From the department of "generic/482 keeps on giving", we bring you
another tail update race condition:
iclog:
S1 C1
+-----------------------+-----------------------+
S2 EOIC
Two checkpoints in a single iclog. One is complete, the other just
contains the start record and overruns into a new iclog.
Timeline:
Before S1: Cache flush, log tail = X
At S1: Metadata stable, write start record and checkpoint
At C1: Write commit record, set NEED_FUA
Single iclog checkpoint, so no need for NEED_FLUSH
Log tail still = X, so no need for NEED_FLUSH
After C1,
Before S2: Cache flush, log tail = X
At S2: Metadata stable, write start record and checkpoint
After S2: Log tail moves to X+1
At EOIC: End of iclog, more journal data to write
Releases iclog
Not a commit iclog, so no need for NEED_FLUSH
Writes log tail X+1 into iclog.
At this point, the iclog has tail X+1 and NEED_FUA set. There has
been no cache flush for the metadata between X and X+1, and the
iclog writes the new tail permanently to the log. THis is sufficient
to violate on disk metadata/journal ordering.
We have two options here. The first is to detect this case in some
manner and ensure that the partial checkpoint write sets NEED_FLUSH
when the iclog is already marked NEED_FUA and the log tail changes.
This seems somewhat fragile and quite complex to get right, and it
doesn't actually make it obvious what underlying problem it is
actually addressing from reading the code.
The second option seems much cleaner to me, because it is derived
directly from the requirements of the C1 commit record in the iclog.
That is, when we write this commit record to the iclog, we've
guaranteed that the metadata/data ordering is correct for tail
update purposes. Hence if we only write the log tail into the iclog
for the *first* commit record rather than the log tail at the last
release, we guarantee that the log tail does not move past where the
the first commit record in the log expects it to be.
IOWs, taking the first option means that replay of C1 becomes
dependent on future operations doing the right thing, not just the
C1 checkpoint itself doing the right thing. This makes log recovery
almost impossible to reason about because now we have to take into
account what might or might not have happened in the future when
looking at checkpoints in the log rather than just having to
reconstruct the past...
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>