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Pull Kbuild fixes from Masahiro Yamada:
- Fix the truncated path issue for HAVE_GCC_PLUGINS test in Kconfig
- Move -Wunsligned-access to W=1 builds to avoid sprinkling warnings
for the latest Clang
- Fix missing fclose() in Kconfig
- Fix Kconfig to touch dep headers correctly when KCONFIG_AUTOCONFIG is
overridden.
* tag 'kbuild-fixes-v5.17-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
kconfig: fix failing to generate auto.conf
kconfig: fix missing fclose() on error paths
Makefile.extrawarn: Move -Wunaligned-access to W=1
kconfig: let 'shell' return enough output for deep path names
Pull irq fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Interrupt chip driver fixes:
- Don't install an hotplug notifier for GICV3-ITS on systems which do
not need it to prevent a warning in the notifier about inconsistent
state
- Add the missing device tree matching for the T-HEAD PLIC variant so
the related SoC is properly supported"
* tag 'irq-urgent-2022-02-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
irqchip/sifive-plic: Add missing thead,c900-plic match string
dt-bindings: update riscv plic compatible string
irqchip/gic-v3-its: Skip HP notifier when no ITS is registered
When the KCONFIG_AUTOCONFIG is specified (e.g. export \
KCONFIG_AUTOCONFIG=output/config/auto.conf), the directory of
include/config/ will not be created, so kconfig can't create deps
files in it and auto.conf can't be generated.
Signed-off-by: Jing Leng <jleng@ambarella.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Pull objtool fix from Borislav Petkov:
"Fix a case where objtool would mistakenly warn about instructions
being unreachable"
* tag 'objtool_urgent_for_v5.17_rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/bug: Merge annotate_reachable() into _BUG_FLAGS() asm
Pull irqchip fixes from Marc Zyngier:
- Don't register a hotplug notifier on GICv3 systems that advertise
LPI support, but have no ITS to make use of it
- Add missing DT matching for the thead,c900-plic variant of the
SiFive PLIC
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220211110038.1179155-1-maz@kernel.org
The file is not closed when ferror() fails.
Fixes: 00d674cb3536 ("kconfig: refactor conf_write_dep()")
Fixes: 57ddd07c4560 ("kconfig: refactor conf_write_autoconf()")
Reported-by: Ryan Cai <ycaibb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Pull scheduler fix from Borislav Petkov:
"Fix a NULL-ptr dereference when recalculating a sched entity's weight"
* tag 'sched_urgent_for_v5.17_rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/fair: Fix fault in reweight_entity
In __WARN_FLAGS(), we had two asm statements (abbreviated):
asm volatile("ud2");
asm volatile(".pushsection .discard.reachable");
These pair of statements are used to trigger an exception, but then help
objtool understand that for warnings, control flow will be restored
immediately afterwards.
The problem is that volatile is not a compiler barrier. GCC explicitly
documents this:
> Note that the compiler can move even volatile asm instructions
> relative to other code, including across jump instructions.
Also, no clobbers are specified to prevent instructions from subsequent
statements from being scheduled by compiler before the second asm
statement. This can lead to instructions from subsequent statements
being emitted by the compiler before the second asm statement.
Providing a scheduling model such as via -march= options enables the
compiler to better schedule instructions with known latencies to hide
latencies from data hazards compared to inline asm statements in which
latencies are not estimated.
If an instruction gets scheduled by the compiler between the two asm
statements, then objtool will think that it is not reachable, producing
a warning.
To prevent instructions from being scheduled in between the two asm
statements, merge them.
Also remove an unnecessary unreachable() asm annotation from BUG() in
favor of __builtin_unreachable(). objtool is able to track that the ud2
from BUG() terminates control flow within the function.
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Extended-Asm.html#Volatile
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1483
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220202205557.2260694-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
The recent overhaul of pci_irq_get_affinity() introduced a regression when
pci_irq_get_affinity() is called for an MSI-X interrupt which was not
allocated with affinity descriptor information.
The original code just returned a NULL pointer in that case, but the rework
added a WARN_ON() under the assumption that the corresponding WARN_ON() in
the MSI case can be applied to MSI-X as well.
In fact the MSI warning in the original code does not make sense either
because it's legitimate to invoke pci_irq_get_affinity() for a MSI
interrupt which was not allocated with affinity descriptor information.
Remove it and just return NULL as the original code did.
Fixes: f48235900182 ("PCI/MSI: Simplify pci_irq_get_affinity()")
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87ee4n38sm.ffs@tglx
The thead,c900-plic has been used in opensbi to distinguish
PLIC [1]. Although PLICs have the same behaviors in Linux,
they are different hardware with some custom initializing in
firmware(opensbi).
Qute opensbi patch commit-msg by Samuel:
The T-HEAD PLIC implementation requires setting a delegation bit
to allow access from S-mode. Now that the T-HEAD PLIC has its own
compatible string, set this bit automatically from the PLIC driver,
instead of reaching into the PLIC's MMIO space from another driver.
[1]: https://github.com/riscv-software-src/opensbi/commit/78c2b19218bd62653b9fb31623a42ced45f38ea6
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220130135634.1213301-3-guoren@kernel.org
-Wunaligned-access is a new warning in clang that is default enabled for
arm and arm64 under certain circumstances within the clang frontend (see
LLVM commit below). On v5.17-rc2, an ARCH=arm allmodconfig build shows
1284 total/70 unique instances of this warning (most of the instances
are in header files), which is quite noisy.
To keep a normal build green through CONFIG_WERROR, only show this
warning with W=1, which will allow automated build systems to catch new
instances of the warning so that the total number can be driven down to
zero eventually since catching unaligned accesses at compile time would
be generally useful.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/35737df4dcd28534bd3090157c224c19b501278a
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1569
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1576
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Pull perf fix from Borislav Petkov:
"Prevent cgroup event list corruption when switching events"
* tag 'perf_urgent_for_v5.17_rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf: Fix list corruption in perf_cgroup_switch()
Syzbot found a GPF in reweight_entity. This has been bisected to
commit 4ef0c5c6b5ba ("kernel/sched: Fix sched_fork() access an invalid
sched_task_group")
There is a race between sched_post_fork() and setpriority(PRIO_PGRP)
within a thread group that causes a null-ptr-deref in
reweight_entity() in CFS. The scenario is that the main process spawns
number of new threads, which then call setpriority(PRIO_PGRP, 0, -20),
wait, and exit. For each of the new threads the copy_process() gets
invoked, which adds the new task_struct and calls sched_post_fork()
for it.
In the above scenario there is a possibility that
setpriority(PRIO_PGRP) and set_one_prio() will be called for a thread
in the group that is just being created by copy_process(), and for
which the sched_post_fork() has not been executed yet. This will
trigger a null pointer dereference in reweight_entity(), as it will
try to access the run queue pointer, which hasn't been set.
Before the mentioned change the cfs_rq pointer for the task has been
set in sched_fork(), which is called much earlier in copy_process(),
before the new task is added to the thread_group. Now it is done in
the sched_post_fork(), which is called after that. To fix the issue
the remove the update_load param from the update_load param() function
and call reweight_task() only if the task flag doesn't have the
TASK_NEW flag set.
Fixes: 4ef0c5c6b5ba ("kernel/sched: Fix sched_fork() access an invalid sched_task_group")
Reported-by: syzbot+af7a719bc92395ee41b3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220203161846.1160750-1-tadeusz.struk@linaro.org