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Pull locking fix from Borislav Petkov:
"Fix a NULL ptr dereference when dumping lockdep chains through
/proc/lockdep_chains"
* tag 'locking_urgent_for_v5.17_rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
lockdep: Correct lock_classes index mapping
Pull x86 fixes from Borislav Petkov:
- Fix the ptrace regset xfpregs_set() callback to behave according to
the ABI
- Handle poisoned pages properly in the SGX reclaimer code
* tag 'x86_urgent_for_v5.17_rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/ptrace: Fix xfpregs_set()'s incorrect xmm clearing
x86/sgx: Fix missing poison handling in reclaimer
A kernel exception was hit when trying to dump /proc/lockdep_chains after
lockdep report "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAIN_HLOCKS too low!":
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00054005450e05c3
...
00054005450e05c3] address between user and kernel address ranges
...
pc : [0xffffffece769b3a8] string+0x50/0x10c
lr : [0xffffffece769ac88] vsnprintf+0x468/0x69c
...
Call trace:
string+0x50/0x10c
vsnprintf+0x468/0x69c
seq_printf+0x8c/0xd8
print_name+0x64/0xf4
lc_show+0xb8/0x128
seq_read_iter+0x3cc/0x5fc
proc_reg_read_iter+0xdc/0x1d4
The cause of the problem is the function lock_chain_get_class() will
shift lock_classes index by 1, but the index don't need to be shifted
anymore since commit 01bb6f0af992 ("locking/lockdep: Change the range
of class_idx in held_lock struct") already change the index to start
from 0.
The lock_classes[-1] located at chain_hlocks array. When printing
lock_classes[-1] after the chain_hlocks entries are modified, the
exception happened.
The output of lockdep_chains are incorrect due to this problem too.
Fixes: f611e8cf98ec ("lockdep: Take read/write status in consideration when generate chainkey")
Signed-off-by: Cheng Jui Wang <cheng-jui.wang@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220210105011.21712-1-cheng-jui.wang@mediatek.com
Pull scheduler fix from Borislav Petkov:
"Fix task exposure order when forking tasks"
* tag 'sched_urgent_for_v5.17_rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched: Fix yet more sched_fork() races
xfpregs_set() handles 32-bit REGSET_XFP and 64-bit REGSET_FP. The actual
code treats these regsets as modern FX state (i.e. the beginning part of
XSTATE). The declarations of the regsets thought they were the legacy
i387 format. The code thought they were the 32-bit (no xmm8..15) variant
of XSTATE and, for good measure, made the high bits disappear by zeroing
the wrong part of the buffer. The latter broke ptrace, and everything
else confused anyone trying to understand the code. In particular, the
nonsense definitions of the regsets confused me when I wrote this code.
Clean this all up. Change the declarations to match reality (which
shouldn't change the generated code, let alone the ABI) and fix
xfpregs_set() to clear the correct bits and to only do so for 32-bit
callers.
Fixes: 6164331d15f7 ("x86/fpu: Rewrite xfpregs_set()")
Reported-by: Luís Ferreira <contact@lsferreira.net>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215524
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YgpFnZpF01WwR8wU@zn.tnic
Pull EDAC fix from Borislav Petkov:
"Fix a long-standing struct alignment bug in the EDAC struct allocation
code"
* tag 'edac_urgent_for_v5.17_rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ras/ras:
EDAC: Fix calculation of returned address and next offset in edac_align_ptr()
Where commit 4ef0c5c6b5ba ("kernel/sched: Fix sched_fork() access an
invalid sched_task_group") fixed a fork race vs cgroup, it opened up a
race vs syscalls by not placing the task on the runqueue before it
gets exposed through the pidhash.
Commit 13765de8148f ("sched/fair: Fix fault in reweight_entity") is
trying to fix a single instance of this, instead fix the whole class
of issues, effectively reverting this commit.
Fixes: 4ef0c5c6b5ba ("kernel/sched: Fix sched_fork() access an invalid sched_task_group")
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Zhang Qiao <zhangqiao22@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YgoeCbwj5mbCR0qA@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
The SGX reclaimer code lacks page poison handling in its main
free path. This can lead to avoidable machine checks if a
poisoned page is freed and reallocated instead of being
isolated.
A troublesome scenario is:
1. Machine check (#MC) occurs (asynchronous, !MF_ACTION_REQUIRED)
2. arch_memory_failure() is eventually called
3. (SGX) page->poison set to 1
4. Page is reclaimed
5. Page added to normal free lists by sgx_reclaim_pages()
^ This is the bug (poison pages should be isolated on the
sgx_poison_page_list instead)
6. Page is reallocated by some innocent enclave, a second (synchronous)
in-kernel #MC is induced, probably during EADD instruction.
^ This is the fallout from the bug
(6) is unfortunate and can be avoided by replacing the open coded
enclave page freeing code in the reclaimer with sgx_free_epc_page()
to obtain support for poison page handling that includes placing the
poisoned page on the correct list.
Fixes: d6d261bded8a ("x86/sgx: Add new sgx_epc_page flag bit to mark free pages")
Fixes: 992801ae9243 ("x86/sgx: Initial poison handling for dirty and free pages")
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/dcc95eb2aaefb042527ac50d0a50738c7c160dac.1643830353.git.reinette.chatre@intel.com
Pull ext4 fixes from Ted Ts'o:
"Various bug fixes for ext4 fast commit and inline data handling.
Also fix regression introduced as part of moving to the new mount API"
* tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
fs/ext4: fix comments mentioning i_mutex
ext4: fix incorrect type issue during replay_del_range
jbd2: fix kernel-doc descriptions for jbd2_journal_shrink_{scan,count}()
ext4: fix potential NULL pointer dereference in ext4_fill_super()
jbd2: refactor wait logic for transaction updates into a common function
jbd2: cleanup unused functions declarations from jbd2.h
ext4: fix error handling in ext4_fc_record_modified_inode()
ext4: remove redundant max inline_size check in ext4_da_write_inline_data_begin()
ext4: fix error handling in ext4_restore_inline_data()
ext4: fast commit may miss file actions
ext4: fast commit may not fallback for ineligible commit
ext4: modify the logic of ext4_mb_new_blocks_simple
ext4: prevent used blocks from being allocated during fast commit replay
Pull SCSI fixes from James Bottomley:
"Three fixes, all in drivers.
The ufs and qedi fixes are minor; the lpfc one is a bit bigger because
it involves adding a heuristic to detect and deal with common but not
standards compliant behaviour"
* tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi:
scsi: ufs: core: Fix divide by zero in ufshcd_map_queues()
scsi: lpfc: Fix pt2pt NVMe PRLI reject LOGO loop
scsi: qedi: Fix ABBA deadlock in qedi_process_tmf_resp() and qedi_process_cmd_cleanup_resp()
Do alignment logic properly and use the "ptr" local variable for
calculating the remainder of the alignment.
This became an issue because struct edac_mc_layer has a size that is not
zero modulo eight, and the next offset that was prepared for the private
data was unaligned, causing an alignment exception.
The patch in Fixes: which broke this actually wanted to "what we
actually care about is the alignment of the actual pointer that's about
to be returned." But it didn't check that alignment.
Use the correct variable "ptr" for that.
[ bp: Massage commit message. ]
Fixes: 8447c4d15e35 ("edac: Do alignment logic properly in edac_align_ptr()")
Signed-off-by: Eliav Farber <farbere@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220113100622.12783-2-farbere@amazon.com