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Pull file descriptor fix from Al Viro:
"Fix for breakage in #work.fd this window"
* tag 'pull-work.fd-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
fix the breakage in close_fd_get_file() calling conventions change
Pull mm hotfixes from Andrew Morton:
"Fixups for various recently-added and longer-term issues and a few
minor tweaks:
- fixes for material merged during this merge window
- cc:stable fixes for more longstanding issues
- minor mailmap and MAINTAINERS updates"
* tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2022-06-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm:
mm/oom_kill.c: fix vm_oom_kill_table[] ifdeffery
x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer
mm/memremap: fix missing call to untrack_pfn() in pagemap_range()
mm: page_isolation: use compound_nr() correctly in isolate_single_pageblock()
mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: fix CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON
MAINTAINERS: add maintainer information for z3fold
mailmap: update Josh Poimboeuf's email
It used to grab an extra reference to struct file rather than
just transferring to caller the one it had removed from descriptor
table. New variant doesn't, and callers need to be adjusted.
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+47dd250f527cb7bebf24@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 6319194ec57b ("Unify the primitives for file descriptor closing")
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull delay-accounting update from Andrew Morton:
"A single featurette for delay accounting.
Delayed a bit because, unusually, it had dependencies on both the
mm-stable and mm-nonmm-stable queues"
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-06-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm:
delayacct: track delays from write-protect copy
arm allnoconfig:
mm/oom_kill.c:60:25: warning: 'vm_oom_kill_table' defined but not used [-Wunused-variable]
60 | static struct ctl_table vm_oom_kill_table[] = {
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Currently we have 3 primitives for removing an opened file from descriptor
table - pick_file(), __close_fd_get_file() and close_fd_get_file(). Their
calling conventions are rather odd and there's a code duplication for no
good reason. They can be unified -
1) have __range_close() cap max_fd in the very beginning; that way
we don't need separate way for pick_file() to report being past the end
of descriptor table.
2) make {__,}close_fd_get_file() return file (or NULL) directly, rather
than returning it via struct file ** argument. Don't bother with
(bogus) return value - nobody wants that -ENOENT.
3) make pick_file() return NULL on unopened descriptor - the only caller
that used to care about the distinction between descriptor past the end
of descriptor table and finding NULL in descriptor table doesn't give
a damn after (1).
4) lift ->files_lock out of pick_file()
That actually simplifies the callers, as well as the primitives themselves.
Code duplication is also gone...
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The bluetooth code uses our bitmap infrastructure for the two bits (!)
of connection setup flags, and in the process causes odd problems when
it converts between a bitmap and just the regular values of said bits.
It's completely pointless to do things like bitmap_to_arr32() to convert
a bitmap into a u32. It shoudln't have been a bitmap in the first
place. The reason to use bitmaps is if you have arbitrary number of
bits you want to manage (not two!), or if you rely on the atomicity
guarantees of the bitmap setting and clearing.
The code could use an "atomic_t" and use "atomic_or/andnot()" to set and
clear the bit values, but considering that it then copies the bitmaps
around with "bitmap_to_arr32()" and friends, there clearly cannot be a
lot of atomicity requirements.
So just use a regular integer.
In the process, this avoids the warnings about erroneous use of
bitmap_from_u64() which were triggered on 32-bit architectures when
conversion from a u64 would access two words (and, surprise, surprise,
only one word is needed - and indeed overkill - for a 2-bit bitmap).
That was always problematic, but the compiler seems to notice it and
warn about the invalid pattern only after commit 0a97953fd221 ("lib: add
bitmap_{from,to}_arr64") changed the exact implementation details of
'bitmap_from_u64()', as reported by Sudip Mukherjee and Stephen Rothwell.
Fixes: fe92ee6425a2 ("Bluetooth: hci_core: Rework hci_conn_params flags")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/YpyJ9qTNHJzz0FHY@debian/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220606080631.0c3014f2@canb.auug.org.au/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220605162537.1604762-1-yury.norov@gmail.com/
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Reported-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Cc: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.von.dentz@intel.com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Delay accounting does not track the delay of write-protect copy. When
tasks trigger many write-protect copys(include COW and unsharing of
anonymous pages[1]), it may spend a amount of time waiting for them. To
get the delay of tasks in write-protect copy, could help users to evaluate
the impact of using KSM or fork() or GUP.
Also update tools/accounting/getdelays.c:
/ # ./getdelays -dl -p 231
print delayacct stats ON
listen forever
PID 231
CPU count real total virtual total delay total delay average
6247 1859000000 2154070021 1674255063 0.268ms
IO count delay total delay average
0 0 0ms
SWAP count delay total delay average
0 0 0ms
RECLAIM count delay total delay average
0 0 0ms
THRASHING count delay total delay average
0 0 0ms
COMPACT count delay total delay average
3 72758 0ms
WPCOPY count delay total delay average
3635 271567604 0ms
[1] commit 31cc5bc4af70("mm: support GUP-triggered unsharing of anonymous pages")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220409014342.2505532-1-yang.yang29@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiang Xuexin <jiang.xuexin@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: wangyong <wang.yong12@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This is reported by kmemleak detector:
unreferenced object 0xffffc900002a9000 (size 4096):
comm "kexec", pid 14950, jiffies 4295110793 (age 373.951s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .ELF............
04 00 3e 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ..>.............
backtrace:
[<0000000016a8ef9f>] __vmalloc_node_range+0x101/0x170
[<000000002b66b6c0>] __vmalloc_node+0xb4/0x160
[<00000000ad40107d>] crash_prepare_elf64_headers+0x8e/0xcd0
[<0000000019afff23>] crash_load_segments+0x260/0x470
[<0000000019ebe95c>] bzImage64_load+0x814/0xad0
[<0000000093e16b05>] arch_kexec_kernel_image_load+0x1be/0x2a0
[<000000009ef2fc88>] kimage_file_alloc_init+0x2ec/0x5a0
[<0000000038f5a97a>] __do_sys_kexec_file_load+0x28d/0x530
[<0000000087c19992>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
[<0000000066e063a4>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
In crash_prepare_elf64_headers(), a buffer is allocated via vmalloc() to
store elf headers. While it's not freed back to system correctly when
kdump kernel is reloaded or unloaded. Then memory leak is caused. Fix it
by introducing x86 specific function arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup(),
and freeing the buffer there.
And also remove the incorrect elf header buffer freeing code. Before
calling arch specific kexec_file loading function, the image instance has
been initialized. So 'image->elf_headers' must be NULL. It doesn't make
sense to free the elf header buffer in the place.
Three different people have reported three bugs about the memory leak on
x86_64 inside Redhat.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220223113225.63106-2-bhe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
These two interface were added in 091141a42 commit,
but now there is no place to call them.
The only user of fput/fget_many() was removed in commit
62906e89e63b ("io_uring: remove file batch-get optimisation").
A user of get_file_rcu_many() were removed in commit
f073531070d2 ("init: add an init_dup helper").
And replace atomic_long_sub/add to atomic_long_dec/inc
can improve performance.
Here are the test results of unixbench:
Cmd: ./Run -c 64 context1
Without patch:
System Benchmarks Partial Index BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 2798407.0 6996.0
========
System Benchmarks Index Score (Partial Only) 6996.0
With patch:
System Benchmarks Partial Index BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 3486268.8 8715.7
========
System Benchmarks Index Score (Partial Only) 8715.7
Signed-off-by: Gou Hao <gouhao@uniontech.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull x86 SGX fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A single fix for x86/SGX to prevent that memory which is allocated for
an SGX enclave is accounted to the wrong memory control group"
* tag 'x86-urgent-2022-06-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/sgx: Set active memcg prior to shmem allocation
Pull RTC updates from Alexandre Belloni:
"A new driver represents the bulk of the changes and then we get the
usual small fixes.
New driver:
- Renesas RZN1 rtc
Drivers:
- sun6i: Add nvmem support"
* tag 'rtc-5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux:
rtc: mxc: Silence a clang warning
rtc: rzn1: Fix a variable type
rtc: rzn1: Fix error code in probe
rtc: rzn1: Avoid mixing variables
rtc: ftrtc010: Fix error handling in ftrtc010_rtc_probe
rtc: mt6397: check return value after calling platform_get_resource()
rtc: rzn1: fix platform_no_drv_owner.cocci warning
rtc: gamecube: Add missing iounmap in gamecube_rtc_read_offset_from_sram
rtc: meson: Fix email address in MODULE_AUTHOR
rtc: simplify the return expression of rx8025_set_offset()
rtc: pcf85063: Add a compatible entry for pca85073a
dt-binding: pcf85063: Add an entry for pca85073a
MAINTAINERS: Add myself as maintainer of the RZN1 RTC driver
rtc: rzn1: Add oscillator offset support
rtc: rzn1: Add alarm support
rtc: rzn1: Add new RTC driver
dt-bindings: rtc: rzn1: Describe the RZN1 RTC
rtc: sun6i: Add NVMEM provider
We forget to call untrack_pfn() to pair with track_pfn_remap() when range
is not allowed to hotplug. Fix it by jump err_kasan.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220531122643.25249-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Fixes: bca3feaa0764 ("mm/memory_hotplug: prevalidate the address range being added with platform")
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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