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Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"The accumulated fixes from this and last week:
- Fix vmalloc TLB flush and map range calculations which lead to
stale TLBs, spurious faults and other hard to diagnose issues.
- Use fault_in_pages_writable() for prefaulting the user stack in the
FPU code as it's less fragile than the current solution
- Use the PF_KTHREAD flag when checking for a kernel thread instead
of current->mm as the latter can give the wrong answer due to
use_mm()
- Compute the vmemmap size correctly for KASLR and 5-Level paging.
Otherwise this can end up with a way too small vmemmap area.
- Make KASAN and 5-level paging work again by making sure that all
invalid bits are masked out when computing the P4D offset. This
worked before but got broken recently when the LDT remap area was
moved.
- Prevent a NULL pointer dereference in the resource control code
which can be triggered with certain mount options when the
requested resource is not available.
- Enforce ordering of microcode loading vs. perf initialization on
secondary CPUs. Otherwise perf tries to access a non-existing MSR
as the boot CPU marked it as available.
- Don't stop the resource control group walk early otherwise the
control bitmaps are not updated correctly and become inconsistent.
- Unbreak kgdb by returning 0 on success from
kgdb_arch_set_breakpoint() instead of an error code.
- Add more Icelake CPU model defines so depending changes can be
queued in other trees"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/microcode, cpuhotplug: Add a microcode loader CPU hotplug callback
x86/kasan: Fix boot with 5-level paging and KASAN
x86/fpu: Don't use current->mm to check for a kthread
x86/kgdb: Return 0 from kgdb_arch_set_breakpoint()
x86/resctrl: Prevent NULL pointer dereference when local MBM is disabled
x86/resctrl: Don't stop walking closids when a locksetup group is found
x86/fpu: Update kernel's FPU state before using for the fsave header
x86/mm/KASLR: Compute the size of the vmemmap section properly
x86/fpu: Use fault_in_pages_writeable() for pre-faulting
x86/CPU: Add more Icelake model numbers
mm/vmalloc: Avoid rare case of flushing TLB with weird arguments
mm/vmalloc: Fix calculation of direct map addr range
Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of small fixes:
- Repair the ktime_get_coarse() functions so they actually deliver
what they are supposed to: tick granular time stamps. The current
code missed to add the accumulated nanoseconds part of the
timekeeper so the resulting granularity was 1 second.
- Prevent the tracer from infinitely recursing into time getter
functions in the arm architectured timer by marking these functions
notrace
- Fix a trivial compiler warning caused by wrong qualifier ordering"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
timekeeping: Repair ktime_get_coarse*() granularity
clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Don't trace count reader functions
clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Change to new style declaration
Adric Blake reported the following warning during suspend-resume:
Enabling non-boot CPUs ...
x86: Booting SMP configuration:
smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 1 APIC 0x2
unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x10f (tried to write 0x0000000000000000) \
at rIP: 0xffffffff8d267924 (native_write_msr+0x4/0x20)
Call Trace:
intel_set_tfa
intel_pmu_cpu_starting
? x86_pmu_dead_cpu
x86_pmu_starting_cpu
cpuhp_invoke_callback
? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
notify_cpu_starting
start_secondary
secondary_startup_64
microcode: sig=0x806ea, pf=0x80, revision=0x96
microcode: updated to revision 0xb4, date = 2019-04-01
CPU1 is up
The MSR in question is MSR_TFA_RTM_FORCE_ABORT and that MSR is emulated
by microcode. The log above shows that the microcode loader callback
happens after the PMU restoration, leading to the conjecture that
because the microcode hasn't been updated yet, that MSR is not present
yet, leading to the #GP.
Add a microcode loader-specific hotplug vector which comes before
the PERF vectors and thus executes earlier and makes sure the MSR is
present.
Fixes: 400816f60c54 ("perf/x86/intel: Implement support for TSX Force Abort")
Reported-by: Adric Blake <promarbler14@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203637
Pull RAS fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Two small fixes for RAS:
- Use a proper search algorithm to find the correct element in the
CEC array. The replacement was a better choice than fixing the
crash causes by the original search function with horrible duct
tape.
- Move the timer based decay function into thread context so it can
actually acquire the mutex which protects the CEC array to prevent
corruption"
* 'ras-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
RAS/CEC: Convert the timer callback to a workqueue
RAS/CEC: Fix binary search function
Jason reported that the coarse ktime based time getters advance only once
per second and not once per tick as advertised.
The code reads only the monotonic base time, which advances once per
second. The nanoseconds are accumulated on every tick in xtime_nsec up to
a second and the regular time getters take this nanoseconds offset into
account, but the ktime_get_coarse*() implementation fails to do so.
Add the accumulated xtime_nsec value to the monotonic base time to get the
proper per tick advancing coarse tinme.
Fixes: b9ff604cff11 ("timekeeping: Add ktime_get_coarse_with_offset")
Reported-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1906132136280.1791@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
Since commit d52888aa2753 ("x86/mm: Move LDT remap out of KASLR region on
5-level paging") kernel doesn't boot with KASAN on 5-level paging machines.
The bug is actually in early_p4d_offset() and introduced by commit
12a8cc7fcf54 ("x86/kasan: Use the same shadow offset for 4- and 5-level paging")
early_p4d_offset() tries to convert pgd_val(*pgd) value to a physical
address. This doesn't make sense because pgd_val() already contains the
physical address.
It did work prior to commit d52888aa2753 because the result of
"__pa_nodebug(pgd_val(*pgd)) & PTE_PFN_MASK" was the same as "pgd_val(*pgd)
& PTE_PFN_MASK". __pa_nodebug() just set some high bits which were masked
out by applying PTE_PFN_MASK.
After the change of the PAGE_OFFSET offset in commit d52888aa2753
__pa_nodebug(pgd_val(*pgd)) started to return a value with more high bits
set and PTE_PFN_MASK wasn't enough to mask out all of them. So it returns a
wrong not even canonical address and crashes on the attempt to dereference
it.
Switch back to pgd_val() & PTE_PFN_MASK to cure the issue.
Fixes: 12a8cc7fcf54 ("x86/kasan: Use the same shadow offset for 4- and 5-level paging")
Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190614143149.2227-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Pull x86 platform driver fixes from Andy Shevchenko:
- fix a couple of Mellanox driver enumeration issues
- fix ASUS laptop regression with backlight
- fix Dell computers that got a wrong mode (tablet versus laptop) after
resume
* tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v5.2-3' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-platform-drivers-x86:
platform/mellanox: mlxreg-hotplug: Add devm_free_irq call to remove flow
platform/x86: mlx-platform: Fix parent device in i2c-mux-reg device registration
platform/x86: intel-vbtn: Report switch events when event wakes device
platform/x86: asus-wmi: Only Tell EC the OS will handle display hotkeys from asus_nb_wmi
cec_timer_fn() is a timer callback which reads ce_arr.array[] and
updates its decay values. However, it runs in interrupt context and the
mutex protection the CEC uses for that array, is inadequate. Convert the
used timer to a workqueue to keep the tasks the CEC performs preemptible
and thus low-prio.
[ bp: Rewrite commit message.
s/timer/decay/gi to make it agnostic as to what facility is used. ]
Fixes: 011d82611172 ("RAS: Add a Corrected Errors Collector")
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190416213351.28999-2-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com
Merge tag 'timers-v5.2-rc1' of https://git.linaro.org/people/daniel.lezcano/linux into timers/urgent
Pull timer fixes from Daniel Lezcano:
- Fix missing notrace leading to deadlock on arch_arm_timer (Julien Thierry)
- Fix compilation warning on timer-ti-dm (Philippe Mazenauer)
current->mm can be non-NULL if a kthread calls use_mm(). Check for
PF_KTHREAD instead to decide when to store user mode FP state.
Fixes: 2722146eb784 ("x86/fpu: Remove fpu->initialized")
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604175411.GA27477@lst.de
Pull USB fixes from Greg KH:
"Here are some small USB driver fixes for 5.2-rc5
Nothing major, just some small gadget fixes, usb-serial new device
ids, a few new quirks, and some small fixes for some regressions that
have been found after the big 5.2-rc1 merge.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'usb-5.2-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb:
usb: typec: Make sure an alt mode exist before getting its partner
usb: gadget: udc: lpc32xx: fix return value check in lpc32xx_udc_probe()
usb: gadget: dwc2: fix zlp handling
usb: dwc2: Set actual frame number for completed ISOC transfer for none DDMA
usb: gadget: udc: lpc32xx: allocate descriptor with GFP_ATOMIC
usb: gadget: fusb300_udc: Fix memory leak of fusb300->ep[i]
usb: phy: mxs: Disable external charger detect in mxs_phy_hw_init()
usb: dwc2: Fix DMA cache alignment issues
usb: dwc2: host: Fix wMaxPacketSize handling (fix webcam regression)
USB: Fix chipmunk-like voice when using Logitech C270 for recording audio.
USB: usb-storage: Add new ID to ums-realtek
usb: typec: ucsi: ccg: fix memory leak in do_flash
USB: serial: option: add Telit 0x1260 and 0x1261 compositions
USB: serial: pl2303: add Allied Telesis VT-Kit3
USB: serial: option: add support for Simcom SIM7500/SIM7600 RNDIS mode
Add devm_free_irq() call to mlxreg-hotplug remove() for clean release
of devices irq resource. Fix debugobjects warning triggered by rmmod
It prevents of use-after-free memory, related to
mlxreg_hotplug_work_handler.
Issue has been reported as debugobjects warning triggered by
'rmmod mlxtreg-hotplug' flow, while running kernel with
CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS* options.
[ 2489.623551] ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: work_struct hint: mlxreg_hotplug_work_handler+0x0/0x7f0 [mlxreg_hotplug]
[ 2489.637097] WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 3924 at lib/debugobjects.c:328 debug_print_object+0xfe/0x180
[ 2489.637165] RIP: 0010:debug_print_object+0xfe/0x180
?
[ 2489.637214] Call Trace:
[ 2489.637225] __debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x25e/0x320
[ 2489.637231] kfree+0x82/0x110
[ 2489.637238] release_nodes+0x33c/0x4e0
[ 2489.637242] ? devres_remove_group+0x1b0/0x1b0
[ 2489.637247] device_release_driver_internal+0x146/0x270
[ 2489.637251] driver_detach+0x73/0xe0
[ 2489.637254] bus_remove_driver+0xa1/0x170
[ 2489.637261] __x64_sys_delete_module+0x29e/0x320
[ 2489.637265] ? __ia32_sys_delete_module+0x320/0x320
[ 2489.637268] ? blkcg_exit_queue+0x20/0x20
[ 2489.637273] ? task_work_run+0x7d/0x100
[ 2489.637278] ? exit_to_usermode_loop+0x5b/0xf0
[ 2489.637281] do_syscall_64+0x73/0x160
[ 2489.637287] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
[ 2489.637290] RIP: 0033:0x7f95c3596fd7
The difference in release flow with and with no devm_free_irq is listed
below:
bus: 'platform': remove driver mlxreg-hotplug
mlxreg_hotplug_remove(start)
-> devm_free_irq (with new code)
mlxreg_hotplug_remove (end)
release_nodes (start)
mlxreg-hotplug: DEVRES REL devm_hwmon_release (8 bytes)
device: 'hwmon3': device_unregister
PM: Removing info for No Bus:hwmon3
mlxreg-hotplug: DEVRES REL devm_kzalloc_release (88 bytes)
mlxreg-hotplug: DEVRES REL devm_kzalloc_release (6 bytes)
mlxreg-hotplug: DEVRES REL devm_kzalloc_release (5 bytes)
mlxreg-hotplug: DEVRES REL devm_kzalloc_release (5 bytes)
mlxreg-hotplug: DEVRES REL devm_kzalloc_release (5 bytes)
mlxreg-hotplug: DEVRES REL devm_kzalloc_release (5 bytes)
mlxreg-hotplug: DEVRES REL devm_kzalloc_release (5 bytes)
mlxreg-hotplug: DEVRES REL devm_kzalloc_release (5 bytes)
mlxreg-hotplug: DEVRES REL devm_kzalloc_release (5 bytes)
mlxreg-hotplug: DEVRES REL devm_kzalloc_release (5 bytes)
mlxreg-hotplug: DEVRES REL devm_kzalloc_release (5 bytes)
mlxreg-hotplug: DEVRES REL devm_kzalloc_release (5 bytes)
mlxreg-hotplug: DEVRES REL devm_irq_release (16 bytes) (no new code)
mlxreg-hotplug: DEVRES REL devm_kzalloc_release (1376 bytes)
------------[ cut here ]------------ (no new code):
ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: work_struct hint: mlxreg_hotplug_work_handler
release_nodes(end)
driver: 'mlxreg-hotplug': driver_release
Fixes: 1f976f6978bf ("platform/x86: Move Mellanox platform hotplug driver to platform/mellanox")
Signed-off-by: Vadim Pasternak <vadimp@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Switch to using Donald Knuth's binary search algorithm (The Art of
Computer Programming, vol. 3, section 6.2.1). This should've been done
from the very beginning but the author must've been smoking something
very potent at the time.
The problem with the current one was that it would return the wrong
element index in certain situations:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAM_iQpVd02zkVJ846cj-Fg1yUNuz6tY5q1Vpj4LrXmE06dPYYg@mail.gmail.com
and the noodling code after the loop was fishy at best.
So switch to using Knuth's binary search. The final result is much
cleaner and straightforward.
Fixes: 011d82611172 ("RAS: Add a Corrected Errors Collector")
Reported-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
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