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Pull auxdisplay cleanup from Miguel Ojeda:
"Make ht16k33_fb_fix and ht16k33_fb_var constant (Nishka Dasgupta)"
* tag 'auxdisplay-for-linus-v5.3-rc7' of git://github.com/ojeda/linux:
auxdisplay: ht16k33: Make ht16k33_fb_fix and ht16k33_fb_var constant
Pull UML fix from Richard Weinberger:
"Fix time travel mode"
* tag 'for-linus-5.3-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml:
um: fix time travel mode
The static structures ht16k33_fb_fix and ht16k33_fb_var, of types
fb_fix_screeninfo and fb_var_screeninfo respectively, are not used
except to be copied into other variables. Hence make both of them
constant to prevent unintended modification.
Issue found with
Coccinelle.
Acked-by: Robin van der Gracht <robin@protonic.nl>
Signed-off-by: Nishka Dasgupta <nishkadg.linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Pull UBIFS and JFFS2 fixes from Richard Weinberger:
"UBIFS:
- Don't block too long in writeback_inodes_sb()
- Fix for a possible overrun of the log head
- Fix double unlock in orphan_delete()
JFFS2:
- Remove C++ style from UAPI header and unbreak picky toolchains"
* tag 'for-linus-5.3-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/ubifs:
ubifs: Limit the number of pages in shrink_liability
ubifs: Correctly initialize c->min_log_bytes
ubifs: Fix double unlock around orphan_delete()
jffs2: Remove C++ style comments from uapi header
Unfortunately, my build fix for when time travel mode isn't
enabled broke time travel mode, because I forgot that we need
to use the timer time after the timer has been marked disabled,
and thus need to leave the time stored instead of zeroing it.
Fix that by splitting the inline into two, so we can call only
the _mode() one in the relevant code path.
Fixes: b482e48d29f1 ("um: fix build without CONFIG_UML_TIME_TRAVEL_SUPPORT")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A few fixes for x86:
- Fix a boot regression caused by the recent bootparam sanitizing
change, which escaped the attention of all people who reviewed that
code.
- Address a boot problem on machines with broken E820 tables caused
by an underflow which ended up placing the trampoline start at
physical address 0.
- Handle machines which do not advertise a legacy timer of any form,
but need calibration of the local APIC timer gracefully by making
the calibration routine independent from the tick interrupt. Marked
for stable as well as there seems to be quite some new laptops
rolled out which expose this.
- Clear the RDRAND CPUID bit on AMD family 15h and 16h CPUs which are
affected by broken firmware which does not initialize RDRAND
correctly after resume. Add a command line parameter to override
this for machine which either do not use suspend/resume or have a
fixed BIOS. Unfortunately there is no way to detect this on boot,
so the only safe decision is to turn it off by default.
- Prevent RFLAGS from being clobbers in CALL_NOSPEC on 32bit which
caused fast KVM instruction emulation to break.
- Explain the Intel CPU model naming convention so that the repeating
discussions come to an end"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/retpoline: Don't clobber RFLAGS during CALL_NOSPEC on i386
x86/boot: Fix boot regression caused by bootparam sanitizing
x86/CPU/AMD: Clear RDRAND CPUID bit on AMD family 15h/16h
x86/boot/compressed/64: Fix boot on machines with broken E820 table
x86/apic: Handle missing global clockevent gracefully
x86/cpu: Explain Intel model naming convention
If the number of dirty pages to be written back is large,
then writeback_inodes_sb will block waiting for a long time,
causing hung task detection alarm. Therefore, we should limit
the maximum number of pages written back this time, which let
the budget be completed faster. The remaining dirty pages
tend to rely on the writeback mechanism to complete the
synchronization.
Fixes: b6e51316daed ("writeback: separate starting of sync vs opportunistic writeback")
Signed-off-by: Liu Song <liu.song11@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Pull MTD fix from Richard Weinberger:
"A single fix for MTD to correctly set the spi-nor WP pin"
* tag 'fixes-for-5.3-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux:
mtd: spi-nor: Fix the disabling of write protection at init
Pull timekeeping fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A single fix for a regression caused by the generic VDSO
implementation where a math overflow causes CLOCK_BOOTTIME to become a
random number generator"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
timekeeping/vsyscall: Prevent math overflow in BOOTTIME update
Use 'lea' instead of 'add' when adjusting %rsp in CALL_NOSPEC so as to
avoid clobbering flags.
KVM's emulator makes indirect calls into a jump table of sorts, where
the destination of the CALL_NOSPEC is a small blob of code that performs
fast emulation by executing the target instruction with fixed operands.
adcb_al_dl:
0x000339f8 <+0>: adc %dl,%al
0x000339fa <+2>: ret
A major motiviation for doing fast emulation is to leverage the CPU to
handle consumption and manipulation of arithmetic flags, i.e. RFLAGS is
both an input and output to the target of CALL_NOSPEC. Clobbering flags
results in all sorts of incorrect emulation, e.g. Jcc instructions often
take the wrong path. Sans the nops...
asm("push %[flags]; popf; " CALL_NOSPEC " ; pushf; pop %[flags]\n"
0x0003595a <+58>: mov 0xc0(%ebx),%eax
0x00035960 <+64>: mov 0x60(%ebx),%edx
0x00035963 <+67>: mov 0x90(%ebx),%ecx
0x00035969 <+73>: push %edi
0x0003596a <+74>: popf
0x0003596b <+75>: call *%esi
0x000359a0 <+128>: pushf
0x000359a1 <+129>: pop %edi
0x000359a2 <+130>: mov %eax,0xc0(%ebx)
0x000359b1 <+145>: mov %edx,0x60(%ebx)
ctxt->eflags = (ctxt->eflags & ~EFLAGS_MASK) | (flags & EFLAGS_MASK);
0x000359a8 <+136>: mov -0x10(%ebp),%eax
0x000359ab <+139>: and $0x8d5,%edi
0x000359b4 <+148>: and $0xfffff72a,%eax
0x000359b9 <+153>: or %eax,%edi
0x000359bd <+157>: mov %edi,0x4(%ebx)
For the most part this has gone unnoticed as emulation of guest code
that can trigger fast emulation is effectively limited to MMIO when
running on modern hardware, and MMIO is rarely, if ever, accessed by
instructions that affect or consume flags.
Breakage is almost instantaneous when running with unrestricted guest
disabled, in which case KVM must emulate all instructions when the guest
has invalid state, e.g. when the guest is in Big Real Mode during early
BIOS.
Fixes: 776b043848fd2 ("x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support")
Fixes: 1a29b5b7f347a ("KVM: x86: Make indirect calls in emulator speculation safe")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190822211122.27579-1-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com
Currently on a freshly mounted UBIFS, c->min_log_bytes is 0.
This can lead to a log overrun and make commits fail.
Recent kernels will report the following assert:
UBIFS assert failed: c->lhead_lnum != c->ltail_lnum, in fs/ubifs/log.c:412
c->min_log_bytes can have two states, 0 and c->leb_size.
It controls how much bytes of the log area are reserved for non-bud
nodes such as commit nodes.
After a commit it has to be set to c->leb_size such that we have always
enough space for a commit. While a commit runs it can be 0 to make the
remaining bytes of the log available to writers.
Having it set to 0 right after mount is wrong since no space for commits
is reserved.
Fixes: 1e51764a3c2ac ("UBIFS: add new flash file system")
Reported-and-tested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Pull btrfs fixes from David Sterba:
"Two fixes that popped up during testing:
- fix for sysfs-related code that adds/removes block groups, warnings
appear during several fstests in connection with sysfs updates in
5.3, the fix essentially replaces a workaround with scope NOFS and
applies to 5.2-based branch too
- add sanity check of trim range"
* tag 'for-5.3-rc4-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux:
btrfs: trim: Check the range passed into to prevent overflow
Btrfs: fix sysfs warning and missing raid sysfs directories
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