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Pull ext4 fixes from Ted Ts'o:
"Two more bug fixes (including a regression) for 5.6"
* tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: potential crash on allocation error in ext4_alloc_flex_bg_array()
jbd2: fix data races at struct journal_head
Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
"More bugfixes, including a few remaining "make W=1" issues such as too
large frame sizes on some configurations.
On the ARM side, the compiler was messing up shadow stacks between EL1
and EL2 code, which is easily fixed with __always_inline"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: VMX: check descriptor table exits on instruction emulation
kvm: x86: Limit the number of "kvm: disabled by bios" messages
KVM: x86: avoid useless copy of cpufreq policy
KVM: allow disabling -Werror
KVM: x86: allow compiling as non-module with W=1
KVM: Pre-allocate 1 cpumask variable per cpu for both pv tlb and pv ipis
KVM: Introduce pv check helpers
KVM: let declaration of kvm_get_running_vcpus match implementation
KVM: SVM: allocate AVIC data structures based on kvm_amd module parameter
arm64: Ask the compiler to __always_inline functions used by KVM at HYP
KVM: arm64: Define our own swab32() to avoid a uapi static inline
KVM: arm64: Ask the compiler to __always_inline functions used at HYP
kvm: arm/arm64: Fold VHE entry/exit work into kvm_vcpu_run_vhe()
KVM: arm/arm64: Fix up includes for trace.h
If sbi->s_flex_groups_allocated is zero and the first allocation fails
then this code will crash. The problem is that "i--" will set "i" to
-1 but when we compare "i >= sbi->s_flex_groups_allocated" then the -1
is type promoted to unsigned and becomes UINT_MAX. Since UINT_MAX
is more than zero, the condition is true so we call kvfree(new_groups[-1]).
The loop will carry on freeing invalid memory until it crashes.
Fixes: 7c990728b99e ("ext4: fix potential race between s_flex_groups online resizing and access")
Reviewed-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <surajjs@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200228092142.7irbc44yaz3by7nb@kili.mountain
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Pull i2c fixes from Wolfram Sang:
"I2C has three driver bugfixes for you. We agreed on the Mac regression
to go in via I2C"
* 'i2c/for-current-fixed' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux:
macintosh: therm_windtunnel: fix regression when instantiating devices
i2c: altera: Fix potential integer overflow
i2c: jz4780: silence log flood on txabrt
KVM emulates UMIP on hardware that doesn't support it by setting the
'descriptor table exiting' VM-execution control and performing
instruction emulation. When running nested, this emulation is broken as
KVM refuses to emulate L2 instructions by default.
Correct this regression by allowing the emulation of descriptor table
instructions if L1 hasn't requested 'descriptor table exiting'.
Fixes: 07721feee46b ("KVM: nVMX: Don't emulate instructions in guest mode")
Reported-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
journal_head::b_transaction and journal_head::b_next_transaction could
be accessed concurrently as noticed by KCSAN,
LTP: starting fsync04
/dev/zero: Can't open blockdev
EXT4-fs (loop0): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem
EXT4-fs (loop0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
==================================================================
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in __jbd2_journal_refile_buffer [jbd2] / jbd2_write_access_granted [jbd2]
write to 0xffff99f9b1bd0e30 of 8 bytes by task 25721 on cpu 70:
__jbd2_journal_refile_buffer+0xdd/0x210 [jbd2]
__jbd2_journal_refile_buffer at fs/jbd2/transaction.c:2569
jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0x2d15/0x3f20 [jbd2]
(inlined by) jbd2_journal_commit_transaction at fs/jbd2/commit.c:1034
kjournald2+0x13b/0x450 [jbd2]
kthread+0x1cd/0x1f0
ret_from_fork+0x27/0x50
read to 0xffff99f9b1bd0e30 of 8 bytes by task 25724 on cpu 68:
jbd2_write_access_granted+0x1b2/0x250 [jbd2]
jbd2_write_access_granted at fs/jbd2/transaction.c:1155
jbd2_journal_get_write_access+0x2c/0x60 [jbd2]
__ext4_journal_get_write_access+0x50/0x90 [ext4]
ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used+0x158/0x620 [ext4]
ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x54f/0xca0 [ext4]
ext4_ind_map_blocks+0xc79/0x1b40 [ext4]
ext4_map_blocks+0x3b4/0x950 [ext4]
_ext4_get_block+0xfc/0x270 [ext4]
ext4_get_block+0x3b/0x50 [ext4]
__block_write_begin_int+0x22e/0xae0
__block_write_begin+0x39/0x50
ext4_write_begin+0x388/0xb50 [ext4]
generic_perform_write+0x15d/0x290
ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x11f/0x210 [ext4]
ext4_file_write_iter+0xce/0x9e0 [ext4]
new_sync_write+0x29c/0x3b0
__vfs_write+0x92/0xa0
vfs_write+0x103/0x260
ksys_write+0x9d/0x130
__x64_sys_write+0x4c/0x60
do_syscall_64+0x91/0xb05
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
5 locks held by fsync04/25724:
#0: ffff99f9911093f8 (sb_writers#13){.+.+}, at: vfs_write+0x21c/0x260
#1: ffff99f9db4c0348 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#15){+.+.}, at: ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x65/0x210 [ext4]
#2: ffff99f5e7dfcf58 (jbd2_handle){++++}, at: start_this_handle+0x1c1/0x9d0 [jbd2]
#3: ffff99f9db4c0168 (&ei->i_data_sem){++++}, at: ext4_map_blocks+0x176/0x950 [ext4]
#4: ffffffff99086b40 (rcu_read_lock){....}, at: jbd2_write_access_granted+0x4e/0x250 [jbd2]
irq event stamp: 1407125
hardirqs last enabled at (1407125): [<ffffffff980da9b7>] __find_get_block+0x107/0x790
hardirqs last disabled at (1407124): [<ffffffff980da8f9>] __find_get_block+0x49/0x790
softirqs last enabled at (1405528): [<ffffffff98a0034c>] __do_softirq+0x34c/0x57c
softirqs last disabled at (1405521): [<ffffffff97cc67a2>] irq_exit+0xa2/0xc0
Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 68 PID: 25724 Comm: fsync04 Tainted: G L 5.6.0-rc2-next-20200221+ #7
Hardware name: HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10/ProLiant DL385 Gen10, BIOS A40 07/10/2019
The plain reads are outside of jh->b_state_lock critical section which result
in data races. Fix them by adding pairs of READ|WRITE_ONCE().
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200222043111.2227-1-cai@lca.pw
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Pull SCSI fixes from James Bottomley:
"Four small fixes.
Three are in drivers for fairly obvious bugs. The fourth is a set of
regressions introduced by the compat_ioctl changes because some of the
compat updates wrongly replaced .ioctl instead of .compat_ioctl"
* tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi:
scsi: compat_ioctl: cdrom: Replace .ioctl with .compat_ioctl in four appropriate places
scsi: zfcp: fix wrong data and display format of SFP+ temperature
scsi: sd_sbc: Fix sd_zbc_report_zones()
scsi: libfc: free response frame from GPN_ID
Removing attach_adapter from this driver caused a regression for at
least some machines. Those machines had the sensors described in their
DT, too, so they didn't need manual creation of the sensor devices. The
old code worked, though, because manual creation came first. Creation of
DT devices then failed later and caused error logs, but the sensors
worked nonetheless because of the manually created devices.
When removing attach_adaper, manual creation now comes later and loses
the race. The sensor devices were already registered via DT, yet with
another binding, so the driver could not be bound to it.
This fix refactors the code to remove the race and only manually creates
devices if there are no DT nodes present. Also, the DT binding is updated
to match both, the DT and manually created devices. Because we don't
know which device creation will be used at runtime, the code to start
the kthread is moved to do_probe() which will be called by both methods.
Fixes: 3e7bed52719d ("macintosh: therm_windtunnel: drop using attach_adapter")
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201723
Reported-by: Erhard Furtner <erhard_f@mailbox.org>
Tested-by: Erhard Furtner <erhard_f@mailbox.org>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # v4.19+
KVM/arm fixes for 5.6, take #1
- Fix compilation on 32bit
- Move VHE guest entry/exit into the VHE-specific entry code
- Make sure all functions called by the non-VHE HYP code is tagged as __always_inline
Pull PCI fixes from Bjorn Helgaas:
- Fix build issue on 32-bit ARM with old compilers (Marek Szyprowski)
- Update MAINTAINERS for recent Cadence driver file move (Lukas
Bulwahn)
* tag 'pci-v5.6-fixes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci:
MAINTAINERS: Correct Cadence PCI driver path
PCI: brcmstb: Fix build on 32bit ARM platforms with older compilers
Arnd Bergmann inadvertently typoed these in d320a9551e394 and 64cbfa96551a;
they seem to be the cause of
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1801353 , invalid SCSI commands
when udev tries to query a DVD drive.
[arnd] Found another instance of the same bug, also introduced in my
compat_ioctl series.
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1801353
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200219165139.3467320-1-arnd@arndb.de
Fixes: c103d6ee69f9 ("compat_ioctl: ide: floppy: add handler")
Fixes: 64cbfa96551a ("compat_ioctl: move cdrom commands into cdrom.c")
Fixes: d320a9551e39 ("compat_ioctl: scsi: move ioctl handling into drivers")
Bisected-by: Chris Murphy <bugzilla@colorremedies.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Factor out 100 from the equation and do 32-bit arithmetic (3 * clk_mhz / 10)
instead of 64-bit.
Notice that clk_mhz is MHz, so the multiplication will never wrap 32 bits
and there is no need for div_u64().
Addresses-Coverity: 1458369 ("Unintentional integer overflow")
Fixes: 0560ad576268 ("i2c: altera: Add Altera I2C Controller driver")
Suggested-by: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Reviewed-by: Thor Thayer <thor.thayer@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
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