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When remapping a mapping where a portion of a VMA is remapped
into another portion of the VMA it can cause the VMA to become
split. During the copy_vma operation the VMA can actually
be remerged if it's an anonymous VMA whose pages have not yet
been faulted. This isn't normally a problem because at the end
of the remap the original portion is unmapped causing it to
become split again.
However, MREMAP_DONTUNMAP leaves that original portion in place which
means that the VMA which was split and then remerged is not actually
split at the end of the mremap. This patch fixes a bug where
we don't detect that the VMAs got remerged and we end up
putting back VM_ACCOUNT on the next mapping which is completely
unreleated. When that next mapping is unmapped it results in
incorrectly unaccounting for the memory which was never accounted,
and eventually we will underflow on the memory comittment.
There is also another issue which is similar, we're currently
accouting for the number of pages in the new_vma but that's wrong.
We need to account for the length of the remap operation as that's
all that is being added. If there was a mapping already at that
location its comittment would have been adjusted as part of
the munmap at the start of the mremap.
A really simple repro can be seen in:
https://gist.github.com/bgaff/e101ce99da7d9a8c60acc641d07f312c
Fixes: e346b3813067 ("mm/mremap: add MREMAP_DONTUNMAP to mremap()")
Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull clk fixes from Stephen Boyd:
"Two build fixes for a couple clk drivers and a fix for the Unisoc
serial clk where we want to keep it on for earlycon"
* tag 'clk-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clk/linux:
clk: sprd: don't gate uart console clock
clk: mmp2: fix link error without mmp2
clk: asm9260: fix __clk_hw_register_fixed_rate_with_accuracy typo
Pull x86 and objtool fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of fixes for x86 and objtool:
objtool:
- Ignore the double UD2 which is emitted in BUG() when
CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP is enabled.
- Support clang non-section symbols in objtool ORC dump
- Fix switch table detection in .text.unlikely
- Make the BP scratch register warning more robust.
x86:
- Increase microcode maximum patch size for AMD to cope with new CPUs
which have a larger patch size.
- Fix a crash in the resource control filesystem when the removal of
the default resource group is attempted.
- Preserve Code and Data Prioritization enabled state accross CPU
hotplug.
- Update split lock cpu matching to use the new X86_MATCH macros.
- Change the split lock enumeration as Intel finaly decided that the
IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES bits are not architectural contrary to what
the SDM claims. !@#%$^!
- Add Tremont CPU models to the split lock detection cpu match.
- Add a missing static attribute to make sparse happy"
* tag 'x86-urgent-2020-04-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/split_lock: Add Tremont family CPU models
x86/split_lock: Bits in IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES are not architectural
x86/resctrl: Preserve CDP enable over CPU hotplug
x86/resctrl: Fix invalid attempt at removing the default resource group
x86/split_lock: Update to use X86_MATCH_INTEL_FAM6_MODEL()
x86/umip: Make umip_insns static
x86/microcode/AMD: Increase microcode PATCH_MAX_SIZE
objtool: Make BP scratch register warning more robust
objtool: Fix switch table detection in .text.unlikely
objtool: Support Clang non-section symbols in ORC generation
objtool: Support Clang non-section symbols in ORC dump
objtool: Fix CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP unreachable warnings
Don't gate uart1_eb which provides console clock, gating that clock would
make serial stop working if serial driver didn't enable that explicitly.
Fixes: 0e4b8a2349f3 ("clk: sprd: add clocks support for SC9863A")
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang <chunyan.zhang@unisoc.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200408020234.31764-1-zhang.lyra@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Pull time namespace fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"An update for the proc interface of time namespaces: Use symbolic
names instead of clockid numbers. The usability nuisance of numbers
was noticed by Michael when polishing the man page"
* tag 'timers-urgent-2020-04-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
proc, time/namespace: Show clock symbolic names in /proc/pid/timens_offsets
Tremont CPUs support IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES bits to indicate whether
specific SKUs have support for split lock detection.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416205754.21177-4-tony.luck@intel.com
The newly added function is only built into the kernel if mmp2
is enabled, causing a link error otherwise.
arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: drivers/clk/mmp/clk.o: in function `mmp_register_pll_clks':
clk.c:(.text+0x6dc): undefined reference to `mmp_clk_register_pll'
Move it to a different file to get it to link.
Fixes: 5d34d0b32d6c ("clk: mmp2: Add support for PLL clock sources")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200408160518.2798571-1-arnd@arndb.de
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Pull perf tooling fixes and updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Fix the header line of perf stat output for '--metric-only --per-socket'
- Fix the python build with clang
- The usual tools UAPI header synchronization
* tag 'perf-urgent-2020-04-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
tools headers: Synchronize linux/bits.h with the kernel sources
tools headers: Adopt verbatim copy of compiletime_assert() from kernel sources
tools headers: Update x86's syscall_64.tbl with the kernel sources
tools headers UAPI: Sync drm/i915_drm.h with the kernel sources
tools headers UAPI: Update tools's copy of drm.h headers
tools headers kvm: Sync linux/kvm.h with the kernel sources
tools headers UAPI: Sync linux/fscrypt.h with the kernel sources
tools include UAPI: Sync linux/vhost.h with the kernel sources
tools arch x86: Sync asm/cpufeatures.h with the kernel sources
tools headers UAPI: Sync linux/mman.h with the kernel
tools headers UAPI: Sync sched.h with the kernel
tools headers: Update linux/vdso.h and grab a copy of vdso/const.h
perf stat: Fix no metric header if --per-socket and --metric-only set
perf python: Check if clang supports -fno-semantic-interposition
tools arch x86: Sync the msr-index.h copy with the kernel sources
Michael Kerrisk suggested to replace numeric clock IDs with symbolic names.
Now the content of these files looks like this:
$ cat /proc/774/timens_offsets
monotonic 864000 0
boottime 1728000 0
For setting offsets, both representations of clocks (numeric and symbolic)
can be used.
As for compatibility, it is acceptable to change things as long as
userspace doesn't care. The format of timens_offsets files is very new and
there are no userspace tools yet which rely on this format.
But three projects crun, util-linux and criu rely on the interface of
setting time offsets and this is why it's required to continue supporting
the numeric clock IDs on write.
Fixes: 04a8682a71be ("fs/proc: Introduce /proc/pid/timens_offsets")
Suggested-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200411154031.642557-1-avagin@gmail.com
The Intel Software Developers' Manual erroneously listed bit 5 of the
IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES register as an architectural feature. It is not.
Features enumerated by IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES are model specific and
implementation details may vary in different cpu models. Thus it is only
safe to trust features after checking the CPU model.
Icelake client and server models are known to implement the split lock
detect feature even though they don't enumerate IA32_CORE_CAPABILITIES
[ tglx: Use switch() for readability and massage comments ]
Fixes: 6650cdd9a8cc ("x86/split_lock: Enable split lock detection by kernel")
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416205754.21177-3-tony.luck@intel.com
The __clk_hw_register_fixed_rate_with_accuracy() function (with two '_')
does not exist, and apparently never did:
drivers/clk/clk-asm9260.c: In function 'asm9260_acc_init':
drivers/clk/clk-asm9260.c:279:7: error: implicit declaration of function '__clk_hw_register_fixed_rate_with_accuracy'; did you mean 'clk_hw_register_fixed_rate_with_accuracy'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
279 | hw = __clk_hw_register_fixed_rate_with_accuracy(NULL, NULL, pll_clk,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| clk_hw_register_fixed_rate_with_accuracy
drivers/clk/clk-asm9260.c:279:5: error: assignment to 'struct clk_hw *' from 'int' makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Werror=int-conversion]
279 | hw = __clk_hw_register_fixed_rate_with_accuracy(NULL, NULL, pll_clk,
| ^
From what I can tell, __clk_hw_register_fixed_rate() is the correct
API here, so use that instead.
Fixes: 728e3096741a ("clk: asm9260: Use parent accuracy in fixed rate clk")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200408155402.2138446-1-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Pull irq fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of fixes/updates for the interrupt subsystem:
- Remove setup_irq() and remove_irq(). All users have been converted
so remove them before new users surface.
- A set of bugfixes for various interrupt chip drivers
- Add a few missing static attributes to address sparse warnings"
* tag 'irq-urgent-2020-04-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
irqchip/irq-bcm7038-l1: Make bcm7038_l1_of_init() static
irqchip/irq-mvebu-icu: Make legacy_bindings static
irqchip/meson-gpio: Fix HARDIRQ-safe -> HARDIRQ-unsafe lock order
irqchip/sifive-plic: Fix maximum priority threshold value
irqchip/ti-sci-inta: Fix processing of masked irqs
irqchip/mbigen: Free msi_desc on device teardown
irqchip/gic-v4.1: Update effective affinity of virtual SGIs
irqchip/gic-v4.1: Add support for VPENDBASER's Dirty+Valid signaling
genirq: Remove setup_irq() and remove_irq()
Pull perf/urgent fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
perf stat:
Jin Yao:
- Fix no metric header if --per-socket and --metric-only set
build system:
- Fix python building when built with clang, that was failing if the clang
version doesn't support -fno-semantic-interposition.
tools UAPI headers:
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
- Update various copies of kernel headers, some ended up automatically
updating build-time generated tables to enable tools such as 'perf trace'
to decode syscalls and tracepoints arguments.
Now the tools/perf build is free of UAPI drift warnings.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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