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Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of fixes for x86:
- Ensure that direct mapping alias is always flushed when changing
page attributes. The optimization for small ranges failed to do so
when the virtual address was in the vmalloc or module space.
- Unbreak the trace event registration for syscalls without arguments
caused by the refactoring of the SYSCALL_DEFINE0() macro.
- Move the printk in the TSC deadline timer code to a place where it
is guaranteed to only be called once during boot and cannot be
rearmed by clearing warn_once after boot. If it's invoked post boot
then lockdep rightfully complains about a potential deadlock as the
calling context is different.
- A series of fixes for objtool and the ORC unwinder addressing
variety of small issues:
- Stack offset tracking for indirect CFAs in objtool ignored
subsequent pushs and pops
- Repair the unwind hints in the register clearing entry ASM code
- Make the unwinding in the low level exit to usermode code stop
after switching to the trampoline stack. The unwind hint is no
longer valid and the ORC unwinder emits a warning as it can't
find the registers anymore.
- Fix unwind hints in switch_to_asm() and rewind_stack_do_exit()
which caused objtool to generate bogus ORC data.
- Prevent unwinder warnings when dumping the stack of a
non-current task as there is no way to be sure about the
validity because the dumped stack can be a moving target.
- Make the ORC unwinder behave the same way as the frame pointer
unwinder when dumping an inactive tasks stack and do not skip
the first frame.
- Prevent ORC unwinding before ORC data has been initialized
- Immediately terminate unwinding when a unknown ORC entry type
is found.
- Prevent premature stop of the unwinder caused by IRET frames.
- Fix another infinite loop in objtool caused by a negative
offset which was not catched.
- Address a few build warnings in the ORC unwinder and add
missing static/ro_after_init annotations"
* tag 'x86-urgent-2020-05-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/unwind/orc: Move ORC sorting variables under !CONFIG_MODULES
x86/apic: Move TSC deadline timer debug printk
ftrace/x86: Fix trace event registration for syscalls without arguments
x86/mm/cpa: Flush direct map alias during cpa
objtool: Fix infinite loop in for_offset_range()
x86/unwind/orc: Fix premature unwind stoppage due to IRET frames
x86/unwind/orc: Fix error path for bad ORC entry type
x86/unwind/orc: Prevent unwinding before ORC initialization
x86/unwind/orc: Don't skip the first frame for inactive tasks
x86/unwind: Prevent false warnings for non-current tasks
x86/unwind/orc: Convert global variables to static
x86/entry/64: Fix unwind hints in rewind_stack_do_exit()
x86/entry/64: Fix unwind hints in __switch_to_asm()
x86/entry/64: Fix unwind hints in kernel exit path
x86/entry/64: Fix unwind hints in register clearing code
objtool: Fix stack offset tracking for indirect CFAs
Pull objtool fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A single fix for objtool to prevent an infinite loop in the
jump table search which can be triggered when building the
kernel with '-ffunction-sections'"
* tag 'objtool-urgent-2020-05-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
objtool: Fix infinite loop in find_jump_table()
Fix the following warnings seen with !CONFIG_MODULES:
arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:29:26: warning: 'cur_orc_table' defined but not used [-Wunused-variable]
29 | static struct orc_entry *cur_orc_table = __start_orc_unwind;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:28:13: warning: 'cur_orc_ip_table' defined but not used [-Wunused-variable]
28 | static int *cur_orc_ip_table = __start_orc_unwind_ip;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Fixes: 153eb2223c79 ("x86/unwind/orc: Convert global variables to static")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200428071640.psn5m7eh3zt2in4v@treble
Pull locking fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A single fix for the fallout of the recent futex uacess rework.
With those changes GCC9 fails to analyze arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser()
correctly and emits a 'maybe unitialized' warning. While we usually
ignore compiler stupidity the conditional store is pointless anyway
because the correct case has to store. For the fault case the extra
store does no harm"
* tag 'locking-urgent-2020-05-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
ARM: futex: Address build warning
Kristen found a hang in objtool when building with -ffunction-sections.
It was caused by evergreen_pcie_gen2_enable.cold() being laid out
immediately before evergreen_pcie_gen2_enable(). Since their "pfunc" is
always the same, find_jump_table() got into an infinite loop because it
didn't recognize the boundary between the two functions.
Fix that with a new prev_insn_same_sym() helper, which doesn't cross
subfunction boundaries.
Reported-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/378b51c9d9c894dc3294bc460b4b0869e950b7c5.1588110291.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Leon reported that the printk_once() in __setup_APIC_LVTT() triggers a
lockdep splat due to a lock order violation between hrtimer_base::lock and
console_sem, when the 'once' condition is reset via
/sys/kernel/debug/clear_warn_once after boot.
The initial printk cannot trigger this because that happens during boot
when the local APIC timer is set up on the boot CPU.
Prevent it by moving the printk to a place which is guaranteed to be only
called once during boot.
Mark the deadline timer check related functions and data __init while at
it.
Reported-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87y2qhoshi.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
Pull iommu fixes from Joerg Roedel:
- Race condition fixes for the AMD IOMMU driver.
These are five patches fixing two race conditions around
increase_address_space(). The first race condition was around the
non-atomic update of the domain page-table root pointer and the
variable containing the page-table depth (called mode). This is fixed
now be merging page-table root and mode into one 64-bit field which
is read/written atomically.
The second race condition was around updating the page-table root
pointer and making it public before the hardware caches were flushed.
This could cause addresses to be mapped and returned to drivers which
are not reachable by IOMMU hardware yet, causing IO page-faults. This
is fixed too by adding the necessary flushes before a new page-table
root is published.
Related to the race condition fixes these patches also add a missing
domain_flush_complete() barrier to update_domain() and a fix to bail
out of the loop which tries to increase the address space when the
call to increase_address_space() fails.
Qian was able to trigger the race conditions under high load and
memory pressure within a few days of testing. He confirmed that he
has seen no issues anymore with the fixes included here.
- Fix for a list-handling bug in the VirtIO IOMMU driver.
* tag 'iommu-fixes-v5.7-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu:
iommu/virtio: Reverse arguments to list_add
iommu/amd: Do not flush Device Table in iommu_map_page()
iommu/amd: Update Device Table in increase_address_space()
iommu/amd: Call domain_flush_complete() in update_domain()
iommu/amd: Do not loop forever when trying to increase address space
iommu/amd: Fix race in increase_address_space()/fetch_pte()
Stephen reported the following build warning on a ARM multi_v7_defconfig
build with GCC 9.2.1:
kernel/futex.c: In function 'do_futex':
kernel/futex.c:1676:17: warning: 'oldval' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
1676 | return oldval == cmparg;
| ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~
kernel/futex.c:1652:6: note: 'oldval' was declared here
1652 | int oldval, ret;
| ^~~~~~
introduced by commit a08971e9488d ("futex: arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser()
calling conventions change").
While that change should not make any difference it confuses GCC which
fails to work out that oldval is not referenced when the return value is
not zero.
GCC fails to properly analyze arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser(). It's not the
early return, the issue is with the assembly macros. GCC fails to detect
that those either set 'ret' to 0 and set oldval or set 'ret' to -EFAULT
which makes oldval uninteresting. The store to the callsite supplied oldval
pointer is conditional on ret == 0.
The straight forward way to solve this is to make the store unconditional.
Aside of addressing the build warning this makes sense anyway because it
removes the conditional from the fastpath. In the error case the stored
value is uninteresting and the extra store does not matter at all.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87pncao2ph.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
The refactoring of SYSCALL_DEFINE0() macros removed the ABI stubs and
simply defines __abi_sys_$NAME as alias of __do_sys_$NAME.
As a result kallsyms_lookup() returns "__do_sys_$NAME" which does not match
with the declared trace event name.
See also commit 1c758a2202a6 ("tracing/x86: Update syscall trace events to
handle new prefixed syscall func names").
Add __do_sys_ to the valid prefixes which are checked in
arch_syscall_match_sym_name().
Fixes: d2b5de495ee9 ("x86/entry: Refactor SYSCALL_DEFINE0 macros")
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/158636958997.7900.16485049455470033557.stgit@buzz
Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe:
- a small series fixing a use-after-free of bdi name (Christoph,Yufen)
- NVMe fix for a regression with the smaller CQ update (Alexey)
- NVMe fix for a hang at namespace scanning error recovery (Sagi)
- fix race with blk-iocost iocg->abs_vdebt updates (Tejun)
* tag 'block-5.7-2020-05-09' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
nvme: fix possible hang when ns scanning fails during error recovery
nvme-pci: fix "slimmer CQ head update"
bdi: add a ->dev_name field to struct backing_dev_info
bdi: use bdi_dev_name() to get device name
bdi: move bdi_dev_name out of line
vboxsf: don't use the source name in the bdi name
iocost: protect iocg->abs_vdebt with iocg->waitq.lock
Elsewhere in the file, there is a list_for_each_entry with
&vdev->resv_regions as the second argument, suggesting that
&vdev->resv_regions is the list head. So exchange the
arguments on the list_add call to put the list head in the
second argument.
Fixes: 2a5a31487445 ("iommu/virtio: Add probe request")
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@inria.fr>
Reviewed-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1588704467-13431-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@inria.fr
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Pull crypto fixes from Herbert Xu:
"This fixes a potential scheduling latency problem for the algorithms
used by WireGuard"
* 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6:
crypto: arch/nhpoly1305 - process in explicit 4k chunks
crypto: arch/lib - limit simd usage to 4k chunks
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