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Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
"Five fixes.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: MAINTAINERS, mm/pagemap,
mm/swap, and mm/hugetlb"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
mm: khugepaged: recalculate min_free_kbytes after memory hotplug as expected by khugepaged
mm: validate inode in mapping_set_error()
mm: mmap: Fix general protection fault in unlink_file_vma()
MAINTAINERS: Antoine Tenart's email address
MAINTAINERS: change hardening mailing list
Pull vfs fix from Al Viro:
"Fixes an obvious bug (memory leak introduced in 5.8)"
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
pipe: Fix memory leaks in create_pipe_files()
When memory is hotplug added or removed the min_free_kbytes should be
recalculated based on what is expected by khugepaged. Currently after
hotplug, min_free_kbytes will be set to a lower default and higher
default set when THP enabled is lost.
This change restores min_free_kbytes as expected for THP consumers.
[vijayb@linux.microsoft.com: v5]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1601398153-5517-1-git-send-email-vijayb@linux.microsoft.com
Fixes: f000565adb77 ("thp: set recommended min free kbytes")
Signed-off-by: Vijay Balakrishna <vijayb@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Allen Pais <apais@microsoft.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1600305709-2319-2-git-send-email-vijayb@linux.microsoft.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1600204258-13683-1-git-send-email-vijayb@linux.microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Two fixes:
- Fix a (hopefully final) IRQ state tracking bug vs MCE handling
- Fix a documentation link"
* tag 'x86-urgent-2020-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
Documentation/x86: Fix incorrect references to zero-page.txt
x86/mce: Use idtentry_nmi_enter/exit()
Calling pipe2() with O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE could results in memory
leaks unless watch_queue_init() is successful.
In case of watch_queue_init() failure in pipe2() we are left
with inode and pipe_inode_info instances that need to be freed. That
failure exit has been introduced in commit c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add
general notification queue support") and its handling should've been
identical to nearby treatment of alloc_file_pseudo() failures - it
is dealing with the same situation. As it is, the mainline kernel
leaks in that case.
Another problem is that CONFIG_WATCH_QUEUE and !CONFIG_WATCH_QUEUE
cases are treated differently (and the former leaks just pipe_inode_info,
the latter - both pipe_inode_info and inode).
Fixed by providing a dummy wacth_queue_init() in !CONFIG_WATCH_QUEUE
case and by having failures of wacth_queue_init() handled the same way
we handle alloc_file_pseudo() ones.
Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support")
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The swap address_space doesn't have host. Thus, it makes kernel crash once
swap write meets error. Fix it.
Fixes: 735e4ae5ba28 ("vfs: track per-sb writeback errors and report them to syncfs")
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201010000650.750063-1-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull perf fix from Ingo Molnar:
"Fix an error handling bug that can cause a lockup if a CPU is offline
(doh ...)"
* tag 'perf-urgent-2020-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf: Fix task_function_call() error handling
The file zero-page.txt does not exit. Add links to zero-page.rst
instead.
[ bp: Massage a bit. ]
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201002190623.7489-1-xypron.glpk@gmx.de
the callers rely upon having any iov_iter_truncate() done inside
->direct_IO() countered by iov_iter_reexpand().
Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Qian Cai <cai@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The syzbot reported the below general protection fault:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
0xe00eeaee0000003b: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0x00777770000001d8-0x00777770000001df]
CPU: 1 PID: 10488 Comm: syz-executor721 Not tainted 5.9.0-rc3-syzkaller #0
RIP: 0010:unlink_file_vma+0x57/0xb0 mm/mmap.c:164
Call Trace:
free_pgtables+0x1b3/0x2f0 mm/memory.c:415
exit_mmap+0x2c0/0x530 mm/mmap.c:3184
__mmput+0x122/0x470 kernel/fork.c:1076
mmput+0x53/0x60 kernel/fork.c:1097
exit_mm kernel/exit.c:483 [inline]
do_exit+0xa8b/0x29f0 kernel/exit.c:793
do_group_exit+0x125/0x310 kernel/exit.c:903
get_signal+0x428/0x1f00 kernel/signal.c:2757
arch_do_signal+0x82/0x2520 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:811
exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:136 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x1ae/0x200 kernel/entry/common.c:167
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x7e/0x2e0 kernel/entry/common.c:242
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
It's because the ->mmap() callback can change vma->vm_file and fput the
original file. But the commit d70cec898324 ("mm: mmap: merge vma after
call_mmap() if possible") failed to catch this case and always fput()
the original file, hence add an extra fput().
[ Thanks Hillf for pointing this extra fput() out. ]
Fixes: d70cec898324 ("mm: mmap: merge vma after call_mmap() if possible")
Reported-by: syzbot+c5d5a51dcbb558ca0cb5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christian König <ckoenig.leichtzumerken@gmail.com>
Cc: Hongxiang Lou <louhongxiang@huawei.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200916090733.31427-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull i2c fixes from Wolfram Sang:
"Some more driver bugfixes for I2C. Including a revert - the updated
series for it will come during the next merge window"
* 'i2c/for-current' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux:
i2c: owl: Clear NACK and BUS error bits
Revert "i2c: imx: Fix reset of I2SR_IAL flag"
i2c: meson: fixup rate calculation with filter delay
i2c: meson: keep peripheral clock enabled
i2c: meson: fix clock setting overwrite
i2c: imx: Fix reset of I2SR_IAL flag
The error handling introduced by commit:
2ed6edd33a21 ("perf: Add cond_resched() to task_function_call()")
looses any return value from smp_call_function_single() that is not
{0, -EINVAL}. This is a problem because it will return -EXNIO when the
target CPU is offline. Worse, in that case it'll turn into an infinite
loop.
Fixes: 2ed6edd33a21 ("perf: Add cond_resched() to task_function_call()")
Reported-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Tested-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200827064732.20860-1-kjain@linux.ibm.com
The recent fix for NMI vs. IRQ state tracking missed to apply the cure
to the MCE handler.
Fixes: ba1f2b2eaa2a ("x86/entry: Fix NMI vs IRQ state tracking")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87mu17ism2.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
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