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Pull more io_uring fixes from Jens Axboe:
"Two followup fixes. One is fixing a regression from this merge window,
the other is two commits fixing cancelation of deferred requests.
Both have gone through full testing, and both spawned a few new
regression test additions to liburing.
- Don't play games with const, properly store the output iovec and
assign it as needed.
- Deferred request cancelation fix (Pavel)"
* tag 'io_uring-5.9-2020-09-06' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
io_uring: fix linked deferred ->files cancellation
io_uring: fix cancel of deferred reqs with ->files
io_uring: fix explicit async read/write mapping for large segments
Pull iommu fixes from Joerg Roedel:
- three Intel VT-d fixes to fix address handling on 32bit, fix a NULL
pointer dereference bug and serialize a hardware register access as
required by the VT-d spec.
- two patches for AMD IOMMU to force AMD GPUs into translation mode
when memory encryption is active and disallow using IOMMUv2
functionality. This makes the AMDGPU driver work when memory
encryption is active.
- two more fixes for AMD IOMMU to fix updating the Interrupt Remapping
Table Entries.
- MAINTAINERS file update for the Qualcom IOMMU driver.
* tag 'iommu-fixes-v5.9-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu:
iommu/vt-d: Handle 36bit addressing for x86-32
iommu/amd: Do not use IOMMUv2 functionality when SME is active
iommu/amd: Do not force direct mapping when SME is active
iommu/amd: Use cmpxchg_double() when updating 128-bit IRTE
iommu/amd: Restore IRTE.RemapEn bit after programming IRTE
iommu/vt-d: Fix NULL pointer dereference in dev_iommu_priv_set()
iommu/vt-d: Serialize IOMMU GCMD register modifications
MAINTAINERS: Update QUALCOMM IOMMU after Arm SMMU drivers move
While looking for ->files in ->defer_list, consider that requests there
may actually be links.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
- more generic entry code ABI fallout
- debug register handling bugfixes
- fix vmalloc mappings on 32-bit kernels
- kprobes instrumentation output fix on 32-bit kernels
- fix over-eager WARN_ON_ONCE() on !SMAP hardware
- NUMA debugging fix
- fix Clang related crash on !RETPOLINE kernels
* tag 'x86-urgent-2020-09-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/entry: Unbreak 32bit fast syscall
x86/debug: Allow a single level of #DB recursion
x86/entry: Fix AC assertion
tracing/kprobes, x86/ptrace: Fix regs argument order for i386
x86, fakenuma: Fix invalid starting node ID
x86/mm/32: Bring back vmalloc faulting on x86_32
x86/cmdline: Disable jump tables for cmdline.c
Beware that the address size for x86-32 may exceed unsigned long.
[ 0.368971] UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c:128:14
[ 0.369055] shift exponent 36 is too large for 32-bit type 'long unsigned int'
If we don't handle the wide addresses, the pages are mismapped and the
device read/writes go astray, detected as DMAR faults and leading to
device failure. The behaviour changed (from working to broken) in commit
fa954e683178 ("iommu/vt-d: Delegate the dma domain to upper layer"), but
the error looks older.
Fixes: fa954e683178 ("iommu/vt-d: Delegate the dma domain to upper layer")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Acked-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: James Sewart <jamessewart@arista.com>
Cc: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.3+
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200822160209.28512-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
While trying to cancel requests with ->files, it also should look for
requests in ->defer_list, otherwise it might end up hanging a thread.
Cancel all requests in ->defer_list up to the last request there with
matching ->files, that's needed to follow drain ordering semantics.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Pull xen updates from Juergen Gross:
"A small series for fixing a problem with Xen PVH guests when running
as backends (e.g. as dom0).
Mapping other guests' memory is now working via ZONE_DEVICE, thus not
requiring to abuse the memory hotplug functionality for that purpose"
* tag 'for-linus-5.9-rc4-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
xen: add helpers to allocate unpopulated memory
memremap: rename MEMORY_DEVICE_DEVDAX to MEMORY_DEVICE_GENERIC
xen/balloon: add header guard
Andy reported that the syscall treacing for 32bit fast syscall fails:
# ./tools/testing/selftests/x86/ptrace_syscall_32
...
[RUN] SYSEMU
[FAIL] Initial args are wrong (nr=224, args=10 11 12 13 14 4289172732)
...
[RUN] SYSCALL
[FAIL] Initial args are wrong (nr=29, args=0 0 0 0 0 4289172732)
The eason is that the conversion to generic entry code moved the retrieval
of the sixth argument (EBP) after the point where the syscall entry work
runs, i.e. ptrace, seccomp, audit...
Unbreak it by providing a split up version of syscall_enter_from_user_mode().
- syscall_enter_from_user_mode_prepare() establishes state and enables
interrupts
- syscall_enter_from_user_mode_work() runs the entry work
Replace the call to syscall_enter_from_user_mode() in the 32bit fast
syscall C-entry with the split functions and stick the EBP retrieval
between them.
Fixes: 27d6b4d14f5c ("x86/entry: Use generic syscall entry function")
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87k0xdjbtt.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
When memory encryption is active the device is likely not in a direct
mapped domain. Forbid using IOMMUv2 functionality for now until finer
grained checks for this have been implemented.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200824105415.21000-3-joro@8bytes.org
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
If we exceed UIO_FASTIOV, we don't handle the transition correctly
between an allocated vec for requests that are queued with IOSQE_ASYNC.
Store the iovec appropriately and re-set it in the iter iov in case
it changed.
Fixes: ff6165b2d7f6 ("io_uring: retain iov_iter state over io_read/io_write calls")
Reported-by: Nick Hill <nick@nickhill.org>
Tested-by: Norman Maurer <norman.maurer@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Pull misc fixes from Miguel Ojeda:
"A trivial patch for auxdisplay:
- Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones (Alexander A. Klimov)
The usual clang-format trivial update:
- Update with the latest for_each macro list (Miguel Ojeda)
And Luc requested me to pick a sparse fix on my queue, so here it goes
along with other two trivial Compiler Attributes ones (also from Luc).
- sparse: use static inline for __chk_{user,io}_ptr() (Luc Van
Oostenryck)
- Compiler Attributes: fix comment concerning GCC 4.6 (Luc Van
Oostenryck)
- Compiler Attributes: remove comment about sparse not supporting
__has_attribute (Luc Van Oostenryck)"
* tag 'auxdisplay-for-linus-v5.9-rc4' of git://github.com/ojeda/linux:
auxdisplay: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
* tag 'clang-format-for-linus-v5.9-rc4' of git://github.com/ojeda/linux:
clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list
* tag 'compiler-attributes-for-linus-v5.9-rc4' of git://github.com/ojeda/linux:
sparse: use static inline for __chk_{user,io}_ptr()
Compiler Attributes: fix comment concerning GCC 4.6
Compiler Attributes: remove comment about sparse not supporting __has_attribute
To be used in order to create foreign mappings. This is based on the
ZONE_DEVICE facility which is used by persistent memory devices in
order to create struct pages and kernel virtual mappings for the IOMEM
areas of such devices. Note that on kernels without support for
ZONE_DEVICE Xen will fallback to use ballooned pages in order to
create foreign mappings.
The newly added helpers use the same parameters as the existing
{alloc/free}_xenballooned_pages functions, which allows for in-place
replacement of the callers. Once a memory region has been added to be
used as scratch mapping space it will no longer be released, and pages
returned are kept in a linked list. This allows to have a buffer of
pages and prevents resorting to frequent additions and removals of
regions.
If enabled (because ZONE_DEVICE is supported) the usage of the new
functionality untangles Xen balloon and RAM hotplug from the usage of
unpopulated physical memory ranges to map foreign pages, which is the
correct thing to do in order to avoid mappings of foreign pages depend
on memory hotplug.
Note the driver is currently not enabled on Arm platforms because it
would interfere with the identity mapping required on some platforms.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200901083326.21264-4-roger.pau@citrix.com
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Trying to clear DR7 around a #DB from usermode malfunctions if the tasks
schedules when delivering SIGTRAP.
Rather than trying to define a special no-recursion region, just allow a
single level of recursion. The same mechanism is used for NMI, and it
hasn't caused any problems yet.
Fixes: 9f58fdde95c9 ("x86/db: Split out dr6/7 handling")
Reported-by: Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com>
Debugged-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/8b9bd05f187231df008d48cf818a6a311cbd5c98.1597882384.git.luto@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200902133200.726584153@infradead.org
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