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Pull scheduler fix from Ingo Molnar:
"Fix a procfs task state reporting regression when freezing sleeping
tasks"
* tag 'sched-urgent-2024-12-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
freezer, sched: Report frozen tasks as 'D' instead of 'R'
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
- Fix a hang in the "kernel IBT no ENDBR" self-test that may trigger
on FRED systems, caused by incomplete FRED state cleanup in the
#CP fault handler
- Improve TDX (Coco VM) guest unrecoverable error handling to not
potentially leak decrypted memory
* tag 'x86-urgent-2024-12-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
virt: tdx-guest: Just leak decrypted memory on unrecoverable errors
x86/fred: Clear WFE in missing-ENDBRANCH #CPs
Before commit:
f5d39b020809 ("freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic")
the frozen task stat was reported as 'D' in cgroup v1.
However, after rewriting the core freezer logic, the frozen task stat is
reported as 'R'. This is confusing, especially when a task with stat of
'S' is frozen.
This bug can be reproduced with these steps:
$ cd /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer/
$ mkdir test
$ sleep 1000 &
[1] 739 // task whose stat is 'S'
$ echo 739 > test/cgroup.procs
$ echo FROZEN > test/freezer.state
$ ps -aux | grep 739
root 739 0.1 0.0 8376 1812 pts/0 R 10:56 0:00 sleep 1000
As shown above, a task whose stat is 'S' was changed to 'R' when it was
frozen.
To solve this regression, simply maintain the same reported state as
before the rewrite.
[ mingo: Enhanced the changelog and comments ]
Fixes: f5d39b020809 ("freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic")
Signed-off-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241217004818.3200515-1-chenridong@huaweicloud.com
Pull x86 perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
- Fix Intel Lunar Lake build-in event definitions
- Fall back to (compatible) legacy features on new Intel PEBS format v6
hardware
- Enable uncore support on Intel Clearwater Forest CPUs, which is the
same as the existing Sierra Forest uncore driver
* tag 'perf-urgent-2024-12-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf/x86/intel: Fix bitmask of OCR and FRONTEND events for LNC
perf/x86/intel/ds: Add PEBS format 6
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Add Clearwater Forest support
In CoCo VMs it is possible for the untrusted host to cause
set_memory_decrypted() to fail such that an error is returned
and the resulting memory is shared. Callers need to take care
to handle these errors to avoid returning decrypted (shared)
memory to the page allocator, which could lead to functional
or security issues.
Leak the decrypted memory when set_memory_decrypted() fails,
and don't need to print an error since set_memory_decrypted()
will call WARN_ONCE().
Fixes: f4738f56d1dc ("virt: tdx-guest: Add Quote generation support using TSM_REPORTS")
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240619111801.25630-1-lirongqing%40baidu.com
Pull objtool fix from Ingo Molnar:
"Fix false positive objtool build warning related to a noreturn
function in the bcachefs code"
* tag 'objtool-urgent-2024-12-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
objtool: Add bch2_trans_unlocked_error() to bcachefs noreturns
The released OCR and FRONTEND events utilized more bits on Lunar Lake
p-core. The corresponding mask in the extra_regs has to be extended to
unblock the extra bits.
Add a dedicated intel_lnc_extra_regs.
Fixes: a932aa0e868f ("perf/x86: Add Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake support")
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241216160252.430858-1-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
An indirect branch instruction sets the CPU indirect branch tracker
(IBT) into WAIT_FOR_ENDBRANCH (WFE) state and WFE stays asserted
across the instruction boundary. When the decoder finds an
inappropriate instruction while WFE is set ENDBR, the CPU raises a #CP
fault.
For the "kernel IBT no ENDBR" selftest where #CPs are deliberately
triggered, the WFE state of the interrupted context needs to be
cleared to let execution continue. Otherwise when the CPU resumes
from the instruction that just caused the previous #CP, another
missing-ENDBRANCH #CP is raised and the CPU enters a dead loop.
This is not a problem with IDT because it doesn't preserve WFE and
IRET doesn't set WFE. But FRED provides space on the entry stack
(in an expanded CS area) to save and restore the WFE state, thus the
WFE state is no longer clobbered, so software must clear it.
Clear WFE to avoid dead looping in ibt_clear_fred_wfe() and the
!ibt_fatal code path when execution is allowed to continue.
Clobbering WFE in any other circumstance is a security-relevant bug.
[ dhansen: changelog rewording ]
Fixes: a5f6c2ace997 ("x86/shstk: Add user control-protection fault handler")
Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) <xin@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241113175934.3897541-1-xin%40zytor.com
Pull ARC fixes from Vineet Gupta:
- Sundry build and misc fixes
* tag 'arc-6.13-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc:
ARC: build: Try to guess GCC variant of cross compiler
ARC: bpf: Correct conditional check in 'check_jmp_32'
ARC: dts: Replace deprecated snps,nr-gpios property for snps,dw-apb-gpio-port devices
ARC: build: Use __force to suppress per-CPU cmpxchg warnings
ARC: fix reference of dependency for PAE40 config
ARC: build: disallow invalid PAE40 + 4K page config
arc: rename aux.h to arc_aux.h
Pull locking fix from Ingo Molnar:
"Fix missed rtmutex wakeups causing sporadic boot hangs and other
misbehavior"
* tag 'locking-urgent-2024-12-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
locking/rtmutex: Make sure we wake anything on the wake_q when we release the lock->wait_lock
Fix the following objtool warning during build time:
fs/bcachefs/btree_trans_commit.o: warning: objtool: bch2_trans_commit_write_locked.isra.0() falls through to next function do_bch2_trans_commit.isra.0()
fs/bcachefs/btree_trans_commit.o: warning: objtool: .text: unexpected end of section
......
fs/bcachefs/btree_update.o: warning: objtool: bch2_trans_update_get_key_cache() falls through to next function flush_new_cached_update()
fs/bcachefs/btree_update.o: warning: objtool: flush_new_cached_update() falls through to next function bch2_trans_update_by_path()
bch2_trans_unlocked_error() is an Obviously Correct (tm) panic() wrapper,
add it to the list of known noreturns.
[ mingo: Improved the changelog ]
Fixes: fd104e2967b7 ("bcachefs: bch2_trans_verify_not_unlocked()")
Signed-off-by: chenchangcheng <chenchangcheng@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241220074847.3418134-1-ccc194101@163.com
The only difference between 5 and 6 is the new counters snapshotting
group, without the following counters snapshotting enabling patches,
it's impossible to utilize the feature in a PEBS record. It's safe to
share the same code path with format 5.
Add format 6, so the end user can at least utilize the legacy PEBS
features.
Fixes: a932aa0e868f ("perf/x86: Add Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake support")
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204505.748363-1-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Pull EFI fixes from Ard Biesheuvel:
- Limit EFI zboot to GZIP and ZSTD before it comes in wider use
- Fix inconsistent error when looking up a non-existent file in
efivarfs with a name that does not adhere to the NAME-GUID format
- Drop some unused code
* tag 'efi-fixes-for-v6.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi:
efi/esrt: remove esre_attribute::store()
efivarfs: Fix error on non-existent file
efi/zboot: Limit compression options to GZIP and ZSTD
ARC GCC compiler is packaged starting from Fedora 39i and the GCC
variant of cross compile tools has arc-linux-gnu- prefix and not
arc-linux-. This is causing that CROSS_COMPILE variable is left unset.
This change allows builds without need to supply CROSS_COMPILE argument
if distro package is used.
Before this change:
$ make -j 128 ARCH=arc W=1 drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/
gcc: warning: ‘-mcpu=’ is deprecated; use ‘-mtune=’ or ‘-march=’ instead
gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-mmedium-calls’
gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-mlock’
gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-munaligned-access’
[1] https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/cross-gcc/gcc-arc-linux-gnu/index.html
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@kernel.org>
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