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Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
- Three fixes for various bogosity in our linker script, revealed
by the recent commit which changed discard behaviour with some
toolchains.
* tag 'powerpc-6.2-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Don't discard .comment
powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Don't discard .rela* for relocatable builds
powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Define RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT
Pull memblock fixes from Mike Rapoport:
"Small fixes in kernel-doc and tests:
- Fix kernel-doc for memblock_phys_free() to use correct names for
the counterpart allocation methods
- Fix compilation error in memblock tests"
* tag 'fixes-2023-01-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/memblock:
memblock: Fix doc for memblock_phys_free
memblock tests: Fix compilation error.
Although the powerpc linker script mentions .comment in the DISCARD
section, that has never actually caused it to be discarded, because the
earlier ELF_DETAILS macro (previously STABS_DEBUG) explicitly includes
.comment.
However commit 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and
riscv") introduced an earlier use of DISCARD as part of the RO_DATA
macro. With binutils < 2.36 that causes the DISCARD directives later in
the script to be applied earlier, causing .comment to actually be
discarded.
It's confusing to explicitly include and discard .comment, and even more
so if the behaviour depends on the toolchain version. So don't discard
.comment in order to maintain the existing behaviour in all cases.
Fixes: 83a092cf95f2 ("powerpc: Link warning for orphan sections")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230105132349.384666-3-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Pull NFS client fixes from Trond Myklebust:
- Fix a race in the RPCSEC_GSS upcall code that causes hung RPC calls
- Fix a broken coalescing test in the pNFS file layout driver
- Ensure that the access cache rcu path also applies the login test
- Fix up for a sparse warning
* tag 'nfs-for-6.2-2' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs:
NFS: Fix up a sparse warning
NFS: Judge the file access cache's timestamp in rcu path
pNFS/filelayout: Fix coalescing test for single DS
SUNRPC: ensure the matching upcall is in-flight upon downcall
memblock_phys_free() is the counterpart to memblock_phys_alloc.
Change memblock_alloc_xx() with memblock_phys_alloc_xx() to keep
consistency.
Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221216100304.688209-1-linmq006@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Relocatable kernels must not discard relocations, they need to be
processed at runtime. As such they are included for CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
builds in the powerpc linker script (line 340).
However they are also unconditionally discarded later in the
script (line 414). Previously that worked because the earlier inclusion
superseded the discard.
However commit 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and
riscv") introduced an earlier use of DISCARD as part of the RO_DATA
macro (line 137). With binutils < 2.36 that causes the DISCARD
directives later in the script to be applied earlier, causing .rela* to
actually be discarded at link time, leading to build warnings and a
kernel that doesn't boot:
ld: warning: discarding dynamic section .rela.init.rodata
Fix it by conditionally discarding .rela* only when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
is disabled.
Fixes: 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and riscv")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230105132349.384666-2-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Pull cifs fixes from Steve French:
"cifs/smb3 client fixes:
- two multichannel fixes
- three reconnect fixes
- unmap fix"
* tag '6.2-rc2-smb3-client-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
cifs: fix interface count calculation during refresh
cifs: refcount only the selected iface during interface update
cifs: protect access of TCP_Server_Info::{dstaddr,hostname}
cifs: fix race in assemble_neg_contexts()
cifs: ignore ipc reconnect failures during dfs failover
cifs: Fix kmap_local_page() unmapping
sparse is warning about an incorrect RCU dereference.
fs/nfs/dir.c:2965:56: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
fs/nfs/dir.c:2965:56: expected struct cred const *
fs/nfs/dir.c:2965:56: got struct cred const [noderef] __rcu *const cred
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Commit cf4694be2b2cf ("tools: Add atomic_test_and_set_bit()") changed
tools/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h to include <asm/asm.h>, which causes
'make -C tools/testing/memblock' to fail with:
In file included from ../../include/asm/atomic.h:6,
from ../../include/linux/atomic.h:5,
from ./linux/mmzone.h:5,
from ../../include/linux/mm.h:5,
from ../../include/linux/pfn.h:5,
from ./linux/memory_hotplug.h:6,
from ./linux/init.h:7,
from ./linux/memblock.h:11,
from tests/common.h:8,
from tests/basic_api.h:5,
from main.c:2:
../../include/asm/../../arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:11:10: fatal error: asm/asm.h: No such file or directory
11 | #include <asm/asm.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
Create a symlink to asm/asm.h in the same manner as the existing one to
asm/cmpxchg.h.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Thompson <dev@aaront.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/010101857c402765-96e2dbc6-b82b-47e2-a437-4834dbe0b96b-000000@us-west-2.amazonses.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
The powerpc linker script explicitly includes .exit.text, because
otherwise the link fails due to references from __bug_table and
__ex_table. The code is freed (discarded) at runtime along with
.init.text and data.
That has worked in the past despite powerpc not defining
RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT because DISCARDS appears late in the powerpc linker
script (line 410), and the explicit inclusion of .exit.text
earlier (line 280) supersedes the discard.
However commit 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and
riscv") introduced an earlier use of DISCARD as part of the RO_DATA
macro (line 136). With binutils < 2.36 that causes the DISCARD
directives later in the script to be applied earlier [1], causing
.exit.text to actually be discarded at link time, leading to build
errors:
'.exit.text' referenced in section '__bug_table' of crypto/algboss.o: defined in
discarded section '.exit.text' of crypto/algboss.o
'.exit.text' referenced in section '__ex_table' of drivers/nvdimm/core.o: defined in
discarded section '.exit.text' of drivers/nvdimm/core.o
Fix it by defining RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT, which causes the generic
DISCARDS macro to not include .exit.text at all.
1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87fscp2v7k.fsf@igel.home/
Fixes: 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and riscv")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230105132349.384666-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Pull devicetree fixes from Rob Herring:
- Fix DT memory scanning for some MIPS boards when memory is not
specified in DT
- Redo CONFIG_CMDLINE* handling for missing /chosen node. The first
attempt broke PS3 (and possibly other PPC platforms).
- Fix constraints in QCom Soundwire schema
* tag 'devicetree-fixes-for-6.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux:
of: fdt: Honor CONFIG_CMDLINE* even without /chosen node, take 2
Revert "of: fdt: Honor CONFIG_CMDLINE* even without /chosen node"
dt-bindings: soundwire: qcom,soundwire: correct sizes related to number of ports
of/fdt: run soc memory setup when early_init_dt_scan_memory fails
The last fix to iface_count did fix the overcounting issue.
However, during each refresh, we could end up undercounting
the iface_count, if a match was found.
Fixing this by doing increments and decrements instead of
setting it to 0 before each parsing of server interfaces.
Fixes: 096bbeec7bd6 ("smb3: interface count displayed incorrectly")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.1
Signed-off-by: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@cjr.nz>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
If the user's login time is newer than the cache's timestamp,
we expect the cache may be stale and need to clear.
The stale cache will remain in the list's tail if no other
users operate on that inode.
Once the user accesses the inode, the stale cache will be
returned in rcu path.
Signed-off-by: Chengen Du <chengen.du@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Pull USB fixes from Greg KH:
"Here are some small USB driver fixes for 6.2-rc3 that resolve some
reported issues. They include:
- of-reported ulpi problem, so the offending commit is reverted
- dwc3 driver bugfixes for recent changes
- fotg210 fixes
Most of these have been in linux-next for a while, the last few were
on the mailing list for a long time and passed all the 0-day bot
testing so all should be fine with them as well"
* tag 'usb-6.2-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb:
usb: dwc3: gadget: Ignore End Transfer delay on teardown
usb: dwc3: xilinx: include linux/gpio/consumer.h
usb: fotg210-udc: fix error return code in fotg210_udc_probe()
usb: fotg210: fix OTG-only build
Revert "usb: ulpi: defer ulpi_register on ulpi_read_id timeout"
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