user/sven/linux.git/Documentation/admin-guide, branch v6.7.9

docs: kernel_abi.py: fix command injection

2024-02-01T00:21:00Z

commit 3231dd5862779c2e15633c96133a53205ad660ce upstream. The kernel-abi directive passes its argument straight to the shell. This is unfortunate and unnecessary. Let's always use paths relative to $srctree/Documentation/ and use subprocess.check_call() instead of subprocess.Popen(shell=True). This also makes the code shorter. Link: https://fosstodon.org/@jani/111676532203641247 Reported-by: Jani Nikula Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231231235959.3342928-2-vegard.nossum@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

rcu: Restrict access to RCU CPU stall notifiers

2024-01-25T23:45:18Z

[ Upstream commit 4e58aaeebb3c27993c734c99eae6881b196b1ddb ] Although the RCU CPU stall notifiers can be useful for dumping state when tracking down delicate forward-progress bugs where NUMA effects cause cache lines to be delivered to a given CPU regularly, but always in a state that prevents that CPU from making forward progress. These bugs can be detected by the RCU CPU stall-warning mechanism, but in some cases, the stall-warnings printk()s disrupt the forward-progress bug before any useful state can be obtained. Unfortunately, the notifier mechanism added by commit 5b404fdabacf ("rcu: Add RCU CPU stall notifier") can make matters worse if used at all carelessly. For example, if the stall warning was caused by a lock not being released, then any attempt to acquire that lock in the notifier will hang. This will prevent not only the notifier from producing any useful output, but it will also prevent the stall-warning message from ever appearing. This commit therefore hides this new RCU CPU stall notifier mechanism under a new RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig option that depends on both DEBUG_KERNEL and RCU_EXPERT. In addition, the rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers=1 kernel boot parameter must also be specified. The RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig option's help text contains a warning and explains the dangers of careless use, recommending lockless notifier code. In addition, a WARN() is triggered each time that an attempt is made to register a stall-warning notifier in kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER=y. This combination of measures will keep use of this mechanism confined to debug kernels and away from routine deployments. [ paulmck: Apply Dan Carpenter feedback. ] Fixes: 5b404fdabacf ("rcu: Add RCU CPU stall notifier") Reported-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

docs: kernel_feat.py: fix potential command injection

2024-01-20T10:53:02Z

commit c48a7c44a1d02516309015b6134c9bb982e17008 upstream. The kernel-feat directive passes its argument straight to the shell. This is unfortunate and unnecessary. Let's always use paths relative to $srctree/Documentation/ and use subprocess.check_call() instead of subprocess.Popen(shell=True). This also makes the code shorter. This is analogous to commit 3231dd586277 ("docs: kernel_abi.py: fix command injection") where we did exactly the same thing for kernel_abi.py, somehow I completely missed this one. Link: https://fosstodon.org/@jani/111676532203641247 Reported-by: Jani Nikula Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240110174758.3680506-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'iommu-updates-v6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu

2023-11-09T21:37:28Z

Pull iommu updates from Joerg Roedel: "Core changes: - Make default-domains mandatory for all IOMMU drivers - Remove group refcounting - Add generic_single_device_group() helper and consolidate drivers - Cleanup map/unmap ops - Scaling improvements for the IOVA rcache depot - Convert dart & iommufd to the new domain_alloc_paging() ARM-SMMU: - Device-tree binding update: - Add qcom,sm7150-smmu-v2 for Adreno on SM7150 SoC - SMMUv2: - Support for Qualcomm SDM670 (MDSS) and SM7150 SoCs - SMMUv3: - Large refactoring of the context descriptor code to move the CD table into the master, paving the way for '->set_dev_pasid()' support on non-SVA domains - Minor cleanups to the SVA code Intel VT-d: - Enable debugfs to dump domain attached to a pasid - Remove an unnecessary inline function AMD IOMMU: - Initial patches for SVA support (not complete yet) S390 IOMMU: - DMA-API conversion and optimized IOTLB flushing And some smaller fixes and improvements" * tag 'iommu-updates-v6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (102 commits) iommu/dart: Remove the force_bypass variable iommu/dart: Call apple_dart_finalize_domain() as part of alloc_paging() iommu/dart: Convert to domain_alloc_paging() iommu/dart: Move the blocked domain support to a global static iommu/dart: Use static global identity domains iommufd: Convert to alloc_domain_paging() iommu/vt-d: Use ops->blocked_domain iommu/vt-d: Update the definition of the blocking domain iommu: Move IOMMU_DOMAIN_BLOCKED global statics to ops->blocked_domain Revert "iommu/vt-d: Remove unused function" iommu/amd: Remove DMA_FQ type from domain allocation path iommu: change iommu_map_sgtable to return signed values iommu/virtio: Add __counted_by for struct viommu_request and use struct_size() iommu/vt-d: debugfs: Support dumping a specified page table iommu/vt-d: debugfs: Create/remove debugfs file per {device, pasid} iommu/vt-d: debugfs: Dump entry pointing to huge page iommu/vt-d: Remove unused function iommu/arm-smmu-v3-sva: Remove bond refcount iommu/arm-smmu-v3-sva: Remove unused iommu_sva handle iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Rename cdcfg to cd_table ...

Merge tag 'nfs-for-6.7-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs

2023-11-08T21:39:16Z

Pull NFS client updates from Trond Myklebust: "Bugfixes: - SUNRPC: - re-probe the target RPC port after an ECONNRESET error - handle allocation errors from rpcb_call_async() - fix a use-after-free condition in rpc_pipefs - fix up various checks for timeouts - NFSv4.1: - Handle NFS4ERR_DELAY errors during session trunking - fix SP4_MACH_CRED protection for pnfs IO - NFSv4: - Ensure that we test all delegations when the server notifies us that it may have revoked some of them Features: - Allow knfsd processes to break out of NFS4ERR_DELAY loops when re-exporting NFSv4.x by setting appropriate values for the 'delay_retrans' module parameter - nfs: Convert nfs_symlink() to use a folio" * tag 'nfs-for-6.7-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs: nfs: Convert nfs_symlink() to use a folio SUNRPC: Fix RPC client cleaned up the freed pipefs dentries NFSv4.1: fix SP4_MACH_CRED protection for pnfs IO SUNRPC: Add an IS_ERR() check back to where it was NFSv4.1: fix handling NFS4ERR_DELAY when testing for session trunking nfs41: drop dependency between flexfiles layout driver and NFSv3 modules NFSv4: fairly test all delegations on a SEQ4_ revocation SUNRPC: SOFTCONN tasks should time out when on the sending list SUNRPC: Force close the socket when a hard error is reported SUNRPC: Don't skip timeout checks in call_connect_status() SUNRPC: ECONNRESET might require a rebind NFSv4/pnfs: Allow layoutget to return EAGAIN for softerr mounts NFSv4: Add a parameter to limit the number of retries after NFS4ERR_DELAY

Merge tag 'media/v6.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media

2023-11-06T23:06:06Z

Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab: - the old V4L2 core videobuf kAPI was finally removed. All media drivers should now be using VB2 kAPI - new automotive driver: mgb4 - new platform video driver: npcm-video - new sensor driver: mt9m114 - new TI driver used in conjunction with Cadence CSI2RX IP to bridge TI-specific parts - ir-rx51 was removed and the N900 DT binding was moved to the pwm-ir-tx generic driver - drop atomisp-specific ov5693, using the upstream driver instead - the camss driver has gained RDI3 support for VFE 17x - the atomisp driver now detects ISP2400 or ISP2401 at run time. No need to set it up at build time anymore - lots of driver fixes, cleanups and improvements * tag 'media/v6.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (377 commits) media: nuvoton: VIDEO_NPCM_VCD_ECE should depend on ARCH_NPCM media: venus: Fix firmware path for resources media: venus: hfi_cmds: Replace one-element array with flex-array member and use __counted_by media: venus: hfi_parser: Add check to keep the number of codecs within range media: venus: hfi: add checks to handle capabilities from firmware media: venus: hfi: fix the check to handle session buffer requirement media: venus: hfi: add checks to perform sanity on queue pointers media: platform: cadence: select MIPI_DPHY dependency media: MAINTAINERS: Fix path for J721E CSI2RX bindings media: cec: meson: always include meson sub-directory in Makefile media: videobuf2: Fix IS_ERR checking in vb2_dc_put_userptr() media: platform: mtk-mdp3: fix uninitialized variable in mdp_path_config() media: mediatek: vcodec: using encoder device to alloc/free encoder memory media: imx-jpeg: notify source chagne event when the first picture parsed media: cx231xx: Use EP5_BUF_SIZE macro media: siano: Drop unnecessary error check for debugfs_create_dir/file() media: mediatek: vcodec: Handle invalid encoder vsi media: aspeed: Drop unnecessary error check for debugfs_create_file() Documentation: media: buffer.rst: fix V4L2_BUF_FLAG_PREPARED Documentation: media: gen-errors.rst: fix confusing ENOTTY description ...

Merge tag 'x86_microcode_for_v6.7_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2023-11-04T18:46:37Z

Pull x86 microcode loading updates from Borislac Petkov: "Major microcode loader restructuring, cleanup and improvements by Thomas Gleixner: - Restructure the code needed for it and add a temporary initrd mapping on 32-bit so that the loader can access the microcode blobs. This in itself is a preparation for the next major improvement: - Do not load microcode on 32-bit before paging has been enabled. Handling this has caused an endless stream of headaches, issues, ugly code and unnecessary hacks in the past. And there really wasn't any sensible reason to do that in the first place. So switch the 32-bit loading to happen after paging has been enabled and turn the loader code "real purrty" again - Drop mixed microcode steppings loading on Intel - there, a single patch loaded on the whole system is sufficient - Rework late loading to track which CPUs have updated microcode successfully and which haven't, act accordingly - Move late microcode loading on Intel in NMI context in order to guarantee concurrent loading on all threads - Make the late loading CPU-hotplug-safe and have the offlined threads be woken up for the purpose of the update - Add support for a minimum revision which determines whether late microcode loading is safe on a machine and the microcode does not change software visible features which the machine cannot use anyway since feature detection has happened already. Roughly, the minimum revision is the smallest revision number which must be loaded currently on the system so that late updates can be allowed - Other nice leanups, fixess, etc all over the place" * tag 'x86_microcode_for_v6.7_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits) x86/microcode/intel: Add a minimum required revision for late loading x86/microcode: Prepare for minimal revision check x86/microcode: Handle "offline" CPUs correctly x86/apic: Provide apic_force_nmi_on_cpu() x86/microcode: Protect against instrumentation x86/microcode: Rendezvous and load in NMI x86/microcode: Replace the all-in-one rendevous handler x86/microcode: Provide new control functions x86/microcode: Add per CPU control field x86/microcode: Add per CPU result state x86/microcode: Sanitize __wait_for_cpus() x86/microcode: Clarify the late load logic x86/microcode: Handle "nosmt" correctly x86/microcode: Clean up mc_cpu_down_prep() x86/microcode: Get rid of the schedule work indirection x86/microcode: Mop up early loading leftovers x86/microcode/amd: Use cached microcode for AP load x86/microcode/amd: Cache builtin/initrd microcode early x86/microcode/amd: Cache builtin microcode too x86/microcode/amd: Use correct per CPU ucode_cpu_info ...

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2023-11-03T05:38:47Z

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are included in this merge do the following: - Kemeng Shi has contributed some compation maintenance work in the series 'Fixes and cleanups to compaction' - Joel Fernandes has a patchset ('Optimize mremap during mutual alignment within PMD') which fixes an obscure issue with mremap()'s pagetable handling during a subsequent exec(), based upon an implementation which Linus suggested - More DAMON/DAMOS maintenance and feature work from SeongJae Park i the following patch series: mm/damon: misc fixups for documents, comments and its tracepoint mm/damon: add a tracepoint for damos apply target regions mm/damon: provide pseudo-moving sum based access rate mm/damon: implement DAMOS apply intervals mm/damon/core-test: Fix memory leaks in core-test mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: Do DAMOS tried regions update for only one apply interval - In the series 'Do not try to access unaccepted memory' Adrian Hunter provides some fixups for the recently-added 'unaccepted memory' feature. To increase the feature's checking coverage. 'Plug a few gaps where RAM is exposed without checking if it is unaccepted memory' - In the series 'cleanups for lockless slab shrink' Qi Zheng has done some maintenance work which is preparation for the lockless slab shrinking code - Qi Zheng has redone the earlier (and reverted) attempt to make slab shrinking lockless in the series 'use refcount+RCU method to implement lockless slab shrink' - David Hildenbrand contributes some maintenance work for the rmap code in the series 'Anon rmap cleanups' - Kefeng Wang does more folio conversions and some maintenance work in the migration code. Series 'mm: migrate: more folio conversion and unification' - Matthew Wilcox has fixed an issue in the buffer_head code which was causing long stalls under some heavy memory/IO loads. Some cleanups were added on the way. Series 'Add and use bdev_getblk()' - In the series 'Use nth_page() in place of direct struct page manipulation' Zi Yan has fixed a potential issue with the direct manipulation of hugetlb page frames - In the series 'mm: hugetlb: Skip initialization of gigantic tail struct pages if freed by HVO' has improved our handling of gigantic pages in the hugetlb vmmemmep optimizaton code. This provides significant boot time improvements when significant amounts of gigantic pages are in use - Matthew Wilcox has sent the series 'Small hugetlb cleanups' - code rationalization and folio conversions in the hugetlb code - Yin Fengwei has improved mlock()'s handling of large folios in the series 'support large folio for mlock' - In the series 'Expose swapcache stat for memcg v1' Liu Shixin has added statistics for memcg v1 users which are available (and useful) under memcg v2 - Florent Revest has enhanced the MDWE (Memory-Deny-Write-Executable) prctl so that userspace may direct the kernel to not automatically propagate the denial to child processes. The series is named 'MDWE without inheritance' - Kefeng Wang has provided the series 'mm: convert numa balancing functions to use a folio' which does what it says - In the series 'mm/ksm: add fork-exec support for prctl' Stefan Roesch makes is possible for a process to propagate KSM treatment across exec() - Huang Ying has enhanced memory tiering's calculation of memory distances. This is used to permit the dax/kmem driver to use 'high bandwidth memory' in addition to Optane Data Center Persistent Memory Modules (DCPMM). The series is named 'memory tiering: calculate abstract distance based on ACPI HMAT' - In the series 'Smart scanning mode for KSM' Stefan Roesch has optimized KSM by teaching it to retain and use some historical information from previous scans - Yosry Ahmed has fixed some inconsistencies in memcg statistics in the series 'mm: memcg: fix tracking of pending stats updates values' - In the series 'Implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info about PTEs' Peter Xu has added an ioctl to /proc//pagemap which permits us to atomically read-then-clear page softdirty state. This is mainly used by CRIU - Hugh Dickins contributed the series 'shmem,tmpfs: general maintenance', a bunch of relatively minor maintenance tweaks to this code - Matthew Wilcox has increased the use of the VMA lock over file-backed page faults in the series 'Handle more faults under the VMA lock'. Some rationalizations of the fault path became possible as a result - In the series 'mm/rmap: convert page_move_anon_rmap() to folio_move_anon_rmap()' David Hildenbrand has implemented some cleanups and folio conversions - In the series 'various improvements to the GUP interface' Lorenzo Stoakes has simplified and improved the GUP interface with an eye to providing groundwork for future improvements - Andrey Konovalov has sent along the series 'kasan: assorted fixes and improvements' which does those things - Some page allocator maintenance work from Kemeng Shi in the series 'Two minor cleanups to break_down_buddy_pages' - In thes series 'New selftest for mm' Breno Leitao has developed another MM self test which tickles a race we had between madvise() and page faults - In the series 'Add folio_end_read' Matthew Wilcox provides cleanups and an optimization to the core pagecache code - Nhat Pham has added memcg accounting for hugetlb memory in the series 'hugetlb memcg accounting' - Cleanups and rationalizations to the pagemap code from Lorenzo Stoakes, in the series 'Abstract vma_merge() and split_vma()' - Audra Mitchell has fixed issues in the procfs page_owner code's new timestamping feature which was causing some misbehaviours. In the series 'Fix page_owner's use of free timestamps' - Lorenzo Stoakes has fixed the handling of new mappings of sealed files in the series 'permit write-sealed memfd read-only shared mappings' - Mike Kravetz has optimized the hugetlb vmemmap optimization in the series 'Batch hugetlb vmemmap modification operations' - Some buffer_head folio conversions and cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in the series 'Finish the create_empty_buffers() transition' - As a page allocator performance optimization Huang Ying has added automatic tuning to the allocator's per-cpu-pages feature, in the series 'mm: PCP high auto-tuning' - Roman Gushchin has contributed the patchset 'mm: improve performance of accounted kernel memory allocations' which improves their performance by ~30% as measured by a micro-benchmark - folio conversions from Kefeng Wang in the series 'mm: convert page cpupid functions to folios' - Some kmemleak fixups in Liu Shixin's series 'Some bugfix about kmemleak' - Qi Zheng has improved our handling of memoryless nodes by keeping them off the allocation fallback list. This is done in the series 'handle memoryless nodes more appropriately' - khugepaged conversions from Vishal Moola in the series 'Some khugepaged folio conversions'" [ bcachefs conflicts with the dynamically allocated shrinkers have been resolved as per Stephen Rothwell in https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230913093553.4290421e@canb.auug.org.au/ with help from Qi Zheng. The clone3 test filtering conflict was half-arsed by yours truly ] * tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (406 commits) mm/damon/sysfs: update monitoring target regions for online input commit mm/damon/sysfs: remove requested targets when online-commit inputs selftests: add a sanity check for zswap Documentation: maple_tree: fix word spelling error mm/vmalloc: fix the unchecked dereference warning in vread_iter() zswap: export compression failure stats Documentation: ubsan: drop "the" from article title mempolicy: migration attempt to match interleave nodes mempolicy: mmap_lock is not needed while migrating folios mempolicy: alloc_pages_mpol() for NUMA policy without vma mm: add page_rmappable_folio() wrapper mempolicy: remove confusing MPOL_MF_LAZY dead code mempolicy: mpol_shared_policy_init() without pseudo-vma mempolicy trivia: use pgoff_t in shared mempolicy tree mempolicy trivia: slightly more consistent naming mempolicy trivia: delete those ancient pr_debug()s mempolicy: fix migrate_pages(2) syscall return nr_failed kernfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy hooks hugetlbfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy pretence mm/damon/sysfs-test: add a unit test for damon_sysfs_set_targets() ...

Merge tag 'v6.7-p1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6

2023-11-03T02:15:30Z

Pull crypto updates from Herbert Xu: "API: - Add virtual-address based lskcipher interface - Optimise ahash/shash performance in light of costly indirect calls - Remove ahash alignmask attribute Algorithms: - Improve AES/XTS performance of 6-way unrolling for ppc - Remove some uses of obsolete algorithms (md4, md5, sha1) - Add FIPS 202 SHA-3 support in pkcs1pad - Add fast path for single-page messages in adiantum - Remove zlib-deflate Drivers: - Add support for S4 in meson RNG driver - Add STM32MP13x support in stm32 - Add hwrng interface support in qcom-rng - Add support for deflate algorithm in hisilicon/zip" * tag 'v6.7-p1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (283 commits) crypto: adiantum - flush destination page before unmapping crypto: testmgr - move pkcs1pad(rsa,sha3-*) to correct place Documentation/module-signing.txt: bring up to date module: enable automatic module signing with FIPS 202 SHA-3 crypto: asymmetric_keys - allow FIPS 202 SHA-3 signatures crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - Add FIPS 202 SHA-3 support crypto: FIPS 202 SHA-3 register in hash info for IMA x509: Add OIDs for FIPS 202 SHA-3 hash and signatures crypto: ahash - optimize performance when wrapping shash crypto: ahash - check for shash type instead of not ahash type crypto: hash - move "ahash wrapping shash" functions to ahash.c crypto: talitos - stop using crypto_ahash::init crypto: chelsio - stop using crypto_ahash::init crypto: ahash - improve file comment crypto: ahash - remove struct ahash_request_priv crypto: ahash - remove crypto_ahash_alignmask crypto: gcm - stop using alignmask of ahash crypto: chacha20poly1305 - stop using alignmask of ahash crypto: ccm - stop using alignmask of ahash net: ipv6: stop checking crypto_ahash_alignmask ...

Merge tag 'sh-for-v6.7-tag1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/glaubitz/sh-linux

2023-11-03T01:34:59Z

Pull sh updates from John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: "While the previously announced patch series for converting arch/sh to device trees is not yet ready for inclusion to mainline and therefore didn't make it for this pull request, there are still a small number changes for v6.7 which include one platform (board plus CPU and driver code) removal plus two fixes. The removal sent in by Arnd Bergmann concerns the microdev board which was an early SuperH prototype board that was never used in production. With the board removed, we were able to drop the now unused code for the SH4-202 CPU and well as the driver code for the superhyway bus and a custom implementation for ioport_map() and ioport_unmap() which will allow us to simplify ioport handling in the future. Another patch set by Geert Uytterhoeven revives SuperH BIOS earlyprintk support which got accidentally disabled in e76fe57447e88916 ("sh: Remove old early serial console code V2"), the second patch in the series updates the documentation. Finally, a patch by Masami Hiramatsu fixes a regression reported by the kernel test robot which uncovered that arch/sh is not implementing arch_cmpxchg_local() and therefore needs use __generic_cmpxchg_local() instead" * tag 'sh-for-v6.7-tag1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/glaubitz/sh-linux: locking/atomic: sh: Use generic_cmpxchg_local for arch_cmpxchg_local() Documentation: kernel-parameters: Add earlyprintk=bios on SH sh: bios: Revive earlyprintk support sh: machvec: Remove custom ioport_{un,}map() sh: Remove superhyway bus support sh: Remove unused SH4-202 support sh: Remove stale microdev board