user/sven/linux.git/Documentation, branch v4.9.162

dt-bindings: eeprom: at24: add "atmel,24c2048" compatible string

2019-02-20T09:18:24Z

commit 6c0c5dc33ff42af49243e94842d0ebdb153189ea upstream. Add new compatible to the device tree bindings. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Acked-by: Rob Herring Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mm, proc: be more verbose about unstable VMA flags in /proc//smaps

2019-01-26T08:38:36Z

[ Upstream commit 7550c6079846a24f30d15ac75a941c8515dbedfb ] Patch series "THP eligibility reporting via proc". This series of three patches aims at making THP eligibility reporting much more robust and long term sustainable. The trigger for the change is a regression report [2] and the long follow up discussion. In short the specific application didn't have good API to query whether a particular mapping can be backed by THP so it has used VMA flags to workaround that. These flags represent a deep internal state of VMAs and as such they should be used by userspace with a great deal of caution. A similar has happened for [3] when users complained that VM_MIXEDMAP is no longer set on DAX mappings. Again a lack of a proper API led to an abuse. The first patch in the series tries to emphasise that that the semantic of flags might change and any application consuming those should be really careful. The remaining two patches provide a more suitable interface to address [2] and provide a consistent API to query the THP status both for each VMA and process wide as well. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181120103515.25280-1-mhocko@kernel.org [2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1809241054050.224429@chino.kir.corp.google.com [3] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181002100531.GC4135@quack2.suse.cz This patch (of 3): Even though vma flags exported via /proc//smaps are explicitly documented to be not guaranteed for future compatibility the warning doesn't go far enough because it doesn't mention semantic changes to those flags. And they are important as well because these flags are a deep implementation internal to the MM code and the semantic might change at any time. Let's consider two recent examples: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181002100531.GC4135@quack2.suse.cz : commit e1fb4a086495 "dax: remove VM_MIXEDMAP for fsdax and device dax" has : removed VM_MIXEDMAP flag from DAX VMAs. Now our testing shows that in the : mean time certain customer of ours started poking into /proc//smaps : and looks at VMA flags there and if VM_MIXEDMAP is missing among the VMA : flags, the application just fails to start complaining that DAX support is : missing in the kernel. http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1809241054050.224429@chino.kir.corp.google.com : Commit 1860033237d4 ("mm: make PR_SET_THP_DISABLE immediately active") : introduced a regression in that userspace cannot always determine the set : of vmas where thp is ineligible. : Userspace relies on the "nh" flag being emitted as part of /proc/pid/smaps : to determine if a vma is eligible to be backed by hugepages. : Previous to this commit, prctl(PR_SET_THP_DISABLE, 1) would cause thp to : be disabled and emit "nh" as a flag for the corresponding vmas as part of : /proc/pid/smaps. After the commit, thp is disabled by means of an mm : flag and "nh" is not emitted. : This causes smaps parsing libraries to assume a vma is eligible for thp : and ends up puzzling the user on why its memory is not backed by thp. In both cases userspace was relying on a semantic of a specific VMA flag. The primary reason why that happened is a lack of a proper interface. While this has been worked on and it will be fixed properly, it seems that our wording could see some refinement and be more vocal about semantic aspect of these flags as well. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181211143641.3503-2-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Jan Kara Acked-by: Dan Williams Acked-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Mike Rapoport Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Dan Williams Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Paul Oppenheimer Cc: William Kucharski Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

namei: allow restricted O_CREAT of FIFOs and regular files

2018-12-01T08:44:25Z

commit 30aba6656f61ed44cba445a3c0d38b296fa9e8f5 upstream. Disallows open of FIFOs or regular files not owned by the user in world writable sticky directories, unless the owner is the same as that of the directory or the file is opened without the O_CREAT flag. The purpose is to make data spoofing attacks harder. This protection can be turned on and off separately for FIFOs and regular files via sysctl, just like the symlinks/hardlinks protection. This patch is based on Openwall's "HARDEN_FIFO" feature by Solar Designer. This is a brief list of old vulnerabilities that could have been prevented by this feature, some of them even allow for privilege escalation: CVE-2000-1134 CVE-2007-3852 CVE-2008-0525 CVE-2009-0416 CVE-2011-4834 CVE-2015-1838 CVE-2015-7442 CVE-2016-7489 This list is not meant to be complete. It's difficult to track down all vulnerabilities of this kind because they were often reported without any mention of this particular attack vector. In fact, before hardlinks/symlinks restrictions, fifos/regular files weren't the favorite vehicle to exploit them. [s.mesoraca16@gmail.com: fix bug reported by Dan Carpenter] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180426081456.GA7060@mwanda Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524829819-11275-1-git-send-email-s.mesoraca16@gmail.com [keescook@chromium.org: drop pr_warn_ratelimited() in favor of audit changes in the future] [keescook@chromium.org: adjust commit subjet] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180416175918.GA13494@beast Signed-off-by: Salvatore Mesoraca Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Suggested-by: Solar Designer Suggested-by: Kees Cook Cc: Al Viro Cc: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Loic Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ACPI: sysfs: Make ACPI GPE mask kernel parameter cover all GPEs

2018-11-10T15:42:45Z

[ Upstream commit 0f27cff8597d86f881ea8274b49b63b678c14a3c ] The acpi_mask_gpe= kernel parameter documentation states that the range of mask is 128 GPEs (0x00 to 0x7F). The acpi_masked_gpes mask is a u64 so only 64 GPEs (0x00 to 0x3F) can really be masked. Use a bitmap of size 0xFF instead of a u64 for the GPE mask so 256 GPEs can be masked. Fixes: 9c4aa1eecb48 (ACPI / sysfs: Provide quirk mechanism to prevent GPE flooding) Signed-off-by: Prarit Bharava Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

inet: frags: break the 2GB limit for frags storage

2018-10-18T07:13:24Z

Some users are willing to provision huge amounts of memory to be able to perform reassembly reasonnably well under pressure. Current memory tracking is using one atomic_t and integers. Switch to atomic_long_t so that 64bit arches can use more than 2GB, without any cost for 32bit arches. Note that this patch avoids an overflow error, if high_thresh was set to ~2GB, since this test in inet_frag_alloc() was never true : if (... || frag_mem_limit(nf) > nf->high_thresh) Tested: $ echo 16000000000 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ipfrag_high_thresh $ grep FRAG /proc/net/sockstat FRAG: inuse 14705885 memory 16000002880 $ nstat -n ; sleep 1 ; nstat | grep Reas IpReasmReqds 3317150 0.0 IpReasmFails 3317112 0.0 Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller (cherry picked from commit 3e67f106f619dcfaf6f4e2039599bdb69848c714) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

inet: frags: use rhashtables for reassembly units

2018-10-18T07:13:24Z

Some applications still rely on IP fragmentation, and to be fair linux reassembly unit is not working under any serious load. It uses static hash tables of 1024 buckets, and up to 128 items per bucket (!!!) A work queue is supposed to garbage collect items when host is under memory pressure, and doing a hash rebuild, changing seed used in hash computations. This work queue blocks softirqs for up to 25 ms when doing a hash rebuild, occurring every 5 seconds if host is under fire. Then there is the problem of sharing this hash table for all netns. It is time to switch to rhashtables, and allocate one of them per netns to speedup netns dismantle, since this is a critical metric these days. Lookup is now using RCU. A followup patch will even remove the refcount hold/release left from prior implementation and save a couple of atomic operations. Before this patch, 16 cpus (16 RX queue NIC) could not handle more than 1 Mpps frags DDOS. After the patch, I reach 9 Mpps without any tuning, and can use up to 2GB of storage for the fragments (exact number depends on frags being evicted after timeout) $ grep FRAG /proc/net/sockstat FRAG: inuse 1966916 memory 2140004608 A followup patch will change the limits for 64bit arches. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Kirill Tkhai Cc: Herbert Xu Cc: Florian Westphal Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Cc: Alexander Aring Cc: Stefan Schmidt Signed-off-by: David S. Miller (cherry picked from commit 648700f76b03b7e8149d13cc2bdb3355035258a9) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ARM: dts: at91: add new compatibility string for macb on sama5d3

2018-10-18T07:13:20Z

[ Upstream commit 321cc359d899a8e988f3725d87c18a628e1cc624 ] We need this new compatibility string as we experienced different behavior for this 10/100Mbits/s macb interface on this particular SoC. Backward compatibility is preserved as we keep the alternative strings. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/fpu: Finish excising 'eagerfpu'

2018-10-13T07:18:59Z

commit e63650840e8b053aa09ad934877e87e9941ed135 upstream. Now that eagerfpu= is gone, remove it from the docs and some comments. Also sync the changes to tools/. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Quentin Casasnovas Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cf430dd4481d41280e93ac6cf0def1007a67fc8e.1476740397.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Daniel Sangorrin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

hwmon: (ina2xx) fix sysfs shunt resistor read access

2018-10-04T00:01:52Z

[ Upstream commit 3ad867001c91657c46dcf6656d52eb6080286fd5 ] fix the sysfs shunt resistor read access: return the shunt resistor value, not the calibration register contents. update email address Signed-off-by: Lothar Felten Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kbuild: verify that $DEPMOD is installed

2018-08-17T18:59:29Z

commit 934193a654c1f4d0643ddbf4b2529b508cae926e upstream. Verify that 'depmod' ($DEPMOD) is installed. This is a partial revert of commit 620c231c7a7f ("kbuild: do not check for ancient modutils tools"). Also update Documentation/process/changes.rst to refer to kmod instead of module-init-tools. Fixes kernel bugzilla #198965: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198965 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Lucas De Marchi Cc: Lucas De Marchi Cc: Michal Marek Cc: Jessica Yu Cc: Chih-Wei Huang Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # any kernel since 2012 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman