user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/kernel.h, branch v3.16.68

include/linux/kernel.h: change abs() macro so it uses consistent return type

2017-07-18T17:40:28Z

commit 8f57e4d930d48217268315898212518d4d3e0773 upstream. Rewrite abs() so that its return type does not depend on the architecture and no unexpected type conversion happen inside of it. The only conversion is from unsigned to signed type. char is left as a return type but treated as a signed type regradless of it's actual signedness. With the old version, int arguments were promoted to long and depending on architecture a long argument might result in s64 or long return type (which may or may not be the same). This came after some back and forth with Nicolas. The current macro has different return type (for the same input type) depending on architecture which might be midly iritating. An alternative version would promote to int like so: #define abs(x) __abs_choose_expr(x, long long, \ __abs_choose_expr(x, long, \ __builtin_choose_expr( \ sizeof(x) <= sizeof(int), \ ({ int __x = (x); __x<0?-__x:__x; }), \ ((void)0)))) I have no preference but imagine Linus might. :] Nicolas argument against is that promoting to int causes iconsistent behaviour: int main(void) { unsigned short a = 0, b = 1, c = a - b; unsigned short d = abs(a - b); unsigned short e = abs(c); printf("%u %u\n", d, e); // prints: 1 65535 } Then again, no sane person expects consistent behaviour from C integer arithmetic. ;) Note: __builtin_types_compatible_p(unsigned char, char) is always false, and __builtin_types_compatible_p(signed char, char) is also always false. Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada Cc: Wey-Yi Guy Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust filename] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

kernel.h: make abs() work with 64-bit types

2017-07-18T17:40:28Z

commit c8299cb605b27dd5a49f7a69e48fd23e5a206298 upstream. For 64-bit arguments, the abs macro casts it to an int which leads to lost precision and may cause incorrect results. To deal with 64-bit types abs64 macro has been introduced but still there are places where abs macro is used incorrectly. To deal with the problem, expand abs macro such that it operates on s64 type when dealing with 64-bit types while still returning long when dealing with smaller types. This fixes one known bug (per John): The internal clocksteering done for fine-grained error correction uses a : logarithmic approximation, so any time adjtimex() adjusts the clock : steering, timekeeping_freqadjust() quickly approximates the correct clock : frequency over a series of ticks. : : Unfortunately, the logic in timekeeping_freqadjust(), introduced in commit : dc491596f639438 (Rework frequency adjustments to work better w/ nohz), : used the abs() function with a s64 error value to calculate the size of : the approximated adjustment to be made. : : Per include/linux/kernel.h: "abs() should not be used for 64-bit types : (s64, u64, long long) - use abs64()". : : Thus on 32-bit platforms, this resulted in the clocksteering to take a : quite dampended random walk trying to converge on the proper frequency, : which caused the adjustments to be made much slower then intended (most : easily observed when large adjustments are made). Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz Reported-by: John Stultz Tested-by: John Stultz Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

tracing: Fix trace_printk() to print when not using bprintk()

2016-04-30T22:06:03Z

commit 3debb0a9ddb16526de8b456491b7db60114f7b5e upstream. The trace_printk() code will allocate extra buffers if the compile detects that a trace_printk() is used. To do this, the format of the trace_printk() is saved to the __trace_printk_fmt section, and if that section is bigger than zero, the buffers are allocated (along with a message that this has happened). If trace_printk() uses a format that is not a constant, and thus something not guaranteed to be around when the print happens, the compiler optimizes the fmt out, as it is not used, and the __trace_printk_fmt section is not filled. This means the kernel will not allocate the special buffers needed for the trace_printk() and the trace_printk() will not write anything to the tracing buffer. Adding a "__used" to the variable in the __trace_printk_fmt section will keep it around, even though it is set to NULL. This will keep the string from being printed in the debugfs/tracing/printk_formats section as it is not needed. Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka Fixes: 07d777fe8c398 "tracing: Add percpu buffers for trace_printk()" Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux

2014-04-06T16:38:07Z

Pull module updates from Rusty Russell: "Nothing major: the stricter permissions checking for sysfs broke a staging driver; fix included. Greg KH said he'd take the patch but hadn't as the merge window opened, so it's included here to avoid breaking build" * tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: staging: fix up speakup kobject mode Use 'E' instead of 'X' for unsigned module taint flag. VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS: stricter checking for sysfs perms. kallsyms: fix percpu vars on x86-64 with relocation. kallsyms: generalize address range checking module: LLVMLinux: Remove unused function warning from __param_check macro Fix: module signature vs tracepoints: add new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE module: remove MODULE_GENERIC_TABLE module: allow multiple calls to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() per module module: use pr_cont

VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS: stricter checking for sysfs perms.

2014-03-24T01:51:00Z

Summary of http://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/14/363 : Ted: module_param(queue_depth, int, 444) Joe: 0444! Rusty: User perms >= group perms >= other perms? Joe: CLASS_ATTR, DEVICE_ATTR, SENSOR_ATTR and SENSOR_ATTR_2? Side effect of stricter permissions means removing the unnecessary S_IFREG from several callers. Note that the BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO((perm) & 2) test was removed: a fair number of drivers fail this test, so that will be the debate for a future patch. Suggested-by: Joe Perches Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas for drivers/pci/slot.c Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Mark Fasheh Cc: Joel Becker Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

Rename TAINT_UNSAFE_SMP to TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC

2014-03-20T23:28:09Z

Rename TAINT_UNSAFE_SMP to TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, so we can repurpose the flag to encompass a wider range of pushing the CPU beyond its warrany. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140226154949.GA770@redhat.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

Fix: module signature vs tracepoints: add new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE

2014-03-13T01:41:51Z

Users have reported being unable to trace non-signed modules loaded within a kernel supporting module signature. This is caused by tracepoint.c:tracepoint_module_coming() refusing to take into account tracepoints sitting within force-loaded modules (TAINT_FORCED_MODULE). The reason for this check, in the first place, is that a force-loaded module may have a struct module incompatible with the layout expected by the kernel, and can thus cause a kernel crash upon forced load of that module on a kernel with CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS=y. Tracepoints, however, specifically accept TAINT_OOT_MODULE and TAINT_CRAP, since those modules do not lead to the "very likely system crash" issue cited above for force-loaded modules. With kernels having CONFIG_MODULE_SIG=y (signed modules), a non-signed module is tainted re-using the TAINT_FORCED_MODULE taint flag. Unfortunately, this means that Tracepoints treat that module as a force-loaded module, and thus silently refuse to consider any tracepoint within this module. Since an unsigned module does not fit within the "very likely system crash" category of tainting, add a new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE taint flag to specifically address this taint behavior, and accept those modules within Tracepoints. We use the letter 'X' as a taint flag character for a module being loaded that doesn't know how to sign its name (proposed by Steven Rostedt). Also add the missing 'O' entry to trace event show_module_flags() list for the sake of completeness. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Acked-by: Steven Rostedt NAKed-by: Ingo Molnar CC: Thomas Gleixner CC: David Howells CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2014-01-25T19:17:34Z

Pull networking updates from David Miller: 1) BPF debugger and asm tool by Daniel Borkmann. 2) Speed up create/bind in AF_PACKET, also from Daniel Borkmann. 3) Correct reciprocal_divide and update users, from Hannes Frederic Sowa and Daniel Borkmann. 4) Currently we only have a "set" operation for the hw timestamp socket ioctl, add a "get" operation to match. From Ben Hutchings. 5) Add better trace events for debugging driver datapath problems, also from Ben Hutchings. 6) Implement auto corking in TCP, from Eric Dumazet. Basically, if we have a small send and a previous packet is already in the qdisc or device queue, defer until TX completion or we get more data. 7) Allow userspace to manage ipv6 temporary addresses, from Jiri Pirko. 8) Add a qdisc bypass option for AF_PACKET sockets, from Daniel Borkmann. 9) Share IP header compression code between Bluetooth and IEEE802154 layers, from Jukka Rissanen. 10) Fix ipv6 router reachability probing, from Jiri Benc. 11) Allow packets to be captured on macvtap devices, from Vlad Yasevich. 12) Support tunneling in GRO layer, from Jerry Chu. 13) Allow bonding to be configured fully using netlink, from Scott Feldman. 14) Allow AF_PACKET users to obtain the VLAN TPID, just like they can already get the TCI. From Atzm Watanabe. 15) New "Heavy Hitter" qdisc, from Terry Lam. 16) Significantly improve the IPSEC support in pktgen, from Fan Du. 17) Allow ipv4 tunnels to cache routes, just like sockets. From Tom Herbert. 18) Add Proportional Integral Enhanced packet scheduler, from Vijay Subramanian. 19) Allow openvswitch to mmap'd netlink, from Thomas Graf. 20) Key TCP metrics blobs also by source address, not just destination address. From Christoph Paasch. 21) Support 10G in generic phylib. From Andy Fleming. 22) Try to short-circuit GRO flow compares using device provided RX hash, if provided. From Tom Herbert. The wireless and netfilter folks have been busy little bees too. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (2064 commits) net/cxgb4: Fix referencing freed adapter ipv6: reallocate addrconf router for ipv6 address when lo device up fib_frontend: fix possible NULL pointer dereference rtnetlink: remove IFLA_BOND_SLAVE definition rtnetlink: remove check for fill_slave_info in rtnl_have_link_slave_info qlcnic: update version to 5.3.55 qlcnic: Enhance logic to calculate msix vectors. qlcnic: Refactor interrupt coalescing code for all adapters. qlcnic: Update poll controller code path qlcnic: Interrupt code cleanup qlcnic: Enhance Tx timeout debugging. qlcnic: Use bool for rx_mac_learn. bonding: fix u64 division rtnetlink: add missing IFLA_BOND_AD_INFO_UNSPEC sfc: Use the correct maximum TX DMA ring size for SFC9100 Add Shradha Shah as the sfc driver maintainer. net/vxlan: Share RX skb de-marking and checksum checks with ovs tulip: cleanup by using ARRAY_SIZE() ip_tunnel: clear IPCB in ip_tunnel_xmit() in case dst_link_failure() is called net/cxgb4: Don't retrieve stats during recovery ...

kernel.h: define u8, s8, u32, etc. limits

2014-01-24T00:36:54Z

Create constants that define the maximum and minimum values representable by the kernel types u8, s8, u16, s16, and so on. Signed-off-by: Alex Elder Cc: Sage Weil Cc: David Miller Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

net: introduce reciprocal_scale helper and convert users

2014-01-22T07:17:20Z

As David Laight suggests, we shouldn't necessarily call this reciprocal_divide() when users didn't requested a reciprocal_value(); lets keep the basic idea and call it reciprocal_scale(). More background information on this topic can be found in [1]. Joint work with Hannes Frederic Sowa. [1] http://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/bcd/divide.html Suggested-by: David Laight Cc: Jakub Zawadzki Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Signed-off-by: David S. Miller