user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/kernel.h, branch v4.4.275

lib: move strtobool() to kstrtobool()

2016-10-28T07:01:30Z

commit ef951599074ba4fad2d0efa0a977129b41e6d203 upstream. Create the kstrtobool_from_user() helper and move strtobool() logic into the new kstrtobool() (matching all the other kstrto* functions). Provides an inline wrapper for existing strtobool() callers. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Daniel Borkmann Cc: Amitkumar Karwar Cc: Nishant Sarmukadam Cc: Kalle Valo Cc: Steve French Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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

2016-09-30T08:18:33Z

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 Cc: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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

2016-04-12T16:09:00Z

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: Greg Kroah-Hartman

remove abs64()

2015-11-09T23:11:24Z

Switch everything to the new and more capable implementation of abs(). Mainly to give the new abs() a bit of a workout. Cc: Michal Nazarewicz Cc: 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

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

2015-11-09T23:11:24Z

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

lib/kasprintf.c: introduce kvasprintf_const

2015-11-07T01:50:42Z

This adds kvasprintf_const which tries to use kstrdup_const if possible: If the format string contains no % characters, or if the format string is exactly "%s", we delegate to kstrdup_const. Otherwise, we fall back to kvasprintf. Just as for kstrdup_const, the main motivation is to save memory by reusing .rodata when possible. The return value should be freed by kfree_const, just like for kstrdup_const. There is deliberately no kasprintf_const: In the vast majority of cases, the format string argument is a literal, so one can determine statically whether one could instead use kstrdup_const directly (which would also require one to change all corresponding kfree calls to kfree_const). Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

include, lib: add __printf attributes to several function prototypes

2015-07-17T23:39:53Z

Using __printf attributes helps to detect several format string issues at compile time (even though -Wformat-security is currently disabled in Makefile). For example it can detect when formatting a pointer as a number, like the issue fixed in commit a3fa71c40f18 ("wl18xx: show rx_frames_per_rates as an array as it really is"), or when the arguments do not match the format string, c.f. for example commit 5ce1aca81435 ("reiserfs: fix __RASSERT format string"). To prevent similar bugs in the future, add a __printf attribute to every function prototype which needs one in include/linux/ and lib/. These functions were mostly found by using gcc's -Wsuggest-attribute=format flag. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Felipe Balbi Cc: Joel Becker Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2015-07-02T00:47:51Z

Merge third patchbomb from Andrew Morton: - the rest of MM - scripts/gdb updates - ipc/ updates - lib/ updates - MAINTAINERS updates - various other misc things * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (67 commits) genalloc: rename of_get_named_gen_pool() to of_gen_pool_get() genalloc: rename dev_get_gen_pool() to gen_pool_get() x86: opt into HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, for both 32-bit and 64-bit MAINTAINERS: add zpool MAINTAINERS: BCACHE: Kent Overstreet has changed email address MAINTAINERS: move Jens Osterkamp to CREDITS MAINTAINERS: remove unused nbd.h pattern MAINTAINERS: update brcm gpio filename pattern MAINTAINERS: update brcm dts pattern MAINTAINERS: update sound soc intel patterns MAINTAINERS: remove website for paride MAINTAINERS: update Emulex ocrdma email addresses bcache: use kvfree() in various places libcxgbi: use kvfree() in cxgbi_free_big_mem() target: use kvfree() in session alloc and free IB/ehca: use kvfree() in ipz_queue_{cd}tor() drm/nouveau/gem: use kvfree() in u_free() drm: use kvfree() in drm_free_large() cxgb4: use kvfree() in t4_free_mem() cxgb3: use kvfree() in cxgb_free_mem() ...

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

2015-07-01T17:49:25Z

Pull module updates from Rusty Russell: "Main excitement here is Peter Zijlstra's lockless rbtree optimization to speed module address lookup. He found some abusers of the module lock doing that too. A little bit of parameter work here too; including Dan Streetman's breaking up the big param mutex so writing a parameter can load another module (yeah, really). Unfortunately that broke the usual suspects, !CONFIG_MODULES and !CONFIG_SYSFS, so those fixes were appended too" * tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (26 commits) modules: only use mod->param_lock if CONFIG_MODULES param: fix module param locks when !CONFIG_SYSFS. rcu: merge fix for Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() module: add per-module param_lock module: make perm const params: suppress unused variable error, warn once just in case code changes. modules: clarify CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS help, suggest 'N'. kernel/module.c: avoid ifdefs for sig_enforce declaration kernel/workqueue.c: remove ifdefs over wq_power_efficient kernel/params.c: export param_ops_bool_enable_only kernel/params.c: generalize bool_enable_only kernel/module.c: use generic module param operaters for sig_enforce kernel/params: constify struct kernel_param_ops uses sysfs: tightened sysfs permission checks module: Rework module_addr_{min,max} module: Use __module_address() for module_address_lookup() module: Make the mod_tree stuff conditional on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING module: Optimize __module_address() using a latched RB-tree rbtree: Implement generic latch_tree seqlock: Introduce raw_read_seqcount_latch() ...

kernel/panic/kexec: fix "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" option issue in oops path

2015-07-01T02:44:57Z

Commit f06e5153f4ae2e ("kernel/panic.c: add "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" option for kdump after panic_notifers") introduced "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" kernel boot option, which toggles wheather panic() calls crash_kexec() before panic_notifiers and dump kmsg or after. The problem is that the commit overlooks panic_on_oops kernel boot option. If it is enabled, crash_kexec() is called directly without going through panic() in oops path. To fix this issue, this patch adds a check to "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" in the condition of kexec_should_crash(). Also, put a comment in kexec_should_crash() to explain not obvious things on this patch. Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke Acked-by: Baoquan He Tested-by: Hidehiro Kawai Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Hidehiro Kawai Cc: Baoquan He Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds