user/sven/linux.git/include/linux, branch v3.0.46

mempolicy: fix a race in shared_policy_replace()

2012-10-12T20:28:14Z

commit b22d127a39ddd10d93deee3d96e643657ad53a49 upstream. shared_policy_replace() use of sp_alloc() is unsafe. 1) sp_node cannot be dereferenced if sp->lock is not held and 2) another thread can modify sp_node between spin_unlock for allocating a new sp node and next spin_lock. The bug was introduced before 2.6.12-rc2. Kosaki's original patch for this problem was to allocate an sp node and policy within shared_policy_replace and initialise it when the lock is reacquired. I was not keen on this approach because it partially duplicates sp_alloc(). As the paths were sp->lock is taken are not that performance critical this patch converts sp->lock to sp->mutex so it can sleep when calling sp_alloc(). [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: Original patch] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Josh Boyer Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

xfrm_user: ensure user supplied esn replay window is valid

2012-10-12T20:28:05Z

[ Upstream commit ecd7918745234e423dd87fcc0c077da557909720 ] The current code fails to ensure that the netlink message actually contains as many bytes as the header indicates. If a user creates a new state or updates an existing one but does not supply the bytes for the whole ESN replay window, the kernel copies random heap bytes into the replay bitmap, the ones happen to follow the XFRMA_REPLAY_ESN_VAL netlink attribute. This leads to following issues: 1. The replay window has random bits set confusing the replay handling code later on. 2. A malicious user could use this flaw to leak up to ~3.5kB of heap memory when she has access to the XFRM netlink interface (requires CAP_NET_ADMIN). Known users of the ESN replay window are strongSwan and Steffen's iproute2 patch (). The latter uses the interface with a bitmap supplied while the former does not. strongSwan is therefore prone to run into issue 1. To fix both issues without breaking existing userland allow using the XFRMA_REPLAY_ESN_VAL netlink attribute with either an empty bitmap or a fully specified one. For the former case we initialize the in-kernel bitmap with zero, for the latter we copy the user supplied bitmap. For state updates the full bitmap must be supplied. To prevent overflows in the bitmap length calculation the maximum size of bmp_len is limited to 128 by this patch -- resulting in a maximum replay window of 4096 packets. This should be sufficient for all real life scenarios (RFC 4303 recommends a default replay window size of 64). Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause Cc: Steffen Klassert Cc: Martin Willi Cc: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: set correct baud_base for EXSYS EX-41092 Dual 16950

2012-10-07T15:27:25Z

commit 26e8220adb0aec43b7acafa0f1431760eee28522 upstream. Apparently the same card model has two IDs, so this patch complements the commit 39aced68d664291db3324d0fcf0985ab5626aac2 adding the missing one. Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

time: Move ktime_t overflow checking into timespec_valid_strict

2012-10-02T16:47:52Z

commit cee58483cf56e0ba355fdd97ff5e8925329aa936 upstream Andreas Bombe reported that the added ktime_t overflow checking added to timespec_valid in commit 4e8b14526ca7 ("time: Improve sanity checking of timekeeping inputs") was causing problems with X.org because it caused timeouts larger then KTIME_T to be invalid. Previously, these large timeouts would be clamped to KTIME_MAX and would never expire, which is valid. This patch splits the ktime_t overflow checking into a new timespec_valid_strict function, and converts the timekeeping codes internal checking to use this more strict function. Reported-and-tested-by: Andreas Bombe Cc: Zhouping Liu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

time: Improve sanity checking of timekeeping inputs

2012-10-02T16:47:44Z

commit 4e8b14526ca7fb046a81c94002c1c43b6fdf0e9b upstream Unexpected behavior could occur if the time is set to a value large enough to overflow a 64bit ktime_t (which is something larger then the year 2262). Also unexpected behavior could occur if large negative offsets are injected via adjtimex. So this patch improves the sanity check timekeeping inputs by improving the timespec_valid() check, and then makes better use of timespec_valid() to make sure we don't set the time to an invalid negative value or one that overflows ktime_t. Note: This does not protect from setting the time close to overflowing ktime_t and then letting natural accumulation cause the overflow. Reported-by: CAI Qian Reported-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: John Stultz Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Prarit Bhargava Cc: Zhouping Liu Cc: Ingo Molnar Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344454580-17031-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched: Fix race in task_group()

2012-10-02T16:47:42Z

commit 8323f26ce3425460769605a6aece7a174edaa7d1 upstream. Stefan reported a crash on a kernel before a3e5d1091c1 ("sched: Don't call task_group() too many times in set_task_rq()"), he found the reason to be that the multiple task_group() invocations in set_task_rq() returned different values. Looking at all that I found a lack of serialization and plain wrong comments. The below tries to fix it using an extra pointer which is updated under the appropriate scheduler locks. Its not pretty, but I can't really see another way given how all the cgroup stuff works. Reported-and-tested-by: Stefan Bader Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340364965.18025.71.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

NFS: Fix the initialisation of the readdir 'cookieverf' array

2012-10-02T16:47:38Z

commit c3f52af3e03013db5237e339c817beaae5ec9e3a upstream. When the NFS_COOKIEVERF helper macro was converted into a static inline function in commit 99fadcd764 (nfs: convert NFS_*(inode) helpers to static inline), we broke the initialisation of the readdir cookies, since that depended on doing a memset with an argument of 'sizeof(NFS_COOKIEVERF(inode))' which therefore changed from sizeof(be32 cookieverf[2]) to sizeof(be32 *). At this point, NFS_COOKIEVERF seems to be more of an obfuscation than a helper, so the best thing would be to just get rid of it. Also see: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46881 Reported-by: Andi Kleen Reported-by: David Binderman Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/ia64: fix a memory block size bug

2012-10-02T16:47:26Z

commit 05cf96398e1b6502f9e191291b715c7463c9d5dd upstream. I found following definition in include/linux/memory.h, in my IA64 platform, SECTION_SIZE_BITS is equal to 32, and MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE will be 0. #define MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE (1 << SECTION_SIZE_BITS) Because MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE is int type and length of 32bits, so MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE(1 << 32) will will equal to 0. Actually when SECTION_SIZE_BITS >= 31, MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE will be wrong. This will cause wrong system memory infomation in sysfs. I think it should be: #define MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE (1UL << SECTION_SIZE_BITS) And "echo offline > memory0/state" will cause following call trace: kernel BUG at mm/memory_hotplug.c:885! sh[6455]: bugcheck! 0 [1] Pid: 6455, CPU 0, comm: sh psr : 0000101008526030 ifs : 8000000000000fa4 ip : [] Not tainted (3.6.0-rc1) ip is at offline_pages+0x210/0xee0 Call Trace: show_stack+0x80/0xa0 show_regs+0x640/0x920 die+0x190/0x2c0 die_if_kernel+0x50/0x80 ia64_bad_break+0x3d0/0x6e0 ia64_native_leave_kernel+0x0/0x270 offline_pages+0x210/0xee0 alloc_pages_current+0x180/0x2a0 Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu Cc: "Luck, Tony" Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kobject: fix oops with "input0: bad kobj_uevent_env content in show_uevent()"

2012-10-02T16:47:25Z

commit 60e233a56609fd963c59e99bd75c663d63fa91b6 upstream. Fengguang Wu writes: > After the __devinit* removal series, I can still get kernel panic in > show_uevent(). So there are more sources of bug.. > > Debug patch: > > @@ -343,8 +343,11 @@ static ssize_t show_uevent(struct device > goto out; > > /* copy keys to file */ > - for (i = 0; i < env->envp_idx; i++) > + dev_err(dev, "uevent %d env[%d]: %s/.../%s\n", env->buflen, env->envp_idx, top_kobj->name, dev->kobj.name); > + for (i = 0; i < env->envp_idx; i++) { > + printk(KERN_ERR "uevent %d env[%d]: %s\n", (int)count, i, env->envp[i]); > count += sprintf(&buf[count], "%s\n", env->envp[i]); > + } > > Oops message, the env[] is again not properly initilized: > > [ 44.068623] input input0: uevent 61 env[805306368]: input0/.../input0 > [ 44.069552] uevent 0 env[0]: (null) This is a completely different CONFIG_HOTPLUG problem, only demonstrating another reason why CONFIG_HOTPLUG should go away. I had a hard time trying to disable it anyway ;-) The problem this time is lots of code assuming that a call to add_uevent_var() will guarantee that env->buflen > 0. This is not true if CONFIG_HOTPLUG is unset. So things like this end up overwriting env->envp_idx because the array index is -1: if (add_uevent_var(env, "MODALIAS=")) return -ENOMEM; len = input_print_modalias(&env->buf[env->buflen - 1], sizeof(env->buf) - env->buflen, dev, 0); Don't know what the best action is, given that there seem to be a *lot* of this around the kernel. This patch "fixes" the problem for me, but I don't know if it can be considered an appropriate fix. [ It is the correct fix for now, for 3.7 forcing CONFIG_HOTPLUG to always be on is the longterm fix, but it's too late for 3.6 and older kernels to resolve this that way - gregkh ] Reported-by: Fengguang Wu Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork Tested-by: Fengguang Wu Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf_event: Switch to internal refcount, fix race with close()

2012-10-02T16:47:24Z

commit a6fa941d94b411bbd2b6421ffbde6db3c93e65ab upstream. Don't mess with file refcounts (or keep a reference to file, for that matter) in perf_event. Use explicit refcount of its own instead. Deal with the race between the final reference to event going away and new children getting created for it by use of atomic_long_inc_not_zero() in inherit_event(); just have the latter free what it had allocated and return NULL, that works out just fine (children of siblings of something doomed are created as singletons, same as if the child of leader had been created and immediately killed). Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120820135925.GG23464@ZenIV.linux.org.uk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman