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<title>mm: migration: add migrate_entry_wait_huge()</title>
<updated>2013-06-19T01:17:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Naoya Horiguchi</name>
<email>n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com</email>
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<published>2013-06-12T21:05:04Z</published>
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commit 30dad30922ccc733cfdbfe232090cf674dc374dc upstream.

When we have a page fault for the address which is backed by a hugepage
under migration, the kernel can't wait correctly and do busy looping on
hugepage fault until the migration finishes.  As a result, users who try
to kick hugepage migration (via soft offlining, for example) occasionally
experience long delay or soft lockup.

This is because pte_offset_map_lock() can't get a correct migration entry
or a correct page table lock for hugepage.  This patch introduces
migration_entry_wait_huge() to solve this.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>CPU hotplug: provide a generic helper to disable/enable CPU hotplug</title>
<updated>2013-06-19T01:16:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Srivatsa S. Bhat</name>
<email>srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-12T21:04:36Z</published>
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commit 16e53dbf10a2d7e228709a7286310e629ede5e45 upstream.

There are instances in the kernel where we would like to disable CPU
hotplug (from sysfs) during some important operation.  Today the freezer
code depends on this and the code to do it was kinda tailor-made for
that.

Restructure the code and make it generic enough to be useful for other
usecases too.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt &lt;holt@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Russ Anderson &lt;rja@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Robin Holt &lt;holt@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Shawn Guo &lt;shawn.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen-netfront: reduce gso_max_size to account for max TCP header</title>
<updated>2013-06-19T01:16:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Wei Liu</name>
<email>wei.liu2@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-22T02:20:41Z</published>
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commit 9ecd1a75d977e2e8c48139c7d3efed183f898d94 upstream.

The maximum packet including header that can be handled by netfront / netback
wire format is 65535. Reduce gso_max_size accordingly.

Drop skb and print warning when skb-&gt;len &gt; 65535. This can 1) save the effort
to send malformed packet to netback, 2) help spotting misconfiguration of
netfront in the future.

Signed-off-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu2@citrix.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: Add net_ratelimited_function and net_&lt;level&gt;_ratelimited macros</title>
<updated>2013-06-19T01:16:44Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-13T21:56:25Z</published>
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commit 3a3bfb61e64476ff1e4ac3122cb6dec9c79b795c upstream.

__ratelimit() can be considered an inverted bool test because
it returns true when not ratelimited.  Several tests in the
kernel tree use this __ratelimit() function incorrectly.

No net_ratelimit uses are incorrect currently though.

Most uses of net_ratelimit are to log something via printk or
pr_&lt;level&gt;.

In order to minimize the uses of net_ratelimit, and to start
standardizing the code style used for __ratelimit() and net_ratelimit(),
add a net_ratelimited_function() macro and net_&lt;level&gt;_ratelimited()
logging macros similar to pr_&lt;level&gt;_ratelimited that use the global
net_ratelimit instead of a static per call site "struct ratelimit_state".

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<title>xen-netback: coalesce slots in TX path and fix regressions</title>
<updated>2013-06-19T01:16:43Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Wei Liu</name>
<email>wei.liu2@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-22T02:20:42Z</published>
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commit 2810e5b9a7731ca5fce22bfbe12c96e16ac44b6f upstream.

This patch tries to coalesce tx requests when constructing grant copy
structures. It enables netback to deal with situation when frontend's
MAX_SKB_FRAGS is larger than backend's MAX_SKB_FRAGS.

With the help of coalescing, this patch tries to address two regressions
avoid reopening the security hole in XSA-39.

Regression 1. The reduction of the number of supported ring entries (slots)
per packet (from 18 to 17). This regression has been around for some time but
remains unnoticed until XSA-39 security fix. This is fixed by coalescing
slots.

Regression 2. The XSA-39 security fix turning "too many frags" errors from
just dropping the packet to a fatal error and disabling the VIF. This is fixed
by coalescing slots (handling 18 slots when backend's MAX_SKB_FRAGS is 17)
which rules out false positive (using 18 slots is legit) and dropping packets
using 19 to `max_skb_slots` slots.

To avoid reopening security hole in XSA-39, frontend sending packet using more
than max_skb_slots is considered malicious.

The behavior of netback for packet is thus:

    1-18            slots: valid
   19-max_skb_slots slots: drop and respond with an error
   max_skb_slots+   slots: fatal error

max_skb_slots is configurable by admin, default value is 20.

Also change variable name from "frags" to "slots" in netbk_count_requests.

Please note that RX path still has dependency on MAX_SKB_FRAGS. This will be
fixed with separate patch.

Signed-off-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu2@citrix.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ipv6: do not clear pinet6 field</title>
<updated>2013-05-30T13:35:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-09T10:28:16Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit f77d602124d865c38705df7fa25c03de9c284ad2 ]

We have seen multiple NULL dereferences in __inet6_lookup_established()

After analysis, I found that inet6_sk() could be NULL while the
check for sk_family == AF_INET6 was true.

Bug was added in linux-2.6.29 when RCU lookups were introduced in UDP
and TCP stacks.

Once an IPv6 socket, using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU is inserted in a hash
table, we no longer can clear pinet6 field.

This patch extends logic used in commit fcbdf09d9652c891
("net: fix nulls list corruptions in sk_prot_alloc")

TCP/UDP/UDPLite IPv6 protocols provide their own .clear_sk() method
to make sure we do not clear pinet6 field.

At socket clone phase, we do not really care, as cloning the parent (non
NULL) pinet6 is not adding a fatal race.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>macvlan: fix passthru mode race between dev removal  and rx path</title>
<updated>2013-05-30T13:35:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Pirko</name>
<email>jiri@resnulli.us</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-09T04:23:40Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 233c7df0821c4190e2d3f4be0f2ca0ab40a5ed8c, note
  that I had to add list_first_or_null_rcu to rculist.h in order
  to accomodate this fix. ]

Currently, if macvlan in passthru mode is created and data are rxed and
you remove this device, following panic happens:

NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000198
IP: [&lt;ffffffffa0196058&gt;] macvlan_handle_frame+0x153/0x1f7 [macvlan]

I'm using following script to trigger this:
&lt;script&gt;
while [ 1 ]
do
	ip link add link e1 name macvtap0 type macvtap mode passthru
	ip link set e1 up
	ip link set macvtap0 up
	IFINDEX=`ip link |grep macvtap0 | cut -f 1 -d ':'`
	cat /dev/tap$IFINDEX  &gt;/dev/null &amp;
	ip link del dev macvtap0
done
&lt;/script&gt;

I run this script while "ping -f" is running on another machine to send
packets to e1 rx.

Reason of the panic is that list_first_entry() is blindly called in
macvlan_handle_frame() even if the list was empty. vlan is set to
incorrect pointer which leads to the crash.

I'm fixing this by protecting port-&gt;vlans list by rcu and by preventing
from getting incorrect pointer in case the list is empty.

Introduced by: commit eb06acdc85585f2 "macvlan: Introduce 'passthru' mode to takeover the underlying device"

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>if_cablemodem.h: Add parenthesis around ioctl macros</title>
<updated>2013-05-30T13:35:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Boyer</name>
<email>jwboyer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-08T09:45:47Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4f924b2aa4d3cb30f07e57d6b608838edcbc0d88 ]

Protect the SIOCGCM* ioctl macros with parenthesis.

Reported-by: Paul Wouters &lt;pwouters@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer &lt;jwboyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<title>tcp: force a dst refcount when prequeue packet</title>
<updated>2013-05-30T13:35:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-25T01:34:55Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 093162553c33e9479283e107b4431378271c735d ]

Before escaping RCU protected section and adding packet into
prequeue, make sure the dst is refcounted.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;bitbucket@online.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86, efivars: firmware bug workarounds should be in platform code</title>
<updated>2013-05-30T13:35:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Fleming</name>
<email>matt.fleming@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-25T09:14:30Z</published>
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commit a6e4d5a03e9e3587e88aba687d8f225f4f04c792 upstream.

Let's not burden ia64 with checks in the common efivars code that we're not
writing too much data to the variable store. That kind of thing is an x86
firmware bug, plain and simple.

efi_query_variable_store() provides platforms with a wrapper in which they can
perform checks and workarounds for EFI variable storage bugs.

Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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