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<title>cpufreq: Avoid leaving stale IRQ work items during CPU offline</title>
<updated>2019-12-31T15:36:22Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
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<published>2019-12-11T10:28:41Z</published>
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commit 85572c2c4a45a541e880e087b5b17a48198b2416 upstream.

The scheduler code calling cpufreq_update_util() may run during CPU
offline on the target CPU after the IRQ work lists have been flushed
for it, so the target CPU should be prevented from running code that
may queue up an IRQ work item on it at that point.

Unfortunately, that may not be the case if dvfs_possible_from_any_cpu
is set for at least one cpufreq policy in the system, because that
allows the CPU going offline to run the utilization update callback
of the cpufreq governor on behalf of another (online) CPU in some
cases.

If that happens, the cpufreq governor callback may queue up an IRQ
work on the CPU running it, which is going offline, and the IRQ work
may not be flushed after that point.  Moreover, that IRQ work cannot
be flushed until the "offlining" CPU goes back online, so if any
other CPU calls irq_work_sync() to wait for the completion of that
IRQ work, it will have to wait until the "offlining" CPU is back
online and that may not happen forever.  In particular, a system-wide
deadlock may occur during CPU online as a result of that.

The failing scenario is as follows.  CPU0 is the boot CPU, so it
creates a cpufreq policy and becomes the "leader" of it
(policy-&gt;cpu).  It cannot go offline, because it is the boot CPU.
Next, other CPUs join the cpufreq policy as they go online and they
leave it when they go offline.  The last CPU to go offline, say CPU3,
may queue up an IRQ work while running the governor callback on
behalf of CPU0 after leaving the cpufreq policy because of the
dvfs_possible_from_any_cpu effect described above.  Then, CPU0 is
the only online CPU in the system and the stale IRQ work is still
queued on CPU3.  When, say, CPU1 goes back online, it will run
irq_work_sync() to wait for that IRQ work to complete and so it
will wait for CPU3 to go back online (which may never happen even
in principle), but (worse yet) CPU0 is waiting for CPU1 at that
point too and a system-wide deadlock occurs.

To address this problem notice that CPUs which cannot run cpufreq
utilization update code for themselves (for example, because they
have left the cpufreq policies that they belonged to), should also
be prevented from running that code on behalf of the other CPUs that
belong to a cpufreq policy with dvfs_possible_from_any_cpu set and so
in that case the cpufreq_update_util_data pointer of the CPU running
the code must not be NULL as well as for the CPU which is the target
of the cpufreq utilization update in progress.

Accordingly, change cpufreq_this_cpu_can_update() into a regular
function in kernel/sched/cpufreq.c (instead of a static inline in a
header file) and make it check the cpufreq_update_util_data pointer
of the local CPU if dvfs_possible_from_any_cpu is set for the target
cpufreq policy.

Also update the schedutil governor to do the
cpufreq_this_cpu_can_update() check in the non-fast-switch
case too to avoid the stale IRQ work issues.

Fixes: 99d14d0e16fa ("cpufreq: Process remote callbacks from any CPU if the platform permits")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/20191121093557.bycvdo4xyinbc5cb@vireshk-i7/
Reported-by: Anson Huang &lt;anson.huang@nxp.com&gt;
Tested-by: Anson Huang &lt;anson.huang@nxp.com&gt;
Cc: 4.14+ &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.14+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Tested-by: Peng Fan &lt;peng.fan@nxp.com&gt; (i.MX8QXP-MEK)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>rfkill: allocate static minor</title>
<updated>2019-12-31T15:35:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcel Holtmann</name>
<email>marcel@holtmann.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-24T17:40:42Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8670b2b8b029a6650d133486be9d2ace146fd29a ]

udev has a feature of creating /dev/&lt;node&gt; device-nodes if it finds
a devnode:&lt;node&gt; modalias. This allows for auto-loading of modules that
provide the node. This requires to use a statically allocated minor
number for misc character devices.

However, rfkill uses dynamic minor numbers and prevents auto-loading
of the module. So allocate the next static misc minor number and use
it for rfkill.

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191024174042.19851-1-marcel@holtmann.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipmi: Don't allow device module unload when in use</title>
<updated>2019-12-31T15:35:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Corey Minyard</name>
<email>cminyard@mvista.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-14T15:35:56Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit cbb79863fc3175ed5ac506465948b02a893a8235 ]

If something has the IPMI driver open, don't allow the device
module to be unloaded.  Before it would unload and the user would
get errors on use.

This change is made on user request, and it makes it consistent
with the I2C driver, which has the same behavior.

It does change things a little bit with respect to kernel users.
If the ACPI or IPMI watchdog (or any other kernel user) has
created a user, then the device module cannot be unloaded.  Before
it could be unloaded,

This does not affect hot-plug.  If the device goes away (it's on
something removable that is removed or is hot-removed via sysfs)
then it still behaves as it did before.

Reported-by: tony camuso &lt;tcamuso@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;cminyard@mvista.com&gt;
Tested-by: tony camuso &lt;tcamuso@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: Fix writeback throttling W=1 compiler warnings</title>
<updated>2019-12-31T15:34:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bvanassche@acm.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-30T23:00:41Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 1d200e9d6f635ae894993a7d0f1b9e0b6e522e3b ]

Fix the following compiler warnings:

In file included from ./include/linux/bitmap.h:9,
                 from ./include/linux/cpumask.h:12,
                 from ./arch/x86/include/asm/cpumask.h:5,
                 from ./arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h:11,
                 from ./arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:21,
                 from ./arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h:5,
                 from ./arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h:53,
                 from ./include/linux/thread_info.h:38,
                 from ./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:7,
                 from ./include/linux/preempt.h:78,
                 from ./include/linux/spinlock.h:51,
                 from ./include/linux/mmzone.h:8,
                 from ./include/linux/gfp.h:6,
                 from ./include/linux/mm.h:10,
                 from ./include/linux/bvec.h:13,
                 from ./include/linux/blk_types.h:10,
                 from block/blk-wbt.c:23:
In function 'strncpy',
    inlined from 'perf_trace_wbt_stat' at ./include/trace/events/wbt.h:15:1:
./include/linux/string.h:260:9: warning: '__builtin_strncpy' specified bound 32 equals destination size [-Wstringop-truncation]
  return __builtin_strncpy(p, q, size);
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In function 'strncpy',
    inlined from 'perf_trace_wbt_lat' at ./include/trace/events/wbt.h:58:1:
./include/linux/string.h:260:9: warning: '__builtin_strncpy' specified bound 32 equals destination size [-Wstringop-truncation]
  return __builtin_strncpy(p, q, size);
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In function 'strncpy',
    inlined from 'perf_trace_wbt_step' at ./include/trace/events/wbt.h:87:1:
./include/linux/string.h:260:9: warning: '__builtin_strncpy' specified bound 32 equals destination size [-Wstringop-truncation]
  return __builtin_strncpy(p, q, size);
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In function 'strncpy',
    inlined from 'perf_trace_wbt_timer' at ./include/trace/events/wbt.h:126:1:
./include/linux/string.h:260:9: warning: '__builtin_strncpy' specified bound 32 equals destination size [-Wstringop-truncation]
  return __builtin_strncpy(p, q, size);
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In function 'strncpy',
    inlined from 'trace_event_raw_event_wbt_stat' at ./include/trace/events/wbt.h:15:1:
./include/linux/string.h:260:9: warning: '__builtin_strncpy' specified bound 32 equals destination size [-Wstringop-truncation]
  return __builtin_strncpy(p, q, size);
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In function 'strncpy',
    inlined from 'trace_event_raw_event_wbt_lat' at ./include/trace/events/wbt.h:58:1:
./include/linux/string.h:260:9: warning: '__builtin_strncpy' specified bound 32 equals destination size [-Wstringop-truncation]
  return __builtin_strncpy(p, q, size);
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In function 'strncpy',
    inlined from 'trace_event_raw_event_wbt_timer' at ./include/trace/events/wbt.h:126:1:
./include/linux/string.h:260:9: warning: '__builtin_strncpy' specified bound 32 equals destination size [-Wstringop-truncation]
  return __builtin_strncpy(p, q, size);
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In function 'strncpy',
    inlined from 'trace_event_raw_event_wbt_step' at ./include/trace/events/wbt.h:87:1:
./include/linux/string.h:260:9: warning: '__builtin_strncpy' specified bound 32 equals destination size [-Wstringop-truncation]
  return __builtin_strncpy(p, q, size);
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;jthumshirn@suse.de&gt;
Fixes: e34cbd307477 ("blk-wbt: add general throttling mechanism"; v4.10).
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>media: cec-funcs.h: add status_req checks</title>
<updated>2019-12-31T15:34:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Hans Verkuil</name>
<email>hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-01T07:56:38Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9b211f9c5a0b67afc435b86f75d78273b97db1c5 ]

The CEC_MSG_GIVE_DECK_STATUS and CEC_MSG_GIVE_TUNER_DEVICE_STATUS commands
both have a status_req argument: ON, OFF, ONCE. If ON or ONCE, then the
follower will reply with a STATUS message. Either once or whenever the
status changes (status_req == ON).

If status_req == OFF, then it will stop sending continuous status updates,
but the follower will *not* send a STATUS message in that case.

This means that if status_req == OFF, then msg-&gt;reply should be 0 as well
since no reply is expected in that case.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil &lt;hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>drm: mst: Fix query_payload ack reply struct</title>
<updated>2019-12-31T15:34:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Paul</name>
<email>seanpaul@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-29T16:52:19Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 268de6530aa18fe5773062367fd119f0045f6e88 ]

Spec says[1] Allocated_PBN is 16 bits

[1]- DisplayPort 1.2 Spec, Section 2.11.9.8, Table 2-98

Fixes: ad7f8a1f9ced ("drm/helper: add Displayport multi-stream helper (v0.6)")
Cc: Lyude Paul &lt;lyude@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Todd Previte &lt;tprevite@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst &lt;maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Maxime Ripard &lt;maxime.ripard@bootlin.com&gt;
Cc: Sean Paul &lt;sean@poorly.run&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul &lt;lyude@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Paul &lt;seanpaul@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190829165223.129662-1-sean@poorly.run
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>net: dst: Force 4-byte alignment of dst_metrics</title>
<updated>2019-12-31T15:34:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Geert Uytterhoeven</name>
<email>geert@linux-m68k.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-20T13:31:40Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 258a980d1ec23e2c786e9536a7dd260bea74bae6 ]

When storing a pointer to a dst_metrics structure in dst_entry._metrics,
two flags are added in the least significant bits of the pointer value.
Hence this assumes all pointers to dst_metrics structures have at least
4-byte alignment.

However, on m68k, the minimum alignment of 32-bit values is 2 bytes, not
4 bytes.  Hence in some kernel builds, dst_default_metrics may be only
2-byte aligned, leading to obscure boot warnings like:

    WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 7 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0x44/0x9a
    refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
    Modules linked in:
    CPU: 0 PID: 7 Comm: ksoftirqd/0 Tainted: G        W         5.5.0-rc2-atari-01448-g114a1a1038af891d-dirty #261
    Stack from 10835e6c:
	    10835e6c 0038134f 00023fa6 00394b0f 0000001c 00000009 00321560 00023fea
	    00394b0f 0000001c 001a70f8 00000009 00000000 10835eb4 00000001 00000000
	    04208040 0000000a 00394b4a 10835ed4 00043aa8 001a70f8 00394b0f 0000001c
	    00000009 00394b4a 0026aba8 003215a4 00000003 00000000 0026d5a8 00000001
	    003215a4 003a4361 003238d6 000001f0 00000000 003215a4 10aa3b00 00025e84
	    003ddb00 10834000 002416a8 10aa3b00 00000000 00000080 000aa038 0004854a
    Call Trace: [&lt;00023fa6&gt;] __warn+0xb2/0xb4
     [&lt;00023fea&gt;] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x42/0x64
     [&lt;001a70f8&gt;] refcount_warn_saturate+0x44/0x9a
     [&lt;00043aa8&gt;] printk+0x0/0x18
     [&lt;001a70f8&gt;] refcount_warn_saturate+0x44/0x9a
     [&lt;0026aba8&gt;] refcount_sub_and_test.constprop.73+0x38/0x3e
     [&lt;0026d5a8&gt;] ipv4_dst_destroy+0x5e/0x7e
     [&lt;00025e84&gt;] __local_bh_enable_ip+0x0/0x8e
     [&lt;002416a8&gt;] dst_destroy+0x40/0xae

Fix this by forcing 4-byte alignment of all dst_metrics structures.

Fixes: e5fd387ad5b30ca3 ("ipv6: do not overwrite inetpeer metrics prematurely")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mod_devicetable: fix PHY module format</title>
<updated>2019-12-31T15:34:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-19T23:24:47Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit d2ed49cf6c13e379c5819aa5ac20e1f9674ebc89 ]

When a PHY is probed, if the top bit is set, we end up requesting a
module with the string "mdio:-10101110000000100101000101010001" -
the top bit is printed to a signed -1 value. This leads to the module
not being loaded.

Fix the module format string and the macro generating the values for
it to ensure that we only print unsigned types and the top bit is
always 0/1. We correctly end up with
"mdio:10101110000000100101000101010001".

Fixes: 8626d3b43280 ("phylib: Support phy module autoloading")
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn &lt;andrew@lunn.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tcp: Protect accesses to .ts_recent_stamp with {READ,WRITE}_ONCE()</title>
<updated>2019-12-21T09:57:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Guillaume Nault</name>
<email>gnault@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-06T11:38:49Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 721c8dafad26ccfa90ff659ee19755e3377b829d ]

Syncookies borrow the -&gt;rx_opt.ts_recent_stamp field to store the
timestamp of the last synflood. Protect them with READ_ONCE() and
WRITE_ONCE() since reads and writes aren't serialised.

Use of .rx_opt.ts_recent_stamp for storing the synflood timestamp was
introduced by a0f82f64e269 ("syncookies: remove last_synq_overflow from
struct tcp_sock"). But unprotected accesses were already there when
timestamp was stored in .last_synq_overflow.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault &lt;gnault@redhat.com&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: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tcp: tighten acceptance of ACKs not matching a child socket</title>
<updated>2019-12-21T09:57:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Guillaume Nault</name>
<email>gnault@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-06T11:38:43Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit cb44a08f8647fd2e8db5cc9ac27cd8355fa392d8 ]

When no synflood occurs, the synflood timestamp isn't updated.
Therefore it can be so old that time_after32() can consider it to be
in the future.

That's a problem for tcp_synq_no_recent_overflow() as it may report
that a recent overflow occurred while, in fact, it's just that jiffies
has grown past 'last_overflow' + TCP_SYNCOOKIE_VALID + 2^31.

Spurious detection of recent overflows lead to extra syncookie
verification in cookie_v[46]_check(). At that point, the verification
should fail and the packet dropped. But we should have dropped the
packet earlier as we didn't even send a syncookie.

Let's refine tcp_synq_no_recent_overflow() to report a recent overflow
only if jiffies is within the
[last_overflow, last_overflow + TCP_SYNCOOKIE_VALID] interval. This
way, no spurious recent overflow is reported when jiffies wraps and
'last_overflow' becomes in the future from the point of view of
time_after32().

However, if jiffies wraps and enters the
[last_overflow, last_overflow + TCP_SYNCOOKIE_VALID] interval (with
'last_overflow' being a stale synflood timestamp), then
tcp_synq_no_recent_overflow() still erroneously reports an
overflow. In such cases, we have to rely on syncookie verification
to drop the packet. We unfortunately have no way to differentiate
between a fresh and a stale syncookie timestamp.

In practice, using last_overflow as lower bound is problematic.
If the synflood timestamp is concurrently updated between the time
we read jiffies and the moment we store the timestamp in
'last_overflow', then 'now' becomes smaller than 'last_overflow' and
tcp_synq_no_recent_overflow() returns true, potentially dropping a
valid syncookie.

Reading jiffies after loading the timestamp could fix the problem,
but that'd require a memory barrier. Let's just accommodate for
potential timestamp growth instead and extend the interval using
'last_overflow - HZ' as lower bound.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault &lt;gnault@redhat.com&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: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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