user/sven/linux.git/init, branch v3.2.68

init/Kconfig: Hide printk log config if CONFIG_PRINTK=n

2014-11-05T20:27:46Z

commit 361e9dfbaae84b0b246ed18d1ab7c82a1a41b53e upstream. The buffers sized by CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT and CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT do not exist if CONFIG_PRINTK=n, so don't ask about their size at all. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett Acked-by: Randy Dunlap [bwh: Backported to 3.2: drop change to CONFIG_LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86, espfix: Make espfix64 a Kconfig option, fix UML

2014-09-13T22:41:51Z

commit 197725de65477bc8509b41388157c1a2283542bb upstream. Make espfix64 a hidden Kconfig option. This fixes the x86-64 UML build which had broken due to the non-existence of init_espfix_bsp() in UML: since UML uses its own Kconfig, this option does not appear in the UML build. This also makes it possible to make support for 16-bit segments a configuration option, for the people who want to minimize the size of the kernel. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Richard Weinberger Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86-64, espfix: Don't leak bits 31:16 of %esp returning to 16-bit stack

2014-09-13T22:41:51Z

commit 3891a04aafd668686239349ea58f3314ea2af86b upstream. The IRET instruction, when returning to a 16-bit segment, only restores the bottom 16 bits of the user space stack pointer. This causes some 16-bit software to break, but it also leaks kernel state to user space. We have a software workaround for that ("espfix") for the 32-bit kernel, but it relies on a nonzero stack segment base which is not available in 64-bit mode. In checkin: b3b42ac2cbae x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels we "solved" this by forbidding 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels, with the logic that 16-bit support is crippled on 64-bit kernels anyway (no V86 support), but it turns out that people are doing stuff like running old Win16 binaries under Wine and expect it to work. This works around this by creating percpu "ministacks", each of which is mapped 2^16 times 64K apart. When we detect that the return SS is on the LDT, we copy the IRET frame to the ministack and use the relevant alias to return to userspace. The ministacks are mapped readonly, so if IRET faults we promote #GP to #DF which is an IST vector and thus has its own stack; we then do the fixup in the #DF handler. (Making #GP an IST exception would make the msr_safe functions unsafe in NMI/MC context, and quite possibly have other effects.) Special thanks to: - Andy Lutomirski, for the suggestion of using very small stack slots and copy (as opposed to map) the IRET frame there, and for the suggestion to mark them readonly and let the fault promote to #DF. - Konrad Wilk for paravirt fixup and testing. - Borislav Petkov for testing help and useful comments. Reported-by: Brian Gerst Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Andrew Lutomriski Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Dirk Hohndel Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: comex Cc: Alexander van Heukelum Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

random: run random_int_secret_init() run after all late_initcalls

2013-11-28T14:02:00Z

commit 47d06e532e95b71c0db3839ebdef3fe8812fca2c upstream. The some platforms (e.g., ARM) initializes their clocks as late_initcalls for some unknown reason. So make sure random_int_secret_init() is run after all of the late_initcalls are run. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

efi: Make 'efi_enabled' a function to query EFI facilities

2013-02-06T04:33:50Z

commit 83e68189745ad931c2afd45d8ee3303929233e7f upstream. Originally 'efi_enabled' indicated whether a kernel was booted from EFI firmware. Over time its semantics have changed, and it now indicates whether or not we are booted on an EFI machine with bit-native firmware, e.g. 64-bit kernel with 64-bit firmware. The immediate motivation for this patch is the bug report at, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557 which details how running a platform driver on an EFI machine that is designed to run under BIOS can cause the machine to become bricked. Also, the following report, https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121 details how running said driver can also cause Machine Check Exceptions. Drivers need a new means of detecting whether they're running on an EFI machine, as sadly the expression, if (!efi_enabled) hasn't been a sufficient condition for quite some time. Users actually want to query 'efi_enabled' for different reasons - what they really want access to is the list of available EFI facilities. For instance, the x86 reboot code needs to know whether it can invoke the ResetSystem() function provided by the EFI runtime services, while the ACPI OSL code wants to know whether the EFI config tables were mapped successfully. There are also checks in some of the platform driver code to simply see if they're running on an EFI machine (which would make it a bad idea to do BIOS-y things). This patch is a prereq for the samsung-laptop fix patch. Cc: David Airlie Cc: Corentin Chary Cc: Matthew Garrett Cc: Dave Jiang Cc: Olof Johansson Cc: Peter Jones Cc: Colin Ian King Cc: Steve Langasek Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Adjust context (a lot) - Add efi_is_native() function from commit 5189c2a7c776 ('x86: efi: Turn off efi_enabled after setup on mixed fw/kernel') - Make efi_init() bail out when booted non-native, as it would previously not be called in this case - Drop inapplicable changes to start_kernel()] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

init: don't try mounting device as nfs root unless type fully matches

2012-05-30T23:43:50Z

commit 377485f6244af255b04d662cf19cddbbc4ae4310 upstream. Currently, we'll try mounting any device who's major device number is UNNAMED_MAJOR as NFS root. This would happen for non-NFS devices as well (such as 9p devices) but it wouldn't cause any issues since mounting the device as NFS would fail quickly and the code proceeded to doing the proper mount: [ 101.522716] VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy. [ 101.534499] VFS: Mounted root (9p filesystem) on device 0:18. Commit 6829a048102a ("NFS: Retry mounting NFSROOT") introduced retries when mounting NFS root, which means that now we don't immediately fail and instead it takes an additional 90+ seconds until we stop retrying, which has revealed the issue this patch fixes. This meant that it would take an additional 90 seconds to boot when we're not using a device type which gets detected in order before NFS. This patch modifies the NFS type check to require device type to be 'Root_NFS' instead of requiring the device to have an UNNAMED_MAJOR major. This makes boot process cleaner since we now won't go through the NFS mounting code at all when the device isn't an NFS root ("/dev/nfs"). Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

Fix blocking allocations called very early during bootup

2012-05-30T23:43:29Z

commit 31a67102f4762df5544bc2dfb34a931233d2a5b2 upstream. During early boot, when the scheduler hasn't really been fully set up, we really can't do blocking allocations because with certain (dubious) configurations the "might_resched()" calls can actually result in scheduling events. We could just make such users always use GFP_ATOMIC, but quite often the code that does the allocation isn't really aware of the fact that the scheduler isn't up yet, and forcing that kind of random knowledge on the initialization code is just annoying and not good for anybody. And we actually have a the 'gfp_allowed_mask' exactly for this reason: it's just that the kernel init sequence happens to set it to allow blocking allocations much too early. So move the 'gfp_allowed_mask' initialization from 'start_kernel()' (which is some of the earliest init code, and runs with preemption disabled for good reasons) into 'kernel_init()'. kernel_init() is run in the newly created thread that will become the 'init' process, as opposed to the early startup code that runs within the context of what will be the first idle thread. So by the time we reach 'kernel_init()', we know that the scheduler must be at least limping along, because we've already scheduled from the idle thread into the init thread. Reported-by: Steven Rostedt Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

NFS: Retry mounting NFSROOT

2012-01-26T00:13:14Z

commit 43717c7daebf10b43f12e68512484b3095bb1ba5 upstream. Lukas Razik reports that on his SPARC system, booting with an NFS root file system stopped working after commit 56463e50 "NFS: Use super.c for NFSROOT mount option parsing." We found that the network switch to which Lukas' client was attached was delaying access to the LAN after the client's NIC driver reported that its link was up. The delay was longer than the timeouts used in the NFS client during mounting. NFSROOT worked for Lukas before commit 56463e50 because in those kernels, the client's first operation was an rpcbind request to determine which port the NFS server was listening on. When that request failed after a long timeout, the client simply selected the default NFS port (2049). By that time the switch was allowing access to the LAN, and the mount succeeded. Neither of these client behaviors is desirable, so reverting 56463e50 is really not a choice. Instead, introduce a mechanism that retries the NFSROOT mount request several times. This is the same tactic that normal user space NFS mounts employ to overcome server and network delays. Signed-off-by: Lukas Razik [ cel: match kernel coding style, add proper patch description ] [ cel: add exponential back-off ] Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever Tested-by: Lukas Razik Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'upstream/jump-label-noearly' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen

2011-11-07T04:20:46Z

* 'upstream/jump-label-noearly' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen: jump-label: initialize jump-label subsystem much earlier x86/jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static() s390/jump-label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static() jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static() to optimise non-live code updates sparc/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early() x86/jump_label: drop arch_jump_label_text_poke_early() jump_label: if a key has already been initialized, don't nop it out stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient to call early jump_label: use proper atomic_t initializer Conflicts: - arch/x86/kernel/jump_label.c Added __init_or_module to arch_jump_label_text_poke_early vs removal of that function entirely - kernel/stop_machine.c same patch ("stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient to call early") merged twice, with whitespace fix in one version

sysctl: make CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL default to n

2011-11-02T23:07:02Z

When I tried to send a patch to remove it, Andi told me we still need to keep compabitlies for old libc, so we can't remove this completely. Then just make it default to n and remove the doc from feature-removal-schedule.txt. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds