user/sven/linux.git/kernel/module.c, branch v3.16.1

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

2014-06-11T23:09:14Z

Pull module updates from Rusty Russell: "Most of this is cleaning up various driver sysfs permissions so we can re-add the perm check (we unified the module param and sysfs checks, but the module ones were stronger so we weakened them temporarily). Param parsing gets documented, and also "--" now forces args to be handed to init (and ignored by the kernel). Module NX/RO protections get tightened: we now set them before calling parse_args()" * tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: module: set nx before marking module MODULE_STATE_COMING. samples/kobject/: avoid world-writable sysfs files. drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_fb: avoid world-writable sysfs files. drivers/staging/speakup/: avoid world-writable sysfs files. drivers/regulator/virtual: avoid world-writable sysfs files. drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_ctl.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files. drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files. drivers/video/fbdev/sm501fb.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files. drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files. speakup: fix incorrect perms on speakup_acntsa.c cpumask.h: silence warning with -Wsign-compare Documentation: Update kernel-parameters.tx param: hand arguments after -- straight to init modpost: Fix resource leak in read_dump()

module: set nx before marking module MODULE_STATE_COMING.

2014-05-14T01:25:47Z

We currently set RO & NX on modules very late: after we move them from MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED to MODULE_STATE_COMING, and after we call parse_args() (which can exec code in the module). Much better is to do it in complete_formation() and then call the notifier. This means that the notifiers will be called on a module which is already RO & NX, so that may cause problems (ftrace already changed so they're unaffected). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

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

2014-05-01T17:35:01Z

Pull module fixes from Rusty Russell: "Fixed one missing place for the new taint flag, and remove a warning giving only false positives (now we finally figured out why)" * tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: module: remove warning about waiting module removal. Fix: tracing: use 'E' instead of 'X' for unsigned module taint flag

ftrace/module: Hardcode ftrace_module_init() call into load_module()

2014-04-28T14:37:21Z

A race exists between module loading and enabling of function tracer. CPU 1 CPU 2 ----- ----- load_module() module->state = MODULE_STATE_COMING register_ftrace_function() mutex_lock(&ftrace_lock); ftrace_startup() update_ftrace_function(); ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare() set_all_module_text_rw(); ftrace_arch_code_modify_post_process() set_all_module_text_ro(); [ here all module text is set to RO, including the module that is loading!! ] blocking_notifier_call_chain(MODULE_STATE_COMING); ftrace_init_module() [ tries to modify code, but it's RO, and fails! ftrace_bug() is called] When this race happens, ftrace_bug() will produces a nasty warning and all of the function tracing features will be disabled until reboot. The simple solution is to treate module load the same way the core kernel is treated at boot. To hardcode the ftrace function modification of converting calls to mcount into nops. This is done in init/main.c there's no reason it could not be done in load_module(). This gives a better control of the changes and doesn't tie the state of the module to its notifiers as much. Ftrace is special, it needs to be treated as such. The reason this would work, is that the ftrace_module_init() would be called while the module is in MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED, which is ignored by the set_all_module_text_ro() call. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395637826-3312-1-git-send-email-indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com Reported-by: Takao Indoh Acked-by: Rusty Russell Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.38+ Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

param: hand arguments after -- straight to init

2014-04-28T02:18:34Z

The kernel passes any args it doesn't need through to init, except it assumes anything containing '.' belongs to the kernel (for a module). This change means all users can clearly distinguish which arguments are for init. For example, the kernel uses debug ("dee-bug") to mean log everything to the console, where systemd uses the debug from the Scandinavian "day-boog" meaning "fail to boot". If a future versions uses argv[] instead of reading /proc/cmdline, this confusion will be avoided. eg: test 'FOO="this is --foo"' -- 'systemd.debug="true true true"' Gives: argv[0] = '/debug-init' argv[1] = 'test' argv[2] = 'systemd.debug=true true true' envp[0] = 'HOME=/' envp[1] = 'TERM=linux' envp[2] = 'FOO=this is --foo' Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

module: remove warning about waiting module removal.

2014-04-28T01:36:59Z

We remove the waiting module removal in commit 3f2b9c9cdf38 (September 2013), but it turns out that modprobe in kmod (< version 16) was asking for waiting module removal. No one noticed since modprobe would check for 0 usage immediately before trying to remove the module, and the race is unlikely. However, it means that anyone running old (but not ancient) kmod versions is hitting the printk designed to see if anyone was running "rmmod -w". All reports so far have been false positives, so remove the warning. Fixes: 3f2b9c9cdf389e303b2273679af08aab5f153517 Reported-by: Valerio Vanni Cc: Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) Cc: stable@kernel.org Acked-by: Lucas De Marchi Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

modules: use raw_cpu_write for initialization of per cpu refcount.

2014-04-07T23:36:14Z

The initialization of a structure is not subject to synchronization. The use of __this_cpu would trigger a false positive with the additional preemption checks for __this_cpu ops. So simply disable the check through the use of raw_cpu ops. Trace: __this_cpu_write operation in preemptible [00000000] code: modprobe/286 caller is __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x38/0x60 CPU: 3 PID: 286 Comm: modprobe Tainted: GF 3.12.0-rc4+ #187 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x4e/0x82 check_preemption_disabled+0xec/0x110 __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x38/0x60 load_module+0xcfd/0x2650 SyS_init_module+0xa6/0xd0 tracesys+0xe1/0xe6 Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Rusty Russell Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2014-04-06T16:38:07Z

Pull module updates from Rusty Russell: "Nothing major: the stricter permissions checking for sysfs broke a staging driver; fix included. Greg KH said he'd take the patch but hadn't as the merge window opened, so it's included here to avoid breaking build" * tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: staging: fix up speakup kobject mode Use 'E' instead of 'X' for unsigned module taint flag. VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS: stricter checking for sysfs perms. kallsyms: fix percpu vars on x86-64 with relocation. kallsyms: generalize address range checking module: LLVMLinux: Remove unused function warning from __param_check macro Fix: module signature vs tracepoints: add new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE module: remove MODULE_GENERIC_TABLE module: allow multiple calls to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() per module module: use pr_cont

Merge branch 'x86-asmlinkage-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2014-03-31T21:13:25Z

Pull x86 LTO changes from Peter Anvin: "More infrastructure work in preparation for link-time optimization (LTO). Most of these changes is to make sure symbols accessed from assembly code are properly marked as visible so the linker doesn't remove them. My understanding is that the changes to support LTO are still not upstream in binutils, but are on the way there. This patchset should conclude the x86-specific changes, and remaining patches to actually enable LTO will be fed through the Kbuild tree (other than keeping up with changes to the x86 code base, of course), although not necessarily in this merge window" * 'x86-asmlinkage-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (25 commits) Kbuild, lto: Handle basic LTO in modpost Kbuild, lto: Disable LTO for asm-offsets.c Kbuild, lto: Add a gcc-ld script to let run gcc as ld Kbuild, lto: add ld-version and ld-ifversion macros Kbuild, lto: Drop .number postfixes in modpost Kbuild, lto, workaround: Don't warn for initcall_reference in modpost lto: Disable LTO for sys_ni lto: Handle LTO common symbols in module loader lto, workaround: Add workaround for initcall reordering lto: Make asmlinkage __visible x86, lto: Disable LTO for the x86 VDSO initconst, x86: Fix initconst mistake in ts5500 code initconst: Fix initconst mistake in dcdbas asmlinkage: Make trace_hardirqs_on/off_caller visible asmlinkage, x86: Fix 32bit memcpy for LTO asmlinkage Make __stack_chk_failed and memcmp visible asmlinkage: Mark rwsem functions that can be called from assembler asmlinkage asmlinkage: Make main_extable_sort_needed visible asmlinkage, mutex: Mark __visible asmlinkage: Make trace_hardirq visible ...

Use 'E' instead of 'X' for unsigned module taint flag.

2014-03-31T04:22:43Z

Takashi Iwai says: > The letter 'X' has been already used for SUSE kernels for very long > time, to indicate the external supported modules. Can the new flag be > changed to another letter for avoiding conflict...? > (BTW, we also use 'N' for "no support", too.) Note: this code should be cleaned up, so we don't have such maps in three places! Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell