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<updated>2018-11-13T19:17:01Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>printk: Fix panic caused by passing log_buf_len to command line</title>
<updated>2018-11-13T19:17:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>He Zhe</name>
<email>zhe.he@windriver.com</email>
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<published>2018-09-29T16:45:50Z</published>
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commit 277fcdb2cfee38ccdbe07e705dbd4896ba0c9930 upstream.

log_buf_len_setup does not check input argument before passing it to
simple_strtoull. The argument would be a NULL pointer if "log_buf_len",
without its value, is set in command line and thus causes the following
panic.

PANIC: early exception 0xe3 IP 10:ffffffffaaeacd0d error 0 cr2 0x0
[    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.19.0-rc4-yocto-standard+ #1
[    0.000000] RIP: 0010:_parse_integer_fixup_radix+0xd/0x70
...
[    0.000000] Call Trace:
[    0.000000]  simple_strtoull+0x29/0x70
[    0.000000]  memparse+0x26/0x90
[    0.000000]  log_buf_len_setup+0x17/0x22
[    0.000000]  do_early_param+0x57/0x8e
[    0.000000]  parse_args+0x208/0x320
[    0.000000]  ? rdinit_setup+0x30/0x30
[    0.000000]  parse_early_options+0x29/0x2d
[    0.000000]  ? rdinit_setup+0x30/0x30
[    0.000000]  parse_early_param+0x36/0x4d
[    0.000000]  setup_arch+0x336/0x99e
[    0.000000]  start_kernel+0x6f/0x4ee
[    0.000000]  x86_64_start_reservations+0x24/0x26
[    0.000000]  x86_64_start_kernel+0x6f/0x72
[    0.000000]  secondary_startup_64+0xa4/0xb0

This patch adds a check to prevent the panic.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1538239553-81805-1-git-send-email-zhe.he@windriver.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: He Zhe &lt;zhe.he@windriver.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>printk/tracing: Do not trace printk_nmi_enter()</title>
<updated>2018-09-09T18:01:25Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-05T20:29:49Z</published>
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commit d1c392c9e2a301f38998a353f467f76414e38725 upstream.

I hit the following splat in my tests:

------------[ cut here ]------------
IRQs not enabled as expected
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 0 at kernel/time/tick-sched.c:982 tick_nohz_idle_enter+0x44/0x8c
Modules linked in: ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipv6
CPU: 3 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/3 Not tainted 4.19.0-rc2-test+ #2
Hardware name: MSI MS-7823/CSM-H87M-G43 (MS-7823), BIOS V1.6 02/22/2014
EIP: tick_nohz_idle_enter+0x44/0x8c
Code: ec 05 00 00 00 75 26 83 b8 c0 05 00 00 00 75 1d 80 3d d0 36 3e c1 00
75 14 68 94 63 12 c1 c6 05 d0 36 3e c1 01 e8 04 ee f8 ff &lt;0f&gt; 0b 58 fa bb a0
e5 66 c1 e8 25 0f 04 00 64 03 1d 28 31 52 c1 8b
EAX: 0000001c EBX: f26e7f8c ECX: 00000006 EDX: 00000007
ESI: f26dd1c0 EDI: 00000000 EBP: f26e7f40 ESP: f26e7f38
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 EFLAGS: 00010296
CR0: 80050033 CR2: 0813c6b0 CR3: 2f342000 CR4: 001406f0
Call Trace:
 do_idle+0x33/0x202
 cpu_startup_entry+0x61/0x63
 start_secondary+0x18e/0x1ed
 startup_32_smp+0x164/0x168
irq event stamp: 18773830
hardirqs last  enabled at (18773829): [&lt;c040150c&gt;] trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0xc/0x10
hardirqs last disabled at (18773830): [&lt;c040151c&gt;] trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0xc/0x10
softirqs last  enabled at (18773824): [&lt;c0ddaa6f&gt;] __do_softirq+0x25f/0x2bf
softirqs last disabled at (18773767): [&lt;c0416bbe&gt;] call_on_stack+0x45/0x4b
---[ end trace b7c64aa79e17954a ]---

After a bit of debugging, I found what was happening. This would trigger
when performing "perf" with a high NMI interrupt rate, while enabling and
disabling function tracer. Ftrace uses breakpoints to convert the nops at
the start of functions to calls to the function trampolines. The breakpoint
traps disable interrupts and this makes calls into lockdep via the
trace_hardirqs_off_thunk in the entry.S code. What happens is the following:

  do_idle {

    [interrupts enabled]

    &lt;interrupt&gt; [interrupts disabled]
	TRACE_IRQS_OFF [lockdep says irqs off]
	[...]
	TRACE_IRQS_IRET
	    test if pt_regs say return to interrupts enabled [yes]
	    TRACE_IRQS_ON [lockdep says irqs are on]

	    &lt;nmi&gt;
		nmi_enter() {
		    printk_nmi_enter() [traced by ftrace]
		    [ hit ftrace breakpoint ]
		    &lt;breakpoint exception&gt;
			TRACE_IRQS_OFF [lockdep says irqs off]
			[...]
			TRACE_IRQS_IRET [return from breakpoint]
			   test if pt_regs say interrupts enabled [no]
			   [iret back to interrupt]
	   [iret back to code]

    tick_nohz_idle_enter() {

	lockdep_assert_irqs_enabled() [lockdep say no!]

Although interrupts are indeed enabled, lockdep thinks it is not, and since
we now do asserts via lockdep, it gives a false warning. The issue here is
that printk_nmi_enter() is called before lockdep_off(), which disables
lockdep (for this reason) in NMIs. By simply not allowing ftrace to see
printk_nmi_enter() (via notrace annotation) we keep lockdep from getting
confused.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 42a0bb3f71383 ("printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI")
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>printk: fix possible reuse of va_list variable</title>
<updated>2018-07-03T09:23:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Tetsuo Handa</name>
<email>penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-11T10:54:19Z</published>
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commit 988a35f8da1dec5a8cd2788054d1e717be61bf25 upstream.

I noticed that there is a possibility that printk_safe_log_store() causes
kernel oops because "args" parameter is passed to vsnprintf() again when
atomic_cmpxchg() detected that we raced. Fix this by using va_copy().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201805112002.GIF21216.OFVHFOMLJtQFSO@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: dvyukov@google.com
Cc: syzkaller@googlegroups.com
Cc: fengguang.wu@intel.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Fixes: 42a0bb3f71383b45 ("printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI")
Cc: 4.7+ &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.7+
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>printk: Correctly handle preemption in console_unlock()</title>
<updated>2018-03-22T08:17:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Mladek</name>
<email>pmladek@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-24T16:14:05Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 257ab443118bffc7fdcef38f49cf59be68a3e362 ]

Some console drivers code calls console_conditional_schedule()
that looks at @console_may_schedule. The value must be cleared
when the drivers are called from console_unlock() with
interrupts disabled. But rescheduling is fine when the same
code is called, for example, from tty operations where the
console semaphore is taken via console_lock().

This is why @console_may_schedule is cleared before calling console
drivers. The original value is stored to decide if we could sleep
between lines.

Now, @console_may_schedule is not cleared when we call
console_trylock() and jump back to the "again" goto label.
This has become a problem, since the commit 6b97a20d3a7909daa066
("printk: set may_schedule for some of console_trylock() callers").
@console_may_schedule might get enabled now.

There is also the opposite problem. console_lock() can be called
only from preemptive context. It can always enable scheduling in
the console code. But console_trylock() is not able to detect it
when CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT is disabled. Therefore we should use the
original @console_may_schedule value after re-acquiring
the console semaphore in console_unlock().

This patch solves both problems by moving the "again" goto label.

Alternative solution was to clear and restore the value around
call_console_drivers(). Then console_conditional_schedule() could
be used also inside console_unlock(). But there was a potential race
with console_flush_on_panic() as reported by Sergey Senozhatsky.
That function should be called only where there is only one CPU
and with interrupts disabled. But better be on the safe side
because stopping CPUs might fail.

Fixes: 6b97a20d3a7909 ("printk: set may_schedule for some of console_trylock() callers")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490372045-22288-1-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Suggested-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>braille-console: Fix value returned by _braille_console_setup</title>
<updated>2018-03-22T08:17:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Samuel Thibault</name>
<email>samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-26T20:47:36Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2ed2b8621be2708c0f6d61fe9841e9ad8b9753f0 ]

commit bbeddf52adc1 ("printk: move braille console support into
separate braille.[ch] files") introduced _braille_console_setup()
to outline the braille initialization code.  There was however some
confusion over the value it was supposed to return. commit 2cfe6c4ac7ee
("printk: Fix return of braille_register_console()") tried to fix it
but failed to.

This fixes and documents the returned value according to the use
in printk.c: non-zero return means a parsing error, and thus this
console configuration should be ignored.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault &lt;samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org&gt;
Cc: Aleksey Makarov &lt;aleksey.makarov@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>printk: use rcuidle console tracepoint</title>
<updated>2017-02-23T16:44:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-18T11:42:54Z</published>
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commit fc98c3c8c9dcafd67adcce69e6ce3191d5306c9c upstream.

Use rcuidle console tracepoint because, apparently, it may be issued
from an idle CPU:

  hw-breakpoint: Failed to enable monitor mode on CPU 0.
  hw-breakpoint: CPU 0 failed to disable vector catch

  ===============================
  [ ERR: suspicious RCU usage.  ]
  4.10.0-rc8-next-20170215+ #119 Not tainted
  -------------------------------
  ./include/trace/events/printk.h:32 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!

  other info that might help us debug this:

  RCU used illegally from idle CPU!
  rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 0
  RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state!
  2 locks held by swapper/0/0:
   #0:  (cpu_pm_notifier_lock){......}, at: [&lt;c0237e2c&gt;] cpu_pm_exit+0x10/0x54
   #1:  (console_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [&lt;c01ab350&gt;] vprintk_emit+0x264/0x474

  stack backtrace:
  CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.10.0-rc8-next-20170215+ #119
  Hardware name: Generic OMAP4 (Flattened Device Tree)
    console_unlock
    vprintk_emit
    vprintk_default
    printk
    reset_ctrl_regs
    dbg_cpu_pm_notify
    notifier_call_chain
    cpu_pm_exit
    omap_enter_idle_coupled
    cpuidle_enter_state
    cpuidle_enter_state_coupled
    do_idle
    cpu_startup_entry
    start_kernel

This RCU warning, however, is suppressed by lockdep_off() in printk().
lockdep_off() increments the -&gt;lockdep_recursion counter and thus
disables RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() and debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled(), which want
lockdep to be enabled "current-&gt;lockdep_recursion == 0".

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170217015932.11898-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@armlinux.org.uk&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: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Revert "printk: make reading the kernel log flush pending lines"</title>
<updated>2016-11-14T17:31:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-14T17:31:52Z</published>
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This reverts commit bfd8d3f23b51018388be0411ccbc2d56277fe294.

It turns out that this flushes things much too aggressiverly, and causes
lines to break up when the system logger races with new continuation
lines being printed.

There's a pending patch to make printk() flushing much more
straightforward, but it's too invasive for 4.9, so in the meantime let's
just not make the system message logging flush continuation lines.
They'll be flushed by the final newline anyway.

Suggested-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Revert "console: don't prefer first registered if DT specifies stdout-path"</title>
<updated>2016-11-11T16:12:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Hans de Goede</name>
<email>hdegoede@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-10T18:46:26Z</published>
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This reverts commit 05fd007e4629 ("console: don't prefer first
registered if DT specifies stdout-path").

The reverted commit changes existing behavior on which many ARM boards
rely.  Many ARM small-board-computers, like e.g.  the Raspberry Pi have
both a video output and a serial console.  Depending on whether the user
is using the device as a more regular computer; or as a headless device
we need to have the console on either one or the other.

Many users rely on the kernel behavior of the console being present on
both outputs, before the reverted commit the console setup with no
console= kernel arguments on an ARM board which sets stdout-path in dt
would look like this:

  [root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/consoles
  ttyS0                -W- (EC p a)    4:64
  tty0                 -WU (E  p  )    4:1

Where as after the reverted commit, it looks like this:

  [root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/consoles
  ttyS0                -W- (EC p a)    4:64

This commit reverts commit 05fd007e4629 ("console: don't prefer first
registered if DT specifies stdout-path") restoring the original
behavior.

Fixes: 05fd007e4629 ("console: don't prefer first registered if DT specifies stdout-path")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161104121135.4780-2-hdegoede@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Rob Herring &lt;robh+dt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis &lt;regressions@leemhuis.info&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>printk: suppress empty continuation lines</title>
<updated>2016-10-19T16:11:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-19T16:11:24Z</published>
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We have a fairly common pattern where you print several things as
continuations on one single line in a loop, and then at the end you do

	printk(KERN_CONT "\n");

to flush the buffered output.

But if the output was flushed by something else (concurrent printk
activity, or just system logging), we don't want that final flushing to
just print an empty line.

So just suppress empty continuation lines when they couldn't be merged
into the line they are a continuation of.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'printk-cleanups'</title>
<updated>2016-10-10T16:29:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-10T16:29:50Z</published>
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Merge my system logging cleanups, triggered by the broken '\n' patches.

The line continuation handling has been broken basically forever, and
the code to handle the system log records was both confusing and
dubious.  And it would do entirely the wrong thing unless you always had
a terminating newline, partly because it couldn't actually see whether a
message was marked KERN_CONT or not (but partly because the LOG_CONT
handling in the recording code was rather confusing too).

This re-introduces a real semantically meaningful KERN_CONT, and fixes
the few places I noticed where it was missing.  There are probably more
missing cases, since KERN_CONT hasn't actually had any semantic meaning
for at least four years (other than the checkpatch meaning of "no log
level necessary, this is a continuation line").

This also allows the combination of KERN_CONT and a log level.  In that
case the log level will be ignored if the merging with a previous line
is successful, but if a new record is needed, that new record will now
get the right log level.

That also means that you can at least in theory combine KERN_CONT with
the "pr_info()" style helpers, although any use of pr_fmt() prefixing
would make that just result in a mess, of course (the prefix would end
up in the middle of a continuing line).

* printk-cleanups:
  printk: make reading the kernel log flush pending lines
  printk: re-organize log_output() to be more legible
  printk: split out core logging code into helper function
  printk: reinstate KERN_CONT for printing continuation lines
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