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<entry>
<title>timers: Move clearing of base::timer_running under base:: Lock</title>
<updated>2021-08-12T11:21:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
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<published>2020-12-06T21:40:07Z</published>
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commit bb7262b295472eb6858b5c49893954794027cd84 upstream.

syzbot reported KCSAN data races vs. timer_base::timer_running being set to
NULL without holding base::lock in expire_timers().

This looks innocent and most reads are clearly not problematic, but
Frederic identified an issue which is:

 int data = 0;

 void timer_func(struct timer_list *t)
 {
    data = 1;
 }

 CPU 0                                            CPU 1
 ------------------------------                   --------------------------
 base = lock_timer_base(timer, &amp;flags);           raw_spin_unlock(&amp;base-&gt;lock);
 if (base-&gt;running_timer != timer)                call_timer_fn(timer, fn, baseclk);
   ret = detach_if_pending(timer, base, true);    base-&gt;running_timer = NULL;
 raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&amp;base-&gt;lock, flags);  raw_spin_lock(&amp;base-&gt;lock);

 x = data;

If the timer has previously executed on CPU 1 and then CPU 0 can observe
base-&gt;running_timer == NULL and returns, assuming the timer has completed,
but it's not guaranteed on all architectures. The comment for
del_timer_sync() makes that guarantee. Moving the assignment under
base-&gt;lock prevents this.

For non-RT kernel it's performance wise completely irrelevant whether the
store happens before or after taking the lock. For an RT kernel moving the
store under the lock requires an extra unlock/lock pair in the case that
there is a waiter for the timer, but that's not the end of the world.

Reported-by: syzbot+aa7c2385d46c5eba0b89@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+abea4558531bae1ba9fe@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 030dcdd197d7 ("timers: Prepare support for PREEMPT_RT")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87lfea7gw8.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>random32: make prandom_u32() output unpredictable</title>
<updated>2020-11-18T18:20:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>George Spelvin</name>
<email>lkml@sdf.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-09T06:57:44Z</published>
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commit c51f8f88d705e06bd696d7510aff22b33eb8e638 upstream.

Non-cryptographic PRNGs may have great statistical properties, but
are usually trivially predictable to someone who knows the algorithm,
given a small sample of their output.  An LFSR like prandom_u32() is
particularly simple, even if the sample is widely scattered bits.

It turns out the network stack uses prandom_u32() for some things like
random port numbers which it would prefer are *not* trivially predictable.
Predictability led to a practical DNS spoofing attack.  Oops.

This patch replaces the LFSR with a homebrew cryptographic PRNG based
on the SipHash round function, which is in turn seeded with 128 bits
of strong random key.  (The authors of SipHash have *not* been consulted
about this abuse of their algorithm.)  Speed is prioritized over security;
attacks are rare, while performance is always wanted.

Replacing all callers of prandom_u32() is the quick fix.
Whether to reinstate a weaker PRNG for uses which can tolerate it
is an open question.

Commit f227e3ec3b5c ("random32: update the net random state on interrupt
and activity") was an earlier attempt at a solution.  This patch replaces
it.

Reported-by: Amit Klein &lt;aksecurity@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: tytso@mit.edu
Cc: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Cc: Marc Plumb &lt;lkml.mplumb@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: f227e3ec3b5c ("random32: update the net random state on interrupt and activity")
Signed-off-by: George Spelvin &lt;lkml@sdf.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200808152628.GA27941@SDF.ORG/
[ willy: partial reversal of f227e3ec3b5c; moved SIPROUND definitions
  to prandom.h for later use; merged George's prandom_seed() proposal;
  inlined siprand_u32(); replaced the net_rand_state[] array with 4
  members to fix a build issue; cosmetic cleanups to make checkpatch
  happy; fixed RANDOM32_SELFTEST build ]
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
[wt: backported to 5.4 -- no tracepoint there]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>random32: update the net random state on interrupt and activity</title>
<updated>2020-08-07T07:34:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Willy Tarreau</name>
<email>w@1wt.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-10T13:23:19Z</published>
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commit f227e3ec3b5cad859ad15666874405e8c1bbc1d4 upstream.

This modifies the first 32 bits out of the 128 bits of a random CPU's
net_rand_state on interrupt or CPU activity to complicate remote
observations that could lead to guessing the network RNG's internal
state.

Note that depending on some network devices' interrupt rate moderation
or binding, this re-seeding might happen on every packet or even almost
never.

In addition, with NOHZ some CPUs might not even get timer interrupts,
leaving their local state rarely updated, while they are running
networked processes making use of the random state.  For this reason, we
also perform this update in update_process_times() in order to at least
update the state when there is user or system activity, since it's the
only case we care about.

Reported-by: Amit Klein &lt;aksecurity@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&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>timer: Fix wheel index calculation on last level</title>
<updated>2020-07-22T07:33:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-17T14:05:40Z</published>
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commit e2a71bdea81690b6ef11f4368261ec6f5b6891aa upstream.

When an expiration delta falls into the last level of the wheel, that delta
has be compared against the maximum possible delay and reduced to fit in if
necessary.

However instead of comparing the delta against the maximum, the code
compares the actual expiry against the maximum. Then instead of fixing the
delta to fit in, it sets the maximum delta as the expiry value.

This can result in various undesired outcomes, the worst possible one
being a timer expiring 15 days ahead to fire immediately.

Fixes: 500462a9de65 ("timers: Switch to a non-cascading wheel")
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200717140551.29076-2-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>timer: Prevent base-&gt;clk from moving backward</title>
<updated>2020-07-22T07:33:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-03T01:06:57Z</published>
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commit 30c66fc30ee7a98c4f3adf5fb7e213b61884474f upstream.

When a timer is enqueued with a negative delta (ie: expiry is below
base-&gt;clk), it gets added to the wheel as expiring now (base-&gt;clk).

Yet the value that gets stored in base-&gt;next_expiry, while calling
trigger_dyntick_cpu(), is the initial timer-&gt;expires value. The
resulting state becomes:

	base-&gt;next_expiry &lt; base-&gt;clk

On the next timer enqueue, forward_timer_base() may accidentally
rewind base-&gt;clk. As a possible outcome, timers may expire way too
early, the worst case being that the highest wheel levels get spuriously
processed again.

To prevent from that, make sure that base-&gt;next_expiry doesn't get below
base-&gt;clk.

Fixes: a683f390b93f ("timers: Forward the wheel clock whenever possible")
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200703010657.2302-1-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
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<entry>
<title>timer: Read jiffies once when forwarding base clk</title>
<updated>2019-09-19T15:50:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Li RongQing</name>
<email>lirongqing@baidu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-19T12:04:47Z</published>
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The timer delayed for more than 3 seconds warning was triggered during
testing.

  Workqueue: events_unbound sched_tick_remote
  RIP: 0010:sched_tick_remote+0xee/0x100
  ...
  Call Trace:
   process_one_work+0x18c/0x3a0
   worker_thread+0x30/0x380
   kthread+0x113/0x130
   ret_from_fork+0x22/0x40

The reason is that the code in collect_expired_timers() uses jiffies
unprotected:

    if (next_event &gt; jiffies)
        base-&gt;clk = jiffies;

As the compiler is allowed to reload the value base-&gt;clk can advance
between the check and the store and in the worst case advance farther than
next event. That causes the timer expiry to be delayed until the wheel
pointer wraps around.

Convert the code to use READ_ONCE()

Fixes: 236968383cf5 ("timers: Optimize collect_expired_timers() for NOHZ")
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing &lt;lirongqing@baidu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Liang ZhiCheng &lt;liangzhicheng@baidu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1568894687-14499-1-git-send-email-lirongqing@baidu.com

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>posix-cpu-timers: Remove tsk argument from run_posix_cpu_timers()</title>
<updated>2019-08-21T18:27:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-19T14:31:47Z</published>
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It's always current. Don't give people wrong ideas.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190819143801.945469967@linutronix.de

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>timers: Prepare support for PREEMPT_RT</title>
<updated>2019-08-01T18:51:22Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Anna-Maria Gleixner</name>
<email>anna-maria@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-26T18:31:00Z</published>
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When PREEMPT_RT is enabled, the soft interrupt thread can be preempted.  If
the soft interrupt thread is preempted in the middle of a timer callback,
then calling del_timer_sync() can lead to two issues:

  - If the caller is on a remote CPU then it has to spin wait for the timer
    handler to complete. This can result in unbound priority inversion.

  - If the caller originates from the task which preempted the timer
    handler on the same CPU, then spin waiting for the timer handler to
    complete is never going to end.

To avoid these issues, add a new lock to the timer base which is held
around the execution of the timer callbacks. If del_timer_sync() detects
that the timer callback is currently running, it blocks on the expiry
lock. When the callback is finished, the expiry lock is dropped by the
softirq thread which wakes up the waiter and the system makes progress.

This addresses both the priority inversion and the life lock issues.

This mechanism is not used for timers which are marked IRQSAFE as for those
preemption is disabled accross the callback and therefore this situation
cannot happen. The callbacks for such timers need to be individually
audited for RT compliance.

The same issue can happen in virtual machines when the vCPU which runs a
timer callback is scheduled out. If a second vCPU of the same guest calls
del_timer_sync() it will spin wait for the other vCPU to be scheduled back
in. The expiry lock mechanism would avoid that. It'd be trivial to enable
this when paravirt spinlocks are enabled in a guest, but it's not clear
whether this is an actual problem in the wild, so for now it's an RT only
mechanism.

As the softirq thread can be preempted with PREEMPT_RT=y, the SMP variant
of del_timer_sync() needs to be used on UP as well.

[ tglx: Refactored it for mainline ]

Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190726185753.832418500@linutronix.de



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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'printk-for-5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk</title>
<updated>2019-05-07T16:18:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-07T16:18:12Z</published>
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Allow state reset of printk_once() calls.

 - Prevent crashes when dereferencing invalid pointers in vsprintf().
   Only the first byte is checked for simplicity.

 - Make vsprintf warnings consistent and inlined.

 - Treewide conversion of obsolete %pf, %pF to %ps, %pF printf
   modifiers.

 - Some clean up of vsprintf and test_printf code.

* tag 'printk-for-5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk:
  lib/vsprintf: Make function pointer_string static
  vsprintf: Limit the length of inlined error messages
  vsprintf: Avoid confusion between invalid address and value
  vsprintf: Prevent crash when dereferencing invalid pointers
  vsprintf: Consolidate handling of unknown pointer specifiers
  vsprintf: Factor out %pO handler as kobject_string()
  vsprintf: Factor out %pV handler as va_format()
  vsprintf: Factor out %p[iI] handler as ip_addr_string()
  vsprintf: Do not check address of well-known strings
  vsprintf: Consistent %pK handling for kptr_restrict == 0
  vsprintf: Shuffle restricted_pointer()
  printk: Tie printk_once / printk_deferred_once into .data.once for reset
  treewide: Switch printk users from %pf and %pF to %ps and %pS, respectively
  lib/test_printf: Switch to bitmap_zalloc()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Switch printk users from %pf and %pF to %ps and %pS, respectively</title>
<updated>2019-04-09T12:19:06Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sakari Ailus</name>
<email>sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-25T19:32:28Z</published>
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%pF and %pf are functionally equivalent to %pS and %ps conversion
specifiers. The former are deprecated, therefore switch the current users
to use the preferred variant.

The changes have been produced by the following command:

	git grep -l '%p[fF]' | grep -v '^\(tools\|Documentation\)/' | \
	while read i; do perl -i -pe 's/%pf/%ps/g; s/%pF/%pS/g;' $i; done

And verifying the result.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190325193229.23390-1-sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com
Cc: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus &lt;sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt; (for btrfs)
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt; (for mm/memblock.c)
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt; (for drivers/pci)
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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