user/sven/linux.git/kernel, branch v3.12.41

sched: Fix RLIMIT_RTTIME when PI-boosting to RT

2015-04-22T06:58:34Z

commit 746db9443ea57fd9c059f62c4bfbf41cf224fe13 upstream. When non-realtime tasks get priority-inheritance boosted to a realtime scheduling class, RLIMIT_RTTIME starts to apply to them. However, the counter used for checking this (the same one used for SCHED_RR timeslices) was not getting reset. This meant that tasks running with a non-realtime scheduling class which are repeatedly boosted to a realtime one, but never block while they are running realtime, eventually hit the timeout without ever running for a time over the limit. This patch resets the realtime timeslice counter when un-PI-boosting from an RT to a non-RT scheduling class. I have some test code with two threads and a shared PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex which induces priority boosting and spins while boosted that gets killed by a SIGXCPU on non-fixed kernels but doesn't with this patch applied. It happens much faster with a CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT kernel, and does happen eventually with PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY kernels. Signed-off-by: Brian Silverman Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: austin@peloton-tech.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424305436-6716-1-git-send-email-brian@peloton-tech.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

perf: Fix irq_work 'tail' recursion

2015-04-09T12:14:09Z

commit d525211f9d1be8b523ec7633f080f2116f5ea536 upstream. Vince reported a watchdog lockup like: [] perf_tp_event+0xc4/0x210 [] perf_trace_lock+0x12a/0x160 [] lock_release+0x130/0x260 [] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x24/0x40 [] do_send_sig_info+0x5d/0x80 [] send_sigio_to_task+0x12f/0x1a0 [] send_sigio+0xae/0x100 [] kill_fasync+0x97/0xf0 [] perf_event_wakeup+0xd4/0xf0 [] perf_pending_event+0x33/0x60 [] irq_work_run_list+0x4c/0x80 [] irq_work_run+0x18/0x40 [] smp_trace_irq_work_interrupt+0x3f/0xc0 [] trace_irq_work_interrupt+0x6d/0x80 Which is caused by an irq_work generating new irq_work and therefore not allowing forward progress. This happens because processing the perf irq_work triggers another perf event (tracepoint stuff) which in turn generates an irq_work ad infinitum. Avoid this by raising the recursion counter in the irq_work -- which effectively disables all software events (including tracepoints) from actually triggering again. Reported-by: Vince Weaver Tested-by: Vince Weaver Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Steven Rostedt Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150219170311.GH21418@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

module: Clean up ro/nx after early module load failures

2015-04-09T12:13:45Z

commit ff7e0055bb5ddbbb320cdd8dfd3e18672bddd2ad upstream. The commit 4982223e51e8 module: set nx before marking module MODULE_STATE_COMING. introduced a regression: if a module fails to parse its arguments or if mod_sysfs_setup fails, then the module's memory will be freed while still read-only. Anything that reuses that memory will crash as soon as it tries to write to it. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.16 Cc: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

module: set nx before marking module MODULE_STATE_COMING.

2015-04-09T12:13:44Z

commit 4982223e51e8ea9d09bb33c8323b5ec1877b2b51 upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

hung_task: check the value of "sysctl_hung_task_timeout_sec"

2015-04-09T12:13:24Z

commit 80df28476505ed4e6701c3448c63c9229a50c655 upstream. As sysctl_hung_task_timeout_sec is unsigned long, when this value is larger then LONG_MAX/HZ, the function schedule_timeout_interruptible in watchdog will return immediately without sleep and with print : schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff83 and then the funtion watchdog will call schedule_timeout_interruptible again and again. The screen will be filled with "schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value ffffffffffffff83" This patch does some check and correction in sysctl, to let the function schedule_timeout_interruptible allways get the valid parameter. Signed-off-by: Liu Hua Tested-by: Satoru Takeuchi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

ntp: Fixup adjtimex freq validation on 32-bit systems

2015-04-09T12:13:23Z

commit 29183a70b0b828500816bd794b3fe192fce89f73 upstream. Additional validation of adjtimex freq values to avoid potential multiplication overflows were added in commit 5e5aeb4367b (time: adjtimex: Validate the ADJ_FREQUENCY values) Unfortunately the patch used LONG_MAX/MIN instead of LLONG_MAX/MIN, which was fine on 64-bit systems, but being much smaller on 32-bit systems caused false positives resulting in most direct frequency adjustments to fail w/ EINVAL. ntpd only does direct frequency adjustments at startup, so the issue was not as easily observed there, but other time sync applications like ptpd and chrony were more effected by the bug. See bugs: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92481 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1188074 This patch changes the checks to use LLONG_MAX for clarity, and additionally the checks are disabled on 32-bit systems since LLONG_MAX/PPM_SCALE is always larger then the 32-bit long freq value, so multiplication overflows aren't possible there. Reported-by: Josh Boyer Reported-by: George Joseph Tested-by: George Joseph Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Sasha Levin Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1423553436-29747-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org [ Prettified the changelog and the comments a bit. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Christian Riesch Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

cpuset: Fix cpuset sched_relax_domain_level

2015-04-09T11:14:06Z

commit 283cb41f426b723a0255702b761b0fc5d1b53a81 upstream. The cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level can control how far we do immediate load balancing on a system. However, it was found on recent kernels that echo'ing a value into cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level did not reduce any immediate load balancing. The reason this occurred was because the update_domain_attr_tree() traversal did not update for the "top_cpuset". This resulted in nothing being changed when modifying the sched_relax_domain_level parameter. This patch is able to address that problem by having update_domain_attr_tree() allow updates for the root in the cpuset traversal. Fixes: fc560a26acce ("cpuset: replace cpuset->stack_list with cpuset_for_each_descendant_pre()") Signed-off-by: Jason Low Signed-off-by: Zefan Li Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Tested-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

workqueue: fix hang involving racing cancel[_delayed]_work_sync()'s for PREEMPT_NONE

2015-04-09T11:14:05Z

commit 8603e1b30027f943cc9c1eef2b291d42c3347af1 upstream. cancel[_delayed]_work_sync() are implemented using __cancel_work_timer() which grabs the PENDING bit using try_to_grab_pending() and then flushes the work item with PENDING set to prevent the on-going execution of the work item from requeueing itself. try_to_grab_pending() can always grab PENDING bit without blocking except when someone else is doing the above flushing during cancelation. In that case, try_to_grab_pending() returns -ENOENT. In this case, __cancel_work_timer() currently invokes flush_work(). The assumption is that the completion of the work item is what the other canceling task would be waiting for too and thus waiting for the same condition and retrying should allow forward progress without excessive busy looping Unfortunately, this doesn't work if preemption is disabled or the latter task has real time priority. Let's say task A just got woken up from flush_work() by the completion of the target work item. If, before task A starts executing, task B gets scheduled and invokes __cancel_work_timer() on the same work item, its try_to_grab_pending() will return -ENOENT as the work item is still being canceled by task A and flush_work() will also immediately return false as the work item is no longer executing. This puts task B in a busy loop possibly preventing task A from executing and clearing the canceling state on the work item leading to a hang. task A task B worker executing work __cancel_work_timer() try_to_grab_pending() set work CANCELING flush_work() block for work completion completion, wakes up A __cancel_work_timer() while (forever) { try_to_grab_pending() -ENOENT as work is being canceled flush_work() false as work is no longer executing } This patch removes the possible hang by updating __cancel_work_timer() to explicitly wait for clearing of CANCELING rather than invoking flush_work() after try_to_grab_pending() fails with -ENOENT. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20150206171156.GA8942@axis.com v3: bit_waitqueue() can't be used for work items defined in vmalloc area. Switched to custom wake function which matches the target work item and exclusive wait and wakeup. v2: v1 used wake_up() on bit_waitqueue() which leads to NULL deref if the target bit waitqueue has wait_bit_queue's on it. Use DEFINE_WAIT_BIT() and __wake_up_bit() instead. Reported by Tomeu Vizoso. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Rabin Vincent Cc: Tomeu Vizoso Tested-by: Jesper Nilsson Tested-by: Rabin Vincent Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

console: Fix console name size mismatch

2015-04-09T11:14:02Z

commit 30a22c215a0007603ffc08021f2e8b64018517dd upstream. commit 6ae9200f2cab7 ("enlarge console.name") increased the storage for the console name to 16 bytes, but not the corresponding struct console_cmdline::name storage. Console names longer than 8 bytes cause read beyond end-of-string and failure to match console; I'm not sure if there are other unexpected consequences. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

kdb: fix incorrect counts in KDB summary command output

2015-03-01T22:34:21Z

commit 146755923262037fc4c54abc28c04b1103f3cc51 upstream. The output of KDB 'summary' command should report MemTotal, MemFree and Buffers output in kB. Current codes report in unit of pages. A define of K(x) as is defined in the code, but not used. This patch would apply the define to convert the values to kB. Please include me on Cc on replies. I do not subscribe to linux-kernel. Signed-off-by: Jay Lan Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby