user/sven/linux.git/kernel, branch v3.9

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

2013-04-27T17:08:09Z

Pull perf fix from Ingo Molnar: "This fix adds missing RCU read protection" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: events: Protect access via task_subsys_state_check()

kernel/hz.bc: ignore.

2013-04-22T14:09:06Z

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2013-04-21T17:25:42Z

Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Misc fixes" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf/x86: Fix offcore_rsp valid mask for SNB/IVB perf: Treat attr.config as u64 in perf_swevent_init()

events: Protect access via task_subsys_state_check()

2013-04-21T09:21:39Z

The following RCU splat indicates lack of RCU protection: [ 953.267649] =============================== [ 953.267652] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ] [ 953.267657] 3.9.0-0.rc6.git2.4.fc19.ppc64p7 #1 Not tainted [ 953.267661] ------------------------------- [ 953.267664] include/linux/cgroup.h:534 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage! [ 953.267669] [ 953.267669] other info that might help us debug this: [ 953.267669] [ 953.267675] [ 953.267675] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0 [ 953.267680] 1 lock held by glxgears/1289: [ 953.267683] #0: (&sig->cred_guard_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [] .prepare_bprm_creds+0x34/0xa0 [ 953.267700] [ 953.267700] stack backtrace: [ 953.267704] Call Trace: [ 953.267709] [c0000001f0d1b6e0] [c000000000016e30] .show_stack+0x130/0x200 (unreliable) [ 953.267717] [c0000001f0d1b7b0] [c0000000001267f8] .lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x138/0x180 [ 953.267724] [c0000001f0d1b840] [c0000000001d43a4] .perf_event_comm+0x4c4/0x690 [ 953.267731] [c0000001f0d1b950] [c00000000027f6e4] .set_task_comm+0x84/0x1f0 [ 953.267737] [c0000001f0d1b9f0] [c000000000280414] .setup_new_exec+0x94/0x220 [ 953.267744] [c0000001f0d1ba70] [c0000000002f665c] .load_elf_binary+0x58c/0x19b0 ... This commit therefore adds the required RCU read-side critical section to perf_event_comm(). Reported-by: Adam Jackson Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130419190124.GA8638@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Tested-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte

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

2013-04-21T01:40:36Z

Pull kdump fixes from Peter Anvin: "The kexec/kdump people have found several problems with the support for loading over 4 GiB that was introduced in this merge cycle. This is partly due to a number of design problems inherent in the way the various pieces of kdump fit together (it is pretty horrifically manual in many places.) After a *lot* of iterations this is the patchset that was agreed upon, but of course it is now very late in the cycle. However, because it changes both the syntax and semantics of the crashkernel option, it would be desirable to avoid a stable release with the broken interfaces." I'm not happy with the timing, since originally the plan was to release the final 3.9 tomorrow. But apparently I'm doing an -rc8 instead... * 'x86-kdump-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: kexec: use Crash kernel for Crash kernel low x86, kdump: Change crashkernel_high/low= to crashkernel=,high/low x86, kdump: Retore crashkernel= to allocate under 896M x86, kdump: Set crashkernel_low automatically

Merge branch 'userns-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux

2013-04-19T01:09:12Z

Pull user-namespace fixes from Andy Lutomirski. * 'userns-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux: userns: Changing any namespace id mappings should require privileges userns: Check uid_map's opener's fsuid, not the current fsuid userns: Don't let unprivileged users trick privileged users into setting the id_map

Revert "block: add missing block_bio_complete() tracepoint"

2013-04-18T16:00:26Z

This reverts commit 3a366e614d0837d9fc23f78cdb1a1186ebc3387f. Wanlong Gao reports that it causes a kernel panic on his machine several minutes after boot. Reverting it removes the panic. Jens says: "It's not quite clear why that is yet, so I think we should just revert the commit for 3.9 final (which I'm assuming is pretty close). The wifi is crap at the LSF hotel, so sending this email instead of queueing up a revert and pull request." Reported-by: Wanlong Gao Requested-by: Jens Axboe Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kprobes: Fix a double lock bug of kprobe_mutex

2013-04-18T15:58:38Z

Fix a double locking bug caused when debug.kprobe-optimization=0. While the proc_kprobes_optimization_handler locks kprobe_mutex, wait_for_kprobe_optimizer locks it again and that causes a double lock. To fix the bug, this introduces different mutex for protecting sysctl parameter and locks it in proc_kprobes_optimization_handler. Of course, since we need to lock kprobe_mutex when touching kprobes resources, that is done in *optimize_all_kprobes(). This bug was introduced by commit ad72b3bea744 ("kprobes: fix wait_for_kprobe_optimizer()") Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: "David S. Miller" Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/signal.c: stop info leak via the tkill and the tgkill syscalls

2013-04-17T23:10:45Z

This fixes a kernel memory contents leak via the tkill and tgkill syscalls for compat processes. This is visible in the siginfo_t->_sifields._rt.si_sigval.sival_ptr field when handling signals delivered from tkill. The place of the infoleak: int copy_siginfo_to_user32(compat_siginfo_t __user *to, siginfo_t *from) { ... put_user_ex(ptr_to_compat(from->si_ptr), &to->si_ptr); ... } Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy Reviewed-by: PaX Team Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Cc: Al Viro Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Serge Hallyn Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kexec: use Crash kernel for Crash kernel low

2013-04-17T19:35:34Z

We can extend kexec-tools to support multiple "Crash kernel" in /proc/iomem instead. So we can use "Crash kernel" instead of "Crash kernel low" in /proc/iomem. Suggested-by: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366089828-19692-3-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org Acked-by: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin