user/sven/linux.git/samples, branch v4.0

samples/seccomp: improve label helper

2015-02-17T22:34:55Z

Fixes a potential corruption with uninitialized stack memory in the seccomp BPF sample program. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixlet] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Reported-by: Robert Swiecki Tested-by: Robert Swiecki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'trace-v3.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2015-02-12T16:37:41Z

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "The updates included in this pull request for ftrace are: o Several clean ups to the code One such clean up was to convert to 64 bit time keeping, in the ring buffer benchmark code. o Adding of __print_array() helper macro for TRACE_EVENT() o Updating the sample/trace_events/ to add samples of different ways to make trace events. Lots of features have been added since the sample code was made, and these features are mostly unknown. Developers have been making their own hacks to do things that are already available. o Performance improvements. Most notably, I found a performance bug where a waiter that is waiting for a full page from the ring buffer will see that a full page is not available, and go to sleep. The sched event caused by it going to sleep would cause it to wake up again. It would see that there was still not a full page, and go back to sleep again, and that would wake it up again, until finally it would see a full page. This change has been marked for stable. Other improvements include removing global locks from fast paths" * tag 'trace-v3.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: ring-buffer: Do not wake up a splice waiter when page is not full tracing: Fix unmapping loop in tracing_mark_write tracing: Add samples of DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS() and DEFINE_EVENT() tracing: Add TRACE_EVENT_FN example tracing: Add TRACE_EVENT_CONDITION sample tracing: Update the TRACE_EVENT fields available in the sample code tracing: Separate out initializing top level dir from instances tracing: Make tracing_init_dentry_tr() static trace: Use 64-bit timekeeping tracing: Add array printing helper tracing: Remove newline from trace_printk warning banner tracing: Use IS_ERR() check for return value of tracing_init_dentry() tracing: Remove unneeded includes of debugfs.h and fs.h tracing: Remove taking of trace_types_lock in pipe files tracing: Add ref count to tracer for when they are being read by pipe

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching

2015-02-11T02:35:40Z

Pull live patching infrastructure from Jiri Kosina: "Let me provide a bit of history first, before describing what is in this pile. Originally, there was kSplice as a standalone project that implemented stop_machine()-based patching for the linux kernel. This project got later acquired, and the current owner is providing live patching as a proprietary service, without any intentions to have their implementation merged. Then, due to rising user/customer demand, both Red Hat and SUSE started working on their own implementation (not knowing about each other), and announced first versions roughly at the same time [1] [2]. The principle difference between the two solutions is how they are making sure that the patching is performed in a consistent way when it comes to different execution threads with respect to the semantic nature of the change that is being introduced. In a nutshell, kPatch is issuing stop_machine(), then looking at stacks of all existing processess, and if it decides that the system is in a state that can be patched safely, it proceeds insterting code redirection machinery to the patched functions. On the other hand, kGraft provides a per-thread consistency during one single pass of a process through the kernel and performs a lazy contignuous migration of threads from "unpatched" universe to the "patched" one at safe checkpoints. If interested in a more detailed discussion about the consistency models and its possible combinations, please see the thread that evolved around [3]. It pretty quickly became obvious to the interested parties that it's absolutely impractical in this case to have several isolated solutions for one task to co-exist in the kernel. During a dedicated Live Kernel Patching track at LPC in Dusseldorf, all the interested parties sat together and came up with a joint aproach that would work for both distro vendors. Steven Rostedt took notes [4] from this meeting. And the foundation for that aproach is what's present in this pull request. It provides a basic infrastructure for function "live patching" (i.e. code redirection), including API for kernel modules containing the actual patches, and API/ABI for userspace to be able to operate on the patches (look up what patches are applied, enable/disable them, etc). It's relatively simple and minimalistic, as it's making use of existing kernel infrastructure (namely ftrace) as much as possible. It's also self-contained, in a sense that it doesn't hook itself in any other kernel subsystem (it doesn't even touch any other code). It's now implemented for x86 only as a reference architecture, but support for powerpc, s390 and arm is already in the works (adding arch-specific support basically boils down to teaching ftrace about regs-saving). Once this common infrastructure gets merged, both Red Hat and SUSE have agreed to immediately start porting their current solutions on top of this, abandoning their out-of-tree code. The plan basically is that each patch will be marked by flag(s) that would indicate which consistency model it is willing to use (again, the details have been sketched out already in the thread at [3]). Before this happens, the current codebase can be used to patch a large group of secruity/stability problems the patches for which are not too complex (in a sense that they don't introduce non-trivial change of function's return value semantics, they don't change layout of data structures, etc) -- this corresponds to LEAVE_FUNCTION && SWITCH_FUNCTION semantics described at [3]. This tree has been in linux-next since December. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/30/477 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/14/857 [3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/7/354 [4] http://linuxplumbersconf.org/2014/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/LPC2014_LivePatching.txt [ The core code is introduced by the three commits authored by Seth Jennings, which got a lot of changes incorporated during numerous respins and reviews of the initial implementation. All the followup commits have materialized only after public tree has been created, so they were not folded into initial three commits so that the public tree doesn't get rebased ]" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching: livepatch: add missing newline to error message livepatch: rename config to CONFIG_LIVEPATCH livepatch: fix uninitialized return value livepatch: support for repatching a function livepatch: enforce patch stacking semantics livepatch: change ARCH_HAVE_LIVE_PATCHING to HAVE_LIVE_PATCHING livepatch: fix deferred module patching order livepatch: handle ancient compilers with more grace livepatch: kconfig: use bool instead of boolean livepatch: samples: fix usage example comments livepatch: MAINTAINERS: add git tree location livepatch: use FTRACE_OPS_FL_IPMODIFY livepatch: move x86 specific ftrace handler code to arch/x86 livepatch: samples: add sample live patching module livepatch: kernel: add support for live patching livepatch: kernel: add TAINT_LIVEPATCH

tracing: Add samples of DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS() and DEFINE_EVENT()

2015-02-09T23:05:51Z

Add to samples/trace_events/ the macros DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS() and DEFINE_EVENT() and recommend using them over multiple TRACE_EVENT() macros if the multiple events have the same format. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Add TRACE_EVENT_FN example

2015-02-09T23:05:39Z

If a function should be called before a tracepoint is enabled and/or after it is disabled, the TRACE_EVENT_FN() serves this purpose. But it is not well documented. Having it as a sample would help developers to know how to use it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Add TRACE_EVENT_CONDITION sample

2015-02-09T21:05:55Z

The sample code lacks an example of TRACE_EVENT_CONDITION, and it has been expressed to me that this feature for TRACE_EVENT is not well known and not used when it could be. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Update the TRACE_EVENT fields available in the sample code

2015-02-09T20:27:04Z

The sample code in samples/trace_events/ is extremely out of date and does not show all the new fields that have been added since the sample code was written. As most people are unaware of these new fields, adding sample code and explanations of those fields should help out. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

livepatch: rename config to CONFIG_LIVEPATCH

2015-02-04T10:25:51Z

Rename CONFIG_LIVE_PATCHING to CONFIG_LIVEPATCH to make the naming of the config and the code more consistent. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Reviewed-by: Jingoo Han Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

samples: bpf: relax test_maps check

2015-01-27T01:20:40Z

hash map is unordered, so get_next_key() iterator shouldn't rely on particular order of elements. So relax this test. Fixes: ffb65f27a155 ("bpf: add a testsuite for eBPF maps") Reported-by: Michael Holzheu Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

livepatch: samples: fix usage example comments

2014-12-23T23:10:00Z

Fix a few typos in the livepatch-sample.c usage example comments and add some whitespace to make the comments a little more legible. Reported-by: Udo Seidel Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina